Title: The Created

Author: A.S.Amalon

Rating: PG

Chapter: Ten

Spoilers: If you haven't read the last book by now…

Disclaimer: All characters, sans Serenity and Kym, belong to the wonderful, glorious, awesome K.A. Applegate

A/N: Sorry I haven't posted in so long. I've had this chapter written for a while, but wasn't sure about posting it. So, after some minor editing, I think it's ready. Hope y'all enjoy it!

            The humans scattered, most screaming their heads off. Very few stayed to fight. I mean very few. As in two. But they ran off as well, after realizing that the situation was hopeless.

            I figured that no morph would be able to do what I wanted to do. I wanted to scare the Visser. I wanted to scare him so much that he would just pack up and leave Earth. The only thing that would be able to do what I wanted was my other form. I could do anything with just my mind, like levitation.

            "Jake, Kym, morph something dangerous and get out of the way," I said as we ducked under a table in the food court.

            Jake looked at me. He knew my abilities. "What are you going to do?"

            I changed into my other form. "I don't exactly know yet, but just get behind something and away from these tables."

            Jake patted my shoulder. He knew what kind of things I could do. My mind abilities were one of the reasons I was locked up for so long; they'd been scared of me. "Good luck. If you need any help, just call for me. That should get my attention."

            I nodded and rolled out from under the table.

            "There's one! Catch it!" the Visser cried. "Get it before it gets away!"

            The two humans on our side took one look at me and ran away. The Taxxons slithered at me.

            "Big mistake, worms," I said and held my arms out to my sides.

            Oh no, I know what you're going to do, Jake said. Just be careful; you still don't have complete control of these powers.

            I rolled my eyes. I knew what I was doing.

            I don't think the Visser did, though. He sent more of his Taxxons after me.

            I started with two tables. I levitated them and flung them at the Taxxons. A leg off the table pierced a Taxxon's soft skin. The smell was atrocious! A couple stopped to eat their fallen comrade, but the rest continued charging at me.

            "Get this…human-looking creature!" the Visser called.

            "I don't think so," I growled and hurled some tables directly at him. He ducked, but was a little two slow. Let me just say that he'll have a nasty knot on his head later.

            "Get her! NOW!!"

            I laughed triumphantly. I was unstoppable!

            "Hey Jake, you guys can take out a few of them, just watch out for flying furniture," I cried. A tiger and a Hork-Bajir leapt over the counter of Cinnabon.

            As soon as one of the Hork-Bajir Controllers was down, I levitated the Visser and held him over the Hork-Bajir's sharp blades. He flailed and screamed. Oh, and pleaded for his life. I liked that part the most.

            Serenity, don't! Jake screamed at me. Don't do it!

            "Why shouldn't I?" I yelled back, raising the Visser, then dropping him dangerously close to the blades.

            You're not one of them. Don't be one. You're human, not Yeerk.

            He was right. I carelessly flung the Visser across the room, where he was knocked out by a cash register.

            The human-controllers weren't stupid enough to stay with me. They deserted their Visser, followed by the rest of his goons.

            I was so busy laughing that I didn't notice the camera or the guys in black suits.

            "Freeze!"

            I think you're in trouble, Kym said to me.

            Jake stepped in front of the guys. What do you want with her?

            "Step aside, Mr. Berenson. We're not interested in you. This girl over here interests us."

            You have no right to take her anywhere. Who are you with, anyway?

            "We are with the government. And yes, we do have the right to take her. I have the right to do anything I want."

            "And what if I don't want to go with you?" I asked. They smelled strange, like enemies.

            "Either you come with us, or this reporter over here submits his tape." Blackmail. This guy was smart.

            You wouldn't.

            "I can and will, Mr. Berenson. So she is coming with—" his face started twitching uncontrollably.

            Yeerk! Jake yelled.

            One of the others laughed. "Right. But we don't serve Visser One. We serve Visser Four, and she is very interested in this girl."

            "How did you know I was going to be here?" I asked, keeping my distance.

            "Visser Four knows where you live. She had us follow you here. But she also got Visser One to follow you as well, hoping that he would distract you."

            A thought hit me. "The pair of eyes the other night belonged to her."

            He didn't say a word, but the look on his face told me that I was right.

            "Why does she want me? I'm no better than any other human."

            "Look at yourself. Look at what you've done here. You're not human. No human can possibly do this. Visser Four only wants to talk with you. She wants to negotiate with you."

            "And if I don't want to?"

            "The tape goes on the eleven o'clock news tonight."