'Norgan?' I asked quietly. He laughed, a maniacal laugh, one that sent shivers up my once again made-up spine. After what seemed like forever, he stopped laughing.

'David, you can't escape me. You know better.' He said. I could feel him beaming. 'You're mine, and that's that. Though your troublesome actions will deserve punishment.' He made my body glance around. With a small curse he moved around the camp, finishing up my job. He hide inside some bushes near the camp.

I made a dull note that he didn't read my thoughts; whether it be from forgetfulness or generosity, I didn't really care. I was too worried about whether Alex was going to be alright.

'Alex is fine.' said Norgan.

'What?' I asked, startled and confused.

'Your boyfriend is fine, David.' He pointed to the edge of the woods, where a Komodo dragon lay, not moving. I tried to spring to his side, but my Yeerk held me back.

'Let me go!' I yelled. 'He's hurt! Or maybe even worse!'

Norgan sighed, pointing again. 'David, calm down. He's just knocked out. Look, you can see his chest moving up and down. And there's no blood.'

I stopped struggling. 'Oh.' I said sheepishly and I shut up, watching whatever Norgan wanted to watch of the battle.

After what seemed like an eternity, the leftover Hork-Bajirs and humans, all of the Taxxons being dead, fell back. The Animorphs cheered, many morphing to heal their wounds, others doing victory dances. Norgan stood up and walked over to Alex, who was just waking up. He grinned.

"You okay?"

"Yeah." said Alex after he morphed back. He looked around the camp and groaned. "Sorry, David. Looks like we'll be putting off your morphing lesson for a while."

To Alex, Norgan said, "Not a problem." To me, he asked, 'Morphing, hm?' I shivered. I knew what that meant. I wasn't stupid.

'You're going to betray the camp, aren't you?' I spoke quietly. 'Capture them all, send them into the Yeerk pool. The perfect army of Animorphs.'

'Yes. I suppose I will end up doing that.' During the conversation, Alex had walked off towards the clean-up. Before I could ask, Norgan spoke. 'And your boyfriend will be joining them.'

I groaned, closing my mind, not wanting to witness that play in my mind. I couldn't feel the feelings coming off of Norgan, so I couldn't feel the bit of guilt that the slug released. Norgan walked my body off to collect the dropped weapons and to bury the dead while I slept, allowing Norgan total and complete control over my body throughout the rest of the day.

I woke up at sunrise the next day. Norgan notified me that the takeover would be on the third day, which was when Norgan had to go back to the Yeerk pool. I agreed submissively, tired of trying to fight off my Yeerk. I wasn't sure, but I could almost feel sadness radiating off of Norgan.

As I walked out of the hut, Alex came running up to us. He grinned.

"Ready for morph training?" he asked, trying to be cheerful after the last battle. With it being a Saturday, Alex had a whole day to teach me what I needed to know. Norgan nodded.

"Yeah." he said. Norgan followed Alex to the edge of the camp, where a large cage held a few birds for newcomers. Alex stopped, smiling at the birds.

"We let the birds go when we move on. We just keep some here for the new kids." He smiled, reaching into the cage and petting a sleeping eagle, who jumped and flew to the top of the cage, crying out. Alex smiled and laughed. I watched silently.

"Just put a bird, touch it, and focus on it. You'll acquire the DNA and be able to morph it. I'll show you how later." Norgan hesitated, and Alex look at him, confused. "What? Go ahead."

'Which one?' Norgan asked me quickly. I raised my made up eyebrow, confused.

'Why ask me? Your body, your power.'

'Listen, David. I'm not going to choose for you. It's either we work together this time, or you can just die and go to hell. Either way is fine with me.'

I was confused as to where this was going, and Norgan looked at Alex, who was staring at him confused. Norgan talked to me again. 'David, come on. Just choose, ask questions later.'

I didn't do anything. I was confused. Was this a trick? Was this some silly torture that Norgan had thought up? Where was the evil take-over guy that he had shown to me earlier?

'David!' Norgan hissed.

'Fine, fine.' Norgan gazed up at the birds, and I chose the one I liked. 'Um...The falcon.'

"The falcon sound good to you, Alex?" Norgan immediately said. Alex looked into the cage.

"The Peregrine falcon?" Norgan nodded. "Yeah, sounds real good. One of my favorites."

I grinned inwardly as Alex opened the cage and dragged me in, shutting the door quickly. So...Alex likes the same things as I do... Alex caught the bird, holding it carefully out to us. Norgan reached out, touching, and I felt the familiar shock that my Yeerk wasn't used to.

'Ow, fuck.' he said. 'You didn't tell me it hurt.'

'You never asked. Only the first time, anyways.' Alex smiled and let the bird go, and it flapped rather disgruntled to the top of the cage. Alex led the way out, shutting the cage behind him.

"Okay, let's get to the morphing part." Alex described the process; how it didn't hurt, they way to do it, the time limit, and finished off with one of the more important parts. "And, you have to be careful. The animal mind is always there, use it to fly, but try not to let it take over. You have to get control the first time, but afterwards its easier."

Norgan nodded, checking to make sure I got all that. Alex morphed first, becoming another type of falcon that I had never seen before. Norgan morphed soon after, and they took off. Alex dodged my attacks for the first few minutes, until I got control. Norgan, however, was still lost in the mind. I yelled at him.

'Hey, wake up!'

'Hm?' To my surprise, Alex had heard me. I quickly corrected myself.

'Nothing. This is cool.' I waited nervously for Norgan to come back. It took a few more minutes, during which I followed Alex around, laughing and playing. But Norgan soon came back.

'Hey.' I whispered, keeping my thought speak low so Alex couldn't hear me.

'That was some ride.' Norgan replied, also whispering. 'Why are we whispering?'

'Alex can hear the thought speak.'

'Oh.' He got defensive. 'Did you tell him? Did you tell him that I'm here?'

'No!' I replied.

'...I'll take your word for it.'

We landed, followed by Alex, and demorphed. Alex took me to the zoo and, with the help of the other animorphs, got into the cages to get some other morphs. Norgan let me choose all of them: A red wolf, a rhino, a cat(it attacked us first!), and finally an earthworm. While I didn't know what we'd do with a worm, I thought it would be cool.

At dusk, Alex led us back to the camp, and we went to bed. Norgan closed my eyes, but we weren't sleeping. Something happened, and I was going to find out what.

A/N: Yay. x.x I'm not sure if I'll continue this right now, people who are reading. I have this other thing I'm doing atfictionpress. Go there to check it out if you want. It's the three book series one. I'm not good at multitasking when I'm writing novels, so it's either one chapter of this every once in a long while, or I finish the series and then continue. Not sure what I'll do. Maybe give me your thoughts in your reviews or something. Then again, everything I say is opposite of what I do, so I may be wrong. XD