"Aw no fair! You couldn't even let me in on the action, Ice Princess!?"
"Huh? That shouldn't even be your concern right now, you damn Pyro!"
"What'd you call me!? I dare ya to say that again, stripper!"
"I called you a damn Pyro! And who're you calling a stripper, huh!?"
"The one who's not wearing his pants, Gray."
"Whoa when did that happen!?"
"Gray! There are other people here! You can't just take off your pants in front of them!"
'Just what in the world is going on, right now? What are we even watching?'
After receiving Ashido's text amidst all the panic going around, Uraraka was confused as to what exactly the acid quirk user was trying to tell her by sending her location. However, when Midoriya took a look at the text, he began to call over the three fairies they were escorting around the shopping district. Lucy had read the space time book that brought them to this quirk driven world and now she wanted to learn more about the world's history, which is why she had a bag full of interesting novels and a thin history book.
The greenette then began to insist that they go to the location Ashido had sent since it could mean that the source of all the panic must be where the Bakusquad was at. Seeing as how desperate he looked and how urgent it sounded, everyone agreed to his suggestion and they made haste to the others' location. Half way there, the three fairies could sense magic power being used and just knew that it wasn't any old quirk user at the center of all the panic.
Lucy and Wendy worrying that perhaps one of the criminals they had captured also travelled to this world thanks to the magic of the book. Natsu, on the other hand, heightened his smelling senses. He could easily find Bakugo's caramel scent no problem and the scent of one of the criminals he and the rest of the team had captured. Deciding in his head that the criminal wanted a rematch, he began to run faster so that he was running next to Midoriya. That was... until he found two more familiar scents.
Not wanting to be beat by a certain raven headed stripper and scarlet haired monster, Natsu urged Midoriya to run faster. Unfortunately for the fire dragon slayer, cold air began to invade the area and the two students had thought that Todoroki had arrived to the scene, but they were soon proven wrong when long spears of ice could be seen in the distance. The half hot and half cold quirk user doesn't use attacks like that and judging by the fairies' expressions, it must be one of their own.
When they got to the scene, Midoriya was the first to catch sight of the Bakusquad and called out to them, not really noticing the two newcomers with them. It was when Natsu began yelling with fire coming from his mouth while Lucy and Wendy called out to their teammates in relief that he noticed the raven headed man and the scarlet haired woman, his eyes widening in awe at the latter as she fought the villain. She was covered head to toe in armor and was slicing every plant that came in her way.
Once Uraraka and the three fairies caught up with Midoriya, Gray turned his attention his nakama and he sighed in relief since they seemed to be okay (thought Natsu seemed more annoyed like he expected). The ice mage still wondered how long his nakama had been there, considering the fact that they already made relationships in this strange place, but he couldn't wonder for long because once he greeted Lucy and Wendy, he watched in shock as the blonde immediately turned her attention to the loud ash blonde boy.
Literally, everyone's eyes widened as the celestial mage did not even hesitate to pull him in her embrace. The U.A students were definitely surprised, especially since Bakugo just allowed it to happen rather than protesting like they expected him to do. Meanwhile, Gray just raised his eyebrow towards Natsu and Wendy, who seemed pretty calm about the blonde's reaction compared to everyone else's, but they only just shrugged which led Gray to just wait for explanations.
Even though Lucy knows that Bakugo and Midoriya could hold their own well in a fight, she had to admit to being worried that Bakugo may have gotten himself into a fight with whatever criminal that might've come along with the rest of Team Natsu. Call it her big sister senses or whatever, but the celestial mage wouldn't hesitate to protect them, the rest of Class 1-A and even the rest of their world from any mages from Earthland. They could help if they wanted to, of course.
Bakugo, on the other hand, wasn't all that shocked to have Lucy hug him, but the fact that their was an audience made him flustered. So after giving her a couple of moments, he broke the hug and turned away with a scowl on his face (one that Lucy and Kirishima could tell was a way to hide his embarrassment). Once he reassured her that he and everyone else was okay thanks to Erza and Gray, Lucy relaxed and turned to look for the S-Class mage, who had defeated the criminal mage after having her fun.
Which is where the group of fairies and students found themselves now. Uraraka and Ashido covering their eyes while Gray looked for his pants with Wendy and the U.A male students' jaws dropping in disbelief as Erza carried the captive criminal off the ground by his new restraints with one hand while Lucy tried to stop picking a fight with Gray. Luckily, before he could start melting the shopping centre, Erza stomped her foot on the ground (causing it to shake) as Natsu and Gray froze in fear.
"Gray. Hurry up and find your pants or so help me because we're clearly not in Fiore." She said, requipping back into her Heart Kreuz armor as Wendy finally found said pants and handed it to the ice mage. "And Natsu... you will stop your nonsense before I make you."
"Yes ma'am!" Both replied in automated fashion and began to act all buddy-buddy with each other, the Bakusquad paralyzed at just how much more scary the woman before them was compared to Lucy when she's mad.
Wendy, acting like nothing out of the ordinary had transpired, then gestured to both the scarlet and raven headed mages. "Anyways guys, these are the final two members of Team Natsu. Gray Fullbuster, an ice mage and Erza Scarlet, a requip mage."
The seven students were too intimidated at first to even greet Erza, but after whipping Natsu and Gray into shape her scary expression relaxed and she turned to Lucy while looking at the first years from the corner of her good eye. "Now, mind catching us up on what we need to know Lucy? Who's the kid you hugged earlier?"
The minute he heard the scarlet haired mage refer to him as 'kid', Bakugo got annoyed and his feelings of intimidation by her faded away. "WHO THE HELL YOU CALLING A KID, LADY!?" He shouted as explosions went off at his palms. "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT-"
"You need to settle down." Erza said and cutting him off as she bumped him on the head with her fist, making him smash into the ground while everyone else began to freak out.
"Kacchan!/Bakugo!"
"Erza! You can't just do that to him like you normally would Natsu! These people aren't mages like us!" Lucy scolded while Wendy healed Bakugo's bruise as Kirishima helped him sit up. "That book took us to a completely separate world from Edolas and Earthland!"
"Huh?" Gray asked, ending his buddy-buddy act with Natsu (much to the dragon slayer's pleasure). "So if we're not in Edolas or Earthland... just what kind of world are we in? And how long have you been here?"
Scratching the back of her head, glad that this would be the final time she had to retell the story, Lucy just dismissed his question and said that she would explain it on the way to the academy. And before Gray or Erza could ask what she meant by that, Natsu and Wendy's ears perked up and questioning expressions formed on their faces. It sounded like rampaging animals were heading their way, but they could hear human voices amongst all the chaos. So due to instinct, they got into battle stances.
However, the heroes in training and Lucy knew better as large column of fire began heading towards the fairies' way. Erza, tightening her hold on the unconscious criminal, she nodded towards Natsu and the fire dragon slayer smirked as he jumped in the fire column's path. Unlike when Natsu first arrived at their school, the students recognized this fire and would have protest to Natsu's intervention, but they were stopped when Lucy, Gray and Wendy stood in their way.
"Lucy! You can't fight them!" Uraraka said as the blonde turned to meet their concerned faces. "Not only is that the number one hero, Endeavor's, flames but there's probably authorities and media following right behind him!"
"Well at least, if it's just the one guy and a bunch of regular people, we can make our escape easier than normal." Gray replied with a smirk, not really easing the brunette's worries.
As soon as the column of fire got in range, Natsu licked his lips and began to take in a deep breath. The fire immediately changed its course and began moving to the dragon slayer's mouth as he took in big gulps to swallow his food. After finishing his meal, it most definitely cleared his appetite, the after taste began to settle on his tongue and Natsu looked like he was about to throw up. He begged for either water from Lucy or Bakugo to throw explosions at him, the taste in his mouth clearly unbearable.
The celestial mage complied and transformed into her Aquarius Star Dress, creating a ball of water for Natsu to drink and once he was done, Bakugo (though kind of reluctant since he didn't want to but knew Lucy would beat him for it) made some small explosions for the dragon slayer to eat, the caramel taste overpowering whatever taste was made from Endeavor's fire. A burp leaving his mouth while the rest of Team Natsu just facepalmed in disappointment.
"That was the worst tasting fire I've ever eaten! And I've eaten a lot of nasty fire!" Natsu exclaimed, stating the obvious. "It was like... old tasting and not even that hot! You're telling me people get burned by that kind of fire!?"
'He says that like he doesn't know that people are different here!'
"Well not everyone has a fire dragon slayer that melts everything, now do they?" Lucy asked sarcastically, causing Natsu to shut up as the Flame Hero, authorities and media came into view and are quickly coming closer.
Endeavor had been using his fire to get to the scene quickly, getting many reports of a villain dressed in completely black with some weird quirk wreaking havoc across the shopping mall so he sent out an attack upon seeing a silhouette in the distance. But not only did his fire disappear, as if being sucked into some vacuum, he found said villain matching the description being held off the ground by the hand of some red haired woman who was with a large group of teens from what he could tell.
Once he landed on the ground in the open area, his eyes widened when he recognized the so-called Celestial Hero that had made her debut a couple of days ago and the rumoured blue haired intern that had been looking for her just the day before. However, he was even more surprised to see Midoriya, Bakugo's and the other U.A students' heads peeking from behind the blonde and bluenette, wondering why they were even there in the first place when they should've made their escape by now.
He decided to question them later, turning his attention to Erza as he let out his hand. "That man in your hand... was he the villain attacking earlier?"
Erza simply nodded, widening her stance slightly as her stern expression matched that of the Flame Hero. "He is... and I'm the one who defeated him."
The authorities and journalists had finally made it to the scene as the S-Class mage said her piece, their eyes popping out of their sockets as they couldn't believe how young Erza looked and nonchalant she sounded at defeating a villain of unheard of capabilities. Though they should be more focused on the fact that the Celestial Hero and rumoured healer was behind the scarlet haired woman, the tension between the Flame Hero and S-Class mage was too much to ignore.
"Well... if that's the case, we thank you." Endeavor said, not wanting to seem so disappointed about not getting to the shopping centre fast enough. "Now if you could pass him to us, we'll-"
"Sorry, but we can't afford to hand him over to the likes of you." Natsu said, interrupting him. "This guy is Fairy Tail's to deal with."
Not understanding what the pink headed man was talking about, one of the police officers stepped up to the front with cuffs in his hands. "We understand your concern... uh... sir, but it is our job to properly detain him now that you have captured him."
Eyeing the cuffs in his hand and finally noticing the lack of ethernano in the air, Erza shook her head as she eased up on her stance. "I'm afraid my nakama and I cannot take any risks. It is clear to me that you do not have the proper equipment necessary to restrain him if those are all you have."
"Excuse me!?"
"Shouldn't we just hand over the villain to the authorities!? At least then we can just leave peacefully right!?" Sero asked in a nervous and hushed voice while Kaminari agreed with him from behind.
"Yeah! If she keeps fighting with them, we'll be the ones going to prison!"
The ice mage just shook his head, placing his right fist atop his left palm. "We could... but if this really isn't Earthland and you guys don't have magic like us, then I doubt you would have magic restraining cuffs."
"Magic restraining cuffs? What's that?" Kirishima asked. "And why the heck are you getting into a fighting stance!?"
"They're a type of cuffs that block the ethernano flow within our bodies." Wendy explained in simplest of terms. "Once on, no mage can make use of their magic and they'll be completely powerless to make escape. If we let him go with them, no doubt his escape will be quick."
"You're kidding!" Midoriya exclaimed.
"Are you refusing the authorities, young lady?" Endeavor asked, raising his eyebrow and lowering his tone before shifting his eyes to Lucy. "And you're just going to watch this happen, Celestial Hero?"
Natsu just smirked as, he punched his right fist to his left palm, fire surrounding them as he did so while shocking the crowd in front of him. Erza just handed the unconscious criminal to Lucy, Wendy and the seven students to keep watch over. Gray then also stepped forward to stand next to Natsu and Erza, the cold air already surrounding his body as the crowd could feel one side of the area warm up and the other side cooling down at rapid rates. The three mages' magic power pulsing through the air.
Lucy just shrugged, getting into a defensive stance. "I'd listen to them if I were you." She said, her voice so sure and decided. "I should've probably cleared this all up when I came here but, we're mages from Fairy Tail. If you take this villain, you won't be able to stop him from using his powers like you would normally do for quirks."
The Flame Hero just groaned underneath his breath, the blonde woman making it very clear that she and her friends were not going to cooperate. Which meant the authorities would have to take them in along with the villain. "Very well... you leave me with no choice then." He said with a solemn expression before it turned into a serious one. "I'm going to have to make you!"
"Gray! Natsu!"
"On it!"
As Endeavor let out another large stream of fire, Gray was surrounded by a light blue aura as he casted an Ice Make: Bazooka. The weapon of ice materialized into his hand and he instantly shot two large attacks of ice to instantly break through Endeavour's attack. The authorities then watched as Natsu jumped from behind the ice mage, both his arms pulled back as he went to land a Fire Dragon's Wing Attack on Endeavor, who was pushed back and could feel Natsu's heat even through his Hero Costume.
"Now that's what a fire attack looks like, pal." The dragon slayer said in a taunting tone.
'Not the point, Flame Brain.' Gray retorted in his mind.
Everyone but the five fairies all stared at Gray and Natsu with astonished expressions. Yes, the U.A students knew of Natsu's capabilities and his dragon slaying magic but they had to admit that Gray's magic capabilities were just as strong as Natsu's. Todoroki had been the only other person they knew to utilize a quirk that involved ice, save for the rest of his family, and anyone would receive a chill down their spines just from being in close vicinity of his ice. Yet, Gray's ice had a literal trail of snowflakes following behind his attack.
Endeavor's eyes widened as he stared at the raven haired man in front of him, holding on to a weapon made of pure ice that could even be used as if it were the real thing. His thoughts immediately went to his son and wife, who both possessed strong ice quirks. But this man before him, the way he used his ice, is nothing like he had ever seen. Even with the pink haired man, his fire... the heat from it even burned through his heat resistant armor - something that should be impossible considering his Hellflames.
Erza then stepped up to stand in front of Natsu and Gray, who knew better than to protest and backed off. Her eyes narrowed when they met Endeavor's, a light surrounding her body as she requipped into her Flame Empress Armor and her Sea Empress Sword to her hand. Kaminari and Sero's faces turning into one of excitement upon seeing just how revealing her armor was, receiving bonks on the head from Ashido and Uraraka in the process. Midoriya, Bakugo and Kirishima watching her with utmost curiosity.
Pointing the sword to him, water began to surround it as her magic aura made itself known. "I will explain this properly since it's clear to me that you have yet to understand." She said, getting into her battle stance. "This criminal is from our homeland Fiore, a place not of this world. He possesses magic power that knows no bounds and it is our guild's job to subdue him and bring him into custody."
"Excuse me? Did you say not of this world?" One of the journalists asked.
"Erza... I was kind of hoping that they wouldn't have to find out about that until... never?" Lucy said while sweatdropping.
"Magic power, you say?" The Flame Hero asked as the scarlet mage nodded.
"He possesses what our people call plant magic, a magic that allows him to grow and/or create rapid growing plants for combat." She explained simply. "So, I'm asking again that you allow us to leave and take care of him before anyone else gets hurt."
Not totally believing her words (who would anyway?), Endeavor did not budge since he couldn't just trust some unknown woman and her friends to just take care of some villain. Even if the Celestial Hero vouched for her and the U.A students didn't seem to be cautious of her either. Noticing, Erza just sighed and used her free hand to make a signal behind her back, the four mages understanding it. Looks like they would have to escape the situation with quite the disappearing act.
Lucy, who was being covered by Natsu and Gray, held onto Loke's key and it glowed for a second before the space time book appeared into her hands. She began to flip through its pages quickly and quietly while Wendy turned her head one-eighth to the left so that she could talk to the quirk users behind her. "Hold onto each other and make sure not to get blinded, okay?" She said in a hush whisper.
"Hold on just a second! What the heck is going on!?" Midoriya asked, also in a hushed tone.
"Yeah. Mind telling us just what the hell you extras are planning to do?" Bakugo added, holding back on his voice's usual volume level.
Natsu just looked at them with a mischievous grin on his face while Gray got ready to move on Erza's signal. "If Luce finds the right spell, we're just gonna head back to the dorms is all!"
Just as Lucy found the spell she was looking for, she began to chant in a low voice as her body began to glow with light. Noticing this, Endeavor's and Erza's staring contest was over and the Flame Hero tried to stop them from trying anything funny by casting his Flashfire Fist: Hell Spider, but Erza was quick to react. She went and sliced the thin blasts of fire, negating his attack before backing away to make space for Gray - the ice mage already crouching on the ground with a smirk.
"Hurry Gray, let's go!"
"Ice Make: Floor!"
A thick layer of ice coated the ground underneath the pro hero, authorities and the journalists. Endeavor was able to melt it quickly so he wouldn't slip, but that wasn't the case for the people behind him. He would've been able to capture the fairies if it weren't for the bright golden magic circle that appeared under their feet, the students shutting their eyes tightly so that they are not blinded. One moment, they were there, but when the light dismissed... both U.A students and fairies had vanished.
As the light from Lucy's spell began to die down, the seven heroes in training opened their eyes to see their dorm building right in front of them. Letting go of one another, the fairies seemed to be very relieved that the spell worked while the students held their heads because of a dizzy spell, their bodies clearly not used to travelling through space at rapid speeds. However, that spell had taken quite the toll on Lucy's magic power since she had to transport many people, and her legs gave out in exhaustion.
Natsu, the first one to notice her falling, immediately leaped out to catch her in his arms. "Luce!" He cried in alarm, everyone else turning their attention to her while Natsu gently brought her to lay on the ground, her Star Dress being dismissed and replaced with her clothes from earlier. "Luce! Are you okay!?"
"Lucy!"
"Big Sis!"
As this was all happening, the rest of Class 1-A, Happy and Carla came out from the dorm building as they had seen the flash of light from the windows when the group had arrived. They had all gone out to greet them, especially taking note of the two newcomers with them, but that all changed once they noticed Lucy's condition. Wendy had already begun to check the celestial mage for any injuries but Lucy just stopped her with a weak hand, her eyelids and body getting heavier the more she moved.
"What the hell, Lucy!? What're you stopping Blueberry for!?" Bakugo shouted, kneeling next to her on the opposite side of Natsu with Midoriya next to him (the greenette was ready to cry on site).
"Yeah Luce!?" Natsu agreed, his dragon senses going on overdrive. "Did you get hurt!? Don't tell me that old man's fire hurt you!? You're way stronger than that!"
"Both of you... shut up... already..." The blonde said faintly as her body relaxed and the book fading back to the celestial world. "The spell... must've taken more... magic power... than I thought... Tired... let me... sleep..."
Once her eyes closed, Wendy began examining Lucy again like how Porlyusica had taught her, making sure that the cause of exhaustion was really just because she's low on magic power. A couple of seconds of silence, Wendy stopped and smiled reassuringly, repeating what Lucy said and that she may be asleep for a couple of hours so that her body can take in ethernano. The class relaxed and then turned their attention to the three newcomers that had also arrived with the group, specifically the guy tied up in ropes.
"So uh... who's that guy?" Sato asked. "Are all three of them also a part of your guys' team?"
"Forgive my impudence, my name is Erza Scarlet and this is Gray Fullbuster." She said, gesturing to herself and the ice mage next to her. "We are both mages from Fairy Tail and this guy here is a bandit who unfortunately travelled with us from our world."
"Hold on! You brought a villain here with you!?" Iida asked, stepping forth in front of the rest of the class. "Did Heartfilia not tell you anything about this world!? You can't just bring a villain into this school!"
"Iida relax!" Both Midoriya and Uraraka cried, stopping their class president from going any further. "Lucy even said that the pros and police couldn't have this villain!"
"What!?" The class asked. They all trusted Lucy the most since she was the first one to arrive to this world and because she seemed to be the most normal out of everyone they had met (they had only met Gray and Erza just now but Wendy was close second).
Unfortunately for the fairies, Aizawa soon stepped foot through the dorm gates with an annoyed and tired look on his face. Upon seeing the three newcomers and Lucy passed out, the underground hero let out a sigh while scratching the back of his head, wishing that he didn't have to deal with anything on his day off. "Mind explaining why Nezu got a call from Endeavor asking about my students?"
Midoriya, Uraraka, Kirishima, Mina, Kaminari and Sero took one big nervous gulp while Bakugo just scoffed, evading eye contact from his teacher. Natsu's eyes narrowed as he gently moved Lucy so that she laid on Wendy's lap, standing up to join Erza and Gray, who just mirrored his expression while the scarlet haired mage held onto the bandit. Happy and Carla recognized the bandit and their eyes widened as they met eye contact with Wendy, who only waved the matter off. She'll explain everything in Lucy's place.
"Endeavor... is that the name of that old man?" Natsu asked.
Aizawa nodded and then pointed lazily to the passed out villain in Erza's hand. "I'm going to need you to hand him over to me now. I'm afraid I can't allow a villain to remain in the same space as my students, especially when his so-called magic is as dangerous as it is."
"Take him away and he'll just escape the moment he wakes up." Gray said, crossing his arms.
"The authorities are already taking necessary measures to prevent such events. Now I ask you again, hand him over." Aizawa repeated with his hand stretched out. "It was hard enough to convince the media and pros to conceal the fact that mages such as yourselves are the ones who captured him. We cannot allow the masses that people like you exist elsewhere, even more so any villains."
Erza just stared at the black haired man before her, moving her eyes to look at Natsu, Gray and then everyone else behind her. If Lucy had been hiding the fact they use magic instead of these 'quirks' that she mentioned before, there must be a reason why. Not wanting to cause complications or risk being brought into custody themselves, the S-Class mage sighed and threw the unconscious bandit onto the ground with no effort. Everyone except Aizawa staring at her wide eyed.
"I appreciate your cooperation."
"Erza! What the heck do you think you're doing!?" Happy asked.
"You can't let them take that man! He'll cause chaos if he were to escape!" Carla added.
"Enough!" The scarlet haired mage commanded before Natsu, Gray or Wendy could protest as well. "We cannot further risk our identities to be revealed. Lucy kept our magic a secret for a reason and I wouldn't want the knowledge of other worlds to go into the wrong hands."
"But Erza-"
"However!" She continued, cutting Natsu off. "When he does escape, and your so-called pros cannot stop his magic, I'd like for you to tell your superiors just one thing... we warned you."
Class 1-A immediately got chills running down their spines from Erza's words. They didn't know if the air had become suffocating and chilly because of Wendy or Gray but they couldn't find the words to speak, even Bakugo didn't want to speak up against the scarlet woman. Aizawa, who didn't seem all that bothered by her words, only nodded in understanding and tied the bandit using his scarf before leaving the dorm area without another word. Erza then turned around to look down on Lucy, letting out an annoyed sigh.
Midoriya and Bakugo, realizing that there was no turning back now, shook their heads out of their frozen state and turned to Wendy. "Hey, we should probably take Big Sis Lucy back to her room so that she can rest peacefully." The greenette suggested as Natsu immediately turned around at the mention of his partner and went to pick her up bridal style.
When addressing her as 'Big Sis', Erza and Gray raised an eyebrow towards the younger boy, not understanding why he would call Lucy as such. Noticing their confusion, Bakugo rolled his eyes and stuffed his hands in his pants pockets. "Oi. Lucy wasn't able to explain everything to do you, right? You got some catching up to do."
"Oh! So you don't know how this world works or how Lucy knows this place, then?" Yaoyorozu asked as the two fairies nodded while many began to head back into the dorm building. "Come then! Let's stay in the common room and we'll help clear up some things while Wendy, Carla and Happy explains the rest."
"Thank you for your hospitality."
"Yeah, thanks."
But as Gray said his piece, the female students began to scream as they covered their eyes and their faces turning bright red. Before the two mages could ask what was wrong, Todoroki just pointed at the raven headed man with a blank look and when Gray looked down, his eyes widened as he noticed that he had stripped himself of his pants somewhere and was just about to strip off his underwear. Erza hitting him on the head while he crawled around to grab his pants.
Todoroki, Kaminari, Sero, Shoji, Iida and Tokoyami were the only males remaining outside and they just stared at the older man before them with concerned or blank expressions. Kaminari, Sero and Iida just facepalmed their foreheads while Todoroki, Shoji and Tokoyami just stared with raised eyebrows - the same thought going through their minds: The males of Fairy Tail are really something else. Luckily for them, the females seemed sane enough.
"Oh my gosh you stripped again!?" Ashido cried in disbelief. "Keep your pants on!"
"Does he always do that!?" Hagakure asked.
"Why would you even take your underwear off!?" Jirou added. "Come to think of it, where's your shirt!?"
"Please forgive him!" Wendy said with an awkward smile. "Because of the way his master trained him in ice magic from when he was a kid, he developed a stripping habit that seems to be uncontrollable!"
"Why would you have to strip for training?" Todoroki asked, curious as to how Gray was trained to use his ice. Also, what Natsu said before about his ice not being as cold as Gray's also peaked his interest.
Once the ice mage located his pants and put them back on, he scratched his head when seeing the red and white headed boy approach him. "Well you see, my master trained me in a pretty cold place. In order to get used to the cold, she had us strip in order to build up tolerance to the low temperature." He explained. "As for my shirt... kinda lost it before coming here."
Todoroki took in the ice mage's words and nodded while thinking to himself. He had never thought that adapting to the temperature would be something he needed to do, but considering Natsu and Gray's tolerance to the heat and cold, it was something he wanted to try himself. "Interesting..."
"Oh don't you dare try something so inappropriate, Todoroki!" Iida warned, his arm slashing up and down. "I don't even think Aizawa sensei would allow such a tactic!"
"But it's for my-"
"Regardless if it's for training or not, it is out of the question!"
After convincing Todoroki to not follow Gray's example in training, Erza literally threatened to have Gray's head if the red and white headed boy also caught on to his habit, everyone finally went inside to explain everything to the two fairies. They all gathered around the common area and sat in various spots on the couch and chairs as everyone took turns to explain their world: Midoriya explained his and Bakugo's relationship with Lucy while Wendy explained how long she and the others have been there and how they would go home.
Once that was all covered, Erza and Gray reintroduced themselves in more detail. They showed off their magic briefly, Midoriya was very impressed by Gray's demonstration of even creating a perfect clone of himself with ice and the amount of armor Erza had in her arsenal, and then just answered any questions the class had like Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Happy and Carla before. When they heard that Erza was an S-Class mage in their guild, they knew well than to piss her off (especially with how Natsu and Gray acted around her).
In the short amount of time of Team Natsu's arrival and stay at their dorm, Class 1-A could already see how the hierarchy of the team was organized and even compared them to the roles of their own class. Erza was clearly the Aizawa of the group while Lucy was like Iida and Yaoyorozu together. Natsu and Gray were spitting images of Bakugo and Midoriya, though with a much better relationship compared to the two childhood friends, while Wendy and the exceeds were like the rest of the Baku and Dekusquad.
As the afternoon sun turned to one of the evening, Midoriya finally noticed that Kacchan was nowhere in sight. Sure, the ash blonde boy wasn't always present whenever everyone was at the common room but even Kirishima hadn't seen him for awhile and also had no idea where he was. Natsu and Happy was joking around with the rest of the Bakusquad; Wendy, Erza and Carla were with the girls and Gray was talking with Todoroki, Tokoyami, Iida and Sato. Lucy hadn't come down yet, so it was safe to assume that she was still asleep.
At the thought of the celestial mage, Midoriya decided to go check up on her condition. Even though Wendy reassured everyone that Lucy just needed a lot of rest to replenish her magic power, the greenette couldn't help but worry for her. She was the closest person he had to an older sibling after all. Even though she had claimed herself to be Kacchan's elder sister as result of her staying at his house when they were kids, in the end... all three of them were only children. They all wanted a sibling at least once in their lives.
The greenette then began to think back to when Lucy first came to the Bakugo residence. It had been the weekend that day, both he and Kacchan in the living room play heroes while Masaru was working at the dining table. They had watched in confusion when Mitsuki and Inko came in carrying the unconscious girl and laid her on the couch, signalling the both of them to keep quiet while they went into the kitchen to talk to Masaru. At first sight, Kacchan had been convinced that she was his sister.
Midoriya laughed to himself, thinking how silly it sounded. From her blonde hair alone and the brown eyes that could be from his father, Kacchan had claimed her to be his sister (though at the time he thought she would be his younger sister) right then and there. Even after she had woken up, shy and quiet since she found herself at some stranger's house, he introduced himself as her older brother. Unfortunately for Kacchan, Lucy shut him down by telling him that she was seven while he was four - so she was the older one.
But after talking to Mitsuki, Masaru and Inko once she had realized that she was safe, she opened up to both him and Kacchan. Midoriya had to admit, when she asked about his and Kacchan's magic, he had been reluctant to reveal it. But when she said that she didn't have any powers yet, he had completely attached himself to the older girl - much to Kacchan's annoyance of course. The greenette couldn't help but chuckle when thinking about how Lucy would still put Kacchan in his place without the need of a quirk or magic.
Thinking back on it more, the first person to ever encourage him despite being quirkless... was Lucy. In fact, she was the only person to ever believe in his capabilities and stand up for him. Sure, All Might might've changed his mind after the incident with the sludge villain, but even then, the retired hero had also shut him down at first. Midoriya may have cried when All Might said that he could be a hero, but that was because he had never heard those words. Lucy had never said them when they were kids... but she believed him.
When he finally arrived at Lucy's door, the greenette could somehow feel tears well up in his eyes. Not wanting to cry, Midoriya quickly wiped away the growing tears from his eyes. The memories of Lucy believing in him had been a distant memory up until now, and just remembering how much she stood up for him, encouraged him, made him somewhat emotional. Just her believing in him was more than enough. Kacchan may have had everyone rooting for him since the beginning, but Midoriya only had Lucy until All Might.
To his surprise, Midoriya opened Lucy's door to see her awake but Kacchan asleep on the side of her bed. Before he could say anything, Lucy noticed him standing at her door entrance and signalled him to stay quiet, gesturing him to enter and come over to them. The greenette slowly sat on the side of Lucy's bed that was not occupied by Kacchan and looked to his peaceful sleeping self along with the blonde. He had to admit, it was kind of weird to see him like that. He was constantly yelling all over the place after all.
Lucy then turned her attention away from Bakugo and towards Midoriya, his fascinated face of the ash blonde boy taking a nap causing her to giggle softly. Once he was seated comfortably, she greeted him quietly while gently running her fingers through Bakugo's hair. "Hey Izuku... what's up?"
"When did you wake up?" Midoriya asked in a hushed whisper. "And how long has he been like that?"
Holding in her giggles, Lucy just turned her attention to the ash blonde boy again. "He's cute, isn't he?" She asked to which Midoriya agreed. "He's been like this for awhile now from what it looks like. And I woke up probably ten minutes ago."
"Feeling any better?"
The blonde nodded and then reached for the bowl of cookies at her bedside table and the glass of water next to it. "Yeah! My magic is completely replenished thanks to that nap." She confirmed. "I kinda wanna bring him into the bed so that he is more comfortable, but I have a feeling he'll wake up if I try to move him."
"Knowing Kacchan, he might just blow up your room in anger while he's at it."
The two sat their in peaceful silence for a bit, Lucy sharing her cookies with the greenette as the both of them agreed that Bakugo had been the one to bring it to her room. The evening sun peering through the window curtains as Lucy began showing Midoriya the space time book and teaching him how to decipher the text. He was amazed how similar the script was to Japanese, although with some key differences, and he couldn't wait for the time that he and Bakugo could possibly visit Earthland thanks to the magic of the book.
The blonde had just gone a little over halfway through the book, but there was still no information on how to open a simple portal back to Earthland or how she was able to transport the team to another world in the first place. Lucy continuously mumbled her thoughts out loud, much like the greenette next to her, wondering if this quirk world was only connected to Earthland because of her previous visit or just by pure coincidence. She could only wish that Levy was also with her as well as her Gale-Force Reading glasses.
"Say Izuku... you never really explained how you got your quirk yet." Lucy spoke up as she watched Midoriya read through the book's pages, the boy's body tensing up at the mention of his quirk.
It was kind of hard to explain after all. Even though the blonde was from another world, he felt like he would be betraying All Might's trust again like when he told Kacchan that his quirk was borrowed at the beginning of the school year. The greenette didn't want that. And even if he spilt the truth or not to Lucy, he somehow knew that she would understand. Maybe once he becomes a hero, he will tell her. But right now, it was perfectly fine with him that only Kacchan knew the truth of his quirk.
"It's kind of a long story... one I'm not ready to share just yet..."
Sensing his inner conflict and uncertainty, Lucy just smiled and ruffled his hair again. "My little brothers really have grown up well, haven't they?" Izuku blushed at her words and Lucy couldn't help but to giggle at his response. "You're gonna make me end up feeling really old if you keep that up."
Both she and the greenette found themselves trying to hold in a fit of giggles at her remark, the blonde eventually getting out of the blanket and placing it over Katsuki's shoulders since he only wore his tank top and house shorts. After all, she didn't know how long the ash blonde boy had been there but she had a feeling it had been for awhile now. Lucy couldn't help but think Katsuki was like Natsu when he slept: when awake he's crazy in his own way, but in slumber he was quite adorable.
Meanwhile, as Midoriya watched Lucy babying Bakugo in her head, his thoughts began going to what he was thinking before entering the blonde's room. "Hey Lucy... did you really mean it?"
"Mean what?"
"Back when we were kids... you said that I could be a hero." He stated. "Did you meant that? Even if I didn't have a quirk?"
Realizing what he was getting at, Lucy mentally thanking Inko for showing her before and after pictures of Midoriya during his final year in middle school and the first day of high school. Even though she wasn't there during his change, she could tell it was amazing from what Inko had told her. She had also heard many stories of the greenette's battles thanks to Uraraka and Iida as well as watch a few clips from the Sport's Festival from awhile back thanks to Yaoyorozu and Todoroki.
With a firm nod, Lucy hummed in confirmation. "Of course I meant it! I don't even know why you're still thinking this way even though you've come this far, Izuku." She said. "Both you and Katsuki, I just knew that the both of you would achieve your goals because the both of you were, and still are, so determined."
"We were?"
"Yes, you were. After joining Fairy Tail, if there was something I learned, it would be the fact that heroes is not just some title. Hell, Natsu's a hero in his own right but he doesn't address himself that way. So long as you fight for good, help people to the best of your ability. Quirk or no quirk. Magic or no magic. Anyone can be a hero."
Midoriya's eyes widened, his heart filled with warmth much like when All Might had told him that he could be a hero. Lucy's words felt just as impactful as his. Hiding his eyes behind his bangs so that she couldn't see the tears welling up in his eyes, the greenette quickly used his arm to wipe the water droplets away. "Thanks... Lucy. I... definitely needed to hear that."
"No problem!" The celestial mage watched fondly at him trying not to let the waterworks fall. Moving over so that she was closer to him, Lucy pulled Midoriya into a hug since he looked like he needed one. "Besides, you remind me of myself sometimes."
"If he's so much like you then why don't you just be his sister, huh?"
At the sound of the ash blonde boy's voice, Midoriya practically jumped away from Lucy's embrace as his eyes met Bakugo's narrowed ones. He hadn't really moved from his position, his head was no longer leaning on his arm and now his chin rested on the edge of the bed as he looked up at Lucy and Midoriya. His eyes still held a sleepy expression and his voice was a little raspy. While Midoriya looked like a nervous wreck, he hoped Bakugo heard nothing of their conversation, Lucy just seemed calm and petted Bakugo's head.
"Good evening, Katsuki. Liked your nap?"
"Hmph."
"Aw~ c'mon Katsuki! You know I'm your sister!" Lucy teased in a reassuring voice before turning to Midoriya to whisper in his ear. "Even though I never really had a choice when I first came here."
"I CAN HEAR YOU, Y'KNOW!? WHY DON'T YOU JUST SAY THAT TO MY FACE!?"
"K-Kacchan! Calm down!"
"Izuku relax, he's just jealous that he doesn't get a hug either."
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST SHUT UP!?"
"Agh! Kacchan wait!"
It was probably around dawn when the villain woke up in his very secluded cell. He was laying down on some cot and on his wrists were heavy cuffs that even covered his hands. He could sense that there was some sort of power generating them but they didn't block his magic. Normally, he would just break out with the help of his plants, but he had to keep in mind that the fairies were in the same world as him now. He had to be careful with his escape just in case.
However, he also knew that they were too smart to just hand him over to the authorities without so much as magic restraining cuffs. he didn't know whether to conclude that they were dumber than he thought or if they're doing it on purpose. But he would take his chances. After all, his boss did say that if desperate times come to pass, his second arsenal of magic could be used. He was originally going to use it to help the gang escape back in Earthland, but might as well do it now.
"Those fairies may be a problem... but those so-called heroes I heard people yelling about before my capture... they're a different story."