Chapter 2: The Bladestorm, The Daredevil, and The Monster Within

The glint of a blade being juggled into the air was enough to captivate anyone that watched it. In this case it was one person. Her blue eyes sparkled in awe yet she kept quiet, not wishing to distract or stop the performer. The knife flipper caught the tip of the blade between his right index finger and thumb and immediately threw it without looking. There was a thud as the knife slammed into the wooden board that had been set up for target practice. Content, the knife flipper inhaled and exhaled deeply and calmly, his hand still remaining where it had been upon throwing the blade. A purple glow and outline appeared around his now open right hand and the muscles in said hand tensed slightly. The same glow appeared on the knife still stuck in the wood.

With a single tense of his hand the knife was forcibly removed from the wood and shot out towards him.

Jason Randall

Quirk: Psychokinesis EX

Allows the user to unleash the power of their mind to lift, break and throw pieces of their environment.

Jason grasped the handle, flipped the knife in his hand and returned it to the holster on his waist. His red eyes darted over to the door at the sound of clapping and he smiled upon seeing who it was.

"You're definitely improving."

"Implying that I'm still not that good?"

"You know that's not what I meant Jason," chuckled the girl. Jason admitted defeat with a smile before placing his throwing knives holster on the nearby table. He brought his hands down his face with a sigh of tiredness.

"What's the time Lucy?" he asked as he rubbed his eyes. His older sister opened the blinds that Jason usually had closed allowing him to see for himself, "Oh crap. I was at it all night?"

"Yup" Lucy says as she starts to make herself breakfast "I would say I'm surprised, but that would be mean, and you have a habit of forgetting things."

"It wasn't like that" Jason says "I just got distracted."

Lucy has a very skeptical look on her face "For the entire night?"

Jason tries to think of a sarcastic response, but he gives in "Ok, maybe I did have a small lapse in memory, but it's not much to worry about." Jason grabs a remote to the room's TV off of a table "We all forget things" Jason says before turning the TV on.

"Mass flooding continues to wreak havoc along the southern coasts of France" the reporter on the TV says as images of flooded countryside are shown "These cases of flooding have been caused by a villain by the name of Surfaris" the reporter continues as an image of a man with short light blueish grey hair is shown, and even in the mugshot his fierce blue eyes send chills down Jason's spine. A horrible looking scar is on the villain's cheek and it looks like he was shot in the face "If seen, report his location to the proper authorities or the International Hero Committee. This villain is a high ranking member in the group known as Providence, do not engage him unless it is absolutely necessary for your survival."

"Talk about intense" Lucy says as she sits down on a couch with a plate of waffles "I keep hearing more and more about that villain group."

A video of a tsunami slamming into a beach plays on the TV and Jason shuts it off "Same here, how the heroes are yet to stop them shocks me."

"The heroes are probably focused on saving people over stopping those Providence guys" Lucy points out, she takes the remote and turns the TV back on.

The TV is now playing an older video of a hero struggling to keep up with a younger looking Surfaris as the villain sends waves of water down a crowded street.

The crack of a rifle has Jason take the remote back and he changes the channel just as Surfaris tackles the hero into water in bloody rage.

Jason doesn't want to think about that hero's fate.

Jason glances at his knives and wonders if he'll ever have to use them against a villain like Surfaris.

Jason shoves the dark thoughts into the depths of his mind and goes to make his own breakfast.

Deep down, he hopes his knives will never need to harm.

Hello R Falt here, so I did work on the second half of Jason's section of the chapter as Castle-Blades did the first half, but from here on out it is all me.

Thank you Castle for letting me take over this project.

A plane soars eighteen thousand feet above the land, inside is just two people, the pilot and a girl in the back.

The pilot gives the girl a thumbs up and without hesitation she opens the door and leaps out of the plane.

Samira Karim dives towards the ground, taking in every second as if it were her last.

Eventually she does open her parachute and her dive slows immensely. She aims for the airfield she had taken off from and lands in the grass.

Samira takes the parachute bag off and within an hour Samira is on a dirt bike going through a muddy course, riding full throttle until the bike runs out of fuel.

The bike slides through the mud and goes over the side of the path before flying through the air and smashing into the side of a tree.

Samira doesn't hit anything, not the bike, or the tree.

Samira Karim

Quirk: Riftblazer

Riftblazer allows the user to essentially become massless, entering a state of the world looking more akin to rough shapes of what the world looks like.

Samira looks at the basic shapes of the area around her, only being able to see up to twenty feet away, but even with her limited sight Samira spots basic shapes that look like the path she was on.

Samira makes it back the the path and Samira's Quirk thankfully deactivates, bringing her back to reality.

Samira breathes a huge sigh of relief, her Quirk is wildly unpredictable, and the possibility of her being trapped in the Rift World has been a subject of many nightmares.

Which is why she lives like everyday is her last, because it could very well be.

As Samira walks back to the start of the track she thinks back to the letter in her room, and while she hasn't always liked school, she doesn't want to be a burden with her daredevil life, and if the school is one that can take away the risk of her Quirk making her vanish forever it's worth a shot.

Samira just hopes it's the right call.

A villain hides inside of a cabin, long abandoned in the middle of a clearing. His heavy breathing settles as the heroes continue their search elsewhere.

In his right hand is a knife, stained with the blood of the mutant freak he had stabbed. She had been truly disgusting to the villain, acting nice and friendly as if she were human. The villain laughs as the heroes move far enough away to where they could never hear him.

The villain triumphantly exits the cabin and stops as he comes face to face with another person.

Not a hero or a police officer, but a pale boy with auburn hair. Two bulky metal gauntlets cover the boy's hands and his red eyes glow with fiery hatred "Release Restraints to Level Four." The boy pauses as the gauntlets shift and a hole opens in the palm "Bloodstone."

A lot happens in the next few seconds. The villain rushes into the cabin and slams the door, the windows of the cabin are broken as dark red crystals pierce through them, the door is pushed off of its hinges, and the wall and ceiling of the cabin are torn from its foundation as the building is ripped apart by a wave of dark red crystals.

The villain pushes the door off of himself, and he looks at the boy in shock.

The boy adjusts his aim, and without hesitation more crystals come out of his palm. The villain tries to run away, but his entire body is encased in the crystals. Only his head is left uncovered and the boy walks up to the villain "You nearly killed my friend. It was really close but the first responders managed to save her with their healing Quirks. Stuff like that is why I'm thankful that Quirks exist, when used right they can do wonderful things, and when used wrong" the boy pauses as he gestures to the crystals around them "They can be terrifyingly destructive."

The villain watches as the boy's eyes glow with hellish fury and the mutant girl from earlier now seems far more appealing than the monster in front of him.

"G-get away from me!" The villain yells "You Monster!"

The boy pauses for a moment "Monster? You're calling me a monster? You, the man who stabbed a girl in the eye solely because she had the ears of a bunny, are calling me a monster?!" The boy brushes his hair back with his hand to reveal two tiny crystal horns on his head, horns that look as if they were broken off and filed down to be hidden, but they are horns nonetheless. The boy smiles as he aims both palms of his hands at the villain "You are absolutely right."

Screams are heard echoing throughout the forest, although the searching police and heroes are long gone.

The villain breathes through his nose as it is the only part of him not covered in the dark red crystals, his open mouth even being filled, his eyes stuck open as there isn't room for his eyelids to move, and the rest of his body being stuck in the terrified position the boy had forced him in.

Heroes and Police are brought back to the location after receiving a call from an anonymous young man.

The villain is declared arrested on the spot, and is loaded into the back of a police van after jackhammers are used to separate the villain from the crystals.

The local town sends gifts to the girl known as Coinín Cailín who had lost an eye to the villain, and she after hearing that the villain was trapped in dark red crystals knows that only one person could have stopped her attacker.

The monster that hunts monsters, Jasper Kristol.

Jasper Kristol

Quirk: Bloodstone

Jasper produces red crystals from the palms of his hands, these crystals are akin to a solid form of his blood.

Hello R Falt again, I'm adding this segment to clarify on the changes that occurred between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

The largest is me in charge of writing, Castle-Blades gave me permission to take over and so I will continue this series.

There will be 12 students instead of 10, however I won't be accepting any applications for students since the roles were already filled.

Dante Medio will be removed from the series due to plagiarization, his Quirk was exactly the same from an already existing character from a series I've seen. Characters that are copies of existing characters will not be accepted.

Villain/Hero applications will be opened in the future, you can message them as Google Docs to my discord in the server linked below. (Please only send applications whenever I make an announcement in the linked discord).

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Thank you for being patient in the (agonizingly long) break between chapters, and we hope you enjoy reading.

-R Falt