1 Ariande POV
"LET GO OF ME!" I screamed as the guard pushed me into a room and locked the door behind me. "LET ME GO. ALYACHIES! ANYBODY!"
I knew I was stuck there but it never hurts to try, does it?
I went over the image of each of the Animorphs. Rachel, blonde and beautiful. Were her eyes blue or green, though? Blue, I guessed.
Jake, obviously of some relation for they looked much like each other. Both tall and born leaders. Blue eyes also and towering over me with his cousin at his side.
Cassie, kind and friendly. Ironically, we were not very close at all. We never fought or sent each other evil thoughts. We just went our separate ways. Black skin, brown eyes and hair. Medium height, a little bit shorter than Alyachies and me.
Marco, funny and smart. He could get from point A to point B. Short, brown hair and brown eyes. As friendly as a rattlesnake at times.
Tobias. My brother. I closed my eyes, imagining how much we looked alike (which wasn't much, that's why I had to image hard). Blonde and medium height. Brown eyes? I doubt even he remembers off the top of his head. But mostly he's very small and covered in feathers. His eyes are like lasers and are golden brown.
Ax, the blue dude. The intelligent one. The one that once he gets started and stops talking sense.
I would miss them all.
I then heard the squeak of the door. The time had come.
Alyachies POV
We were in the barn. Everyone was downcast.
"How are we going to save her?" Marco asks saying what everyone was thinking and putting it into words.
"Look, guys. I know what all of you are thinking. It's my fault so I should deal with it myself. I'm not even one of the Animorphs."
Cassie walks over and takes my hand. "In my opinion, no matter what happens, you ARE one of us. You may not have our powers but you have helped us learn something we could not have learned without you. Both of you. And that means we are not going to let you go alone. We're all going, because you and your sister are part of us."
I smiled. "Cassie, you even said yourself: IN YOUR OPINION. That's just you talking. But you are not the whole group." I turned away but after a second I turned back around. I said it to everyone but was looking at Jake in the eyes when I said it. "I'll never forget you. Any of you." Then I turned away, ready to think I'd never see him again.
Tobias POV
Ariadne had gotten taken by Visser Three. I was still trying to get pasted that fact. The headstrong one. How? I had always thought that if anyone would get caught it would be Alyachies, no offense to her. She just seemed more innocent.
But now Alyachies had gone mad! How could she think we would let her go after Ariadne alone? We wouldn't! Would we?
I turned to stare at the others. They all seemed ready to follow Alyachies, strangely, especially Rachel.
I looked at Jake in the eye, my golden brown eyes burning into his. {We won't let her go by herself, will we?} I asked him in private thoughtspeak.
Jake shook his head slightly so the others wouldn't see. Then he spoke. "Guys, I think Cassie's right. We can't let her go by herself. It'll be wrong." He stared at Rachel when he said this.
"Of coarse," Rachel said, ingoring Jake's stare, "You can't say you even considered letting her go alone!"
Jake shook his head. "*I* didn't."
Marco looks around at all of us. "What if it's a trap? We could all die."
{We've faced death before.}
"But not like this." Marco argued. "Look guys, I'm just as ready as you to go and follow Alyachies wherever it may lead me, but we can't just go without thinking of the consequences."
{Consequences?! What about the consequences if we don't leave now? They could die! Could you live with that, Marco? Could any of us?} I answered, tired of this talking. We had to go help Alyachies save Ariadne! Couldn't they get that through their thick skulls?
There was silence for a little while before Cassie spoke up for the first time since Alyachies had left. "Tobias is right. We have to go now or not go at all."
We all exchanged glances and each of us nodded in turn. We had decided at last. I just hoped we wouldn't be too late.
~*~*~*~
We weren't. We caught up with Alyachies right at the door of the mall. We all entered the Yeerk Pool entrance together in various morphs. Only Alyachies remained in her own form. She said it would be better.
I saw nothing for most of the trip. I felt much less. I ate, I'm ashamed to admit, much. We were fleas on her arm and we drank a bit to relieve some instincts. Alyachies did, though, slap her arm to stop us from biting anymore.
Then Alyachies whispered to us quiet as to not pop our insect ears. "Guys. Hop off and demorph. It's safe."
We demorphed and we found ourselves in a bathroom. We had no time to look around though as Alyachies quickly shooed us into stalls. "Stand on the seat!" she hissed as she walked out. I almost flew out of the stall to follow her but Jake saw and forbid me.
"We can't go unless she calls. We have to trust her." Jake said to me in the stall we were sharing.
{But we-} I began but was stopped by a wicked voice.
{Alyachies. Come out.} It was Visser Three! {Come out or it will all end for your sister.}
Ariande POV
My conversation with Visser was mostly one sided.
{Tell me where the Andalites are and might show mercy!}
I couldn't help but laugh. "You think I'll ever tell you? You're crazy!"
He seemed to smile his Andalite smile, in which only the eyes are used since they have no mouth. "I hope to change that choice." He then pressed a bottom on the table.
Suddenly I figured it out a moment too late. I was strapped in an electric chair. That was the last thought that was clear for several minutes. It was then that the electricity ran through my body, chilling my bones and making my hair frizz.
I sat there a long while that felt like hours with that pain rushing through my body, my body draining, ever so slowly. Then I sat there several more minutes even after he stopped the electricity. Then I licked my dry lips.
I could do only one thing. I felt too drained to even talk but I could possibly do one simple thing. I calculated as well as I could in my condition and let her rip.
Suddenly Visser Three found some spit in his eye and while he cleaned it off I tried to rest as well as I could for what might come later.
{So you still will not talk.}
I said nothing. I didn't need to. I moved my eyes painfully to his and glared. It started to her after a little while so I closed my eyes.
That was a mistake.
He pressed the button again. I felt the same surge of pain and cried out. The last time I had been in too much pain to make much noise. Or so I had thought.
But it hurt worse when he put more pain into my already pained body. Now I was screaming and screaming, feeling as if it might never end. Would I endure that endless torture forever?, I thought.
I kept falling in and out of consciousness. I was screaming, stopping and then starting again. I thought I heard some jeering and laughter but I could have possibly imagined it in my half delirious state.
"Stop! Stop!" I cried.
{Tell me where the Andalites are!}
"I will! I will! Just stop it! Don't do it anymore! Please!" I screamed at the ceiling.
{Yes, of coarse. Your sister came to pay you a visit. I think it would be quite well for her to see you betray her and the Andalites.}
Then the pain stopped. There was a strange ringing in my ears and I still felt dizzy and faint. Visser Three walked over to me and helped me out of the chair. I doubt I would have noticed. I just wanted it all to be over. I could barely stand. I felt none of the eyes upon me.
"Let me sit. Sit. Faint. Weak." I murmured quietly.
Visser Three nodded and yelled, {Guards! Get out guest a chair. Now before I chop off all your heads!}
I could now see people from the crowd. I saw no one too familiar. Maybe some people from school and a teacher or two but I care not for them. Then I saw her. She was between a small man in a suit and a tall woman in a Queen Mary hat. Alyachies.
{This young girl has finally decided, after some persuasion,} some people laughed at that, {to tell us the place where the Andalite bandits dwell! At last the Yeerk Empire will control Earth!} I great cheer came up from the crowd and even greater cry came from the creatures in the cages.
Then an idea occurred to me. It was horrible but I had no other choice. None at all. It was like fate. It was all counting on me. "Visser Three, please help me up. I wish to stand." I whispered. I held up the hand on the opposite side of which he was standing, meaning he would have to pass in front of me to help me up. I took my chance then.
When he passed in from of me I stood, grabbed Visser Three's tail blade and plunged it deep into my chest. I looked up to have one last look of my twin. But a looked past her and spotted seven pairs of eyes in the shadows. I locked eyes with a pair of golden brown ones. I tried to smile, for them all. Then I died and no one of this world ever saw my smile again.
Marco POV
We had heard Ariadne's pleads for mercy. I had never heard such pain a voice. It was obvious she was being tortured. And by whom it was twice as obvious. We were all scared when she agreed to tell Visser Three of us. We all morphed and hid in the shadows, ready to pounce if she began to tell. But she never did.
Instead she had killed herself. She knew that if Visser Three tortured her again she would break and tell. So she did what might have been the only possible option. But I doubt I would ever have done it, though.
She had been sitting on the edge of the Yeerk Pool and when she had pundged that tail blade into her chest. As soon as she died she plopped right into the Yeerk Pool. Soon the water was red with Ariadne's blood. He body was sucked deep into the Yeerk Pool and we never got it back. When we blew the Yeerk Pool several months, maybe a year later, I guess her body was turned to ashes. It was no right funeral for her but it was given to her.
I looked at Alaychies and saw her grimacing in pain, clutching her chest. I saw her fall and get swallowed up in the crowd that pushed forward to see what had happened. Then someone was knocked into the water. I saw Alaychies stand again and yell. "That was for my sister!" She pushed another person into the icy depths of the Yeerk Pool.
We decided it was time to show ourselves.
"L-let's do it!" Rachel said rather weakly, thanks to what she had just seen.
Then we charged. There was chaos for a long time and blood was spilled on both sides. I lost site of Alyachies. I was too busy fighting off Taxxons and Hork-bajir.
Then as I was being taken down by a Taxxon, I saw her. She was fighting off Visser Three's grip. It would have been pretty easy if he had been Andalite. But he was morphing into a monster. I feared Alyachies would fall to the same fate as her father did.
The she turned to us and yelled, "Run, Andalites! RUN! RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN!"
At first I was confused by what she meant by 'while you still can.' But then I saw the Yeerks weakening. They were clutching their eyes. Even Visser Three had let go of Alaychies. We ran. But I wasn't about to leave Alyachies behind. I grabbed her and followed the others out the way we came.
~*~*~*~
As soon as we were out Alyachies took several wheezing breaths. "Where are you hurt?" Cassie asked, for there were no big wounds. We had all demorphed and Tobias had even morphed human.
Alaychies just favored us with a half smile. "I know now why Ariadne and I were two instead of the one we were supposed to be. We were in a way one. If one of us gets hurt, so does the other…"
"So you mean that you're going to die too?" Tobias asks sadly.
"I don't doubt it. I…I don't have much time. Just…don't forget us."
Tobias took her hand. "I never will. We never will. Even if we live to be a hundred I will never forget you. Neither of you."
She smiled again. "Thank you. Thank you all for being kind when I first came. Thank…you." She suddenly coughed weakly and fell to the floor.
Her eyes were open for a while longer. She whispered something I never heard. Then her eyes fluttered shut. They remained that way forever more.
Tobias stayed there, kneeled next to her for a long time. After a while Rachel rested a hand on his shoulder, lightly.
That was the end of Alyachies and Ariadne. I thought of them for as long as I lived and I never forgot them. I doubt that any of us did. They died bravely. Rest in Peace, my friends.
A/N: There's gonna be another chapter telling a few facts about what happens after Alaychies and Ariadne's deaths. But besides that, this is about the last chapter. Thanks to everyone who's read this story and reviewed about it!
"LET GO OF ME!" I screamed as the guard pushed me into a room and locked the door behind me. "LET ME GO. ALYACHIES! ANYBODY!"
I knew I was stuck there but it never hurts to try, does it?
I went over the image of each of the Animorphs. Rachel, blonde and beautiful. Were her eyes blue or green, though? Blue, I guessed.
Jake, obviously of some relation for they looked much like each other. Both tall and born leaders. Blue eyes also and towering over me with his cousin at his side.
Cassie, kind and friendly. Ironically, we were not very close at all. We never fought or sent each other evil thoughts. We just went our separate ways. Black skin, brown eyes and hair. Medium height, a little bit shorter than Alyachies and me.
Marco, funny and smart. He could get from point A to point B. Short, brown hair and brown eyes. As friendly as a rattlesnake at times.
Tobias. My brother. I closed my eyes, imagining how much we looked alike (which wasn't much, that's why I had to image hard). Blonde and medium height. Brown eyes? I doubt even he remembers off the top of his head. But mostly he's very small and covered in feathers. His eyes are like lasers and are golden brown.
Ax, the blue dude. The intelligent one. The one that once he gets started and stops talking sense.
I would miss them all.
I then heard the squeak of the door. The time had come.
Alyachies POV
We were in the barn. Everyone was downcast.
"How are we going to save her?" Marco asks saying what everyone was thinking and putting it into words.
"Look, guys. I know what all of you are thinking. It's my fault so I should deal with it myself. I'm not even one of the Animorphs."
Cassie walks over and takes my hand. "In my opinion, no matter what happens, you ARE one of us. You may not have our powers but you have helped us learn something we could not have learned without you. Both of you. And that means we are not going to let you go alone. We're all going, because you and your sister are part of us."
I smiled. "Cassie, you even said yourself: IN YOUR OPINION. That's just you talking. But you are not the whole group." I turned away but after a second I turned back around. I said it to everyone but was looking at Jake in the eyes when I said it. "I'll never forget you. Any of you." Then I turned away, ready to think I'd never see him again.
Tobias POV
Ariadne had gotten taken by Visser Three. I was still trying to get pasted that fact. The headstrong one. How? I had always thought that if anyone would get caught it would be Alyachies, no offense to her. She just seemed more innocent.
But now Alyachies had gone mad! How could she think we would let her go after Ariadne alone? We wouldn't! Would we?
I turned to stare at the others. They all seemed ready to follow Alyachies, strangely, especially Rachel.
I looked at Jake in the eye, my golden brown eyes burning into his. {We won't let her go by herself, will we?} I asked him in private thoughtspeak.
Jake shook his head slightly so the others wouldn't see. Then he spoke. "Guys, I think Cassie's right. We can't let her go by herself. It'll be wrong." He stared at Rachel when he said this.
"Of coarse," Rachel said, ingoring Jake's stare, "You can't say you even considered letting her go alone!"
Jake shook his head. "*I* didn't."
Marco looks around at all of us. "What if it's a trap? We could all die."
{We've faced death before.}
"But not like this." Marco argued. "Look guys, I'm just as ready as you to go and follow Alyachies wherever it may lead me, but we can't just go without thinking of the consequences."
{Consequences?! What about the consequences if we don't leave now? They could die! Could you live with that, Marco? Could any of us?} I answered, tired of this talking. We had to go help Alyachies save Ariadne! Couldn't they get that through their thick skulls?
There was silence for a little while before Cassie spoke up for the first time since Alyachies had left. "Tobias is right. We have to go now or not go at all."
We all exchanged glances and each of us nodded in turn. We had decided at last. I just hoped we wouldn't be too late.
~*~*~*~
We weren't. We caught up with Alyachies right at the door of the mall. We all entered the Yeerk Pool entrance together in various morphs. Only Alyachies remained in her own form. She said it would be better.
I saw nothing for most of the trip. I felt much less. I ate, I'm ashamed to admit, much. We were fleas on her arm and we drank a bit to relieve some instincts. Alyachies did, though, slap her arm to stop us from biting anymore.
Then Alyachies whispered to us quiet as to not pop our insect ears. "Guys. Hop off and demorph. It's safe."
We demorphed and we found ourselves in a bathroom. We had no time to look around though as Alyachies quickly shooed us into stalls. "Stand on the seat!" she hissed as she walked out. I almost flew out of the stall to follow her but Jake saw and forbid me.
"We can't go unless she calls. We have to trust her." Jake said to me in the stall we were sharing.
{But we-} I began but was stopped by a wicked voice.
{Alyachies. Come out.} It was Visser Three! {Come out or it will all end for your sister.}
Ariande POV
My conversation with Visser was mostly one sided.
{Tell me where the Andalites are and might show mercy!}
I couldn't help but laugh. "You think I'll ever tell you? You're crazy!"
He seemed to smile his Andalite smile, in which only the eyes are used since they have no mouth. "I hope to change that choice." He then pressed a bottom on the table.
Suddenly I figured it out a moment too late. I was strapped in an electric chair. That was the last thought that was clear for several minutes. It was then that the electricity ran through my body, chilling my bones and making my hair frizz.
I sat there a long while that felt like hours with that pain rushing through my body, my body draining, ever so slowly. Then I sat there several more minutes even after he stopped the electricity. Then I licked my dry lips.
I could do only one thing. I felt too drained to even talk but I could possibly do one simple thing. I calculated as well as I could in my condition and let her rip.
Suddenly Visser Three found some spit in his eye and while he cleaned it off I tried to rest as well as I could for what might come later.
{So you still will not talk.}
I said nothing. I didn't need to. I moved my eyes painfully to his and glared. It started to her after a little while so I closed my eyes.
That was a mistake.
He pressed the button again. I felt the same surge of pain and cried out. The last time I had been in too much pain to make much noise. Or so I had thought.
But it hurt worse when he put more pain into my already pained body. Now I was screaming and screaming, feeling as if it might never end. Would I endure that endless torture forever?, I thought.
I kept falling in and out of consciousness. I was screaming, stopping and then starting again. I thought I heard some jeering and laughter but I could have possibly imagined it in my half delirious state.
"Stop! Stop!" I cried.
{Tell me where the Andalites are!}
"I will! I will! Just stop it! Don't do it anymore! Please!" I screamed at the ceiling.
{Yes, of coarse. Your sister came to pay you a visit. I think it would be quite well for her to see you betray her and the Andalites.}
Then the pain stopped. There was a strange ringing in my ears and I still felt dizzy and faint. Visser Three walked over to me and helped me out of the chair. I doubt I would have noticed. I just wanted it all to be over. I could barely stand. I felt none of the eyes upon me.
"Let me sit. Sit. Faint. Weak." I murmured quietly.
Visser Three nodded and yelled, {Guards! Get out guest a chair. Now before I chop off all your heads!}
I could now see people from the crowd. I saw no one too familiar. Maybe some people from school and a teacher or two but I care not for them. Then I saw her. She was between a small man in a suit and a tall woman in a Queen Mary hat. Alyachies.
{This young girl has finally decided, after some persuasion,} some people laughed at that, {to tell us the place where the Andalite bandits dwell! At last the Yeerk Empire will control Earth!} I great cheer came up from the crowd and even greater cry came from the creatures in the cages.
Then an idea occurred to me. It was horrible but I had no other choice. None at all. It was like fate. It was all counting on me. "Visser Three, please help me up. I wish to stand." I whispered. I held up the hand on the opposite side of which he was standing, meaning he would have to pass in front of me to help me up. I took my chance then.
When he passed in from of me I stood, grabbed Visser Three's tail blade and plunged it deep into my chest. I looked up to have one last look of my twin. But a looked past her and spotted seven pairs of eyes in the shadows. I locked eyes with a pair of golden brown ones. I tried to smile, for them all. Then I died and no one of this world ever saw my smile again.
Marco POV
We had heard Ariadne's pleads for mercy. I had never heard such pain a voice. It was obvious she was being tortured. And by whom it was twice as obvious. We were all scared when she agreed to tell Visser Three of us. We all morphed and hid in the shadows, ready to pounce if she began to tell. But she never did.
Instead she had killed herself. She knew that if Visser Three tortured her again she would break and tell. So she did what might have been the only possible option. But I doubt I would ever have done it, though.
She had been sitting on the edge of the Yeerk Pool and when she had pundged that tail blade into her chest. As soon as she died she plopped right into the Yeerk Pool. Soon the water was red with Ariadne's blood. He body was sucked deep into the Yeerk Pool and we never got it back. When we blew the Yeerk Pool several months, maybe a year later, I guess her body was turned to ashes. It was no right funeral for her but it was given to her.
I looked at Alaychies and saw her grimacing in pain, clutching her chest. I saw her fall and get swallowed up in the crowd that pushed forward to see what had happened. Then someone was knocked into the water. I saw Alaychies stand again and yell. "That was for my sister!" She pushed another person into the icy depths of the Yeerk Pool.
We decided it was time to show ourselves.
"L-let's do it!" Rachel said rather weakly, thanks to what she had just seen.
Then we charged. There was chaos for a long time and blood was spilled on both sides. I lost site of Alyachies. I was too busy fighting off Taxxons and Hork-bajir.
Then as I was being taken down by a Taxxon, I saw her. She was fighting off Visser Three's grip. It would have been pretty easy if he had been Andalite. But he was morphing into a monster. I feared Alyachies would fall to the same fate as her father did.
The she turned to us and yelled, "Run, Andalites! RUN! RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN!"
At first I was confused by what she meant by 'while you still can.' But then I saw the Yeerks weakening. They were clutching their eyes. Even Visser Three had let go of Alaychies. We ran. But I wasn't about to leave Alyachies behind. I grabbed her and followed the others out the way we came.
~*~*~*~
As soon as we were out Alyachies took several wheezing breaths. "Where are you hurt?" Cassie asked, for there were no big wounds. We had all demorphed and Tobias had even morphed human.
Alaychies just favored us with a half smile. "I know now why Ariadne and I were two instead of the one we were supposed to be. We were in a way one. If one of us gets hurt, so does the other…"
"So you mean that you're going to die too?" Tobias asks sadly.
"I don't doubt it. I…I don't have much time. Just…don't forget us."
Tobias took her hand. "I never will. We never will. Even if we live to be a hundred I will never forget you. Neither of you."
She smiled again. "Thank you. Thank you all for being kind when I first came. Thank…you." She suddenly coughed weakly and fell to the floor.
Her eyes were open for a while longer. She whispered something I never heard. Then her eyes fluttered shut. They remained that way forever more.
Tobias stayed there, kneeled next to her for a long time. After a while Rachel rested a hand on his shoulder, lightly.
That was the end of Alyachies and Ariadne. I thought of them for as long as I lived and I never forgot them. I doubt that any of us did. They died bravely. Rest in Peace, my friends.
A/N: There's gonna be another chapter telling a few facts about what happens after Alaychies and Ariadne's deaths. But besides that, this is about the last chapter. Thanks to everyone who's read this story and reviewed about it!