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"All might"

"Jack of Blades"

Chapter 2

Musutafu, Japan

Midoriya Apartment, 4:29 A.M.

It was the early hours of the morning before the sun had even begun to peak over the horizon. Izuku Midoriya was fast asleep in his bed, having been told by his father to get as much rest as he could. Also being given the warning to be up before dawn at 4:30 SHARP! His dad declared it would be his first of many days in Hell. That scared, but also excited the young boy who had rushed off to his bed. But laid awake for what seemed like hours to him before he finally drifted off to sleep.

The moment, the very second, his clock changed to 4:30 A.M. his bedroom door burst open, waking Izuku up from his sleep and screaming as he heard: "Get up you lazy boy! I said early and I meant early! Yet you are still not even dressed!" His father yelled, no doubt waking half of not the whole neighborhood. Before having his sheets ripped off of his bed. "Well, come on! Get dressed and get downstairs pronto!" Shay said before leaving. Taking the sheets with him and leaving the young Midoriya in his All Might pajamas on his now striped bed.

The sudden shock of his father yelling at him for the first time startled Izuku and made his heart feel like it would've burst out of his chest at any moment. "So I wasn't dreaming last night. Dad is training me." Izuku said as he rose from the bed and started to find some clothes. Stopping when he found a light blue tee-shirt as everything else hit him all over again. "MY DAD IS OAK-" Izuku screamed, only for his mother to come in and cover his mouth before he could yell that the Second Ranked Hero was his father.

"Izuku, please keep it down, it's bad enough your father probably woke everyone else up as well," Inko said, her eyes still a little heavy with sleep. "But you shouldn't yell out your dad is Oakvale as well." With that, she removed her hand from his mouth and began helping her son get dressed. Picking some black shorts to wear before they both headed downstairs to see Shay at the sink. On the table were two plates of eggs, toast cut in two, strips of bacon, and some hash. Shay was already washing his plate and the pans he used to cook their breakfast when they got to the table.

"Eat up, today will be a long one. As I'm sure you'll have plenty of questions to ask me." He said it was mostly directed at his son. He knew Inko would also want to talk to him about the training most likely.

So the mother and son sat down and enjoyed the meal Shay made for them. Izuku seemed to vibrate with excitement with every bite he took. Both of them grab a piece of fruit from the bowl at the center of the table to add some variety to their meal. When their meal was finished, and dishes put away at the behest of Inko, Shay clasped his hands. "So, we've all eaten. Time to get to training, Izuku. For the next few days, your mom will also be joining us, until she goes back to work." Shay said, placing a hand on Izuku's shoulder as he gave a nod to Inko.

Inko slowly placed her hand on her husband's, knowing what was to come and always finding it rather off-putting at the feeling she'd get every time. But she said she'd go through with it if she had to, for Izuku's sake. Now with both his parents' hands on his back, Shay reached into his pocket with his free hand, pulling out a disk-like object adorned with the same symbol Izuku remembered from the swords Shay and the man in black used. Around the curved edges of the symbol were four spikes that extended beyond the disk and a large ring held around the disk by the spikes.

As his father held the object in his hand Izuku could hear a high-pitched noise in the air before blue energy circled, above, and below the family. In an instant, they were gone, vanished without a trace from the apartment.

Nagano, Prefecture of Japan

The Beast's Forest, 5:00 A.M.

The same high-pitched noise and swirling energy that once filled the apartment now filled a clearing within the forest, with the Midoriya family appearing as the energy dispersed and the noise subsided. Shay still held his son's shoulder, seeing him become woozy and nearly fall over, while Inko looked no better. Both of them looked ready to puke at the sudden shift in location. It made Shay smile and chuckle, remembering the first time Maze had brought him to the Hero's Guild.

Placing his Guild Seal back into his pocket he placed his hand on Inko's back, focusing his Will energy to steady their stomachs and let them keep their breakfast. "I still hate it when you use that thing," Inko says, giving a heavy sigh as she feels her stomach settle. Izuku still looked pale but slowly regained his composure.

"I know. You get used to it after a while, but it is still easier when you're the one holding the Seal instead of being pulled along with them." Shay said as he gently patted his son's back. "The first time I was a tag along in a teleport I was maybe eight . . . or was it ten?" Even after all this time he still could not remember his age exactly. He was taller than most kids but shorter than the teen Bully on . . . THAT day.

His face soured as he scowled, remembering the flames consuming his village. The bodies of the people he knew filled the streets and the smell of blood thick in the air only grew stronger as he scrambled through the village in search of his family. Only to find his father's corpse was left without any care in front of his home. Hacked like a piece of meat at the butcher to the point he could only recognize the necklace his mother had given his father when they had met around his neck. The silver and gold guild symbol set over a gem of shifting colors now coated in his father's blood.

"That's the past, Shay. Focus on the now. You have a family of your own." He thought, looking towards Inko and Izuku. Feeling his heart soar with the love he felt for them both. Clearing his mind of that day, thinking back to the days of training in the Guild. Seeing his son's breathing return to normal and stand up straight. "Now, Izuku," Shay said, getting his son's attention as he removed his hand from his back. "Follow me." With that Shay led them both over to three straw dummies with five feet between each of them. "If you are going to be a Hero, then you will need to learn how to fight. No matter what you use."

At that Izuku looked up to his father in excitement, "So first: I want to teach you to throw a punch." Shay said, walking over to one of the dummies. Standing before it now he balled his fist and threw a punch, sending the dummy spinning till its back was to him. "Now you, son." He said, gesturing for Izuku to stand at the dummy next to him.

Inko gave a worried look as she watched her son run up to his father and gave a heavy sigh. Thinking back to the talk she and Shay had before going to bed.

It was just after Izuku rushed off to bed, hugging both of his parents and saying 'Goodnight!'. Leaving the two of them alone in the room.

Shay gave a heavy sigh as he recast his illusion to look normal once again as his body shrunk and the ethereal glow of his blood was hidden from all. As he did he heard Inko walk closer behind him, so he turned to look at his wife. Seeing some anger in her eyes. "I know what you are going to say. But I can not let him go thinking he has no powers."

"Why not! For all you know, he doesn't have your 'Will'! What will happen if he doesn't show any signs?! This isn't the same world you came from!" Inko said, trying to keep her voice down to let their son sleep and not wake the neighbors.

"I KNOW he does. I can feel it in him." Shay said, giving another heavier sigh. Before placing his hands gently on her shoulders as he looked Inko into her eyes. "He needs to learn these things. He WANTS to be a Hero. So I will give him my training and ensure he is ready for anything." He said, as clearly and serene as he always did. "If my blood did get passed onto him then he NEEDS to learn to control it as well. Otherwise, it would be a risk to everyone, even himself."

"I know!" Inko replied, "It's just . . . I don't want our baby to get hurt! I don't want to crush his dreams!" She then moved into his chest for a hug that Shay returned, tears starting to pour from her eyes and soaking Shay's shirt. "I just don't know what to do!"

Shay listened and patted Inko's hair gently as he held her. "I know. All I ask is that you trust me. As you have before." Shay said, slowly pulling back to look into her green eyes and she looked up into his brown eyes.

Though she could see what others could not after being with Shay for so long, the faint glow of his will energy in his irises. A side effect of keeping the illusion to look normal to all other people around him. It was months before she first noticed the shifting blue that would appear and vanish every few minutes, but it added that he held power within him. "I . . . I do, Shay. I'm just so worried." Inko replied, pulling back into the hug. Pressing her face against his chest as she did. "Now he knows you are a Hero. But he doesn't know everything. No one does."

"No, only you. Because I trust you. Both of you." Shay replied, tightening his hug around her slightly. "You two are the most important things I have anywhere. The one shred of joy I have left in my life. I love you with all my heart." Shay slowly removed one hand and held it out to the side. Showing his true form as Inko looked up at him once more. "In Albion, I was only loved for my POWER and the FAME I earned. Not who I was. This world is no different in that regard. With Heroes that are obsessed with money, fame, being adored."

His eyes moved to his hand as he summoned fire in his palm, then Lightning, then Ice. "I never cared for any of that. I wanted Vengeance. To make the people who destroyed my life pay," Oakvale said, extinguishing his spell as his eyes shifted to a deep red before they faded. "and when I did . . . there was nothing. Nothing left to push me to keep being a hero. When I crossed blades with him and found us both sent here I had little I wanted to do to be a part of this strange world." His gaze then moved his hand to Inko's. Gently intertwining his fingers with hers as he just held her close to him. "Until I meet you. The one person who saw me as a man, not a Hero. The one person I grew to love."

His true form faded once more and was replaced by the illusion before Shay leaned forward and kissed Inko's forehead and her blush at his words. "I know he has the Bloodline. If anyone else learns of it, then they will come for him. Even if he doesn't show it now I know it will appear sooner or later. So please, let me train him."

Inko was silent for a time, mulling over Shay's words. Before she sighed. "How bad will the training be? And how much will you tell him?" She asked at last.

"I will tell him everything he wants to know, but not all at once. Same of the training. There is still time in his life to be an innocent boy." Shay replied, "Let him enjoy his youth."

"Alright, but I want to go with you both to make sure you aren't too rough with him," Inko said, adamant that there would be no budging on this. "I may not like the thought of Izuku being put through so much danger. But seeing him smile so much when we played rescue, or when I would play videos of All Might, or even you." The memories of seeing the young boy vibrating in his seat with stars in his eyes, and the largest smile she'd ever seen on a child always made her heart melt. "So I will try not to interfere . . . unless you too go overboard on his training."

"I'd expect nothing less," Shay said and kissed Inko's lips. "Now, let's go to bed. We'll have to get up earlier than Izuku to make sure he's ready."

With that, the husband and wife began to make their way to their bedroom, Inko stretching as they entered and shut the door behind them. Both of them changed their clothes and got into bed. Cuddling next to each other as Shay wrapped his arm around Inko's waist and pulled her closer. "Shay . . . if Izuku had a quirk, would you have still told him?" Inko asked, laying her head on his chest.

"Yes, I would have," Shay replied. "It is his right to know of my past. Though I wouldn't have done so in such a . . . Grand reveal." He said, gently rubbing her back. "Still, he needed to have some hope today. Tomorrow we will see how much he'll need to unlock his Will. It may be diluted with us being from different worlds."

"I'm sure you've already thought of something to help him all the same," Inko said with a slight smile and a giggle, slowly drifting off as Shay chuckled and did the same.

Inko's mind returned to the present as Izuku finished throwing his punches at the dummy. Barely making it move as Shay showed his son how to throw a punch probably. Seeing her husband and son together and Shay helping Izuku get the stances down made her smile.

"That's better. Now, use this stick." Shay said, holding out a straight smooth branch that Izuku took into his own hands. Almost dropping it before righting himself and holding it up. "Now, strike the target. Like this." Shay told his son. Demonstrating with a stick of his own that made the dummy spin around with each hit.

Izuku did the same, mimicking his father as he tried to keep a hold of the stick. Panting a little as he stabbed forward. His dummy spun on the last hit and fell to pieces before the young boy. "Now, Izuku, do you see that green orb where the dummy was?" Shay asked. Making Inko raise an eyebrow as she could not see anything amidst the destroyed dummy.

But Izuku did, seeing a bright green orb that sparkled and shimmered in the remains of the target dummy. "Y-Yeah! I do! Mom! Do you see it?!" Izuku asked as he looked back at his mother. Only to get no response as Inko's widened and looked amazed at her son.

"She does not, no one else will see these Orbs but us," Shay said, getting Izuku to look at him. "There are Four colors to each orb you and I see. Red for Strength, Yellow for Skill, Blue for Will, and Green like this for what one could call; general experience in any task we do." Shay smiled, knowing now that his son did indeed have the Blood of a Hero in his veins. "Strength is rather explanatory. Increasing your muscle mass, the amount of damage you can take, and how much damage your attacks deal. Whether it's a punch or any melee weapon. While Skill increases accuracy, speed, and damage you inflict with ranged-based weapons."

Holding up a hand Shay summoned lightning that arched from his palm to his dummy and shocked the target until it burned to nothing. "Will is what one would call magic. But it is your Will to bend reality as you see it. Summoning elements, spirits, constructs, or bending the minds of your enemies as you see fit." He said, his hand shifting from lightning to a chilling cold aura that remained within his fingers, to a swirling cluster of blades that spun around his hand. "The greatest Will users could build entire cities, create and destroy mountains with a single thought." Shay continued, letting a second Orb from his target collect with Izuku's as the boy's and Inko's eyes widened at the very notion of such power. "And Experience is an all-around use and can be used to supplement the Three attributes of our bloodline."

"So this is our Quirk? It's really powerful." Izuku said, making Shay sigh as he turned to his son.

"This is not a Quirk, at least not how you understand it, Izuku." This made Izuku 's head snap at his father in confusion. His bright green eyes showed confusion as he cocked his head to the side. But before Izuku could ask, Shay began to answer. "I am not from earth . . . or if I am not this one."

"Wh-WHAT?!" Izuku yelled, eyes wide enough that they looked to be on the verge of popping straight out of his head. "NotfromearththisoneThentheresotherlifeonotherworldsTheresotherplacescalledearthintheuniverseOrdoesdadmeanhesfromanalternateuniverseDifferentrealitiesThenwhatdoesthatmake-"

" That makes you my son!" Interrupted Shay, snapping Izuku out of his muttering storm of questions that flooded the emerald green-haired boy's head. "And the Son of your mother. No different than you are now." He continued, gently placing both hands on his son's shoulders. "Where I am from was called Albion. There anyone can learn to use Strength, Skill, and Will."

"Anyone? Anyone from A-Abaddon can use these powers?" Izuku thought aloud.

"Albion." Shay corrected, giving a soft chuckle as he did. "And no. Some people excelled at one particular branch of the Hero Skills. But only those of our bloodline could use all three aspects."

"So . . . we were special in Albion? Why is that? Why us?" Izuku asked. But what he meant was; who was the first to hold this same power, and why? But Shay wasn't gonna simply hand him all the answers. No. Best to drip feed such knowledge . . . Especially if Jack was still out there.

"I'll tell you in time. For now, process what I've told you and I'll say more as you improve." Shay replied, there was time enough for him to learn everything he had come to know, about Jack, his Bloodline, the Sword of Aeons, of all Albion's history.

For now, he had time to say what he wanted to, and with his son able to see the Orbs as he could he needed to make sure he was ready and in control. So Shay gently picked Izuku off the ground and got the boy to his feet. "I want you to pick up the experience Orb, but do not simply go over and try to grab it. Close your eyes and imagine the Orb coming to you, being absorbed into your body, becoming one with you."

At Shay's instructions, Izuku nodded, though he was torn between finding out more about his father and keeping training. He was a smart child and knew there would be more time for questions, and with the challenge for Izuku to improve on the answers, he focused his mind. Closing his eyes he felt a tugging sensation in the direction of the orb. Before the feeling of being dunked in cold water and then warm water washed over him in seconds. Before it vanished and he opened his eyes again, to find the orb had vanished. Looking at Shay in confusion, before seeing his father smiling and patting his back. "I-I did it?!" Izuku asked in excitement.

"Yes. You did, son. Excellent work!" Shay exclaimed. Feeling pride surge through him as he wondered if this was how the Guild Master felt when he was training. "Now, hold out your hands. I have something I want to give you."

Izuku nodded and held up his hands in front of him, watching as his father pulled out strange gauntlets and slipped them over his arms. The gauntlets shrank and became tightly secured to his arms as he looked at them in wonder. The gauntlets were made of black leather on the outside, yet felt softly as cotton and velvet on the inside around his forearm and palm. The back of which held the same Guild Seal connected to a metal band that wrapped around near the wrist.

"These will help you focus your Will Energy into spells until your body has grown used to the feeling of drawing upon it," Shay explained, though he still hoped Izuku wouldn't need them forever. But if the blood had been diluted and Izuku's Will was weaker . . . then he may need to wear them for the rest of his life.

Having used similar gauntlets as a child training in the Guild to unlock his basic Will abilities he knew a timeframe for himself of Eight years. But for Izuku at almost Five years old? It may be shorter if the bloodline was still strong in him. "Now, focus on your palm." Shay continued, kneeling and holding his hand up for Izuku to watch. His hand filled with flames that danced in his palm. "Focus on the warmth of the fire in your hand, but it does not burn you. You control it, it is a part of you and yours to command." The flames continued giving a soft glow in the dark of the early morning. But they never grew out of control. The flames simply remained a constant size in his hand.

Izuku watched in amazement, seeing Oakvale tossing around these spells on TV was the coolest thing he ever thought. But now seeing his father so easily holding the fire in his hand was something that made him even cooler. Maybe even cooler than All Might. Holding his hands up like his father, Izuku tried to imagine the same flames in his hands. Seeing sparks filling his palms before small flames could be seen.

Making Izuku's eyes shine like stars as Shay chuckled. "Now, toss them at the last target," Shay ordered, extinguishing his flames as he pointed to the last dummy. Izuku followed his father's finger to the last target and threw his hands toward the dummy. Striking it with one of the tiny fireballs as the other missed and fell short. The dummy ignited in flames as Shay released a blast of Ice that froze the spot where Izuku's other fireball landed. "Not bad! We'll just work on your aim and power behind releasing the spells." Shay said as he rubbed Izuku's head before standing. Making the boy smile as he looked up at his dad, for the day was still long before them and young Izuku was eager to keep learning.