( Daily Music: Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now )
We had gotten to the part of the Sports Festival that I was really looking forward to. The tournament.
I really shouldn't have to explain what a tournament is, so I won't. If you don't know what a tournament is and how it works, I highly question your level of intelligence.
This was the bracket
-Izuku Midoriya vs Hitoshi Shinso
-Shoto Todoroki vs Hanta Sero
-Ibara Shiozaki vs Jokara Kowai
-Tenya Iida vs Mei Hatsume
-Mina Ashido vs Yuga Aoyama
-Fumikage Tokoyami vs Momo Yaoyorozu
-Ejiro Kirishima vs Testutesu Tetsutesu
-Katsuki Bakugo vs Ochaco Uraraka
I saw my opponent's name, but I knew what she looked like as well, since they showed the fighter's pictures on the large screen. I saw her a few metres next to me. She looked at me as well.
Shiozaki: May the Lord forgive me for any harm that I inflict upon this innocent child, and bless me in the fight.
Me: Pray to whatever Lord you want, he won't save you from your loss. Just try and make it entertaining for me.
She looked stunned. For what reason, I don't know, and don't care. She's just going to be entertainment in this battle.
Ibara: (How can an innocent child spew such vile words so full of malice? I thought the Lord made children pure? Maybe he didn't have a happy childhood, or maybe he struggles with lots of problems, and that makes him negative.)
(Nah girl, his Quirk just made him a psycho, lol)
Our fight would be the third one, so until then, I would just observe the other's fights.
(Canon fights until we get to our MC's fight)
So, Izuku and Todoroki won their fights. Not that surprising, though Izuku came close to losing thanks to being mind controlled by his opponent. It was time for my fight.
I know I could end this fight in an instant and wait to get to tougher fights, but where's the fun in that? Besides, it's been weeks since I've gotten to taste some blood, and I was getting thirsty for some.
We walked onto the fighting stage.
Present Mic: IN THE LEFT CORNER, WE HAVE OUR FIRST TIME WINNER FOR BOTH PREVIOUS EVENTS, JOKARA KOWAI!! IN THE RIGHT CORNER, WE HAVE THE GIRL WITH VINES FOR HAIR, SHIOZAKI IBARA!!! WHO WILL EMERGE OUT OF THE BLOODY BATTLE VICTORIOUS?!
Shiozaki: Excuse me, sir, bloody? I don't want to severely harm anyone, much less this child, I would never even think to draw blo-
She got cut off by a punch in the gut from me, a punch which made her cough up a shot glass's worth of blood.
Me: Don't you dare take your eyes off of me!! I thought this was an important moment for all students, but if you have time to talk with the announcer about a small comment, I guess not!
She stumbled backwards a bit, and started rapidly breathing to try and regain some stamina. I simply let her. It wouldn't make a difference in the end.
After all, she was weak.
She eventually got her bearings back after a while of rest. She learned her lesson and didn't start talking again, and instead starting trying to reach and grab me with her vines. I found it child's play to simply dodge them though.
I actually had an idea of something to do. So, I grabbed one of her vines, and tugged with a good portion of my strength. She got violently pulled towards me. As she got really close to me mid-air, I kneed her in the gut, both stopping her flight completely, and inflicting even more damage, likely some internal damage too, if her coughing up 4 shot glass's worth of blood was anything to go by. She passed out almost immediately after that.
Midnight: Jokara Kowai, wins!!
I moved off of the stage, not even bothering to pretend to care enough about her to help her up and take her to medical help. Obviously a few people spectating booed about that, but I don't concern myself with the opinions of fodder.
(Skipping all other fights, they go exactly like canon, duh)
This was the bracket for the Quarter Finals
-Izuku Midoriya vs Shoto Todoroki
-Jokara Kowai vs Tenya Iida
-Fumikage Tokoyami vs Mina Ashido
-Katsuki Bakugo vs Ejiro Kirishima
-Skipping fight between Ice Queen and Midobro-
It was time for the fight between me and Iida, our class representative. Me and him got onto the stage.
Present Mic: IT'S TIME FOR A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN A CLASSMATE VERSUS HIS CLASS REPRESENTATIVE!! IT'S JOKARA KOWAI VS TENYA IIDA!!!
Iida: Let's have a good fight, Jokara.
I nodded at him. I let him take the first action. He decided to sprint at me.
I decided to respond with the same action. I dashed right at him. We met in the middle of the stage. He went for a kick. I chose to grab it.
I put his leg between mine and pivoted my body to the right, making him fall on the ground.
(A real Jiu-Jitsu move)
He got up rather quickly, but I wasn't going to let him have this turn. I used Fire stance for the first time in combat against an opponent, and struck him on the back of his legs. Now, the thing about the Fire stance is that it's not so bad at the start, but it grows more painful each second that passes.
He was able to continue on for a good while, but eventually, the pain immobilized him, and I got the win because of it.
At least he wasn't a weakling, like the vine girl. And because of that, I actually bothered to help him up and take him to medical services, but I first undid the pain Fire stance was causing by "deactivating" it, which could be done if I lightly tapped the struck spot.
-Timeskip no Jutsu-
Everyone else was done with their fights. This was the bracket for Semi Finals.
-Jokara Kowai vs Shoto Todoroki
-Katsuki Bakugo vs Fumikage Tokoyami
Looks like I would be going against the one who disappointed me majorly during the Combat Training. If he didn't get any better, I'll make sure he never fucking walks again. Me and him walked on stage.
Present Mic: IT'S THE FIRST MATCH OF THE SEMI FINALS!! IT'S THE LITTLE MENACE VS THE SON OF NUMBER 2 PRO HERO, ENDEAVOR, SHOTO TODOROKI!!
I instantly dashed towards him, not going anywhere near my full speed, not even half. He tried to stop me with a wall of ice, but I punched right through it. He once again tried ice, attempting to shield himself with it, probably hoping that the attack would be stopped by it. Well, looks like I'll have to show him how wrong he is.
I jumped straight into a kick position, and kicked right through all the layers of his ice wall, nailing him in the face. He almost went out of bounds, but stopped himself with ice.
Me: I overheard that your power is called Half Cold, Half Hot. So, why the hell aren't you using the Hot side?
Todoroki: Because I want to prove to someone that I don't need his power to win.
Me: It's the man up there with the flaming facial hair, right?
Todoroki: How did you know?
Me: Not hard to guess when you keep giving hateful looks to him almost every chance you get. Also, really? That's your reason? You are pathetic,
Todoroki: What would you know?!
Me: What makes you think I need to have gone through? To understand some kind of grand bit of information that only pathetic people like you would know upon experiencing? Sorry, but I'll pass.
Todoroki: He abused me, and the rest of my family!! Because of him, my mother hated my left side to the point she poured boiling water on my left eye, all because it reminded her so much of the one who traumatized her!
Me: Interesting. I mean, your mother is at fault just as much as him for the boiling water part, but whatever. However, you'll reject that incredible power because your daddy is mean? Hahaha...HAHAHAHAHA!! You're a fucking idiot! It's so stupid it's actually funny! AHAHAHAHAHA!!
Everyone in the stadium heard what I said in response to his story. Almost all of them booed at me, but as I said before, I don't care about the opinion of fodder.
Present Mic: Damn, kid's brutal.
Aizawa: He seems somewhat unhinged though. I've never heard someone laugh so heartily at someone's story of abuse. Hell, I've never heard anyone laugh, period.
Me: And what will you do if you have kids? Will you beat them when genetics does it's thing and gives them a power related to fire, because it reminds you of your mean ol daddy?! Huh?!
He went silent at that. God, what a fucking idiot.
Me: My power fucking rips my skin and muscles every time I use it!! I never had any guidance where I came from, and I never had any parental figures until a few weeks ago! And you know what all three of these have in common? THEY DON'T FUCKING MATTER! What will you when you're fighting a villain, and they are completely immune to your ice, leaving just your fire? Are you going to let others die because your incredible ability reminds you of him?
He looked shocked at my words. Wow, he didn't even think that far? That's depressing.
Me: You have one of the most incredible abilities I've ever heard of! If you reject it because of this, I'll kill you! Get your head in the fucking game, and use them!
He went silent for a few seconds.
Until his left side ignited in flames. The crowd erupted in cheers.
Present Mic: Huh, looks like he's got a unique style of therapy in the form of lots of insults. And it somehow worked.
Good. Now we can settle this.
Todoroki: Thanks for opening my eyes, Jokara. I am in your debt. But we have a fight to get to.
Me: Indeed.
He blasted fire to me, trying to catch me in a large radius attack. I dodged to the right and began sprinting towards him. He kept trying to blast me with a large torrent of fire, but I kept dodging them. When I got really close to him, he decided to blast the whole floor with flames to try and make it impossible to dodge. I jumped up really high, and, thinking I couldn't manoeuvre in mid-air, shot fire where I was in the air. I surprised him by using Wind stance to make myself extremely agile, and dodged the blast. I did a reverse axe kick as I fell down, hitting him on the head with it, knocking him out.
Midnight: Jokara is the winner!!
That was a fun battle, and I woke up a dumbass from his stupidity. I would call it a success.
-Skip Bakugou's fight-
It was time for the Finals. Me against Bakugou. The two of us walked on stage.
Present Mic: IT'S TIME FOR THE FINALS, FOL;KS! IT'S KATSUKI BAKUGO, THE STUDENT WITH AN EXPLOSIVE QUIRK AND PERSONALITY, AGAINST THE BOY WHO MIGHT BE AN UNORTHODOX THERAPIST JUDGING FROM HIS LAST MATCH, JOKARA KOWAI!!
Bakugo: Use your Quirk against me. You haven't used it once this entire Festival.
-In the stands-
Mt Lady: Wait, he hasn't used his Quirk even once?!! How the hell is he so powerful, then?!
Kamui Woods: I have no idea, but it's impressive nonetheless.
-Back to Jokara-
Jokara: If I did, I would rip you to ribbons. Although, I guess I can use blunt bones.
I did the same thing I did when I was doing the softball throw during the Quirk Apprehension Test, and manifested a longer than usual, blunt bone from my shoulder. I grabbed it, and ripped it out, now brandishing it as my weapon. The mangled skin from my shoulder fell to the floor.
(Check cover image, that's what it looks like. He's also making that face)
Everyone in the stands got extremely horrified when they saw his ability. Bone Manipulation would have already been pretty freaky, but the way his worked was extremely terrifying, even to the veteran and seasoned Pro Heroes in the stands.
Female Pro Hero 1: Poor kid, maybe that's why he's so negative, his own Quirk mangles him.
Male Pro Hero 1: I can't even imagine how much pain he's in every time he uses it.
Male Pro Hero 2: Why is everything about this kid so scary? His mannerisms, his power, his speech, and now his Quirk.
Me: Let's go, Bakugo!!
He grinned and charged at me, and I did the same with him. As we met in the middle, he made a blast in front of him, trying to hit me with it, but I rolled to the right. He blasted below him, sending himself high into the air, and blasted with his hands behind him, gaining lots of speed, and rotating with explosions.
As he was doing what I assumed was basically him charging up his super move, I entered Earth stance to increase my defence to the maximum, as I'm sure I would need it for what I have in mind.
Bakugo: HOWITZER... IMPACT!!!
He bombarded the floor with a cluster of extremely large explosions, covering almost all of the stage. He landed on the floor, and looked ahead.
Silence encompassed the entire stadium, waiting to see what happened once the smoke cleared up.
All of a sudden, the smoke cleared, and revealed Jokara, with the only visible damage mostly being to his P.E uniform, which was almost completely destroyed. In fact, the upper portion of it actually was destroyed, and there were several holes on the pants now.
Jokara himself, was relatively fine, however. He had his passively increased defence from the layers of bone under his skin and the extra boosts to defence from Earth stance to thank for that.
Me: My turn.
I sprinted towards Bakugo, and slammed him with the bone staff using all my momentum, launching him out of the stage. As expected from being hit by such speed, especially when he was tired from using his super move.
Midnight: The winner of the UA Sports Festival is Jokara Kowai!!
Cheers erupted all around the stadium, especially from my family.
Tiger: THAT'S MY BABY BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY!!!!
Pixie Bob: YOU'RE GETTING SO MANY HUGS AND KISSES WHEN WE GET BACK HOME!!!
Ragdoll: YOU'RE THE BEST, SWEETIE!!!
Mandalay: WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOUUUU!!
I'm so happy to have them. They're most likely the sole reason I haven't gone fully over the edge thanks to the things my Lura did to my personality.
-Skip to the award ceremony-
All Might was the one who was going to give us our medals. He gave Todoroki the bronze medal, a hug, and words of encouragement. He gave the silver medal to an angry Bakugo, almost got bit like he was attacked by a feral animal when he went in to give him a hug, and hurriedly gave him words of encouragement before he actually got bitten. He then came up to me.
All Might: Young Jokara, excellent performance! While some of the things you said during Young Todoroki's match were rather questionable, they had good intentions, and they worked! I'm proud of you!
I actually felt quite happy when he said he was proud of me, and smiled.
Little did I know what the effect of this smile had.
Mt Lady: (Oh my god! The purity from that smile is too cute!!)
Kamui: Mt Lady? Mt Lady! Oh my god, someone get the medics, she fainted!!
She wasn't the only one who fainted from the purity of his smile. Later, Jokara merch became the most popular merch ever in Japan, especially merch like Jokara plushies. Art, especially art of smiling Jokara, also got really big.
(Some pictures will be listed here. I need to show this pure boi)
All Might gave me the medal, and congratulated everyone for their hard work.
And that was the end of the Sports Festival.
(Not counting this Author's note, this chapter is 2714 words long, the longest one yet.)