The Lost Gods - middle name AU

Chapter 17

✨Chaos✨

- KingofDarkness has sent their location-

- 1 online -

Soba:
Midoriya?

Soba:
...

Soba:
It's probably some prank from Kuroiro

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Heavy panting filled the air, deep flickering purple lighting up the dark alleyway.

Izuku lay on the ground, hood pushed back, body frozen, paralysed, on the dirty ground.

"Not bad, kid, but not good enough." Came the hero killer: Stain's voice.

Izuku gritted his teeth, one of the only things he could move, his mouth.
He was in a tight spot.

Stain stalked the still downed Tenya Iida while Izuku's mind ran.

He was stuck. He hadn't had time to create a sentient being from the shadow, yet it called to him, filling him with power he couldn't use. Because the hero killer had experience, something he had little of, and knew what he was doing.
Izuku, however, was running on emotion and instinct alone. He was alone and it would be a long time before many of the guild grouped up and noticed his absence.

He felt powerless. And he hated it.

It reminded him of middle school, of not being able to stand up, for himself and others, for being that emotionless, mindless doll. Yet it suffocated him in its grasp.

Powerless against powerlessness, what a joke.

But as his mind began to slip back into the dark part of his mind, a space of negativity and difficult escape he was all too familiar with, Stain went flying across the alleyway.

The hard thump and the skid of his body on the ground filled the silent alley, a silhouette moved forward, closer to the two boys after kicking the hero killer away from his target. Turquoise eyes shined, the little light filtering in from the street illuminating the tall figure.

The emerald shine returned to his eyes, that violet, powerful tint, showing through. He recognised the silhouette.

"Nugget?" He asked, his voice almost a whisper.

The man grunted.

"I wish you would lose the nickname but yeah, doofus, it's me."

A grin broke out across the greenie's face, no longer being dragged down by that dreadful feeling. He had people he could rely on now. He needed to remember that.

Blue flame lit up the alleyway, flickering, entrancing the four others in the street.

"Hey hey hey! I used to admire you, Stain, but now this is disappointing. You don't attack my friend, hero killer: Stain, and get away with it." The rough voice of the semi-stranger echoed.

Izuku and Iida were forced to duck as bright blue, hot, flames shot down the alley to the swift and deadly villain.

"The names Dabi, remember it. You don't attack that hero there, without endangering a future of peace."