My Hero Academia: Blood and Fire

by Blackdrag-rose

Learning: The Exam

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Selene found that Aizawa and Principle Nezo were telling the truth, she, Izuku, Celestia, and Katsuki were transported to an area that looked to be like a command center mixed with a rest area, where Recovery Girl was stationed, to heal those who were injured during this exercise. The reason for this was obvious, one of their test requirements was to work as a team, a fact that Katsuki would have trouble with since that meant listening to either Selene or Celestia, since they were usually the ones everyone else listened to, which was likely getting on his nerves. Instead of worrying about him for the time being both of the sisters focused on the rest of the class, where they noticed that the teachers were putting on weights on their wrists and ankles, the total of all four being half of the total mass of each teacher. It was meant to limit their strength and reduce their speed by a certain amount, since this was about the students learning and displaying their new skills, which made her curious as to whether or not their own opponents would do the same, given their skills.

The main core of this, as the exam finally started, was the art of communication, a skill that all heroes needed, be it towards other heroes or the citizens, that much the sisters could see as they observed their classmates starting their exams, as the best case was Fumikage and Tsuyu working together as a group.

Another example of this was the fact that Shoto, at first, took the reigns of the team and was telling Momo how they should go about this, especially since their opponent was Aizawa and they had to deal with him erasing their Quirks, and yet even Momo realized that she hadn't done anything outstanding so far. Even when Aizawa caught Shoto, causing the girl to run, he stopped and lectured his captured student as he prepared his countermeasures, a bunch of caltrops below him while he was wrapped up in some of Aizawa's scarf. The sad thing was that Momo didn't have any self-confidence, that was as clear as day to everyone, and yet, despite that, something in her clicked as she forced herself to run back to her teammate, which caused them to actually communicate with each other this time around. Selene and Celestia smiled, as this was what they were supposed to do, the teachers were attacking their weaknesses and the students were supposed to learn and grow, and despite being flash banged even Aizawa was pleased with their progress.

In the end it was rather simple that they eventually caught Aizawa, even though there was a moment where Momo nearly slipped up in her own plan, but she and Shoto worked together to overcome both their weaknesses and their opponent, to which the sirens announced that they had cleared their match.

Tsuyu and Fumikage continued to battle the clones of Ectoplasm, even to the point that he dismissed all of them to make a massive one that chomped down on them, imprisoning them in an instant with only Dark Shadow free to move, something that lead to Tsuyu upchucking their pair of cuffs so the shadow could cuff the hero's leg. It was obvious that she had gulped down the cuffs before the match began and was putting her faith in her partner to secure their victory, while hoping their foe had forgotten about such a thing, which happened to be why they won. Nezo, on the other hand, was basically wrecking the area that Mina and Denki were taking their test in, as in the super intelligent creature was using a wrecking ball to smash everything around him as he sealed off all of the escape routes, causing them to fail in the end. Present Mic was a terror on Kyoka and Koji, his sound completely blocking out whatever they tried, to the point that Kyoka's ears ruptured due to some blood leaking from them, but that did cause Koji to get over his own fear and get the insects of the forest to cover Present Mic, who was afraid of such things.

Eijiro and Rikido, despite their powerful Quirks, were unable to stand up to Cementoss in a battle of attrition, one simply ran out of steam and the other simply stopped running as his brain seemed to stop, since Rikido's Quirk turned sugar into power for three minutes, ending in their teacher's success. Power Loader dug up and fractured the area that Tenya and Mashirao were being tested in, where the former was eventually buried in the group, head above the dirt, but he did get his teammate through the finish line after they smashed the machine their teacher was using. Ochaco and Yuga were trapped by No. 13's Quirk, but somehow the latter said something that caused the former to let go of the rails, forcing their teacher to silence her own power and allowed Ochaco to cuff No. 13 in the span of a few seconds. Toru and Mezo did good against Snipe, the latter seemed to be a distraction as the former took off the rest of her attire, meaning the invisible girl was fully invisible, and she cuffed their foe, earning them a victory as well.

Minoru seemed to be a coward, running from Midnight as Hanta slept with his head on the hero's lap, since her Quirk had the power to put people to sleep due to her sleep-inducing aroma, which worked better on males than on females, in fact he was crying tears of blood from pure envy... and yet, despite that, he secured some of Hanta's tape around his mouth, used his orbs to trap Midnight and her whip, before escaping with his teammate.

"Everyone else is done, which means that it's our turn." Selene remarked, though she was impressed by what they had seen, most of the class had done well and only a select few had failed to pass their tests, but at the same time she was worried, as Katsuki didn't seem interested in what the others were doing and was more interested in beating their opponents.

"Finally! Stupid Deku, Shitty Kitty, Tank Flank, let's murder some heroes!" Katsuki stated, the look on his face being the same villainous and evil expression that had many wondering if he was actually a hero, instead of the villain he seemed to act like, before he marched out of the tent and climbed onto the bus.

Recovery Girl's station was a few minutes away from All Might's arena, which happened to be a large city arena, and when the bus arrived the group found that Endeavor, Mirko, and Ryukyu were standing on one of the roofs, watching them while waiting for the signal to start, yet All Might was currently absent.

"Heroes, we're ready for the exam!" Izuku declared, letting them and All Might know that they were ready, even though he was still taken aback by the fact that his own mentor was one of their opponents, especially when he added in three more popular heroes, three of which he only had ideas on how to defeat them from what he had seen in the past.

In the next moment a surge of power came from the area behind them, as they had stopped in the middle of the city, just like how every other team had started in the middle of their arenas, where parts of the street and sidewalks went flying like someone had sent a powerful punch their way, and sure enough there was All Might near the entrance.

"What do you mean 'heroes'? As of right now we are 'villains', my dear students." All Might stated, smiling at them while his own allies dropped down into the area he was standing in, Mirko and Ryukyu looking more interested in testing them while Endeavor seemed pissed off, since he was being told to work with his own rival, the Number One hero, but it did seem like All Might was taking his role in this seriously, "That means we don't care about protecting the city and will come at you with the intent to crush each and every one of you. Now, cooperate and try to pass this exam."

"That's right, and we do things my way! I get All Might, Stupid Deku gets Endeavor, and the brats get their mentors." Katsuki remarked, showing them all that he wanted nothing more than to fight and surpass All Might, even though he was feeling a newfound pressure from the heroes that were in front of them, like he was facing four imposing walls that needed to be torn down so he could keep climbing.

"No, realistically you need to go after Endeavor, since your Quirk should be able to hurt him, while Celestia or I go after All Might, leaving the other for Ryukyu while Izuku faces Mirko." Selene replied, because it would be far too easy for her and Celestia to beat their mentors, they had been training for a long time and she knew all four of them would know how to beat the other, but in the lineup she mentioned they could deal some damage to the heroes, potentially enough to open holes in their defenses to cuff them or flee.

"You don't get to order me around!" Katsuki stated, showing them that he hadn't been paying attention to the screens and their own test didn't seem to matter in the grand scheme of things, causing him to leap at All Might as he unleashed his Stun Grenade move on his foe, a more blinding type of explosion to steal the sight of his opponents.

That, as expected, really didn't work out well as All Might pushed through the attack and grabbed Katsuki by the face, even going so far as to not even be phased by the smaller blasts that were fired into his chest, since they were definitely weaker than some of the attacks he was known for using. This was followed by All Might slamming him into the ground, which was when the other three rushed Celestia, Selene, and Izuku, two of them seeking to simply rest them while Endeavor seemed to be interested in getting this over with so he could return to his duties. Izuku decided to back away from All Might, which was fair since he knew how strong his idol could be, as he shifted into his Full Cowl state and leapt at Mirko, who smiled for just a moment as she dodged the incoming attack and brought the ball of her foot down onto his shoulder, sending him right into the ground. While that happened Selene shifted into her hybrid form as she leapt into the air and attacked Ryukyu, since the dragoon hero had shifted into her dragon form and was getting into position to attack, but she did find that her opponent's scales were definitely hard, as expected of a beast of legend.

Celestia, on the other hand, found that both Endeavor and All Might came after her, like they were expecting her to crumble under the pressure or knew how dangerous she was and wanted to take her out before dealing with the others, but she did what Selene did, she shifted into her hybrid dragon form and defended herself. Her reasoning was quite simple in her mind, as her Dragon Quirk provided a great deal of defense and that allowed her to tank incoming blows from All Might, despite the force of the blows causing damage to the area behind her, since he was playing right now. At the same time she found that Endeavor was focusing on her as well, where her own flames cancelled his out when he tried to hurt her, though she had no idea what might happen if he were to use his greater power on her, despite the fact that he seemed to be debating such a thing. It was clear that they were trying to tire her out from constantly having her switch between her Quirks, despite the fact that she didn't get tired from switching between them, before she focused on offensive as she snapped her fingers and small fist sized orbs of solar energy formed around her, ten in total.

"There it is, the ultimate offensive and defensive fire Quirk: Sunshine." Endeavor said, as he had seen the bits of flame that Celestia had used to block his attacks, not enough to be labeled as her second, and more impressive, Quirk, but those orbs were a good sign that she was switching to the offensive at last, which meant it was getting time for him to do his part in all of this madness.

"You shouldn't be excited, Endeavor, because you might get burned." Celestia stated, where she held her hand out before the orbs went flying, causing the two heroes in front of her to dodge the incoming attacks, and when the orbs went too far she simply dismissed them, as if they didn't exist in the first place.

Celestia engaged the flame hero as he continued to lash out at her with flames, where Sunshine prevented everything from touching her, which was due to it's power being far stronger than Endeavor's, which was why he had been so interested in her, he wanted to know more about her powers and recruit her for his own reasons. It was for that reason that she focused on pushing him away from the others, even though All Might seemed to be withholding his presence for the time being so he could do whatever he was planning on doing, but found that the flame hero insisted on remaining in the center of the large arena for some reason. She honestly didn't care why he was doing this, there was no reasons behind why he wanted to be in this area, which was why Celestia continued to attack, pushing him to the edge of the circle he had created with his couple of movements, before making her own move. She shifted into her hybrid form and punched him hard in the chest, enough to make him cough for a moment, before grabbing onto Endeavor's collar as she hurled him high into the air, which was meant to eliminate him from the battle for a time since her siblings were keeping Ryukyu fairly busy.

As she thought about that, however, Endeavor seemed to right himself as he used his flames on his feet like thrusters, as in he used his own flames to hover in the air and slow his fall, before Celestia realized that he was gathering his flames into one of his final moves, which he could now freely release since he was one of the 'villains'.

"Prominence... BURN!" Endeavor shouted, firing a beam of intense flames down to where Celestia was standing, who looked up for a moment before summoning her own power as she weaved the solar energy into a circular shield above her head, because while his ultimate move was powerful she still held the power of the sun itself.

Sure enough the beam collided with the solar energy and her power ate up Endeavor's flames, his flames were inferior to her own after all, but as the flames died down All Might appeared in front of her, where she was sure his right arm was just slightly larger than before, causing her to realize that she had been tricked, one ultimate move was the cover and distraction for someone else's ultimate move.

"United... States... of..." All Might said, where he noticed that Celestia dismissed Sunshine and covered her body in dragon scales, switching from offensive to defensive in an instant, but his fist collided with her chest as he continued his motion, swinging her down into the ground with the full destructive power of One For All, "SMASH!"

Selene and the others watched as a massive tornado or twister or vortex of wind pressure, it was honestly hard to tell, was created as All Might punched Celestia into the ground with his ultimate move, hard enough to break everything around the pair and even lift chunks of buildings up into the air without hitting Endeavor. When the dust cleared the arena was just a mess as Endeavor landed by All Might, the chunks had fallen on some of the other buildings while leaving the rest of them safe from the chaos, and she found that there was a crater that Celestia was buried in. It was a shock, that even without him being the current holder of One For All, and only having a fraction of the power that was slumbering within Izuku, All Might possessed this much power in his weakened state, which explained how he was able to beat her father. She also knew that there was a reason for them taking out Celestia like this, since it seemed like they had intended to use the shock of her being forced into the ground to knock her out, but she knew her sister and suspected she would be getting up soon.

In addition to all of that Selene suspected that even the rest of the class, who were watching in the rest are no doubt, were shocked by this turn of events, because even Mirko and Ryukyu, who were close to where she, Izuku, and a Katsuki, who had a black eye, were standing looked shocked by this.

"Damn, so that's the Number One... I want to say that seeing that is making me sweat, but I can't tell if that's my nerves or just the sudden spike in temperature." Mirko commented, where she assumed that it was a combination of the two, which was fine with her since it was almost summer time, but even then it felt like they were suddenly entering an inferno that, in her opinion, shouldn't even exist right now.

"Wait... rise in temperature?!" Izuku said, where something dawned on him as he recalled something that happened in the past, when he and his sisters were much younger, as it had defined one of the core aspects of Celestia's main Quirk, which was the moment that Selene's ears perked up as a worried look appeared on her face, "What time is it?"

"A minute or two till noon. Why?" Ryukyu inquired, because knowing the time didn't really matter to her, even though there was a chance that this was connected to something that none of them knew about, and in the following moments Selene seemed to fear whatever she and Izuku knew about their sister.

"Oh fuck me..." Selene remarked, there was no way she could contain herself at this point, this was the big one, the power she feared the most, a power that Izuku and the rest of her family knew about thanks to the camping trip, Celestia's most dangerous and fearsome power, "Mirko, Ryukyu, Katsuki... you had better brace yourselves."

As she said that Selene felt it, the awakening of Celestia's full power as a torrent of solar flames erupted from her crater, a fact that caused All Might and Endeavor to jump back as they realized that something else was going on, and yet the sky also rumbled for a short while. In the next moment something tore through the clouds and came to a stop in the air near where Celestia was resting, where Selene just stared at the scene with a dumbfounded look on her face, as floating there was a weapon she never thought she'd see again. It was a broadsword, one the reminded Selene of that weapon from a movie she and her family watched, the blade Narsil if her memory was correct, yet she recalled the adamantine blade with ease, due to the line of golden runes on the weapon's blade and the sun hilt design. Selene knew this weapon because she had seen it in Luna's memories, the adamantine sword was the only thing that could contain Celestia's full power and the Solar Princess had been involved in it's forging, allowing her to make a weapon of unparalleled power and danger.

This was Solarion, known as the Dawn Blade, Dawnbringer, and many others, and yet it's mere existence here freaked her out more than she was willing to admit, since Selene had no idea why the blade was even here, though in the next instant the torrent died down as Celestia emerged from the crater, solar energy wrapped around her arms and legs, while her hair had turned into solar flames.

"Th... There it is, Celestia's full power: The One." Izuku said, though while he wasn't as worried as Selene he was definitely in the same ballpark, this was a form they had only seen once and that was enough to tell him everything he needed to know about Sunshine, and yet, despite all that, even he could tell that this instance of her power was far greater than what they had seen in the past, "Sunshine is a special Quirk, because it's power depends on what time it is, which is why you'll find that Celestia is stronger at, say, ten in the morning when using this than when she uses it at six in the morning... but when noon approaches her full power, the full power of the sun itself, is unleashed. Celestia becomes an invincible and unbeatable force once noon hits, and for one minute, just one singular minute, there is no stopping her..."

Selene found that everyone was watching this closely, this was the full power of one of the greatest Quirks in the world after all, where Endeavor went on the offensive immediately as he blasted Celestia with his flames, intending on pushing her back, but Celestia just stood there, the flames breaking up in the air before they even reached her. This caused him to use one of his other techniques, the one known as 'Hell Spider', which was him using thin strands of flames to cut up buildings and his foes, often used to cut through the defenses of his opponents, yet the only thing cut up was the ground behind Celestia. It was easy for Selene to guess what happened, her sister's power simply cancelled out Endeavor's attack, as The One seemed to have a solar shield that was incredibly faint and almost invisible to the naked eye, or maybe it was Celestia's magic at work in some manner. Celestia took a step forward as she held her hand out, the blade jumping into her hand, and before Selene could even shout out a warning a slash appeared on Endeavor's chest, cutting through his battle gear like it was butter, all while drawing a small bit of blood in the process.

Mirko and Ryukyu took a step forward before Celestia glanced up at them, her eyes like small balls of fire one could say, and yet that single glance caused both of the heroines to back up while sweating, their instincts had told them to back off before they were hurt and they followed along without question, meaning they understood how dangerous Celestia was while she was in this form.

"To think that your full power would be this strong, hero... but you won't be able to stop me!" All Might stated, though right now he was running on a low tank, because using the United States of Smash wore him out these days and this plan was designed to take Celestia out, to force the others to work together, yet their entire plan had gone right out the window with this shocking discovery.

Celestia stood there for a moment before raising her left hand into the air, palm facing the sky, where everyone watched as she formed what seemed to be one of the smaller Cruel Suns at first, but in the end it turned out to be a massive orb of sun energy, a literal mini sun in some cases, that was like three of her were standing on top of each other.

"This isn't 'Cruel Sun'... this is 'Sol Invictus'." Celestia stated, where she could see that the heroes, all four of them, were just stunned by the power she was demonstrating right now, in fact Endeavor was starting to see that death was standing before him if he dared to take another step forward, before she glanced up at Selene and nodded once.

In the next instant Selene tossed the four cuffs into the air and Celestia used her enhanced speed, as The One was a boost to all aspects of her sister's body, to lock up all four heroes before they realized what was going on and got back to where she had been standing before anyone realized it, allowing her to dismiss the mini sun with ease.

"Wh... What was that?" Katsuki asked, because this was unbelievable, that the full power of Celestia's Quirk would render four pro heroes into a defeated state and command such power, especially since it looked like she had slammed All Might into the ground before he even registered her attack or her movement, and yet he knew his eyes weren't deceiving him as the sirens declared their success in this exam.

"Like we said, that's 'The One', Celestia's full power that only activates when noon arrives and lasts for only a minute... there is no beating her in that state." Selene replied, though right now her focus was on making sure Celestia was all right, while her sister let her ultimate state fade away before finally tending to Endeavor's wound, healing it like it was nothing, despite the fact that he would bear the mental scar of it for a long time.

She honestly sure what was going on, or why Solarion had come to her sister's side all of a sudden, but she had a feeling that things were going to change for her and her siblings, she just wasn't sure how the events from this exam were going to affect them as a whole and made her wonder what the future held in store for them and their classmates.

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