Hoopa sank into thought, pondering just where its plan had gone wrong to leave it in such a terrible state.
Hoopa looked down at its hands-soft, cute little kitty paws without a shred of strength. As for its claws, they might as well not have existed; they could not even scratch through a tissue. Hoopa could hardly stand it. It simply could not understand why its plan to borrow a power to escape its seal had ended up like this. And now it seemed to have turned into a stupid animal. It could not use any of its moves, and even its golden rings were gone. Hoopa realized sadly that it could now only be a useless little thing with no ability to protect itself.
"Meowpa!" Hoopa roared in anger, but what came out was the adorably silly mew of a tiny kitten, leaving it even more despairing. Hoopa lay flat on the table, gazing at the gentle moon and brilliant night sky outside the window, and sighed. How long had it been?
Ever since it had been sealed away, Hoopa had never again seen a night sky or nighttime scenery like this. Moonlight had been out of the question. It had never expected to escape that despair-inducing seal in such a pitiful form. Hoopa's plan had originally been a good one: it intended to escape using its golden rings, then fight its way back to where it belonged and teach those who had sealed it a painful lesson. Instead, its grand endeavor had ended before it was even halfway done. Looking at its weak, powerless state, Hoopa felt that if it ran outside like this, never mind finding Creation Valley-even leaving this unfamiliar place would be an enormous challenge.
When Heath woke the next morning, he found his vision