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"It is a sad day for all the students and teachers at U.A high. As you all know, class 1A had an incident with the league of villains. Everyone did what they could do to try and stop them. Despite our efforts, only one of the two students who were kidnapped, were rescued. After weeks of searching for our missing student, her body was found all alone in an alleyway. We are all gathered here today to honour our beloved classmate, daughter, student, sister or friend and the life she had." Principal Nezu spoke.

He paused to get his lantern.

"Now if you all could get out your lanterns, raise them up to the sky and remember our dear Zella. Not for what she could've been, but for what she already was. A hero."

"Tears everywhere by her classmates and family. All of Japan is with you Ms Mikio, you will be missed." a news reporter at the scene announced.

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The thick and heavy snow was making it hard to see where she was going. Zella didn't know how she ended up here. The last thing she remembers was falling and waking up in the middle of nowhere covered in snow. She didn't know how for long she had been walking.

After walking for a while more, she started to feel dizzy and passed out. But right before she did, a voice was heard not too far away.

"Hey, you! What are you doing out here?"

Before Zella could respond she was out cold.

She slowly opened her eyes and found herself in a big comfy bed.

"I'm glad you're awake." a young girl about her age said.

The girl had long dark hair, thick eyebrows, enchanting green eyes and pale skin. She was kinda small but still looked like she trained a lot.

Confused and still not feeling well, Zella was quiet. She looked around the room and analysed it. Very medieval looking place, carpets old but fancy, stone walls and golden lamps. But one thing caught her eye. A katana on the wall. The handle was carved with dark blue flower designs and the cover was leather and old looking.

It was beautiful.

"How are you feeling?" the girl asked.

She caught Zella staring at it and waved at her face to get her attention. As she snapped out of it she looked at the girl with a just as confused face as before.

"I'm alright." she answered.

"What's you name?"

"Im-" Zella started.

She couldn't believe it and sat silently in shock, looking down at the floor. She couldn't remember her name. As a matter of fact she couldn't remember anything. How she got in this bed, who this girl in front of her was or who she was.

Speechless, Zella looked up to the girl again and said-

"I don't know."

Stressed out and anxious Zella looked up to the katana on the wall again. The patterns seemed to calm her down.

"You like it huh?" the girl said.

She nodded.

"Well, I'm Anastasia. But you can call me Anna." the green eyed girl said smiling and reached her hand out for Zella to grab.

Zella slowly shook it and the girl gestured her to follow out the room.

They walked through the halls of what looked like a palace. Stone walls with even more golden lamps on it. Zella couldn't help but look around even more, the place was creepy but beautiful in its own way.

"You know, I thought your entire head was covered in snow when I saw how white it was." the dark haired girl said breaking the ice.

"After I removed it all while you were sleeping I tried to remove more even though there was nothing to remove!" she said laughing.

"Turns out you were just a snow haired girl."

Zella just looked at the girl, trying to force a smile on her face. It was still a little frozen.

After a while the girls made it to another room which seemed to be a gym. There were sparring dummies all over the place and people training. Anna led Zella to a man training at the very far end of the gym.

"She woke up, dad!" Anna said happily.

The man turned around drying his face with a towel. He looked at Zella, how fragile, confused and sad she looked. He reached out with his hand for her to take.

"I am Eisen Akito, what's your name dear?"

Nervous, Zella looked down to the ground again. She shook her head, feeling a lump in her throat.

"I... I-I can't remember anything about myself." she managed to get out.

The man just looked at her again, putting his hand on her head before saying-

"It's okay, you'll get a fresh start here."

Zella slowly looked up before giving him a slight smile.

Before she could say anything else, Anna pulled out the katana from the room.

"Where did she get that from?"

"Let's start with this, you seemed to like it a lot." she said.

Her father grabbed it from her slowly.

"It's yours if you want." he said, turning to face Zella again.

Zella looked at it with her deep blue eyes that were as blue as the pattern on the sword in front of her. She slowly took it out of his hands and drew it out. She looked into the blade returning the icy look.

"Welcome to your new home, Katana."