Laughing at Honor

Laughing at Honor

By Dark_One Shadowphyre

(A/N: No, this isn't a Marco POV. This one is actually Ax's POV, about the whole Andalites or humans deal and where his loyalties lie. Are they with his race, or his prince? Who are his people? I had a lot of trouble writing this one. Respectfully submitted, Dark_One Shadowphyre.)

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As an aristh,

I am honor-bound

To obey my prince

And to stand by my people.

I made a human youth my prince.

Now my loyalties are divided.

I do not know

Who my people are

Anymore.

Are my people

The Andalites?

My species?

They that raised me,

And taught me of honor

And loyalty?

Or are my people humans,

At least insofar as

The Animorphs;

My brother's son,

Tobias -

Jake,

My prince.

Once before, I was given that choice.

Out of...perhaps blindness,

I withdrew my loyalty from Jake

And turned to my Andalite brothers.

They were traitors.

No.

Not all.

Only the Captain.

But despite their being different

From everything I knew,

These humans had taught me more than

Any Andalite ever had.

Jake is my Prince,

Until he and only he says otherwise.

But still....

Still, I wonder....

Who are my true people?

Are they the ones that raised me?

Or are they the friends

And fellow warriors

I found on Earth?

Where is the line?

Was there one?

Am I doomed never to know,

Instead to blunder about

In an unknowing mockery

Of the honor

I was raised to uphold?

Am I,

In a sense,

Laughing at honor?

And if I am...

Am I wrong?