Sports Festival 8

"Here we have it folks the final match in the first year tournament. Both of our contestants have fought their way to the top, and now we finally get to see them duke it out for first place."

The theatrics were much heavier as we both stepped into the arena, the flame throwers lighting up the pathway and the screaming crowd made for an incredible ambience, incomparable to any of the previous matches.

"From the hero course, Benimaru Shinmon! vs his classmate Katsuki Bakugo!" Present Mic shouted.

Bakugo had a menacing expression donning his face, he looked seconds away from erupting, the only thing holding him back was the fact that the match hasn't started yet. He's come this fact and wasn't going to let some momentary agitation waste his efforts.

Standing opposite from him was me, my lethargic look betrayed how I was feeling about the match. The excitement from having the possibly my hardest match yet was eating away at me.

Watching Bakugo's previous matches showed me that the explosions generated from his sweat had little to no fire in them, even his large ones were mostly made of small amounts of heat and a lot of force. Which mean there's not going to be a repeat of the Todoroki match, just and all out brawl for first place.

"Begin!" Present Mic yelled.

Bakugo wasted no time at all, using explosions to proper himself towards me.

As he closed in I threw a couple fire balls at him, giving him a taste of what others feel when fighting him. The fireball exploded but like the highly talented fighter he his, Bakugo created his own explosions to ride the shockwaves and mostly nullify the damage.

He quickly regained his footing and unleashed a powerful blast in my direction. The Force shattered the ground beneath him sending parts of the arena flying in all directions.

Creating jet like flames from my arms, I propel myself above Bakugo's attack. At the same time igniting the pieces of debris within my sight, using then as projectiles to counter attack.

Bakugo managed to either dodge or block using his quirk, but it was enough of a distraction for me to close the distance and clatter his jaw with a punch.

Surprisingly Bakugo withstood the blow and pounced at me with extra vigour.

Close combat ensued, Bakugo used explosions to manoeuvre and attack from all sorts of unnatural angles, but the skill gap between the two of us wasn't so easily surmounted. Although Bakugo definitely was excellent at using his quirk and has incredible reaction speeds which made him a natural at combat, still he wasn't properly trained in anything. Making his punches sloppy, his kicks misplaced and he had an overall inexperience in situations where he's fighting someone who's been trained.

For someone like me who's been training for almost ten years, all of these gaps we're easily exploitable. Bakugo's attacks were simple to read and easily avoidable, which left wide openings in his stance. A few well timed fire infused attacks later and Bakugo realised he was severely out matched.

Using a wide explosion as a smokescreen he rocketed away, ending our little skirmish. Even so the damage that he sustained wasn't disappearing any time soon. He's probably got a few cracked ribs at the least, which is going to make using his physically demanding quirk more difficult and limit his manoeuvrability.

"Tsk, you think something as small as a few cracked bones is gonna stop me!" Bakugo shouted.

With small explosions crackling away in his hands he declares to the whole stadium "I'm gonna be number 1! So you might as well stop messing around and go all out, or this next attack's winning me the tournament.

Even with the pain from cracked ribs Bakugo forces himself high into air, once high enough be wraps his arms around himself and lets off small explosions to rotate his body.

His spins started off slow but quickly developed into increasingly faster revolutions, as he spun the smoke left over from his explosions formed a sort of spiralling cocoon around Bakugo that trailed into a long tail behind him, giving his attack a striking resemblance to a missile homing in on his target.

As the dangerous looking attack closed in on me I decided to pull out a move that should put a stop to the match.

'I'm sorry Konro, I'll be using your move' I thought as my eyes shined bright.

A raging inferno burst out from my shoulders, burning through the UA gym suit and leaving me with my clothing tattered. The fire spiralled around my arms, leaving long trails of wispy flames to flow from my shoulders in a way similar to Konro's when he activates his quirk, only scaled up several magnitudes.

The fire quickly got more violent and powerful, the yellow flames changed to a bright blue as the wispy ends sharped to points. The stadium was silent in anticipation, no one was sure who would come out on top, but what they did know was the result of these attacks will decide the match.

"Howitzer Impact!!!" Bakugo shouted as he was about to release his attack, but when his arm reached out to deliver the final massive explosion. I dashed in at lightning speeds ducking under his outstretched arm and ramming my palms into his chest.

'Crimson Moon'

After the initial spark of blue, a red sphere of flames swallowed the two of us up. Bakugo explosion was a complete miss, the resulting shot was sent towards Cementoss who had to block the explosion with all he had.

While Cementoss done his best to protect himself and the people in the stands from Bakugo's missed attack, the blood red curtain had fully engulfed the stage blocking us from everyone's view. The embers from my attack spread throughout the stadium and high into the sky, the heat dyeing everything red causing many people to rub their eyes and wonder if what they were seeing is real.

The fiery explosion covering the field had the illusion of looking like a vermillion moon in the first quarter phase. Everything watching the scene occur in person was in agreement about one thing, that the sight was breathtakingly beautiful...

Well if you can get over the soldering temperatures and horror from the sheer scale of the attack.

Slowly everything reverted back to normal, the view of the stage cleared up to reveal what had happened. Only one contestant was left standing, while the other was on his back unconscious after loosing the exchange.

Bakugo was lying on the ground with light burn marks over his body, and some bad bruising. While I was standing tall in the centre of the arena, steam coming from my body as the last tatters of my tracksuit top waved in the wind highlighting the toned muscles underneath.

Good thing I held back with that attack or there wouldn't have been anything left of Bakugo... or my clothes.

Looking around stadium, everyone was silent even Konro and the Asakusa cheer team. Scratching my head I wondered if they were going to call the match or if I was just going to stand around half naked like some sort of exhibitionist.

"A-and we have our winner, Benimaru Shinmon from class 1-A wins the first year sports festival!" Present Mic finally announced my win causing the crowd to erupt into a sea of cheers.

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"The first year students have completed all of the events for the UA Sports Festival. Now sit back relax and enjoy the awards ceremony" Midnight told the crowd.

The fireworks were going off, signifying the completion of the first years time in the festival. Confetti and smoke were thrown from dispensers around the arena as the podium places were revealed.

Todoroki came in at third after beating Tokoyami, as he stood in front of everyone he had a kinder, more mellow look surprising many from class 1-A.

Bakugo was second and looked like he had many things to think about once this was over. The loss hit him hard, I expected him to explode as soon as he awoke but it looked like he was bottling it all up... for now at least.

My podium was lifted above the other two as I stood with a new set of clothes looking lackadaisical as ever.

Then from the roof of the arena came a familiar laugh, "Ah, ha, ha, Citizens! I am here!" exclaimed All Might as he dove into the arena to distribute the medals.

Todoroki got his medals without any issues, and after a small hug from All Might it was onto Bakugo.

"I don't need your damn pity medal" snapped Bakugo as All Might went to place the medal round his shoulders.

"Now, now young Bakugo. Even in defeat, there is always something to learn, and you put a admirable performance on today, you should be proud" he attempted to cheer the student up but Bakugo still wasn't having it.

"Get that garbage away from me!" he shouted

What ensued next was a battle between the number one hero and the number two first year. All Might wrestled the medal onto Bakugo who after a short struggle had no choice but to deal with it.

Finally he moved on to me, "Shinmon throughout the festival you've repeatedly impressed everyone with the power and control you've displayed when handling your quirk. It is with great honour I give to you this medal, but remember there's still a long road ahead to becoming a pro hero" All Might told me as he placed the medal around my neck.

Luckily he never tired to hug me, if that happened I'd be out of here faster than Konro runs from the twin's when they're angry.

After giving out the medals, All might went to to give everyone a motivational speech about something hero related...

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{Back in the Classroom}

"Nice work, you have the next two days of school off to recuperate. I'm sure the Pros who watched the festival will want to recruit some of you, we'll look over the daft forms and update you when you return. Now get some rest, you still have a lot of training to do." Aizawa told us.

"Yes sir" Everyone replied, as we started getting ready to leave.

Everyone left in a big group for the first time ever, must be because the festival made the class more tight-knit, even Bakugo and Todoroki were here. They were all discussing their plans for the two day break as we walked down the massive hill to leave UA.

Tsuyu suddenly turned round and asked "So Benimaru, what're you going to be doing during the break, ribbit"

"Not much, I'll probably have a party or something when I get home, but I've got nothing else planned"

"I'm the same, I'll be doing something with my family since they took a holiday" she explained.

"Well, I'm going to be getting some extra work outs in. Just because I'm off school doesn't mean I'll stop improving" Kirishima jumped in and said.

Curious about something I asked "Anyone know where Ida is?" the class Rep up and left during the finals, which was surprising since he's normally always there when it's something to do with the class.

No one answered but Midoriya had sad guise on his face, same for Uraraka. They must know something, but are unwilling to tell anyone. Must be something important then.

As we reached the gates, I could hear the chatter of a large group of people. As soon as I saw who it was, my face darkened but the expression was quickly snuffled out when I heard a pair of youthful shouts.

"Waka!" Hinata and Hikage exclaimed as they rushed over with their hands in the air. The girls and even a few boys melted at the cute scene but that only lasted till they opened their mouths.

"You kicked some serious ass today" She said while shadow boxing, "but what was up with burning your clothes off"

"Yea, I mean what are you? a stripper?" the other added.

The only one that wasn't confused at the way the tiny girls were speaking was Kirishima who had tears coming out of his eyes while saying "Good with kids as well, so manly".

"Benimaru, who's these two cuties? Your sisters?" asked Toru who was now next to the twins.

"My neighbours" I told her as the twins wondered why clothes were talking.

"Sis, why's floating clothes talking to waka?"

"No idea, maybe all that fires finally fried his brain"

The floating comments struck a sore spot on Toru, who was being consoled by Ashido with some back rubs.

Spotting my victim, I grabbed the twins by their shoulders and began heading over, "See you guys later" I said and after getting replies from mostly everyone we arrived at the Asakusa group.

Coming up behind someone I clap their shoulder making them freeze up, leaning in I say "Konro, what happened to only you and the twins coming?"

Turning his head round Konro sees me with a disturbing smiled dawned on my face which just made the situation scarier.

"W-well you see-" he tried to say

"Girls, get him" on my command the twin taskforce threw themselves at the target, clamping down powerful bites everyone in the 200 meter vicinity was subject to Konro's screams of pain.

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