My Hero Academia: Blood and Fire
Interlude: Packing
Previous ChapterNext ChapterA day after the home visitation the siblings found another letter in the mail, one giving them directions to the dorms they would be staying in for the rest of their time in UA, the newly built 'Heights Alliance' it was called, and information on their new rooms. This meant that they, and all of their classmates, would know the dimensions of their new rooms so they knew how much to pack, even though it was possible that some might just pack up their entire room and move to the dorms, but the sisters had other ideas. Each room, according to the information provided, came with a basic comfortable bed but could be changed if they had different preferences, plus a closest, a desk, air conditioning, a veranda, and even a toilet, so they could customize their rooms however they wanted. With that in mind the sisters focused on the essentials, such as a new set of bed sheets that matched what they currently had, there was no reason to send in what they were currently using, plus the sisters picked out a number of items from their rooms to bring with them.
Izuku, on the other hand and to the surprise of no one, started packing up each and every piece of All Might material that was in his room, every poster, every action figure, and ever item he had collected over the years, which was stupid since his stuff was like a collection and this might ruin it, but they decided not to bother talking him down.
Since they were only being given a week to prepare, since not all students would be ready to move in immediately, this did give Selene and Celestia some time to do something very important, hang out with Himiko and Toya, since it was possible that they wouldn't have the ability or time to do so when school started. The best thing about this was that none of them had anything to hide, each of them knew about the other, as they knew Himiko had learned how to control her desire for blood thanks to Selene helping her out, while Toya told them who his father was and that he wanted it kept a secret for now. The sisters were just happy to have some fun, like actual teenagers or young adults who didn't have anything to worry about, at least for the time being, and they were happy to have friends to hang out with who weren't their classmates. At the same time Celestia continued to tend to Toya's body, repairing more and more of the damage that had been done to him by his Quirk, because healing her father allowed her to make more progress with Toya's body.
"Based on the rate I'm going, you should only need three, maybe four, more sessions and no one will ever know that you were burned in the first place." Celestia commented, because all of the healing she had done recently allowed her healing power to evolve and grow at an outstanding and surprising rate, meaning it was just like the rest of Sunshine, a Quirk that was beyond what everyone was expecting from hearing it's name.
"That's nice. It'll be nice to get rid of these burns." Toya said, though at the same time he looked at the newest links that had been removed from his body and added them to a small bag he kept him with, a secondary reminder of his ordeal, mostly to make sure he didn't push his Quirk to the extreme again, as burning alive like that again would probably kill him for real this time, something he really didn't want to think about.
"What are you going to do with those links once they're all out?" Selene asked, because while she felt it was odd for Toya to keep the links like this, especially since he had been wearing them since his body had been tended to in the past, she also wasn't about to dig too deep into it if Toya said he had a reason, she was just curious.
"Don't know. Maybe I'll make a bracelet or something with them." Toya replied, though as he said that he noticed that their other friend, Himiko, was just enjoying her drink and having friends, since she had been without them for a long time, and now both of them and their own friends, those that had also turned against Tomura when they realized that he was just an agent of destruction, "It's going to be sad when you two go to UA for a long time... we're going to miss our time together. I've been thinking that it's about time for us to get started on an organization for outcasts, to stop people like us from walking down the road Tomura wants to travel down. Hopefully we can stop some of the attacks from happening."
Selene and Celestia nodded their heads, as they knew that Toya had big plans and that he would attempt to make them a reality, now that he had been given a second chance at life, though he was still planning on how to expose his father to the rest of Japan. Himiko was helping Toya out because it meant that no one would be in the same position she had been in in the past, lost and alone until someone came into her life and pulled her off the path she had been on, even though she did know that there were some people they wouldn't be able to help. Selene didn't know about the rest of the group, such as Spinner, Twice, and whoever else was part of their band of misfits, but she suspected that all of them had a reason to help with Toya's plans, at least when it came to helping outcasts. If they were successful it would cut down on the amount of crime that was going on right now, cut down on sending people who couldn't control their Quirks to jail, and do all sorts of things for the betterment of Japan, but it would be a long battle ahead of his group.
Other than that there wasn't much for them to worry about, though the sisters did look forward to hanging out with Hisashi and the rest of the family, since it was the first time in a long time they had been together, especially since they wouldn't be back for quite some time.
"Dad, will you be heading back to the US when we go back to UA?" Izuku asked, as he knew that their father had returned home due to the attacks that were happening on UA, or at least that was the tale that Hisashi had told him and Inko since he didn't want to burden them with the truth.
"No, I'm staying here. I've arranged for things to work without me in the US, and I've got a position in the city that will let me stay close to home." Hisashi replied, which obviously wasn't the whole truth, because once the kids were back in school he was going to join Kurogiri every now and then and see if they could track Tomura down, as his current plan was to find him and take Decay before his former student did something stupid, but his family didn't need to know the specifics, "Though you three will be living on the UA campus for a long time, just remember that you can come home whenever you want... it would be nice to hear about your lessons from time to time."
"I just hope Izuku remains safe, listens to his teachers, and passes his classes... no more talk of villains until he's a full hero, like Mirko and Ryukyu." Inko said, as she knew she didn't have to worry about her daughters, Selene and Celestia were more than capable of defending themselves from the trials they would face in the future, in fact she was sure that they would bring news of their success and passing whenever they came home, "I don't want to be worrying about you all the time, afraid that you'll end up in the recovery room all the time."
"Don't worry mom, I've figured out how to use my power without harming my body. I only need to refine the technique and your worries will vanish in no time." Izuku spoke up, because he and his sisters knew that their mother was only worried about him because of how reckless he had been with One For All, even if she had no idea what the Quirk was called, but he had spent some time thinking about it after their talk with All Might and he knew it was time for him to change things around for the better.
"Plus, as we've said before, he's got us to watch out for him. If he strays from the path we'll help him back onto it." Celestia added, relaxing in her chair as she looked down at the board game that none of the others were paying attention to, save for when it was their turn, where the game was about moving a specific number of pieces, in her case the white ones, into their safe zone by drawing cards to determine how much they could move by, "I'll be honest, I'm more focused on the fact that we'll be living in a community style with the rest of our classmates, at least that's what the letter seemed to imply, and what sort of lessons we'll be learning once the next semester starts. I suspect that we'll be learning how to make our signature moves, maybe even the finishers that each hero creates to tell the public everything is in good hands... and Aizawa sensei mentioned that we'll be taking the provisional license exam in the near future as well."
"Then after that we'll be able to do greater work as heroes, far more than when we were interns, which will pave the way for us to become full heroes." Selene finished, which was the end goal for her and Celestia, becoming heroes without forcing any of the other students down to the ground, though at the same time she looked at the board and smiled as she pulled a card that allowed her to divide her points between two pieces, pushing them both into safety, "Sorry Celestia, looks like I got all four of my pieces in first."
"No worries, this was actually rather fun. Pure luck, no skill... it's a nice game to play and relax with." Celestia said, because she wasn't about to take losing a board game seriously, that would make her a rather sore loser if she did so, rather she was focused on the fact that they were able to have fun like an actual family, even though Inko had been watching since this was a four player game, allowing them and Izuku to play with Hisashi for a chance.
Hisashi was happy for a change of pace, nothing was distracting or demanding his attention, despite his plans to track down Tomura, and he was able to just relax with his family, he had really missed this during his time in his hideout, and when it was time for night to fall he found that his girls headed outside while Inko and Izuku turned in for the night.
"What are you two up to?" Hisashi asked, keeping his voice down as he followed them out into the backyard, an area that was actually quite safe since this was where Kurogiri would often pick Selene up from, even though she would use an alley during the day, because he had noticed that the girls were closer than ever before, confirming that Selene had told her sister everything, even about Blood Singularity.
"Just a little remedial session. Selene and I have been practicing with her Blood Singularity, allowing her to get used to using it again." Celestia replied, where she removed her shirt for a moment and moved her hair out of the way, something that came as a surprise to both Hisashi and Selene, since neither of them were expecting her to do such a thing, causing her to look at the pair for a moment, "This should be the last time we need to do this, but I figured you could go for the neck this time... who knows, maybe third times the charm and you'll tap into one of my Quirks."
"Oh, I'm not foolish enough to hope for such a thing." Selene remarked, because she doubted that she could copy Sunshine, she wasn't sure she could actually handle the power if she was able to copy it, and while Dragon was an awesome Quirk she suspected she wouldn't be able to copy it, at least not Celestia's version since it was likely partly Equestrian in nature, but she did nod her head for a moment.
Selene was surprised that Celestia was allowing her to go for the next this time around, since she usually cut her arm with one of her arms with a dragon claw, but she wasn't about to complain as she let her fangs out, where Hisashi just watched the two to make sure nothing odd happened. She, on the other hand, discovered something odd as her fangs sank into her sister's neck a little and she took a bit of blood, nothing too major, because the moment she did so it was like the world just flared and shifted, like she was being fulled into a vision or something. In the next moment Selene found herself in what had to be a vision of some kind, her body transparent as she floated in the air above the ruins of the castle that Celestia and Luna had lived in at one point in the distant past, like the potent magic in Celestia's body was showing her something. In the next couple of seconds she found that she wasn't alone, she found Celestia walking down one of the hallways, not her sister, as she soon discovered, rather it was Princess Celestia, the alicorn in her golden jewelry.
Strangely she didn't feel her old intense hatred for this version of Celestia, rather Selene was just confused as she floated in the air, glancing around for a moment as she wondered why she was seeing this, while the alicorn princess continued on her journey through the crumbling castle.
"What in the world is going on here?" Selene commented, though she found that the alicorn didn't even acknowledge what she had said, rather it was like Princess Celestia had no idea she was even there in the first place, something that caused her to float down the hallway as she followed the alicorn.
Princess Celestia stopped at a door a few moments later and stepped inside the room, where Selene found that it was bare, save for one of the stands that jewelers used to showcase necklaces or amulets, and resting on it was a silver amulet with a pulsing red gem in the center, not the Alicorn Amulet, rather Selene found that it was something else. She could sense that something was inside it, that much Selene could tell with just a glance, and in the following moments Princess Celestia just lowered her head for a moment as her horn glowed, meaning she was about to cast a spell. In the next instant a flaming light emerged from her body as the alicorn extracted whatever it was and channeled it into the amulet's crystal, where she found that it pulsed like it had a life of her own, as if someone was being sealed away. Selene let out a gasp as she quickly realized what she was seeing, a scene that didn't seem real, especially given the nature of the figure she was thinking about, and yet that didn't stop her from watching as the essence was drawn out of the alicorn and was sealed inside the amulet.
In the end Princess Celestia severed the connection between her and the amulet, this time sending something straight into the core of the crystal, causing the alicorn to huff for a moment as she recovered from the strain of what she had done, but, in no time, she was done huffing and stared at the amulet.
I'm sorry, Daybreaker, but I can't run the risk of you breaking out... this is your new home, protected by wards. Princess Celestia said, though Selene noticed something, while the alicorn seemed somewhat happy to be free of her darker side, since this meant she wouldn't have to worry about her Nightmare self taking over, it almost looked like the alicorn was also saddened by this, as she turned her head and left the room, locking it behind her.
In the next moment Selene found that she was back in her backyard, back in Japan and in her non-transparent body, where her fangs were leaving Celestia's neck as her sister healed the self-inflicted wound, but instead of saying anything Selene just smiled and nodded, hugging her sister like she had done the last few times they did this. In that moment she understood that for her sister and father the scene of her biting into Celestia's neck had been just a few seconds, in fact for them it had likely been a few seconds, while for her it had been more like minutes since her mind had been in that vision. As far as she knew whatever Equestrian magic she possessed must have resonated with the magic inside Celestia's body, it was the only thing that made sense, and since most of the magic was emotional based, like how love could create barriers or how hatred could make freezing conditions, it might have responded to her fear. It would have been her fear over the possibility that her sister's Nightmare existed and that she might turn into Daybreaker at any moment, that much Selene knew for a fact, and it was like the bits of Equestrian magic had shown her this to ease her fears.
Hisashi, on the other hand, noticed that something was off when Selene showed them that nothing new had happened, this just meant that his daughter got a temporary power boost that would fade in a few minutes, causing Celestia to head in for bed since they had more stuff to get ready for their new dorms tomorrow, before he turned towards Selene.
"Selene? Are you all right?" Hisashi asked, because he could see that something had happened, even though he hadn't seen anything out of the ordinary, rather it had been two sisters bonding a little, so he wanted to be sure Selene was fine before they did anything else.
"...Yeah... I had a vision... a memory of some sort, when I bit Celestia's neck. I saw her sealing Daybreaker away, removing her darker side from her body entirely." Selene replied, as she made sure her sister wasn't in the area before speaking, as she didn't know how Celestia would take this particular bit of news, while Hisashi raised an eyebrow, as he was thinking over the times they had seen the slight changes in Celestia's eyes, "Those changes in her eyes weren't Daybreaker, she's not there to influence Celestia... it was just Celestia being annoyed or angry with someone."
"I see. Well then, I guess we don't have to worry about any unwanted transformations." Hisashi said, though this did make him wonder something important, as Selene used to be a 'nightmare' herself, the dark side of Princess Luna that went by the name 'Nightmare Moon', before coming here, that Luna must have done somewhere else and Selene came here, and if that was true he had to wonder where Daybreaker ended up, "Come on, let's get you inside. You'll need to be well rested for what the next couple of days will throw at you."
Selene nodded, though she couldn't help but wonder about Daybreaker, as there was a chance that her sisters' dark side could escape, she had done the same when she separated herself from Luna, before deciding that she would worry about it later and focus on the here and now as she wondered what UA would throw at her, Celestia, and Izuku in the near future.
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