The rest of the tests passed with out incident, but the long distance run I came in dead last, I crossed the line huffing for breath, sweat soaked. "Well done, here are the results." Aizawa said, dead last was...

"Oh no." Midoriya said.

"I'll see you all in class tomorrow. Including you Midoriya." The teacher said.

"Wait but you said that the person who came in last would be expelled." The boy with the large tape shooting elbows said, Sero if I remembered right.

"Oh, that was a necessary deception to light a fire under you so that you will take this seriously, I wasn't planning on expelling any of you." He smiled.

"I thought the rest of you figured it out." Yaoyorozu said. "Maybe I should have said something."

"Yeah. You should of." I said.

We made our way back to class, I was having a nice conversation with Kaminari before I left. School wasn't too bad.


Chapter 5: All Might's Class

We spent the next morning going through daily classes, I stayed quiet in class, but by my side was a large bag that held my weapons, today was the day we started Hero training. I sat with Kirishima and Kaminari for lunch. "So your parents taught you to fight?" Kirishima asked. "Were they heroes?"

"No, my birth parents were in effect mercenaries, working for whoever paid the most, I guess. Not the most respectable career. They trained me to fight to survive." I said as I rubbed the back of my head.

"Oh, how was it like to grow in a family like that." Kaminari asked, I set my chopsticks down and sighed.

"It was hard, living on the road without a place to call home. Inn to inn, never knowing when we will eat or have a roof over us. When... they were taken from me I wandered for weeks. Last time I saw them was nearly a year ago. I'm grateful for All Might taking me in." I sighed as I muttered under my breath, "I can still hear that damn axe."

"What was that?" Kirishima asked.

"Oh nothing." I lied. "We should get ready for class." I quickly finished my food and left the cafeteria making my way to the class room. As the rest of the other students filled up the seats we waited.

Just as the bell rang the door to the class room opened. "I'm coming in the door like a Hero!" All Might announced.

"He's really a teacher!"

"This will be awesome!"

"He's in his silver age costume! I feel so nostalgic!"

"I am your hero training teacher, in effect I will be teaching you the 101 of what it means to be a hero. Now Today we will be doing something practical!" He thrust forward a card with a stylized word on it, it read Urban Battle. "We will be doing combat simulations!"

"Combat training!" Bakugo smiled, "Now we are talking my language!"

"But first is you have to grab something, your hero costumes!" All Might clicked a small device. and sections of the wall opened up revealing that they held numbered cases.

Everyone was ecstatic, well most of us were excited, a boy with half white and red hair didn't seem to react much. I grabbed my case, the weight of the armor pulled at my arm. I smiled, while it wouldn't be enchanted, I had rings for both my hand to handle that. We made our ways to changing room the where me and the other girls stripped down. "Aren, how did you get those scars!" Hagakure asked as she looked at my ashy colored skin.

"Well this was a wild wolf, nicked myself with a knife, training, I think that was a angry goat, burned myself by accident. Really there are to many to remember." I shrugged. Their skin for the most part was unblemished, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't jealous, but I was proud of the battle scars I had.

"But, this looks like someone had cleaved open your chest." Uraraka pointed to the large one across my chest it ran between my breasts from shoulder to hip. "What happened?"

"I got that the day All Might saved me, I don't really want to talk about it." I said, I knew I had failed. But I had the black books, I knew Miraak hadn't escaped yet from the realm of Herma Mora.

"Oh, okay. I'm sorry." They dropped it.

I opened the case and pulled out the armor, the silver metal with leather carved in Nordic designs, I had seen Skall warriors wearing this armor. I picked up the note that explained how to wear it as I read over the straps I smiled, this suit would provide more protection then the steel plate I had worn before. I quickly strapped the armor on, pulling on my boots and gauntlets, a one handed sword with hooked curved edge fit into sheaths on my hips. Dual wielding a sword and magic was my preferred form of fighting, the BloodSkal Blade was my secondary weapon. I pulled out a belt of daggers from my bag, two steel daggers, a dragon priest dagger, and a ebony and elven dagger. I placed Auriel's bow and quiver of mixed Sun hallowed and Blood Cursed arrows on my back along with great sword. I picked up the cape then, it was blue with the Stormcloak emblem design on it. I fixed it into place, and I picked up the helm, it was designed like a bear's maw. It was a open face helmet.

"Wow, you really went all out on your costume." Tsu said, "I didn't take you one for something like armor."

"Well I don't see how skin tight cloth will protect me in battle." I said. "If this saves my life, and in turn the lifes of others it did it's job." I shrugged noticing a hole in the wall. "The boys change room is on the other side of this wall?"

"Yeah why?" Jiro asked.

"Well there is a hole right here." I leaned over as I looked at it, "It goes right through."

"We should get that fixed." Yaoyoraozu said.

"Oh one look wouldn't hurt." I teased as I looked through the hole. "Their... not in there... wait!"

"Do you have no self respect!" I turned to look at them.

"I'm teasing, there is a poster blocking the other side of the hole." I stood up. "Well we will have to see what the boys thought were good hero costumes... Hagakure, please tell me that you aren't just naked?"

We got dressed and made our way outside, All Might was waiting for us, the range of colors and styles for the costume varied, only Aoyama and Iida had armor, the blonde's being more traditional in style, but with lenses for his Laser quirk, and Iida looked like a human car. "Aren, now that is a hero costume, must have been expensive." Kaminari said, his hero costume was a leather jacket with lightning designs, a device covered his ear.

"The costume makes the hero, and behold, you are the embodiment of that! You look so cool!" All Might said. "As you know we are doing urban combat." He started, but soon everyone was asking him questions.

"Are we fighting robots?"

"Do we have to worry about being expelled?"

"Do I sparkle enough?"

"Let me finish." The class quieted down, "No, you won't be facing robots, rather your classmates in indoor combat. Most battles with villains won't be in broad daylight, instead most of the time you will face them on their turf, hideouts, hidden lairs." My adoptive father had a flair for the dramatic, but he had a point, many of the bandit camps I have cleared out had deep mines and caves with most of the criminals hiding in there. "You will draw lots and be paired up, one team will be the heroes, and the other team will be the villains. The villains have a super weapon hidden in their base."

I drew my lot, team... G. "Who is team G?" I asked.

"Oh, that's me." I looked at Kaminari. "What are the odds of that?"

"One in nineteen." I said flatly.


And chapter 5 is done.