The Summer Camp begins with the canon game to roam around the forest and find the lodge. However Izuku quickly find two class 1-B students that deviate a little their course, just to find a giant three-headed Hellhound, which share the gigantism of Cerberus, the brutal force and magic powers from Berserk, and the capability to summon smaller but fast Hellhounds capable to curse humans similar to the Witcher 3 Hellhounds.
The whole thing was a decoy, until Valentine Brothers and Skull Knight sieges the entire area, including a small nearby town, before launching a full assault.
Hanamigahara Forest Park, Gunma
The early morning bus ride on Gunma prefecture's countryside was going without great issues apart of the typical traffic jams around Great Tokyo main roads. Quickly the highways and pollution gives away to the mountainous roads, dense forests and small villages.
During the whole trip, about half of students of Hero Course was either sleeping or chatting to the opposite seat mate. The famous vampire was dreaming, since he barely sleep at all, and was a little malaise. At right side of him, it was the vines quirk user Ibara Shiozaki, who was constantly target the menacing vampire with her left eye, partially opened.
For most classmates from 1-A and 1-B, it was a very deceiving couple at first sight. Both had greenish hair, but one was a terrible monster and the other was a frightened human.
Finally at noon, somewhere on the outskirts of Numata, on Gunma Prefecture, all half-sleepy students on the bus was awaken suddenly when Aizawa yells:
"Everyone listen to me!", while tries to not yawn too, "We almost arrive to destination", while points to the peaks of two mountains, Akagi and Sukai, "And to make the things really harder ...", and slaps against the bus door, "Both of you should find the correct path to the lodge house, otherwise you don't have lunch!..."
Izuku yawns comically with his fangs fully extended, while barely open his reddish eyes, instead the normal green ones when he was relaxed. Midoriya was a little confused with the sudden flow of visual information, seeing the ki flow and auras emanated by humans.
"Midoriya...", Aizawa was annoyed, "Wake up !…", making an unpleasant hissing make the young vampire to jump from the seat violently, and latch with their claws on windows handles, made by rubber.
"What ?!...", Izuku finally recovers his humanized form once fully recovers his senses, "Aizawa-sensei! Please don't make such fuss!"
"I expected you to awake more smoothly… And please don't use the Witcher Senses so lightly...", making everyone thinking about such peculiar thing.
To avoid more distracting plethoras, the teaches orders to all students to swiftly go out of the bus. On exited to the parking area, some of students stretches out outside, specially the infamous vampire.
Others quickly complains the huge forest landscape, and the nearly absence of villages.
"Very well...", Blood King intervenes, "Welcome to Hanamigahara Forest Park!... More precisely, the vicinity of this great place...", making some of them sighing or complain ever more, "Your mission is to find the correct path along the forest, and discovery our secret basement!", prompting the teachers to resume in order to avoid more problems or excuses, "And since this is an official training field, I and Erase Head will give authorization to use our quirks, as long don't damage the forest...", which makes sense as everyone brings their costumes.
Aizawa intervenes, "And to made an additional remark", as displays a mad face with his fangs dropped while talks like an unmotivated salaried men, "I recommend to Geralt z Rivii, the Elemental Witcher of Doomsday, also know by the alternative alias by Dark Schneider, the Vryko-Warlock of Chaos Destruction Overlord to restrain his supernatural powers use and do not use black magic spells at normal circumstances… Thank you...", and ends with a wide opened yawn before snaps as he couldn't find their favorite yellow bag, since he never bring with him at first.
"This is a real Hero Name ?!", someone from 1-B class was bewildered.
"What kind of horrible costume was that ?", said another one from the same class, "It resembles a video-game character from some weird fantasy game...", as he complains about Izuku's dressed costume that was a tweaked version of Geralt's character one.
Izuku just sigh dead-panned when ear all conversations, "It's so bad that I can't cast hexes ..."
Aizawa replies a little angry, "Midoriya… Don't play with witchcraft!..", and the green haired vampire shut up for good.
"Let's go!", Blood King orders to begin the field exercise, before the students divert to other things, "Stand on line about a meter off the bus facing the fence and then wait to my signal!...".
Blood King counts up three, and swings his left arm to signal the beginning of the race, and then all 40 students runs over the parking zone and dwells around the trees, it won't make than a minute to the teachers lost direct sigh of them. The compact vegetation, and the tricky environment was perfect to hide.
The Hellhound
In reality the forest boundary was covered by a system of security cameras, and electronic traps, intended to alert the presence of outside intruders. Some security cameras are also inside the zone, since it was useful to verify if a quirked student don't fool the rules.
Ignoring for a while all mundane problems, Izuku runs at full speed (meaning over 100 km/h) around the forest about two minutes, like some ninja character running and jumping across breaches, before the strain causes him to slow down. When he finishes to jump around the forest patches, it automatically use the Witcher Senses, while charges the Yrden and Aard signs to prevent badly surprises from some troublemakers that could appear from nowhere.
"The very first step is to find my position...", mumbles Izuku when climb fast a large pine tree, and scans over the cleared view, the potential site of the targeted lodge.
After some seconds, Izuku quickly learns that he was a little far from the route, but notices some unnatural movement at the boundaries of the forest park, much due to the aura signature that vampires senses at certain circumstances. And vampires with magic knowledge mad a much higher sensibility to such things.
The greenette vampire quickly jumps to the ground, and goes forward around the forest again. And about twenty minutes of a good pacing, Izuku smells blood from a certain spot.
"Someone's hurt...", said izuku, while trying to not drive his hunting instincts, specially when he remembers the first time he bite a human.
"Awkward times...", he rubs his freckled cheeks and eyes, trying to not bite the presumably wounded student, "I should have five or six when such thing happen..."
Due to Izuku been a vampire, his mother was very protective to his son, and she don't wanted to wander outside until an certain age. And since all humans should go to school before six years old, Inko knew that his son should learn to socialize with humans, at least a minimal level.
When Izuku was on eve to go to elementary school, he was with her mother shopping at late evening, in order to ensure that the sun won't burn the skin, since vampires has low tolerance on sun, and take some time to adapt.
The problem happens when some quirked ruffian decide to attack Inko, and due to panic and havoc, the little Izuku scream, and bite the aggressor almost in panic, spilling blood all over the place.
About a minute later, the police arrive to handle the case, and was the beginning of another problem, that was attack of a vampire against a human. Fortunately, all legal problems settle quickly.
Once Izuku though that reaches the potential site, he barely hold from screaming aloud when witness a strange three-headed beast, that resemble an oversize wolf, as height as an African elephant. Even his body had a greyish fur, it had an huge spiky patch along the back.
Their legs ends with massive claws retracting from their paws. To make the things worse, the creature had a heavy mace on tail, and strange lightning shaped eyes and menacing fangs for each head. The sudden appearance of such monstrosity causes Izuku back flips once jump from a tree, and slides to the middle of a trench.
When the strange creature notices the presence of the vampire, both heads growls and split corrosive saliva that burns the ground, hot enough to catch fire.
"What the hell is this thing ?!", Izuku quickly notice from his magic abilities that such living creature shouldn't exist naturally.
Izuku quickly notices that the blood smell trail don't fit to the monster location, instead it come from two boys, probably from 1-B class, that appears to be severally wounded from the creature.
One of them appear to use his air based quirk to make a fragile shield that was quickly break apart by the massive tail swing, or when the creature gives a brave kick in such a way that the quirked barrier is broken apart and rips the boys' flesh in the same act.
The another boy appears to be capable to spin at higher speeds, but was useless when the creature strikes down with other powerful chop kick.
"It could kill them! ...", mumbles Izuku before he slides back when face the massive black aura emanating from the beast, "Damn it… That strange wolf-like aberration had magic emission, this is not a thing that normal or quirked humans should face at all!"
The green haired vampire never experience such magic vitality clash, except the wonderful mission on North Korea base, but unlike a vampire, this magic creature is not sentient, and such scenario means big troubles.
Instead to face off the creature, Izuku slides to catch the boys, asking, "I'm Izuku Midoriya, you are alright ?"
"Please!… Don't kill us!", the air-based quirk user, called Kosei Tsuburaba, was also too freighted to the close presence of the vampire.
"Honestly...", the vampire glares, "I expect a more defiant person, especially when both of you wanted to take the bull by the horns, and not complaining… "
"Leave me… We are plenty fine... I don't want...", and other boy, Sen Kaibara, neither wanted to be rescued by a vampire.
The vampire ignore the pleas, and he just grab them, one of each tightly close arm, before trying to jump from the danger before the unnatural creature strike back again.
"Refusing help are out of question!", said the vampire apologetic, while quickly scan the blood drip and wounds from the students, "Both of you, since you face that creature ?".
None of students dare to reply back, making Izuku a little angry seeing such childish prideful behaviour.
The vampire knew that his top priority is to flee the zone, and avoid to confront the creature, but when he tries to run away and find a more safe place, the monster swiftly react, and split a venomous mucus that burn and catch fire, followed by a sudden leg stroke with their huge claws opened. The combined swing effect tears apart several trees, and spread the venomous mucus at greater angular range.
The huge wind gust was also enough to Izuku lose balance and falls down, dropping the boys to the ground. He was caught off-guard and ends wounded too, and his body serves as an unintentional shield to avoid more damage to the boys.
"It appears that the beast will hold some instants...", Izuku remarks, slightly burned from the acidic saliva, "And both of you, what's happened to face that..."
Sen Kaibara interrupts, without hiding a sense of shame and defeat, "Me and my friend was running around to find a clearance, that… could serve to orientate and find the… lodge...", and after a pause said, "Until we find that aberration that defeat us in a blink of an eye..."
"Later...", Kosei Tsuburaba intervenes, "I use my quirk to defend, but it was totally useless… A single leg stroke almost rips us apart!..."
Suddenly the creature strike again at greater force than before, leaving Izuku to cast the Quen Active Shield to protect not only the wounded behind him, and itself.
The barrier don't hold totally, and the three boys flown apart against the nearest tree that was destroyed by the same creature's attack.
Aizawa, this is an emergency!
"Very well!… I don't think that Yuuei would release such creature on wild!...", said defiant with the absurd situation and dial to Aizawa using his smartphone, "Aizawa-sensei, Midoriya calling… This is an emergency!..."
The older vampire was genuinely curious when the infamous student dial to him, "Aizawa here… Midoriya, what's the problem ?", when he also hear a sudden slash from the smartphone.
"If you ear correctly, currently I had two injured 1-B class students, and a creature that resemble a demonic wolf!… Capable to tear apart trees and rocks too...".
"WTF ?! Can you detail carefully ?!", Aizawa expects that some of guests Pro Heroes would make some pranks, like the Pixie-Bob ability to manipulate dirt and molding large but inoffensive golems, "They are not made from stone or dirt ?"
Izuku waits a little before resumes, since he notice that his teacher was not taking seriously, "Never mind… We faced a thing that resembles a living creature, and I notice and confirmed that normal quirks don't work against it... To makes the things worse, both of three heads split saliva capable to catch fire, and releases an ominous black aura emanation… It appears that...", Izuku was caught off-guard again at the same instant when the creature breath black-reddish flames against him and other students, incinerating the whole site. The vampire still manages to cast magic barriers at time, but his not fully concentrated and the fire heat would burn them easily.
Izuku holds silent several seconds while tries to avoid been burned alive, until notices that the ring of fire also act as a medium to summon more magic creatures, albeit with smaller size.
Aizawa almost panics when wear panic and silence, "This is not good, why… Midoriya!..."
Then Izuku talks back while tries to cast again the Quen Shield again to hold the flames, "Forget it… He magically summon more creatures!… Unlike the dinosaur-sized three headed monster, now both of us faced a pack of wolf-sized pitch-black burning wolves!… Don't mean that creature was recorded from Sakura-sensei books!"
"Burning Wolves ?!… Summon Magic ?!...", Aizawa freezes with horror even it was a supernatural vampire but he never expect such scenario...
" The whole thing… That monster is an Hellhound!", the vampire remembers with a sudden flashback when once read some old book, "And it's an abnormal type with three heads… When I read a book about western folklore, from it said and carefully analyse such beast, it actually resembles the Cerberus, the guardian of the Gates of Hell itself."
"An hellhound ?!", Aizawa screams, "How it's possible to a mythological creature from Hell appear here ?!"
Izuku quickly notice that the smaller hound monsters was also dangerous. They not only form a considerable pack size, but many of them are very fast, and dodge quickly.
The boys also used their quirks to fight against the demon wolves, and their usefulness are very dim, since the boy with a solid air barrier quirk fails to catch a single foe, and the driller quirked boy wasn't effective either, as the demon just plays and dodge safely any close ranged attack.
One of those smaller hellhounds, and also the swiftly one breaks the weakened vampire's magic barrier, jumps over Izuku and bite the right Kosei's arm, screaming in pain.
"Nuts!… That bastard… It inflict a hex!…", said Izuku.
"A what… ?", said Sen, "Kosei, what's happened ?!"
Kosei screams with pain, quickly evolving to strong convulsions and white eyes.
"Quirked villains is one thing… but a whole swarm of supernatural and magic blessed creatures are too much for a human to handle… Damn it!", Izuku grits his teethes, felling some impotence.
Quickly Izuku pick up their smartphone, and pledge to Aizawa, "One student was bitten and cursed! If I don't use all magic powers, both will die!… With such emergency, I request permission to use Dark Schneider's magic..."
"Wait!… Please use the Geralt's magic first… And try to not use higher spells unless the things goes awry!"
"If you want to do so… Then I will use ritual seals to enhance the Witcher Signs ...", but he knew that without magic swords their usefulness are very limited, and should be a little creative.
"I really sorry for those two watching this… But I need to overcharge my Signs...", spoke Izuku when prepare his mind and body to make a blood ritual spell, "Ancient souls lying on my bloodlines! I request your Ritual Pact!… Enlightenment Executors of Tyrants!... Lean my Ancient Seal to Summon your cursed Oracle!... Vetiti Autem Sanguis Sigillum!... Excieo!...", that makes his blood as potion, "FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE!"
Quickly Izuku casts the Somne Sign to slow the cursing hex that was killing the 1-B class student.
"What kind of hocus-pocus was that ?!", asks Sen, visibly horrified.
"Don't distract me… I apply a Witch Sign Spell to gain time, before the magic poison kill your friend!...".
Izuku knew that fighting Hellhounds with some Signs, specially the Axii, would be useless. This means that cast hexes against the demons would be waste of time, and he need to try the mutant sign that cause an uproar on Final Semester Exam.
Without waste more precious seconds, in such dire situation, Izuku cast the mutant Aard Piercing Cold spell against three hellhounds that was attacking the group, they froze quickly, giving a rush motivation to attack another ones.
The sudden turn of events was quickly acknowledge by the main Hellbound, that releases more dark magic energy to the remaining monsters. Izuku defiant face turns into a shocked one, when notices that the next waves of demonic wolves survive the telekinetic freezing spell, while some of them was capable strike back madly. The main one passes untouched, since he deflect all quirk and such magic attack with a barrier from the beginning.
And after five or six waves, some smaller hellhound manage to break the vampire magic defence, and rips the flesh.
"Damn it!… It hurts!", screams Izuku in agony, exacerbated by the drawbacks of their own potion poisoning, "That bastards!..."
Once he thought that the pain fades enough, then the vampire turn his head to check if the two are relatively safe, but he notice that three or four hellhounds attack both of them, and couldn't do more unless scream.
"That demons!… Since this aren't enough, let's try this", and this time he uses a ritual alchemical spell that enhances the stamina and vitality regeneration, that also serve as mutagens to the Witcher Signs, "Old fairy tales of swiftly creatures of night!… Under your Bronze Sanctuary to honor fallen Heroes of War… I never sleep until your Pact of Swords aren't Aced… May your Will of Iron been my Valentine's Massacre, and Overkill my Enemies!", when Izuku finishes the main incantation stage, with raised arms, cross his arms like he was slashing his own flesh, "Daemonibus inita dimittere maledictus a defuncti!… Excieo!...", and finally crafts a wicked regenerative potion, once absorbed on his body, enhances the hit rate and kill spree, without forgetting to yell the spells name, "MOTORHEAD!"
The Motorhead ritual spell acts like a magical methamphetamine, making the caster body reacting like he had an overdose of drugs, which is in reality a poisoning side-effect. That dangerous alchemical potion accelerate the physical reaction and deathly precision hit more than ten-fold.
However such spell are not useful without an adequate mage costume, or magic crafted swords that could seal the contracts with the magic poisoned blood. Motorhead acts as the foundation of the Adrenaline Rush skill, and combined with the Fleshgod Apocalypse with also unlocks the Bloodbath skill. Such magic and tactic skills enables to increase the Signs hit rates at expense of his natural defences. If Izuku are physically hurt by enemy with those skills activated, their recoil and damage are much greater than normal. Acquainting with those drawbacks, the green haired vampire jump straight against the giant Hellhound, without forgetting the minions along the path.
Along their youth lives, neither Kosei Tsuburaba or Sen Kaibara expected to witness the beyond-the-rational phenomena that was a vampire with a glowing red haze, and a inconsiderable bloodthirsty. In a blink of eye, Izuku disappears from sigh, and three minor demons was slashed with bare hands, when casts the Aard Sweep, while his body regenerates quickly.
Finally the giant beast unleash their real magic powers, releasing a pillar of fire that almost hit the quirked boys, and Izuku was unable to make any damage against the main monster. To make the things even worse, the minor demon wolves appears to encircle the vampire and the humans, like as been commanded by the major one.
"What… a… monster!...", said the drilling quirk user, before faint as the curse was dominating their body at alarming speed.
"Sen… Kosei!… There's no hope unless I use Dark Schneider's magic!… But I need first to...".
Activating the ritual spells was largely unsuccessful against the Hellhound, still it could be useful to Izuku cast quickly that secret healing spell that his Magic Teacher teach him before the hexes kill the students. She once said that such healing spell was recovered and adapted from an ancient palimpsest, and could be cast if Izuku combine correctly the Signs and Ritual Mutagens, turning them as the necessary ingredients to cast advanced White Magic. For a vampire, the main problem is the enormous vitality cost and crafting time to a Black Magic Mage cast a polar opposite spell, "Even it could make unusable to cast more magic until next day, that's a question of life or death!..."
To fix the timing problem Izuku quickly engenders a way to deceive the Hellhound, "To gain the necessary time, I need some kind of spell to decoy the beast!...", said the vampire when remembers and quickly casts the decay gas spell that may don't cause much damage to the smaller creatures, and probably it was ineffective to the main one, but still it causes the necessary havoc, "Cyco, Cyco, know your worth!… I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", and finally the vampire releases the spell, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
The vampire holds firm, and opens their arms for some long seconds, releasing a chaotic black cloud that rots and burns everything with black flames. The minor Hellhounds growls with agony, making a wrecking havoc that breaks the enemy siege against the wounded students, giving the precious time needed.
It was highly risking to a Black Mage cast Advanced Healing Magic, but Izuku need to make such sacrifice to heal the boys, before the poisonous hexes kills them, "My Merciful Healing God, I pledge your Wisdom and display the Holy Path...", the vampire fells agonized when pushes White Vitality during the incantation prelude, and Izuku manages to craft from point of view, a giant magic hand that encircles the target, layered by a stack of magic circles, "May your Healing Hand Mercifully Cure the Human Wound: Blood to Blood, Flesh to Flesh, Bone to Bone!", and once activated it squeezes the boys, but heals and breaks the hexes instead, "SILVER MOUNTAIN!"
The healing spell works, but discharges all active Witcher Signs making vulnerable for a while. He lost all alchemical ritual potions proprieties to pay the magic cast, however without erasing the poisonous side-effects that can take some hours to fade. Izuku still had some remaining magic energy of the kinds not used earlier to cast other kind of magic, but the main problem was the instability, and the alternatives aren't good either.
"Now I only have energy enough for two or three magic spells… I hope this works!"
The main Hellhound was furious with such tricks delivered by the green haired vampire, and decide to focus against him. The monster take a long breath, and releases a blazing inferno that almost caught Izuku and other students. The partially exposed tree roots gives entrance to a fragile shelter, but the trees was obliterated in a blink of an eye. When Izuku faces another ring of fire unleashes by the enemy, he delivers a smirk, since he could make the same…
"If you want to siege against me, I will redistribute back your favour...", and makes a greater wall of fire that counter-blocks and encircles all foes, "Tia... Tio... Rain... Hellish Rainfall of Fire!... GUNS'N-ROSES!"
"Why each so-called magic spell has named from Death Metal bands ?!", the boy with air-shield quirk connect the dots, and makes such awkward sentence, but nothing unexpected by Izuku's view.
Ignored the astonished faces from rescued boys, Izuku step forward and delivers another fire spell that hopes that would destroy the aberrations for good.
"Brain... Brain… Dead!...", Izuku's eyes flashes red and conjure an increasing size and speedy twist of fire, "Obey your blood oath and come forth from the Land of Abaddon!…", forming a blazing inferno, shielded by circle of hellish fire, delivered straight from Hell, "Liberate the Gehenna's Fire that incinerate at all it touches!", while increasing the temperature to several thousand degrees, "Give the Evil Blaze of Burning to destroy and burn everything at will!", and finally compresses the hellish fire against the target, "EXODUS!"
The massive unnatural heat cause an havoc due to the explosion, burning every Hellhounds until left nothing, but the real target appears to resist for a while.
Izuku holds the magic spell several seconds, until notice that the fur and spikes of the monstrous beast starts to crack and burn, while notice that some invisible magic shield cracks and explodes in sequence.
Surprisingly, the main Hellhound manage to survive the 100 thousand Kelvin fire, enough to break down their bizarre magic barrier , and suffer some physical damage.
"That absolute aberration!… He had magic barriers!… I doubt that a real Hellhound could made enchantment on their own body, to increase their defence!..."
"That's insane! Even Endeavour couldn't make such thing!", Sen spokes astonished with the massive fire.
"Unbelievable!... The demon wolf… survived!...", Kosei shakes their left hand.
Izuku's remaining vitality was lost, or he thought, "This beast will recover quickly… And I need to focus...", and meditates to find some capable kind of magic to be cast.
The boys notices a sudden freezing aura around the vampire, that was noticed by him.
"If fire don't work… Let's freeze instead… Using the most powerful one, with the courtesy of Dark Schneider!…", as he laughs defiantly and displays the same wicked aura of the cited ancestor.
"This vampire… is not normal!...", some boy makes the same remark when witness their magic powers on the Yuuei Sports Festival.
"Lors!… Healy!… Grey!... Scole!... Billy!… May your Soul purify me!...", Izuku create a magic magnetic field that traps the burned Hellhound itself, "Hell King! In this powerful gathering of sovereign beings, I will bear the destructive ice storms!", and finally Izuku releases the ice magic energy against the trapped target, "Let a new link unite me to the forces of snow and ice!", that freezes at atomic level, "Absolute Zero Annihilation!... TESTAMENT!"
Once the supreme ice spell hits the abnormal Hellhound, it freezes instantly to Absolute Zero Kelvin, and due to the massive thermal gradient and explosive magnetic compression the Hellhound explodes, releasing a catastrophic blast that wipe out everything around 100 meters.
An entire patch of forest was burned and frozen at the same time, but the supernatural enemy was finally defeated.
Izuku almost faints due to exhaustion, but he had luck, as the two boys decides to grab him side-by-side and walk trough the lodge, that was about three kilometres away.
Other groups already arrived, taking in average four hours to find the place, but Izuku's group needs seven long hours, due to the insane fighting against the Hellhound, and the slow pace due to their wounds.
Aizawa was terrible upset the whole incident and trying to convince, by their own security protocols, that the whole summer camp was compromised, just to receive a terrible bad news from Blood King:
"Unfortunately, is not possible to cancel everything and going back. The entire surrounding area suffer a black-out, and we are the only ones to stay on standby... Instead, they need to rest... And train harder to defend itselfes! "
"What on Earth ?!", Erased Head was astonished.
This is clearly a very cleared scheme beyond any quirked villainy, and who could scheme such thing was only positioning their pawns at the eve of the real attack.
To Be Continued...