Landing on the platform in the nick of time were three boys in parachutes, their hands clearly glowing with what Akko at first thought was a spell, but then quickly realize were quirks.
And as the blonde boy sent another explosion from his hand that incinerated a demon, it was then that Akko realized exactly who she was looking at. To confirm her suspicions, she looked at the familiar boy with greenish black hair and then at the boy whose hair was split between white and red.
They were Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugou, and Shoto Todoroki, three relatively well-known heroes in training back in Japan. Their class had been infamous for its run-ins with villains and spectacular participation in the famous U.A high Sports Festival.
"What the heck are they doing here?" whispered Akko to herself. She placed her hands on her mouth as she stared at disbelief at the unlikely coincidence.
Akko was always more interested in Witchcraft than the realm of heroes and quirks that dominated the world, but her home country was so well known for its caliber of heroes that following up with the latest hero news in Japan was unavoidable.
Akko darted her eyes to the other students, who clearly didn't know who these three boys were, further confused as to how they even ended up at Luna Nova at the weirdest moment possible.
What Akko did know, however, was that the hero students, especially Bakugou, were going to have their own 'revisionist' way of dealing with the demon problem compared to what the Professors at Luna Nova had in mind.
"How did these chumps get here?" asked Amanda.
Diana glanced at the parachutes and luggage, which clearly belonged the boys, putting two and two together. "They could have only been skydiving while we were blinded by Akko's spell, and then covered up by the flying demons once we got our eyesight back."
"Hey Akko, do...do you know who they are?" asked Lotte, who caught Akko's expression.
Just before Akko could speak up, Diana walked forward with the most furious expression that Akko had seen on her today.
"Excuse me!" called out Diana. "I don't know who you three are, or how you got here but.."
Diana was cut off by Bakugou unleashing a second explosion that caused her mouth to freeze open, just like that massive hole in the demon's chest. Apparently, Bakugou had vaporized or cauterized the demon's insides because there was no gore to speak of.
And in that instant, even the roaring demons were rendered speechless. The only sound was that of Bakugou's victim crumbling into daemonic dust and vanishing.
"What sorcery is this?" frowned Amanda.
"Nope! That isn't sorcery!" exclaimed Jasminka, happily chewing on a new bag of chips while watching her entertainment, relieved at the backup.
"Gee Akko, how many more things did your spell summon." blurted Sucy, eyes glued at the display.
"ALRIGHT!" yelled Bakugou, still in Japanese. "We're gonna send you unholy shits back to your fiery graves!"
Three demons roared in response and charged at the boys, one to take on each of them.
In return, Deku yelped and leaped forward into the air. With a panicky kick from his charged up legs, the demons were sent flying back, not from a direct kick, but from the sheer shockwave in the air that Akko knew Deku could generate from his quirk.
In response, Todoroki drew out his arm and froze the demons solid, leaving the hellspawn suspended off the ground with horrified expressions in an icy prison. Before gravity could take effect and send the frozen demons crashing down, Bakugou once again attacked with a massive explosion which vaporized the demons from the Earthly realm.
Todoroki looked around and just saw how many demons there were in the air. It was still a total army and their attention was now fixed on the heroes.
"I don't know if we can handle this many." Todoroki muttered.
"Oh please! They wouldn't have called us here if they didn't think we could do it." bragged Bakugou.
Akko frowned at Bakugou's remark. There was no way Luna Nova could have possibly contacted these 3 to get rid of demons of all things unless Ursula had some weird numbers on the line. Since he spoke it in Japanese though, no one called his out comment.
"Kaachan is right!" added Deku, regaining some confidence. "We can't let them waste a perfectly good satanic ritual if we're not gonna fight off these demons."
Akko got offended at that remark. She didn't know how these 3 ended up at Luna Nova, but she knew for sure she didn't summon demons on purpose, especially not for the sake of the hero students.
A demon took a gamble and flew towards Deku while his head was turned to Bakugou, but Deku reacted quickly and slammed his fist into the demon's jaw.
With a big CRUNCH resonating from the demon, it's supposedly thick skull had clearly been crushed by Deku's fist, and its mouth had been so injured that it couldn't even let out a scream.
Before Bakugou could make a move to finish off the demon however, Todoroki launched a sharp spear of ice right into the Demon's fractured skull, breaking its face entirely. The demon vanished, and so did its blood that had painted the sharp pillar of ice a weird shade of purple.
As Todoroki's victim dissolved, an enraged expression took over Bakugou, who grabbed Todoroki by the shoulders and started growling.
"What the hell! I was going to get killing blow on that one!" raged Bakugou.
"What? You finished off all the other ones. Can't get credit for everything." frowned Todoroki.
Sucy raised an eyebrow as she watched the boys bicker. "I can't tell what they're saying, but are they really having an argument in the middle of life and death?"
As if Sucy's words were an omen, another demon charged the distracted Bakugou who had both of his arms distracted by grabbing Todoroki, only for Bakugou to immediately snap an arm at its direction and blow off the top half the demon.
"I don't think that's gonna be an issue for them," observed Lotte.
Although two minutes hardly passed, Diana had enough of waiting for the adults to come back and stormed towards the boys and yelled at the top of her lungs. "Who are you three! How did you get here!"
Bakugou, Todoroki, and Deku glanced at Diana, with Akko realizing they didn't appear to have given any of the witches much thought amid all this.
Before they could comprehend what was going on however, three demons each swooped towards the boys and grabbed them by the arm with their claws, lifting them off the ground at once.
"Let me go you freak!" demanded Bakugou.
Sucy whispered in Diana's ear. "Nice going, they had it till you jumped in."
The boys tried to struggle free, but the Demons were holding their arms tight, preventing some sort of blast or punch landing right at them. Akko knew it was especially bad now since the demons' one success would be a precedent for them not giving up.
The demons dashed towards the side, away from the castle, where a single wrong move could send the young heroes falling to their deaths.
"Where the hell are the teachers?" frowned Amanda, tired of waiting who thus raised her wand for action.
"I AM HERE! With back up!" yelled Ursula on cue, who slammed the door to the staircase open, flanked by 4 other professors.
The teachers readied their wands to do their part in blasting the demons once and for all, only to suddenly drop them down as well once they saw who had joined the party.
"Who are they, what are they doing here?" asked one professor.
"That's what we're wondering Ms." replied Sucy.
"What are you waiting for? Blast them!" yelled Amanda at the frozen professors.
Amanda was cut off by Ursula. "NO! We can end up hitting those boys or pissing off the demons enough to drop them to their deaths."
"I wouldn't worry about them falling to death." hinted Akko.
Just before anyone could ask what she meant, Todoroki had figured out how to counter the hold of the demon once the initial shock and confusion settled aside.
Todoroki opened his palms and ignited two jet streams of fire from each of them, not hitting the demon directly, but propelling it in the opposite direction like a rocket. The demon holding Todoroki did not expect that and roared as Todoroki began steering it, itself desperately trying to wrestle control.
Bakugou quickly figured out Todoroki's plan and did the same by firing blasts from his own palms, and if the violently jerking movements weren't disorienting the demon enough, Bakugou seemed to put extra effort in making his explosions as loud and damaging to the demon's ears as possible.
Deku meanwhile, decided to use his legs and with a jumping position, was able to create a force underneath him that caught the demon, expecting Deku to use his arms or hands, by surprise.
A few moments passed of the boys and the demons they 0were now holding hostage flying around in the air like a deflated balloon. Any other demon that tried to aid its comrade was merely hit by a blast from Todoroki and Bakugou or a kick by Deku, much to the evident dismay of the demons that were busy trying to hold the boys in place.
The demons tried to fight fire with fire by pushing the boys to the opposite direction they were blasting at, but the power of their quirks clearly trumped their demonic strength and only resulted in another demon getting frozen, burned or having a hole torn it amid the crossfire.
Amid all the confusion, the demons decided to finally drop the 3 of them to the ground, much to the horror of everyone watching.
"Well, that sucks!" blurted out Sucy, horrified herself at the demons' display.
"Quick!" yelled Ursula. "Get the brooms and.."
BOOM
An explosion from below eviscerated the demon that held Bakugou, who himself had just propelled himself in the air with the force of his explosions.
Deku and Todoroki meanwhile were uplifted to the sky by the latter's giant wall of ice. The demons only got angrier at the sheer difficulty it took to kill the heroes.
One demon flew towards Deku at speed unseen before, but it mattered not as Deku quickly responded with a punch that sent the demon flying back. Before its corpse could fully dissolve however, the demon crashed into one of Luna Nova's watchtowers.
Another one attempted to dash towards Todoroki, but he let loose a giant spear of ice that pierced the demon right in its soulless heart. While the demon did vanish upon instant death, Todoroki's icicle kept speeding through the air like a stray bullet and struck one of the castle's terraces. Upon impact, the entire terrace had been frozen solid once the icicle detonated.
As Bakugou, still suspending himself in the air with his explosions, shot down a demon close enough to the tower's wall to scorch its exterior the recklessness of the heroes was becoming apparent.
Ursula quickly used her microphone spell, even forming a giant holographic image of the object to better grab the attention of the heroes.
"WE WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU THREE COULD WATCH WHERE YOU'RE…" Ursula was cut off by a demon corpse narrowly missing her, having been sent flying dead by Deku's kick, which then crashed into the roof of Luna Nova.
The gaping hole in the roof did not suit the look of the academy.
There were still quite a few demons that needed to be taken out, but a new problem had emerged in the young heroes being ruthlessly destructive themselves. Deku's punches didn't instantly kill, so a demon would certainly crash into some part of the building. Meanwhile, Todoroki's and Bakugou's attacks of ice and explosives killed too quickly which sent all sorts of stray blasts flying everywhere.
"We need to evacuate!" commanded Ursula.
Diana's eyes shot open. "But what about those three brutes and…"
"They'll be fine!" insisted Akko, watching the three work their magic, or well, quirks.
"Akko's right!" added Ursula, quickly casting a barrier spell around the students along with the other teachers. "WE are the ones who need to head to safety or before they accidentally blow up this platform."
All of the witches, teacher, and student, quickly began sprinting down the staircase, guarded by the barriers they all made an effort keeping up.
Outside the tower's walls were the sounds of roaring demons meeting their end to the sounds of explosives, scorching flames, chilling winds and Deku's strikes breaking the sound barrier.
Akko herself still didn't know how she was going to explain the situation. The three were essentially the top three young heroes in training back in Japan, mini-celebrities in their own right. What they were doing here or why they thought it was necessary to fight the demons was beyond her other than the latter probably being a gross misunderstanding at their part.
While lost in her thoughts, one of Bakugou's explosions sounded awfully louder than usual. As Akko glanced further up the staircase where thankfully no one was anymore, a blaze shattered the walls of the tower with a charred demon corpse resting on the steps before vanishing.
Akko's mouth dropped at the sheer display of power.
"Stop staring demon spawn!" grunted Sucy, quickly grabbing Akko by the arm and shoving her further down the stairs.
Finally, the witches made it out of the tower, through the main halls of the academy, and were then guided out to the woods and field that surrounded Luna Nova The rest of the school's students and professors had been evacuated out there too.
It seemed to be suicide to stay out in the open like that, but it was clear any of the three heroes' attacks could randomly strike through even the most secluded parts of the building and get someone trapped in the rubble. At least outside the professors could tell where the attacks were coming from and could shield everyone at once.
A plethora of teachers had gotten on their brooms and flew towards the carnage in the sky that was getting increasingly grounded as the boys must've been getting tired of suspending themselves in the air with their quirks.
None of the professors got too close however, since it was evident that the strength of the quirks was powerful enough to kill. Not to mention they had far more of a responsibility to not hit any of the young heroes with their own spells.
One by one, the last of the demons went down. Literally too as the boys finally manage to keep the fight on the surface, no longer having to worry about keeping themselves airborne.
Deku sprinted towards one of the final demons, leaped into the air, and spun around mid-jump as he charged up a powerful kick that practically cracked the demon's skull.
Todoroki meanwhile skillfully ducked before a demon could claw his face off and froze its extended arm before it could make a follow-up attack. Todoroki then proceeded to set the upper half of the demon on fire with his own free arm.
Bakugou hadn't actually managed to take out any of the hellspawn once they had landed on the ground, and was clearly pissed at his classmates taking the final targets out.
Soon enough, all that was left of the demons was a surprisingly larger one, albeit not by much compared to its peers. It appeared to have shirked all of its responsibility in taking out the boys, preferring to instead let its underlings do the heavy lifting throughout the fight.
Now it was all that was left of its group.
The demon roared loudly and out came a beam of fire or some sort of energy that Akko didn't recognize straight at the heroes. It mattered not however as Todoroki unleashed a massive wall of ice that that took the full force of the beam.
The resulting explosion sent ice shards flying everywhere but of course, the professors effortlessly used their own magic barriers to protect everyone. The same couldn't be said of the Academy's entrance that was now pierced with tiny icicles.
Once the flash and smoke from the explosion cleared Deku ran towards the head demon and kicked up into the air with all the force he could muster.
Evident to that demon's relative power over its peers was the fact that it did not instantly die, but that mattered little for what came next.
Before Deku could finish it off, Bakugou, with the most devilish slasher smile he could muster, leaped into the air with his explosions and charged both of his hands for a major attack.
The head demon had been disorientated by Deku's kick, but could still look on in horror as Bakugou blasted it with the largest explosion he had unleashed so far, unsurprisingly disintegrating the demon before its own body naturally crumbled into that daemonic dust.
And of course, that explosion had blown up a significant part of the forest as collateral damage. At least the trees could grow back overnight.
Bakugou landed on the ground, pleased with his own execution of the large demon as if setting things on fire was its own art form.
In the moments that followed, everyone was silent. Even the boys were too busy recovering and trying to comprehend what was going on to comment.
Jasminka however, was still chewing on her snack loudly and happily spoke up. "Well, when it comes to slaying demons. I'd say they're above average."