My Hero Academia: The Next Generation

Chapter 19: Nosido and Yurin's Trial

~~~{Nosido Heraki}~~~

My legs felt weak, like they were going to give out on me. I had been focusing so much on meditating and building up some muscles that I completely forgot about figuring out my fighting style. I felt a hand on my shoulder, for some reason I expected to see Zota's face looking at me. But when I turned my head, I was only met by Yurin's usual mildly annoyed expression.

"You okay? Your trembling, 'Sido." I took his hand off my shoulder, looking away from him and taking a deep breath to relax.

"I'm fine... Just leave me alone, okay?"

"That's going to be hard, considering we're partners in this trial." I sighed, shaking my head again before we heard Deku speaking over the intercom, he asked both teams if we were ready. Which we both confirmed we were.

"Three! Two! One! Clash!" A siren blared to signify the trial had begun. Both Yurin and I started to sprint inside of the building, making sure to keep my breathing steady so I wouldn't use too much up unnecessarily.

"Alright, we need to stick together, that's our best option here if we want to win. How does that sound?" Yurin looked back at me as we ran, I simply nodded.

"Whatever you say, Goyami."

"You haven't called me by my last name since before we were together..." He stared at me for a few more seconds before returning his gaze to infront of him. His costume had an eye mask where its corners formed into horns to represent a demon. A black t-shirt with a flame pattern that went along the abdomen, it was actually kinda like a reverse of my costume pattern. He had orange suspenders to hold his shoulder armor in place along with having some armor to cover his bicep. Both the armor pieces were a silver, and he had orange wristbands. His pants were a dark red with a similar orange fiery pattern on the sides that went along with his shirt. And finally he had a pair of black combat boots.

We had reached the fourth floor when we suddenly heard a loud rumbling noise that was getting closer, when we turned around to see what was making the noise. We saw a massive gust of wind, being pushed by some sort of invisible force barreling towards us. Quickly, Goyami went to opposite sides of the wall and pressed ourselves as close as we could to the wall. Narrowly missing the force as it eventually impacted the wall at the end of the hall. We looked to where it came from, seeing Kazu standing there, having his arm out straight in front of him and gripping it with his other arm. His fingers were in a position like he was flicking something.

"D-Damn! Kazu must have never gone up to the top floor!" I looked over to Goyami as he said that, nodding and getting away from the wall.

"Go! I'll keep him-" Before I could finish my sentence, I heard more rumbling as he shot another powerful force at us from his finger, my eyes widen as I quickly threw my arms up in the shape of an X with my palms facing out. Ink secreting from the vents in my gloves as they formed into a shield large enough to cover most of my body. I thought the shield would be enough to hold back Kazu's attack. But as soon as the blast impacted with my shield, it lifted me off the ground and sent me flying.

"NOSIDO!" I heard Goyami scream my name as I went flying down the hall, slamming on the ground hard as I rolled across it. My body ached as pain rippled through my body like waves of a stormy ocean. How high was I lifted into the air? Was all I could think as I laid there, struggling to stand back up off the floor. When I finally did, I could see Yurin down the hall, running towards me before grabbing me by the arm and making me run along with him as we narrowly avoided another of Kazu's attacks by diving into a different hallway. "That was insane... He has a crazy amount of power with his quirk." Yurin helped me back up off the floor, I simply brushed myself off after he let go of me.