A/N: A question is going to be answered in this chappie… who tipped the kelbrids? Hint: it's definitely not The One cause he's bad.
Disclaimer: KA's characters are hers.
Claimer: My characters are mine. Kelbrids are half mine.
"All of you follow me."
Nobody made a move to follow Calee. We were all too surprised. What did Jake tell her that made her want to talk to us?
"Hurry," she said impatiently when she realized we hadn't budged an inch.
Marco was the first one to snap out of the 'trance', and without a backward glance at us, he followed Calee through the door.
"Well, I guess this is it, "Jeanne said nervously as she stared after Marco and Calee. The rest of us hurried after them.
"This way, " Calee told us, indicating the tunnel which led into a small cave.
"Visser Two?" Enard, the kelbrid, exclaimed as she spotted Jake waiting in the room before the rest of us did.
Calee turned around and looked at Enard as if noticing her for the first time. "Please leave us. I need only to speak to those who call themselves…Animorphs."
"But…" Enard said, looking as surprised as a kelbrid could. "There are two guards at the end of the tunnel waiting for you, leave now and follow them," Calee said, giving Enard a commanding look.
Her look was so commanding that Istram and I felt compelled to urge Enard to do Calee's bidding. "Enard, just go."
Enard looked defeated, she could not disobey a visser. She left quickly and Calee activated the force field closing us animorphs in the room.
The room was quite small, and a polished rock table occupied most of it. Around the table were a number of "chairs" which were actually rock stumps. Jake was sitting on one of the chairs.
"Sit," Calee said, more of a command than of an invitation.
When all of us were seated, Calee continued, "There is a traitor amongst us."
Silence
"It's not me." Santorelli spoke up, glancing around nervously." I think it's visser Two."
(He think Jake's a traitor?!) I said incredulously.
(Hush) Istram replied.
"If you can accuse blindly, so am I. However, I will not. In fact, it is you who is the traitor," Calee said calmly.
"What! How can that be?" Santorelli exclaimed.
"Three reasons. Firstly, you were the first one to claim not being the traitor, which is what most traitors do."
"But-"
Calee ignored him and continued "Secondly, I have been observing all of you since you alighted from our stolen Fleeters. During battle, you told him," Calee pointed to me. "To dodge into the path of a wrapper, hoping to get him stunned. Fortunately, he was wise enough to ignore your advice."
"It…it was a mistake!" Santorelli spluttered.
"Thirdly, you seem very loyal to The One," Calee said The One like it was something very foul. "More so than any of the rest. Can you explain that?"
"These are not sold evidence! You can't prove anything!"
"If I were wrong, why do you have to get so worked up? Can prove your innocence?" Calee replied.
"I…," Santorelli seemed to be at a loss for words.
Calee walked to the force field door and deactivated it, revealing two kelbrid guards. "Take him away"
"You won't be alive after The One hears about this, kelbrid." Santorelli spat, finally showing his true colours.
The guards shoved a struggling Santorelli out, but not before he cast Calee a hate laden glare.
Calee activated the force field, sealing us in. Then, facing Jake, who had stayed quiet all this while, she said, "Explain it to them."
Jake gave Calee a small smile and to us, "Well, that was a start."
"Hold on a minute. What is going on here? It all went too fast for me, "Jeanne said, confused.
"That's why I'm going to explain all these stuff to you all, and we don't need to address each other as Vissers now. Just our normal names. Jeanne, "he added, smiling.
"Okaaay… so can you start explain all these stuff now, Jake?" we asked.
"Well first of all, I'm sure all of you want to know why there were more than just two caves at the battle. Which battle? You know the one we just fought, where we were captured? The reason is very simple. Somebody informed the kelbrids about the attack. And that person is…," Jake trailed off.
"Santorelli? The traitor?" Jeanne asked.
"Actually, no. It was me," Jake told us, grinning broadly.
(Hmm…I'm beginning to think something is seriously wrong with Jake,) I said to Istram.
"What!? You informed them so… so we could be captured? Are you sure it's Santorelli who's the traitor, not you?" Marco shrilled.
"Captured, no, it was to get away from The One. And Santorelli is the traitor, but that's another matter. You see, I had it all planned out, so all I had to do was to convince Erib to let me speak to the kelbrids," Jake concluded, still smiling.
"Wait, wait, wait. Isn't your yeerk Erib? You mean it's you, Jake, speaking, not…Erib?" We asked, confused.
"Yeah, it's me alright. The plain old me."
"Hurry,…Jake," Calee interrupted, finally using Jake's name, instead of calling him 'creature'. "I have to go soon."
"Okay. To cut things short, before you all came, I spoke to Calee, and she recognised me as the 'informer'. She was thankful that only a few kelbrids were taken this time, since they were prepared, so Calee has decided to help us, with the fact that we are also against The One. The kelbrids want to kill him but what I really want is to... to free Ax," Jake said sadly, his smile gone.
"Unfortunately, we have to return here and sit, or rather, stand through another of their Judgement thingies in the Room of The kelbrids. Calee will then explain matters to the fellow kelbrids, and hopefully, they won't get violent. Meanwhile, we well not return to our cells. Calee will see to it that we are given our own private accommodation, but I'm afraid we'll be separated, seeing the kelbrids do not trust us yet."
"We have to go now." Calee told us, walking to the door and deactivating the force field.
All of us, including Jake, followed her out and were confronted by a number of guards, which was no surprise. Obviously, the kelbrids didn't trust us as much as Calee did, so we did not get much privacy.
Calee said something too fast for us to catch in Brid to the guards, and they led us away. She then headed in the opposite direction which we were going.
We went through tunnels and caves, too numerous to count. Eventually, we got split up from the rest, and the two guards in charge of us led us to the entrance of a small cave.
They then shoved us in roughly into the cave, which had a tunnel in it leading off somewhere, and one of the guards said to us, "Lital coplur," before activating the force field door and locking us in.
A/N: Rather unexpected, don't you think? So, if any of you guys have a question or something that you think Jake or Calee will be able to answer, write them in your review, and I will convert them to story form! Great idea, since it gives me stuff to write about and your questions will be answered… However, I will not be able to write the next chappie unless I have some questions, and I want at least five of them to answer…
