Standard disclaimers apply.

Before I get started, I must give a special thanks to Inu87yasha and Kagura. I've been having a hard time keeping motivated and you guys are just the kick that I needed to get going again. Thanks!

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When Kisa felt her weight begin to topple foreword, she feared the worst. Not only was she going to land in a heap, but Ritsu was going to transform into a monkey and ruin their secrete.

Desperately, she tried to catch her balance. It wasn't enough, she fell. There was a loud POOF and a cloud of colored smoke rose around the area she was in.

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Sirius Black, Harry's godfather, froze. Having been talking to Harry quietly between the towering bookshelves, he had been in human form. Then, after helping the young wizard, he had returned to his animagus form and walked foreword on all fours with Harry following close behind.

Then he saw a young girl falling. Briefly, he debated getting out of the way, but before he had time, she had fallen on him. Then there was a POOF! Obviously, his mind concluded, she was a witch. There was also a chance that she had seen him transform into his animagus form. It was also possible that she was a ministry witch. He hadn't gotten a clear look . . . .

The smoke cleared and he stared apprehensively at a small tiger. 'Shit!' he mentally cursed. The girl was a ministry witch and to top that, she was an animagus.

"Hey, Snuffles, what was that noise?" Harry asked, stepping from between the bookshelf to check on his godfather.

The tiger's brown eyes shifted to Harry momentarily. Then, without blinking, she seized her clothes in her small jaws and began to run away.

'She saw and knows Harry knows!' Sirius thought angrily. 'I have to stop her!' He started running after her.

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Kisa didn't know what to do. She had been transformed by a dog! It was only supposed to work with other humans, wasn't it? How had she transformed? And even worse, had Harry seen? Would he treat her with scorn now?

She glanced at him briefly. A frown was creasing his forehead and his bright green eyes were narrowed behind his glasses. She almost cried out in sorrow at her mistake. Ritsu, she noted, was being carried out of the library even as she stood watching Harry.

She almost called out to Kyou, but found her voice wasn't working again. Panicked, she ran.

Just looking for a dark corner to out wait her transformation, she realized quickly that the dog was chasing her.

Her hackles up, she sprang on top of a bookshelf and started slinking along the top. But the large dog didn't let her escape that way. It sprang, toppling the bookshelf and spilling her feline form to the ground.

Kisa got up, groggy and disorientated. Then she saw his paws coming for her. She rolled out of the way and began running in full blown panic. The dog probably wanted to eat her!

"Stupify!" she heard Madam Pince yell. She glanced over just in time to see and beam of light shoot towards her. Nimbly, she sprang aside. "Stop them!" the librarian shouted. "Stupify, Stupify, Stupify!" With each word, Kisa and Sirius dodged another spell.

Ernie Macillian pulled his wand and started casting immobilization spells as the same time. Books, shelves, and tables flew in every direction. Madam Pince placed herself in a stable stance and started blasting carefully aimed spells. Hermione, after realizing who the dog was, shot a disapproving look at Harry before tucking her wand away and searching for a method to save her friend. Ron and Harry just looked baffled.

"Hey," Ron began meekly. "Aren't those . . . . Kisa's clothes?"

Hermione, having wandered over to the two boys, opened her mouth in surprise. "Yes, they are!" She cast her brown eyes around for any sight of the young girl. "Where is Kisa?"

"Was she here?" Harry asked.

"Yes," Hermione said firmly. "And those are definitely her clothes."

"But wouldn't that mean that Kisa's running around naked?" Ron asked. "I mean, if she isn't wearing her clothes . . . . . "

Kisa, upon hearing their words, entered a new stage of panic. Veering toward them, she nearly got captured by what she presumed to be the hungry jaws of the black dog. With a squeal of muffled terror, she shot across the room.

"Go get reinforcements!" Madam Pince shouted in a determined voice towards Ernie's battle ready form. "Professors, if you can find them!"

Ernie nodded his head sharply and flung open the door.

BAM! Kisa knocked him flat onto his face, using his back as a spring board and shooting into the hallway. Without pause, she shot towards the stairs. She'd be able to lose the dog somewhere in the castle.

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Sirius cursed. He had been wearing the animagus witch down. She had almost been caught several times. He didn't pause in his chase. She ran over the poor Hufflepuff student and he ran around him.

Then in the hall, he saw the worst possible person to see. Professor Severus Snape.

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Snape was marching down the hall with a darkening scowl on his face. He was trapped by Soumas. They were everywhere and they were driving him crazy.

"Yoo whoo! Professor Snappie-poo!" Kagura called out from behind him. "I really like what you've done with your hair. It looks really - "

"Silence," Snape hissed, not even curious about what the boar had been about to say.

Akito distractedly looked up. "Don't presume to give orders to my family," he snapped coldly. "You couldn't survive going against the Souma family. We'll tear you up and spit you - "

Kagura punched him in the mouth. "Don't threaten my Snappie-poo!" she raged, looking nothing like her usual sweet and innocent self.

Professor Snape stopped walking and swung around, intending to abolish her horrid nickname for him. Haru, on the other hand, continued walking and crashed right into him. "Watch where you're going," the cow said stoically.

Snape hissed, on the verge of exploding.

"Oh, Snappie-poo . . . . . . " Kagura began.

"Do not call me by that horrid name ever again!" Snape hissed.

"You hit me!" Akito snarled at the same time. His gray eyed gaze fell enraged on Snape. "How dare you hit me?!"

Haru blinked. "But I thought Kagura hit you," he began, but a loud wail from Kagura brought him up short.

"How could you say those things to me when we're going to get married!" she screamed in anguished rage. Her face was a mask of furry and without thought of direction, her fist smashed out and connected solidly with the side of Snape's face. "JUST SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME!" she hollered as her leg connected with his hip is a deadly turning kick.

The potions master dropped to the floor with a snarled grunt. Then the library door opened and Ernie hit the floor. A small tiger leaped from the overbalanced student and right on top of Snape's greasy head.

The professor's face hit the floor and he saw spots as his head snapped up. However, even through his groggy head, he still recognized Sirius. "Black," he hissed as the dog raced off in the same direction that the tiger had. "And one of his friends, it would seem," he added with an unpleasant smirk.

"That tiger dropped this!" Ron exclaimed, running out of the library seconds later. He was holding a light pink bra in one hand and a baffled expression on his face.

"Hey, that's - " Haru began, correctly identifying Kisa's undergarments.

Kagura clapped a hand over his mouth before he could finish his sentence. She glanced at Akito questioningly. He gazed back with an enraged expression on his face. "That tora!" he snapped, using the Japanese equivalent for tiger. He shook his head, black hair flying around his face. "Bring her to me!" he ordered.

"Everyone return to your house dormitories NOW!" Snape ordered. He shook his head to clear it and began to run after Sirius Black and Kisa, his wand held at ready.

Ernie nodded and hurried in the opposite direction - towards the Hufflepuff dorms. Madam Pince slammed the library door shut, no doubt she was cleaning up or grieving. Harry, Hermione, and Ron all looked at each other for a brief moment. Then, without a word they raced after Snape, determined to save Sirius.

The Soumas, on the other hand, were waiting for Akito's orders. Kagura and Haru were both staring at him. He sighed exasperatingly. "Chase her!" Akito snarled. He suited action to words and charge off after the fleeing tiger and pursuing masses.

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Kisa could have cried. It looked like the potions teacher, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Haru, Kagura, and - shudder - Akito were chasing her. She didn't want to be caught by any of them - least of all Akito. If anyone caught her, she decided she wanted it to be the dog. At least it just wanted to eat her.

She shot down a flight of stairs, listening as the Star Wars Theme music blared as she hit each step. She didn't even pause to consider where the music came from. Neither, she noted, did the dog.

She looked up, seeing the main doors open and decided to make a dash for them. Her padded paws skittered on a mass of rubies scattered along the entrance floor. She regained her balance and slipped through the opening.

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Professor Snape, hot on Sirius' heels, actually paused for a moment. There were rubies scattered everywhere in the Great Hall. The hourglass that contained Gryffindor's points lay shattered in a million pieces. Deciding that Black was the one to be held responsible, he raced down the stairs.

Or rather, he stepped onto the first stair and froze at the music. Obviously someone had been tampering with the stairs. They were enchanted to play music. Venomously he swore to find out who was the responsible party.

Then he caught a flash of untidy black hair. His black eyes narrowed as Harry shot down the stairs, oblivious to the music. "POTTER!" he roared.

Hermione, who was right beside Harry, grabbed the wizard's arm and they raced across the rubies and out the door. They used each other to maintain their balance.

Snape cursed. He was losing time. Potter would be sure to mess things up if he caught the criminal first. His cold gaze fell onto the banister. He didn't hesitate. He swung himself on and zipped down the stairs vie the banister.

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Professor McGonagall and Mr. Filch entered the room just in time to see Professor Snape slide down the banister. They both stared in shock as he hit the bottom and raced out of the high doors.

"What on earth!" McGonagall exclaimed. She raced to the doors and pushed them open, glancing out. In the distance, she spotted Sirius Black. Her hand flew to her mouth. "Get Professor Dumbledore!" she cried out to Filch.

Hearing the Star Wars Theme music blaring, their heads swiveled towards the stairs just in time to see Ron spring to his feet, slip on a ruby, and gash his knees. Blood started pouring onto the floor.

McGonagall hurried over. Go to Madam Pomfrey and have that looked at immediately!" she ordered. Then, straightening her hat, she hurried out the door in pursuit.

"Hell no!" Ron muttered. He glanced at his knee and tied Kisa's bra around it firmly. "That'll stop the blood," he muttered, then raced after Professor McGonagall.

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Shigure sat up abruptly. "I just sensed something," he announced. He set his spade down beside the whole he was digging in the side lawn of the castle.

"What do you mean?" Aya asked. He had a bucket of silvery white paint and was rigging the lid to open when the trap was sprung. "I didn't feel anything."

"It felt like a dog . . . only . . . . . ." he murmured, his voice trailing off.

"Only what?" Aya demanded, setting the bucket down and walking over to the four foot whole.

Shigure shook his head slightly as if to clear it. "Only it's different, like it's not supposed to be a dog, I suppose . . ."

"Well, I suppose that you suppose you know what you're supposing about, but I'm rather confused," Aya said candidly. "What do you suppose we should do about it?"

Shigure sighed. "Let's just investigate a little bit, ne?"

"What about our Teacher Trap?" Aya asked as Shigure climbed out of the hole.

Shigure shrugged, placing the bucket into the whole and covering it up with weak sod. "I hope Flitwick is the one who trips it, that's all."

"Okay," Aya said with a shrug. He hid the rest of the prank signs and followed the dog around front until he could see what was happening.

Kisa in tiger form was being pursued. "A dog, some teachers, a whole bunch of students . . . . " Shigure murmured. "Kisa's being chased."

"How can you tell?" Aya demanded.

"Good eyesight, I'm a dog, remember," Shigure said simply. He shaded his eyes. "It looks like she heading toward the Forbidden Forest. I suppose we'll just cut her of . . . . . . "

And they began to pursue Kisa from an angle.

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Hiro looked up just in time to see Kisa run into the Forbidden Forrest. Then he saw the people pursuing her. "We gotta save Kisa!" he exclaimed and raced foreword only to crash into Crabble and Goyle.

"Get out of my way you stupid thugs!" he shouted. He elbowed his way through them and tripped over Hana.

"Watch where you are going," the electric girl said spookily. Crabble and goyle both jumped on top of Hiro and attempted to hide. Hana closed her eyes and went back to sleep.

"What are you up to, Hiro?" Rin asked, brushing her silken black hair away from her face.

"What do you mean? Didn't you see? Kisa in her - you-know-what form just got chased into the black forest along with Shigure. A whole bunch of teachers were chasing them. I guess you didn't see that through that tangled mass that you call hair, did you?"

He took a deep breath. "Come on, don't just sit there, let's go. That is unless you don't want to rescue Kisa. I mean, how could you not want to rescue her? She's just - "

"What's Kisa's you-know-what form?" Goyle interrupted.

"Should we beat her up for you?" Crabbled wanted to know.

"OF course not! Kisa's my girlfriend. We're going to get married and have kids and sex every - "

At that point, Kyou drop kicked the young sheep. "You shouldn't even be thinking that way!" the cat hissed. He was still vexed at losing the swimming race to Yuki and took it out of the sheep.

"Is Kisa really in trouble?" Yuki asked.

"It's possible," Rin said after a moment. He runs his mouth a lot, but isn't prone to outright lying.

Akito staggered to a halt, killing further conversation. "Catch . . . Kisa . . . bring to . . . . me!" he rasped, short on breath. He pointed towards the forest and started running again.

"Kisa's probably in trouble," Momiji whined as they took off towards the forest.

Scattered over some distance, Kisa was being chased by Sirius, Harry, Hermione, Snape, McGonagall, Kagura, Haru, Shigure, Aya, Akito, Hiro, Crabble, Goyle, Rin, Yuki, Kyou, Momiji, Tohru, and Ritsu.

From the Ravenclaw Common Room, Hatori observed the group plunge into the forest. Then, he recognized them all. He was probably going to have to erase a lot of memories today . . . . .

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Author's notes; Thus ends the Great Chase. Hope you all liked it!

Thanks for reading,

Kissa-chan