Tigersyte

B23 continued to run from the animal for eight hours while he kept the hamon from spreading, which wasn't working very well as it had nearly reached his shoulder by now. He would have just cut his shoulder off, however he didnt have the time to focus on that as the second he shifted his focus even a little, the hamon would invade the rest of his body, or the tiger would catch up to him.

Onaka couldn't do anything either as he was currently stuck in a deep sleep. Onaka was originally a living creature and became an undead one after fusing with B23, because of this, he had been in contact with both types of ripple, however as he is a parasyte and they adapt at extreme speeds, his body became fully adapted to the dark ripple. This resulted in him being even weaker to normal hamon then an undead creature.

Similar to how if you live undergrown or in a dark space for most of your life, then all of the sudden go into the sunlight, you feel blinded and get a sunburn immediately. This is how it is for undead, but Onaka's case is much worse as his body got rid of all resistance to it as it viewed it as unnecessary.

He had to put himself into a deep sleep the second the normal hamon entered B23's body. So he wasn't able to help in anyway and B23 was stuck doing everything on his own. What's worse, B23 was starting to lose his stamina and his dark ripple had reached its limit. The only reason he was able to continue making the ripple is because he was pushing his lungs past their limit to make it.

If it had been anyone else, they would have long since died from their lungs exploding. We will exclude Liam, Raijin, and Daichi.

The tiger seemed to be chasing him without any trouble still, even though they had been running for hours and they had just reached a warmer part of the United States. The tiger seemed as though it didnt care about any of that and its only mission was to kill B23. This confused B23 greatly as normally parasytes are only supposed to need to eat those of their hosts species, yet it was still chasing him.

"Why the hell are you still following me?! Go away!" B23 yelled back at the tiger as he started to lose his concentration on holding back the hamon.

'Fuck! Why the hell is this thing still coming after me? Cant it just go hunt something else? The only one that is still with me at this point is the assassin, and he is dozens of miles back there.' B23 thought as he focused a little more on the dark ripple he felt following behind him.

It was the assassin, who was the fastest of his team other then him. He had been following the two for the entire eight hours, however he wasn't nearly as fast so he was only able to barely stay caught up with them by pushing himself. He was starting to lose his stamina extremely fast right now and was about to pass out.

"Fuck! Damn you beast! Fine, I guess I have no choice!" B23 yelled as he turned around and ran in the direction of the assassin. The assassin had exhausted himself to such a point that his ripple was becoming unstable, like when you over train, but he did it to the point where he could die. The assassin was one of B23's friends, so B23 wouldn't let this happen to him, even if it resulted in his death.

B23 ran as fast as he was capable of running to the area where the assassin was, and the tiger did the same. At first when the tiger saw its prey turning around and running in the other direction, it was confused, it had been running for hours so it got used to running how it was running, and changing direction confused him. Fortunately for it, or unfortunately for B23, he was able to easily overcome that.

It took him less then a ten seconds to catch up to B23 again. They were both running at their top speed, but neither were in a good condition to run right now. The tiger looked like it was fine, however it was also running out of stamina, not as much physically as B23, but far more mentally. He was a tiger that liked to sleep, and he hadn't slept in eight hours and had been running that entire time, so naturally he was mentally exhausted.

"Hey! Get the hell up and come here!" B23 yelled as soon as he saw the assassin in front of him. He ran down to where the assassin was on the ground and finally left his dead trees. He reached out and grabbed the assassins shirt and used all of his strength to pull him onto his back and keep him there without stopping.

"Just hang in there okay! I will look for somewhere safe for you, but stay alive!" B23 ordered the assassin, but he wasn't doing much better himself.

He was on the border of passing out and was at the limit of his body. If he continued to push it, he might reach the same state the assassin was in. There was no more he could do unless he was able to get a break. If he could just get a five minute break, he could easily repair his body and run for another few hours, he could even fight the beast instead of running.

To bad for B23 though, because as soon as he started running with the extra weight, the hamon in his body immediately started to spread. Once it reached his stomach, Onaka woke up screaming. He stopped for a second out of pain, and the tiger caught up to him instantly. As soon as b23 was in range, the tiger attacked.

"Damn it!" b23 shouted as he tried to block the assassin with his own body to protect him form the tiger.

He was at his physical limit, he couldn't breath and make dark ripple, and his mind was in shambles from the pain. He was so exhausted that he might die before the tiger even reached him. Luckily, he is important to the plot, so fate wont let him die.

B23's eyes widened as he caught a glimpse of some type of transparent golden armor around his body. It seemed to break as a massive crack appeared when he saw it and that caused him excruciating pain, however he also felt refreshed. He felt his body flood with energy as the hamon on his arm was destroyed.

At the same time however, he felt something was amiss. He looked down and saw Onaka, who was frozen in place, as if he had been in terrible pain, but then all of the sudden, he couldn't move. His face displayed it perfectly.

"Onaka?" B23 asked with a little fear in his voice, but before he could get a reply, the tiger finally reached him. I say finally, however this had all happened in less then a second and they were simply using anime time.

B23 was fine however as he had recovered and was able to dodge easily. He jumped upward while still carrying the assassin and dropped him in a tree, before falling back down. He landed and immediately dashed forward. He was going to attack.

By this time, the tiger was even more confused. *How did that human recover already? He was nearly dead a second ago, but now he is fine?* These and other questions swirled around in the tigers mind as it tried to figure out what was happening.

The tiger was so confused, that it didnt even realize that it was in danger. It only noticed B23 attacking him at the last second and had no time to dodge. B23's attack landed and sent the tiger flying. The tiger didnt think to use hamon as it was an animal and hamon was still new to it. The parasyte also happened to be the only one who was actually able to use it right, the tiger was only able to do simple things like cover its paws in sparks.

The tail parasyte tried to attack B23 back, however by the time it found where he was, B23 had disappeared. b23 had vanished and reappeared behind the tiger before it even had the chance to hit the ground. It seemed to him that his body had gotten stronger once again. He knew he would get stronger from recovering from that, but he didnt understand how it got this much stronger. He didnt think that recovering would allow him to almost double his speed and strength.

'Maybe its because of the dark ripple?' He questioned himself as he ran forward and created a layer of dark ripple around his fist. He punched the head on the tiger with so much force that just the small amount that went through the tiger was enough to shatter a boulder behind it. The tigers face immediately started to wither away as its entire body blew up.

Both the tiger and the parasyte were dead after only a few attacks. After running and pushing himself to the limit for hours, he was able to defeat the beast with three attacks. But at what cost?B23 finally looked back down at Onaka, who had turned back into his stomach like he did when he was asleep.

"Onaka! Wake up now, I defeated the tiger and the hamon is gone!" He said, but there was no response. He figured that it was just because he was in a deep sleep, however he knew how to wake Onaka up even when he was like that.

B23 grabbed his stomach and started to create a huge amount of dark hamon to electrocute him awake. But there was still no response. "Come on Onaka, done play games!"

B23 sat there patiently as he watched his stomach, waiting for a response. But it never came.

"Your kidding right? This is a joke! You cant be dead!" B23 said as he started to tear up. "This is a joke!" He yelled as he punched the ground.

What he wasn't expecting was for his hand to suddenly turn into a spearhead and puncture the ground, creating a huge hole and causing him to fall down.