An Unlikely Hero

Chapter 18

Everyone was finished with dinner, so Pixie-Bob and Mandalay showed us to the bath house. The girls and boys split into two group and went into our respective genders hot spring bath. As the others girls talked, I kept to myself. I took my clothes off and folded a towel for when I get out of the bath. 

The water was really nice in contrast to the brisk summer night air. I went to a corner of the bath and laid my head down on a rock and closed my eyes. I listened to the girls talk for a bit before concentrating on the boys conversation instead.

Mineta was perving about how we were only separated by a wall. I could hear him climbing it, but thankfully Kota knocked him down. My eyes met Kota's and I gave him a thumbs up. 

"You should come join us Kota! We could wash your hair" Mina asked. Kota glanced at me before leaving the bathing area. I sighed and got out. With an extra towel for my hair. I dried off, and put my pajamas on before trekking to the cabins where we would be staying. All of our stuff was on the floor by the door, meaning I could pick my own bed. The ceiling was pretty close to the top bunk so I settled for the bottom one that was furthest from the heater. 

The next few days Aizawa and the Wild Pussycats looked over different aspects of our training. I spent half of my time trying to improve my ability and the other half sparring with Tiger with my enhanced strength. When I was with Aizawa I pretty much had to eat and eat and eat even after I was full. We were trying to make my food reserves bigger so I can use my power for longer periods of time. I would have to make mouths on all on my limbs and my stomach and eat through all of them. It was hard for me to maintain more than one mouth for longer than a few minutes. 

I groaned as I was brought to the ground for about the 20th time in the last hour by Tiger. 

"You need a more stable stance. You are good at using your momentum and the enemy's momentum, but you should gain more muscle in case your enemy can control their body better than you can" I nodded as Tiger pointed out my weak spots and gave me things to work on. 

"Alright! It's lunch time!" Pixie-Bob announced. We learned very quickly that Bakugo and I are the best cooks. The others were picking up on how to make simple things like curry pretty well. For lunch we had a salad. I never though I'd say... think this, but just the sight of food was making me sick. 

Night had stumbled around and our two classes were doing a little test of courage. 1-B were hiding in the forest first and my class would walk through in pairs. Whoever can scare the other class gets bragging rights. 

I volunteered to go solo since Mina, Kirishima, Denki, Sato, and Sero failed. Knowing my love for horror movies, Aizawa agreed. ( I know Midoriya went alone in this arc but let's just pretend ok? ok!) The pairs were chosen randomly and once class 1-B was done setting up they began sending pairs in. I went right before the last pair. Some of the class had already made the round and was back at the start. 

As I went through I responded to each and every scare tactic with an odd response. I do this when I go through haunted houses to. I was about halfway through it when I noticed part of the forest was on fire. I ran over in that direction, but ended up feeling dizzy. It took me a bit to realize I was walking through gas. Thanks to the reserved of food in my body I can hold my breath a bit longer than an average person, but it still wasn't very helpful. 

It took a bit but I ended up getting out of the area covered in gas. My vision began to blur and I collapsed to my knees next to a tree. 

"Hey kid" A familiar voice called. Through my hazy vision I saw the guy I met in the alley when I ran away while ago. 

"D-Dabi?" I stammered. I cleared my throat trying to move my heavy tongue. 

"Hey kid. Do you need help?" He asked and walked closer to me. He crouched right in front of me. It didn't bother me that he was in the forest where we were training in secretly. My mind was to foggy for that.