The third day arrived and the alphas were again ripped out of sleep at six in the morning. Izuku, Eijiro and Shoto were even more tired than yesterday. Half asleep they walked behind the rest of the alphas to start the training.
Kairi seemed pretty tired too this time, but she didn’t let it show as much. “Okay, boys, let’s go. We have a lot of work to do!”
“Yes ma’am” they said in unison, the three remedial course students were not as enthusiastic as usual. They warmed up but after that they immediately left for their own training. They had to pack lunch again.
They left for another clearing again. “Okay, at first we do the alpha commands after that we do the training from yesterday.” She told them to stand in a line.”
“Okay, now, Izuku you command them.”
“Wait, what?” Izuku looked at her.
“Yes, you need to learn to use alpha commands, and they need to learn how to resist them. So we work on that at the same time.” She explained.
Izuku paled after hearing that. The reason was logical, but he didn’t want to hurt his friends. He knew that he had to learn it at one point but how could he do that to them?
Suddenly there was a heavy pressure from Kairi’s authority. “Are you disobeying me?” She asked. Izuku gasped, in his mind he had the image of a shadowy beast, while he was looking at her.
Her teeth got incredibly sharp and she walked towards him. Deku had the impression that a there was a dark aura around her, she walked closer towards him. The pressure was extremely heavy. His legs were shaking when she came closer.
The other alphas were terrified when they saw the ‘creature’ approaching Izuku. They were shocked when Izuku fell back and landed on his ass. Kairi’s eyes glowed yellow. She turned around and walked over to the normal alphas. Rikido, Mezo and Juzo moved backwards when she came closer. Shoto fell to his knees and Hitoshi wanted to run away. Tetsutetsu and Eijiro looked at her with horror in their eyes. Tenya was shaking and Jurota’s fur was standing upwards.
The pressure got even higher and it felt like that even grass on the clearing was shying away. The air was filled with the stench of tobacco and ethanol mostly.
And then it stopped. “And this is the true power of a prime alpha” she said. “You are shaking in fear, some even fell to the ground. And that with out even lifting finger … All I did was applying alpha authority, nothing more.” She turned around to Izuku.
“The power to end a fight, before it even starts … Even you as a prime alpha are now shivering in fear. This is what you need to learn, Izuku.”
The younger prime was still afraid, his eyes were wide and his gaze was fixed on the other prime alpha. Never in his life was he so afraid.
Kairi sighed and reached out to him. Izuku flinched back, he was sweating like crazy. He shook his head and tried to collect himself. “I … wow …” he grabbed Kairi’s hand, she pulled him up.
“You see the difference in power? This is what you can achieve when you train your power. This is what a prime alpha at full capacity is capable of. But you need to get over yourself. Alpha commands aren’t bad if used against your enemy. They all teach you to never use them because it is immoral to take someone’s free will. And yes, that’s true, you shouldn’t do that to civilians or other every day people, but think about the enemies you can stop! The fights you can prevent before they even start! Stopping the problem without leaving casualties …”
Izuku clenched his jaw. She was right, still it was deep inside of his brain, that he shouldn’t do that. He saw Kacchan’s terrified face after Tenya had commanded him – begging to never ever use commands on him. He bit his lower lip, then he took a deep breath. “Okay … I’ll try my best.”
Kairi grinned at him. She pushed him closer to the other alphas. They collected themselves and got back in line. Hitoshi made a mental note to never, ever seriously piss off Kairi he didn’t want to go through something like that ever again!
Deku stood in front of the others now. He took a few more deep breaths and concentrated. He focused on Tenya first. The pressure was slowly rising but it was still not enough. It wasn’t the same feeling like Kairi’s.
The instructor was next to Izuku, she wrapped her arm around him, her head was close to his ear. “You need to focus harder. Focus on him and use all the authority on him.”
Izuku tried but his mind was still not good enough that he could do it. “I’m sorry, I can’t.”
Kairi pulled back and inspected him. She pursed her lips, her eyes small. “Go into the Zone. Let everything loose. Go full overdrive.”
“But what if I lose control?”
“That’s why I am here to stop you. You saw how easy I could do that without even trying.”
Deku felt like a deer in headlights. His mind was still clouded and the tiredness didn’t help. He really wanted to do it, but how could he?
Kairi frowned. “Okay …” she scoffed. “Then let’s move over to the Zone training. We’ll tackle that problem later.”
The others put their blindfolds on, while Izuku was still kind of paralyzed.
The betas and omegas were at their break at the moment. Katsuki, Denki, Kyoka, Hanta, Tsuyu, Momo, Mina, Ochako, Setsuna, Kinoko, Pony and Sen were sitting at the jetty, well, Tsuyu swam around in the lake.
“Hey, I wonder why we are not supposed to go over to the platform over there” Denki mumbled.
“Yeah, it’s strange it seems perfectly normal?” Hanta answered.
“Maybe because it is so far off?” Mina suggested.
“Or there are some suctions surrounding it, ribbit?” Tsuyu mumbled.
“How about we swim over there and check it out?” Denki looked over to the others, challenging.
“But that cat lady said we should not do that, because it is dangerous” Sen reminded him.
“Well, I think of it more as a suggestion not to do it. She has not exactly prohibited it.” The other boy answered. “C’mon, Kacchan, you’re with me, right? Or is that too far for you?”
Growling, Katsuki got up. “Too far my ass! I’ll show you, Pikachu.” He cracked his knuckles.
“Oi, Hanta, you coming too? Sen? Girls?”
Sen sighed and stood up. “Sure, why not.”
“Hm, sure, you in Ochako?” Mina stood up as well.
“Okay, count me in.”
“Not me, I am too tired.” Kyoka yawned.
“I’d rather not swim there either” Momo declined.
Kinoko and Pony declined too.
“Yeah, I come too” Setsuna had a big grin on her face.
“I will stay back and rescue you if you get in trouble, ribbit.” Tsuyu told them.
“Good, then let’s go!” Denki raised his arms in excitement. They all jumped into the water and made their way over to the platform. The boys made a race out of it, while the girls had their own tempo. Katsuki wanted to be the first.
The platform was really far outside. They had to admit that, but with their really good training they managed the way. Katsuki’s hand hit the platform first. “I won!” he cheered. He climbed on the platform, after that he helped Denki on it. Hanta jumped up on the side and Sen used the ladder.
When the girls arrived, Katsuki and Denki helped them up. “Well, it doesn’t seem pretty dangerous here” Denki said after everyone was here. “I mean it’s pretty chill here.”
“Yeah, nothing special, I would say.” Mina laid back on the platform.
The others did as well, they looked up to the sky. Katsuki had his feet dangling in the water.
They chatted a bit, but after a while, Ochako thought she heard a weird rustling or shuffling noise. “Hey, do you hear that?” She asked. It sounded like something was crawling around, like insects or something.
“Hm? What do you mean? I don’t hear anything.” Setsuna sat up. The others listened in too.
“Maybe I am just imagining things?” She tilted her head.
Hanta got up. “Wanna play a game? We shimmy from one side to the other, trying not to fall off?” he asked.
“Oh, yes let’s do it!” Denki jumped up as well. They all got up and moved to the side. And then they started jumping from one side to the other. The platform was shaking around, it was getting submerged to the one side first and then on the other. They all managed to stay on the platform for the first few tries.
But suddenly, they were on one of the sides, they saw something coming out from underneath the platform. Ochako let out a loud scream as she realized that hundreds of spiders were coming out from underneath the platform. They crawled through the gaps between the wood.
“What the fuck?!” Katsuki yelled, he lost his footing and he fell face first into the spiders that were swarming the platform. They crawled all over him, he could feel them clinging in his hair. Denki let out a screech when spiders were climbing up his legs. Setsuna floated immediately in the air.
Mina was covered in spiders as well, Sen jumped into the water to get them off, Hanta, Denki and Katsuki followed him, but in the water were also hundreds of spiders. Katsuki could feel more spiders clinging to his body, he tried to rip them off, but it was useless. They kept coming. Shaking them off wasn’t doing the trick, he had to grab the spiders and rip them off. It was so disgusting.
