That time I was reborn was a warrior princess
Chapter 19-Summer camp part 1
Lucina finds herself back at Hoshido Kindon. She smiles when she sees a familiar face. It was Rainbow Sage under a sakura tree drinking some green tea and eating dango.
"Rainbow sage."
"Hello Aohime. It has been a while." the sage says, gently smiling to her. " Do you mind joining me, princess?"
Lucina sat down and thanked the sage for the tea. They both looked at sakura flowers trees on the horizon.
"I love this scenery. And I know so do you too, it reminded of your past life. By the way, how are the things from your side?" Asks Raibon sage
"Not so good, sage. I have not found Grima yet and I am afraid he's going to make another victim going into a feral dragon." she says in concern.
"I am not talking about Grima, my dear. I want to know how your heart is going. I know you've faced a lot of pain and your heart is hurt."
Lucina bit her lips. The sage was the only person beside Tensei that knew about Lucina remembering everything from her past life, when she was Midoriya Izuku. She told him everything that happened to Midoriya Inko and her odd relationship with Bakugou. The sage only listened to her, all the details without interrupting her.
"I hate him. He did so much harm when I was Izuku and I was so blind to his abuse. I am happy he's finally changing and he's trying to be a better person, but I am just upset that his change was only possible because I died… I mean Izuku died."
"Bakugou Katsuki, he seemed to be a complicated young man." Rainbow sage comments.
"Tell me about it." Lucina sights in frustration " Our exam almost ended a disaster. I had to literally punch him, calling an arrogant fool because people like him are the first to die in a war and there's no 'I' in the army. Collaboration and teamwork is important wherever you are. We're lucky we've passed in our exam." she really wanted to forget about the exam that almost became a disaster.
"He is too bound to the past. The chains of his past self are very heavy. You have to understand it is not easy to get rid of these chains. You have been there before and I can still see there's a chain connecting you to your past self."
Lucina was surprised. She thought she was unbounded to her past self when she accepted her new name, her new life and accepting her new friends and family in Ylisse. The Rainbow Sage mentioned that sometimes a bound is too deep to be broken, even in a after life. Lucina frowned at this information.
"Bakugou was cruel when I was Izuku. I know he is changing but I still feel anger for what he did, and yet can't stop admiring him. Why can't I just let him go?" she asks almost sobbing.
"I can not answer that. You have to find the answer by yourself. And I need a favor from you, Aohime."
"A favor?"
"When Grima attacked, he destroyed everything. Your kingdom was the first to fall, then it was Nohr and then Hoshido. Princess Azula asked me to send her child to another realm. The child in question is in the very realm you're now. With Grima turning people with dragon blood into feral dragons, I am afraid for the child's safety. As you know, the royal families of Norh and Hoshido have the blood of the dragons of dusk and dawn in their veins. Even if most of them can't transform dragons themselves, I am still worried about the child's safety."
Lucina nods, understanding the fear the sage is feeling. She promised she will find the child. She asked him more details. The sage answers but Lucina could not hear him anymore as if someone pressed the mute button.
"Lucina, hey Lucina."
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"Lucina, wake up."
Lucina blinked as she rubbed her eyes. She noticed the bus had stopped moving and it was almost empty. Todoroki was sitting next to her, watching her with a perplexed expression. Mina, Tsuyu, Sero, and Kaminari are standing around them, all three of them grinning.
Mina stifles a laugh. "Sleep okay?"
"Yeah, I was tired. Professor Aizawa wanted me to teach him the chi blocking before going to the camp training. He was interested in the past days were tiresome."
"I believe training with Aizawa sensei can be tiresome. Just thinking about how he will train us in this summer camp is already making me tired." comments Sero while shivering.
"We're at the first rest stop," Tsuyu tells him. "If you have to go to the bathroom, now's the time."
When Lucina hears the words "rest stop" she imagines a few sparse buildings for shade, some public restrooms and vending machines, maybe a gas sees none of these as he takes a few wobbly steps off the bus. Instead, they seem to have pulled over at a small viewpoint overlooking the forested mountains. Aside from the road, the only structure around here is the fence at the edge of the overlook. She saw Gerome and Iida already on the land with Minerva and Tenma (She had no idea how they convinced Nedzu to take the winged animals to the summer camp as well). She could hear Kirishima telling everybody that the flight he had with Mineva was awesome. Oh yeah, she almost forgot that Gerome allowed Kirishima to ride on Minerva with him. Now the question is why they stopped there?
"There's no point in stopping without a reason," Aizawa told them, getting the class's attention in an instant.
Mineta was clutching his pants as he gave their teacher a strained smile. "Wh-where's the bathroom?"
The doors to the other car opened up and out came a pair of women in hero costumes, dressed like cats- complete with headsets like cat ears, cat tails, and special gloves like cat paws that were developed for combat. There were two little kids with them. One of them was a boy who was about the age of six or seven, he had dark hair with a horned cap and he had a scowl on his face. The one one was a little girl hiding behind the dark haired boy. She had white with a small a black streak. She had fluffy animal ears and a tail. A fox quirk? Maybe a wolf quirk? She could not tell since she was far away from the children.
One of them- a brunette- waved at Aizawa. "Hey, Eraser! Been a while!"
"Yo," Aizawa merely grunted as he looked to his students. "These are the Pussycats. They're Pro heroes who will be working with us during the training camp."
The Wild Wild Pussycats. Lucina remembers them. They're a four person hero team who set up a joint agency. They're veterans at mountain rescues and if she's not mistaken, this year will be their twelfth in active service.
"Hello everyone. I am Madalay and this is Pixie-Bob. Nice to meet you." said the brunette.
The class greeted them and Mandalay pointed towards one of the largest mountains in the distance. "You all will be staying at the foot of that mountain over there."
Ochako blinked in confusion. "Then…why did we stop here?"
"Uh…" Sado laughed nervously. "How about we get back on the bus?"
"Yeah, that sounds good!" Sero agreed.
Mandalay grinned at them- they had already picked up on what was about to happen. "It's nine-thirty in the morning now. If you hurry…maybe noon? Kitties who don't make it by twelve-thirty won't get any lunch!"
Most of the class blanched and ran for the bus. Aizawa rolled his eyes. "Sorry but not sorry. Training camp has already begun."
Pixie-Bob suddenly darted between the running kids and the bus, grinning widely. She slammed her paws into the ground and Lucina yelled a warning. "Watch out for her Quirk!"
The ground rose up and engulfed the entire class, like a tsunami of earth which hurled them over the cliff, but also acted like a cushion to keep them from splattering from the fall. The teenagers shrieked as they were hurled none too gently to the forest at the base of the cliff, rolling along the dirt until they all finally came to a stop. Minerva and tenma roared as they flew towards their human partners to save them from the fall.
Mandalay almost looked apologetic as she grinned and called down to them. "Hey! Since this is private land, you can use your Quirks as much as you want! You've got three hours! If you want lunch, get to the facility on your own two feet through our forest of beasts!"
Kaminari gulped and turned towards the woods. "F-forest of beasts?"
Kirishima cracked his neck. "No use complaining about it…we'll just have to get through this place!"
Mineta immediately ran for the woods, almost in tears from how badly he had to relieve himself. I held it! I held it through all that! I just need to find a place to hide for a second and…
He didn't take even three steps into the woods when a colossal creature with massive teeth and claws emerged from the trees with a deep growl.
"A BEAST?!" Sero shrieked.
Mineta promptly wet his pants.
Koda started calling to the creature as it raised its paw to swipe at Minoru. "Calm down, dear beast! Stay back!"
"It won't listen to you, Sir Koda!" Noire shouted as she used her special arrow on the beast could it crush Mineta. The beast exploded. She noticed the dirt fallinga round and recognized what it was in an instant. "This thing was probably made with Pixie-Bob's magic… I mean quirk! It's just a mass of dirt! Similar to an earth golem!"
Bakugou was ready to rage after Pixie-Bob threw them off the road and explosions started popping off in his palm. "Yeah?! Let me at it! I'll show that bitch what happens when she throws me around like she wants!"
He lunged at the creature with a snarl on his face.
Lucina took her sword out and charged the dirt beast "Someone get the legs!"
"I've got it!" Todoroki responded, firing off a stream of ice to trap the beast in place. As soon as it was immobilized, Lucina, Iida, and Bakugou blew the thing apart with a vicious series of slashes, kicks, and explosions.
Sado grinned. "Alright, they crushed it in an instant!"
Iida's eyes caught movement above the trees. "We can't relax yet! There's more than one of them!"
Momo nodded and turned to their class. "Everyone get ready! We'll work together and fight through the beasts along the shortest possible route to the camp!"
"Iida, fly with Tenma and find where the shortest route to the camp is. Gerome, use Minerva to attack the biggest golens.
They both nodded as Tenya hopped on his pegasus and flew off. A smaller earth beast leaped to attack them but they were saved by Yarne in his beast form.
"I don't think we will arrive for lunch" whined Sero. "How come we always fall into Aizawa-sensei's trickeroes! We don't even have any food and water with us!"
Byleth was horrified by the events. Of course they all needed to learn to fight but she would never throw her students to a den of wild lions and expect them all to survive and get out unhurt. She was angered by Aizawa's methods of teaching. Then, she remembered Kirishima was an earth dragon. Earth dragons have the earth under their command. She whispered her idea to Katsuki. Katsuki had a feral smile on his lips.
"Hey Blue Hair, can you give that magic stone to Kirishima?"
Lucina's eyes widen in realization, of course, Kirishima is an earth dragon.
"Kirishima! It is dragon time!"
"A-Are you sure?" he asks while punching another earth beast
"We're away from the city. Actually I was going to use this camp for you to get used to your dragon from. Would you like to screw Professor Aizawa's plan for once?"
Kirishima gave her a feral smile. Lucina threw the dragon stone to the red haired boy. When he grabbed the stone, the gem glowed and once more Kirishima was in his dragon form.
When he roared, all the earth beast became just dust. Lucina smirked
"I think we will arrive at lunch in time."
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And they arrived around the beginning of noon. Aizawa was surprised to see everybody had arrived much earlier than he had expected. Then, he saw Kirishima in his dragon form. That explained everything.
"CHEATERS!" Pixie-Bob cried out enraged. " I dunno what you made you cancel my earth flows. You should have arrived here at dusk!"
"Excuse me?" said a low and very angered voice. "You wanted us to be here at dusk? That's what I heard?"
They all turned to Bakugou who was not in his normal anger. When Lucina, Laurent, Gerome, Noire, Yarne and Aizawa saw the green colored eye, they knew Byleth took over Bakugou's body. And she was pissed, very pissed.
"So, let me if I got this very straight: you throw us out of the road, knowing not everybody here has a quirk that could stop their dangerous fall. You sent us to the forest with dangerous earth golem beasts, expecting everybody to fight for hours without any food and water. Most of us do not have any knowledge of how to survive in the woods for several hours and you said you were expecting us to arrive at this place at dusk with all these issues, unhurt, isn't that right? Am I missing anything?" Byleth asks, smiling.
Her smile was full of malice and anger. Her aura was emitting a very intensive killing energy. Everybody of Class 1-A wisely stepped away from the angered spirit. Lucina remembered Byleth was a teacher herself in the past and she seemed to be very pissed at Aizawa's method of teaching at the moment.
Both Pixie-Bob and Aizawa were speechless. Pixie-Bob was shivering in fear. Why was she shivering in fear? The boy was just a kid! And Byleth has not finished with them yet.
"So tell me you two, Professor Aizawa and Miss Pixie-Bob, would be ok if I throw those little kids over there" Byleth appoint the kids who were beside of Mandalay "to a den of lions and expecting they fight against the beasts without any knowledge on how to fight and getting out of the den unhurt and alive until dusk? No, you wouldn't be ok? Well this is what you just did to all of us when you threw us out from the road. Professor Aizawa, if you do this shit again, I will have the pleasure to denounce you to the heroes commission and school board for putting everybody in danger. You may say it is for hero training but it is still putting minors in danger when you throw the whole class out of the road knowing not everyone has a quirk to stop their fall. Even if there's some people who can save their classmates from the fall, there is always a possibility they can not save everyone at the same time. A fall from that height can cause very, but very severe consequences to the body. And putting everybody in the woods without water and food or any survival skills is also putting everyone in danger, even if it was for a few hours. So who do you think the commission and the principal will favor? You or us after telling our point of view?" Byleth still kept her smile while giving a deep glare of doom to Aizawa and Pixie-Bob.
Aizawa paled. He could not move as he was paralyzed by fear. He had almost forgotten that Byleth was a mentor herself and she seemed not very pleased at him.
"That's what I thought. So I will go inside and have a good bath and then I will prepare everyone's lunch myself. I do not trust any of you preparing our food after all this shit you put us through today. And I want to check your training schedule later; I want to make sure you all will not pull any fucking shit again during our staying here. We're here to learn and not put ourselves in an unnecessary danger. Am I clear, Professor Aizawa? Ah and Pussycats, if you agree with any of Professor Aizawa's unorthodox methods of teaching like throwing us out of the road, I will denounce you too. I don't think you want to get your license suspended or worse, revoked."
With that, Byleth went inside of the building, leaving everyone speechless behind. Kirishima, who was still a dragon, was amazed by how Bakugou handled Aizawa and the Pussycats like that. His eyes shone in admiration.
"Bakubro is so amazing!"
Lucina could not help but sweatdrop. It was Byleth who handled Aizawa and not Bakugou himself. He had no idea about Byleth's existence inside of the explosive boy. And she just learned Byleth was one of the few people that could scare Aizawa for real.
"I will never anger Byleth…ever..." she thought while shivering.
End of the chapter
And that's chapter 19!
And what do you think about Byleth threatening Aizawa and Pixie-Bob? You see, in Fire Emblem 3 houses, Byleth was a teacher and she would never put her students in danger on purpose and of course, she would be pissed at Aizawa for his unorthodox like throwing everyone out of the road. I mean, I rewatched the episode again and I've noticed not everyone has a good quirk to stop their falling and there was a possibility that the ones who have can not save everyone at the same time. With this, I decided to make Byleth very pissed at Aizawa and the pussycats for this.
I hope you enjoyed the first part of the summer camp. :)
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See ya you all in the next chapter!
Ps: I need a beta writer.