Season 2 Finale, lets go! Final chapter of All For Luz for the year, and also for a little bit longer after that, seeing as I have a lot of other things that need to be edited and written for. It might be a couple of months before this is updated. I can't say for certain either way. What I can say is that this is it. The fight to end all fights (for now).
Oh, by the way, anything that is in ] and are bold are Named Attacks. I figured that if Luz wasn't going to be holding back, she'd drop a few named attacks. While she isn't declaring them or thinking of their names, it's more of a story thing. It's cool, and also this is where that happens. If you know, you know.
Enough of my rambling, let's get into it!
[Opening: SPECIALZ – By: King Gnu]
*The scene opens with a disembodied voice singing "You are my special" as drums and the sound of a turn table synthesizer follow it. As that happens, it shows Luz, no longer dressed in a hero costume but rather in a black trenchcoat with various decals, a white shirt, a purple skirt held up by a black belt with a golden buckle, a pair of spotted cat-themed stockings that reach just below her knees, a pair of black shoes, and a black fedora, standing atop a building, looking over the town of Gravesfield, Connecticut. The disembodied voice once again says, "You are my special." Luz narrows her now crimson-red eyes, glaring down at the town with anger and nostalgia.*
*The drums pick up in volume and are joined by an electric guitar, while at the same time, the title, "The Owl House - All For Luz," appears, with the Japanese Kanji "フクロウの家 -すべてはルスのために！ " Underneath it, and in a smaller font. The large number 2 is still next to the title; however, instead of being the colour yellow, it is now a crimson red colour, as the final "You are my special" rings out.*
*As the opening begins in full, the scene cuts to Hunter sitting on a chair in a dark and empty room, a spotlight lampshading over him, his sword made of light plunged into the ground, his eyes narrowed, and his demeanour prepared for a battle, whilst dressed in his Golden Guard attire, minus the mask. The scene cuts to Millie Ravenclaw creating a small army of Abominations, and much like Hunter, her expression is one of determination, prepared for whatever battle was about to come as a disembodied voice sings*
"Come on, let's dance to the edge and tumble down again."
"The town stands tall, post up at the end."
*Mid verse, the scene shifts to Sophia coated in a massive amount of dark energy, like that of a blackened flame, her eyes filled with both bloodlust and anticipation, whilst Jonah slowly fades into existence behind her out of a purple cloud, looming over her, arms crossed, no longer wearing the gas mask with a large smirk on his face, as Charlie sits on his shoulders, arms resting on his head as the disembodied voice continues.*
"Let's struggle on to the edge of death 'til nothing is left."
"Dance wildly. The bold are those who claim their respect."
*The scene changes to Luz walking down the barren streets of an evacuated Gravesfield, the ends of her trenchcoat swaying back and forth in the wind, her hands in her coat pockets. As she walks down the road, red sparks dance over her body as she glares down a police blockade.*
*She outstretches her left hand, the red sparks leaping off her arm. A dark purple aura follows suit alongside the red sparks, mixed with golden sparks of energy and red. A smirk takes up her visage as a wave of yellow and black energy rushes forward, forcing a scene transition as the disembodied voice continues.*
"I love you, baby."
"Sing again 'till the morning comes…"
"No matter your sorry state…!"
"The childish games you play."
*As the scene transitions to something else, that being of a group of monsters with their brains exposed atop the roofs of buildings, one of which is on all fours like an animal, another is made of nothing but pure muscle, and another is more feminine appearing with a slender build with what appears to be vines coiling around their fingers. Each of them is on a separate building, and each of them are faced by Millie, Sophia, and Jonah, respectively.*
*Meanwhile, Luz is staring down Hunter as Luz takes off her fedora, revealing white hair rather than her usual brown hair. Not even a second later, the two charge at one another, Hunter with his sword drawn and ready to use and Luz with a manic gleam in her eyes and her right fist pulled back, ready to engage. All the while, as all of this is happening, the disembodied voice continues to sing*
"You burn through to my heart. Let me cherish you always!"
"Don't ever run 'cause you know too well, You Are My Special!"
*As the chorus begins to play alongside the action, the animal-like Nomu charges at Millie as she fires balls of flames toward it with increased fervour, eyes wide with panic behind them, as a group of abominations go to dogpile the beast. The muscle-bound Nomu engages in a fist clash with Sophia, shockwaves bounding out from their attacks meeting in the middle, each countering their attacks with another's attacks. Finally, the feminine-looking Nomu whips metal-infused vine whips toward Jonah, who keeps ducking and weaving as smoke. At the same time, the Nomu seemingly keeps predicting where Jonah seems to be appearing to avoid their attacks. All the while, the disembodied voice continues to sing.*
"Drive my heart in two, I feel it beating anew!"
"Put you under the spell, consume the future as well!"
"In that maze of you, we rendezvous…!"
"A daze that I never felt. You Are My Special!"
*The scene changes to Luz and Hunter exchanging attack after attack, blow after blow, dodging each other's punches, kicks, and beams of light and fire. Luz plants her hand on the floor as a wave of decay speeds toward Hunter, who turns into light and blips behind Luz, raising his weapon over his head to cut her in half, only for a barrier to be erected around her and for her to blast him with a wave of pure energy, knocking him back.*
*As Hunter lands, wings made of light sprout from his back, and his right arm becomes larger and larger until it matches the size and density of a massive cylinder. Luz does the same thing with flames; only her arm is covered by a million other tinier arms, and spikes appear out every little orifice of the arm as they can before the arm is bathed in a coil of flames.*
*The two charge at one another, both reeling their arms back and just before their fists collide, the scene zooms out to an overhead shot of the state of Connecticut; all the while, the Disembodied voice finishes the song as the beat fades out with a final guitar riff.*
"Dancing to your tune, the whole world spins out of hue!"
"No, no, no, don't relax, the demon's breaking its shell!"
"In that maze of you, we rendezvous!"
"No matter what they tell, You Are My Special!"
"We're Special!"
[Season Two Finale: October 1st, 2020 – Part 3]
When King charged at Luz, all she could think to do was throw up a shield to defend herself from the on-coming steam-roller of an attack. She outstretched her hand, activated Forcefield Projection, and created a golden yellow barrier between herself and King, to which he swung perhaps one of the fastest punches that Luz had ever witnessed into the shield.
The resulting impact was powerful enough to create a crater so large that it covered a third of the park in one clean strike. Luz stumbled as the ground beneath her crumbled away and forced her to burst out her blue flaming wings—a product of her no longer holding back. Before she could get anywhere, King grabbed her by the leg, and threw her, resulting in her crashing through several buildings.
Luz sneered, crimson eyes gleaming as she stopped herself mid-flight with a powerful flap of her wings, sending blue embers everywhere as they decorated the ground, sparking miniature fires around her. Moments later, King appeared in front of her, rearing back a punch aimed for her head. Luz countered, their fists colliding, resulting in every building within a fifteen foot radius to be vaporized into nothing but chunks of concrete, metal, and shattered glass, and putting the fires around them out.
King growled, swinging with his other clawed fist as Luz countered with her own, that fist blocking King's own as King's growl turned into a full on snarl. The two traded blows, their fists colliding with each other at quickly escalating speeds—faster than the eye could perceive. Each clash created shockwaves powerful enough to level whole buildings, and neither of them seemed particularly effected by it.
Luz waited for an opening, and was granted one when King's right fist slipped, allowing her to swerve in a right hook that cracked his skull, and sent him to the streets below. Luz followed, blue flames coating her hand as it took the form of a fist. The fist grew twice the size of her arm, while at the same time, King threw up a block. The fire fist collided with King's arms, as a burst of blue flame exploded out from the impact zone.
[Flame Fist: Impact/炎の拳 :インパクト]
The flames expanded and expanded, ensnaring King as it caught some of his fur on fire. King roared, bushing against the flaming fist when suddenly, his eyes flashed blue. Luz had no idea what that meant, but whatever it did, it allowed King to break his guard against the flaming fist. It dissipated, along with flames on his body, and before Luz could follow it up, King threw a punch meant for her face.
Like the last time, she was able to block it with her golden shield, but unlike last time, the shield cracked. The force of the punch once again created a massive crater, but due to her hovering, she didn't collapse. She grabbed his wrist with all five of her fingers, and activated Dust, turning his arm into ashes.
King pulled his arm away as it spread up to his shoulder, but not before his eyes flashed blue. The moment it did, his arm immediately regrew, as if it hadn't been destroyed, and responded by snapping his claws. A symbol that Luz had never seen before appeared next to his head. The symbol turned red, and out of came a massive pillar of fire.
Luz blocked the stream of flames with her wings, and just as she did, she watched as King's arm seemingly inflated—not like how Hunter's did, though. It was different. Hunter's stretched and expanded like a balloon. This was more as if King's muscles had expanded and reshaped—kind of like Rampage's Muscle Density power.
In fact, if she hadn't known any better, that was Rampage's Muscle Density power.
King's newly enlarged fist slammed into her, bypassing her flaming wings as if they were nothing, and punching a hole through her stomach. The impact of the blast sent her flying, which allowed her body to heal the damage. She tumbled to the ground, rolling like a log before catching herself moments before she slammed into the entrance of a hospital.
"Yo, Shigaraki, what the hell is this guy?"
"You remember that little creature that I spoke of when I told you how to get to The Boiling isles? Well, that's him. To spare the details, during a war that I started in retaliation to being betrayed, I was able to recapture King and run some experiments on him. One of those was implanting Quirks within his body. Magic and Quirks couldn't co-exist, but for King, he could still use Magic. I wound up implanting five Quirks into him. Those Quirks being: Giant, Muscle Expansion, Big Claw, Adrenaline Booster, and the one that I accidently gave him, Adaptation."
As Shigaraki explained, King stalked forward, his eyes glowing with what could only be described as pure and utter wrath. Steam spewed from the sides of his jaw, the ground shaking with each step. But, out of everything that Shigaraki had listed, one of those powers seemed out of place.
"Adaptation?"
"Yes, Adaptation. It was a power that I had been extremely lucky to find. However, during one of the experiments, King had been able to escape. When I caught him, he bit my arm, and out of shock I had activated my Quirk. Since I had just gotten Adaptation, it was the only thing on my mind. I gave him that Quirk. It allows him to Adapt to every type of phenomena, though it resets after 24 hours. Except for the first two things he adapted two. Those two things being All For One, or power stealing in general, and Death. The only way to deal with him is to destroy his body in one shot before he can adapt to whatever power you're using."
Before Luz could respond, King swung his arm to the left, as his claws grew ten feet in length, before swiping them at Luz. Luz jumped, sprouting her wings mid jump and watched as the hospital building was cut into pieces, before collapsing in on itself. Luz could hear screams on the inside, to which King scoffed.
"Oops," King grumbled, shrinking his claws before looking at his left paw, the same one he used to collapse the building. "Eda always said that I couldn't measure distance, even if she paid me in snails…" King looked up at Luz, growling. "You're really annoying, ya know that. Do me a favour and die already!"
King leapt up into the air, just as Luz outstretched her hand. King reared back a punch to hit Luz again, golden energy began to thrum in the center of Luz's palm, surrounded by a purple aura. Just as King threw his punch, Luz fired off her attack, combining Dust and one of her recently retrieved powers, Radio Waves.
[Decay Wave/ディケイ・ウェーブ]
The spread of the attack went out about fifteen feet wide, slamming into King at full force. His skull began to crack, as did his fur, slowly turning grey as the power of Radio Waves, a power that fired out electromagnetic pulses that disrupted electronical communications. However, that, mixed with Dust made it so that anything touched by the pulse would instantly begin to turn to dust.
King's eyes flashed blue, as once again, his body reverted the damage done to it. The pulse was still going, and while King's skin was still cracking, it was being instantly replenished. "He's resisting Dust. That's annoying," Luz thought, amping the power output of Radio Waves by adding Heavy Payload to the mix. The extra boost in the pulse pushed King back, a little further, as the area around him began to turn into dust.
She didn't want the destruction to spread, only having it destroy the surrounding area, and primarily putting the focus on King. But no matter how hard she pushed, and no matter how much she increased the strength of Dust using Heavy Payload, it wasn't destroying him. Activating Multi-Arms, she sprouted four extra arms and aimed them at King, along with extending her other arm, activating the same combination on each limb.
The output multiplied by a matter of sixfold, creating an even bigger hole around King as his body began to turn to dust. King roared, anger and rage in his voice. His arms crumbled, as did parts of his waist and torso, but it was all for naught as his eyes flashed blue, reverting the damage.
Then, he lunged. Several symbols appeared around his body, and activated all at once, each being a different colour. The first was purple, which spewed out some kind of mud-like substance and transformed into a massive spear. The second was green which created a massive plant with a jaw and several rows of teeth. The third was light purple that created small domes around his fists. The final one was once again red that turned into a flaming serpent.
Luz countered the mud spear with a massive green-tinted forcefield, and plant turned to dust—which proved that his magic didn't adapt alongside him, which was good to know. After a few moments the spear also turned to dust, but the purple orbs remained. The fire serpent was the only projectile that slammed into Luz, and it did basically nothing, as she turned where she got hit into flames.
Once King got in close, aiming to punch her, Luz kicked King in the face, knocking off his focus as the orbs disappeared. The force of the kick sent him into the ground, which he quickly recovered from. Luz dived toward him, swung a punch, and cracked his right horn. King hollered in pain, and while his eyes flashed blue, the horn didn't repair.
"The horns! I have to destroy the horns!" Luz thought as King grabbed her by the throat, squeezing as hard as he could, causing Luz to choke, gasping for air.
"You little twerp! Don't touch my horns!" King growled, as Luz smirked. With but a mere thought, his arm was cut off from the elbow below, forcing him to let go. King stumbled, clearly not expected that. During her fight with Hunter—though it was more like a one-sided beatdown—Luz learned that she didn't have to swipe or move her hands at all when using Cleave. She just had to look and know it was there to cut something. Though, for better accuracy and damage, aiming the attack was needed.
"He didn't adapt to it yet, meaning that he needs to experience it for a certain amount of time. It took him a few seconds to adapt to Dust, Radio Waves, Heavy Payload, and Pyrokinesis. So, his weakness is his horns, and that his Adaptation requires multiple hits and or an amount of time to do so. Not to mention that even if he adapts to it, he's adapting to that level of power, not anything more than that," Luz thought just as King swung downward with his remaining arm. Luz jumped back, as the ground cracked underneath the force of King's punch.
Once again, the ground shattered to bits, the crater being larger than before. It was almost as if he was getting stronger the more the fight went on. Either that, or he was ramping things up. In response, began charging Bullet Laser on her two upper most arms, before activating Sword Arm on the others.
Firing off the long range attacks, King took them at full force, the purple projectiles shooting through him like butter, but not before his eyes flashed blue, indicating he adapted to them. He charged forward, only to wind up impaled on the end of one of Luz's sword arms. The three others cut off his legs, and his other arm.
Blood drenched the floor—blue blood, and it oddly enough smelt like blueberry juice. King howled, clearly in pain, as once again his eyes flashed blue. The limbs that were cut off by Sword Arm regrew, and that proved Luz's theory. The arm that was cut off due to Cleave wouldn't reform until he adapted to the weakest output of Cleave.
"SHIGARAKI!" King roared, punching Luz in the stomach once again, coughing up blood as King blasted a hole through her torso for the second time, to which Luz responded by slapping him away like a fly through destroyed rubble. Luz regenerated the wound in her torso, wiping the blood from her mouth.
She turned her attention to the place where King had been knocked to, which was a couple hundred feet into the distance. She used Lens to spot him in the distance, slowly getting up as he shook his head, clearly disorientated. "You said I need to fear him. Sure, he's powerful, but he's not powerful enough."
"That's because he still isn't taking your seriously yet. He's measuring your power. The longer the fight goes, the stronger he'll become. You need to focus all of your power into an attack, but it has to destroy him instantly," Shigaraki explained as Luz scowled. That was easier said than done.
Just then, King lunged forward, appearing before Luz before grabbing her and tossing her into the air. Luz deployed her flame wings, just as King leapt into the air and threw a right hook into jaw, knocking it off and sending her flying north. She crashed through yet another building, this one being intact—one of the very few that were still intact in New Haven.
"So, destroy him instantly… Got any ideas on how to do that?" Luz thought as Shigaraki hummed.
"I don't know. Even when I was alive, and when I fought him when he had Adaptation, I had to force him into The Boiling Sea in The Boiling Isles. It rendered him unable to fight due to constantly having to Adapt to the harshness of the climate. Unless you can trick him into going back into The Boiling Isles and getting him into the sea there, then the next best thing I can think of is finding the right Quirk to do it. But in a sea of uselessness, there isn't much that could help you."
As Shigaraki said that, Luz had to dodge out of the way from another left hook from King, carving through the wall and causing the top half of the building to topple over. Luz ducked under another swing, before punching him in the chest, staggering him, then following up with a Cleave to his neck, cutting through the skin, but not quite severing it.
Blue blood spewed out from the wound as King staggered back. Luz used that to her advantage and crane kicked him in the jaw, sending him up into the air. Luz leapt, following after him as King raised his left arm above his head, and struck down on Luz's back, sending her crashing into the ground face first. King fell to the ground just in front of her, falling on his back as he grabbed his throat, trying to stop the bleeding.
"You're an annoying little pest, ya know that?" Luz said, spitting out a glob of blood as she wiped her lips for the second time in less than a minute. In response, King, like the mutt he was, growled as he stood up, letting go of his throat as blood dripped down his chest. His eyes flashed blue, and his arm and throat repaired itself.
"If anything, you're the pest here," King spat as Luz smirked.
"You're the one attacking me unprompted. You keep calling me Shigaraki, but last I checked, my name is Luz. Not Shigaraki," Luz replied as King scoffed.
"Doesn't matter. You look like him, you have the same power as him. You might as well be him. Sins of the Father, so to speak," King retorted, before punching Luz in the face. She staggered slightly, wiping the blood away from her nose as it healed. Quicker than he could react, Luz uppercut him in the jaw, making him stagger backward, before Luz kicked him in the chest, forcing him to lurch forward, before finally Luz balled both of her fists together and smashed both of them against the snout of his boney muzzle.
In the second of him falling to the floor, King's forearms increased in size, alongside his upper torso, allowing him to catch himself. Once he did, King front flipped over Luz, spinning sideways as he did, before side-kicking her in the back and sending her flying forward. Luz continuously flipped through the air due to the force of the kick, sending her flying back into the park where the battle started, crashing through tree after tree.
When she finally came to a stop, she slammed into a metal fence, crashing through it as several of the metal points stabbing through her as she tumbled into the street. Slowly, she stood up, pulling out the sharp jagged metal pieces of the fence out of her shoulder, her stomach, and her throat. She coughed up blood as her body healed the wounds.
That punch had actually hurt. Which was scary, because she was supposed to be immune to pain. "Does that mean he can adapt to things he hasn't encountered physically?" Luz thought, though Shigaraki didn't have a response. Meaning he didn't know. And if he didn't know something, that was not a good sign.
She thrust out her hand, activating Lens as she honed in the fast approaching King. As he approached, his body was shifting back to the size she had seen him in. That must've meant that he couldn't strain his muscles too badly. If he did, then it would probably be bad for him.
What she was about to do would be risky, especially because of the backlash it could potentially cause. But, it was worth it. This was one of the most potent powers that she had in her arsenal. It was to the point that the Government forbade her from using it while she worked under them. At the time, she listened to them because, frankly, there was no reason for her not to.
Out of all the powers that she had stolen, this, and another one that she had under her disposal, was one of her favourites. She had been allowed to test it in a desert just to see how powerful it had been, and it allowed her to destroy a mountain that she had seen in the distance—not part of a mountain, but the whole thing.
It was there that she was told that she wasn't allowed to use the power. But now that she no longer had such a restriction, she could use it freely. Yellow and purple energy began to converge inside the hole in her palm, red and black sparks jetting off of her arm as Luz used her other hand to steady her arm.
A low humming sound reverberated from the spiraling yellow and purple energy as they combined into a strange almost blackish silver colour, before sparking yellow as a small ball of white light began to form.
As King came closer and closer, Luz's eyes sparked with red lightning, Luz sprouted her wings of fire to stay off the ground, and then, without any warning, Luz fired off Impure Beam, boosted by Heavy Payload, which was a factor of 100x it's base power. The bolt of white and golden light slammed into King, stopping him mid lunge as it hit him square in the chest. The white and golden light gathered and gathered before it finally exploded.
And the resulting explosion was the second reason as to why she wasn't given permission to use it. The shockwave alone travelled through the entire state of Connecticut. Anyone who had been stuck in New Haven, of which there were eighty, were reduced to red stains. Any standing building within New Haven was no longer standing, being reduced to rubble, and the rubble being reduced to dust.
An earthquake factoring a 8.6 on the Richter scale spread throughout all of Connecticut, being the worst in the epicentre of the blast, splitting the earth open and creating a massive chasm. Throughout Connecticut, the weakest the Earthquake became was 7.3, and the destruction split apart buildings, devastated neighbourhoods, and demolished forests for miles and miles.
Then, came the actual explosion, which if anything survived the shockwave, the massive explosion of pure light burned away just about everything else in the surrounding area. The explosion spread out from the impact zone all the way to the edges of Bridgeport and Stamford, evaporating the towns and settlements Inbetween the large cities.
And all of this happened in a manner of seconds. Twenty, to be exact. Luz's face, entire upper left torso, and right arm were torn to shreds. Super Regeneration quickly got to work healing all of the damage. One of the other Quirks that she picked up, Cloth Repair was one that she knew she'd need at some point, which was exactly what was fixing up her clothing that was destroyed as a result of the massive explosion.
Cloth Repair did exactly was it sounds. It fixed clothing based on its previous state within the last hour. It was great for times like this. She had remembered taking it from some random criminal who had been caught using his power to rip up clothing from clothing stores, putting it in a bag, and taking it home to keep. It didn't go very far, but she guessed he'd give him an A for effort.
As everything repaired and healed, Luz lowered her arm. If that didn't destroy King in one shot, she didn't know what would. She stared, waiting for something to happen. As the dust settled, Luz's eyes widened to see that King was healing. A blue aura surrounded him, as a massive blue rune that she didn't recognize hovered above him.
"I have to admit," King said, rolling his neck from side to side as it fixed itself. "That was pretty good. Honestly, If I didn't have access to my magic, that would've done me in for the rest of the day," King said, his arm stitching itself back together. The wound in the center of his chest was repairing itself, bone's repair, muscle forming over top it, and fur growing out from dark silver skin underneath. "Unfortunately for you, that won't be enough."
And then, King leapt at her, forcing Luz to erect another forcefield in front of her. The pounce by itself shattered the shield as King knocked Luz into the chasm below alongside himself. King slammed his fist into her face multiple times, as Luz tried to pry him off of her. Each punch sent echoes of pain through her body as each punch split skin and tore open fresh wounds that would regenerate moments later.
"Just give up!" King growled as he kept punching. "It's pointless! You can't beat me!" King continued throwing fist after fist, adding in a slash or two in an attempt to claw out her eyes. All it did was split open her skin through to bone, missing her eyes entirely due to the frantic nature of the attacks. "ACCEPT YOUR FATE, AND DIE!" With that, the two hit the bottom of the chasm, just as King reared back his fist, and slammed it down on the right side of Luz's face, crushing it entirely.
A lone crimson eye stared up and a furious, rage filled purple eye. The two stayed like that for a few moments, the destruction surrounding them being more than anything either of them had seen. For King, it hadn't been since The War that he had seen anything remotely to this level. Not even this girl's predecessor had done that much damage to the surrounding area, aside from blowing the left side of The Skull off.
As for Luz, she was still reeling from the damage done to her face. It was slowly, very slowly repairing itself—so slowly it was hardly noticeable. It hurt. It hurt more than anything that she had ever felt in her life. Her brain was the first thing that was being fixed, as was the surrounding bits of skull, alongside her eye. If King had destroyed all of her brain, then that probably would've killed her.
But he didn't. Either because he figured that would've been enough, or he simply hadn't clued in that she was still alive. After another moment, King stood up, and began chuckling to himself. The chuckling turned into laughter, before he let out a sigh.
"Finally. It took fifteen years, but it's over. Are you watching from up there? Raine? Darius? Can see it? It's over! Shigaraki and his spawn are finally dead! We don't have to live in fear anymore! Fear that he could possibly return!" King shouted to the sky, and it made Luz wonder if those were dead people.
"Shigaraki…."
"Be quiet. Focus on your healing. You cannot die here, Luz. I will not let you."
"It hurts…."
"I know it does. Just focus. You need to focus. If you die, I cease to exist." That was odd. For a moment, Luz could've sworn that the evil sociopath in her head sounded like he cared. Then again, she guessed she was also an evil sociopath. Where did it all go wrong? Probably when she stabbed Amber. How times was it? 39, if she remembered correctly.
Then there was the camp. That caused problems, too. Oh, the neglect also didn't help. Actually, now that she thought about it, if her father hadn't died in the way that he had—sudden and without warning, then… there was a very good chance that Camila wouldn't have neglected her. She… probably would've lived a normal life.
For a brief second, she could've sworn that she could see her father. He was dressed in the same clothing that he had on when he had died. A light green shirt, a pair of brown pants. His beard was slightly bushy, and his hair was combed back. The only thing he was missing was his signature smile.
Her only remaining eye lingered on his form. He looked… disappointed. She expected that. She knew that was the case. She knew, deep down, that Camila's words were right. That he'd be ashamed of her.
"Luz…" Her father spoke—he was actually speaking. Was she… dying? Ah, yeah, of course she was. She was beginning to feel numb. That was probably a sign of death, wasn't it? She tried to say something, but she couldn't open her mouth. She couldn't reach out to him, she couldn't even move.
"I saw everything. I've seen what you've done. The crimes you've committed. The death you've caused—even now. All of that destruction. All of that death," he shook his head, glancing at the ground as he slowly made his way over to her. He took her hand into his, and for a brief second, that flicker of compassion that he was known for—that she remembered fondly. One of the very few things that she remembered about her father.
"But, even though you've done all of those awful, unforgivable, evil things…. I don't hate you. I can't hate you. A parent could never hate their child. No matter what they've done. I'll always remember you for your smile. For the joy that you had when you were little. While I may be disappointed in what you've done, I don't hate you."
Then, her father smiled, squeezing her hand as tightly as he could. King shuffled, looking over his shoulder at Luz. While in the perspective of Luz, she was seeing her father, in reality, she had balled up her fist. The sparks around her body had begun to flicker, sparking around her body and on the walls of the chasm.
King tilted his head, a confused grunt slipping past his fangs as he took a few steps forward, staring down at what he presumed to be the dead form of Luz—if he remembered correctly, that was her name.
In the perspective of Luz, her father, Manny, was smiling. What appeared to be tears in his eyes forming in the corners of his eyes began to appear, as he continued speaking. "It's not your time yet, my little fire cracker. I'm sorry I couldn't guide you down a better path in life. But that doesn't mean I can't help you now. But please, after you do this. After you beat this beast. Promise me you'll change, and save your mother."
Luz wanted to cry. Tears formed in her eye just as her skull began to piece itself back together, which was King's warning to tell him that she was, in fact, not dead. "OH TITAN NO! I WILL NOT LET YOU GET UP! WHEN I SAID TO DIE, I MEANT IT!" King roared, rearing his arm back and preparing to crush Luz's head.
Luz cracked a small grin, the red and black sparks jolting all over the place as it began to coalesce into the center of her body. The regeneration began to pick up speed, repairing her face faster and faster before it completely healed over. Luz's eyes began to glow an even brighter shade of red, her hair began to stand up on end, rising upward as the earth around them began to shake.
"I'll do my best, but I can't promise anything," Luz replied, as her father let out a soft chuckle. There was nothing other than acknowledgement in his eyes, as he nodded.
"I know, that's all I'm asking for."
And then, a powerful shockwave produced by the red and black electricity that had been gathering around Luz blasted King backward deeper into the chasm, forcing him to claw through the ground to stop the trajectory.
From within the Vestige Realm, things began to change. Shigaraki looked from left to right, trying to figure out what was going on. The blackened abyss that surrounded him changed. Elegant tile flooring replaced the black void, as windows high above the walls poured in what appeared to be false golden light. Three chandeliers lined the new ceiling, as the cages for the semi-completed vestiges shot up to meet the chandeliers.
The red carpet turned blue with golden trimmings, and the thrones, while remaining the same, now looked polished and clean rather than slightly dirty and used. A massive wooden door appeared at the end of the vestige realm, as Shigaraki stared at it, as he slowly began to realize what had happened.
He felt Luz dying. Being connected to her soul allowed him to feel it fade away, and it was starting to panic. If she died, then that would've meant that he died for good. Shigaraki was afraid of death, so he tried everything in his power to somehow do something with her Quirks, but because he was just a mere soul, he couldn't influence anything.
So then, what was it that was causing this? He tried to think back to something about his research of Quirks, and the very first thing that he reminded himself of was something Maruta had told him regarding the phenomenon of Quirk Evolutions.
"When the user of a Quirk is experiencing a high amount of stress, is overloaded with emotions, or has reached a point in their life where they would be close to death, the brain will come up with ways to stop it before ultimately succumbing. If given enough time, and assuming the body doesn't shut down before it happens, there is a very good chance that the individual's Quirk could potentially evolve past it's limits, shattering them completely, and unlocking a new level of power unheard of before. Your Quirk, Shigaraki, is already perfection manifest, so I cannot even begin to wonder what would happen if your Quirk evolved. But if it does, if it's even possible for it to evolve, I can only imagine the level of fear and chaos you could put into those clowns prancing about out there."
"Luz… has awakened All For One…" Shigaraki muttered, a chuckle slipping past his lips, a smile stretching across his face. This… this was unprecedented. More than that, he thought it impossible. And yet, here he was, witnessing it happening for the very first time. His chuckle turned into laughter, as he threw his head back and outstretched his arms to his sides.
Joy was the best way to describe what Shigaraki was feeling in that moment. "Out of all the years I've lived, out of all the power that I've gained, nothing has even come close to making me this happy! I never even thought such pure bliss could be experienced, and yet, here I am! You've done the impossible, apprentice mine! You've done the one thing I was so sure that could never happen! You've awakened All For One!"
Back within the land of the living, King stared down the chasm, watching as figure began to approach from the distance. He had readjust his shoulder, as it had gotten dislodged from its socket. As he watched, he couldn't help but feel his heart pounding in his chest. His eyes widened, as Luz stared him down, and it almost looked as if she a visible red and black aura surrounding her.
Her physical appearance hadn't changed, except for the fact that even the smallest hints of brown were replaced entirely with white. Her eyes now had sparks flickering off her pupils, and any injuries she had were gone, save for a large scar that covered the left half of her face, from the top of her forehead, before thinning out just past her lip and touching her chin.
Luz looked down at her hand, flexing it in and out of a fist. She then looked back up at King, before flashing him a smirk that read only as demonic. "I don't think I asked you what I should do, furball," Luz spat, and before he could react, Luz appeared in front of him far faster than he could process, and uppercut him in the jaw, sending him into the sky.
He tried to reorientate himself, but just as he was able to face forward, Luz was underneath him in striking distance. Her eyes blazed with what appeared to be a mix of both excitement and anger. "Don't mind if I try out something I've seen in a show, yeah?"
"Wha—"
Before King could respond, Luz palmed the center of King's chest, balling her pinky and ring finger into her palm, while the middle, pointer, and thumb were pressed against his chest. The force of the impact was enough to rattle his bones, and cause an immense amount of pain that he hadn't felt since he first fought Shigaraki.
The skin under his fur around his chest lit aflame with what appeared to be violet flames, the skin underneath burning to a crisp immediately, before cracking like rock. Violet flames seeped into his skin, coalescing under his skin. He could feel his internal organs melt, his bones turn to ash, and despite that, he could feel his Adaptation working a million miles per second to try and prevent this from doing him in.
Then, came the implosion—the second one that he had endured today. All of that firepower compressed into itself, and burst out in several waves of increasingly hotter flames, all the while what appeared to be a moon of violet flames seemed to burst out of his body, ripping him to shreds from the pure force of it all.
And it all happened in a nanosecond. His adaptation couldn't keep up.
So for the first time ever, King found himself stuck within his mind, whilst his body began to agonizing experience of reforming.
And it was all because of Luz's new move—the third one that she had used.
[Crimson Moon/暁]
Luz watched as the perfectly replicated attack that she had copied blasted apart King, leaving damn near nothing left. The after effect of the flames left what would only described as a moon, even if it only lasted for a split second. The only thing that remained of King was his skull, which fell into Luz's hand.
Even if King had adapted to Pyrokinesis, it had only been the weaker version that he had adapted to. He had adapted to only 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The amount of heat that Crimson Moon produced was well over 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That just below the heat of the surface of the sun.
She looked down at the surrounding area of New Haven, and noticed that underneath where she had been, and where she had unleashed Crimson Moon, everything was on fire. Luz sighed, before pointing up at the sky with her free hand. She was actually kind of disappointed that she hadn't gotten to test out this particular power on King, but she guessed it served a purpose.
Black clouds began to form just above Luz, as her veins glowed purple. Then, after a thought, heavy rain began to pour down on the surrounding area. It was coming down fast enough and cold enough to put out of the fires beneath them. Weather Manipulation. Perfect for scenario's like this. As soon as the fires were put out, Luz dismissed the clouds with a snap of her fingers, causing the rain to stop instantly.
Luz fell down to the ground below, gracefully landing atop from rubble, holding King's Skull in her hand. She looked down at it, and tried to crush it. But no matter how much force she put into it, the skull refused to crack. "Huh, I suppose he really is immune to death. I wonder if he can hear me right now?" Luz muttered, before shrugging her shoulders.
Luz hummed, stroking her chin. How was she going to dispose of the skull—because honestly, the last thing that she wanted was for King to come after her again. Even if she could just hit him with Crimson Moon again and be done with it, he'd see it coming, and more than likely dodge it.
That was when she got an idea. She sprouted her wings of flame, dimming down their temperature to keep them red, and flew over to the ocean. "If you're trapped under the sea, and stuck in my realm with no way back, at least, for a while anyway, you wont be able to get me." As Luz said that, she dropped the skull down toward the ocean.
However, before it could hit the ground, it was absorbed in a yellow light, and vanished into thin air—just as Luz had seen happen to one of the assassins that belonged to the Wittebane's. Luz scowled. "Damnit. I guess someone's watching me, aren't they?" As Luz said that, used Lens—and damn, could it zoom in further than she had ever zoomed in before.
For reference, before this new surge of power that she had received, she could only see around 50 kilometres ahead of her. But now she could see from the furthest most east of the state, to where Gravesfield had been. Which hadn't exactly looked the best. She hadn't realized it, but it mostly had been effected by the earthquake.
And in that zoomed in image, she could see someone. They looked like a spec, but they were standing in front of the place that she had wanted to be after her fight with Hunter. So, whoever they were, they were clearly important.
She flew over to Gravesfield, flew over Gravesfield, and stood at the destroyed entrance of the Wittebane manor. What was once a gothic and grim building now reduced to rubble. Standing outside of it, though, was someone dressed in familiar clothing—kind of like that one assassin.
Their mask looked like a mix between a hawk and a deer with long, pointed horns that faced the sky. The mask had hollow eye sockets, which made it look to have no eyes at all. There was a large crack going through the right eye that seemingly had not been fixed. The rest of the outfit was a massive white cloak with golden trimmings, and dark brown shoulder pads that merged toward the front of the collar. Underneath the cloak, she could see a black pants and what appeared to be a grey tunic. Though, anything else was harder to see.
"Ah, we finally meet," the figure said, his voice carrying a British accent to it. "I've heard a lot about you, Luz Noceda."
"Who're you?" Luz said as the figure laughed—it was a sophisticated laugh. The kind of laugh that sounded pompous. It made the hair on the back of Luz's neck stand on end.
"I am Emperor Belos, or, Belos, for short. I rule The Boiling Isles. It would seem that all of my subordinate have been either killed or defeated. Though, they were only supposed to capture you, rather than kill you," Belos said, seemingly annoyed. "Seriously, I don't understand what's so hard with trying to capture someone. This whole situation has been a mess. I apologize for their treatment of you."
Luz blinked, before frowning. "And you didn't stop them at all because?"
"I have a realm to run. I can't be paying attention to them 24/7," Belos dismissed. Luz scoffed, but otherwise decided to leave it be. Belos then looked over his shoulder and behind himself, before turning to face Luz once again. "You've caused quite the amount of devastation. I'm glad I was able to get that poor woman out of that house before it collapsed."
"She should've evacuated when she was told to," Luz replied bluntly as Belos hummed.
"Yes, I suppose that's true. Never the kind of person to blame yourself for your own mistakes, are we?" Belos said as Luz rolled her eyes.
"Look, we can talk semantics all we want, but clearly you're here for something. What do you want?" Luz said, annoyance coating her words. It was then that Luz realized he was holding a suitcase. Belos flung it to the side, as it fell to the floor. Then, using a staff, he used some kind of red energy to float a bizarre looking key over to the suitcase, insert and twist the key, before pulling it out after a click echoed throughout the destroyed area.
The suitcase folded, and transformed into a door, with said door opening to a bright yellow light. Luz's eyes widened, as she slowly realized what was happening. "Your mother is beyond this door, Luz. So is the rest of my realm. A part of me is telling me that this is a mistake, but it's a risk I'm willing to take."
"From what I've observed, you have nothing left for you in this realm. Nothing of importance, anyway. I am giving you a chance, much as I gave your former a chance. I will allow you access to my realm. You may live there if you wish, but only if you do not get in my way. Are we clear?" Emperor Belos said, his tone of voice authoritative—which made sense, especially given that he was, well an Emperor.
Although, Luz was conflicted. She had people who she did care about here. Dr. Rodriquez was one of those things, same with the team of scientists she worked with. Her Nomu, too. She couldn't just abandon them.
"If I do that," Luz said, looking up at Belos, scowling. "You have to let me bring my people with me."
"That matters very little to me. Personally, I do not care what you do. So long as it does not interfere with my plans. Stay in your lane, and I'll stay in mine," Belos stated as Luz smirked.
"Great. Wait here, then." And then, Luz produced her wings, and flew off to the location where she told Dr. Rodriquez to wait, which was on the outskirts of Connecticut. When she arrived, she was greeted by an army of doctors, and her two remaining Nomu. The moment she touched down on the floor, Dr. Rodriquez approached, clear concern written on his face.
"Dios mío! I felt that earthquake from over here! What the hell happened?" Dr. Rodriquez questioned as Luz dismissed him with a wave of her hand.
"It's fine. The last guy I fought was really strong—stupidly strong. But it doesn't matter now. What matters is that we're leaving," Luz said as Dr. Rodriquez raised an eyebrow.
"Uh, to where?" He asked as Luz smirked.
"Well, did Lady take the corpse of that warping girl?" Luz said as Lady grunted, walking over to the helicopter and pulling out the half eaten corpse, the head intact. Luz walked over to the body, placed a hand on the head, and activated All For One. The process was quick—faster than it had been before, and as soon as she took the power, suddenly she was overloaded with information.
The moment she took it, she was told how to use it. As if All For One had told her directly how the Quirk was used. "Well, that makes things a million times easier," Luz thought as she looked over to Dr. Rodriquez. "Alright, now, this might be weird, but I'm going to take all of us to the front of The Wittebane Manor. You'll see why in a moment."
Before any of the doctors could object, Luz snapped her fingers, as black goo spewed out of everyone's mouths, including her own. The substance covered them completely, before warping them in front of Belos, who recoiled in both disgust and confusion. As they manifested, Belos looked around, and saw just how many people there were.
"That… is quite a lot of people. A lot of humans, might I add," Belos muttered as Luz shrugged.
"Well, does that matter to you?" Luz asked, wiping the black gunk from her mouth. The others were coughing, aside from The Nomu, who seemed entirely unfazed. Belos, for his part, shrugged.
"As long as you stay out of my way, and preform for me one favour. What that favour is, I will not tell you. When I ask it of you, you shall do it, regardless of what it is," Belos stated as Luz frowned. Shigaraki was quiet, not saying anything. She supposed that this was her choice to make. She didn't see the harm in doing one thing for him.
"Fine. I suppose it's a fair trade off," Luz replied, and Luz could just tell that he was smirking under the mask of his.
"Very well. Then all of you are free to enter my realm. Be wary of the laws, but aside from that, do whatever it is you please. This portal will take you directly to a secluded location that only I know of. I will also be leaving the portal door with you for a week so that you may grab whatever it is you wish from The Human Realm. After a week, I will come to retrieve it," Belos said as Luz nodded.
"One more thing," Luz said as Belos tilted his head.
"What is it?"
"The woman you have in captivity. What are you going to do with her?" Luz asked as Belos hummed.
"You're referring to your mother, correct?" Belos asked.
"Yes, her. What are you going to do with her?" Luz pressed the question, to which Belos sighed.
"I will free her from her bonds, and she will act as a servant to the woman whom I rescued from the destroyed building behind us. I grew quite attached to the family that lived there. She's the sole survivor, and besides, I figured that your mother would be in better hands with me than with you, given that I've heard that you and her are not on the bestest of terms," Belos explained, prompting Luz to cross her arms.
That… wasn't actually a bad idea. If she freed Camila, there was a good chance that she'd probably do something. That something probably not being any good, either. "Yeah, not a bad idea. I honestly wouldn't trust myself with her." With that, Luz turned to look over at her team of scientists and doctors, and gestured for them to follow her. "Alright guys, we're heading out. You heard the big guy. We got a week to get our stuff together."
"B-But, what about my family?" One of the doctors stammered out, to which Luz shrugged.
"Up to you whether or not you stay. Just remember, you'll probably be exposed for what you've done, and more than likely won't have a family to go back to," Luz said, as the doctors muttered to one another. Dr. Rodriquez cleared his throat, getting all the doctors attention. As soon as all of their eyes were on him, he spoke.
"We are what makes up Project Nomu! We are Luz's devote followers! To abandon her is to abandon our life's work! Are we really about to leave her behind!" Dr. Rodriquez shouted, only to be answered by a cacophony of "no". He smirked, before continuing. "Then, in that case, we shall follow her to wherever she goes! She is what brought us together! She is what makes us who we are! She gave us purpose! She is our God! So let's go!"
A wave of cheers echoed out, as the two Nomu lumbered forward. They were the first to enter the portal, followed by the single-file line of scientists and doctors, capped off with Dr. Rodriquez. Once they were through the portal, Luz approached it, staring down the entrance with a bout of anxiety and intrigue.
This was it.
She was throwing it all away.
"Say goodbye," Luz thought to herself, glancing over her shoulder at her home. A home that had, for all intents and purposes, treated her like crap. A world that had abused her. A world that shared no love to her, with the only exceptions being the brief bit of peace that she had obtained while she had been with Julia.
She would not miss the place. Not even in the slightest.
And so, she faced the door, and stepped through. The moment she did, she was greeted with a valley full of dark blue trees with orange pine leaves and orange grass. As she looked around the surrounding area, staring up at the sky which was in the midst of a sunset, Luz had a feeling that this was only just the beginning.
Belos walked out from the door, the sound of it closing as stepped beside her, before casting his gaze down on her. "I will return within the week. Use the door as you see fit. Just remember our deal, Luz."
"Yeah, yeah. I'm a lady of my word. You won't regret it," Luz replied as Belos grunted. With that, he snapped his fingers, and disappeared in a ray of golden light. Luz had watched him do it, and his power—the one that she had noticed him have—didn't activate. Meaning that was something else.
Whatever it was, Luz didn't care. It was irrelevant. All that she cared about was starting over anew. Looking back over to the army of doctors and scientists, then back to the portal door. They had a lot of work to do, and not a lot of time to do it. But whatever the case may be, Luz knew one thing was for sure.
This was her chance at a fresh start at life.
She thought about something that Camila had said—one of the last things that she had said before they were separated. That she wasn't "Luz" anymore. That much she had grown to agree with. "Luz" no longer existed. "Luz" was gone. Replaced. Especially because she no longer wanted to be associated with Camila.
But what was she going to do? If she wasn't "Luz" then who was she?
"Might I suggest something?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"Seeing as you no longer wish to associate with your blood family, perhaps—and this might be a bit daring of me—but why not adopt my name? After all, I've been more of a mentor and guiding figure in your life than your mother has been, as sad as that is to say."
And wasn't that the truth? A sad truth, but the truth nonetheless. She briefly thought it over, before shrugging. "Yeah, sure. Why not. So then, who am I?"
"How about Toshiko? It means "Clever Child" in Japanese. Combined with my last name, which can mean "Grasp of Death" and given what our Quirks are, well. The name "Clever Child with the Grasp of Death" is pretty fitting, would it not?"
"Yeah, it does have a nice ring to it, in a morbid sense. So be it, I'm casting aside my old life anyway. I'll embrace it," Luz thought, before clearing her throat, getting everyone's attention. "Listen up! Since we're in a new world, and since I'm abandoning my old life, I'm taking up a new name. From here on out, I am to be known not as Luz Noceda. She died in the human realm. From here on out, I am Toshiko Shigaraki!"
"You hear that everyone!" Dr. Rodriquez shouted, as everyone began chanting her new name like it was something to be praised. Then again, they did see her as a God.
Toshiko Shigaraki smiled.
Wings of flame sprouted from her back as she kicked off, flying high above clouds, staring down at the land below her. She was staring at the corpse of a massive creature that had landmasses form around it. Where she had been situated somewhere within the pelvis section. The scale of the land that she lived in was similar in size to Vermont, which was larger than Connecticut.
It was nice. The air, while a bit stiffer than what she was used to, wasn't all that different. This world… it was perfect for starting over fresh.
Just as that thought finished, she felt something pull at her. She didn't know what it was, but it was powerful. Very, very powerful. In that moment, she heard Rikitasu say something that made her eyes widen.
"It's here. I can feel it."
"What?"
"One For All. One For All is here. Toshiko. Do you know what this means?"
While she had no interest in One For All—at least, for the time being, anyway. She did know what that meant. She wouldn't lie, a part of her was intrigued. But even with that in mind, she had a lot of other things that needed to be done first.
"Yeah, I know what this means. But, I have a lot of work to do. I'll do what I can when it comes time to find it. Do you want me to take it the moment I find it?" Toshiko asked as Rikitasu hummed.
"That won't be possible. If it truly is One For All, even if it's the version that I attempted to re-create, my brother will be protecting it. You'll need to build a bond with that individual, and coax it from them. But, that, I can trust you to do. You are in no rush. Take your time. One For All is the anthesis of All For One, and it's power is immense. You are around the same power that I was in my prime with your heavy hitting Quirks. That oaf Toshinori was able to keep up with me, and assuming my brother is protecting this copy, that could mean that it is at that power, if not slightly weaker."
"Right," Toshiko said, looking over The Boiling Isles.
"Congratulations, Toshiko. You're here. Welcome to the place that held my curiosity for over twenty years. Welcome, to The Boiling Isles."
And that, was the fallout.
A broken human with a broken power, no longer restricted by the laws of humanity. A new name, a new identity, a new story.
But that story, would not be told from the perspective of the human. No. It would be told by the perspective of someone else. The real hero. The true hero. Not the one living in delusion.
But that, would be for later.
Stay tuned for more.
-Season Two – Complete-
*The ending begins with Luz dressed in her hero costume, floating in the darkness of the void, eyes closed as she drifts about in the emptiness of nothingness, only to be grabbed by blackened tendrils formed out of the void and pulled down in the abyss. On the other side of the void, she's thrown to the ground, her hair white and her eyes open and blazing red. As she stands up, strings are attached to her shoulders, and she begins to move on her own toward the edge of what is revealed to be building; all the while, a disembodied voice sings in the background.*
"Simply put, all purity was hung away on that day, see."
"My curiosity had gotten the best of me."
"Was sweeter than a cake, but it wasn't filling."
"Like dancing with a puppet, so cold and empty."
*It continues as Luz falls down what seems to be an endless amount of distance toward the ground, her strings still attached to her body as she frantically starts to pull them off. Each string represents figures in her life, staring with her past principal, then the judge who sentenced her to that camp, Adrian Rogers, and finally her mother*
*Once the final string is pulled, flaming wings spread from her back just before she lands on the ground below, breaking her fall. As her flaming wings come out, her hero outfit burns away and is replaced by the black trenchcoat adorned with several patches and a bi-sexual flag pin, a pink shirt, a purple skirt with a fluffy white hem at the bottom, held up by a black belt with a golden buckle, and a pair of black ankle boots. When she lands on her feet, she dusts herself off, turning to face the street before her as the voice continues to sing.*
"Closet doors shut behind us."
"Huddling, our bodies hidden in the darkness."
"We'll sleep the night off and change when light comes."
"Or so I like to say."
*Across the street is Luz before she changed into what she is now, smiling and hanging out with her mother. Luz turns away, ignoring their presence, but when she turns, she sees another scene of her and her mother playing at the playground, having fun. Luz scowls before turning around and running down the street, trying to ignore her past and everything tied to it.*
*But as she runs down the street, she comes across the car crash that she was in when she was a child; as the younger her crawls out from the wreckage, staring at the crushed body of her father, bloodied, mangled, and broken. As all of this is happening, the voice keeps singing.*
"I'm just a child; I can't help it!"
"Don't go please, oh please, I'm begging."
"I'm so pathetic, a life built on selfish cries."
*Mid-verse, Luz turns to look away, only for her to be surrounded by a literal horde of small versions of her, all pointing at her as she looks up to see her father staring down at her, disappointment on his face as she begins to fall down a hole that opens up in the floor beneath her. She reaches up toward the hole before it's covered, and she's locked away in darkness, falling down once again, tears in her eyes as she keeps falling deeper and deeper as the voice continues.*
"All the toys were put away."
"I swear I'll change this time!"
"Still, I crawl for when I wore innocence like before."
"(Ah, ah, ah, ah!)"
*As the beat drops, the darkness around her turns to a bright yellow mixed with rainbow spirals. She falls past stuffed toys, trains, and books of various types, along with photos of her childhood and photos of her and Julia. She finally lands on the ground, surrounded by her childhood, showing her all the positive things she remembers being around.*
*However, when she narrows her eyes, they all go up in flames, replaced with her recent memories. Tragedy, loss, and death and suddenly, she's no longer tense. Instead, she's relaxed as the surrounding walls return to a drab black mixed with gray. A statement that she's more comfortable with this kind of stuff than all of the happy go-lucky things she used to be surrounded by. While all of this happened, the disembodied voice continued to sing.*
"Love's a high, sober up, you'll throw it all away."
"I've laid to waste all those feelings just to stay safe."
"But see this low-life now, still stuck in her ways."
"I wonder if there's a summer where I'll really change?"
*The ending begins to end as Luz walks down a hallway filled with memories of the recent past, of all the death and destruction both caused and not caused by her. The deeper she walks, the more of a smile takes up her visage as she finally reaches a door. When she opens it, she steps out onto a grassy field, except this grass is orange, and the skies are yellow with purple clouds. She's finally made it to The Boiling Isles; all the voice in the background keeps saying "Yellow" before eventually the beat fades out as the ending concludes.*
Well, here we are. The end of Season 2. See, I told you it would be complete before the year ended! I won't say what's next, because I want to keep that secret for as long as I can before I come back to this—and it will be a while before I do. I've worked on nothing but All For Luz for the last two months, and I need a break.
But, before we end things off, I've got a couple of things to go over. The first thing being the Quirks that Luz has. I didn't get to show off all of them in the battle with King, since I had this planned out a long time ago, so I'm going to list all of them, including the ones that I haven't shown. So, here's the list:
Pyrokinesis, Kinetic Absorption, Super Regeneration, Pain Nullification, Stamina Negation, Longevity, Energy Dragons, Forcefield Projection, Spear-like Fingers, Super Strength, Spring-like Limbs, Decay, Heavy Payload, Multi-Arms, Omega Beam, Bullet Laser, Radio Waves, Air Canon (formerly Windblast), Projectile Blood, Ice Creation, Impure Beam, Transforming Arms, Weather Manipulation, Energy Scythe, Cloth Repair, Limitless, Lens, Arm Blades, Cleave and Mud Warp.
Oh, and before anyone asks what Energy Scythe is, it's Goku Black's Ki Scythe, or at least, inspired from it.
Now, as how Luz/Toshiko currently scales in terms of power scaling, since I said that I was going to do that too, here are her current stats, according to her feats now that she's no longer holding back.
Attack Potency: Large Mountain Level, primarily due to the fact that King, who has Mountain Level Durability thanks to being able to tank Impure Beam, was one shot by Crimson Moon after a recently amped Luz. If you want to go high ball, you can say that because of Crimson Moon, she scrape Island Level, but personally I wouldn't have it go past that. At least, not yet.
Speed: FTL to MFTL, thanks to being able to dodge and react to all of Hunter's Light-Based attacks, which are bare minimum FTL. Considering Toshiko/Luz was able to perception blitz him not once, but twice—someone who can easily see faster than light itself, you can make the argument that she's MFTL. Personally, though, I'd put her more toward the high end of FTL
Lifting Strength: Same as Attack Potency.
Striking Strength: Same as Attack Potency.
Durability: Regenerative.
Intelligence: Above Average.
Range: Standard Melee Range (CQC) to hundreds of meters (using-long ranged Quirks) to Hundreds of kilometres (using Impure Beam and full power strikes which can shake whole cities and states).
Stamina: Infinite (Due to her Stamina Negation Quirk, she never ties—she doesn't have to sleep. This does not apply to her mental state, though).
So, yeah, no Luz/Toshiko is fucking busted. I do not envy whoever she has to fight. Also, for those who would be asking (I don't know why you would but whatever) if The Hex squad were to fight current Toshiko, it would be a one-sided beat down and it's not even funny. Considering she's not even close to her prime, and this is her as a kid, and given that she beat most Mid-Tier Naruto characters… yeah, uh, that's wraps.
Anyway, that's all from me. See you all in Season 3!