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Anyway, on with the chappie.
When Tobias returned to consciousness, his head hurt a lot. Your head would hurt a lot too if you had just crashed into a lamppost too. There was one good thing about being stuck in a morph; he could completely the two-hour rule. Of course, this was because he had once already. The sun was setting and the skyscrapers were beautifully illuminated against the sun. This view was spoilt when a large truck rumbled past Tobias, the red-tailed hawk. Tentatively flapping his wings, he lifted up into the air. There were lots of things on his mind. He headed for home. The meadow.
It was then it happened. As he soared over the metropolis towards the meadows, he felt his feathers begin to shrink. His beak was beginning to soften up too. Without the help of his wings, he began to lose height rapidly. That pavement looked awfully near. As his legs began to grow, he realised what was happening. He was demorphing. Normally, this would make him quite happy, considering he had thought he was a nothlit. However, in these circumstances, he could not say that. He was plummeting from a height of twenty thousand feet and he was demorphing. With the aid of his new mouth, he could now scream. Which was what he did.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" A building rushed past him. The hospital. Focus, Tobias thought. If I can demorph, I can definitely morph. I think. As he passed a window, he began to morph back again however. His feathers flashed out and he shrunk. His scream was cut off as his mouth was replaced with a hard cruel beak. Flapping furiously, he saw the administrative level. He was almost at the bottom. Finally, the change was complete, his wings flapped as he rose over a thermal. He heaved a bird sigh of relief as he cruised down to his favourite tree in the meadow. Something odd was going on and he knew nothing of it.
He felt helpless.
He didn't like the feeling.
Jake and the rest of the Animorphs excluding Tobias were sitting in Cassie's barn. They had decided that they could not out run Tobias even in eagle morph. They had sat through Erek talking about a new groups of Yeerks called the Cy-Yeerks and sat through history class. Not that any of their classmates were listening to their teacher Mrs Corver droning on about Napoleon. They were too pre-occupied thinking what to do with Tobias. They knew that they were in great danger, due to the fact that Tobias knew who they were. Jake was still pondering why they were not already dead as he stepped into the barn. Marco, who was acting unusually serious, was sitting on a hay bale. Cassie was feeding a injured fox through the bars of its cage. The animal was snapping at her hand. She of course ignored it and stuffed some food through.
"Okay, what do we do about Tobias?" Jake asked, voicing what everyone was asking in his or her thoughts. They had talked about what they would do should their identities be revealed. But they had never really done anything. In the sense that they did not know what to do. Even Jake, their leader was struck dumb. They secretly knew that worse come to worse they would all be turned into Controllers. None of them wanted that of course, the feeling of an alien slug controlling what you did, sifting through your movies like a certain DVD collection I was once in possession of. Just as Marco was about to speak up, there was a loud thump on the barn doors, which due to the chilly night, Cassie had shut. They all glanced at each other before turning back to it.
"What do you think it is?" Cassie whispered to Jake. Ax had lifted his tail, it was poised and ready to strike.
"I have no idea."
Sorry for the cliffhanger. I promise I will try to get the next chappie up ASAP.
To my adoring and rather pestered due to my short chappie reviewers
Wolf Of The Midnight Sun: Thank you for the encouragement. As for the unbelievable parts, worry not; I have a complete explanation lying around somewhere. The reason the chapters are short is mainly due to the fact that I am not as free as my older sibling whose user name is Anakin McFly. I write my own original stories so hardly have time for fanfiction. I have decided to change this though, so hopefully longer and more chapters coming up. Hopefully. Marco hit the lamppost because for two reasons. One, he is blur and was trying not to pay attention to Tobias which ended up in him paying attention to him. Two, he is blur. Very blur. And Chapman and the Yeerks have seen Tobias enough times to realise there's something fishy going on. Or birdie. Hmmm, that doesn't look too good.
EverKitsune: Thanks for it all. You are like the many reviewers ho review in saying write longer chappies. Thanks for all your encouragement.
Whirlpool of Reality: Okay, as for why Jake and Marco did not capture it, that's because Tobias will like totally outrun them, making it virtually impossible to catch him. Besides, how do you tie a hawk to a chair? I have taken your advice however. Thanks.