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Chapter 11: Memories
By: Hope
It had been two weeks since the humans that had once called themselves Animorphs had set out on their journey. Within those two weeks, it seemed that they all began to become even more distant from eachother and their surroundings then they had been when they had arrived here.
Jake, who had once been the unnamed leader of thise group had once again taken control, giving out the orders of when and where they would rest, not listening to the advice of their guide, Hope.
Cassie found that she might have made the wrong desicion in coming here again and as soon as she thought this she cursed at herself, fearing that the doubt of ever finding Crayak would eat her up until she was empty of almost all emotion. It was true that she had found out that this girl was Rachel, or the Rachel that she had at one point in time known but she still found that she wasn't able to talk to her as she was once able to, not knowing what she would be able to talk about with her. It wasn't exactly like she could walk up to her going "So, what was it like being dead and all?"...she had seen that on Buffy the previous week (Cassie found that she was able to relate to the show after the war had ended, one girl, chosen to fight the vampires or demons. She was forced to go through so many things in her life and yet she wasn't even able to have a happy ending, which was something that Cassie could relate too, no one had left the war without being affected greatly.)
Marco had continued to be the comedian of the group, finding times to ease the tension of the situation (they had found that there were other beings there, alien monsters of sorts that they were able to avoid by a very strange streak of either good timing or luck.) but even he had begun to lose his sense of humor as hope of ever reaching their destination began to dwindle. Along with these new found fears of never being able to return home, Marco also carried the burden of knowing the true nature of The One and that when and if they were forced to face it, no one would be able to kill her. No one would be able to kill the face of the Animorph that they had lost at the end of the war.
Aximilli found himself becoming more distant from Tobias, who had once been his shorm but now seemed to attempt to keep from conversing with him or any other of the group at all. Although it had been many years since his last battle with the Animorphs, and although he now had grown to the rank of Andalite War-Prince, he was still ready and willing to accept any orders from Jake Berenson, his former leader and prince during the yeerk war.
Tobias. In his own mind he grew stronger and stronger every day, now able to fight the 'temptation' to speak to the other Animorphs or even interact with them at all. He was now just along for the ride, waiting for his next visit from his 'Rachel'. Although he was growing strong within his own mind, he was clearly beginning to weaken to the point where the circles that had formed under his eyes never disapeared and the color of his skin had lightened about five shades.
Through all of this, Rachel had been able to remain anonymous to every Animorph besides Cassie. (How Cassie had found out was still a mystery to Rachel.) And although Cassie had been her best friend, Rachel found herself calling upon the Ellimist more often to report the things that had happened, or discuss what she thought was happening with Tobias. It pained her to see him like that but every time that she had tried to reach out to him, he would lash out at her with an insult or just ignore her completely and go about his business of making himself and everyone around him miserable. He wasn't the Tobias that she had fallen in love with. She wasn't sure if he was Tobias at all.
"Where are we now?" Jake asked as he slowly came to a hault, looking around his new surroundings.
Over the past few weeks, everytime that they had walked a certain distance, their surroundings would change, the climate, the sky, everything. It had been a bit scary and unpredictable at first, causing Marco to attempt to jump into Jake's arms and Cassie yelp in fear, but now everyone had gotten used to it.
It took a few minutes for everyone to realize where they were. They were surprised that they hadn't noticed it at first...
It was night, the stars were shining in the sky and five stupid teenagers walked into an abandoned construction site.... "So I'm guessing this would be the part where we see his memories?" Marco asked. (Who else?)
