Inko was pleased how the shopping trip had turned out. She had got a good deal on milk and eggs, and well she's positive that would make anybody happy. Her elated mood was increased when her son placed his hand into hers. It was moments like these that made her glad she was a parent, and god Izuku was adorable. She swung his hand a little as they went through the automatic doors of the store.
"Did you have fun?" She asked Izuku. She didn't hear a response so she assumed her son was lost in thought again, he had been doing that a lot lately, since the discovery of his quirk. She didn't mind of course. She turned to lead Izuku towards the parking lot when she felt a slight tug from her sons' hand. She turned around to see Izuku had stopped walking, and he had a terror-struck look on his face.
"Izuku, is something wrong?" Inko questioned, slightly concerned.
She didn't get a reply.
His breathing started to go shaky, and tears started to leak from his face. Inko immediately dropped the groceries and kneeled by her sons' side, placing her hands on his shoulders.
"Sweetie, you're scaring me please tell me what's wrong." She said desperately.
Then he screamed.
"MOM RUN!" he shouted at the end of the ear piercing scream. He sounded so desperate and terrified. It was nothing like that birthday morning. This sounded much more desperate and full of pure absolute terror.
It shredded Inko's heart in two.
She whipped her head around trying to find the threat, was there a villain? Her heart fell when she saw nothing and realized whatever Izuku was seeing, it was a part of his quirk. She pulled him into her arms and wrapped them around him. She rubbed his back and pat his fluffy green hair, trying to do her best to console him with quiet hushes.
"Sweetie, what do you see?" Inko asked quietly, she had to know what scared her baby so much.
He shakily pointed behind her and with a trembling voice, he whispered "It's a m-monster."
After that statement, Izuku's eyes widened and his bodies trembling increased, he let out another strangled scream. He buried his face into Inko's embrace and started to sob, hard.
It was an ominous statement. 'A monster?' So far Izuku had only seen small creatures nothing that sounded too scary, just the blobs and what she briefly heard about the cottons through his ramblings. She noticed curious sets of eyes staring at them, they were causing a scene.
Inko wanted to shelter the boy from the stares, afraid that they would make him more upset. So she scooped him up and ran to their car, Izuku sobbing the whole way. She quickly buckled him in and started to drive back home. She had to keep her son safe, she could only hope whatever he saw wasn't as fast as a car.
What Izuku saw outside of the store struck him with pure unadulterated terror. He doesn't remember ever feeling so scared before. He noticed his breathing had started to quicken, his limbs started to tremble, and his heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to fall out of his chest. He heard his mom calling his name and he wanted to answer, but it was like he was paralyzed with fear, stuck in one spot trembling.
In front of them, across the street was a grotesque looking creature. It was about the size of a large van. Its body was a dark grey and looked like it belonged to that of a spider, it had eight long jagged crimson red legs with sharp blades as claws. Attached to its body was a long serpent-like neck that was striped black and the same crimson red, at the end of its neck was a horrifying humanoid face, the colour of ice. Four pitch black eyes sat on its face and just below it was a long hooked nose and a large bloody red lipless mouth that seemed to be drooling a black ooze. On top of its head was long greasy black hair that hung limply over its oval, earless head. The hair was secreting ooze much like the blobs did and was dripping down to the ground below.
Izuku couldn't stop staring at it, it was like something out of his nightmares had come to life. It was truly horrifying. He watched it crawl across the street, its sharp claws stabbing into the ground below until it stopped. It was curiously staring at a group of blobs down below, then it smiled. It revealed a row of sharp, pointy, yellowed teeth attached to black gums, it looked disgusting. The creature then took one of its legs and stabbed a blob, Izuku's eyes widened at the action. The blob was now attached to its claw, which it then brought up to its mouth, and in one swift action it tilted its head back, opened its mouth and plopped the blob in. Disturbingly enough Izuku noticed that it didn't have a tongue. It sat there chewing on the blob until it swallowed, the black mush travelling down its long throat, some of it drooling out of its mouth. It was then that Izuku heard his mother's question.
"Sweetie, you're scaring me please tell me what's wrong." She sounded desperate Izuku thought distantly.
He opened his mouth to answer, but he quickly shut it again when he saw the creature crane its long neck around and gaze at him.
It noticed him.
So far none of the creatures gave any indication that they knew he was there, they were brainless. But whatever this thing was it was showing signs of intelligence, and that scared Izuku more than its appearance did.
The abomination quickly abandoned what it was doing, finding Izuku much more interesting. It started to crawl its way over towards where they were standing, that's when Izuku screamed.
"MOM RUN!" His voice was shrill and panicked, he tried to push his mom slightly but she didn't budge. She looked around to scout where the threat was, but she didn't appear to see it. When she seemed to realize this was because of his quirk, she turned and wrapped her arms around him. This only made Izuku cry harder. She didn't understand they had to go it was coming closer. He didn't know what this creature was capable of and he didn't want to find out.
"Sweetie, what do you see?" his mom questioned.
He shakily pointed to the abhorred creature that was slowly making its way closer and closer towards his shaking form. "It's a m-monster." He stuttered out quietly.
Then it screamed, which caused Izuku to scream. What it let out was a strangled, ghastly ear-piercing scream. It was so loud Izuku felt like his eardrums were going to melt. The pain in his ears and the now present ringing brought tears to his eyes.
He started sobbing.
Sobbing from the pain, the fear, the fact that his mom didn't seem to understand that they needed to run.
It was going to kill them they were going to die.
It got closer.
PleasenononononoItIsGoingToKillUsItIsGoingToEatUsWerAreGoingToDie.
His mom finally, FINALLY seemed to get the hint because suddenly Izuku wasn't on the ground anymore, he was in the car being driven away before his brain could process what just happened.
He turned his head around to look out the back window, to see if it was following them.
It wasn't
It was just standing there staring at their retreating car, it then raised its leg and waved. Izuku felt like he was slapped in the face, it was like it was saying "Goodbye, I'll see you soon!" He hoped with all his might he would never, ever, see that thing again.
They turned down a street, the monster was no longer in sight and Izuku could only let out a sigh of relief. He saw his mom briefly flash a smile at him through the rearview mirror, she seemed relieved he had calmed down.
A giggle fell out of his mouth.
"What's so funny Izuku?" His mom asked curiously.
More giggles erupted from the boy which turned into full-blown laughter, expelling out all the fear and nervous energy. He laughed until his chest hurt. Until he couldn't feel his face.
He heaved in a giant breath and with a straight face he spoke "You forgot the groceries."
His mom didn't reply.
Izuku had been lying in bed trying to fall asleep for three hours now. He just couldn't. His mind kept wandering back to the monster, to its lipless mouth and the black ooze that dripped from it.
It had eaten a blob, so they must be a food source for whatever that thing was. He let out a sigh. It was so scary. Everything he discovered so far had a purpose, the blobs fed off misfortune and injury, the cottons fed off negative emotions. So what does this monster feed off of? It couldn't just be blobs, there had to be something else.
"I suppose I should give it a name." He mumbled to himself. He tapped his chin thoughtfully.
"I'll call them Horrors, it sounds appropriate." The now newly named 'Horrors' had left Izuku's mind satisfied and he finally started to drift asleep.
'I hope I never, ever, ever run into a Horror again.' Was Izuku's last thought before blackness took over.
Little did he know, he would.