1:11 am

Nightmares are a natural part of morphing. As a med student I had always been interested in the medical and scientific aspect of morphing, one of the things anyone who morphs finds out quick is that the humans psychological well-being is shaken by morphing, all of the bodily changes and hormone swithces not to mention the loss or gaining of different body parts, it's like going through puberty, and a pregnancy at the same time, for both men and women.

My nightmares were always rough, most of the time I'd wake up screaming and not remember what it was about. Night Terrors, my doctor called them, they would fragment my sleep severely, and most of the time when I woke up I'd have a horrible feeling in my stomach and it would be two hours or more before I could sleep.

Fortunately for me I was near Karen on that night, so when I woke up in panic mode, I walked into her room, opened the door and looked at her. She was wearing a light blue night gown, she had kicked the sheets half off and was shivering slightly. I walked over and put the sheets on correctly. Her hair was spread out on her pillow, she would have a time trying to tame it in the morning. I kissed her on the forehead and my panic subsided, I went downstairs and back to sleep.

7:45 am

I woke up to smell of cooking bacon. Since I heard the shower running I decided to go ahead and eat. The best way to describe what I saw when I went in was this: picthcure the toughest looking black man you've seen, now picture him in an apron and oven mitts. Fred was an incredible cook (something else he got from his mother I always thought). There was a TV in the kitchen a story about some hiker claiming to have seen a monster outside of Maggie Valley was on.

"Mornin', E-man." Fred said . Becky, Anna and Rachel were still asleep a but everyone else was sitting at a table and eating. Jerry had a smile on his face, apparently he had done a lot of tampering with the medical records of hotel employees.

"Oh boy," I said. "You didn't give one of the hotel members Anthrax did you?" Jerry chuckled.

"Nah, but I gave the bastards enough communicable diseases to have them monitored my the CDC. Oh and by the way, we succeeded, you little firefight in there cost the hotel a lot of it's reservations, now only stoners and hookers want in and the Yerks have no need to infest a hooker. Chalk another win for the Glass Daggers!"

"Great," I said. "Now were twenty-two and 183."

"Hey , by the way is it true, is Rachel here?"

"Yeah, it's true."

"Good lord, the Animorphs still around who'd ev thunk it?"

"Erik, are you going to ask her?" Amy asked.

"Ask me what?" Rachel said. She came in wearing some of Karen's clothes.

"I need to ask you, and the others something," I said. "We need your help."

"To do what?"

"Take out the Yerk Pool."