COOPERATE AND CONQUER
PART 2: STONES
Cassie was pacing impatiently around the barn when the others entered. Only Jake didn't come through the door. The looked at each other like they though the other knew about his whereabouts. With a sigh everyone sat down around the table. Tobias landed on a nearby shelf.
"I'm worried about Jake." Cassie said. "It's not like him to forget a meeting. I think something has happened." she proceeded with a worried face. The others watched her with serious looks on their faces. Marco frowned and started to talk after a long silence.
"He said he wouldn't investigate the Camping Trip on his own. But I heard the Sharing invited tons of new members to it. Someone even invited me on my way home this afternoon. Maybe Jake…"
"Don't even think that!" Rachel interrupted.
"You must admit it's odd. Jake running off like that…" Marco replied. Rachel nodded. It was silent again. This time the silence lasted longer.
"Maybe he was tricked!" Rachel suddenly suggested.
"Couldn't be. Jake would recognize such a trap from miles away." Marco said. After that they kept on wondering. Where could Jake be?
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A brown mushroom collapsed as the car ran over it and screeched to a halt. The doors opened and two pairs of feet touched the soggy ground. Jake and Tom left the car. They walked to the trunk and got the bags out. They just left the car near the road, switched on a flashlight and walked into the forest. Twigs and cracked under their feet as they walked further and further into the woods. The path slowly turned up and Jake and Tom had use quite some force to get to the top of the hill. When they reached the top they looked out over a clearing filled with green army-like tents. The Camp Site was poorly lit and seemed a bit spooky. An eerie glow came from one of the tents, but before he got a good look, Jake was grabbed by his brother. They had to hurry to be there in time. They quickly descended the mountain. Tom led Jake straight to a particular tent.
"Just wait here for a sec. The chairman of the Sharing will be here right away. I'm going to meet some friends." Tom told his brother. Jake agreed although he had a funny feeling about this. He kept on spinning in the chair, examining his surroundings, until the light faded and a figure entered. Suddenly a blinding beam of light was aimed at him.
"Hello Jake, Tom has told so much about you and I am quite interested what you can add to it yourself." the eerie voice of the figure said. Somehow it seemed familiar to Jake, but he couldn't point his finger on it.
"I'm not sure. I think he could have told you anything." Jake said hesitantly. The figure was silent for a moment.
"I'll be straight with you…" he said. Suddenly the light where back on and the face of Visser 3 appeared. Jake didn't move a muscle. He didn't seem to recognize his enemy. "Do I scare you?"
"Normally I'm not scared of bald guys…What's going on?" Jake replied.
"Just some questions… I'll make a tent ready for your initiation." Visser said with a smile. Heartley had delivered him excellent work. It might just take minutes before the Andalites to show up. They had saved him before, so they must have had a connection. He left Jake while he walked to a tent set up for infestation. Jake remained in a empty tent, not knowing what to do.
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Cassie, Marco, Rachel and Ax were lying on the wet ground surveying their surroundings in silence when Tobias joined them. He landed right before them.
"So? Why did you want to meet us here?" Marco asked him.
"I overheard some Controllers talking about the camp. I know it's located right behind that hill." He turned so his beak pointed into the right direction. The others where surprised to hear the news, but their faces dropped anyway. Ax eyes kept staring at the hill and he didn't focus on the rest of the conversation around him.
"But you know this is a trap. If the Yeerks know we can morph, all will be lost." Rachel told Tobias.
"But we can't let him stay in there." Cassie said. Rachel had to agree. If Jake stayed to long in that camp he was infested with a Yeerk. They all slowly crawled to the top of the hill to look out over the camp. A cold shiver ran down their spine. The moon lit a perfectly organized small campsite in a clearing.
"Where do the Yeerks get their power?" Rachel whispered to no one in particular. Ax still didn't move and stayed in a deep trance.
Tobias responded. "While I flew over the site I saw a tent that eluminated some weird light. I think that's worth investigating." Suddenly he noticed Ax. "What's up Ax?" he asked his alien friend.
"Something's wrong." Ax said. "I feel an alien presence in our vicinity and it's neither Andalite nor Yeerk. I think there's something really wrong." They were all horrified by the news. All worried about Jake but also curious about the site they split up. Marco and Rachel would look for Jake while Cassie and Ax would check out the weird tent. Tobias kept watch to sound the alarm if necessary. They all left hoping it would end well for them.
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Marco and Rachel decided that entering the camp without morphing was the best. As people they wouldn't attract much of attention. They DID sneak around hoping they wouldn't have to show themselves, though. They carefully examined every tent they came across, but they didn't find Jake. They were almost ready to give up when they saw him entering a tent they didn't examine accompanied by some people they didn't recognize. Fearing the worst, they followed them and peeked into the tent. What happened next confirmed they're fears. And the worst thing was that they couldn't do anything with all the 'people' around.
Cassie and Ax headed for the tent Tobias showed them. The crawled through bushes and sneaked around the campsite until they reached the tent Tobias told them about. When they looked above them they saw Tobias circling over the campsite, watching them. Carefully they entered the tent that was still light. Cassie and Ax couldn't believe what they saw. In the middle of the tent there was some sort of metal cage. Inside it, a sort of orange rock was tumbling round. The cage was trembling on the floor. They didn't have to move closer to feel it was quite hot. In the back of the tent there were piles of what seemed to be a supply of stones. While Cassie examined the place Ax started to act strange. His shirt started to get wet and suddenly Ax started to morph uncontrollably. Soon after an alarm sounded all over the camp. As soon as they could they morphed into a fox and left the tent running for the woods were they would be save. Because of where they were this word was meant in the most relative way possible.
"And now, with the powers invested in me by Visser One, I will make you a member of the Sharing." Visser 3 triumphantly announced. He walked over to Tom and took a pair of tweezers, which contained a slug-like creature. He walked over to Jake and let the sluggish creature crawl into his ear. Jake cried of pain and started sweating. His cries of pain continued, but seemed to weaken.
"What are we going to do now?" Rachel asked Marco. Suddenly the alarm Cassie and Ax activated in the other tent sounded. Everyone left the tent in panic leaving Jake sitting in the metal chair. Rachel and Marco saw their chance and went over to Jake.
"Jake? Come on Jake. It's us!" Rachel said desperately. Jake didn't react. He seemed to be unconscious. They got him out of the chair and tied him up, using a rope they found in a corner. It was a necessity. Jake was infested with a Yeerk. He had become dangerous. Everything happened very quickly. Someone could enter the tent every moment now. After making sure the knots were tight, Rachel and Marco disappeared into the night carrying Jake with them hoping for the best.
Meanwhile Jason Heartley and Visser 3 were near the other tent checking out the reason of the alarm. Visser 3 is ordering around people. Heartley is surprisingly quiet.
"Don't waste your breath, Trent. They're gone… It was a decoy." Heartley said.
"A decoy?" There was a silence for a moment. "You mean they got the boy?" Visser 3 asked.
"Yes."
"How the hell can you be so calm then?! You knew what was about to happen and you don't even take any precautions?" Visser 3 screamed. Heartley smiled at him, shaking his head.
"You really don't know, do you? It's all part of the plan. They did just what I wanted." Heartley said contently, still smiling at his evil alien employer.
"Care to fill me in on that plan? I have to give a report to my superiors, you know." Visser replies madly.
"The less you know, the better. You won't be able to mess up a perfect plan anymore. You're reputation has preceded you." Hearley answered sarcastically. Visser starts to get really pissed.
"Mind your words, Heartley! Just remember that if you don't include me, you'll take the blame for failure all by yourself!" Visser madly responds. "And trust me, if you don't include me, you will fail. I know everything there is to know about Andalites."
"Except where they are and where they're going! No, somehow I don't think I'll fail." Visser 3 couldn't take anymore of the sarcastic remarks and angrily left for his tent leaving a content and evilly smiling Jason Heartley.
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Cassie, Ax and Tobias were impatiently waiting in the barn as Marco and Rachel moved Jake in. They were both extremely tired from the long trip. Morphing wasn't possible because there was no way of taking Jake with them that way. Jake was wearing a blindfold. The Yeerk in him wasn't allowed to find the way to the hideout. Cassie was relieved to see them.
"Finally, how's Jake?" Cassie asked. The faces of Marco and Rachel showed her something was wrong. "What's wrong?" Only then she noticed the blindfold. She looked deep into Marco's eyes. "NOOO."
"Yes. He was infested." Rachel interrupted. "We have to keep him here to force the Yeerk out… What did you guys found out?" Cassie whipped the tears that appeared in her eyes off her face.
"Inside the tent there was a rock turning around in some cage. It seemed like a sort of power source… It was definitely not Yeerk technology. Ax started to morph uncontrollably. He set the alarm off." Cassie replied. Ax looked at her with a guilty look upon his face. "It's not your fault Ax. You couldn't help it." she reassured him. Marco was thinking. He thought that it was weird Jake came out there and that he was just left there to be found.
Rachel continued "I'll keep first watch. He is my nephew. Come back in two hours." She turned to Cassie and asked the time. Cassie keeps quiet. "Cassie?" Cassie comes over to Rachel and shows her that the watch has stopped running. They all looked down at her watch in amazement.
"A electromagnetic field!" Marco suddenly said. "That's how your watch has been stopped. The mechanism got screwed up by a magnetic interference in the camp." Rachel looked down at her own watch. She is surprised to see it running properly.
"What about my watch?" she asked Marco. It is still for a moment. Marco can't answer the question. Suddenly she got a thought herself. "There must be something with the tent Cassie and Ax went in that created such an interference. That is why Ax's morphing powers went crazy."
Suddenly Ax mixed into the conversation. "I remember what it was! It is a power source that the Vehar use to regenerate their hypnotic powers. That's the presence I felt earlier."
"You mean there is another alien race helping the Yeerks conquering earth." Rachel asked. Ax nodded.
"Whatever it was, it's gone now. The Yeerks probably moved their stuff already." Marco said sadly. "We'll never find out where they moved their stuff." Rachel's face cleared.
"Not necessarily! Electromagnetic fields can be tracked down. It's just a matter of the right equipment. If we make magnetometer with the directions I found in a book from the library, we can do it." She took a piece of paper and wrote the name of the book and author down. After she finished she handed the paper to Cassie. "Marco? Will you stay with me to watch Jake." Marco agreed and they all would meet back first thing in the morning. The others left, leaving just three people in the barn.
It was early in the morning already and Rachel was on her second watch. Marco was sleeping in a corner of the barn on some haystacks. Jake had started sweating and was visibly having a hard time. He was moaning and growling all the time. That scared Rachel. Jake opened his eyes and looked furiously into Rachel's eyes.
"Why are you doing this to me? Let me go!!!" Jake screamed. Rachel was surprised it didn't wake Marco.
"You know I can't do this, Jake." Rachel stuttered. Suddenly Jake's expression changed for the worse.
"There is no Jake! I am Innis 1981." Rachel backed into a haystack as Jake started an evil laugh. "You can't stop us." Suddenly he lost his self-control and started to scream again. "Let me go! Let me go!!!" Rachel was scared and couldn't take the pressure anymore. She hid behind the haystacks and covered her ears. Jakes screaming kept on going. Finally, Rachel was so exhausted that she fell to sleep.
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When Rachel woke up the next morning she was surrounded by her friends.
"I got the book!" Cassie said when Rachel had rubbed her eyes and stood up. She was about to say something else, but Tobias interrupted her.
"Guys! Come over here." They all speeded towards Tobias just in time to see something gross. The Yeerk left Jake. He cried of pain and he was wet all over his body. When it was over the Yeerk fell onto the ground. Without his host it was helpless. Jake had his eyes closed. He didn't say anything.
"Jake, are you back?" Rachel asked carefully. Jake opened his eyes still moaning.
"Rachel? What happened? You were infested with a Yeerk." She happily embraced Jake and proceeded with untying him. Jake thanked her. "What is the last thing you remember?" she asked Jake. Jake was acting weary. He had to dig deep into his memory to recall anything.
"I…I…got a ride with Tom, there was an accident, a little girl. Sorry, I can't remember the rest."
"Let's just say you are lucky with friends like us." Cassie said. Jake nodded.
"You can say that again." he said.
"Let's just say you are lucky with friends like us." Marco repeated, just to be funny. They all laughed, not noticing the odd twinkle that re-entered Jake's eyes…
TO BE CONTINUED…
Author's note: In this story I tried to set an atmosphere typical for an Animorph story. I also tried to create an interesting story line where I could base a serie of stories on. Remember that no copyright infringement is intended and that the only thing I gain from writing my stories is fun. Please mail to tell me what you think of the story and to give me ideas for future stories at: s.hommes@chem.uu.nl Thank you!
PART 2: STONES
Cassie was pacing impatiently around the barn when the others entered. Only Jake didn't come through the door. The looked at each other like they though the other knew about his whereabouts. With a sigh everyone sat down around the table. Tobias landed on a nearby shelf.
"I'm worried about Jake." Cassie said. "It's not like him to forget a meeting. I think something has happened." she proceeded with a worried face. The others watched her with serious looks on their faces. Marco frowned and started to talk after a long silence.
"He said he wouldn't investigate the Camping Trip on his own. But I heard the Sharing invited tons of new members to it. Someone even invited me on my way home this afternoon. Maybe Jake…"
"Don't even think that!" Rachel interrupted.
"You must admit it's odd. Jake running off like that…" Marco replied. Rachel nodded. It was silent again. This time the silence lasted longer.
"Maybe he was tricked!" Rachel suddenly suggested.
"Couldn't be. Jake would recognize such a trap from miles away." Marco said. After that they kept on wondering. Where could Jake be?
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A brown mushroom collapsed as the car ran over it and screeched to a halt. The doors opened and two pairs of feet touched the soggy ground. Jake and Tom left the car. They walked to the trunk and got the bags out. They just left the car near the road, switched on a flashlight and walked into the forest. Twigs and cracked under their feet as they walked further and further into the woods. The path slowly turned up and Jake and Tom had use quite some force to get to the top of the hill. When they reached the top they looked out over a clearing filled with green army-like tents. The Camp Site was poorly lit and seemed a bit spooky. An eerie glow came from one of the tents, but before he got a good look, Jake was grabbed by his brother. They had to hurry to be there in time. They quickly descended the mountain. Tom led Jake straight to a particular tent.
"Just wait here for a sec. The chairman of the Sharing will be here right away. I'm going to meet some friends." Tom told his brother. Jake agreed although he had a funny feeling about this. He kept on spinning in the chair, examining his surroundings, until the light faded and a figure entered. Suddenly a blinding beam of light was aimed at him.
"Hello Jake, Tom has told so much about you and I am quite interested what you can add to it yourself." the eerie voice of the figure said. Somehow it seemed familiar to Jake, but he couldn't point his finger on it.
"I'm not sure. I think he could have told you anything." Jake said hesitantly. The figure was silent for a moment.
"I'll be straight with you…" he said. Suddenly the light where back on and the face of Visser 3 appeared. Jake didn't move a muscle. He didn't seem to recognize his enemy. "Do I scare you?"
"Normally I'm not scared of bald guys…What's going on?" Jake replied.
"Just some questions… I'll make a tent ready for your initiation." Visser said with a smile. Heartley had delivered him excellent work. It might just take minutes before the Andalites to show up. They had saved him before, so they must have had a connection. He left Jake while he walked to a tent set up for infestation. Jake remained in a empty tent, not knowing what to do.
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Cassie, Marco, Rachel and Ax were lying on the wet ground surveying their surroundings in silence when Tobias joined them. He landed right before them.
"So? Why did you want to meet us here?" Marco asked him.
"I overheard some Controllers talking about the camp. I know it's located right behind that hill." He turned so his beak pointed into the right direction. The others where surprised to hear the news, but their faces dropped anyway. Ax eyes kept staring at the hill and he didn't focus on the rest of the conversation around him.
"But you know this is a trap. If the Yeerks know we can morph, all will be lost." Rachel told Tobias.
"But we can't let him stay in there." Cassie said. Rachel had to agree. If Jake stayed to long in that camp he was infested with a Yeerk. They all slowly crawled to the top of the hill to look out over the camp. A cold shiver ran down their spine. The moon lit a perfectly organized small campsite in a clearing.
"Where do the Yeerks get their power?" Rachel whispered to no one in particular. Ax still didn't move and stayed in a deep trance.
Tobias responded. "While I flew over the site I saw a tent that eluminated some weird light. I think that's worth investigating." Suddenly he noticed Ax. "What's up Ax?" he asked his alien friend.
"Something's wrong." Ax said. "I feel an alien presence in our vicinity and it's neither Andalite nor Yeerk. I think there's something really wrong." They were all horrified by the news. All worried about Jake but also curious about the site they split up. Marco and Rachel would look for Jake while Cassie and Ax would check out the weird tent. Tobias kept watch to sound the alarm if necessary. They all left hoping it would end well for them.
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Marco and Rachel decided that entering the camp without morphing was the best. As people they wouldn't attract much of attention. They DID sneak around hoping they wouldn't have to show themselves, though. They carefully examined every tent they came across, but they didn't find Jake. They were almost ready to give up when they saw him entering a tent they didn't examine accompanied by some people they didn't recognize. Fearing the worst, they followed them and peeked into the tent. What happened next confirmed they're fears. And the worst thing was that they couldn't do anything with all the 'people' around.
Cassie and Ax headed for the tent Tobias showed them. The crawled through bushes and sneaked around the campsite until they reached the tent Tobias told them about. When they looked above them they saw Tobias circling over the campsite, watching them. Carefully they entered the tent that was still light. Cassie and Ax couldn't believe what they saw. In the middle of the tent there was some sort of metal cage. Inside it, a sort of orange rock was tumbling round. The cage was trembling on the floor. They didn't have to move closer to feel it was quite hot. In the back of the tent there were piles of what seemed to be a supply of stones. While Cassie examined the place Ax started to act strange. His shirt started to get wet and suddenly Ax started to morph uncontrollably. Soon after an alarm sounded all over the camp. As soon as they could they morphed into a fox and left the tent running for the woods were they would be save. Because of where they were this word was meant in the most relative way possible.
"And now, with the powers invested in me by Visser One, I will make you a member of the Sharing." Visser 3 triumphantly announced. He walked over to Tom and took a pair of tweezers, which contained a slug-like creature. He walked over to Jake and let the sluggish creature crawl into his ear. Jake cried of pain and started sweating. His cries of pain continued, but seemed to weaken.
"What are we going to do now?" Rachel asked Marco. Suddenly the alarm Cassie and Ax activated in the other tent sounded. Everyone left the tent in panic leaving Jake sitting in the metal chair. Rachel and Marco saw their chance and went over to Jake.
"Jake? Come on Jake. It's us!" Rachel said desperately. Jake didn't react. He seemed to be unconscious. They got him out of the chair and tied him up, using a rope they found in a corner. It was a necessity. Jake was infested with a Yeerk. He had become dangerous. Everything happened very quickly. Someone could enter the tent every moment now. After making sure the knots were tight, Rachel and Marco disappeared into the night carrying Jake with them hoping for the best.
Meanwhile Jason Heartley and Visser 3 were near the other tent checking out the reason of the alarm. Visser 3 is ordering around people. Heartley is surprisingly quiet.
"Don't waste your breath, Trent. They're gone… It was a decoy." Heartley said.
"A decoy?" There was a silence for a moment. "You mean they got the boy?" Visser 3 asked.
"Yes."
"How the hell can you be so calm then?! You knew what was about to happen and you don't even take any precautions?" Visser 3 screamed. Heartley smiled at him, shaking his head.
"You really don't know, do you? It's all part of the plan. They did just what I wanted." Heartley said contently, still smiling at his evil alien employer.
"Care to fill me in on that plan? I have to give a report to my superiors, you know." Visser replies madly.
"The less you know, the better. You won't be able to mess up a perfect plan anymore. You're reputation has preceded you." Hearley answered sarcastically. Visser starts to get really pissed.
"Mind your words, Heartley! Just remember that if you don't include me, you'll take the blame for failure all by yourself!" Visser madly responds. "And trust me, if you don't include me, you will fail. I know everything there is to know about Andalites."
"Except where they are and where they're going! No, somehow I don't think I'll fail." Visser 3 couldn't take anymore of the sarcastic remarks and angrily left for his tent leaving a content and evilly smiling Jason Heartley.
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Cassie, Ax and Tobias were impatiently waiting in the barn as Marco and Rachel moved Jake in. They were both extremely tired from the long trip. Morphing wasn't possible because there was no way of taking Jake with them that way. Jake was wearing a blindfold. The Yeerk in him wasn't allowed to find the way to the hideout. Cassie was relieved to see them.
"Finally, how's Jake?" Cassie asked. The faces of Marco and Rachel showed her something was wrong. "What's wrong?" Only then she noticed the blindfold. She looked deep into Marco's eyes. "NOOO."
"Yes. He was infested." Rachel interrupted. "We have to keep him here to force the Yeerk out… What did you guys found out?" Cassie whipped the tears that appeared in her eyes off her face.
"Inside the tent there was a rock turning around in some cage. It seemed like a sort of power source… It was definitely not Yeerk technology. Ax started to morph uncontrollably. He set the alarm off." Cassie replied. Ax looked at her with a guilty look upon his face. "It's not your fault Ax. You couldn't help it." she reassured him. Marco was thinking. He thought that it was weird Jake came out there and that he was just left there to be found.
Rachel continued "I'll keep first watch. He is my nephew. Come back in two hours." She turned to Cassie and asked the time. Cassie keeps quiet. "Cassie?" Cassie comes over to Rachel and shows her that the watch has stopped running. They all looked down at her watch in amazement.
"A electromagnetic field!" Marco suddenly said. "That's how your watch has been stopped. The mechanism got screwed up by a magnetic interference in the camp." Rachel looked down at her own watch. She is surprised to see it running properly.
"What about my watch?" she asked Marco. It is still for a moment. Marco can't answer the question. Suddenly she got a thought herself. "There must be something with the tent Cassie and Ax went in that created such an interference. That is why Ax's morphing powers went crazy."
Suddenly Ax mixed into the conversation. "I remember what it was! It is a power source that the Vehar use to regenerate their hypnotic powers. That's the presence I felt earlier."
"You mean there is another alien race helping the Yeerks conquering earth." Rachel asked. Ax nodded.
"Whatever it was, it's gone now. The Yeerks probably moved their stuff already." Marco said sadly. "We'll never find out where they moved their stuff." Rachel's face cleared.
"Not necessarily! Electromagnetic fields can be tracked down. It's just a matter of the right equipment. If we make magnetometer with the directions I found in a book from the library, we can do it." She took a piece of paper and wrote the name of the book and author down. After she finished she handed the paper to Cassie. "Marco? Will you stay with me to watch Jake." Marco agreed and they all would meet back first thing in the morning. The others left, leaving just three people in the barn.
It was early in the morning already and Rachel was on her second watch. Marco was sleeping in a corner of the barn on some haystacks. Jake had started sweating and was visibly having a hard time. He was moaning and growling all the time. That scared Rachel. Jake opened his eyes and looked furiously into Rachel's eyes.
"Why are you doing this to me? Let me go!!!" Jake screamed. Rachel was surprised it didn't wake Marco.
"You know I can't do this, Jake." Rachel stuttered. Suddenly Jake's expression changed for the worse.
"There is no Jake! I am Innis 1981." Rachel backed into a haystack as Jake started an evil laugh. "You can't stop us." Suddenly he lost his self-control and started to scream again. "Let me go! Let me go!!!" Rachel was scared and couldn't take the pressure anymore. She hid behind the haystacks and covered her ears. Jakes screaming kept on going. Finally, Rachel was so exhausted that she fell to sleep.
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When Rachel woke up the next morning she was surrounded by her friends.
"I got the book!" Cassie said when Rachel had rubbed her eyes and stood up. She was about to say something else, but Tobias interrupted her.
"Guys! Come over here." They all speeded towards Tobias just in time to see something gross. The Yeerk left Jake. He cried of pain and he was wet all over his body. When it was over the Yeerk fell onto the ground. Without his host it was helpless. Jake had his eyes closed. He didn't say anything.
"Jake, are you back?" Rachel asked carefully. Jake opened his eyes still moaning.
"Rachel? What happened? You were infested with a Yeerk." She happily embraced Jake and proceeded with untying him. Jake thanked her. "What is the last thing you remember?" she asked Jake. Jake was acting weary. He had to dig deep into his memory to recall anything.
"I…I…got a ride with Tom, there was an accident, a little girl. Sorry, I can't remember the rest."
"Let's just say you are lucky with friends like us." Cassie said. Jake nodded.
"You can say that again." he said.
"Let's just say you are lucky with friends like us." Marco repeated, just to be funny. They all laughed, not noticing the odd twinkle that re-entered Jake's eyes…
TO BE CONTINUED…
Author's note: In this story I tried to set an atmosphere typical for an Animorph story. I also tried to create an interesting story line where I could base a serie of stories on. Remember that no copyright infringement is intended and that the only thing I gain from writing my stories is fun. Please mail to tell me what you think of the story and to give me ideas for future stories at: s.hommes@chem.uu.nl Thank you!