51 Chapter 35: The Night Of The Demon, The New Symbol Of Fear

(Daily Music: My Hero Academia Opening 2 Season 2-Sora Ni Utaeba)

-With the League Of Villains-

The League Of Villains had gone through a lot this night. First, their base had been found and infiltrated by Pro Heroes and the police force. All Might himself was among the Pro Heroes that was with the raid party. Then, when they tried to call the Nomu to them, it was revealed that some other Heroes had intercepted them.

Then, they had been narrowly rescued by Shigiraki's mentor, All For One. He had teleported them to his location. That is where things were now.

=Canon till All Might arrives to fight with All For One and Izuku, Kirishima, Momo, Todoroki, Iida and Bakugou clear away from the area-

The Heroes who were assigned to the area where the Nomu were located had pulled back for now. They would be on standby until they see an opportunity where they could be of some assistance.

Tiger was holding Ragdoll, making sure she wasn't injured. She was in a daze, and he was trying to get her out of it. e eventually managed to, and she confusedly looked around her environment.

"Where am I?", she asked. Her memory was fuzzy, but she remembered someone with a black metallic mask in a formal outfit, and losing something.

Then she remembered what she lost. Her Quirk.

"Ragdoll! You're okay!", Tiger said with relief.

"Tiger! He took my Quirk!", she yelled.

".. He told us. But that doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that you're still alive", he responded.

"... Tiger, how do you think Jokara will respond to learning about this? He already has extreme hate for villains, learning about this will make it even more intense.", she asked. One of her first thoughts upon being snapped out of her daze was of the team's adopted son.

"We will have to inform him eventually. I think it would be best to do it tomorrow after he gets home from UA. He... went through a lot tonight." Tiger responded.

Not noticing the person of discussion listening from atop a pole nearby, the pale moonlight shining on his back, painting a beautiful yet mysterious picture if anyone saw it.

(Basically this)

"..They all die tonight. I don't care if the whole world sees it. They, Will. Die.", the hidden child said, bloodlust emanating off of every word.

The boy stood and jumped across the nearby buildings to the sounds of the major fight.

-With All For One and All Might-

"You've gotten weaker, All Might", the Symbol Of Fear taunted.

"You're not doing so hot yourself! It's kind of hard to ignore that fancy life support mask you're wearing!", the Symbol Of Peace responded.

(Had to include that line. I found it really funny in the dub XD)

While All Might was now fully able to use his full strength without fear of hurting anyone, he had still been damaged by All For One during the time he had to hold back. Even at his top condition, with no injuries, All For One would be his toughest battle. It was only made more difficult by the damage he sustained.

The reporters far above in a helicopter in the air were broadcasting the fight live to all of Japan. Everyone was watching the fight. All heroes, civilians and even a small amount of villains were rooting for All Might to win against All For One.

The Symbol Of Peace tensed his legs, ready to jump towards his enemy at the most speed he could gather.

The Symbol Of Fear got ready to use the Air Cannon Quirk to retaliate to whatever his foe would do.

The viewers of the fight all tensed. Each impact that occurred in the fight made them even more tense on what would happen next. Would All Might win, and finally end the tyranny of All For One? Or would All For One win, and start a dark age for years to come?

As the two Symbols were about to reengage in their battle, a faint, whistling sound pierced the ear, followed by the two of them being separated by a giant wall of what looked to be bones emanating a wall of electricity, separating the two from each other. There were at least 25 bones, and they seemed to boost each other's electricity.

"What is this?! It seems that there is a wall of electricity between All Might and his enemy! What could the cause of this be?", the reporter commentated.

Everyone watching the fight was confused about the interruption. They had been told by the reporter already that the other heroes were on standby, as they wouldn't be able to make an actual difference in the fight and would most likely just hinder All Might, so it couldn't be any of them. Besides, none of the standby heroes had a Quirk related to electricity.

Their thoughts were stopped by a yell so wrathful that it terrified all who heard it.

"I'LL KILL YOUUUU!!!", the yell sounded.

The yell was followed up by All For One being kicked through the wall of electricity, frying his whole body to the point where, when he landed on the floor on All Might's side, his body was letting off huge amounts of smoke. The skin that was visible was charred almost completely black.

All For One's regeneration tried to heal the damages, but practically nothing was healing. His skin went back to it's usual colour gradually, but it could be seen that his body was still smoking and twitching from the electricity.

However, the most attention from everyone, including All For One himself and All Might was who was the one who attacked All For One, and actually succeeded. Most people thought that, whoever it was, only succeeded because it was a sneak attack and All For One didn't expect it.

Words couldn't begin to describe how shocked they all were when they all saw who it was that attacked All For One.

A small child with white hair, tribal painting on his forehead and under his eyes, wearing a strange outfit. Due to him being the winner of the year's Sports Festival, everyone instantly realised who it was.

Jokara Kowai. The Bone Dancer, as he was commonly referred to as by his fans online, due to his attacks resembling some sort of dance.

However, he looked incredibly different from when he was in the Sports Festival. He looked wild. Bloodthirsty. Savage.

There were bones covering several parts of his body, essentially forming a sharp shell on most of his body.

(Like this)

The blood from the injuries of the bones was running down on most of his small body. He had a savage look in his eyes. He resembled a wild animal, to the point where he was even baring his teeth, which looked much sharper than regular teeth. His hair was different from his usual neat style, and was messy and disorganised.

Everyone watching was confused and horrified. Confused because of several reasons, such as: Why is he so angry? Was he being serious when he said he was going to kill All For One? How did he make lightning bones?

Horrified also because of multiple reasons: His anger. His wild look. His yell when he said he was going to kill All For One. The fact that he, an 8 year old, actually managed to injure All Might's strongest enemy.

-Jokara POV-

"A child?!", All For One confusedly yelled.

The scumbag had been caught off guard when I made the electric wall, and I used that moment of surprise to throw him through it by picking him up by the leg and throwing him to it.

No matter how powerful someone is, if you catch them off guard, even for a split second, they become extremely vulnerable to almost anything in that small moment. The problem is exploiting that small amount of time. I was able to do it because of my speed.

This was the waste of space that took Mom 3's Quirk. For that, he dies.

I don't give a single shit that all of Japan will see this. If they have a problem, they can fight me. They just have to accept that they'll die too if they come after me.

"Get out of my way, All Might!!", I yelled to the Number One actor.

He flinched. He probably didn't expect this to happen. I don't care what he does as long as it involves him fucking off.

"I can't do that. While you did get a good hit off on him, I don't think you'll be able to fight him alone. Please, fall back young Jokara!", he responded.

Wrong answer, fake saviour.

I had no need to kill All Might, I just needed him to stay out of this.

I made a bone with the Toxic property, and had it simulate the effects of Botulinum Toxin so that he would be paralyzed.

I pretended to think about it and nod. I went over to him, making it seem like I would run out of the site of the battle. But, as I was at his side, I stabbed a bone with the toxin in it into his side. Instantly, toxin went into effect, and his movement completely stopped.

"Young Jokara, what are you doing?!", he yelled.

"Making sure you don't get in the way. That toxin will wear off in at least an hour, so you won't be able to do anything. And if those heroes on standby try and intervene, I'll do the same to them.", I responded.

"Now, it's just you and me, All For One."

-All For One POV-

This child is incredibly powerful.

I knew he was the one who won this year's Sports Festival. After all, it was a publicly recorded event, so anyone with any form of technology with something to watch videos and/or television could watch it.

I always watched the Sports Festivals to keep an eye on potential enemies as well as potential allies.

Jokara Kowai. One of the strongest I've ever seen, and the strongest I've seen in my whole life when it comes to others his age. Fast, strong, agile, smart, ruthless, and doesn't care for what society labels as the perfect or ideal hero. All of these lead me to seek to recruit him if I ever met him.

However, I could tell that he wouldn't care for any offer I could make, judging by the way he was looking at my like he wanted to see my insides. Scratch that, he absolutely wanted to.

The thing that makes this less than desirable is that even if I do pull through my current injuries, both from my tussle with All Might and from him kicking me through that wall of electricity, there wouldn't be much to be gained.

His Quirk is only as strong as it is because of the things he does with it and his creativity. Not only that, it doesn't give the user a safe way to manifest them, injuring them every time they use it. I don't want a Quirk that damages me every time I use it.

I would be in a better spot if I wasn't injured, so I would have to take this fight seriously.

-3rd POV-

The two stared each other down, seeing who would make the first move.

The people watching were tensed to the point where, despite the fight being watched by everyone in Japan, not a single viewer made a single sound.

Jokara decided to be the first one to move.

He went into Lightning stance, multiplying his speed by 30, and jumped on nearby debris and began chain-jumping to each one to try and confuse All For One on where he would come from.

All For One could just barely track Jokara's movements, but the way he kept gathering more speed and momentum each time he jumped from one place to another made it increasingly difficult for him to follow him with his eyes and plan for a counterattack. When it got to Jokara's 12th jump, he got too fast for All For One to even see, and he could only hope to get him with an Air Cannon right now, so he chose to shoot one behind him in hopes that it would get him.

He fired it, and the pressurized wind launched at the direction it was aimed, further destroying the affected area. However, it didn't get Jokara. He was still jumping around, gathering more and more speed with each jump.

When he got to the 18th jump, he next jumped towards All For One. The Symbol Of Fear was kicked in the head with all the built up velocity and momentum, and was flung several kilometres from his previous spot from the total force.

He collided with the debris scattered around the area during his flight, and was only stopped when he slammed into one of the few remaining semi-intact buildings. The air was violently forced out of his lungs, and he hacked up blood due to internal injuries.

He didn't even get to try and recover, as Jokara sped towards him and kneed him in the gut, embedding him further into the building.

The onslaught of attacks continued as he started punching him further into the building. One punch, three punches, 7 punches, 15 punches, 21 punches, 32 punches, the combo continued. Each punch embedded the symbol further into the semi-destroyed building. It also further worsened his injuries, both the ones on the outside and the ones on the inside. Blood gathered and burst on his clothing, his insides began worsening in health as the damage stacked up.

The viewers were going through lots of different thoughts. Most of them had something to do with the brutality of the child. The public, the heroes, and even a few villains who were watching weren't used to seeing someone use brutality as their prime combat approach. They all knew that he could easily inflict more damage by fighting the way he did in the Sports Festival: tactical and precise. But it was clear that he wasn't aiming for the best chances of winning.

He was aiming to brutalize the Symbol Of Fear in front of all of Japan. And he was certainly succeeding.

One of his punches destroyed All For One's mask, and this revealed the horribly damaged face of the Symbol Of Fear.

It unsettled lots of people watching. But Jokara couldn't care less.

It was going to be much worse by the end of tonight.

The combo only ended when Jokara unleashed his 50th punch.

At this point, All For One's body had taken incredible damage.

(To give y'all an idea in gamer terms: He's currently at 30% HP. His super regeneration Quirk makes it so that he's constantly recovering, though. Otherwise that combo would have ended him.)

His injured body slumped to the floor.

-Jokara POV-

"So, All For One, I bet you weren't expecting to face repercussions when you took the Quirk of one of my mothers. But, as you can see, sometimes, pieces of shit like you actually do get what you deserve. Not some shitty hero taking you to jail, no no no. You get exactly what's happening to you now.", I taunted the fucker.

I was thinking of what would ruin him in the best way. Not any kind of injury or attack, since his super regeneration would fix it. I wanted it to be something that would completely ruin him for the duration of how long I let him live. Granted, that wouldn't be much time, but every second that he suffers is an eternity of happiness for me.

Then I thought about it. What was the whole reason that Mom 3's Quirk was gone?

Because of his Quirk. It allowed him to take other people's Quirks for himself. It's what made All For One so special. Hell, he named himself after his Quirk.

So, what happens if I take the very thing that made him special in the first place, and used it for myself?

I manifested a bone from my shoulder, and made it 6 feet long.

But, I gave it a very special property. One that I instinctually know that I can only use once.

Quirk Steal.

I stabbed him in the shoulder with the bone.

As it went into his skin, I saw some strange essence get drained through the bone. It was a black colour, with a twinge of purple. That's most likely some sort of essence representing his Quirk.

As the essence drained out of his body and into the bone, it went fully black, with some purple lines on it.

When the bone fully absorbed it, I took the bone and stabbed it into my stomach. like a very violent syringe.

I could feel the essence go into my body. Instead of what I was expecting, aka, the essence trying to resist me, it instead seemed like the Quirk's essence instantly happily accepted it's new user, and I instantly felt like I had access to a new ability, the ability to take and redistribute. I also felt like one of the Quirks it had stocked up before was ready for me to use and/or give to someone else.

Mom 3's Quirk. Search. The one that All For One took.

I wasn't going to keep it. I was going to give it back. She deserved it.

(This is my workaround for Manny0101 for asking me if Ragdoll was still gonna lose her Quirk. I never said anything about her not getting it back :) )

All For One looked horrified, even without anything to express facial expressions, I could just tell he was.

"What did you do?!", he yelled.

"I took the one thing that made you special. Now, you're a powerless fool. Even better, I can now use your ability however I see fit. How does it feel knowing that your own ability has been taken by your enemy? Now you know how my mother felt. To be powerless. Good news for you, though. You won't have to feel it for long. Because you won't be feeling anything now.", I taunted him.

(Gore warning)

I manifested a lightning bone and stabbed it into his left eye. First, it pierced it, piercing the eye like a piece of meat on a skewer. Then, it went deep into his socket. Lastly, the electricity fried it, and made it pop in a bloody mess..

He let off a pained yell. Since he was powerless now, he couldn't be bailed out by super regeneration.

His eye socket was now completely open. I manifested an acid bone, but made it more like a bottle of acid that a bone with caustic properties, so when I sliced the tip of the bone off, the acid inside could be poured out.

(Just imagine basically a potion with acid in it in the shape of a bone)

I poured the acid into the open eye socket, melting the entire left side of his face, starting from the top, and melting the bottom as well when it melted to that level.

His face was now even more screwed up than before. He now essentially only had half a face. The only reason he wasn't already dead was because Jokara only put the acid starting from eye level, not from the very top of his head, otherwise it definitely would have gotten to his brain and killed him.

He couldn't even scream in pain properly, as he only had half a jaw left.

This horrid torture was followed up by Jokara doing something that would shock the world forever. That's right. Not just Japan. The world.

He activated his transformation that he managed to tap into when he went after Kota's killer.

(Please suggest names for the form. I don't want to call it Curse Mark Transformation, or anything related to Orochimaru's Curse Mark, since that doesn't really work in this case.)

His monstrous appearance terrified everyone watching, All Might and All For One included. His appearance couldn't even be compared to people with Mutant Quirks, since they didn't really have forms that were too horrifying or different from animals, or they simply get traits from animals. This was different. It was like a horror artist's interpretation of a human monster. The claws, the eyes, the skin, the tail, the bones on his body, the change to the hair. Everything blended into the perfect "monster" look. If they were on their own, it would be like your average Mutant Quirk. But it was so horrifying because they were together.

Not wasting any time, Jokara began clawing at All For One erratically, with no pattern at all. Arms, legs, chest, head, neck, all of his body was clawed, each swipe taking pieces of flesh, until he was basically skinned. Muscles were exposed and bleeding, bone was visible on some parts, etcetera.

It was clear that Jokara was going to kill All For One, but he was going to make it miserable.

All For One died from the injuries only after 20 minutes. The only reason he survived so long in the first place was because Jokara would occasionally heal him using bones with the Heal property.

When he died, Jokara made a bone with the Acidic property and stabbed it into the body, dissolving it completely.

Then, not making any kind of theatrics, Jokara left.

And that, was the Night Of The Demon.

And the night that the new Symbol Of Fear was born.

(Easily the longest chapter yet. Not counting this author's note, it is 3609 words long.)

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