Chapter 9

A/n: Okay, lots of confused people. To make things clear, all of you should know this: if the story (points below) reads, "we said" or "we" then an action, it means it is not done mentally. The words are said aloud. If the story reads, "I said" or "Istram said" it means they are talking to themselves, in Tobias's head. Soooo... get it? If you don't... forget it. Just read the story. (Sorry it's so short!) Okay? Now start reading!

A ship.

It was travelling toward us at a very, very fast speed.

(Hey, Istram. Is that The One's ship?) I asked, voice hopeful. Isn't it surprising how now I look forward to his arrival when in the first place he was my enemy?

(The One is coming.) We cried out.

Jake, back in kelbrid morph, flew up into the sky, dodging the thrown wrappers.

"Visser two, on top!" Mikit cried, flying towards him.

"Ahh!" she screamed, as the wrapper hit her instead of Jake.

(Visser eleven, demorph!) Jake shouted.

Jeanne landed and started demorphing while Marco was starting to stir.

(Visser nine! Quick, get up and demorph!) By this time, The One's ship was much nearer. I could see it looked like a fleeter, but was twice as big. (Special people get special things.) Istram told me, with bitterness in his voice.

(The One who is All has arrived!) Jake shouted for all to hear, as The One's ship landed.

A few seconds later, The One emerged on dainty horse legs as he shouted, "Get them!"

Grabbing more wrappers, we started throwing with more ferocity. Then Jeanne went down.

Jake was heading towards The One to report when they struck and hit.

Jake fell to the ground, stunned.

I could see The One was getting angry. Using his tail blade to deflect the wrappers, he headed towards the rebels' ships.

(Istram, I thought you said the battles were short.) I asked.

(The last time, we dealt with about two caves only. But five caves? I don't think so. Somebody must have tipped them off,) he replied.

The One reached the kelbrids' ships without much difficulty. It seemed like the kelbrids were afraid of him too. Then, he started slashing them so the kelbrids' ships broke.

(Istram, I think we're losing. We only have Marco, Enard, Santorelli and us left. But the kelbrids? About two caves left.) I said.

Istram ignored me as he concentrated. It was kind of like a rhythm, dodge, dodge, miss, dodge, throw, hit, dodge.

(Visser Six, your left!) Santorelli said.

When did he start giving orders? Anyway, we dodged. And, surprisingly, the wrapper came from our right.

Fortunately, we dodged upwards. So the wrapper hit Santorelli instead.

(Serves him right! Trying to get us stunned,) Istram said.

(Hmmm... I suspect something. Why did he do that? And why, did The One call him to his ship, but not anybody else?) I replied.

A stream of curses came from Istram again, as Marco was wrapped.

The One, after destroying about half the ships, galloped towards the kelbrids on the ground and used the flat side of his tail blade to knock them out.

(He seems to have lowered himself enough to join the fight.) Istram commented.

(You mean this is the first time he is fighting?)

(You got it.)

(Yeah, but I wonder why he has never fought before. Back on earth, Visser One used to morph hideous creatures and fight us all the time.)

(Well, this is different. He is the only surviving member of the Council of Thirteen, and none of them has much fighting skills. Plus, it's rumoured that he was their leader, but nobody really knows, since that secret is very closely guarded.)

(The council of Thirteen, eh?)

Engrossed in our conversation, we did not notice a wrapper flying at us until it was too late.

"DODGE!" The One screamed at us.

WHAM!

It hit us right in the middle.

"Nooo! Fools! Enard, back to my ship!" We fell. And blacked out before we hit the ground with a sickening crunch.

A/N: Ha! They're gonna be captured by the kelbrids! And yes, someone tipped the kelbrids off! All goes according to my plan... sorry for not updating the last few days. You see, in school I'm suppose to be organizing a mini sort of "fair". You think that's easy? Try it with people arguing for a beech theme. They're planning on collecting sea shells... lots of stuff... and... sand? What do they think they're trying to do?! Pour sand on the flour and turn it into a "beach"? Nuts. They're totally NUTS! Umm... anyway, that doesn't concern you. Soooo... review! If you read it, you must review. Laziness is not an excuse!!! (Cough littlemidgett cough) Oh yeh. I'm posting a short "story", so make sure you review that too. Now I'll leave you to review. :p