The Green Tea Anthology - Izuocha week 2023

Chapter 0: Broken soul (Locked away)

It's nice to see you again my dear reader! We are starting another anthology, and this time, we are going with Izuocha, another one of my OTPs in this fandom! The 8 promtps of this anthology will be these ones: Locked away, Letting go, Kaleidoscopic, Soul, Storm, Metamorphosis, Luna and Diamond. The special day will be this first chapter because of the formalities of this event. So this is going to be day 0, Locked Away, the rest of the anthology will be published on April 9th to 15th. So no worries about it!

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The signal from his phone had been weak, but it was enough for the girl to have the exact location of the young hero. That's when the girl's look suddenly changed from nervous to hopeful after seeing that the device was working. It was a small faint light on her radar, with no hostile showing up around him. The area where the boy was was an abandoned one, far away from Kamino.

As soon as she had received that signal, she went to look for him. The full moon was her only company, with a slightly starry sky and crickets chirping all around her. She knew the young hero needed someone he could trust, and she didn't want him to fall into that same mistake again. She had the opportunity to call for reinforcements, but she knew in more depth what was wrong with Deku. She needed to go alone.

She arrived at an old warehouse with no electrical power, some walls down, and scrapped metal scattered all over the place. She entered without hesitation, and once she passed through the steel door, she started calling out her friend.

"Deku, where are you?!"

The girl called out his name in concern. Her voice echoed off the walls, making a tremendous echo that could be heard from a distance inside the abandoned building. Uraraka could see that the green dot on the radar was still active, that meant that Deku was still in that place without moving. The thing was to know where he was.

She opened the doors of the warehouse, looking for her friend without stopping. It was an endless number of rooms, and in none of them there was success. In one there was only broken machinery with nuts on the floor. In another, beams falling from the ceiling. In a third, rats scurried along the wet, fallen pipes of the walls.

It was there that her radar gave a stronger signal to a door further down the hall. The room was at the very end of it, dark and with no way to contact anyone because of the low signal in the area. She advanced slowly, being careful not to fall and securing her view with the light of her helmet. She moved with stealth, knowing that one false move could cause the place to partially or completely collapse.

She successfully reached the door where the radar was pointing. She decided to call out her friend once more.

"Deku?"

"Go away, please!"

She could recognize that voice anywhere. Although those shouts showed a loud tone, it didn't camouflage the boy's identity. The radar had hit the target. Deku was behind that room.

"I'm coming Deku. You're not going to convince me to back off now."

Uraraka approached the door and began to open it very carefully, remembering how delicate the infrastructure was. The lighting was nil, but she could hear Deku's broken voice. That reassured her that she was in the right place.

She turned on the flashlight of her helmet to see in front of her, and a few seconds later she managed to find what she was looking for. Among the degraded walls and the fallen roof iron, there was a boy with his hero suit full of mud and curled up into a ball. It was as if he had locked himself in. As if he was punishing himself for his own sins.