Ch.11 RUNNING WITHIN THE 40'S, WELL I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I HAVE TO DO!
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Five minutes.
There were still five freakin' minutes till the sports festival began and they couldn't pass fast enough. We had been waiting in a godforsaken waiting room for nearly an hour now, I had no intention of talking to during this time and I got a random boost of energy about twenty minutes ago. But for some reason I couldn't walk around for fear of missing being called into the arena or getting lost (at least that's what Iida claimed as he was called out of the room by some random staff member, bastard). Still I had many ways of dealing with RBE (random bursts of energy). Long story short I stuck myself to the roof turned myself into a ball, made a big gap in myself, used my phone flashlight so I could see and began to screw around my quirk. Building random object and towers with as much detail as I could or experimenting with a few ideas I had on the back burner. I got and was still getting a lot of odd looks from my classmates.
As I was screwing around, I did my best to recall the first and second events, I knew for a fact that the first event was a race. I remember giant robots, a 'bottomless' pit and a pink minefield. And as overconfident as it might sound, I'm pretty sure Todoroki everything in his path is going to be the most hindering part of the event for me. I really didn't want to fight him if I get to the tournament. As for the second event I couldn't remember jack. It was just a blank spot for me.
A slight chill passed over me causing me to form an eye on my exterior. In front of me was, surprise, surprise Todoroki. His ever-present glare now directed at me. I formed a head to go along with my eye to meet his glare with an almost impassive stare.
"Can I help you?" I inquired.
"During the USJ," Todoroki began almost indifferently, "You single-handedly took down the Nomu, even though it was made to beat All Might. You're easily one of the strongest people in our class. But even so," The room was silent for a moment was we just stared at each other before Todoroki spoke again. "I think I'm stronger then you."
I stared at Todoroki for a few more seconds before dropping from the ceiling and reforming back into my base form before I hit the ground. Per the usual I was still the only one who didn't wear the gym shirt when we had to wear the damned uniforms. I sighed, figures that thermostat would challenge me instead of Midoriya after the stunt I pulled during the USJ.
I raised a finger. "Ok, first. I don't know if you even listened to what I said during the attack, but that thing was wayyyyy over specialized. To the point that the second it encountered someone that didn't attack via hitting, its effectiveness was severely lessened."
"But you hit it, and it seemed to work just fine?" Kirishima questioned me, popping into the conversation.
I swiveled my head to look at Kirishima. "Well- that was more of a throw then a hit, I made sure he was on my fist before, well, punching. But that thing was made to fight All Might, trust me I could have punched that thing all day and barely done a thing. Being giant and not made of flesh and bone helped me when dealing with Nomu. Anyways my second point." I said while facing Todoroki again while raising another finger.
"Sure, in terms of brute force, you're definitely stronger then me. There are several people in the class who are definitely stronger then me when it comes to brute force." I leaned forward, looking Todoroki dead in the eye with an intense glare. "But if you think brute force it all it's gonna take to beat me, you are sorely mistaken" I said viciously, Todoroki keeping his impassive glare going only a slight decrease in temperature to inform me of his nervousness.
I took a step back, my glare begging to lightly wear Todoroki's emotional wall down. I would never break it, but I didn't need to.
"You may have the type advantage over me," I continued, "I mean I am a liquid, a very vicious one at that, but still a liquid. And like all liquids I have a freezing slash boiling point." I explained while gesturing to myself. "And I know you can abuse that you freaking thermostat." I got a few quiet ~oohhhh's~ from some of my more childish peers. "But trust me I've got ways of dealing with my weaknesses." I pointed furiously at him for a few moments before backing off once more.
"And finally," I declared. "You shouldn't be issuing that challenge to me." I said as gestured towards my classmates, drawing Todoroki's attention to them. "You should be issuing it to everyone. Because as much as you think your stronger then everyone here. You're not." This actually got a reaction out of Todoroki, I wasn't quite sure if it was out of anger, but it was definitely something.
"You're not as fast as Iida, not as smart as Yaoyorozu, not as physically strong as Shoji, and you sure as shit can't take a hit like Kirishima." I listed off on my fingers, glaring at Todoroki, getting an actual look of surprise from him
"Everyone here is going to be giving one-hundred and ten percent today, you better too." I finished my rant, glaring at Todoroki before walking towards the door.
"Wait, Kayama!" Uraraka yelled as she stood up from her chair, "Iida told us to wait here!"
I angrily threw an arm up. "Ya well f him-" then I got slammed by the door. Into the wall.
Wunderbar.
"Everyone get your game faces on we're entering the arena soon!" I heard Iida yell in determination, obviously hoping to spark the same emotion in his peers.
"Wait, where is Kayama? I explicitly told him not to leave!" I heard the bespectacled teen yell again.
I mean while just sighed before pushing the door off me, making Iida stumble. I looked at the door and groaned in frustration as there were now seven big dents in it. Dammit.
Most of my classmates looked at the door in utter confusion wondering what the hell caused those dents. I mean while mentally thanked Iida for reminding me about those while walking to the closest corner and quickly rolled four of my sludge balls out of one of my feet.
"What are those?" I heard Yaoyorozu ask me.
"Not important, doesn't matter. Touch them, I destroy you." I quickly and lazily threatened my peers, and then while everyone was focusing on my balls (remove gutter from mind please) I quickly slipped past Iida and began to make my way to the arena doors.
This was going to be a hot mess.
After being lightly chastised by Iida for going ahead while Present Mic hyped up the crowd, we made our way into the arena. While my entire class marched into the arena full of bravado, many of them lost it rather quickly, me being one of them. I just managed to hide it better by distracting myself via reciting random sections of earworm songs I could remember.
As the banana haired man continued to introduce the rest of the first-year classes, I noted that Midnight was still going to be overseeing the festival. Though the fact that she was in her semi-serious hero mode made me relax a little, there was little chance of being embarrassed by her when she was like this.
"Should someone like her really be refereeing?" I heard Tokoyami question rhetorically.
"Believe or not, yes." I answered him, because despite her eccentricities, she, like every good hero, knew when to buckle down and get serious.
Of course, there were other individuals in the arena that had a certain reaction to Midnights presence that made me want to punch them. But I had other matters to worry about. Like Midnight announcing that Bakuhoe would be doing the athletes oath. I groaned in annoyance, I was beginning to with I had pushed myself a little harder during the entrance exam. But I didn't and now I had to deal with outfall of this bull honkey.
"The athlete's oath," Bakugou began after he finally made his way on stage. "Make no mistake about it. I'M GONNA TAKE FIRST PLACE!" He roared with confidence.
Not even half a second later the almost the entire crowd blew up in anger at his declaration, but Bakugou just scoffed at them.
"You'll all make great stepping stones." Bakugou scoffed once more before stepping off the platform and walking back into the crowd.
"Now without delay, let's get the first event started!" Midnight announced without hesitation, not even the slightest upset at Bakugou brash declaration. If anything, she probably found his actions endearing.
"These are the qualifiers, it's in this stage that so many are sent home crying every year! And the fateful first even this year is..." The crowd of students around me tensed in anticipation as Midnight paused dramatically.
"An obstacle course race!" The R-rated hero joyfully announced as a gate to our side began to open up.
As Midnight began to briefly explain the rules of the race, I put all my attention onto the three lights on the gates arch.
*ding*
I prepared myself with a literal spring in my step it shouldn't be too hard to keep up with my competitors, but even so. I should be prepared to whip that out if I need to.
*ding*
I looked over to Midoriya to see him nervously gulp before taking a deep breath and focusing on the upcoming race. I smiled a bit, it was nice to see him taking my advice.
(five days earlier, second day of training)
"You want me to what?" My peer/pupil asked me in confusion,
"Don't act like you didn't just hear what I said. I am not repeating myself." I said in a dead tone.
Midoriya just stared at me stunned, "But why should I hold back, with Full Cowl I could-"
"Ya you could blow a lot of the competition, but thatsnot to point." I rebutted before Midoriya could finish getting a quiet 'that not what I was gonna say' in return.
I sighed, because while I didn't need to breath the instinct to do so was far too ingrained to just leave me even after spending over a year in this body. I clapped my hands together and gave the green machine a pointed look.
"Listen Midoriya, when a good hero comes up with a new ultimate move, do they just use it against the first random villain they see, or do they wait and only use it when it's absolutely necessary?" I calmly asked him.
"They… wait? At least they do most of the time, when hero's first debut they usually don't hesitate to use ultimate moves a lot as they're trying to-" Midoriya answered after a moment before delving into a mutter rant before I pulled him out of hit my gently flicking his forehead, snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Yeah, they wait. Now the last event in the sports festival is usually a tournament, right. Like, nine outta ten?" I asked getting a nod in return.
"Right, so let's say right out the gate, first and second events you use Full Cowl. If you do, that will give everyone time to figure out what's going on and by the time the tourney begins everyone will have at least a decent strategy on how to beat you." I told the green machine, getting a small nod in return.
"But if you instead go through the first and second events like using your quirk will still break you, when the tournament come around and you whip out Full Cowl. no one will see it coming, and they'll be stunned long enough that who ever you fight second will only have a little time to strategize against you. As for the final round, well you'll just have to wing it." I shrugged in earnest.
"But can I even get past the first two rounds without using my quirk?" he asked me nervously.
"Yes" I answered with conviction, while placing my hands on his shoulders and looking him in the eyes "Midoriya, you are one of the smartest, craziest and gutsiest people I know. If your nervous just take a deep breath and focus. Do that and it will take more effort then most of our peers could ever hope to muster to slow you down."
Midoriya paused for a moment before taking a deep breath and giving me one of the most determined stares I've ever seen on a person. His actions caused me to smirk in devilish joy.
(present)
Knew he could do it. I compressed the springs in my legs and took a running stance. Pedal to the metal time!
*ding*
And with the final light lit, Present Mic roared 'start' and everyone rushed towards the gate. I ran forwards before being squished along with every other student. I stopped to regain my bearings for a moment before my eye caught the shining metal of the gate and idea crossed my mind. I quickly slipped to the back of the crowd before stretching my arms to the sides of the gate and securing them there. I ran forwards towards the center of the field, getting a few odd looks and sounds from some audience members before jumping up a little and slingshotting myself over the crowd of packed students.
As I flew, I adjusted myself, so I was upright and focused on the hoard giant robots ahead of me, that Present Mic had just joyfully announced as our first obstacle. Damn that U.A, spending our tax dollars on giant ass robots. Whelp, going through them wasn't an option, going Goliath just wasn't an option here and even if I could it would slow my down to much. Going under is no different, it would slow me down and much even take me off course if I over shoot it.
"So, I'll have to go around!" I told myself as I flew past a slightly surprised, though still impassive Todoroki.
I Grabbed one of the robot legs before swinging past it, just as I passed it through another had already began to reach towards me. I stretched out one of my arms and grabbed onto on of the gaps on its metal plated arm before pulling myself upwards so hard I soared over its head in less then two seconds. As I arced over its head, I shot out my other arm towards another robots head while retracing my other arm. I pulled as hard as I could and launched myself towards the ground, before morphing into a ball. A second later I hit the ground rolling before popping back into my base form and hauling ass towards the second obstacle.
As I ran a loud crash caught my attention, so I formed an eye on the back of my head to see that far behind me six of the however fricken many giant robots were now lying on the ground and frozen over. Less further behind me was Todoroki, who was now freezing the floor not only behind him, but ahead too. As the freezing floor ferociously followed me, I jumped, and not a second to soon as the frost had finally rushed past me.
In the few seconds I was airborne I turned to give Todoroki a cheeky smirk before my entire form began to change.
"Form 2!" I gleefully announced at I transformed midair.
My entire form expanded, so much that that my gym uniform was completely swallowed up by it. Luckily for me, my 'modesty' was easily covered by a pair of shorts I made form my black sludge. My face stretched and gained a snout what all but two of my head spikes retracted, said two spike changed to become more cone shaped with the addition of a small opening inwards at their base. My eyes grew larger and gained a wildly sharp look while numerous spikes jutted out of my jaw before hardening into sharpen teeth. A tail burst out from my shorts with a hand on the end of it. My arms and legs changed to gain canine attributes. My feet turned into giant paws and gained hardened claws. my hands stayed relatively the same but gained wicked claws as well. Inside of my body a sturdy but stretchy skeleton formed (think tough cartilage kinds like a shark's skeleton).
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"Werewolf!" I growled in a rough voice as finished transforming.
As my claws hit the ground below me and dug past the ice into the dirt, I grinned menacingly before taking off down the track. As I left Todoroki in the dust, I spotted a giant staircase ahead of me, I mentally shrugged before I flinched at a loud and horrible familiar voice.
"GET BACK HERE BASTARDS!" Bakugou roared in anger as he flew towards Todoroki and I.
I took that as a sign to step on the gas and quickly reached the stairs before ascending them as fast as I could. I quickly reached the top though Bakuhoe and Todoroki weren't far behind me, though I had to pause for a moment to look in awe at the chasm they'd created. The pillars weren't concrete so who the hell did they call in to make those.
"No time to waste" I told myself as I - "FUCK OFF!" Bakugou yelled in fury as he blasted past me causing me flinch pain as some of the fire from his blasts grazed me, making me stumble backwards.
Onto the stairs that were covered in Todoroki's ice. I immediately slipped on the frosty steps, meeting the Half-and-half, bastards smug, but still impassive face. The shock of the whole scenario caused me to fall rather far down the steps before I finally dig my claws into the ice and making my way back up the steps. When I finally reached the top though, Todoroki and Bakugou were already more then halfway across the chasm and a hoard of students were right behind me.
I hesitated for a moment before sighing. "Fuck it, I ditched 'em for this exact reason anyway."
I took a few steps back and rolled my shoulders. "Well, to quoth the raven." I quoted before running towards the edge of the first platform and jumping as high as I could.
"Form 3!"
My being expanded outwards greatly, as hollow sections supported by random poles of sludge began to form and expand along side me. My arms stretched to absurd proportion and took on a wing like appearance. My torso gained and aerodynamic shape while my head narrowed in width. Three spikes formed on the back of my head while a menacing beak formed on the font of my face. My legs while a lot bigger then before were slim compared to the rest of me and had hardened talon on them. My black shorts remained though my tail now had changed to fit my bird like appearance
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"Nevermore!" I cried in a shrill yet deep voice, like a parrot that could actually speak coherently.
"Woah!" Present Mic yelled over the speakers, "Kayama once again shows off his transformative abilities by turning into a giant bird! Is that even allowed!"
"Yes. so long as he doesn't veer to far off the course" Aizawa answers tiredly, "Though considering his size he might want to be careful."
With one flap of my giant wings a giant gust of wind was kicked up, pushing me forward while knocking several unlucky students that had just reached the top of the steps on there butts. Within a few seconds of gliding I had not just caught up to Todoroki and Bakugou but passed them as well, earning me a lot of obscenities from one of them as well. Guess which. As I passed them I flapped my wings one more causing me to gain some serious height, before spinning around and tucking my wings in as I dove down the stairs at what could be considered obscene speed.
When I was about half way down the steps, I realigned myself and opened my wings as I began to pull up. My timing was perfect as when I reached the bottom of the steps, I'd leveled myself out just enough to go blazing perfectly down the path. Gliding just over a meter above the path with the wind roaring beside me and a massive trail of dust in my wake, I couldn't help but laugh like a loon. Flying was incredible!
"And just like that, Kayama doesn't just retake first place but leaves the competition literally in the dust!" Present Mic ecstatically yelled, the crowd roaring in excitement in the background.
"But before he can secure his victory, he'll have to cross the last obstacle!" The banana haired announcer began, "The Minefield! It's a deadly afghan carpet! You don't need to look hard to see the mines, so keep your eyes open."
"They're also rather sensitive, it won't take much to set them off." Aizawa said almost indifferently.
Taking my teachers advice, I slowed down and transformed back into my base form, my gym pants finally returning to the light. the wind force Nevermore could generate was powerful and while I didn't know of that would be enough to set off the mines, i didn't want to take the chance. And considering how fast I was going along with the massive cloud of dust I left, I definitely had a little time before Bakuhoe or Thermostat caught up so I could afford to slow down a bit. I looked over the minefield ahead of me as Ideas quickly rushed through my head, before one idea really grabbed my attention.
Four spider like appendages sprouted from my back and dug into the ground before lifting myself into the air. I examined the ground closely and began to slowly make my way down the explosive path. But was I was doing so I couldn't help but think but think about how Midoriya was doing?
Midoriya clung to the rope as hard as he could as he could, the metal plating he was carrying was slowing him down a bit too much for his liking.
"And just like that, Kayama doesn't just retake first place but leaves the competition literally in the dust! But before he can secure his victory, he'll have to cross the last obstacle! The Minefield! It's a deadly afghan carpet!" Midoriya heard Present Mic announce.
Midoriya almost paused in shock, Kayama was already at the last obstacle! How could he ever catch up now! As the green haired teen continued to crawl his way across the rope. He grit his teeth in determination
'Sorry Kayama, but I can't hold back any longer.' Midoriya apologized
"Full Cowling." the green machine growled to himself.
Eh, he'll be fine. A minute had passed, and I was about a quarter into the minefield, though I did have to slow down for a moment as I had accidentally stepped on one the of mine. Loud and flashy my non-existent right but cheek, those things stung! I made a third eye after that and keeping track of the mines became lot easier.
But it seemed as I was a bit to focused on the mines as with a boom on my left and a cold chill on my right my two 'rivals' passed me.
Scheisse.
I stepped up my pacing a bit, but it didn't seem like enough, as a few other students began to pass me. Things weren't looking great-
*BOOOOOM!*
"Ow! What the crap!" I yelled in shock and pain at the earth rattling noise.
I looked up to see a dark green blur followed by a tail of pink smoke. Oh frick the heck yes!
"GO MIDORYA!" I cheered for my green amigo.
"Move!" someone yelled behind me.
"Right sorry!" I yelled back an apology, before getting a move on.
As I stared ahead to see Midoriya knock Bakugou and Todoroki on their butts before running into the hallway i could help but notice something off. It was barely noticeable in the sunlight but in the darkness of the hall I saw it.
Midoriya form had a faint glow to it.
I laughed a little. The little mad genius, I wish I'd thought of that.
The race was over, the places were announced and many left and area to go back to the stands in sadness. I however was sitting comfortably at fourteenth place.
"Now onto the second event!" Midnight addressed the remaining students, "I already know what it is of course… Dying in suspense? Next up is..." she trailed off, causing the remaining forty-two to tense in anticipation once more.
"A cavalry battle!" she declared before quickly moving onwards to explain the rules.
I stood by and absorbed as much info as I could. Cavalry battles weren't even remotely a thing back in Canada, so this was all kinda weird for me. But then again compared to all the other weird crap japan and produced, this was rather tame in comparison. As the point were announced and Midoriya was saddled with the responsibility of ten million points, I could help but look at him in pity. I could almost feel the regret coming from him.
It didn't take long after that for the explanation to end and everyone immediately went to picking teams. I however just sat back and waited. I was never the best when it came to picking teammates for stuff like this, always became too much of a nervous wreck. Still with my performance during the race someone should at least be willing to grab me for there team.
"Hey Kayama." a familiar dead tone came from behind me.
Speak of the devil.
"Oh, hey Shinso."
Rino: I HAVE RETURNED! This took to damn long... *shakes fist in anger* Damn you collage assignments! Anyways the next chapter should hopefully be out sometime next month. Hopefully.
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See you around!