Chapter 39

"The Dog Fight this entire fanfic was named for"

She didn't shift immediately, Picking her head up and peering over, before catching Heck-hound the man's foot between her teeth gently, and pulling him over. It might have been a little mean to drag him over by his ankles. She couldn't bring herself to care however, She was careful not to step on him, before dropping his foot and leaving him laying there unconscious. Before padding over to the other one she'd knocked out of the woods and dragging him over too. Looking at her teacher the whole time, and Shinso, who both looked pretty intact, which was a relief.

She was sure her sister had killed one of them at least by this point, when she smelled blood. Though she realized, she probably would have been able to smell more as she got closer if she had killed them...

"Rice! Hey your okay!" Kaminari yelled, coming forward, looking a little on the nervous side. Right, she was big and scary, though she noted the kids didn't seem bothered by her specifically.

Alarice shifted down to her were-hound form, Finding herself unwilling to go further. Looking at her teacher, pro hero, as he walked up. For a moment her guts felt cold and another part of her growled that if he wanted her to be a human he could just force it, there was to much going on for her to drop to human completely right now.

Instead he gave a sigh that might have been of relief, and tossed a zip tie cuffs over to her, and nodded towards the first one she'd knocked out. Catching them she finally answered Kaminari now that she could do that. "Yeah, I'm okay."

"That's good." He responded to her, coming a little closer, then finally giving up whatever reservation he had and came a lot closer. Close enough to put his hand into her furry ruff. "I was worried about you."

She was quiet for a moment, really the whole dock area was quiet, The hell-hounds on the ship seemed content to stay there and keep well away from the Giant, even if she was a werehound right now. She busied herself zip-tieing the hound on the ground. Some one grabbed a tarp and threw it at her to throw on the guy.

"Same." She said finally in her weird deep, hollow sounding voice, as she turned towards him and the rest. The children weren't that big a surprise, though her chest hurt looking at them. It hurt a little less that they just looked generally upset, and not specifically at her. Eraserhead was done with the other, getting him tied and his nudity covered up, wrapped in a tarp for warmth. Her ear twitched as she heard him radio that to the heros who had shown up what had transpired. She struggled to say something about her escape while he was distracted, but, all to quickly he was looking at her and she knew she needed to say something.

She just didn't want them to know she couldn't hear out of her right ear, for starters. There was other things, that she just as desperately didn't want them to know about, but the injury came first. Her classmates could suspect but Aizawa might actually keep her from doing anything else if he knew.

"I... had a chance and I took it, I'm sorry." She finally did say, her voice low. "I had found Aiza—Eraser's scent so I was tracking that,... which again, I'm sorry I found your pack and I kind of ate all the food in it." She avoided touching her tender right ear, for her sheepish ear scratch. "Then I smelled your blood, and It went to my head a little, I came here to try to stop my sister, but she's not here. "

That was good enough wasn't it? Eraserhead just hid most of his face in his scarf, crossed his arms for a moment and let out a breath. "The food doesn't matter, it's good your back. Can you-"

Her left ear pricked up although it didn't need to, many of the people could hear the distinct shouting from the distance, and that it disturbed the few remaining birds were still there. It was familiar to some as the Pro Present Mic. She felt her heart rate jump as her thoughts put together where her sister was going to be going next.

Then a Radio buzz in Eraserhead's ear, his hand went to the minuscule piece there and Alarice couldn't stop herself from listening in, just in case."I'll send Sunshine your way, there's a villain with a Floramancy type quirk here." There was a pause, Eraserhead nodded to that.

Icarus's voice came back, but with more alarm in it."There is something really big headed towards the manor! I cant get a good visual but its making a big impact!"

The moment Alarice heard big, she knew, she knew what and who it was. She also knew, that if she wanted to stop her sister, she had to go now. Before Parasus could get some where Alarice couldn't cut her off, and while Eraserhead wasn't looking at her.

"It's Parasus!" she called out, darting off at the same time with her Hell-hound strength launching her forward. She threw herself over a rock and into the forest.

Eraserhead cursed, she could tell that much, and heard him shout to Kaminari, who had been nearest her, and maybe, already running after her, to stay with her. She didn't hear what else he said she was now to far away, she wasn't even sure if Kaminari was going to be able to keep up with her in any way whatsoever.

000

Kaminari had stood there, a little uselessly, but, honestly relieved all the kids were so far safe, Eraserhead had shown up to rescue them, and his friend looked okay too! Though her right ear didn't look great, but … he kind of suspected that since it had been under a bandage last time he saw her.

If he was bothered, that she had escaped, he didn't feel it anymore.

Eraserhead was getting some message over his tiny ear radio, when Alarice suddenly darted off.

"it's Parasus!"

He was already chasing after her, why? He didn't really think about it but, she was darting off alone again, and it made him uneasy.

"Kaminari! Stay with her!"

Was all Eraserhead had to say to validate that he was already chasing after her. The blonde teen yelled back confirmation before breaking through the bushes after Alarice.

He had no way of tracking her, his ability to use his quirk was... not really limited persay, but, it wasn't going to be pin point by any stretch. He followed by keep track of the amount of broken foliage and the deep claw marks she left in the wood and bark. Wether she was intending to make them or not, they were sure where helpful.

'do I call after her? What if that alerts the villains to us both?' Inwardly he grumbled and wished for the assurity and intelligence of a few choice class mates. He also wished for a little bit more mobility! Trying to keep pace with the were-hound was rough enough, ( and he wasn't even close ) but going up hill through wooded and rocky and Terrain?

A male voice he didn't recognize snapped him to attention and ducked low as he continued to approach. Alarice wasn't in his site, nor could he hear her.

"I've got her." The male said, he barely recognized the man visually, where had he seen him? He wasn't sure. There was heavy steps and a crunch of foliage and sticks.

"OH good, Keep her there. " He recognized the sound of her voice. Parasus. "You and your emo teacher have ruined everything for me." Her voice was full of anger, raw, He realized he hadn't...ever heard the 'real' Parasus before now. "So, I'm going to go take care of some problems you attracted to me, then you."

"I can hold her here for hours more of you want, Parasus." The man said, almost... seductively. "As long as you make it back to me."

"Of course, I will Cody." There was a sound of smooching and Kaminari's brain rushed to figure out what 'holding' Alarice meant. Clearly thats who they were talking to... was this the person who had put them in eggs?

"Wish me luck, Isolator."

"Good hunting, Manticore." He said warmly.

Kaminari nervously poked his head through the leaves as he heard a large amount of rustling. Just in time to see a naked woman run off into the forest. Leaving a calm looking but obviously American man standing there alone. He patted something, but... there was nothing there. Like he was patting a big invisible box... He didn't see any eggs and he didn't see anything that could be 'holding' his friend, or his friend at all.

What was the man looking at? What was... there? He looked at the ground near the man, and noticed it.. looked a little weird, so did the plant life around it. Like it just... stopped.

Kaminari put two and two together, and made a dash for the guy. Latching on to him and giving him a huge shock. Per the usual of course, The man, Isolator, convulsed for a moment before falling unconscious onto the ground. The space of the odd area almost audibly 'pop'd and the leaves around shifted considerably. Revealing the missing branches, and also, his friend!

Alarice caught herself on one paw hand, breathing deeply. Her tail was limp on the ground for a moment.

"'Rice, you okay?" He asked, his tone wavering more than he'd like it to. She nodded her head, one ear flopping more than he thought it should.

"I have to stop Parasus." She growled out picking herself up to two feet again. He could tell she was about to tense for throwing herself into the chase again.

"Rice wait, don't go alone after her!" He couldn't stop the look of real concern on his face, as he got in front of her to stop her from running off again. "You can carry me on your back, and we can stop her together." Was this a good idea? Was it a bad idea? He wasn't sure and he knew he wasn't exactly prepared for riding on her back again. Though he was sure he had a better idea now of how to ride than previously.

She was breathing hard, he could tell that much, from what though he couldn't be sure. She didn't really have visible facial expressions with her skull face. Just the flaring of nostrils as she inhaled and exhaled.

"Fine" she finally said, Grabbing him even though she didn't need to, and putting him on her back as a were-hound, and him grabbing awkwardly onto her. "Just don't hurt yourself."

She took off, still on largely two feet, maneuvering around more freely, and less disruptive than she would as a full giant. Perhaps it was going to allow her to catch up to Parasus.

"Do we have a Plan? We need a Plan for stopping her... from whatever is she going to do." He called to her as he clung to her back, feeling a lot like a blonde monkey, especially as she managed to jump so smoothly between boulders and huge branches. She didn't answer back to him immediately, only the rush of leaves and air for him.

"I know." She said heaving herself up to the top of a rock and leaping over to another easily, their terrain was becoming more rocky and less trees. "I don't know for sure what she's going to do next, but... I'm pretty sure I have a good idea."

"Alright! So, Plan! What are we doing when we get her?" He ducked his head into her ruff to avoid getting clipped by a tree branch. He Tried not to listen to the sound of her nails on rocks.

" Stay on my back, I'll protect you..." She started, stopping, to awkwardly sniff, one of her ears shifting around. " I have to strike fast and hard... Once my teeth are in, give her the shock of her life... through me."

"oOKAY!" Much like before, or, rather the last time he had ridden on her back, she shifted beneath him into a Full hound, and took a leap. Kaminari clung tightly to her, he hadn't seen what path she took, only that she was definitely in the air. His stomach twisted about inside as they fell. Then lurched as they landed and he held his scream in as she moved quickly.

000

Alarice was mindful of his weight on her back, more than he was likely aware. She also doubted that he knew how quickly they were about to be carrying out that plan They had only briefly discussed. She could see the Manor, as it sat nestled into the side of the mountain, and the massive growth of plants that had taken it over.

As scary as it probably was to do what she was doing, she was confident about where she was placing her paws, and carrying her weight. She had to catch up to her sister before she joined the fight with the heros on the manor side of the island.

Her sister gave some sort of horrible howling noise, with no lips 'howling' wasn't exactly was the sound that came out.

She felt Kaminari pull on her hair, as he buried his hands into her mane to hold on. She did not slow down, bounding towards her sister's location as fast as possible. It wasn't that she didn't trust the heros to protect themselves, they were Pros after all, it was more that... She was her half sister.

She saw a brief amount of bronze colored mane, and with a burst of speed, aided by a chance good landing, she pounced with silence onto her sister's back. Her tail hand opening to catch and stop Parasus's scorpion-like tail. Practically wrestling with it as one hound tried to shake the other off. Snarling, growling, all fury and fight between the two as Alarice's Claws sank into Parasus's scales and fur, to the flesh below. Her claws dug into the tail to keep it under control.

She went for the neck next. Snapping around the flurry of fur and mane, only getting hair, ripping a mouthful out, as Parasus twisted and hissed back at her. Trying to pull her off her back, but failing to catch any of Alarice's limbs. Finally the black hound buried her head into the mane and latched on hard, not able to care any more of she drew blood, she just wanted Parasus to stop. Parasus letting out a horrible sounding screeching roar of a noise at the bite.

Kaminari seemed to get the idea then, The handle wasn't really there in this suit, but he managed to figure out what to do in time. Activating his quirk and sending thousands of volts of electricity coursing through Alarice's suit and possibly body, and finally into Parasus. Alarice felt her own body heating at the quirk not to long after he activated it.

Parasus gave a strangled noise of pain, and for a moment it didn't seem like much was happening. Though there was bright flashes of light from the electrical activity now occurring.

Kaminari couldn't do it forever though and Parasus wasn't falling to it quickly enough. Her Scorpion's tail wriggling free of Alarice's grip.

"Aah!" Was the sound Kaminari made, already sounding slurred and loopy, as he was pushed from Alarice's back. Alarice only bit down harder feeling the sharp point of the stinger bury itself to into her body, just above the shoulder blade. Pain exploding out of the contact point.

Instead of letting go she just buried her fangs deeper into her half sister's neck.

Parasus, snarled, howled, barked, everything as she twisted about trying to throw her sister from her back. Kaminari watching from the ground in his stupor unable to fully comprehend the sight of two giant hell-hounds, on on top of the other, perching like a panther on top of a horse, except they were nearly the same Clydesdale-esk size. With Parasus being the terrifyingly bigger one.

The older one's flailing and twisting, finally worked against the younger one's weaking state from her venom. Managing to twist around and bury her own fangs into Alarice's leg. With terrible, bone crushing force, audible from a small distance. Alarice letting out one whimpering whine, as Parasus nearly literally ripped her from her back.

Dust pillowed up from where Alarice's large body hit the ground hard. Parasus did not let up, Tearing at the leg she refused to let go of. Wrenching it, flesh tearing nosily, as she bent it in unnatural, painful ways. Dragging the rest of the smaller hell-hound's body with each violent action.

Alarice knew the toxin was affecting her. She also knew she might loose her leg if she couldn't get her sister to let go of it. Every time she flailed up to snap at her sister, she would get dragged away from getting tooth or claw in again. Some one was shouting but she wasn't even sure who the hell that was, and as she twisted up successfully to latch onto her sister's neck and face with her paws and teeth, she didn't care.

She only succeeded in removing Parasus's own ear, before her body was to weak to keep holding on. Her view of the world was largely the ground, Parasus still dragging her, occasionally shaking her. Then a blur, wind rushing around her head, and then she had come to a rather sudden, stop.

Her vision was blurring but she could see her sister, faltering in her steps, and she could see other pros already on Parasus's weakened state. Sunshine was there, stunning Parasus, who wasn't taking it laying down, fighting back against the glittery pro. A familiar gray cloth stopped Parasus from trying to sting Sunshine too. Soon in fact, Parasus was just a naked dark-haired woman, fighting furiously against two pros by herself.

She didn't look so good either, There was blood all over her, it was already staining the gray capture weapon.

Alarice wanted to stay a hell-hound while she watched. Everything in her screaming that something was wrong, that staying as long as she could as a hell-hound might save her life.

She couldn't keep it up, it was effort she couldn't do, and the form dropped and she almost immediately felt colder, Moving wasn't really easy either. Though being human she became aware her eyes were watering and tears were pouring out of them.

"Rice!" Well that was Kaminari. He was okay, that was good.

"Stone!" OH. that was her teacher's voice. He was probably going to be upset wasn't he?