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Chapter 4: The "Squik"

October 23rd, 2004

Just in case the village was dangerous, we decided that Jeanne and Mendorash would go first, and I would follow them in Hork Bajir morph as backup.

I concentrated on the Hork Bajir, and felt my boy getting taller. My five fingers melded into three and my lips lengthened and tuned into a hard beak. My hair dissapeared into my scalp and were replaced with horns. Both my arms and legs got longer, and blades jutted out of the skin. My skin went a scaly green, and lastly, a bladed tail sprouted out. I was Hork Bajir.

The instincs were simple to control, and the senses were great. But it was quite weird, as I had only ever morphed Hork-Bajir once, and that was about four years ago. We headed towards the village.

The village was very primitive, and the inhabitants looked pretty normal, at least by our standards. They were about 9 feet tall with white furry skin, and had a human like face, but no mouth. Their arms and legs were pretty humanoid, they even had 5 fingers, and they didn't have any tails. A rather big one came up to us as we tried to enter.

Stop. Who you strange people. It said in thought speech.

I'm Marco McKinley, and the other two are Jeanne Gerard and Menderash-Postill-Fastill. I said.

Why you here? The creature asked.

We were on the top part of your planet when we were knocked down through the fog into this forest. I replied.

Planet? Fog? Forest? The alien didn't seem to take in any of it. I realized that it probably had never ventured much past the village even, and had no knowledge of any of the stuff I was talking about. So I decided to take a different approach.

We fell from the sky

Are you sky god? The aliens asked.

No, I am visitor. Can I go into your place so I can have food? I said, trying to talk in a way that the alien would understand. It motioned for us the follow him and we walked into the village.

We stayed in the village for two earth months. In that time we learnt that the aliens called themselves The Mundu, and that the one we met in the front of the village was Tako the Ruler. He was the one who controlled the village. They grew crops and their food was quite good. Most of their fruit tasted like different kinds of earth meats, and I was quite fond of the Jigiya, which tasted like lamb chops. In the time we were there I explained to Jeanne and Mendorash everything about the Iskoort and just about every other alien we had heard of.

We had also devised a plan to get out of here. since the Iskoort buildings ended at the start of the fog, and the Mundu were about ten centuries away from space flight, we had to think of another way. And we did. It involved a composite morph of two animals, the Mallard duck, and the Giant Squid. The Malard was chosen because it was able to fly for hours on end, and the Squid was chosen for it's size. With a lot of help from Mendorash, I was able to do a "Frolis Maneuver", but I still had to practice a lot to be able to do it well. The problem was that if we didn't get to the top in two hours I would have to either stay as a huge duck, or morph back, which would make us fall.

But after many hours of practice, I managed to control my morphing so that when I morphed my huge wings appeared first, and when I demorphed they dissapeared last. 2 months after we arrived at the simple Mundu village, we were ready to travel to the bustling metropolis of the Iskoorts.

So. We go now? Tako asked.

Yes. We must go back home. Mendorash replied, since he was the only one able to use thought speech. We were going to take the entire Mundu village (since it wasn't that big) with us, so they could experience the universe.

With the huge chariot the Mundu had made ready to be strapped onto me, and all the food supplies in it, I morphed into what I had nicknamed the Squick.

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