Chapter 1

Wake Up

"…Wake up…"

"..Hey, wake up..."

...Where... am I...?

"What's this? Oh, he moved! His eyes are..."

... I'm going to need to try harder... at least find out where I am... Using all the energy he could gather, Yami opened his eyes a little. He could see a white blur and a green blur above him, but could make no sense of who, or even what, they were.

"WAKE UP!"

"…Huh...five more minutes Yugi?" he said, still dazed.

"Yami, if you don't wake up I will let Bakura torment you, and take away your deck." The voice said, sounding as if its owner was walking away.

With a start, Yami sat up from where he lay, his eyes open wide. He couldn't see anything but a blue light and his head hurt severely, but nothing that would prevent him from figuring out what had just happened to him.

He felt a hard dizzy spell and fell back over on the bed, but only a little too hard and completely rolled off the side, hitting his head on the wooden frame. After coping with every burning sensation in his body, he finally could hear something rouse from the corner. Yami crouched low and waited for whatever it was to reveal itself. Quite the day I'm having already... Now if only I could remember how I got into this mess in the first place...

"It's alright Yami. I am not going to hurt you. Just so you know, you might want to take it easy for a while... You've been out for nearly two weeks."

Yami regained his footing and stood up straight. He now recognised the voice as Ryou's, but he was in no shape to do anything right now... He felt like he just went to into the puzzle for another five thousand years, three times over. Wait... TWO WEEKS? He thought, his brain only now figuring out what was said.

Taking a step back, Yami began looking around, searching the room for Ryou's voice frantically. I can't remember... What happened to me...? How did I get here? Yami fell on his knees and wrapped his hands around his head as a blue flash hit his conscious again. The green blur moved away while the white blur moved closer.

He fell on his hands and knees and began panting heavily as the pain started to dissipate almost as suddenly as it had came. For some reason, the blue blur seemed to stay fresh in his mind, though weaker than what had just happened.

"...Are you okay Yami? Can you hear me?"

Looking up, Yami could see what looked to be a white Eevee, a creature he recognised from one of Yugi's games. ...Wait... did that Eevee... Just talk...?

"Yami...are you ok?" the Eevee asked, sounding exactly like Ryou.

"You sound like Ryou" Yami said, still dazed.

"Yami... I AM Ryou" the Eevee said.

"But Ryou is human?" Yami asked, still confused.

"Yes Yami, I am a human but somehow I got turned into an Eevee" Ryou said, backing up a bit and allowing me a good view of him.

He had transformed into the small mammalian white creature that had been chasing him. He had a bushy tail that had a cream-coloured tip, and a furry collar that was also cream-coloured. He still had brown eyes, but now he had big ears, and pink paw pads. Lifting up his foot, I saw that he now also had circular pink paw pads on the undersides of his feet.

"What happened?" I asked, still a little dizzy.

"I don't know but you and Yugi were being chased by some Pokémon, and then you, me, and Bakura ran through a portal and then poof, we end up here" Ryou explained, as Yami's dizziness slowly went away.

"Portal?" Yami asked.

"Yes, a portal" Ryou said, bringing him bowl of water.

Yami looked into the bowl, intending to have a drink, but his reflection shocked him. Instead of his usual tri-coloured hair, there was now blue fur. Instead of his hands, there were now blue paws and instead of his human face, he now had a blue dog-like face with a black nose and two long black droopy ears beside him.

So he did the only natural thing, and fainted.

"He's out again?"

Turning, Ryou saw a Pokémon that resembled a reptilian dinosaur with a spotted blue-green hide. Its eyes were a bright red, but the most notable feature was the onion-like bulb on his back. The bulb looked very heavy, and was the reason for him sitting instead of standing. He also had a red scarf with a yellow star on it covering his right eye.

"I'm afraid so" Ryou answered.

"Pity, I'd like to know what happened to him."

"I know, but until he wakes up, we can't do much" Ryou said.

"How long till he wakes up again, do you think?"

A soft moan distracted them.

"Not long at all I think," Ryou said as Yami opened his eyes again.