Chapter 1: Cursed

wiseman looked down at the teens laying on the stone floor. They were all out, fainted from the smoke bomb he had planted in the brawlers base. Only two had escaped from him, Dan and Marucho had escaped. Runo, Julie, Alice and Shun had fallen captive to him. His plan would start, with or without the last brawlers.

"Foolish kids." He shook his head, he had hoped they would have been harder to capture, but no. He went back to his machine that would soon start his plan.

He pressed a button that said start. A beam fired toward the teens that still laid on the ground. He was about to start laughing with his evil smirk on his face, when one of his bakugan came up to him.

"Master!" The subterra bakugan said before continuing. "The two left brawlers are here" He said.

"Good, whatever happens here will affect the rest of my plan in a good way." The bakugan looked at him confused.

"what do you mean?" The bakugan asked.

"The less I tell you the better, lets just say… Dan will have 10 days to get his friends back before they're gone for good." The machine stopped with a loud thump sound. Wiseman walked over to the former brawlers who were still out of it. He looked down at what now was four animals. A cat, a parrot, a bunny and a black wolf. He became a little angry when when he noticed who had become what. Runo had become the white cat with a light blue dot on her head. Julie had become the green, red and blue parrot with a light grey feather off her head. Alice the little orange bunny. And at last the one whom he had become the most angry with, Shun had become the black wolf.

"Wiseman!" Came from behind him. He turned around, just in time to see Dan's boot hit his face. He was sent flying to the ground and passed out.

"Marucho, it's safe! Come on." Dan yelled, as Marucho came running into the room.

"Okay, thanks dan." He panted. "Now where could he be holding the others?" They looked around for a second, before their eyes landed on the animals. "Do you think?-" Marucho started.

"Right now, they could be." Dan answered, before they went up to the animals. "They do look alot like them."

Just as they got close enough to step on them, the animals began to wake up.

"Dan, if we look at their features." The blond boy said, reaching down to the bunny.

The bunny seem to not freak out as normal animals would. Dan did the same, just with the cat.

A groan was heard behind them. Dan looked behind to see that Wiseman was waking up. "Marucho we need to grab them, come on." Dan quickly took the heaviest animal in their group, the wolf. Marucho picked up the rest, luckily they weren't as heavy as a teen wolf.

They ran out of the cave into the private plane they had come here in. The last thing they heard was Wiseman's evil laughter.

Dan and Marucho had placed the now awake animals on the couch.

"So, what do you think happened?" Dan asked.

A meow brought Dan's attention. He looked at the cat known as Runo.

"huh? okay, so guessed on your looks I think we know who each of you are. Runo? are you the cat?" Runo nodded. "Julie? are you the parrot?" Julie nodded. "Alice?" The bunny nodded. "then, Shun" The wolf just looked at him and gave him a slight nod.

"okay,what now?" Dan asked, scratching the back of his head.

Marucho thought for a second. "hmm…" Then something hit him. "Hey, I have a translator for animals, hold on." He ran off toward the lab and soon came back with four earplugs.

"Marucho, why do you have these in the first place?" Dan asked.

Marucho fumbled around with the earplug a little before he answered. "I made them to be able to communicate with the animals I own, but now I can use them for this." He picked up one of them and placed it on the head of Alice. He then turned it on. "okay, Alice… Try to say something."

"w-what do I say?" Came from the earplug.

"It's working!" Dan yelled.

"Why yes it is, I don't see why it wouldn't work." Marucho said proudly. He then began to place the other earplugs on the others. "okay guys, we're all ready to go."

"finally, does anyone know what happen?" Runo asked, looking at the others.

"Sorry, all I remember is the smoke bomb and wiseman standing over us." Julie said lowering her head.

"Alice? Shun?" Again Runo asked.

Both Alice and Shun shook their head.

That's when the TV turned on.

"Did you turn on the TV?" Dan asked, looking at Marucho. He shook his head.

On the screen came a familiar face. "Wiseman" they all said.

"ah… Good, you haven't forgotten about me." He said with a smirk.

"What do you want?" Dan asked clutching his fist at him.

"Relax… I am just going to give some information." No one answered, he took a clue and continued. "you will have 10 days to get them back, before their mind becomes corrupted by the animals they now have turned into. I would also remind that you look after them, I might want them back at some point." He stated, his smirk never leaving him and even if he had his mask on, Dan could feel his eyes drilling into them.

"And you're telling us this, why?" Marucho asked, he as everyone was a little confused by the fact that he gave them this information so easily.

"heh… I wanted to give you something to panic about." He said, before he pulled out a whistle. Once he blew, nothing came out. But Shun all of a sudden fell to the ground, whining, turing and rubbing his head against the floor as if he was in pain.

"Shun!" Dan yelled as he rushed over and tried to calm him. Marucho quickly turned the TV off, causing the whistle's sound to die.

"Ten days, and they turn into real animals." Dan muttered.

"I don't want to be an animal for the rest of my life!" Julie complained.

"To be honest Julie, I don't think any of us are" Alice said calm, trying not to offend someone.

Wiseman smiled as he pulled the dog whistle away from his lips.

"Master, what do we do now?" The heaos bakugan asked from behind him.

"We could wait for the time to run out and call them back then, or I could get my hands dirty and get them here now to watch as the pain take them over…" The bakugan took his hint, they were going to get his new pets.

"When do we leave?"

"When night has fallen…"

A/N: Hey, this is my first fanfic here. I hope I did a decent job here. I hope people like this. Feel free to give advice or whatever you call it.