It was 5AM and the fog in the woods had settled heavily. Ochako and her friends proceeded carefully throughout the forest. Maneuvering through the low hanging branches, upturned roots, and jutting rocks like water.
Well, all except one.
"Do you have any idea where the hell we're going round face?" Bakugou hissed as he tripped over another protruding root.
"Not exactly, I'm just trying to run into him" Ochako admitted sheepishly.
"SO WE'VE BEEN WANDERING AROUND IN THIS FUCKING FOG WITH ABSOLUTELY NO DIRECTION" Katsuki screamed at the rosy cheeked girl.
Ochako slapped her hand over the blonde's mouth, her pinky up to keep him from floating away. In hindsight, Katsuki wasn't the best person to bring along while she was trying to keep a small profile.
The sound of dead leaves crunching against the ground was heard from the underbrush. Ochako became deathly still, after what happened earlier in the week, she took the sound as a deathly omen.
The rustling came closer and closer with each second, and even the three boys became uncomfortable, all of them got into a fighting stance and prepared to activate their quirks their quirks for whatever came out of the early morning mist.
Fortunately their paranoia was not justified, as a fluffy brown bunny hopped into their line of sight and stared at them curiously.
All party members breathed a sigh of relief, made slightly visible due to the chilling October air. Eijirou cooed and went to get closer to the rabbit, the animal wrinkled its nose and used it's hind leg to scratch the backside of its ear. The innocent critter didn't even get a chance to finish scratching before it was impaled by a bark covered tendril, guts splashed against the leaves.
The red haired boy yelled in horror as he jumped back to the group. The bunny's lifeless corpse was dragged backwards and lifted off of the ground. The bunny kept rising until it was well over 8 feet off of the ground, the tendril then began to lower the bloody rabbit off of the ground, and that's when the four U.A. students saw the owner of the tendril.
Standing tall and intimidating were three 7 foot humanoid trees; their teeth were sharp and jagged, they didn't have any lips so their deadly chompers were on full display. A few tiny branches stemmed from all over their bodies and their eyes were hollow and black. The creature that had the bunny unhinged it's jaw and slowly lowered the blood stained critter into its maw, vomit inducing crunches soon followed.
The sound of multiple pounding legs fastly approaching shook the ground. A large black spider, the size of three All Mights, and with a scorpion tail attached to it's thorax. The spider clicked with joy as it observed its prey.
"I'll handle this, stand back." Katsuki's raised his hands and prepared to fire off an explosion "BURN YOU FUCKING MUTANTS!" Katsuki's palms did nothing and he gazed down at them with angry shock. He shook his hands left and right, trying to draw out the ignition of his sweat.
Ochako pressed all five of her fingers against her thigh, only to find that her weight stayed the same. Tenyas legs sputtered and let out one last puff if exhaust before they went completely dead. Eijirou held out if arms in front of his face and grunted with effort but his arms stayed soft and fleshy.
The monsters chuckled evilly and one of the trees used its tendril to sweep Katsuki's feet out from under him, making him land flat on his back. The spider whipped its tail around and plunged it forward, stabbing the blonde boys calf making him writhe in pain. The spider began to play with Katsuki, poking at him with its gargantuan legs and circling around him, at one point it even began to spin a web.
Whilst the spider was toying with its prey, the trees began to close in on the other three heroes in training. The tree monster closest to Ochako began to harden its tendril into a lance and thrust downwards.
A sharp thwang resounded throughout the forest and an arrow pierced through the skull of the monster, the tip coated in sap. The tree fell dead to the ground and both the creatures and the humans became distracted by the sounds of heavy boots crunching the dead leaves against the ground.
A sound that Ochako knew she had heard before.
The tree that had been terrorizing Tenya was punched swiftly across the jaw, the fist came from a burly man in a green flannel.
"It's you!!" Ochako yelled at the man with relief.
"I thought I told you to stay out of my woods." the buff man barked as he engaged in a fist fight with the wooden wendigo.
"Watch out!" Eijirou warned the lumberjack as the other tree tried to punch him. The flannel clad man pulled a hunting knife from its sheath of his belt and slit the trees throat, sap rapidly spilling from the cut.
The burly man then plunged the knife into the final trees eye, leaving it to fall and 'bleed' on the ground.
"Thank the heavens." Tenya breathed out "Now all that's left is to save Bakugou."
The lumberjacks eyes hardened and he gazed long and hard at the boy, who was now being spun in a web cocoon.
The man hesitated for a few seconds before he let out a tired sigh and unholstered his ax and yelled at the spider to gain it's attention. The spider clicked with bemusement as it took its attention off of Katsuki and focused on the bearded man.
It began to whip its tail around and launched it towards the green eyed man's stomach, only for it to be caught inches from the barb puncturing the man's lower torso. He used his ax to severe a small part of its tail from the rest of it.
The spider let out an ear-splitting screech as it withdrew its tail. The man charged the spider and dropped to the ground to slide under it, he then used his ax to split the creature's stomach apart.
The spider let out a final horrid screech before it fell on its side and curled its legs inwards. The lumberjack then stood back up and used his knife to cut Katsuki free of the webs, before hauling the blondes unconscious body over his shoulder.
"If you want to live to see the sunlight, I suggest you follow me." The man whispered as he took Katsuki further into the woods.
The five of them travelled for a while before they came across a two story log cabin with a stone chimney billowing black smoke.
"We're here." the man said as he kicked open the door and laid Katsuki down on a nearby couch.
"Is he gonna be ok?" Eijirou nervously wrung his hands at the sight of his incapacitated boyfriend.
"Well under any normal circumstance after being stung by a sporpion, no. But I have a remedy for its venom, he should be fine to leave in a couple of days." The man answered.
"Can't we just take the cure and leave?" Tenya asked.
The man gave a dry chuckle and walked into the kitchen, the group could hear him rustling around in a couple of cabinets "That's not an option, those things know that you're here so they're out, ready to attack us as soon as they see us. If he was able to run with us I'd be able to get you all out safely and quickly, but I can't protect you all and kill those mutants at the same time. And with their numbers I'll be overrun in seconds."
"If we were able to use our quirks we could help you but something is preventing us." Tenya said as he looked around the room
"Yeah, this place'll do that to you, the same barrier that keeps those things in is the same barrier that keeps your powers hindered. You'll cellphones will be useless as well." The man returned with bandages, stitches, and a green liquid in a wooden bowl.
"What's that for?" Ochako asked.
"To clean out any infections." The man leaned over Katsuki's body, but he began to stir.
"De...ku?" Katsuki whispered. The man's face hardened and he poured the liquid over the wound, making Katsuki scream before he passed out again.
The sound of tiny feet pattering against wooden floors attracted the attention of all conscious parties.
"P-papa who are these people?" A soft voice asked. Standing at the bottom of the stairs was a girl no older than ten years old; she had snow white hair and cherry red eyes as well as a small horn sticking out of the right side of her forehead. She was wearing a white long sleeve shirt, a pair of overalls the same color as her eyes, yellow sneakers, and a green scarf wrapped around her neck.
"They're no one Eri, they just got lost in the woods is all. Do me a favor and go feed the livestock will you?" The girl seemed to brighten up as she gave the man a quick nod and ran out of the house.
"Who was that?" Ochako asked.
"My daughter." the man answered.
"Sir, aren't you worried about one of those monsters attacking her?" Tenya began to swing his good arm in an up and down motion.
"Not as long as she doesn't leave this clearing, there's another barrier around here that protects this house." The man grabbed a fire poker and used it to prod at the burning logs in the fireplace.
"If we're going to be stuck here we should at least exchange names; I'm Eijirou Kirishima, the blue haired boy is Tenya Iida, the brunette is Ochako Uraraka, and the blonde one is-" the spiky red head was cut off before he could finish his introductions.
"Katsuki Bakugou, I know." the man seemed to hesitate for a few seconds before he spoke again "Izuku." Was all he said.
Izuku stood back on his feet "I'm gonna get started on breakfast. Iida, Ochako, watch over Bakugou, call for me if he stirs. Kirishima, go outside and watch over Eri. She's shy and startles easily so make as minimal noise as possible, but don't sneak up on her either. I'll assign you all rooms later tonight."
"I suggest that you three get comfortable because you're not leaving here anytime soon" Izuku's voice grew ominous and foreboding "Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Woods folks" and with that he disappeared behind the kitchen doors.
I'm so tired right now it's honestly unbelievable, I'm gonna go to bed now. I have a discord server with a bunch of other super talented people, come and say hi; https/discord.gg/ZqqtsS. If you want you can come and follow me Twitter as well @AidanTheCrab298. That's it for now, Peace.
