Not as planned 1 - Katsuki Bakugo   von Puraido
                                 (A/B/O Verse)
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                                 Kapitel 66: 
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The alphas were running through the forest, as fast as they could. They should
keep up with Kairi, without using quirks. She used her insane Parcour skills to
jump through the trees. Izuku could see why Ian was so good at it.

Izuku was able to jump at a similar speed through the trees and Jurota was fast
too, but the others struggled a bit. Tenya was good at running even without his
quirk, but the uneven terrain made it hard. Besides his Parcour skills weren’t
as good.

“C’mon! You won’t loose against an old woman, will you?” she yelled
back.

“Old woman?” Tetsutetsu gasped completely out of breath. He and Eijiro
struggled the most, they weren’t the speediest people after all.

After about an hour of nonstop running through the forest, they stopped at
another clearing. With the exception of Izuku and Jurota, every student was
really out of breath, even Tenya. Kairi scoffed. “We need to work on your
condition too. It’s terrible. You couldn’t keep up with me.”

“Not everyone is used to this” Eijiro almost suffocated.

“That sounds like a You-problem. I thought heroes must be trained and all. How
are you supposed to help people if you are too slow and out of breath after a
little bit of running and jumping?” She stretched a little while talking.

“Anyway, the others are still training against the alpha commands. We will do
that too, but not at this extend. You are alphas and the chance to meet a prime
alpha is … low. The alpha population is currently at roughly 15% and only
about 0,1% out of that 15% are prime alphas. That brings it roughly about one
million prime alphas.” She explained.

“But that’s still a lot. The teachers said prime alphas are very rare.”
Tenya said.

“Yes, they are very rare. It’s only about 0,015% in total. One million
sounds a lot, but we are almost at eight billion people. Plus this is world
wide, not just Japan. Prime alpha population is very far spread. So you won’t
run into them on a daily. Plus many people hide the fact, that they are prime
for good reasons.”

“Why is that?” Shoto asked.

“Believe it or not, they are hunted down for their power. Not every prime
alpha is a good or trained fighter like I am. Most primes that I met were
terrified that they could be targeted. They didn’t know how to control their
powers and they were shy about alpha commanding people. T’was confusing for
them and it scared them. Y’know Ian lived as beta for almost three years,
after he was targeted by a group that hunted primes down.”

“What? I would have never guessed that!” Izuku mumbled. “Everyone so far
told me, that prime alphas are these strong, invincible creatures and that I
have to be especially careful.”

“Bullshit. We are normal people too, at least most of us anyway. Of course
there are exceptions! Like in All for One’s case. Or for example Shango in
Africa. Téramos in Greece. The Madgod in Spain, Mr. Sky in Russia, or
Loup-Garou in France. But this is more them being psychopaths besides being
prime alphas. But there are many betas and omegas in power positions too.”

“W-wait, come again? What do you mean with Loup-Garou? He’s a prime?”
Izuku looked confused.

Kairi raised her eyebrows. “Yes? How do you know about Loup-Garou?”

“Uh, the girl, Savage, the one who bit us, talked about a guy named Loup-Garou
and Endeavor and Hawks are after him. You should really tell Mr. Aizawa about
this!”

“Oh, okay. Well, that sucks. I will talk to your teachers later about it. But
for now, let’s continue the training.” She cleared her throat. “You talked
about being bitten by that girl. And that you became ‘feral’ right?”

“Y-yes” Izuku was still confused about this revelation.

“Well, symptoms were aggressiveness and no control over your actions and the
urge to claim omegas, yes?”

“Yes.”

“And you still struggle with keeping it together?”

“Yeah. Especially Izuku and me” Eijiro answered.

“Why’s that?”

“Well … we had a few problems with Kacchan … The three – well actually
five – of us were in a relationship. Eijiro, Kacchan, Ochako, Mina and me.
With the girls everything was fine, Mina was with Eijiro and Ochako with me, but
Kacchan was with the both of us. It worked good at first, but after we were
bitten … we were constantly on each other’s throats. Neither of us liked the
idea of sharing Kacchan” Izuku gave a rough explanation.

“We broke it off, to keep him save, after Izuku almost mated him” Eijiro
added.

Kairi crossed her arms in front of her chest and tilted her head. She whistled
one time. “You guys are going fast …” she commented.

“Yeah … it wasn’t optimal. It was too rushed and everything.
Poly-relationships are quite hard to manage …” Izuku looked sad.

“Oh yeah, you don’t need to tell me” she grimaced. “Anyway, it is
probably for the better, if you focus on becoming heroes for now. And because of
that, I am here to teach you about ‘the Zone’ or, the ‘feral’ state, as
you call it.”

“Ian mentioned the Zone too.” Izuku remembered. “What is it? I noticed
that your eyes glow yellow as well, but I thought this is only the case for
alphas bitten by Savage?”

“Far from it boy. Savage’s quirk is long gone by now. She turned you feral,
yes, but nothing of her quirk is in you anymore. It’s just your darkest
desires that came to the light. You wanted to mate Kacchan? Well, this is a
natural instinct if you love him, a bit extreme at this age, but given the
circumstances … Anyway, the concept that only you four are savage beasts is
utter bullshit. Maybe the first weeks after the bite, while the quirk was still
in you, but types like this doesn’t last that long. Everything is in your mind
now. You have so much trouble because you still think that you are savage
beasts. I will teach you, that this is bullshit.”

She looked at the alphas one after another. “What you experience is something
that we call ‘the Zone’. It’s not an official term, mind you, but more
charming than feral. Because feral means literally feral. Out of control
monsters. The Zone however is this.”

She closed her eyes and concentrated. When she opened her eyes, they were
glowing yellow. Suddenly, she was behind Izuku, he hadn’t even noticed her. He
flinched back. “How is that possible?”

“What is the Zone?” Juzo asked.

“The Zone is a term referring to an alphas state, when they reach their
maximum potential. It is a superlative of regular concentration and focus. With
that they can reach 100% of their powers for a short amount of time. You know
that legend has it, that we descended from werewolves?”

“Yes, we talked about this briefly” Tenya answered. “Our ancestors were
terrifying man beasts but over the centuries the beast was almost completely
extinguished. And only the secondary genders stayed and a few of the powers as
well.”

“That’s correct. Well, the Zone, or your feral state, is just your alpha
powers at their highest. You still think that you’re going feral, because none
of you has mastered this ability. It is honestly a shame. When I talked with the
DJ, the Dog and the Vampire guy, they didn’t really know what the Zone was.”
She grimaced again.

“Via the Zone, you can unlock your true alpha powers, indicated by the yellow
glow of your eyes, as in the legend it is said, werewolves have yellow eyes. It
is a tremendous power and it needs years to master it. You get more and more of
your werewolf powers back. Speed, strength, Senses … Everything is amplified.
You noticed it, right? When you activated this side, that you were stronger and
faster, more durable, had heightened senses et cetera?”

“Yes, that’s true.”

“Well, this Savage girl forcefully activated the Zone and you were constantly
running in overdrive. And you still don’t know how activate and deactivate it
correctly. You are scared and this is a problem. These powers need extreme focus
to work properly; otherwise you might slip and turn feral for real. And this is
something we don’t want.”

“How do you activate the Zone then?” Mezo asked.

“Concentration. It takes a lot to activate it. Usually the human body can
capitalize on about 80% of its strength. With the Zone, you can use the full
100%. But this is also problematic if your stamina is low. It takes really a lot
to maintain the Zone and it is more like a last resort for most alphas. When the
situation is so bad, that you don’t have another way out.”

“To activate it, you have to clear your mind first. And then you have to
concentrate on the power that lies within you. It doesn’t matter as what you
imagine it. You can of course imagine it as a beast but this might backfire, or
you confuse it, like in the case of these four.” She pointed at Izuku, Shoto,
Hitoshi and Eijiro.

“Speaking of, go into the Zone and attack me with all you got, oh and all at
once please.”

They were unsure of what to do, but eventually Izuku closed his eyes and
concentrated. He tried to imagine the beast not as a beast, but it was hard. He
loosened the chains and let completely go. He opened his glowing eyes and
charged at Kairi.

Shoto followed him only seconds after. Eijiro and Hitoshi started too. Kairi
herself was in the Zone too. She dodged with her swift movements every attack
that was delivered to her. The male alphas movements were all pretty brutal and
Tenya did not doubt it, that one blow of Izuku could probably kill her. But she
wasn’t fazed at all.

She jumped and dodged the attacks of Eijiro and Shoto. She landed on their
shoulders and with little force, she crashed them together. She directly
targeted Hitoshi and she wrapped her arm around his neck. In the same movement
she swirled around and kicked Izuku with both feet. Within not even one minute
all four alphas were down.

“And this is the power of the Zone” Kairi answered. “Single fights are
okay too, but I love to fight against multiple enemies. All the possibilities
…” She smiled brightly.

“This was pretty impressive” Juzo murmured. “I have a question, what are
you working? You are not a hero are you?”

The others looked over to him and then towards her. “No, I am not. I’m a
soldier. We had a pretty tough training. In Thailand we don’t have a hero
system like you have in Japan, or how it is in America. Anyway, back to the
topic. Now you guys try to unlock the Zone.” She clapped in her hands a few
times. “Concentrate and try to focus.”

The alphas dispersed a little bit on the clearing and everyone tried to focus on
their tasked. They didn’t really know what to do, but they were sure, Kairi
would show them.

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