Yay Summer's here. That means more time for writing.
Luna- Oh hurray. More work for me.
Yah that's a good thing. Anyway since I really don't have anything to say I'll just let you start the chapter.
Disclaimer- I don't own anything here. If I did Animorphs would still be coming out and Rach wouldn't have died 'cause I'm sick and tired of my second favorite character always kicking the bucket. First Animorphs then Harry Potter. ='(
Oh if you like the Harry Potter Marauders then pleze read my fics. I really want a few more reviews for them.
Luna- Ahem. Didn't you want to stat the fic.
Oh yah.
The Medieval
Tobias, Jake, and Cassie had been trying to help Marco get rid of all the flies that were surrounding him when she gave out a loud screech. This surprised them so much that they turned in shock.
"Rachel!" They all said at once.
In a flash Tobias was sprinting toward the front of the building. On the way he accidentally pushed Marco over. That sent Marco wheeling right into the offending item they were a moment ago trying to get rid of. Oblivious to this the other rushed after Tobias in a hurry to catch him and Rachel.
Rachel had been so shocked when Sirinial cried out her whole body had frozen. After a moment she realized she had to escape and rushed out the door. And went around the corner of the house and right into Tobias.
"Ow!" They cried in unison.
"Tobias!" Rachel yelled when she realized who she had run into. She quickly got up and screamed at him. "How could you betray me like that?!?!" And with that she pulled back her leg and kicked him once where it hurts and then right in the stomach knocking the breath out of him. Jumping over his curled up body she continued running and in the process ran smack into Jake who fell over backwards practically right on Cassie.
As quick as possible she got up yet again to start running when Jake grabbed her. "Rachel stop it!" At the sound of his voice Rachel stopped squirming.
"Jake? Cassie?" She turned around and looked at them eyes wide open. "What… How… Why…?" Questions kept running through her head when Marco came up to them.
"Did you get her Jake?"
"Yah Marco. Rachel just calm down… Uh…?" A fly buzzed around his head followed two more. "Marco…?" He turned and saw Marco whose foot as well as his rear end was covered in a sticky brown substance. Rachel and Cassie also turned to look at him sneaking a look at each other they burst out laughing.
"I don't see what's so funny." Marco said tapping his foot impatiently making a kind of squish noise only increased their laughter
"What are you three doing here?" Rachel asked Jake after a few moments.
"We're here looking for you. We couldn't let you have all the fun." Marco replied
"Yes, and someone else is out looking for you." Cassie said worried "We came here to warn you."
"It's a good thing Tobias found…"
"Oh no Tobias!" Rachel go up and started to go back to Tobias who had managed to lean himself against the house and was starting to get up. Sirinial was there on his shoulder making an odd chirping noise.
"Tobias I'm so sorry." Rachel said coming up to him and helped him stand all the way up.
"That's OK." He said wincing but standing. He turned to her and said in a normal voice. "You know up have a pretty good kick."
"Hey." And indignant Marco protested his complaint behind them. "Why do you help him up when you only kick him but you beat me up completely and leave me there crying in pain."
"Yah, literally." Jake said smirking.
"You shut up."
"Well Marco, Tobias unlike you did nothing wrong." Rachel said turning to go back to the house acting like a crutch for Tobias.
"What's wrong with asking a question?" Marco called back to her.
"Oh there's nothing wrong at all besides the fact that the question was 'Do you want to marry me?'"
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Once they were all settled back in the house, cleaned Marco up a bit, and Tobias had found three more chairs for the others to sit on Rachel turned yet again to Jake and demanded him to give him a complete account of why they were there.
"Sure Rachel. Well when your parents found out you were missing the entire palace went wild with worry."
"Yah, and Jake here realized if you went anywhere you would have told Cassie. So he immediately rushes over to ask her. Not forgetting to look in every mirror on the way to cheek his hair and asking me at least five times if he looked alright." Marco said ducking the punch Jake sent his way.
"Anyway. I told him what you told me to tell him and we go to the throne room to inform your parents." Cassie said ignoring Marco's comment. "When we got there thought there was this strange person talking to them."
"I never saw him in the courts before so we listened." Jake took over again. "We didn't catch the entire conversation but he said something about taking over the kingdom and killing you."
"We knew you were in trouble so they drag me along with them to find you. And we did. How about giving me a kiss for finding you." Marco said inching closer.
"Get any closer and I'll give you something but it won't be a kiss." Rachel said while raising her fist and waving it in his face. The others laughed as Marco fell on his butt trying to move as far away from her as possible.
"Well any way if Tobias hadn't found you who knows what would have happened." Jake said.
"Wait how do you know Tobias?" Rachel asked him puzzled.
"Oh I met him hunting last year. He was out training his hawk and the fox we were chasing ran right into him."
"Yep, that fox jumped right onto my back and scared me half to death. Then when Jakes dog jumped on I fainted dead away. From the weight or the surprise I'm not sure. Sirinial want crazy and took a couple of swipes at Jake when he tried to he see if I was OK. Luckily I woke up soon and Sirinial was still young or else Jake would most likely be missing an eye right about now." Tobias smiled as Sirinial came to rest on his shoulder once again.
Suddenly a knocking was heard at the door. All five of them looked up in shock. "Are you sure your not expecting anyone?" Rachel asked Tobias who at the sound had gotten up.
"I'm positive. " He looked through a crack in the door and quickly turned to face the others. "It's strangers. I don't recognize them from the village and they aren't wearing the crest of the kingdom. Quick everyone in here." He ushered everyone to the room where Rachel had been hiding in before."
"What? Why go in here?" Cassie asked looking at him closing the door with a hard tug to close it completely. "I thought you said there wasn't any window to escape from in here."
"And there isn't. My uncle sealed of my window two years ago to prevent me from escaping not that I would have anywhere to go. No Rachel was completely sealed into this room unless she knew of my secret escape route."
"What secret escape route?" Marco said disbelieving "We look pretty much trapped in here. Are you sure you're not working for them."
"Pretty sure and yes we do looked trapped but that is where your eyes deceive you." Tobias then worked to push aside the bed and chest. Once he got everything out of the way he fell to his knees and made that same strange whistle that called Sirinial to him.
"OK boy you know what to do." He then put Sirinial on the floor where he stuck his beak in a crack in the floor boards. Lifting his head Sirinial lifted out a strong string that he deposited in Tobias's hand and took the chunk of meat Tobias offered to him as a reward. Tobias then turned to the others and smiled. "It took me four months to teach him that. And it took me just about five years to dig this." And with that he pulled on the string and lifted the floor boards to reveal a passage just deep enough to crawl through. "Follow me and stay silent. Here Jake you bring up the rear and pull this down after you." Tobias handed Jake the rope then crouched down and crawled out of the passage.
"Well? Let's do it." Rachel called after him closely followed by Cassie and then Marco. The tunnel went about three to four meters out and at the end Tobias stopped and Rachel saw Sirinial fly up a vertical shaft. 'What else does this boy have up his sleeves?' Rachel thought to herself looking at Tobias who had stood up and turned around obviously waiting for something. A sudden chirp and Tobias's head was suddenly in front of Rachel's.
"All's clear for now. When you get in this space stand up and I'll pull you out." Tobias said this in a whisper. Then he straightened up and somehow lifted himself out of view. Rachel then stood up and looked up. There was a hole up there and Tobias's face was looking down at her.
"Here grab on." On with that he reached down and took Rachel's arms and with a little struggle lifted her up.
Once out of the hole Rachel looked around and realized she was sitting in a tree. "Rachel, either climb a bit higher or jump down and run over to the trees over there." Tobias urged pointing at the forest behind his house. Rachel decided to climb a bit higher and raised herself up two branches where she could watch Tobias reach own and get the others. Getting Marco's help to drag Jake out since he was bigger that the others. Once all of them were out of the tree trunk Tobias jumped down off his branch and motioned the others to get down.
All of them came down on their feet except Marco who slipped and feel on his butt. "Hurry up I want to be as far away form this place as quick as possible." Tobias called impatiently.
"Have mercy my rear is still smarting." Marco complained as Tobias led them through the trees. After about ten minuets of walking Tobias decided to listen to Marco's winning and stop.
"We're far enough for now but I want to reach the beach soon. There's a cave there that's the safest place I know of." Tobias said looking back worried. Suddenly he started to laugh quietly."
"What may I ask is so funny?" Marco sat on the forest ground rubbing his poor feet. Which the others guessed hurt more than his rear end.
"Oh nothing I was just thinking I knew that passage would come in handy. I just never knew how right I was."
"What was that passage doing there? I mean it looked man made except for that whole in that tree. Yet I have a feeling it wasn't part of the original building plan." Cassie asked looking at Tobias.
"Yah your right it wasn't but you'll be surprised what you can do when you get board enough. And it's also lucky dug that tunnel because we wouldn't have had anywhere else to escape to, and the bottom of that hollow trunk was where I found Sirinial." He patted his hawk who had came back to Tobias while they were walking.
"So you found him and raised him and trained him yourself?" Cassie looked at Tobias with a respecting glance.
"Yep. Come on. We have to keep moving if we don't want them to find us." The group started walking some more. After a while Rachel speed up to walk next to Tobias. She looked up at him noticing his eye was becoming a bit darker where she had punched him earlier in the day.
"You know I'm really sorry about hitting you so much today." She finally spoke up.
"It's fine. I'm ok. I've had a black eye and the wind knocked out of me before. I'll live. So how are you holding up?" He looked at her with concern.
"I'm fine. I'm used to doing a lot of walking. The castle's enormous." Tobias smiled and they continued walking in silence for a couple of seconds when Rachel spoke up yet again.
"So why do you just live with your uncle?" Rachel asked him wanting to know more about him.
"What? Oh… well my dad disappeared before I was born and my mom went missing a couple of months after."
"Oh I'm sorry."
"That's Ok. It actually hasn't been that bad. My uncle pretty much leaves me alone and I leave him alone. How about you. Was that palace so boring that you just had to run away?" Tobias held back a branch to let her go by.
"Thanks. You have no idea. All the ladies did was embroider and sit around looking pretty trying to impress the next noble that comes along." At that she fluttered her eyelashes in an exaggerated matter at him causing Tobias to laugh.
Several feet behind them Marco was silently whining to Jake as Cassie listened. Surprisingly it wasn't about how tired he was. "What does he have that I don't? I mean I' m a noble and he's just a peasant. " Marco complained to them. Pointing at the backs of Rachel and Tobias.
"Oh. Nothing besides manners, an incredibly beautiful and well trained hawk, and some height." Jake said smirking at Marco's scowl. "Face it man. Rachel will never look at you as more than another noble to walk all over." Cassie smiled and patted him on the back.
"Don't worry I'm sure there's someone out there for you."
They all waked through the wood for about an hour with sever short breaks when they finally reached the shore. The sun was just setting and disappearing into the waves. They all stood there for a moment when Tobias suddenly went to the edge of the water.
"What's wrong Tobias?" Jake called down.
"There's a sea battle going on out there!" He called back the others rushed to his side in a moment to see. A sudden explosion was seen and one of the ships started to go down.
"Oh no!" Cassie cried as they watched it sink to the bottom. They all bowed their heads to honor those who had gone down. A huge wave started to come down onto the beach and they backed up to the edge of the forest and watched it crash onto the shore leaving behind a relatively calm ocean.
"Come on. There's a cave this way that we can hide in." Tobias said in a quiet voice. Looking out at the ocean once more he started leading the others when he had a second glance and stopped dead in his tracks causing the others to crash into him causing him to fall to the ground. He slowly got up never taking his eyes of the dark speck that was coming closer to them.
"What's up?" Marco called to him as he rushed yet again to the beach waiting for the single approaching boat to hit the shore.
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Yay! I'm done with yet another chapter. Oh poor Tobias. And to think he's my favorite Animorph.
Luna- If you like him I don't think I wanna know what you're going to do with the others.
Don't worry I won't kill any of them off. Any way here are the review responses.
freak show
Thank you. I'm honored that you liked it so much. I hope you liked this chapter just as well.
Brutal2003
Hehe. You'll see what I do to the Yeerks the next chapter I promise.
Myself
Thanks for the spelling. Spelling was always my worst subject. Right next to English. And to think now I'm writing as a hobby.
Luna- Yah It's amazing. Though I think those what… two hundred books you have might help.
Oh shut up. *throws a book at Luna* Wait I like that book! *retrieves book and throws another book at her*
Neri, of the Planet of Oceans
Yay, you reviews twice! =D I'm glad you liked it. As I said before You'll see the Yeerks in the next chapter. And yep our dear friend the Visser just might make an appearance. As for the animal thing don't worry they'll still be Animorphs just in a slightly unique way.
Luna- Careful you don't just give away the entire plot.
Don't worry. Any way as for the title I really liked it but I just wanted to go with K.A.'s 'The…' theme. There I answered all your questions. =D
Luna- Took long enough.
Don't mind her. I think she's just mad 'cause of the heat.
Luna- Well who wouldn't be! Two stinking months of rain nearly every day then four straight days of 90 degree weather.
Oh just deal. Now on with the rest of the review responses.
Lisa-Ann
Yay. Another person who reviewed again. Thanks.
Bmw
No they won't be blue centaurs but they will be… well… strange.
Luna- So you mean your gonna model them after yourself.
Noooooooooooooo.
Luna- Well you said strange.
Oh and yes you were right both times. I hate writes block but I get it a lot so then I just start a new story. Then I get writers block for that story. It's an endless cycle!!!!!!
Luna- Yah be glad it's summer. You might actually see this fic updated maybe once every two weeks instead of every month.
Oh just shut up.
Luna- Well you know I'm true.
Yah and I also wonder why I made you?
DH
Yep Ax should come in the next chapter.
Luna- Along with everyone else.
I'll keep that idea in mind ;-) and I'm glad you liked it.
flames
Hoped you liked this chapter.
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Luna- And why don't you remember to calm down.
Ok. Fine. REVIEW! Woops
Luna- I warned you.
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