Hi all,
Small chapter, given I wasn't suppose to write another one for this story until after my other fics, but I had too funny a set up for the start and couldn't let it go. So enjoy!
Next up is a BIG react chapter, combining the QAT's chapters of Bearer, so enjoy that. Not going to do that for the USJ because that would be too large X-X.
Review time!
ndbarnyak: So many times I lost sleep while traversing the world myself.
Fallendemon248: I honestly had the Jonathon Young version of the theme playing while I was writing that part of the chapter to pych myself up XD.
LoamyCoffee: Good thing only one of them is going to "taste" him. XD
Xero LotCN: I'm sorry, but that's just too long and hard to respond to.
ProjectIceman: He eats Goats :D
rogue1Bois: Well, hope you enjoy this small tidbit.
SageofChaos: you got your wish!
TheGreatBubbaJ: And it tastes like cinnamon :D
SonicMax: \oo/
tearsofthings: Admittedly, the fight was over, and he was staring down the barrel of a cannon and trying to calm down Momo... and was distracted by her. ;o
Surayo: \oo/
IFeedTheZombies: Well, I remember some of the nicknames I gave my friends in Kindergarten to this day, so I'm going to say he remembered the nickname. Plus he wouldn't forget about Bakugou because he is one of the reasons for how Izuku was taken in the first place. Will he use it going forward? No. This Izuku knows Bakugou wasn't a real friend. Him saying it was just a reaction to hearing his voice, though aged up since they were four.
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Chapter 5
Where Sleeping Dragons Lie
"I can't believe it…" Kaminari gently spoke as he stood beside both Sero and Kirishima as they, along with the rest of class 1-A that had attended the recent 'practical exam' of their latest addition just outside of their commons room, staring at the sight before them.
"You were there, dude. You felt those quakes like the rest of us." Sero pointed out as he looked towards the blonde, "Hell, the entire country felt them."
Everyone couldn't help but agree with that statement. After leaving to have dinner at the university's cafeteria after witnessing the most intense and brutal display of power exhibited by their new classmate, they could hear the groups of other students talking wildly about the sudden and mysterious tremors, as well as checking out the online social sites and local news stations while they ate.
While the general populace was trying to figure out what caused such an event, the students of Class 1-A were simply staring at the lone figure responsible, though admittedly, not in the position they were expected first to meet him.
On their largest couch was Izuku Midoriya, currently sleeping with both his legs hanging off the armrest and one arm dangling off the side, with his right hand resting against the floor. There was an odd chest that seemed to have been placed haphazardly beside the couch but done so in such a way that it looked like Izuku had simply dropped it before collapsing and passing out.
What also didn't help was that while he had put back on the UA gym jacket, the front zipper was wide open and revealing his bare chest and abs to the world, with his left hand currently resting on top of the exposed skin. While many of Class 1-A had the terrifying image of how the young man looked during the final moments of the exam still stuck in their minds, they couldn't help but be a little taken back by just how ordinarily peaceful he looked while sleeping.
It was almost like night and day compared to the earlier test.
"Well, we should at least move the chest to one side at least." Kirishima spoke up, silently moving over to the rather peculiar thing, before looking back, "Hey, Sato and Shoji, mind giving me a hand?"
Both men nodded and moved to either side of the relatively large chest, with Kirishima moving to the back of it, where he noticed another pair of handles he could grab as well. Everyone watched as all three squatted down, each holding onto the handles on the large container. Kirishima spoke softly to the other two, "Alright, guys, on three. One… Two… Three!"
The sounds of heavy grunts and frustrated looks upon all three of the physically strongest students surprised everyone as they watched each of their arms flex and tighten before finally all three stopped and were panting hard, while Shoji and Sato released their grip and were bent over and breathing heavily, Kirishima was leaning on top of the lid of the chest, wheezing slightly, "Holy crap, this thing is heavy! What the heck does he have in here?"
"Perhaps I can help." Ochako spoke up suddenly, gingerly moving towards the chest and wiggling her fingers to show off the tiny nubs on the ends of them, "It shouldn't be too heavy for me to float."
As soon as the anti-gravity user delicately placed her fingertips on the top of the chest after Kirishima had moved away, the metallic bindings along the chest suddenly flared to life with what looked like runes of some language none of the students could recognize. Most of the students cried out in shock. The chest continued to be illuminated as Ochako backed right away from it, "Wh—What's happening?!"
"Anti-levitation runes to prevent people from walking off with my belongings." The voice of the now awakened young man startled those close to the couch. Izuku was leaning up on one arm and looking towards Ochako, who was blushing and looked a little frightened at the green-haired man. " I'm not accusing you of stealing it, but just what the purpose of the runes is for."
Everyone backed away as Izuku sat up and rose to his feet, moving over to the currently glowing chest. Kneeling and placing his hand upon it, Izuku spoke a few words that were utterly alien to his new classmates as the runes slowly dimmed and faded away. Turning his gaze to the brunette with a smile, he said, "See? Nothing to worry about, though I have to ask, what is your quirk?"
"M-My quirk?" Ochako asked, feeling a little more relaxed after seeing how Izuku wasn't upset about touching the strange container. "U-um… If I touch all five of my fingers on something, I remove its gravity."
"Oh really? That's amazing!" Izuku beamed at Ochako before he squatted down and casually lifted the chest, moving it closer to the wall and leaving everyone in shock from just how easy he made moving the overly heavy object. Opening and reaching in, Izuku soon pulled out something wrapped in what looked like a crude cloth made out of leather. The odd young man unwrapped it and pulled out what looked like a small strip of jerky, which had an aromatic scent to it. As he closed the lid of the chest and then sat on top of the lid, taking a rather hefty bite out of the meat and looking towards Ochako again, "I'm guessing that the magic I used to protect the chest thought your quirk was similar to a 'levitation' spell, as rare as that is back on Nirn."
It was then that Izuku noticed the wide-eyed stares of the other young men and women in the room, "Um… is everything alright?"
"Dude!" Kirishima spoke up from the stunned crowd, "How did you do that?!"
"... I reached in and took out some rations?" Izuku said with a tilt of his head and in a confused tone of voice before reaching out his hand, holding the jerky towards the red-haired student, "I have more than enough to share if you'd like to try some."
"Oh! Sure!" Kirishima suddenly perked up from his earlier shock and took a small piece of the dried meat, "But I was referring to you lifting that chest! Shoji-bro, Sato-bro, and I couldn't even make it budge! Did those things on the metal bindings prevent us from lifting it?"
As Kirishima took a bite of the jerky he had when, Izuku chuckled gently, seeing the sharp-toothed struggle slightly with the meat before finally ripping off a chunk, "The only magic on this chest is a huge storage enchantment and the anti-levitation mentioned before. Sadly, the storage one doesn't prevent how heavy it gets."
"W-Wait…" Momo was now the one to speak up since Kirishima was trying to chew with his mouth full of mystery jerky. "Just how heavy is that chest?"
"Um… I don't actually know. I've never had any issues with the weight, now that I think about it." Izuku said, turning his gaze towards Momo and offering her some jerky, "Would you like to try some as well?"
"No, but thank you…" Momo said with a polite bow of her head, "Then what exactly is in there?"
"Oh! All my armor, materials like ores and the bars I made out of them, some dragon bones and scales-"
"O-one moment!" Tenya suddenly exclaimed, after having finally snapped out of his stupor from what he had been witnessing so far, only to pick up on something rather odd that was previously said as he pushed up his glasses and addressed their new classmate, "What did you mean by 'magic'?"
Izuku merely blinked at the speedster, tilting his head slightly, "By magic, I mean magic… like what I explained about the runes on my chest."
"But magic isn't real!" The class president proclaimed though Izuku looked amused for a moment before wrapping up the remaining jerky and placing it back into the trunk. When he brought out his hand, Izuku now held a rather rough piece of rock in his grip.
"Magic is real! And I can prove it!" Holding out the rather dull grayish hardened earth towards Tenya and letting the others of his class see it as well, "Do you know what this is?"
"Midoriya? May I?" Momo asked with her hand out towards Izuku, who nodded his head gently at her while the young heiress looked it over. While some of her classmates looked on in curiosity as to what she was doing, Momo had gently lifted the rock up and down in her hand, getting a feel of its weight, taking note of colorization, and thinking back to the formulas she had memorized due in part to her quirk before handing it back to the green-haired young man with a look, "This is iron ore."
"Yep, and watch this!" Izuku smiled as he now turned his gaze towards the ore in his hand, raising his other one above it as it began to glow slightly; those with superior hearing would pick up on the rather odd language Izuku was speaking while the stone started to emit the same light that was coming from his hand, only for his fingers to suddenly flex out, with the light from both his fingers and the ore disappearing, revealing the iron ore to now be slightly shinier, though oddly enough, just a bit smaller than before.
"That's it?" Kaminari spoke up as he looked towards Izuku, who was still smiling, and turned his attention to the blonde, "You just made it a little shinier… compared to what we saw earlier today; that doesn't seem all that great?"
Izuku's smile faded and turned to shock, staring at Kaminari for a moment before looking over at everyone else, "Y-You guys saw my test?"
"Yes, the dean had invited us to watch earlier this morning, and most of us took up the invitation," Tenya spoke up once again, with many of the students nodding their heads in agreement. Izuku could only continue to stare blankly at the speedster, trying to process and think of his next move on how to explain himself.
Granted, perhaps he shouldn't have been showcasing and talking about his magical abilities like he usually would back in Skyrim and should have tried to pass off his abilities as a quirk.
"Midoriya?" Momo's voice brought Izuku out of his thoughts as she stepped up to him once more, "Would you mind if I retook a look at the ore?"
"Huh? Oh sure, Momo." Izuku replied, offering the shiny object to the heiress, who was blushing slightly at the fact he had called her by her first name, ignoring the way a couple of the other girls were looking at her, especially a pink-skinned menace and her invisible cohort. The heiress was first shocked at how the weight had changed compared to what it was previously before Izuku's little 'light show'. Turning it over and looking over the composition, Momo nearly dropped the object as she was startled by what was currently in her hand and the fact she had witnessed such a transformation.
This didn't go unnoticed by her classmates as Kyoka looked worriedly at Momo, her hand on her arm, "Yaomomo? What's wrong?"
"I-it's not possible…" The heiress spoke softly, almost in a whisper, as her eyes were still wide in shock before slowly looking up towards Izuku, who also seemed to have a worried expression as she held out the ore to him, "Midoriya… h-how pure is this?"
"Pure?" Izuku asked with a raised brow now, looking down to the ore himself as his emerald eyes shifted left and right slightly while he was thinking before looking back into the deep onyx of Momo's, "I… don't have a good estimate, as I would normally smelt down the ore into bars, but I normally have no impurities when I do that… so one hundred percent?"
A loud thunk echoed off the walls as Momo dropped the ore to the ground, staring in shock at what the man claimed, which made a few others look more confused about what was being said.
"Um… not to sound stupid or anything… but what's the big deal exactly?" Sero asked, his usual smile gone while he spoke. He kept looking between the two students and the ore, which was now on the floor.
"Silver…" Momo said suddenly, her eyes not leaving Midoriya's as he remained silent, moreso due to the way the heiress was acting, "He turned that iron ore into pure silver."
Everyone remained silent at that, the implications making the air in the room thick as more and more of the students began to come to the same conclusion as their vice president, now just staring at Izuku, who was a little taken aback by something as mundane, at least to him, as a simple transmutation spell.
For one woman in the room, however, from what the mysterious man before her had said during their talk the previous night, as well as the way he carried himself during the USJ, let alone from the demonstration earlier in the day and the unrealistic power he commanded during the event, Momo Yaoyorozu fixed her gaze on Midoriya's, taking a few steps closer and made sure he was locked onto her as she spoke with a firm tone of voice as she asked probably the most critical question during that time.
"Izuku Midoriya, who are you?"
"Are you sure about this, sir?" Toshinori Yagi asked, now shrunken down to his skeletal form. He placed his empty cup onto the saucer before putting both down on the dean's desk. "Not that I would normally judge your intentions…"
"I know Toshinori, but he is going to be one of our students, so it would make sense for him to live with them." Nezu said as he took a sip from his cup, "If you are worried about him being armed, I had him place all his weapons into a heavily secured area in the support studio."
"N-No, that wasn't my concern, though seeing that the boy can just "will" weapons to his person is a little worrisome, you have to admit." The number one hero spoke with a bit of mirth to his voice before relaxing back into the chair he was in.
"Indeed, and their very nature is quite interesting as well, from what Midoriya had explained to me of them prior to today's earlier test." Nezu mused to himself, reaching out towards the pot on his desk and pouring more of it into his cup, then raising it towards the other person in the room in a silent offer to pour more for him, who politely declined, "But you seem still on edge in regards to our latest student."
Toshinori sighed softly, rubbing the back of his head. "Yes, and it's about how he dispatched the villain at the USJ."
"Ah, the fact that he killed them?" Nezu asked as he watched the pro hero solemnly nod in response.
"I read the initial police report about why he did such a thing and what he had claimed this "Nomu" to be, and even if my friend's quirk said he was telling the truth, it still makes me feel ill knowing that someone so young was that quick to end a life." Toshinori crossed his arms over his chest, his icy blue eyes looking down at his empty cup and saucer, "Just what would drive someone to act with such… "
"Savagery?" Nezu spoke up to get the gaze of the number one hero's eyes on him, "Well, I can assure you that Midoriya is well aware of our laws and how they differ from where he originally has been for the last fifteen years. I doubt we will need to worry about him killing anyone any time soon."
"But will he take a life again?"
"If there was a time it was needed, perhaps if he and another's life are in the direst of circumstances." Nezu calmly spoke as he placed his cup and saucer down on the desk as well, "Despite his upbringing and the fact he will need a tutor to catch up with the rest of his classmates with the more academic courses, but when it comes to heroics in general… my goodness, I dare say he could give both you and Endeavor a run for their money."
"That is… honestly surprising to hear." Toshinori looked a little bemused at the notion of such a young man having such high praise coming from Nezu, and the small creature was not one to be easily impressed, "But now I'm curious as to what I could teach him when it comes to heroics class if that is the case."
"I had a thought about that, and if you're willing, not only would it allow you to keep an eye on the boy, but also perhaps give you a little more time to find your successor," Nezu spoke cryptically, but before Toshinori could ask what the dean was talking about, the door to the office opened suddenly, to reveal Aizawa, now fully unbandaged and holding a folder in his hand.
"The detective just dropped this off. You both may want to look at it." The shabby-dressed teacher lightly tossed the folder towards Nezu before moving to sit on the large couch within the office and pulling out a jelly packet from under his scarf. As he was doing this, Nezu brought the folder closer to himself, opened it, and began to read the files within.
The mammalian creature tsked and shook his head, making Toshinori raise an eyebrow, "Sir? What is that?"
"The autopsy report of the creature that Midoriya killed." The dean spoke with a cold tone, further causing the number one hero to look further confused, considering the odd choice of words, "It seems he was right. The body of the Nomu was a corpse long before he had arrived at the USJ…" Nezu's voice grew cold as he continued to read further on, "And that multiple quirk factors were found within the creature's DNA. And given the states by the witnesses and claims by that one villain how the beast was 'engineered'-"
"But that's impossible!" All Might shouted and suddenly bulked up in response after putting two and two together from Nezu's explanation, making even Aizawa wince from the shock, "Are you saying that-"
"Yes, I am afraid it may be him, All Might." That was all Nezu said before sliding over documents for him to look at and read. As All Might was doing this, Aizawa looked at the pair with a furrow in his brow, though he was just as confused.
"What are you two talking about?"
All Might then looked towards the underground teacher, bright blue eyes shifting slightly between him and the dean, who was now just pouring himself another cup of tea and taking a sip before sighing gently.
"Tell me, Aizawa," Nezu spoke softly, a sharp look in his eye when All Might was about to protest but backed down instantly from the dean's overwhelming aura, "What do you know about the villain known as 'All for One'?"