Marco

My name is Marco. And can I say a lot of stuff has happened to me tonight.

First: A space ship landed right in front of me.

Second: An alien came out and gave us the power to morph.

Third: The alien, an Andalite, nearly died right in front of us.

Fourth:The Andalite was saved, by another Andalite, a female Andalite. Who, if I can add, has sweet driving skill in her car/ship.

Yeah can you just sense the craziness in the air around me?

I sat in the back closer to Jake. Closer to the Andalite. Or as the other Andalite called him; Prince Elfangor.

Who had become one of the normal things in my life now... Or as close as I could get to normal.

A thought occured to me as I watched the female Andalite work her way across the night sky.

"Hey?"

she swiveled one stalk eye towards me. ~Yes?~

I met her purple stalk eye... Or tried to.

"I just realized we don't know your name."

She smiled at this and turned her body around. She put one of her seven fingered hands up to her chest. ~My name is Anikala-Astrail-Farion.~ And she did an Andalite version of a bow.

Tobias

"I'm Tobias." I said to her. I didn't get up from kneeling beside Elfangor.

"I'm Cassie." Cassie said. She sat beside me pressing her hands to the wound on his side. Anikala noticed and turned to the computer.

~Computer: Auto pilot engage.~

She then turned and began to morph once again. And we all watched as she became a thirteen year old human again.

~You are an Estreen.~ It wasn't a question.

She smiled at Elfangor. It was strange seeing her smile she smiled with her eyes and mouth in her human form.

She walked to a sort of cupboard cabinet installed in the wall. Pressing her palm against it for a second before we heard a click and it opened. She took out a sort of oval brief case. She walked over and knelt between me and Cassie. she opende up the brief case and pulled out a packet.

"I'm Rachel." Rachel restarted the introductions. I have to be truthful and say I jumped a little bit when she broke the silence.

Anikala nodded and turned her head to Jake and Marco. "And you are?" We all blinked this was the first time she had spoken to all of us out of her Andalite form besides being yelled at to get in her car/ship.

"My name is Jake." She smiled.

"Jake." She repeated.

"I'm Marco."

"It is nice to meet you all. As you just learned my name is Anikala-Astrail-Farion." She smiled a bit. "But since that would probably be too long for you. You can call me-"

"You can call her Kala." And I think that was the first time we took notice to her companion. She was considerably tall and good looking. She had green eyes, and ear length black hair.

Marco jumped to the question we all wanted to ask. "Are you an Andalite?"

She blinked. "No. Not even close." She walked over to Kala and patted her on the head. "Unlike Kala here, I can't do math to save a life."

Rachel then made a shocking anouncement.

"Hey, I know you two!"

Rachel

"Hello Rachel."

I was shocked. "Kala when were you going to tell me you were an alien from outer space." I demanded.

Kala shook her head. "As soon as I was sure you weren't about to become infested by a slug."

Marco got up from his seat beside Jake. "Wait, wait, wait, wait. You know this chick?" He jabbed one finger towards Kala, who had morphed her tail to rip open the packet.

"Of course I do." I said not taking my eyes off the alien liar. "She's on my gymnastics team. Same with Terra over there."

I frowned at Terra who was starting to look uncomfortable. "You knew about this?"

She nodded. "Yeah. I was there when her family landed on Earth." She smiled at Kala who was pouring the contents, it was a powder, over the wound on Elfangor's flank.

I watched as the powder started to foam up. "Wow!"

Terra elbowed me. "Cool huh?"

For a moment I forgot that I was angry at them. "Yeah... Wait a second. Her family!"

Kala was the one who answered that time. "Yes. Me, my mother, my older brother, and my younger brother."

~I've met you and your family before haven't I?~ Elfangor asked.

Kala nodded. "Yes. On the Hevret planet." She smiled. "You and my older brother sparred. And then you invited me, ME a female, to spar with you. That day I felt like a warrior."

Elfangor nodded. His glittering green eyes lit up with a smile. ~You were quite the opponent.~

Kala blinked. "Thank you."

~You are welcome. How is your brother doing.~

"Aldran? He was fine the last time they called."

I nudged Terra. "What does she mean 'the last time they called'?"

It took Terra forever to process what to say to me. "Well... She doesn't necessarily live with her family. They left her here and call once a month."

I blinked. "Once a month? Why don't they live here with her?"

Terra sighed. "They can't." After she saw my face she quickly explained. "She was too young when they first landed here to travel around the galaxy. So-"

"So my mother decided to leave me here." That was when we noticed how close Kala had gotten. "Plus the fact I had the chance to have a," She shook her hand making the so/so sign. "Some what normal life."

I just blinked at that. "Well that doesn't explain why they aren't here with you."

"Actually it does. My brain," She tapped her temple. "Was young enough that it could adapt. Unlike my mother and brother."

"What about your dad?" Was it just me or did she wince.

"That-That is none of your buiseness." She looked at Terra and then at Elfangor. "And I'd prefer it to stay that way."

TBC...

Disclaimer: Animorphs don't belong to me! Kala and Terra and Aldran do though!

Kala's full name is pronounced Anne-eh-kae-luh - Eh-strail - Fair-eeh-in