Chapter 2: Visions Of A New World


After sending Eri off with her candy apple, Midoriya hurried back to the dorms so that he could have a moment of reflection and to note down everything that had happened today. He especially wanted to write out what he learned about Eveline as she had, perhaps unintentionally, shared more about herself than she had before.

For instance, her grandfather ruled a kingdom. At least, he assumed that much from the way she phrased it.

"I don't have any trouble imagining that she's royalty!" He muttered as he rode the elevator to the second floor. "The way she spoke was pretty eloquent and now that I've seen her, she has what I think is called aristocratic features. Plus her last name is Liones; sounds aristocratic to me."

The ding of the elevator snapped him out of his trance and he nearly ran down the hall until he saw Todoroki and Bakugo waiting beside his door. The unusual sight alone was enough to set Midoriya on edge and he reeled in his eagerness so that neither might question him on it.

"Kacchan, Todoroki?" He questioned once he was near the guarded door, "What are you doing here? It's almost like you're blocking my door."

"What else would we be doing, you damn nerd?" The fact that Bakugo was being oddly calm unnerved Midoriya a bit. "We're here to talk about why you're being so weird."

Todoroki only sighed before pushing himself out of the way so that Midoriya could reach his door. "Let's go inside, it'll be better that way."

Midoriya was positive that this couldn't be good and tried to come up with excuses as to why he couldn't talk at this moment, but neither Bakugo or Todoroki were going to let him off the hook.

"You got two choices," Bakugo growled as Todoroki put himself between the two childhood friends. "either we do this Half & Half's way or mine."

Midoriya paled at the thought of what Bakugo's method could be and relented. "O-Okay…"

With that resistance gone, the three of them entered Midoriya's bedroom; somehow, this felt worse than when the girls barged into his room the night they moved into the dorms. It wasn't because he was going to be judged, but because he didn't know what he had done to warrant this suspicion that he assumed everyone had toward him now. What if Eveline had exposed herself when she watched the show? O-Or maybe it had to do with why he was late and it had nothing to do with her! Yeah, it had to be that! There was no way—

"We noticed something around you during the concert."

There went that hope. Midoriya froze mid-step, his expression was comically horrified and the other two chose to stay close to the door.

"A-Ahh…" was all he said as Bakugo added in that, from where he sat, it looked like a person. A sort of low pitch screech escaped his throat as they continued.

"From above, it looked like a type of mist. Kirishima saw it too but he insisted that it was just the lighting."

"T-Then—"

Bakugo approached the green-haired teen and lifted him up by the collar of his shirt. "Don't you even think of lying!"

"I wasn't!"

"Stop," Todoroki ordered coldly, "you didn't even finish what you had to say, Bakugo."

Another growl came from the explosive blonde, but he let Midoriya go. "Yeah, that."

"H-Huh?" Midoriya glanced back between the two friends of his and questioned what was it that bothered Bakugo.

"I said it looked like a person," he repeated, "and I thought maybe it was the light until she turned around and I recognized her."

"Huh…? What do you—"

Bakugo sent Midoriya a harsh glare before reaching into his pocket and practically throwing an old photo at him. Midoriya, at first, was unable to grasp the photo, though when he did he couldn't believe his eyes.

The photo was from when he and Bakugo were still friends; they were wearing those pale blue kindergarten shirts and smiling without a care in the world. It wasn't anything unusual until he took in the small blonde girl in the background who was curiously poking her head into the frame.

The girl had long blonde hair (it was so fair in color that he was tempted to say her hair was white) and vibrant green eyes that weren't large or round. They were dainty almost like Yaoyorozu's narrow eyes, though they were more oval-shaped. She was dressed in a reddish jacket that covered her torso but opened out into a coattail, under that, he could make out a kind of skirt and maybe some stockings, but it was hard to tell as that was where the photo cut out.

Midoriya turned the photo over, to see if Bakugo had written anything on it. Sadly, nothing was there.

"She showed up when we were playing at the park," Bakugo explained rather curtly. "She said she had gotten lost and didn't know how to get home, she spoke in English and my dad had to translate for us according to that old hag."

Midoriya glanced up at Bakugo and then back at the photo, there were a lot of questions he had but there one in particular that he had to voice.

"How come you remember her, but I don't?"

Bakugo shrugged, "When her folks came to get her, she was with you and your mom. After that, you guys slowly stopped bringing her up and then you—we had that falling out so no one brought her up again."

Made sense, but that added more mystery to the girl. If this was Eveline, why didn't she recognize him? Everyone who had seen Midoriya's younger self and current self always said that he looked the same; still small, same face, same curly green hair, and the same four freckles. So, was she pretending?

"D-Did she ever give us a name?"

"Eveline Liones, but she told us to call her Evie." Bakugo snatched the photo back and looked at it himself. "What I saw looked like an older version of her, and with Half & Half seeing her too, I know it wasn't a trick of the light."

"It might explain why you've been spacing out even more than usual," Todoroki added, "like yesterday. It was a lie when you said you clipped your elbow on the table. You looked like you were invested in a conversation."

"A-Ah! I-I…" Midoriya struggled to find words that made a coherent sentence and eventually had to admit defeat. Falling to his knees, Midoriya hid his face behind his hands as he considered the consequences of confessing to his connection to Eveline. There wasn't any reason for him to keep hiding it, now that the festival was over, but still.

Eveline never told me to keep our conversations to myself...She was all alone…

"Midoriya?"

Making up his mind, Midoriya blundered out an apology before taking in a deep breath to calm himself. "I-I...I don't understand it myself, but I'll share what I know to be fact."


After discussing everything with Bakugo and Todoroki, his friends finally left him with the promise that they wouldn't tell anyone what he had shared. It was surprising that Bakugo was a bit emotional about learning that Eveline was somehow linked to Midoriya, but he never dared to ask why.

Kacchan said we only knew her for a weekend, she showed up because she had never seen a camera before. How was that possible? How could she have never seen a camera before in this day and age? Unless...was she not from this world? Like…!

Midoriya, who had allowed himself to lay down for a moment to collect himself, shot off his bed and to his notebooks. Quickly writing everything he had learned about her today, the small pieces Eveline had given him were now making sense as he carefully pieced them together.

Her grandfather was a king, the only surviving monarchy had a queen (and the previous ruler was a queen as well) so that was a subtle difference that pointed to alternative worlds. The other thing was that earlier in their correspondence, Eveline hadn't the slightest clue as to what a Quirk was. She had said that she hadn't had contact with anyone but family in a few years (which was odd) so he chalked it up to her being clueless (A stupid assumption for him to make, but this conversation was happening during training and he didn't have it in him to shut her down). There were more small details that he should have taken into careful consideration, but again, so much was happening around him that he couldn't give it as much thought as he normally would have.

He then thought back to the fight with Gentle; Eveline knew a lot about emotions and she told him that the first thing to do when saving a person from themselves was to understand them. For her to know that and confidently believe that she had to have experience with that sort of thing.

Wait, I think she mentioned that sort of thing before! Reaching out for the notebook he had before the current one, he flipped to the final few pages until he found the noted information he was looking for.

Eveline mentioned that she's been sad lately. Her cousin came to visit her and she felt that something was terribly wrong because her cousin was smiling, but her heart was weeping. I don't understand what that meant and when I asked her, she changed the subject. I wonder what's driving her to keep so much about herself secret.

"So that's what she meant," Midoriya leaned back in his chair and sighed, "What's going on? First, she's in my head and now, I've met her once before. There has to be a reason for this."

Glancing at his phone, he saw that it was roughly 9:30, though he felt like it was way past midnight with how tired he felt.

I got up super early to train with All Might, had the fight with Gentle, then performed, then made the apples, I'm surprised that I hadn't passed out sooner.

As much as he wanted to focus on this problem, he was physically and mentally exhausted and in desperate need of rest. He could think about it tomorrow when he has a clear head and the energy to spend on such a taxing subject.

He went to bed early, though he felt as though he hadn't slept at all as his dreams forced him to toss and turn. He saw watered-down images of landscapes and people, all of whom he had never seen before in his life. Not only were dreams keeping him from sleeping, but his body was consistently changing from hot to cold. One minute he would be freezing under his blankets, the next he was sweating like crazy. It was hell!

When he finally was able to sleep, he felt like it was probably time for his early training with All Might but he ignored his body's attempts to wake him up. He fell into a deep slumber, completely unaware of his surroundings.

"He should have woken up by now…" he heard someone mutter softly; he didn't know anyone who spoke so softly like that.

Another voice spoke, but he couldn't hear them, though the vocal tone sounded similar to Bakugo's. Then another butted in and he knew for a fact no one in 1-A talked like this person.

"The spell I used is going to keep him down for a day, that's enough time for us to get to Liones and collect Bartra and move back to Camelot before anyone notices what we're doing."

"But why waste time on that small portal only to bring him through?" He heard a squeaky voice ask, "Our goal is-"

"No, I needed to know if the portal would work and that I had the right location, which I didn't have and now I know the best one to send us to later. It will work out next time. For now, let's hurry."

Midoriya wanted to wake up, but he couldn't. In a way, he was awake because he heard the three strangers, but he was unable to move his body or make sense of his sleep-deprived mental thought. All he could do was accept the darkness until this spell wore off.


"Is he awake yet? It's been almost two days."

"No kidding, Merlin did a number on him! You taking over?"

"Yeah, Flora's having one of her crying fits because Drystan barely raised his voice at her."

"Alright, I'll go shut her up. Have fun with Sleeping Beauty there."

"Better than her. Go deal with the fairy."

The room fell silent again and this time Midoriya was able to distinguish what voice belonged to who. The person who had just left was a man by the name of Bryan and he sounded similar to Bakugo in that they both had deep voices that faded into a growl at times. The woman who took Bryan's place was named Zelda and she actually sounded almost identical to Midnight's voice, perhaps maybe just slightly a higher pitch than the art teacher.

These two were mainly the ones who watched over him, everyone else kept their distance though he heard them sometimes. Flora might have been the one he heard sometimes as she often cried but the others weren't close enough for him to hear them.

He assumed that he was in a room, though before this he knew he was in a cart as he felt the rocking that came with traversing uneven ground and heard the creaking of the wood. He heard the door whenever someone came or went, and for him to not be able to hear everyone, there had to be walls between them.

He wondered, as there was nothing else he could do, what these people were doing and why they had brought him here. What purpose could he serve to them? And earlier, he heard someone say that they planned to use a portal to go somewhere, he presumed they meant UA or Musutafu in general. That didn't make sense to him but he had feeling it would if he could open his eyes and fully wake up, which was gradually happening.

He could feel each individual limb slowly regain feeling and every so often they would twitch when he dared to try and move them. Bryan had gotten excited when he noticed Midoriya move and tried to wake him up through a one-sided conversation. Despite sounding like Bakugo, Bryan was nice and told him about things that made him wonder where in the hell he was.

First was the mention of a place called Liones and Camelot; one of those places he linked to Eveline due it being her last name but the other he knew from childhood when the daycare teachers would tell them random legends from other countries. The stories of King Arthur and his knights were popular among the girls (he never understood why) so the kids heard it often. These two places did not exist as far as he was aware so he could only wonder where they were going. He had played with the idea that he was in Eveline's world, but he told himself to not jump to conclusions yet.

Everything that could clarify his situation was waiting for him, he just needed to wake up.

"Alright, I've had enough of this," He heard Zelda's footsteps move closer to him, "Time to get up."

Midoriya felt his body twitch out of fear then he felt Zelda lean closer to him. He wasn't sure what she was doing until he felt her bite down on his shoulder with such force that he had to wake up.

"AH!"

"Oh good," Zelda gleefully smiled as she licked away the blood on her teeth, "you're awake."

Midoriya couldn't speak, only managing hoarse pants as he gripped his bleeding shoulder. Who just bites a person they don't know!? Was she like Toga Himiko?

"Here, you'll be needing these," Zelda threw something at Midoriya and turned to head to the door. "Change into these and come out when you're done. I'll let everyone know you're up."

Midoriya could only hold his shoulder and watch her leave. When she was gone, he checked his shoulder to see how bad the bite was, finding that she barely left and punctured holes in his skin. She had bitten him; there was blood on her mouth. There was definitely a lot of blood on his ruined sleep shirt. So how was there nothing on his skin?

"I'm so confused, but she gave me an order so I can do that," Midoriya said to himself as he pulled out the clothes that Zelda had thrown at him.

The clothes weren't anything that he was used to as they weren't exactly loose. The cream-colored shirt was almost fitted perfectly to his body and the green vest wasn't something he'd normally wear but he couldn't just discard it. The pants were, at least, loose and he could comfortably move in them, so that was a plus. Looking around the vacant room after he dressed, Midoriya realized that he hadn't been given any shoes.

Well, something was going to be overlooked I guess. He thought as he looked down at his bare feet. I think we're indoors so...I'll just wait for her to come back then…

He didn't have to wait very long as Zelda returned with who he assumed to be Bryan and another attractive woman. The woman was the first to approach him, a cunning smile painted on her lips.

"Ah, I see it was a forceful wake-up call. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised." The other woman and Bryan turned toward Zelda, "Your bite mark didn't heal fully."

"Damn, thought I did a good job healing him so you wouldn't notice," Zelda gave a humorless laugh as she leaned against the doorframe. "He's up though, so let's get this over with."

Midoriya could only sit there stiffly as the three people argued with each other for a moment. He understood most of what was going on, but he was still confused as to what they meant by Zelda healing him? Did she have two quirks? Or maybe healing was her quirk?

"I hope you don't plan on feeding on him throughout this," Bryan teased with a playful pinch of Zelda's cheek. "I don't think he or Eveline would appreciate it."

"I-"

Midoriya made a loud yelp and the group turned back to him to find that he was pale and he was crying. "F-F-F-Feed!? Off of M-M-M-ME?!"

"Yes!" Bryan grinned while the other two were still in shock from Midoriya's quick crying. "Zelda here is a vampire after all! She likes to slowly drink from people, making them her little slaves and-"

"BRYAN!" Zelda punched Bryan square in the face before grabbing his arms and holding him down with her boot pressed against his spine, ready to rip his arms out if he uttered another word. "I DO NOT DO THAT! AND I WASN'T PLANNING ON FEEDING OFF OF HIM YOU FREAK!"

"Oh dear…" the other woman sighed, "Alright, you two need to leave."

"Not until he apologizes!"

"NEVER!"

"That's enough!" The woman clapped her hands together, snapping her fingers when her hands pulled away from each other, and a hole that seemed to go to another room appeared beneath the arguing pair. They dropped through the hole and then it quickly closed.

"Ah!" Midoriya hadn't a clue of what was going on and felt that he should do something to protect himself. However, there was a piece of his mind that reminded him that no one had hurt him since he came into their custody. Even so, he didn't like being vulnerable like this.

"I apologize for abducting you during the night and forcing you into a day-long slumber, but I trust that you'll understand why in a moment."

"U-Uh…"

The woman smirked slightly and seated herself in the air, which unnerved Midoriya further. "I suppose I should introduce myself. My name's Merlin and I was formerly the most powerful sorceress of the kingdom of Liones. You wouldn't know anything about that place, so don't think about it too hard, okay?"

Midoriya wanted to say something but kept his mouth shut. He figured that it might be best to just listen for now and then ask questions later.

"Now, let's get the point of this; I need your help in rescuing Eveline."

"Eveline!?"

"Yes," Merlin moved slightly, her posture tenser than it was before. "It's complicated and I can't tell you everything just yet."

"W-Wait!" He cried in a panic, "Is-Is that why she told me that she couldn't talk to me? She said she had to cut off our-"

"Ah, you two had a spiritual link?" Merlin asked; he noted how relieved she seemed to be about that fact. "That will make this easier, but you say she cut it off?"

"I-I think so...I'm not sure but I felt something when she stopped talking to me! Like she was gone, even though I didn't realize that I was feeling her with me…" Midoriya struggled with the idea that the whole time they were talking, Eveline never told him about her being held against her will. Why?

"The link isn't gone," Merlin muttered softly to herself, during his brief sulking, Merlin had done something to him without him noticing. "She's blocked it, which makes sense as she can't use her powers within that cell without alerting anyone."

Midoriya's eyes widened, "What might happen if she did?"

"What?"

"What if she did use her powers in her cell, what would happen to her?"

Merlin moved closer to Midoriya, invading his personal space to glare. "Did she do something?"

"A-Ah! Well…" Midoriya hesitantly explained what had happened during the fight with Gentle, how she had appeared and how she watched the concert through him. Merlin's frown deepened until she couldn't keep her frustration to herself.

"That foolish girl, it explains why security was heightened the last two days." She then pinched the bridge of her nose. "Alright, we can work around this."

Midoriya remained quiet, fearing that somehow he had done something wrong until another person came into the room.

"Merlin," The large man said as he stood in the doorway, "Zelda told us our guest was up. Should we gather in your study?"

Merlin nodded wearily and asked that he make sure everyone who knew the secret was present. "Oh, and Drystan? Tell your sister that I intend to use a spell on her if she can't get a hold of herself."

Drystan nodded and quickly left to carry out Merlin's orders, leaving Midoriya alone with her again.

"S-So," he finally said after a moment of silence. "I-Is there something I should know before this...meeting?"

Merlin gave that a thought and sighed, "I suppose I should brief you on it so that we don't have any misunderstandings. I will say that I want you to understand that we chose you specifically for this purpose that I'm about to explain and we need your full cooperation for this to work."

Midoriya nodded, "Alright, so what's this mission?"

"Now that's what I like to hear," Merlin's smile returned as she leaned back into a relaxed position. "The whole story is a bit much to go over, but Eveline has an older sister, Guenivere, who is looking to kill Eveline and lay waste to the human realm with the help of some warlord that showed up a few years ago. We don't understand her motives nor do we know the real relationship between Guinevere and that human lord, but we do know that she intends to act soon."

"So you're breaking Eveline out before that can happen."

"Exactly, we need to have her removed from their custody and from there, it's a matter of keeping her safe for the time being," Merlin let out a slight sigh that seemed more for show than out of any genuine emotion. "For now, we need you because no one here knows who you are and it'll be a good way to tie up any potential loose ends."

Midoriya didn't understand how that last part worked, but seeing as he now was involved in this rescue mission, he may as well go with it. Besides, Eveline was in trouble and it was his job to help her. However, there was clearly more to the circumstances than what Merlin was sharing and he couldn't bring himself to fully accept the responsibility she was presenting him when he hadn't clue what it fully entailed.

"Okay, but that can't be it," He stated firmly, maintaining eye contact with the smug woman. "You picked me, somehow. So, what use do you think I have?"

Merlin only smiled before shaking her head. "You sure have a keen eye. For that, I guess I should reward you; I've kept an eye on you for some time while scouting for potential places to hide Eveline. I intend to send her with you after we rescue her, along with a few others. Your world is a perfect place for her to be for a while."

That wasn't the answer he was expecting and he found himself without words until Merlin told him that they should go meet with the others.

"I should warn you that they have some unique personalities that are hard to handle sometimes. Think you'll be okay?"

Midoriya nodded, confident that his wild classmates prepared him for all kinds of weirdness, only to be horribly proven wrong.