(kokomo, this is a reply to your latest post: I think you missed the rule of multiple characters! You are allowed to make two characters if they share a connection, which includes being siblings! With that said, this first POV of the chapter is going to be interesting...)
Please keep submitting, readers! I'm hoping we get at least half of the max slots by the end of the main set of transformations! As always, thanks for submitting!
Jacob's POV
I lay awake in my room, spending my first night in the house without my sister Mia. I wanted to join the camp too, but I was apparently too young to go. So here I was, in a house that was eerily quiet.
Ugh, one more year until I would be in high school, and able to have come along! This was so unfair!
I looked around my dark room. It was painted blue and was filled with Pokemon plusses and posters featuring various scenes from the anime. I always loved making fun of Ash with Mia. That only reminded me, however, that she was gone for two weeks. Two weeks, but it felt like forever.
I made a silent wish that I could go to the camp, and spend a whole two weeks discussing Pokemon. I wanted to go on an adventure!
Suddenly, there was a strange burst of static from my computer in the corner of the room. I sat up on my bed, very curious.
The screen was flickering with red light, which was alarming and kind of spooky. I wasn't sure what to do, so I called out, "Uh, if you're a ghost, can you please leave? I have a vacuum cleaner!"
There was a strange chuckling, and coalescing in front of the computer was a strange dark figure, wearing...a trench coat and porkpie hat?
"Whoa.", I whispered.
The dark figure looked up, revealing that its head was white and that it was wearing sunglasses and had a curly mustache. "Hello, Jacob.", it said, in a weird, echoing smooth voice, "How are you doing tonight?"
"Uh, who are you, and how do you know my name?", I asked.
The dark figure replied, "Hmm, looks like my incognito outfit works nicely. You should recognize me from those shows you like, or at least, one version of me. You can call me Darkrai. As for how I know your name...my associates and I have interest in you and your sister."
"Why?", I asked, "I'm just a nerd, and my sister is the same, kinda."
Darkrai replied, "We have our reasons, and many of them. Let me ask you this - do you like Pokemon?"
"Uh, yeah, of course! My sister has a bunch of the games, and we've watched every single episode of the anime!", I replied.
Darkrai chuckled. "That's nice. Very nice. Now, let me ask another question: do you like Mystery Dungeon? Have you always dreamed of entering one for real, becoming part of a team?"
I was a little confused, but answered, "Um, yes. Why?"
Darkrai replied, "Oh, no reason. I see you're wearing a shirt with three Pokemon on it. Which one is your favorite?"
I looked at my shirt, which featured Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. "Um, Charmander, I guess.", I replied.
"Good choice.", Darkrai purred, "Very good choice. Quick warning: this might hurt just a little bit..."
"Wait, what?", I asked, as he summoned a strange dark orb.
"Relax, you should be excited. Your very own Pokemon adventure is about to begin.", he said, and tossed the orb at me.
Instinctively, I caught it - and was immediately overwhelmed with pain all over my body, as the orb dissolved into my skin.
I cried out and nearly fell off the bed, but Darkrai teleported over and stopped me.
"None of that.", he warned, "You wanted a Mystery Dungeon-like adventure? I am giving you one, one unlike any other. Can you feel it? Your transformation is already beginning."
I could feel it indeed. My body was growing scales, and one glance at my hands revealed that the scales were orange. Suddenly Darkrai's questions made sense. I was turning into a Charmander!
"Wouldn't I be traveling to the Pokemon world and losing my memories by now?", I asked.
Darkrai chuckled again. "I said Mystery Dungeon-like, not an actual Mystery Dungeon incident. But trust me, your adventure is going to be a lot more interesting, and you get to keep all your memories too."
I felt the scales close over my face and my hair shrink away. My face formed into a slight snout, and my teeth became much sharper. My fingers curled into claws, and two of them on each hand disappeared. A spike of pain tore up my spine, and ripping free of my pants came a long scaly tail. Then I shrank, until I was only two feet tall and Darkrai towered over me. With a strange twisting feeling, my organs and bones shifted, and I felt a warm heat start up in my belly. My clothes settled in a heap around me, and I wriggled free. I thought my transformation was complete, until a spark flashed on my tail and its tip lit up on fire.
I couldn't believe it. I was now a real Charmander. I felt strangely strong and confident. Wait till my sister saw me now! She wouldn't believe it!
Darkrai seemed satisfied. "Seeing as this body isn't too different from your regular form, you shouldn't take long to get used to it. Now, I shall introduce you to your new teammates, if Giratina would open a portal?"
Suddenly, a dark rent formed in space, revealing a swirling gate of shadows.
"You'll notice that we're going to be traveling through an odd, distorted realm. We always have to travel through it to get anywhere, so you should get used to it fairly quickly. Now, follow me. You're going to be very useful...", said Darkrai, and drifted over to the gateway.
I eagerly followed him, and together, we entered the dark portal...(-o-)
Barry's POV
As the sun rose up above the horizon, I stood outside on the dew-covered grass, curiously awaiting the upcoming scavenger hunt. I started pacing back and forth, my natural energy preventing me from standing still.
I noticed Steven coming up from the beach. We were both on the sports team, so we were acquainted, but rarely hung out with each other outside of the games. Of the sports team, though, I'd only seen him, Coach Vernon, and Sara here, so we'd probably hang out a bit more during the camping trip.
He walked over to me and said, "I don't believe it, dude. I went over to the beach, and even though I could've sworn it was clear, when I arrived it was covered in mist! What do you think about it?"
I shrugged, saying, "No idea. Who were you planning on playing with?"
Sara walked over and said, "Me and Coach. You could've come too, wouldn't hurt to practice over the vacation."
I replied, "Yeah, if you'd asked me, I would've come along." I flashed a winning look at Sara. "Especially for you, my lady."
Sara replied, "Pfft, yeah of course. So anyways, what are we going to do while we wait? Miss Melody is completely passed out right now."
The door to the girl's cabin was flung open, and Miss Melody strolled dramatically out. "I'm awake and ready to roll!", she declared.
"Never mind.", muttered Sara.
Coach Vernon came out from the bus, followed by the Janitor, who was carrying a huge pile of donut boxes. I had forgotten the Janitor was here, but that wasn't very important, because oh my gosh DONUTS!
The Janitor and Vernon arrived at the firepit, where they promptly set out the donut boxes on one of the picnic tables. "Help yourselves!", declared Vernon, "But don't take too many!"
Everybody swarmed the picnic table, and as soon as I got the opportunity, I snatched up a chocolate donut and started devouring it. I had quite a sweet tooth, that was for sure. Yum yum!
I noticed the black dog sniffing around hungrily, and Vernon tossed it a leftover hot dog. With a joyous bark, the dog leaped up and snatched the hot dog right out of the air.
As soon as I finished my first donut, I helped myself to another, and another, yet still trying to look good to the girls. I wasn't sure how well I did, but it was better than Eddie Cooper's current Cookie Monster impression.
Once the donut boxes had been emptied, which didn't take very long, Miss Melody announced, "Alright! Today we're going to have ourselves a scavenger hunt. Here's how it works. Each of you will group up as teams, whatever size you like although you're going to have to split your winnings, and start exploring the camp! Every time you find a Pokemon, it will have a clue that leads to the next one. Keep exploring until you find the shiny Eevee! If you manage to find it, take one of the tickets on it and run all the way back here! Get ready, set, go!"
Everybody instantly broke up into groups and started rushing off in different directions. Steven grabbed onto my arm, saying, "You're coming with us to find that shiny Eevee!"
Sara said, "Let's get started. I saw a Hoothoot tucked away in a tree yesterday, maybe it's got a clue with it."
"Lead the way, soccer princess.", I declared.
Sara shot a glare at me, then started walking towards one of the trail that led up from the beach. About halfway down the path, Sara stopped and walked over to a half-hidden tree. "This is it.", she said, "There's a hollow just above eye level with a Hoothoot in it."
I looked up and spotted the hollow, where a pair of large red eyes looked out. I climbed up and reached into the hollow, pulling out one of many pieces of paper.
"In a tangled web, the spider lurks.", I read.
"Not very helpful.", grumbled Steven.
Sara said, "Actually, I think I spotted a Spinarak next to one of the cabins, tied up in its webbing. That might be it."
We hurried back to the campsite, where we spotted a green spider in a tree, tangled up in its own web. The web was plastered with more slips of paper, one of which I pried off.
"By a spring in the forest, you shall find the singing Pokemon of Alola.", I read.
"A spring in the forest?", said Steven, "Shouldn't be hard to find."
We marched back into the woods, searching around curiously. I slowly became aware of a strange feeling rolling through me, and I was starting to feel feverish. But I waved it off as nothing, trying to be the first to spot the next clue.
There were no other campers in this part of the forest, and I wondered where they all were. Were we going the wrong way?
I then heard a sharp gasp from Steven, and turned to see that he had fallen over, and was leaning against a tree. Sara looked concerned. "Steven? Are you all right?"
He groaned, "No...idea..."
Then I noticed his ears pointing up, turning into triangles.
"Hey, uh, Steven, what's up with your ears?", I asked.
"What?", he replied, and reached up to touch them. His eyes widened in shock. "My ears!"
His hair was starting to shrink, and I noticed yellow plates emerging from his skin. He was turning into something!
Just then, I felt a weird pain in my hands. I looked down at them, and started hyperventilating as I watched my fingers turn bright blue and fuse into a giant pair of claws.
Sara had turned pale as she watched the two of us begin transforming. Then, with a startled cry, she stumbled forward as a fluffy brown tail with a white tip emerged from behind her.
So that meant all three of us were transforming now.
Steven's hair was completely gone, and now his entire body except for the face and belly was covered in interlocking yellow plates. I remembered what he'd said on the bus yesterday and said, "Hey, you're turning into a Sandshrew!"
He groaned. "I know I said I'd want to be a Sandshrew if I got Mystery Dungeoned, but I didn't want to LITERALLY turn into a Sandshrew!"
I felt my body growing hard and armor-like, and I noticed my entire body was turning blue. "Well, I have no idea what I'm turning into, any ideas?"
Sara snapped, "How can you two be so calm about this situation!? We're voi-ing into fre-veevee Pokemon an-voi you're all so voivoi veevee veevoi voi!"
Steven snickered. "Keep yelling. You sound really cute in Eevee."
Sara yelled a few things that we probably didn't want to translate.
I felt my ears shrink into my head and two tall spikes grow off the top of it. My hair seemed to be nonexistent now; must've shrank away while I wasn't looking. Steven now had a yellow tail sticking out of his butt, and Sara now had a fluffy white mane around her neck.
I felt my shirt rip as two purple membranes grew out from my sides and connected to my arms. A spike formed at the middle of each one, and I figured out what I was turning into.
"A Gligar. But...not a normal colored one...", I muttered.
Steven started shrinking, until he was at last a very buff Sandshrew. His commando face paint stayed on him, giving his face a rather odd look.
Sara was covered in brown fur now, and her ears had grown long and fluffy. I felt my feet change shape, losing all their toes. At the same time, there was a sharp tear as a long tail grew out of my back, which felt very odd and quite wrong.
I felt my teeth growing and sharpening, and my two lower canines grew out from between my lips and formed cartoonishly large fangs. My tongue began inflating, until I couldn't keep it in my mouth anymore and it lolled out, which probably looked really stupid.
Sara fell onto her arms, which had turned into her front legs. At around the same time, the two of us shrank, until we were the same size as Steven. We glanced between each other, our transformation complete.
Sara growled, "Ugh, an Eevee? I really shouldn't have said anything on the bus! How am I supposed to be tough-looking at all like this?!"
"I didn't say I wanted to be a Gligar, but here I am, dumb-looking tongue face and everything.", I replied, "But hey, on the bright side, I can fly now." I tried flapping my wings, but achieved nothing.
Sara snickered. "I love your tongue face. And anyways, did you even read the Pokedex? Gligars don't fly, they leap off trees or cave roofs and glide. You're going to have to walk."
I glared at my tiny feet. "How am I supposed to walk with these?"
Steven said, "Well, clearly Gligars get around somehow. Oh, and did you realize that you're a Shiny?"
As soon as he said the word shiny, a bunch of sparkles flashed off of me.
"Ah. That explains the weird color.", I replied.
Sara tried to step forward, but fell and splatted her face into the dirt.
"Gah! Stupid four legs!", she shouted.
Steve snickered, "Hehe, at least Barry and I can still walk normally. Plus, I can be a soccer ball now!"
He curled up and rolled himself right into a tree.
"Ouch!", he cried, "Oof, now I'm dizzy..."
Sara stated, "That's what you get for teasing me."
I spoke up. "So, uh, what do we do now?"
There was a flash of flame, and Coach Vernon teleported in front of us.
He grinned sheepishly. "Hey, kids, I gotta tell you something..."(-o-)
Wendell's POV
"This looks good.", stated Erik.
Me and my bandmates had gathered in a small clearing. We were not interested in the scavenger hunt, and instead we were going to do a practice performance in the middle of the forest.
I nodded, slipping my purple microphone out from my back pocket. "Get a tune going.", I said, "I'll take it from there."
Zeke started strumming a familiar tune on his guitar, while Erik started clapping along. Ah, yes, this was the song we'd performed last night. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and began to sing the first verse.
"As I sit here by the fire, I find myself beginning to dream..."
I wondered what my parents would think of it, when they first heard it. My father was the famous record artist Dougie Adams, and he'd released seven albums, all of them big hits. My mother, meanwhile, had been one of the four members of the pop band Rainbow Kittens, which was forever remembered in music history despite the fact it had disbanded within five years of its first famous song. I wanted to follow in their legacy, but I did not know if I was good enough.
"Of berries in the briar, of an ocean all agleam..."
Zeke was smiling now as he continued strumming the guitar. Normally, he was a dark, gloomy soul, quick to hostility and only loyal to his sister, but whenever he played his guitar, it seemed to bring out a better, happier version of himself. That was one of the beauties of music, I supposed; it allowed you to temporarily forget the burdens on your soul and ride with the song.
"But most importantly-I dream of you."
Zekr started strumming faster, as we reached the first chorus. Erik sped up his clapping, in order to keep up with the tune.
"Dreams of the future! Dreams of what has passed!
I never will forget them; even as they come through fast!
As we sit here by the fire, I can't help but believe;
That as we sit here together, our hearts are on our sleeves."
Erik stopped clapping, and I noticed he was breathing heavily. Zeke and I stopped the music, and went over to see what was wrong.
Then we noticed the long silver ears sticking off of his head.
"Holy...what's happening to you?!", I exclaimed.
Zeke looked rather concerned as well.
Erik groaned, "The others...there were people missing at the announcement earlier. I think I now know why."
Zeke growled, "Do you have any idea what we can do? Is there somebody I can punch?"
Suddenly, I felt my head inflating. "What the..."
Zeke glanced over, and jumped. "Oh no, not you too!"
Then he gritted his teeth, as a pair of strange black wings tore out of his shoulders.
As my head inflated, I felt the rest of my body shrinking into it. I dropped my microphone as my hands shrank into my head. It was very disturbing and quite painful.
Erik had now grown a silver fox tail with a white tip. Zeke was getting covered in thick black scales, and a long zigzaggy horn grew from the top of his head. Its tip lit up with blue electricity when it reached its final length.
As my clothes fell to the ground, I felt my head grow a new pair of hands and feet, but no real arms or legs. No toes or fingers either. My skin was now covered in pink soft fur, as well.
Erik's face had morphed into an Eevee's, and a thick white mane grew around his neck. It was warm out, so that was probably going to get uncomfortable quick.
As for Zeke, his face had morphed into a fierce black dragon's, complete with sharp teeth. His fingers curled into claws as strange plates grew out of his knuckles, making his hands look like his wings.
I felt my hair become a tightly coiled puff, which I assumed was bright pink. I felt my ears perk up like triangles, and just like that it was over. I was now a small pink puffball which I immediately realized had to be a Jigglypuff. That alone destroyed most of my dignity.
Erik shrank into his clothes, falling on all fours as he did so. When he crawled out, there was a silver Eevee, wearing the star necklace all his siblings had.
Zeke finished his transformation quite explosively. His shoes tore apart as huge three-toed clawed feet grew out, and that was followed by the back of his pants as a huge tail that resembled a turbine appeared. Then he grew in size, tearing up everything else he was wearing except for the strap holding the guitar around his neck. He was now a Zekrom, which was rather impressive.
All three of us were quiet for a long moment. Finally, Erik said, "This is absolutely messed up."
I nodded, or at least as best as I could due to my entire body being basically my head. "What are we going to do?", I asked, in a squeaky higher-pitched voice then normal.
Zeke slowly maneuvered his claws over his guitar, strumming out the tune we'd been playing. He smiled as he successfully played the first verse without much additional effort.
"I think it's obvious.", he said, "Keep practicing."
Erik looked shocked, which made for an extremely adorable expression on his Eevee face. "Wh-what?! I'm an Eevee now! How am I supposed to practice?!"
Zeke replied, "We've been trying to learn how to adapt to unusual situations. This is one of them. We will not give up music just because we turned into Pokemon, for reasons I cannot fathom."
I knew it was something else too: Zeke didn't want to think about the repercussions of this just yet.
"Yeah, that's, uh, a good idea.", I said, somehow managing to pick my microphone back up, whilst cringing at my squeaky voice.
Erik frowned. "Well...I'm going to have to figure out how to lay down a beat with four feet and no hands."
"You can do it, man.", I replied, "Oh hey, did you realize you were Shiny?"
As soon as I said the word shiny, sparkles burst off of him.
"Not really, was trying to ignore the fact I was a Pokemon.", he replied, "It's actually pretty cool."
Zeke started playing his guitar. "Let's show whatever did this to us that we aren't giving up nothing!"
Erik started tapping his paws on a rock, while I took another deep breath (ignoring how my body inflated as I did so), and began to sing once more.(-o-)
AN: There goes six of them, not sure how many more. As always, please review, and if you get to this point and you STILL haven't submitted a character, please do so! This story depends on you!
That's all for now, happy Pokemon hunting as always!