My Hero Academia: Blood and Fire

The siblings didn't talk about what All Might have told them while he was in his office, there was a lot of information for all of them to unpack, especially Izuku since he now knew there was a chance he might have to fight the greatest evil at some point in the future. Such a thing caused their brother to focus on that for the rest of the day, even though he smiled at their mother when they returned to their home since he didn't want to worry her more than he had done so far, especially since he didn't want to load her down with this knowledge. Selene was still rightly annoyed with the hero for telling her brother all of this, it was just too much for a young hero like him to deal with, especially with the danger of fighting an ancient evil that not even All Might could beat. There was also the fact that he lied about a lot of the information he gave Izuku, meaning his allies might have lied to him, but she couldn't just outright say such a thing without tipping her own hand in the process, especially with who their father was in the eyes of the law.

In the end Selene decided not to worry too much about it, since that would only cause Izuku to worry and ask questions he didn't need to ask, but at the same time she knew she needed to set All Might straight, causing her to start to plan out a way to make sure she did that without tipping her hand too much.

Other than that they returned to a sort of normal school life, where the following day they gathered in their classroom and the other students were still talking about their field training and how each of them could improve, to make themselves be the heroes they wanted to be. Katsuki, to no one's surprise, was still sulking after Selene beat him yesterday, in fact she was sure that his temper was getting worse and he was simply going to spiral out of control, which was unbecoming of a hero, but most of the class opted to ignore him. Selene honestly wished Katsuki would grow up and stop focusing on such things, as he should be using his defeats to improve himself and become a better hero, but right now he was showing them that he was only here because of his Quirk's destructive power. It was one of those times where she wished that Aizawa would use his expulsion trick and actually kick Katsuki out, even though she knew he'd score high no matter what, mostly because she was sure that something like that would be the kick in the pants the annoying boy needed.

"Oh right, there's one more announcement to make: summer break is right around the corner, and I know many of you don't have the leeway to relax for such a period..." Aizawa remarked, something that caused the majority of the students to pause for a moment, as there were things they knew that each class got to experience in UA and wondered which one this could be, especially since UA had a summer event as well for the students to go through, "So we'll be going to a summer break forest lodge... however, should any of you fail the upcoming End of Term Exam you'll be stuck in Remedial Hell."

Most of the students presented a strong face to that news, completely focused on the fact that the summer break was right around the corner and that they could relax for a time before getting back to their schooling, but Selene and Celestia knew it would be a training camp since UA was footing the bill. When Aizawa left them for the time period that they were allowed to relax in, or do homework in case they were slackers, that was when the truth came out as the others started talking about the studying they would have to do, especially since Aizawa posted their positions in terms of overall grading. The first one to freak out, as the sisters expected, was none other than Denki, he had the lowest score out of all of them, it was really hard to do so since he was barely above passing, while Mina was above him by a wide margin and was still in twenty-first place. The interesting thing about this was that Denki blamed the events they had been through for not having enough time to study, a fact that caused the sisters to shake their heads, even though Fumikage, who was in sixteenth, seemed to agree with Denki, while everyone else was in the middle of discussions.

Minoru, placing eleventh out of twenty-two, proclaimed with a smirk that there was a practice test exercise, causing both of the lowest to bicker with him, while the thirteenth and fourteenth holders, Koji and Rikido respectively, were talking about how this exam was mostly unknown, unlike the schools they came from. Denki was in pain from hearing Izuku remark that they should all do their best, even though Izuku held the position of sixth among them, Tenya was fourth, and Shoto was right below Izuku as the seventh, while Shoto told Denki he should have focused more on class. Momo was third among the entire class, as she was one of the smartest among them, and she found that three of their students came to her to take her up on the offer to help them study for the exam, which turned out to be Kyoka in ninth place, Hanta in nineteenth, and Mashiaro who was in tenth. Eijiro was in seventeenth, Katsuki was in fifth, Ochaco rested in fifteenth, Toru ended up being in eighteenth, while Tsuyu placed eighth among them, leaving Yuga as the twentieth and Mezo as the twelfth place holder.

To Izuku's expectations his sisters held the first and second places in terms of grades, Celestia as the first place with Selene right under her, which was understandable since their focus was on schoolwork and making sure they learned how to be proper heroes, without the fame and money aspect that some of the others were currently focused on.

When lunch came around they even found that a student from Class 1-B, the annoying one that looked like he was trying to be a villain for some reason, or maybe it was just his annoying 'rivalry' with their class, leading to him being struck down by one of his own classmates. The lady in question was even kind enough to inform them that the exam was basically like what they faced to get into UA, a combat drill, but Selene and Celestia instantly knew this would be different than the last time, as both suspected Aizawa would make it harder on purpose to test them and see how they had grown so far. The only thing the sisters were worried by was the fact that the annoying arrogant boy had a glass of wine with his meal, which seemed far too much for someone of his age, though Yuga also had some even though their own classmate ate in the classroom. Both had the feeling that UA was full of weirdos, even though neither of them actually cared about wine in the first place, but they did focus on the various elements that the written portion of the exam, which would test their knowledge from the classroom, such as writing and math for example.

All this did was piss off Katsuki even more, since some of the others now thought the exam was going to be a cake walk for them, but for some reason he went out of his way to threaten Izuku, stating that he'd 'annihilate him, leave him in the dust, and then fucking murder him'.

"Man, he's really annoyed that you're improving so much." Selene remarked, watching Katsuki leave the classroom when the day was finally over, though as that happened she was sure that Aizawa was outside, listening to the entire exchange and was no doubt taking notes on this, no doubt to use against Katsuki and Izuku, "Rate he's going he's going to ruin someone's life with his foul attitude... likely his own, if he continues down this path."

"I wonder what it would take to snap him out of this dark path." Celestia commented, because she knew that showing Izuku improving was only pissing Katsuki off, in fact everything Izuku did, no matter how innocent his actions were, seemed to piss off the explosive boy, and nothing the teachers did seemed to be getting through to him, making her wonder what could be done for Katsuki.

Selene had no ideas for Katsuki, the boy was just following his own path and would no doubt do something stupid at some point in the future, so she decided to focus on the subjects that everyone should be studying for the written portion of the exam, all while thinking about a talk she needed to have. Sure enough she and Celestia turned to studying when they got home after the school day, something Izuku replicated after they told their mother about anything interesting that might have happened while they were at UA. Following that the siblings engaged in shared studies, going over each subject Aizawa and the other instructors had covered so far, every inch of information was revisited and relearned to make sure they knew everything to the best of their ability. It warmed Selene's heart that they could just hang with Izuku, even if that meant just studying for a few hours, but it was definitely better than what she had thought about when she considered her father's idea to join the family, putting a smile on her face in the process.

When night arrived, however, Selene slipped out of the house and called Kurogiri once more, allowing her to use the gate to get to the bar base that her father was hiding in, and fortunately she didn't have to worry about the bratty boy, allowing her to get to her father's room and close the door behind her.

"Ah, Selene, what a wonderful surprise." Hisashi said, as he always appreciated the time Selene made for them, even though it pained both of them to keep certain bits of information from Izuku, Inko, and Celestia, and he always enjoyed the brief moments where he got to hug her again, before noting that something was off, "Is something bothering you?"

"All Might, he... he told Izuku about One For All's origin." Selene replied, where she found that her father paused for a couple of seconds before letting out a sigh of frustration, like he knew the tale wasn't going to match the reality he had lived and suffered through, which was why she considered Toshinori's tale to be lies, "He also angered me and Celestia by stating that one day he'd have to fight All For One."

"Let me guess, he said I was a 'Lord of Darkness' or a 'Demon King', that I forced a Quirk onto my brother, and that I wanted to take over Japan?" Hisashi remarked, as that was the series of lies he had heard from the other holders who carried his brother's Quirk, the combined one known as One For All, and at this point in time he wasn't even surprised by the fact that his current foe had bought the lies as well, despite everything he did before the fateful fight, and he could sense Selene nodding her head as he sighed, "Figures. It's a shame, really, that so many refuse to admit that what I was doing was taking away Quirks from those that were abusing them and granting them to those who wanted to defend themselves, never to kill mind you, and that those who sided with me were only trying to bring peace... we were vigilantes, at best, not villains. I never desired to rule over Japan, only to bring an end to the age of strife and chaos that was the start of the age of superpowers, while my 'followers' were just people who wanted the same... like Robin Hood and his Merry Men. And I never harmed my brother or forced anything onto him, I gave him that Quirk so he could protect himself, it fit his body well... I had no idea he even had one until One For All was born... and I gave him everything we didn't have growing up."

"I know, dad. I know." Selene said, as she had asked her father about his past several times over the years, his era had been interesting despite the fact that so many got his role in it horribly backwards, that he was the Demon King who sought to rule everything and everyone under an iron will, "I'm sorry to have brought this up."

"No... no, it's fine. I'm sorry you have to endure All Might's lies." Hisashi stated, he had accepted that the world wouldn't see him as he saw himself, as someone who worked towards the betterment of the world, but he didn't want his children to be swallowed by the lies and deceit, that was his duty as he worked towards his goal, "Don't worry about me, Selene, rather you should continue to focus on your studies and the hero you wanted to be."

Selene sighed and accepted her father's words, it was the best course of action that she let go of her anger, to a degree, as she worked towards trying to make her own changes, though she did make sure to hug him for a time before heading back home to rest up and prepare for what the future had to throw at her and her family.

Eventually a week went by and the day came of the End of Term Exam, where the students gathered for the written exam, a fact that caused Selene to note that several of them were still worried about their chances of success, while others, such as Shoto, were simply waiting for this to be over. Sure enough she found that the written exam covered each subject they had taken since the start of the semester, to clarify that they were absorbing information and were retaining what the teachers were teaching them, though both she and Celestia weren't even worried about this at all. The questions were both simple and tough in equal measure, no doubt to distract them in some manner, but neither sister wasted time on the exam, they read each one and answered them with the accuracy they were known for. In the end both of them got up from their seats at the same time, walked up to where Aizawa was standing like usual, and set their tests down in front of him without delay, before returning to their seats as the others either sweated or got to work for real.

It took some time for the others to complete their exams, though once everyone was finally done Aizawa had them take their cases to the changing rooms before gathering near the area they gathered in when they were being sent to one of the areas they trained in. The interesting thing this time around was that there were more instructors than before, because Aizawa was joined by Midnight, No 13, Present Mic, Ectoplasm, Cementoss, Snipe, and Power Loader, the last one being a skinny man with an excavator style help, who had to be the teacher for the Support Class. It was an impressive lineup, eight of UA's teachers ready for the exam, though Selene and Celestia glanced at each other before focusing on the teachers, because it was obvious that this portion of the exam was going to be different from what they were told. With what they were seeing it meant that they might be challenging their teachers for the exam, and if that was the case it made sense to split the class up into teams, each being focused down by one of the pro heroes, but if that was true it made them curious about their soon to be foe.

As it turned out none of the other students seemed to realize what was going on, rather they seemed to be of the opinion that this was going to be a fight against the robots again, and when Aizawa coughed that brought their attention to him as the other teachers got ready.

"Right, it is time for the physical portion of the End of Term Exam." Aizawa said, something that caused some of them, as in Mina and Denki, to cheer that it was time for them to wreck some robots and score some easy points, while the majority of the class suspected that something had to be up, their homeroom teacher thrived on this sort of thing, "Now, I know that you have a notion of what this exam is going to be about, and might have only studied to pass that sort of exam, instead of rounding out your studies in case of a surprise."

"That's right! Because, as of this moment and for a variety of reasons, we have changed the exam!" a voice said, where the small talking chimera creature that was the Principle of the school, as he was a mix of a dog, mouse, and bear, popped out of Aizawa's scarf, even used it as a rope to reach the ground, as this was Nezu, one of the rare examples where an animal had developed a Quirk, "From now on we are going to be holding tests that are more like person-to-person battles, emphasizing a teaching environment that is more like an actual battle... to do that we will be assigning you into teams and then have you fight off against one of these teachers. We personally judged each of you on how you tend to move, what weaknesses you might have, and so on and so forth, so we already have the pairings made up for each of you."

"You will be given a time limit, half an hour to be exact, and your objective is to either fight and capture your foe or flee and have one of your team leave the stage you'll be fighting in." Aizawa continued, though he wasn't even annoyed that he had been interrupted by the Principle, rather he must have been expecting it and had planned accordingly, before he produced a set of cuffs that looked like they were specially made for this very event, "This is what you'll use to cuff us, if you decide to stand and fight, because we're being serious about this and will fight you seriously, so you should consider us 'villains in the flesh'. Since we're all pro heroes, well, we are definitely higher than most of you and you will have to consider if it's safer to fight us or seek the exit that rests on the edge of each stage... a few of you no doubt understand this fact already. As for the teams, Shoto and Momo will be a team and they'll be facing me; Mina and Denki against the Principle; Yuga and Ochaco will be facing No 13; Kyoka and Koji against Present Mic; Fumikage and Tsuyu are facing Ectoplasm; while Hanta and Minoru have the honor of facing Midnight."

"In addition to that Toru and Mezo will be up against Snipe; Cementoss will be facing Eijiro and Rikido; while Power Loader will be facing Tenya and Mashirao." Nezo finished, something that caused the class to look at each other, because this left a total of four of them, the Midoriya siblings and Katsuki, the latter of which seemed annoyed by the fact that he wasn't being paired up with someone else in the entire class, "As for the four of you that are left over, well, your rules are different: you will be starting later than the others, to allow you to grasp the full meaning of teamwork, but the amount of time you'll have will be the same thirty minutes that everyone else has, you'll just be starting closer to noon. As for who you'll be fighting, well..."

"WE are here to oblige." a voice said, where the class found that All Might was walking towards them, and he was joined by Endeavor, Mirko, and Ryukyu, something that told them that they were going to throw four of the strongest heroes, in all of Japan, at the two troublemakers and the strongest two students in the entire class, "Now, cooperate and come at us, Wonder Quartet."

Selene let herself smile a little, because after everything All Might had put them through she was eager for a little payback, even if he had no idea why she hated him as much as she did, and she found herself looking forward to their battle as the others wondered what the teachers had in store for them.