Chapter 3 The next few hours were about Bloodvein telling his story on how he dealed with becoming a vampire and all the things he did for the last five hundred years. He also told us about a girl named Laylah, he once loved that was killed by a vampire-hunter. The hunter came at him with a sword meant to cut off Bloodvein's head and destroy him forever but Laylah pushed him out of the way and then the sword went into her and killed her instantly. "Oh how awful" Cassie said. "You must have really loved her" Rachel said. "Yes very, very much I will still love her until the day I finally die. "She must have been really special to you". "Yes she was and still is she was the most beautiful girl in the entire universe and when I do die I will finally be with her again to reclaim our love" "Oh that's so romantic" Cassie said. "So I don't want to be rude or anything but we have to go it's almost six and my mom said if I'm late for dinner again then I don't get dessert for a week" Jake said. "Ok that's fine I'll just be here for a while longer before I go on my feeding tonight. He said. A few hours after they left Bloodvein turned into a bat and flew off into the night. Ten minutes later he was at Cassie's barn and found Cassie trying to give a shot to a bat. "Be careful Bats are sensitive" "Oh hi Bloodvein I was injecting this brown bat with a vitamin supplement" "So where's the Andalite at" "Ax, he's in his scoop with Tobias" "Do you know where it is?" "Yeah it's two miles north of here" "Okay thanks" In the next twenty minutes I was at Ax's scoop. "Hi Ax, hey Tobias" "Hey Bloodvein" Tobias said. "Can I ask you guys a favor?" "Sure" "I want you two to help me with something" "Okay what is it?" "I need to know more about the yeerks and stuff I only know what a Hork- Bajir is and some of their hosts" "Okay we will tell you everything we know" Tobias said. For the last couple hours Tobias and ax explained to me how they got the morphing power and all the stuff they did since they got it. "I didn't realize there was so much I didn't know about them" "Yeah we have been in this battle for almost a year now" "Okay even though I can't acquire the morphing power because I'm a vampire, I will still help you guys with my own powers" "Yes and we are really glad to have you help us in the fight" Tobias said. Over the next few days the animorphs helped me by battling me using their battle morphs to train me some more to help fight the yeerks. Rachel came charging at me at full grisly bear speed. Just as she was ready to attack I jumped out of the way and turned in mid air to kick her with my feet on the back throwing her off balance. Then I saw Jake coming at me with his tiger morph, he pounced at me once he was close enough but just as quick I got out of the way and sent a punch flying into his head that sent him flying. "Ok, ok that's enough Bloodvein" Rachel said. "Jeez man you pack a powerful punch" Jake said. "Really, I wasn't using my full strength" "Yeah but still that really hurt" he said. "Ok Bloodvein it's time" Tobias said swooping down from the clouds. "Time for what" "Time to go down to the yeerks pool and see how you can handle the yeerks" Thirty minutes later we were at the MacDonald's, a moment later we were at the counter. "I would like a happy meal with extra happy" Jake said. The guy at the counter nodded and led us into a little room in the back with nothing but a light bulb and some boxes in it, then he pulled on a the light bulb three times and the wall in front of us opened up to reveal a dark staircase. We weren't almost half way when we heard the screams. The cries for help and anger were almost deifying to the ears. We kept on walking until were emerged into a vast cavern, there were rows and rows of cages filled with human and alien kind alike and all in the middle of it all was the yeerk pool itself. "So that's the yeerk pool" I said. "So what do we do now" Marco asked. "We go into our battle morphs" Jake said. A few minutes later we were all in our battle morphs Jake was in his tiger morph, Cassie in wolf, Rachel in Grisly, Marco in his gorilla, and Ax as himself. Tobias was out side flying overhead in case we needed any help and me I was myself. "So what do we do now" Marco asked again. "we get there attention" Jake said. "How do we do that" I asked. "Like this" Just then Jake let out a roar that almost shook the ground. Then every body stopped what they were doing and looked over in our direction. "Andalite" one Hork-Bajir said. Then every controller was coming at us at full speed. "ok here comes the fun part" Rachel said. Then we charged at them. One Hork-bajir was coming straight at me and tried to slash me with his wrist blade but I just jumped out of the way and kicked him so hard that he went flying into a group of hork-bajir that were coming at me. I looked over and saw Jake clawing his way through another group of hork- bajir and Marco was punching hork-bajir so hard that they fell down and stayed down. Taxxons were every where trying to consume their falling allies. And then we heard him. "Ah the Andalite bandits trying to destroy the pool again, you will try today but you will fail and join us or you will die very slowly" Visser three said. "Oh damn what do we do now" Marco said. "our only chance is that we get out now" Jake said. "oh I see that the Andalites have recruited an insolent human how pathetic even for you" "Insolent I'll show you who's insolent" I said. " No Bloodvein I know what you're thinking and the answer is no" I looked around and found out that Jake was right beside me. Bent down beside him and whispered out of earshot of anyone near by. "Relax Jake they can't infest me my brain is different than a normal human's and they can't kill me if they can't catch me" "ok but I hope you know what you're doing" I stood up and walked slowly toward the Visser. When I was ten feet away I said. "Hey Visser if I were you I would be scared right now" "WHAT, are you trying to give me a threat pathetic human" "No, I'm giving you a threat and I'm not pathetic" I started to morph into a wolf; my face bulged out into a muzzle. Then black fur started to come out all over me. A few seconds later I was full wolf. " so the Andalites gave you the power to morph" "No not exactly" The Visser looked at me with surprise. "how can you talk when you're in a morph" "Like I said I'm not a pathetic human you wretched worm" Just then Visser three charged at me with his tail held high, but I was ready just as his tail came down I jumped and caught the tail in my mouth and bit down hard just below the blade. Visser three cried out in agony and than with my strength I swung Visser three into a group of hork-bajir. I turned around and saw the shocked faces of the others. "Come on guys we got to get out of here"