Life Within a Tarot Deck

Embrace the Flame

Izuku and Eevee were now in the training room with the limette for the next phase of the verdanette's testing. Izuku made a few breakthroughs, as he can mentally morph his stubs into wings or hands, and a flame wall similar to what he had done between Mitsuki and Katsuki several weeks ago. However, the attacking part where he can cause damage was not working.

Burnin' was thinking that the kid needed to experience fear, anger, or any other intense emotion to trigger it. The kid is just too kind and gentle, and the emotions required either are not in his boy's vocabulary or treading dangerously towards the trauma. Looks like she may not have a choice.

"Midoriya, you need to feel the flame. Remember when you said that you felt rage when it triggered? You need to embrace it!" The Heroine yelled at him while throwing a few fireballs at him.

"I am trying, how the hell am I supposed to feel angry when I don't know the trigger!" Izuku replied while continuing to dodge the lime fire. He was starting to get frustrated.

Eevee was running at him with a flame fist raised and tried to punch the verdanette. He saw it out of the corner of his eyes and dodged out of the way by forming into a fire and 'teleported' to another location.

"Izu-kun, what does your core feel? When you were attacked by that villain, what did your stomach do?" The Eevette said with a growl, getting the boy's attention. "How did you feel when that monster tried to kill PomPom?"

Izuku's eyes widened at something he remembered. The sludge was covering Katsuki, suffocating him while forcing the goop down the blonde's throat. Katsuki looked terrified at what would happen to him, facing death.

The verdanette's stomach suddenly felt like a boulder landing at the pit of his stomach, remembering now that he was afraid, scared, and mad that his childhood friend was in such terror. A few seconds later the boulder became hot and felt like boiling lava. Another unusual feeling reared its ugly head.

Rage.

Get away from Kacchan and Aunt Mitsuki!!

A scream from the verdanette was heard all through the room, scaring Eevee at the heart-wrenching event. Burnin' was terrified herself, thinking that she had gone too far as the green fire wings danced wildly before becoming red and blooming like a pissed-off phoenix.

Ophiuchi is going to kill me for this. She thought before going back to her charge. "Midoriya, don't let the feeling consume you! Remember the feeling, embrace it."

"I-I can't, I feel like I am on fire!" Izuku yelled, terrified himself at this dangerous range of emotions. "I don't like it."

Eevee then ran towards the front of the verdanette, ignoring the red flames lashing her fur, and grasped his cheeks in her hands. "Eevee does not like the feeling either, lava boiling in anger and rage. However, it is needed to survive or fight, especially if one's Quirk is flame based."

She looked straight into his red-ringed eyes. "You just need to remember the feeling, and add it to your flame. You don't have to feel it all the time, you just need to remember the feeling. So the next time you do feel anything instead of doing nothing you keep running forward. Use your anger to save lives. Emotions are part of your will."

"My emotions are a part of my will," Izuku repeated and forced images of him launching forward to save his friend. Repeating the picture the boiling feeling started to become warm but not overpowering. The conflagration reduced to red and yellow flame wings and his eyes produced an orange fire tail along the edges.

Burnin' and Eevee waited a few more minutes to see if he would rebound but everything seemed to be in order. The Heroine then took initiative and pushed a button to summon several dummies.