The Arisths
Book One: The Beginning
Part 3
A kaffit bird has twelve wings, and is covered by brown feathers. It has three long tails that curl up at the end. It has no talons; no legs. Like it really needs them. The kaffit uses it's needle like beak to spear small animals. We acquired the bird and started to morph. My arms and legs became wings. My face narrowed and a beak formed. My tail shrank and two others grew. When I was done I took stock of everything. My eyesight was incredible! I could see a dust speck on the other side of the dome! My hearing! My HEARING! I could hear everything! I could hear someone drinking in the lake! I spread my wings and lifted off. I was flying. I was flying! I was going up, up, towards the roof of the dome. Then I saw light, reflecting on black metal.
TSSSSEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!
Two Dracon beams lanced forward towards the dome. There was a flash as they hit the shields and then the Fighter was gone, although we could still hear the scream of engines with our kaffit ears.
What?! Caroof yelled to himself. How did they get by our sensors?
I was sure that some Warrior on the bridge was asking the same question right about now...
Stealth technology is my best guess. Maheen said.
I didn't remember that I was flying towards the dome until I saw another kaffit flying right at me. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was my own reflection.
WHHAAAAAACCCKKKK!
I hit the roof, hard. Head first. I went spiraling down towards the ground. Everything spinning. Everything got dimmer and I realized vaguely that I would miss the grass by a few feet. Instead I would hit the lake.
By the bloody tails of Cragnar! Look!
Who said that? I couldn't be sure. I started to go into a delirium from my crash. Then I recognized the thought speak voice. It was the Captain. Yeah the Captain...
SPLLLOOOOOSSHHH!
The water enveloped me, filling my nostrils and beak. I saw the flash of Dracon beams on the shields. The last thing I saw before I blacked out...
***
Air! I sucked in air as I lay on the ground. I tried to look around with my stalk eyes. My stalk eyes! I couldn't see through my stalk eyes! I looked down.
AAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
Feathers?! I had feathers! Why did I have...? I suddenly remembered. I was in morph. The dome ship was under attack. I started to demorph. I looked around with my stalk eyes as they emerged from my mutating head. I was met with a disturbingly graphic sight. Arisths lay unmoving under fallen trees. Others lay with pieces of shrapnel jutting out of them. Wait! Where was Esgarrouth? Maheen? Caroof? Assinko?
No. No. No. No. No. No. No...
Terace will you stop saying 'no'? You're giving me a headache.
Assinko! I spun around and saw my friend's younger brother. You're alive! Where's Esgarrouth? Where's Maheen? Where's Caroof? How did this happen?
Assinko walked calmly up to me and yelled, ONE QUESTION AT A TIME!!!
Sorry. Where is everyone?
Well we can't find-
TSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWW!
A spectacular explosion flared up from outside the dome. Another Bug Fighter swooped by, with an Andalite fighter in deadly pursuit.
As I was saying, Assinko said. We can't find Esgarrouth...
What? How is everyone else? Esgarrouth. Missing?
Caroof is fine. Maheen got cut when one of the crystals broke.
The crystals are giant, green, natural formations in elaborate shapes that grow out of the lake. One was partially smashed and another had toppled into the lake. But something wasn't right...
Assinko? How did the crystals shatter?
After you fell, Esgarrouth went in after you. He managed to drag you to safety, but an explosion outside sent him flying. He smashed through one crystal and his tail cut through that other one's base. He didn't even get to stand up before that crystal fell on him... A tear ran down Assinko's face. I might have been crying too. Esgarrouth could be dead, and we could be next.
Book One: The Beginning
Part 3
A kaffit bird has twelve wings, and is covered by brown feathers. It has three long tails that curl up at the end. It has no talons; no legs. Like it really needs them. The kaffit uses it's needle like beak to spear small animals. We acquired the bird and started to morph. My arms and legs became wings. My face narrowed and a beak formed. My tail shrank and two others grew. When I was done I took stock of everything. My eyesight was incredible! I could see a dust speck on the other side of the dome! My hearing! My HEARING! I could hear everything! I could hear someone drinking in the lake! I spread my wings and lifted off. I was flying. I was flying! I was going up, up, towards the roof of the dome. Then I saw light, reflecting on black metal.
TSSSSEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!
Two Dracon beams lanced forward towards the dome. There was a flash as they hit the shields and then the Fighter was gone, although we could still hear the scream of engines with our kaffit ears.
What?! Caroof yelled to himself. How did they get by our sensors?
I was sure that some Warrior on the bridge was asking the same question right about now...
Stealth technology is my best guess. Maheen said.
I didn't remember that I was flying towards the dome until I saw another kaffit flying right at me. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was my own reflection.
WHHAAAAAACCCKKKK!
I hit the roof, hard. Head first. I went spiraling down towards the ground. Everything spinning. Everything got dimmer and I realized vaguely that I would miss the grass by a few feet. Instead I would hit the lake.
By the bloody tails of Cragnar! Look!
Who said that? I couldn't be sure. I started to go into a delirium from my crash. Then I recognized the thought speak voice. It was the Captain. Yeah the Captain...
SPLLLOOOOOSSHHH!
The water enveloped me, filling my nostrils and beak. I saw the flash of Dracon beams on the shields. The last thing I saw before I blacked out...
***
Air! I sucked in air as I lay on the ground. I tried to look around with my stalk eyes. My stalk eyes! I couldn't see through my stalk eyes! I looked down.
AAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
Feathers?! I had feathers! Why did I have...? I suddenly remembered. I was in morph. The dome ship was under attack. I started to demorph. I looked around with my stalk eyes as they emerged from my mutating head. I was met with a disturbingly graphic sight. Arisths lay unmoving under fallen trees. Others lay with pieces of shrapnel jutting out of them. Wait! Where was Esgarrouth? Maheen? Caroof? Assinko?
No. No. No. No. No. No. No...
Terace will you stop saying 'no'? You're giving me a headache.
Assinko! I spun around and saw my friend's younger brother. You're alive! Where's Esgarrouth? Where's Maheen? Where's Caroof? How did this happen?
Assinko walked calmly up to me and yelled, ONE QUESTION AT A TIME!!!
Sorry. Where is everyone?
Well we can't find-
TSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWW!
A spectacular explosion flared up from outside the dome. Another Bug Fighter swooped by, with an Andalite fighter in deadly pursuit.
As I was saying, Assinko said. We can't find Esgarrouth...
What? How is everyone else? Esgarrouth. Missing?
Caroof is fine. Maheen got cut when one of the crystals broke.
The crystals are giant, green, natural formations in elaborate shapes that grow out of the lake. One was partially smashed and another had toppled into the lake. But something wasn't right...
Assinko? How did the crystals shatter?
After you fell, Esgarrouth went in after you. He managed to drag you to safety, but an explosion outside sent him flying. He smashed through one crystal and his tail cut through that other one's base. He didn't even get to stand up before that crystal fell on him... A tear ran down Assinko's face. I might have been crying too. Esgarrouth could be dead, and we could be next.
