Jake's POV
I was standing there, starring at a dragon. I thought I was ready for anything, wrong. I literally stumbled back. I would have been less surprised if the devil himself walked out. But this was a DRAGON. His wings were retracted somehow, but I could tell he had them.
"I something wrong?" Gabriel asked. I was still shocked.
"No... No, I'm, uh, okay. Um, are you a Kelbrid?" I asked.
I didn't know what to say. If Marco was here would have made a joke about being Aragorn. That thought reminded me that he was dead, but I couldn't think about that now.
"Yes, I am a Kelbrid. Why are you on our planet?" He asked.
"I crashed on your planet." I said, regaining my composure.
Is your house secure from this hurricane? Tobias asked.
"Oh yes. Come in. How foolish of me. Come in." We walked in. Just as the door was closing the wood broke.
A large branch nearly hit me. I dropped to the ground and the branch hit Gabriel. He was slammed into the far wall and he landed on the floor, moaning. There was cyan colored blood oozing out of the wound.
Just then something flew in. I looked at it. It was the blue box.
What in the world? Tobias said, bewildered. At least he wasn't hit. The door had been jammed by a tree trunk as big as my torso. The door was crushing it slowly.
"GET THE BLUE BOX!" I yelled over the wind. Tobias picked it up with his talons and brought it over. If it weren't for the low gravity, I don't think he could have made it.
I took the blue box and gave it to Gabriel. He took it. The door was finally closed. Tobias had morphed Ax and took the branch of Gabriel.
"Gabriel, touch me on the arm." He took his hand and put it on my arm. "Now concentrate on me. Me only. DO IT!" I felt myself getting calmer. Then I livened up again. "Now, concentrate on me again! Do it! Please just do it." He must have because I saw him turning into me.
Then a thought hit me. The dar! Did it survive? I had no idea.
"Tobias, you will have to coach him through demorphing." I was morphing rhino. Then reversed morph and starting morphing howler. It could carry the dar and could survive all the hit from limbs and branches.
What are you doing?! Tobias asked. I pressed a button on the panel that was just next to the door. The door opened.
The wind howled and screamed in my ear. I branch hit me square in the chest. It knocked me down. I crawled around, looking for the Dar. It had to be in here somewhere. Then I saw it.
It was in the place it had originally come out of. I saw a branch crushing his leg. I crawled over to the Dar and picked it up. Then I turned back to the door. It was closed. Tobias must have closed it. I started walking toward it, I was shielding the Dar with my body. I got to the door. I reached out to the panel. It was crushed. How would I open it.
TOBIAS! Open the door! I have Gabriel's Dar! Open the door. The door opened and I rushed in. The door closed behind me, but not before a hardwood branch hit me in the back of the head.
I put the Dar down in front of the perfectly healthy Gabriel.
"Thank you my friend." He bent down and hugged the dar close. "What, what did I just do. I changed my body shape into the same as your original form." He looked me up and down.
"You look like some sort of volcano monster." He said.
"Oh, yeah." I said in the voice of a howler. I started demorphing. I heard Tobias speak.
Thank you for letting us stay in your house. But what is that thing out there? Tobias asked.
"It is a Gajhj. It happens once every 100 years." Gabriel replied.
"And about how long does that take here?" I asked.
"Oh, about 25 Andilite years." Gabriel said. I jerked in surprise. "Yes, I know you at least heard about us from the Andilites. We give out false names for our species to different species. Kelbrid is the name we gave the Andilites."
"Okay..." I was amazed.
"We started doing it about 1000 years ago." He said. "It has..."
"I know your species name." I said. "I know exactly what it is."
"What? How could you know?"
"That doesn't matter. You species name is Dragons." I said, confidently.
"Well, yes, but how did you know?" He asked, it was his turn to be bewildered.
"Well, an old Earth myth talked about you. You look just like the things in those myths." I said. "That is how I know."
"Amazing. We never visited a place called earth..." He started.
"Ah, yes. We are speaking in English. English was not a language when you visited. We call it Earth."
"Amazing, simply amazing." He said. "We must tend to Gard. His leg is hurt." He opened another door and we walked in.
The room looked like a computer room. Glowing panels covered the wall like wall paper. The room had a large bed in the middle. It was covered in a clear plastic. Gabriel placed Gard on the bed. Glass came down from the ceiling and surrounded the bed. Gabriel walked over to a panel and punched a few keys. Then I saw the Dar's leg healing. Right in front of my eyes. It was as if it were morphing itself. I saw the bone coming together, I saw that because the gash in his leg was not healing yet. Once the bone was together perfectly the mussle and tissue started repairing itself. It came together like if you were watching a movie where the paper was tearing in reverse, in slow motion. The mussel came together and then the skin starting to heal. I watched, spellbound. I had seen things heal that quick, but not that smoothly.
Gabriel pushed a few more buttons and a tube came from the ceiling, and of it's own accord found a vein in the Dar's shoulder and what I thought was the color of the tube started flowing. It was purple and sort of clear. It was flowing into him, I could see him becoming more energetic by the moment. The tube retracted back into the ceiling and right after that the glass did too. It was as if a force field was shut off. gard jumped off the bed and ran to Gabriel. He started lick Gabriel. Just like a dog. I thought.
"Ah, there are advantages to being a doctor." He picked up Gard and petted him. "I have had many visits from you species lately. They professed to be disciples of the one. Whatever that means. Are you a disciples of the one?" He asked.
The One! I thought he wasn't real! Tobias exclaimed.
"Did they try to convert you to being a disciple of The One?" I asked, eager to glean any information I could.
"Yes, they did. I told them that I was not interested." He said nonchalantly.
"Where did they go?" I asked.
"Into the city, of coarse." He said, as if it were obvious.
"Where is the city?" I asked. I didn't like not having information.
"Here's a door to it right here." He said. He led us to a door that when he opened it, I saw a street and a building. I stepped out, I looked up and saw about a hundred feet of air and then there was the ceiling. The ceiling was made of dirt. I wondered what kept it up.
"What keeps the dirt up there up?" I asked.
"What? Oh, a force field. I guess you aren't used to being under ground." Gabriel said.
"No, I'm not. I know we were far closer to the surface than this. What happened?"
"Oh, my house came down. My house is one of the few houses that can move to the surface. Because I am a doctor, sometimes I am needed above to help with injured people." He said. "Notice how mine is on the edge of the city, made into the wall. When I retire, my house will become another doctors house." He said.
"Why don't you have your house, and then the hospital? Why have it in one?" I asked.
"Because it is easier to do it this way, rarely do we have patients that stay for over ten minutes. So it is my house. Much easier that way." He said.
"Ah," I said brilliantly.
"Would you like to go on a tour of the city?" Gabriel asked.
"Sure..." I was cut of by a dragon that landed in front of me.
"Gabriel! We have found out that there are creatures taking over the minds of many Dragons. We captured a ruffian and we put him under a scanner and we found that his brain was wrapped up in a living creature."
"Yeerks!" I cried. "Gabriel, Yeerks are an evil race who try to take over the minds of any race they come in contact with. They must be stopped. There must be a front... The One! You must find all the followers of The One and scan their heads! Do it! It necessary!"
Just then both sides of the street were filled with human controllers. I knew because I saw Hork-Bajir, Taxxons and Ax. They were all armed.
Don't shoot. Visser One said.
Inside! Tobias said. Gabriel the other dragon, Tobias and I all jumped inside his house. The messenger dragon had been hit in the leg by a Dracon beam.
I said don't fire! Fools! I could imagine at least one head rolling.
Gabriel punched some keys on the panel next to the door and I herd a twang.
"What did you do?" I asked.
"I activated a force field around my house. It was put there in case the citizenry thought that one of my patients was a danger to the city. I have healed many criminals after they had a confrontation with the police." Gabriel explained. He punched a few more buttons. "We need to get him to the bio-bed." He said, motioning to the other dragon.
Marco and I looked at each other. The translator worded it just like star trek. We picked up the dragon and brought him to the bio-bed, Tobias was still in Ax's morph.. The glass came down around the bio-bed and the same amazing thing happened.
This time it was different. The blackened skin around the wound fell of and new skin grew. It was like filling up a hole with dirt. The mussel and the tissue came together came together just like before.
Gabriel punched a few more keys and the glass lifted. The other dragon got out.
"Thank you. My name is Arcor. I believe that the entire city might well be overrun with, uh..." He stammered.
"Yeerks." I finished for him. "They are very dangerous. They nearly destroyed my home planet. I and five of my friends fought them off."
"I thought you said they were dangerous. How could you and five of your friends fight an entire species? They must not be that dangerous." Gabriel said.
"I'll show you how we did it." I started morphing tiger. I felt that tickling sensation that happens when my fur grew. Then I felt my head turning into a tigers head. Then I felt my spine extend into a tail. Just then my legs changed into tigers legs. I fell forward. Then my arms started turning into tigers front legs. Then finally my body started turning into a tigers strong body. I felt myself getting stronger and more agile.
This, my friend, is why we won. We can turn into any living thing I can touch. I said.
"You gave me this power, I thank you." Gabriel said.
You would have died without it. Tobias said simply.
"Thank you all the same." He replied.
So there we were, on an alien planet, in the company of two dragons. We are being chased by Yeerks. Little did I know what I was in for...
Sorry, no cliffie this time. I need to give cliffie's a rest. So, what do you think is going to happen? As you can see, I have changed the name too "Animorphs 55: The renewed"
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