Chapter Five:

The Potter's Blood Adoption was successful, effectively turning Hope into a hybrid of Gundalian and Magical Human. Briefly dispelling the illusion giving Hope a more human appearance only revealed a few changes. The most important one being the presence of a Magical Core, the metaphysical organ allowing Wizards and Witches to wield Magic (usually being depicted as being located in the chest). Another change caused by the Blood Adoption was that the bone/horn-like plates on Hope's forehead had changed, namely the tiny stubs of a budding pair of proper horns, mostly hidden by Hope's hair (which was now mainly black with dark pinkish red highlights, having previously been completely dark pink in color before the Blood Adoption), that would probably grow into either an adorable pair of horns similar to the ears of (relatively) small felines or around her ears and towards Hope's face, as she got older. Wile Vine wasn't sure how Hope's horns would grow due to, as previously mentioned, the horns only being tiny stubs.

Something else that the Blood Adoption seemed to have caused a change (or perhaps evolution is more accurate) to was the bond between Hope and Wile Vine. Before the Blood Adoption, their bond was mostly familial, with the bond between Wile Vine and Hope being similar to the bond shared between an aunt and her niece. While the old bond was still there, there was also a new bond between them, a bond that allowed Wile Vine to do something more than what most Bakugan could do in Ball-form. In her case, assert her dominance over plant life, controlling vegetation with a mere thought, something that she had previously only been able to do in her true form back on Gundalia(, before and after the activation of one of her Ability-Cards, Vegetation Domination, before and after becoming close to Hope's biological parents and afterwards Hope's Guardian Bakugan (having been able to activate the Ability whenever she wanted when she still was a wild Bakugan)). The only times when it was a bit more difficult to control the plants were when the plants in question had a level of consciousness, like the magical species of plant known as Venomous Tentacula for example.

When Wile Vine brought it up, the Potter naturally asked about the circumstances that led to the Bakugan giving up her life in the wild. While hesitant at first, Wile Vine revealed that when she initially met Hope's parents, they were very close to being eaten by a carnivorous plant in the (relatively) small patch of jungle on Gundalia that was Wile Vine's home (relatively in comparison to the size of not only Wile Vine herself in her true form but also the sheer size of Gundalia itself, being a rather large planet compared to Earth (Wile Vine wasn't sure, but she was at least under the impression that Earth was about the size of the moon-like object that Gundalia and Neathia were supposedly orbiting around, which itself orbited around the sun of the solar system)). The Bakugan admitted that she saved the two from becoming the plant's lunch on a whim, having been rather apathetic regarding the state of Gundalia and its conflict with Neathia, and simply being content with living her life without being bothered and wouldn't have been likely to care whether or not some poor fools got themselves eaten by a carnivorous plant at the time, simply seeing it as nature taking its course. What made a very considerable impression on the Bakugan was when the two Gundalians actually thanked her for saving them and invited her to seeing the city where they lived, which Wile Vine accepted on a whim, assumed her Ball-form for the first time and took a seat in the poofy hair of Hope's father. Something that she continued doing when Hope was born, who inherited the poofy quality of her Gundalian father's hair, of which Wile Vine had the opinion that it was a comfortable place to sleep in Ball-form.