Chapter 6

The night before we flew I was so nervous. I had all of my stuff packed, as did my friends. We stayed in a hotel near the airport, so we wouldn't miss our flight.

I was sitting on my bed and my friends where on Chryss' bed. Suddenly, Chryss said, "Let's just make sure we all know what is going on. Yeerks are what?"

Drew answered, "Yeerks are like slugs. They crawl into your brain and take total control of you. Every three days they have to go into the Yeerk pool to soak up Kandrona rays."

After Drew finished Chryss said, "Now ask a question. If you answer a question correct you then get to ask one."

Drew look pleased and asked, "Who is the leader of the Animorphs, also who came up with the name and what does it mean?"

It was my turn so I answered. "Jake's the leader. Marco came up with the name, and it means Animal Morpher. OK, who was Elfangor and what did he do?"

Chryss answered, "He was Aximilli's brother."

"And Tobias' father." Drew completed.

"But what did he create?"

He created the abomination, Tabitha said, the only Andalite controller. Now go to sleep.

We all went to sleep very fast.

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The next morning we where all excited as we boarded the plane. I can't really tell you much about it. All I can say was that we where in first class.

When we got off the plane it turned out we had a connecting flight in a while. So we got something to drink. It was cappuccino on Tabitha's credit card, and it was the real thing. I actually saw the cappuccino being made. While we where drinking it I could not find Tabitha. When we caught our next flight we found Tabitha in her seat. We never found out where she was. It was a long and uneventful flight.

When we finally got off the plane about one hour and fifty minutes later Tabitha ran past us to the bathroom. She must have had time because she came out and said, "One minute."

Once we where at our hotel Tabitha left us to eat. She had to eat as an Andalite and that meant running across fields. Andalites eat by absorbing nutrients threw their hooves as they run. Their hooves are cloven and hollow. I have been an Andalite, so have Chryss and Drew, and eating is very strange. The only upside we could find at the time, was the running, nothing runs like an Andalite. Tabatha had trained us how to fight while we had been morphed, just as an Andalite Aristh. We could not fight as well as James or Cera.

When Tabatha came back she motioned for us to morph and follow her. We stripped down to the morphing outfits and looked at each other. We all had black leotards on so we matched, Tabatha had also taught us how to morph sandals. Before we started to morph I opened at window

Seagull, morph seagull.

When I started to morph the first thing that happened was I started to shrink. Then feathers started to grow and my hair disappeared, the feathers covered my morphing outfit. Then my sandals disappeared and talons formed from my feet.

Suddenly, I was finished. Some of the changes happened so fast I didn't even know what happened. My friends finished morphing and we took to the sky.

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Special thanks go to Chryss for Bata reading this chapter. {And I bet everyone thought she was a made up character.}