Disclaimer: All obvious characters do not belong to me, the basic story,
does not belong to me... they belong to KA Applegate. Tamitha and the plot
line do belong to me.
Author's Note: Special thanks to the two people who reviewed the first chapter... and to everyone who helped me to edit this story. This chapter is dedicated to a good friend of mine who helped me figure out names when I was lost. -Heather
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Chapter 3 ______________________________________________________
Early the next morning I heard a tapping at the window. I sat up in a hurry to see a Red - Tail fluttering by my window, "Would it help if I opened the window?"
He laughed and responded with, Yes it just might
"What's new?"
Well the gang and I just found out some startling news.
"what?"
We just discovered that our aunt is a controller.
"How can you tell?"
She went to a Yeerk pool last night and three days before that when we firs found you, that's why you had to wait three days before you could, well, join the club.
"I don't think that you included that in the lecture yesterday."
Lecture, hmm, sounds right. Anyway, the Yeerk pool is a pool beneath the entire town that feeds Kandrona rays to the Yeerks, which is their food.
"Do you all know where the Kandrona is located?"
Yes and we've already have destroyed one, our aunt is coming so I'd better go, talk to you later. And he left.
"Tamitha time to get up!" My aunt yelled at me from some where in the house.
"Okay, thanks!" I yelled back. Still feeling shaken up from what Tobias had told me I got ready for school as fast as I could so that I could catch up with Rachel and keep in touch with what was going on that afternoon, meeting wise.
About half an hour later I caught up with Rachel and Jake on the way to school She asked me, "Did Tobias tell you the news?"
"Yeah, but he was cut short, is there a meeting tonight somewhere?"
"I'm not sure, Jake is there a meeting tonight and if so, where?"
"Yeah, tonight at 7:30 in the woods, by air." Rachel then peeled of and went her way, I stuck with Jake for more info, "Tamitha what you need to do tonight to get out, is lock the door to your room, open up your window, morph to bird and fly out the window, you'll see us in the woods, don't worry."
"Okay see you." And I headed off to another boring day of school filled with black boards and boring lectures.
After school I worked on as much homework as I could. When I was about to leave my aunt came into my room. "Tamitha, would you like to come to the Sharing with me?"
"Um no I have a lot more homework to do." This was only the partial truth because, see the Sharing is a group of controllers that tries to get more people to join with the Yeerks, or so Jake has told me.
"Okay I'll see you later." and she left.
I then stripped down to my leotard which I now wear under my clothes every day, and did as Jake had instructed, I locked my door, opened my window, and about five minutes later a hawk flew very quickly to the woods because the human that had taken that shape was very late. When I got there I demorphed and fortunately did not have to explain why I was late.
"Tell us Jake, why the woods?" Cassie asked.
"Because it is the best place for all of us to meet with Erek." Jake responded as a boy about our age walk up from behind a tree even as a bird I had not seen him, this kinda scared me. What kind of technology could this boy have that could make him invisible to a birds eye?
"Tamitha this is Erek one of the Chee, a race formed many, many years ago by the now extinct, Pemalites. Erek this is Tamitha the newest member of the group." Jake continued.
"I am hoping that this new edition will work out better than the other one did, and I swear that I've seen that face before." Erek responded.
Oh it'll work out; we've got some pretty good reasons for bringing her in to the 'family'. You've seen that face before just not where you would expect it to be. Tobias spoke up.
"What Tobias means is that Tamitha is his twin sister." Cassie informed him.
"What's new, unless we're just coming here for a little campout with no suicidal mission?" Marco asked.
"Have you figured out what was in those ships?" Rachel wondered.
"Well the Yeerks did have a reason for bringing in what they did; you guys have done a lot of damage. Anyway those things that were in the ships were creatures called the Zephrylis. They are very strong creatures from a planet near the Yeerk home world." He told us
"How strong are we talking?" Rachel asked quizzically.
"One of them lifted up five Hork-Bajir when it was walking off of the ship."
Marco whistled, "Ouch! So now what are we supposed to do oh fearless leader?"
"Jake, what were you all going to do in the first place?" I asked.
"We were originally going to sneak into the museum late at night and steal the Bobstic before the Yeerks could find it and use it to start up their Zarawack." He replied as he started to pace.
"And a Zarawack is...?"
"The Zarawack is a machine like an x - ray machine that can see what is beneath any thing, like cloaking on a ship, for example, the machine could see beneath our morphs, which is not a good thing."
"Oh, but why can't we get in now?" I asked.
"Because of these huge monsters from wherever called the Zephrylis." Marco told me while standing up and doing a little bit of a monster imitation.
Is there any way of getting in there by being very small. Tobias wondered while hopping down to a lower branch.
"No bugs, that is all that I ask, no bugs!" Marco complained.
"No one said any thing about bugs beside how do you think that they keep all of the real bugs out. they probably have a heavy duty strip of bug killer around the whole building." Cassie told us.
"Okay Cassie you had better tell us of your plan because we know that you have one up your sleeve." Rachel prompted.
"Well if Erek can tell me of the exact location and Ax can map it out for us we should be able to dig our way in as moles and then just grab it from beneath and be out of there before any one ever notices that we were even there." Cassie said.
"I can give you the exact location of the Bobstic if Ax can tell me what it looks like." Erek replied.
You mean that the Yeerks do not know what the Bobstic looks like? Ax asked with a laugh.
"Yes that is true." He replied.
"Okay then we set Tamitha and Tobias up with a mole morph and we get digging. The quicker the better we don't know how much longer it will be before the Yeerks find the Bobstic." Jake said in a very leader like way.
To that Rachel replied, "Let's do it!"
"Those three words spell disaster." Marco whined.
Author's Note: Special thanks to the two people who reviewed the first chapter... and to everyone who helped me to edit this story. This chapter is dedicated to a good friend of mine who helped me figure out names when I was lost. -Heather
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Chapter 3 ______________________________________________________
Early the next morning I heard a tapping at the window. I sat up in a hurry to see a Red - Tail fluttering by my window, "Would it help if I opened the window?"
He laughed and responded with, Yes it just might
"What's new?"
Well the gang and I just found out some startling news.
"what?"
We just discovered that our aunt is a controller.
"How can you tell?"
She went to a Yeerk pool last night and three days before that when we firs found you, that's why you had to wait three days before you could, well, join the club.
"I don't think that you included that in the lecture yesterday."
Lecture, hmm, sounds right. Anyway, the Yeerk pool is a pool beneath the entire town that feeds Kandrona rays to the Yeerks, which is their food.
"Do you all know where the Kandrona is located?"
Yes and we've already have destroyed one, our aunt is coming so I'd better go, talk to you later. And he left.
"Tamitha time to get up!" My aunt yelled at me from some where in the house.
"Okay, thanks!" I yelled back. Still feeling shaken up from what Tobias had told me I got ready for school as fast as I could so that I could catch up with Rachel and keep in touch with what was going on that afternoon, meeting wise.
About half an hour later I caught up with Rachel and Jake on the way to school She asked me, "Did Tobias tell you the news?"
"Yeah, but he was cut short, is there a meeting tonight somewhere?"
"I'm not sure, Jake is there a meeting tonight and if so, where?"
"Yeah, tonight at 7:30 in the woods, by air." Rachel then peeled of and went her way, I stuck with Jake for more info, "Tamitha what you need to do tonight to get out, is lock the door to your room, open up your window, morph to bird and fly out the window, you'll see us in the woods, don't worry."
"Okay see you." And I headed off to another boring day of school filled with black boards and boring lectures.
After school I worked on as much homework as I could. When I was about to leave my aunt came into my room. "Tamitha, would you like to come to the Sharing with me?"
"Um no I have a lot more homework to do." This was only the partial truth because, see the Sharing is a group of controllers that tries to get more people to join with the Yeerks, or so Jake has told me.
"Okay I'll see you later." and she left.
I then stripped down to my leotard which I now wear under my clothes every day, and did as Jake had instructed, I locked my door, opened my window, and about five minutes later a hawk flew very quickly to the woods because the human that had taken that shape was very late. When I got there I demorphed and fortunately did not have to explain why I was late.
"Tell us Jake, why the woods?" Cassie asked.
"Because it is the best place for all of us to meet with Erek." Jake responded as a boy about our age walk up from behind a tree even as a bird I had not seen him, this kinda scared me. What kind of technology could this boy have that could make him invisible to a birds eye?
"Tamitha this is Erek one of the Chee, a race formed many, many years ago by the now extinct, Pemalites. Erek this is Tamitha the newest member of the group." Jake continued.
"I am hoping that this new edition will work out better than the other one did, and I swear that I've seen that face before." Erek responded.
Oh it'll work out; we've got some pretty good reasons for bringing her in to the 'family'. You've seen that face before just not where you would expect it to be. Tobias spoke up.
"What Tobias means is that Tamitha is his twin sister." Cassie informed him.
"What's new, unless we're just coming here for a little campout with no suicidal mission?" Marco asked.
"Have you figured out what was in those ships?" Rachel wondered.
"Well the Yeerks did have a reason for bringing in what they did; you guys have done a lot of damage. Anyway those things that were in the ships were creatures called the Zephrylis. They are very strong creatures from a planet near the Yeerk home world." He told us
"How strong are we talking?" Rachel asked quizzically.
"One of them lifted up five Hork-Bajir when it was walking off of the ship."
Marco whistled, "Ouch! So now what are we supposed to do oh fearless leader?"
"Jake, what were you all going to do in the first place?" I asked.
"We were originally going to sneak into the museum late at night and steal the Bobstic before the Yeerks could find it and use it to start up their Zarawack." He replied as he started to pace.
"And a Zarawack is...?"
"The Zarawack is a machine like an x - ray machine that can see what is beneath any thing, like cloaking on a ship, for example, the machine could see beneath our morphs, which is not a good thing."
"Oh, but why can't we get in now?" I asked.
"Because of these huge monsters from wherever called the Zephrylis." Marco told me while standing up and doing a little bit of a monster imitation.
Is there any way of getting in there by being very small. Tobias wondered while hopping down to a lower branch.
"No bugs, that is all that I ask, no bugs!" Marco complained.
"No one said any thing about bugs beside how do you think that they keep all of the real bugs out. they probably have a heavy duty strip of bug killer around the whole building." Cassie told us.
"Okay Cassie you had better tell us of your plan because we know that you have one up your sleeve." Rachel prompted.
"Well if Erek can tell me of the exact location and Ax can map it out for us we should be able to dig our way in as moles and then just grab it from beneath and be out of there before any one ever notices that we were even there." Cassie said.
"I can give you the exact location of the Bobstic if Ax can tell me what it looks like." Erek replied.
You mean that the Yeerks do not know what the Bobstic looks like? Ax asked with a laugh.
"Yes that is true." He replied.
"Okay then we set Tamitha and Tobias up with a mole morph and we get digging. The quicker the better we don't know how much longer it will be before the Yeerks find the Bobstic." Jake said in a very leader like way.
To that Rachel replied, "Let's do it!"
"Those three words spell disaster." Marco whined.