Chapter 1

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I stood behind everybody, true, they hadn't noticed me, but I wanted to be noticed. Tobias was perched on the computer nearest to me. I walked over to him, silent footsteps. I was barefooted because I was the day I died, but I had no objection to barefeet right now.

I didn't know what to say, I honestly didn't, I just stood there, waiting for someone to notice me. Almost immediately Jake turned around, he saw me, and for the first time for years I saw Jake with my own real, living eyes. Jake's eyes widened, he appeared to be lost for words.

"I'm back," I know it was a lame thing to say, but what would you have said?

I knew I was not a day older than the age I'd been when I'd died, I had been tall as a teenager. But now outgrown by mostly everyone there, ecxept Marco, I might've been his size, I don't know.

"Rachel?" I heard a voice I remembered from all my life, and after. Jake's voice.

"What's up, has Jake finally lost it completely?" I heard Marco's annoying voice once more. He turned round, Tobias and the woman named Jeanne did to, she looked politely confused.

Rachel? I heard the voice I'd longed to hear again all the time I was in the world of the dead.

"Yeah," I said awkwardly, "Jake, we can't ram the blade ship, everyone here's lives will be sacrificed, and you can't die, it's horrible in the world of the dead," I became more and more confident as I said these words. More and more back to my old self again.

"What? You mean we don't get those neat halos like Son Goku in Dragonball Z?" Typical Marco thing to say, I ignored him. So did everyone else.

"What? Have you got a plan?" Jake asked me, um, good point, however I decided not to say that. Suddenly I remembered something, I began to open my mouth but Jake saw it before me.

"We are faster than they are, I guess it could work, risky though," He said.

"If all goes to plan everyone will live," I said and then I lowered my voice so only I could hear, "nearly." But there was no point in them knowing that I was going nearly as soon as I had come.

"Does anybody but me not know what you're talking about?" For the first time ever I heard the voice of the woman called Jeanne. I guess we had gone too fast for others to keep track of what we were saying and what we meant.

"Menderash, turn directly east and fly at the fastest Rachel can go, until we hit zero-space." Jake ordered the human, which was once Andalite.

"We're running," Santorelli was asking. I didn't hear much more to that conversation, I left that small room in the ship, I knew a million questions would be asked later. After we were where nobody could find us, I needed to be prepared.

I needed to remember how to be me, Rachel again. I needed to remember who I was again. Not surprisingly, Tobias flew after me.

He was morphing, I don't know when was the last time he morphed, maybe it was that last time before that polar bear killed me. I don't know.

"How did you do it Rachel?" He asked me softly when he'd finished his morph. I smiled at him and swept my hair behind my ears.

"It was the Ellimist," I said, and Tobias didn't need to know any more, I was happy to be alone with him again. It reminded me of old times.

"I missed you, Rachel," he said to me.

"And I missed you too, Tobias," I said, and as tears flew to my eyes again. We hugged, I don't think I've ever been so happy, not even when that great blouse was 20% off at the mall.

I guess you can't really find the words to say to someone you loved after missing them for years.

"We better get back, figure out somekinda plan," I said.

"You mean, you haven't got one?" Tobias asked, quickly starting to demorph and be the hawk once more.

"No, apart from, get away," I replied. Tobias and me re-entered the room, there was not much going on. However, every now and again there was a bang that missed us telling us 'The one' was not far behind. But we were slowly beginning to lose them completely. It could take ages before we found the ship again. Maybe even so long I'd never get back to the planet I wanted so much to be on. But we would be safe.

For a while.

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