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Chapter 1: Graffen's Child
"Full emergency power to the engines," Jake said. "Ram the Blade ship!"
My name is Marco. I'm 19 years old, and my life is over.
I saw my life flash before my eyes as we hurtled towards the Blade ship.
From when my mum "died", to Elfangor coming, and the war. I remembered when we first met the Ellimist, when we found out about the Chee, the numerous encounters with my mum, David the ex-animorph, when the Yeerks found out we were human and when the war finally ended. Now it was all over for me.
Or so I thought. Just as we were about to hit, an opening appeared. It seemed bigger than the actual Blade ship itself, but somehow after all the weird stuff that had happened, nothing was surprising anymore. But, as we went through I did get one of the biggest shocks I had ever had. I was in an open field, with Andalites, Cows and some other strange four legged creatures grazing there. The sky was red with blue clouds, and a wall, which seemed to reach the sky, circled the area. Right in the middle of the area, there was a large domed opaque building that was a light shade of purple.
"Should we enter?" Santorelli asked.
"I guess…" Tobias replied. With that we walked towards the structure. As we got close it opened up for us and we walked inside. Inside it looked like a desert, but there were rows of rectangular boulders that seemed to be covered in moss. And there were the strangest looking aliens I had ever seen eating the moss off the boulders. They had the torso and head of a human or Andalite, although there were no arms and 3 eyes. Their mouths were tubes, like with Taxxons and they were fluorescent green. As for their legs, they were like spider legs, except there were hands on the end. And I think they had about fifty legs.
"I guess those are Kelbrid." Jake said.
"Yeah." Santorelli.
And at the back of the room, we could see the back of a large chair. Suddenly it spun around to face us. On the chair was a creature that haunted me in my dreams ever since that trip to the Iskoort homeworld.
This creature was one of Graffen's Children.
"Oh… my… god…" was all that Tobias could mutter. Jake seemed speechless, and I didn't blame him. Sitting on the chair was the sole surviver of the one Howler missions we had been "lucky" enough to see.
"You….. your one of Graffen's Children." Jake stammered. The alien, which looked almost exactly like Gumby floated towards him.
"Yes little Jake, you recognise me. I guess you wonder how I escaped the Howlers. I will tell you." His voice started to sound strange and mystical, like in the movies, "As you know, the fate of whatever race Crayak decides to extinguish is decided by a match between a number of Crayak's troops and a number of the Ellimist's troops. This time, Ellimists troops, the Mecora, you've had an incounter with them before, lost to Crayak's Howlers. And when Crayak wins, none of race in question survives.
"But I had an advantage. While the battle was going on, I took the time to try and develop powers. The same sort of powers as Crayak and Ellimist. But it wasn't easy. While most of Graffen's Children had a little bit of what you would call psychic powers, this was limited to moving tiny objects with your mind and being able to read thoughts when your head was pressed up to someone elses. But I tried to make these powers larger, to be able know all thoughts, and manipulate matter. And by the time the Mecora had been slaughtered, while I still had my body, I couldn't be killed, and I wasn't even considered alive anymore.
"I travelled the universe, picking up minds, absorbing people, and then I started inhabiting people, much like the yeerks. But one person wasn't enough, I needed more, much more, so I tried inhabiting races. This was much harder, as I had to concentrate on all of them at one. I had almost given up hope, until I found the Kelbrid. They were an interesting race, much like the Skrit Na, although they were far more useful. They had a single mind, which made it easier for me to control them all at once, as soon as I had control of their mind. I created this empire, and I've become almost as powerful as the two chess players themselves! I am The One!"
It took me a while to take it all in. An alien that was barely up to my chest and looked like Gumby, was the next Crayak.
"You know, could someone fill me in on this? I don't think I've understood a word that has been said." Jeanne asked. Santorelli and Menderash looked just as confused. I sighed. This was going to take a while.
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