บท 6: 5. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

——————-Red pov:

After we got home my mom stopped right in front of the door and asked me " do you really want to go through with your dream?" 'How did this old bear find out what i was thinking?' *sigh* i steel myself and i look her straight in the eye, i know that if she is not pleased with my answer then i can kiss my hero dream goodbye.

Red: " Yes! I want to be the very best, like no one ever was!" I state boldly with all of my will

I can see some conflicting emotions in her eyes and i start to get worried that she might turn me down, but she looks at me with the same eyes she usually looks at my father when he does something stupid, and she said " all right you brat, but i'm not going to help you train. This path that you decided on has to be walked by you and you alone, i can't hold your hand forever." A small hint of sadness appears in her eyes with that last part, but just like that it's gone, replaced with a stone cold look that actually fills me with confidence. 'Because i know that if she's not worried about me then it must mean that i'm more than capable of achieving my dream!'

After that we had lunch and i told my dad about my dream, i thought he took it well but he looked at me with the same look my mom gave me before. He reached his hand forward to my head and ruffled my hair while he said to me " ahh you really have grown up haven't you? Very well! Then i shall support you with all my heart!" And then out of the corner of my eyes i saw four of what looked like wrist bands appear out if nothing, he grabbed them and looked at me while he said " happy birthday son, i was going to make something else but after learning about your ambitions i must support you fully!" I took the black wristbands and looked at them for a while...and then it clicked in my head ' no way! These are the famous gravity items that make the main character progress at amazing speeds!' I looked at my dad with stars in my eyes and thanked him 50 million times while he looked at my amused face.

Red: " so dad, how do i actually use them?" He took one of them and placed it on my wrist and he said that i should just think about increasing my gravity slightly... i closed my eyes and focused all of my mental power into doing exactly that.. and suddenly *bam* i face-planted the ground because i was only expecting my arm to have increased gravity! NOT MY WHOLE DAMN BODY!

After shakily standing up while my body begged me not to, i looked at my parents and i say them holding back tears of laughter... damn old farts played me for a fool!... i will get my revenge! Just you wait!

Noticing my icy glare they stopped with the banter and looked at me seriously, my mom spoke up first and said " you better take this seriously because my son can't be a useless push over!" Now it was my dad's turn to speak and he said " you've got this son! I know that soon i'll be able to brag about how my son can beat all might with his eyes closed!" While giving me a big thumbs up.

After that i told them that i was going to train in the back yard of the house. My plan was to first test out [Hail] to see what it could do and them practise my transformation. Lucky for me the back yard was massive at the request of my animal mom that liked to let loose sometimes.

—————-Red pov: outside

Well i can finally start training seriously! First let's try transforming and using [Hail] to see what i'm working with. *Sigh* i don't think i will ever get bored of transforming like that, i look towards a nice open field and think about using [Hail] i see a big dark cloud form over my head covering about 1 km and i can feel a slight connection with the storm, i decide to pull on it's power a little and a big hail storm of sharp ice starts to fall, i instinctively try to doge some of them but when a shard of ice is about to hit me it just bounces of my skin as if i was made of iron. ' well i should have expected as much'.

Apart from Beartic being an ice type pokemon i also have the [Snow Cloak] ability that gives me a boost of speed while in a hail storm and protects me from the damage regardless of my typing. Some of the poor trees that were in the way weren't as lucky judging from some of the branches that fell off. ' so... it has good power and i can toggle the barrage of hail at will, not only that but i also get a speed boost from it' good i can work with this. I grin to myself as i stop supplying power to the storm ' and it also doesn't take that much of the energy that i use for my attacks, probably because of my ice type'. Next i decided to practice my transformation skills to see if i could begin making partial transformations instead of the complete one.

And after 1 hour of practice i got the hang of it, all it took was some focus and imagery of what exactly i wanted to do and my body followed. It also seems that after the first time i can just do it as simple as breathing. So i practiced turning both of my arms and i saw them change quite quickly into a smaller version of my full transformation.

Red: ' haha if anyone saw this they would probably think i have a mutation type quirk' both of my arms now had a white fur coat that was shiny and fluffy but don't let that fool you that same fur is as strong as a rock, even the skin below it turned thicker and stronger. I look towards where my palms used to be and i find that i have a big paw with 4 fingers contrary to my 5 in my human form and the 3 that i get in my full form, i tense my fingers and black shiny claws come out of the tips.

I wanted to test the power of my basic claws without using any moves, so i walked up to a tree and slashed it with my hand...paw...thing. And the result was a satisfactory deep gash that cleanly followed my movement ' okay so even without using my moves i still have a very good amount of power, that's good news for me and my training' after that i retracted my claws and made a big fist the size of my face, i pulled my arm back making sure i put the right amount of distance between me and the tree...and *bam* the tree shook wildly with some leaves coming off it, i looked towards my fingers to see if i had any damage and as expected there was nothing, i then looked at the tree and i could see that there was a nice clean print of where my fist had collided with it.

Red: ' hmm okay this should be about the same power as a basic strength enhancement quirk, even without any idea about how to throw a punch i could still do some heavy damage' i get excited at the idea of learning martial arts from a specific pro hero. ' he should match perfectly with my quirk!'

Now i decided to try and transform my arms and my legs at the same time, so i focused a bit more and just like that i stood a lot taller that my usual height of 109 cm, instead i was 120 cm, so basically i was as tall as a 8 year old! I felt a lot more powerful than before so i decided to try and see how fast i could run...but

Red: ' i'm even slower than a Torterra *sigh* it must be because i only have about 50 speed, so i guess that's something to work on. I can't be moving that slowly in the heat of the moment'

After some of my tests were done i decided to see if another one of my theories were correct, so i focused in changing into a [Cubchoo] the first evolution of Beartic... i slowly felt something happening... and before i realised it i turned into 0.51 m white bear cub with a big line of snot dripping down from my nose. ' huh so i guess it really did work, maybe i can implement this into my fighting style'

I turn back into my partial form with my arms and legs from Beartic and i decide to start training [Hail] while i run around, ' the first thing i need is to make sure my speed is higher while [Hail] is active so i can learn how to use my energy more efficiently, and i while i'm at it i can practise using my attacks properly while i move'

At fist my speed was slow but steady as i got insane amounts of stamina thanks to Beartic being a strong pokemon so this allowed me to train until my parents called me to eat as the sun was setting

=========Red pov: in his bedroom

Ahh i needed that shower badly and my mom's cooking once again is out of this world. Now that i know some of my weaknesses i can start working on them, actually now that i think about it i never really checked if the old man gave me a status screen did i? I cringe at how useless i can be sometimes. *sigh* [Status]... aand nothing happened then.. how about [Stats]

*ding*

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Name: Red Curtis

Age : 4

Spins: 0

HP = 95 -> 98

Attack = 110 -> 111

Defence = 80

Sp. Attack = 70 -> 75

Sp. Defence = 80

Speed = 50 -> 55

Pokemon = - Beartic - Empty - xxxx - xxxx - xxxx - xxxx

Type = Normal - Ice

Attacks = [Growl 0/10] - [Endure 2/10] - [Slash 1/10] - [Hail 2/10] - [Swagger 0/10] - [Superpower 0/10] - [Yawn 0/10] - [Snore 4/10] - [Rest 4/10]

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I was speechless for a while... i mean did i really improve that much by just training half a day? No no, it must be because i'm just starting that my body is making major improvements. Apart from my stats... why have some of my attacks gone up in proficiency? I understand [Slash] and [Hail] as i was testing them before... but [Endure], [Snore] and [Rest] i haven't really used them... wait! maybe i'm using them without thinking! Yes that must be it! [Endure] must have gone up because of my mom, i sweat drop a little as i think about it, and the other 2 i must be using in my sleep.

But now this changes everything!

Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day huhu, i think as i slowly let sleep take me to dream land.

========Sig pov:

Ahh using my powers to put a noice cancelling spell in his room was the best idea Izumi had in a long time! No more ear piercing snoring!

======and just like that the whole house was asleep... or was it?

In Red's room a small ball of white hair can be seen moving about looking for a nice spot to sleep...And after a while he... 'finally found it! Ahh what a blissful spot! Such comfort is out of this world!' Thinks the ball of white fur as it drifts to sleep in the most comfortable spot ever...

======== Red pov:

Damn it's kinda hot in my room today...oh well i'll just use a bit of ice breath to sleep better... as he blows out some nice and cool air in the room.