Takehiro
Help me.
I heard it. A plea. I looked up. My flicking tongue stopped in midair as I watched Zoe being strangled by Visser Three. The only Andalite controlled by a Yeerk!
She coughed badly as I saw the tightness strangle around her neck. Suffocating her.
Everyone stopped as we all watched her trying to breath. It was like time just stopped instantly. The moment Visser Three came here, the Hork-Bajir and the Controllers stopped fighting us.
-Jake! What should we do?- I demanded. I was in a Komodo dragon morph, my battle morph. Okay, so it's not the perfect morph like the others' but I can really fight. The power of a Komodo dragon was strong, although I had to control it from going to sleep now and then.
I turned to Jake in his tiger morph, waiting for his answer.
-Andalites, if you do not want this human to lose her life, I suggest you surrender now,- Visser Three said.
He tightened his grip around Zoe's neck. She coughed in pain and I saw tears on her cheeks. I hissed angrily, having the dragon's rage building up on me. I wanted to bite at that monster and suffocate him, then let the poison finish him off. But I couldn't. Not when my sister was at state.
-We are not surrendering,- Ax shouted.
-What! Ax, he's about to kill her!- I screamed.
He ignored me, his four eyes looking at something. I turned to the direction and with my sharp eyes I saw something glittering hiding in Zoe's hand. A dagger. She came alone here and fought off a couple of Hork-Bajir and Controllers with daggers and martial arts? I don't believe it...
She coughed and managed to speak. I heard...nothing. The dragon's hearing was useless. But I could almost tell what she was saying under her scarf.
"H-Hey, you," she coughed. Visser Three turned to her. "The o-only enemy you got around h-here...is me!"
She stabbed the dagger at his tail and Andalite blood spilled. He backed away in pain, his grip loosening. Zoe fell to the floor, finally gasping and breathing for air.
The Hork-Bajir and the Controllers had been distracted so Rachel, being an African elephant, stampeded. Jake dashed into battle, flashing his claws out.
Zoe backed away as Visser Three's tail bled. She reached under her shirt and took a sack. It revealed a set of daggers. She quickly took all eight daggers between her fingers.
"I'm gonna find the truth...and no one's gonna stop me!" she yelled and fired all the daggers at Visser Three.
Despite the pain from his wound, he took notice of the darting daggers. He raised the blade and knocked all eight daggers down. My eyes opened wide. Zoe looked astonished.
FWAPP! Again the tail shot but she dodged to the left.
She slipped.
And went down.
-Zoe! NO!- I screamed. I saw where she was heading. She was heading to one of the pools. Where those slimy worms were waiting. Waiting to crawl into her mind.
PAH-LOOSH! She hit. My eyes widened with fear. I heard Visser Three merely laughing but stopped when Ax attacked him. I scattered to the pool, calling. -Zoe! Oh god! Zoe!-
I looked over, seeing the silvery water. Living seething silvery water. The Yeerks were drowning Zoe like seawater. She burst to the surface, gasping for air and struggled to get out of there.
With theses claws, I couldn't grab her. I turned to Marco. Now you would be thinking he was wearing a gorilla suit. No, that's his battle morph.
-Marco!- I yelled.
He hurried over, seeing the situation. He grabbed Zoe's swinging hand with his huge hair hand and pulled her out. She fell to the floor, coughing out the water that those Yeerks swam in.
Is she okay?- Marco asked.
-Zoe! Zoe, speak to me!- I cried to her.
-Are you nuts? She's gonna think a lizard is talking to her!-
I didn't care.
-Zoe! Please, answer me,- I begged.
She moved and her hands reached to her head. She grounded her teeth. She moaned as if she had a bad headache. Then I saw it. Something tickling in her ear. Something pushing and probing into her ear canal. I felt myself terrified. We backed away. We knew the truth and I didn't want to know.
A Yeerk had crawled out of the sludge and into her ear!
-No...- I gasped.
-This is bad news,- Marco said uneasily.
Slowly, she got to her feet. She turned to us. She grinned. I locked to her eyes. Her eyes were different. They didn't shine, as if they were someone's else's eyes. The Yeerk.
She laughed softly behind the scarf, sinisterly. "So...this host came here on her own will? How pathetic..."
That was the Yeerk talking, not Zoe. Not Kaoru. She was one of them. A Controller.
-Oh god...-
-Zack, snap out of it!- Marco barked. -There's nothing we can do!-
-No! No! No!- I hissed and looked up. -Zoe, I know you're in there! Fight it!-
She just laughed. "The person you knew is no more, Andalite... Or is that her real name?"
The sound of blades swinging caught our attention. A Hork-Bajir was coming our way. Marco avoided the blades and darted away as the Hork-Bajir chased after him. I just stood there, glaring at the girl who was no longer herself.
-Get out of her head, you Yeerk!- I demanded. -Or else!-
"Or else? Would you kill this host? Or shall I say sister? Strange how she is a human and you are an Andalite."
I jerked my head.
"She has been spying on her own brother," The Yeerk said.
I backed away in fear. The dragon's mind however, ignored her and stood strong. I wished I could be strong but I shrank away in fear.
She was spying on me? No, it couldn't be.
-You're lying!- I snapped.
"Lying? How can a Yeerk lie?"
I glared at her, all my fear and anger mixing together. I knew she was smiling under the scarf, the Yeerk.
Then I saw something in her eyes.
Something.
Kaoru.
tigerlily-2250 – Well, tigerlily, good luck. You may need it more than I do. And hey, we all think of weird thoughts. Me, I just think of ways to torment most of my own characters. Thanks for reviewing.
interested – I am not offended by your review but let me correct something here. Kaoru has been studying kendo before she studied ninjutsu. She was only taught by her friend, Miaso two years ago as said in one of the chapters. That's why she is combining both kendo and martial arts. But thanks for your help. I'll try to make it better. Also, Kaoru's character is based on her skills of using a sword so I need a battle morph that fits this somewhat. A morph related to an assassin doesn't fit her well. Although it does fit for Miaso. Thanks for reviewing.
A/N: You know I could make a manga out of these books. Morphing would be a lot easier in manga and you see a lot of humor in it. For example, there's an anime book called Bloody Roar which shows good (almost) realistic pictures of morphing at the same time being funny and adventurous. But I won't be'coz I'd be facing a few problems:
1) I am STILL learning about manga/anime even though I've learnt it for six years and is still running
2) K.A. Applegate wouldn't approve of this and she might sue me even though I really love her books
3) I would more likely to be KILLED by every fan of Animorphs (Imagines gets roped by dozens of people, shivers)
4) I CAN'T DRAW AX IN HIS ANDALITE FORM! HOW THE HELL DO YOU DRAW HIM IN MANGA? I can easily imagine how he would look in manga but not draw him down.
Anyhoo, I am drawing how the HUMAN Animorphs and Ryo-Mew-Ki look like. Just haven't drawn Ax. (Stares at artwork) And I have to redo again. (Flings artwork away and goes back to drawing board)