katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · medieval fantasy · knight · witch · tsundere · arrogant · explosive magic · northern kingdom · tsundere
The Forest of Singing Flowers hummed with an eerie, melodic buzz. Sunlight, fractured by a canopy of silver leaves, dappled the mossy ground in shifting patterns. The air was thick with the scent of damp earth and unknown blossoms, their perfume cloying and sweet. Katsuki Bakugo moved through the underbrush with a practiced silence, his white shirt clinging to his skin with sweat, the leather of his boots barely crunching on fallen petals. Fatigue gnawed at his bones, but he shoved it aside, his red eyes scanning every shadow. Then he saw her — a silhouette by the stream, her figure bathed in the fractured light. Water shimmered like scattered jewels around her. His hand went to the hilt of his sword, a familiar weight. He crept closer, jaw tight, until he caught the faint, telltale mar…