60 years...
60 years scince the end of the war...
60 years scince two people whom i cared so much for were taken from me...
For 60 years I've had to cary this burden with me...
I had let my team, my friends down...
Both times I believe that it should have been me...
That I should have gone...
That Rachel and Marco should still be here...
The dreams haunt me till this day...
-----
'How bad is he doctor?'
Voices... I could hear voices...
'Tell me doctor.'
CASSIE! Shes here... But how... And where is here?
'Please I need to know'
I want to tell her everything. I want to grow old with you Cassie. I want to live my life to the fullest with you by my side. I want to die in bed with you next to me. But I couldnt even open my eyes. I couldnt say anything.
'There is a very low percent chance that hes going to make it'
'Give me a number doctor'
'I believe only a miracle can save him now. Im truly sorry'
Then I heard the thing that hurt me the most.
Cassie had started to cry.
-----
At 80 years old I still shed tears at night, wanting to relive that moment.
The moment I had given that order.
An order that was fueled by hate, despair, and loneliness.
I had told Marco and the rest that I alone would stay in the ship.
I alone would ram the Blade ship.
I had given them the order to leave in the escape pod. But none of them would listen.
Not one.
I think that that was the one time they disobeyed my command.
And I loved each and everyone of them for it.
-----
-No Crayak...-
YOU WONT EVEN LET HIM CONSIDER IT?
-I made the choice. I'll live with it till I die.-
BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT THAT WOULD BE TOO SOON
-I swear on my life that if you even think about it, I WILL kill you-
HAHAHA FOOLISH BOY. AFTER ALL THIS TIME YOU STILL DONT GET IT DO YOU? YOUR WORDS ARE LIKE NOTHING TO ME. YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO OR WHAT NOT TO DO. YOU HAVE NO POWER. YOU ARE NOTHING
-Then why? Why even come talk to me?-
. . . DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HATE I FEEL TOWARDS YOU? BUT AT THE SAME TIME I HAVE THIS STRANGE RESPECT FOR YOU ALSO. I ALWAYS HAVE. I WOULDNT WANT TO SEE YOU, GREAT JAKE, LEADER OF THE ANIMORPHS DIE OVER A SILLY MISTAKE.
-But you would let Marco-
LIKE I SAID I WANT YOU TO LIVE A LONG LIFE JAKE. YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH GOOD IN THIS WORLD. WOULDNT IT BE A SHAME FOR YOU TO DIE SO YOUNG. YOU SHOULD LIVE OUT YOUR GLORY TILL YOU DIE OLD, IN BED IN YOUR SLEEP. DONT YOU WANT THAT? MANY PEOPLE WISH BUT DONT GET THE ACCOMIDATION OF SUCH A COMFORTABLE DEATH. ISNT THAT WHAT YOU SAID YOU HAD WANTED?
-You dont know anything about what I want. And do you really believe that I would even for a second believe that you had MY best interest in this? I think I know you a little better than that-
YOU ARE RIGHT JAKE. WHY TALK IN MASKS? HMM? I WANT YOU TO SUFFER. TILL THE DAY YOU DIE. I WANT YOU TO BLAME YOURSELF FOR YOUR COUSINS DEATH. I THINK YOU ALREADY DO, BUT FOR ME THAT ISNT ENOUGH.
-I thought you and the Elimist werent supposed to meddle-
I AM NOT MEDDLING AS YOU CALL IT. I AM JUST GIVING AN OPPURTUNITY TO ONE THAT HE MIGHT WANT... I BELIEVE THAT THIS CONVERSATION IS OVER NOW. GOOD DAY TO YOU JAKE. HOPEFULLY WE'LL MEET AGAIN.
-No... NO!!! CRAYAK!!!!!!!!!!!
-----
I've seen that conversation in my dreams almost everyday for the last 60 years.
Before that day. I thought I had hit rock bottom on that ship.
Wanting to take my own life.
That was nothin.
After that day I would hit an even farther low.
And also an even harder sorrow.
-----
HELLO MARCO
-Crayak...-
I AM JUST HERE TO TALK
-Your kidding right? Just talk? Mighty Crayak taking time to visit me in the hospital just so we could have a chat-
I SEE YOU ARE DOING MUCH BETTER
-Yeah well I really dont care what you think. What do you want?-
NO SMALL TALK? I SEE. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ONE TO WANT TO GET STRAIGHT TO THE POINT. I HAVE A PROPOSAL FOR YOU. AS YOU ALREADY KNOW YOUR FRIEND JAKE HAS A VERY SMALL CHANCE OF SEEING PAST THIS WEEK.
-And?-
I SHALL GIVE YOU A CHOICE. YOUR LIFE FOR HIS. YOU GIVE YOUR LIFE AWAY RIGHT NOW AND I PROMISE YOU JAKE WILL LIVE.
-. . .-
AHH I SEE IT IS A HARD CHOICE FOR YOU.
-How can I trust you?-
YES I DO HAVE A REPUTATION FOR DOING WHAT I WANT BUT IF THAT WAS THE CASE. I COULD JUST KILL YOU NOW.
-You swear Jake will live?-
DO YOU TAKE ME AS A LIAR?
-Alright then.-
AN ANSWER SO SOON? NO NO. THINK ABOUT IT. I WILL GIVE YOU ONE DAY.
-----
That was the one conversation that Crayak had let me seen for his sick amusement.
I already knew what Marco would tell him.
I knew.
Only me.
-----
I had woken up a week later and the doctors told me that it was a miracle.
They said I somehow healed on my own.
They said it probably was because of my morphing powers.
But I knew.
Cassie was there.
So was Tobias.
We had never found Ax.
-----
About 2 years later Cassie and I got married.
2 kids. 5 grandkids.
Cassie had died 10 years ago from cancer.
I havnt seen Tobias scince the day I woke up in the hospital.
Everyone says a hawk couldnt have lived this long.
And knowing Tobias he had lived and died as a hawk.
So from all 6 of us.
It was just me.
I was the only one left.
We started as 5 kids barely in middle school, and one young soldier just enrolled in the military.
To become 6 legends.
I know that we've never given our real names out.
But just Rachel, Cassie, Marco, or Tobias are names that everyone has.
In their memory I want them to be known.
Most of them would be too modest for that.
But I just want to say to Rachel Wood, Cassie Jones, Tobias Fangor, and Aximili-Esgarrouth Isthell that I, Jake Thompson will never forget you.
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THIS IS MY FIRST FAN FIC...
IM THINKING OF WRITING SECOND PART OF THIS...
LEAVE ME COMMENTS YEA? DEPENDING ON IF U GUYS LIKE IT ILL WRITE PART 2
AND I KNOW ITS SUPPOSED TO BE INSTEAD OF - - BUT SOMTHINS WENT WRONG WIT MY COMP...
60 years scince the end of the war...
60 years scince two people whom i cared so much for were taken from me...
For 60 years I've had to cary this burden with me...
I had let my team, my friends down...
Both times I believe that it should have been me...
That I should have gone...
That Rachel and Marco should still be here...
The dreams haunt me till this day...
-----
'How bad is he doctor?'
Voices... I could hear voices...
'Tell me doctor.'
CASSIE! Shes here... But how... And where is here?
'Please I need to know'
I want to tell her everything. I want to grow old with you Cassie. I want to live my life to the fullest with you by my side. I want to die in bed with you next to me. But I couldnt even open my eyes. I couldnt say anything.
'There is a very low percent chance that hes going to make it'
'Give me a number doctor'
'I believe only a miracle can save him now. Im truly sorry'
Then I heard the thing that hurt me the most.
Cassie had started to cry.
-----
At 80 years old I still shed tears at night, wanting to relive that moment.
The moment I had given that order.
An order that was fueled by hate, despair, and loneliness.
I had told Marco and the rest that I alone would stay in the ship.
I alone would ram the Blade ship.
I had given them the order to leave in the escape pod. But none of them would listen.
Not one.
I think that that was the one time they disobeyed my command.
And I loved each and everyone of them for it.
-----
-No Crayak...-
YOU WONT EVEN LET HIM CONSIDER IT?
-I made the choice. I'll live with it till I die.-
BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT THAT WOULD BE TOO SOON
-I swear on my life that if you even think about it, I WILL kill you-
HAHAHA FOOLISH BOY. AFTER ALL THIS TIME YOU STILL DONT GET IT DO YOU? YOUR WORDS ARE LIKE NOTHING TO ME. YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO OR WHAT NOT TO DO. YOU HAVE NO POWER. YOU ARE NOTHING
-Then why? Why even come talk to me?-
. . . DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HATE I FEEL TOWARDS YOU? BUT AT THE SAME TIME I HAVE THIS STRANGE RESPECT FOR YOU ALSO. I ALWAYS HAVE. I WOULDNT WANT TO SEE YOU, GREAT JAKE, LEADER OF THE ANIMORPHS DIE OVER A SILLY MISTAKE.
-But you would let Marco-
LIKE I SAID I WANT YOU TO LIVE A LONG LIFE JAKE. YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH GOOD IN THIS WORLD. WOULDNT IT BE A SHAME FOR YOU TO DIE SO YOUNG. YOU SHOULD LIVE OUT YOUR GLORY TILL YOU DIE OLD, IN BED IN YOUR SLEEP. DONT YOU WANT THAT? MANY PEOPLE WISH BUT DONT GET THE ACCOMIDATION OF SUCH A COMFORTABLE DEATH. ISNT THAT WHAT YOU SAID YOU HAD WANTED?
-You dont know anything about what I want. And do you really believe that I would even for a second believe that you had MY best interest in this? I think I know you a little better than that-
YOU ARE RIGHT JAKE. WHY TALK IN MASKS? HMM? I WANT YOU TO SUFFER. TILL THE DAY YOU DIE. I WANT YOU TO BLAME YOURSELF FOR YOUR COUSINS DEATH. I THINK YOU ALREADY DO, BUT FOR ME THAT ISNT ENOUGH.
-I thought you and the Elimist werent supposed to meddle-
I AM NOT MEDDLING AS YOU CALL IT. I AM JUST GIVING AN OPPURTUNITY TO ONE THAT HE MIGHT WANT... I BELIEVE THAT THIS CONVERSATION IS OVER NOW. GOOD DAY TO YOU JAKE. HOPEFULLY WE'LL MEET AGAIN.
-No... NO!!! CRAYAK!!!!!!!!!!!
-----
I've seen that conversation in my dreams almost everyday for the last 60 years.
Before that day. I thought I had hit rock bottom on that ship.
Wanting to take my own life.
That was nothin.
After that day I would hit an even farther low.
And also an even harder sorrow.
-----
HELLO MARCO
-Crayak...-
I AM JUST HERE TO TALK
-Your kidding right? Just talk? Mighty Crayak taking time to visit me in the hospital just so we could have a chat-
I SEE YOU ARE DOING MUCH BETTER
-Yeah well I really dont care what you think. What do you want?-
NO SMALL TALK? I SEE. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ONE TO WANT TO GET STRAIGHT TO THE POINT. I HAVE A PROPOSAL FOR YOU. AS YOU ALREADY KNOW YOUR FRIEND JAKE HAS A VERY SMALL CHANCE OF SEEING PAST THIS WEEK.
-And?-
I SHALL GIVE YOU A CHOICE. YOUR LIFE FOR HIS. YOU GIVE YOUR LIFE AWAY RIGHT NOW AND I PROMISE YOU JAKE WILL LIVE.
-. . .-
AHH I SEE IT IS A HARD CHOICE FOR YOU.
-How can I trust you?-
YES I DO HAVE A REPUTATION FOR DOING WHAT I WANT BUT IF THAT WAS THE CASE. I COULD JUST KILL YOU NOW.
-You swear Jake will live?-
DO YOU TAKE ME AS A LIAR?
-Alright then.-
AN ANSWER SO SOON? NO NO. THINK ABOUT IT. I WILL GIVE YOU ONE DAY.
-----
That was the one conversation that Crayak had let me seen for his sick amusement.
I already knew what Marco would tell him.
I knew.
Only me.
-----
I had woken up a week later and the doctors told me that it was a miracle.
They said I somehow healed on my own.
They said it probably was because of my morphing powers.
But I knew.
Cassie was there.
So was Tobias.
We had never found Ax.
-----
About 2 years later Cassie and I got married.
2 kids. 5 grandkids.
Cassie had died 10 years ago from cancer.
I havnt seen Tobias scince the day I woke up in the hospital.
Everyone says a hawk couldnt have lived this long.
And knowing Tobias he had lived and died as a hawk.
So from all 6 of us.
It was just me.
I was the only one left.
We started as 5 kids barely in middle school, and one young soldier just enrolled in the military.
To become 6 legends.
I know that we've never given our real names out.
But just Rachel, Cassie, Marco, or Tobias are names that everyone has.
In their memory I want them to be known.
Most of them would be too modest for that.
But I just want to say to Rachel Wood, Cassie Jones, Tobias Fangor, and Aximili-Esgarrouth Isthell that I, Jake Thompson will never forget you.
------------
THIS IS MY FIRST FAN FIC...
IM THINKING OF WRITING SECOND PART OF THIS...
LEAVE ME COMMENTS YEA? DEPENDING ON IF U GUYS LIKE IT ILL WRITE PART 2
AND I KNOW ITS SUPPOSED TO BE INSTEAD OF - - BUT SOMTHINS WENT WRONG WIT MY COMP...