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At some point last night Izuku left his father's penthouse and joined up with Victor for a raid. It wasn't anything big. They only arrested four snakes but it was better than nothing. After that Izuku took a portal back to New York. It was one in the morning. He had a while before anybody would be awake. Might as well take a look around. He walked around before he knew it was around five in the morning. He should head back.
"Where were you?" asks Gabriella as he walks through the door.
"Oh, you're awake." says Izuku.
"Mhm." replies Gabriella.
"I was with the vigilantes. I got some blood in my system, so I'm ready to go." says Izuku as he walks to the terrace.
He steps outside for a smoke.
"Is that bad for you? Or do you just regenerate?" asks Gabriella.
Oh she followed him outside.
"It's fine for me. You want one?" asks Izuku.
"Well I really shouldn't." says Gabriella.
Izuku shrugs.
"Well just one couldn't hurt." says Gabriella.
"You sure?" asks Izuku.
"Yeah." says Gabriella.
"You're dumb. Don't smoke. It's bad for you… idiot." says Izuku.
"Okay, wow, you're kind of an asshole." says Gabriella.
"No I'm not. Well actually yeah I am, but not for that. I don't care if you drink but don't start smoking. I could stop drinking if I wanted to. I can't stop smoking. I don't choose when I smoke. I get told when to smoke." says Izuku.
"So that was all to teach me a lesson?" asks Gabriella.
"Well mostly. I did want to mess with you a little." says Izuku.
"I've spent time around vampires but I've never really talked with one before." says Gabriella.
"Why's that?" asks Izuku.
"Do you actually think you're funny?" asks Gabriella.
"Bitch, I'm hilarious. Why else would all my old friends call me a clown?" asks Izuku.
"Okay, that was a little funny." says Gabriella.
"If I weren't a musician I'd go into stand up. I'd be great." says Izuku.
"Maybe… how do you think tonight is gonna go?" asks Gabriella.
"There are four of us and three of them. I'm sure we'll be fine." says Izuku, "You worried?"
"You were my first solo hunt." says Gabriella.
"You wish your family was here?" asks Izuku.
"We'll be fine without them but it would be a little easier if they were here." says Gabriella.
"Oh don't worry. I'll protect you." says Izuku.
"I could kick your ass." says Gabriella.
"You only won last time because I didn't want to kill you." says Izuku.
"Cheap excuse." replies Gabriella.
"Then prove me wrong. Let's go. Right now." says Izuku.
"I don't get into fights if I know I'm gonna be hunting later." says Gabriella.
"Cheap excuse." replies Izuku.
Izuku hears the door to the terrace open. It's Hisashi.
"Hey kids." says Hisashi.
"Hi Mr. Midoriya." says Gabriella.
"My last name is Nakamura. He kept his mother's name after the divorce." says Hisashi.
"Hi Mr. Nakamura." says Gabriella.
"Hello. So about last night-" starts Hisashi.
"Nope." says Izuku as he throws his arm around his dad's shoulder and steers him inside, "Be right back."
"I'm so sorry. I didn't know you were coming. I wouldn't have drank if I knew you were coming." says Hisashi.
"Oh so it's my fault? I should have warned you before you went into a drunken rage?" asks Izuku.
"It would have been nice." says Hisashi.
"..."
"I didn't mean that. I shouldn't have said that." says Hisashi.
Izuku starts laughing at him. After a couple seconds Hisashi joins him.
"The fuck are you laughing at?" snaps Izuku.
They both start laughing harder after that.
"Hey do you think we're ever gonna have a normal relationship?" asks Hisashi.
"Naw." replies Izuku, "Hell naw. We are so far off the shits. We ain't going back. I don't even hate you, it's just I kinda feel like I should."
"Maybe I hate myself enough for the both of us." says Hisahsi.
Izuku and Hisashi chuckle at that a little.
"Even though we argue a lot, I end up laughing everytime you come and visit me." says Hisashi.
"Sorry, I don't feel like getting sentimental right now." says Izuku.
"Then I'll just shut up and drag my ass to work." says Hisashi.
Izuku laughs at that a little, only a little though it wasn't that funny.
"Have fun." says Izuku.
"Sure, see you when I get home." says Hisashi, "Then we can work on your little problem."
"Get the hell outta here already." says Izuku.
"Alright bye." says Hisashi as he heads out the door.
Izuku makes his way back to the terrace.
"So how do we find these vampires anyway?" asks Izuku
Gabriella pulls out a circular necklace.
"With this." says Gabriella, "See the lines in the middle?"
"The glowing ones?" asks Izuku.
"When the glow it means it's straight that way. If the lines on the side glow we turn in that direction until the middle glows and we go straight." says Gabriella.
"Seems straightforward enough." says Izuku.
"What's the plan for the fight? You have a plan right?" asks Gabriella.
"We don't really know what we're walking into but I've got some ideas. Dad works from behind us shooting fire at them. I work in the front because I can take pretty much whatever they've got and keep rolling. Speedy zooms around and goes for slashes to the back. You fight up front with me but I want you to distance yourself a little bit with that chain of yours." says Izuku.
"Sounds good to me. Do you need anything silver or holy? I've got some knives I could lend you." says Gabriella.
Izuku takes his necklace off and turns it into the double sided axe, "I've got something for them. This and I've got some wooden steaks to drive through their hearts."
"You could drive pretty much anything into their hearts to kill them you know." says Gabriella.
"Yeah, but I get stronger if I can kill them with a steak. It only works for vampires and only I and Count Dracula know about that." says Izuku.
"How does that work?" asks Gabriella.
"Okay before I explain this, It's out of necessity and I don't like it." says Izuku.
"Okay, but how does it work?" asks Gabriella.
"I rip their soul out of their body with the wooden stake and then I eat it." says Izuku.
"The steak?" asks Gabriella.
"No, the soul." says Izuku.
"Wow that's awful." says Gabriella.
"I'm aware that it's awful." says Izuku, "I do what I have to do."
"Hey, I'm awake." comes Speed Demons voice.
"Morning. Speedy." says Izuku.
"Morning." says Gabriella.
"What's the plan?" asks Speed Demon.
"We wait for pops to get back then we'll go over the plan. In the meantime, what do you guys do for fun?" asks Izuku.
"I usually just watch baseball or football. Or just whatever is on TV." says Speed Demon.
"A sports fan. I can get behind it. What about you Gabby?" asks Izuku.
"First don't call me Gabby. Second, I don't really do a whole lot." says Gabriella.
"Oh come on. You've got to do something." says Izuku, "Run me through an average day."
"I wake up. I go through my morning routines and all that. I spar with my family. I do whatever work I have to do around the house. I eat lunch. I just lay around mindlessly scrolling through an endless wave of entertainment, none of which I enjoy. I eat dinner. I shower and I got to bed." says Gabriella.
"That's kinda sad. Don't you have friends?" asks Izuku.
"Not really." says Gabriella.
"I'm gonna get you friends." says Izuku.
"That's not actually... no, I'd love to have friends." says Gabriella.
"We'll start with me. I'll text you and shit. We'll keep in touch even when we finish hunting." says Izuku.
"Cool." says Gabriella.
"Well let's do friend shit." says Izuku as he heads to the door.
"Wait, where are we going?" asks Gabriella.
"I don't really know. It doesn't matter all that much as long as you have a good time and as long as we're back before six." says Izuku.
"Well. Okay." says Gabriella.
"Speed Demon, you coming?" asks Izuku.
"No. I need to stay off my feet if I wanna go as fast as I can tonight." says Speed Demon.
"Alright see you later." says Izuku.
"Bye." says Gabriella.
Izuku and Gabriella spend most of their day looking around New York. They watch two crack heads fight at a subway station. Shit was wild. They went to the zoo. The puffins were cool to look at. Izuku's always wondered if those tasted like chicken or maybe turkey.
"Do you think those dudes taste like chicken or do you think they taste like turkey?" asks Izuku.
"What?" asks Gabriella.
"Yeah, you're right. They probably taste like duck." says Izuku.
"The puffins?" asks Gabriella.
"Yeah." replies Izuku.
"That's nasty." says Gabriella.
"No it isn't. They're birds. Edible birds." says Izuku.
"I am not eating a puffin." says Gabriella.
"I'm not saying eat the puffin. I'm asking what you think it would taste like." says Izuku.
"... probably duck. They're both aquatic." says Gabriella.
"That's what I was thinking." says Izuku, "You having fun yet?"
"Yeah, I'm having fun. Although I actually didn't like watching those two men fight in the subway." says Gabriella.
"You didn't like the crackhead fights?" asks Izuku.
"It didn't feel right just watching them." says Gabriella.
"Oh, that's our problem. You're straight laced. We need some kind of bad fun." says Izuku.
"No we don't." says Gabriella.
"Relax. I'll tone it down." says Izuku, "Follow me."
"Where are we going?" asks Gabriella.
"Mcdonalds. When we get there you're gonna record me and I'm gonna scream." says Izuku.
"You're a celebrity. You can't be doing that." says Gabriella.
"It's a publicity stunt, lets go." says Izuku.
When they get there Gabriella starts recording Izuku. Izuku calmly walks behind the counter, borrows an employee hat and yells, "Who ordered all this anime titty?"
He promptly throws the hat off his head and runs out of the restaurant. Gabriella follows him laughing.
"See it was funny." says Izuku once she caught up to him.
When they get back to the apartment Gabriella is still laughing.
"It wasn't that funny." says Izuku.
She just keeps laughing.
"What wasn't that funny?" asks Speed Demon.
Izuku explains what they did.
"That actually is kinda funny." says Speed Demon.
"Yeah, it's not laugh for thirty minutes funny." says Izuku.
"Thirty minutes is a little too long." says Speed Demon.
"See." says Izuku before chuckling, "It was pretty damn funny though."
She finally, abruptly, stops laughing.
"Yeah, that was an okay joke I guess." says Gabriella.
Izuku snorts, "Yeah, I guess."
"So now that we're friends, what's next?" asks Gabriella.
"Speedy wanna be Gabby's friend?" asks Izuku.
"Sure, we're homies now." says Speed Demon.
"Cool." says Gabriella.
"Now, I'll introduce you to my girlfriend Toga." says Izuku before facetimeing Toga.
"What's poppin babe?" asks Toga.
"Not much just been dicking around around NYC with a friend who I want to introduce you to because she's lonely." says Izuku.
"Cool, I like lonely people." says Toga, "Wait, is she cute?"
Izuku looks at Gabriella for a good three seconds, "Yeah, she's cute."
"Hi, I'm Gabriella." says, you can guess where this is going.
"Hi, I'm Toga. I'm crazy." says, you already know.
"Yeah, I'm a vampire hunter. I hunt vampires." says Gabriella.
"Cool, I fuck vampires." says Toga.
Izuku violently falls to the floor laughing.
"Um, good for you?" says Gabriella.
"Wow, you seem stiff." says Toga, "Like straight laced."
"Am I that bad?" asks Gabriella.
"I'd say you're a goody two shoes, but I want to drop kick anybody who uses that phrase." says Izuku.
"Hey babe." says Toga.
"Yeah?" asks Izuku.
"Imma go now. I got shit to do. Give her my number." says Toga.
"Damn. All right, sure. Have fun." says Izuku.
"Bye babe." says Toga.
"Bye." says Izuku.
"She calls you babe a lot." says Gabriella.
"I think it's cute." says Izuku.
"Hey, I'm home." says Hisashi.
"Hey pop let's go." says Izuku.
"Damn gimme a minute." says Hisashi.
"No." says Izuku.
They work their way to an apartment building using Gabriella's tracker. It smells like a vampire lives there. He hears voices on the roof. Izuku checks it out. He's got the rest of them on rooftops nearby.
"How y'all doing tonight?" asks Izuku, these were the vampires all three of them. He recognizes the one with wings and the one with flaps like a flying squirrel.
"I remember you." says the big one.
"Were you there?" asks Izuku.
He promptly transforms into an eight foot bat tall bat monster.
"I remember you know. Gotta admit that's a pretty hard face to forget." says Izuku.
"It'll be the last face you ever see." says big bat.
"Spooky. Also the entire Belmont family has this building surrounded. So I'll just kill you real quick and save us all some trouble if you don't mind." says Izuku.
"That's a blatant lie." says wingy.
"It is actually. I'm gonna kill all three of you myself." says Izuku.
The three of them materialize tridents. It's kinda like his axe. Now would actually be a pretty good time to bring that out.
"Well as much as I love standoffs, I kinda wanna get started." says Izuku before throwing himself into the middle of them, also Izuku actually hates stand offs, although he does like watching them.
He's doing pretty good actually. He's practically flying around them. Jumping here. Swinging there. He's like a ball of fury and axe blades. He does even better when his back up shows up. They follow the plan he discussed earlier. Izuku sees electricity crackle around Wingy's hands.
He tackles Gabriella out of the way.
"Watch for electricity." shouts Izuku.
Izuku hears notices clouds form above them. Just above them. Batty or flappy is making a storm but he doesn't know which yet. Flappy dives straight at him from above. Izuku jumps to meet him. Flappy changes trajectory at the last second and Izuku gets smacked by a bolt of lightning.
"Don't let wingsuit get above you, he drops lightning." says Izuku.
That means Batty is making the storm. The three of them take off and start to fly away. Gabriella wraps her chains around wingsuits leg and yanks him back to them. Izuku pulls out his stake and pops it into his heart. He inhales the smoke that rises from the wound. Izuku shivers violently. That is an intense feeling.
"Come on." shouts Izuku as he takes off in the direction they're flying.
Izuku feels really weird right now. How does he activate this guy's power? Oh there it is. It tore his shirt off. He should have seen that coming. He jumps after the remaining two and glides. He catches Wingy and wraps his arms around his wings. They both fall into a construction site.
Izuku can't help but let out an involuntary, "SHIT."
He gets up and lunges at Wingy with his stake. That's two down. Just the big one to go.
Now he's got these cool bat wings coming out of his back. It tears off the rest of his shirt but he doesn't care too much. He flys after the last one. Instead of flying away they both fly up. Towards the dark clouds. That's not good. He's faster than Izuku. Izuku isn't used to flying, at least not like this.
A ball of fire wizzes past Izuku and hits batty, "Get him kid." shouts Hisashi.
Izuku catches up with him and grabs onto him. They both tear at each other with their claws and fangs. Lightning strikes them, once, twice, with the third bolt they're both falling. Neither of them can regenerate anymore. Izuku slips a stake out of his belt and rams it into Batty's chest until smoke comes out for Izuku to inhale. Izuku is gonna get his wings flapping when the back of his head makes contact with a steel girder.
"Oh shit." says Speed Demon.
Izuku falls onto another girder. He lays there for a moment before sliding off and hitting two more girder's before landing on the ground below. When he wakes up again he's on Hisashi's couch.
"Hey, pop." says Izuku.
"Oh, you're awake. You alright?" asks Hisashi.
"Not really." says Izuku.
"Well, how do you feel?" asks Hisashi.
"Y'ever been hit by a freight train?" asks Izuku.
"No, but I can imagine." says Hisashi.
"No you can't." says Izuku.
"Maybe not." says Hisashi.
"How long was I out." asks Izuku.
"A little over twenty four hours." says Hisashi.
"Shit, I was supposed to be back yesterday." says Izuku.
"It's just one day." says Hisashi.
"I guess. I wanna see my daughter and I missed my workout." says Izuku.
"You work out with your vigilantes?" asks Hisashi.
"Naw, I work out with Miruko." says Izuku.
"The hero?" asks Hisashi.
"Mhm." replies Izuku.
Izuku gets off the couch with a groan.
"They asleep?" asks Izuku.
"They just went to bed." says Hisashi.
"I'm gonna have to wake them up because I don't wanna stay here." says Izuku.
Everybody went back to their homes. They were gonna keep hunting when they were feeling a little better. Izuku was happy to see Eri and Eri was happy to see him. Miruko called him a bitch and said, "I'd've still shown up if I was struck by lightning five times." In all honesty Izuku believed her.
Authors Note
This chapter is a little longer than usual. I just made up that middle part about Izuku hanging out with Gabriella as I wrote this so it was kinda long. It was fun to write people messing around though. Also I want the answer to Izuku's question, what do you guys think puffin tastes like?
The next chapter is gonna be a little bit of mental aftermath of this chapter, Izuku toying with his new powers, and the start to the hunt in Puerto Rico. To avoid making Izuku too powerful I'm nerfing the powers he picks up. I'll show you how next chapter.
I actually have been interacting with the discord a little bit. It's cool to get messages on there. Speaking of here is the discord code.
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