Quote - " What we call death is just the sleep of the gods."

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word-word = spoken right next
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' ' = Thinking
(Meanwhile)= Skip and pov change
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My Name is Izuku Midoriya... and I can say I did something that no soul in this plane of existence has done before, But before I talk about that let's go back and see how this all started. In the time I lived almost everyone had a superpower called a quirk. When I was younger I was obsessed with quirks and how they worked and then I looked at stuff from before the age of quirks. I wanted to know how they came to be, and since I didn't have one myself.

In my searches for the source of quirks, I found something called the Supernatural. The Supernatural were things at the time that couldn't be then and today most scientists have summed this up to the earliest form of quirks or superstition. I had another Idea, I learned about ghosts and how they come into existence through pure emotions, and that when death came didn't let go. Instead held onto these emotions, They died but didn't leave and poured this flood of emotions into a place, person, or Item and this is how we get crushed Items. I thought these ideas had powers, Maybe I could find one to give myself powers.

While I was learning about magic and its connection to quirks I found something in certain books connected to things like magic and voodoo, Certain symbols that have no connection to either but keep showing up in articles and engraved on magic objects. I found a collection of symbols and letters and put them in a group in my research.

I then found an article about a death during the funeral of an English teacher. The man had dropped dead, and most thought he died because he was overweight, but autopsy said otherwise. His heart just stopped beating, and was later found dead . Many of his students had come to the funeral to pay their respects except for one. A girl who made no secret of her hatred for the man and made jokes about his death as they carried the casket toward his grave.

However just as they got closer the one carrying the coffin tripped, and dropped the casket on the rude girl. There on her hand, they found a symbol written in marker. A member of the family had posted a picture of it asking if anyone knew about it. I found the same symbol on certain items connected to voodoo curses and other items. It is said to bring luck, but all who use it too much die in horrible ways. This was one symbol connected to many all dating back to something, not someone but something.

I was getting closer to the truth and then I found something to connect to these symbols and the origins of quirks. At least that was what I had thought at the time but what I was chasing was something much older and more powerful than quirks.

I kept searching for missing people reports, mass deaths, and other similar events. I found nothing.  For a while I found nothing but hoaxes, and old police reports, until I found something.  A missing person's report about someone in the woods, a country songwriter by the name of Kate Denson. She had gone missing, and evidence pointed to Kate going into a cave but never leaving... She is still missing to this day. 

The police had taken photos of the cave. I looked at the photos of the cave and saw symbols. Some were the same as the symbol I found and the same on the hand of the dead girl, and even more were there too. Now, what did these symbols mean? I kept digging, finding more and more symbols. 

(Pretend Kat is Not in the Photo)

I also found another case in the same area as the first report of the girl being crushed to death by the coffin. There in a swamp a group of cannibals had kidnapped a group of people during a storm. They were found dead and with a symbol carved all over the area. They found several missing people but one person was found. A girl who also attended the funeral from the first report. They never found her body or any traces except for the skin left on her shackles and hair near where she was chained to the wall. They found symbol after symbol drawn in her blood in the schack, and that was all they ever found of lisa.

The Last treport with any similarities to the others I found was in a police report about a raid on an opium Den. The police were already going to raid the den, but had reason to believe a Scottish Chemist by the name of Talbot Grime was being kept in the Opium Den. Talbot Grimes was responsible for several war crimes and illegal human experimentation. They had all thought him dead until reports said a man matching his description said he was inside the building. 

They raided the den, and inside they found only traces of Talbot. There was only his blood and cravings of symbols into the stone and written in his blood on the wall was "Death was only the Beginning" . I saw the same symbols again.

Then I found the main symbol, the one symbol that seemed to be the most important. It was connected to some ancient and powerful Entity. In a moment of brilliance or foolishness, I craved the symbols and others into the front of my book. After drawing the symbols I left for school. I wondered who this entity was and what was their connection to quirks and all these incidents are connected through to this Entity, I just have one giant question: who are they?

For the next few days, I kept feeling like I was being watched from the shadows.  It mattered little for I had no time to worry about being watched or counting my research. I felt like I was close but missing a simple piece. I had to keep my head down, Kachan was not very happy lately and anything could set him off edge. Then it happened he heard that I wanted to go to UA. I told him I wasn't trying to be a hero, I was probably going to join the support class or the general course. In secret, I would continue my research with help from UA. 

Bakugo however thought I was trying to take his limelight and then he saw my journal and then used his explosion quirk and threw it out the window. Before leaving he told me to take a swan dive off the roof and pray for a quirk in my next life. I rushed outside to find my journal in the koi pond outside.

I thought the Koi would have gone after it trying to eat the notebook, but no koi dared to nibble on my book. Then I saw it, in the pool and saw one of the koi had and it floated to the top, Dead. I then opened my book up and found that most of the pages had water damage but the symbols were fine like nothing had happened to them.

Sure I was scared but I was also curious why that happened. Why didn't the symbols become waterlogged like the pages and the Symbol on the front page wasn't burnt? Why was that? Did these symbols hold some kind of power? I kept these thoughts in mind while I walked home thinking about them with every step I took. My mind was ablaze with ideas and connections to my research flooding my mind as the symbols appeared everywhere I looked. It felt like fog was beginning to cloud my mind, and what felt like claws scraped my brain. Then my thoughts stopped as I felt something grab me.

“ Oh, you will make a fine meat suit.”

I was attacked by the slime villain. I only heard him say I would make a nice meatsuit, felt his putrid sludge force itself down my throat. The sludge villains kept trying to force himself into my body, choking me to death. I kept bashing my book against his eyes, and clawing his eyes hurt him, but didn't stop him. Yet still the symbols began glowing on my notebook, fog and the spindly limbs of a spider beginning to appear.

Just as he was going to kill me, Allmight saved me and the symbol's glowing stopped. Allmight was about to go when I grabbed his leg and as I held onto for dear life because I wanted to ask him a question. I asked him the question I wanted to know for more than half my life " Could I be a hero without a quirk?" 

He shrunk and told me how he was injured by a powerful villain, and then he answered my question. He said No and if I want to help people I should become a firefighter or police officer, and "It's good to dream but keep it realistic." He left me there on that rooftop and I kept hearing his and bakugo's words on loop each time they spoke the words only get louder and the daylight seemed to dim and give away to something else until I screamed "ENOUGH" I have wasted so much time trying to find the source of quirks and find these symbols tied to certain events What could I be missing? It felt like I'm missing something. 

I threw the book as the wrisphers returned to my mind. They didn't sound like Allmight's nor Bakugo's, nothing like I heard before. " You are missing nothing... You already hold all the pieces," they said as the black fog returned spewing from the book as the symbols glowed on the book. The pages flew, flipping as if caught in a gust of wind, and yet I felt nothing, not even a breeze. The pages stopped flipping on a single page. Look, the voices said, " Come, and see."

Then I looked in the noteBook and I saw my notes. " The Entity is a being of power that seems to be older than quirks. Symbols connected to it are always found at the sights of great death, pain, and tragedy. Things that should not have been possible became possible when it showed signs of involvement. Wherever it is involved the impossible happens.” Izuku concluded his thoughts sitting down thinking just what to do. Was that what Talbot meant? With the Entity, death wouldn’t be the end?

Death is only the beginning," He was right? Death is only the beginning not the end nor an escape from the horrors of life and this Entity, this creature was one possible outcome. Izuku looked back at all the things that led him down this path. A quirk, power after being powerless for so long, and to help others. He had put his blood, sweat, and tears into his research… Wait blood, sweat and tears when he put enough into it the Entity answered him the fog, and the claws. Wait did that mean he was right?

…He WAS RIGHT. Through Blood and pure raw emotion he could Have what he wanted, and with these symbols and his book it was more than possible, it was a guarantee. Izuku’s eyes drifted away from the book to the building's ledge. Only one way to truly find out, a leap of faith he guesses. This would either be his end or a new beginning.

To get a quirk all he needed to do was take the swan dive and hope that this Entity answered. He would get what he wanted or stay dead better than wasting his life waiting for a quirk that would never come he thought. He then took off his shoes and socks so he would feel the ground when he hit the ground wherever he was going. He left his things taking the only thing he would need: his notebooks, and clothes on his back. He tore out the last unused page in his notebook and wrote a note for his mother and attached it to his stuff so it would not fly away. The note read " I will see you when I come home mom. Love your son Izuku." Then he held onto his book looking over the edge as he leaned forward, closing his eyes letting gravity do the rest as he fell, and felt as reality shifted away as darkness or fog overtook everything.

(News)

"Hello I am your head news anchor for today", said an older man with a large horn on his head and wore a suit. He then talked to the camera. "Police earlier today have announced the stop looking for the missing child by the name of Izuku midoriya." The man paused as the crowd watching gasped as he showed a picture of the last time Izuku was seen smiling. " Weeks ago after he was reported missing, after eight hours of searching they found his shoes, socks, backpack and a Note to his mother saying he would be back. It was found on top of a serval stories tall building as many of you would know from our previous new casting two weeks ago."

" The police and pro-Heros who helped search for the boy over weeks now believe the boy threw himself off the same building he left the note at and is now dead. " As it showed several heroes, and people placing flowers in vases near a memorial to the dead boy where they thought he jumped. The search to find the missing boy led by the number one hero had whipped the entire nation into a frenzy to find him.

" Pro-Heroes were distraught to find nobody and Allmight himself gave the news to the boy's mother. A funeral will be held and many pro-Hero who looked for the quirkless boy will attend." As it then showed video of his school being shut down, and yellow tape placed on the building." Afterward it was discovered the abuse the boy faced at the school, The school itself at the end of the year will be shut down that is all for now goodbye. "

(Funeral)

At the Funeral, many attending gave their respect to Mrs. Midoryia for the loss of her son. Some in attendance were Allmight, the Rabbit Hero Miruko, Midnight along with their friend ryuko who wanted to find Izuku because she lost a quirkless in high school herself. They were not the only other heroes there. Many of Izuku's notebooks on Heros and their quirks were given to the heroes to help find her son.

They took the notes and many heroes managed to make improvements in ways they never thought they could. Many wanted to find the boy to thank him for his notes. Now it seems that will never happen. The Heros had made a Memorial outside of UA for him as a thank you for Helping them and so many heroes. It was also an apology for what this cruel world did to him.

" I'm so sorry Mrs. Midoryia," Allmight said to the grieving mother. He felt the most guilty for what had happen to her poor son, thinking he was at fault for what happened. If only he had lied and told him could be a hero and maybe now he would still be alive. He still remember the world's cruelties and kicked himself for not helping another's burden, when he remember himself wishing someone would do the same for him so long ago.

" Thank you. I know you tried your best, But I still think he is alive. It's my job as a mother to think he is alive," Inko said through sniffling through tears that left streaks down her cheeks, but still managed to smile. As his cremation vase was placed into their family's grave.

" I can't thank you and the other heroes enough for what you did that day. Afterwards, the police wouldn't do anything to look for him. I remember when I went to the news to ask for their aid in looking for him, but I never expected you to show." She said wiping away tears as the grave was sealed and flowers added to the grave.

" I never in my wildest dreams expected this. At least wherever Izuku is, I hope he is happy how thanks to his notes more people can be saved all thanks to him. He was a hero in his own way, and I know this would have meant the world to him," She said placing one of his first toys on the gravestone kissing it and him goodbye. 

" I'm going to leave you I'm sorry." Allmight whispered as he left the funeral jumping away and then was in his small form. He could still see the graveyard from where he was, and could only stare at the sight, as other heroes put Flowers at Izuku’s grave and then gave their thanks, love to his mother. Feeling this was all his fault he began to walk into an alley away from the funeral. He was the reason why the boy was dead or missing. Then he saw the last person he wanted to see today.

" Nezu what are you doing here?" Allmight asked the Chimera looking at him through the alley walking towards the funeral. He expected him to yell or give the obvious answer but did neither.

" I remember that night you told me how a kid found out about your weakness. I kept an eye looking for him and when he went missing I was the one who asked the news to do that story on him. " Nezu recounted remembering that night as he found out about the boy's situation. So much from one helpful act," I'm so glad I did that and with these notes we will help out future heroes today and future ones."

" Had a feeling it was you, normally no news station would bat an eye over a missing quirkless kid. Now I know you all too well, and you want to ask me something you know how I'm feeling right now, " Allmight said hoping to get that verbal lashing that was coming from the chimera. 

" Very well Allmight, I came here to say simply, you Fucked up."

" I know he was the perfect one, He would have been the next greatest Hero."

" He could have been with OFA and If he didn't get one for all, he would have been a great support hero with those notes of his. " The rat began to walk away but finished speaking before he walked around the corner, "For your punishment, three-fourths of your pay will be given away. One quarter will be given to charities, the second quarter given to Inko, the boy's mother. The third will be given to the charity started in his name by myself and his mother made to help quirkless people find their way in life."

" I understand goodbye Nezu, I'm going to go for a walk."

“ Very well then, goodbye Yagi.”

(Somewhere Else)

The green-haired boy awoke in a land of mist and whispers. Looking around, finding there was no beginning or end to this fog around him.  There was no sky only darkness all around him, no noise could be heard except his voice and heart beat. 

" Where am I?" Izuku asked to the void of black fog not expecting an answer. 

" Hello Izuku. We finally meet, you have been studying me for quite some time." A voice said in a wrispher from the fog, as tendrils curled and slithered like serpents through it. Izuku's head spoon as if on a swivel only catching glimpses of movement in the corners of his eyes. 

" Who are you and how do you know my name?" Questions ran through his mind of where he was and what was speaking to him. Countless names of places, and creatures ran through his mind , but none of them matched what he was hearing or seeing. As the tendrils came from both sides of his line of sight coiling around one another as the fog swirled into shape.

" I am no one, but the ones who dwell in and out of my realm have come to call me, the Entity." Izuku saw a shape formed with impossible angels. It looked like an angel, demon, both, and neither at the same time. There right in front of him was a being with no set shape or definition, as Izuku starred it starred back.

" What do you want with me?"

" To observe as you once did. To find the secrets where none other would see them, and to improve those I ask you to observe," Said the Entity. It spoke yet had no lips, and no sound left its writing form. Yet the words reached Izuku's mind making his brain feel wet.

" What ... W-will I get inreturn?" Izuku spoke in hushed whispers, stuttering but still speaking in the prenese of the being. He could feel its gaze staring into his soul seeing everything that laid within. The fog became dark and more suffocating as this being stared down, and just as it starred it let up.

"In return, I will give you whatever you desire. My realm and the hunters that dwell within are yours to use as you please. As long as you do not break them... The originals are yours to use, I have many copies of them. You can have what you can take." This was a deal of a life-time an eldritch being of untold power was offering everything he could ever want. Power something akin to a quirk, allies and more, but why? There had to be a reason, but he had to answer  and he didn't want the Entity getting impatient. This was a deal he couldn't say no to. For how could he stare at this being, this nameless terrible thing that has soaked itself in the blood and emotions of a billion souls. Something that cannot be stopped, or denied.

"... Okay then I will do it... When do I start?"

Izuku just stood as the faceless black mass teeming with eyes got closer as the lower half split in a curved line. Izuku could hear the sounds of what sounded like the tearing of flesh, and the breaking of bone. As the lower half of the mass came off turning into a maw filled with teeth, and oozing a glowing orange liquide. That was when Izuku realized it was trying to smile, as it spoke again.

"Right Now."