Chapter 11
Later that morning, I got up to see Sam was just getting up. I knew it wasn't like me, but I was going to admit I was wrong, I thought. He was right and I was wrong. I knew he would gloat at least for a while, then he would forget about it. Oh well, it was a good thing I was wrong.
Anyway, we got up and ate some dry cereal right out of the box. We don't have a fridge, and therefore no way to keep milk cold, so we have to eat dry cereal.
Anyway, we were both eating, when I decided to admit what I thought at the time was the truth. He had described it all to me, and it seemed exactly like what he said, and it was so incredibly liberating. I liked it. The only problem was getting it to work now.
"Sam, you know how you said I had telekinesis too?" I asked in between bites.
"You do, you just can't control it yet. No biggie." He replied.
I gulped. "Well, something has been brought to my attention that has made me believe you." I told him.
He put the box of honeycomb down. "Good to know you have come to see the light." He said. "Now, I need to teach you how to use it."
"No, not yet." I said. This obviously threw him off.
"Why?" He asked.
"We have more important things on our mind right now, like saving the andalite."
"Alright, but I am curious, what was it that made you realize this?" He asked.
I closed my eyes and thought of how to say it. It was going to be hard to explain in a way that he would understand. He looked impatient, so eventually I just let out a breath of air and told him, straight up. "I had a dream." I said simply. He looked speculative at first, but I could tell he was also inquisitive, so I continued. "It was one of those dreams that seems incredibly realistic, like it was more of a dream. Kind of like the dream me, Cassie, and Tobias had about the andalite calling out from the ocean. Except even more convincing."
"Alright, I see, but why do you think it is so accurate?"
"Well, it seems almost like I had thought it seemed when you explained it to me. You know, when I saw it, I could tell it was what it was like when you described it to me."
"What if I was lying?" He asked rhetorically. "Maybe I said that so you would conjure it up, in your mind, in the dreams." This really caught me off guard and I didn't know what to say. I was beginning to be a little doubtful now. What if he was and I just made myself a fool? Oh well.
"Go on, tell me what it was like anyway. I do want to hear what you have to say." He encouraged me.
Oh well, I would give it a shot. "Alright, it was like I had a connection to the world around me. Like I knew exactly what was going to happen, even before it happened. And it wasn't just what people were going to do, like now. I was part of this world and I could feel things before they happened." I told him.
He waved his hand, "No, not about that, what was it like when you used the telekinesis, in the dream." He added.
"It was like that. Plus, everything moved slower to me. Things fell slower than they should, and I still seemed to go normal speed, if not fast. And I also noticed that I was able to 'make' objects that only I could see. For instance, I pinned a creature against the wall with three things that looked like glass shards. Only, when I lost my concentration, they disappeared."
"Really, go on."
"Also, I was fighting nine enemies, all of which seemed like they had been in a few fights before. When they all came at me, I created a dome that stopped them all in their tracks. They ran into it like they hadn't seen it. Judging by the way you use it, only you can see the energy that you use. I have noticed that many things can be done with this. Like, if I wanted to push something, a blue blob appeared in front of the thing I was pushing and it fell back. But if I wanted to pick something up, their entire bodies glowed. Although, it didn't have the entire world light up like you described it. It only glowed where I was using it."
"I like it so far, go on."
"There isn't much more. Only that I could think little commands in my head like, 'get all the guns and crush them' and it worked. I had to have a general idea of where they were on each guy, but it was simple. It was like someone else was doing it. Plus, I took all nine of them and lifted them over my head. It was really cool. But for some reason, the whole thing had an emphasis on me being able to feel everything around me. Like I could do it with a blindfold. I could feel what was going on without actually seeing it. It was cool."
"Well, I must say, congratulations. I now believe in your dreams. I was just yanking your chain about making it up. I described it as I saw it. There was one difference, though. I really don't feel connected to anything. I seem to have heightened reflexes, but that is about it. The way you describe it, it sounds more in depth than mine. It almost scares me. Because I can't get any stronger with it and you sound pretty strong. Plus the whole shape-thing sounds a little farfetched. I can do picking up, directing, and pushing. That's about it."
"Well, I hope I can achieve higher levels than you. But first, we need to make sure I can do it. So far, it is just a dream, even if a realistic one. But I can't do it for sure, no need to get carried away with possibilities until it is confirmed, so don't get your hopes up high. We need to worry about the mission at hand first." I said. "You do know that we have to leave soon, right?"
"Yeah, and meet at Cassie's barn." He answered.
We put away the cereal and started walking to Cassie's barn. You see, we needed to be there in half an hour. It takes 20 minutes to walk there from our little house in the woods.
Five minutes into the walk, I asked Sam, "so, when you move things and such, why is it that you move your hands? It is like in the movies, they always raise their hands to whatever it is their using."
"Well, would you believe me if I told you it was for concentration. Doing the motions and pointing tend to subconsciously focus your mind and helps with manipulation if you pretend you are doing it right there. Why do you ask?"
"In the dream, I rarely moved my hands, and when I did, it was only for when I was doing something rather big, like lifting them all."
"And did you do it for looks, or what?"
"No, it just felt natural. Like I had done it a thousand times. Plus, there was someone else focussing on some of the attacks. Someone else in my head."
"Well, no need to worry about it now. We have a meeting to attend to." Sam said.
And sure enough, we were right on the outer edges of the forest. I could see flashes of horses in between the trees. We were at Cassie's farm. I always did wonder if they really farmed anything there or just raised horses and did the Rehab clinic. I thought I would ask, but by the time we got to the barn, I had forgotten about it.
I knocked on the barn door lightly. "Come in!" Cassie called. We both got in to see only Cassie was there. Nobody else. She was just cleaning cages and stuff. So we decided to pitch in before the rest of the group got there.
When everyone was there, Jake immediately got down to business. We all got in our normal places. Me, Sam, and Tobias all were in the rafters. Marco, Rachel, and Whitney were all laying on assorted hay-bales. Cassie was cleaning, and Jake was pacing.
"Okay, we need to take a vote." He said. "We have little information to go by, but by multiple sources. So we need to decide what we are doing here."
"And don't forget, a whale is a perfectly good creature to get information from." Marco pitched in. We all laughed, even though we were doing just that.
"All right, I admit, it does sound a little odd, but I swear it's true." Whitney protested.
"I was there too, and it is real, I hope." Cassie added.
"Look, you have to understand," Rachel said, "if you were just a bystander to this, then it does sound pretty stupid. But then again, we are fighting a war with aliens underground now. So anything is possible, even if it is from a lowly earth creature."
I jumped out into the middle of the barn off of my little perch in the rafters. "Okay, we need to settle this once and for all. I was also one to feel the calls, and that appeared to be true, who's to say what they did and didn't hear. We need to decide whether or not we are going tomorrow." I declared. Whitney and Cassie seemed a bit relieved.
But then Marco butted in, "Actually, we are going immediately following this meeting." He said.
I was shocked. Nobody else seemed to be. "Hm, excuse me?" I asked.
"We are leaving like in ten minutes, if we decide to go." Jake said. I still was confused, so Jake explained it to me. "Marco was sitting at home last night, doing what he does best..."
"Watching TV!" Marco interrupted.
"....Yes, watching TV, and he saw something that interested him. It was a bit on the news talking about a large salvage crew that was going looking for the rest of the ship that was discovered a week ago."
"So we need to hitch a ride on one of those ships." I figured.
"Exactly." Marco said. "We even had our eye in the sky check it out." he pointed to Tobias.
{And yes, they have a rather large fleet at the harbour about ready to go.} he confirmed.
But something didn't sit right with me. "Why would it be all over the TV? I mean, if it really is andalite, why would the yeerks allow such things to be public, wouldn't they rather do it in covert ops?"
Jake was about to answer, but Sam answered for me, "To lure out unsuspecting Andalites into a trap." He said simply.
I see, it was simple.
"But there will not be any andalites out there, now will there?" Marco said.
"First, we need to vote, are we going?" Whitney asked.
"I'm in." Rachel and I said immediately. I smiled.
"Me too." Cassie said. "I can feel something big here."
"I see a good possibility for help, so I will go." Marco said.
"Sounds like fun." Whitney said.
"Tobias, Sam?" Jake asked.
{I can't do much in the water, so I can't vote.} Tobias pointed out.
"That's bullshit, Tobias, you know that. You had the visions, same as me. Do you think we should go or not?" I asked.
{If it really is an andalite, I would be more than happy to help.}
"Sam?" Jake said. "Your vote counts too."
"You know I'm going where the action is." He replied.
"You sure about that? It will be pretty hard to help us underwater if you can't morph."
"I can go as far as Tobias, and if worse comes to worse too early, I can be of help."
"Alright, fair enough." Jake said. "It is unanimous, Cassie, would you do the honours." Jake didn't say what his vote was, but it obviously was for. He kept his opinions 'till last, like a real leader.
Cassie walked over to a cage and pulled something out. It was a seagull, which seemed a lot bigger than I remembered. "We will be travelling via seagull for this trip. They are less discriminant on a beach and can fly over water easier. Everyone, acquire it now, we are running out of time."
Later that morning, I got up to see Sam was just getting up. I knew it wasn't like me, but I was going to admit I was wrong, I thought. He was right and I was wrong. I knew he would gloat at least for a while, then he would forget about it. Oh well, it was a good thing I was wrong.
Anyway, we got up and ate some dry cereal right out of the box. We don't have a fridge, and therefore no way to keep milk cold, so we have to eat dry cereal.
Anyway, we were both eating, when I decided to admit what I thought at the time was the truth. He had described it all to me, and it seemed exactly like what he said, and it was so incredibly liberating. I liked it. The only problem was getting it to work now.
"Sam, you know how you said I had telekinesis too?" I asked in between bites.
"You do, you just can't control it yet. No biggie." He replied.
I gulped. "Well, something has been brought to my attention that has made me believe you." I told him.
He put the box of honeycomb down. "Good to know you have come to see the light." He said. "Now, I need to teach you how to use it."
"No, not yet." I said. This obviously threw him off.
"Why?" He asked.
"We have more important things on our mind right now, like saving the andalite."
"Alright, but I am curious, what was it that made you realize this?" He asked.
I closed my eyes and thought of how to say it. It was going to be hard to explain in a way that he would understand. He looked impatient, so eventually I just let out a breath of air and told him, straight up. "I had a dream." I said simply. He looked speculative at first, but I could tell he was also inquisitive, so I continued. "It was one of those dreams that seems incredibly realistic, like it was more of a dream. Kind of like the dream me, Cassie, and Tobias had about the andalite calling out from the ocean. Except even more convincing."
"Alright, I see, but why do you think it is so accurate?"
"Well, it seems almost like I had thought it seemed when you explained it to me. You know, when I saw it, I could tell it was what it was like when you described it to me."
"What if I was lying?" He asked rhetorically. "Maybe I said that so you would conjure it up, in your mind, in the dreams." This really caught me off guard and I didn't know what to say. I was beginning to be a little doubtful now. What if he was and I just made myself a fool? Oh well.
"Go on, tell me what it was like anyway. I do want to hear what you have to say." He encouraged me.
Oh well, I would give it a shot. "Alright, it was like I had a connection to the world around me. Like I knew exactly what was going to happen, even before it happened. And it wasn't just what people were going to do, like now. I was part of this world and I could feel things before they happened." I told him.
He waved his hand, "No, not about that, what was it like when you used the telekinesis, in the dream." He added.
"It was like that. Plus, everything moved slower to me. Things fell slower than they should, and I still seemed to go normal speed, if not fast. And I also noticed that I was able to 'make' objects that only I could see. For instance, I pinned a creature against the wall with three things that looked like glass shards. Only, when I lost my concentration, they disappeared."
"Really, go on."
"Also, I was fighting nine enemies, all of which seemed like they had been in a few fights before. When they all came at me, I created a dome that stopped them all in their tracks. They ran into it like they hadn't seen it. Judging by the way you use it, only you can see the energy that you use. I have noticed that many things can be done with this. Like, if I wanted to push something, a blue blob appeared in front of the thing I was pushing and it fell back. But if I wanted to pick something up, their entire bodies glowed. Although, it didn't have the entire world light up like you described it. It only glowed where I was using it."
"I like it so far, go on."
"There isn't much more. Only that I could think little commands in my head like, 'get all the guns and crush them' and it worked. I had to have a general idea of where they were on each guy, but it was simple. It was like someone else was doing it. Plus, I took all nine of them and lifted them over my head. It was really cool. But for some reason, the whole thing had an emphasis on me being able to feel everything around me. Like I could do it with a blindfold. I could feel what was going on without actually seeing it. It was cool."
"Well, I must say, congratulations. I now believe in your dreams. I was just yanking your chain about making it up. I described it as I saw it. There was one difference, though. I really don't feel connected to anything. I seem to have heightened reflexes, but that is about it. The way you describe it, it sounds more in depth than mine. It almost scares me. Because I can't get any stronger with it and you sound pretty strong. Plus the whole shape-thing sounds a little farfetched. I can do picking up, directing, and pushing. That's about it."
"Well, I hope I can achieve higher levels than you. But first, we need to make sure I can do it. So far, it is just a dream, even if a realistic one. But I can't do it for sure, no need to get carried away with possibilities until it is confirmed, so don't get your hopes up high. We need to worry about the mission at hand first." I said. "You do know that we have to leave soon, right?"
"Yeah, and meet at Cassie's barn." He answered.
We put away the cereal and started walking to Cassie's barn. You see, we needed to be there in half an hour. It takes 20 minutes to walk there from our little house in the woods.
Five minutes into the walk, I asked Sam, "so, when you move things and such, why is it that you move your hands? It is like in the movies, they always raise their hands to whatever it is their using."
"Well, would you believe me if I told you it was for concentration. Doing the motions and pointing tend to subconsciously focus your mind and helps with manipulation if you pretend you are doing it right there. Why do you ask?"
"In the dream, I rarely moved my hands, and when I did, it was only for when I was doing something rather big, like lifting them all."
"And did you do it for looks, or what?"
"No, it just felt natural. Like I had done it a thousand times. Plus, there was someone else focussing on some of the attacks. Someone else in my head."
"Well, no need to worry about it now. We have a meeting to attend to." Sam said.
And sure enough, we were right on the outer edges of the forest. I could see flashes of horses in between the trees. We were at Cassie's farm. I always did wonder if they really farmed anything there or just raised horses and did the Rehab clinic. I thought I would ask, but by the time we got to the barn, I had forgotten about it.
I knocked on the barn door lightly. "Come in!" Cassie called. We both got in to see only Cassie was there. Nobody else. She was just cleaning cages and stuff. So we decided to pitch in before the rest of the group got there.
When everyone was there, Jake immediately got down to business. We all got in our normal places. Me, Sam, and Tobias all were in the rafters. Marco, Rachel, and Whitney were all laying on assorted hay-bales. Cassie was cleaning, and Jake was pacing.
"Okay, we need to take a vote." He said. "We have little information to go by, but by multiple sources. So we need to decide what we are doing here."
"And don't forget, a whale is a perfectly good creature to get information from." Marco pitched in. We all laughed, even though we were doing just that.
"All right, I admit, it does sound a little odd, but I swear it's true." Whitney protested.
"I was there too, and it is real, I hope." Cassie added.
"Look, you have to understand," Rachel said, "if you were just a bystander to this, then it does sound pretty stupid. But then again, we are fighting a war with aliens underground now. So anything is possible, even if it is from a lowly earth creature."
I jumped out into the middle of the barn off of my little perch in the rafters. "Okay, we need to settle this once and for all. I was also one to feel the calls, and that appeared to be true, who's to say what they did and didn't hear. We need to decide whether or not we are going tomorrow." I declared. Whitney and Cassie seemed a bit relieved.
But then Marco butted in, "Actually, we are going immediately following this meeting." He said.
I was shocked. Nobody else seemed to be. "Hm, excuse me?" I asked.
"We are leaving like in ten minutes, if we decide to go." Jake said. I still was confused, so Jake explained it to me. "Marco was sitting at home last night, doing what he does best..."
"Watching TV!" Marco interrupted.
"....Yes, watching TV, and he saw something that interested him. It was a bit on the news talking about a large salvage crew that was going looking for the rest of the ship that was discovered a week ago."
"So we need to hitch a ride on one of those ships." I figured.
"Exactly." Marco said. "We even had our eye in the sky check it out." he pointed to Tobias.
{And yes, they have a rather large fleet at the harbour about ready to go.} he confirmed.
But something didn't sit right with me. "Why would it be all over the TV? I mean, if it really is andalite, why would the yeerks allow such things to be public, wouldn't they rather do it in covert ops?"
Jake was about to answer, but Sam answered for me, "To lure out unsuspecting Andalites into a trap." He said simply.
I see, it was simple.
"But there will not be any andalites out there, now will there?" Marco said.
"First, we need to vote, are we going?" Whitney asked.
"I'm in." Rachel and I said immediately. I smiled.
"Me too." Cassie said. "I can feel something big here."
"I see a good possibility for help, so I will go." Marco said.
"Sounds like fun." Whitney said.
"Tobias, Sam?" Jake asked.
{I can't do much in the water, so I can't vote.} Tobias pointed out.
"That's bullshit, Tobias, you know that. You had the visions, same as me. Do you think we should go or not?" I asked.
{If it really is an andalite, I would be more than happy to help.}
"Sam?" Jake said. "Your vote counts too."
"You know I'm going where the action is." He replied.
"You sure about that? It will be pretty hard to help us underwater if you can't morph."
"I can go as far as Tobias, and if worse comes to worse too early, I can be of help."
"Alright, fair enough." Jake said. "It is unanimous, Cassie, would you do the honours." Jake didn't say what his vote was, but it obviously was for. He kept his opinions 'till last, like a real leader.
Cassie walked over to a cage and pulled something out. It was a seagull, which seemed a lot bigger than I remembered. "We will be travelling via seagull for this trip. They are less discriminant on a beach and can fly over water easier. Everyone, acquire it now, we are running out of time."