DISCLAIMER: I do not claim to be the creator of the My Hero Academia manga or anime series. I had absolutely no part in any creation of the series, and I'm just a dedicated fan of this series who has taken my time to create this fanfiction. I do own my OCs and of course myself.

Author Notes: This is about a dragon girl and her dark past. This is an AU of the series, BIG BIG change is that Izuku Midoriya moved when he was young so that the family could be together where his father is working. So yes, he isn't the 9th "One for All" bearer. Who will be though? Hint it might be this little girl. I know many won't like this and if so please skip over this story. I am writing this for me. This is rated M, because of language, violence and some darker themes. Thank you everyone who has or will review my fic.

The Prologue will be jumping from view point to view point until the main character can actually be relevant.

-WARNING THE BEGINNING OF THE PROLOGUE IS A BIT DARK AND DEALS WITH ELUDING TO NON-CONSENT SKIP DOWN TO 'BEGIN HERE' NOTIFICATION IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THIS PART-

Prologue - From Dark Beginnings

Stumbling out of a dark alley is a very young woman, possibly 18 or 19. Her clothes are falling off her thin body with her skirt ripped up one side, and her lilac colored hair massively disheveled. She wanders on the street during the early night hours, going in no particular direction with this blank look in her eyes. Everyone else that is on the street at this hour are deliberately ignoring her and looking the other way, except this tall man who suddenly appeared in front of her wearing a ridiculous outfit that was Blue, Red, and White with bright yellow boots and bracers. He looks down at her as she faceplants into his chest not noticing her appeared. There are a few whispers about this hero from the few others on the street but they continue on their way.

"Miss, you seem to be in the need of help." This tall guy says, "Is there someplace I can bring you to? But more importantly who did this to you?"

The woman looks up at him and in a zombie-like fashion points towards the direction she came from before mumbling, "Some… alley…. Froze…. pleaded no…. No one came…." The arm she was pointing with flops back to her side.

"You are safe now, Why? Because I AM HERE!" The man shouts the last part. She doesn't resist him at all as she is picked up into a bridal carry. He sets off in a direction and looks to be purposefully walking with a swift pace.

A few blocks away the man stops in front of a police department and he quickly enters while still carrying her. A young police officer who had a head of a dog sees them coming up the stairs and holds the door open for the man to enter. The woman and the man are ushered into a small room by this officer and he barks for something for the woman to drink.

The officer who introduced himself as officer Kenji began to take the man's statement before turning to the woman who sipped at the drink robotically. "Miss, are you able to describe who assaulted you, woof?"

She looks up at the officer and slowly shakes her head no before saying, "No, wait… umm he was stretchy almost like rubber." Her expression shifts back to the blank stare.

"Well, we will put out a notice to be on the look out for this assailant." Continuing to look at her he adds, "Is there any family that we can contact? Miss?"

She again shakes her head, "No, my family died a few years back in a fire. Been on my own since."

Kenji turns to the man, "Well, All Might, as she is a victim of… well victim. We will need to have her medically tested. You can wait here or continue doing your job and trying to protect the people."

All Might, as she now knows, responds, "No, I will wait here until I know she is alright."

An hour later the woman is brought back to the small room with All Might still sitting there. "She will need to be in a shelter, there is one close by." Kenji says as the woman walks forward and clings to All Might. Kenji then adds seeing this, "I can give you the address and looks like she doesn't want you to leave her. So could you bring her there?"

All Might nods, "Yes, I will do that post haste."

Kenji then says, "Once there, talk to Sakura Suzuki, she is the one who runs it. Tell her we sent you there."

- A Few Weeks Later -

"Back again, All Might?" An older woman says as he enters the building, "She always looks a bit brighter after you come by. Poor thing," she shakes her head, "I really don't understand why people do something like that to another, but I will continue to look after them." She goes back to watering some flowers using her finger as a watering can. "You know the way to her room."

-Begin if you were skipping here-

- Over the next 8 months -

All Might kept returning every few weeks to visit her when he could but of course being a hero doesn't write its own schedule. Of course she was showing a lot by this time. He had gotten a call from Miss Suzuki that Yui was heading to the hospital to, well, give birth. Of course being one of the few who she allowed to interact with her, he was heading to the hospital as well. But like always, CRIME fighting is a 24/7 job. He had stopped two bank robberies, a purse snatch, a kitten stuck up a tree, and stopped three villains from rampaging in different intersections on his way to the hospital in question. In doing all this he wasn't able to see her before she was brought back to the delivery room. So, he had to wait out in the waiting room. It was a funny scene, here he was chest, shoulders and head taller than most everyone sitting on the tiny chairs in the waiting room. She was one of the few who knew him in both forms but in this form he would more likely be able to see her afterwards.

Many hours went by while he waited, he knew that deliveries sometimes took a long time but it was going on twelve hours. Was something wrong, he fidgets looking around the room for something to distract himself with again when the doors to the back opens up and a doctor slowly walks in and motions for All Might to follow. All Might quickly gets up and follows the doctor to an office. He looks at the doctor questionaly while wondering why he wasn't shown into the room with Yui.

"Have a seat please, All Might." The doctor motions to larger chairs in front of a nice desk so he complies, "I have both good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"

All Might begins to worry a bit at this statement/question. He takes a few deep breaths, "Bad news first so I can use the good news to squash it, hopefully." He says with hope and confidence.

"Well then. The young woman, Yui, died in mid childbirth and we had to operate to save the child. This took longer than usual due to the young woman's quark." The doctor says giving him a few seconds for this to sink in before adding, "Good news is that we did indeed save the child, she is in excellent health, we will need to keep her overnight before she can go anywhere. It looks like she inherited her mother's quark too. Now is the hard question, where is she going to go? The woman did not have any next of kin, but in the paperwork she signed, she put you as the emergency contact. We, hospitals, have a 'what if' clause and she put you as the guardian, if you accept." He paused looking at All Might for an answer, "If not she is going into the system."

All Might sits there frozen, in the span of ten minutes he went from expecting everything is fine to finding out that the girl he had rescued had died, to finding out that he was named guardian to her legacy. It was a lot to take in, he could fight just about anything, but this was not something he was prepared for. He steels himself, "I will adopt her."

"Well then, All Might, lets get some paperwork done before I show you to your dragonling daughter. What do you wish to name her?" The doctor chuckles already knowing how All Might would answer.

All Might ponders for half a second then says with certainty, "How about Hikari! Wait dragonling?"

- 2 years later -

Screaming and giggling while running down the short hallway of this decently sized apartment is a silvery haired naked baby girl. She is covered in small patches of platinum silver scales that matches her hair and glints with the water that was on them. She is being playfully 'chased' by 'civilian' All Might, Toshinori. As he is running after her he thinks to himself, parents on those TV shows and movies make this look so easy, bathtime was supposed to be easy. I am the #1 hero, I fight the toughest villains but this, parenting, has me flummoxed. It had also been hard to balance, crime-fighting, taking care and raising her all the while trying to keep her out of the lime-light. He rarely showed her his hero form but still there were a few times she saw him like that. She would always look up at him with wide eyes and burble.

After giving little Hikari her bath it was time to put her to sleep before heading out on patrol. Thankfully, she was a great sleeper. He had heard that sometimes that could be the most stressful part but guess he got lucky. He donned his outfit, kissed and tucked Hikari into her toddler crib, made sure that the baby monitor was on and in place before heading out.

- 6 years old Hikari -

I was just dropped off at the elementary school by papa in his 'civilian form'. I am a bit apprehensive having only really been around my dad, this creepy guy called Nighteye, a police officer named Naomasa and the rare occasional babysitter. It was finally time to meet others my age. I guess I should follow the others that look my age. I somewhat quickly found my way to my classroom. I thankfully knew some numbers at least up to the thirties and how to read basic chapter books. Nighteye could be scary like that, he intimidated me, but I am very glad he was able to teach me these, I feel I got a nice head start. I entered my classroom to find all the others running around and 'playing' while the teacher was sitting at her desk, welcome to first grade.

She turns as I enter and smiles at me, "Welcome sweety, what's your name?"

"Yagi Hikari, what is yours?" I reply, deliberately saying each word slowly.

"I am Satō-sensei. We will be starting class soon, go find a spot."

The class was a lot of fun, I got to meet a lot of people although only a few really stuck in my brain. One of them was this really loud boy with spiky yellow hair named… named Ka...Ka… Ka-kun. He really has this personality that made me want to be near him and do the things he was doing. Although, he was very bossy and kept muttering something about 'fucking Deku' who moved according to others in the class. When we were let out of class for the day, Papa came and picked me up from the classroom. I waved goodbye to everyone and said I was looking forward to the next day.

- 7 years old Hikari -

My second year at school is starting today, I am sooo excited. I barely slept last night. Over the last year several of my classmates had their quark come out. Sadly beyond my scales and slitted eyes I hadn't discovered anything new. Papa says that it is usual for those who have quarks like mine. He is very strong and knows a lot of stuff, so I trust that he knows. I crawl out of bed and walk over to my dresser to get changed for the day pulling off my long nightshirt. I notice that it is snagging on something on my back. So I turn sideways to see what is causing it and instantly notice two small bulges on my back near my shoulder blades.

"PAPA!" I yell out scared that something is wrong.

From down the hall I hear the loud thuds of his feet as he runs to my room. He nearly takes the door off its hinges as he bursts through the door. He quickly looks around to try to find the disturbance that was bothering me, "What is it my dragonling?"

I half-turn to him and point at my back and the two lumps that are there. "I woke up and was going to get changed and my shirt got caught on these." then I add with a tremble, "What are they?"

Papa slowly enters and helps me lift the shirt high enough to take a look. He breathes out a sigh that sounds relieved. "They are tiny wings, but that's unusual. Usually physical quarks like yours don't just suddenly change like that without some sort of deliberate training. I should bring you to Nighteye, he will know."

"Guess I am not going to the first day of school then," I say while carefully finishing pulling off the shirt and going to my closet to get a dress that has exposed shoulders. I chose this cute, at least I think it's cute, pink with white polka dotted one. About thirty minutes later I am on Papa's back as he leaps from building to building towards his Agency with Nighteye. I love being this high up and seeing the whole city below me. I feel so safe on his back.

Papa lands on his building a few minutes later. We make our way down to Nighteye's office. Papa knocks twice with one finger. I hear something like 'Enter'. Papa opens the door and ushers me in front.

"Hi, Nighteye." I say looking up into his eerie eyes. I feel a little like a mouse being looked at by a cat and shrink up against Papa. His eyes go wide.

"Interesting, your quark evolved. Thought it was odd that you were here as it SHOULD...BE...THE…FIRST…DAY…OF...CLASS." Nighteye says as he turns his gaze at Papa.

Papa rarely looks nervous but in this instance he does. He quickly explains the situation to Nighteye. They both guided me to a lab/training room. I have never been allowed into these rooms the few times I have been here. I look around trying to see everything at once.

"What's this?" I then rush to another thing before they can answer, "What's this?"... repeat until Papa puts a hand on my shoulder.

"Come this way Hikari," Papa says while guiding me to a spot in the lab part of the room.

I turn to show my tiny wings to Nighteye and he closely inspects them. "Hmmm, I am no expert but yeah my first supposition I believe is correct. She has had her quark evolve. These look to be part of the scales quark or I should say more accurately the Draconic quark." He then addresses me, "Hmmm, do you mind if I take a blood sample?"

I shrug looking at Papa and he says, "Okay, but how is that gonna help us here?"

Nighteye 'face palms', "Sometimes I forget that you are thick. EVERYTHING is due to our biology." He quickly withdraws a small vial of my blood and goes over to one of the lab tables. He spends the next few minutes setting up slides with small portions of my blood and puts the rest of the vial into one of those spinning things, as I hear it whirl.

He comes back over to me sitting there patiently on the stool. "Okay, with that doing its thing let's get to the physical tests. Can you move them?" I nod making them wiggle awkwardly, "Okay so they are independent that's good. Okay can you feel this?" I scrunch up my face trying to see if I feel anything then, "OUCH, that's sharp."

"Sorry," He says, showing me the little wheel with little spikes on it, "This is used for sensory tests. So we just discovered that the membrane lacks sensory nerves but the thicker parts are sensitive. Interesting."

Over the next few months, Papa brings me to the office for a few hours after classes. Nighteye has me try several different things during these visits often with one of their sidekicks. I learn how to make them 'flap' but due to their size they couldn't do much. I also learn how to make each of them move independently like another appendage, also during this time a small claw-like part grows out of them which can clasp small objects."

I am totally exhausted after each 'testing'. Papa and Nighteye have to do their hero stuff after the 'testing' so each time they bring me to Papa's office to do my homework until it's time to go home. This is my first few months of 2nd grade.

- Near the end of 2nd grade -

I am standing in front of a crying 1st grader with my back to him. In front of me is Ka-kun and a few of his 'followers'. "Ka-kun, why you picking on this 1st grader?"

"Because he said that I was wrong about quarks." Ka-kun says defensively, little explosions popping around his clenched fists.

"Well, that is a stupid reason." I snap back.

"Of course you would say that, you're practically quarkless too." he snarls.

"No, I am not." I defiantly respond, "I got a cool quark."

"Reeealy," he says and it was clear he didn't believe me.

"Yeah."

"Why haven't you shown me anything but your stupid scales?"

"Because I don't show bullies." I say, Papa and Nighteye told me to keep these wings a secret for now until they grow bigger as any injury could slow their growth.

"OHHH, I AM A BULLY? I WILL SHOW YOU A BULLY!" he shouts as he begins to charge at me. His gang try to hold him back some but they are slowly failing.

I turn to the still crying 1st grader then back at Ka-kun, "Oh, so you're going full on villain then?" I snark at him.

Ka-kun freezes at that statement. "Y o u," he seethes taking another step forward.

I fear that he is going to do something he is going to regret so I grab the hand of the 1st grader and drag him to his feet then I make to dash out of the playground back towards where the teacher's assistant was.

"AHHGGG." he yells out as small pops go off in his small hands. He makes to grab the younger kid but I put myself between them. The small explosions go off on the small my back and it hurts a ton.

I let out a blood curdling scream at the pain and I fall to the ground into a fetal position. I hear Bakugo mutter to himself and fall to the ground, but at that moment I don't care. The only thing on my mind was 'help me' as I hear people running our way before I black out.

- The last day of 9th grade -

The teacher is up front going on about careers and how our final grades will affect what Upper Secondary Schools we could get into. He is having the class president pass out our grade papers as he is droning on. Shortly after the final paper is snatched by Bakugo he goes back to trying to glare a hole in the back of my head. After that assault back in 2nd grade he never picked on me nor anyone when I am around, but I have heard that he is still a bully. I have already put in my application for U.A. with the recommendation of Nighteye as it would seem a bit wrong for Papa to do that.

I have been training really hard with Papa, sadly he had gotten injured about five years ago in a fight with a really powerful villain, which both Papa and Nighteye would not tell me who. I know Papa will pull through, he is All Might after all. Not long after Papa got injured they both started to train my body physically a lot more. My wings, while they have grown a lot, are still too small to allow me to fly and I kept them tightly against my back. I could grab just about anything with them now, even do pull-ups with them too. I definitely couldn't complain as my Phys Ed grade skyrocketed from mediocre to nearly at the top, with Bakugo #1. Looking down at my grade paper, my other classes' grades looked to be about the same, good.

I keep on ignoring my forever rival and focus on what my teacher is saying. "Since you're all third years, it's time for you to think seriously about your future. But you're all pretty much planning to go into the hero course in Upper Secondary School!"

At this everyone begins to cheer and cause a lot of ruckus. All except Bakugo, who snears out, "I'm going to be going to U.A. so all you extras can get out of my way."

The teacher looks down at a paper that is on his desk and then says, piercing through the yelling of the other students towards Bakugo, "I believe, Miss Yagi is also going to be going there. And it looks from this note like she got recommended too, congratulations. Who knew that we would have two of our students prepared to be going to the most prestigious of Hero Academias."

At this the laser focus of Bakugo is nearly physical. I turn to face him. "I hope we can get along and b L." I say smiling brightly. I know I am poking a not so sleeping bear but who cares, it's the last day of class.

Out of his mouth comes a stream of cusses and just potty mouth language. I ignore it all as the bell goes off. I quickly pack up my desk completely as it is the last day. It has been years since Papa came to pick me up so most of the time I usually took the train home. Once outside I see Papa there with one of the cars from his agency.

I dash over to him and tackle-hug, not that I could knock him over, but this time I feel him flinch a bit at my hug. "Papa?"

"I've got a long hard thing to discuss with you, let's get going dragonling." He says opening the front passenger door for me to get in. I look at him oddly, he seems to be a bit off than normal. "I will explain once we get to the office." he whispers to me as to not draw attention.

"Okay," I say slowly, and then hop on in.

I ride for about 40 minutes thanks to traffic but at least the music on the radio is this awesome symphonic rock. The parking garage under Papa's building is pretty empty as we swiftly head to the elevator. The trip up is eerily quiet. Papa sits me down then kneels in front of me while clasping my hands. "Dragonling, Hikari, I got something super important to tell you." He looks up into my face and locks eyes before going on, "Remember that injury I got a few years back?" I nod, "Well, it was a lot more severe than I let you know or anyone really. Only Nighteye and a select few others know the extent but…" He lifts his shirt to reveal the deep purple wound on his entire left side. I gasp and begin to tear up seeing this, my hero, my protector, my father so injured. "Nighteye and I have been training you up this last year so that you can receive the most precious gift that I can give you."

I wipe away my tears to look up at him, listening as he continues, "You, my dragonling, will be the 9th inheritor of the 'One for All' power that I too had once been gifted."

I stare at him blankly. He then clarifies all about how the 'One for All' is passed down from teacher to student, but that only those truly worthy of it in every fiber of their being can truly wield it. He bulks out to his hero form standing up and with one swift motion plucks a single strand of his hair from his head. "This is something I was once told: 'Something that you receive because you're lucky and something that you are given because you are recognized are different in essence.' I have been looking for someone I find worthy to inherit this power, you are the one candidate that I feel will surpass them all with your kind heart and unwavering determination especially when it's the hard thing to do. Now, you may accept this or not. It is completely your choice."

He stands there holding out the strand of hair, I am trying to soak and comprehend everything he just told me. Then out of the corner of my eye I spot one of the TV monitors that was muted but on a new channel. It had this slime monster being shown. The monster had what the title said a student inside it and that several heroes were trying to rescue him.

"Umm, Papa," I point at the TV, "I think that is more important right now. That looks to be happening only a few blocks from here."

Papa looks at the TV then back at me. "You are right, that is more important right now. You are my treasure." Then under his breath, "I must save as many as I can, while I still can." He quickly changes into his hero outfit and steps out on the balcony and leaps away. Before doing so he takes one quick look back at me smiling his beautiful smile.

- Later that night after the events of the Villian -

I made my way home to our apartment shortly after he left. A couple hours later Papa got home, he looks tired as he 'deflates' to his civilian form. Making his way to the kitchen as I am making a bunch of noise humming to myself as I dance around the room fixing our dinner. Papa sinks into a chair at the table as I am putting the last bit of dinner onto plates.

"So, who was captured by the villain this time?" I ask nonchalantly as I place a plate in front of him and then sit down with my own.

"It was young Bakugo. He was on his way home and went through a tunnel and got ambushed by it. Thankfully another walking by saw the scene and the news people got there quickly." Papa took a spoonful of dinner before continuing, "I am also thankful you noticed the TV, the heroes that were there already were definitely not equipped to deal with him."

"I am glad to hear that you made it in time." I say between mouthfuls, "Since I got home I have been thinking really hard on the offer you gave me. Do you truly think I am the one?"

Papa looks up then swallows the food he had just put into his mouth, "Yes, dragonling, I do think you are. Are you sure? There is a 3rd year at U.A. that has a lot of promise according to Nighteye if you are not sure. He has a work study in our agency, but I believe you can be a pinnacle hero that we, the world needs."

I blush at this then with resolutely look Papa in the eyes and say, "I will be that hero, I will be the next to carry the 'One for All' torch."

Endnotes: Now it's time for the story to begin. Hope you all enjoyed it. If it is not your thing, sorry and thank you for your time. This is a head-worm and I needed to get it out on 'paper'.