Chapter 5
{`Verdaifei Two-hundred-nine one-thirty`
My cuts have been healed. My bio-system is functioning properly as it should be. The healing progress has taken shorter than I had expected. Now all I need is to follow those humans, find the Escafil Device and...
[ Weow weow? ]
What will I do next? Well...
[ Weow?]
I have no idea, okay?
[ WEOOOW! ]
Stop crying! I'm the one who should be doing the crying!
After getting the Escafil Device, I will figure out what to do next. I must find it at once.
I have spotted some strange flying creatures in the atmosphere. One of them was my attacker. And another has...HAS THE ESCAFIL DEVICE?! How the yaheo did those things get it from the humans? Well, makes it an easy job.
`End of Verdaifei Three-hundred one-thirty`}
Kaoru
We were flying our way to the cliffside, the spot were I used to stay and think about my feelings when I was alone, before I joined the Animorphs. And I do mean flying.
Well, we were flying in our bird morphs. It's cool when you're flying. Catching a thermal in the sky. But now was no time for thermals. Not now.
[ Kaoru, can I ask you a question? ] Marco asked. He was in his osprey morph.
[ What? ] I asked, flying in my merlin morph.
[ Which tree!? There are a million of them! ]
[ The only one at the cliffside, ] I answered.
[ Is that it? ] Rachel asked. She was a bald eagle, the largest among us.
At the cliffside was a lonely tree standing just a few feet away from the edge. Just within its trunk was a hole that I found when I found this hiding spot. Nothing has lived in it so it was a good spot to hide a very important box.
[ Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer, ] Marco mumbled.
[ How much longer do we have till that Perinduro gets better, Ax? ] Jake asked.
[ About four minutes before the Perinduro is fully recuperated and begins to search, Prince Jake, ] Ax replied. He was a northern harrier.
And for the rest, Cassie was an osprey and Takehiro was in a morph of a goshawk. In his right claw was the box. Soaring by was Tobias.
[ Right. Let's dive quickly and hide it, ] Jake commanded.
We all dove and landed just near the tree. It took us a while to morph back to our original selves. Well, for Ax, just to morph back into an Andalite.
"Right on time!" Marco shouted once his beak was a formally mouth.
"Don't be too cocky. We still have to hide it and get out of here before that alien comes looking for it," Takehiro said. He and I were trained ninjas so we knew how to strategy.
"Tobias, check out if it's coming," Jake gave an order and at once Tobias left, scanning out the forest.
[ I'll go with him too, ] Rachel said and she took off after the red-tailed hawk.
"So this is the hole?" Cassie asked.
"Yeah. Don't worry, there aren't any squirrels in it," I said.
"So just toss it in already," Marco yelled.
"Sure, sure," Takehiro uttered, rolling his eyes. He was ready to place the box gently into the hole. Everything was going right in order.
Then we heard it. Just us twins.
A rustle in the trees. Coming fast towards us.
"Something's coming!" Takehiro and I shouted.
"What do you mean something's coming?" Cassie cried.
Swoosh!
A figure leapt out of the treetops, covered in rags. We couldn't see what it looked like but we saw two amber eyes staring from under its hood. It landed on the ground on all four like a cat and gave a hissing sound.
"Okay. Now that's one big cat!" Marco hollered.
It glared steadily at us and then slowly and slowly to Ax. I saw its eyes widened as if it was in shock.
{ You! } I heard it speak. Or maybe I heard it in my mind. It was like a thought-speech. At the sound time it sounded like the creature spoke. Through its unseen mouth. And it sounded like...a girl.
Under the creature's rags, a sound that sounded like metal swinging muffled. Suddenly retractable claws in the shapes of thin long knifes grew from her hidden arms. She got onto her two feet like a human.
{ Murderer! }
She dashed, taking a leap towards Ax, flashing her claws. Ax quickly drew up his tail blade and shot it at the creature.
KA-CHANK!
Both tail blade and claws hit, making a loud noise. The creature somersaulted back, forced away by Ax's tail blade. She landed on the ground, still glaring at us.
{ Visser Three! You murdered Prince Elfangor! } she hissed.
Our mouths dropped, except me. I didn't know who Elfangor was but to call Ax Visser Three was one big shock for all of us. Ax's expression was readable from his four eyes. He was as shocked as ever.
Visser Three is someone you don't want to mess with. Visser Three is the only Andalite Controller. The only Yeerk to control Andalite. Our enemy. I've met him once. The Animorphs did say that I had attacked Visser Three with only a sword subconsciously. But I don't exactly recall much.
"Did it just call Ax who I think it just called him?" Marco said.
The creature revealed an arm. Or I think it was an arm. Her arm was covered with white cream fur. Not only was it covered with rags as well but a layer of clothing underneath the rags. The clothing was different, the material almost alien.
It started to change. Her retractable claws started to merge together. We heard the bones in her arm crunch and shift. Her fingers also joined together, forming into one blade. Her elbow was changing, taking shape like a joint of a segmented insect. The blade, which was now large, long and metallic, was like a claw of a praying mantic.
[ She has the Grayi morph? ] Ax uttered sharply.
"Wait!" Jake shouted to the creature. "How do you know of Elfangor?"
{ Human Controller! } she hissed instead of answering.
She raised up her blade and immediately, she flung the blade out of her socket! Disconnected from her elbow! The blade spun like a chainsaw, giving off a whistling sound.
And it was heading at Jake!
I jumped, pushing him aside. The blade just missed us. Almost. I saw a bit of my hair cut off. It went on spinning until it came cutting the tree we were supposed to hide. It split the trunk into half. That would have been Jake if I haven't pushed him aside.
It came spinning back, shooting towards the creature. She raised up her half-gone arm and instantly the blade connected to her elbow.
Another arm shot from her left, also changing into another blade. It was going to be twice the attack. While her left arm was changing, she again shot the blade from her right.
"Morph!" Jake quickly shouted as we dodged the spinning blade.
It came twirling towards Takehiro horizontally but quickly, thanks to his instinct, he jumped and watched the blade spin underneath him and onwards.
I was starting to morph into my snow leopard. My hands were turning into claws. By now gray hair was sprouting over my skin. Whiskers sprung from my cheeks. I felt my ears point up.
Marco was morphing into a gorilla. Jake halfway into a tiger and Cassie into a wolf. Takehiro was turning into a walking reptilian being. Like Godzilla.
The blade came connected to the creature's arm. Her other arm was fully changed into an identical blade. She then took a dash. For a moment I thought she was going to attack all of us but her course changed quickly.
She was going to attack Ax. The creature took a leap.
FWAP! Ax's tail blade fired.
KA-KANK! One arm-blade hit at the tail blade.
[ I am not Visser Three! ] Ax hissed.
{ Lies won't get you anywhere, Yeerk! } the creature snapped.
[ It's one against five! We can tail her down! ] Jake ordered, now a complete form of a tiger. [ Marco, grab her! ]
Marco's huge hairy arms were stretching out at the creature but he wasn't fast enough. The creature noticed him as if she had heard Jake's order. Forcing the arm-blade onto the tail blade, the creature hauled herself up into the air, missing Marco's arms. She gave a somersault in mid-air before releasing her arm-blades at us.
One arm-blade almost cut at Cassie's tail when she grabbed it with her paw. The other was going to slash me in half. By instinct, I moved quickly, avoiding it. I heard it whistle near my ear.
The creature landed on the blunt part of Ax's tail blade and glared at him with fiercely yellow eyes. She was powerless now. Her arm-blades were still far from returning.
[ You have no more weapons. Stop this assault. We don't want to hurt you, ] Ax said.
{ Wanna bet? } she hissed calmly. { X-Fel! }
Ax's eyes shot wide. Out of her hood, a three-dimensional object came hovering. It was in a shape of a pentagon and was smooth like it was made of mineral or something.
[ Weow! ] the object cried, darting towards Ax. Its edges cut near his eye. He arched back in pain.
His tail blade drew back and the creature leapt before she would fall off. In mid-air, she rose her arms and the blades came whistling to her, connecting to her elbow. She drew down her blades and let gravity take her down.
{ Die, Visser Three! } she cried, daggering her blades at Ax.
Before she could harm him, I took a pounce and grabbed her with my retractable claws. I drew her down, pounding her to the ground.
Then I felt a cut. She had shot the blade and it slashed at my stomach. I fell aside and saw my own blood slip out. She quickly got up, ready to obtain the spinning blade when she stopped. I knew why.
The box was just near her.
[ Oh-! ] Takehiro shouted. It must have fallen from Takehiro's hand when he jumped to avoid the blade.
With one arm-blade gone, she reached out with her half-gone arm. It was changing, revealing a coat of fur over it. A hand took form. She was going to grab the box.
Takehiro opened his mouth and his long snake-like tongue slithered to the box. He caught it and drew the tongue back to his mouth. He clamped the box tightly between his jaws.
The creature hissed and quickly stood up. The other arm-blade came spinning at her and instantly connected to her elbow. The pentagon object hovered at her aid.
{ Give me the Escafil Device or this human gets her neck cut off, } the creature demanded, aiming a blade at me.
The pain wasn't bad. I was trying to stand on my four paws. I could see Takehiro wasn't going to give me because of me. His clutch on the box was tight. But I knew he was worried about me.
If one of us made a move too soon, she would fling her one blade at me. Still Takehiro wouldn't budge to give it.
[ Wait! We just want to talk, ] Jake shouted.
[ And for your information, we're not Yeerks! ] Marco said.
The creature ignored them and was ready to throw the blade at my neck.
Then a pair of hairy large ears popped from under her hood. Pointing to the sky.
There flying in the sky was Tobias and Rachel, all darting towards her with talons. They attacked her, scratching at her repeatedly. The creature hissed irritably, swinging her blades at the birds like swapping at bees.
She gave another hiss, a curse maybe and leapt into the treetops. She jumped from branch to branch with Tobias and Rachel still after her until we saw them disappear.
Then Tobias and Rachel flew to the sky from a far distance. And we heard a cry.
{ Curse you Yeerks! }
*****
Anonymous-cat – Yup, you got that right. Ryo-Mew-Ki is a solider of the GP Headquarters of the Perinduros. That's why the story is entitled The Solider. :P And that's a good idea. They should be called Copy-cats. Hee-hee. Thanks for reviewing!
Tigerlily-2250 – Well I tried my best to make this chapter longer for you. I can only write between 1000 words to 3000. But then again, the only chapter I've done before has 10192 words, 5000 more than my regular chapter. Thanks for your review.
ta-dao – Sorry, they have been a little short. But I wanted to start the chapters a little normal. I've planned out how the chapters should go, along a normal-strange chart if you know what I mean. The next chapters will be longer and more stranger. Thanks for reviewing.
Gil – Ryo-Mew-Ki is my own creation as I have explained about more than five times. *Tongue dry* If she was in another fanfic, I'll sue that author for taking my idea first! Ryo-Mew-Ki is officially mine. And now you see her here in fifth chapter as I said so. By maybe ninth, she should be captured by the Animorphs, give some common sense and reveal her profile. Thanks for your review!
