Rosewhip889: Okay guys, please don't hate me for starting a new story while the others are still unfinished, but I recently became hooked on the anime My Hero Academia, and then an idea for an All MightxOC story popped into my head, and now it just won't leave and it won't allow me to work on any of my other stories! Also, I'm basing this off the dubbed version, and since I've only seen one dubbed episode so far- watching it on Toonami - updating will be SLOW, the same with the rest of my stories. As to my stories, the only ones that are NOT on hiatus is my ThunderCats and this one; writer's block SUCKS. On another note, All Might does have his injury here, but he hasn't aged past 25; that way, things aren't weird

All Might (bursts in): Never fear, for I am here! (spits blood and turns into his normal form)

Rosewhip889: sighs All Might, chill the hell out; you're embarrassing to watch. Just read out the disclaimer, please.

All Might: Certainly. ROSEWHIP889 DOES NOT OWN MY HERO ACADEMIA OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATED CHARACTERS; SHE ONLY OWNS WHATEVER OC SHE MAY PUT IN.

Rosewhip889: Thanks, All Might. Now, onto the story!

Summary: In a world filled with Quirks, there's also soul mates-each person has one, but there are only two clues; one is the shape that the marks take, which differs for each pair. The other way is through direct eye contact. Enter Tania Ashikaga, a girl born with the Quirk ability to transform into any animal she wishes. The night before her 7th birthday, her entire clan is destroyed, with the exception of her. Left to survive on her own for fourteen years, she makes her way towards the closest city, which is Musutafu, which is about 30 miles from her home, where she is swept up in the life of Izuku Midoriya and his teacher, All Might, who just so happens to be her mate! Unbeknownst to them, Tania is being hunted by the League of Villains, the ones responsible for her clans death; can she keep everyone that she holds dear safe or will the Villains somehow manage to destroy it? Rated M for Mature scenes and language. Story contains romance, comedy, action and adventure. All MightxOC. Story starts before season 1 but combines both the first and second episodes.

Action

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Com-link talk"

The Last Shifter

Chapter One: What It Takes to Be a Hero

~STORY START~

~TANIA'S P.O.V.~

It was supposed to be an awesome day; it was the day before my seventh birthday, and my Quirk had finally manifested. When I showed my mother, she was ecstatic, because she had been afraid that I would potentially be bullied, despite the fact that I had my Soul Mark.. In my case, my mark was in the shape of a wolf and bunny lying next to each other, sleeping, on my right side, right on my ribs. I was on my way to talk to my brother, to show him my Quirk when the world around me suddenly exploded into flames and smoke. I was blown backwards and, in the confusion and panic as screaming filled the air, I activated my Quirk and transformed into a small wolf cub, since the house was situated in the woods about near the practice cities that UA High had for its students. When I hit the ground, I stood up and stared, in shock; every house in the vicinity was either demolished or on fire. Suddenly, I heard yelling and a heroes flooded the clearing.

"Search for any survivors! Put out those fires; make sure none of the embers land in the forest!" A female with long blue-black hair calls out. I hunkered down and slunk off towards the forest to hide. On my way, I passed by a massive muscular man, whose strange eyes had me pausing.

He appeared to be at least seven feet tall, and was wearing skin-tight blue suit decorated with a red symbol that somewhat resembled a "Y". The symbol appeared to be designed with a white diamond at its center, with white lines connected to it that seemed to trace from his chest to his back shoulders. The lines were trimmed with the red symbol. The symbol appeared to have wings on the sides that ran from atop his torso before ending around his back. Over his back was a similar red and white design absent of the white diamond. Large white patches with red trims covered each side of his hips before ending at his lower thighs. He wore a gold belt that had a silver buckle with red eyes. His forearm sleeves were colored in gold that each had white lines covered in blue accents over his wrists. He had spiked fins on the sides of his arms and his feet were covered in shin-length gold boots trimmed with white and red accents. His eyes, which were what had originally caught my interest, were a vivid blue set in black. His hair was blonde with his bangs spiking up and back, which helped in shadowing his eyes but kinda made him look like a bunny. I took a step, breaking a twig, and his eyes shot towards me. When his eyes found mine, I froze as it felt as if something was forming in the back of my mind. I watched as his eyes widened and I suddenly became scared, scared of what was happening and I ran, ignoring the man's frantic calls. When I came to a small pond, I stopped and stared at my reflection; my fur was completely black with streaks of silver and blonde while the fur on my paws was white. My eyes were a storm blue-gray, and I had a small yellow crescent mark in the middle of my forehead while silver lined my eyes. I glanced at my side and saw that my Mate mark was there and was only outlined in white. Shaking myself, I headed deeper into the woods, unsure of what to do now.

Over the course of 9 long years, I stayed in animal form during the day, but was human at night; my mother had told me to do that because our family had a tendency of remaining in animal form for too long, and some members have actually forgotten themselves and had to be re-taught. I stole from campers and the random hero-in-training camps that happened; I was always in animal form when I did that. When I started bleeding monthly, I stayed in animal form for the entire duration. I also hung around camps whenever I saw little kids working on homework, and when no one was around, stole a couple pieces of paper for myself to practice my reading an writing. I finally found myself by UA, the high school that created heroes. It was bright out, and the streets were filled with people. Darting through the crowd, I came upon a pile of old clothes that were being thrown away. Rifling through the pile with my snout, I quickly pulled out a t-shirt, a pair of pants, a pair of ratty shoes and a baggy hoodie. Holding the clothes in my mouth, I took off for the nearest empty alleyway. As I ran, I suddenly heard someone scream; I'm not sure what it was that made me do it, but I changed direction. When I turned a corner, I saw that there some kind of sludge creature trying to drown a kid in a tunnel about 20 feet away from me. I dropped the clothes and as I took a step, a manhole lid suddenly flew up and smacked the back of the creature's head.

"Have no fear, you are safe." I heard a deep male voice say, and I pricked my ears up; that voice tickled something in the back of my head, but I didn't have time to figure it out, for I heard a stomp and wind swirled around in the tunnel. "Now that I'm here, that is." The voice continued. I couldn't really see what was going on, but suddenly the sludge blew away as the voice yelled out, "Texas... SMASH!" I braced myself against the wind, lowering my head and closing my eyes.

When it died down, I opened my eyes and picked my head up in time to see a tall muscular person scooping the sludge into a soda pop bottle. Then he walked forward and that was when I saw the prone lying outside the tunnel; I leaped forward and ran up right as the person leaned down over the prone figure. As I got closer, I noticed that it was a man, and his hair looked extremely familiar, but I couldn't place it. The man reached down and started smacking the figure on the face. I stopped by the man and saw the figure; it was a boy, about 15 years old, which was the same age as me. He had fair skin with freckles, green hair and was wearing a black school uniform, red shoes and a yellow book bag was on his back. Suddenly, the tall man reached down and started to smack the kid on his left cheek.

"Hey, wake up. Hey!" The man said, and after a couple smacks, the kid woke up. "Thought we lost you there!" He exclaimed, lifting his hand up, and the kid stared, stunned, before scooting back with a scream.

'The fuck is up with this kid?' I thought, but seeing as how he was okay, I shook myself and trotted back to where I had dropped the clothes. Luckily, that gust of wind hadn't scattered them too far, so I started gathering them back up. I ignored whatever the hell the two were doing, so when I suddenly heard another scream, I looked up in time to see the muscular man flying through the air with the boy attached to his legs; my jaw dropped and the clothes fell to the ground. After a couple minutes, I shook myself and gathered up the clothes. Carrying them over to the tunnel, I shifted back to human and quickly pulled the clothes on; they were a little baggy on me, so I tied the shirt to one of belt loops. Right as I was pulling on the hood part of the hoodie up over my head, I heard an explosion off in the distance; my head flew up and I took off, completely forgetting about the shoes. I looked up as I ran, and saw a large cloud of smoke, so I headed in that direction. I turned a corner, only to see a large group of people. I ran up behind them, and when I peered between each person, my breath caught in my throat; it was the sludge creature from earlier! He was surrounded by flames, with heroes standing all around, not doing anything.

"Wait, I'm confused. Isn't that the villain that All Might was chasing earlier today?" I heard a random male ask and my eyes widened.

'That man must've been All Might. But... he caught this creature!' I thought and then caught sight of a mop of ashy-blonde hair. The hair moved upwards, revealing the upper part of a kid's face, and then the kid opened their eyes and I caught sight of fear-filled red eyes, eyes that were asking for help; I didn't even think. I surged forward, springing past a sickly-looking blonde, and as I leaped forward, I shifted into my wolf form, shedding the clothes easily, and then plowing through the crowd, pushing past the heroes as they all stood around.

"No, you idiots! Stop! You're gonna get yourselves killed!" I heard someone behind me yell, and I glanced behind me; the kid from earlier was racing right behind me with tears in his eyes.

"Not this brat again." I heard the villain in front of me claim as we got closer. " You're toast, kid!" He cried and raised a tentacle. The kid caught up to me as I jumped over a small fire and as I looked at him, he pulled his bag off and threw it right in the villain's face; a yellow and purple striped book with the words "All Might" hit the thing in the eye and its grip instantly loosened on the ash-blonde kid, revealing another high school boy, who instantly started coughing and gasping for air.

"Kacchan!" The green-haired boy cried out as we reached the sludge and I snarled before grabbing a mouth full of nasty-tasting sludge and dug my claws in, attempting to claw it away so that the kid could get free. Green hair started frantically clawing at the sludge as well, trying to free the ash-blonde kid.

"What the hell? Why are you here?" Kacchan demanded/asked as I jumped down and surged to the other side to help the green-haired boy.

"I don't know! My legs... They just started... moving!" He answered before grinning at Kacchan with tears in his eyes. "Kacchan! I couldn't just stand there and watch you die!" He exclaimed and I spat out a mouthful of sludge. With a snarl, I leaped up and ripped some sludge away, freeing the kid up a bit, before more sludge moved back into place, and a large mouth quickly covered part of Kacchan's face.

"Get the hell off of me!" Kacchan screamed, and then an eye stared down at us.

"Just a little bit longer, kid. And I'm done playing with you!" The sludge villain cried out, lifting a tentacle, and I jumped into of the green-haired kid, planting my feet in front of him.

"Over my dead body will you hurt him!" I snapped, my wolf throat making my words sound weird, but it didn't seem to matter; the sludge brought the tentacle down right at us, and the kid cowered behind him as I crouched, ready to rip and claw. There was a sudden explosion as I was pushed back and my hind end hit the kid's legs. All I could see was dust and smoke in my face, causing me to close my eyes.

"I really am pathetic." I heard a deep male voice state and my eyes snapped open and I looked up to see the man known as All Might standing between us and the villain. His right hand was wrapped in sludge and his left arm was extended in front us; it appeared that he'd taken the blow, seeing as how there was steam coming off his arms. I heard the boy behind me gasp in shock; feeling was mutual.

"All Might. But..." He dwindled off while looking at the massive man in front of us.

"I told you the traits that make a great champion..." He drifted off as he struggled to raise his right arm. "But I see now that I wasn't living up to my own ideal." He finished as he ripped his right arm free. He reached out and grabbed both boys by the arms with his left hand. "Pros are always risking their lives! That's the true test of a hero!" He yelled, blood flying from his mouth as he raised his right arm.

"Damn you, All Might!" The sludge yelled and wind started to surround All Might's right fist; I quickly plastered myself against and between his legs, bracing for the impact.

"Detroit... SMASH!" All Might yelled and I closed my eyes as wind filled the area. I felt my feet slide a little bit and I hunkered down even more; suddenly it felt like one of the legs folded, securing me even more. After what felt like an eternity, the wind finally died down, and I could hear heavy panting. Opening an eye about halfway, I noticed that the sludge villain was gone, and that all of the fires had been put out as well. Opening both eyes fully, I slowly moved out from my position, and noticed that the two boys were lying on the ground behind All Might. I turned to look at him, and finally paid attention to him for the first time today.

He was wearing a white t-shirt that was form fitting, but the sleeves were in tatters. He was also wearing green cargo pants with a belt that had a large silver belt buckle in the shape of an A and brown boots. At the moment, he had steam rising from his right arm from the attack that he'd just unleashed and he was also down on his right knee; must've been what helped keep me in place. Suddenly, I noticed the skies turn a dark gray and as I looked up, it started to rain.

"You... somehow changed the weather. I said softly before lowering my head to look at him, his head still bowed. "How powerful are you?" I asked softly, taking a step forward as he wiped his mouth before slowly standing back up. I walked around him and stood by the boys as the entire alley – on both sides – suddenly erupted into cheers.

As I watched, he started to raise his right hand before he had to pause; he almost fell over backwards before he was able to catch himself, and then fully raised his arm, which caused the cheers to grow even louder. He suddenly looked over his left shoulder at us, but I saw that his gaze was trained at the green-haired boy before slowly moving to me. The second his eyes landed on me, I quickly sat down and stared back, even though I couldn't see his eyes due to them being in shadows, but I just knew that he was studying either me or the green-haired boy. I couldn't really tell, so all I did was stand up and then shake my body, propelling water from my fur.

"Great, now I more than likely smell like wet dog; exactly what I wanted." I growled, before shaking even more water off. After a while, the rain finally stopped, and All Might was suddenly swarmed by reporters, as the other heroes converged on us. By this time, both boys had already awakened, and I was sitting off to the side. As I watched, two heroes began scolding the green-haired kid for trying to rescue the other kid, while Kacchan was praised for his bravery.

'Unbelievable... Scold the kid who risked his life to save someone while you assholes stood around doing nothing! I hate heroes sometimes.' I thought and then one of the heroes approached me. I looked up and studied him; he basically looked like a walking stick.

"You know, be glad that I'm currently a wolf and not a dog; otherwise I would treat you like a chew toy." I stated bluntly and the hero jumped back in shock; I sighed and rolled my eyes before standing up. "Hey, kid, you done? I'll walk you home; I'll probably be better company than these stick-in-the-mud assholes who merely stood around with their thumbs crammed up their ass. Worthless ass heroes; pretty bad that a kid had the balls to do something while the pros just stood by and did nothing." I spat, glaring at the heroes, one of who opened his mouth to reply, before I turned my head away and looked at the green-haired kid, who stood up with a nod; I was unaware of a set of eyes watching us. Walking past everyone, I paused as he bent down and picked up a burnt-looking notebook.

I walked next to him the entire time, people giving us a wide enough berth as we walked down through the town. The sun was in the process of setting when I heard a voice.

"Deku!" Both us stopped and turned; it was Kacchan, running up to the green-haired boy.

"Kacchan?" He asked as Kacchan slowed to a stop, panting for a bit, before lowering his head to where his bangs hid his eyes and he clenched his hands into fists.

"Listen. I would never ask for a weakling like you to help me. Don't think you can look down on me." At this point, his head snapped up and his eyes were filled with rage. "Huh? Got that? I was fine by myself. You're just a Quirkless failure who won't even cut it as a rent-a-cop. You didn't help me. You did nothing. Don't forget it. I don't owe you anything!" He snapped before turning around and storming off; I merely stared at his back in shock.

"Um... the hell was that? And please don't tell me that your name is actually Deku, cause it sounded more like an insult." I said, looking up at him, and he shook his head.

"No, it's Izuku Midoriya." He said and I bobbed my canine head. I watched as he lowered his head, allowing his bangs to over part of his face, and he turned back around; I followed for about not even five steps before someone slid into view.

"I am here!" It was All Might, wearing a new shirt, and Midoriya jumped with a scream while I let out a startled snarl as I stumbled back a couple steps; god dammit!

"All Might! Where did you come from? Uh, how'd you get rid of all those reporters?" Midoriya asked, looking around, and All Might laughed while giving us a two finger salute.

"I stand for Justice, not soundbites! Because I- I am All Migh-" He suddenly cut off as blood sprays from his mouth while smoke surrounds him and he's suddenly a lot different. Midoriya screams again, this time in shock as I take another step back, studying his new form before blinking in shock; it was the sickly-looking blonde from before!

His hair was spiky, disheveled with two bangs framing the sides of his face. His neck was extremely long and his eyebrows were absent; he was basically a walking skeleton. His clothes were suddenly a lot baggier on him, and I could clearly see his eyes; blue set in a sea of black. The sight of them jolted my memory and I took a couple steps back; it wasn't possible.

'It was him... I saw him 9 years ago, helping the heroes in searching my family home. I made eye contact with his for a couple seconds and my head did something weird.' I thought as All Might coughed a couple time before wiping the blood off his face.

"Young man, I came here to thank you, and also to discuss your question from earlier. If you hadn't told me about your life... If you hadn't run into that fight... I would've been a worthless bystander watching from the crowd. So thanks." He said.

"Oh, no. It was my fault that he was there to begin with. I got in the way of your hard work. I wasted your energy. And... not to mention your time." Midoriya said, slightly turning away and I groaned; great. He's self-depreciating. Last thing I wanted to deal with on an empty stomach, but oh well; beggar's can't be choosers.

"I'm not done. You told me that you didn't have a power. So when I saw this timid, Quirkless boy try to save a life, it inspired me to act, too." All Might said; Midoriya didn't have a Quirk?!

'So what does that say about heroes who stood on the sidelines while a Quirkless boy tried to save someone; my respect for heroes have gone down a couple of notches.' I thought and then snorted. I heard Midoriya gasp and when I looked at him, I watched as he turned to face All Might.

"There are stories about every hero. How they became great. Most have one thing in common. Their bodies moved before they had a chance to think. Almost on their own." All Might said, and I could see tears beginning to pool in Midoriya's eyes. He lowered his head, sniffling, and I stepped up, nuzzling his hand in sympathy. "And today, that's what happened to you." All Might stated. Midoriya bent over, hands grasping his chest, as tears poured down his cheeks. Midoriya fell to his knees, with his face close to the ground as he cried.

'Nice going, All Might.' I thought, looking at the scrawny blonde, before sitting down next to Midoriya. A small breeze began to blow, sending cherry blossoms all over the road and causing All Might's bangs to blow as well.

"Young man. You, too, can become a hero." All Might stated, his face serious, and I stood up, staring at All Might in shock; do what?!