Jumping right back on the steer, let's keep going. Also, thank you to the person who left a review, you've re-energized me.
Chapter Cover- Issia surprised as something is about to collide with her.
Ch.5- I want to be normal
It's the day after initiation, we all just went to sleep. Sis wakes me up again that morning.
"Is something up Sis?" Is what I try to say but comes out as one groan.
"We're decorating, come on." I get up and put on my uniform, a red plaid skirt, stockings, and a brown jacket with a tan vest and white shirt with a red ribbon tied at the collar, before decorating our dorm with my sisters.
Medi and Ersa set up a maintenance desk for our weapons, Deandra put up some posters and change the curtains to ones that block out more light. Deandra takes a look at the time on her watch.
"Class starts in ten minutes, we better get going," Deandra suggest and we leave, we make it with five minutes to spare, and spend some time talking to the other students and learn some more about the people we'll be fighting alongside, their one person I fear will cause trouble for others by the name Cardin Winchester my sisters will keep an eye on him. Team RWBY and JNPR come running in at the last minutes and fail to stop, crashing right into us forcing Ersa to hold us all up.
Ersa manages to hold us all up, "Get... off... me," struggling to do so, before just dropping us, we take the front row seats after that happy incident.
After that class begins, a man looking like he's in his late fifty. He's wearing a double-breasted burgundy suit with gold piping and buttons. His pants he wears tucked into olive boots, similar in appearance and construction to cavalry boots.
He begins the lecture talking about the history of hunters and just keeps talking, I lose interest while both Ersa and Deandra have already fallen asleep. Deandra positioned herself in a way to hide that she's sleeping, and Ersa isn't even subtle, Medi, on the other hand, is taking notes and paying attention and writing everything down.
I look over to see what team RWBY is doing, I see Blake and Yang snickering at something, Ruby turns her book to show me, she has drawn Mr. Port in a mocking way titled: "Professor Poop". She got a chuckle from me because I wasn't expecting that, but Weiss isn't having any of it, it looks like she's about to blow.
"So, who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?" Mr. Port asks to which Medi raises her hand.
"I do sir!"
"Well, then, let's find out! Step forward, and face your opponent!" Mr. Port points to the cage next to him, I haven't noticed until now.
Medi jumps from her seat to in front of the cage. It's shaking violently, whatever is in there does not want to be caged.
"Shouldn't you get changed?" Ruby ask Medi.
"You have to be ready for anything, and sometimes fighting may occur when your least prepared. " Medi says while stretching, "Alright ready," Medi tells Mr. Port.
"Let the match begin!" Mr. Port cuts the lock off his cage using his weapon, which appears to be a blunderbuss with ax attach to the stock.
The creature that walks out the cage appears to be a boar-like Grimm, "A Boarbatusk!" Weiss shouts the Grimm's name.
The Grimm charges Medi, who jumps over it making it slam into our seats, waking up Deandra and Ersa.
"Medi you jerk. I didn't know fighting was part of class, you've should have woken me up." Ersa grunts not being able to participate.
"Stay up next time." Medi retorts while sidestepping the Grimm, and she does this a few more times until her body is sparkling with electricity. Every time her feet touch the floor, a little electricity is released.
Medi is now bouncing around, now when she dodges the Grimm she kicks the Grimm the side, but none of her attacks are having an effect.
"This things armor is tough," Medi notes.
"Aim for its belly," Ruby tells Medi where the Grimm weak spot is. Medi turns to look at Ruby and give her a thumb-up for telling her the piece of information, giving the Grimm the chance to charge her, sending Medi into a wall.
The Grimm curls in on itself, and begins rolling at Medi to run her over as she gets back up. Medi catches and stops the Grimm in its tracks using nothing but her hands, the Grimm attempts to shake free but Medi doesn't budge, electricity is flowing through Medi's body and some the Grimm. She then rips the Grimm's faceplate off, shocking everyone besides me and my sisters.
"I have never seen someone do that before." Mr. Port chimes. The Grimm is flailing around blindly since Medi also took its eyes out.
"Time to put you out of your misery." Medi says before stabbing the Grimm in the belly with her carving knife, "Feu, thanks for the tip, Ruby." Medi gives a thumbs up.
"You're welcome?" Ruby says still shocked what just happened.
"I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today. Be sure to cover the assigned readings, and... stay vigilant! Class dismissed!" Mr. Port then leaves.
A few days pass and I get a notice on my scroll that my favorite show updated.
"This is the most excitement I've seen from you Issia. This show must mean a lot to you Issia." Ruby ask me.
"Yeah, the show tells the life of a girl's life as she tries to become the world number one hero." I give Ruby the breakdown of the show while showing her some promo art.
"That looks so cool, we should watch it together," Ruby suggest, I'm glad she's at least interested enough to give it a go.
I go to episode one and press play. It starts with someone being pushed out of the way and someone being run over by a dump truck in a cartoonish manner, "Sometimes death isn't an end," A male voice says.
The next scene takes place by a river with someone in a hood looking over someone else, "Ugggh, did anyone get the license plate of that dump truck?" Something that can be described as a soul.
"Wow, really? That's the first thing you say after what you've been through." The hooded figure ask.
"So what happened to me, am I dead or something?" The soul asks in a nonchalant tone before trying to dig in their ear but their hand goes completely through their head.
"Ah, you catch on quick. Yes, you are dead and I am Thanatos." That name both scares and confuses me.
"Uhh, wasn't Thanatos a guy and why would you be picking up such a worthless soul?" I shake my head, thinking that she's just joking.
"No, I'm not that Thanatos." She puffs her cheeks out, but begins again, "I'm Thanatos, a Reaper in training, and future master Reaper."
"Wait? What?"
"I guess I should explain? You see, I am part of the Reaper organization, we are the people responsible for taking care of the afterlife." The soul looks at Thanatos still confused.
"I should stop here, you would probably just get more lost. In layman terms, I am here to decide what to do with your soul."
"Okay, let me get this straight. You are basically death right?" She nods in response,
"So where's your scythe, the black cloak, the skeletal appearance?" The soul asks with the thought bubble of a stereotypical image of death behind them.
Thanatos takes a deep breath, "First of all, no Reaper has even been like that, you guys just made that up on your own. And second," She then takes her hair clip out and it suddenly grows to full-sized, she twirls it a little bit before suddenly bring it down on top of the soul splitting them in half before they quickly put themselves back together.
Ruby takes an extra interest in Thana once that happens being a scythe welder herself.
"Relax, you're just a spirit so you're intangible." The girl nonchalant tosses on, before her scythe turns back into a hair clip and puts it back on, "And second, our scythes are the very being of our powers, so every Reaper's scythe is unique to them."
"Uh-huh, So I guess My Reaper Academia doesn't have a dress code policy?" The soul asks having the camera pan on Thanato's attire which is, unzipped jacket with little horns stitched on, a shirt with the Fairy Tail logo, and slightly washed out jeans.
"I never thought death would dress so casual," Ruby says probably expecting something else.
"And that's why I love this show because it subverts your expectations." I state that the main draw.
An exclamation point appears above her head, "Now, that you said, I remembered I had a different plan, in store for you."
"What do you mean by that?" The soul asks.
"Have you heard of a term called self-insert?" The soul face-faults.
"Good, I'll take that as a yes. Now have you heard of a show called, My Hero Academia?"
"A world where 80% of the world's population is born with incredible powers called quirks. Why do you ask?" As the soul says, making the girl get a grin to grin smile on her face and starts hopping in place.
"Good, I want to give you the power to change fate." She gingerly says while bouncing even more.
"Okay, before I hear any more of this, I want to know what's up with my memory. I can remember everything I've ever read or watched, but nothing of my past life. Also, what makes me so special? I'm just a normal person." This stops Thana in her tracks.
"Well, if I resurrected you with your old memories, they just come back and make things hard for you. And why, because when you were alive, you saw what Class 1-A had to go through and you wished you could be there for them, plus your spirit burns with untapped power." I'm left speechless at what she just said. I remember how scared Class 1-A was, I wanted to be there, to them.
I stand up to face Thanatos, "Alright great reaper, I accept your offer!" The soul roars at the top of its lungs.
Thanatos starts grinning cheek to cheek, before banging her knuckles together runes forming in a pose I know of one pink-haired dragon boy. "Give this soul another chance to perform more deeds in my name." Thana chants before slamming her fists into the ground. "Grand Soul Rebirth!" Causing the screen to turn white.
"But, a beginning." A female voice says.
A flash of light consumes everything before slowly clearing up.
"It's a girl!" A doctor says before the episode ends there, I look over to see Ruby's reaction. She's amazed and wants to watch more.
"Wow, we have to show the others!" Ruby exclaims before grabbing me and running off.
"Waitwaitwaittt!" Ruby grabs the rest of her and my team and makes a b-line for JNPR's room.
"Hey guys, check out this new show Issia just showed me. Show 'em Issia." After the feeling comes back to my body, I show everyone a compilation of some of the best parts of season one.
The video starts with showing the main characters, Yang is interested with a girl who looks like her turning into a fireball, Blake shows some interested in a girl with huge horns and horse hooves when a boy appears on-screen Weiss makes a glyph sending Yang and Blake away.
The video has Team JNPR's attention, the video ends showing the title of the show: The Breaker of U.A High.
"Currently four season are in out." I say as I try to put my scroll away, "But we're going to need a bigger screen if we all want to watch." I say.
"Gotta make a call." Weiss leaves the room.
"We need a popcorn." Yang with Blake runs off to somewhere.
"Let's get some seats." Pyrrha grabs Jaune trying to more seats, after all that, the only people left in the room are me and Lie, Nora went to the little smith's room.
I go back to my room to grab something, while this happens.
"What taking Nora so long?" Lie knocks on the door but Nora doesn't answer, he knocks again no answer. Lie counts to three to see if Nora ok and then enters, seeing his childhood friend clutched over on the toilet in pain.
Nora finally notice Lie standing in the doorway, the energetic and bouncy girl everybody knows is gone and in her place is a demon. No really, Nora is actually talking in devil tongue.
"Someone say my name?" Medi asks popping her head in. She sees Nora in pain and pokes Lie in the eyes before kicking him out then shutting the door. Medi creates a portal reaches in and then pulls out a bottle.
"Before I give you this, DO not drink the whole bottle unless you want to clean out your entire system," Medi warns Nora before tossing her the bottle.
"Good luck." Medi creates a portal under herself and drops through.
A few more days pass after that with Medi keeping Nora's interaction a secret, today class is the one everyone can get behind Ms. Goodwitch combat class.
The main fight of today is Deandra vs Pyrrha, a bit of an interesting match since they both use a basic weapon style of sword and shield or javelin in Pyrrha's case, but fight far differently.
They face each other down, "Let's see what makes you untouchable." Deandra says about to Pyrrha's title to the test.
"I'm not about to underestimate someone like you," Pyrrha says seeing what the Holdbacks are capable of, from the initiation.
"Ready... 3... 2… 1…. Begin!" Ms. Goodwitch starts the match and Pyrrha takes the lead.
Pyrrha fires a few shots at Deandra but she counters by opening a portal in front of her. Pyrrha switches Miló into sword mode swings at Deandra, who does nothing and takes the hit.
"Good hit. Now it's my turn." Deandra opening her cloak and summoning her weapon, pushing her sword further into her shield then swiftly pulling out making her shield glow red.
"Now the fun begins." Deandra swings her sword a few times, which Pyrrha either blocks or dodges. Deandra shield bashes Pyrrha, unleashing an explosion, staggering Pyrrha. Deandra trips Pyrrha by pulling her legs from under her and switching to ax mode.
Pyrrha rolls back to her feet and Deandra start swinging her weapon around, people talking about the possibility of Pyrrha actually losing.
Pyrrha throws her shield at Deandra and hits her in the face, Deandra flips her weapon upside down stopping Pyrrha.
"Did not expect that, but-" Deandra quickly switches back to sword mode leaving shield, and pressures Pyrrha with a series of sword slashes and kicks.
"Hey, Pyrrha did you wonder what happened to your bullets?" Deandra asks, opening a portal behind Pyrrha and is forced to take a hit bring Pyrrha's aura into the red.
"And that's the match. The winner is… Deandra… Holdback." Even Ms. Goodwitch is surprised by the winner. Everyone is speechless except-
"Alright, sis! That's a Holdback for 'ya." Ersa is cheering Deandra on.
"Good fight." Deandra helps Pyrrha to her feet.
"I've been bested, I guess you're now the strongest in school." Pyrrha jokes, shaking Deandra's hand.
Later that night
"Mr. Ozpin, I have something I want to discuss with you," Glynda says walking in the Ozpin's office.
"What is it, Glynda?" Ozpin asks with his seat turned away from the door.
"It's about the Holdbacks, something isn't right about them. Now that I have been in close contact with them," Glynda takes a second to think of her next word, "Their- their very unique is the best way to put it."
Ozpin gets up from his seat and stares out the window, "Yes they are, but they might be just the people we need."
Writer- And the story ends for now. I have a few things to say. One, I've been sitting on that toilet skirt for some time now. And two, all the Holdbacks have an elemental affinity; Medi's is static electricity, Ersa's is wind, Deandra's is earth and Issia's is darkness. Until our fates meet again, fare thee well.
Also, the Breaker of U.A High is another one of my stories, and that was a transcript of chapter one.