Megamorph 5 The Vacation (This story takes place some where between book # 37 & 38)

Disclaimer: I don't own the Animorphs. Ok now on to the story.

Chapter 1- Jake

My name is Jake. No last name just Jake. I wish I could give you my last name but I can't. If I gave you my last name it might mean death to me or my friends, and that is something we just can't risk. We can't risk this because we might be Earth's only hope of survival.

Earth is slowly being taken over. Not by mad dictators or any other human. Our precious Earth is being taken over by aliens. Yeerks to be more precise.

A Yeerk is a creature that looks like a slug. They crawl into your head and controls you completely. You never know who is a Yeerk. They can be your family or your friends.

I fight them with my best friend Marco, my cousin Rachel, her best friend Cassie, a human turned hawk Tobias, and an alien named Aximili- Esgarrouth-Isthill or Ax for short. We fight them using the power given to us by Ax's brother Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. The power to turn into any animal as long as we acquire its DNA first. We became Animorphs, Animal Morphers. Unfortunately this power had a dreadful limit. No more than 2 hours in a morph. That is why Tobias is now a hawk instead of a human. Luckily the Ellimist gave him his morphing powers back and the ability to morph his human self.

Using this power we fight the Yeerks. We have been in more battles than probably any warrior.

Now that you know what we have been through you know why we need a break. School had just ended a week ago and all of us Animorphs were having a picnic around Tobias's tree. We were sitting around discussing what we were planing on doing this summer. We were all human. even Tobias and Ax.

"My mom is trying to force me to go to camp." Rachel said. "She said it would be a good idea to get out of town and see the rest of the world."

"You mean you didn't mention that you need to stay here to save the world from Yeerks." Marco told her.

"Hey I thought we weren't going to mention Yeerks today." Cassie said to them.

"We weren't" I told her. "Let's play volleyball."

We sat around for the rest of the day playing a game of Volleyball when Marco missed the ball and it rolled into the woods.

"I'll get it." he called and ran into the woods.

W hen he got back to us he not only had the volleyball but a large brown bag as well.

"What's that." Rachel asked him when he got back to us.

He put the bag down and opened it revealing packs of dollars and coins.

I looked at him and asked "Where did you get this?"

"I found it in the bushes" he told us.

I looked at the others questionably. I noticed Tobias hanging back a little and asked "Tobias do you know anything about this?" Everyone tuned to look at him.

"Well" he started "Yes, that's about 1/3 of my life savings"

"Why do you keep it in a sack in a bush?" Cassie asked him. "Why not put it in a bank"

"Oh, I do have the rest of it in the bank." he answered her. "But I like to keep this money handy."

"How much is in here?" Marco asked.

"Last time I checked about $326" Tobias said.

"$326!" Rachel exclaimed "If that is 1/3 of your life savings that must mean you have about..."

"978 dollars doll- er oller." Ax interrupted.

"Well yah. I've always wanted to go on a cruise. so I was saving money to go on one."

"But you have enough money for several cruises." (I'm guessing I have no idea how much a cruise costs.)I told him.

"Yah I know. But lately we've been fighting the Yeerks all the time and when have you ever heard of a hawk going on a cruise."

We were all sitting around thinking about this when Rachel spoke up. "You know what I've always wanted to go on a cruise too. Why don't we all go on one. We have been needing a vacation and the Yeerks have been pretty quiet lately."

"What Zena wants to stop fighting?" Marco said in a shocked voice.

"No! I never said we should stop fighting. I just said we need a break." Rachel told him.

"You know that sounds like a good idea." I said to intercept a huge argument.

"Yes it does sound like a good idea. But you over looked something important. What are we going to tell our parents." Cassie said. Always being the reasoning voice in the group.

"Why do we need to tell them anything?" Marco asked

"Well we can't just disappear, Marco." Rachel told him.

"No, why don't the Chee pose for us? I bet there are a couple of Chee that do not have anything to do for a while." Marco told us.

"Hmm that just might work and we have been needing a vacation." I said. "So does everyone agree on going on a cruise?" I asked them.

"Yes"

"Yes"

"Yes"

"I go where you want me to go Prince Jake. Ak. J. Ake."

"Ax"

"Yes Prince Jake?"

"Don't call me prince"

"Yes Prince Jake."

"How about you Tobias? Don't you want to go?" I asked him.

"Well of course I want to go. It's just that I'm a hawk."

"Oh" we all said at the same time.

Then Ax spoke up. "Is that what has been bothering you Tobias? I think I found a way so that you can become human and still keep your morphing powers"

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Oh, I just love cliffhangers. Don't you? I aready have the next chapter typed I just need 5 good reviews by Friday to post it. Now go review.

~*MoonWolf*~