Chapter 05
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TwinstarDragon:
Thank you for pointing out that error, since i missed it. I put that purely out of habit. Yes, the karma has started.
Thank you
Regarding the PM i sent you, i asked that, because there are times where you forget to add something to the reviews, before posting it
ReximusProductionsYT:
Yep, and needing somewhat minor care at best, with major care, at the worst
If i had to summarize, it would be "a maelstrom of horror and regret"
Previously
After those horrifying revelations, all might forced himself to buff up and use a [united states of smash], using the last of the fire of OFA that he could safely use.
Now
Akane, tenya, eijiro, momo and katsuki went back to the dorm after AFO was loaded in the maiden carrier. Toshinori, in his revealed deflated state in his hero costume, is shown to be walking away without giving an interview, a lost look on his face. "Come on, let's go back," akane managed to say, as she turned and left.
Once the group got back, katsuki was forced to take therapy with hound dog about his capture. Needless to say, hound dog has a massive amount of patience, because he still managed to talk to katsuki, despite him destroying his office with his quirk. With akane, she was practically catatonic as she sat there in nezu's office, along with her parents, with them being nearly as catatonic as their daughter.
Nezu was looking at the family of three in concern, while aizawa looked apathetic. "Are you feeling alright, miss midoriya?" nezu asked akane. "Whether she is alright is irrelevant. The question we should be asking, nezu, is if the problem girl knew about her sister being a villain," aizawa said. Akane froze at that, as did her parents. However, if aizawa paid attention, he would know that he was getting close to setting off a massive amount of C4. "All things considered, i've been suspecting that there has been a spy in my class, and who better to spy on my class, than the sister of a fucking villain?" aizawa said with some venom.
Something snapped in akane, and before anyone realized it, she was atop aizawa, beating him into the ground with sunlight-encased fists, burning him as she beat on him. "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY BABY SISTER?! SAY THAT AGAIN, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" akane screamed as she beat on her teacher. As his student was beating on him, aizawa managed to activate his quirk, and he looked at her, fully expecting her quirk to stop working. However, much to his shock, the sunlight around her fist did not disappear. Akane continued to beat on her teacher until the rest of the teachers arrived, courtesy of nezu pressing the emergency button under the top of his desk.
Akane threw midnight, vlad king, cementoss and powerloader through the walls and door of the office. She then dodged the voice blast of present mic and blasted him with a beam of condensed sunlight, blasting him out the closed window, before she dodged and blasted the clones of ectoplasm, as well as the original getting knocked unconscious. Akane then returned to beating on her homeroom teacher, who had managed to stand up with the help of the wall.
Once she was finished, 15 minutes later, akane was calm, while her parents and nezu looked at her in shock, and eraserhead was a bloody, barely breathing lump of flesh. "Anything else, sir?" she calmly asked nezu. "No. you can go back to your dorm," nezu said. "Yes, sir," akane said. She stood, bowed a bit to nezu and left through one of the holes in the walls and took flight to the dorms of 1-A.
The dorms
Akane landed on the balcony of her room, before she went inside. She simply sat on her bed, and stayed there. As she sat there, she began to remember the times that she had been there for her sister.
Memory
Akane and izumi are eight years old
Akane was sitting on her bed reading, while izumi was asleep. Akane heard a moaning sound, and she looked at her sister. She saw that her sister was tossing and turning in her sleep, her face showing unease, before she jerked awake and started to breathe heavily, looking wildly around her room.
In a flash, akane put the book down and hugged her sister. Izumi clutched akane, like she was terrified. "Shh, shh, it'll be alright, izumi. It'll be alright," akane said soothingly, as she rubbed the back of her sister's hair. "You need to sleep, izumi," akane said kindly. Izumi froze in fear, as she clutched her sister in terror. "It'll be alright, moon princess," akane said, using the nickname she gave her sister when they were six, after they read the story about a sun princess and a moon princess. Izumi had always been really pale, but not quite albino, so her nickname became the princess of the moon, or luna. Akane, on the other hand, had always had a healthy skin tone that seemed to glow with sunlight. So, izumi gave the the nickname of 'princess of the sun', or celestia.
Hearing her nickname, izumi calmed down ever so slightly, but was still clutching to her sister in fear. Akane tried soothing her sister more, but nothing worked. Finally, she had an idea. "Alright, luna, i'll sing you a lullaby," akane said, before she began to sing.
Lullaby for a princess
Akane hummed a bit, to start the song.
Fate has been cruel and order unkind
How can I have sent you away?
The blame was my own, the punishment, yours
The harmony's silent today
But into the stillness, I'll bring you a song
And I will your company keep
Till your tired eyes and my lullabies
Have carried you softly to sleep
Akane stops for a few moments, letting izumi's attention get grabbed by the song, before akane resumes the song.
Once did a pony who shone like the sun
Look out on her kingdom and sigh
She smiled and said, "Surely, there is no pony
So lovely and so well beloved as I"
So great was her reign and so brilliant her glory
That long was the shadow she cast
Which fell dark upon the young sister she loved
And grew only darker as days and nights passed
Soon did that pony take notice that others
Did not give her sister her due
And neither had she loved her as she deserved
She watched as her sister's unhappiness grew
But such is the way of the limelight, it sweetly
Takes hold of the mind of its host
And that foolish pony did nothing to stop
The destruction of one who had needed her most
She cupped her sister's cheek and used her thumb to wipe the tears of fear from izumi's eye.
Lullay moon princess, goodnight sister mine
And rest now in moonlight's embrace
Bear up my lullaby, winds of the earth
Through cloud, and through sky, and through space
Carry the peace and the coolness of night
And carry my sorrow in kind
Akane gently hugged her sister tightly to her.
Luna, you're loved so much more than you know
May troubles be far from your mind
And forgive me for being so blind
The years now before us
Fearful and unknown
I never imagined
I'd face them on my own
May these thousand winters
Swiftly pass, I pray
I love you, I miss you
All these miles away
May all your dreams be sweet tonight
Safe upon your bed of moonlight
And know not of sadness, pain, or care
And when I dream, I'll fly away and meet you there
Sleep...
Sleep...
Sleep...
Izumi went to sleep, looking calm. Akane smiled, before she kissed her sister's forehead in a sisterly way. "Sweet dreams, my beloved princess of the moon," she said before she laid down with her sister. Akane tried to stay awake, but she ended up falling asleep, and the sisters ended up cuddling in bed, asleep and dead to the world.
Flashback end
Akane stayed sitting on her bed, tears coming from her eyes and down her cheeks, as she hugged her knees to her chest. "Luna, my dear princess of the night, please come back to me," she said to herself, as she started to cry. However, she didn't say that as quietly as she hoped.
Outside the room
Mina, toru, tsuyu, ochaco and momo were outside the room, with momo about to knock on the door. However, they froze when they heard what akane said to herself. "Who is this 'luna' that akane talked about?" mina said. "If i had to guess, it would be someone incredibly close to her that left," momo said. "But who could be that close to her?" ochaco asked. "Perhaps a sister that left?" tsuyu proposed. Just then, toru snapped her fingers and said "i got it", getting the attention of mina, ochaco, tsuyu and momo. "What is it?" ochaco asked. "I think i have an idea about who akane was referring to," toru said. "What is it?" tsuyu asked. "Follow me," toru said, leading the four to her room.
Once inside, the four sat around the heart-shaped table, while she was prepping a video. Once she had it ready, she put the projector on the table in front of the four girls, and played a video. The four saw that it was a MLP music video. "What does this have to do with it?" momo asked. "While i do love the music, and the video, i've been noticing the mark on akane's thighs," toru said. When celestia appeared, after the camera went to the side, toru paused it. "Look at celestia. Notice anything odd?" toru asked the girls. All four girls didn't see anything odd about celestia, aside from her rainbow-colored mane, which they told toru. "Agh, you girls are incredibly hopeless," toru groaned.
"Why do you say that?" ochaco whined. The other three were equally sad and hurt, even though you really couldn't tell on tsuyu's face. Toru grabbed a thing to use as a pointer (since she's perpetually invisible) and used it to point at celestia's flank. "Look here, see anything peculiar?" toru asked. The four girls looked at where toru was pointing, and were a bit stunned. "Good, you see it NOW," toru said, after seeing their faces. "Now watch," toru said, before she resumed the video.
When the video reached the point where the girls saw a dark alicorn crying, toru paused the video again. "Now, what do you see?" toru asked them. "A dark alicorn crying," ochaco said, with the other three nodding. "Again, you girls are completely hopeless," Toru groaned, again. "How come?" mina asked. Toru used the pointer to point at the dark alicorn's flanks, to which the four girls looked at, before they saw the crescent moon markings.
"You see it, now?" toru asked the girls. The four dumbly nodded. "Remember, if there is a sun, then there is almost always a moon," toru said, before she resumed the video, which played until the end. After the video ended, toru put away the projector, before she sat with the girls in her room. "Now, if that isn't what happened, it's at least a good portion. Remember the last night at camp, above the trees?" toru asked. "I think everyone that was on the ground there, does," mina said. "That was most likely akane, and the one with the moon mark," toru said. The four were surprised. "If this video is true about a good portion of it, in addition to what we overheard akane say, this 'luna' must be her sister," toru finished.
The girls were shocked. "Well shit," mina said. It may have been crude, but it was accurate about the situation.
In the warehouse
Izumi was cuddling her girlfriend. Himiko was asleep, so izumi's mind began to wander. She ended up remembering one of the times she that was there for her sister.
Flashback
Izumi and akane are about 9 years old
Izumi was going to bed, when she heard her sister crying. Izumi quickly went to her, and saw that akane had bandages around her, and she was bleeding somewhat heavily. "AKANE!" izumi yelled, before she went to her sister, grabbed some of the bandages and began to wrap them on akane's injuries. After about an hour, izumi finished bandaging her sister. Once she finished, izumi gently hugged akane. "Akane, what happened?" izumi asked her sister. "Baka pomeranian jumped me while i was distracted," akane admitted. "I managed to bandage your injuries, but you need to sleep," izumi stated kindly.
Akane shook her head. "No, i can't sleep. I'm too wired to do so," akane admitted. "Then i will sing you a lullaby, celestia," izumi said, before she began to sing.
Luna's reply
How my deeds pain me as time stretches long
How could I have hurt them this way?
So rest easy now, my punishment's mine
The weight of my crimes are my own.
Izumi gently hugged her sister, being mindful of the wrapped up injuries.
But into that stillness you brought me your song
With your voice my company kept
For your tired eyes and sweet lullabies
In exile I pay you my debt.
Izumi paused singing for a bit to breathe a bit, and for akane to get enraptured by the song.
Once did a pony who gleamed like the moon
Look out on her kingdom and sigh
Dejected she cried,
"Surely there is no pony who loves me, or finds any love in my night."
So great was her pain, she rose in rebellion
Against those who cared for her most
She let Nightmare fall upon all who she loved
And threatened to grip them in permanent cold.
Izumi began to cry a bit, even as she rubbed her sister's back.
Soon did her sister do what was demanded
And gave to the Moonlight her due
Breaking the Harmony, she saved her ponies
And banished her, as a wise ruler must do
Oh such is the weight of the crowns we wear, sister,
The duties we always uphold;
Oh may you forgive me that foolishness mine
And live on with no burden upon your soul
Akane began to relax into her sister's embrace.
Lullay, Celestia, good night sister mine
Rest now in starlight's embrace
May this cool lullaby reach you in dreams
And ease you your passage of days
May my apologies find you this night
And may my sorrow in kind
Celestia, you loved me much more than I knew.
May troubles be far from your mind
And forgive me for being so blind.
Izumi paused singing and gently rocked her sister, before she began to resume singing.
The space now before us, empty and forlorn
I never imagined
We'd face them all alone.
May these sunless seasons swiftly pass, I pray
I... I love you, I miss you, all these miles away
May all your dreams be sweet tonight
Safe upon that bed above the light
And know not of heartache, fear, nor gloom
And when I dream, I'll fly away and meet you soon.
Sleep...
Sleep...
Sleep...
Akane was deep asleep, her face peaceful. Izumi kissed her sister's forehead, before she smiled. "Goodnight, and sweet dreams, celestia," izumi said, before she laid her sister on the bed and cuddled up to her sister.
Flashback end
Izumi sat there as her girlfriend gently snored, as she cuddled up into her girlfriend. Izumi smiled at himiko's sleeping form, before she tried to move. Sadly, himiko had an iron grip. So, izumi unwrapped her girlfriend's arms from around her and swapped places with a large pillow, which himiko instantly grabbed and used as a hug pillow. Izumi chuckled, before she looked out the window and saw that it was still nighttime. So, izumi wrote a note and pinned it to the pillow, so that himiko would almost certainly notice it, once she woke up.
So, she quietly walked out of the warehouse and went for a flight. Once she was in shizuoka prefecture, she landed and started to walk. After walking for about an hour, she felt something small and light slam into her leg. She stopped and looked around her, and saw that she was in front of an alley. She looked down and saw that it was a little girl with wavy silver-blue hair going to the middle of her back. When the girl looked up, izumi saw that the girl had red eyes, which were crying, and had a small horn on the right side of her forehead.
Izumi knelt and picked the girl up. Seeing the stranger reach out to her, the child flinched. However, when the stranger picked her up, she felt safe, unlike with the bad men. So, she decided to take a risk.
"Help me," she whimpered, as she clutched onto the top of the strange girl holding her. Izumi looked at her in surprise. "Who are you, little unicorn?" izumi asked. "E-eri, miss," eri introduced herself. "I see, that is an adorable name for a unicorn," izumi smiled. Eri felt happy and even smiled a bit. "Would you like to come home with me?" izumi asked eri.
Eri froze at the question. She stayed frozen for a few seconds, before she timidly nodded. "Alright, little unicorn," izumi said. Izumi spread her wings before she took flight, with eri in her arms. As izumi took off, eri did what she could to hide in izumi's embrace. "It's ok, little unicorn, it's perfectly safe," izumi said. Hearing the reassurance, eri looked and saw the thay were flying in the air, to which eri looked in awe.
Izumi looked at eri and chuckled, before she looked forward. After a bit, she landed in front of the warehouse. "Welcome to our temporary home," izumi said to eri, before she walked in, eri in her arms.
Little over an hour ago
Shortly after izumi left, himiko grumbled. The thing she was clutching to her body didn't have any heat. So, she blearily woke up, fully expecting her girlfriend. Instead, it was a really large pillow, with a note pinned to the top. Curious about the note, she unpinned it and read it.
My loving vampire, i woke up before you. If you are reading this, then i went out for a walk.
I will return as soon as i can.
Izumi
Himiko pouted as she read the note. Seeing no other option, she sat, crossed her arms, pouted and began to wait for her girlfriend to come back. After a few minutes passed, izumi didn't come back. So, himiko turned on the tv and watched a movie.
As the movie ended, she heard the door to the base open. She turned and saw her girlfriend had returned. She quickly went and hugged her. "How could you leave me?" himiko whined. "I was wired, you were asleep and i didn't want to wake you," izumi stated. "Now, himi, could you please quit squeezing the child in my arms?" izumi asked.
"'Child'? What child?" himiko asked, as she backed up. She heard a whimpering sound, and looked at izumi's arms. Suddenly, the reason why izumi didn't hug back became clear: she was holding a little girl. Himiko got stars in her eyes as she looked at the child. "Aww, who might this little unicorn be?" himiko gushed.
"E-eri, miss," eri said quietly. Quietly squealing, so as not to scare the child, she snatched eri from izumi's arms and cuddled her. "Oh, you are just the most adorable child in the world, yes you are," himiko gushed. Eri got scared when himiko squealed, and got terrified when she snatched her from izumi's arms. However, she slowly calmed down when all himiko did was cuddle with her.
A tiny grumble sounded, and both himiko and izumi looked at eri, who blushed in embarrassment. "Aww, sounds like a certain unicorn is hungry," izumi cooed, and eri blushed a bit. She gently took eri from himiko, who pouted at the loss, and carried the little unicorn to the kitchen area, peeled and sliced an apple, put them on a plate, and carried both the plate and eri to a table. She set eri in a chair, put the plate in front of her, and eri began to eat happily. Izumi smiled a bit, as she patted eri's head.