This is the last chapter and even though it sounds weird there will be more chapters giving more details and everything about what happened, how they fell in love, the consequences. I'm gonna make it like a small book series thing very detailed so everything is explained and no one's confused J I'll start putting all of those out soon. But until then, enjoy the end.
Chapter 6: A New Beginning (it's a long one)
The Ellimist called to me, like he had before. He called to me and told me of things that were to be and how because of me they were not. I didn't believe him though; I convinced myself that it was the Drode in disguise trying to trick me into doing something that would help him win. But deep down inside...I knew, I knew that he was telling the truth but I just couldn't accept it.
Marco was now living in the Hork-Bajir valley with his father. In the last battle he had to make a choice...save his mother, which seemed impossible, or save me. I told him not too. I told him to save his mother and forget me, I had caused enough damage but he didn't. Something inside of him had changed so drastically. It was like he had a change of heart..."Here are the notes from Science, and I'll have a copy of the test for you next week." I said with a smile. I was in the Hork-Bajir valley with Marco, tutoring him. I didn't want him to fall behind in school since he had to go into hiding. To the rest of the world he was dead. Him and his father were. His father was working on a project that led to the discovery of Z-space; the yeerks had found out and tried to capture him. Marco and the rest of the Animorphs wouldn't let that happen though, we had gone to go rescue him and in the process told him all of our secrets.
"Why do I need to know science?" Marco asked; he was lying on a cot with his arms under his head. "I mean its not like I'm going to be needing it now, Ax takes care of all the science stuff." He looked at me smiling. "Want to go flying?" I wanted to say no, say that we had to study or else he wouldn't get a good job growing up but I decided that we needed to take a break.
* * *
Four years had passed. I was 20 now and so were the other Animorphs. The battle raged on and on for years, the yeerks eventually found out that we were human so they all went into hiding...everyone except for me. I had remained on the outside. Hiding in plain sight. The war was still concealed, although the yeerks had slipped up a little more. But we were losing and everyday they were advancing. I was afraid for the lives of my comrades, and my family. I knew that I would lose someone soon.
* * *
It was the final battle that it happened; the yeerks had taken their pool ship out of orbit and had it out in plain sight. This was going to be the last battle. We all knew it so before we went we said our goodbyes to the family we had left. I had no one. My family was gone. My mother had been killed in the most recent battle. So as everyone said his or her goodbyes, I stood alone, until Marco walked over to me putting his arm around my shoulder. We were engaged now, we had been for years but we had no rings, nothing to prove of it. Cassie and Jake had gotten married, Cassie didn't care about the promise they made about not getting married until after the war. Before they were found out we all went to Vegas on a road trip and they got hitched. It was a beautiful wedding, although they were only 18, there was a love, so mature so deep, it seemed as though it were there since the beginning of time itself.
We morphed into birds and flew to the site. It was a suicidal mission but it was also our last chance. We knew that there was a good chance no one would get out alive. All we had were 300 humans, Toby's band of Hork-Bajir and a small portion of the UN army- what was left of it. We flew over the town where they all met, over the construction site where they were given the gift, the curse, the power to save earth. I wanted to stop, just go fly away when we reached the pool ship, but I didn't. We had all gotten stronger in many ways over the past 7 years. I knew that Rachel, Tobias, Cassie and Jake were having private conversations. Saying goodbye that they'd be all right.
Danielle. Marco said, even in his thought speech he sounded depressed. Make it out, okay? It was all he could say, I suddenly felt stupid. The Ellimist had told me of everything that would happen, that we would lose because of it.
Can I tell you something? I asked quietly as my heart sank deep into my rib cage.
Sure, anything. He replied with fear.
Would you ever forget me, if something happened, something that changed, that changed time and…
What are you talking about? He asked me. I would NEVER forget you, besides neither of us can die here we still have to get married. I smiled at the thought, all my life I had pictured my wedding day. I had pictured the wedding. Flower petals covered the ground as I walked up to the alter. It would be outside, with white chairs f or the guests and I would be wearing my mother's wedding dress. And there, standing up at the end of the path would be my love, my future husband, the man whom I would spend eternity with. But those pictures slowly faded away as we reached the battle scene. The general hadn't listened to us when we told him not to attack until we got there. But he didn't listen, and that was probably the reason why we would lose.
Hurry everyone to their designated spots, go NOW! Jake ordered as we landed and started morphing our battle morphs. Mine was a female leopard, as the process began, I saw the pattern of the fur cover my body as though it were a quilt then sprout out into the luxurious short fur of a leopard. My tail sprouted out of my back and not far behind came the eyes- I must have looked like cat woman - then the legs came, and before I knew it I was a leopard.
* * *
This was where my dream would end; this is where I would wake up crying when I was little. I would wake up with tears streaking down my face not knowing what to do, how to get rid of the dream that haunted me in my sleep each night since I was an infant. This is what the dreams meant, they were preparing me, all my life I thought it was just a nightmare but it turned out to be reality. But I only hoped that my dreams were not the cause of this as I walked across the frozen battlefield. I walked over the bloody limp bodies of my friends, my comrades, my enemies. The battle was total chaos; nearly all of our soldiers were killed within the first hour and we weren't doing any damage. I walked across the field for what seemed like hours, tears streaking down my face. I walked up to where the main event was, Visser one verses the legendary "Andalite Bandits" - he was winning. They were trapped in some sort of cube and they were all in their natural forms…why did they demorph? Then I looked up to the Visser who had a machine next to him…it looked so familiar. "It's the anti-morphing ray." A voice from behind me said, I didn't have to look to know who it was.
"Ellimist." I said as I looked at the pain on their faces, the sorrow, the anger, and nevertheless, the pain, the endless pain that jolted through their bodies and was slowly killing them, giving them a long and gruesome death. "Let me say goodbye." I said as I looked at him. He was in the form of…me. But no, more than that, his eyes were glowing with a sort of energy and hair was flowing wildly.
"This is you Danielle. You have not seen yourself like this but this is the energy you process. Some how you changed the timeline, the victory and defeat of the Animorphs. No one knows how, not even I nor the Crayak." He stopped and smiled. "You may say goodbye, then you will be erased from their timeline. But your part is not done yet…" and with that he was gone and in his place was the Animorphs. At first they were frozen like the rest of the world around us but slowly joined me.
"I have something to tell you." I said breathing heavily. They all looked at me, not knowing what to think. Everyone but Ax who had figured out part of this was the Ellimist's doing. "I have been given a second chance, you all have been given a second chance to win this war against the yeerks, to become the warriors you were destined to be." They looked happy as I talked on. "But you will not remember me, I destroyed your chance of winning, I changed everything…" Marco didn't say anything, he saw between the lines. He knew that there was nothing to do yet he cried. He looked at me with tears in my eyes. "Marco, you once told me that no matter what happened…you wouldn't forget me because we still have to get married." I paused, surprising myself how I talked with such calmness. "You will forget, but I never will. I will never forget how I loved you, how I helped the Animorphs. I will never want to forget the life I lived. The Forgotten Timeline." While I was talking all I heard was the song "Irresistible" by Jessica Simpson. I looked at Marco; he had his eyes on me, his brown eyes that were now full of pain. Rachel looked at me and nodded in approval, so did the rest of the Animorphs. Cassie, she would remember there was nothing that would change that but I also knew that she would never tell them because she knew how hard this was for me, how hard it was to erase my own life from everyone's memories.
"Goodbye…" Marco ran over to me and wrapped his arms around me and we kissed. How long had I dreamed that I would be the hero? The one saving the world, but I didn't feel like a hero. I felt sick. We looked at each other, knowing this would be the last time we would ever know each other the way we both did. "The Chee will know…" I said -their memories would not be erased. "Ellimist." I said, and as soon as the words were out of my mouth I saw time move backwards. It flashed before me in the blink of an eye and when it stopped I saw them at the construction site, receiving the only power that would save earth.
"You did the right thing." I was in the mist again, but it was clearing up. I looked around me and I saw a beautiful valley full of roses, animals and trees that towered over me. Then I saw him, the Ellimist. He was in his "ketran" form, which he called his native form.
"They will never remember me…what will become of me now?" I asked quietly, all of this time the Ellimist had never told me what would happen to me if I said yes to his offer.
"Danielle, you still play a part in the history of earth. You play a very important part," he said smiling.
"But." Once the words were out of my mouth I was in front of the school. My first day, I stood there looking at it, remembering how I had felt how I had wanted to belong.
"Watch out!!" The warning came too late and someone crashed into me.
"Just my luck." I said as I picked up my books.
"I'm sorry!" a voice said, a very familiar voice said. I looked up and saw Marco. He was still 14, I had gone back 6 years and although I looked 14 I was still the 20-year-old woman named Danielle. He looked at me like he was trying to place me in his mind. "Do I know you?" He asked as he helped me pick up his books.
"No," I could have sworn I heard the song "irresistible" by Jessica Simpson in my head although it wouldn't be out for another three years. "We never met." The words burned through my soul as they came out of my mouth. He finished picking up my books and then started walking away. "Wait!" I said as I ran up to him. He looked at me with hope in his eyes, the same hope that I had loved about him. "You dropped this," I handed him his binder as he said thank you and walked away. I stood there for what must have been an hour because I heard the bell for 3rd period ring.
Tell me what you think~~~I spent all morning writing it, and the sequel will be coming to a fanfiction.net to you next week J
Chapter 6: A New Beginning (it's a long one)
The Ellimist called to me, like he had before. He called to me and told me of things that were to be and how because of me they were not. I didn't believe him though; I convinced myself that it was the Drode in disguise trying to trick me into doing something that would help him win. But deep down inside...I knew, I knew that he was telling the truth but I just couldn't accept it.
Marco was now living in the Hork-Bajir valley with his father. In the last battle he had to make a choice...save his mother, which seemed impossible, or save me. I told him not too. I told him to save his mother and forget me, I had caused enough damage but he didn't. Something inside of him had changed so drastically. It was like he had a change of heart..."Here are the notes from Science, and I'll have a copy of the test for you next week." I said with a smile. I was in the Hork-Bajir valley with Marco, tutoring him. I didn't want him to fall behind in school since he had to go into hiding. To the rest of the world he was dead. Him and his father were. His father was working on a project that led to the discovery of Z-space; the yeerks had found out and tried to capture him. Marco and the rest of the Animorphs wouldn't let that happen though, we had gone to go rescue him and in the process told him all of our secrets.
"Why do I need to know science?" Marco asked; he was lying on a cot with his arms under his head. "I mean its not like I'm going to be needing it now, Ax takes care of all the science stuff." He looked at me smiling. "Want to go flying?" I wanted to say no, say that we had to study or else he wouldn't get a good job growing up but I decided that we needed to take a break.
* * *
Four years had passed. I was 20 now and so were the other Animorphs. The battle raged on and on for years, the yeerks eventually found out that we were human so they all went into hiding...everyone except for me. I had remained on the outside. Hiding in plain sight. The war was still concealed, although the yeerks had slipped up a little more. But we were losing and everyday they were advancing. I was afraid for the lives of my comrades, and my family. I knew that I would lose someone soon.
* * *
It was the final battle that it happened; the yeerks had taken their pool ship out of orbit and had it out in plain sight. This was going to be the last battle. We all knew it so before we went we said our goodbyes to the family we had left. I had no one. My family was gone. My mother had been killed in the most recent battle. So as everyone said his or her goodbyes, I stood alone, until Marco walked over to me putting his arm around my shoulder. We were engaged now, we had been for years but we had no rings, nothing to prove of it. Cassie and Jake had gotten married, Cassie didn't care about the promise they made about not getting married until after the war. Before they were found out we all went to Vegas on a road trip and they got hitched. It was a beautiful wedding, although they were only 18, there was a love, so mature so deep, it seemed as though it were there since the beginning of time itself.
We morphed into birds and flew to the site. It was a suicidal mission but it was also our last chance. We knew that there was a good chance no one would get out alive. All we had were 300 humans, Toby's band of Hork-Bajir and a small portion of the UN army- what was left of it. We flew over the town where they all met, over the construction site where they were given the gift, the curse, the power to save earth. I wanted to stop, just go fly away when we reached the pool ship, but I didn't. We had all gotten stronger in many ways over the past 7 years. I knew that Rachel, Tobias, Cassie and Jake were having private conversations. Saying goodbye that they'd be all right.
Danielle. Marco said, even in his thought speech he sounded depressed. Make it out, okay? It was all he could say, I suddenly felt stupid. The Ellimist had told me of everything that would happen, that we would lose because of it.
Can I tell you something? I asked quietly as my heart sank deep into my rib cage.
Sure, anything. He replied with fear.
Would you ever forget me, if something happened, something that changed, that changed time and…
What are you talking about? He asked me. I would NEVER forget you, besides neither of us can die here we still have to get married. I smiled at the thought, all my life I had pictured my wedding day. I had pictured the wedding. Flower petals covered the ground as I walked up to the alter. It would be outside, with white chairs f or the guests and I would be wearing my mother's wedding dress. And there, standing up at the end of the path would be my love, my future husband, the man whom I would spend eternity with. But those pictures slowly faded away as we reached the battle scene. The general hadn't listened to us when we told him not to attack until we got there. But he didn't listen, and that was probably the reason why we would lose.
Hurry everyone to their designated spots, go NOW! Jake ordered as we landed and started morphing our battle morphs. Mine was a female leopard, as the process began, I saw the pattern of the fur cover my body as though it were a quilt then sprout out into the luxurious short fur of a leopard. My tail sprouted out of my back and not far behind came the eyes- I must have looked like cat woman - then the legs came, and before I knew it I was a leopard.
* * *
This was where my dream would end; this is where I would wake up crying when I was little. I would wake up with tears streaking down my face not knowing what to do, how to get rid of the dream that haunted me in my sleep each night since I was an infant. This is what the dreams meant, they were preparing me, all my life I thought it was just a nightmare but it turned out to be reality. But I only hoped that my dreams were not the cause of this as I walked across the frozen battlefield. I walked over the bloody limp bodies of my friends, my comrades, my enemies. The battle was total chaos; nearly all of our soldiers were killed within the first hour and we weren't doing any damage. I walked across the field for what seemed like hours, tears streaking down my face. I walked up to where the main event was, Visser one verses the legendary "Andalite Bandits" - he was winning. They were trapped in some sort of cube and they were all in their natural forms…why did they demorph? Then I looked up to the Visser who had a machine next to him…it looked so familiar. "It's the anti-morphing ray." A voice from behind me said, I didn't have to look to know who it was.
"Ellimist." I said as I looked at the pain on their faces, the sorrow, the anger, and nevertheless, the pain, the endless pain that jolted through their bodies and was slowly killing them, giving them a long and gruesome death. "Let me say goodbye." I said as I looked at him. He was in the form of…me. But no, more than that, his eyes were glowing with a sort of energy and hair was flowing wildly.
"This is you Danielle. You have not seen yourself like this but this is the energy you process. Some how you changed the timeline, the victory and defeat of the Animorphs. No one knows how, not even I nor the Crayak." He stopped and smiled. "You may say goodbye, then you will be erased from their timeline. But your part is not done yet…" and with that he was gone and in his place was the Animorphs. At first they were frozen like the rest of the world around us but slowly joined me.
"I have something to tell you." I said breathing heavily. They all looked at me, not knowing what to think. Everyone but Ax who had figured out part of this was the Ellimist's doing. "I have been given a second chance, you all have been given a second chance to win this war against the yeerks, to become the warriors you were destined to be." They looked happy as I talked on. "But you will not remember me, I destroyed your chance of winning, I changed everything…" Marco didn't say anything, he saw between the lines. He knew that there was nothing to do yet he cried. He looked at me with tears in my eyes. "Marco, you once told me that no matter what happened…you wouldn't forget me because we still have to get married." I paused, surprising myself how I talked with such calmness. "You will forget, but I never will. I will never forget how I loved you, how I helped the Animorphs. I will never want to forget the life I lived. The Forgotten Timeline." While I was talking all I heard was the song "Irresistible" by Jessica Simpson. I looked at Marco; he had his eyes on me, his brown eyes that were now full of pain. Rachel looked at me and nodded in approval, so did the rest of the Animorphs. Cassie, she would remember there was nothing that would change that but I also knew that she would never tell them because she knew how hard this was for me, how hard it was to erase my own life from everyone's memories.
"Goodbye…" Marco ran over to me and wrapped his arms around me and we kissed. How long had I dreamed that I would be the hero? The one saving the world, but I didn't feel like a hero. I felt sick. We looked at each other, knowing this would be the last time we would ever know each other the way we both did. "The Chee will know…" I said -their memories would not be erased. "Ellimist." I said, and as soon as the words were out of my mouth I saw time move backwards. It flashed before me in the blink of an eye and when it stopped I saw them at the construction site, receiving the only power that would save earth.
"You did the right thing." I was in the mist again, but it was clearing up. I looked around me and I saw a beautiful valley full of roses, animals and trees that towered over me. Then I saw him, the Ellimist. He was in his "ketran" form, which he called his native form.
"They will never remember me…what will become of me now?" I asked quietly, all of this time the Ellimist had never told me what would happen to me if I said yes to his offer.
"Danielle, you still play a part in the history of earth. You play a very important part," he said smiling.
"But." Once the words were out of my mouth I was in front of the school. My first day, I stood there looking at it, remembering how I had felt how I had wanted to belong.
"Watch out!!" The warning came too late and someone crashed into me.
"Just my luck." I said as I picked up my books.
"I'm sorry!" a voice said, a very familiar voice said. I looked up and saw Marco. He was still 14, I had gone back 6 years and although I looked 14 I was still the 20-year-old woman named Danielle. He looked at me like he was trying to place me in his mind. "Do I know you?" He asked as he helped me pick up his books.
"No," I could have sworn I heard the song "irresistible" by Jessica Simpson in my head although it wouldn't be out for another three years. "We never met." The words burned through my soul as they came out of my mouth. He finished picking up my books and then started walking away. "Wait!" I said as I ran up to him. He looked at me with hope in his eyes, the same hope that I had loved about him. "You dropped this," I handed him his binder as he said thank you and walked away. I stood there for what must have been an hour because I heard the bell for 3rd period ring.
Tell me what you think~~~I spent all morning writing it, and the sequel will be coming to a fanfiction.net to you next week J