My Hero Academia: Blood and Fire

"Now that everyone has had a few moments to rest, it's time for us to unveil the next round of competition!" Midnight said, where it was clear that the crowd was excited by what might be next for the students, especially after the showing of the sisters in the first round, causing her to wave her hand towards the screen once more, "And here's what the students will be doing next!"

Selene, Celestia, Izuku, and the rest of the forty-four students looked up at the screen as it spun around once more, though it wasn't long before it landed on 'Human Cavalry Battle', causing the other students to whisper among themselves as the siblings focused on Midnight as she looked up at the screen.

"The rules of our event are the same as a normal human cavalry battle: you can form teams of two to four, and your goal is to swipe the headbands of the other teams." Midnight stated, though like last time the students patiently listened to her so they could understand the rules of this event, so they could put on the best show for themselves and for those that were currently watching the festival, even if the sisters didn't care about fame at all, "Everyone will receive points based on their performance in the last trial... plus, for those who know of the event we're drawing from, the amount of each 'warhorse' will increase, based on whose part of each team. The 44th place will be with 5 points, 43rd is 10, 42nd is 15, and so on... with the exception of first place, whose head is worth ten million points. For those who placed low in the first round, this might be your best chance to overcome the higher placers and make your name more known among everyone else!"

Selene wasn't too surprised to see that when the 'negotiations' started that most of the students were eying her, with her own 215 points, and Celestia, who bared the honor and the target of being the ten million point bearer, because each and every one of them assumed that they could bring them down.

"Celestia, Selene... I'm going to team up with someone else. It's not that I don't trust you two, but I want to be able to stand on my own two feet." Izuku said, as he had been thinking about it since the announcement was made and understood that keeping the three of them together would keep the highest scores out of the hands of the others, but he wanted to prove that he could do things on his own, without his sisters watching over him, and this was the best path, especially since it could give him his chance to prove himself to All Might again.

"Go ahead, we're not stopping you." Selene replied, though she wasn't surprised by this, All Might's claws were embedded deep in Izuku and there would be no shaking them loose anytime soon, but she did admit that this would be interesting since he knew them better than anyone else and might form a good team to bring them down, before she glanced at their sister for a moment, "How about you, Celestia?"

"Let's do it. First place and second place, teaming up." Celestia answered, because Midnight had said that they could form teams of two to four, so while most of the others would focus on teams of four, to maximize their chances, she knew that it would be best for her and Selene to join forces, especially given their available Quirks.

Such a thing came as a surprise to the rest of the students as they realized that the sisters were going to work together for this challenge, though there were plenty that saw this as a challenge to overcome, like Shoto and the students from Class 1-B, but the sisters knew that they were only eying their combined headband. The rest of the class spread out between their own groups, forming what might be good teams or just haphazard groups out of desperation, though that didn't change the fact that most of the eyes were on the sisters, each group sizing them up before the second event started. Izuku's team, as it turned out, was him, Ochaco, Fumikage, who was the boy with the bird head and a dark entity that served as his Quirk, and one of the Support Class girls, the one who tested her items during the tightrope challenge. Katsuki's team included Mina, the pink skinned girl, Eljiro, the boy with the spiky red hair, and Hanta, or Sero as he preferred to be called, who happened to be the boy with tape in his elbows.

Selene also found that Shoto's team included Momo, Tenya, and Denki, though other than that she didn't really pay much attention to the rest of the teams, because she had a feeling that none of them would be able to do much to them, and the moment Midnight called for the teams to assemble into their warhorses she found that the hero was approaching them.

"How are you two going to make a warhorse?" Midnight asked, because unlike the rest of the teams there were three that happened to be the legs, one in the front and two behind the rider, this team was just Selene and Celestia, and while the rest of the smaller teams had already formed their warhorse she found that the sisters had done anything yet.

"Like this." Celestia replied, where she started to shift into her feral form, all fours legs on the ground, while growing enough to ensure that Selene's hooves would be off the ground, effectively making her sister a dragon rider in this situation, and it wasn't long before her sister took her place on her back and had the headband around her forehead.

Midnight nodded her head as she returned to the stage, though at the same time the rest of the students seemed to back up a little bit as they realized what they were getting into, as Celestia's Dragon Quirk allowed her to be a four legged dragon with a pair of wings, a creature of myth. Selene sat on the base of her sister's neck, silently finding it weird that she was even doing this, especially the fact that Celestia even trusted her enough to do this, with a slight smile on her face, because while the other students didn't have to worry about Sunshine they did have to contend with the scales and claws of the dragon, a deadly combination. Even without the power of the sun Selene knew that it was her duty to attack while keeping them safe, as Hydra was also a good defensive Quirk, so between the two of them she knew that their combination would be one of the best, yet their score would cause some of them to rush at her and her sister. Selene also glanced at the stands, where both she and Celestia found their mentors eager to see how they tackled this challenge, while at the same time All Might was fully focused on Izuku, despite being in his weak form to avoid detection, and they even noticed Endeavor, Shoto's father, among the crowd, watching everyone despite focusing on his son.

Eventually the challenge began and Midnight told them that they had fifteen minutes to either secure their own headband or steal the headbands of the other teams to give a single team a greater score, and with that done the bell was sounded for all to hear, causing most of the groups to move instantly.

Sure enough Selene and Celestia found that they were public enemy number one and two, as one of the teams from Class 1-B rushed at them without delay and one of the students used their Quirk to make the ground into mud, or at least that was what it looked like, but that didn't bother them at all. The reason for that was due to Celestia opening her wings and beat them for a moment, allowing her to lift herself and her sister into the air for a couple of seconds, enough to get over the first trap and land safely a few steps behind the team that attacked them. As she did that, however, Selene found that Celestia also spun around, utilizing her tail to knock down those that were around her, forcing them to jump over her tail since they knew the rider couldn't touch the ground, so the sisters were glad to distract the other teams. As that happened Katsuki did as the sisters thought he would, he leapt at them with the sole intention of blasting them into oblivion and then be drawn back to his team with Sero's tape, no doubt with their headband in his possession.

It was a good plan, but he failed to account for the fact that Selene had Hydra, because the moment he neared her she just summoned the sapphire serpent and formed a cocoon around her, stopping the explosion from harming her, and once he realized what was going on she knocked him backwards with a punch to the face.

"Sorry, Katsuki, you're going to have to do better than that." Selene remarked, which was the truth, the aggressive boy was in need of a greater plan if he wanted to steal her headband and knock both her and Celestia out of the running, and once that was said Celestia got moving without delay, knowing that to idle was to lose their advantage.

There was a good reason for that, as the annoying boy from Class 1-B, the one who seemed to think that he was above each of the other teams, yanked the headband off of the invisible girl's head, which had been the only clue of her presence, and continued on his way without wasting time. While that happened Izuku was under attack from Mineta's team, who used his grape balls to keep him contained on the ground, even though their brother was smart enough to have a move to get out of there before he was caught, utilizing the support items to keep moving. The hilarious thing was that Katsuki ended up losing his headband to the annoying boy from the other class, who just had the most annoying smirk on his face as he did so, and yet he just went into a massive talk that no one cared about, since it was things that Midnight had said previously. That lit a fuse in Katsuki as he waged an all our war with the boy, attacking him and his team a few times so he could get a headband back, because without one he would fall out of the festival and Katsuki was focused on proving himself to everyone.

While all of that happened the sisters continued to navigate around the arena they were in, even dodging Izuku's team at one point since even he tried to get their headband, before discovering that their next opponent was Shoto's team, where the red-white haired boy looked like he really wanted to take their headband, like he was trying to prove himself to his father.

"The time has come for the two of you to be knocked down a peg. I'll be taking your headband." Shoto said, confirming that his focus was on the headband and nothing else, in fact he was glaring at Selene like he was going to knock her from where she was sitting, and he even had his right hand at the ready, to use his ice against them, "Stand down, otherwise I won't stop until I've frozen you both to the spot."

"Shoto, do you know what a dragon is?" Celestia asked, though at the same time Selene felt it, there was a faint rumbling in her sister's throat, which she realized could only be one thing as she considered her sister's innocent question, and yet she made no move to reveal the hidden threat that was in Shoto's face.

"A flying fire breathing lizard, of..." Shoto replied, but as he said that something dawned in his head as he and his team came to understand, or at least gasp, at what Celestia meant with her question, and even then he faltered a little, almost as if he didn't want to believe what she was suggesting, "No..."

Celestia replied by releasing a torrent of flames out of her mouth, a dragon's breath attack, though it was focused on just Shoto's team and no one else, where she found that the boy used his ice to defend himself and his team against the harsh temperature of the attack. The point of this was to distract them, where Celestia nodded to Selene as she cut off her attack once more and rushed around the arena, where Selene, who had been paying close attention to the headbands, lashed out with Hydra for a couple of seconds. In those spare moments she stole a few headbands, eliminating some of the weaker teams that were still in the running, and when the Class 1-B kids came for them she and Celestia avoided them, using both of Celestia's wings to weaken their attacks or even cancel them out. It was in those moments that Class 1-B understood just who they were going after, as Celestia's Dragon Quirk was impossible to get through or even weaken, and she was incredibly intimidating in her own right in her transformed state, and then there was Selene, whose pair of Quirks allowed her to just take down whoever tried to attack her.

Eventually time was up for everyone and Midnight called it, allowing the sisters to stop and Celestia reverted to her base form again, stretching her arms for a moment as she did so, while at the same time everyone else simply gathered in their teams for a moment as the announcement was made on who had won.

"The winners are as follows: in 1st place, Selene and Celestia; in 2nd, Team Todoroki; 3rd, Team Bakugo; and 4th, Team Shinsou." Midnight stated, though the sisters knew this would crush their brother, since he had worked so hard to each even this point, but at the same time it looked like the three people who had teamed up with the boy who declared war on the entirety of Class 1-A were totally lost, like they had no idea what was going on, "Since that gives us only fourteen students for the final event, the two highest scorers of Team Midoriya, those being Izuku and Fumikage, will be permitted to join the rest of the winners and participate in the final event."

As everyone listened to her talk, however, two of the three teammates from the shady looking boy's team, the one called Shinsou, ended up withdrawing their names, as neither of them recalled how they got here in the first place, which meant the boy had a mind control Quirk or something. Those two who were withdrawing their names ended up being the guy with the tail from Class 1-A, Mashirao, and the short chubby boy from Class 1-B, another the sisters didn't know the name of, and while a few students tried to convince them to remain in the competition neither wanted to go on after having no idea how they won the second challenge. In the end Midnight accepted their withdrawal and allowed the rest of Team Midoriya, as in Ochaco and the Support Class girl that had been helping them out, into the final round, thus giving them sixteen students for the final event once more. With that in mind she informed them that they required some time to build the stage for the final event, so the students were free to rest, relax, get something to eat, or even participate in recreational activities while they did that, and once that was done they were dismissed for the time being.

Selene wasn't too surprised that their brother was getting into the final event as well, especially after Midnight announced that they needed sixteen students and that meant they had to allow Izuku's team to fill the gaps, but she did turn to Celestia for a moment as they exited the field.

"So when were you going to tell us that you could do that?" Selene asked, as this was the first time she had seen her sister breath fire, and actual fire that wasn't part of Sunshine, so it had caught her off guard a little, but it did suggest that Celestia had trained her Dragon Quirk to the point where she was getting more of a dragon's power.

"Honestly, I wasn't too sure if I could do that or not... Ryukyu doesn't have that power, as far as I know... but when I felt it in my throat I knew I could use that skill." Celestia replied, though she wasn't in pain from it, rather she was just fine, which was no doubt due to the fact that she had used the skill in her feral state, making her wonder if things would have been different if she had decided to use it in one of her other forms, "Though it certainly worked in our favor. You know, I am curious as to what the final event is going to be, and I can't help be worried that Izuku is going to do something stupid to appease what All Might told him two weeks ago."

"Considering they have to build an arena, probably a tournament final event. Just guessing honestly." Selene remarked, to which she let out a sigh as she thought about the rest of Celestia's statement, about their brother and the foolishness that he was no doubt going to show them when it was time for the next event to start, because she knew her sister was right, their brother was definitely going to do something stupid, "Let's watch and hope Izuku doesn't go overboard... something tells me he's going to anyway."

Celestia nodded as she and Selene joined the other students in the cafeteria portion of the stadium, as they were hungry and knew that getting something to eat would be beneficial for the final event, though while both of them were eager to see what the final event would actually be they could only hope they were wrong about their brother and simply waited to see what the next hour or so had to throw their way.