despite the scars

Chapter 18 - Druxy

Izuku slowly exited the bus, they were at the USJ, though he couldn't focus on the grandness of the building over the boiling fear that sat in his gut. Eri could sense it too, or she read her brother's body language, and stood stiffly behind him, clutching his pant leg.

Izuku subtly created a clear bird behind them using the fear energy he gathered from himself and Eri. It was as tall as Aizawa and completely see-through, its wings spread behind the duo, watching for any danger.

The class walked into the building, most marveling at the amazing building, though a few looked bored, while others looked apprehensive, even scared. Aizawa had seen the look on the sibling's faces, it made him nervous to see them like that, to see the stoic and tough vigilante looking scared.

Aizawa watched the duo standing in the back, he turned around on his heel quickly before yelling out instructions to the students. "Quickly! Get back on the bus, now!" The students gave their teacher quizzical looks, slowly (too slow for Aizawa's taste) turned around and started walking to the bus. Aizawa knew that Izuku's instincts were honed from years of experience, and he'd rather be safe than sorry.

Aizawa clapped his hands together to make his students speed up, Izuku had handed Eri to Bakugou, moving to the back of the group, he started to walk backwards in a defensive position of the group. Only a few people had noticed Midoriya, though they all opted to ignore him in favor of speed walking out of the building.

Iida had been the first to leave, Bakugou storming out behind him, preparing to herd the rest of his class onto the bus, Bakugou storming out behind him, when a black purple swirling mist appeared, separating him and Bakugou (who was holding Eri) from everyone else. He could hear yelling from inside the building, a single voice prevailed through. "Iida! Leave for U.A. and get the teachers! Hurry up!" Iida yelled out an 'ok' before motioning for Bakugou to follow him.

As the three students started running away, inside the building the students were being transported to different parts of the building. Izuku and Aizawa managed to avoid the portal, Izuku immediately drained the battle field of energy, leaving the field freezing cold, stopping anyone trying to enter by freezing them to the ground.

Izuku shooed Aizawa away to help the other students, silently telling his sensei that he'd deal with the villains. Aizawa nodded at his student, running towards the most dangerous zones. Izuku shifted his feet into a defensive posture, the energy he collected earlier swirled around his head, making his already intimidating stance even scarier.

Out of the portal stepped an army of villains, immediately their feet began to freeze, leaving them dancing around, trying to stop the bitter and debilitating cold. After a minute of pathetic dancing the villains were transported back to wherever they came from, replacing them was a hulking mass of a monster. It's brain was exposed beside its eyes, the supposed mouth was a large yellow beak while its skin was pure black, looking sort of leathery. It most definitely did not look human.

Behind it came the quirk user responsible for the transporting mist, behind him was a man with blue hair and dry and flaking skin. They stood in a spot that Izuku's quirk didn't touch earlier, though he decided to gather more information before making them leave. The one made of dark swirling mist spoke, "please pardon our interruption, but we were looking for All Might, the symbol of peace, according to his schedule he was supposed to be here? I don't suppose you would know where he is at the moment?"

Izuku shook his head no, relaxing slightly. If all they wanted was All Might they could have him. Izuku made a cross with his fingers then pointed to the ground, trying to indicate the words 'not here' and luckily enough for him they seemed to understand.

The man with blue hair became aggravated at the new developments, he started scratching his neck furiously, the skin underneath his fingers fell off in chunks, leaving the remaining skin red and irritated. Izuku grimaced slightly at the sight, he found it utterly disgusting.

The gross male spoke, "Well, maybe if we killed a few of his students, then he'll come!" Izuku shook his head no, manipulating the energy from earlier into flames, trying to show them that All Might was fired. The mist man seemed to realize because he turned around to whisper something to his associate. Said man threw his fists down in a childish manner, yelling incoherent words about cheating, Izuku didn't understand most of it.

The man finished his ramblings with a glare at the green haired boy in front of him, if he couldn't kill All Might then he would take his anger out of the kids. He moved quickly for a man of his build towards the bushes framing the plaza, he reached his hand out towards the hero-wannabe watching there, stretching his fingers out towards her face, ready to see her skin crumple into dust, ready to see the helpless and innocent student die at his hands.

An inch from the frog-girl's face, the villain's hand fell limp, his arms following suit shortly after. The man couldn't feel anything from his arm, no biting could, no excruciating pain, it was as if he had never had an arm. The only reason he knew something was wrong was the frost creeping up the part of his chest connected to his arm and the dragging weight on his shoulder.

The child of a villain screamed curses at the small boy before him, though none of it affected Izuku. He quickly drained the rest of the energy out of the man, making him collapse of exhaustion. Izuku turned towards the other villain made of mist, though the in-human beast blocked his view. Izuku quickly drained it of energy, it collapsed onto the ground, probably dead.

Izuku turned towards the villains once again only to see they weren't there, they had used the beast as a distraction for their escape. Izuku let out a little huff of anger, returning all of the heat energy to the field, along with dispersing the other energies with it.

A door leading to the building opened with a bang, Izuku flinched violently, whipping his head around to glare at the culprit only to be met with a hug from a worried Eri. He relaxed immediately, hugging Eri back and even going as far as to ignore the police officers that were trying to bug him for a statement.

Aizawa had walked back after a while, informing Izuku that all the students were safe and that his statement for the police would be needed soon. Midoriya nodded absent mindedly, Eri urged him forward which he did reluctantly.

The class had received the rest of the day off and Midoriya spent it watching movies with Eri and a few of his classmates, they all acted as if the whole incident had never happened, he assumed it was because it hadn't settled in yet.

Overall, it was a nice day.

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