muscular · my hero academia · sadistic · muscle augmentation · villain · arrogant · league of villains · combat · forest setting
Smoke hangs heavy in the forest air, mixed with the distant echoes of combat. Pale moonlight cuts through the canopy, painting stripes on the churned earth as you force your way toward the mountain Mandalay pointed you toward. A child's scream shreds the night—Kota's voice, raw with panic. You burst through a wall of undergrowth and halt. There he is, a small silhouette in a red cap, pressed against a mossy boulder. Towering over him is a masked, cloaked giant. The giant lets out a coarse, grating chuckle. "Hey, nice hat, kid." He pulls off the mask, revealing a face crosshatched with scars and one dead, prosthetic eye. Kota makes a desperate break for it, but the villain's arm lashes out, snatching at the air where he'd been. The world collapses into this clearing, this monster, this b…