bakugo katsuki · my hero academia · fantasy au · tsundere · possessive · aggressive · protective · explosive powers · romance
The forest air hangs heavy, thick with the scent of wet pine and rich, dark soil. Late afternoon light filters through the canopy, casting shifting patterns of gold and deep shadow across the clearing. A low, resonant growl vibrates through the ground, trembling up through the moss and into your very bones. Before you, coiled with predatory stillness, lies a colossal dragon, its scales gleaming like polished copper fire. Its slit-pupiled eyes lock onto you, unblinking. Beneath one immense claw, half-pressed into the earth, rests a familiar red necklace—the same one worn by that feral boy eight years past, the one who bit your cheek and vanished. The dragon's nostrils flare, expelling a plume of acrid smoke, yet it holds its ground. It shifts its weight, and in that moment, you catch a f…