Dead Hero's Heart

Chapter 10

The crowd looked at the scene, all frozen with fear as the had just watched the hero to whom they had put all their trust on, fall defeated from the hands of an unknown creature and its master. Between them, stood also the heroes that had come to help take down that monster that was causing so much destruction in the city, but had forgotten about their cause as the need to get the civilians to safety was greater.

And now they just stared, shocked and devastated, as Endeavor was laying down, fainted from all the damage he had gotten. Hawks face had darken as in his inside, a mental battle was happening. He was blaming himself for this. He shouldn't have overestimated the hero's ability and left him alone. There were more than enough heroes in the scene to fight the nomus and yet he left him to provide more help.

But that was the wrong choice to make. He didn't know what was this thing that the villain used, but he knew, it couldn't be something good. He wished with all his might that the hero would be able to recover because they were going to need him. If he couldn't defeat the nomu then none of them had a better shot on it. And the league probably had more, far more than anyone could imagine and if they ever hopped to stand up against them, they will need the strongest hero.

Dabi, the villain with the blue flames was staring at Endeavor with a smug smile of pure satisfaction depicted on his face. He let out a cold hearted chuckle and delivered a kick to the corpse of the hero in front of him. Everyone gasped at seeing this but no one dared to go close to this place, seeing as the creature was still standing behind, ready to eliminate whoever its boss tells it to.

He then turned to look at the people that were gathered there, and started taking in all their scared expressions. It satisfied him to watch how much terror his presence was causing. "You are all lucky right now. I could very well let Hood slay every single one of you and leave nothing behind other than bloody puddles. But this was supposed to be only a test for his abilities. It's a shame that it didn't get the chance to get all out".

His voice was stoic and cold, no emotion radiating off of it, betraying completely the look of his face. The heroes in the crowd were all tightening their hands into fists, as they felt the toying tone in his voice. Most of them wanted nothing more than go and attack him but they knew that if that happened, then the aftermath might be far greater.

And so they watched as the villain turned his back on them and started walking away, a purple portal opening  in front of him. The nomu, like a quest of it had just been finished went through immediately, letting the people finally relax a bit once that the brutal creature was no longer among them. Dabi, trailing behind it followed suit into getting to the other side but stopped midway and turned to look back again.

"Enjoy your last moments of your so called peace, because believe me, it is gonna be short leaved. You are up next UA. Let's see if your filthy trainees can survive against this". This were his final words before he went completely through the gate, which closed right behind him blocking effectively anyone from following him. And then, absolute havoc broke down.

In the UA dorm of 1-A

The two teens remained frozen in front of the TV, as the watched the swams of people running around panicking. There were screams and and shouts heard coming out of the machine as the fright of what the had just see was coming to every one of them at once. Heroes tried helplessly to make them calm down and reassure them that everything was going to be fine, however for them no one words counted as they knew that if that threat that had appeared was strong enough to defeat the number one hero using only some of its power, then there was no human that could stand up against it.

The boy grabbed the remote control and closed the TV, leaving them in the absolute silence of the building. Only then he was able to notice the intensive sound of the breaths the girl to his side was taking but he couldn't do something to stop it, as his own shock was just as strong. "No..." he muttered slowly ashe denied what had just unraveled itself in front of them.