2 years had passed.... Sounds fast, doesn't it?
But a lot has happened....
For izuku... For dick.... It was a descent into hell....
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Daintree Forest, Australia, Rebirth Earth...
Lady Shiva was advancing into this green expanse, ancient, mythical, but extremely dangerous...
She walked with a calm, almost nonchalant step...
As if she expected not to find much left of her disciple...
In front of her, a man was making the way.... He was a heteromorph, a horseman, his name was Yaya and he worked as a tour guide.
"It's been two years since you left him here... He's quirkless, isn't he? It's impossible that he survived, there is probably nothing left of him..." Yaya said worriedly.
Shiva shrugged her shoulders with indifference and disdain.
"So, it was all useless...," she said with a tired sigh.
"You're scary... What will happen to me if the police find out that a kid was thrown here and died?" grumbled Yaya, clutching the machete tighter.
"We have to find him first, so hurry up" she said dryly.
Yaya sniffed the air and looked around, using his extraordinary sight to find the kid or what was left of him...
Suddenly, he looked to the east.
"Wait... Impossible!" he cried as he rushed as best he could in that direction, Lady Shiva followed him without difficulty.
.....
After thirty minutes of running... Yaya's eyes widened as shiva raised an eyebrow.
Dick was on top of a tree, in some kind of nest...
He breathed loudly, his green eyes stared with wild intensity at the two newcomers, especially Lady Shiva.
Yaya stepped back, half horrified, half impressed.
Lady Shiva gave a smirk, but without impression.
"Come down, hurry up" she ordered curtly.
The now ten-year-old boy descended from the tree with superhuman agility. His body was strewn with quite horrible scars, especially in a child, his arms and legs had huge bite marks. He was extremely thin, visibly malnourished and sick....
Yaya saw the boy try to move towards Lady Shiva, but his body gave out and he fell, vomiting and shaking all over his body.....
"My boy!" cried Yaya as he grabbed him and his eyes widened.
"His body is burning and he is semi-conscious! We have to hurry up and take him to the hospital!"
Lady Shiva just watched the black-haired boy, there was no particular emotion in his gray eyes.
"He survived. Good," she said simply.
"It simply means that he is fit for the future, let's go" she ordered Yaya as she moved away from them.
Yaya followed her, the fainting child in his arms, he was in the middle of an inner conflict.
"This woman is devoid of empathy, she doesn't care about having left a kid on the verge of death... Is that what she calls 'training'? It's torture! And I can't do anything to stop her !" he thought, gritting his teeth in pain and sadness.
In his arms, Dick opened his eyes slightly and stared at the chunks of sky through the dense vegetation.
"I am not dead... I can continue..." he thought with a very faint smile.
Dick had survived, his body bruised but overtrained. His mind had been forged but the after-effects would remain.
He had survived thanks to his will to live.... But he was not yet trimmed. There were still a lot of things to fine-tune.....
One more year.....
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California, Sierra Nevada, Stanislaus National Forest...
Shiva landed a spear blow that Dick dodged as best he could, this simple blow cut deep into the tree behind him.
At an astounding speed, she delivered hundreds of blows....
Dick kept dodging, not being able to get any closer... He knew that the slightest mistake would be fatal to him....
Lady Shiva has not only been training him, she has been trying to kill him for a year.....
He slipped on the mud and Shiva tried to decapitate him.
The blade grazed him a few inches and the mercenary immediately kicked him and broke his ribs.
He fell into the icy river below, his body hit a rock and made a deep cut in his head....
Shiva simply watched as the boy stood up.....
"Hurry up boy wonder, we're going to fight like this all day and night....You're not dead yet just because the N gene keeps you alive...." she says with a mischievous smile.
Dick staggered, his eyesight was blurred but strangely his suffering was minimal. He didn't feel his broken bones.
"If you don't manage to touch me, you will still be deprived of food and forced to eat the leftovers..." she said nonchalantly as she landed gracefully in front of him, her spear forward....
Dick spat blood and put himself in a martial artist position, his position was perfect, without any openings.
"I prefer that..." she said with a cold smile, but there was something else....
Pride...
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The next day, 9:30 a.m...
Marilyn Murdock was a young woman full of life, a nature lover and a great adventurer.....
She loved the forest of Stanislaus and often walked there, taking photos and admiring the huge fir trees for a long time.
Today, she decided to go a little further than usual...
What she hadn't planned was to find this decrepit little hut in the heart of this immensity.
The woman with blond hair and pink eyes looked at the hut with apprehension, it gave off a heavy atmosphere that made her want to turn around.
She had heard stories of serial killers who cared for their victims in an abandoned cabin deep in a forest.
She didn't want to get close to it...
But the curiosity was too strong... And the cabin seemed uninhabited, right?
She finally approached the hut, looked inside... And was horrified.....
"My God!" she cried, her hand covering her mouth.
Inside, a boy was lying on the ground, probably eaten away by termites, he was surrounded by furniture and various objects...
He was simply dressed in a t-shirt and sweatpants.... Marilyn could clearly see the horrible scars...
She also noticed the multiple marks of blows and cuts, there were so many! Marilyn was sure that the boy had broken bones, given the purplish marks on his hands, arms and torso.....
"Who's there?" he asked weakly but firmly.
He looked up at her...
"I... you must be treated! Who sequesters you here? A villain?!" she cried with heartbreaking concern.
She tried to get closer, Dick analyzed her, analyzed her every move... Then his eyes widened in fear.
"Who are you? What are you meddling in?" asked Lady Shiva with cold, sharp anger....
Marilyn shuddered in absolute fear, that voice was... Indescribable.
"I see you want to play the good Samaritan... My son is perfectly fine," said the assassin coldly, glaring Dick.
Despite her fear, Marilyn glared at the woman, it was a lie, no mother treated her son like that!
"He...! " she began but Dick interrupted her
"I'm fine! We're going back to training, mom," he said forcefully, getting up with difficulty.
Marilyn turned to him, wide-eyed, this boy was surely not more than ten years old according to her, how could he stand up with all these extremely serious injuries?
"I prefer that," she said with a cynical smile as she brutally pushed Marilyn to the side, Marilyn fell to the ground and saw in despair Shiva roughly dragging Dick behind her.
The dark-haired boy hissed in pain but followed without flinching.
"You don't have to warn anyone, it would be very stupid of you.... You heard him, didn't you? He's doing great," she said, staring at the blonde over her shoulder with a serene but terrifying smile.
Dick looked at the young woman with a sad smile.
He walked away with Lady Shiva while Marilyn stood there with tears in her eyes and filled with despair.
She had detected the message behind Dick's smile.
She will never forget his look....
Yaya and Marilyn never understood....
It was normal...
It was outside points of view after all...
To Be continued...