A/N: man, I hate writing for Marco. I mean, he's cool to write about, but I
hate writing for him. Anyways, here is the first chapter! Please review
when you're done reading...how else will I get better? (
Music blasting. Free food, quickly being devoured by everyone. People loitering and dancing. This was my kind of place.
I wove through the crowd, making my way towards a beautiful girl sitting on a bench by herself. No girl that nice-looking should be alone, so I figured that being the kind, caring guy I was I would go over there and join her.
I smoothed my shirt, put on a winning smile, and was about to head on over when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I grinned, prepared to strike up a conversation with the lovely girl who must have accidentally brushed her hand on my shoulders. I turned around and faced...
"Ax!" I yelled, startled by the weirdly pretty boy standing in front of me. About ten people turned around to see who the strange kid that had randomly shouted was. I pretended to look around too, trying to act as if it hadn't been me yelling.
"Hello Marco. Oh. It is surprising- ing- to see you here." Ax gave me a puzzled look. "What-uh are you looking for? Look-ing. Ing."
"Hey Ax, I mean Philip," I said as my heart rate returned to normal. "Dude, don't play with sounds." I whispered.
He nodded. "Yes, Marco. Coe."
Suddenly, Ax began to twist around and shake as if there was something in his pants.
"A-Philip! What are you doing?" I hissed.
"I am moving-ing- my body like the other young people here. Ther. Otherrr."
"You mean dancing? What you're doing is not dancing! It looks like you're having a seizure! For God's sake, stop!"
We walked over to the food court, and were extremely surprised to see the other Animorphs there. Extremely surprised. Note the use of sarcasm.
As I approached the table where everyone else was at, I suddenly felt strange. Everything suddenly got blurry, and the ground seemed to shake a little.
I shook it off. It must have been a side effect of eating a pack of Teddy Grahams at midnight. Next time I would eat the cinnamon ones...
"Hey, man, are you drunk?" Tobias asked in a very un-Tobias-like way as I stumbled into the table, lost in my thoughts.
"Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the tree this morning," I whispered loudly.
He shook his head, his face void of expressions. "Sorry. I didn't get any sleep last night."
"Tobias is often cranky when not having received the sufficient hours of rest. Rest-uh." Ax informed the rest of us, as if we hadn't been able to tell.
"Why didn't you sleep well, Tobias?" Cassie asked gently. That's Cassie for you. Always caring about everyone and everything else.
Before Tobias could respond, Jake and Rachel had returned, carrying food for everyone. I grabbed a cartoon of fries.
"Look, there's Jennie!" I pointed out the hot girl whose locker was next to mine who hadn't been wooed over by my charms...yet.
"Of course she's here. I told you everyone would be here!" Rachel said knowingly. Then she turned to Jake, "See? Isn't this nice?"
"Yeah." He smiled at Cassie. "It is," he agreed.
"Aww," I cooed, spraying pieces of fries everywhere. There was no way that I hadn't missed the sappy look he and Cassie had shared. "How sweet-" I began to say.
The ground shook again. Everything blurred up. This time, it was more intense.
"Okay, now I know I wasn't the only one who felt that!" I yelled.
"You felt that before too?" Jake asked.
"Yeah, I felt it!"
"Marco, chill out," Jake whispered. "Quit drawing attention to yourself."
He was right. I did need to calm down. But that didn't mean that something wasn't up.
"Something's wrong," I said to everyone.
"Yes, Marco, you're right. Something does seem wrong."
I groaned. I knew that voice. It was the voice of evil, the bringer of death. It was Erek. Erek is a Chee, an android who has been around since forever who lives for the sole purpose of ruining our lives by bringing bad news. Androids can make holograms around themselves, and right now, 'Erek' was actually just a hologram of a teenage boy.
"Erek? Why are you here?" Cassie asked.
"How could I not be here? Everyone's here," Erek said calmly. Rachel shot Jake a smug look.
"I have projected a hologram around all of us. Everyone sees and hears us talking about the math test. But, back on topic. I think Marco's right."
"Surprise, surprise," Rachel muttered. I shot her a look.
"We think there something wrong," Erek continued as if she hadn't spoken.
"Well, thank you for telling us that, Erek!" I said sarcastically. "Because, you know, there's no way that we could have figured that out on our own."
Now Rachel gave me a look. "Shut up, Marco."
Tobias cocked his head. "Did anyone else notice that the music got louder? "
Actually, I hadn't noticed. But what did it matter anyway? "So what, Bird- boy?"
He tilted his head back. "Well, it's almost as if someone's trying to hide something by raising the volume."
"Okay, I repeat: Something is definitely wrong here." I stated.
"Wait!" Cassie jumped in. "Is it possible that we're overanalyzing things? I mean, we could just be acting paranoid. Maybe the music just got louder for no reason, and we're just so used to being guarded that we're over- dramatizing this."
Jake nodded in agreement. "Cassie's right. There may be something going on here, but we may also just be acting too suspicious. Let's just calm down and we'll wait to see if anything else strange happens."
Jake's my best friend, and I'd back him up any day. But right now, my gut was telling me that something strange was happening. I know I may be paranoid, but I just couldn't shake off this feeling.
Erek nodded, and took off the hologram. He told us he would check with us later if anything outlandish happened. Yes, he said outlandish. Maybe being alive for so long has made his vocabulary a little...odd. Or as he would say, eccentric.
"There are many different-uh types of humans," Ax said brightly. "It seems that the sight of all of them becomes hazy at times."
I nodded absently. Then I realized what he had said.
"Hazy? Hazy, as in blurry?" I spun around to face Ax. "Did everything become blurry for a second?"
He nodded. "I assumed that this was a product of poor human sight. Ite."
No way.
This was too much. If Ax, who wasn't even a human, was experiencing this too, than it must be serious.
I looked at Jake, who had a grim expression on his face. He had realized it too. There was something happening here. And we needed to figure out what it was. Before it was too late.
Than it happened. The blurriness. The ground swaying momentarily. I closed my eyes, and shook my head. And when I opened my eyes, my mouth fell open.
I wasn't in the mall anymore. None of us were. But the place we were at- no, it couldn't be. But it was. There was no mistaking everything around us.
We were back. Back in the Iskoort home world.
Music blasting. Free food, quickly being devoured by everyone. People loitering and dancing. This was my kind of place.
I wove through the crowd, making my way towards a beautiful girl sitting on a bench by herself. No girl that nice-looking should be alone, so I figured that being the kind, caring guy I was I would go over there and join her.
I smoothed my shirt, put on a winning smile, and was about to head on over when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I grinned, prepared to strike up a conversation with the lovely girl who must have accidentally brushed her hand on my shoulders. I turned around and faced...
"Ax!" I yelled, startled by the weirdly pretty boy standing in front of me. About ten people turned around to see who the strange kid that had randomly shouted was. I pretended to look around too, trying to act as if it hadn't been me yelling.
"Hello Marco. Oh. It is surprising- ing- to see you here." Ax gave me a puzzled look. "What-uh are you looking for? Look-ing. Ing."
"Hey Ax, I mean Philip," I said as my heart rate returned to normal. "Dude, don't play with sounds." I whispered.
He nodded. "Yes, Marco. Coe."
Suddenly, Ax began to twist around and shake as if there was something in his pants.
"A-Philip! What are you doing?" I hissed.
"I am moving-ing- my body like the other young people here. Ther. Otherrr."
"You mean dancing? What you're doing is not dancing! It looks like you're having a seizure! For God's sake, stop!"
We walked over to the food court, and were extremely surprised to see the other Animorphs there. Extremely surprised. Note the use of sarcasm.
As I approached the table where everyone else was at, I suddenly felt strange. Everything suddenly got blurry, and the ground seemed to shake a little.
I shook it off. It must have been a side effect of eating a pack of Teddy Grahams at midnight. Next time I would eat the cinnamon ones...
"Hey, man, are you drunk?" Tobias asked in a very un-Tobias-like way as I stumbled into the table, lost in my thoughts.
"Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the tree this morning," I whispered loudly.
He shook his head, his face void of expressions. "Sorry. I didn't get any sleep last night."
"Tobias is often cranky when not having received the sufficient hours of rest. Rest-uh." Ax informed the rest of us, as if we hadn't been able to tell.
"Why didn't you sleep well, Tobias?" Cassie asked gently. That's Cassie for you. Always caring about everyone and everything else.
Before Tobias could respond, Jake and Rachel had returned, carrying food for everyone. I grabbed a cartoon of fries.
"Look, there's Jennie!" I pointed out the hot girl whose locker was next to mine who hadn't been wooed over by my charms...yet.
"Of course she's here. I told you everyone would be here!" Rachel said knowingly. Then she turned to Jake, "See? Isn't this nice?"
"Yeah." He smiled at Cassie. "It is," he agreed.
"Aww," I cooed, spraying pieces of fries everywhere. There was no way that I hadn't missed the sappy look he and Cassie had shared. "How sweet-" I began to say.
The ground shook again. Everything blurred up. This time, it was more intense.
"Okay, now I know I wasn't the only one who felt that!" I yelled.
"You felt that before too?" Jake asked.
"Yeah, I felt it!"
"Marco, chill out," Jake whispered. "Quit drawing attention to yourself."
He was right. I did need to calm down. But that didn't mean that something wasn't up.
"Something's wrong," I said to everyone.
"Yes, Marco, you're right. Something does seem wrong."
I groaned. I knew that voice. It was the voice of evil, the bringer of death. It was Erek. Erek is a Chee, an android who has been around since forever who lives for the sole purpose of ruining our lives by bringing bad news. Androids can make holograms around themselves, and right now, 'Erek' was actually just a hologram of a teenage boy.
"Erek? Why are you here?" Cassie asked.
"How could I not be here? Everyone's here," Erek said calmly. Rachel shot Jake a smug look.
"I have projected a hologram around all of us. Everyone sees and hears us talking about the math test. But, back on topic. I think Marco's right."
"Surprise, surprise," Rachel muttered. I shot her a look.
"We think there something wrong," Erek continued as if she hadn't spoken.
"Well, thank you for telling us that, Erek!" I said sarcastically. "Because, you know, there's no way that we could have figured that out on our own."
Now Rachel gave me a look. "Shut up, Marco."
Tobias cocked his head. "Did anyone else notice that the music got louder? "
Actually, I hadn't noticed. But what did it matter anyway? "So what, Bird- boy?"
He tilted his head back. "Well, it's almost as if someone's trying to hide something by raising the volume."
"Okay, I repeat: Something is definitely wrong here." I stated.
"Wait!" Cassie jumped in. "Is it possible that we're overanalyzing things? I mean, we could just be acting paranoid. Maybe the music just got louder for no reason, and we're just so used to being guarded that we're over- dramatizing this."
Jake nodded in agreement. "Cassie's right. There may be something going on here, but we may also just be acting too suspicious. Let's just calm down and we'll wait to see if anything else strange happens."
Jake's my best friend, and I'd back him up any day. But right now, my gut was telling me that something strange was happening. I know I may be paranoid, but I just couldn't shake off this feeling.
Erek nodded, and took off the hologram. He told us he would check with us later if anything outlandish happened. Yes, he said outlandish. Maybe being alive for so long has made his vocabulary a little...odd. Or as he would say, eccentric.
"There are many different-uh types of humans," Ax said brightly. "It seems that the sight of all of them becomes hazy at times."
I nodded absently. Then I realized what he had said.
"Hazy? Hazy, as in blurry?" I spun around to face Ax. "Did everything become blurry for a second?"
He nodded. "I assumed that this was a product of poor human sight. Ite."
No way.
This was too much. If Ax, who wasn't even a human, was experiencing this too, than it must be serious.
I looked at Jake, who had a grim expression on his face. He had realized it too. There was something happening here. And we needed to figure out what it was. Before it was too late.
Than it happened. The blurriness. The ground swaying momentarily. I closed my eyes, and shook my head. And when I opened my eyes, my mouth fell open.
I wasn't in the mall anymore. None of us were. But the place we were at- no, it couldn't be. But it was. There was no mistaking everything around us.
We were back. Back in the Iskoort home world.