A/N: Sorry for not updating for so long... Had to do some Christmas
shopping. My house also had a blackout... Anyway, you people probably don't
want to hear all my sad excuses, so now back to the story!
RAZ
I woke to what sounded like something hitting something else. My eyes fluttered open, but I wasn't able to see very well. My eyesight was still a bit blurry.
Luke, please. You must stop.
I tried to get up, but I felt very weak. I shook my head a few times, and looked over. I saw Ax. Ax looked like he was trying to reason with someone. I turned my head further, and saw Luke. He was punching and kicking the trunk of a tree as hard as he could. He had a look of pure hatred and disgust of himself. I saw the rage in him, and my nose also smelled blood. Luke's knuckles were split open and bleeding from punching the tree. But he didn't stop. He kept punching and kicking, ignoring Ax all together. Finally, he collapsed. He put his head in his bloody hands, and started to sob.
"It's all my fault!" he cried.
Luke... I said.
I used the last of my strength to get up and walk over to him. He didn't look at me, or do anything to acknowledge my presence. He just sat in front of the tree, sobbing. I nuzzled him softly.
What's wrong?
"They know," he said in between sobs.
It was strange. I never saw Luke as an emotional guy. He always seemed confident, almost cocky, about himself. But now, there he was. Sitting and bawling.
"They know we're not Andalites. At least they know I'm not," Luke said, acidly.
I was shocked. But how? As if reading my mind, Luke answered.
"You want to know how? Because I got weak. I was scared. I demorphed behind a desk, but a Hork-Bajir saw me as I morphed back. I tried to kill him. I couldn't," Luke retorted.
I started to morph. To my human form. I felt my soft blonde hair grow out of my head. My wolf eyes changed and became - what color were my human eyes? Blue? Gray? - my dim human eyes. The wolf senses weakened, and became the standard human senses. But I had hands! Hands were one of the things I had missed about being human. I knelt down behind Luke, and put my arms around him. I could feel him shaking. Ax was silent through the whole thing. I could hear the scrapping of the wind against his tail blade, but that was it. I felt sorry for Luke, but I couldn't help thinking about what he had said. What were we going to do? What were we going to do with Luke? If Chapman found out, he could never go back to school.
"It's okay Luke," I whisper into his ear, pushing away my worries.
But they kept tugging at my mind. I was scared. If Luke got captured, it was all over for us, which meant bye-bye Earth and the whole human race.
Raz, I believe we should leave this are soon. The Yeerks might have Hork- Bajir scanning this area for us. And we must also find Prince Brian and Terry. Not to mention the scientist.
"Yeah. Sure," I said quietly.
But then we heard a rustling next to us. Ax and I turned toward the sound. Ax had his tail blade ready to strike. Then it jumped out. Ax struck, but his blow was blocked. I was amazed and afraid at the same time. The thing could block Ax's tail blade!
"Do not fear Andalite. We did not come to harm you," the creature said.
I looked at it more closely. It looked like one of those dinosaurs that were called velociraptors or something like that. But it was partly made of metal. It looked frightening, but it talked so calmly, and in a voice that just couldn't be evil. It was almost like the thing was singing, but not exactly.
Who are you? Or should I say what? Ax growled, his tail blade poised again.
"I am what humans call, an organoid. My name is Ryuga," the creature spoke.
"So you're the organoids! How did you escape from the Yeerks?" I asked.
The organoids glared at me. He seemed to inspect me.
"You're one of the Andalite bandits?" the oragnoid said.
"You seem I upset," I said, with a little irritation in my voice.
"I am sorry. I just do not favor war. And you and your band seem to be promoting it."
"Hey! It's not like we asked the Yeerks to land on Earth and try to enslave our kind!" I raged.
"There are other ways to get out," the stupid hunk of metal said simply.
"What do you want anyway?"
"I have come to help out you humans. Humans are our creators after all."
"Our?" I asked.
"Yes, there are more organoids. There is even one acting as a spy and pretending to work with the Yeerks."
"So you're like the Chee," I said.
"In a way, yes."
You know about the Chee? Ax asked, astounded.
"I know many things about you and these humans," Ryuga said.
You organoids are amazing creatures. If we survive the war with the Yeerks, I would like to know how you were created. Even our own Andalite scientists have never thought of making creatures like you.
"Okay, enough chitchat! We have to go find Brian!" I said, and started to demorph.
Luke... Are you okay?
Luke stood up, and just nodded his head. He started to morph into his wolf morph. A wolf could move faster in the dark than a hyena. Right then, I saw a wolf trotting up.
There you guys are! Do you know how long I spent looking for you guys?! I almost went back inside the building. Hey, what's that thing? Michelle said, looking over at the organoid.
We'll explain later Michelle. Let's go.
"I know where your friends are. Follow me," Ryuga said, then ran off into the trees.
BRIAN
I saw Terry leap; right toward the scientist.
Terry! No! I yelled, trying to stop her. But I knew there was no way I could.
She killed the man, with a single swipe of her massive paw.
Noooo! Visser Three raged.
He stamped his hooves, and I could see him getting ready to morph. But there was a sudden blur, and a tail blade appeared at the Visser's throat.
Do not move Esplin 9466; or I will slit your throat, the creature said.
It looked kind of like an Andalite, but it had no stalk eyes, and its body seemed more made for speed and agility. And it moved so fast! I didn't even see it until it appeared at Visser Three's side.
Hiriss 8938, Visser Three growled.
What do you think you are doing! You could blow our whole cover, Visser Three, the creature said 'Visser Three' in a mocking tone.
I was trying to get us new host bodies, until these pesky Andalites destroyed my chance! But I will strike again, the Visser glared at us.
Not unless I can help it, the creature Visser Three had called Hiriss sneered.
You hold a lower rank than I, Hiriss. You cannot stop me from doing anything.
I hold direct orders from the Council of Thirteen! Besides, the only reason you got promoted to Visser was because you enslaved that filthy Andalite body.
There was movement to the left of my eye. I saw Terry was getting impatient and restless. The two Yeerks were paying no attention to us, and she was going to take advantage of it. Before I could stop her, I saw her leap at the two Yeerks. They both turned their heads at the same time, and Terry was lucky only to get flat tail blade in the face. She roared with pain, and fell over.
Filthy Andalite, Hiriss said with disgust.
Terry growled, but said nothing.
What? Not talking Andalite? That's okay. We have ways of making you talk.
The creature put his tail blade up to Terry's face. But right at that moment, a creature that looked to be half metal jumped out of the bushes.
"Let the Andalite go, Visser Four," the metal thing said, in a voice that was almost singing.
You! You are one of these so called organoids! Visser Four raged.
Suddenly, lots of Hork-Bajir fell to the ground. An Andalite and three wolves stood over them. One of the wolves, looked almost sick.
What is this? A house party? I heard Terry mumble.
But she got up lightning fast, and bit down on Visser Four's tail while he was occupied.
Ahh! Stupid Andalite! Visser Four yelled. He bucked, and kicked Terry off of his tail.
The six of us were reunited again. We stood in the middle of a circled of Hork-Bajir, and the two Vissers watching us.
"None of you will move, unless you want the world to know your secret," the organoid's voice said.
Heads turned, and there, above us, was a Bug fighter.
"I will show all of Earth who your slugs are, if you don't let the Andalites go."
Rrrrrrr! Fine. I will trade you these Andalites for the ship, Visser Four said.
These Andalites are not under your possession Visser Four! Visser Three yelled.
You want that piece of metal to expose us to the humans?! Visser Four asked.
I don't know about you guys, but these two are really, really annoying me, Terry said dryly.
The two Visssers argued for quite a while, until they finally let us go. Visser Three was mumbling something about next time not hesitating to kill us, but we were alive and that was all that seemed to matter. Luke looked disgusted with himself, and neither Ax nor Raz spoke, but I was too tired to ask anything about it. I got home around 9, which was actually pretty good, and plopped into bed. I was almost asleep when I remembered Andrew. My eyes snapped open, and I stumbled to the phone. I dialed his number.
"Please be home. Please be home..." I murmured.
"Hello?"
Yes, it was Andrew.
"Hey Andrew. You go to The Sharing meeting yet?"
My heart stopped.
"Yeah. It was cool. I'm finally a new member."
My blood ran cold.
"That's tight, man. Well, just wanted to know. See you tomorrow," I said, trying to sound normal.
"Yeah. See you."
I hung up. My best friend was a Controller. What was I going to do?
A/N: Pretty short chapter. Sorry, again. Trying my best to make the story so everyone's happy. Email me if you want something to go on with your character. Thanks!
RAZ
I woke to what sounded like something hitting something else. My eyes fluttered open, but I wasn't able to see very well. My eyesight was still a bit blurry.
Luke, please. You must stop.
I tried to get up, but I felt very weak. I shook my head a few times, and looked over. I saw Ax. Ax looked like he was trying to reason with someone. I turned my head further, and saw Luke. He was punching and kicking the trunk of a tree as hard as he could. He had a look of pure hatred and disgust of himself. I saw the rage in him, and my nose also smelled blood. Luke's knuckles were split open and bleeding from punching the tree. But he didn't stop. He kept punching and kicking, ignoring Ax all together. Finally, he collapsed. He put his head in his bloody hands, and started to sob.
"It's all my fault!" he cried.
Luke... I said.
I used the last of my strength to get up and walk over to him. He didn't look at me, or do anything to acknowledge my presence. He just sat in front of the tree, sobbing. I nuzzled him softly.
What's wrong?
"They know," he said in between sobs.
It was strange. I never saw Luke as an emotional guy. He always seemed confident, almost cocky, about himself. But now, there he was. Sitting and bawling.
"They know we're not Andalites. At least they know I'm not," Luke said, acidly.
I was shocked. But how? As if reading my mind, Luke answered.
"You want to know how? Because I got weak. I was scared. I demorphed behind a desk, but a Hork-Bajir saw me as I morphed back. I tried to kill him. I couldn't," Luke retorted.
I started to morph. To my human form. I felt my soft blonde hair grow out of my head. My wolf eyes changed and became - what color were my human eyes? Blue? Gray? - my dim human eyes. The wolf senses weakened, and became the standard human senses. But I had hands! Hands were one of the things I had missed about being human. I knelt down behind Luke, and put my arms around him. I could feel him shaking. Ax was silent through the whole thing. I could hear the scrapping of the wind against his tail blade, but that was it. I felt sorry for Luke, but I couldn't help thinking about what he had said. What were we going to do? What were we going to do with Luke? If Chapman found out, he could never go back to school.
"It's okay Luke," I whisper into his ear, pushing away my worries.
But they kept tugging at my mind. I was scared. If Luke got captured, it was all over for us, which meant bye-bye Earth and the whole human race.
Raz, I believe we should leave this are soon. The Yeerks might have Hork- Bajir scanning this area for us. And we must also find Prince Brian and Terry. Not to mention the scientist.
"Yeah. Sure," I said quietly.
But then we heard a rustling next to us. Ax and I turned toward the sound. Ax had his tail blade ready to strike. Then it jumped out. Ax struck, but his blow was blocked. I was amazed and afraid at the same time. The thing could block Ax's tail blade!
"Do not fear Andalite. We did not come to harm you," the creature said.
I looked at it more closely. It looked like one of those dinosaurs that were called velociraptors or something like that. But it was partly made of metal. It looked frightening, but it talked so calmly, and in a voice that just couldn't be evil. It was almost like the thing was singing, but not exactly.
Who are you? Or should I say what? Ax growled, his tail blade poised again.
"I am what humans call, an organoid. My name is Ryuga," the creature spoke.
"So you're the organoids! How did you escape from the Yeerks?" I asked.
The organoids glared at me. He seemed to inspect me.
"You're one of the Andalite bandits?" the oragnoid said.
"You seem I upset," I said, with a little irritation in my voice.
"I am sorry. I just do not favor war. And you and your band seem to be promoting it."
"Hey! It's not like we asked the Yeerks to land on Earth and try to enslave our kind!" I raged.
"There are other ways to get out," the stupid hunk of metal said simply.
"What do you want anyway?"
"I have come to help out you humans. Humans are our creators after all."
"Our?" I asked.
"Yes, there are more organoids. There is even one acting as a spy and pretending to work with the Yeerks."
"So you're like the Chee," I said.
"In a way, yes."
You know about the Chee? Ax asked, astounded.
"I know many things about you and these humans," Ryuga said.
You organoids are amazing creatures. If we survive the war with the Yeerks, I would like to know how you were created. Even our own Andalite scientists have never thought of making creatures like you.
"Okay, enough chitchat! We have to go find Brian!" I said, and started to demorph.
Luke... Are you okay?
Luke stood up, and just nodded his head. He started to morph into his wolf morph. A wolf could move faster in the dark than a hyena. Right then, I saw a wolf trotting up.
There you guys are! Do you know how long I spent looking for you guys?! I almost went back inside the building. Hey, what's that thing? Michelle said, looking over at the organoid.
We'll explain later Michelle. Let's go.
"I know where your friends are. Follow me," Ryuga said, then ran off into the trees.
BRIAN
I saw Terry leap; right toward the scientist.
Terry! No! I yelled, trying to stop her. But I knew there was no way I could.
She killed the man, with a single swipe of her massive paw.
Noooo! Visser Three raged.
He stamped his hooves, and I could see him getting ready to morph. But there was a sudden blur, and a tail blade appeared at the Visser's throat.
Do not move Esplin 9466; or I will slit your throat, the creature said.
It looked kind of like an Andalite, but it had no stalk eyes, and its body seemed more made for speed and agility. And it moved so fast! I didn't even see it until it appeared at Visser Three's side.
Hiriss 8938, Visser Three growled.
What do you think you are doing! You could blow our whole cover, Visser Three, the creature said 'Visser Three' in a mocking tone.
I was trying to get us new host bodies, until these pesky Andalites destroyed my chance! But I will strike again, the Visser glared at us.
Not unless I can help it, the creature Visser Three had called Hiriss sneered.
You hold a lower rank than I, Hiriss. You cannot stop me from doing anything.
I hold direct orders from the Council of Thirteen! Besides, the only reason you got promoted to Visser was because you enslaved that filthy Andalite body.
There was movement to the left of my eye. I saw Terry was getting impatient and restless. The two Yeerks were paying no attention to us, and she was going to take advantage of it. Before I could stop her, I saw her leap at the two Yeerks. They both turned their heads at the same time, and Terry was lucky only to get flat tail blade in the face. She roared with pain, and fell over.
Filthy Andalite, Hiriss said with disgust.
Terry growled, but said nothing.
What? Not talking Andalite? That's okay. We have ways of making you talk.
The creature put his tail blade up to Terry's face. But right at that moment, a creature that looked to be half metal jumped out of the bushes.
"Let the Andalite go, Visser Four," the metal thing said, in a voice that was almost singing.
You! You are one of these so called organoids! Visser Four raged.
Suddenly, lots of Hork-Bajir fell to the ground. An Andalite and three wolves stood over them. One of the wolves, looked almost sick.
What is this? A house party? I heard Terry mumble.
But she got up lightning fast, and bit down on Visser Four's tail while he was occupied.
Ahh! Stupid Andalite! Visser Four yelled. He bucked, and kicked Terry off of his tail.
The six of us were reunited again. We stood in the middle of a circled of Hork-Bajir, and the two Vissers watching us.
"None of you will move, unless you want the world to know your secret," the organoid's voice said.
Heads turned, and there, above us, was a Bug fighter.
"I will show all of Earth who your slugs are, if you don't let the Andalites go."
Rrrrrrr! Fine. I will trade you these Andalites for the ship, Visser Four said.
These Andalites are not under your possession Visser Four! Visser Three yelled.
You want that piece of metal to expose us to the humans?! Visser Four asked.
I don't know about you guys, but these two are really, really annoying me, Terry said dryly.
The two Visssers argued for quite a while, until they finally let us go. Visser Three was mumbling something about next time not hesitating to kill us, but we were alive and that was all that seemed to matter. Luke looked disgusted with himself, and neither Ax nor Raz spoke, but I was too tired to ask anything about it. I got home around 9, which was actually pretty good, and plopped into bed. I was almost asleep when I remembered Andrew. My eyes snapped open, and I stumbled to the phone. I dialed his number.
"Please be home. Please be home..." I murmured.
"Hello?"
Yes, it was Andrew.
"Hey Andrew. You go to The Sharing meeting yet?"
My heart stopped.
"Yeah. It was cool. I'm finally a new member."
My blood ran cold.
"That's tight, man. Well, just wanted to know. See you tomorrow," I said, trying to sound normal.
"Yeah. See you."
I hung up. My best friend was a Controller. What was I going to do?
A/N: Pretty short chapter. Sorry, again. Trying my best to make the story so everyone's happy. Email me if you want something to go on with your character. Thanks!