"Mom! I really gotta go now!" Giggled a bright eyed young man. His emerald orbs dancing with the mirth of his emotions. His mother had spent the last month fussing over his yellow bag, checking and rechecking that her son had everything he could need on his journey, even a few things he wouldn't.

"I know Izuku, but as your mom I am just so worried!" Cooed Inko, her hands now fussing with his hair, trying to smooth those dark green curls of his. She loved him so very much and she was trying to show him that as he left her for an unknown amount of time. "Please make sure you send me a letter at every village, ok? And stay on the roads, you never know what could be in the woods or even those over grown fields and-"

"Mom! I got it! We've spent the last 3 months going over safety and herbs!" Laughed the greenette again. His bigger hands gently removing her smaller ones from his curls. He offered her a loving smile and held her hands. "I will write and I will be careful ok? Just make sure you ask Mirio or Tsu if you need any help! They both offered!"

"Izuku…" Inko's own green eyes began to fill with tears as she pulled her hands from her son's. Her heart wasn't breaking but it began to feel really heavy. She'd lost his father, her husband, to travel and wasn't sure if the man was alive or not and now her own son felt the need to travel. She wouldn't stop him but she still couldn't help but feel abandoned by him, but she'd never tell him that.

"Alright mom! I'm off!" Izuku pulled his mother into one last embrace before turning, waving off and heading down the road, opposite of the village. He was set towards the north, the Mountains of Erid. He wanted to see them for himself, he wanted to see the plains and the Kingdom that lay beyond and he wanted to find his own way! He knew if he stayed home he'd never be anything more than a peasant's son or at best a small village's alchemist. He wanted more.

It was still early morning, he'd only traveled at most a mile when he met with his first obstacle. If you wanted to call a gelatinous cube an obstacle. In this world a gelatinous cube was just a bunch of low level slimes stick together, their bodies forming a weird square shape due to the sun melting them and their body make-up.

'How silly.' Thought Izuku as he pulled his bag forward and reaching into its depths. He loved monsters, creatures and the other races of his world and he was most excited that he'd get the chance to see so many of them on his journey, it was honestly one of the biggest things that pushed him into going. After a few seconds he found is prize, a thick leather bound book and a magicked quill, both items he saved for years to get.

"Here we go… ok lets see.." The green-haired male began to creep up to the creature, taking care not to seem offensive or in anyway a threat. Once he'd gotten himself within a few short feet he crouched down, his round bottom mere inches from the ground. He looked the creature over and began to draw a crude but accurate depiction of it's jelly-like body.

"Lets see looks like you are actively dissolving a mouse, a snake and a few larger rocks…" His voice was low but moving out of his mouth at a pretty quick pace. His green eyes lifting often as he drew. After a minute or so the mass moved a bit from him, but not in fear or at a mindless pace, these creatures held a little intelligence but not enough to question motives. It moved simply because it sense Izuku's weird movements.

"I wonder how many of you are in there.. Lets see if I can tell.." Izuku's eyes narrowed as he tried and failed to see any difference between each slime. "Doesn't seem so… but judging from your size I'd bet at least 20 of you melted together over time.. poor little guys!" He wrote what he knew of the creatures quickly, mumbling each fact before shutting his book and replacing it in his ugly yellow-ish bag.

"Thanks big guy! I've never had to chance to see one of you and to think I got to see you so close to my home and on my first day!" He said in a raised excited voice, to no one but himself and the cube, who'd begun to make it's way off the road and into a tree-cover just passed said dirty path. It didn't understand him or really pay him much mind.

Izuku righted his bag and offered the creature one last look, a smile dawning his face before he skip-started down the path again, continuing his journey. He was growing more and more blissful as his first day went on! This journey would be the best thing of his life! He was sure of it!

*Time Skip Brought to you by Health potions and a stamina suppository*

Izuku had made it to the small village of Deriaka, a village who, like many others, focuses on wheat and cattle rearing, but just like his village it did host a small inn and he was able to get a room. Upon entering and asking about vacancy he was pounces by an elderly man, who'd asked him if he'd be willing to do some work in exchange for a room, food and a bath, something that would've cost 4 copper pieces normally, a pretty good deal exchange. Naturally Izuku gladly accepted the offer and started to work right away, after setting his bag down in his free room.

Izuku spent early evening til just past dinner time running around and doing as he was asked. Items from one room moved easily to another, heavy wardrobe moved with his magic to the other side of the room and several large boxes from a store room moved to the kitchens. It was good and hard work, he really felt like he'd earned his freebies and so did the elderly couple, who expressed their happiness with a hot meal rather than a hard loaf of bread and old cheese, as Izuku was expecting.

That night, after his bath and his rewarded meal, Izuku laid in his bed, his mind wandering around to all the places he was going to go, things he would see and which direction he would head towards first. He was just about to do a list of pros and cons when there was a sudden and very loud noise in what he'd later know as town square. It sounded violent and loud.

With wide green eyes and a small startled squeal the greenette shot from his room, down the inn stairs and out onto the street. He wasted no time in running as fast as he could toward the bright fire and smoke. His red boots hitting the ground loudly, least to him, as he breached the street into the city square. He could hear people screaming, the sounds of wood burning, the painful smell of burning flesh and the sour taste of old dark magic, all filling every sense. He did not notice the long and impossibly thick black tail coming at him until it was too late.

His World Went Black.

(A/N Bare with me! Its a slow burn! Please post comments! They fuel me!)