Chapter 10
A/N: sorry this chappie took so long. I was... busy. Very busy, in fact. And remember the mini sort of fair I mentioned in the last chappie? The one held in my school? Well... it's tomorrow. And tomorrow is... (Checks calendar) the 10th. Sigh. It's going to be a disaster! I'm so not looking forwards to tomorrow. Soooo... here's your chappie.
Disclaimer: I am KA, I own the animorphs and all the other characters, I rule the world and if you believed any of those things you are a stupid fool.
Claimer: I do not own the characters I created, the kelbrids are not half mine and if you believe that, you are an even stupider fool than I thought.
(Groan...Back hurts....) I mumbled.
"Ouch...what? Where am I?" We said aloud, having just awoken.
We tried to get up, and realised we were tied up. Looking downwards, I could see a glowing thing, this time yellow, wrapped my lower arm to my stomach. And surprisingly, we were back in human morph.
(More kelbrid technology. The yellow thing is a kelbrid rope, or k-rope. Don't ask me why we're human. They must have found a way to change us.) Istram told me.
(So....where are the rest?)
We were in a smallish cave, and the entrance was blocked by a semi-transparent force field.
(I don't know that either, but I know we're in some sort of kelbrid prison...)I groaned, and muttered, (let's race and see who can be the first to think of five reasons why we're in prison.)
(Being sarcastic won't help.) Istram said, not a help at all.
(So?! I tell you, I - someone's coming!) I broke off, hearing approaching footsteps.
The force field door was shortly deactivated, and two kelbrid heads peered in. One entered, grabbed the end of the k-rope, pulled us up, and said "Chupo".
We got up and followed the one leading the way, with the other one guarding us. As we walked through many red rock tunnels, I asked Istram, (I thought Chupo means coming? How can the kelbrid say coming to us?)
(Actually, chupo can mean any form of come. It can mean come, comes, coming or whatever. It depends on how you decipher it.)
(Confusing language, Brid.)
(That's because you're not used to it, unlike me, seeing all my formal hosts were kelbrids,) he replied.
(You don't have to remind me.)
(You mean I said that before?)
(I can see some of your thoughts too.)
(Maybe I should block them.)
(Must you always have the last say?)
(Yup,) Istram said, grinning mentally.
I sighed and was about to reply when the kelbrid leading us stopped in front of an archway blocked by a beautiful reddish force field with swirly patterns moving around it.
The kelbrid said something in Brid, a word so complicated that even Istram had never heard of.
(I wonder what that word means) Istram said. (All of my formal hosts have never even heard of that -)
Istram stopped in mid-sentence and we gasped in awe as the door slid open to reveal to huge room which laid before us.
The walls of this cave were yellowish brown, and some very skilled kelbrids must have work on them. For unlike the walls of the other tunnels and caves, the walls in this room were very smooth.
The room was quite crowded, with kelbrids of all sizes sitting in alcoves all over the circular wall. Many were flying around, trying to find an empty alcove in which they could settle down.
In the middle of the room, on the floor which glowed dimly, we could see Jake, Marco, Santorelli and Enard.
(What -)
Istram cut me off as I realized what he was looking at.
The room was about five storeys high, and at the fifth storey point it began sloping inwards, creating and dome shaped ceiling for the circular cave.
What caught Istram's attention was the huge piece of rock in the middle of the dome. Unlike the walls, the rock was pure red, the colour of fresh blood. It was polished until it shone like a precious gem, and the whole piece of stone rotated slowly in clockwise direction.
The colour of the ceiling, or rather, dome, was a glowing white. Since the red stone was in the middle of the dome and it was polished so efficiently, it reflected the white light coming from the dome. The light was reflected onto the ground in little rays of reddish light, darting here and there, as the gem turned.
(By The One who is All! I believe we're in the legendary Room of The Kelbrids! That red stone you see in the dome, that is a blood drop gem, the biggest in the kelbrid world! It is one of the rarest gems in the entire universe, only found on the kelbrid home worlds!)Istram exclaimed.
All those sights were taken in as the leading kelbrid freed us of the k-rope and the one guarding us shoved us to the centre of the room, where the other animorphs and Mikit stood. Looking around, we noticed Jeanne wasn't there.
(Ask Jake,) Istram said before I could ask him.
Sighing mentally, we walked over to Jake and asked, "Where's Jeanne?"
In reply, he held up a finger to his lips and shook his head, indicating he wanted us silent amidst the noisy crowd. The, he lifted his other hand and pointed to another door which Jeanne was being pushed through.
She looked fearful and a little worried, but when she spotted us, a smile lit up her face. She walked toward us and was about to say something when put his finger to his lips once more.
(Hmm... that's not like Jake. More like...) I couldn't bring myself to complete the sentence.
(More like Cassie,) Istram finished it for me.
(Don't remind me,) I sighed.
(Come on. You have to face reality eventually.)
(Just shut up, okay?)
(I'm just trying to help.)
(More like trying to create more problems.)
(An advice to you is to go and ask Jake why he's acting like that,) Istram continued, as if he never heard me.
Deciding that maybe taking his advice wasn't such a bad idea after all, we walked over to Jake and tried to ask him.
Notice I said tried.
Again, he only held up a finger to his lips. What strange behaviour was that?
Frustrated, we walked off.
By that time, all the kelbrids flying around and making so much noise as if they had nothing better to do had found alcoves to sit in.
(That, was a piece of bad advice. I wonder what's-) I grumbled, stopping as silence fell on all the kelbrids.
Total complete silence.
A/n: yay! This chappie is longer to make up for the last few short chappies! But, all my chappies are short... except for chappie 3. sigh... must try to make them longer... I'm sure you want the next chappie, so can you please review? Please? Thanks. :p
