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Izuku woke up with a pain in his stomach that refused to go away. He knew it wasn't healthy to avoid eating but he knew that he would regret feeding himself even if he eventually got over it. He didn't know what to do. He could smell blood from all around him, whether it be his mothers or that of someone in an apartment near his. He decided to get out of bed and look for something that could distract him from his hunger. He brushed his teeth and then his fangs. He took a cold bath hoping to get a distraction in the frigid water only to find his stomach growling louder and with more passion than before. He looked at his clock and found out that it was still only six in the morning. He knew his mother would wake up soon. He was uncertain if he should be happy for a distraction or scared by the possibility of losing control around his mother. When his mother woke up she began to converse with him.
"How did you sleep?" asks Inko.
"I slept well but I wish I slept more." replies Izuku.
"And how are you feeling?" asks Inko.
"Stiff… still shaken up… I think I need to clear my mind some more. I'm gonna go for another walk." says Izuku.
"Okay. Take your phone and keep in touch with me." says Inko.
"I will. Bye Mom." says Izuku before grabbing his phone and heading out the door.
Izuku began walking around. Much like his last stroll he had no destination in mind. He was panicking a little. Tomorrow is Monday and he doesn't want to spend a whole day at school with Bakugou. He just wants to find a way to get rid of his hunger that doesn't make him feel guilty to think about. He keeps these thoughts in mind as he strolls for hours. Every hour he texts his mom the name of the street he is on and tells her that he's fine. He walks his way down to a beach that he sees is called Dagobah Municipal beach park. The entire beach is covered in garbage but he doesn't seem to notice the smell. He walks into the beach and manages to climb his way up to a chair on top of a pile of garbage that is high enough for him to look out into the horizon and watch the waves come in to shore. He can see the water ripple in the distance with influence of the moon overhead. He wonders if the sun feels so much hotter than usual is because of his vampiric body. He sends a text to his mom and ponders his humanity or lack thereof. He decides to work his way down the pile of trash. When he gets to the bottom he hears a loud series of bangs behind him and sees a refrigerator falling on him. He puts his arms out in a desperate attempt to save himself when he finds that the fridge was stopped by his hands and seems to way nothing in his hands.
'I've got superstength.' thinks Midoriya.
He tries to push the fridge off of his arms and sends it flying into the pile of garbage.
'Holy shit I've got super strength.' thinks Midoriya again, ' I've got to test the limits. How much can I lift? How hard can I punch? How hard can I kick? How fast can I run? How far can I jump? Does this come with added durability? Will drinking blood increase my current strength? Will me avoiding drinking blood make me weaker?'
Midoriya spent the rest of the day figuring out his powers. He could lift one truck loaded with appliances. One fridge, one washer, half a dryer, three microwaves, eight toasters, and a motorcycle. The motorcycle actually still worked and he made the decision to hide that away in the rocks that people without strength and mobility enhancing powers couldn't get to the top of. Speaking of mobility enhancers he could jump about eight times as as high and as far as a truck with a refrigerator, oven, washer, dryer, dishwasher, and an entire light pole. The light pole baffled Midoriya.
'How did it get on the beach? And who left a working motorcycle here. Well If I did choose to be a vigilante that Motorcycle could be useful. Although none of those thoughts are as interesting as how someone managed to drag an engineless truck out to this beach.' thinks Midoriya.
He also found a speed gun. The kind they use to see how fast a pitcher can't throw a baseball. He found out that the fastest he could sprint was sixty miles per hour or 96.56 kilometers per hour. The more Midoriya used his powers the more he realized he could be a hero. Even if he wasn't a hero or a vigilante or any other kind of crime fighter he knew he could finally help people. He decided to send another texts to his mother before cleaning the beach so that others could enjoy it. It was a split second decision but he wouldn't come to regret it. He didn't know what to do with the garbage so he decided to try to make it take up less space so that he could do something with it later. He crushed some of it so that it was smaller but he didn't really have a concrete plan set in place. He decided he would have to wait until later. He was working so long that the sun had gone down and twilight had passed. The clouds went away from the sky and stars took their place. He was worrying his mother a little but since he kept checking in she allowed it. Midoriya saw that it was getting close to nine and he knew that he had to take a break to go visit Ruby and talk about vampirism. He didn't want to stop working because work meant a distraction not only from hunger but from his mental turmoil that threatened to overtake him if he isn't careful. He sent his hourly text a little early and got on his way to the hospital to talk with Ruby. He made it to the hospital a little before nine and waited on a bench near the entrance while staring up at the stars and moon. About a minute after nine he saw Ruby walk out of the hospital. She began to look around before spotting him on the bench waving at her. Upon seeing him she walked over and sat next to him.
"It's a nice night isn't it?" asks Ruby.
"Yeah. It is." replies Izuku.
"Our powers actually become stronger at night." says Ruby.
"Oh. That's interesting I should look into that." says Izuku.
"So. Have you figured out what your power is?" asks Ruby.
"Are all vampires strong enough to lift several trucks worth of weight?" asks Izuku.
"No." replies Ruby.
"Then I have super strength." says Izuku.
"How did you learn about your powers?" asks Ruby.
"I caught a fridge that was going to crush me." says Izuku like it's no big deal.
Ruby stares at Izuku with a confused expression before saying, " You almost died again."
"Oh… Oh shit. I almost got crushed by a fridge. How have I not thought about this before?" says Izuku with a panicked tone of voice and erratic speech.
"It's probably because you found out that you have super strength." says Ruby.
"Oh right, the super strength is so cool." gushes Izuku.
"Yeah… How did you learn about the thing with the trucks." asks Ruby.
"I spent most of my day testing my powers at the beach. The one downtown that people dump garbage in. I found a truck and stacked about a trucks worth of appliances into the truck bed and started lifting that." says Izuku.
"That's impressive." says Ruby.
"Thanks." replies Izuku.
"So I wanted to get to my main reason for bringing you hear." says Ruby while getting off of the bench and taking a couple of steps away.
"And what would that be?" asks Izuku.
"I want to talk about all of the powers that vampires have. Not just the ones that individuals have. We all have some regeneration. Which is why I can do this and not feel fear for my lungs." she says as she lights and begins to smoke a cigarette.
" we can also grow claws and fangs as I've previously mentioned. We can turn into bats and also communicate with bats. Now do me a favor and flex your ears." says Ruby.
"Um okay." says Izuku as his ears visibly narrow and point making them look elvish, " Wow I can hear everything."
"Yeah we have enhanced senses. You can wrinkle your nose to smell better. If you wink you see better. If you wink one eye after the other it will be like having super clear eyes with night vision." says Ruby.
Izuku does what Ruby tells him before replying, " Wow I have a great perspective of everything going on around me."
"Also you can erase your presence from cameras. It would be good for vigilantism." says Ruby.
"How do I do it?" asks Izuku.
"Just think 'disappear' and to turn it off think ' reappear'." says Ruby.
"That seems simple enough." says Izuku.
"You can also turn into a bat." says Ruby
"How do I do that?" asks Izuku.
"Now for turning into a bat just imagine becoming a bat." says Ruby.
"Is that all?" asks Izuku.
"Yeah, it's not very complicated." replies Ruby.
Suddenly Izuku is no longer on the bench. He is on the floor as a bat.
"Try flying." says Ruby.
Izuku begins flapping his wings until he gets off of the ground and starts flying in circles before doing loops in the air.
"Before you ask we have instincts that tell us how to fly. If we didn't we would have to learn the hard way." says Ruby, " Now for turning back just imagine your old body."
Izuku suddenly returns in his vampire form and falls to the ground.
"Also we can regenerate the damage dealt by small wounds. If you want to heal more you will need to drink blood and you will heal almost any wound on you. The only wound you might not be able to heal is on the heart but we don't need it to beat and if you drink enough blood it will heal anyways. If you don't heal it is gonna hurt like hell." says Ruby.
"That regeneration sounds really useful." replies Izuku.
"It is but their are some things that can still kill us. Those are decapitation, having a steak or anti vampire blade driven through your heart. Also holy blades and silver blades are hard to regenerate from." says Ruby.
"If holy weapons hurt us does that mean we aren't holy?" asks Izuku.
"Bingo. That also means we lose our powers if we enter a church or a cathedral or any place that has been blessed." says Ruby.
"That seems inconvenient." replies Izuku.
"Also crosses have a glare when we look at them so if somebody with a cross fights you, use your ears and nose to find them." says Ruby.
"I don't think people are going to come at me with a cross." says Izuku.
"That's a fair assessment but it doesn't hurt to know these kinds of things." says Ruby.
"That's a good point." says Izuku.
"I think I'm running out of things you need to know, although now that I think about it your body will experience some changes." says ruby.
"What kind of changes?" asks Izuku.
"It's like puberty but more agressive. You'll get more muscle mass. You'll grow more hair and have to start shaving. You'll... grow in height... and..." says Ruby
"Grow what?" asks Izuku.
"Well you'll find out soon enough. But I need to tell you that you need to drink soon." says Ruby.
"I don't know what to do about that." replies Izuku.
"Do you want to know what I do when I'm stressed or don't know what to do?" says Ruby.
"What do you do?" asks Izuku.
Ruby takes another cigarette out of her pocket lights it and hands it to Izuku.
"Y-You want me to smoke this?" asks Izuku.
"I know it's bad for humans. But I'm a doctor and I can confirm that it does no harm to vampires. Which reminds me vampires can't get sick or get a disease. So you can get all the ladies and not worry about STDs." says Ruby.
"Okay… that's nice I guess." says Izuku.
"I try to be the fun aunt figure with all teenager or children." says Ruby.
"Well that explains the cigarettes." says Izuku.
"Speaking of which, you haven't tried it." says Ruby.
"Well what exactly does it do." asks Izuku.
"It makes your brain release dopamine. Which makes you happy." says Ruby.
"Oh… and there are no repercussions for me smoking this." says Midoriya.
"None at all." replies Ruby.
"Well… I guess I could use some dopamine. But how do you do it?" asks Izuku.
"You hold the orange part in your mouth and you breathe in the smoke then you breath out. If you repeat these actions you'll get the dopamine. Also vampires can't become addicted." says Ruby.
Izuku tries the cigarette and blows out smoke.
"I thought I would start coughing." says Izuku.
"You don't need oxygen so you won't cough." says Ruby, " Well I have to go now. See you soon."
"Yeah, see you soon." says Izuku.
Ruby and Izuku both go on their way home. Izuku texts his mom again to let her know he was out with a friend and that he would be home soon. Izuku was walking home and working his way through a cigarette. He finished the cigarette made sure it wasn't still burning and put it in a trash can in the park he was walking through. He kept walking home when he heard a high pitched scream from the alleyways between the buildings lining the park. Izuku immediately runs to wear he heard the screen to see a sleazy looking man kicking a woman in the ribs.
"You dirty whore! Give me what I came for." says the criminal.
Izuku runs in and grabs the man. He pulls the man away from the woman and the man pulls out a knife.
"RUN." shouts Izuku.
The man tries to stab Izuku with the knife but Izuku had gotten a good sense of reflexes from dealing with Bakugou for years and stepped back to avoid the knife. He then punched the man across the alley way into several trash bags. He realized that the man was unconscious. The fact that what he had just done was vigilantism barely registered through his mind. The only thing he could focus on was the smell of the blood leaking from the mans mouth. It smelled similarly to copper and the scent was intoxicating, the smell was heavenly in a way Izuku never can and never will be able to explain. Izuku wasn't in control of his body as he shot forwards and dug his teeth into the villains shoulder. He drank until he was able to stop himself. Midoriya panicked and not knowing what to do ran home. When he got home he saw his mom on the couch asleep. He assumed she was waiting for him. With guilt weighing him down he carried his mother to her bed and took a cold bath trying to wash the blood off of himself long after it was gone. He finally got to bed and he realized one thing about the whole event. He felt alive. He felt happy. It's been so long since he's felt truly alive and he finally has that feeling back.
"I've got to do that again." says Midoriya before succumbing to exhaustion and falling asleep.
Authors Note
So I think that the next chapter will be midoriya going to school for the first time since the villain incident and him coming up with his vigilante costume and name. I have previously stated that their are villains I want him to team up with and I think I want to add giran to the group of villains he interacts with. I wont have giran fight with him but he is going to help with the costume and the weapons. I also wanted to talk about how I had Midoriya smoke a little bit. My reason for this is I want him to take up the look of a delinquent. I am also thinking of making Ruby a vigilante in the past. I want her to introduce him to Knuckle duster and the rest of the vigilantes. I'm not to sure what i'm gonna do to get funding for Midoriya's vigilante work, but I am thinking of having him sell all of the garbage to Hatsume for scraps and other parts. I also think that I want to get Midoriya to meet giran when selling the Motorcycle he found on the beach. I then want Giran to think he is a criminal selling a stolen bike and offering him a job that involves fighting villains and getting some money. I also think that Midoriya will want to move out of his mothers apartment to keep her safe from the villains he is fighting.
Atomicdragon59: I like that idea a lot. I'm probably gonna use it when Midoriya gets to U.A.
AmadeusAmadeus: I know what you mean. I think in trying to shelter his mother from his life he makes it worse for her when she finally finds out. While I do want to have that in the story I want to lessen the effects of it. I only do this because I want Midoriya telling his mother he is a vigilante to be a big reveal. Especially because I want his fight with Overhaul televised for the world to see. Also for the incognito mode I will have him visible just not to cameras. As much as I would love to adress the part of your comment about the vigilante group I am going to avoid it only because i don't want to accidentally spoil any of my ideas. Speaking of my ideas I usually don't come up with ideas that I like this much but I find myself becoming more and more in love with this story as each chapter gets written. You say I have no need to thank you, but I really feel as if I do. I find what you and other readers have to say important and I appreciate you taking the time to comment with ideas or observations.