Chapter 4 : Jara Hamee

Disclaimer: K.A. Applegate owns the Animorphs and any related characters, including Jara Hamee. I'm just borrowing.

Author's Notes: Well…

Let's just say, Jara Hamee was very hard to write. Very hard. Especially with the limitation of vocabulary, but I guess I increased it by a little though. I guess I could've written in the normal sense, as these are thoughts, not speech, but it would've ruined the Hork Bajir effect.

This is also split into two parts. Read, and you'll understand.

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I am a Hork Bajir. A free Hork Bajir.

I am Jara Hamee. And I am in a battle with Yeerks.

My friend, Tobias, and his friends, are in this fight with me. So is my kalashi, my wife, Ket. Hruthin are here as well. Andalites. They come to kill Yeerks with us.

They are friends.

Toby is here. Toby is my daughter. My kawatnoj. She is a seer and she is special for Hork Bajir. She sees far. And she will fight with me too.

Many Hork Bajir are here. Many come to fight. To help. To kill Yeerks.

We do not know where we are. Just that this is a place of killing. We are killing people we used to know. I use my blades to hurt. To kill. I use them and pull them across a Hork Bajir neck. I see the blood. Hork Bajir blood. I see friend, Rask Fleis. Friend from home. Hork Bajir home. But Rask Fleis is not free. Rask has Yeerk in his head.

Jara Hamee cannot take Yeerk out. So Jara Hamee must kill. Jara Hamee must kill friend, Rask Fleis. Jara Hamee must kill many friends. Because they are not free.

Free or Dead.

I must fight. I must kill. I must hurt. Because Hork Bajir are not free. Toby says that if free Hork Bajir do not kill Yeerks. Yeerks will kill Hork Bajir. That is true. When Jara Hamee escaped, when Jara Hamee ran away from Yeerks, many Yeerks came to kill Jara Hamee. That is why Jara Hamee must fight.

I must fight for kalashi, wife. I must fight for kawatnoj, for daughter. I must fight for Hork Bajir. So that Hork Bajir can be free.

Jara Hamee can see the blades on his arms. He sees the blades of other Hork Bajir too. Blades that have blood on them. Blood of humans and Hork Bajir. Not blood of Yeerks.

But Jara Hamee cannot see anymore. Too many humans. Too many Hork Bajir. Too many blades. Too much blood. But Jara Hamee knows that even if Jara Hamee dies, Jara Hamee dies free.

Jara Hamee is free. Jara Hamee is free…


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Free of pain. And killing. And sadness. And feeling.

Yes, human, Hork Bajir can feel too. Hork Bajir like Jara Hamee have family, have friends. Not unlike human folk. But unlike human folk, unlike Andalite, unlike Yeerk, Hork Bajir never used to kill. Or fight. Hork Bajir were peaceful people.

We were peaceful people. But we must give peace up to save Humans, and Andalites, and Hork Bajir.

Free or Dead.

We, Hork Bajir know that having a Yeerk in your head means to lose freedom. To become a slave. Like many Hork Bajir before me. Like Jara Hamee's father. But not like Jara Hamee.

Jara Hamee once was a slave too, I once had a Yeerk inside my head. But the world has many strange happenings. And one of them was that Jara Hamee and his kalashi escaped from the Yeerks. We were freed. And then we were given a home by human folk. By the flying-creature, friend, Tobias. Then, I had a daughter. Toby. Like my father-father, she was special. She was born to give us hope. To lead us to a new path of life.

For Hork Bajir, there are many stories. Stories of Creation, or Mother-Earth and Father-Deep, or Stories of War. This will be long remembered as a Story of War. Story of Fighting and Battle. Story of Jara Hamee and Ket Halpak and Toby Hamee. It will talk of how Hork Bajir learnt much, how a simple race learnt of pain and suffering and sadness. And how Hork Bajir understood, how Hork Bajir understood that freedom could not be without war. Without hurt.

It will talk of the time we had to fight. For Hork Bajir to fight Hork Bajir. To save Hork Bajir. And to hurt Yeerks. It will talk of how I, Jara Hamee, understood it was the only way, so Jara Hamee fought.

And Jara Hamee will keep fighting to save Hork Bajir. I will keep fighting for freedom. Because there is only one hope. One faith Humans, Andalites and Hork Bajir do believe in.

Free or Dead.

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How was it?

In this piece, I continued after Jara Hamee's death (after the ~). You can probably tell because his speech is more fluent. It is still Jara Hamee speaking, just in a different way. His thoughts more than his speech.

So…Please Review. Especially now, because I really want feedback on Jara Hamee's PoV.

N.B. Hork Bajir words have been taken from Book #13 [The Change].

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