Beast In The Woods

Definitely not a Vacation

Izuku landed softly on the remains of the giant ants and the lamprey creatures he created. At the moment, they were consuming the ant remains but they are harmless to everything else. So he picked one up. They were a reddish pink with a worm-like body and razor-sharp teeth lining its mouth. It was just under a foot long with a long narrow body with no eyes. When he picked one up, he felt the connection he felt to every part of his body. Every parasite was still part of him, his cells to command. He stared at the parasite wriggling in his hand and absorbed it like he'd done hundreds of times before with other parts of his body.

"Neat." He said to himself.

"Uh, Izuku?" Yaoyorozu called out to him.

He turned around to see about half of his packmates staring at the wriggling mass of lamprey and not getting closer. "Oh! Don't worry, they were made to target the ants only. See!" He picked one up and pushed the mouth to his arm for nothing to happen. "But now what to do with them?"

The pack of 1A got closer now that they saw they wouldn't harm them although they were still wary of the things that took out a colony of giant ants in a minute. Yaoyorozu examined a few of them but got up after a moment and frowned in thought as she watched some of their class run off to help Iida with the snake body on Sato.

"Hagakure, you're right." She finally said.

Hagakure perked up and looked at the heiress. "About what?"

"This was supposed to be a vacation like Nezu said but this is more like a survival training camp," Yaoyorozu explained.

Izuku was gathering the lamprey and exclaimed. "Oh! Like the training camp! Zawa said it was a logical ruse or something at the beginning." Some of the lampreys tried to wriggle away but he snatched them and put them in a pile.

Yaoyorozu stared at Izuku crouched down with his spear-tipped tail waving lazily and his wings folded to his back as he made a mound of lamprey. "You don't think..."

"That this was another logical ruse? Almost definitely." Jirou said coming up to the group.

The group that Izuku left behind to help the rest of the pack watched on as the feral boy collected the wriggling mass of parasites. "What the fuck is going on?" Toshi asked the question on everyone's mind.

Mina got close to the mess of ant remains lampreys, and everything in between. She did not step into the mess. She dodged a flying lamprey aimed at Toshi who also dodged in time. "Bad words!" Izuku admonished. "Lots of ants were coming so I made this. Or one of these and they spread, fast. Now, I've got an idea."

Shoji picked up the lamprey Izuku threw at Toshi and examined it. "You created this?" He asked in slight awe. He placed the lamprey near its kin and it wriggled closer to eat an ant. "Are they intelligent?"

"No, just basic functions. Eat and replicate that's about it." He was grabbing armfuls of them at a time and dumping them in one place.

"What are you doing now? What's your idea?" Mina asked as she petted one of the lamprey as it ate.

Izuku smiled at her and then focused on the mound of lamprey. He touched them with both hands and then felt the connection between him and his cells. Every lamprey melded together into a red mass that began to take shape once again. A long body with four legs emerged from the red mass. They were skinless with exposed muscles and veins. Then scales grew over time on the creature, the color of dark green like Izuku's ever-messy hair. Vicious talons grew on the feet of the creature fit for sprinting with no worry about traction. The body was lithe like a dog and the head resembled one until the four eyes took shape. Two on each side of the head with its fanged maw stretching to open wide enough to fit someone's head in it. The tail was a whip-thin thing that stretched long enough to touch its head with a razor tip on the end.