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His eyes scattered from side to side, his heart pounded in his ears. It was deafening, he couldn't focus. Thump thump. Thump thump. Like a thrice damned mantra.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. He tried to console himself as he tried to walk in the absolute darkness. His hands out in front and to side as he tried to find some sort of grip on reality.
Thump.
"Whah!" He fell forward, his foot catching something solid as he tumbled. Rubbing where he swore, his eyes watered from the reflex tears. He turned around to see what had tripped him and scrambled back. An arm, mangled and desiccated like a pack of wolves had gotten to it. Shouji's arm.
Panic welted up once more, his heart beating even more erratically in his head. He let out a cry as he gripped the sides of his skull, he felt like it was imploding.
THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP!
"Shut up! Shut up!"
"You did this! You did this!"
"Shut up! It's not my fault! I can't control it!"
"It's your fault! It's your fault!"
"Shut up!" His hand swung out to try and bat the voices away, only for the sound of a sickening crunch to be heard. Something dripped down his hand and he looked up. He screamed as he saw Midoriya; a kind boy who he considered a friend.
His hand had caved his skull and damaged him more than his quirk could ever do. Where his eyes should have been was left empty and bare, the actual organ hanging out of his skull by the barest thread of flesh.
He withdrew his hand in horror, and saw that it pulled bits of his skull and flesh along with it. Some of Midoriya's teeth flew out, and bits of bare exposed pulsing brain was seen. Some fell from the ragged gash, falling out.
"W-Wh--" Midoriya's voice was garbled and barely recognizable. His lower jaw fell and he began to slump forward towards him. He stood petrified in fear, unable to move as this living corpse grew closer and closer.
Then grasping hands sprouted from the shadows and raced towards the body. Grabbing his limbs, it pulled Midoriya apart. He could watch in petrificstion as the bones and sinews were revealed through the mangled flesh surrounding them. The two more hands sprouted frommthe shadows, piercing through Midoriya's chest.
It pulled apart his chest cavity apart, bone and flesh flung in all directions followed by maddening laughter. Midoriya's mangled head was all that was left from he shadow's vile assault, landing in his lap. He could stare as the lone yellowed eye tittered towards him.
"P-Please! Stop this!" He screamed before he looked up. He saw all his friends being torn asunder by the assault of the shadows. He saw Sero hung with his own tape and organs; his intestins ripped and still partially inside him as they were cinched around his neck.
He saw Ashido's corpse; partial dissolved in her own acids. Her hands reaching up to grasp something solid while what was left of her face was contorted in horrified scream.
His eyes were forced to see Ojiro be pulled apart by his tail; hands holding him down as others pulled him by his quirk. A sickening pop was heard before the sound of flesh being torn followed as the tail flew free and blood flowed like a geyser. He saw a once black room covered entirely in the red of someone's blood with a single lone transparent figure of Hagakure in the center.
Half of Todoroki's corpse was blackened with frost bite, the other a charred mess of charcoaled skin. Ejirou was left a smoking twitching corpse with sparks still dancing his chard and blackened body. Jirou's head had imploded as her eyes were filled to the brim with the liquid remains of her brain; the heavy bass making his vision shake as he saw her.
He felt what was in his stomach exit his mouth painfully when saw Uraraka's body explode in a shower of blood and guts as dense pressure caused her body to explode from the inside out. An overblown balloon.
"Enough! Enough! Enough!" He screamed as he slammed his head into the ground. Cold malicious laughter was the darkness' answer. "Please God! Make it stop! Make it stop!"
"Tokoyami! Tokoyami! Wake up! Wake up, ribbit!" His eyes snapped open as he saw a pair of glowing eyes star at him from the darkness. In his panic, he screamed and used Dark Shadow to swat whatever was in front of him. However the figure nimblely dodge the swat before a sudden shock of light blinded Tokoyami and banished Dark Shadow.
"Tokoyami! Are you alright!"
"Dude, we came when we heard the scream!"
Scream? Tokoyami's eyes were a collage of blinding moving colred dots before his vision cleared. Someone turned on the lights to his room, and he saw all of Class 1-A was in his room.
"W-What are you doing here! Everyone get out!" He roared, however no one budged an inch. He noticed that all of them were still in their pajamas, noting the All-amight t-shirt both Midoriya and Bakugou wore in his crazed stupor.
"Tokoyami..." He turned to see Yaoyorozu approach him tentaciely with Asui and Jirou on either side of her. "You were... Causing a disturbance."
"What?"
"Your tucking batshit quirk decided to try and fucking strangle Deku of all people!" Bakugou roared from the back. Kirishima elbowed him sharply.
"What!" His eyes flashed to Midoriya, who looked a little bashful. He noted bruised lines along his collarbone and claw marks over his mouth. "I-I apologize, I had no idea!"
"It's alright," Midoriya said with a small smile. This somehow made him feel even guiltier, the large weight on his shoulder increasing tenfold.
I knew it. It's my fault. All my fault!
"We heard you scream while you sleeping and tried to wake you up, ribbit," Asui explained. He turned and saw that it was her eyes which were glowing in the dark. "Your quirk kept us out though."
Tokoyami just sat in a stunned silence as his classmates explained how Dark Shadow had run rampant in the night. Trying to attack all of them in their sleep; luckily it was Bakugou's explosion and Todoroki's sudden flare up of heat which awoke everyone. They all eventually rescued each other before coming to the screaming Tokoyami's aid.
"Can you explain what happened?" One of Shouji's tentacles came over to ask him. Seeing that caused the horror which occurred in his mind to resurface.
"I... I had a nightmare," he admitted. He expected ridicule, laughter, some sort of negative response to his childish action. He got none, and he saw they only had sympathizing and concerned looks. "It was.. All of you... Dying." He continued with a shudder.
"It was very vivid, I saw each and everyone of you die in such a gruesome manner... It was..." He couldn't finish his sentence as he felt fear seize him up once more. However instead of feeling the coldness of Dark Shadow overcome him, he felt several pairs of arms wrap around him. "What--"
"Sh, we're here," Asui whispered. Tokoyami's eyes widened as he saw all of Class 1-A hold him in a giant group hug.
"Dude, were friends," Denku laughed between Jirou and Kirishima.
"Yes! You can always come to us if you ever feel the need too," Iida affirmed with Uraraka and Midoriya.
"We're always here for you!" Hagakure cheered with Ojirou and Ashdio beside her.
"You can even borrow my--" An arm from Kouda and Satou shur Mineta up before he could say something stupid.
"This is so fucking stupid," Bakugou protested. However he made no move to pull out of the large encompassing arms of Shouji and Sero.
Tokoyami in the center of the pile felt all of his classmates--His friends so close to him. Something warm and familiar welted up in his chest and everyone's combined heartbeats resonated with one another.
Peace. A smile on his beak, he and the rest of Class 1-A fell asleep on his bed. Their arms and hearts intertwined in a bond forged by pain and triumph.
When Aizawa came to check up on why the dorm's silent alarms where in disarray, he found his class still in their encompassing hug. He raised an eyebrow before sighing. He'll lecture them in the morning, for now he'll get his own sleep. He also made a note to tell All-Might, Cementoss, and Ectoplasm to fix the the dorm building again. It seems Tokoyami's quirk had gotten into the pipings and had ripped several walls in its struggle against the class.
"Why does Class B never have to deal with this..." Aizawa sighed.