I know it has taken me a very long time to continue on this story, but now it's time.

Chapter 2

It was hot, very hot. Aximili finally opened his eyes to see the sphere that had captured him melt away. The next second a door was opened beside him and a strange being that Aximili didn't recognize came towards him with an anaesthetic gun. Everything happened very quickly, one moment he was standing there, staring at the creature and in the next moment…

…

…He was lying on the floor with a terrible headache.

It wasn't as dark as it had been in the room where he had been sent to sleep, and he could see several of those creatures and the heat was almost unbearable. Some metres away from him they had put up warning signs.

When his eyes had got used to the strange light, he could read what they was warning for.

~Beware of the andalite – stay away from the tail ~

About one second later, Ax had got the message; he jumped up on his feet… and discoverer the chains he was chained with. He tried to cut them off with his tail, but it did only hurt. The chain didn't show any visible sign of anything.

He stamped the floor in anger… only to be reminded about his injuries. He fell to the floor again; his eyes got filled with tears in pain. Finally he limped up on his feet again.

When he finally stood up and his three working feet, he tried to morph. He imagined a small animal he had acquired to spy on his parents and Elfangor and, by mistake, discovered that they planned a surprise for his birthday.

He got a shock that made him fell over again. He remained there a while, with spark formations around himself and he was still an andalite.

One of the spectators came towards him now… he stopped just as far away as the signs told him.

"Antimorphingnecklace! Good invention isn't it; we stole it from you some century ago"

Antimorphingnecklace, he should have known. That was what they used on criminals so that they wouldn't be able to escape. He knew he couldn't use his tail to cut it off without cutting his entire neck off too. The necklace could only be taken off with a key. He rose again, it was only one thing left to try. If it didn't work, he had to give up.

He run towards the creature as fast as he could with only three legs and tried to reach him with the tail. It stopped right in front of his face, then Ax was stopped by the chains.

"Anyway. My name is Kagar and I'm a lavalite, we are neighbours, our sun system is situated close to yours. Some years ago we gave you andalites a very beneficial proposal. It could have prevented this war, but they weren't interested. Just one day later some andalite-warriors made up a contract that said that as long as any of them were alive, no one was allowed to even speak about our proposal, and your leaders decided that it was all right. Now every one of those warriors are dead. Except one…" Aximili felt sick.

((Have you travelled around the space to kill them?))

"We don't kill anyone, we torture our prisoners and makes them wish that they have never been born, but we have never killed any of them. And we have never taken anyone to our home planet, by purpose. It's so hot that only a few species can survive… the record is eight milliseconds, it was some yeerks that succeeded to take some lavalites as hosts, unfortunately neither they nor the yeerks knew about that the yeerks couldn't take nine thousands of degrees."

When Ax heard the laughter from the lavalite, he actually felt for that yeerks. And that fact made him sick. For the first time in his life he felt sorry for some yeerks. They had burned inside their hosts' brain, without knowing they had forced the host to lead them to their own death, the irony in the fact that they had forced the host to free himself too didn't seem that funny right now.

He too was about to choke because of the heat. Kagar had told him that there was nine thousand degrees on his planet. And Kagar himself looked like a wandering volcano.

Ax had hardly had time to think that thought before there was an eruption from one of Kagar's arms.

Fire was thrown out of him, making the temperature raise with several Kelvin. Ax tried to protect himself, the only problem was that there were nowhere to hide and soon he had got burns.

((Who is it you want, and why?))

"As I told you we are looking for the one surviving of the seven andalites that signed the document that forbid all business connection between andalites and lavalites. We are going to persuade him that he was wrong that time!" Ax starred suspiciously at him, that wasn't what he had told him the first time.

((And who is that?)) Ax asked, but the same moment he found out. It was just too obvious. ((Elfangor?))