Andalite war II
I don't own Animorphs
Aximili-Esgarrough-Isthill
((Aximili do you have to?)) Mum snarled angrily. I immediately blew my stalk eyes out of my nose and got my school things together. When mum left I breathed in the eye again. I knew it was bad behaviour but the sight got so funny that I couldn't resist.
I breathed the other eye in too. Now it looked very funny, I just had to laugh at it. ((Aximili- Esgarrouth-Isthill, I'm coming in and if you still have that stalk eye in your nose you will be very unlucky!))
I quickly blew out the eyes and took my things. Mum came in to the room and stared at me suspiciously.
((How many fingers can you see?)) she asked me at the same time as she held her hand over my head eyes. I though desperately, I wasn't prepared for this.
((Two?))
((Wrong!))
((Five?))
((Wrong!))
((Eight)) No wait, not eight she had one hand over my eyes.. ((Seven?))
((Wrong again))
Finally my eyes got used to everything again and I could see. One finger, only one!
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I still thought that she overreacted. After all I only did this eye thing at home, no one would be disappointed over that. And there was definitely no reason for grounding me.
I took the short cut through the forest as I always did. But this time it wasn't because I didn't wanted to be late for school, I needed some time alone. So I could sulk as much as I wanted without anyone who cared. When dad came home I would certainly hear even more.
I walked out on an open field, no one was there. Good! I kept walking and staring on the ground with all four eyes. I sighed, when my dad came home and heard about the stalk eye I would probably not be allowed to go out for the rest of the year. I began to freeze when I thought about it…
Suddenly I noticed that I actually did freeze. Was it a cloud? Then I saw the shadow in a watercourse. What ever that was, it wasn't a cloud. I turned a stalk eye in that direction, then I turned around and just stared. A spaceship. A non andalite space ship. We had been invaded.
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As I stood there and stared it suddenly hit me that I was standing in the middle of an open field were they could see me, and I didn't like that fact. I took a careful step backwards closer to a bush were I could hide.
Suddenly the sky lightened up, by a lightning from the space ship, it hit the bush that was burned into nothing in seconds. They had already seen me.
When I had realized this I just turned around and ran. And the space ship started following me.
A new lightning came out, right in front of me, and forced me to turn around to run in another direction, and when I did that, I lose speed. There was only one thing I could do, run in to the forest and disappear.
I ran as fast as I could towards the woods. But it seemed like those on the ship knew what I was thinking. I was stopped by another lightning. It exploded so close to me that I lose my balance and fell. I jumped up on my feet again and started to run in a new direction but I was just stopped again.
The next lightning hit my back. I fell, rose slowly and started to run again. Then I saw the ship was sending out something that looked like big shining spheres. They dig themselves down in the ground. I knew only too well what it was. Mines… "intelligent" land mines that moved under the ground searching for their victims without anyone telling them where to seek.
Desperately I just continued running, I could see shining lights under the ground, and they came closer. I began to cry, this wasn't possible, How could something pass all the safety and surveillance devices? And why hadn't the air-raid warning sounded. The air-raid warning could be heard everywhere on the planet so I should have heard it too.
One of the shining spots came closer, not yet, not yet. I jumped over it… and landed on another one, it exploded. I landed on my side and tried to get up. One of my front legs was sprained and I could barely use it anymore.
Then I saw another sphere they had sent out. I didn't knew what it was, but decided right there, that I didn't want to know. I got up and limped towards the forest. At the same time I watched the field with one stalk eye. The sphere followed me. Desperately I tried to force my injured body to move faster. I didn't dare to morph, if I did the sphere would reach me. Then I finally reached the forest, in there I would be safe. I looked backwards again. What I saw did only made me feel more alone and vulnerable. This horrible sphere was still following me and everything that got in its way was destroyed.
I forced my body to keep running, I started to be tired. Another glade. The enemy floated over me again, more intelligent mines, and this horrible sphere was still after me, and it came closer.
I kept running, a new lightning forced me to turn around. I fell.
When the sphere were almost over me I suddenly jumped up and started to run again. I wasn't going to let this thing kill me without a fight. After a while I stopped and waited for it. When it was almost there I jumped in another direction and ran.
I watched it with the stalk eye. It was still after me. It was another intelligent weapon.
I had got enough, I turned around and lifted my tail to attack the sphere.
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It came towards me, I lifted my tail to attack the sphere. I didn't believe I would survive but I hadn't strength to run anymore. Then I heard the air-raid warning. Too late, but still I could feel hope came back to me. I started running again, as far as I could with my injured leg. If theauthoritiesknew about the invasion they would come to chase them away and if I could stay alive they would maybe be able to save me. Even if it was more invaders than this.
I fell again, and once again I succeeded to escape just in time. The intelligent mines hunted me too.
For the second time I turned around to attack the sphere. I stroked and suddenly… I was inside the sphere. And it started to float higher, towards the space ship that had invaded my planet.
I desperately tried to break it with the tail, I didn't succeed. I remembered my teacher told us about a material that only let things in but never out.
((HELP)) I didn't know if anyone could hear me but that was everything I could do. Somewhere far away I could see they was on their way. But they would never reach me in time.
I was inside the space ship now. I looked quickly on the little stream down there, then I closed my eyes. I wanted to remember my planet as a beautiful and peaceful place, if I didn't return.