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Chapter 4 Quirk assessment tests
"There's no need to change the past. Because of the past we are who we are now. Every second, every action from then is linked to us here and now." – Gray Fullbuster
First up on the test list is a 50-meter dash. The first pair to start is the darkblue-haired boy with engines in his lower legs and Tsuyu. While they get to watch everyone, Vivi decides to go and talk to the dual-haired boy. When she comes to stand beside him, she begins to speak, her eyes on the participants. "Hey, I wanted to thank you once more. I don't know what I would have done if something happened to Bubble. I'm really grateful you were there for him these last months. I'm Moon Olivia, by the way. I didn't even introduce myself before, right? Sorry about that." She rubs the back of her head and sends him a crooked smile.
The boy looks at her, a neutral expression on his face. "It's okay. I'm Todoroki Shoto. I couldn't just leave him when I found him in that park. He also was good company."
"Yeah, he is. It's strange to hear. Bubble usually needs a lot of time before he gets close to someone or trusts someone. He's a scaredy cat and wary of every stranger he meets. So that he has gone with you right away means you're a really trustworthy person." Vivi smiles at him. Noticing that up next for the test is Ochaco against a boy with a tail.
The dual-haired boy looks a little surprised at her words. Now that she pointed it out, he remembers that Bubble seemed to be scared of his siblings at the beginning and always hid behind him. It took longer than a week until he let her sister pet him and her brother feed him. He never paid it much mind until now. Why exactly did Bubble trust him and came with him?
"Yeah, Shoto is great!" exclaims Bubble from on her shoulder. "But his father scares me. He's mean."
Shoto blinks at that and seems to want to stop Bubble from talking. "Whys that?" questions Vivi curious, before he can stop her Exceed partner from opening his mouth.
"Whenever he trained with Shoto it seemed more like he beat him up. I was hiding whenever he was home. Shoto thought he shouldn't know I lived there, and I was totally okay with not having to face him. But his siblings are nice." Bubble explains.
"An asshole dad. Sounds familiar." Vivi says and looks at the scar on his face. "That from him?" Shoto blinks and shakes his head softly. He seems to be uncomfortable with the topic. Vivi decides to leave it. If he doesn't want to talk about it, she doesn't want to force him. She knows best what if feels like to not want to talk about some stuff. "Forget it. I'm only glad Bubble had a place to stay and a friend who was there for him. If you need anything from me just ask."
"Moon! You're up." Aizawa's voice rips her out of the conversation. She almost jumps at his voice and smiles at the teacher in apology. While she rushed to take her position, Bubble flies from her shoulder and settles down onto Shotos left one. The Exceed never said it out loud, but his left shoulder is really comfy. It's cosy warm. The other shoulder is cold. It always reminded him of Gray, but was just too cold for his taste. Strangely, Shoto never had something against him sitting on his left shoulder, as much as he hates his left side.
"Go, Vivi!" cheers the Exceed and raises his paw.
Sadly, Vivi can't use her lightning body or she would have finished this in under a second. Therefor she decides for a different technique. When she takes her starting position besides the black-haired boy with weird elbows named Hanta Sero, the Dragon Slayer begins to gather storm clouds around and under her feet.
When the start signal rings out she uses the power from her storm to boost her running speed by a great deal. Leaving a large gust of wind behind, that causes the people behind her to almost fly away. She takes 1,46 seconds. Hanta finishes a few seconds after her. He used the tape he can shout out of his elbows to drag himself to the finish line.
"Wow, that was great Vivi!" cheers Ochaco, who was one of the people who almost flew away.
The Dragon Slayer smiles at the other girl. "Thanks!"
Next up was Mina and a blond guy who sparkled. He reminds Vivi of the guys from Blue Pegasus. She wonders what they are up to nowadays. She joined their guild with Bubble, Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe in the year Fairy Tail was disbanded. As much as she got used to the Trimens, she never got over Ichiya and probably never would. He just gives her the creeps. While she shudders at the thought of the man, both finish their dash.
The explosion boy and green haired boy with freckles are up next. While Bakugo boosts his speed with explosions from both hands, which causes Vivi to have to cover her ears once more, the other boy just simply runs to the finish line.
Bubble changes back from Shotos to Vivis shoulder when he's finally up in the last round. He runs against the yellow-blond haired boy. "I'm excited to see your reaction." The Exceed on her shoulder grins knowingly.
Vivi raises an eyebrow at him in suspicion, "Why?" If he asks that, something must happen that will surprise me. Her attention on the two boys, she watches their dash.
As soon as the start sound rings out Shoto covers the ground before him in ice, slithering to the finish line without trouble. Vivis mouth waters at the sight of his Quirk. He can make ice. I want to taste it! The blond boy ran to the other side, while shouting electricity from his body to make himself faster. Finishing only moments after Shoto. And that guy has lightning! Her mouth waters even more, while she wonders if it tastes like Laxus lightning or different.
Bubble cackles at her expression. "I know you would look like that. You totally want to try to eat their Quirks. It's much better that both have a Quirk you can eat."
Vivi blushes slightly. "Shut up!" she exclaims, while giving her friend a head massage with her fist.
"No, leave me!" he struggles in her grip. "Shoto, save me!" When he finally frees himself by activating his wings he flies to the dual-haired boy, to hide behind his back.
Before she can catch the Exceed in a death grip again, Aizawa calls them to go into a gym for the next test. The cat smiles in triumph.
The second test is grip strength. Vivi doesn't really has any other idea for this, other than just to use her physical strength, so she does and squeezes the thing with her whole might. The Dragon Slayer grimaces after the device gave of a loud breaking sound and crushed into tiny pieces. She bows to Aizawa as the whole class stares at her in awe. "I'm sorry! I really didn't want to destroy stuff!"
"You didn't?" asks Bubble dumbfounded. He never expected to ever hear such a sentence from her in his life. "Since when are we not destroying stuff?"
She shoots her friend a glare. "Because we can't destroy stuff here! It's not like home and we don't have the money to pay for it."
Bubble nods in understanding. "Oh, you're right. Good thing I don't destroy stuff."
Vivi lifts an eyebrow at that. "Should I remind you of the one time in Hargeon?"
Now Bubble is the one who grimaces, "Don't remind me!" he whines.
Aizawa just sights. Why did I even expect anything different? Hopefully, it stays with only this device.
"Wait a second!" blurts out Hanta, who she raced against, "I thought your Quirk was wind or something like that. How were you able to destroy this thing? Not even Shoji could do that."
Olivia looks at the boy. Everyone seems interested in the answer. "That's easy. It's because I have two Quirks. One lets me produce storms of different types from my body. It's called Tempest Storm. My other Quirk is called Dragons Strength. It gives me the senses and physiques of a dragon, without having the body of one."
"That's awesome!" shouts the green haired boy. "Does that mean you have better sight and hearing? You probably have better smell as well. And your strength and physiques too." The green haired boy starts mumbling without pause as he mutters theories about her Quirks and what they entail.
Vivi smiles at the boy's excitement. She wonders how he would react if he knew that she doesn't have a Quirk at all. "You just have to wait and see."
Third up on the test list is the standing long jump. Vivi uses almost the same technique as for the 50-meter dash. With storm clouds surrounding her feet she pushes herself off the ground and leaps over the field with ease. Once again, she leaves a burst of wind behind, but the class learned from last time and no one stands behind her to be blown away.
The next test is repeated side steps, for which she again doesn't use her magic. She just uses her physical stamina and her experience from the daily Fairy Tail brawls. Vivi images the whole time how she dodges flying tables, chairs, food, guild members and more. She beats the best score by length.
The fifth test is the ball throw. Since Bakugo already had his turn right at the beginning everyone else takes their turn now, one after another. Everyone stares when Ochako uses her Zero Gravity Quirk to send the ball endlessly into the sky, scoring infinity.
The mage is up next. She steps into the circle with the ball in hand, throwing it into the air just to catch it again with a grin. This is totally fun. I should really bring these tests back to Fairy Tail as a new game event. "All right, let's do this!" The Dragon Slayer draws her arm back and throws the ball with all her might. While it's flying, she sucks in a deep breath. Storm Dragons Roar! She releases out a powerful tornado of black clouds from her lungs, which consumes the ball and sends it much, much further.
Vivi looks at Aizawa, who holds up the device, a small smirk on his lips. It shows 11.286,32 meters. He just hopes everything stayed in one piece this time. They probably will only find out if someone comes complaining about something getting destroyed by a flying softball. Aizawa shrugs. He can deal with that when the time comes.
It was the green haired boys turn next. Vivi learned that his name is Izuku Midoriya. He seems totally nervous, as he stands there in the circle with the softball in hand.
"If Midoriya doesn't shape up soon he's the one going home."
Vivi's whole body tenses up at the voice and her eyes fly to the darkblue-haired boy with glasses who is standing beside her. Why? Why the hell does someone in this class has to have HIS voice?! The mage clenches her slightly shaking hands into fists. She takes a deep breath and closes her eyes. Calm down. It's not him. He's dead and won't ever come back. The scar on her back begins to burn, while her throat seems to suffocate her. Her heart pounds as if it would get ripped out of her chest at any minute.
Her eyes rip open when she feels soft paws against her cheek. She looks at the Exceed on her shoulder, who looks at her in worry. Her pounding heart begins to slow down immediately at the sight of his face and comforting presence. Vivi takes a deep breath, holds it in for a few seconds, before slowly releasing it. She repeats that a few times before she finally smiles at Bubble weakly. She pets his head with her still slightly shaking hand, her heart rate almost back to normal. "Thank you." I need to work on that. I can't get a fucking panic attack every time he talks.
She didn't hear what was going on around her, but feels eyes on her back. When she turns her head, she notices that Aizawa looks right at her, eyes narrowed, with a hint of worry in them. Vivi smiles at him reassuring and waves it off with her hand. The man lets it go for now, deciding to talk with her later. He knows what a panic attack looks like first-hand, after all.
Vivis eyes travel to Midoriya who finally throws the ball. He seems totally shocked at the result of forty-six meters. The Dragon Slayer hears him mumbling as he looks at his hand in shock, "What gives, I was definitely trying to use it just now."
Olivia blinks, her eyes traveling to Aizawa whose hair and scarf float in the air around him, eyes glowing red. "I erased your Quirk." He explains. "The judges for this exam were not rational enough. Someone like you should never be allowed to enrol at this school."
"Wait, you did what to my…" Midoriya gasps at his realization. "Those goggles. I know you! You can look at someone and cancel out their powers. The Erasure Hero: Eraser Head."
Most of the class seem to be confused at that, having never hear of him. While they murmur with each other a familiar scent hits her nose. Vivi narrows her eyes and looks around, finally noticing the number one hero peeping at them, or more at the green haired boy, from behind a wall. She raises an eyebrow at that and looks at Midoriya. A small gust of wind blows past. Vivis eyes widen at the scent. What the hell? I didn't notice before, but why the hell does Izuku smell almost exactly like All Might? Are they related? But they don't look alike at all. She totally needs to ask him later. That's just strange.
"You're not ready. You don't have control over your power. Were you planning to break your bones again? Counting on someone else to save your useless body?" questions Aizawa.
"No! That was not what I was trying to do-" Midoriya's words are cut off by Aizawas scarf, which wraps around him and pulls him towards the Pro Hero.
Vivi can still hear the words Aizawa says to Midoriya, "No matter what your intentions are, you would be nothing more than a liability in battle. You have the same reckless passion as another overzealous hero I know. One who saved a thousand people by himself and became a legend. But even with that drive, you're worthless if you can only throw a single punch before breaking down. Sorry Midoriya, with your power there's no way you can become a hero."
Olivia lifts an eyebrow again, at the harsh sound of Aizawas voice. From what he said Midoriya seems to have a Quirk which he can't control and causes him to hurt himself. Even as far as to break his bones. And if he breaks his bones he can't continue with this test or in a fight if it were one. At least not until his name isn't Erza Scarlet. Makes sense that Aizawa gave him a speech.
Aizawa let's go of Midoriya. "I've returned your impractical Quirk, take your final throw. Hurry and get it over with." Vivi smiles. He wouldn't give him a second chance to prove himself, if he didn't think he could do it. The Dragon Slayer cheers for the green haired boy in silence.
"I wonder if our teacher gave him some kind of advice." The darkblue-haired boy with glasses wonders. Since this time Vivi is prepared for his voice, she doesn't get a panic attack at the sound of it. His name was Tenya Iida, right? I need to get used to this.
"Probably told him to start packing!" guesses Bakugo.
Vivi watches Midoriya as he throws the ball for the second attempt, this time sending it off with immense power. No way! Did he manage to control his power this fast? She wonders, before her eyes widen when she notices his broken finger. No, that's not it. He just channelled his power to a smaller point. That was a smart move.
"Aizawa-sensei." Midoriya turns to his teacher, giving him a smile, while clenching the hand with the broken finger into a fist. "You see. I'm still standing."
Her eyes travel to Aizawa, who smiles a creepy smile. "This kid." she hears him say and smiles. Seems like he manged to prove himself to him. Good job. I think I'm going to cheer you on from now on, Izuku!
"He threw it over seven hundred meters!" shouts Denki Kaminari, the yellow-blond with the tasty looking Quirk.
"Nice! He's finally showing us his true power." Cheers Ochaco.
"But his finger appears to be broken now. Just like in the exam. His Quirk is very odd." Adds Iida.
"It wasn't a very pretty throw." Sais the sparkling boy named Yuga Aoyama. Wait a freaking second! Vivi almost yells in her head as she stares at the boy, realisation hitting her in the face. This kids voice sounds like Zeref's! Oh my fucking god, now I can't ever unsee this. Amusement glimmers in her eyes. The most feared black mage Zeref shares the voice with a sparkling boy who can shoot lasers out of his navel and gets stomach ache because of it. Vivi giggles to herself. That's just great. I'm just glad I didn't get a panic attack like with Iida, but it's just to funny.
The sound of explosions rips her out of her thoughts. She looks at Bakugo who storms towards Izuku in rage, "HEY! DEKU, YOU BASTARD! TELL ME HOW YOU DID THAT OR YOU'RE DEAD!"
What the hell is wrong with him? He just screams anger issues. Izuku freezes, but before Bakugo can reach him he gets wrapped in Aizawas scarf and held back. "What? Why the hell is your scarf so damn long!" questions Bakugo, while struggling against the fabric.
"Because it's a capture weapon made of carbon and a special alloy." Answers Aizawa, his eyes glowing red and hair floating. "Stand down. You'd be wise to avoid making me use my Quirk so much, it gives me serious dry-eye." He releases Bakugo, his eyes turning back to normal and hair stops floating. "You're wasting my time now. Whoever's next can step up."
For the next test they paired up. Before she can even choose, Bubble takes the decision from her and asks Shoto to team up with her. While the dual-haired boy is holding her feet down for the sit ups, she uses her normal stamina to do dozens of them. Shoto actually manages to beat her score by a lot. He also didn't use his Quirk. What can she say? She never had to do something like this in her training before. And the scar on her back doesn't help her with a test like this at all. She rubs over said scar, trying to ease the stinging a little bit. Shoto notices this and looks at her with a raised eyebrow, asking himself what's wrong with her back.
Vivi manages to beat him by a few points in the next test, the seated toe-touch, again. It's not stretching her back as much as the test before. Bold like she is, is she sticking her tongue out towards him at the end. He narrows his eyes at her but doesn't react otherwise.
The last test is a long-distance-run. She runs with a small smile on her lips, again without using her magic. This test reminds her of the 24-hour endurance race they do once a year at Fairy Tail. Just not nearly as extreme. Since most of the class is totally tired after all the tests, they don't last long. The last people remaining are Shoto, who runs besides her, keeping up with her pace. Iida who is running before them and Momo who is some meters behind them. Bakugo stepped out just some seconds before.
A few moments later Shoto steps out, directly followed by Momo. Pouting about being left alone Vivi speeds up so she can run besides Iida. He looks at her in awe, panting breaths leaving his lips. "You really have an impressive amount of stamina."
She smiles at him, "Thanks, I train a lot, so everything comes from hard work. You have impressive stamina yourself." They continue to run besides each other, until Iida steps out a few minutes later.
After that the tests are finally over and they gather together to see the results. "Alright, time to give you your results. I've ranked you all from best to worst. You should probably have a good idea of your standing already. I'll just pull up the whole list. It's not worth going over each individual score." Aizawa speaks before a hologram screen appears before them.
Vivi grins and Bubble cheers from up on her shoulder when they see her name on top, high fiving each other. Shoto managed to get third place, just after Momo. She's not surprised by that, since the black-haired girl has Erzas voice. On the bottom of the list, she sees Izuku's name.
"And I was lying. No one's going home." Admits Aizawa, a creepy grin on his face once again. "That was just a rational deception to make sure you gave it your all on the tests."
Vivi can barely hold back her laugh at the shocked faces from almost everyone. Momo is the one who speaks up next, "I'm surprised the rest of you didn't figure that out. Sorry, I guess I probably should've said something."
"Don't you think it was fun to see them all freak out about it?" Vivi chuckles. But she is sure that he actually planned to kick Izuku out at the beginning of today.
"You knew it too?!" yells most of the class at her, so she has to cover her ears.
"Don't shout at me! My ears are sensitive!" she shouts back.
Aizawa just shakes his head. "That's it, we're done for the day." He says, while already walking away. "Pick up a syllabus in the classroom. Read it over before tomorrow morning." When he stands before Izuku he hands him a paper, so he could go to the school nurse. "Things are gonna be tougher tomorrow when your actual training begins. Make sure you're prepared." Finishes Aizawa and walks away. He sends a last glance towards Vivi, gesturing to her to meet up with him later. She nods at him in understanding. Knowing he wouldn't take a no for an answer anyway.
