**Disclamier: I don't own Animorphs *sighs* K.A. Applegate does. But that
doesn't mean I can't right this! :) He he he. But anyway...Enjoy the
fanfic. This is the first fanfic I've ever written and I hope you enjoy it.
Ja ne!**
Chapter 11:
Okay, is everyone here? Jake asked as we gathered by the edge of the forest near my house. We had morphed cats deeper inside the forest and had walked to were my backyard met the woods. We had followed our own scent trails back to the house, or so it seemed. Truly we were following the scent of the cat we had morphed, now that we were an identical copy of that cat.
We all had had some trouble at first, for example Marco killed and almost ate a mouse. When he regained control, Cassie and Rachel hadn't so they had started to fight over the mouse. Tobias was fine because he had morphed his cat Dude before and he knew what to expect. Jake couldn't control the cat's curiosity, so he ended up on his back playing with a leaf. I would've laughed if I could've. Ax was even worse because somehow he had found a feather, and I'll just say this, at that point, I really wished I had had my camera with me, too bad I wouldn't of been able to use it anyway, no opposable thumbs. Sigh. But, it has a hilarious sight. And me? I was fine. I knew exactly what to expect because one, I was an expert on cats, and two, I had morphed the lynx and knew some what, what to expect. I just sat and stared at the others watching them try out their cat morphs. But now we were together.
Looking around me now I saw six of what looked like my cats, but who I knew were in actuality my friends; five Animorphs and one Andalite, were sitting in a circle behind my house on the edge of my backyard, peering up into my sister's bedroom.
Yep, said Rachel. There's seven of us here.
Okay, said Jake. Tobias, how long has Cossette's light been off for?
Three hours, he replied. She fell asleep two and a half hours ago if that's what you wanted to know. I heard her breathing rate slow down. I guess we had forgotten how good a hawk's sense of hearing is. From what the others have told me, their sense of hearing is almost as good as their sense of sight. Tobias even thought that human eyes were dull compared to hawk eyes.
All right, so our plan is we jump from the deck onto the tree and then follow the branch that leads to Cossette's window as close as we can to the house before we jump into her room, right? said Jake.
Right, I said and then added, And be careful because I don't know about the Yeerk, but my sister is a light sleeper.
Oh wonderful! said Marco, I guess to himself because no one was listening to him, as usual.
I'll go first, I volunteered. Since this is my house and I know my way around. Not to mention the fact that this is my sister we're saving.
Sounds good to me, said Marco.
All right Jessica, said Jake. Just be careful, okay, he said just to me this time.
Don't worry Jake, I'll be fine, I replied, just to him.
Good luck, Ax whispered to me.
Thanks, Ax, I whispered back to him.
Jake came in after me, followed by Ax, Cassie, Tobias, Rachel, and Marco.
Now what do we do? I asked Jake.
What do you mean? I thought you planned this out? Jake asked me.
Uh oh, I said, the same time as Marco, though we were saying it for different reasons. I was saying it because we now knew that we didn't have a plan. Marco said it because he noticed that my sister was waking up. Unfortunately, I didn't.
What are we going to do now? I asked in dispare.
Improvise, said Marco.
What do you mean? I asked.
Improvise, make something up, right away, because "Houston we have a problem!"
Cossette had woken up and was now staring at the group of her cats, her outdoor cats, sitting around on her floor in what looked like a circle, acting like they were talking to one another. She was probably wondering how all seven of her cats had mysteriously appeared in her room. Seven cats that had never been in her room before and were not smart enough to get into her room either. It didn't help the situation that the door was closed.
"There is no way my seven cats got into my room, cats are not that smart,...at least not normal cats." Sure enough, I was right, she knew. Sometimes I really hate being right. "The Andalite bandits! I must contact Visser Three immediately!" But as she got up to get the phone, I tripped her. And that's when I noticed the four hooves standing there in front of me. Ax had started to demorph when things were looking bad, Jake must've told him to do it privately, not wanting me to over hear. Cossette realized this too because now she was face to face with Ax. At that point, she started to scream.
"Aaaaahhhhh! Andali...," she began to scream, but she was cut-off. All I saw was a blur of blue, something moving too fast even for a cat's eyes, and then my sister, my beloved sister, was lying on the ground, appearing to be dead. Before I knew what I was doing, I had started to demorph at a rapid pace, becoming almost completely human except for a few minor details. I lunged at Ax's throat claws extended, and mouth open. A mouth filled with human sized cat-like teeth.
Jessica, listen. I only..., began Ax. All I saw was a flash of blue, and the next thing I new, my once bright world was pure black. I felt myself hit the floor, and the darkness engulfed me. Demorph, I told myself. Demorph, and I knew that I did, but then all traces of consciousness disappeared.
When I woke up, I was in the forest once again, and man, did my head hurt! I was lying nest to my sister who looked like she was...unconscious? I was human now, that much I knew. Completely human. Then I noticed Ax was awake. I mean, if an Andalite was looking down on you, you'd notice too. His stalk eyes were on my sister, still lying in a deep sleep beside me, but his main eyes were on me.
"Ax, Did I do what I think I did last night?"
What do you think you did?
"Try to kill you?
Yes, but you didn't come that close. Too slow, but not by much, for my tail.
"What do you mean, 'for my tail?' Am I dead or something?" I asked him, confused and scared. And then he smiled. An Andalite smile.
No, I just knocked you unconscious. I wouldn't kill you.
"Sorry Ax. I just,...I guess I just was a little too protective." I mean, I felt really bad for what I had done. He was my crush, not to mention now one of my best and closest friends. "I should've known you wouldn't of killed her."
It is okay, Ax replied, still smiling.
"How much longer will she be unconscious for?"
A couple more hours. I hit her with my tail blade a little harder than I hit you.
"Okay," I replied. "So what happened after I went unconscious?"
Jake and Marco jumped out of the window because cats always land on their feet, correct?
"Yeah, go on."
While Jake and Marco demorphed on the ground, Tobias, Cassie, and Rachel demorphed in Cossette's room. Tobias flew out the window and into a nearby tree to keep watch. Cassie, Rachel, and I tied numerous sheets together and lowered you and Cossette to the ground to Jake and Marco. Afterwards, Cassie and Rachel slid down the sheets and I untied them and put them in the, what was it called, ah yes, closet.
"But now my parents will be worried about her."
Not necessarily.
"What do you mean?"
Cassie decided to acquire Cossette and morph her on and off for the day.
"But what about for the long run?"
Jake decided last night that we would try to contact the Chee as soon as possible and get one of them to portray Cossette, especially when she goes down to the Yeerk pool.
"Okay, that seems like a good idea."
Yes, that's what we thought.
"Oh, and Ax?"
Yes?
"Who carried Cossette and me here? I mean this is really deep in the forest. We're a lot deeper than Tobias's meadow."
That's simple. I carried you, and Jake carried Cossette.
"Thanks Ax," I said, giving him a hug."
You're welcome, Jessica, he said hugging me back.
"Tobias wouldn't happen to be around would he?" I asked once we separated.
No, he won't be here for another couple of hours. Me and you are in charge of watching Cossette for now. I told everyone how long I knew she would be unconscious for, Why?
"Because I want to tell you something."
What?
"Remember when I told you I like Jake?"
Yes.
"Well, I don't like Jake anymore."
You don't?
"No, I like you."
What do you mean?
"Hmm, how can I put this?...I have a crush on you. I don't like you, I like you. In laymen's term, I love you." I think he was shocked after hearing me tell him that because he didn't say anything for the next couple of minutes.
I'm sorry, but I don't feel as strongly for you as you do for me, but I do have some feelings for you.
"Really?"
Yes, I suppose anyone would after staying with someone for so long. I've been out here almost by myself ever since I was rescued by the Animorphs. Almost completely alone except for Tobias. It is next to have someone to talk to, especially of the opposite gender.
"Yeah, it is nice to always have someone to talk to," I said, leaning against Ax. "Thanks for being my friend."
Your welcome, and thank you too.
"Awwwe, so touching," said Cossette.
Ah, so she is awake.
"You disgusting Andalite filth, how dare you touch me and bring me here," said Cossette.
"Well, good morning to you, too. At least we know she's still a Controller."
I tied her hands and feet together so she couldn't escape, said Ax.
"I noticed, thanks," she said, spitting at Ax. I almost slapped her for that, you already know why.
Jake and Tobias have just arrived, said Ax.
"Where are they?" I asked, the same time as my sister.
Oh, you won't see them until it is too late, Yeerk, said Ax, and with hatred and pure disgust he said Yeerk, like it was the most vile thing in the universe. But he was right to because it was.
"Don't play games with me Andalite! Where are they?!?" she said, sending Ax a look of total fury and anger. Ax simply ignored her and so did I, knowing it was the Yeerk talking and not my sister. Hooray! Three more days of this! Fun! Fun! Fun!
Everyone took shifts, first it was Jake, Tobias, Ax and me. Then Ax and I would leave and Rachel and Marco would take our place. We would rotate back and forth, even at night. Cassie was still pretending to be Cossette until we could inform the Chee of the plan that had been devised, so she didn't have a shift like the rest of us. Luckily, the Yeerks weren't expecting Cossette to be at the pool for three more days, and since she wasn't an important Yeerk, they would probably never notice she was gone.
Chapter 11:
Okay, is everyone here? Jake asked as we gathered by the edge of the forest near my house. We had morphed cats deeper inside the forest and had walked to were my backyard met the woods. We had followed our own scent trails back to the house, or so it seemed. Truly we were following the scent of the cat we had morphed, now that we were an identical copy of that cat.
We all had had some trouble at first, for example Marco killed and almost ate a mouse. When he regained control, Cassie and Rachel hadn't so they had started to fight over the mouse. Tobias was fine because he had morphed his cat Dude before and he knew what to expect. Jake couldn't control the cat's curiosity, so he ended up on his back playing with a leaf. I would've laughed if I could've. Ax was even worse because somehow he had found a feather, and I'll just say this, at that point, I really wished I had had my camera with me, too bad I wouldn't of been able to use it anyway, no opposable thumbs. Sigh. But, it has a hilarious sight. And me? I was fine. I knew exactly what to expect because one, I was an expert on cats, and two, I had morphed the lynx and knew some what, what to expect. I just sat and stared at the others watching them try out their cat morphs. But now we were together.
Looking around me now I saw six of what looked like my cats, but who I knew were in actuality my friends; five Animorphs and one Andalite, were sitting in a circle behind my house on the edge of my backyard, peering up into my sister's bedroom.
Yep, said Rachel. There's seven of us here.
Okay, said Jake. Tobias, how long has Cossette's light been off for?
Three hours, he replied. She fell asleep two and a half hours ago if that's what you wanted to know. I heard her breathing rate slow down. I guess we had forgotten how good a hawk's sense of hearing is. From what the others have told me, their sense of hearing is almost as good as their sense of sight. Tobias even thought that human eyes were dull compared to hawk eyes.
All right, so our plan is we jump from the deck onto the tree and then follow the branch that leads to Cossette's window as close as we can to the house before we jump into her room, right? said Jake.
Right, I said and then added, And be careful because I don't know about the Yeerk, but my sister is a light sleeper.
Oh wonderful! said Marco, I guess to himself because no one was listening to him, as usual.
I'll go first, I volunteered. Since this is my house and I know my way around. Not to mention the fact that this is my sister we're saving.
Sounds good to me, said Marco.
All right Jessica, said Jake. Just be careful, okay, he said just to me this time.
Don't worry Jake, I'll be fine, I replied, just to him.
Good luck, Ax whispered to me.
Thanks, Ax, I whispered back to him.
Jake came in after me, followed by Ax, Cassie, Tobias, Rachel, and Marco.
Now what do we do? I asked Jake.
What do you mean? I thought you planned this out? Jake asked me.
Uh oh, I said, the same time as Marco, though we were saying it for different reasons. I was saying it because we now knew that we didn't have a plan. Marco said it because he noticed that my sister was waking up. Unfortunately, I didn't.
What are we going to do now? I asked in dispare.
Improvise, said Marco.
What do you mean? I asked.
Improvise, make something up, right away, because "Houston we have a problem!"
Cossette had woken up and was now staring at the group of her cats, her outdoor cats, sitting around on her floor in what looked like a circle, acting like they were talking to one another. She was probably wondering how all seven of her cats had mysteriously appeared in her room. Seven cats that had never been in her room before and were not smart enough to get into her room either. It didn't help the situation that the door was closed.
"There is no way my seven cats got into my room, cats are not that smart,...at least not normal cats." Sure enough, I was right, she knew. Sometimes I really hate being right. "The Andalite bandits! I must contact Visser Three immediately!" But as she got up to get the phone, I tripped her. And that's when I noticed the four hooves standing there in front of me. Ax had started to demorph when things were looking bad, Jake must've told him to do it privately, not wanting me to over hear. Cossette realized this too because now she was face to face with Ax. At that point, she started to scream.
"Aaaaahhhhh! Andali...," she began to scream, but she was cut-off. All I saw was a blur of blue, something moving too fast even for a cat's eyes, and then my sister, my beloved sister, was lying on the ground, appearing to be dead. Before I knew what I was doing, I had started to demorph at a rapid pace, becoming almost completely human except for a few minor details. I lunged at Ax's throat claws extended, and mouth open. A mouth filled with human sized cat-like teeth.
Jessica, listen. I only..., began Ax. All I saw was a flash of blue, and the next thing I new, my once bright world was pure black. I felt myself hit the floor, and the darkness engulfed me. Demorph, I told myself. Demorph, and I knew that I did, but then all traces of consciousness disappeared.
When I woke up, I was in the forest once again, and man, did my head hurt! I was lying nest to my sister who looked like she was...unconscious? I was human now, that much I knew. Completely human. Then I noticed Ax was awake. I mean, if an Andalite was looking down on you, you'd notice too. His stalk eyes were on my sister, still lying in a deep sleep beside me, but his main eyes were on me.
"Ax, Did I do what I think I did last night?"
What do you think you did?
"Try to kill you?
Yes, but you didn't come that close. Too slow, but not by much, for my tail.
"What do you mean, 'for my tail?' Am I dead or something?" I asked him, confused and scared. And then he smiled. An Andalite smile.
No, I just knocked you unconscious. I wouldn't kill you.
"Sorry Ax. I just,...I guess I just was a little too protective." I mean, I felt really bad for what I had done. He was my crush, not to mention now one of my best and closest friends. "I should've known you wouldn't of killed her."
It is okay, Ax replied, still smiling.
"How much longer will she be unconscious for?"
A couple more hours. I hit her with my tail blade a little harder than I hit you.
"Okay," I replied. "So what happened after I went unconscious?"
Jake and Marco jumped out of the window because cats always land on their feet, correct?
"Yeah, go on."
While Jake and Marco demorphed on the ground, Tobias, Cassie, and Rachel demorphed in Cossette's room. Tobias flew out the window and into a nearby tree to keep watch. Cassie, Rachel, and I tied numerous sheets together and lowered you and Cossette to the ground to Jake and Marco. Afterwards, Cassie and Rachel slid down the sheets and I untied them and put them in the, what was it called, ah yes, closet.
"But now my parents will be worried about her."
Not necessarily.
"What do you mean?"
Cassie decided to acquire Cossette and morph her on and off for the day.
"But what about for the long run?"
Jake decided last night that we would try to contact the Chee as soon as possible and get one of them to portray Cossette, especially when she goes down to the Yeerk pool.
"Okay, that seems like a good idea."
Yes, that's what we thought.
"Oh, and Ax?"
Yes?
"Who carried Cossette and me here? I mean this is really deep in the forest. We're a lot deeper than Tobias's meadow."
That's simple. I carried you, and Jake carried Cossette.
"Thanks Ax," I said, giving him a hug."
You're welcome, Jessica, he said hugging me back.
"Tobias wouldn't happen to be around would he?" I asked once we separated.
No, he won't be here for another couple of hours. Me and you are in charge of watching Cossette for now. I told everyone how long I knew she would be unconscious for, Why?
"Because I want to tell you something."
What?
"Remember when I told you I like Jake?"
Yes.
"Well, I don't like Jake anymore."
You don't?
"No, I like you."
What do you mean?
"Hmm, how can I put this?...I have a crush on you. I don't like you, I like you. In laymen's term, I love you." I think he was shocked after hearing me tell him that because he didn't say anything for the next couple of minutes.
I'm sorry, but I don't feel as strongly for you as you do for me, but I do have some feelings for you.
"Really?"
Yes, I suppose anyone would after staying with someone for so long. I've been out here almost by myself ever since I was rescued by the Animorphs. Almost completely alone except for Tobias. It is next to have someone to talk to, especially of the opposite gender.
"Yeah, it is nice to always have someone to talk to," I said, leaning against Ax. "Thanks for being my friend."
Your welcome, and thank you too.
"Awwwe, so touching," said Cossette.
Ah, so she is awake.
"You disgusting Andalite filth, how dare you touch me and bring me here," said Cossette.
"Well, good morning to you, too. At least we know she's still a Controller."
I tied her hands and feet together so she couldn't escape, said Ax.
"I noticed, thanks," she said, spitting at Ax. I almost slapped her for that, you already know why.
Jake and Tobias have just arrived, said Ax.
"Where are they?" I asked, the same time as my sister.
Oh, you won't see them until it is too late, Yeerk, said Ax, and with hatred and pure disgust he said Yeerk, like it was the most vile thing in the universe. But he was right to because it was.
"Don't play games with me Andalite! Where are they?!?" she said, sending Ax a look of total fury and anger. Ax simply ignored her and so did I, knowing it was the Yeerk talking and not my sister. Hooray! Three more days of this! Fun! Fun! Fun!
Everyone took shifts, first it was Jake, Tobias, Ax and me. Then Ax and I would leave and Rachel and Marco would take our place. We would rotate back and forth, even at night. Cassie was still pretending to be Cossette until we could inform the Chee of the plan that had been devised, so she didn't have a shift like the rest of us. Luckily, the Yeerks weren't expecting Cossette to be at the pool for three more days, and since she wasn't an important Yeerk, they would probably never notice she was gone.