Chapter 3 (Male Version): Training with Laura

Laurick Anderson decided to meet up with Laura.

"I'm leaving now," you say.

"Be careful, Laurick."

You head to the parking area in the hotel, and call a self-driving car to pick you up.

It didn't take long before the self-driving car arrived. You get in and tell the computer the address of where you're going.

While you were on the way, you got a call from your bodyguard.

"Hey, what's up?" You ask.

"Where are you? I'm seeing you on GPS and you're in a car."

"Didn't I tell you I'm about to meet this hero called 'Laura'?" you say.

"Oh yeah, you said something about that, my bad. Good luck on your trip." the bodyguard answered.

You ended the call and continued your ride.

After several minutes of driving, you arrived at the destination. The house/shop looked fairly old, but it seemed well maintained.

Outside of this shop stood Laura, waiting for you. You noticed that her hair was burning with a green fire. You could feel its intensity all the way from the car.

"I'll be right out," you say to the computer.

You got out of the car and immediately she turned towards you.

"Hey, where's your bodyguard?" she asks.

Laurick Anderson says "Well, he kinda has completed his mission, unless you want me to have him around in case of more assassins."

"Laura: "They wouldn't dare touch this place. So, how have you been?"

"I'm fine, but some assholes tried to assassinate me."

"I heard! It's all over the news, that's why I called you."

"Really?"

"Yeah. So, you ready for your training?"

You nod your head in awe. "I sure am."

She walks towards the door and it opens before her. It leads to a stairway downward. She motions you to follow her.

"After you." she said.

You continued to follow her.

The door closes behind you and locks automatically. You can hear the sound of the locks engaging from the inside.

"Locked automatically, huh? I'm guessing you don't want anyone coming in, or out," you say.

"You'd be right about that."

Laurick Anderson says "By the way, after I'm done with my training. Can you help me with having me enter a hero academy?"

"Huh?" she asks quizzically.

"I want to enroll into a hero academy."

"You do know you have to get a recommendation and pass several exams, right?"

"Yes, I do, but I was hoping you would help me."

She smiled and waved her hand sideways. "You're in luck then, I happen to know someone who can help, just let me take care of training you first."

"Okay" you answered as you were looking forward to control your quirk Nightmare Manipulation. As you have no memories of controlling it, rather it has made you suffer since that event.

"Now, let's get to it."

You nod your head in eagerness.

She starts explaining how she was able to control her quirk, and that you should try to see how her fire burns.

You look at the green flames on her hand and try to feel it, you concentrate with your mind and created some nightmare bullets with your hand.

The bullets shoot out of your finger tips and fly towards Laura, however it missed Laura. She looks at you with confusion.

"Sorry!"

"Tch. I can tell this is going to take a while."

She looks down a bit sadly, but then returns to her normal self.

Laurick Anderson says "You see, I'm not that great at controlling my quirk, especially in stressful moments."

"Your quirk? Oh, you mean your Nightmare Manipulation?"

"Yeah, that."

You start feeling the fire on her hand, but nothing really happens. Instead, you feel a bit of pain coming from your fingertips.

"Ouch!" you yell as you hold your hands to prevent the fire from burning you further.

"Oh dear, sorry about that," Laura says.

You could tell she was quite worried.

Laurick Anderson says "You know that your fire is very intense, don't you?"

"Yeah, that's why I can only use it during the day."

You look at her face and tried to see if she's telling the truth.

She was lying, in fact she could use it no matter what the time was. Perhaps, she feared that you'd use it as a mean to manipulate her.

You also noticed that she was very easy to read. It would be very easy to lie to her and tell her anything.

However, you still wanted to master your quirk, so no more bad situations happen as a cause of your quirk.

You start concentrating on the fire again, and this time; you manage to put it out. The pain in your fingertips subsides as well.

"See? You can do it when you try."

This puzzled you, as you didn't know what happened just now. You could see that the fire went out, but you couldn't feel it. You took your hand away and saw no burn mark.

You tilted your head to the side with curiosity.

"How... What just happened?" you ask.

"You extinguished it, didn't you? You just have to think of something else, although I'm sure that takes a lot of your concentration, right?"

"Yeah..."

You of course knew that you extinguished it, but didn't know how it was extinguished. Was that some sort of a trick that she just pulled right now?

"I don't think I'll ever get this..."

"You will. It just takes time and training."

Laurick Anderson says "How does that help my training on mastering my quirk?"

"You see how much you're improving? You didn't think you could put out the fire just now, did you?"

She was right.

Laurick Anderson says "How is that an improvement?"

"I was talking about your mental strength, but now that I think about it, perhaps you won't get dizzy as easy as you used to."

"Oh..."

Laurick Anderson says "My mental strength? Ah, I see now. So that's why you wanted me to extinguish that fire by using my mind. By the way, is that one of the abilities to the nightmare commanders that resides in me?"

"Nightmare commanders?"

"Yeah, that’s what my nightmares call themselves."

"Ok, well its correct that you do have the ability to command nightmares, but you are far from mastering it."

"Of course, why do you think I'm here."

"Hah, anyway, yes you have a strong mental strength. This was one of your father's abilities as well, although it may have been stronger than yours, however that is something you can train on."

Laurick Anderson says "YOU KNEW MY FATHER!!?? Tell me more about him."

Laurick Anderson continued to say "I only remember him slightly from my childhood; however I didn't manage to know so much about him before he died."

"I see..."

She started to remember her past. It's a shame that you didn't know your father.

"You lived with him for seven years though."

"I know, but I barely knew him. All memories of him that I have are mostly just brief moments."

"He was a hero, he saved me, and many others from the hands of the villains. He probably saved the entire world."

"I wish I could've known more about him," you say with a sigh.

"Me too..."

She was quiet for a few moments, then she continued.

"Before he died... He told me to take care of you. He loved you very much."

"He did?"

"Yes, he did."

She was looking at you straight in the eyes as she said this. You could see the tears start to form in her eyes.

"Thanks for telling me." you say.

"You're welcome."