If you have any questions you be sure to tell me, but for now, let's get the story moving. Also, I'm freewriting all of the story.
Chapter Cover: The My Hero Academia and Fairy Tail characters talking to each other in the background. Cortney and Peace talk to Eve and Ezra in the foreground.
Ch.6- A promise of truths
After the examination incident, Peace discovered more traits to the fire-eating part of her quirk, not only does she regain stamina from eating fire, but fire has a certain taste to her, depending on how the fire was lit, what's in it, and other factors. Once the initial tests were done, we were sent back to our room where we were greeted by my mom. She was sitting down in a chair and was drawing on a notepad, "Hey mom, you're working on my new gloves." I ask mom as me and Peace grabs some chairs.
"Yes, sweetie, but I want to show you something first," Mom puts the notepad down as she says this and starts to rummage through her bag, the first thing she pulls out, are my old gloves. They're impossible to tell they were even gloves before, some of the finger parts are gone and the metal plates are showing through. Then mom pulls out my diary bag, which doesn't even look like it's been through a fire, besides some smoke on it.
My mom continues again, "As you can see, I designed your gloves for normal use not fighting like heroes. So I have to make up for that, here are the current designs I have right now." Mom gives me the notepad, the new gloves look the same as my old ones but are much thicker and durable. The metal plates are now exposed and there's now an attachable gauntlet, they look to cover my arms to the elbow.
"They're perfect Mom," I tell my mom as I give her the notepad back she then looks over to Peace.
"Now Peace, your mom said to see if I could come up with something for you once you learned more about your quirk." My mom turned to a fresh sheet of paper and was wanting for Peace response, Peace was lost on what she wanted until I stepped in.
"How about retractable, shotgun gauntlets that you can pump your quirk into so you can infuse the shots with fire." I thought of Yang's weapon from RWBY because Peace looks so similar to her and their powers let them use fire so why not, I thought. Peace was happy and my mom writing down the idea.
"So Peace, how does your quirk function?" My mom asks so she can get the information she needs for her designs.
"Um, the doctors said, I now secrete a substance that is very flammable to air, but I can turn it on and off, also the substance can't damage my clothes." My mom takes notes of Peace description of her quirk.
"They should be done when you get out of the hospital." My mom packs up to leave, but before she goes she gives me, my laptop and charger.
I immediately turn on my laptop and call Pony. After a minute she picks up, "Hey Corteny, what's up?" As she finishes talking, I look at both Peace and Pony and take a deep breath, "Listen, I something to tell you."
A FEW HOURS EARLIER
When the doctors told me I could finally leave the bed, I grabbed my diary and went for a walk. After a few minutes, I started writing notes for the future, but suddenly-
"What'chu writing there?" A sudden Thana appears out of thin air, to which I instinctively try to make a slam attack. The attack phases right through Thana and I send myself to the ground.
"How weren't affected by my attack Thana or better yet, why are you out here, couldn't anyone see you?" I ask Thana as she has a hole in her torso and pulling itself back together.
"Nope, nobody besides you can see me and I'm incorporeal right now, so nothing can affect me at the moment." As she says that she levitates my diary back to me, "So what were writing there?"
I look at my diary and flip back to the page, I was on before and show it to her, "I'm writing down future events, and things just in case I forget something." As I say this a thought comes to mind and I give Thana a begging look.
"You want something, what is it?" She says with a defeated look on her face.
PRESENT
"Now, Pony, Peace, what I'm about to tell is a secret nobody, not even my family knows about and this secret should never leave this room. Got it?" Peace and Pony nod in agreement and I continue, "Now, what if I told you I die once and was brought back with the knowledge of an incredible world, where 80% of people are born with incredible powers and the story of a boy's journey to becoming the world's number one best hero." I look around and both Pony and Peace utterly confused at what I'm talking about.
"Basically, she's been revived with some of her memories." A figure says scaring both Peace and Pony to which I introduce the figure, "I like to introduce you to the person responsible for that, Thanatos or as I call her Thana." After the introduction, I see Pony flabbergasted at Thana and Peace tries to grab Thana only for her hand to pass right through.
"I'm not understanding why you would tell us something like this Cortney. I mean what is the point of this?" Peace says to me after failing to touch Thana.
"Because in order to change things for the better in the future, I need someone to help me reach the future we all deserve, I can't do it alone and I trust you and Pony the most cause you're my best friends." I clench my hands as I think of all the things Class 1-A has to endure alone but I want to be there to help them.
"I believe you, Cortney." I look to the screen as I hear Pony talk, "If you have the power to tell us your secret then I will follow to the very end."
"If I made it this far, best to go all the way then." Peace wraps an arm around my neck and I almost burst into tears from Peace and Pony acceptance, but I promise to not fail them and tell them of future events to look out for and I tell Peace to tell her mother to be careful around the League of Villains and how dangerous they are. Than Peace and Pony ask about Thana, she tells them what she does, her hobbies, her abilities and what's going on. She disappears soon after, and I introduce Pony to Peace and her recent quirk discovery. Pony also tells me that she can visit during summer vacation and I look forward to it.
The rest of the of our hospital stay passes by and so too does first and second grade, however half-way through second grade I started to get self-conscious about my scar to the point that I started wearing my gauntlets all the time to cover it. As promised, Pony started to visit every summer. Peace decided to become a hero, I was worried at first, but Amallie said that it was a good idea, she said she should focus on her own life and that the clan can wait. I started to work on the Drive techniques some more and I was able to add movement techniques, but there's a major downside with them, too much use leads to an extreme Charley horse that forces me to sit still until it goes away. I started to also learn Parkour to give me options in and out of combat and I had mom make detachable spikes to help with this. Now I can move like Kakuy or Dekuy can, somewhat double jump, run on the air for a few seconds, and jump ridiculously high, but doing this will give me a Charley horse in one shot so I have to be careful using it.
I tried to teach Peace and Pony the technique, but Peace said it leaves too much strain on her to use properly, but while Pony's arms were incapable, her legs were a perfection candidate for them, she could move pretty fast on all fours before, but the Drive techniques have allowed her access to a big burst of speed kinda like Tenya's Recipro Burst but we don't know the full back draw to it yet.
My birthday is June 10th and I'm turning nine after the party Mom and Dad tell me, we are moving due to their jobs, but it's not too far from where we originally were and my sister isn't coming with us because she's going off to America for a foreign exchange program. After two weeks we start to pack up and my sister leaves before we're finished packing and where we get to the new place that's when I learn who my new neighbor is.
"C-Cortney!? What are you doing here?" I turn around to see Izuku walking out of his house with a surprised look on his face.
I put down some boxes I was carrying to my room, "Isn't it obvious, I'm moving in. I'm your new neighbor! Actually, make yourself useful and bring these boxes to the second room down the hall. Thanks-bye!" I hastily rush out the last part as I go back downstairs to grab some more stuff before Dekuy can say anything. I have two reasons for this, one I want to give Dekuy extra training so that he can handle All For One better in the future and two, those boxes were really heavy. As I bring the next set of boxes over, I see Dekuy nearly bowled over and struggling to catch his breath in my soon to be room. "Hey, don't die on me," I tap him to make sure he's still alive. "I only have one more trip, after that we can talk. OK?" Dekuy gives me a thumbs-up, "Good."
After getting the last of my stuff, I sit down to talk to Dekuy who I haven't spoken to since my sixth birthday, he's still the wimpy little kid I first met, he hasn't grown very much, "So, how are things going between you and Kachy?" I ask Dekuy, probably already knowing the answer.
"Well, ever since Kacchan developed his quirk, he started to bully me and I don't why since we used to good friends. But now he calls me weak and worthless and I shouldn't become a hero."
I pat Dekuy on the back and give him a cheerful smile, "Listen, I don't know what to say, but I'll set Kachy back on the right track, don't you worry about it. I know you'll become a great hero. How's about I train you, to prove to everyone that you can be a great hero without a quirk!" At this point, I got up from where I was sitting and had my back to the sun and my fist pointing to Dekuy and his face was brimming with excitement and I could tell he was on board. However, I did also see some curiosity in there, "What is it, you can ask me anything?" I ask him.
"Yeah, what happened to you Corteny?" I then see Dekuy specifically point to my skin.
"Oh! Hehehe." Turns out, my family's last name of Tan isn't for nothing. Everybody on my mother's side tans really easy if we aren't careful, so my normally pale-ish skin is now a light Brown and Mom says it takes two months before we're back to normal and school starts back on August 12th. So I'll be like this until the second week of school, but I get back to Dekuy's question, "Family condition, no need to worry. But get ready cause training gonna be intense, so be ready tomorrow." After that, I leave to unpack and help finish unloading the rest of our stuff. The month leading up to school, I train Dekuy and Bakugo (He found us, he got angry, I beat and forced him as punishment for bullying Dekuy) to their limits and past them, due to this however I have little time to talk to Peace.
As the first day of school begins I have Dekuy show me around and Kachy goes off on his own. After 10 minutes, I find Kachy getting into something with some older kids, seeing where this is going I open my bag and put on my gloves. I walk between Kachy and the older kids, "Listen, I don't know what my friend did, but it would best if you forgot it happened and leave." I tell the boys as I force Kachy away from them.
"If you think we're gonna let him leave, you have another thing coming." As one of the kids says this, he stretches his arm out and goes to punch Kachy. "Vanguard!" instead the fist hits me and steam start pouring from my skin, I turn around and see a surprising look on Kachy's face, while making sure to keep my grip of the boy's fist, "Kachy your anger is your greatest strength and weakness," I tell him this with a very serious look on my face, before being pulled by the boy trying to get his arm back.
He looks to the two other boys beside him and they just gave him a dumb look, "Get her, you bumbling idiots!" However, I beat them to the punch and slide under the boy's legs and letting go of his arm and he ends up punching himself in the face. I stomp on the Stretch Armstrong boy's legs before punching him in the face and breaking his nose. Suddenly one of the other boys grabs me from behind, this one has four arms and he's keeping his head up meaning he's been headbutted quite a few times and knows to look out for them.
Both Dekuy and Kachy are gone, probably to get help, suddenly my attention is brought back to the boy I punched earlier, I definitely broke his nose as it is going to the side and is bleeding. "Listen here you little shit, I was going to let you and your little friend off easy. But since you this to me." He points to his nose, "I'm going to give you the worst beating of your life." Suddenly I'm punched in the gut but I don't finch after three more tries he notices that his attacks are having little effect on me.
"Hmm, so your quirk makes blunt attacks ineffective huh?" A huge grin form on my face as he finally figures it out, "Then I guess I'll just have to carve you up. Slice!" Which then turns to complete horror, when the third boy starts walking towards me and his fingers start to turn into sharp blades, I only went up one gear from the earlier attempts and I still can't break free from the other guy's grip. Luckily, I notice that as the boy is walking closer to me, he is shaking and is very nervous as he stands in front of me and goes to swipe at me, he starts to hesitate, "What are waiting for? Slice him up Now, Slice!" The stretch boy yells with fury before Slice can do anything.
*BANG* "Hruck" A shot rings out and the boy holding me starts to wobble then another shot comes and he starts to fall over giving me the chance I need to break free. I then see who fired those shots, "First day at a new school and what do you do? Get into a fight, where I have to save." Peace says as her gauntlets start to retract, at the same time the stretch boy tries to run away after seeing one of his friends get taken down.
"Oh no, you don't, Falling Pillar!" I throw a punch down, sending a column of air on the boy flatting him into the ground. "Nice." Peace tells me as I high five her, "WHAT HAPPENED HERE!?" Our victory is short-lived though as a teacher, Dekuy and Kachy come around the corner and see the aftermath of the fight.
"Wait, this is our fault, don't punish them punish us." Before either of us can say anything, the boy called Slice comes to our rescue.
"Slice, what do you mean?" The teacher asks,
"Jerome tried to bully a kid, but he started to fight back, but the boy there-"
"Actually, I'm a girl." I interrupted him to point out my gender to everyone.
"Sorry, but she stepped in front to protect him. And the other girl there came to help." Slice then went over to where Jerome was and picked him up.
"If this is all true, then I'll let this one slide, but I better not hear about more trouble from you." The teacher picks up the four-armed boy and walks away with Slice.
Somehow the fight got open and me and Peace were labeled as delinquents and having to explain that to our mothers was an experience. I heard words that put the sailors to shame and I think at least every god was cursed at least one for good measure. At school, we were followed by kids who wanted protection, asked to challenges for our titles and everything in between. There is some good news, Bachy doesn't bully Dekuy anymore and that's because they ended up making seem that he's a weakling who needed to be saved by a girl. He's focusing all his effort against me now so I have to be on the lookout now.
A few weeks pass and I haven't seen or heard from the Jerome kid, during lunch some girl with a cat ear cap and a weird mask comes over to me, "I challenge you to a fight." She tells after swallowing my food, I then ask, "And you are, and why?" She stomps her fist on the lunch table and nearly spills my food, "I am Minxs (Yes, the S is part of her name), and I am fighting for the honor of Jerome-sama."
Two thoughts come to mind after she says that, one she is completely lovestruck with that idiot so I can't talk her out of it, and second if I don't accept she might start stalking me until I do agree, so what choice do I have?
"I agree. So, when do you want to do this?" I look her directly in the eyes giving off a very faint fear presence. I asked Amallie to see if she could teach me that fear aura trick she does, I know the basics of it and how to give off my aura, but only a little bit, Peace, on the other hand, is a natural master but even she suffers some drawbacks using for too long in one sitting will make her tired and strain her eyes. I still have a long way to go, but I will get there one day.
Minxs shrugged off my pitiful attempt at fear triggering her, "We'll do this after school, don't try to flake out on me."
"I won't," I tell her and Minxs walks away and I wait until she's gone and I throw my head on the table. Right after this Peace comes to the table and starts eating, "What I miss?" She asks me as she takes a bite of food.
Writer: And that's the end for now. I just clear up a few things before does her thing. First off, how to pronounce Cortney's nickname for Deku, it's Dek-y. And second, I changed, the chapters titles a little bit, they used to be chapter # then title name for the chapter, now Their just Ch. #-, and that's all I have for now. You're good to go now Thana.
Thanatos- Yeah, thanks.
W: Something up?
T: Yeah, I'm sensing another Reaper, but I can't say where or who.
W: Do we have to worry about them being evil?
T: Lucky no, but what I want to know is what is their motive? I can do that later, now for my part.
W: Sorry, but we're out of time for now.
T: Wait, how can we be out time if this written that doesn't make any sense!
W: See you, everybody.
T: Oh no you don't-