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Chapter 2 The Awakening
I awake to see blonde hair out of the corner of my eye. For I second I'm lost. Then the pain comes and realize what happened. I swallow a yell that ends up sounding like a dog yipping. I back away from the people in the barn as I look at them with new eyes.
"What the hell are you people?" I manage to gasp between deep throbs of pain. They all turn to look at me. Marco's eyes narrow to slits.
"You should drop the charade. You've got no one fooled." Rachel speaks the words that are obviously on the tips of all their tongues. I decide to not argue with them anymore. Especially if they could change into a gorilla and kill me before I could manage to scream.
"What are you guys planning to do with me?" I say instead. Rachel and Cassie exchange looks before Jake answers cryptically.
"You know what we're going to do, Yeerk. But we'll be easy on you." He doesn't say anymore and pisses me off. I glares at them all and refuse to answer anything else they say to me.
What did they want with me? And why did they want to keep me in their barn? Why did they keep calling me Yeerk? Had someone followed me from New York? Spilled the beans? No way. The directions to my new town hadn't been been given to my friends, much less my enemies.
I lean back and give them a look. "You know, my parent's will get worried if I'm not home. So you can't be planning on holding me long."
Rachel smirks at me in a most annoying manner. "It's alright. You don't have to worry about that at all."
I'm about to answer back at her in an equally irritating way. That is before I saw the creature. How else can I describe it? It is blue, like the ocean in a perfect world picture. It looks like a horse, as well. Except for the long stalks protruding from it's head like horns. And on the ends of them, eyeballs, staring in all directions. And the face, bareing too much resemblance to a human face. I am terrified. How else am I to show my complete and total terror if not by screaming my lungs out?
So I do. That is, until Marco's now human hand pushes against my open mouth and my scream gets muffled. I try to push him off, but he keeps me down. He only suceeds this because of my still throbbing head.
It seems I have caused her fear. I do not mean you harm, human child. The creature's voice was in my head and I got no calmer. I remembered this was the way I had heard the voice before.
A bird sweeps in, and in its claws in a large envelope. The bird drops the envelope in Rachel's lap. Here's the stuff. Erik sends his regards.
It is that damn bird that had been outside. The one who with his head talk had given me away. When had that been? Yesterday? It seems more like like a lifetime.
Rachel's hard expression softens as she looks at him. He perches on her shoulder and she caressed his feathers gently before opening the bag and sniffing it. She wrinkles her nose and closes it again. "Just smelling it makes me tired."
Marco gives me a wary look before moving back. In back of him, Cassie and and the leader boy come into the barn with a hot cup of water. Rachel stands up, the large bird flying up to the rafters, and passes the envelope to leader boy.
They mix the tea and I stare at them. Are they planning what I think they're planning?
Cassie, wincing as her hand touches the china, passes the cup to Marco. I feel as if this is some sort of ritual gone mad, the way they're quiet and passing everything down, all careful and shit. It scares the crap out of me.
Marco holds the so that I don't burn myself. What? He expects me to drink the tea that burnt Cassie from through the cup. I shake my head vigoriously, unconsiously not breaking the silence by saying no out loud.
Marco's brow furrows and he pushes the cup into my hands angrily. My hands feel the heat and I yelp, the pain causing chills to go up my spine. But while I'm preocuppied with the pain, Marco's hands leads the cup to my lips. Even as I feel the liquid scalding my tongue and the inside of my mouth, I swallow. I'm barely down swallowing when my eyes close.
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