[closed] we were at the table by the window with the view

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🧙 WHO: Midoriya Izuku & Friends
⚔️️ WHAT: Closed catch all log for the month of September! If you would like a thread you can find me on the cr meme for plotting.
🕒 WHEN: Throughout the month of September
🗺️ WHERE: Where theses threads take place
⚠️ WARNINGS: tbh

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[Izuku does his best to hang on however he can. It's a bumpy ride but a unicorn is graceful enough that at least Izuku doesn't get bucked off at the wrong time. He is more surprised that the mythical-looking animal is able to carry both of them so effortlessly and move so fast. Unicorns are incredible.

When they slide to a stop Izuku also dismounts and comes to them with desperate worry in his eyes. He lets the mother and Tifa tend to the baby as to not crowd them and instead looks around in the immediate area for danger.]

Maybe... Somehow they were separated. I'm thinking it was the work of the poachers too. I think we managed to slow them down. But... We have to stop them and bring them in.

[It's not over yet. Izuku clenches his teeth.]

I'll go, you should stay with the mother and the baby, Tifa-san.

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But...

[Tifa's eyes move to his shoulder, where she'd seen the long, violent tendrils of blood shooting out of him, and for a moment, her stomach turns over with concern... As the mother tends to the baby, she checks on him, pressing fingers gently to his injured shoulder to test it out.]

You'll be alright?

[She knows better than to question or try to stop anyone around here, even more so when their minds are made up, but that won't stop her from worrying.]

I can take care of the poachers, if you want to stay with them. Get them back to safety...

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I'll be alright.

[Izuku says this with a determined nod and to try and gently dismiss her idea. He has to make up for his mistake and do better. As the person he is and as the hero he wants to be. He can't let the poachers get away and he can't let his magic get the better of him again either. He has to press on and prove he can do it. It shows in Izuku's face the resolve he has as he clenches his fists.]

I won't let them get away with this and I won't let my magic stop me again. And someone should stay with the baby to make sure it recovers. You've done a lot to help me, Tifa-san. Let me do the same.

[Seems she's right. It's hard to change anyone's mind. Especially a boy like Izuku who's whole dream is to be a proper hero.]

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[His resolve does nothing to shake her worries, but Tifa relents easily enough. He's right—someone will need to stay behind with the mother and her baby, both to make sure they can recover safely and to fend off any poachers who either get past Izuku, or have already started making their way through the shadows of the trees.

She gives him a firm nod in return, and remembers the words she'd said to a good friend of hers.]

If you're going to play the hero... [Her lips quirk up into a smile.] Then you gotta be better.

If you run into any trouble, you call back for help, you hear me?

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[Somehow those words really hit him where he needs it. A smile appears on Izuku's face. He looks determined but softer now. Ready, but careful now.]

I'll be better, Tifa-san. And I'll be back before you know it. I promise.

[He'll be sure to call if anything happens. But for now, he'll leave her here to take off into the expanse of the trees again. At a pretty fast pace for a kid, too.]

we can prob start wrapping this

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You better be.

[Tifa wastes no time in trying to help the smaller unicorn, the materia in her gloves shimmering uselessly when she wishes that they would work. Even if she had healing magic here, she would be too afraid to use it, and so all she can do is put more pressure on the wound as the mother uses her magic to close it, and Tifa is right there at its side to help it stand on its legs again, wobbly as it is.

By the time Izuku comes back, neither Tifa nor the unicorns will be there. Not for a while, at least. She'll return sometime later alone after having helped them find refuge in the shadows of the trees, her own arms and legs a bit scratched up from the unruly branches that caught her on the way.

When she sees him, she brushes herself off.]

I got them to safety. Somewhere people shouldn't be able to find them.

wrapping! 🎀

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[Izuku is a reckless force at his best and at his worst. He'll push himself to get through the trees and find those poachers before they can get too far. He knows he can't just let them off the hook because of his own injury. A hero wouldn't leave a job half done. Luck seems to be on their side since when he returns to the campsite where they had been found it seems a few of them are still knocked out from the fight and Tifa's magic. He lets out an uneasy breath but with a smidge of gratefulness for her quick thinking.

It'll be easy work to apprehend them from here. Izuku uses Alchemy magic to bound them safely and sends word to the authorities in the city of where they can be handled. He'll wait for the horseback riders to pick them up before heading back to where he could meet with Tifa.

He looks happily tired. A smudge of dirt across his forehead. Don't worry, he's looked worse than this before.]

I've got them handled too, Tifa-san. Thanks to both of us they won't be causing any more trouble around here.

[He smiles, a glimmer of a normal boy under it all. These two make a pretty good team...]

Thank you for your help.