From his spot on the bed, Allen stared up at the ceiling, looking dazed and more than a bit confused. His head could have been splitting at that moment, but unfortunately, without a hard object, that wasn't happening anytime soon.

"What are we gonna do, Link?"

The dog that was once Allen's human guard stared up at the boy, a number of nefarious insults running through his still human mind. Unfortunately for him, they wouldn't be released as human words at all, but instead an annoying string of growls and barks.

Knowing this, Link went for an approach that would actually hit home, placing his large, furry head upon his paws and lifting the back of his black lips in a growl. Allen, with a wince, saw white incisors that even Timcampy would be jealous of.

"Look, this isn't my fault!" Allen cried, playing the innocent card. "If you're going to growl at someone, growl at Komui!"

But that had already been done, Allen realized. With his arms crossed behind his head of white hair, Allen thought back on the conversation with the Black Order Supervisor only 18 hours prior... .

Allen jogged down the winding stairs, trying desperately to keep up with the canine that was dwarfing his speed.

"Hey!" Allen cried, watching every hasty step he took carefully. "Slow down, Link! I don't think you should be going so fast-"

Just as he was warned, Link's canine paws caught the very edge of a step, and without a sufficient foundation, he tumbled down the next ten steps, yelping, whining, and desperately trying to grab onto something for support.

Without opposable thumbs, that wasn't happening.

With a shake of his head, Allen stopped before the battered dog, who was struggling to get back up.

"Told you." Was all that came out of Allen's mouth, and in return, he heard a very sinister snarl.

"Allen? Link? Is that you out there?"

Supervisor Komui must have heard the commotion outside his office door. Once hearing his voice, Link's triangular ears perked and twitched every which way, before he sprang to his feet and burst through the door.

Instead of being intimidated by the tensed, snarling animal- as any partially sane human would be- Komui stared at his creation with a sparkling excitement, bringing his hands together and twirling in a very feminine way.

"It worked!" Komui cried, grinning at nothing in particular. "Oh, what a fabulous creation, such a brilliant turn of events! I must say, Link, you make quite a good canine."

Link crouched dangerously low, black, almond eyes set on his target. Without further warning, Link sprang at the Supervisor, splaying his paws so that his black nails looked even more dangerous.

He would have reached that damn, beret wearing maniac too, if Allen's cursed hand hadn't took him by the scruff of the neck, and flung him backward.

"Link, calm down!" Allen accused, pointing a finger at the dazed mammal and standing tall, (well, as tall as Allen could stand anyway). "Do you really want to kill him now?! If you do, we won't find a cure!"

"Cure? Whatever do you mean by that?"

With a gaping mouth, Allen spun on his heel to face his deranged Supervisor, who was still grinning and sparkling.

"You mean-" Allen began, needing to swallow before he could continue. "You mean you don't have a cure?"

Komui shrugged, looking a tad sheepish. "Well, I meant to make one, of course, but I just got too excited! I had to see my creation come into being!"

This time, it wasn't Link that lunged at Komui, but Allen. As he had the first day he and Komui met, Allen threw a punch with his right arm, bending another one of Komui's clip pads in half.

"Komui!" Allen snarled, sounding almost as equal to a growling dog as Link did. "You idiot! How are we going to turn Link back to normal?!"

Link barked his own response, which, in human terms, said "what the Hell is wrong with you?!"

Komui held his hands up in a peaceful manner. "Don't worry! I'll get to working on that cure immediately, and before you know it, Link will be ship-shape again! Toodles!"

Simultaneously, Link and Allen were thrown from the Supervisor's office, piling on top of each other with a very painful crash.

"Oh, and one more thing!" Komui began, from behind his office door. "In seven days, if Link doesn't turn back to normal, he will forever be a dog, cure or no cure! So you'd better hope we get this right!"

At that moment, Link and Allen proceeded to beat Komui's door down, only held back by a barricade which Komui had long since engineered... .

With another long, drawn out sigh, (which Allen had taken to emit frequently over the past few days), he glanced over at his canine guard again. Link had his back turned on the boy, his curled tail looking depressingly limp and his lithe body swung into a ball.

Allen grimaced. "Don't worry, Link, we'll find a way to fix this, with or without Komui's help. You'll be a human again, I promise."

But Link didn't hear him, because his mind had already succumbed to sleep, as quickly as any normal dog's would.

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