Kendall has Yuma sleep curled up next to him, just as he said. She sleeps well, and when morning comes, Kendall is woken up by a tired voice.

"K…Kendall?"

The blond opens his eyes slowly and sees the piglet looking back at him. "Yuma? Are you okay?"

"Yeah."

"Are you better?" Kendall reaches out and pets her on the head. She appears to smile.

"You took care of me," Yuma says softly.

"I did," Kendall nods.

"You fed me with a bottle."

"Is that okay?"

"It's fine," Yuma says. "It was actually…pretty sweet. Thank you." The pig's nose starts to glow green again.

"What is that?" Kendall asks.

"Oh! Nothing!" Yuma gasps and shudders, trying to make the glow disappeared. Kendall laughs but Yuma isn't entirely amused. "It's nothing!"

"Mmmm Yuma, are you going to tell me what's going on yet?"

"No, I can't," Yuma says. She gets up onto her feet and stretches out. "Don't worry about it. But today, we need to get to my safe cave."

"You know where it is now?"

"Yep!"

"Alright, well let's go see it."

Kendall picks up Yuma and gets out of bed. He doesn't bother disturbing James, but leaves him a sticky note on his cheek that says, "Out with Yuma. Plz feed Fox."

They head out to the bathroom so Kendall can quickly get washed up and dressed, and once he's ready, Yuma goes in the backpack again and they head out of apartment 2J. It's early enough that nobody else is really up, but when Kendall walks out of the elevator on the lobby level, he overhears Buddha Bob and Bitters talking down a hallway.

"Uhh, yeah," Buddha Bob says. "All the rooms I checked were clean. Noooo dogs, noooo pigs."

"Well don't stop looking," Bitters grumbles. "I know they're around here somewhere. Something funny's going on, and I'm going to find out."

"Whatever you say," Buddha Bob says and Kendall hears someone come down the hall towards him. He braces and holds the backpack against himself a bit tighter.

Hoping it's Buddha Bob, but unfortunately Bitters rounds the corner. He walks up to Kendall, leering suspiciously. "What are you doing up so early?"

"Just going for a walk, you know," Kendall says, trying to remain cool. "Kinda tired of hearing James blabber on and on. James. Right."

"Riiiiiight," Bitters says, looking him over. "What's in the backpack?"

"Thought maybe, I would go…grocery shopping. While I'm out. Yeah. And uh, I don't like to carry things in my hands unless I really have to, so I'd put them in the backpack."

"Riiiiiight," Bitters mumbles again. "I'm watching you, Knight."

"Great!" Kendall says, staring back. "Then I'll uh, see you later." They awkwardly look back to each other a few more times before Kendall hurries out of the front door. Once he's far enough away from the building, he takes Yuma from his backpack and puts her on the ground.

"What was that all about?" she asks.

"I told you. The management at my place is looking for you, and they want to destroy you. They think you're a pest."

"We don't have time for this silliness, Kendall!" Yuma says, trudging forward.

"I know. I'm doing my best."

The go down the sidewalk and Yuma takes Kendall back to the ally that he originally found her.

"Here?" Kendall asks, looking down the narrow, crummy passageway.

"Yeah!" Yuma cheers. "I totally forgot, but it's down here. Come on, follow me." The tiny pink pig runs off down the ally and Kendall nervously follows. It grows quite dark. They take it all the way to the end, and then Yuma says, "cover your eyes!"

"Again? Do I have to?"

"Please."

"Okay, okay." Kendall claps his palms over his face and closes his eyes tightly. He hears the sparkling, shifting noise again, and then something like a door opening up.

"Ready," Yuma announces.

The boy looks and sees there is actually a door there, full sized for a person and everything. "This is it?" Kendall asks.

Yuma nods. "Open it please."

Kendall turns the nob and pulls it open. It looks dark at first, but once they step inside, this whole big room is illuminated with a soft, green hue. Kendall thinks the glowing seems familiar, and he suddenly realizes that it's the same tone as when Yuma's snout radiates happiness.

"Nice place," Kendall says, looking around. It's far bigger than Fox's safe cave, and much different, but the furniture is still clearly for humans. The walls have ivy climbing up on them, and there is a lot of green and brown furniture. There are bookshelves, desks, chests, and even what appears to be a dining table. "So who is it really for?"

"Me," Yuma says. The pig is dwarfed so much by the room that she's almost impossible to see. She acts very reasonable and springs up onto a stool, then a chair, and finally upon the top of a desk. Kendall walks over to her and sees something that makes him shout.

"HEY!" he yells. "That's my driver's license! How did you get that?!"

"I don't know," Yuma says. Kendall takes the piece of plastic and looks it over.

"What the hell happened to it? It's beat to shit."

"Sorry."

"Yuma, come on," Kendall says, his tone dropping to a soft coax. "Can't you tell me what's going on here?"

"Well," the pig takes in a deep breath and lets it out. "I thought it would be best to never tell you, but, maybe you're right. You see, Fox and I are actually…"

Before she can continue, the room is suddenly shook up. The ground rattles like an earthquake and Yuma shouts, "Oh no! No no no!"

"What's going on!?" Kendall yells.

"We have to move! No! This is bad, very bad!"

"Where are we going?!"

"Follow me!" Yuma springs off of the desk and to the floor, where she scampers through the shaking and over to a bookshelf. The room is being rocked back and forth and Kendall isn't even sure what to hold onto. He does his best to grab a chair, but everything is shaking so it's mostly useless. He's terrified that the whole room will suddenly collapse.

The pig diligently works her snout around in a strange circle, creating a loop of sparkling leaves. They twist up into the air and fly against the wall. Even though the situation is quite scary, Kendall watches the pig doing her strange spell and is mystified.

Then another passageway appears. It slowly rises from the floor, leaving the shape of an open door in the back of the room. Yuma immediately starts to run down it. "Follow me!" she calls out. Kendall grimaces and runs after the pig.

Though the shaking is still going on, it seems to be a little less now. The doorway leads down a long, narrow tunnel which is illuminated by hundreds of green glowing candles. The floor twinkles. It's actually quite beautiful.

"What's going on?!" Kendall calls out to the pig, who is decently far ahead of him. She doesn't answer. "Is everything okay?!"

"No!" Yuma yells.

The tunnel goes downhill, uphill, makes a few bends and then stops at another doorway. It's closed, but Yuma does another sparkly spell and it opens up, grinding and groaning as it comes to the ceiling.

"Come on then, come on!" Yuma says to Kendall.

"Where are you taking me?" Kendall asks.

"No time."

They walk through the threshold and are suddenly in a huge, huge room. There's a big, sparkling water basin in the center, filled with purple twinkles that shimmer and glisten as Kendall moves closer. It's all still underground, but the water causes so much light that the room is quite bright. Around the sides of the pool are a few wooden chairs. Kendall hasn't even realized that the tremors are gone.

"Okay, what the hell is going on, and how is this under LA?" Kendall asks, a little bit grumpy.

Panting, Yuma stops and looks up at him to the best of her ability. "We aren't really under LA."

"Huh?"

"The doorways to our safe caves," Yuma continues. "They're doorways to another dimension."

"Whaaaa?"

"Yeah," Yuma says, panting. She trots again, around the water. "We need to keep going."

"But this room is so cool," he says.

"Sorry, maybe another time. We need to get to the observation cave."

"Oh, uh, okay." Kendall follows the pig around the perimeter of the sparkling purple pool and to another door. There are many in this room, he realizes once they get to the far end of it. She casts a spell and one of the doors opens, then she disappears inside. Kendall follows, sighing. He looks over his shoulder at the purple water and imagines what it could be like to swim in it.

Yuma leads Kendall up a tall, marble staircase, still enclosed by the darkness of the underground. It goes up a long ways and Kendall gets dizzy, circling and circling the center of the spiral. Finally they get up to the top and it looks like they aren't even underground anymore. There is a tiny room up there, which a bunch of books and worktables that are scattered with papers and quills. Along the sides of the room are windows which let a lot of light inside. Kendall walks up to one and looks outside. It's foggy, and all he can really make out is something that looks like a vast, peaceful ocean. "Where the heck are we?" he asks.

"Dimensional Pocket #294," Yuma says. She climbs to a desk and starts shoveling papers around with her nose. "Shit."

"How do you know curse words?" Kendall asks, laughing.

"I've developed a full range of Human English vocabulary. Haven't you noticed?"

"Yeah, okay. Fair enough. So what was all that shaking?"

"It's bad," Yuma says. "Very, very bad. We're close to fulfilling our mission, but apparently someone else has figured it out." The pig sighs.

There are voices coming up the stairs behind them and Kendall freaks out. He looks back with his eyes wide open, gasping quietly, but as the voices grow closer he recognizes them at once and James and Fox.

"Ohh," Kendall sighs, once his friends steps into the room.

"Hey!" Fox cheers from James's arms. "Figured you'd be here. Did you feel the Throy-mul just then?"

"The what?!" Kendall and James ask in unison.

"Nothing," Yuma says. She leers at Fox. "Yes, I did. That's why I'm here. I'm not even sure how to stop it."

"Oh dear," Fox sighs. He jumps from James's arms and climbs up on the desk where Yuma is. They start sorting to papers together.

"Sup James," Kendall says to his friend tiredly.

"Hey," James sighs. "This is getting really, really weird, right?"

"I've been trying to tell you…"

Yuma suddenly stops and looks over at the boys. She seems sad.

"What's wrong, Yuma?" Kendall asks.

"You're right," the pig says. Fox stops moving, too. He sits down next to the pig and whimpers. "We should tell you, shouldn't we?"

"Pleeeease?" James begs. "You two are so cool, and all of this stuff is so cool! Why are we special?"

"What are we helping you with?" Kendall asks.

"Alright," Yuma says with another sigh. She closes her eyes. "You see, Fox and I are royalty from a long time ago. A long, long time ago. So far away in time that your age of history doesn't even know we existed."

"Whaat?" Kendall gasps.

"Royalty?" James asks.

"I'm the princess of Earth," Yuma says wearily.

"And I'm the prince of Ice!" Fox cheers. He puffs a tiny pocket of cold air out of his mouth.

"Their princesses and princes are baby animals?" James asks. "That's weird."

"No, no," Yuma explains. "We're under a spell right now. See, there was this evil being back in our time called the Throy-mul. It's power grew so large and consuming that it was going to destroy everything we knew. It seemed impossible to beat, but…I was doing research in my study, looking into very old documents, and the only thing I found about the Throy-mul was that opposite bonds must be made to save the world."

"So that's how we got together," Fox interrupts. "Earth and Ice. We don't go together very well. But Yuma sent and invitation to me, and I went immediately. It was difficult at first, but we realized that we aren't so different in the end."

"Right. Then we made a pact and wrote a spell together. We worked and worked as the Throy-mul grew and grew. It took almost a your time year for it to be ready, but it finally was."

"It was amazing! We were amazing," Fox says, smiling at Yuma.

"So what was the spell?" Kendall asks quietly.

"A huge spell," Yuma says. "Bigger than any we had done before. We combined our spirits and locked a safety net around the entire world. But, we don't really know if it worked."

"Why not?" Kendall asks.

"The only way for the spell to work," the pig continues. "Was that we were sent way far into the future. It also unfortunately changed us into animals. There are a lot of strange things about it, that's for sure. So now we're just trying to get home."

"That's so sad," James says. "You just want to get home? Then why did you pick us?"

"As we came into the future," Yuma explains. "We received two items. One was your driver's license, Kendall."

"Yeah and the other was a portrait of James!" Fox says.

"A portrait? You have one of my portraits?!"

"Yep," the dog nods.

"That's how we found you," Yuma says. "We knew you were the ones to help us, because those items came to us."

"Wow," Kendall says, staring at the animals. "That's amazing. It's almost hard to believe. But wait…Fox said something about Throy-mul earlier. Was that rumbling…"

"I guess the spell has worn off or so, and it's found us in the future," Yuma says.

"What?! That's not good. Is the planet okay?!" Kendall shrieks.

"It's fine, it's fine. We just have to work harder." The pig gets up again and starts going through papers once more.

"Wait, Yuma," Kendall says.

"Hm?"

"How do you go home? Do you even know?"

"Kind of," Yuma says. "I have an idea."