Author's Note: Part 10 and Grian has leggies. Though Mumbo is still acting like a cat. Oof.

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 Iskall's POV:

 Grian gave us a nervous expression as Mumbo continued to nuzzle against his hand. The cat hybrid's tail was waving up in down as he started to purr loudly. 

 I looked over at Stress and Ren as they held their hands over their mouths.

 " Are you okay Grian?" Stress quickly asked as he took his hand away from his mouth. Grian nodded slowly, " I... I am! This just feels weird." he pointed out as a small blush that only I seemed to notice formed on his face.

 Ren crossed his arms, " Do you need help?" he questioned as Grian shook his head, " No, I think I can handle this fuzzball." he awkwardly laughed as Ren and Stress looked at each other. The two decided to accept Grian's claim and went back to working on Doc. 

 I decided to take this brief moment to look down at Doc. The lesser creeper hybrid was sound asleep with his chest slowly moving up and down rhythmically. He had a weak smile. The rest of his body was now regaining its color even if it was still moderately pale. 

 Doc slowly opened his eyes, " Rennn?" he groaned as Ren sat down on the end of the bed. 

 Ren reached out and felt Doc's forehead, " Stress, can you get me an ice pack?" he looked back at Stress nodded and pulled up her inventory to pull out a long ice pack.  The dog hybrid took the ice pack and draped it over Doc's forehead. The creeper hybrid weakly looked up at Ren and fell asleep again with a small, warm smile.

 " I think he needs some more medicine..." Stress sighed as Ren nodded slightly, " Yes, though I think that for right now Doc just needs more rest." he whispered as he stuck his hands in his pockets and raised his eyebrow. 

 Stress and I looked at him with confusion. Ren slowly pulled out a small plush mouse toy. I looked at the mouse, " Why do you have that?" I questioned as Ren thought for a moment. He tossed the small mouse toy up and down as he thought for a moment.

 " Hmmm..." he scratched at his beard as he thought. His tail twitched until a lightbulb went off. A small smile formed on his face.

 " I was watching Cleo's cats a week ago." he started to explain, " I know that it doesn't quite make sense for me to watch them, but I owed Cleo...." he shrugged with a small laugh. 

 The dog hybrid looked over at Mumbo. 

 I followed his gaze back towards Grian. 

 The fishy hermit still had one arm pinned underneath Mumbo, but he had his other hand scratching behind the cat's ears. Mumbo was mewing as he hypnotically enjoyed the affection he was given.

 Ren whistled causing Mumbo to perk his head up suddenly towards Ren. I watched cautiously as Ren threw the mouse in Mumbo's direction. 

 Mumbo stood up causing Grian to gasp and quickly take his arm back with a relieved look. The cat hybrid walked over to the mouse and pawed at it with his hand.

 The next thing we knew Mumbo was playing with the mouse by biting and throwing it across the room. His eyes had returned to normal, but he continued to play with the new toy. Mumbo continued to play with the toy until he flopped over tiredly with a sigh.

 " That was odd to watch." Jevin raised an eyebrow as he walked into the room.

 " How long have you been watching?" I questioned as Jevin sat down in his chair, " Long enough...." Jevin narrowed his eyes with a weirded out expression.

 Cleo entered the room with a small, red-ish orange potion in his hand. He walked over to Grian.

 " This should give you your legs back." he placed the potion down near the dugout. 

 Grian picked it up with an ecstatic expression as his ear fins perked up. He stared at the potion before he looked over at me, " Iskall come 'ere." he waved me over, and I hopped over to him. I honestly wished I could just walk normally when I was happy.  

 " Can you reach into my inventory and take out my spare clothing? I'd do it myself, but I don't want the clothes to get too wet." he questioned with a small pleading smile. I looked down at his and my tail twitched. I quickly nodded and brought up Grian's inventory. 

 I quickly took out a red shulker box and took out a spare shirt and pants. I set the spare clothing down on the cage so Grian could reach it. He nodded with a toothy smile, " Thank you Iskaaaalll..." he beamed as I nodded.

 Cleo walked over to a small curtain and pulled it over to separate Grian from the rest of us, " Just some privacy for you G." he smirked as the sound of thankful splashing came from the other side of the curtains. 

 This left everyone with a waiting game. We had to wait for Cub and Scar's results, Grian's second transformation, and Mumbo's reawakening. It was honestly very boring. 

((Le time skip brought to you by horse hybrid Joe. How did he get here? I dunno.)) 

 My leg was twitching as I sat on the floor. We have been waiting for who knows how long and no updates have happened. I was honestly ready to bite at a carrot until the curtain started to move. 

 My ears stood straight up as my attention perked towards the curtain. The curtain pulled back revealing Grian but with red scale covered legs.

 I stood up and walked over to Grian as he pulled himself up. Grian's attempt at standing up were like a baby animal learning to stand up and walk. The good news is he had the counter to support him. 

 Grian looked at me as I held out my arms, " Thank you. " he sighed as he took my arm and slowly stepped out of the pool.

 " The good news is that all you really need is to drink lots of water and when you aren't working on something then you can just sit in some water to refresh yourself." Jevin explained as he leaned back in his sleep.

 " Cool!" Grian smirked as he admired the fact that he had his legs back. This admiration for Grian's re-ability to walk was cut short sadly as Scar (Cub) entered the room. 

 " We found where X is...." he crossed his arms with a worried expression. Everyone saw the look on his face, " What's wrong?" I asked as Scar grasped at his arm, " Cub's communications device had a virus on it from Evil X." he explained as he looked back towards a room.

 " What did it do to Cub?" Stress asked as he crossed his arms.

 " It took some of the Vex energy out of him.... If my body doesn't have that energy then I can't walk on my own." he whispered with a panicked expression as everyone looked at each other and quickly followed Scar to the other room. The only people to stay behind were Ren, Doc, Grian, and Mumbo.