Chapter 6
We went back to Cassie's house and Rachel went home. Cassie took me into her barn. "You need a bird of prey, a battle morph, a fly, we may have to go to the Gardens to get a couple of them like a dolphin."
"Okay." I said. I walked up to a white-tailed sea eagle, touched its talon and concentrated. The eagle was about to bite me, but it paused.
"When you aquifer something, most of the time, they go into a trance," Jake explained.
"Good." I said and pulled my hand back.
"We should go to the Gardens at night. You'll need an owl morph. Have Jake fly with you to my barn, and then I'll fly with you to the Gardens. I can find my way around at night. My mom is the head vet there so I'm really used to it." Cassie suggested.
"Okay." I went to some kind of owl that was asleep and acquired it.
"You're all set for tonight then. Come here at around 1:15." She said.
"Okay. Until then." I went out to the car and Jake.
After a while, Jake came into the car too and started for home.
"How do you fly?" I asked Jake.
"Let the bird do the flying. You'll get the hang of it." He answered.
"Okay."
"And come to my room at 1. Be wearing your morphing outfit."
"Okay, will do."
Beep, beep, beep, beep.
I opened my eyes and turned my almost silent alarm off. I got changed into my body suit and quietly went to my door. I opened it silently only a crack to see if anyone else was up. There was. It was Tom.
He was walking down the stairs.
I just ignored it and went to Jake's room to leave to get my morphs.
When we had came back, I told Jake that I had saw Tom doing that. He just said he was probably going to a meeting. That something had to be happening and we were going to find out.
(Sorry for this part. I just had no idea why I wrote that, so I'm ending it kinda quickly)
The next morning, we looked all around the house for Tom. Still no sign of him. "Let's go."
Jake looked at me surprised.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Hey, a lot can happen within one night. Not to mention I have split personality. The reason I didn't tell you about it sooner is because I really didn't know you that much. Are we going to see where Tom is before it's too late?"
Jake just stood there staring at me, still surprised.
"It's not that big a deal."
He shook his head to get back to normal and then nodded it. "Yeah, let's go."
We morphed our BoP morphs, then flew out his window. We practically ran into a Northern Harrier. Ahhh!
The shock made me fall to the ground. Ow.
Prince Jake, you must do something about your brother. I really do not apreciate what he did. Ax said.
What did he do? Jake asked.
I would rather not say, but thanks to him I have to find a new place to live.
I got up from the ground. Uh, guys? Think it's time to stop this wierd scene here and go someplace more private to discuss this?
Oh, yeah. Thanks for reminding me. Jake said.
So we flew to Cassie's barn. We rested on top.
You guys stay here. I'll get Cassie Jake said.
He flew off.
I looked to Ax. So what did he do? I asked Ax privately.
He, he looked down. He... He looked back up again. He tried to rape me!!!
Oh, Ax. Why didn't you tell Jake?
I trust you better.
I had to think about that.
(Jake)
Cassie? I asked her.
She looked up from her homework and smiled. "Hi, Jake," she said after she opened the window and moved out of the way to let me in.
Hey. Can you go down to the barn?
Cassie looked back at her homework, then back at me. "Okay. I'm almost done with it anyway. Go in the barn and demorph, I'll be there in a sec."
I went back to the barn and told the others.
We went in the barn and demorphed.
After we were done, Cassie came in. "So what's going on?" She asked.
"Ax needs a new place to live." I explained. "Think the Hork-Bajir valley would be a good place?"
"What happened for him to leave?"
"Ax wouldn't tell me, but it had something to do with Tom."
"Well, okay, yeah. The Hork-Bajir valley." Cassie answered.
Okay. Ax said, then morphed to his BoP then flew out.
"I need to go too." Alley said and she too morphed her BoP and flew out.
Cassie smiled. "How come I have this feeling you didn't just come here for my advice on that. What's up?"
"Nothing. I just wanted to see you, and..."
"And?" She prompted, looking up at me.
I was still looking down at her. I wanted to kiss her, but I didn't want to seem forward. "And I wanted to tell you how much I..."
"Jake..." she said softly, still looking up at me, longing in her eyes.
I bent down and she rised up to meet me half way. It was our first kiss not after a battle. *isn't it? I can't remember*
(Alley)
I had an idea. After I flew out of the barn, I followed Ax to the Hork-Bajir valley. I wanted to see what they looked like.
When we got there, Ax had already landed there and demorphed. Then he went off some place. I decided I would land.
As soon as my bird talons hit the ground, I was covered with a net. I screeched in surprise. I tried to demorph, but the ropes were too strong.
Get this thing off me! I yelled. It started to hurt. Please. I said getting weaker. What is with this rope? Eventually, I was too weak to do anything.
As the net was taken off me, I tried to demorph. No matter how weak I was. When I finished, I passed out.
Chapter 7
When I came back to conscienceness, I saw a lady with dark hair. I was in a room on some sort of bed. I sat up immediatly. I looked at the lady. "Where am I?" I asked her.
"You're in the Hork-Bajir valley. You've been unconscience for four days." She answered.
"Four days?!" I said, shocked. "I have to go home." I stood up and started to walk out of what I now saw was a cave.
"I'm afraid you can't do that." The lady said to me. "How did you get the power to morph?"
"Jake gave it to me."
"Why did Jake give it to you?"
"I don't know. I guess because I'm his twin sister."
"Jake has a twin sister and he didn't tell me?" A guy's voice said.
I looked at the entrance of the cave and saw a hispanic looking guy. He had to be only a couple months older than me.
"I guess he was waiting to tell you. Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm Marco, Jake's best friend." He answered.
"Well, any friend of Jake's is a friend of mine. Do you live here?"
"Uh. Yeah."
"What happened?" I asked.
"Yeerks forced me."
"Oh." I decided to drop that conversation. "So how long have you and Jake been best friends?"
"For as long as I can remember."
The lady left the cave and went out to do some other things.
"Who's the lady?" I asked Marco.
"My mom."
"Um. Am I alowed to leave the valley?
He looked at the ground. "You've been here too long. I'm afraid you can't."
Part of me wanted to cry, another wanted to scream, and another was just happy to be with Marco. Weird, huh?
I took a deep breath. "Okay..."
"I'm sorry." He said.
I shook my head. "It's not your fault."
He looked up at me.
*Okay. I'm sorry if I make them OOC, I can't help it.*
After a week, I went to go to Marco's "room" for a surprise visit. I don't know why, I just felt like it. Within a week, I've found out that I really like him.
But as I approached where he was, I heard talking. I ducked behind a near tree and eavsdropped. I know, it was rude, but I just had an earge to hear their conversation. It was between Marco and his dad.
"I don't know what's going on. I feel..." Marco said. He took a breath. "It's hard to explain."
"Do you feel like you don't know what you'll do if something ever happens to her? Would you do anything for her? When you're around her, does your heart beat faster and everything around you doesn't exist?"
"How'd you know?"
"Marco, I have no choice other than to say that you have a simple case of a crush." His dad answered. "Who is it?" I peeked from behind the tree. "Is it Alley?"
Marco looked at the ground. "Yeah."
Just then, Marco's dad spotted me. I quickly ducked back behind the tree and snuck back to my "room" and sat on a rock.
I put my head in my hands. Marco liked me? I had to make sure I heard that conversation correctly. I needed a somewhat secluded place to think about it. (In the Hork-Bajir valley there is no full secluded place.)
I went to the lake, took off the shirt and shorts that was given to me and went in. I swam around in just my morphing outfit. The cool water made me think clearer.
I recaped what happened. I was adopted. I went to one sharing meeting. Jake told me about the Yeerks. I became an Animorph. We bought a black body suit for my morphing outfit. I got morphs. Tom left the house at 1 in the morning. He never came back. We went looking for him and practically ran into Ax. He said he needed some place other to live because of Tom. We went to Cassie's house for advice. Ax told me privately that Tom tried to rape him (I didn't know Tom's yeerk was gay nor do I know how you can rape an andalite with out being killed). Cassie suggested the Hork-Bajir valley. I wanted to see what a Hork-Bajir looked like. I flew here and got captured by some wierd net. Woke up in a cave. Found Marco and his mom. Went back to Jake's house (with Marco's accompany) and told Jake were I was and why. Went back. Went about each day of leisure (it was nice not having someone tell you what to do 24/7). Had conversations with Marco.
That must have been it. The conversations. That's what could have happened to make us feel this way.
We went back to Cassie's house and Rachel went home. Cassie took me into her barn. "You need a bird of prey, a battle morph, a fly, we may have to go to the Gardens to get a couple of them like a dolphin."
"Okay." I said. I walked up to a white-tailed sea eagle, touched its talon and concentrated. The eagle was about to bite me, but it paused.
"When you aquifer something, most of the time, they go into a trance," Jake explained.
"Good." I said and pulled my hand back.
"We should go to the Gardens at night. You'll need an owl morph. Have Jake fly with you to my barn, and then I'll fly with you to the Gardens. I can find my way around at night. My mom is the head vet there so I'm really used to it." Cassie suggested.
"Okay." I went to some kind of owl that was asleep and acquired it.
"You're all set for tonight then. Come here at around 1:15." She said.
"Okay. Until then." I went out to the car and Jake.
After a while, Jake came into the car too and started for home.
"How do you fly?" I asked Jake.
"Let the bird do the flying. You'll get the hang of it." He answered.
"Okay."
"And come to my room at 1. Be wearing your morphing outfit."
"Okay, will do."
Beep, beep, beep, beep.
I opened my eyes and turned my almost silent alarm off. I got changed into my body suit and quietly went to my door. I opened it silently only a crack to see if anyone else was up. There was. It was Tom.
He was walking down the stairs.
I just ignored it and went to Jake's room to leave to get my morphs.
When we had came back, I told Jake that I had saw Tom doing that. He just said he was probably going to a meeting. That something had to be happening and we were going to find out.
(Sorry for this part. I just had no idea why I wrote that, so I'm ending it kinda quickly)
The next morning, we looked all around the house for Tom. Still no sign of him. "Let's go."
Jake looked at me surprised.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Hey, a lot can happen within one night. Not to mention I have split personality. The reason I didn't tell you about it sooner is because I really didn't know you that much. Are we going to see where Tom is before it's too late?"
Jake just stood there staring at me, still surprised.
"It's not that big a deal."
He shook his head to get back to normal and then nodded it. "Yeah, let's go."
We morphed our BoP morphs, then flew out his window. We practically ran into a Northern Harrier. Ahhh!
The shock made me fall to the ground. Ow.
Prince Jake, you must do something about your brother. I really do not apreciate what he did. Ax said.
What did he do? Jake asked.
I would rather not say, but thanks to him I have to find a new place to live.
I got up from the ground. Uh, guys? Think it's time to stop this wierd scene here and go someplace more private to discuss this?
Oh, yeah. Thanks for reminding me. Jake said.
So we flew to Cassie's barn. We rested on top.
You guys stay here. I'll get Cassie Jake said.
He flew off.
I looked to Ax. So what did he do? I asked Ax privately.
He, he looked down. He... He looked back up again. He tried to rape me!!!
Oh, Ax. Why didn't you tell Jake?
I trust you better.
I had to think about that.
(Jake)
Cassie? I asked her.
She looked up from her homework and smiled. "Hi, Jake," she said after she opened the window and moved out of the way to let me in.
Hey. Can you go down to the barn?
Cassie looked back at her homework, then back at me. "Okay. I'm almost done with it anyway. Go in the barn and demorph, I'll be there in a sec."
I went back to the barn and told the others.
We went in the barn and demorphed.
After we were done, Cassie came in. "So what's going on?" She asked.
"Ax needs a new place to live." I explained. "Think the Hork-Bajir valley would be a good place?"
"What happened for him to leave?"
"Ax wouldn't tell me, but it had something to do with Tom."
"Well, okay, yeah. The Hork-Bajir valley." Cassie answered.
Okay. Ax said, then morphed to his BoP then flew out.
"I need to go too." Alley said and she too morphed her BoP and flew out.
Cassie smiled. "How come I have this feeling you didn't just come here for my advice on that. What's up?"
"Nothing. I just wanted to see you, and..."
"And?" She prompted, looking up at me.
I was still looking down at her. I wanted to kiss her, but I didn't want to seem forward. "And I wanted to tell you how much I..."
"Jake..." she said softly, still looking up at me, longing in her eyes.
I bent down and she rised up to meet me half way. It was our first kiss not after a battle. *isn't it? I can't remember*
(Alley)
I had an idea. After I flew out of the barn, I followed Ax to the Hork-Bajir valley. I wanted to see what they looked like.
When we got there, Ax had already landed there and demorphed. Then he went off some place. I decided I would land.
As soon as my bird talons hit the ground, I was covered with a net. I screeched in surprise. I tried to demorph, but the ropes were too strong.
Get this thing off me! I yelled. It started to hurt. Please. I said getting weaker. What is with this rope? Eventually, I was too weak to do anything.
As the net was taken off me, I tried to demorph. No matter how weak I was. When I finished, I passed out.
Chapter 7
When I came back to conscienceness, I saw a lady with dark hair. I was in a room on some sort of bed. I sat up immediatly. I looked at the lady. "Where am I?" I asked her.
"You're in the Hork-Bajir valley. You've been unconscience for four days." She answered.
"Four days?!" I said, shocked. "I have to go home." I stood up and started to walk out of what I now saw was a cave.
"I'm afraid you can't do that." The lady said to me. "How did you get the power to morph?"
"Jake gave it to me."
"Why did Jake give it to you?"
"I don't know. I guess because I'm his twin sister."
"Jake has a twin sister and he didn't tell me?" A guy's voice said.
I looked at the entrance of the cave and saw a hispanic looking guy. He had to be only a couple months older than me.
"I guess he was waiting to tell you. Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm Marco, Jake's best friend." He answered.
"Well, any friend of Jake's is a friend of mine. Do you live here?"
"Uh. Yeah."
"What happened?" I asked.
"Yeerks forced me."
"Oh." I decided to drop that conversation. "So how long have you and Jake been best friends?"
"For as long as I can remember."
The lady left the cave and went out to do some other things.
"Who's the lady?" I asked Marco.
"My mom."
"Um. Am I alowed to leave the valley?
He looked at the ground. "You've been here too long. I'm afraid you can't."
Part of me wanted to cry, another wanted to scream, and another was just happy to be with Marco. Weird, huh?
I took a deep breath. "Okay..."
"I'm sorry." He said.
I shook my head. "It's not your fault."
He looked up at me.
*Okay. I'm sorry if I make them OOC, I can't help it.*
After a week, I went to go to Marco's "room" for a surprise visit. I don't know why, I just felt like it. Within a week, I've found out that I really like him.
But as I approached where he was, I heard talking. I ducked behind a near tree and eavsdropped. I know, it was rude, but I just had an earge to hear their conversation. It was between Marco and his dad.
"I don't know what's going on. I feel..." Marco said. He took a breath. "It's hard to explain."
"Do you feel like you don't know what you'll do if something ever happens to her? Would you do anything for her? When you're around her, does your heart beat faster and everything around you doesn't exist?"
"How'd you know?"
"Marco, I have no choice other than to say that you have a simple case of a crush." His dad answered. "Who is it?" I peeked from behind the tree. "Is it Alley?"
Marco looked at the ground. "Yeah."
Just then, Marco's dad spotted me. I quickly ducked back behind the tree and snuck back to my "room" and sat on a rock.
I put my head in my hands. Marco liked me? I had to make sure I heard that conversation correctly. I needed a somewhat secluded place to think about it. (In the Hork-Bajir valley there is no full secluded place.)
I went to the lake, took off the shirt and shorts that was given to me and went in. I swam around in just my morphing outfit. The cool water made me think clearer.
I recaped what happened. I was adopted. I went to one sharing meeting. Jake told me about the Yeerks. I became an Animorph. We bought a black body suit for my morphing outfit. I got morphs. Tom left the house at 1 in the morning. He never came back. We went looking for him and practically ran into Ax. He said he needed some place other to live because of Tom. We went to Cassie's house for advice. Ax told me privately that Tom tried to rape him (I didn't know Tom's yeerk was gay nor do I know how you can rape an andalite with out being killed). Cassie suggested the Hork-Bajir valley. I wanted to see what a Hork-Bajir looked like. I flew here and got captured by some wierd net. Woke up in a cave. Found Marco and his mom. Went back to Jake's house (with Marco's accompany) and told Jake were I was and why. Went back. Went about each day of leisure (it was nice not having someone tell you what to do 24/7). Had conversations with Marco.
That must have been it. The conversations. That's what could have happened to make us feel this way.