The Restore of our Rotten Souls - Ch. 4 - I’m Magne’s kid
My name is Milli, 15 years old, quirk: Ventriloquism, my villain relative, Keiji Hikiishi, AKA Magne. And no, SHE is NOT my mother, but my aunt (I usually call her Tia, since a part of my family is latino), still she was the closest relative to my disowned ass. Thankfully UA still kept me after my parents told me: you're not Hikiishi anymore. Just because I CRIED due to Magne's death.
After that day, I promissed myself to be the best hero I could be, for her, since her ghost watches over me (some people says she haunts me, but I feel better with her around). But like any older sister, she still cares about the league, and I'm the only one who seems to care about her. So I swore that I'd save all of them.
But now... things are out of control...
A giant villain appeared kinda out of thin air and was with everyone Auntie Mag loves on his back. It was taking a lot of us to take him down... AND we failed... no surprise, not until Oumei started to tremble, pant and tear down:
- Uh... San?
- Puppeteer...
By her tone, I knew that something was wrong:
- I think... I need to go up there.
- WHAT?! San, is there anything wrong?!
- Oh yeah. Really, really wrong. He's coming, along with a near dead friend on his arms. We lost someone else today, along with your aunt.
"Another one?!" I was paralized, "who's coming?! Which one of us... or them... died this time?!"
- YOU CAN'T GO THERE SENPAI! It's too dangerous!
Yaoyorozu, the class 1A vice-president suddenly shouted at us, trying to warn, but Oumei knows, as the top and the president of our class, our league's vice leader, and the one with special trainament, she also knows what she is doing:
- I know, Creativi. But I bear some bad news for someone up there.
- B-but... then at least, let me go with you!
- Sorry, dear, but I need you down here, if he's still breathing, you're the one who's the best with first aids.
- Huh?
But before she could get any explaining, Oumei was already flying to face whoever would recieve the bad news. Yaoyorozu was worried:
- Puppeteer... who is coming?
- Uh... I don't k-
At that moment, I was looking around, and I saw something moving in the woods:
- Wait...
- Wh-
- Shh...
I slowly walked near the trees and tried to focus more:
- Hello? Anyone there?
A long second of silence before I heard a snap close to where I was. At that moment, Auntie's ghost pointed from where she the sound was coming from.
At the pointed place, I saw a silhouete of a man with black suit and blonde messy hair carrying someone on his arms, who was looking really beaten up. I knew who they were:
- HEY! OVER HERE!
- Wha- Puppeteer! Are you crazy?!
- IT'S ME, BUBAIGAWARA, MILLI! MAGNE'S NEPHEW!
- Ok! He's gone nuts.
I could hear whet they were talking about me, but why in the world Twice isn't with the other... "Oh jeez..." that meant something was REALLY wrong.
I fell down on my knees, that alarmed my other classmates, Elijah Mio (The blind hero: Third Eye) and Nekoshi Hyotora (The night hero: Night Panther). They came to my side quickly:
- Puppeteer?
Nekoshi started:
- Why are you... (snif, snif) I smell... blood and... (snif snif) burned flesh... Hyuko!
- What?! Night, are you sure?
- I fear so, Inner Eyes.
- What are we waiting for?
And as quick as the blink of an eye, Nekoshi transformed into a panther and they went after the two. But I was still in shock. Yaoyorozu touched my shoulder:
- Puppeteer... who's hurt?
- ... Hyuko... he went after Twice due to some personal reason that I don't know...
- Milli...
- I feel like... he made a self-sacrifice for Twice... I can't sense why and-
And shortly after Elijah and Nekoshi left, they came back. Bubaigawara and Hyuko were with them at the back travel. I slowly walked near him and:
- Where is my Oumei? Where is Himiko?
He was crying, and holding Hyuko like a lifeline. It was clear that he wasn't able to say many words. As I was approaching him, his tears were overflowing even more, I knew why:
- Thanks for bringing him here, Jin.
- I-I... I'm... I didn't mean, I-
- Don't worry, I'll take care of him from now, Okay?
- That's not what I... I mean, this too, but... your aunt... it was my-
- About that, have you ever heard of the spirit guides? They sat it's been more frequent supernatural events since the 3rd generation of quirks.
- What...?
- Actually, there is something I need to tell you later, now, Hyuko needs help.
- Uh... okay!
But at the moment we were going to start the first aids, my radio was recieving a message:
- Hello?! Hello?! Anyone on the line?!
- Keep going, I REALLY need to answer! Hello?! Ushio?! Is that you? What's wrong?!
- Puppeteer, did the giant crazy villain showed up?!
- Yes, the heroes couldn't stop it yet, and-
- Listen! If there is ANYONE on their back, you must take them of immediately!
- Wha-
- YOU HAVE LESS THAN ONE MINUTE! MOTHER'S ON THE WAY! THINGS WON'T END UP PRETTY IF THERE IS SOMEONE ON HIS BACK! LONG STORY, NO TIME, JUST DO WHAT I ASK!
- Okay! I'm on it!
As I was looking for a way to get everyone that was up there, Elijah said:
- 5 people, I'll guide the threads.
I just need to attach one thread to be able to take someone's free will to move, and I can pull them like a ragdoll with a rope attached to their neck. I climbed a tree and deatached the strings from my fingers and threw them on the back of the giant creature:
- NOW! Did I caught one?
- The one of the mask! You got the spine right away.
This power that Elijah have does allow him to see silhouettes of people and their clothes, he describes as seing points in the middle of nowhere, since his actual eyes are blinded.
- Go up and you'll get two more, and... San already got Toga for you!
- GOT IT!
- THERE! NOW PUSH! THE MOTHER IS COMING IN 5 SECONDS!
With the last drops of my arm's strenght, I pulled them, and to make sure I'd get everyone together, I tangled the strings in the air, and the moment in middle air, a giant dragon appeared and threw itself on the giant villain with all their strenght. The ground even shook with the impact:
- MACHIA!!!!!!!
- WHAT?!
The villains' faces were the best faces of "WTF, WE WERE JUST THERE!", but I needed to get them down.
Since I didn't have any strenght left, to slow the fall, I hung the stings on a tree and slowly took thre strings off. Twice watched everything, and was really relieved. But when they saw him, the reaction was priceless:
- TWICE?!
- But you died! In front of me!
- This must be a trick! It can't be real!
But Jin himself went to Himiko first begging for forgiveness. It was clear she didn't know everything, until Oumei said:
- At what moment I said that I was talking about my dad, Himiko?
Oumei's flashback
I pretty much had a tormented flight, but I got a clear spot to fall:
- Himiko. Toga. You better explain yourself now!
- What?! No! I don't have snything to explain to you!
- Oh yeah?! Guess what?! I have some news to you!
I went close and pulled her by her sweater:
- HE'S DEAD!! WHY DIDN'T YOU LOVE HIM ANYMORE?! IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT HE IS DEAD NOW!!
- WHAT?! You think I'M the one who killed Jin?! COME ON! IT WAS THAT BIRD'S FAULT!!! HAWKS KILLED YOUR FATHER!!!
At that moment, Milli's threads appeared and were attaching to each one of the villains. Something was wrong, I could feel it. Then I ran and got two strings, to me and Himiko, and suddenly we were flying.
Back to Milli's POV
The scene was devastating, Twice was crying on Himiko's feet, unable to look her in the eye, repeating what Hyuko asked him to tell her:
- ...and then, Hyuko, he asked me to bring his body back! I couldn't leave him! Not there!
He was already proclaimed dead when we were doing the first aids. But I wasn't crying yet. I was trying to think what should I do.
Suddenly I saw a baby blue light, I knew that baby blue light, Auntie Mag:
- What are you doing here, Tia?
But then I saw the others, their faces, she was visible to everyone, as she was talking to Hyuko's body:
- You still has a lot to live, young boy, but still, you did something amazing, not even holding a trace of grudge, but I guess, if it's your end, you need to prepare your sister for it.
The other members of the League were in shock, is not everyday you see a ghost, specially from a friend. When she saw everyone safe, she turned to me and smiled:
- You did it! YOU DID IT!
She tugged and hugged me, but it wasn't cold, her ghost was wasm as if she was alive, this was scarying me, I felt like she was saying goodbye:
- T-Tia? W-why do they see you? Why are you so warm?
- My boy, it doesn't matter, thank you! Thank you for saving them!
- W- well... that's my job... saving people...
- Even the villains?
- THEY ARE STILL PEOPLE! Like the two of us! I'm a boy in a girl's body, and you were a woman in a man's body, but we're still people!
- Yeah, we are... Milli, could you promise me something?
- I'm listening...
- Take care of them for me? They're my family and-
- No need to say anything more. I will. No matter what will happen, I'll do my best.
- Heh... you're really like me.
Then she pulled back a bit, and kissed my forehead:
- Take care, my boy...
And then she started to fade, and somehow I knew, she finally found her peace. But this made me so desperate, I started to cry:
- T-Tia? I-I don't know if-
- I know you can, and your friends will help y...
And then she were gone. I was a train wreck at that moment. But then a question, coming from the lizard man, Spinner:
- Who the hell are you? And why could you talk and understand what that ghost? She was our friend!
I recomposed myself a bit, and with the strongest face I could manage, I answered:
- I'm Magne's kid.
