The Monster's Awakening
“Midoriya, I really am impressed at how many times you’ve been here, even the nurses have a special protocol for you!”
“*Laughs nervously, I guess it’s just since my job.”
“Your job is just a regular employee!”
Izuku heard his personal doctor, Fuyumi Todoroki slightly yelled as she and the two nurses installed an IV to Izuku’s right arm as Fuyumi did a check up on Izuku, as she’s done and the other nurses went out of the room, Fuyumi sighed and cleaned her hands on the nearby sink.
“You should be thankful that whatever got injected in you is slowly fading, and your body seems to be recovering as well, a full day of rest and small meds should make you feel better in no time.”
“Okay doc.”
“And Izuku, when I mean rest, I mean, REST, no doing your work in here, got it!?”
Izuku chuckled with Fuyumi eyeing him right in front of his face, and Izuku could swear he saw Yuno’s death stare at Fuyumi, Izuku nodded with a smile as he saw Fuyumi leaving the room but stopping at the door which made Izuku raise an eyebrow and Fuyumi looking back at her.
“Please, try to be more careful next time…… you know that if you didn’t have me……”
“I know Fuyumi, by the way, how’s Shoka doing?”
“She’s doing well, ever since you gave me those teaching advices…… thank you Izuku, for everything……”
Fuyumi said with a soft smile and left the room, leaving Izuku alongside of his, well, other friend, Izuku sighed and grabbed a nearby apple as he took a bite and smiled as he saw the upper vent’s door opened and Yuno dropped down, Izuku grabbed his phone while he looked at the lots of emails unread and started to go through them all.
“First of all, Yuno, you don’t have to worry about your, relationship with me, I’m taken by you remember?”
Izuku said as he tried to calm Yuno who already had a knife hidden in her sock, Izuku knew from experience, Yuno seemed to drop her death stare at the door while she saw that Izuku was typing as fast as he can on the phone’s keyboard. Yuno peeked at the phone’s screen before grabbing it and held it out of Izuku’s reach.
“Izuku-kun, didn’t she said to rest? I’m sure Leo can handle the all of your load.”
“Alright, alright… why didn’t you come from the front door?”
Yuno looked away sheepishly as Izuku let out a small chuckle, before Izuku suddenly smelt something good, Izuku looked beside to only see a small bowl of porridge beside him, Izuku sat up and saw a small speck of red on her neck, Izuku just felt confused right as he saw Yuno smiling mischievously.
“Are you eying something Izuku-kun?’
“Wha-what!? No!”
Izuku replied as Yuno leaned closer and he tried to not get too close to Yuno’s face, as Izuku was cornered to the wall behind him, he heard whispers in his head, Izuku tried to tune them out but it was starting to overwhelm him but stopped right as Yuno put her hand on Izuku’s cheek.
“Something wrong? I was just teasing… did I--?”
“No-no! I was… uh, noting, thanks for worrying about me Yuno.”
Yuno smiled as she waved goodbye and left the room, with Izuku waving back at her and slumped himself on the bed, although as Izuku looked up to the celling and wondered on what he had felt when he saw Yuno’s, neck. After Izuku looked out to the night sky, and the clock that showed 9.00 PM, Izuku was going to reach for his phone but realized that Yuno has taken it which meant Izuku couldn’t text anyone.
Oh, come on, Yuno probably put it down somewhere at the counter.
Izuku knew he couldn’t get it, since either he presses the nurse button which he is sure 100% they will ignore his request, and he is stuck to the IV so he couldn’t move, although he can try, but last time he did that, he was frozen into his bed, so Izuku accepted his fate and just tried to get some sleep, as Izuku was closing his eyes and trying to achieve peace, something whispered into his mind.
Eat
Eat
Eat
EAT!
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“Todoroki-san, your shift is over.”
“Oh really?”
Fuyumi replied as she looked up from her desk and saw her co-worker who had a bunch of papers in her grasp, Fuyumi smiled and yawned as she grabbed a cup of coffee and faced her intern.
“Yes, it’s already 11.00PM, may I help---”
“No thanks, and I’ll stay here for a few more hours mam.”
“Is it because of that man?”
Her boss said who just entered which made Fuyumi halted her work and just faced the boss with a smile and replied, “No, I just have a feeling that you’ll be needing more help.”, “That’s sweet of you.”
“Uh Todoroki-san, we ran out of forms, would you kindly get some?”
“Okay.”
Fuyumi replied and stood up as she grabbed her cup of coffee and a paper on a clipboard and walked out of the little doctor’s room and into the hallway, she looked up and saw that the lights were getting dimmer from the last time she had a night shift.
While Fuyumi walked to the front desk, she saw that there were only two nurses, instead of three, Fuyumi raised an eyebrow as she went through the fence-like door and opened the nearby upper cabinet while the two nurses seemed to be, worried as Fuyumi looked them who were staring at their computers.
“Something wrong?”
“Uh, well…”
“Miss Todoroki, a nurse went on to check room 092 and she hasn’t come back.”
Fuyumi tried to reassure her co-workers and sat down beside them to see the CCTV footage that was displayed on the monitor, she saw that the hallways leading to the room and others were empty, as she and the two other nurses were interrupted by a spine chilling and tuned out scream.
“Wha-what was that?”
“I don’t like this!”
“Calm down, we should call the police first.”
Fuyumi said trying to be positive as herself was already fearing what was here, while one nurse was calling the police, the other one walked to the warn the others by the interbuilding phone. Fuyumi though, as she was rummaging through the files to make sure they were kept safe but then she saw a familiar phone in the lost and found cabinet.
“Wait, who put this here?”
“Oh, a pink haired woman mam, she said it was the one of the patients.”
Fuyumi’s mind turned into a slight panic as she nervously chuckled and grabbed it and went out from the desk, she grabbed a nearby flashlight as she went to go check Izuku and with her light source, while the lights flickered.
Hang on Izuku, I’m coming!
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No… No… NO!
Izuku thought as he panted and leaned to a nearby wall while he combated his own alternate psyche and smashed his fist into the nearby wall, blood dropped from Izuku’s fist which made Izuku’s stomach grumble and Izuku slightly drooled but Izuku held back and smashed his head to a nearby window.
The glass cracked as Izuku clutched his head in pain, Izuku ripped off the IV on him and gritted his teeth in agony while he saw his vision blurring, Izuku stood up wobbly as he felt hunger taking over, as Izuku with his erratic breathing tried to find any form of anaesthesia, he stumbled across a nurse who was pushing a cart with surgical tools on them.
“Oh my, mister do you need---”
Izuku punched himself in the jaw as he reeled back while the unsuspecting nurse approached him and grabbed his arm, but Izuku reacted unknowingly with tightening his own shaky grip at the nurse who began to panic and grabbed the knife which she was used to stab Izuku’s hand, blood trickled down as Izuku let go and the nurse began to ran away, but as Izuku was trying to numb the pain on his hand and attempted to use it keep him sane, he accidentally let a trickle of blood onto his tongue and felt, something.
What…… No! I shouldn’t be…
As Izuku tried his best to not succumb into whatever he was in, he vision started to flicker multiple times, and fighting his nervous and shaky hands as he walked and crawled to a nearby door, Izuku dragged himself up but suddenly as he saw the same nurse a hallway apart, hunger and animalistic traits started to take over him as Izuku opened the door and fell to him back and saw blood sacs stationed, Izuku’s breathing started to escalate quickly and Izuku grabbed a nearby blood stained bandage with the intent of patching his new wound but then, right as Izuku used his mouth to wrap, his mouth tasted the blood soaked by the bandage and suddenly dropped what he was doing.
No… TAKE CONTROL IZUKU!, You… are……
Was Izuku’s last thoughts as his body went limp, one final breath was left as Izuku chuckled bitterly, his vision started to deteriorate as he saw a figure by the door, his stomach rumbled again as he bit his tongue with the little amount of energy he had left, with a final sight of the blood on his hands.
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“What’s going on there?”
Shouka Aizawa was not having it, she just got dragged into a ‘bonding’ activity with her two, co-workers/friends but not that she will ever admit it, and now, as the person beside her, Kayama Nemuri or Midnight, was mildly drunk from a betting event, as well as Hizashi Yamadai or Present Mic who’s helping Nemuri stand up.
Why did I agree to come here…?
“Yeah, seems serious, multiple police cars are parked.”
Yamadai commented at Nemuri’s slight drunk comment which caught Aizawa’s interest, the three walked closer and saw that the location was a nearby hospital, Aizawa sighed and his thoughts wondered on to cats while Yamadai went on to one of the police officers and gave Nemuri to Aizawa.
“Hello officer, is something wrong here?”
“Ah, no worries civilian, we have this under control, just a small investigation---”
A loud scream was heard as a body was flung out of the third-floor window and Aizawa instinctively ran with her capture scarf to save the woman falling down, Yamadai pulled out her hero license as Aizawa caught the woman and set her down on the ground with the medical forces surrounded with their medical equipment, Aizawa checked the heart and still heard it pumping, although the woman was covered in blood and scars.
“We need to evacuate everyone in there!”
“Hizashi, I’m going in.”
Aizawa declared as she put on her goggles from her pocket and rushed in with her capture scarf at the ready, as she saw a few nurses running to the exit, Aizawa stopped as she went up to the third floor where saw blood stains on the walls, she carefully treaded as she saw some medical tools scattered on the floor.
What in the world is going on…?
As Aizawa walked past multiple doors, he saw one opened and carefully entered, Aizawa was frozen in fear as she saw a dead body leaning to the wall right in front of him, blood dripped from the victims neck as it seemed to be gauged open, as Aizawa was approaching, a sudden movement behind him made Aizawa turn with a defensive stance but just saw a bag drop to the ground, Aizawa crouched and went to grab the bag but then he saw a shadow movement on the other end of the hallway.
There!
Still having stealth in her mind, Aizawa made her way quietly to the hallway she saw the shadow ran off to, and she saw a figure crawling on the celling as it dropped a blood bag which splatted on the ground, Aizawa was about to apprehend the villain as it floated? Down to the ground, seemingly attracted to the blood as it’s breathing went wild as it savoured the blood with its stained hands.
But just right before Aizawa was about to make her move, loud footsteps caught her and the villain’s attention, which turned out to be a doctor with short white hair with dark red strokes, she was holding a phone as she seemed to be searching for someone, Aizawa was slightly panicking as she saw that the villain showed fangs and rushed at the woman.
“Get out of the way!”
Aizawa shouted as she used the capture scarf to wrap the villain but was grabbed and the villain yanked Aizawa as she got slammed to the ground, cracking a few bones while it eyed the doctor who turned away and was about to run away before seemingly realized something, as it charged at her, Aizawa used her capture scarf to wrap its leg and Aizawa pulled it, making the villain stumble.
“Wait! Izuku---”
Aizawa got pinned to the wall behind him by the villain which cracked the concrete a little, as it seemed to react to the name by the doctor, Aizawa took note of the villain’s green hair and fang-like teeth, the villain dropped Aizawa as it stared at the doctor who was approaching slowly, Aizawa took the opportunity and grabbed the villain’s head and did a twist as she finished it by wrapping its right wrist with her scarf, The doctor seemed to be worried as Aizawa stood up and pinned the villain to the ground while it seemed to be unconscious.
“Doc, call the police, tell them the villain’s---”
“Look out!”
Aizawa couldn’t react in time as the villain grabbed her leg and bit it, Aizawa reeled in pain as it twisted her left arm, as Aizawa held back the scream, she got picked up and was thrown to the wall, the doctor was about to run back but the villain scaled the wall and pounced to attack her, the doctor used her quirk to form ice formations which the villain crashed through, the few seconds granted Aizawa a chance to stand up and grabbed the villain’s neck by her scarf as she yanked it, leading to the villain falling on its back.
“Doctor, get away, now!”
Aizawa yelled desperately as her grasp on the capture scarf was overtaken by the villain’s strength, the doctor ran as Aizawa was rammed by the villain to the hallway, falling to her behind, she stood up with a fighting stance and a frown as the villain circled her on it’s four limbs, Aizawa dodged a pounce and punched the villain’s chest as she got clawed on the right shoulder, the villain was about to devour Aizawa’s face but was flung away by a familiar scream which made Aizawa close her ears.
“Shouka! You okay?”
“Nemuri… I’m fine, just scratched.”
Aizawa managed to speak as she saw Midnight approach her while Yamadai was facing the villain who was back on it’s four limbs that creeped Yamadai out as she stammered while the villain looked at its right and hissed as it ran away, leaving the three pro heroes confused.
“What was that?”
“I don’t know…… let’s get the officers.”
“I… need to find, out what’s… there.”
Aizawa said as she walked weakly towards the area where the villain had looked while Yamadai followed behind and Nemuri went to get the police women, Aizawa saw a door open and looked that there was a crying child inside, alongside of a woman who was protecting the kid, Yamadai went to comfort the two civilians while Aizawa’s vision about the villain he just had encountered changed, she looked out to the window the villain had escaped through with a question in her mind.
What is your goal…
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………where……… wait…
Izuku weakly thought as he slowly opened his eyes and found himself inside of a trash dumpster, Izuku groaned and stood up as he went out of the dumpster as it fallen over and Izuku stumbled on the trash, Izuku looked up and saw that it was night to day as he looked at a nearby clock.
1.00 AM, what… had happened……
Izuku clutched his head while trying hard to remember what had escalated as he saw his blood-stained hand, Izuku made his way out of the alleyway and grabbed his handkerchief as he tried to wipe his face clean.
Why do I have a blood on my hands……?
Izuku licked his hand to try and clean it, but as the taste of dried blood hit his tongue, memories began to start recalled to Izuku, the scent of blood, the sounds of flickering lights, the fearful expressions, Izuku eye’s widen in realization as he stumbled back in disgust and fear about himself, as he found about his actions, Izuku’s panic attack suddenly came in as his mind thought of the worst but Izuku stopped it and took deep breaths.
No… calm down…… it’s was not me… I didn’t do that… I am not a monster!
Izuku reasoned with himself as he took another lick of the dried blood and tried to find a stationary store to write down what he can deduce about his new, condition, while Izuku was running down the street still with his lab coat on and brown shirt and pants, he recalled every trait he could hypothesize about.
Quirked bat blood with other substances were in that compound, it seems that it had settled and mutated my body, I don’t think that I got a quirk, I need blood to keep my saneness in check, can I eat anything else? What part of blood sates my hunger? Are there any other symptoms?
Izuku thought as he entered a stationary station, as he ignored the cashier employee and went straight to grab a notepad and a pen, Izuku approached the cashier as she seemed to be, weirded out? Probably since Izuku’s a man, Izuku pulled out the amount needed to pay with an added high tip, as he leaned to whisper.
“Take this, and don’t tell anybody I was here… please.”
The woman just nodded, seemingly afraid but Izuku just ignored it as he gave his thanks and ran out of the door, Izuku looked around but couldn’t find any modes of transportation as he frantically tried to find someone to get help, he was suddenly stopped by echoey sounds and looked back to see that a figure was approaching him, seemed to be a hero judging by the costume and woody mutation quirk.
“Hey! Uh mam, can I get some---”
Izuku asked but was interrupted as he saw three wooden pillars approaching him, Izuku’s instincts took over and ducked under one as he barely dodged the other one and vaulted the last one, “Why are you attacking me!?” Izuku asked and then he saw that the surroundings of him emitted fog and blurred as if reality had changed, Izuku backed up from the now mist surrounded figure and right as he stepped back, he saw a pulse that turned into a circle of something from his feet that went to cover the entirety of Izuku’s new perspective.
“Hand yourself over villain!”
Villain!?
Izuku thought panickily as he suddenly got a wave of information, he jumped over another wood attack and as he began to run, he instinctively ran and vaulted a fog surrounded obstacle as he tried to lose the hero, Izuku frantically took multiple turns and twists and each step he made gave him some sort of insight of the layout where he was going, and as Izuku looked back and saw that he had lost the hero, Izuku sighed in relief as he blinked and suddenly got his normal vision back.
What the heck was that…
Izuku found himself in the front of a mall as he looked around after him regaining his original senses, and after Izuku making sure he was alone, he pulled back his notepad and pen as he wrote a few more notes, while Izuku stepped out of the small hiding place he had ran over his notes again.
Some sort of location finding, echolocation? Probably---
Izuku didn’t manage to finish his thought as a sudden prick he felt on his neck as he felt a small dart with his hand, Izuku tried to find where he got shot but then realized what he had gotten shot by as he felt some similar effect, Izuku supported himself by the wall as he started to feel the anaesthesia working again and as he was falling to the ground weakly, a group of four which was led by a very familiar face.
“Le…Leo!?”
Leo just smirked and let the other four grabbed Izuku and gagged him alongside of cuffing his hands, Leo got closer and whispered one last thing to his ear, “No hard feelings buddy, just business.”, Izuku heard as he closed his eyes, and heard engine revving’s while thinking about one thing.
Where…… am I being taken……