A/n: Last you will see of the T*Witches copies.hehe (quote from a review)
well, it wasn't T*Witches that inspired me to make them have powers but I
guess they ARE a lot like Cam and Alex in a lot of ways. Thanks again for
everyone who read my story. This chapter should explain some of the
unexplained, like why all the Yeerks got all messed up when they were
winning the battle in the last chapter. And some of what happens later.
Narrator POV
All the Animorphs were present at the secret funeral of Alyachies. They cremented her body and hid the urn where no one could find it and do anything to it. Ariadne's body was never found but they hoped she rested in peace anyway.
Marco always remembered Ariadne's slickness in their first meeting. If anyone had told him of what Ariadne would do then, he would have thought they were crazy. But now he knew that Ariadne really was brave, even if at times she was aggressive.
Cassie never forgot those last moments when Alyachies told about her childhood. She wished she had listened better. Now those memories were only inside her and lost in the mind of the teller. Alyachies had looked to relaxed when she had spoken of her childhood. She had enjoyed the care freeness she no longer was allowed.
Tobias never told Jake of Alyachies's feelings for him. Alyachies would have wanted it, he hoped. Tobias didn't want to spoil Jake's memory of Alyachies with anything.
Alyachies, on the brink of death, found her power. She found she could find slight control in the minds of others. But only one part. So she took control of the pain centers of the Yeerk itself. The Yeerk was easier to target than the creature itself.
So all the Controllers had to clutch themselves in the pain they felt. They wanted to pull out their eyes for no pain could be worse than the one they were feeling. Of coarse, the pain COULD have been worse. The Controller just felt pain as they had not felt before. The hosts had felt little of the pain but the most Yeerk pushed the pain the heads of their hosts. The ones that didn't had they're hosts ripping at their ears.
~*~*~*~
Alyachies's funeral was held in secret. The Chee let it be held in their underground playground. Since there was no way they were going to get a gravestone without causing trouble they smoothed out a large rock (they being the Chee, of coarse) and on it they wrote these words:
Alyachies and Ariadne Fangor
(1985-2000)
Two friends you could count on.
They got it from their father.
Ax coaxed them into writing the last line. Even if that wasn't how he wanted it. Usually the Animorphs left flowers or something every so often. Tobias sometimes came now and then and talked to them. At first he felt quite foolish. But he got used to it and sometimes when there was so much going on he would find himself feeling better after talking to Alyachies (and Ariadne) 's grave(s).
After the war was over he only went to their grave three times. Once, when he searched where he remembered their grave was. He found the rock (somewhat messed up, it area around it WAS blown up partly) but knew he had no chance in finding Alyachies's body. The second time he told the rock everything that had happened and cried a few times. He also took the rock back to his 'home'. He gave it to Cassie at Rachel's funeral. Cassie had it placed next to Rachel's monument. The third time, he tried looking for Alyachie's body anyway, but didn't succeed.
After a few months, when they were looking for bodies among the disaster that was his former home. Tobias went to see if they found Alyachies somewhere. He didn't expect them to. So he was surprised when they did. It was there, maybe a little better preserved because it had been buried a few feet under the ground of an underground basement thingy. But she was there.
They had another funeral for her body. It was supposed to be mostly secret but somehow it broke out, as most celebrity secrets will. There was TV anchors and everything there. It wasn't as big as Rachel's, of coarse but it pretty big news just seeing the Animorphs together at an event. Alloran came too, remembering his time with Alyachies. He spoke about how he had grown fond of her, even as just a host at her second funeral.
Marco's mother went as well, more for Alaychie's lost sister. She cried, even though she had long been told that Ariadne had died. Tobias cried as well.
~*~*~*~
When Marco told his mother about Ariande's death it was a bittersweet moment for her. She was so happy that she wasn't enslaved as she had thought. She was also glad she that her powers, and her knowledge, did not fall into the Vissers' hands.
But she was sad by the fact that the young girl she had grown to love had died in such a horrible death. It must have been so painful, was the thing she thought the most while thinking of Ariande.
~*~*~*~
"THEY HAVE DIED THEN?" came a deep voice in Tobias's dream the night that came after the war finished.
Tobias wasn't surprised to see himself as a human, for this was a dream. He could tell at once, for that was how the Ellimist wanted it. He responded after a moment, knowing, somehow, that he was talking about Alyachies and Ariande. "Yes." "GOOD."
"GOOD?!" Tobias cried. "How could it possibly have been any good?!"
The Ellimist's old man guise smiled. "THERE WERE TWO WAYS THEIR FATE WAS SUPPOSED TO TURN OUT." The Ellimist boomed in a voice that made you feel sure it didn't end up as either fate. "ONE, THEY WERE TO JOIN THE ANIMORPHS AND ARIADNE WOULD BE SENT WITH RACHEL. ARIADNE WOULD TURN INTO A WRECK. LIKE JAKE WILL SOON BECOME, IF HE HASN'T ALREADY. "
Tobias shuddered at the thought of a Jake a wreak. But he let the Ellimist continue.
"THE SECOND FATE WAS THAT THEY WOULD BOTH BE ENSLAVED BY THE YEERKS. THAT WOULD BE BEFORE THEY MET YOU BUT WITH ARIADNE'S MIND READING POWERS THEY WOULD FIND OUT ANYWAY. THAT WAS WHY MARCO MET ARIADNE ON THE SCHOOL BUS THAT DAY."
So he set both Marco and Ariadne up, Tobias thought. He sighed.
"BUT THEY DEFIED BOTH FATE AND.CRAYAK."
Tobias looked up at the Ellimist in surprise. "Crayak? What does this have to do with anything?"
"THEIR DOCTOR.THAT WAS HIM, TOBIAS. DR REE GEE, I THINK IT WAS. HE TOOK HER FORM AND CARRIED OUT OUR.BET, YOU MIGHT CALL IT."
"So that's all Ariadne and Alyachies were? A bet?!" Tobias yelled at the old man figure that held so much power.
"I SAID THEY WOULD SURVIVE MORE THAN CRAYAK THOUGHT. BUT HE CHEATED. HE TRIED TO MESS UP SOMETHING IN THEM. THEY WOULD STILL GET THE POWERS BUT WOULD BOTH BE IDIOTS. BUT WHO KNOWS HOW THE FOOL MESSED UP THEIR GENETICS. SO HE, INSTEAD OF LESSENING THEIR CHANCES OF SURVIVING HE PUT THEM HIGHER. BUT WE BOTH THOUGHT THEIR FATE WOULD BOTH BE PRETTY MUCH WHAT I SAID BEFORE. BUT, FROM WHAT YOU SAW. IT WAS QUITE DIFFERENT." Then he laughed and faded. Tobias woke up suddenly and thought about it almost till dawn fell over the edge of the horizon. Then his hunting began. He flew off, into the morning. His mind were on his sisters, who died so many years before.
Narrator POV
All the Animorphs were present at the secret funeral of Alyachies. They cremented her body and hid the urn where no one could find it and do anything to it. Ariadne's body was never found but they hoped she rested in peace anyway.
Marco always remembered Ariadne's slickness in their first meeting. If anyone had told him of what Ariadne would do then, he would have thought they were crazy. But now he knew that Ariadne really was brave, even if at times she was aggressive.
Cassie never forgot those last moments when Alyachies told about her childhood. She wished she had listened better. Now those memories were only inside her and lost in the mind of the teller. Alyachies had looked to relaxed when she had spoken of her childhood. She had enjoyed the care freeness she no longer was allowed.
Tobias never told Jake of Alyachies's feelings for him. Alyachies would have wanted it, he hoped. Tobias didn't want to spoil Jake's memory of Alyachies with anything.
Alyachies, on the brink of death, found her power. She found she could find slight control in the minds of others. But only one part. So she took control of the pain centers of the Yeerk itself. The Yeerk was easier to target than the creature itself.
So all the Controllers had to clutch themselves in the pain they felt. They wanted to pull out their eyes for no pain could be worse than the one they were feeling. Of coarse, the pain COULD have been worse. The Controller just felt pain as they had not felt before. The hosts had felt little of the pain but the most Yeerk pushed the pain the heads of their hosts. The ones that didn't had they're hosts ripping at their ears.
~*~*~*~
Alyachies's funeral was held in secret. The Chee let it be held in their underground playground. Since there was no way they were going to get a gravestone without causing trouble they smoothed out a large rock (they being the Chee, of coarse) and on it they wrote these words:
Alyachies and Ariadne Fangor
(1985-2000)
Two friends you could count on.
They got it from their father.
Ax coaxed them into writing the last line. Even if that wasn't how he wanted it. Usually the Animorphs left flowers or something every so often. Tobias sometimes came now and then and talked to them. At first he felt quite foolish. But he got used to it and sometimes when there was so much going on he would find himself feeling better after talking to Alyachies (and Ariadne) 's grave(s).
After the war was over he only went to their grave three times. Once, when he searched where he remembered their grave was. He found the rock (somewhat messed up, it area around it WAS blown up partly) but knew he had no chance in finding Alyachies's body. The second time he told the rock everything that had happened and cried a few times. He also took the rock back to his 'home'. He gave it to Cassie at Rachel's funeral. Cassie had it placed next to Rachel's monument. The third time, he tried looking for Alyachie's body anyway, but didn't succeed.
After a few months, when they were looking for bodies among the disaster that was his former home. Tobias went to see if they found Alyachies somewhere. He didn't expect them to. So he was surprised when they did. It was there, maybe a little better preserved because it had been buried a few feet under the ground of an underground basement thingy. But she was there.
They had another funeral for her body. It was supposed to be mostly secret but somehow it broke out, as most celebrity secrets will. There was TV anchors and everything there. It wasn't as big as Rachel's, of coarse but it pretty big news just seeing the Animorphs together at an event. Alloran came too, remembering his time with Alyachies. He spoke about how he had grown fond of her, even as just a host at her second funeral.
Marco's mother went as well, more for Alaychie's lost sister. She cried, even though she had long been told that Ariadne had died. Tobias cried as well.
~*~*~*~
When Marco told his mother about Ariande's death it was a bittersweet moment for her. She was so happy that she wasn't enslaved as she had thought. She was also glad she that her powers, and her knowledge, did not fall into the Vissers' hands.
But she was sad by the fact that the young girl she had grown to love had died in such a horrible death. It must have been so painful, was the thing she thought the most while thinking of Ariande.
~*~*~*~
"THEY HAVE DIED THEN?" came a deep voice in Tobias's dream the night that came after the war finished.
Tobias wasn't surprised to see himself as a human, for this was a dream. He could tell at once, for that was how the Ellimist wanted it. He responded after a moment, knowing, somehow, that he was talking about Alyachies and Ariande. "Yes." "GOOD."
"GOOD?!" Tobias cried. "How could it possibly have been any good?!"
The Ellimist's old man guise smiled. "THERE WERE TWO WAYS THEIR FATE WAS SUPPOSED TO TURN OUT." The Ellimist boomed in a voice that made you feel sure it didn't end up as either fate. "ONE, THEY WERE TO JOIN THE ANIMORPHS AND ARIADNE WOULD BE SENT WITH RACHEL. ARIADNE WOULD TURN INTO A WRECK. LIKE JAKE WILL SOON BECOME, IF HE HASN'T ALREADY. "
Tobias shuddered at the thought of a Jake a wreak. But he let the Ellimist continue.
"THE SECOND FATE WAS THAT THEY WOULD BOTH BE ENSLAVED BY THE YEERKS. THAT WOULD BE BEFORE THEY MET YOU BUT WITH ARIADNE'S MIND READING POWERS THEY WOULD FIND OUT ANYWAY. THAT WAS WHY MARCO MET ARIADNE ON THE SCHOOL BUS THAT DAY."
So he set both Marco and Ariadne up, Tobias thought. He sighed.
"BUT THEY DEFIED BOTH FATE AND.CRAYAK."
Tobias looked up at the Ellimist in surprise. "Crayak? What does this have to do with anything?"
"THEIR DOCTOR.THAT WAS HIM, TOBIAS. DR REE GEE, I THINK IT WAS. HE TOOK HER FORM AND CARRIED OUT OUR.BET, YOU MIGHT CALL IT."
"So that's all Ariadne and Alyachies were? A bet?!" Tobias yelled at the old man figure that held so much power.
"I SAID THEY WOULD SURVIVE MORE THAN CRAYAK THOUGHT. BUT HE CHEATED. HE TRIED TO MESS UP SOMETHING IN THEM. THEY WOULD STILL GET THE POWERS BUT WOULD BOTH BE IDIOTS. BUT WHO KNOWS HOW THE FOOL MESSED UP THEIR GENETICS. SO HE, INSTEAD OF LESSENING THEIR CHANCES OF SURVIVING HE PUT THEM HIGHER. BUT WE BOTH THOUGHT THEIR FATE WOULD BOTH BE PRETTY MUCH WHAT I SAID BEFORE. BUT, FROM WHAT YOU SAW. IT WAS QUITE DIFFERENT." Then he laughed and faded. Tobias woke up suddenly and thought about it almost till dawn fell over the edge of the horizon. Then his hunting began. He flew off, into the morning. His mind were on his sisters, who died so many years before.