Hero Academia: Sleepwalkers
My Hero Academia is owned by Kohei Horikoshi and Bones
Sleepwalkers is owned by Stephen King and Columbia Pictures
Hello, and welcome to another new experimental My Hero Academia fanfic. Once again, I will be doing another this My Hero Academia fanfic in which this will be another attempt to do a horror-type story which is inspired from horror movie that was theatrically released way back in 1992 that was written by famed author Stephen King, who is also known for other works such as Firestarter, Maximum Overdrive, Carrie and The Shining.
This fic that is based on the movie is Sleepwalkers, and having watched it before via cable channels like HBO, Cinemax and Star Movies, an idea popped into my head and decided to try this out. It took me nearly a month on deciding which characters to use here, and soon I figured out who would portray the lead roles – Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka, as those two came in to my head and made the decision to use them.
This fic will be AU and it will be M-rated, as aside from the horror themes, there will be a few ADULT scenes somewhere within the chapters, and you will get to see Uraraka playing the protagonist. And what about Midoriya…?
Read on, in which you'll be surprised at how he is going to be portrayed, as this will be the first time that Midoriya will be portrayed in a different light after having him portraying the protagonist of my ongoing My Hero Academia fanfics.
And lastly this fic will be slightly AU, as there won't be aby familiar settings like UA Academy and the like, but there will be some elements such as pro heroes and stuff.
After all that is said and done, read on and enjoy!
Ch. 1: Prologue
Six months ago...
Kochi.
A city located at Shikoku, which is quite a remote island, in which the population is considerably quite many, yet it was peaceful, and full of life and activities. However, the place began to attract attention due to reported cases of missing persons, which happened in a spate of disappearances every two weeks, and this involves teenage girls, and this led the police to conduct a search and rescue mission and they have been on the case since day one after more missing girls were reported, and facing pressure from the residents, the cops exerted efforts until one of the cops noticed what appeared to be an abandoned house, which he finds it suspicious.
The police car parked in front of the gate, where two cops came out, and as the driver got out of the car, his partner noted several stray cats are waiting outside, and are all gazing at the house, and this made the two cops feel wary as if they have a bad feeling that there may be armed culprits waiting inside, and the driver instructed his partner not to make a move until he calls for back-up.
"Okay, I'll call for some help, do not go in till I say so."
"You sure?"
"Yeah. We don't know how many are in there…"
"I got my gun and…"
"Don't argue. We don't know what kind of weapons they got…so stay put, okay?"
"Oh, fine."
"Okay…just a moment…"
"…"
The other cop nodded and waited in front of the house's front door as the driver took out a radio and contacted the dispatcher, requesting for additional help reasoning that there are possible armed suspects waiting inside the abandoned house, which the dispatcher accepted and told him that she will relay the message but asks the caller for the location of the place in question.
"So may I have the location, sir…?"
"At a suburban area…east…nothing much here except some trees and grass…"
"Anything else?"
"Nope…nothing…"
"Okay, will call for help and send them to your location.."
"Okay, thanks."
"You're welcome."
"Over and out."
After that, the driver approached his partner and asks him if he noticed anything strange inside the house, which the cop said that so far everything is quiet here except that the stray cats keep on hissing and noted several metallic traps lined around the house, and the cops wondered what kind of people are there, laying so many traps here.
"What the heck…?"
"So many traps…"
"What kind of people are they? Laying so many traps?"
"Beats me…"
"I don't see any vegetation here…so why…?"
"Whatever…just want to go in and get this over with…"
"Just a little longer…"
"…"
After about five minutes, three police cars arrived where six more cops got off, and they noted the traps as well as the sight of several stray cats lining outside, making them feel cautious and there they waited for a while before a group of pro heroes arrive as they were dispatched to assist the police, and there the pro heroes who arrived are seen, and they are identified as:
- Takeshita
- The Fly
- Toy-Toy
- Blackbelt
- Odd-Eye
- Saguri-chan
- Yoroi Musha
- Compass Kid
The pro heroes were informed by the police squad leader of the situation and the pro heroes nodded as they took the lead and as the other pro heroes searched around outside the premises to see if there are any hidden traps, Blackbelt and Toy-Toy began to lead the others to break in at the premises as they and the eight cops then took their positions as they kicked the door open and drew their guns in case the culprits are armed, and there the rest of the pro heroes took their positions and looked around to see if there are any villains hiding and lurking about.
"How's everything?"
"East side clear."
"Same here."
"West side clear."
"South side clear."
"Okay, that leaves the one in front of us."
"Then we get ready."
"Yeah."
The pro heroes and the police slowly looked around, and after a thorough search, they find the house literally empty, in which one of the cops told the police captain that this gives the impression the culprits may have left the house days ago, much to the others' disbelief at hearing this.
"Seriously?"
"Looks like it…"
"No way…"
"Maybe they knew we were coming…"
"I not buying that. There's no way that they…"
"Well…look around…judging from the looks of it…this place hasn't been touched for days…I am sure the culprits might have gotten a head start…"
"Damn…"
"…"
The police captain did not like the sound of that news as this would mean that the media would make a frenzy and would cause the victims' families to scrutinize the police and may cause some of the higher-ups to step in, and he told his subordinate that they are going to keep on searching, but then one of the pro heroes stopped by a cabinet where he slowly caught a scent of a foul odor and felt that he had a bad feeling.
He called his fellow pro heroes and signaled them that he might have found something and as the others came they were taken aback by the foul stench and suspect that they are about to discover something bad.
"Geez…"
"What the heck…"
"It reeks!"
"It seems like there's something in there…"
"More than dead rats…"
"Is it what I think it is…?"
"This doesn't look good…"
"I got a bad feeling about this…"
The pro hero agreed and told the others about it, and soon the cops assembled in front of the cabinet and drew their guns, believing that the culprit is hiding in there though one of the cops questioned how and why would they think that the culprit would be hiding IN THERE.
"Hey…are you guys…?"
"Just be ready…"
"But…you guys think…?"
"Maybe…sometimes the culprit would endure anything just to escape us…"
"…"
"Be ready, everyone…"
"Okay…"
"Just say the word…"
The police captain told him that this is standard procedure and there Odd-Eye slowly open the cabinet door, with Blackbelt and Yoroi Musha preparing for a retaliation attack, and when the cabinet door was opened, the cops and the pro heroes were shocked to see several bodies falling down to the floor, about 15 of them, fully clothed but were all in skeletal appearances though their flesh was still there yet it looked like the bodies have all been drained of fluids, and the police captain was not only shocked, but also aghast at the sight, and slowly realized that the bodies may be the missing girls, and told one of his men to call for an ambulance and some forensic experts so as to identify the bodies, and ordered a manhunt for the culprits.
"What the heck?"
"Shit!"
"Don't tell me they're…"
"You! Call for back up!"
"But…"
"Just do it!"
"Y-yes sir…!"
"…"
The pro heroes here we're taken aback at what they discovered and realized that this is no ordinary case, and what they initially believe to be an abduction case has slowly turned into a bizarre murder case, and the additional police force came and there they were taken aback at what they saw, and moments later some pro heroes arrived and began assisting the investigators, and after observing the corpse, they began to suspect that the culprit used certain means of killing the victim without resorting to certain means like strangulation and the such.
Amongst the pro heroes who came – Eel Boy and Funkman – are baffled as they noticed that there were no visible signs of struggle and that they wondered what method of killing is used on the victims, seeing that there are no stab wounds and the like.
"No stab wounds…"
"And no signs of being beaten up…"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah. Even though there's no signs of strangulation…"
"Choked by itself?"
"You crazy?"
"Uh…"
"Better let the forensic experts deal with these…"
-x-
As the days passed, the bodies that were found at an abandoned house have been identified, causing the families to wail in agony and this caused some media to sensationalize the case, and the police faced pressure in finding the culprit. The investigators then interviewed the victims' families and asks for clues, in which they said that the victims were last seen going on a date with a teenage boy, about aged 14, and described him as having a rather thin and petite build, being shorter than average boys. He is described as someone who is somewhat short for his age, his round face is framed by a short mop of fluffy dark-green hair which curls up at odd angles around his head, casting noticeably dark shadows onto itself.
His eyes are large and somewhat circular and his irises are the same shade of green as his hair, which at times are very watery, and are usually stretched quite wide, giving him an innocent, energized appearance. He has a set of four symmetrical freckles in diamond formations, one on each cheek. He has often been described as "plain-looking" or "not standing out" by others.
However, the victims' parents told them the name of the culprit, which, unknown to all, it was just an assumed name, and the police conducted a search all over Shikoku, which lasted for the whole six months, and their search led them nowhere as the culprit was already out of Shokoku five hours prior to the police discovering the bodies, and this caused anger among the residents and the congressmen and other political officials there try to quell the tension while the mayor ordered a manhunt and proposes that he contact the other neighboring prefectures to help in finding the culprit.
The police then contacted the Hero Public Safety Commission for help in solving these cases, and its commissioner, Madame Chairman, dispatch some pro heroes to assist the police in search for the culprit, and the pro heroes began patrolling the prefecture to see if they could find his hideout.
The pro heroes who are doing the search include the following:
- Water Hose
- Team Itaden
- Rock Lock
- Buster Union
- Native
- Wash
- Death Arms
- Ms. Joke
The aforementioned pro heroes scour the entire prefecture and went to every known location that was provided by the investigators but in the end the pro heroes faced a DEAD END as they couldn't find incriminating evidences and leads that might led to a breakthrough.
-x-
In the months that passed, the incident repeated itself, as reported missing cases of teenage girls were reported in other prefectures, such as Kobe, where 10 bodies of teenage girls were found in a cabin at a forested area, where it shows signs of decomposition as their fluids were drained and reduced to a skeletal corpse, though investigators ruled out rape as their clothes are fully intact and there were no external wounds or signs of strangling.
Police interviewed the victims' families and got the same description as the one in Shokoku and police launched a manhunt, but after three months the police found nothing as the culprit had already left Kobe just several hours prior to the bodies being discovered, and the mayor of Kobe is seen talking to the mayor of Shikou, and they both expressed alarm at how the victims were found, yet they both refused to believe that this may be an abnormal case despite evidences that their deaths were not caused by natural means.
"Seriously…?"
"Yes…it happened here at my territory…"
"Damn…"
"You better order a curfew before more victims would be…"
"Yes, I will."
"Exert your efforts in nailing the suspect…he eluded us…he might elude you as well…"
"I will…"
"…"
The police contacted the Hero Public Safety Commission for help in investigating the case, and soon more pro heroes are sent to assist the police, which the pro hero in question included the following:
- Fourth Kind
- Power Loader
- Eraser Head
- Midnight
- Present Mic
- Snipe
- Thirteen
- Ectoplasm
-x-
Another three months have passed, and the scene shifts to Kyoto, where the same thing happened to this prefecture, as police found about 16 teenage girls stocked inside an abandoned one-story house at a quiet area that is surrounded by trees, all decomposed yet their clothes intact. Their bodies appeared drained which caused them to have a skeletal appearance, and the police noted that the place have metallic traps and found corpses of several stray cats, all dead due to being caught in the metallic trap and some due to strangulation.
The police them informed the victims' families and ordered a manhunt on the culprit while issuing a curfew to the residents after getting the description of the person that the parents told the police, which was the same person described in Shikoku and Kobe.
-x-
Present time…
Five months later, the scene shifts to Musutafu, where a group of three teenage girls are seen walking the sidewalk, and they appeared to be close friends as they are on their way to their part-time jobs, as they just got hired, though the three girls work at separate work areas and study at separate schools, but the trio were so close to each other that they appeared to be inseparable.
The three girls are identified as:
- Ochako Uraraka
- Tsuyu Asui
- Mina Ashido
"Ah…a brand new day…!"
"Kero…you sure are in high spirits, Ochako-chan…"
"What's with you? You looked so happy…"
"Well…I got a part-time job…and I'm going to start today…"
"You sure are going to earn a lot, aren't you?"
"Why work as a waitress when you can audition to become a singer or something? I mean, you have such a beautiful voice…"
"I know…but I want to earn first since I wanted to help my parents have a comfortable life…"
"Kero…I see…then you should…oh. Looks like…kero…this is where we part…"
"See you later, Ochako…"
As the girls are about to go separate ways, they were unaware that someone is watching them, and the unseen person can be seen smirking as he has his eyes laid on one of them, taking a liking and stared at one of the girls before taking his leave.
To Be Continued...
Hope you liked the opening chapter, and though not much action is shown, this is just the start, and here Uraraka is introduced, with some cameo from her fellow Class 1-A members, who are all portrayed differently given that this story is AU.
And though this fic is AU, it still retain some of the My Hero Academia lore, as pro heroes are still here, and they are portrayed as helping the police try solve a rather unique case like this, unaware of what they are facing against, some pro heroes are from the anime and some from the manga, such as My Hero Academia: Vigilantes and Team-Up Missions…
It appeared that someone has his/her eyes on Uraraka, and that would be the culprit...though the clues are shown above...feel free to guess who...
Preview:
The next chapter starts the story as Uraraka attends school, where she would get to meet someone...and won her heart...
See you in May...
Reviews are welcomed...