Alright, so I know it has been a few months since this story was updated. And we have had this chapter almost written for a while. So we finally finished it up. Sorry for the long wait. Enjoy!

Chapter 10

Hikari began twisting and turning in her sheets before she tumbled off her hammock in a tangle of clothes and blankets. She landed on Claire, who was underneath her hammock, startling the both of them awake. In the brief moment after waking up, Hikari realized that she now had the body of a cat.

Claire grumbled as she shifted slight, though she also was in a tangle of clothes, "Get off…" she grumbled.

Hikari twisted around in her clothing for a bit before rolling off of Claire and shedding off of her clothes. She then turned to face Claire.

"Claire?" Hikari began, now noticing that her friend/student was now tangled in a mass of clothes. She then used her teeth to grab onto some of the fabric and began tugging it off of Claire.

Claire grumbled more as she start to push off most the clothes, revealing that she now looked like a orange fox with a yellow, fluffy tail, and fluffy of yellow fur also on her head.

Letting go of the clothes in her mouth, Hikari then leaned in and bopped Claire with her nose.

"Claire?"

Claire grumbled more angrily this time as she rolled on to her stomach and pushed herself up onto all fours, and tried to jump at Hikari, still only being half awake. Hikari, jumped backwards, landing on top of Riku's stomach as she wasn't looking where she was jumping to. Riku let out a harsh exhale of air as he opened his eyes to see a purple cat sitting on him.

Claire tried to run at Hikari, but she obviously wasn't use to being on all four, especially on a dome ceiling. Instead of running, Claire ended up slipping and tumbling into Riku's side, causing him to let out a groan of pain. He then looked at the cat sitting on him and the fox at his side.

"Hikari? Claire?" He asked.

"Good morning." Hikari stated, turning to face Riku. Her tail swaying behind her.

"Uh...You're a cat now." Riku stated, being in a sleeping state of just being woken up suddenly.

"I'm aware of that. We did say that Claire and I would become pokemon today." Hikari deadpanned.

"I know… Well do you think maybe you could get off of me?" Riku asked.

Before Hikari could respond, Claire shook her head as she looked up to see that she was right next to Riku. Claire jumped back a bit before slipping on the glass again and falling onto her stomach.

"It's not easy trying to walk on all fours…" Claire complained aloud.

"You'll get used to it, Claire. It's not that hard to learn." Hikari responded before hopping off of Riku, who let out a heavy sigh as he sat up.

"But now everything seems so much larger…" Claire said as she tried to stand up again only to fall back down again. "What are we going to do now?"

"I think I'll go find and wake up Xavier." Hikari then turned around, walked past Riku and hopped over Sora, who was still fast asleep, on her way out of the gummi ship.

Claire sighed as she finally was able to stand on all fours and not fall.

"Are you okay?" Riku asked.

Claire looked at Riku and finally noticed that his hair was now actually a pure white. Claire looked down, "Yeah… I guess."

"Don't worry, we will find a way to fix this." Riku said, giving Claire a reassuring smile.

"Thanks." Claire said as she looked over at Sora, who was still asleep, and saw his hair was now completely yellow. "Should we try to wake him?"

"We can.. I just don't want him to shock me again.. Especially since we are inside the gummi ship. We don't need anything to spark and explode or something."

"Maybe we should just let him sleep until he wakes on his on?" Claire suggested.

Riku chuckled, "If we let him sleep, he would sleep for hours then." He then nudged Sora's shoulder, "Hey Sora, come on. Time to wake up."

Sora yawned and he slowly sat up and stretched. He looked at Riku and then at Claire, "Claire is that you?"

"Yeah...this is me now.." Claire said with a sigh.

"Where's Hikari?" Sora then asked as he looked around.

"She's already outside with Xavier, so we should go met up with them." Riku said as he stood up.

Sora and Claire nodded as they all headed outside of the gummi ship. Once outside they saw Hikari pawing at a still sleeping Xavier's face. Xavier shifted a little as his nose twitched slightly. He then rolled onto his side and stretched out and let out a yawn. Hikari booped her nose against Xavier's in an attempt to get his attention.

Xavier's nose twitched again as he opened his eyes and sat up. He then looked down at Hikari, "Oh, good morning Hikari." He then saw the others, "So I see that you and Claire are finally Pokemon."

"That's quite obvious, Xavier. Now I think it's time for breakfast, don't you agree?"

"But what are we going to eat?" Claire asked.

"Don't you still have food left in your bag, or did you eat it all already? I kept telling you not to keep snacking on everything… "

"I didn't eat everything...but now it's harder to get stuff out of the bags…" Claire grumbled.

Hikari gave Claire a look. "If you seriously have issues getting stuff out of your bag, just ask Sora or Riku to get it for you."

"I guess so…" Claire said.

The five of them were left in awkward silence before a rustling sound followed by light thumping was heard from inside the gummi ship. Out hopped Hikari's bag before it opened and spit out five bowls like projectiles, one at each of them, followed by an odd dispenser like thing full of cereal. Hikari gracefully hopped up and caught the bowl that was flying at her before landing in a crouch with it in her mouth.

Claire watched as her bowl sailed over her head, while Xavier managed to jump out of the way of the one coming towards him. The two bowls flung at Riku and Sora were aimed more towards their torsos, and while Riku managed to catch his, Sora was not fully paying attention and ended up having the bowl collided with his stomach, causing him to stumble back slightly as the bowl fell to the ground.

"Well that is something you don't see everyday." Xavier muttered.

Hikari appeared to give a cat's attempt at a shrug before walking over to the dispenser, setting it upright, and placed her bowl beneath the opening at the bottom. She then used one of her front paws to pull down on the lever, releasing the cereal inside, removing her paw when she was satisfied with the amount in her bowl. Picking up the bowl in her mouth, she then moved a short distance away, set the bowl of cereal down on the ground, sat down, and then began eating like a cat.

The others soon walked up to the dispenser and got their cereal. After they all got their food they sat down and began to eat.

"So… what are we supposed to do now? Now that Hikari and I are Pokemon I mean?" Claire asked.

"You two need to learn how to move around and get use to being Pokemon, I can try to help you guys with anything you need." Xavier said.

"It's still so strange to see you guys like that." Sora said, then he turned towards Riku. "You know, all these Pokemon we have seen, they kinda remind me of Dream Eaters, what do you think?"

Riku shrugged, "I guess so, I didn't really think about it before."

Hikari's ears twitched in curiosity. "What's a Dream Eater?"

"Hmm Dream Eaters are creatures that are found in sleeping worlds. There are two types, Spirits and Nightmares. They can come in all different shapes and sizes," Riku explained.

"Sounds interesting." Claire said between her bites of food. "Wait Hikari, I just realized something. Are we still able to use our keyblades?"

Hikari hummed in thought before she opened her mouth, and in a flash of light, she was holding a scaled down version of her keyblade by one of the winged handguards. Hikari then set it down at her feet.

"The answer is yes, but they're now quite cumbersome to hold like this."

"I had to use my keyblade like that when I was in the Pride Lands. It takes a bit getting use to, but at least you are still able to use it." Sora stated.

After they all had finished eating, they heading out towards the beach area again so Xavier could help the girls get use to their new forms. But upon arriving at the beach several shadow and soldier heartless popped up and started to roam around.

"Heartless are back!" Sora shouted as he and Riku summoned their keyblades and ran at the heartless.

"Alright...let's try this…" Claire muttered quietly as she summoned her keyblade, holding in her mouth. Like Hikari's it also was scaled down, Claire then lunged at the heartless doing her best to swing her keyblade.

Unlike the others, Hikari didn't bother to summon her keyblade, instead, she opted to use her claws and teeth to rip apart the heartless. The shadows that she did pin to the ground vanished in wisps of darkness as she tore at them with her sharp teeth. After each one, she sputtered for a moment, shaking her head with her tongue hanging out before lunging at the next ones.

Xavier also charged at the heartless, and he struck them with electricity that shot from his tail.

Shortly after the heartless were defeated the group came back together. The keybalde wielders that had their keyblades out unsummoned them.

"The heartless problem seems to be growing worse and worse…" Claire said.

"We better try to find whatever the source is soon, before this whole world is destroyed by them." Sora added.

"While I'm not entirely concerned about the heartless finding this world's heart at the moment, I am more concerned about our ability to locate the source of the darkness that's calling them here. We've looked around and even those of us sensitive to the darkness can't find anything," stated Hikari

"We never did finish searching the island. We will just have to keep looking." Riku said.

"Agreed. There has to be something here that we are missing or something." Xavier said.

"Maybe tomorrow we can go looking around again?" Claire suggested.

"That sounds good. We could search the other areas of the island." Sora said.

"Well for right now," Xavier started as he looked at Hikari and Claire, "You two should learn to use those 'moves' I mentioned before. Though I cannot fully help you guys, you mostly gotta figure the moves out on your own."

"But what are we supposed to do while you guys do that?" Sora asked.

"We could spar with each other." Riku suggested.

"Ah, that sounds good." Sora said as he and Riku walked off to the farther end of the beach to spar.

Hikari turned to face Xavier. "So, are all pokemon moves universal or are they specific to types and individual pokemon?"

"Most moves correspond to the type of Pokemon. There are fire moves for fire types, electric moves for electric types, and so on." Xavier explained.

"If they're mostly type specific, then how are you, and electric type, supposed to teach a psychic type and a fire type?"

"That's why I said I cannot fully help you guys with that. But I am going to try and help in whatever way I can." Xavier replied.

"So how will we know if we are using a move?" Claire asked.

"Well… it took me a bit to figure out. But I eventually learned how to channel electricity and how to turn it into an attack. I would assume you two will be able to do the same. Though I think it may be tricker for you Hikari, since you are a Espeon, which is psychic. Psychic Pokemon have rather interesting moves." Xavier explained.

Hikari tilted her head. "Are you able to describe an example of such a move?"

"Uh let's see...it's hard to explain. But a lot of the moves have to do with psychic energy or something. There was this one move I saw once. A psychic Pokemon was able to create this beam of colorful, what I want to assume was energy, and fired it at it's target." Xavier said.

Hikari nodded her head in thanks before walking off to a slight distance and sat down with her eyes closed, as if to meditate.

"We won't be hearing from her for a while. When Hikari is trying to figure something out she likes to meditate and doesn't like to be disturbed." Claire explained.

"Well...as she does that...Do you perhaps...want to try to test out using fire moves? We should probably be closer to the shore just so you don't accidently set anything on fire." Xavier said.

"Yeah, alright," Claire said as they walked towards the shore area.

The day they went on fairly normal, or what felt like normal by now. Riku and Sora sparred a little more before checking out around the shoreline again, looking for anything suspicious. But of course they ended up not finding anything that helped give any clues. Claire on the other hand had started to figure out how a few Pokemon fire moves, being already use to fire magic herself it was fairly easy. Hikari wasn't able to make much progress besides the occasional time she confused herself ( there were spirials in her eyes at one point), but did, theoretically figure out how to confuse others.

During their trainings, they took a few brakes to stop, relax, and eat. As the day went on and the sun began to set, the group started a small fire back at the campsite. They prepared some food and at first began eating in silence.

"Tomorrow…" Claire muttered quietly, "I really hope we find a way to change back…"

"Tomorrow though, Riku and I will be become Pokemon...right?" Sora asked.

Hikari nodded. "It'll be roughly five days for you two come tomorrow morning, and that's approximately how long it took for Claire and myself to change."

"That will make things a little more complicated for when we go searching around the island tomorrow," Riku said.

"Only by a little bit, we still can easily search the island...it's mainly just at a different eye level. Once you two get use to your Pokemon forms we should head out. Start searching as soon as we can," Xavier said.

"Agreed," Claire said before eating more of her food.

After some silence while people were eating, Hikari spoke up. "It's still a bit damp out, and I doubt that our tents and sleeping bags are dry yet, so we're probably going to have to spend the night in the gummi ship again… with slightly modified arrangements as I don't think I can get up to my hammock in this form."

"If you wanted to, you can sleep out here like I have," Xavier said.

"Maybe that might be best for all of us," Riku said, "Then we wouldn't have to be in such a small space again, especially when we wake as Pokemon tomorrow."

"Yeah," Sora agreed. "That makes sense."

Hikari just shook her head. "I'm a cat. I think I'll spend the night in the gummi ship. If you all want to sleep on the damp ground out here, then go ahead."

Hikari then put away the dish she was eating out of before hopping into the gummi ship in order to go to bed. The remaining four soon also cleaned up their dishes and started to die down the fire a little. Sora and Riku went and retrieved their pillows and blankets from the ship, because even though they would be sleeping outside, they wanted at to at least have something to keep them warm during the night. Once the fire had died out, the four laided around the firepit and eventually fell asleep.

And that wraps up ch10. Whew...it took so long to get through this.
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