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A vibrant planet full of life, with trees and grass, and everything else of beautiful splendour. Oceans teeming with life, and for a balance, civilisation and technology. For any person looking upon the planet one would call it a utopia. It was truly perfect, being technologically advanced enough to travel the cosmos, and yet simple enough to enjoy life.
For any other God of Destruction, they wouldn't call such a simplistic planet like this their home. But for Rayleonard… it was truly home. After appointing his adopted child Cauri as the new head of his former vessel, this place, created by one he truly loved, was now his home.
Subetejinsei. A planet teeming with life and vibrancy. Created by the hands of a Goddess of Life, his wife, his beloved. In a small corner of this vibrant and balanced planet, a clearing with a humble yet also splendid home, the home of Rayleonard Thermidor… and one other important person, well, multiple, actually.
As he walked into the home, much emptier due to some of his children leaving for other things, he would see his beloved, dressed in a simple golden dress, and holding a child in her arms. Her hair was vibrant and flowing with multiple shades of red, as if representing blood, and her golden eyes softly looked at the child, before her wolven ears perked up, picking up the entry of her beloved, as her golden eyes looked up to the towering Rayleonard. While he still towered over her, she was a mere six feet, seven inches tall, so it wasn't like she was being fully dwarfed by the God of Destruction. She rested the child on her sizeable bosom, as she looked at her husband with a mix of love, and a bit of disdain.
"Welcome home, darling…" The woman spoke with a small smile.
"Vita, you seem… troubled." Thermidor responded, as Vita sighed.
"...Why must you always kill the innocent…" the Goddess of Life sighed as she closed her eyes. "There were so many Purony that didn't deserve the condemnation of death, victims who needed help. And yet you destroyed it all, again. How many more will you destroy, Raylenard? How many more lives will you needlessly purge?" Vita asked, her golden eyes looking at him softly.
The giant of a man had the grace to wince at the look of disdain. He understood the woman's grievance even before she spoke, it was a clash the two had been having for eons as a result of their opposing natures. But he held no resentment as he replied, "You know I take no pleasure in my work. Someone needs to take out the trash. You know as well as I that every universe has a foundational principle, if it is not upheld all of our work will have been for nought."
Vita sighed as she heard this, soon putting their newest baby girl into her crib as she looked back at the God of Destruction. "You know that our power isn't infinite. You continue to make the excuse that my powers can undo the damage you deal, that I can preserve the innocent among those you destroy and yet you fail to realise the gravity of what you cause to me." Vita stated softly, as she soon messed with her hair a bit, before revealing something… one of her batches of hair strands had become grey.
"...Your hair…" Rayleonard responded, his eyes widening in concern.
"A sign of what is to come if this continues. For eons it has held off. Now, you have destroyed my roots enough that I have begun to wilt, my dear." Vita declared firmly, as suddenly, her knee buckled on her as she groaned, collapsing back in the chair to show the signs of her waning power, before she raised her hand to her husband. "No… I'm fine." Vita told him as she stood back up. "...But if you continue to rely on me for saving those who do not deserve your condemnation of death and destruction… that may not remain." Vita told him harshly.
"Is it too late to… to stop this?" Rayleonard asked, his heart hurting for his beloved as he looked at her, understanding now that things are more dire than he originally believed.
"No… it is not. The season of destruction… it has lasted for far too long." Vita told Rayleonard. "If you allow the season of life to come forth, and flourish for a while, my roots can grow back… and the threat of my death shall not be imminent." Vita explained. "But you must make that choice, Rayleonard. Will you choose to destroy? Or will you choose me, as you did on the day we married?" Vita asked him with eyes that warranted judgement for the answer he chose, if he chose wrong.
"No." The giant replied with a shake of his head, "You are absolutely right. As was taught to me in childhood, as I shared with you as we grew closer; Light and Darkness, Life and Death, Creation and Destruction, All Things Must Be In Balance." He smiled at his wife, "Let there be a time of Creation."
Vita smiled back as she wrapped her arms around him and caressed him closely. "Thank you… thank you, my husband…" Vita smiled as she looked into his blue eyes. "I shall begin the season on the morrow." She breathed, "For now… I must rest. Will you join me?" Vita asked in a loving tone.
Rayleonard returned his wife's embrace as a warm smile crossed his face. With a chuckle the giant of a man picked up his wife and carried her towards their room, "Of course! Let the creation begin!" Words that earned him a playful slap.
Moments passed as the two pint sized martial artists sized each other up. The forms they each used were unfamiliar to the other, they both could only guess as to whether their styles where more defensive or aggressive in priority. Ochaco's feet where on the ground, lifted slightly so only her toes where touching the ground, making her form springy and adapted for quick reactions. Izuku hovered just above the ground separating his reaction speeds from how quickly his legs could act to instead rely on his ki control.
Izuku's hovering caused the girl to wonder if he had some kind of levitation Quirk, and if she could replicate what he was doing with her own Quirk. But that would be untraditional to her Master's style, so she simply looked at Izuku, waiting for the first move.
A stalemate that to the fiery blonde boy watching on just dragged on for far longer then it really should have, earning a "Get on with it!" from Katsuki. Which in turn earned the blonde a chop to the head from his teacher.
But it was all the prompting the greenette needed to launch himself at the girl, leading with a swift jab from his left arm at the girl's face. The girl would quickly lean herself back and use her Quirk to send a backflipping kick in retaliation to Izuku, who tracked her movements and raised his right arm to block the kick. The brunette would then take the moment to dash in after her kick was blocked to try and rapidly hit Izuku, and she even mixed up her attacks with high kicks to add to her mixup.
Izuku responded by flowing through the attacks, while both combatants were still only initiates in their respective styles, both were well trained. And for the greenette this meant his movements embodied the fundamentals of the Furiemshinken, to be one with the air, flowing like wind or water, constantly in motion and constantly redirecting the attacks of his foes. While he was far from a master, this translated to the boy ducking and weaving through the girl's fierce offensive. That said, his motions were not perfect and many of her attacks at least partially landed.
Ochaco's style was made for that, as it was the fundamentals of Lycanshoto: ever changing to adapt to the situation, like a wolf adapts to hunt their prey, Ochako adapted to strike Izuku when his guard was away from a certain spot, and yet, his counter blows were often not clean hits, though some were, as Ochako made sure her stance would be disadvantageous to Izuku's current positioning, where she at least would get the better of the trade, instead of getting the worse end. Despite this, she too was far from perfect, and often got the worse end of the trades herself.
In terms of the trending of the battle, however, despite Izuku being just a hair bit stronger than Ochaco, the Lycanshoto's adaptiveness was paying off, as Ochaco was holding a prominent lead, if slightly, against Izuku.
"Wow, you've done pretty well training these boys, Liek!" Opherla remarked. "If young Izuku here is anything to go by that is!"
The teenage boy nodded his head while keeping his eyes on the children, "You did as well. That said, Izuku doesn't have the raw talent or instinct for fighting that Katsuki does." Liek smiled a little, "But he does have a brilliant mind, he can memorise and analyse better then anyone I've seen. And once he's figured out someone's patterns and habits, it's only a matter of time before he has half a dozen plans to outfight them."
Katsuki grinned at his teacher's side and puffed his chest out, "Yeah! Deku's the smartest kid I know!" he boasted, proud of his friend.
"Really? Well let's hope he learns Ochaco before she goes in for the metaphorical kill." Opherla teased. Liek didn't say anything in response, instead using the opportunity to do some analysis of his own, picking out the flaws and mistakes in his student.
The tide turned in Izuku's favour as Ochaco attempted another backflip kick. The boy had predicted she'd try another sooner or later and used what he'd learned of the pattern of motions she put into the kick to decide how he would react. This time he didn't block, instead he glided ever so slightly to the side, raising one arm under the kick while bringing the other down on top of it, wrapping both arms around the leg before pivoting with his waist. The boy spun on the spot several times, leaning back to act as a counterweight to squealing Ochaco before throwing her across the field.
The boy surged forward through the air with ki-enchanced speed in order to press his attack but the girl managed to use her ki-enchanced Quirk to regain control of her flight through the air and get her hands and feet on the ground to bring herself skidding a halt. Rising from the ground the girl looked at the boy with a determined scowl before frowning. She then extended both arms out to each side before rotating them, the left rising while the right lowered before bringing her wrists together, left on top of the right.
"She's not trying what I think she is, is she?" Liek asked, worried.
"She shouldn't be, I've not taught her that yet!" the wolfgirl replied.
"Ka…" Ochaco started, twisting her wrists as she drew her arms to her right side, "Me…"
"Huh, she is!" Opherla noted with a proud done, realising that her student must have spotted her practising the technique.
Liek, however, had a different reaction, "This is bad, there's no telling how that will react with her Quirk!"
"Ha…" The girl continued, energy from her body gathering into a black ball in her hands, "Me…"
"What's her Quirk?" Liek asked quickly.
Opherla blinked, "She makes things float, why?"
"Better safe then sorry!" The boy replied before launching himself at the girl a moment too late.
The little girl thrust her hands forward and unleashed the energy, "HAA–AAUUUGH!" She screamed, not from unleashing the power, but for the sudden blinding pain erupting from the nerves in her fingers, as well as the lesser pain of Liek grabbing her wrists and pulling her hands apart. She chanced a look at her hands to understand why they hurt so badly and nearly panicked, her blood running cold as she looked at the black and brown digits that where bent no less then six times each in directions they should not bend.
"OCHACO!" Opherla shrieked as she rushed to her student's aid as Izuku landed to her side, Katsuki running over to see what was going on.
Liek winced when he looked at the girl's hands and sighed, "Damn, I was afraid of this. Ki attacks and Quirks really do not mix." He let go of the girl's wrist as his girlfriend wrapped her hands around the little girls. The wolfgirl whispered soothing words to Ochaco as he hands started to glow with a green light. He looked over at Katsuki, "This is why I didn't teach you the Kamehameha, Katsuki. I was afraid something like this would happen to you. And I don't have healing techniques to fix it."
The blonde looked from his teacher to the girl and then to her hands where his eyes lingered for a long moment before looking back up to his teacher. With a soft voice, "So what exactly happened? Looked like she was doing it the way you taught Deku."
"Yeah." Liek agreed, both Izuku and Katsuki where giving him their full attention, and even Opherla and Ochaco where listening in, "Remember how ki super charged Inko's attraction Quirk? Same deal." He paused before explaining, "I don't think Ochaco's quirk just makes things float, based on how that energy ball felt to all my senses, I think her Quirk interacts with gravitons. The particle that confers gravity. In short, she didn't form a ball of ki, she made a tiny black hole that ate itself almost as soon as she released it. But it's gravity was still strong enough to pull her fingers towards it with… unpleasant results."
"A black…" Izuku mumbled with a gulp.
"...hole?" Ochaco mumbled in trepidation.
"Sounds dangerous." Opherla observed before smiling, letting go of Ochaco's hands, "But very useful! If you could get control of that power you could use them as vacuum cleaners to clear our rubble when saving people! Or any number of other things!" She encouraged her student with a grin while ruffling her hair.
Liek nodded before looking over at Katsuki, "Your Quirk has equal potential. You and Ochaco will be blazing a trail Opherla and I have never walked, but if the two of you can master controlling both your ki and your Quirks… well, the only ones who will rival you three are each other."
Katsuki looked down at his hand, a bead of sweat glistening on it. The boy clenched his fist and looked at Izuku with a determined look. Without a word the two boys looked at Ochaco and extended their right fists. While Katuski scowled, Izuku gave the girl an inviting grin to which she responded with a grin of her own and extended her own fist out to bump knuckles with the boys.
Power Level Estimates:
Liek Galswith (Suppressed, normal): 267
Opherla Galswith (Suppressed, normal): 267
Opherla Galswith (Suppressed, healing Ochaco): 400
Rayleonard Thermidor, God of Destruction: Immeasurable
Vita Thermidor, God of Life: Immeasurable
Katsuki Bakugou (Age 5, before training): 5
Katsuki Bakugou (Age 8, current): 54
Izuku Midoriya (Age 5, before training): 1
Izuku Midoriya (Age 8, current): 52
Inko Midoriya (Before training): 7
Inko Midoriya (Current): 52
Ochaco Uraraka (Before Training): 1
Ochaco Uraraka (Age 8, current): 51
(Quirkless) Farmer with a Shotgun: 5
All Might (Full Power, Prime, Uninjured): 420 (Estimated)