The Green Valley Twins

Before the Storm part 2

"Who are you?" Endeavour asked, none to gently, "Who is Greenbrae to you?"

"Honey," Rei murmured, looking up to him in surprise.

"I'll kill him for this," Tanith coughed.

"No you can't!" Rei gasped, "You just saved Fuyumi! You can't walk down that road! not when you can be so much more!"

"I only focused on the life-threatening injuries," Tanith reached up and forcing her mask closed again. "Get a healer to look at her eyes." with that Tanith forced herself to her feet and walked away, leaving the family alone to watch her scaled back. Shoto snuggled in close to Rei while his sister tucked herself in to Endeavour's warm embrace, her teal eyes blinking slowly.

"Sister, are you okay?" Shoto asked gently, tugging at her torn sleeve to get her attention.

"Shoto? Daddy?" Fuyumi's soft voice called, "Where's mommy?" Rei stared in horror at her daughter, Endeavour wanted to go back to the fight but his wife and daughter were holding onto him so tightly he couldn't bring himself to leave them just yet.

"I'm right here sweaty," Rei said, very nearly breaking into a fit of ugly sobs, "Come here honey. Lets get you to the doctor." She set Shoto down and pulled Fuyumi into her arms, then she took Shoto's hand and began walking away. "Enji Todoroki," Rei turned back to look at her husband, "Show them no mercy."

"Of course," Endeavour walked away, fists shaking at his sides and his eyes glaring at the ship bobbing back and forth on the turbulent ocean waves. The ship was a mess, the slave-traders were struggling hard against the pro-heroes; they were all struggling to keep the children safe from their enemies. It didn't help at all that each child appeared to be wounded, a thick black tattoo carved into their left shoulders. The only thing they had going for them was that the ocean life was apparently trying to save the children as well. Hundreds of thousands of octopi, crabs, lobsters, poisonous urchins, and freakishly large squids flooded the deck and attacked anyone in the creepy black masks with the blue-eye-wear.

"Everyone! Prepare for landing!" no one understood what the voice on the intercom meant until it was too late. Three helicopters appeared out of the dark cloud-cover, one dropping low enough to release a person in thick leather and a half metallic bird-mask. Just in time as thick a helicopter quickly moved its clasps around the top room that just as quickly released its many spider-like limbs off the main deck to attack itself to the arms of the helicopter.

"The quirk less ones!" one of the heroes cried out.

"My baby!" someone else cried out, watching as the children in the room began banging on the glass of their large room.

"You're fighting me!" the man in the strange bird mask breathed out a huge billowing cloud of scarlet fire, like a vertical tornado that destroyed all in its path. "Go! I'll hold them off!" the man waved his arms and the fire expanded, splintering off to counter the heroes who tried to surround him.

"Master!" a woman shouted, leaning over the edge of the quirk-less-children's room.

"I'll get the Cyan!" The man snarled as he bellowed out another flame, this one taking on the shape of a lion's face as it charged ahead for a meal. Endeavour barely managed to block the flaming-lion, absorbing the brunt of the flaming attacking so that the house-wives behind him wouldn't get hit.

"Get your asses out of here!" Endeavour ordered, "Retreat to the Iceberg!"

"Ah crap, it would've been nice to know you were here," the man with the half-bird-mask growled. "great, just mother-fucking great."

"Care to speak in Japanese?" Endeavour asked, "my English isn't that great."

"I said 'go fuck yourself'," the man drawled as he sent out another wave of fire. "In case you haven't noticed, whatever flame I spew becomes whatever I desire it to be!" endeavor cursed as the wave of fire shattered into a dozen wolves. "Stand down Endeavour! You're not my prize!" another wave of fire spread forth like a raging serpent, huge and bulking, threatening to devour all with its flaming face of a honored monster.

"D-dragon!" someone shouted, panic seizing them

"What monster abducts hundreds of children?!" a mother cried out, cradling said child close as her comrades surrounded her protectively. "What is your purpose for this?!"

"None of your business!" many mothers screamed as the flaming wolves charged, heroes braced for impact as the reptilian monster swirled and charged the remaining survivors.

"Move it!" the man in the bird-mask watched in dumbfounded amazement as monstrous-figure burst through the flaming dragon, spiraled mid-decent and shattered the bodies of his wolves. "Get out of here!" the monster rolled upon landing, sending up the shattered remains of boxes and the tools of those restrained in the fight. "You're in my way!" the figure crouched low, tail arced up and swinging form side to side threatening, large scarlet orbs narrowed at the man with the partial-bird mask.

"You're out of your league Tanith!" Endeavour barked, "retreat with the others!"

"There is one child left on this ship!" Tanith snarled, "She is mine!" Tanith charged, like a raging canine seeking a blood-bath, and engaged the man breathing fire. More fire bloomed during the fight, some splintered off to attack the heroes trying to retreat with the few remaining children, but most of the roaring flames were attacking Tanith.

"she's a monster," one of the mother's whimpered.

"Who attacks like that?" a hero asked, not seeking an answer.

"Does she... seek death?" one of the villains asked as he was dragged away, "Greenbrae will show her no mercy."

"Everyone retreat! Those with flight-quirks take after the quirk less!" Endeavour ordered

"There's a team chasing them now!" someone else answered him. "Right now the only ones left on the ship are the villains!"

"Then get going!" Endeavour ordered as he moved forward, only to be harshly restrained by someone else. "All Might?! What are you doing?! Let go of me!"

"Stay out of this fight Endeavour," All Might ordered, "She needs this more than you or I."

"What are you talking about?! She's out of her league!"

"Is she?" All Might asked, watching Tanith spiral through a pillar of boiling scarlet flame to finally land a hit across the man's left arm. "Look around yourself Endeavour. What is she using? Her claws? Her tail?"

"Yes! And it's not enough!" Endeavour ripped his shoulder out of All Might's hold. He turned to charge again but was stopped as nail went flying past his face, spinning like a throwing-star. "Wha-what?"