Enouement (BNHA x Reader) (Multi-Route/Multi-Ending Fic)

Ch.3 - Deja Vu

Ch.3 - Deja Vu

Running was supposed to be easy. The act itself was a basic human response to danger: the flight response. All you had to do was get up on your feet, and push forward, being ever so careful to not fall or injure yourself in the pursuit of safety.

So why in God's name was it so hard for you to run?

Maybe it was the bleary vision caused by the build-up of liquid salt in your eyes? Maybe it was the fact that you had never been in a situation like this before? Or maybe it was because you had just left the only person who ever showed you any sort of friendship for dead.

Either way... you were currently struggling to make your escape.

The floor felt more slick than usual, making your balance go first. Then came the feelings of your feet no longer on the ground, but your arms skidding across it. Sharp pain pulsed through your veins, alerting your mind to the damaged and opened skin on your palms.

It burned. It stung. It bled.

But despite the red liquid slightly cracking through the broken skin, you got up again knowing full well that you had to get out of here.

You didn't know who was left, you didn't know if anyone was left. What you did know was that currently you were the only person in sight, the only possible living human left at UA as well.

These creatures had stormed in easily despite all the new security upgrades. You didn't know if UA was the only place affected, but you had to get out and warn the police or any hero that would listen.

Despite it all, you had made a vow. You would not let an innocent life die in vain, and you'd be damned to go back on that word right when you really needed to keep it.

Your legs moved again, sprinting towards the staircase you had been descending for the last month. Only a little further and you could at least be at a floor lower to the ground than you currently were.

Fate seemed to have other plans for you though, as the doors to classroom 2-B had crashed open at the sounds of someone running down the hallway. You jumped backward, a black, hand like appendage shooting out to grab you.

You were quick though, and instead crashed into the wall behind you, coughing and wheezing from your second rough hit to your body in the last two minutes. The effects were starting to weigh down on your body as well, the pain pushing through the adrenaline you had been dosing on.

The shadow creatures loomed closer to your fallen form, their movement slow and unsteady. One stalked up to you faster than the others, one that was plain and small. It took a good look at your form, sizing you up as if trying to decide if you were worth whatever it was considering doing to you.

Then, it hunched back letting off a sound you could only describe as a mix between broken down car on a hot summer day and a small child that had been denied a treat. And it terrified you.

You used the wall to steady yourself, looking around for something to grab or use in your defense. But the area was clear: no broken glass, no torn off wood, nothing.

Out of instinct, your eyes closed as you felt this thing itch closer once again, the others around it making a semi-circle to further block the chances of escape. It's cold ice like aura was on your skin, making the hairs stand up. Your breathing had already been shallow prior to this, but now it was non-existent.

"STUN GRENADE!"

The hallway filled with smoke, the second occurrence of this for you in the last 5 minutes. Though this time, instead of it being generated by a smoke bomb, it appeared to have come from the quirk of another student.