The halls of UA were quiet as the day finally got rolling after what seemed like an endless argument between bakugou and Iida.
Aizawa stood up ad spoke, "today we will be first taking a english test, then we will get suited up for a combat training session with all might." the test was handed out and the timer started…
After half an hour almost everyone was finished (except for Kaminari and mineta cuz they slack off a ton in classes they deem "boring"). Suddenly a faint voice was heard coming from the hallway, it was like a tune being hummed by a passerby. However, the humming did not stop, it evolved into words, and a song formed outside the door.
A breathy, phantom voice, obviously male, was singing a sad-but cheerful melody:
"When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of
Para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise
Every time she closed her eyes" the tune returned to a hum for a minute.
Aizawa expected it to be some other students playing a prank 'I will have them expelled' he thought. But when he opened the door, nothing waited for him. Only the song continued.
"When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach and the bullets catch in her teeth
Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly every tear a waterfall
In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes
In the night the stormy night away she'd fly" the voice sang
By now the voice had become less distorted, and a cold chill filled the room. And the entire class was huddled around the doorway, peeking into the hallway.
"What the hell? Guys isn't that english?" Kirishima asked. But then, a blue haze had a-massed outside it took the form of a boy, he had glasses, short hair, a flannel shirt and cargo pants on, along with a pair of black dress-shoes
Aizawa shouted, "Hey! Stop right there" but the transparent boy kept walking and singing,
"And dream of para-para-paradise
Para-para-paradise
Para-para-paradise" he sang
Aizawa used his scarf to attempt to subdue the boy, but the scarf just hit the window behind him, and he did not react at all.
But then, the boy stopped to adjust a satchel slung across his torso from his right shoulder, and then returned to humming.
"Hey!" Iida shouted "-As a student of UA you can't be wearing that! You must go change into the UA uniform Immediately!" he commanded
"H-hey Iida?"
"Yes Uraraka?"
"He seems like he does not acknowledge us at all?"
"Hm, maybe he can't hear us?"
"Maybe? But he still didn't see aizawa fail to tie him up."
But then, the mist like figure stopped and turned around. He seemed to be looking at nothing, before falling down.
"Oh my gosh!" ochako yelled, before her, Iida, midoriya and kirishima darted over to him
The figure had dropped what looked to be a rather large stack of notebooks, papers, and a book. The book had slid farthest away from the figure and the four heroes-in-training tried to pick them all, but alas, they too were not able to be held.
"Shit" the blue boy muttered under his breath. as he gathered up all his materials, he had gotten all but the book, and began to franticly look around, saying, "oh no! Mrs. Taylor is gonna kick my ass if i don't finish the book…" the phantom's voice distorted for a moment. It sounded like a very electronic, autotuned, bell, or tone, the UA students couldn't tell exactly.
"Fuck!" the boy muttered, "whatever! I will find it later… today is not my fuckin day." he then grabbed his stack of materials and began to run. However, he very quickly disappeared completely.
"What the?" was the unanimous response from 1-A. As everyone began to gossip over what the hell just happened, Izuku had noticed something odd. A book, a REAL book, laying on the hall floor where the figure disappeared. It was written in english, and had a hardcover with a Dust-cover on top. The dust cover had a painting of a man wearing a helmet and a wool uniform, the background was a grey-brown landscape of splintered trees, and mud. The title was "All Quiet On the Western front" but Izuku didn't know that yet.
"Hey, guys?" he said softly. But the gossip and theories drown him out.
"... He was probably just some extra who fucked up and used his quirk by accident! NoW SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Bakugou said
"H-hey, Guys!" Izuku said again,louder this time.
But, this time only ochako heard him, "what is it deku?" she asked. He held up the book. She gasped quietly, and furrowed her brow in realization/determination. She nodded and breathed in.
"HEY GUYS!" she shouted, catching the attention of 1-A
"Deku found something." she added
Izuku held up the book and said, "This book was on the ground were that guy was. It's in english though, maybe one of you can tell what it is?"
Everyone got to hold, and look at, the book but the most they could get was, "Quiet" and "western". That is, until Yaoyorozu got the parcel. She immediately recognized the man on the dust-cover and said, "WAIT! I Know this soldier's equipment! Well, sorta."
"OUT WITH IT CREATION-TITS!" Bakugou shouted.
"Ugh… anyway, this man's helmet is a german steel helmet from the early 20th century. Oh! And there seems to be some… trenches? here in the background." she pointed to the cover while showing it to the students of 1-A.
(time Skip!)
The next day, the class of 1-A got a explanation of the book from present Mic (the resident english "expert") told them the full name and that he had begun reading it. He also informed them of how he had researched the book on the internet.
"... and, well… nothing." Mic announced
"NOTHING!?" 1-A yelled in bewilderment
"Yep, I can't find ANY reference to the title or the storyline AT ALL. odd, VERY ODD, because it is quite a good novel." Mic responded
"Okay this is too weird" Kaminari commented.
(ANOTHER SKIPEROOO! Why?... CUZ, FUCK-A-YOUUUU!)
The entire school of UA had continued to see this figure repeatedly for weeks after the initial event. And today, Class 1-A was conducting rescue training, when the figure reappeared, however now, he seemed to be sitting on a non-existent chair, and desk. Hunched over, as if writing something. Then, the hazy figure began to sing again,
"I've been reading books of old
The legends and the myths
Achilles and his gold
Hercules and his gifts
Spiderman's control
And Batman with his fists
And clearly I don't see myself upon that list
But she said, where'd you wanna go?
How much you wanna risk?
I'm not looking for somebody
With some superhuman gifts
Some superhero
Some fairytale bliss
Just something I can turn to
Somebody I can kiss
I want something just like this
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Oh, I want something just like this…" but only Izuku, and Yaoyorozu could really understand him. Izuku had been sel-teaching himself english so as to get more info whenever the phantom appeared, just in case he could help the boy if need be. The two seemed to be slightly taken aback by the lyrics. Specifically the implied absurdity of "super human gifts" from the song. This could mean that the song was written by a quirkless person, or maybe that the boy was quirkless. However the latter explanation did not explain how he kept appearing like an oblivious ghost around UA.
But, before they could think further, jiro tried to grab the phantom's shoulder. But she was disappointed when her hand only phased straight through the boy. However, the boy actually seemed to… react to her? Maybe?. He seemed to shiver after her hand went through his left shoulder, and then he darted a look over to his left, even turning around slightly, as if trying to find the source of the disturbance.
"Wait… Hello?" Jiro asked
No response, he continued to look around, slowly calming down.
"Hello? Can you hear me?..."
No response. She found out that it was futile, and began to back away from the phantom.
"Hmm?" the ghost-like boy sounded as he snapped his attention to his original orientation, as if looking up at a person who wasn't there. Further catching the renewed intrigue of the class
"O-oh. sorry Mr. Isacc. Just a small chill, sorry." the boy said. He then hunched back over and returned to his original actions. Just then, he disappeared once again. This further intrigued the class. And now that All Might finally got his first look at the infamous "Ghost of UA"(though no records of school alumni, from the schools founding, to the present, even resembled the boy who had been popping up everywhere in the high school.) he felt that he could truly start an investigation into the matter. But, today had a hero exercise to be done, this could wait till tomorrow.
The next day, the class of 1-A had started the day as normal. Waking up in their dorms, getting dressed, eating, and getting through homeroom. The class had gotten 4/5ths of the way through english class with present Mic, when the boy appeared once more.
The phantom had suddenly phased through the class door, causing everyone to be startled by the unexpected visit. The boy seemed to be in a rush, and seemed to be mumbleing as well. He had only made it halfway across the room before he violently flickered, and warped in image. He gained colors other than a hazy sky-blue, and stumbled a bit.
*SLAM* the boy had walked, face-first, into the window on the other side of the classroom. This caused him to drop all his note-books, papers, etc. and grabbed his face in pain.
"AAAAGH! Son of a-, OW! What the?!" he yelled. He looked up to see a window and a un-familiar city-scape outside it. He instantly became panicked.
"WHAT THE HELL! WHERE AM I-" he turned to see the entire class of 1-A and the loud english teacher they had atm. "WAIT! WHO ARE YOU! W-w-w-" he fumbled over his words with anxiety.
"SHUT UP YOU FUCKING EXTRA!" Bakugou screamed. The new-arrival responded by shouting a scared yelp, followed by him stumbling backwards. He had tripped and slammed his head on the corner of the front desk.
"WHAA!" *smack*
The boy had been immediately surrounded by the majority of 1-A, they were surprised by the sudden interaction and subsequent injury.
"OH SHIT! What the hell baku-bro?!" Kirishima shouted at the explosive blonde.
"Not my fault the idiot can't handle his own quirk!" he snapped back
"OHMYGOD! GUYSHES B-B-BLEEDING!" Mineta screamed like a little baby-back bitch
Iida instantly took action. He hoised the stranger onto his shoulder, and told thee rest of 1-A, "Classmates! As your class-rep I will take the responsibility of getting this person to Recovery Girl! Could someone please gather his things and take them to her as well! Farewell friends!" Iida proclaimed before darting out the class and straight to the nurses office.
Izuku decided to start getting the boy's things together, with the help of kirishima and the girls of 1-A. While pretty much everyone else was busy talking about the stranger. After about two-and-a-half minutes later they had gotten everything into one stack and Izuku ran out into the hallway, taking the new person's items to him as fast as possible…
THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE THE "PHANTOM's" POV on the situation AS WELL AS A TRUE REVEAL OF THE STORIES PREMISE ;)