The Andalite Curse

Ax's POV

Chapter 1: Marco's Acting Weird

I was on my way to Cassie's barn. Prince Jake was getting us ready for another mission. The way humans planned for missions are strange. On an Andalite ship the prince would decides what move to take and order his crew around, sometimes without even telling the plan. Jake even if being the leader always asks for the other opinions and never makes anyone do anything. Of course Rachel would be all for going in and 'kicking butt' as she would say. Marco would called us 'crazy' and then call Rachel 'Xena.' After more talking everyone would go on the mission and Rachel will yell 'let's do it.'

It has been the normal for about two human years. I walked into Cassie's barn. Cassie was their taking care of the animals. Rachel sitting on the floor and just looked at me when I walked in. Tobias was in his usual place being the lookout. Jake walked in not too long later.

"Where's Marco?" Jake asked looking at us.

"Don't know. He's your best friend," Rachel said.

"We'll just have to wait."

"Not too long." Jake and Cassie turned around to look at Marco, Rachel was already facing Marco and trying not to laugh, and all I did was use one of my eyes to look at him. Marco was different. The artificial skin he was wearing was different then what he normally wore. It was all black and he was wearing a black jacket with chains. If I was right, since I'm not Rachel I wasn't too sure, he was also wearing some black makeup.

Rachel finally began to laugh. "What you do, turn into a gangster or something? I mean come on a black leather jacket with chains on it? Where you get this stuff anyway?"

"None of your business," Marco said making everyone think again. Usually Marco and Rachel would tease around with each other. Took up a lot of meeting time and I never was able to get there jokes, but the way Marco said that was weird. No 'funny' comeback, no calling Rachel Xena, or saying anything normal of Marco.

Jake stepped in the middle of the two. "Let's get this meeting started." Everyone sat down, but Marco gave Rachel a share. "The Yeerks have been unusually quiet lately. According to the Chee something big is up. Any ideas on what to do?"

"Let's go in and kick some yeerk butt," Rachel said with a smile on her face. Sometimes I think Rachel is too into the fight and should be taken off the team, but then I realize what Prince Jake once told. He had said that Rachel was needed just the way she is because the team needs someone to do what no one else is willing to do.

Marco stood up. "You know you are a little bitch." Everyone has to do a double take. I might not know what the word meant, but I knew from TV that humans consider it a bad word. Rachel stood up and even I could tell from the look on her face that she was pissed off.

"What did you just call me?" Everyone shared.

(Prince Jake, do you want me to do something?) It was a privet message and Prince Jake didn't even answer. He had already stood up to do something, but he couldn't stop what happen next.

"You're a little bitch," right on the bad word Marco hit Rachel right on the nose. The hit not only made Rachel nose bleed, but she fell back and hit her head against one of the cages. The animals in the cages went wild.

"Ax, morph human," Cassie warned and Tobias warned that Cassie's dad was coming to the barn. I started to morph to my human morph. Marco was moving in to hit Rachel again, but Jake pushed him away from her.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" At the same time I had finished morphing and Cassie's dad walked in.

"You defending the bitch." Cassie dad was lost as to what was going on. To tell the truth I was lost too.

Rachel was up and Cassie was holding her back. One hand was over her nose and blood was pouring out. I had to look for a second. I had never seen Rachel bleed as a human. I saw her bleed as a bear and a lot of other animals, but never as a human. Her other hand was a fist and she was telling Cassie to let go of her.

"Rachel not only is your nose bleeding out of control, but you just hit your head against the cage leaving a dent on the cage. Calm down and let Jake handle this."

"What's going on here?" Cassie's dad asked.

"Marco was just leaving." Jake really threw Marco out. "And if you ever do anything to hurt my cousin again I'll do ten times worst to you." Marco got up gave Jake a look and walked away. I knew Marco is Jake's shorm. Someone you would trust to put their tail blade to your neck and not hurt you. I believe humans call them best friends since they don't have tail blades. I had also realized that even though Rachel and Jake were family Marco and Jake got a long better and Rachel and Cassie, who are shorm, got along better then Jake and Rachel did. I had thought humans ideas were different when it came between friends and family, but apparently it wasn't. Someone hurts your family, even if it's your shorm, you fight them.

Cassie's dad had realized what happened and went over to Rachel. He was dragging her inside the house even though she kept saying she wanted to show Marco 'a thing or two.'

I followed the others inside Cassie's house. Rachel sat down and put her head back while holding something over her nose to stop the bleeding. Really she could have just morphed and got rid of the bleeding, but the morphing had to stay a secret. Tobias sat at the window and looked in and we all remained silence. Cassie's dad went back out to the barn.

"What the hell is wrong with Marco?" It was Rachel who broke the silence that had come over us and I was glad she did. Even though she did use one of the bad words too, but as far as I could tell Marco used a worst word. "He's out of his mind."

"He went a little insane," Cassie stated.

"A little insane, he went full blown crazy."

"I have no idea what came over him," Jake finished and then I realized I had an idea, but it couldn't be could it.

The timing was just about right. It's been about five human years since the last outbreak. Marco never been anywhere near one of the Andalite that had an outbreak, it's never affected another species before. Unless the morphing cube theory was right, but there's no proof of that. What are the changes that the morphing cube we have is the one that in theory is said to be infected. Actually the chances are pretty good, Elfangor did have the morphing cube said to be infected.

(I need to see the morphing cube.) Unlike the rest I can use thought speak as a human because human is just a morph for me.

Cassie nodded and we all got up. "Dad we're going into my room. Rachel's nose has stopped bleeding," Cassie yelled. We went up to Cassie's room and as soon as the door was closed and locked. Tobias was inside and the window was closed and it was made sure no one could see into the room Rachel morphed and then demorphed.

"Where's the blue box?" Jake asked in a whisper. Cassie took out a box that had three things with numbers on it that spin. She put each to a number and the box opened. The morphing cube was inside. "Good idea."

I picked up the morphing cube and looked at it closely. Then I took at it again just to make sure I was right. This was the blue box and the morphing cube theory had to be right.

(What's wrong Ax,) Tobias asked? He's normal form his a red tail hawk, but he was born human. He had been trapped as a red tail hawk and then given the power to morph back by the Ellimist and his old human body as a morph.

(Seerow's Kindness hits again)

AN: that's all for now. R&R.