The Mistake

First some things that we all have to know/understand…

Animorphs does not belong to me.

((Thoughtspeak))

And I'm sorry if it seems like I have stolen a name "the mistake" this was not planned and I promise that this story is about another mistake.

As I'm not using English as my first language this story may contain some faults like spelling and grammar mistakes. If you see some, please tell me what it is; instead of just remind me of the fact. Then I don't need to do the same mistakes over and over again. I can concentrate on finding new mistakes instead… I just want you to understand that all mistakes that I can find myself are already corrected when I publish.

But I'll tell you one thing. How horrible my mistakes will ever be… They are not even close to Rachel's…

Chapter 1

My name is Rachel. Just Rachel, my last name is so hard to pronounce that I can't even say it myself… Or, not really, I just wanted to come up with a joke that was so totally ridiculous that not even Marco could come even close to it.

I'm a warrior princess. That's what Marco calls me… and it's my internet name, but I haven't told him that. If I did I would never hear him talk about anything else. But the worst thing about it is that it is true. I'm a warrior princess who tries to save the world from some slugs… Look, I did it again. I found another thing that not even Marco would say… I think.

But right now I don't really feel like talking about that, as I'm trying to calm down after a big shock, for a while I thought that I would be forced to run away and live in the forest with Ax and Tobias forever. Besides, I think that everyone who reads this already knows about the Yeerks and will have a little understanding when I say: I don't want to talk about it right now. And I think that those who don't understand will do that after I have told you this story.

Anyway, it all began on a quite beautiful afternoon when Cassie and I sat in the haymow above her barn. We had hid there to scare the boys when they came.

That was our plans, but I think that Tobias had seen us and warned them. Suddenly he flew in to us, screamed and flapped around for a while. Then he started laughing and we heard the others in the stairs. Jake, Marco and Ax came in. Jake and Marco laughed so much that it was hard for them to stand up, and Ax… He didn't get it.

((By the way, Hi)) Tobias said and landed, still laughing.

"And who invited you? We are trying to play "Girl-Talk" here… You know what that means right?!" I said and smiled at Cassie who immediately smiled back.

"No cousin, what does that mean?" Jake asked. He had walked over to us now, smiling just as much as I did.

"That means…" I said slowly, while Cassie morphed one of her arms. "That means that all boys who see or hear anything… have to die!" Suddenly one of Cassie's claws was pressed against Jake's throat.

"… Alright, then I haven't seen anything. But can you take just a small break in this game and listen to us one minute?"

"It's Cassie and I who make up the rules here." I began, but Cassie had already taken her claw away from Jake and her arm began to look like her arm again. I made a fake sigh and looked at them.

"Ok, Cassie seems to think it's alright. I'm listening." Jake looked a little sceptical, like he didn't understand everything.

"So you are not going to morph and tear our heads off or something like that?" I smiled again and pretended to think that over carefully, very carefully. Finally Cassie started to laugh.

"No, no we will listen. Then we are going to tear your heads off."

"Alright, then we'll find out what scared Ax tonight ourselves." Jake smiled and started to walk away.

"Wait, I didn't say that!"

"Not?" Marco asked and smiled. "Why not Xena…" He didn't say anything more, but as Jake turned to me and Cassie again, he slowly bent to the floor and made a sign to Cassie and me to keep quiet. He took some hay in his hand at the same time as Jake started to explain.

"Ok, this started when… MARCO!!" Marco had put the hay inside Jake's sweater. Jake said a lot of words that I'm not going to repeat here, and tried to get rid of it.

Marco laughed, Cassie and I laughed, Tobias laughed… and Ax sat in a corner trying to find out what jokes Jake had tried to tell.

After maybe three minutes Jake finally found out that he had to take the sweater off and shake it if he wanted to get rid of the hay. Which he did, he took the sweater off and made dust…on Marco… who got angry.

"What are you doing?!" he yelled and glared at Jake. Now Jake also laughed. And he and Marco ended up fighting, which scared Ax who rose too quickly. Cassie saw him just before he fell down to the clinic.