Izuku was really impressed, how much Kacchan had improved on withstanding the alpha commands. They all got so much better. Most of the time Ian used a crowd command, which was weaker, but roughly half of them could free themselves from it by now.
Denki was very good too. He was eager to learn, after Katsuki had talked to him. At one point, Ian gave Izuku the commando. He should now control a few people, Katsuki immediately went towards him. “Are you sure, Kacchan?”
“Hell yeah. I will get out of your commands, just watch me” Katsuki had a grin on his face, he looked determined.
Izuku took a deep breath and started to use his command. Katsuki braced himself. Izuku’s command hit him, but it wasn’t nearly as strong as Ian’s. He broke free in seconds. “Oi, what was that? Concentrate more!” Katsuki scolded him.
“I-I’m sorry I am not used to command someone …” Izuku looked to the ground.
“Do it again! C’mon!” Katsuki snarled.
Sighing, Izuku did it again, and again, and again. The rest of the afternoon, they concentrated on that, but nothing really helped. Izuku was getting frustrated and Katsuki too.
Ian walked over to his brother and talked to him for a while. The omegas couldn’t understand since they talked in Romanian. Jesper nodded and then he walked over to Katsuki. The omega saw him coming closer. Jesper winked at him as a warning, before he got behind Katsuki and put him in a headlock.
“Oh no, Izuku! I am a villain and now this one here is mine! Come and get him back!” Jesper signaled Katsuki, that he should struggle a bit.
Izuku growled. “Let him go!” he hissed.
“What? Fucking hell, no? Did you not listen? I’m a villain! Come and get him.” With that Jesper jumped back, still a fake struggling Katsuki in his grip.
Izuku growled deeper, his alpha senses took over. He didn’t like it one bit that his omega was being endangered.
“Let me go!” Katsuki fidgeted in Jesper’s arms.
“Cry for help, make it look like I am a real threat to you” Jesper murmured in his ear.
Katsuki sighed. “Help me, Deku!”
Izuku knew that this was fake, but his instincts took over, when he heard Katsuki’s pleading for help. His eyes turned yellow. “I said LET HIM GO!” He roared.
Jesper could feel it this time, the power behind it. “Oooh, sweet. You’re getting there!” He laughed. He then took Katsuki bridal style and jumped back. “Oi, brother, catch!” He threw Katsuki over to his brother. The omega yelped because it was unexpected.
Ian caught him, no problem, and turned to face Izuku. “Oh, no, I’m gonna kidnap him. What’cha gonna do about it?”
While Ian was taking Katsuki away, Jesper jumped over to Ochako. “Wanna join in? Let’s make him even madder.” He winked at her.
“Uh, okay. Sure, why not.” She smiled and Jesper picked her up. “Help me! Deku!” she yelled across the place. When Ochako yelled too, Izuku lost it.
Aizawa and Present Mic came back from their break, when they saw Izuku, hunting down the twin brothers. He seemed pretty furious and they could feel the commanding power all over the place.
Ochako and Katsuki yelled for help a few more times to further enrage the younger prime. The others watched this with mixed feelings. The betas and omegas were rather amused, but the alphas were terrified.
The teachers walked over to the group of omegas. “What are they doing?” Aizawa asked.
“They try to get Izuku to use his alpha commands more effectively.” Mina explained. “It seems to work.”
Aizawa scoffed a little and watched them. He wondered a little bit that Katsuki was so tame and let them do this.
“FUCKING STOP IT!” Izuku yelled, his eyes were glowing yellow, at the moment he was chasing Jesper down, he knew he could control him, if he focused enough. “LET HER GO!”
Jesper inhaled sharply, a slight shiver ran over his body. Because of his training, he was immune to prime alpha commands, but he could still feel the power behind it. He turned around to Izuku and set Ochako back on her feet. “Okay, you won” He smiled brightly. “Now go, get Katsuki back.”
“Yay, great Deku! You saved me!” Ochako cheered. Izuku rushed towards her and immediately pulled her into a hug. He snarled at Jesper, while he jumped back with her and brought her back to the other omegas.
“You’re save now. I’ll be right back, I rescue Kacchan.” He patted her head and then jumped at Ian.
He focused on him completely. “Let Kacchan go!” he growled deeply.
“Oh, why would I do that? He’s mine now, I stole him.” Ian had a teasing voice.
“Oh no, please don’t” Katsuki whined a little. “Deku, help me!”
And then, all of a sudden, Katsuki was out of Ian’s arms. Everyone gasped at that. It went down so quickly, that no one saw what had happened. Katsuki was sitting on the ground and Izuku pushed Ian to the ground and mounted him. His teeth were sharp. “You’re not hurting Kacchan!” He growled.
“That’s a lot of pressure, not gonna lie” Ian still laughed. He had a large slash on his face. But it was already healing.
“What are you laughing at?” Izuku lifted is sharp clawed hand and was about to deliver a hard blow to Ian’s face, when Katsuki held him back.
He wrapped one arm around Izuku’s neck, the other held back the claw. “Hey, shhshh, its okay, Deku, you already saved me. Remember, we’re in camp” Katsuki nestled his face close to Izuku’s, he purred a little.
Izuku’s body was tense for a few seconds, before he slowly relaxed. The yellow faded away and his arm sunk. He closed his eyes and just let Kacchan hold him.
Ian chuckled, while he watched the scene, Izuku was still on top of him, so he couldn’t get up. He crossed his arms behind his head and waited.
It took a while before Izuku was calm again. Katsuki got up and pulled Izuku with him. Finally Ian could stand up as well. “Well, this was interesting” He dusted some dirt off.
Izuku looked at him, apologetically. “Sorry.”
“No, no! Everything’s fine. That’s what I wanted to accomplish” he patted Izuku on the shoulder. “You did good!” He smiled. Then he went back to the group.
For a moment, Katsuki laid his head on Izuku’s shoulder he closed his eyes and purred again. Izuku pulled him into a hug.
Eijiro stood next to Mina and had to suppress a growl. He looked at Katsuki and Izuku and he hated it, his jaw clenched and unclenched multiple times, as jealousy surged through his body. He wanted to hold Katsuki as well! Why was it Izuku again? He needed a hug too!
Hissing, he turned around and walked over to his cabin, he slammed the door shut and flopped onto his bed. He couldn’t stand the soft look on Katsuki’s face. He knew that he was unreasonable, but he couldn’t help it. The past night, he had wished for Katsuki to hold him, to ease his horror, but now he was hugging Izuku …
***
The rest of the day was rather uneventful. Kairi woke up in the evening and she seemed like nothing ever happened. She was still a bit grumpy but not like earlier.
They sat all around the campfire. They had their food ready, Cait hat organized them marshmallows too. Eijiro was still grumpy and he sat far away from Izuku or Katsuki.
Even the teachers were around the campfire. They told each other creepy stories. Aizawa was annoyed and he told them, how Hizashi once had an accident where he bumped his big toe at a door – barefoot – one he had screamed so loud that their neighbors five blocks over fell out of their beds and two his toenail flapped around like a toilet cover. Hizashi tried to stop him but to no avail.
The students had shocked and grossed out expressions on their faces. “That really is a horror story.” Momo frowned deeply.
Ian was apparently the master of two sentence horror stories. He told them in between the stories of the others.
But eventually, Izuku asked about something, Kairi had said on their first day of training. “I have a question about Loup-Garou.”
The other’s looked confused towards him. Kairi raised her eyebrows.
“Wait, Loup-Garou? What do you know about him?” Aizawa seemed also confused.
“You haven’t told him?” Izuku asked.
“Uhh, it might have slipped my mind” Kairi grumbled. “But yeah, we talked about Loup-Garou. He’s a prime alpha” Kairi sighed.
Aizawa groaned. “Are you kidding me? Of course he has to be a prime alpha, why the hell not” he muttered to himself.
“What do you want to know about him?” Kairi looked over to Izuku.
“How do you know him, and you said something that he is a psychopath?” the greenette tilted his head.
“Loup-Garou is the King of France. His real name is Etienne Garo. He is a prime alpha and his quirk is Werewolf King.” She started. “He is a very cruel man. In his normal form he looks like an anthropomorphic wolf too. He believes that his family is the only true family. The descendants of the great werewolves from the past or something like that.” She grimaced. She clearly disliked him. “His quirk is extremely dangerous and it is a contagious quirk.”
“What do you mean by that?” Hound Dog asked.
“When he goes into his werewolf form he can give the ‘curse’ to someone else. He can take normal humans and make them into werewolves, like in the legends. All of his children are werewolves as well. Half of France has fallen to the werewolf curse. But it doesn’t always work, many people die, because they are not strong enough to withstand the virus he’s spreading.”
“You mean to tell me, those people can turn into werewolves too?” Aizawa couldn’t believe it.
“Yes. And a side effect of the quirk is that they have to listen to him. Doesn’t matter their secondary gender, their newly acquired werewolf side has to listen to their maker. And let me tell you, he’s not a nice man.”
“Oh god, this is terrible” Momo murmured.
“Who does something like this?” Kinoko added.
“He is cruel to everyone, he has many spouses and many children. He wants a pure bloodline. His queen is Darleen. She is the alpha at his side.”
“Wait, I think that’s the missing alpha! We’re searching for her!” Aizawa interrupted.
“Well, good luck with that. Darleen is an escape artist. And that’s not even her quirk. She also has the werewolf quirk from Loup-Garou, this boosts her powers tenfold. Her own quirk is Lunar Empowerment. Under the influence of the moon she becomes nigh-invincible. The more moonlight, the stronger she becomes. That combined with the werewolf quirk is an absolutely terrifying combination. Werewolves can transform at daylight too, but they are much more powerful at night.”
“How do you beat that? This is like mega cheating!” Denki complained.
“Well, don’t fight her at night?” Ian suggested. “She is only nigh-invincible under the influence of moonlight.”
“Oooh! That makes sense!”
“Anyway, she’s by far not the only spouse Etienne has, but she sure is his one true mate. She is everything he desired. An alpha, was able to take the werewolf curse, has a quirk that empowers her at night. So no wonder she’s the queen. They have a lot of children, most of them either alphas or prime alphas. They are his ‘main children’. His goal is it, to revert France back to its original state ruled by werewolves. Alphas and especially prime alphas are desired. Omegas are mostly used for breeding. They capture omegas, from all over the world – he is a big shot in the human trafficking cycle –, he bites them and everyone who survives is automatically his mate, or the mate of his children. Every child of his that turns out omega is one of his ‘lesser children’. They have fewer rights than the alpha children and they eventually get turned into baby factories.”
The others looked at her in shock. “Y-you are kidding, right?” Ibara and everyone else were utterly speechless.
“What sick bastard does this?!” Itsuka spat. She felt sick listening to the story.
“You’re lucky, if you’re born omega, believe me. It’s still better than anything that happens to the betas.”
“Why? What is happening to them?” Yuga asked.
Kairi was quiet for some time. “Because betas are basically normal humans, without any traits of alphas or even omegas, they are not desired. They are worthless to him. You know, usually the beta population is the largest. Worldwide, the population is about 60 percent, while the alpha population is at 15 percent and the omega population at 25 percent. But not in France …”
The others got an uncomfortable feeling. Something bad must have happened. “Most betas left the country in a hurry, when he overthrew the government about fifteen years ago. Before that, he was still very influential but not the king. He went from house to house and captured all the betas. Everyone who wasn’t lucky enough to flee to a different country …” she paused. “… were sent into camps.”
There was a silence around the campfire. Only the crackling of the fire and the sounds from the forest could be heard. No one could speak after this revelation. Yuga was white as a sheet, his family came to Japan about fifteen years ago … “W-what happened then?” he asked after a while with a shivering voice.
“Old folks were killed. But the young ones had a fate worse then death. Male and female got castrated, and most of the time not the correct clinical way … he wanted to get rid of the beta dynamic completely. That’s why he did that to stop them from reproducing. No adult betas, no beta children, this was his way of thinking. After that, male betas became slaves to anyone who could afford them, mostly his own alpha children. Omegas were technically not allowed to have slaves, but female betas were used as serfs for omegas, to help them during the birthing process et cetera. Most of the time they were used as cheep toys however.”
Some of the girls started to cry after hearing such gruesome things. Yuga was shaking heavily. “Oh mon dieu … that’s the reason my parents left France?” Neito was next to him and wrapped an arm around him. He leaned his head on the other betas shoulder.
“But what happened, if his own children became betas? Did he do that to them too?” Jurota asked.
She sighed. “Well, are you familiar with the terms ‘delta’ and ‘gamma’ as secondary genders?”
“Aren’t those really old gender terms? They aren’t used in today’s society anymore” Tenya answered. “But I am not quite sure what they really meant.”
“Well ‘delta’ was used for betas that had a lot of alpha traits; that were aggressive and territorial. Most deltas could use commands on omegas to some degree. Their scent was weaker than an alphas, but stronger than a betas scent usually is. They also could trigger heats in omegas. The term ‘gamma’ on the other hand was used for betas with omega characteristics. They lacked however scent glands and male gammas would not get pregnant. They had strong maternal instincts however.”
Denki tilted his head at that. He had never heard of those terms. He wondered why they weren’t used anymore. “Why are they not in use anymore?”
“Well, these dynamics were rare, and compared to normal alphas and omegas, their percentage was even lesser. So about sixty years ago, those terms were completely abandoned. However, Loup-Garou tried to bring these terms back, because god forbid he had beta children. In the case that his children turned out beta, he would medically transition them, they had no say in that, they were forced to. Males would be turned into deltas and females would be turned into gammas. He wasn’t as cruel to his own children as he was to other children.”
Denki gulped, he felt so bad for all these people. Not just the kids that were forced to transition, but in general.
The teachers were also speechless. They never knew that such a monster could exist. “Anyway, back to the story, many betas escaped France, many took refuge in Germany, Austria, Poland or Czech. They deliberately stayed away from Italy since Loup-Garou already targeted this area and Spain is still under the regime of Madgod. Belgium or the Netherlands were too scared to take people in. Loup Garou had an army of alphas and prime alphas at this point. Loup-Garou tried to get ‘his betas’ back from Germany but they fought against France. It was pure chaos.”
“Why is this not in any history book?” Tenya couldn’t believe it.
“I guess it’s the same with Loup-Garou as it is with All for One? Some things don’t make it into history books.” Kairi shrugged.
“And how do you know so many things about it?” Itsuka asked.
“Yeah, you seem to know an awful lot about it!” Juzo added.
“Because I was there during the war.” She answered.
They looked at her in disbelief. She sighed. “You see, Loup-Garou hired me, he invited me and my band to Paris, after he became the self-proclaimed king. He wanted me as a mate, because I am a prime alpha, and I have a very powerful ability, he wanted my Auto-Rebirth for his children. But I ain’t a whore, I told him to fuck off. He wasn’t happy, but he’s a good actor. He played it down, but he was furious over my rejection. He then wanted to hire me, to attack Germany and get the betas back. But I said fuck you a second time. I will not partake in beta genocide. I may be a mercenary motherfucker but I have my standards.”
“My band and I left France for the time being and we went straight to the German Government. We offered our assistance against France and they took it. They were hesitant at first, but agreed in the end, because they knew we were the best. My comrades were Miles, Tyreese, Thomas, Kaleb and the twins Joseph and Leigh, we fought in countless wars at the time, with a very huge success rate. Every one of us was a highly trained solider before they joined me. Together with the German soldiers we could fight the French alpha soldiers back and it got so bad, that Loup-Garou eventually agreed to not further hunt the betas in other countries.”
“It was a small success, but not enough. Henceforth he stayed in France and continued to terrorize it. Even though the surface level is ‘pretty normal’ you can see that something is off. To get money, they keep the tourism going, even though it is highly advised not to travel to France. But the lack of teaching in schools or other media helped him greatly. The war wasn’t ‘that big’ and in comparison to the Russian-Chinese war and the African war, it was completely forgotten, which is a tragedy.”
“But what are they doing in Japan all of a sudden? When they agreed to not hunt betas?” Izuku asked.
“Like I said earlier, they are big in the human trafficking business. They want to recruit more alphas from outside, but also get more omegas. My band and I are constantly busting his human sex trafficking rings. They have one of their bases in Thailand. What he doesn’t seem to get is, that Thailand is my territory. And hell no, I am not letting this bastard do this on my watch.” Her eyes glowed yellow.
“But why can’t you just go to France and stop him?” Neito asked.
“Because he has a literal army consisting of alphas and prime alphas. My band is a band of seven. Even if I asked all the mob bosses from Thailand to lend us their best alphas, we still wouldn’t be enough. The Russian mob has two primes, the Hong Kong Triads have one prime Thailand has a loyal prime top dog. The yakuza branch has a prime but you see seven prime alphas with enough training are nothing compared to the twenty plus primes he has in his army. We cannot just go there and storm his office. Believe me, I would love to do that, but this is not how war works.”
“This really doesn’t look good” Vlad King mumbled. “To think that this Darleen woman is here in Japan and has contact to the League of Villains … And what were they planning with the feral alphas?”
“Hm, I guess they just want to imitate the Zone with her quirk. Her quirk can forcefully activate the Zone, but you saw it, compared to my abilities, it is really nothing. Like a child compared to an adult, so to speak. But of course they have their heavy hitters as well.”
“How do we get to Loup-Garou then? We try to make contact with him, but when he controls France this will be impossible.” Aizawa frowned.
Kairi shrugged. “You don’t. You do not have the man power to beat him. If I can’t do it with my team, than you can’t do it either. Even All Might in his prime would not be enough. But, I make you an offer. Whenever you need help with Loup-Garou, you can call me. I will help you fight against him if that’s of any use.”
“Appreciated.” Shota murmured.
After that, the students got up one after the other, they all were tired. The remedial course students went to the lessons for the night, the other went to bed. Kairi, Ian and Jesper left for the forest again.
Yuga was pretty devastated, Neito was with him all night. His parents had left France, when he was roughly one and a half years old. He was terrified of the idea that something like that could have happened to him, if they hadn’t left.
It was very rough night for all of them. The remedial course students fell into their beds at two in the morning.
