Mizuki laid In the hospital bed in a deep sleep, thinking about his past…
Flashback
Mizuki was in elementary school as many of the kids around him had impressive abilities such as teleportation and clairvoyance. "What's your power Mizuki ?" The young hero frowned looking at the ground shyly before turning into a puddle of water.
"That's it? You can't do anything else?"
"No, I'm not used to my powers yet, for now this is all I can do" Many of the students began laughing at him as he reverted back to normal with tears filling his eyes. "You all are jerks! I didn't choose to have this power!" Mizuki ran home when a large gray villain with a buff body blocked his path.
"Heh, seems you're in the wrong place kid, you should run before you're killed" The young boy froze in place as the blood lusted villain approached him. The poor child shook in fear as he closed his eyes when everything went quiet…Mizuki opened his eyes to find Ultamizu blocking the villain from getting to him.
"Sorry villain, but I'm afraid you'll have to leave before things get ugly"
"Heh, and just who are you? You might look tough, but I'm sure I can kick your ass with no trouble" The assailant cracked his knuckles grinning at the pro hero. He was shirtless with gray skill only wearing tan pants.
"If you truly believe you can withstand one of my punches, why not stand there and we'll see if you can handle just 50% of my power"
"Ha! Very well, I'll take your punches head on, let's go!" The pro hero smirked clinched his fist while Mizuki watched from behind. "Goodbye" With a sudden strike to the torso, the gray villain soared into the sky before leaving the atmosphere in a sparkle of light.
Mizuki watched in amazement as the pro hero turned back to him. "Don't worry young man, so long as I'm here, you'll always be safe"
"Could-could I become a hero like you someday!?"
"Haha! Of course! Anyone can become a hero. Tell me…what do you think a hero is?"
"Ummm, a powerful person that helps people?" Ultamizu laughed once more placing his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Actually, a hero is not someone with great power or abilities…but a person with the will or belief that they can save or change the world for the better. Those with power can choose either to be a hero or villain…but it takes true determination to stand against them and ensure a better future"
Ever since that day, Mizuki trained whenever he could at just six years old until he was 15 and was accepted into star hero academy…
End Of Flash Back
Back In The Star Hero Academy...
Match 6 Sota Kimichi VS Kimiko
Kaito sat with Nari who was feeling weak but still wanted to watch the rest of the tournament. "Are you sure you're well enough to watch?"
"Y-yea I'm fine, just tired, I'll be fine after a while" She leaned her head on his shoulder before falling asleep. The young hero laughed patting her head before watching the fight.
Kimiko stepped onto the stage, her long green hair blowing in the breeze as her opponent came on stage. He had brown hair with hazel eyes dressed in the school's uniform like the others. "Heh, let's see what you got!"
Kimiko smirked as the match started. She focused her gaze on Sota as the weight of gravity grew stronger. The horned hero laughed with a smirk slowly walking towards her, only slowed down by the shift in gravity. "Is this all you have? I feel like I'm just carrying a heavy bookbag"
A dark-red aura outlined his body as the cheerful smile faded from the student's face as he began walking normally as if the gravity didn't even affect him anymore.
"Shit" The green-haired student aimed her right hand in the approaching target's direction as the gravity grew 10 times stronger to the point Sota was having trouble walking any further. "There, are you finished yet?" The demonic-red aura around the boy's body grew brighter as he once more moved towards her slowly.
"Enough of this" A demonic voice spoke from Sota. The voice sounded as if two people were speaking simultaneously. The crowd watched in surprise as Sota reached for the girl as a black essence surrounded his palm. "Prepare...for solidification" The hero managed to touch Kimiko's chest just as the female hero used both hands for full gravitational force, causing Kimichi to hit the ground with so much force, the stage cracked.
However, the area the student had touched began to turn to stone as it traveled from her chest to all directions. Some of the students were horrified at the sight when Sota snapped out of it just in time as the solidification stopped with her neck up still human.
"I-I'm sorry, I'm still not in full control of my powers yet and still learning to give in to my demon side" He placed his hand on the stone body as it cracked away, reverting the girl back to normal. "I-I forfeit" Sota shouted to the announcer. Many looked at the hero who ran off with tears in his eyes as he ran out into the halls. Kaito told Ichiro to watch over Nari while he went to go check on the class 206 student.
He found him crying out in the hall with his head against the wall punching the wall in frustration, tears falling from his hazel eyes. "Why did I have to be born with this power!? Why me!? This power is more of what a villain would have! I hate myself for doing that to her...it can be a horrifying thing...to be helpless as your entire body turns to stone. You don't know what happens next...will you die? Or will you be consciousness through it all...experiencing every terrible second incased in stone?"
Kaito walked over to him. "Are you ok Sota? You looked really guilty when you left the match. What's wrong?"
"It's...it's just I can't control my power yet...whenever I use it, a demonic voice starts taking over until I'm acting like a jerk. But I don't want to be seen as a villain, I want to save people like any other hero. All I want to do is become a hero evreyone can look up to, not someone they're afraid of. I saw Kimiko's look of horror as she was turning to stone, that same look I've seen before...it still haunts me...
Flashback
Sota was only 10 years old when he saw one of his friends getting bullied. "Haha! You don't have any powers! That makes you trash!" The bully had spiky blonde hair with blue eyes wearing a white shirt and blue pants as he looked down on Sota's friend. The boy had short black hair, blue eyes and wore a stripped black and yellow shirt with tan pamts.
The young boy marched over to defend his friend as the bully towered over him. "Stop it Ryoji, bullying others won't prove you're any better than the rest of us!"
"Heh, why do I need to prove what I already am?" The kid pushed him as Kimichi fell to the ground looking at his worried friend. His eyes glowed red as he rose up, pushing the kid back. Only...the moment his hands made contact with Ryoji's body, it began turning to stone as the child let out cries of despair until his cries were silenced...Sota stared in horror at the bully who was now nothing more...than a mere statue...
End of Flash Back
"Back then, I had no idea how to even activate my powers, so I was told not to have physical contact with another person, but I seemed fine, my powers only went out of control when my emotions were unstable. I can hold hands with others now but in a fight, it feels as though the more power I put into my abilities the stronger this demonic presence gets"
Kaito took him to his dorm room where they sat and talked with Kaito giving him some tissues. "The best way to control your powers Kimichi, is to train...realize when that feeling is taking over and learn to either repress it or find a way to balance it with your own where you can fight but not lose yourself. With me and pro-hero's help, I'm sure we can help you control your powers well enough to where you won't lose yourself anymore. As long as you have a drive to become a hero and save others...there's a light within you that will give you the hope you need to become a hero"
Meanwhile…
A man wearing a black suit with a red tie stood in a dark room with a smirk on his bone-like face. "It's time…to collect" A dark-red flesh-like ball floated behind him before soaring up the stairs, out into the city headed right for the star hero tournament. Kaito and Nari sat together with Nari asleep on his shoulder when the ball of flesh landed in the center of the stage.
All of the students were speechless as the ball of dark-red flesh began to morph into a large 10-foot monster with a buff body with tentacles shooting out of it's body. "Shit" Kaito carefully got up from Nari, launching himself right for the monster when one of the tentacles abruptly smacked the young hero across the air, smashing into the wall of the arena.
"Kaito!" Mizutaki pulled out a katana from his side, dashing straight for the creature as it let out a bellowing cry. With a single step, Mizutaki vanished as a barrage of slashes caused blood to gush from the monster's body as the hero repapered behind it, sliding his sword back to his side.
Many of the young heroes ran in fear while a few stayed to fight. Saito built up as much kinetic energy as he could, launching his charged body straight for the monster. "Take this!" Kaito slowly got up and watched as Saito struck the beast with immense power, only for it to let out a roar, wrapping one of it's tentacles around the kinetic hero, pulling him inside it's body as if it was made of blood.
"Ichiro! That's it! Pure justice...20%!" As the blue aura swarmed around him, he moved at such a level of speed, many of the other heroes couldn't see him. "Take this monster!" Striking the monster with his fierce power, he sent it soaring out of the arena into the streets of the city where many citizens began to run in fear. Nari woke up to the sounds of screams as she saw the other heroes chase after the beast while Kaito took her hand with a smile, launching him high into the air in the direction of the creature.
As the heroes reached the target's location, The creature's body began to surge with red energy. "This power, it feels like Ichiro! Does this abomination have the power to use the abilities of those trapped inside it!?"
"If so, then we're going to have to get Ichiro out of there aren't we?" Nari commented cracking her fists with a grin as her skin morphed into pangolin armor-like skin as defense before manifesting tiger claws as her offense. "Now then you disgusting beast, allow me to pierce you open and free my friend from inside"
Nari lunged toward the monster, the beast sent multiple tentacles right for her when she pierced right through them. The worm-like flesh fell to the ground still wiggling when the adaptive hero stabbed right through her target's abdomen. Blood gushed from it's wound as Nari attempted to rip the creature open to retrieve their sealed friend. That's when a tentacle manifested inside the beast's body, shooting out of it's wound binding Nari's arms together and pulling her inside as the wound closed.
"No! Nari! Rrrr that's it I don't care anymore! Let's see how you handle a full power blow from pure justice!" Right before the young hero could build up power, Mitsuhide stood between him and the target. "Kaito, do you really want to risk hurting yourself over this? Just stay back and let me handle this, I had Akira search for the one responsible for this, he said it's a creation from a man named: "The collector" Apparently Akira used to work for him. I won't ask you to run like the others, but try not to interfere"
"Y-yes sir"
"Now then you rotting peace of flesh, you're a creation by that villain? Well allow me to send you running right back to your master" Slowly pulling out his blade, it was engulfed with blue flames as he gripped the blade with both hands. "Sword stance...surging strike" Closing his eyes, he felt where the creature's vital areas where before making instant slashes right for the weak points.
Mizutaki and Kaito watched as waves of blue flames shot out of the teacher's blade with each strike as it pierced through it's body with blood once more spilling from it's wounds before quickly healing.
"Damn, I didn't expect it to heal so fast. I might have to use my ultimate move in order to take this thing out" Just then, the monster's skin morphed into an armadillo-shell-like material as it aimed it's palm towards the group of heroes, firing a hail of spikes right for them. Kaito launched himself into the air while Mizutaki placed his hand on the floor, changing the atoms in the concreate to form a wall in between him and the falling projectiles.
Mitsuhide stuck his blade into the ground as a wall of blue flames rose up, burning all spikes that made contact with it. "As a teacher, I won't allow any of my students to die so long as I can still move"
Meanwhile on the other side of the city...
Akira of the flame was soaring through the sky, using his feet to shoot flames and keep him airborne as he searched for his former master. That's when he saw a figure standing on the roof of a building looking up at him. "What!?" Akira dropped down onto the roof to see the collector smirking at him with his arms crossed.
"Why stand out in the open? Did you want to be found!?" Akira questioned aiming his left hand towards him with blue flames swarming around his palm. The man grinned responding: "Maybe I did, though it's not like you're any threat to me. Last time we fought my foot was pressing your face to the floor before I decided to spare you. By now you should realize you can't beat me...besides, aren't you forgetting something?"
"Huh, what are you talking about?" With another smirk, the man made of a bone-like tissue pulled out a usb drive, tossing it over to Akira as it landed at his feet. That's when it began to surge with green electricity as a familiar woman manifested from the device, she rose up from the device, striking the flame hero across the face, tossing a small tracking device onto his chest.
Their target staggered back a few feet nearly falling from the roof as he saw Binary, a woman who also worked for the collector. She had the ability to travel through any electric device as well as gather info from them. She looked at him with a dazed drunk-like expression commenting: "You shouldn't have betrayed us Akira, once you join the collector family, you're family forever"
"Tsk!" Enough of this!" Once more the hero formed a transparent piler of flames however, this one was a big as the roof itself, sealing the collector and Binary inside as chains made of red flames shot out of the barrier's walls, pinning Binary to the ground but only keeping the collector in place. "Burn!" The entire pillar erupted in a sheer blaze of flames...
As the smoke cleared, he saw the woman burned laying motionless on the ground with the collector still standing with minor burns. "Heh, oh Akira, and here I thought after all this time you'd realize your flames can't kill me. I let you live before, but seems I must correct my mistake, allow me to end your struggling"
The flame hero felt himself stiffen in fear as the villain slowly approached him. The collector reshaped his hand into a bone-spear, vanishing for a split second before a sheer surge of pain rushed through the man's body. Akira could feel blood running down his lips as he shook from the intense pain.
Rain began to pour down as the tyrant pulled the bone spear out of his victim's back. "As I've said Akira...you never had what it took to beat me. Now let go of your worries and die" The flame hero collapsed on the scorched roof in a pool of blood as the collector forced out the power essence of the hero. "Your power shall do well to help my dream become a reality"
(Kaito...I...I couldn't beat him, my fear made me useless, body you still have a chance...defeat the collector and be the next pro hero) With his final wish, Akira of the flame drew his last breath before dying...
Meanwhile in the star hero arena...
Mitsuhide stood before the monster gripping his blade tightly when tentacles once more shot out of the creature's body going straight for the teacher, wrapping around his blade. "Tsk, this trick is getting really old!" With that the man's katana once more was set ablaze, burning the brute's tentacles causing it to let go of the sword.
"My flames seem to hurt it, but I can't seem to cut through it's skin without it healing itself" At that moment, the monster wrapped it's fleshy tentacles around the teacher's etire body before pulling him inside.
"Mitsuhide! He stopped me before, but now nothing's stopping me from going all out! PURE JUSTICE...FULL POWER!" The entire campus shook as a blue flame-like aura burst from his body. "If I can't save those I care about, I don't have the right to even call myself a hero!" Filled with rage, Kaito moved right for the abomination, attacking from all directions at near light speed. The hero moved at such velocity, Mizutaki could see multiple of him.
"Now to be smart about this" Moving at full speed, he swiped Mizutaki's blade from him, piercing across the torso of his target making a large wound. (I can feel my muscles getting strained from using pure justice at full power, but it doesn't matter right now, I have to free the others)
Stopping time with his left eye, the blood drops from the wound stopped in mid-air as Kaito forced himself through the brute's thick flesh before reaching the inside of the creature's body where he found Nari, Mitsuhide and Ichiro inside spheres of liquid hanging from the ceiling.
"Now if I can just cut them down that should free them" He blinked causing time to resume as the monster hit the ground causing the inside to shake. Before Kaito could take a step forward, he saw what looked like Nari standing before him. Though, she had white hair, black eyes with red irises wearing a black version of her costume.
"Stop, I won't let you go a step further Kaito...these heroes, they're happy inside those containment orbs, think of it like a dream...while I'm using their powers, they're fast asleep having dreams of what they desire. Such as Nari, she's currently dreaming of you, but how will she feel when that dream is crushed once I kill you with her own power!"
"Enough of this, get out of my way or I'll kill you here, I know you're not a real person so I don't have to feel guilty about finishing you off"
"Oh? You think you can beat me, even kill me? Then go ahead, let's see just how strong you are Kaito" The evil copy of Nari charged right for him manifesting tiger claws. Kaito stood motionless as the entity went for an attack. That's when Kaito closed his left eye, stopping time with his right eye. Dark Nari froze in mid-air about to attack with her claws. Kaito struck the fake in the face with immense force before having to blink once more.
Dark Nari hit the walls of the monster's insides before hitting the ground turning to dust. "Next" Kaito commented. That's when Dark Mitsuhide manifested behind him pulling out a blade with red flames. The copy moved at fierce speed, attempting to decapitated the young hero in a flash of light.
"You may look like my teacher, but you're sure not as fast as him" With an abrupt punching motion, a surge of force went from his fist right for Dark Mitsuhide, striking him in the abdomen sending him staggering back. "If this is all you have, then it's time to end this"
Just then the dark clones lunged right at him, each one gripping his arms and throat as a pile of goo grew beneath his feet, incasing him with a sphere of liquid like all the others. The young hero closed his eyes as he floated within the sphere....
Meanwhile outside the monster grinned with sharp teeth as the power of pure justice surged through it's body. Mizutaki was about to continue the battle for his fallen allies when a figure rushed past him, a young man with black hair tressed in a black torso and pants with purple eyes came into view as he went for the creature.
Letting out a deep bellow, it surged with the immense power of justice, moving right for the new hero, throwing a fierce blow right for him when the stranger vanished. Both the monster and Mizutaki were confused when a purple rift manifested right above him as two of the hero emerged, the original and him dressed in a red version of his suit. Both slashed the creature in the shape of an "X" as blood gushed from both sides of it's body.
Mizutaki watched as the duplicate in red gripped his katana tightly, piercing the street before the assailant as flames erupted from the ground in a cyclone of flames scorching the creature. Their target grew angry charging up pure justice when it's body began to crack apart, the blue aura of pure justice seeping through the cracks until the monster burst in pile of blood and guts.
Kaito and the others laid in the street dizzy as the hero walked over to them. Just as Kaito's vision came into focus, he could see the stranger and his duplicate aiming their blades towards him. "You, I can sense immense power from you...though this power, it isn't natural...you must've stolen it from another hero to boost your own. Tell me who you stole this from before I pierce your heart and retrieve the power essence from you myself"
"Sigh....I was given this power by another hero...Ultamizu....he was dying and with his final moments, gave me his power to carry on the power that is pure justice"
"Tsk, you expect me to fall for such a façade? I am Obaki Sinjin and I judge your claim...as lies" With a calm attitude, the hero pierced Kaito with his blade as blood gushed from the wound as the others turned to see their friend getting killed by another hero. Mitsuhide and Nari charged right for him when a rift opened as another copy of Obaki fell from the rift before them wearing black and white suit with a cape with both colors split in to with a black line separating them.
"I shall keep you both from my counter parts with ease" Nari took a deep breath before spewing green venom right for the man when a transparent Barrer of light stopped the goo from reaching him. "You all shall be trapped within a world in which you can't escape" The Obaki from the alternate world opened it's eyes to reveal rainbow irises as all the heroes in his sight hit the pavement unconsciousness.
Kaito watched in horror as his friends laid motionless in the street with the 3rd Obaki standing over Nari. "Hmmm, this young girl is rather attractive. What a shame to have to hurt such a beautiful girl"
"Nari...NARI! I'VE DELT WITH ENOUGH HURT AND PAIN IN THIS WORLD...I SHALL MAKE ANY WHO HURT OTHERS PAY!" Kaito's eyes widened as all thoughts vanished from his mind as pure chaos flew out from his room right to him entering his body. As both chaos and justice fused into one power...becoming chaotic justice.
Kaito gripped the katana as his wound began to close around the blade with a costume forming around him in a ray of violet light. He wore a black costume with a white cape and a purple and blue infinity symbol on his chest. "All I see is pain...suffering...sadness...worry. I've had enough. All who hurt others shall bare the weight of their sins from my chaotic justice!"
Obaki and his two alternate counter parts stood side by side as Kaito broke the top of the katana piercing his chest dropping it to the floor as his wound fully closed. "While villains roam these streets hurting others, you're here assuming I stole this power from a hero who gave it to me as his dying wish! You don't deserve to call yourself a hero...I shall erase you along with the one responsible of sending that monster after us"
The red Obaki soared right for him, engulfing his body in flames throwing a blow right for Kaito's face when the broken hero caught the flaming fist with his bare hand. The flames scorched Kaito's palm but his rage and frustration far surpassed the pain as he looked the duplicate in the face with a dark expression, pulling them right to him, headbutting him with god levels of force, sending the Obaki soaring through the city crashing through miles of buildings.
"One down, you're next" Kaito called out pointing towards the white and black counterpart pointing towards him, the fierce power of chaotic justice causing his cape to whip around behind him. The duplicate frowned as they stared at one another in silence....
Without warning, the Obaki's eyes changed once more as they gleamed rainbow in the light. "Fall...within a dream you shall never wake from" Kaito's eyes closed as he collapsed in the street as his immense aura around his body vanished...
Within his dream...
Kaito stood in a large endless green field, feeling the breeze brush across his face when he heard a familiar voice behind him: "Kaito, don't let my death be the reason for your pain...we all live and die. I know your young, but you must push forward. I can feel great pain within you and won't stop you if you wish to continue down this path...just remember, if you don't want the burden of pure justice anymore...you may pass it to someone else and I will respect your choice, just please be careful of the choices you make Kaito...have a great life, you never know when it's going to end...let your power....light the way"
Kaito clinched his fists with tears running down his face before spinning around to answer Ultamizu, only to find himself alone within the endless field. As his tear fell from his cheek, it froze in place as the void began to shake from Kaito's fierce power. Surges of violet electricity whipped around his body as he raised his fist into the air. With a deep breath he put most of his power into his fist...
NARI! I WON'T LET THEM TAKE YOU FROM ME AGAIN! CHAOTIC JUSTICE: DIMENSIONAL FRACTURE!" A violet ray of light shot into the air, reaching the world's limit, shattering the fake world's barrier, freeing Kaito from the illusion. Obaki and his counterparts turned to see Mora enraged and glowing with chaotic justice as he set his gaze on the Obaki that put him in the dream.
"You...you'll be the next to go" Kaito pointed as the violet aura surged in his eyes.
"I-impossible, no one should be able to escape my dream world!" Kaito advanced at light speed as the duplicate prepared to trap the hero within the illusion once more. As he opened his rain bow eye, he saw it was too late...the enraged hero struck him with such force, a loud crack could be heard as his target smashed through a building leaving a trail of blood.
"Obaki...you're not fit to call yourself a hero...putting my friends in danger just because of your twisted sense of justice. But your so-called justice is nothing more than a man who thinks he's above everyone else. I would just send you to prison, but I can't afford anything like this to happen again"
Kaito closed one eye as time came to a stop. Making a flicking motion dead center at his assailant's head, he sent a force of wind right for his forehead, piercing through his skull like a bullet as blood gushed out the side before freezing in mid-motion from the time stop before Kaito blinked resuming time.
Obaki's eyes froze in fear as he fell to his knees with blood running down his face. "Y-you haven't beaten me y-yet..." The hero watched as his target collapsed in the street motionless. Kaito looked over at his friends who seemed to be waking up from the illusion they had been trapped in.
Nari opened her eyes to see Kaito facing away from her as the aura around him ceased and he fell to one knee with his costume vanishing like black flames.