Ice, Fire, Love, Explosion: Season 2 | My Hero Academia

Chapter 15: Destined

Fate is really unreasonable, isn't it?
It has no heart and obeys no rules.

- 𝐹𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒶

3rd Person POV

A barren landscape of darkness surrounded her.

Vanessa's shining emerald eyes slowly fluttered opened, and they drastically constricted in shock when she was met with the scene before her.

She spoke to the scene before her, but all that came out were a bunch of muffles. She frantically scanned her entire body, finding the majority of her naked self made of black mist with emerald outlines, including her mouth. Unbeknownst to her, her actual body was not in this realm, and these parts of her body had not manifested yet.

Across from her were nine large, tall fancy red velvet chairs with golden outlines, all lined up in a half-circle. Behind the chairs was a cement wall identical to the cement floor beneath her misty feet, a metal door hidden behind the two chairs in the center of the half-circle.

Seven identities sat in those chairs... and two were standing against the cement wall, their backs turned to the Tenth User.

Vanessa was utterly surprised. She recognized this place because of what Midoriya had told her...

Within One For All is a subconscious realm where the prior users can manifest as spirits, the fragments of their very consciousness engraved into One For All despite their departure from the land of the living.

The deceased vestiges' bodies mirrored their own, able to converse with each other and the current wielder of One For All. And for users who still lived, their vestiges were merely masses of light that vaguely resembled their real bodies, no consciousness present within them to converse. They were simply mindless forms.

In the leftmost chair of the half-circle sat Hikage Shinomori, the Fourth User, his arms crossed casually as he glared at Vanessa in the corner of his eye. Next to him sat Nana Shimura, the Seventh User, her hands on her thighs and looking directly at Vanessa with the most gentle smile. To her left sat Yoichi Shigaraki, the First User, his hands folded in his lap and his expression calm. And behind Yoichi's chair stood Kudo, the Second User, head against the wall and his back facing Vanessa.

The rightmost chair of the half-circle along with the chair next to it were empty. To the left of the second empty chair sat Daigoro Banjo, the Fifth User, leaning over his hands folded in front of him. Next to him sat En Tayutai, the Sixth User, feet propped up onto the chair and his hands resting over the edge of his kneecaps. And behind Tayutai's chair stood Bruce, the Third User, head against the wall and his back facing Vanessa.

In the two chairs in the center of the half-circle sat vestiges unlike the others. The one sat on the left a shining yellow visage outlined of Toshinori Yagi, and the one sat on the right a shining green visage outline of Izuku Midoriya.

"Hello, Vanessa." Nana sweetly smiled, her eyes swarmed with a sparkling warmth. "It's nice to be able to talk face-to-face."

"Before we begin our reason for summoning your consciousness here... does anyone have anything they wish to say?" Yoichi kindly grinned as he looked around at all his successors surrounding him, including those 'pouting' against the wall.

"I do, Yoichi-san." Tayutai raised his hand next to his chest, the lower half of his face hidden underneath his collar. And upon hearing him, Vanessa recognized his voice as the one who fearfully declared Shigaraki was destruction incarnate, and the one who frantically yelled at her to not stop and keep going when she was distracted by her and Shigaraki's memories.