What I thought would take me 2 weeks got out a little early, so here it is, seventh chapter. Usual disclaimer, I don't own animorphs.

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The red tailed hawk settled down on a rafter. He looked down at his five other companions, four humans and an Andalite before finally addressing them. ::She's not a controller, not yet anyway.::

Jake nodded. "Good work Tobias."

Cassie looked up. "What do you mean not yet?"

::That plot Erek mentioned? The banquet? They just announced it for this weekend::

Jake frowned. "Doesn't give us much time"

Marco nodded. "People go in for food and they come out as controllers. At least we know the new girl is Yeerk free."

Ax turned his stalk eyes to Marco. ::Not for long.::

::I'm not sure she's human.::

The other five looked at Tobias in disbelief.

"What?" Rachel was the first to speak.

Jake sighed. "What are you talking about Tobias?"

::Have any of you noticed the way she walks?::


Marco shrugged. "Yea, one foot in front of the other. So?"

::She picks her legs up a little more.::

"So, lots of people could do it."

::Not this way. Most people walk with pressure on their heels. Viola uses the ball of her foot. It's like she was tiptoeing.::

"So she walks differently, that doesn't mean she isn't human."

Jake nodded. "Marco is right Tobias."

::When's the last human you knew that had blue skin?::

Rachel stared at Tobias. "Excuse me?"

::You see things when your a fly, not as good as a hawk but you can get closer. She missed a spot wth her make-up, and it was blue.::

"could have been paint."

::It was on the back of her neck, and there was fur.::



Jake sighed. "Alright. Ax, Tobias and Cassie, you check out the house, see what you can find out about this girl. Me, Rachel and Marco will go to the banquet, see if we can stop this."



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Viola sighed looking out the window. People gave her brief glances but no one looked at her too long. It had taken hours to convince her parents to let her go. It would have been futile to sneak out; she knew that now, not with her mother following. So she told the truth, most of the truth. She was going to a banquet for new students. It was partially the truth, she was new and working towards membership was kind of like being a student. Frank didn't come, her parents both busy, so she rode the bus and that had taken the most convincing. Her father had managed to get her mom to let her go to the banquet. So when the bus stopped, she got off alone, just like everyone else and stepped inside.

"Viola!"

Viola smiled at the girl approaching. "Hi Elena."


The girl was in the group with her. She was a freshman with light brown hair that framed her face. Elena was the only daughter of two divorced parents; she had joined out of loneliness. The two girls had become friends easily, ever since Viola had started coming to the meetings.

Elena smiled. "Come on, I saved you a seat."

Elena grabbed Viola by the arm, practically dragging her to the table and she couldn't help but smile at the other girl's eagerness. She was lead to a table with most of the group she recognized along with a few others that were most likely full members. Margaret waved from her own seat across from Viola. "Glad you could make it Viola."

Viola nodded. "I'm a little late, has everyone been served yet?"

Margaret smiled. "Not yet, we're going to have a speech by our founder, then we'll be eating, but they'll be serving the food now."

"So we'll wait to eat until after the founder gives his speech?"

Margaret smiled and nodded. "He's right over there."

She pointed to the head table at a well dressed man directly in the middle, slightly graying brown hair and searching eyes, his head continued to turn every few moments, not unlike another she knew.

"He kind of reminds me of my mom."

Elena looked at her friend in confusion. "Why?"

Viola shrugged. "Just does." She smiled as the food began to be passed around. The guests smiled politely to their hosts as plates of food were set down in front of them just as the founder began his speech. Viola smiled to her own hosts as he set down her plate, then overshot his goal, hitting her glass instead. The glass toppled over on her lap covering her. Viola jumped up in shock, her hands setting on the table and settly (maybe that could be 'landing right' or something else, already used settling) on the plate. The food flew into the air, resettling on her face and sweater. Viola groaned.

"I'm really sorry miss." The host continued to apologize as Viola tried to wipe the excess food from her gloves.

Elena began to take a napkin to her friend. "Here, let me get that. You have it all over."

Viola stepped back. "No. It's fine, I'll just go wash up. Look I'll be right back." She sighed turning to the host. "Where's the bathroom?"

Her host indicated the direction in which she should go and Viola nodded, making her way to the restrooms to wash off what she could.


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::The Lawrence's have a cat, found him hunting this afternoon so I acquired his morph.::

Cassie nodded. "So we'll morph to fleas. Go ahead."

Tobias seemed to nod as his feathers melded together, turning to a mouse gray, his beak vanished into a mouth and nose and two new legs sprouted from his chest, when he was done a mouse gray cat stood before them.

Ax and Cassie waited a few moments and they two began to morph, becoming fleas before jumping onto Tobias.

::Ready.::

Tobias acknowledged Cassie's comment and began their journey to the Lawrence house. The back door was open. Actually that was an understatement. There was no door; it was just an opening large enough to fit a small horse.

::This is weird. Not like any house I've ever seen before.::

He turned to the stairs, making his way up t search. The cat ducked into the room, searching the area, he studied the pictures, looking closer. ::Whoa. Coast is clear guys, you have to see this.::

Two barely visible fleas jumped off the gray cat and began to grow, their shape shifted as shells cracked into fur and skin until a human and Andalite stood by the cat. Cassie walked up, picking up a photo. She stared at the picture in disbelief. The two humans were no surprise. Two redheads, the girl was most likely Viola's mother. The middle girl was the most surprise. She was completely blue with autumn hair and violet eyes. From the top of her head protruded two stalk eyes, exactly similar (pick one, either exactly alike, or quite similar) to ax's appendages. From the look of her feet it was obvious why Tobias had mentioned her strange way of walking. She had no feet, only hooves.

Ax himself seemed to be focusing on another photo as he removed from the wall, all eyes focusing on the photograph and Cassie approached in plain curiosity. Ax's picture was more of a shock then her own. Four people stood in the background of a forest. The first two were easily recognizable as Viola and her father, but the other two were a complete mystery. There was a second man in the picture, a portly fellow with black hair. The second wasn't even human at all because the fourth was an andalite.

Cassie gasped in shock. "Visser 3?"

Ax narrowed his stalk eyes. ::No, this one is female.::



"Viola? Are you home? We didn't hear you come in."

Ax nearly dropped the frame in surprise to the distinctly male voice downstairs. Cassie glanced over at the door. "It's Mr. Lawrence. We have to morph back."

Ax seemed to nod in agreement and they both returned to fleas, hopping on Tobias' back just as Mr. Lawrence stepped into the room. He smiled, looking down at the mouse colored cat. "Edinthor. Should have known. Begging for food no doubt. You hungry?" He picked up Tobias, starting to carry him down the stairs. "Where's your collar boy?"

Mr. Lawrence paused just as a meow sounded from the living room. He backed up and looked inside, staring at another mouse gray cat, complete with collar. He turned back to the feline in his arms. "Who are you? Demorph."

The cat hissed and Mr. Lawrence frowned. "Look, I'm not going to hurt you. I'm not a Yeerk or anything I just want to know who you are."

::What's going on Erik?::

Both head turned as a beautiful blue Andalite stepped into the room. Her gaze went from Edinthor to the cat in Mr. Lawrence's hands. ::You have no reason to be here. Who are you?::

Cassie seemed to sigh. ::Demorph::

Tobias leapt from Erik's hands, returning to hawk form. Both Gari and Erik's eyes widened in shock, neither had been suspecting that. The two fleas began to grow and Gari's gaze went from Ax, to Tobias and finally to Cassie. ::A morph capable human, not possible.::

"It's very possible, Mrs. Lawrence."


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Viola made sure the entire room was empty before turning the water on to run over the smears of food on her face. Beige tones ran down her neck as the familiar blue pigmentation was revealed. Sighing she ducked into one of the stalls to redo what had run off. It was a relief just to remove the confining overshoes. She could barely walk in the blasted things it was almost an effort just to keep them on. Sighing she went to work, opening her compact and painting on the flesh tones over her face. She dropped her compact in surprise when a scream echoed from the banquet hall.

What was going on? She peaked out of her stall, making sure no one was around before creeping towards the door to sneak a glance. Slowly she opened the door, staring wide-eyed as the screams grew louder. Eight-foot tall beasts possessing snake like heads roamed around the banquet hall, blocking the exits. It was more shock then fear that overtook her, the beasts resembling so much of what her mother had told her. But this was all wrong; yeerks weren't supposed to be here, the planet was safe. Obviously it wasn't anymore; if there were Hork-Bajir yeerks couldn't be far behind. She gasped in shock as a Hork-Bajir approached only a few feet from her door. The creature seemed to hear her because it turned its enormous head around and stared straight at her.

She was doomed.

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::A child a human and a red tailed hawk. This can't be the same andalite military I remember.::

Ax stared back at the other andalite, studying her with his stalk eyes. ::You're Asgariem.::


Gari nodded. ::You are correct. My full name is Asgariem Elonther Firegsth. I am, or rather was an Andalite scout.::

Cassie looked at the two andalites. "Ax?"

Ax looked at Cassie. ::Cassie, Asgariem was the first Andalite to come to earth. She was sent as a scout to determine the Yeerk threat on earth, when all communication ceased we had assumed her mission failed.::

::There was no Yeerk threat. My ship crashed. Erik found me, he saved my life.::

Tobias nodded. ::Who is Viola then?::

Erik sighed. "Viola is our daughter."

Asgariem nodded. ::Viola is half andalite.::

Ax narrowed his stalk eyes. ::That isn't possible::

::it's very possible. It's a result of morphing technology. Viola was born as a result of one night::

Erik nodded. "Me and Gari have raised her since."

::You abandoned your mission::

Asgariem narrowed her stalk eyes again. ::My mission was non-existent. The Yeerk threat was nil and I fell in love. What has the andalite fleet done for me? I have a family now.::

Erik held up his hands. "Hold on, why don't we explain some things? Like why there is my neighbor, an andalite kid and a hawk all with morph capability in my living room?"

Cassie sighed. "It's a long story, but the yeerks are on earth, they control the sharing and your daughter is at one of the banquets right now."

Erik paled. "Oh god, Viola?"

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Yay! I managed to get this chapter out on time! After this theres about two chapters left to go. Yep, getting close to the end.