Disclaimer: Same as always. Oh by the way, just in case you haven't figured
it out, my name's Jasmine
A/N: " "=Speaking (If there's no speech mark and just words ending with 'he/she said' then its speech-thought.) I know it's confusing but just try and bear with me until I figure something out.
Chapter 3: The Ship
~*~*~*~
My name is Melanie. That's all I can tell you. I can't tell you where I live or where I'm from. It would be too risky. The Leiors could find us and if they did, it would be goodbye to the world you know. When we first became Animorphs I thought it was a dream, but it wasn't. I'm a fan of the TV show and I've read the books, but now I know that it's more to it then just morphing.
~*~*~
I was sitting in my room doing my homework when someone knocked on the door.
"Come in." I said and turned around
It was my big brother Kevin. He's an Animorph too.
"There's something on the news that I think we should see." Kevin said, he sounded serious
Mom and Dad were down in the living room to. Kevin and I sat down on a couch.
"What is it about?" I asked
"Some guy says that he was walking on the beach yesterday and all of a sudden, he saw this weird light and heard something crashing on the other side of the beach. Some scientists are the right now and they think what landed was some sort of spacecraft." My dad said
Kevin and I looked at each other.
"You know what this means don't you?" Kevin asked
"Yeah, it means we're in big trouble." I said
~*~*~
The next day was a Monday, the first and worst day of the week. Jasmine must've been really tired today because she fell asleep in science class but luckily I woke her up before the teacher noticed it.
After school we all met at The Beat where we usually hang out these days. We were sharing a pizza.
"Did you guys see the news last night?" Kevin asked
"Yeah. What do you think it was?" Jasmine asked
"How about a Leior spaceship?" Tyler said
"How can you be so sure?" I asked
"I'm not." Tyler said
"Whatever it was, I think we better check it out." Zack said
"Any morphing suggestions?" Kevin asked
Kevin's my brother; I suppose you've figured that out by now. You could say that Kevin's the leader if our group, although nothing's been decided about it. You just sort of can tell about people. I guess Kevin's a bit like Jake. They have quite a lot in common.
"What about flying?" Zack said
"No, I will not do that again." Jasmine said
Jasmine's scared of flying; the first time we had morphed into birds we had tried diving. Since the whole diving idea was Tyler's, well, lets just say that she wasn't too happy afterwards.
"Flying is the fastest way to get there Jazz." Kevin said
"I say we vote for it." I said
The others nodded in agreement.
"Those who vote for flying to the beach put their hands up now." Tyler said
Everyone except for Jasmine had put their hands up.
"Sorry Jasmine, four against one, you lose." Zack said
"Fine. We'll fly there." Jasmine said
~*~*~
There's the beach. Tyler said
We had been flying for approximately 20 minutes.
There are a quite lot of people there. And I don't see any teenagers hanging around. How do we blend in? Jasmine asked
We'll figure something out I said
Down we go Kevin said and started diving
This would come sooner or later Jasmine said and dived after Kevin
Jasmine's my best friend. She can be very sarcastic, almost like Marco. But the difference between them is that Jasmine knows her limit, when she should stop.
We had all landed in the woods and morphed back.
"Someone please give me a chair to sit on because I'm about to fall." Jasmine said
"One of us will catch you if you do." Tyler said
Jasmine gave Tyler a faint smile and leaned against a tree.
"Now what?" Zack asked
"Now, we check out what's happening." I said
We started walking to the beach.
The difference with our morphing and the Animorphs' in the books morphing is that we can morph with our clothes on; well one exception is our shoes.
"This place is almost crowded." Kevin said
The place was full of scientists, reporters, and some curious people from the city trying to get a closer look but the area was restricted, so they were standing behind a line of policemen.
"How will we get through those cops?" I asked
"We'll sneak through." Tyler said
"Everybody stay low." Kevin said
We walked behind the crowd and managed to pass the police. Luckily for us, no one even noticed that we were there. We kept low, continuing to hope that no one would see us.
"So far so good." Jasmine said
"Hey guys, look over there." Tyler said, pointing to a large piece of metal a few meters away from us
"What is that?" I asked
"It's a spaceship." Zack said
"Come on, I wanna get a closer look." Kevin said
"We better follow him." Tyler said
We went to the back of the ship, to stay hidden. It was huge.
"Wow, look at this." Jasmine said
"It's amazing." I said
Tyler touched the metal and all of a sudden a sort of 'door' opened.
"Ty what did you do?" Zack asked
"I didn't do anything." Tyler said
"Come on lets see what's inside." I said
I took the lead and went inside the ship. It was absolutely incredible. The ship was like taken from Star Trek.
"This is way cool." Kevin said
"It's beyond cool." Jasmine said
Beep!
"What was that?" Zack asked
"It came from over there." I said pointing to a place, which looked where the captain sits in a science fiction movie
"It's from this box." Tyler said
The box wasn't very big and it wasn't very small either, and it was blue.
Tyler picked it up.
"Hey, what are you kids doing in here? How did you get in?"
We turned around and behind us we saw a tall policeman.
"Busted." Jasmine said
"Big time." Zack added
"Run!" Kevin said
We managed to run through the policeman and out on the beach. I guess the people there were wondering how we got through the crowd and police.
I saw Tyler almost running into a woman with her boyfriend.
"Coming through." Tyler said
"Someone stop those kids!" A man yelled
We had gotten quite far away from the beach when we stopped.
"I think we lost him." I said, trying to catch my breath
"Tyler, you do realize that you're still holding that box." Jasmine said
"What was I supposed to do? We were busted and besides, I wanted to see why it beeped." Tyler said
"All of us do." Zack said
"Come on, open it." Kevin said
I guess I wasn't the only one who was excited about what was inside the box. Tyler opened it and what we heard was a big surprise. It wasn't like any language I've ever heard it was more like a cracking sound.
"What do you guys think that was about?" Jasmine asked
"I have no idea. It must some sort of foreign language." I said
"I know I saw them running in here." A male voice said
"It's the cops again." Zack said
"Well, they're not here, come on, it was probably just some teenagers wanting to see what was happening. Lets go back." A female voice
"That was close." I said
Tyler closed the box.
"Who or whatever that was in that ship must've escaped." He said
"Or worse." Kevin said
"What do we do with it?" Jasmine asked
"The best thing would be if one of us keeps it at home and then we'll decide what to do with it later." Zack said
"I better head home." Jasmine said
"Yeah, so do I." Tyler said
Suddenly Jasmine started to morph into Tyler's dog, Ellie.
"Jasmine, don't you think it's a bit strange if a border collie is running lose on the streets?" Zack asked
"Voff, voff."
Oh who cares? It's the fastest way to get home. I better get going, the two hour clock is running. Jasmine said
You see, just like the Animorphs we have a time limit for staying in a morph. It's two hours. I really don't want to be the one finding out what it's like to be trapped inside an animal, like Tobias.
I watched Jasmine run away. As for the rest of us, we headed for home.
~*~*~
For the next couple of days we didn't get together so much except for when we passed each other at lunch or between classes. I got to see Jasmine a lot since she's in my class, and Kevin since he's my brother. Other than being Animorphs we all have our own stuff to take care of. Jasmine's dad had wanted her to stay home for a couple of days because she was hanging out with us a lot. Zack and Kevin had a history test to study for and as for me I had my choir practice. I've been trying to convince Jasmine to join but she doesn't want to even though she's got a good singing voice.
It was Friday. Today was a soccer match between Damon High, that's our school, although it's not just a high school, and Boston High. Tyler and Kevin are playing in the school soccer team, so Jasmine, Zack and I had decided to go and watch, although I don't really like soccer. The match started at 3 pm after school, that was good, at least it we wouldn't have to stay out so late.
We walked to the field and sat down on one of the benches. We were early; the game would start in about 45 minutes, but that gave us time to talk.
"I've never really understood the point in football. It's just two teams chasing a ball and trying to score." Jasmine said
Zack laughed.
"I completely and totally agree." I said
"Girls." Zack said
"What's that supposed to mean, there are girls who like soccer you know." Jasmine said
"Soccer is not all about running after a ball." Zack said
"Whatever Z." Jasmine said
"Hey guys." Tyler said
We looked to the field and saw Kevin and Tyler coming walking up to us.
"Aren't you guys supposed to be training?" I asked
"The game starts in 35 minutes, but Coach Harrison gave us a break." Kevin said
Zack opened his bag and took out a newspaper.
"This was in the newspaper yesterday." He said and showed us a small article
"'On Monday afternoon, five teenagers was reported seen on the beach where the mystical ship had landed, the police are saying that kids were just fooling around. If you happen to know these kids please contact the police. Nothing has been reported about the ship on the beach yet but we will continue writing about it.'" Kevin read out loud
"You know this is great, I've never been on the most wanted list before." Jasmine said
"How can they tell people to look out for us if they don't even write how we look like?" I asked
"Yeah, but maybe a Leior would know." Kevin said
"But a Leior can't know who we are unless it have watched us morph." Zack said
"If it's invisible it can." Tyler said
"I wish Annor had given us a bit more information about them before he-" I started
"We don't know what happened to him that night Mel, maybe he died or maybe he didn't." Jasmine said
"Anyway, this means that we're gonna have to be extra careful. If the police was a Leior he can be walking around looking for us right now." Kevin said
"Kevin, Tyler, hurry up."
"Well, you heard him. See you guys later." Tyler said
Tyler and Kevin walked down to the field again.
~*~*~
The game had started and the benches were almost crowded with people. The cheerleaders were cheering at the two teams.
"Score for Damon High!" The narrator said
The game went on well, and it was going towards the end. Kevin was running with the ball when someone made him fall.
"Foul!" The narrator said
Kevin managed to get up.
"Is he alright?" I asked
"Yeah, I think he's fine." Zack said
"One minute left of the game, if Kevin Thompson from Damon High scores this one, Damon High will win." The narrator said
Jasmine, Zack and I looked at each other. If a Leior ever found out about our last names and where we lived, we'd be dead.
I decided not to think about that and focused on the game.
"Come on Kevin you can do it." I said
Kevin backed away from the ball a bit, then he ran forward, kicked it..and scored.
"Damon High wins with 4-3." The Narrators said
"They did it! They won!" Zack said
We went down to the feel to congratulate Kevin and Tyler.
"Way to go guys." Jasmine said
"Great shot Kevin." I said and hugged him
"Boston High's team are good but not as good as you guys." Zack said
"Well, we tried our best." Kevin said
"Our best, you're the one who made us win and all you can say is that we did our best?" Tyler said
We laughed.
They'd won this game but we haven't started ours yet.
End Of Chapter 3: Well, what do you think? I hope you liked it? Chapter 4 is coming up soon.
A/N: " "=Speaking (If there's no speech mark and just words ending with 'he/she said' then its speech-thought.) I know it's confusing but just try and bear with me until I figure something out.
Chapter 3: The Ship
~*~*~*~
My name is Melanie. That's all I can tell you. I can't tell you where I live or where I'm from. It would be too risky. The Leiors could find us and if they did, it would be goodbye to the world you know. When we first became Animorphs I thought it was a dream, but it wasn't. I'm a fan of the TV show and I've read the books, but now I know that it's more to it then just morphing.
~*~*~
I was sitting in my room doing my homework when someone knocked on the door.
"Come in." I said and turned around
It was my big brother Kevin. He's an Animorph too.
"There's something on the news that I think we should see." Kevin said, he sounded serious
Mom and Dad were down in the living room to. Kevin and I sat down on a couch.
"What is it about?" I asked
"Some guy says that he was walking on the beach yesterday and all of a sudden, he saw this weird light and heard something crashing on the other side of the beach. Some scientists are the right now and they think what landed was some sort of spacecraft." My dad said
Kevin and I looked at each other.
"You know what this means don't you?" Kevin asked
"Yeah, it means we're in big trouble." I said
~*~*~
The next day was a Monday, the first and worst day of the week. Jasmine must've been really tired today because she fell asleep in science class but luckily I woke her up before the teacher noticed it.
After school we all met at The Beat where we usually hang out these days. We were sharing a pizza.
"Did you guys see the news last night?" Kevin asked
"Yeah. What do you think it was?" Jasmine asked
"How about a Leior spaceship?" Tyler said
"How can you be so sure?" I asked
"I'm not." Tyler said
"Whatever it was, I think we better check it out." Zack said
"Any morphing suggestions?" Kevin asked
Kevin's my brother; I suppose you've figured that out by now. You could say that Kevin's the leader if our group, although nothing's been decided about it. You just sort of can tell about people. I guess Kevin's a bit like Jake. They have quite a lot in common.
"What about flying?" Zack said
"No, I will not do that again." Jasmine said
Jasmine's scared of flying; the first time we had morphed into birds we had tried diving. Since the whole diving idea was Tyler's, well, lets just say that she wasn't too happy afterwards.
"Flying is the fastest way to get there Jazz." Kevin said
"I say we vote for it." I said
The others nodded in agreement.
"Those who vote for flying to the beach put their hands up now." Tyler said
Everyone except for Jasmine had put their hands up.
"Sorry Jasmine, four against one, you lose." Zack said
"Fine. We'll fly there." Jasmine said
~*~*~
There's the beach. Tyler said
We had been flying for approximately 20 minutes.
There are a quite lot of people there. And I don't see any teenagers hanging around. How do we blend in? Jasmine asked
We'll figure something out I said
Down we go Kevin said and started diving
This would come sooner or later Jasmine said and dived after Kevin
Jasmine's my best friend. She can be very sarcastic, almost like Marco. But the difference between them is that Jasmine knows her limit, when she should stop.
We had all landed in the woods and morphed back.
"Someone please give me a chair to sit on because I'm about to fall." Jasmine said
"One of us will catch you if you do." Tyler said
Jasmine gave Tyler a faint smile and leaned against a tree.
"Now what?" Zack asked
"Now, we check out what's happening." I said
We started walking to the beach.
The difference with our morphing and the Animorphs' in the books morphing is that we can morph with our clothes on; well one exception is our shoes.
"This place is almost crowded." Kevin said
The place was full of scientists, reporters, and some curious people from the city trying to get a closer look but the area was restricted, so they were standing behind a line of policemen.
"How will we get through those cops?" I asked
"We'll sneak through." Tyler said
"Everybody stay low." Kevin said
We walked behind the crowd and managed to pass the police. Luckily for us, no one even noticed that we were there. We kept low, continuing to hope that no one would see us.
"So far so good." Jasmine said
"Hey guys, look over there." Tyler said, pointing to a large piece of metal a few meters away from us
"What is that?" I asked
"It's a spaceship." Zack said
"Come on, I wanna get a closer look." Kevin said
"We better follow him." Tyler said
We went to the back of the ship, to stay hidden. It was huge.
"Wow, look at this." Jasmine said
"It's amazing." I said
Tyler touched the metal and all of a sudden a sort of 'door' opened.
"Ty what did you do?" Zack asked
"I didn't do anything." Tyler said
"Come on lets see what's inside." I said
I took the lead and went inside the ship. It was absolutely incredible. The ship was like taken from Star Trek.
"This is way cool." Kevin said
"It's beyond cool." Jasmine said
Beep!
"What was that?" Zack asked
"It came from over there." I said pointing to a place, which looked where the captain sits in a science fiction movie
"It's from this box." Tyler said
The box wasn't very big and it wasn't very small either, and it was blue.
Tyler picked it up.
"Hey, what are you kids doing in here? How did you get in?"
We turned around and behind us we saw a tall policeman.
"Busted." Jasmine said
"Big time." Zack added
"Run!" Kevin said
We managed to run through the policeman and out on the beach. I guess the people there were wondering how we got through the crowd and police.
I saw Tyler almost running into a woman with her boyfriend.
"Coming through." Tyler said
"Someone stop those kids!" A man yelled
We had gotten quite far away from the beach when we stopped.
"I think we lost him." I said, trying to catch my breath
"Tyler, you do realize that you're still holding that box." Jasmine said
"What was I supposed to do? We were busted and besides, I wanted to see why it beeped." Tyler said
"All of us do." Zack said
"Come on, open it." Kevin said
I guess I wasn't the only one who was excited about what was inside the box. Tyler opened it and what we heard was a big surprise. It wasn't like any language I've ever heard it was more like a cracking sound.
"What do you guys think that was about?" Jasmine asked
"I have no idea. It must some sort of foreign language." I said
"I know I saw them running in here." A male voice said
"It's the cops again." Zack said
"Well, they're not here, come on, it was probably just some teenagers wanting to see what was happening. Lets go back." A female voice
"That was close." I said
Tyler closed the box.
"Who or whatever that was in that ship must've escaped." He said
"Or worse." Kevin said
"What do we do with it?" Jasmine asked
"The best thing would be if one of us keeps it at home and then we'll decide what to do with it later." Zack said
"I better head home." Jasmine said
"Yeah, so do I." Tyler said
Suddenly Jasmine started to morph into Tyler's dog, Ellie.
"Jasmine, don't you think it's a bit strange if a border collie is running lose on the streets?" Zack asked
"Voff, voff."
Oh who cares? It's the fastest way to get home. I better get going, the two hour clock is running. Jasmine said
You see, just like the Animorphs we have a time limit for staying in a morph. It's two hours. I really don't want to be the one finding out what it's like to be trapped inside an animal, like Tobias.
I watched Jasmine run away. As for the rest of us, we headed for home.
~*~*~
For the next couple of days we didn't get together so much except for when we passed each other at lunch or between classes. I got to see Jasmine a lot since she's in my class, and Kevin since he's my brother. Other than being Animorphs we all have our own stuff to take care of. Jasmine's dad had wanted her to stay home for a couple of days because she was hanging out with us a lot. Zack and Kevin had a history test to study for and as for me I had my choir practice. I've been trying to convince Jasmine to join but she doesn't want to even though she's got a good singing voice.
It was Friday. Today was a soccer match between Damon High, that's our school, although it's not just a high school, and Boston High. Tyler and Kevin are playing in the school soccer team, so Jasmine, Zack and I had decided to go and watch, although I don't really like soccer. The match started at 3 pm after school, that was good, at least it we wouldn't have to stay out so late.
We walked to the field and sat down on one of the benches. We were early; the game would start in about 45 minutes, but that gave us time to talk.
"I've never really understood the point in football. It's just two teams chasing a ball and trying to score." Jasmine said
Zack laughed.
"I completely and totally agree." I said
"Girls." Zack said
"What's that supposed to mean, there are girls who like soccer you know." Jasmine said
"Soccer is not all about running after a ball." Zack said
"Whatever Z." Jasmine said
"Hey guys." Tyler said
We looked to the field and saw Kevin and Tyler coming walking up to us.
"Aren't you guys supposed to be training?" I asked
"The game starts in 35 minutes, but Coach Harrison gave us a break." Kevin said
Zack opened his bag and took out a newspaper.
"This was in the newspaper yesterday." He said and showed us a small article
"'On Monday afternoon, five teenagers was reported seen on the beach where the mystical ship had landed, the police are saying that kids were just fooling around. If you happen to know these kids please contact the police. Nothing has been reported about the ship on the beach yet but we will continue writing about it.'" Kevin read out loud
"You know this is great, I've never been on the most wanted list before." Jasmine said
"How can they tell people to look out for us if they don't even write how we look like?" I asked
"Yeah, but maybe a Leior would know." Kevin said
"But a Leior can't know who we are unless it have watched us morph." Zack said
"If it's invisible it can." Tyler said
"I wish Annor had given us a bit more information about them before he-" I started
"We don't know what happened to him that night Mel, maybe he died or maybe he didn't." Jasmine said
"Anyway, this means that we're gonna have to be extra careful. If the police was a Leior he can be walking around looking for us right now." Kevin said
"Kevin, Tyler, hurry up."
"Well, you heard him. See you guys later." Tyler said
Tyler and Kevin walked down to the field again.
~*~*~
The game had started and the benches were almost crowded with people. The cheerleaders were cheering at the two teams.
"Score for Damon High!" The narrator said
The game went on well, and it was going towards the end. Kevin was running with the ball when someone made him fall.
"Foul!" The narrator said
Kevin managed to get up.
"Is he alright?" I asked
"Yeah, I think he's fine." Zack said
"One minute left of the game, if Kevin Thompson from Damon High scores this one, Damon High will win." The narrator said
Jasmine, Zack and I looked at each other. If a Leior ever found out about our last names and where we lived, we'd be dead.
I decided not to think about that and focused on the game.
"Come on Kevin you can do it." I said
Kevin backed away from the ball a bit, then he ran forward, kicked it..and scored.
"Damon High wins with 4-3." The Narrators said
"They did it! They won!" Zack said
We went down to the feel to congratulate Kevin and Tyler.
"Way to go guys." Jasmine said
"Great shot Kevin." I said and hugged him
"Boston High's team are good but not as good as you guys." Zack said
"Well, we tried our best." Kevin said
"Our best, you're the one who made us win and all you can say is that we did our best?" Tyler said
We laughed.
They'd won this game but we haven't started ours yet.
End Of Chapter 3: Well, what do you think? I hope you liked it? Chapter 4 is coming up soon.