Beast In The Woods

Survival

A young boy with green hair woke up in the middle of the woods with a headache. Izuku with a groggy head, sat up and looked around. He was immediately scared of what he found, tall trees and nothing else. No sign of people, no sign of a trail, and no sign of his mom. That last thought brings him to a halt, his mother. The last thing he remembers is his mother taking him on a drive into the woods.

It was a few days after his doctor's appointment that sealed his fate. His mother was eerily quiet and Izuku felt unease seep into his being. He asked a few times where they were going but never got a response. She pulled to the side on a long stretch of road next to a forest. He had asked again but was told to shut up.

"This didn't have to happen if you had a quirk. I can't lose everything I have because of your... status." Izuku was scared of the look in his usually kind mother's eyes.

"I'm sorry, what." That's all he got out as his mother put a cloth over his mouth and he lost consciousness.

Inko Midoriya walked through the woods after a long hike, alone. She got back into her car and drove home to pack up and leave for greener pastures. Izuku was left in the woods with nothing but the clothes on his back.

After he remembered, Izuku began to sob alone in the woods with no one to hear. He clutched his knees to his chest and cried and cried until he fell back into unconsciousness. Izuku later awoke with a chill in the air. He slowly got up and sniffled again before thinking of what to do next.

He watched exactly one episode of wild survival on TV. He needed shelter before it got dark, the sun was already setting. He got up and began to walk in a direction, they all looked the same to him. The area he walked was densely wooded with brush everywhere. For his short frame, it was extremely daunting but what choice did he have?

He walked and walked lost in thought until he heard something, water burbling. He headed to the noise and found a small stream where he leaned down and drank the fresh water. He began to walk up steam since he didn't know what else he could do. With his arms clutched to his body, he walked for an hour until he found where the water came from. A natural spring source that washed over the stones beneath it. The source was a few feet up in the air on a stone wall and the small cliffside stretched far.

Izuku looked around and found what he was looking for. A cave that stretched into the cliffside. He approached it with much apprehension and peaked inside the dark opening, he listened carefully. He saw and heard nothing. He looked up and it was close to dark, with no other choice he walked into the cave and it stretched up slightly at an angle. There was nothing in the cave as he could tell and was smaller than his room. There was moss covering the back wall and floor. Izuku made his way over and sat down in the dark.

He had acknowledged that his mother left him in the woods to die because he is quirkless. More tears leaked out and he wiped them away as he tried to think something useful. Unless someone saw his mother do this to him, no one would know. Heroes wouldn't know where to search. Kacchan might ask where he was but if his mother said we 'moved' why wouldn't they believe her? There were no trails as he walked in the forest, no sign of human life. He was truly alone with no one coming for him. He was scared and so came the tears again.

Izuku woke up the next day with tear stains on his cheeks and in the dark. He could see the light streaming into the cave opening and Izuku made his way out. He sat again at the opening and tried to think what next. He needed to eat and there was a stream nearby. He remembered the show and thought about how he speared fish to eat. Izuku looked around and found a long stick. It was dull at the end and too wavy. He kept looking until he found a straight stick with a dull end.

He moved to a flat stone and started to sharpen it as the guy said on the TV. He said to use your knife or a hard stone. He didn't have a knife so this will do. He kept going until the point was sharp and then he made his way to the stream. He took off his shoes and socks and then walked into the stream. He walked slowly in the cool stream until he saw some fish swimming around and stopped. He tried his luck for hours and hours until he finally speared a fish hard enough to catch it. With tears of joy, he pulled the fish up on the stick and walked back to the cave.