What Goes Up Must Come Down

Hopelessness

Azami POV

Interrogation.

Torture.

Eat.

Sleep.

Repeat.

This was what my days lead up to for the past couple weeks. I was woken up in the early morning hours to be asked questions about my little organization. When I wouldn't give them the answers they wanted the next step would take place. Being tortured was hard enough. What really made it bad was who was doing it. Kiyo, Taura, Masato, and Ejirou. Once they thought I went through enough they would bring me little food and some water. For the rest of the time I would sleep as much as I could. Then the process would repeat.

After a while I lost count of how long I had been here. There was no way to tell time here. I know it's been a long time since I have seen the light. There was always that veil of hopelessness that tried to cover me. A few times it almost did. But I kept pushing forward. Somedays I would think about how the others were getting along. Were they planning a break out? Were they continuing the work we planned?

The day had been long. I had just received the little food I would get that day. I slowly eat with a blank stare. 'Do they think I'm close to cracking?' I think to myself as I eat. Once I finish I move to the small cot that's against the wall. It takes me a couple seconds to get comfortable due to the chain that is connects my collar to the wall. I guess they didn't want me to try another escape attempt. I lay down and start to think about when this all started. I think about the first encounter I had with my friends a couple weeks ago.

It was the first time they would come in to start this process. I was sleeping, if you can even call it that. That familiar metal door screeched open. I kept my eyes closed pretending to be asleep. Their footsteps echoed around the room coming closer. I didn't have to open my eyes to know who it was. They begin to whisper to each other before walking away. 'Are they really leaving?' I hear the door close.

I strain my ears to listen for the sound of footsteps. Nothing. Feeling a little daring I peak one eye open to see three people standing around my bed. I gasp and sit up. The two girls have glares on their faces as the male has a smirk on his. "Ready to start our fun day?" He asked looking me up and down.

I try to stand up but I am shoved back onto the bed by the blue haired girl. Shinhon glares at me as she speaks. "No one told you to move." As she spoke the other girl went to bring a chair to the center of the room. It had metal cuffs on it and my eyes widen. "Now get up and walk over slowly." She said moving over to the chair.

I stand up and look around. Noa went to walk over to the chair as well. A determined look spreads across my face as I activate my quirk. I have no idea what I was thinking as I pull several green feathers from my arms and throw them. The three people dodge the attack and charge at me. I fly into the air. The room is just high enough that I am out of their physical reach.

As I race towards the door, I hear laughing and my eyes widen. The next thing I know I fall to the ground while my legs bleed. I knew Noa used his quirk, Bone Claw. With a simple thought he was able to produce bone claws from his knuckles. One other time I had been attacked by this very quirk. My body begins to ache as I feel two pairs of hands drag me back to the chair. One of them was much warmer than the other.

When I finally shake my head and regain my thoughts I had been strapped to the chair. The feathers that had once formed from my arms were now scattered across the ground. "The little bird wants to fly home?" Shinhon said as she leaned into my face. I look up at her with a slightly dazed look. "Just answer our questions. You'll survive longer." She said standing up. As she walked away a few steps she picked up one of my hardened feathers playing with it.