Beast In The Woods

Oh, right. The guests....

Skal headbutted the Hunter's leg as he stared at the two intruders. The touch jolted him out of his thoughts and he scanned his territory for anything else out of the ordinary. This had been the first time anyone had come into his territory, his home, uninvited. It made him feel unsafe in a small degree. He knew it was irrational but Nem and Toshi had told him about emotions and how irrational they could be. If he truly wanted, nothing would ever set foot in his territory but he was training to be a hero and heroes don't kill without very good reason. And a weak villain causing his stool he carved to tip over and get soot on it was not a good reason. Neither was stepping into his territory, as much as it irritated him that someone uninvited did.

He contemplated adding more lethal deterrence to his territory but a hero doesn't kill out of want, as much as he wanted to anyways. He sometimes missed the woods before UA and its simple rules. Live or die, choose. Want to live? Then hunt, kill, eat. Simple.

Izuku breathed in deeply and focused on his body. He felt his four lungs inflate, his hearts beat, his muscles relax, and then he breathed out. Steam exhaled from his nose and mouth as he calmed down and pushed away his more feral thoughts. He knew his emotions were being irrationally influenced by the two villains in his most secure place so he forced his mind to calm, literally. He released a cocktail of chemicals into his brain to calm himself quickly to get a proper look at the situation without personal feeling getting in the way. A mix of gamma-aminobutyric acid to calm, small amout of endorphins to drain the stress and numb his emotions.

Now with a fully calm mind, he sent out Skal and Oriel to see if there were any more intruders in his territory coming from the outside. He had Daal and Kiel stay and watch over the two captured while Izuku went through their belongings. Searching their persons he didn't find any weapons of any kind. He then searched the bag the woman was carrying and found a camera, a laptop, and stuff to make tea.

Izuku stared at all he had found and frowned. Just then the other two Hounds returned with news of nothing more. "Are they dumb?" He asked nobody in particular as he looked down at them. He didn't know their quirks but they froze when he came at them so they weren't expecting combat or at least serious combat. "Or just overconfident?"

He shook his head and stood with crossed arms. He should report this to Nezu or something. Maybe Hound Dog since he was supposed to be in charge of woods before Izuku came along. His body shifted back to his regular self and signaled for Daal and Kiel to continue watching the two with Oriel being overwatch and Skal continuing to patrol the territory.

"Remember, subdue. We can't seriously hurt anyone much less kill them." He reminded them as much as himself. Someone trespassing onto his home had shaken him slightly in the sense that he was irritated not that he was scared. His usual self was off balance and he didn't like that one bit. Which explained the irritation somewhat. He focused on cleansing his brain from the chemicals he introduced and felt his emotions flare back to normal.

Daal howled softly to reasure his pack leader they had it under control. Kiel began dragging the smaller villain away from the other just in case. Izuku looked at the two villains one more time and then got an idea. He grew a tendril from his hand and then focused on it. Small sharp legs grew out of the sides while the tip of the tendril became a insect head with a pair of vicious fangs. The whole body grew small plates of armor and then he had the the large centipede detached from his hand. He held it gently as it began to crawl around his wrist multiple times. It was at least the length of his forearm as he observed the creature.

With a satisfied nod, Izuku walked to the male villain and pulled up his sleeves. The centipede crawled from his arm to the wrists of the villain and became an organic pair of cuffs. It overlapped its body and locked its legs onto its body with the head still free to move around to bite at the villain of he tried to remove the creature. The fangs were filled with Izuku's special mixture of venom. One bite was enough to bring down someone like All Might, probably. He still hadn't had a chance to test it. He created another centipede cuffs for the girl villain with a lesser dose of venom in it, just in case. With four plans for the villains' containment, Izuku got up and began to head back to the Festival. He waved at the Hounds to watch over them and ran back.