"You already know Zeek.." Luke sighed a tired sigh.
"I know, but I still can't believe we are stuck here for four years minimum."
It was fairly warm that day, but he air was still full of moister from the rain the day before. We all looked like we had been up for several weeks; I know none of us slept well the night before. I, myself, felt like I was walking around in some unbelievable nightmare. Then I heard it. The only voice on the face of the planet that at that very moment I did not want to hear..
"Fall in!" A man in a generals uniform commanded a group of soldiers.
"Oh, God no.." I said as I involentarily brought my hands to my face. "Anyone but him.."
"What's wrong?" Cally asked me.
"I'll be.." Jace sayed a smirk crossing his face.
"I'm with you Jess.." Zeek aggreed with my earlier statement. "Anyone but him."
"Are we missing something?" Luke asked refering to himself, Cally, and Brad. "If I'm not mistaken that's General Avon Traker. He's practically incharge of the entire Crimean Army! It's an honor to be working directly under his command."
"Not if you the 'General's daughter'." Shane said and patted me on the back...
"Or the 'General's daughter's best friends'.." Added Zeek, he looked like he was going to cry, or throw up, which ever came first.
And before we could say anything else..
"What are you soldiers doing standing here clucking like hens?!" General Traker yelled. "Fall in before I nail ya all one and make ya fall over!"
We all quickly fell into line at attention. At that moment I wished that somebody would just shoot me..
"You bunch of sissy's!" His voice seemed to get louder. "You were on this planet less then twenty minutes, and managed to screw up enough to be able to slack off an entire day!"
"With due respect sir-" That's as far as Luke got.
"SHUT YOU'RE FACE SOLDIER!" The General barked into Lukes face. "YOU DO NOT TALK UNLESS I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"
"Yyy..Yes Sir.." Luke looked like he'd just been slapped. Heck I wouldn't doubt if the General couldn't make guys 3 times Lukes age cry. But you do have to remember we weren't all that old, sixteen and seventeen on our planet,but only eleven and twelve in earth years.
"What was that?"
"Yes Sir!" Luke straitened up.
"I've had the unfortunate task of working with some of you before.." He stated refering to Jace, Shane, Zeek, and I.
He went on, about the same exact things I'd heard him babble about before, I ignored him. I glanced over at the others, they were getting bored to. Well, except for Cally, Brad, and Luke, they were new to this kind of treatment, they were most definatly going to listen..
"And as for you four slakers," He said, I knew who he was refering too. It never mattered if we were paying attention or not, he ALWAYS said we were slakers. He never cut us a break.. "You get to take ten laps around camp! On the double"
None of us said anything. We followed in order of the line we were standing in. Shane then Zeek, then Jace, and finally me. We jogged a full hour before the General sent someone to stop us. You see, when he says ten laps he really means 'Run until I tell you to stop.'... We'd learned that the hard way to. We were also told to meet at the Generals tent to find out what our first mission was.
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Wow I have five, count em' FIVE, readers! WooHoo! You'd better watch out Forlay ;-)
Also, Jan was wonderin if Zeek was related to Marco, well that would make perfect sence if he was.. He is related to an Animorph, though I'm not going to say who.. Of course he's not a direct
descendent or anything. It's actually rather confusing explaining who's related to who, because
some of them are related to more then one, and, well some of them aren't related to the Animorphs.
At least not that anyone's found.. But anyway, later in the story I will reveal who's related to who!
So stay tuned!