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Lapis Lazuli

Chapter 2:

Intuition

Now that I looked, half of the seats on the right are all occupied by the twelve members of the Special Operations Squad, sticking out due to their casual clothing amongst the sea of colours. With dad sitting right at the front beside a few other big-shots from the police force. A couple of the heroes looked on curiously, albeit warily. In the back of my mind, I wondered what in the world did they tell them about me to warrant this reaction. Then I spotted the files in their hands. Oh.

All Might was about to say something to welcome me, probably since this is his office, with his ever-present smile when dad beat him to it with a calm and dangerous tone.

"I've sent Yamamoto to fetch you two hours ago once school is out, you should have been here an hour before at the latest. Explain." His gaze is daring me to lie while All Might's smile gained an awkward edge to it, opting to keep quiet for the meantime alongside the rest of the meeting room.

Good ol' dad. Can never hide anything with him around. I shrugged lightly, downplaying the incident. "Got caught up in something."

He studied me a few hard seconds before beckoning me over. My eyes dart upwards a split moment in a 'here-we-go' fashion and tentatively walked over to stand at his side. Up close, All Might is still towering over me even though he is sitting down. Reaching over with a scarred and callous-filled hand, dad pinched my white long-sleeved sailor uniform between two fingers, eyes honed in sharply at the small tear I hadn't noticed before. 'Shoot.' Was hoping he wouldn't have to find out until later when we're back home. Then again, I wouldn't want mom to know about this at all.

"Why do you have a knife slash." At his words, the entire room tensed, some of them frowning in worry as they shot glances at my arm.

I swallowed a little and replied. "They have upgraded."

He stared at me and I stared right back, eventually, he lets go of my sleeve. "We will talk about this later."

Translation: A nagging session and people getting sent to juvie.

"Your seat is there." He gestured near towards the far end of the table, beside the final member of the Special Operations squad. Kobayashi Daisuke, the new recruit, raises his hand to get my attention and I hurry over to sit beside him.

Clearing his throat lightly, All Might resumes his warm welcome. "It is all very last minute, but thank you for your participation today. It is great to have you."

I nod back. "It is an honour to be here."

With that, the second-in-command of the Special forces, Hamasaki Hiroto, turn to me to begin. "As per protocol, we will begin our questioning first to prevent prior information influence. We will then fill you in later on if necessary. What do you think occured?"

The heroes seemed a little taken aback, to do something in complete reverse of what is the norm. However, this is also to partly showcase the authenticity of the information I am providing, since it is technically, based on a mere intuition. I pondered for a few seconds, before deciding to follow a certain gut feeling to roll with.

"Someone, or rather a pro hero was killed in line of duty." I stated bluntly. That got various facial expressions of conflicted emotions. I continued, "In order to buy time for his teammates to escape and report the situation, he stayed behind to hold off the threat. It was a four man team, only one made it back out."

"Anyone else?"

Brows furrowing in concentration, I dug up the phantom traces and plow on. "Two groups, policemen and pro heroes went in. Signals and connection was lost not long later and all was declared MIA within the next two days." Pausing for a bit, I added. "More than half was retrieved, but the rest weren't so lucky."

"What's their current status?" Endeavour queried sharply upon the new tidbit of information.

"KIA." I said unwaveringly.

Quite a number of people look away or close their eyes in silent condolences, teeth gritted.

"Location?" Hamasaki resumed his questioning without batting an eyelash.

At this, I halt for a second, eyes darting left and right as if gazing upon an intangible image. "... A forest, there are mountains and large water bodies, underground caves, seems like a nature reserve of sorts."

The image of snapping, salivating jaws appeared in my mind's eye. Then, a place much too dark to see, something is moving within the inky black, crawling, coiling. "A pack of wolves and... centipedes are involved."

"Centipedes?" I heard someone murmur.

A flash of reddish-pink from the darkness took shape, resurfacing from the depths of my memory. I quickly tacked on. "There's also a pink... pink—"

"A pink panther?" Came a hopeful voice from the police side.

I blinked at him, noting the trench coat he is wearing, an inspector. "Erm, no. Pink lily— no, lilies, a whole plantation of them."

"Oh." The inspector slumps back into his seat, looking oddly disappointed.

This was all in the odd dream I had two days prior. I had a sinking feeling it was happening somewhere else, but it hadn't made much sense then and the dreams also tend to fade away as soon as I woke up, only coming back when something triggers it. Now, looking at their expressions, it would seem I had captured their attention.

"Pink lily?" Hamasaki prods, the questions helping the memories to come back swiftly.

"It grows in underground caves, where the centipedes live." I answered knowingly.

"Any attributes of note worthy mention?"

"The wolves communicate via telepathy, two of them are different from the rest of the pack. One is the leader, it is highly intelligent and able to strategise. Had a really fluffy tail, light coloured fur coat and the largest of the lot. The other is a watchdog, it can fly." I heard a small curse from somewhere, before I frowned, remembering an odd detail about that particular wolf. "Its always lying on its back and seems to have a special bond with the leader. For some reason, no one could see it even if it is right in front of them. It is only able to move its head and not the rest of its body. I think someone broke its spine."

"Why?" Hamasaki queried.

I looked up at him. "So it would have no choice but to use its Quirk to survive."

"What is its Quirk?"

"... Astral projection of sorts. Which would explain why no one could see it, since it technically isn't there."

Displeased pursing of lips could be seen here and there. Hamasaki continued. "Are they being manipulated?"

"Unclear, I know they are guarding their territories though." I answered, picking up on the feeling of protectiveness of their lands being invaded by us humans.

"The centipedes?"

"Smallest ones are about the size of an elephant's trunk, as for the average ones, their length is about the average height of the trees growing in the reserve. The biggest one looms over the forest." A few heroes recline back into their seats with a small shake of their head.

"Do you know what's causing these anomalies?"

"The lilies. They emit an odd mist and once exposed to it for too long, causes changes in the habitants living within the area."

"Anything you would like to add?"

I pondered for a bit before shaking my head. "Not currently."

Hamasaki turns to face his superior, and nods. "I am done with our questioning."

Dad leans forward with his hands steepled together. "Then we will proceed to debrief you the summary of this case."

Name: Tsukuda Rumi

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Attributes: Chin-length black hair and sapphire blue eyes.

Quirk: Hyper Intuition

Author's note:

To be completely honest, I had this weird dream and just had to write it down. The experience is real trippy.

~kirakira_bluemoon