A/N: No, I have not died, as I'm sure you are all wondering. I made a slight mistake. You see, I had told my beta that I was going to send her the couple of chapters I had typed up, only I forgot to send her the attachment until a couple of days after I came back when I asked her why I didn't get a return email. Oops! So, after sending her what I had, and completing the story, I resent her the files and hopefully, everything will be beta-ed soon and I can post at least once a week. I wouldn't hold my breath, because I just started my first semester in College, so I have no idea how busy I will be, but good news! The story is complete, unless my beta hates my ending, then I'll hafta add a chapter or two. I'm glad to see you all enjoyed the last chapter! I hope you all like this one as well. If you have any questions about this universe I've created, please ask. Some questions I thought might arise are covered in later chapters, but I don't want to leave everyone confused. Hope you all enjoyed!

Chapter 26

Cassie

4 hours to go

I was literally awestruck. One moment I was standing in my barn and the next…it was replaced with the most breathtaking scenery I ever saw. This planet was a lot like earth. It is covered in lush grass that is a lilac-like purple with some baby blue mixed in. The tree trucks were a pastel green with the same purple and blue leaves. The sky was a light yellow instead of our pale blue. It had two suns in the sky which surprisingly the air was perfect and not too hot. In the distance stood a small village. The homes were probably made from the wood of the trees, as they were the same color the trees were.

"Wow," I said, forgetting for a moment why we were here on this strange planet and taking in the wonderful landscape.

"OK team, we're on a tight schedule." Jake said, after a long pause. He snapped all of us out of our silence and brought us to the present.

"OK, Does anyone else think it's odd that every foreign planet we've been to, we're not about to suffocate?" Marco asked. We all stared at him. "What! No one else remembers studying the solar system and learning if we left Earth's atmosphere we're pretty much going to die?" We all continued to stare blankly at Marco. "Unless you're Mrs. Frizzle, and one of the kids on the Magic School Bus." He added, which caused all of us to smile.

It is not so odd that we can all breathe. Most lifeforms are carbon-based and require virtually identical chemical needs. Some planets have thicker atmosphere's than others, but that usually has a lot to do with the planet's atmospheric pressure and gravitational pull. (please note, I don't know if that is true, I'm not a science major, but it sounds like something Ax would say, so there.)

"Ax?"

Yes Prince Jake?

"Stop it, you're making my head hurt."

Yes Prince Jake.

"I guess the best thing to do is to ask the people here if they can tell us were to find the Rewolf. What were they called again?" Jake asked.

"The Isriska." I answered.

"right." Jake said. "Ok, let's head towards the village. Remember what the Ellimist said, no insulting." Jake looked pointedly at Marco and Ax. Marco because of his lack of ability to control his mouth with his brain and Ax because he holds Andalites above other species in the galaxy and tends to make everyone feel inferior.

We started towards the village in silence. Each of us lost in our own thoughts and observations.

"Has anyone else found it odd that we haven't run into one strange creature yet?" Marco asked us once we were almost to the village.

"No, actually. This planet may not have the large variety of species that Earth has." I said.

That is correct. Earth is an odd planet in its abundance of, as Marco put it, creatures. Ax added.

Before anyone else could say another word, a humanoid, for lack of better term, creature appeared before us. She looked a lot like Rachel, the perfect supermodel build. Her skin is silver and her hair long and turquoise in color. She wore, what looked like, eye shadow around her eyes that went up as high as her eyebrows and outlined her eyes so they appeared to be larger than they really were. Her hair shown in the sunlight like it was filled with glitter. It took a moment for me to realize her feet were not touching the ground. She hovered before us and I studied her further and noticed the iridescent wings beating quickly behind her back. She wore a long white gown that was backless and went down to her bare feet. It had flowers embroidered on it the same color as her hair.

"Hello, my name is Nomikna and I welcome you to the village of Arana." She said, her voice soft and rhythmic. "You are not from around here, no?" She added, studying us further.

"No, we aren't." Jake said. "My name is Jake, this is Cassie, Rachel, Marco, and Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, we call him Ax for short." Nomikna's (pronounced Nome-Ick-Na) eyes narrowed as Jake indicated Ax.

"Andalite." She sneered, her voice and eyes showing her disgust.

How do you know of Andalites when we do not know of you? Ax asked. Nomikna looked smug but said nothing to Ax.

"Come. You must be tired from your journey." Nomikna said and turned around and floated towards the village. We all glanced at eachother and shrugged. I honestly thought the Isriska where going to be more…I don't know, different. The Ellimist didn't make it seem like they were going to welcome us this easily.

We followed Nomikna into the village, figuring it would be an insult to her if we did not. Once we entered the village, there were people all around us in a variety of colors, some repeated, but none were the same as Nomikna's silver color. I wondered briefly if the skin colors were prejudice like back home, but they all seemed to co-exist nicely.

"It's like a village of fairies!" Marco said. All movement stopped. The Isriska all stared at us, their expressions unreadable. They began to talk quickly in a language none of us knew and Jake glared at Marco.

"What!" he demanded.

"I think you just insulted them." I said, as the Isriska surrounded us.

"We should morph. We can take them." Rachel said.

"No." Jake said, "I don't want us to fight if we don't have to."

One of the Isriska had a sharpened, what looked like a jousting sword, and pointed it at us. We backed away and they ushered us out of the market place towards the center of the village. I looked around for Nomikna, but I did not see her anywhere. I gulped and took a deep breath to study my nerves and followed Jake and the others as we were escorted away.

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