Chapter 3
"How did you get here?" I asked.
"I never left," he said.
I was mesmerized in disbelief. "But why!" I screamed, "Why did you kill my parents?"
Jake shifted his gaze to my eyes. The intensity of his gaze sent chills through my spine. He didn't answer my question. Instead, he morphed to peregrine falcon and flew away. I morphed to falcon and chased after him. He wasn't getting away that easily.
(Tell me!) I said in thought-speak. He didn't answer.
He swooped lower, lower. I followed him. BAM! I crashed into a tree branch. I fell twenty feet to the ground and landed with a heavy lifeless thump. My head hurt and so did my back. Suddenly I blacked out.
When I woke up, I was still lying there on the ground. There were hundreds of ants swarming over me. I felt their tiny teeth biting into my flesh. I tried shivering them off, but they were like glue. Gross, I thought.
How long had I been there? Had it passed two hours? Oh no! I tried morphing back to my human self. It didn't work. This can't be happening, I thought. Now I knew how Tobias felt. Trapped in a bird body for life.
I flew home but I couldn't get in because I couldn't open the door with my talons, so I just flew in through the broken window. Some of the broken jagged pieces of glass pierced through my wing. I wanted to cry, but I couldn't because I was a bird. If only Tobias were here, I thought, he'd help me.
I didn't know what to do now. My life was ruined. I'd be better off dead. No, I told myself, think positive. Unfortunately, I couldn't think positive at all. It just got worse and worse. The only person who could help me now was Ronnie, but would he be okay with being friends with a falcon? I knew that we could never be, now that I was a bird.
Would the Ellimist help me now, when I need him the most? He was the only one who could, I knew. I needed his help so much, but I knew that he wouldn't come by me simply calling his name. I didn't know if he'd ever come again.
I flew over to the TV and poked my beak into the ON button. "There is a tiger terrorizing town. It seems as though it's impossible to catch it, so for everyone out there. Be careful," the lady said. I turned off the TV.
I was so angry. I felt so angry at myself, at the tiger. I was angry at the Ellimist for not showing up. I was angry at the way things turned out. I was so mad that I screamed so loud in thought speak that the whole world could hear, "WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
After screaming, I felt better. Yet I knew I was still helpless and alone. I would've given anything to talk to my friends again, but I was almost certain they were no longer alive. Why was it so hard to believe?
Suddenly, my head began to throb.
I flew over to the couch and lay there. I felt weak. My head throbbed with the worst headache imaginable. Suddenly, I heard something. I heard words. This wasn't a headache, I realized.