Encounter

4 years have passed since he was given his name, the bit named Jera was now a boy who looked slightly feminine with his long silver hair, and his tanned copper skin gave quite the contrast to his hair giving him a unique beauty. His height was average for a 4 year old but his antler on either side of the head gave him an extra 20cm making him seem taller than his age group. His once wobbly legs now a toned muscular deer calf can be seen packed with energy.

"You've grown quite a bit haven't you Jera" hissed the snake from behind. Jörmungandr the snake attached to his spine, calls out to him softly vastly different from the cold indifferent voice he heard 4 years ago.

"Thanks, Jörmungandr. I wouldn't have been able to grow this old without you."

The snake felt his genuine appreciation within his response feeling that it was worth his effort. During these 4 years, it was Jörmungandr that had helped little Jera in the mountain. He had kept him safe from all sorts of dangers in the mountain from the wild animals and kept him well fed.

"Well, we are quite literally connected it's only given."

Jera felt that his snake companion had gotten quite close to him within these 4 years, he would often help with his shedding which only happens on his birthday as he grows proportionate to his own growth and helps him clean his body.

As Jera was cleaning his scaly friend, he felt Jörmungandr sense something over ahead the creek they were bathing in. Since Jörmungandr was connected to him he could naturally feel what he felt.

"You sensed that right..."

"Yes, yes I did."

Both of them felt 5 humanoid presence near the creek. All of them close to Jera's age, the leading figure of the group, a blond haired boy had his handheld out with puffs of explosions at his palm started crossing over the clasped tree bridge.

Jera had never interacted with another human being in the past 4 years didn't know what to expect so stayed silent waiting for them to cross over. Jörmungandr seeing Jera act like this hissed in a whisper,

"Aren't you going to meet them?"

"Well... I don't even know them." as Jera was deciding what to do the blond haired kid had slipped off the bridge and fallen right on top of Jera.

Both of the boys fell into the cold creek water, Jera slightly startled by the sudden situation quickly moved away from the boy.

"KACCHAN!"

All of the boys screamed out to find out if his friend was alright, the boy with green hair rushed down from the side of the creek into the water. The boy in question also startled from his fall quickly got his wits together.

"I'm alright..." the boy paused and looked at who had reached out to help him up, Jera observing felt a sudden change of emotion in the boy.

The boy suddenly snapped "I DON'T NEED YOUR STUPID HELP DEKU!!!!" the boy who was trying to help was pushed away savagely, losing his balance also fell into the water.

"I... I just wanted to make sure you were alright..."

"I DON'T NEED HELP FROM A QUIRKLESS FROM YOU! WHO DO YO..." as the boy was screaming his head off he felt a gaze so cold that made his body shiver. Slowly turning his head he met the gaze of a snake behind a boy with unique features. Meeting the snake's eyes he was paralyzed by fear, if as those eyes had suddenly grown and looked at him as prey.

The boy who was on the verge of crying noticed his 'friends' looking elsewhere and frozen called out, " A.. Are you alright Kachan?" trying to figure out if the boy was fine he went a little closer to the blond boy just to be stopped by an unknown voice close by.

"Why do you try and help this boy? He seems to hate your presence? And you, why do you hate him when he offered to help you? "

The boy, hearing these questions also turned to find the source of the voice. What met him was a boy close to their age which a unique beauty. He also froze but not in fear like the blonde boy but awe as he had never seen anyone so beautiful. As the 2 boys were now frozen another voice spoke out, both boys knew where it was facing them paralyzing one of them,

"Jera? Why would you even care about those answers?"

"Jörmungandr, you should know I haven't had any interaction besides you. I was just curious. Also, you should let that boy go."

"Hmph, the boy deserved it, he interrupted my bath and started screaming his head off."

The Jörmungandr, who was asked to stop his predatory gaze coiled around Jera's neck and hanged lazily waiting for the boy to respond to his question.

The green haired boy finally out of his trance realised his friend was also out of his tranced quickly tried to introduced themself,

"Hi, I... I'm Midoriya Izuku and this is Kacchan..."

The blonde boy, Kacchan finally out of his stance had fallen to his knee still feeling the lingering fear he felt from the snake called Jörmungandr.

"We are childhood friends so... it's only natural to help my friend if they are in danger..."

Izuku who was still trying his best to answer his question was interrupted by the boys still on the bridge.

"Who cares, he hurt Kachan we should beat him to a pulp!"

Jörmungandr remembering the group above them he exclaimed. "This why I hate humans...." as the group of boys started to surround Jera, Jörmungandr started to release a cloud of dark green smoke out of his mouth.

"Jörmungandr! You can't kill them! They are just children, and they aren't even threats!" Jera was trying to calm his companion, Jörmungandr just licked his cheek.

"Relax, Jera I'm just getting tired of this interaction. It's something I learned from Ananteshesha, amnestic gas." The surrounding boys surprised by the sudden gas they accidentally inhaled it, and started to fall into a trance all of their eyes lost focus.

"Let's just get out of here, they just brats. Nothing to be concern about."

"Well, I guess your right..."

Jera seeing all of them in a trance couldn't help but agree to his companion as they are now all in daze. Jörmungandr seeing his slight hesitation whispers, "If we leave I'll teach how to use your other abilities that mad scientist gave you."

Jera who heard this instantly started to get his belonging which was not much just his clothing as they were in the process of bathing swiftly left. Leaving the group of boys behind in the creek who had started to regain they conscious.