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Chapter 3. Let the games begin
"We live with pride in our guild's name. This seal we've carved into ourselves isn't merely decoration. It's the proof of our bonds as a family. Binding our fates together we put our lives on the line. Anyone that steps on that holy vow... Be they evil or good, I will cut them down." - Erza Scarlet
One week passes after the exam before Vivi finally gets her results. Like she believed she passed the written exam. She didn't do as good as she first thought, but she still passed with an okay score, so it's all right for her. Aizawa just has to be proud. For the practical test results, she got a video from All Might, which showed her, her points. She got 50 rescue points for saving Hitoshi from the zero pointer and 32 points by destroying robots. Damn it, I could have gotten so much more if I weren't out of it for most of the exam!
Olivia has gotten in second place. First place has someone named Katsuki Bakugo, who got 77 villain points and 10 rescue points. After she saw a video clip, she noticed that he was the blond boy who destroyed the robot she laid on for most of the exam. Seems like blasting the robot away from under her and rescuing her from her motion sickness gave him these ten rescue points. Whatever, second place is still good.
Thanks to her having lived at the U.A. since about three months, she finds the classroom for the 1-A without having to search for long. She shakes her head at the ridiculous large door and pushes it open to step inside. She looks around the room and recognises some of the people. There are only five people in the room as of now. The blond boy with the explosions who saved her is one of them. Before she can introduce herself to him, since she hasn't had the chance at the exam, a familiar scent hits her nose.
Vivis eyes go round in disbelief. She sniffs the air once more, to make sure she really smelled his scent. Her head spins around to set themselves on a boy with dual coloured red-white hair which is evenly parted in the middle. He also has a large burn scar on the left side of his face.
Instantly she rushed to his side. The boy looks at her in confusion because of that. She grabs him by the shoulders, her eyes are burning from the tears she can barely keep at bay. "Where is he?!" Her voice sound hoarse. A lump is building up in her throat.
The boy looks at her with big, confused eyes. Thinking carefully about whether he knows her from somewhere or met before. "Who?" he asks.
"Bubble, of course! Where is he? You have his scent on you. I'm sure of it! Please tell me he's all right?!" She shakes him slightly at his shoulders, clearly smelling her Exceed partner on him.
He blinks in wonder at her, sorting her words and finally getting who she's talking about. "You mean the cat?"
"Yes!" she almost shouts at him.
"He didn't want to stay at home alone so he's in there." Speaks the boy calmly and points at his bag.
Without hesitation she opens his bag. Like he said is her best friend and partner in there, soundly asleep besides of the noise. He snores silently. A small snore bubble is coming out of his nose. Completely how she remembers him. She pokes the bubble, which causes it to burst and wakes him up.
As soon as he sees the Dragon Slayer his eyes turn big and he flings himself at her chest. "Vivi!" cries the Exceed, big tears roll over his face.
Olivia wraps her arms around his little body, squeezing him to her in the process. Like she fears he would vanish again at any moment. "I'm so glad." She lets out a breath of relief.
The attention of the whole class is now on them. Even the people that arrive new in the room notice it right away and they watch them as well, wondering what's going on. Vivi pays no attention to that at all. "How are you here?" she asks the Exceed in a whisper.
He answers her, his face still buried in her chest, happy to feel her warmth again, "The man threw one of these strange orbs at me after I hit him in the chest."
The Dragon Slayer blinks in wonder at her partner. "You hit him in the chest?"
"Yeah. I thought he killed you, so I got angry and attacked him." He mumbles.
A proud grin appears on her face. "Wow, I'm proud of you, Bubble. So, you have been here for the last three months too?"
He nods against her, "I appeared somewhere in a park. It was dark and really scary. I searched for you right away, but couldn't find anything. And everything here looked so different. After a few hours I used up all of my magic and couldn't fly anymore. That's when Shoto found me. He took me in and helped me. When I was with him, I also found out that I was in a completely different world. I hoped you would be here too." His tears finally calm down while he talks, his voice still not more than a whisper.
Vivis eyes travel back to the dual-haired boy. She smiles at him and bows her head slightly. "Thank you for taking care of him, while I couldn't."
The boy looks at her with a hint of surprise. "It's all right." His expression turns back to a neutral on. "You're his friend from home?"
She looks at him, unsure how much Bubble told him and he knows. "Um, yeah."
"So, your also from this lost Kingdom somewhere?" he asks, eyeing the girl with curiosity.
With this words of the dual-haired boy Vivi realises that Bubble actually told him some kind of twisted truth. Since she doesn't know exactly what he said, she just answers with a "Yes," and decided to ask Bubble later. They can build up a cover story then.
That's when she finally notices all the attention they are getting. Her cheeks heat up and she rubs the back of her head, a crooked grin appears on her face. "Hi." She never liked attention. The only place where she didn't mind it, was at the Grand Magic Games in the year X791. But that was only because having attention had a purpose back then. They wanted their fame back, after all. For the friends who suffered the seven years where they were gone.
Bubble removed himself from her chest in the meantime. His wings vanish after he settled himself down on her right shoulder. He's smiling brightly. Almost all the girls in the room gather around them instantly, now that they can see the Exceed completely.
"He's so cute! Is he an animal with a Quirk?" asks a strange looking girl with pink skin, hair and dark, sparkling eyes.
Vivi smiles at her. She hates lying, but doesn't really has another choice, so she decides to go for some kind of half-truth. "Yeah, actually. He's a cat with an intelligence Quirk and a wing Quirk. His name is Bubble and he's with me since he was born and my best friend. We kinda lost each other accidently when we came to Musutafu three months ago so I'm glad we found each other again."
"Aye!" calls Bubble in agreement, while raising his paw in the air.
Vivi lifts an eyebrow at him. "You spend too much time with Happy."
"Who's Happy?" asks a girl, who is just a flying school uniform.
"Oh, there are actually more of his kind where were from. It's like a whole race. Happy is a flying cat too. We call cats like him Exceed." Vivi looks at the girl after the explanation, her eyes going big. "Woah! You're invisible. That's awesome!"
If you could see her cheeks, you would see that the invisible girl blushes hard at the comment. "Thanks." She squeals slightly.
"I'm Moon Olivia. You can call me Vivi if you want. Nice to meet you all." She smiles at the other girls, who introduce themselves to her one after another. The boys don't seem to pay attention to them any longer.
When a large girl with long black hair in a ponytail introduces herself Vivi stares at her with an open mouth. Her heart began to ache at the sound of her voice. "What's wrong?" asks the girl, Momo Yaoyorozu, in concern, who notices her reaction.
"It's nothing." Vivi shakes her head before she smiles reassuring at the girl. "You just sound exactly like a friend of mine back home. I miss her a lot." Now that she thinks about it. Aizawa does sound like Mest, All Might like Elfman, Principal Nezu like Lyon and Hitoshi like Erik. Maybe there are more people here who share voices with someone back home? Kind of like in Edolas, where they had complete counterparts. People here have the same voices.
"Really? What's she like?" asks Momo curious.
Olivia smiles while she thinks about Erza. She really misses the red head. "She's a beautiful warrior. Incredible strong but still cute and girlish. She is a Pro Hero, where were from. She's called Titania, the queen of fairies."
"She sounds great." Momo smiles at the Dragon Slayer.
"Aye!" agrees Bubble from up on Vivis shoulder. "But she is scary too!"
Vivi nods in agreement, "That she is."
In that moment, their attention is drawn to the door, where a few people speak with each other in loud voices. A boy with green hair and freckles, who seems totally flustered, a darkblue-haired boy and a girl with brown hair.
Now that Olivia is paying attention to them, she hears what the brown-haired girl says next, "I wonder what or teacher's like. Aren't you nervous?" she asks, while seeming to be pretty excited.
That's when Vivi hears another voice. It's one she knows, which sounds tired and totally done with everything. "Go somewhere else if you want to play at being friends."
Oh, Aizawa seems grumpy. He probably didn't get much sleep the last few days, huh? He probably had a lot to do after the exam and some underground hero stuff at night as well. Time to get him a break.
"This is the hero course. It took eight seconds before you were quiet. Time is limited. You kids are not rational enough." Finally, Aizawa steps through the giant door so anyone can see him. Besides Vivi, who already knew that he was going to be their teacher, everyone seems to be surprised at his worn-out appearance. "I'm Shota Aizawa, your homeroom teacher. Nice to meet you." Vivi has to cover up her ears at the surprised shouting that follows. She still hears what Aizawa is saying next. "It's a little sudden, but put this on and meet me outside on the field." He pulls a blue uniform out of his yellow sleeping bag and shows it to the class.
Aizawa leaves right away and everyone scatters to the changing rooms, while Vivi follows her new teacher. "Aiza-" she stops herself. He's her teacher now, right? She probably has to speak to him a little differently. "I mean Aizawa-sensei, wait a second."
He turns around and looks down at her with a lazy expression. "What is it?"
She grins at him and points at the Exceed on her shoulder. "I wanted to introduce you of course! This is Bubble. He was the partner I mentioned from home. He's actually here since I've been here! Can he stay while we have class?"
Now Aizawa looks a little bit surprised. His eyes travel to Bubble, taking in the strange blue-white cat. "Hm, I don't mind. Good for you." He pats her head once and turns back around to head outside to the field.
Bubble looks after the man in wonder. "You know him, Vivi?"
The Dragon Slayer nods. "Yeah, he helped me settle down in this world for the last months and was there for me. He's a really nice guy… but he can have his devilish moments. Kinda like Erza, but different."
"Sounds like a strange guy."
"A little bit." Vivi chuckles.
With that over with, she rushes to the changing room, where the other girls already are changing. She begins to strip out of her school uniform right away. Gasps from behind her let her turn around with a questioning face, still half caught in her shirt. "Ah, dammit." She grunts and pulls the shirt clumsily off herself. Now only in her underwear. The girls before her gasp once more. Vivi just raises an eyebrow at them. "What is it?"
"Um, where did you get these scars?" asks Tsuyu Asui, a girl with a frog Quirk, before immediately adding, "I mean, if you don't mind to answers. We don't want to pry!"
Vivi blinks in wonder. She often does that since she came here, doesn't she? But she just realised that the frog-girl has Mira's voice. Her theory about the shared voices seems more and more correct. "Oh, I don't mind. They are a part of me and without them I wouldn't be who I am today." Vivi learned fast to not be ashamed of her scars. Only right at the beginning she was, because the scars on her arm would always remind her of her biological father. From her adoptive Dad she learned to accept them and the story's they tell. He taught her that all her scars show that she survived. Now the Dragon Slayer sees them as a part of her strength.
She starts with exact these three faint scars on her right forearm. "I got this from my biological father. He was an asshole and attacked me with a broken glass bottle." The girls look at her in sympathy, while she continues. The second scar she points to is on her left lower leg. "This is a burn scar I got almost two years ago." The third on is on her right abdomen, shaped in a ripped x. "This was a stab wound from a saw sword." Then she spins around showing off the last and biggest scar on her back. It's a scar that starts on her right side just below her ribs and runs across her back to the left side on the height of her hipbone. "I got this one from a villain that attacked my home. It's about half a year old." She got this scar actually from one of Acnologias claws.
"That looks really bad. Did it hurt?" asks a girl with strange earlobes, named Kyoka Jiro.
"Like hell. A friend of mine luckily has a healing Quirk or I probably wouldn't have survived." Yeah, Vivi is sure if it weren't for Wendy, she'd be dead now.
"You fought an actual villain before?" Ochaco, the brown-haired girl, looks at her in awe.
The Dragon Slayer nods, while turning back around. "Yeah. My whole family had to fight back then. We needed to protect our home as well as or friends and family. I would do it all over again."
The girls look at her in understanding. "And what is the tattoo on your side? I can't believe you were allowed to have one already." questions Mina Ashido, who is the pink skinned girl.
Vivi smiles softly, while touching her guild mark. "This is not a tattoo. It's a mark everyone in my family has, which we get with a special stamp. It shows where we belong. Bubble has one too." The Exceed smiles and shows the white guild mark on his back, by pulling up his light-grey vest.
"And what is it supposed to be?" Tsuyu scans the mark in interest.
"It's a fairy." Answers Vivi with pride in her voice. "Do fairies have tails? More than that, do fairies even exist? Nobody knows for sure. It's an eternal mystery, an eternal adventure. That's what it stands for."
"It's really beautiful!" exclaims Mina with a smile.
All of them turn to Momo, when she gasps out loud. "Look at the clock! We need to go, or we'll be late!"
Instantly all the girls rush to finish changing into the blue uniform and then run outside on the field. With breaths of relief, they notice that they still managed to be on time.
"A Quirk assessment test?!" Almost everyone in the class questions, after Aizawa told them what they were going to do.
"But what about the entrance ceremony? We're going to miss orientation." points Ochaco out.
"If you're going to become a hero, you don't have time for pointless ceremonies." Aizawa begins to explain, with his back to the class. "Here at U.A. were not tethered to traditions." He says while looking at the class over his shoulder. "That means I can run my class however I see fit. You've been taking standardized test most of your lives, but you never get to use your Quirk in physical exams before." He shows them a small device with a screen. "The country still tries to pretend we're all created equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It's not rational. One day the ministry of education will learn." With these words he turns to the angry blond, who saved Vivi in the entrance exam. "Bakugo, you managed to get the most points on the entrance exam. What was the farthest distance throw with a softball when you were in junior high?"
"Sixty-seven meters, I think." He replies, with his hands stuffed inside his pockets.
"Right, try doing it with your Quirk." Bakugo makes his way to the circle pitch, after receiving a ball from Aizawa at these words. "Anything goes. Just stay in the circle. Go on, you're wasting our time."
"All right, man. You asked for it." Bakugo says while stretching his arms. "DIE!" he shouts, while sending the ball flying with a large explosion. The Dragon Slayer has to cover her ears at the volume. Now that Vivi can actually see his Quirk, she can't but think about a guy who used explosions in her world. The scar on her left lower leg begins to itch. Fucking Jackal.
"All of you need to know your maximum capabilities. It's the most rational way of figuring out your potential as a Pro Hero." Aizawa turns to them and holds up his device, showing the screen with Bakugo's results. The ball landed at 705,2 meters.
"Woah, seven hundred and five meters. Are you kidding me?" exclaims a boy, with yellow-blond hair.
"I wanna go, that looks like fun!" Mina squeals, while clasping her hands together in excitement.
"We can use our Quirks as much as we want. As expected from the hero course." Adds a black-haired boy with weird shaped elbows.
"It looks fun, huh? You have three years here to become a hero. You think it's all gonna be games and playtime?" Aizawa speaks before a creepy smile appears on his face. Vivis face cringes. Now they did it. "Idiots. Today you'll compete in eight physical tests to gauge your potential. Whoever comes in last place has none and will be expelled immediately."
"Now I see what you meant by him having a devilish side." Agrees Bubble with her previous statement, while almost the whole class gasps in shock.
But still, I don't think he means it. At least not completely. He probably wants to push them, so they give their best and they prove themselves worthy. Aizawa is just like this. And if he encourages all of them like this, I will give it my best too. Vivis eyes burn with determination. Yeah, I will totally go for first place. As a mage of Fairy Tail I can't aim for anything less.
"Like I said, I get to decide how this class runs, understand? If that's a problem, you can head home right now." Aizawa demands.
"You can't send one of us home!" argues Ochaco. "I mean, we just got here! Even if it wasn't the first day, this isn't fair!"
"Oh, and you think natural disasters are? Or power-hungry villains, hm? Or catastrophic accidents that wipe out whole cities? No, the world is full of unfairness. It's a hero's job to try to combat that unfairness." Replies Aizawa. "If you wanna be a Pro, you're gonna have to push yourself to the brink. For the next three years U.A. will throw one terrible hardship after another at you. So, go beyond. Plus Ultra style. Show me it's not a mistake that you're here. Now then, we're just wasting time by talking. Let the games begin."
Vivi grins and brings her clenched fists against each other. Let's do this. I'm all fired up!
