Megumi slowly opened her eyes, still half-asleep, but noting that she felt much better then she had the previous night. The first thing she layed her eyes on was the Dragonite paw lying next to her. Her first assumption was that Hikaru had fallen asleep next to her. It had happened often after she contracted her deadly disease, as the loyal pokemon was worried sick about the girl.
"Good morning Hikaru..." Megumi muttered, still not fully awake "Guess what? I feel much better today. I think im actually good enough to get out of bed today..."
The girl happily swished her tail and reached out to shake the dragon pokemon awake, however this caused her to realize some things she rather would not have, and drew her fully awake. When she moved her arm, she did not see her own arm reaching out, but instead, the scaly arm she had believed to be Hikaru's moved. And did she just swish her... tail!? Megumi's eyes immediately shot open, and it became very apparent that she was not lying in her comfortable bed back at home, instead she was lying in the middle of a grassy field, and the dragonic arm that had just moved was attached to her own body!
Immediately scrambling to her feet, she looked down upon her new body. Her belly was covered in a white set of scales, with her sides and back covered with orange ones. Turning to look at her back, she could plainly see a tail extending from her rear, and a set of wings protruding from her back. She swished her tail once again and gently moved her wings. It felt so weird to move appendages she hadn't had before! Touching the top of her head, two antenna extended from her skull. She looked back down at her new claws.
"I-Im... H-Hikaru!?" She stammered. No, she was about a head smaller then her own faithful Dragonite, and not to mention a girl. However, she was a Dragonite, alone in some strange new place, and that was a huge problem.
"M-Mom?" She called out "D-Dad? H-Hikaru? A-Anybody!"
She was by herself and afraid, not having the slightest clue what was going on.
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Water washed over Leo's hand, causing him to awaken from his slumber. What had happened? He remembered falling asleep on his medical bed, feeling extremely hot, but past that... nothing. He could hear the slight sound of water. Was it the ocean? No, the waves were too quiet for that. Most likely it was a pond or lake of some sort. Slowly opening his eyes he discovered he was right, he was on the edge of a lake, which was defiantly not anything resembling his hospital. However, when he came to pull his hand out of the water, he found something that interested himself much more.
The hand that he had pulled out of the water appeared to be no hand at all, but rather a purple paw which was attached to a black arm. Leo stared at his 'hand' momentarily, before bringing his head over the lake to see his reflection. Sure enough, what greeted him was not his human face, but the mug of a Grumpig, complete with the two pearls sitting on the top of his head, a pig-like snout, and his pointed ears. He blinked, staring at his reflection with a look of curiosity on his face, and stood up, trying to get a better look at the rest of his body. A third black pearl sat at the middle of his round belly, where his black underside came to meet the purple part of his body. Turning back to look at his behind, indeed, he discovered a tail. He reached out and pulled it, watching its spring-like qualities as it pulled itself back in place. It felt real enough. He came back to looking at his purple paws. He had turned into a Grumpig. While most people would be surprised, or even scared at this sudden discovery, Leo actually found it quite amusing... He let out a chuckle, which in his new form came out as pig-like snorts. He paused for a second, surprised by the noises he produced, but a second later went back to his snorts of amusement. This whole situation seemed funny to him somehow.
"Interesting..." he said to nobody in particular, "A Grumpig eh? I think it suits me."
He stared at his reflection in the water once more, before taking a look at his surroundings. Around the perimeter of the lake were trees, which seemed to get thicker as they left the Lake area, eventually becoming a forest. Something nearby caught his attention though, most likely due to the fact that he had changed into a Grumpig. A section of dirt around the lake must not have been very compressed together, as the water that poured into it made a very fine pool of mud. Feeling the pig part of Grumpig stirring within him, he walked over, and submerged one of his legs inside. It was nice and cool, in a soothing kind of way, and after submerging his other leg, he found that it was actually quite deep, the mud coming up to his belly-pearl. Feeling relaxed, his body slumped, submerging almost everything except for his head, and let out a contented sigh.
"Life as a Grumpig, huh?" He asked out loud once more. He hadn't even considered once that this might all be a dream. "Its not so bad. Im a bit better off here then I was back there anyway..."
Letting out another content sigh, Leo gazed across the lake, seeing two green figures on the other side. He couldn't make them out clearly, but he could tell they were most likely members of the Ralts family. They were of no concern to him, however. At the moment, he was enjoying his mud bath, which he was finding more relaxing then the ones at five star resorts for some reason. He closed his eyes and listened to the sounds of the water and the wind, not having a care in the world.
