Hey all! Hope you have been enjoying the latest few chapters!

Just an update for the chapter 51 'smut' scenes, they are being worked on and should be finished by either the next chapter or just before its release. Sorry for the wait, but with the changing of the seasons, my energy is just at an all-time low because of medical issues.

Anyway, Just a reminder to be checking out the two other stories I'm working on "Izuku Midoriya: The Green Gaul" and "Three Sides of the Same Coin", which the latter is being collabed with two amazing authors: Pizzaplate and Derpo!

Anyway, onto the reviews!

fallendemon248: Ascians usually possess a mortal body because they need a vessel so that if it dies, their essence can move on to a new body (think Emet Selch with his constant possession of the original Emperor of Garland) and in ShB, an Ascian possessed the corpse of one of the original Warriors of Light from the first, which had been dead for nearly 100 years.

During the events of Hosu, when both Himiko and Deku were close by to the unlocking of the Samurai kit, the aether release affected Deku in such a way that it gave him a power boost as well as upping his own aether, giving him a physical body (for all the good and bad that comes with it)

So, even though the body was only temporary, it was still 'real' enough to allow Deku to knock up Himiko (which is currently unknown to both of them)

PMC: Glad you caught up and been enjoying the story, and you'll just have to wait and see what Deku has planned :D because he knows he's on borrowed time now and has to put his own plan into action.

Silvanium: They will and they won't... you'll just have to wait and see.

SuperShadic2002: Yes she is lol, though I put that in there as a joke to the whole "pregnant women have interesting cravings", and while the audience knows, she doesn't yet.

Fyr RedNight: Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

Anyway, onto the latest chapter! enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to My Hero Academia and Final Fantasy XIV, they belong to their copyright holders.

Chapter 53

Of Tomes and Saplings

"Nabriales, I assume you have a good reason for the events during Hosu." All for One spoke in a low tone of voice, his fingers in front of the eyeless face of the 'super villain' as if he was staring hard at the Ascian before him. It had been a few days since the nemesis of All Might had seen or heard any word from the robed being, and even still the loss of the first of the promised "many" Primal Nomu's was a severe loss for his powerbase, that and All for One had to listen to the doctor complaining about losing such a fine specimen.

The Ascian merely shrugged nonchalantly before crossing his arms over his chest, "Some of it was from boredom, though I did wish to see how well your 'pupil' could if at all control a Primal. And sadly, he is still far from ready to do even that."

"It doesn't mean that you can just steal or swap out valuable specimens from my laboratory!" The doctor shouted out, coming from behind some of the larger glass tubs housing other Nomu, "The Primal Nomu was FAR come complete!"

"It was complete." Nabriales responded with a tense tone to his voice, "While that Nomu we used as a base was perfect for the Lord of the Inferno to manifest to this world, the aether within it was far less than I had expected."

"And from what you had told us before, regarding how this 'aether' is related to Quirks, would simply not adding more quirks to a Nomu's body allow the Primal's to fully manifest?" The doctor asked, stroking his thin beard as All for One continued to listen to the two men before him, clearly enjoying the conversation with interest.

"No, the issue is not the number of Quirks within the body, but more the quality." The Ascian spoke and had moved himself over towards one encased Nomu's letting the claws on his gauntlet run down the glass as Nahbriales looked up to the floating creature, "While all these creatures are awe-inspiring, the problem stems from the fact that they are decaying bodies, meaning their aether is also decaying. While the magic within the crystals I infuse into their bodies will use that aether to create the proper vessels needed, they will be far weaker than what we hope for because of how 'weakened' their aether is from the natural decay of time within a dead body."

"Now, I believe I have a solution to this, but this will require a hefty price on your part." The black-robed individual had turned toward All for One, who merely tilted his head in a curious gesture.

"And what, pray tell, would that be?"

"A perfect vessel would require a 'living' Nomu, similar to that brute you call "Gigantomachia", who I think would perfectly fit the bill to house the powers of the Lord of Crags, Titan." Nabriales smiled devilishly as he spoke, his hands behind his back as if he was expecting full compliance with such a suggestion.

However, All for One was not so quickly compelled even to humor the request. While the two-hundred-year-old villain was pleased with how well the Primal Nomu had decimated the heroes in Hosu, as well as causing just general chaos and destruction, even for how supposedly "weak" it was, he was not ready to have his most loyal follower become one as of yet.

"I will think upon it, but I would rather we test it upon-" The sightless head of All for One turned towards the doctor, "A Nomu that has a 'fresher' body perhaps?"

"You would have to make a new one, as all of these…." The Ascian spoke as he looked about the vast amount of Nomu still within the glass tubes all around them, "Are too far gone for this purpose."

The smile that slowly spread across Nabriales lips as he continued to speak had caused the doctor to shiver from such a look, "But do not worry, I have someone in mind for the task already within my sights… I just need some time to prepare them."

"I trust that it won't take too long, Nabriales." All for One spoke with a tone of command but also at ease as if not to raise the temper or ire of the black-robed individual. While he wasn't pleased with the loss of the first Nomu, similar to how the doctor had been, the nearly immortal being known better than to threaten a person who could destroy him and everything he worked for with a wave of a hand.

"It shant, though the process of the conversion should be quicker than Ifrit due to how 'fresh' the body and aether will be, and should it prove successful, then I can prepare not only for Titan but also for the one that shall be the downfall of your nemesis as well."

"Excellent, now, there is one more matter I wish to discuss with you… given our partnership and moving forward." All for One spoke as various screens full of images of a particular green-haired young man from different angles taken from the news broadcast of the fight in Hosu.

Nabriales gritted his teeth as All for One leaned over, his hands under his chin with a big smile stretched across his lips, "So tell me, Nabriales… What is so special about this boy?"

Izuku sighed gently as he strolled along the path back towards the 1-A dorms, still thinking about his discussion with Nezu.

While he was initially put off by not being able to help Mei build some more magitek to present to the head scientists of I-Island, he could understand the reasoning to be barred from it.

The process of designing and building the magitek, while relaxing at times, was often a stressful mess for most of it. Granted, it was more from dealing with all of Mei's tendencies to push the limits of what the tech could do. It didn't help that the machines STILL exploded somehow, even without crystals to power them.

Goddess, help them should that happen when the damn things were turned on.

Speaking of explosions, there was that other bombshell that was also dropped on him. The fact he was going to I-Island was such an exciting thing! And yet, despite the awe of even going to the remote artificial land, Izuku was hesitant.

For one thing, trying to fully explain the magitek and how it worked off of crystals that were only procured from either his personal storage within the machinist kit or from whatever source Nezu got the ones he gives to Mei would be a huge turn off for any of those investors—not forgetting the fact that if I-Island could manufacture new and incredible magitek devices, then how long would it take for those with 'evil' intentions to get their hands on them? While the security on the island was on par with the prison "Tartarus", (which Izuku began to think it was possibly constructed with the aid of I-Island engineers), there were still ways for villains to end up with some gear of inventions once it left the island.

But then, the other reason for his hesitation was Eri. Under normal circumstances, Izuku would have told Nezu that he wanted his daughter with him, considering how little time Eri had been practicing with her quirk and controlling it, and Aizawa wouldn't be able to come along to stop the small girl's powers from going out of control due to his own life needs.

That and he doubted that I-Island had the proper defenses needed to handle someone like Nabriales, who could easily attack while Izuku was far from UA.

Running his hand through his hair and sighing heavily, Izuku came to a stop in the middle of the path beside one of the large forested areas on the university grounds. He squinted his eyes as the throbbing within his mind occurred, forcing him to look down a natural path leading deeper into the woods.

"Oh come on, not again…" Izuku muttered to himself, turning into the forested area and letting the typical migraine lead him to whatever was 'pulling' him.

If this was going to lead him towards another fight against a villain, Izuku swore he would talk to Krile and get all of the pain medication to block out these 'pulls'.

The trek into the forest was not an unpleasant experience, aside from the mild headache. Following the 'pull' had led Izuku to an ever more off-beaten path. Within a few minutes of walking and pushing aside some branches and bushes, Izuku finally came into a small clearing. The sight before him caused him to blink in surprise.

While most of the woods were indeed thicker in this part of the forest and formed almost an impassable barrier around the clearing, aside from the small entrance Izuku had found, the canopy was only partially covered, with beams of sunlight streaming in from above and landed upon the lone fallen log laying on the grassy floor.

Slowly moving closer to the log, Izuku could see various toadstools and other fungi growing along the trunk of the dead tree, and though he had some knowledge of the local mushrooms, some of these even escaped his knowledge. But what caught his attention was the upside-down book laying not too far from the mushrooms, as if it had fallen out of a pack.

Curiosity (and the pull) brought him closer, allowing him to kneel down and slowly pick it up, turning the book around and blinking at the book's title. While he wasn't as strong as a linguist like Momo, Izuku did know a good bunch of English, given having to learn the language to watch and read all those All Might interviews from his time in the USA and the title of this book, along with the images of fairies flitting about or sitting on toadstools caused Izuku to mutter out the title.

"Fairy Tales from around the world?"

A gasp coming from the entranceway to the forest caused Izuku to whip around and stare at the brown eyes of the latest 'intruder' in the grove. Izuku blinked for a moment as he took in the sight of the shorter student from 1-B. Her hair resembled a mushroom top that hid her eyes, aside from this one instance, and noticed that they were shaped similarly like shiitake mushroom tops. She was wearing an outfit similar to the time they had first met during the study session near the beginning of the semester, although the pure white lolita outfit from last time was now replaced by one with a deep red to the fabric, with almost lavender like laces at the edges.

It also seemed to show off Kinoko's rather curvy body with how tight the corset was wrapped around her midsection that he had heard some of the other guys, mainly Mineta and Kaminari, coin the term "short stack", and while Izuku knew better, he couldn't help but think the word fit this woman perfectly.

As for Kinoko, she was frozen in place upon seeing the rather tall green-haired teenager that was alone here in her 'sanctuary' with her but the fact he was wearing some very fitting clothes that showed off his body and muscles.

She could feel the heat coming off of her cheeks as she was about to speak, only for her surprise awe to turn to a pale dread upon seeing the book in Izuku's hand. So, the petite mushroom-loving girl did the one thing that she knew would cause her further embarrassment if it ever did happen upon meeting her crush.

She fainted.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Izuku asked, kneeling beside Kinoko as she fidgeted with her fingers and looked down, trying to hide her reddened face from the boy beside her.

"I-I am fine… s-sorry for fainting there, it's just I…." Kinoko softly trailed off, looking away, and causing Izuku to raise an eyebrow at her, looking at the book between the two and letting his mind think on that for a few moments before realizing her embarrassment.

"If… I had to guess…." Izuku began to say, gently placing his hand on the cover and tapping it with his fingers, "You had some trouble in the past with people making fun of your interests and hobbies?"

The silent nod of her head was the only answer she gave him as Izuku lifted the book's cover a little, "I've never been into fairy tales myself, what with my obsession with pro heroes, but honestly, everyone has something like that, heck I…." Izuku stopped for a moment, frowning as Kinoko looked towards him, curious as to why he stopped talking.

It took a few moments, but Izuku sighed gently before smirking at her, "Truth is, I was bullied a LOT when it came to my analysis hobby."

"R-Really? W-Why?" Kinoko asked with a curious tilt to her head, shifting her hair to allow her eyes full of concern and interest at this particular point, "Y-Your analysis books helped Setsuna improve her quirk usage from the way she talked about them."

Rubbing the back of his neck, Izuku chuckled softly before looking down at the grass, "Well… truth be told, when you have a supposedly 'quirkless' kid telling you how to improve your quirk, or finding its weaknesses….'' The boy went silent as the swaying of the leaves danced up above them with the rustling of leaves to fill the void in the air. Kinoko's eyes widened at the implications he was giving her, her hands quaking both in sadness and rage that they would brush off this nice boy because he didn't have a quirk, how cruel they must have been to him.

The shifting within the grass caught Izuku's attention as he saw that Kinoko was kneeling beside him. The right side of her cheek puffed out as she had presented him the book, "Those shroomtops don't know what they are missing out then! To think that they would bully such a 'fungi' like you!"

Izuku kept staring at her as he slowly took the book, blushing slightly as Kinoko plopped herself back down beside him, "T-Thanks Komori… I-I um…" Izuku cleared his throat, slowly opening the book, "Y-yea, they certainly missed out, y-you could even say it was 'crimino' even…."

As Izuku was leafing through the pages with the utmost care (it wasn't his book after all), Kinoko was simply staring at him, the furious look on her face melted to a blushing mess with her gaze under her hair just staring at him as her heart skipped a beat due to the mushroom pun he had made.

Eventually snapping out of it, Kinoko sat beside him, watching him turn the pages slowly to look upon the pictures illustrated in them with keen interest, "W-when I was small, and when my Quirk first manifested, I t-thought I could grow mushrooms to the size where I could sit on them… l-like the fairies do in those stories."

"Plus, the application of such gigantic mushrooms could provide excellent cover and as a makeshift stretcher for the injured to rest on, or make them big enough to create medicines and antidotes!" Izuku had said with excitement in his voice, looking towards Kinoko with a look matching the tone of his voice, "That's a superb use of your already amazing quirk, Komori!"

"O…oh… oh thank you, Midoriya… b-but I can't make them super big."

"Not yet, but we are here at UA to learn, and I'm sure there is a way you can figure it out and achieve your dream."

Kinoko was blushing madly now, fidgeting slightly at the praise being given to her by Izuku as the boy turned his attention back to the book, flipping another page over, only to stop and furrow his brows, "...What the?"

"Hmmm? W-What's wrong, Midoriya?" Kinoko asked, shifting over slightly to better look at what he was staring at. She blinked from under her haircut before turning her gaze to the still perplexed-looking boy.

"Doesn't this picture look odd to you?" Izuku asked, still looking at the image and showing it to her, "Like, it looks like this clearing, doesn't it?"

Kinoko frowned and looked at the picture again, taking in the scene of two figures in silhouette, one standing upon a stump of some kind with a fallen log beside them and the other figure kneeling by the log. Taking a few extra minutes to look over the scene, Kinoko softly gasped, "Y-You know? It kinda does look like this clearing…."

Izuku winced slightly as his gaze looked upon the text underneath the picture. The throbbing in his head increased as he slowly began to push himself up onto his feet, moving towards the stump. Kinoko rose up slightly, her hand close to her chest in worry at seeing the obvious pain in his face, "M-Midoriya?"

"I-It's nothing… when my quirk decides to unlock… ow… a new kit… I get a massive headache. It's what brought me here and made me pick up the book." He said while gritting his teeth, stepping onto the log stump, and opening the rather hefty tome in a single hand, "And... it's too much of a coincidence that my head is pounding while looking at this page."

The air grew silent; not even the chirping of birds could be heard as Izuku began to mimic the pose from within the book, stretching a hand out as he suddenly spoke aloud;

"O loveliest of branches,

In this hour of need,

Though time hast greatly passed,

Your sapling calls out to you,

Please grant me your succor!"

As Izuku spoke the final words on the page, the air was silent, and still, not even the rustling of leaves could be heard as the pressure from his headache faded instantly. Izuku blinked, lowered the book, and simply stood on the log.

The baffled look on his face matched Kinoko's, who slowly turned her head left and right before looking back up at the boy in confusion, "Um... Midoriya, was something supposed to happen?"

Midoriya looked down at the mushroom girl, with just an equally confused look on his face, "I honestly have no-" "YOU HAVE SOME NERVE!"

The shrill voice echoed out in the clearing, making both of the students jump in fright before a buzzing light suddenly burst out of the foliage from the barrier of trees, striking Izuku in the chest and causing him to fall from his perch and land hard on his back with a pained grunt.

Kinoko scrambled up to her feet, moving to make sure Izuku hadn't smacked his head or a rock or a part of the log, but just as she looked upon the scene, she gasped softly, and her eyes went wide with what she seen currently 'standing' on his chest.

Standing on Izuku's chest was a tiny androgynous being, though slightly more feminine in certain aspects, as well as the tone of her voice, would denote a female, but what Kinoko would take notice was how much smaller she was to the both of them, standing no more than a foot in height with four beautiful butterfly-like wings motionless on their back.

The being was wearing a bright red leotard with matching boots that traveled up to their midthighs, with matching red gloves that traveled up to the underarm of the creature. Its hair was just as red as its getup, with two pigtails on each side looking like flames flickering in candlelight.

Izuku, at this point, had tilted his head up to take in the features of the creature that attacked him and was met with the cold fury of grayish blue eyes looking into his emeralds.

With its hands on its hips, the creature stamped its foot hard against Izuku's stomach, causing him to groan and gasp out for air, "HEARTLESS! Such a CRUEL little sapling you are! All these years waiting for you to call upon me! SIX HUNDRED years, and not once did you call out for the aid of your branch!"

"I'm sorry?- OOF!" Izuku gasped out from another stomp to his stomach, the creature suddenly sniffed the air, and both students could see it was starting to cry.

"I waited and waited and WAITED for you to call upon me! Even if it was to deliver dreams to your retainers like I did before!" The obvious fairy was stamping their feet on Izuku's chest and stomach, pacing back and forth, and kept rambling on, "But no! Not so much as a peep from my sapling! Even after everything we did together to save Il Mheg!"

At this point, the fairy had stopped, her sniffles long since stopped as she squinted down at Izuku, suddenly lifting off his chest and zipping around his head, turning it from side to side, "And what of your fluffy ears! I don't even see your equally fluffy tail!"

Zipping back into Izuku's face and pushing his mouth open, the creature gasped in fright, "and no sharp fangs or your kitten-like eyes! Did that mean Thancred trick you into drinking another 'Fantasia' potion again?!"

"Aancred?" Izuku asked while his mouth was still propped open before it was slammed shut by the fairy-like being as they zipped up high above the pair, muttering to itself loudly.

"This is wrong, all wrong! The only one who could call upon me is my dear sweet sapling! And I can feel him right now coming from that stranger! It's not like the 'potion incident' where I could tell it was him even though he turned into a Drahn…." The fairy looked towards Izuku now, their eyes squinting at him as Kinoko watched, "His aether is like my saplings, but different… changed… just like…." The creature's eyes shifted left and right, deep in thought before widening in horror and shrieking out, "NO! MY PRECIOUS SAPLING!"

"Please don't shout, and I can exp-ACK!" Izuku cried out as from the ground underneath his feet came a large tree root, smacking him hard and sending him flying into a large trunk of trees at the barrier of the clearing. Kinoko shrieked and rushed towards him.

"MIDORIYA!"

"What did you do?" The creature hissed out from under their breath, the canopy above the two students growing darker as the trees seemed to grow and block out the sun, making the only source of light to be coming from the tiny creature.

Kinoko knelt beside Izuku, checking his chest for the large gash running across his chest and stomach through his cut shirt as with a brilliant flash of light, what was looming over the two students was not a tiny creature anymore.

Both looked up to see a giant of a woman, looking more than twelve feet tall and wearing a tight-fitting gown that reached past her toes. While pink in coloration, the dress's fabric looked more like petals off of a beautiful flower. Her wings had multiplied significantly and looked more fiery red to make her still present pigtails, but as long as she was tall.

Adorned upon her head, between her pigtails, sat a crown, while in her right hand, she held a staff that resembled a flower pointing directly at the two.

"Tell me!" she demanded, her face full of rage with tears streaming down the corners of her eyes, "What have you done to him?! what have you done to MY Quinn?!"

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE PRECIOUS SAPLING OF FEO UL AND KING TITANIA?"