60: Bloodred

[Flashback Continues]

Izuku woke up.

He looked at the All Might clock on the wall and sighed when he saw the time [5:00 AM], he got up from his bed and quickly went to take a bath to be ready. All Might made a strange request today, he wanted him to come to the beach again but this time at 6:00 AM and not 7:00 AM how they normally do. It was a little strange because he said he wanted him to meet someone important, 'extremely' important. Izuku was curious about who All Might would consider 'extremely' important...

With this thought in mind, Izuku quickly wore his workout clothes and left his house, not before leaving a note behind for his mother to not worry much about him. He jogged towards the beach, which now was completely cleaned by him. He felt a little proud of his work! Comparing the beach to before, the beach was so much better!

When he arrived at the beach, he saw All Might in his skinny form, but there was something wrong with him... Did he look more... Afraid? What would he possibly fear? It was then that Izuku noticed another man standing behind All Might, the man was tall, broad shoulder and large build, Izuku could see his hair and eyes, they were both red. The man had a piercing on his left ear, from which a cross hanged held by a single, golden thread, the cross was also golden and reflected the sunlight of the rising sun. Japan wasn't called the country of the rising sun for nothing! The sunlight reflected on the man's face, covering one side of his face in shadows, his shadow expanded itself, and Izuku took a sharp breath when he saw from the half of the man's shadowed face, a glint of red as his eyes shone.

The man's shadow seemed to move like it was being blown by the wind, but his body was still... 'It must be his quirk' Izuku thought as the man looked at him in the eyes. Suddenly, Izuku saw death. Those red eyes shining brightly reflected death, his body went cold, his heart started to beat faster and faster as he felt his body wanting him to run... Yet, he could not move. As the man calmly walked towards him, this feeling grew stronger and stronger with each step, he felt it, that man wanted to kill him. His brain was working 200% faster as it was trying to find why would that man want to kill him, and also trying to find a way to escape. His fight or flight instinct was activated and he certainly wanted to run away.

He is yet to receive One for All, so he is but a normal quirkless person... Maybe he was a little fitter than your average quirkless person, but he knew one thing: He could not run away. So there was only one option left: Fight.

But how!? Just by looking at this man he felt dread, he felt like he would die if he even takes as a step back, taking a step forward would be suicide. His legs started to tremble as the feeling grew stronger, he felt his body getting colder and colder even though he was sweating intensely, his head was feeling light as he felt like he would faint, but if he faints right now he will certainly die. He needs to do something, anything, to increase his survival chances even by a tiny percentage. His body then moved, he took a step forward and instantly regretted it as he felt his bodyweight shift and he was suddenly falling forward as his legs gave way, too weak to move at all. Suddenly, Izuku blinked, and the man was in front of him, looking in his eyes he suddenly saw himself being impaled by a sword made of shadows, the sword cut his body into tiny pieces in an instant, the images changed as he once again saw himself, but this time he was being killed by a falling giant rock, which squished his body painfully.

He soon started to see illusions of his death, over and over again, but every time he died by a different method. Some were similar, but the process was different. After what seemed to be millenniums, he blinked and all that feeling was gone. He was up, his body was no longer falling, he was no longer feeling cold... He just was.

He felt different like he was different... But he could not tell how different he was. He just felt it. Strange, right? The man in front of him smirked and looked at the smiling, concerned All Might beside him, who was looking at hon with some fear. "He seems good enough... A weak, pathetic one, but at least now he isn't mentally weak. Going through your death changes you, now imagine going through it several times? Yeah, he has the mentality of a mature adult now, also I am fairly certain I did not leave any kind of psychological scar behind, so take care of him if he shows any PTSD." The man smiled as All Might nodded, suddenly the man looked down at him and smiled, from his back a pair of crimson red wings expanded like they were made out of blood... He knew this person, they were on the news once before.

Izuku didn't know, but this was Klein's disguise. His persona was a villain named Vladimir, which was suitable since his confirmed quirk was called Bloodflow, which granted him the ability to produce huge amounts of blood and control it freely. Klein used this persona to fight some interesting heroes, handicapping himself to make it a fair fight, where he would beat the shit out of the hero too. He did it with the top 10 heroes as well, including Endeavor. Maybe I will write about their fight as Vladimir and Endeavor later.

Izuku felt his consciousness slip and he felt himself getting tired... He soon fell asleep.

-Scene Ends-

Author Note:

Another chapter!?

Am I crazy!? I may be.

It looks like reading another book freed me from my author's block for a few minutes, so I wrote this quickly. I hope the quality isn't that bad!