Chapter 14
{A human has come to rescue me, how is this?} he asked. {And what is it doing with the sea creatures?}
"Those sea creatures are my friends." I told him.
{You humans are more odd than I was informed of.} he spat.
"Well, we are an odd species. Now, can we talk."
{What is there to speak of?} he asked. {What can a lowly human offer me?}
I sighed heavily and almost yelled at him, but that would be hostile, so I kept my calm. "Are you deaf, we are here to rescue you. Now judging by your reactions, you are definitely not a yeerk, so let's get down to business."
{How could you ever relate me to one of those filthy things?} he growled.
"Okay, so we have something in common, we both hate yeerks. So we have one common goal, now lets get my friends awake and get out of here."
{How do you know of yeerks, or andalites, for that matter. What reason do I have to trust you?}
I balled my un-numbed hand into a fist. He just didn't get it. "Look, to start off, I have to tell you a bit of the story. As you can see, I have no weapons, so you could probably chop me up into itty bitty pieces if you wanted, so let's start by getting to know a bit about each other. My name is Gordon, and I am here to save you. What about you." I offered as I extended my hand.
{I am Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil, I am an andalite of the dome ship GalaxyTree. Now answer me, why are you here?} he asked. Boy was he stupid.
"Okay, let me tell you a story. One day, seven people are walking through an abandoned construction site, when one of them sees moving lights in the sky, he distracts the others. These lights are of an alien warship. This warship lands right in front of them, and out pops one of your kind people. He called himself Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul."
{Who was that?} he asked quickly.
"His name was Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, why?" I asked.
{We is my brother. Where is he? Is he with you?} he demanded.
"Let me finish. Now, these seven kids try to help this andalite, but to no avail. He gave us a great and terrible weapon before he was killed and eaten by a great warlord, Visser Three."
{Any Yeerk Visser is not great.} he slumped. {So he is dead.} he was really depressed. {how could he let such a filthy being end his great legacy?}
"He morphed into what he called an Antarean Bogg and ate him, literally. But you see, before he went, he told us of the great battles that happen between the andalites and the yeerks, and the position the yeerks held here on earth. He gave us the power to morph..."
{He wouldn't!} Aximili spat.
"Oh, but he did, and that was how we got there. You see, those dolphins are humans in morph. We fight together against the yeerks."
{My brother, the great war-prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, is gone, and in his death he left the memory of a great crime. He broke the law of Seerows Kindness.}
"What is that." I asked.
{It doesn't matter. I want to know how you knew I was here.}
"We heard your call." I explained.
{That was meant for andalites only, how did you hear it?}
"Maybe it was because we could morph, I don't know. Anyway, how long until my friends wake up?"
{Maybe thirty of your earth minutes.} he informed me. I did a little calculation and decided that was plenty of time to demorph.
So, for the half an hour that it took for my friends to get up, we chatted about the war and such. He told me about what he did in the meantime. Apparently, he was in the same battle Elfangor was in when he crashed near us. Only he was in the dome of the ship. The dome was a place to go when there was no battling. The andalites were by nature very claustrophobic. They required vast open spaces, and that was why the dome was there. And that was why the chamber we came in had clouds and grass.
He was cut off during the battle and left here in the ocean. All he did was train and such, in between calling for help. There was some computerized stuff in the dome, but not much. So he stayed here, day after day, he trained, hoping to get someone to save him.
He was pretty small, actually. No taller than me, and he looked flimsy.
Eventually, they started waking up, one after another, they came to and demorphed. Before long they were asking questions.
"Is he safe?" Rachel asked me.
"He's fine." I reassured her. "Just as lost as we are."
"So there are no others?" Marco asked. "No big guys, nobody?"
{No, it is only me.} Aximili said.
"And what might your name be?" Rachel asked.
{My name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil.}
"Ax." Marco said. "Nice to meet ya." He put on his big, happy person smile.
{It is good to meet you as well. I believe you may be tired from the morphing, so would you mind if I give you all a tour of my home?}
"We should maybe hurry up and try to find a way out of here quickly. The yeerks could be here any minute." I pointed out. Nobody else had any objection to that, so we all took the grand tour.
He showed us around, giving us descriptions of all the different plants and stuff that he had in his little dome.
The asparagus-like derrishoul tree, and some odd description of how the water and land shaped a horseshoe. I wasn't really interested, because my mind was on the yeerks. Any minute they could be busting in here, and killing us all. It was only me who had even thought of something very important.
"Hey Ax, do you even have a morph to get out of here? Like a dolphin or shark?"
{I do not know what a shark is, but I did stun and acquire a creature not unlike the creatures you came here as. It is shorter and has more teeth.}
"That's a shark, I hope. So just be ready when the yeerks get here trying to kill us. They won't be long." I was still urging them to get out of there really fast.
"Oh, don't be such a tight-ass. Relax for a while. If the yeerks were going to find us, they would have already." Rachel said. I almost agreed with her, but I was still cautious. We could get out of here right now, but they were waiting. Why can't we talk later?
Anyway, they continued to talk about anything that came to mind when I heard a light pinging against the glass of the dome.
"Sonar." Marco said.
"The yeerks are here. If you had of listened to me in the first place, we could be gone already. I hope you can morph really fast." I told ax, with a bit of satisfaction in my voice.
{A human has come to rescue me, how is this?} he asked. {And what is it doing with the sea creatures?}
"Those sea creatures are my friends." I told him.
{You humans are more odd than I was informed of.} he spat.
"Well, we are an odd species. Now, can we talk."
{What is there to speak of?} he asked. {What can a lowly human offer me?}
I sighed heavily and almost yelled at him, but that would be hostile, so I kept my calm. "Are you deaf, we are here to rescue you. Now judging by your reactions, you are definitely not a yeerk, so let's get down to business."
{How could you ever relate me to one of those filthy things?} he growled.
"Okay, so we have something in common, we both hate yeerks. So we have one common goal, now lets get my friends awake and get out of here."
{How do you know of yeerks, or andalites, for that matter. What reason do I have to trust you?}
I balled my un-numbed hand into a fist. He just didn't get it. "Look, to start off, I have to tell you a bit of the story. As you can see, I have no weapons, so you could probably chop me up into itty bitty pieces if you wanted, so let's start by getting to know a bit about each other. My name is Gordon, and I am here to save you. What about you." I offered as I extended my hand.
{I am Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil, I am an andalite of the dome ship GalaxyTree. Now answer me, why are you here?} he asked. Boy was he stupid.
"Okay, let me tell you a story. One day, seven people are walking through an abandoned construction site, when one of them sees moving lights in the sky, he distracts the others. These lights are of an alien warship. This warship lands right in front of them, and out pops one of your kind people. He called himself Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul."
{Who was that?} he asked quickly.
"His name was Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, why?" I asked.
{We is my brother. Where is he? Is he with you?} he demanded.
"Let me finish. Now, these seven kids try to help this andalite, but to no avail. He gave us a great and terrible weapon before he was killed and eaten by a great warlord, Visser Three."
{Any Yeerk Visser is not great.} he slumped. {So he is dead.} he was really depressed. {how could he let such a filthy being end his great legacy?}
"He morphed into what he called an Antarean Bogg and ate him, literally. But you see, before he went, he told us of the great battles that happen between the andalites and the yeerks, and the position the yeerks held here on earth. He gave us the power to morph..."
{He wouldn't!} Aximili spat.
"Oh, but he did, and that was how we got there. You see, those dolphins are humans in morph. We fight together against the yeerks."
{My brother, the great war-prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, is gone, and in his death he left the memory of a great crime. He broke the law of Seerows Kindness.}
"What is that." I asked.
{It doesn't matter. I want to know how you knew I was here.}
"We heard your call." I explained.
{That was meant for andalites only, how did you hear it?}
"Maybe it was because we could morph, I don't know. Anyway, how long until my friends wake up?"
{Maybe thirty of your earth minutes.} he informed me. I did a little calculation and decided that was plenty of time to demorph.
So, for the half an hour that it took for my friends to get up, we chatted about the war and such. He told me about what he did in the meantime. Apparently, he was in the same battle Elfangor was in when he crashed near us. Only he was in the dome of the ship. The dome was a place to go when there was no battling. The andalites were by nature very claustrophobic. They required vast open spaces, and that was why the dome was there. And that was why the chamber we came in had clouds and grass.
He was cut off during the battle and left here in the ocean. All he did was train and such, in between calling for help. There was some computerized stuff in the dome, but not much. So he stayed here, day after day, he trained, hoping to get someone to save him.
He was pretty small, actually. No taller than me, and he looked flimsy.
Eventually, they started waking up, one after another, they came to and demorphed. Before long they were asking questions.
"Is he safe?" Rachel asked me.
"He's fine." I reassured her. "Just as lost as we are."
"So there are no others?" Marco asked. "No big guys, nobody?"
{No, it is only me.} Aximili said.
"And what might your name be?" Rachel asked.
{My name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil.}
"Ax." Marco said. "Nice to meet ya." He put on his big, happy person smile.
{It is good to meet you as well. I believe you may be tired from the morphing, so would you mind if I give you all a tour of my home?}
"We should maybe hurry up and try to find a way out of here quickly. The yeerks could be here any minute." I pointed out. Nobody else had any objection to that, so we all took the grand tour.
He showed us around, giving us descriptions of all the different plants and stuff that he had in his little dome.
The asparagus-like derrishoul tree, and some odd description of how the water and land shaped a horseshoe. I wasn't really interested, because my mind was on the yeerks. Any minute they could be busting in here, and killing us all. It was only me who had even thought of something very important.
"Hey Ax, do you even have a morph to get out of here? Like a dolphin or shark?"
{I do not know what a shark is, but I did stun and acquire a creature not unlike the creatures you came here as. It is shorter and has more teeth.}
"That's a shark, I hope. So just be ready when the yeerks get here trying to kill us. They won't be long." I was still urging them to get out of there really fast.
"Oh, don't be such a tight-ass. Relax for a while. If the yeerks were going to find us, they would have already." Rachel said. I almost agreed with her, but I was still cautious. We could get out of here right now, but they were waiting. Why can't we talk later?
Anyway, they continued to talk about anything that came to mind when I heard a light pinging against the glass of the dome.
"Sonar." Marco said.
"The yeerks are here. If you had of listened to me in the first place, we could be gone already. I hope you can morph really fast." I told ax, with a bit of satisfaction in my voice.