A/N: Hey all! I am back, and wow, college is so different from high school…my professor for one of my classes today just decided not to show it. It was great! Anywho, I'm glad to see that everyone likes Nomikna and her chapter. Now the question in my mind is, should I do another in her pov? Hhmmm, I'll sleep on the idea. Another thing, one of my friends got me into banner making a couple of months back and since then, I've been playing around with some banners and such. I just made one to go with this story, I think it's kind of crap because it's hard to find decent animorph pictures and I'm way too lazy to dig out the books again and scan the covers and crop..too much work. So, if you would all like, next post I'll put in the link (also will go in my author's page, but it will be to my banner site, not to the actual banner) in the next chapter. If anyone wants to see it, post a note in your review. If you guys could care less, well, whatever, you're here for the story, not for my artwork. :D
Onto the story!
Chapter 29
Cassie
3 Hours Left
After we finished our meal, Nomikna offered us a place to stay and rest. Jake told her no, that we were pressed for time. She seemed like she accepted the explanation but was not at all happy about it. She led us on our path to the mountains and we stood just before the line of trees, contemplating what lives in the woods. Could be anything. I mussed.
"Nomikna, what kind of terrain can we expect?" I asked. If this planet was anything like Earth, I might be able to get an idea of what morphs that we had that we could use to speed up our time of travel.
"Our lands are relatively flat in the plains. Once we break into the woods, there will be hills, cliffs, rivers, the Yumphat"
"Yumphat?" Jake, Marco, and I asked.
"They are a dangerous creature; let us hope we do not run into one. The mountains will be far worst than the woods."
"Can we fly there?" Marco asked.
"But you have no wings!" Nomikna objected.
"Not like this we don't." I muttered. Nomikna's eyes narrowed.
"Of course, the Andalite shared his morphing technology with you." Ax said nothing in return, but I could see his main eyes narrow in a sort of glare and his tail twitched slightly. "Even if you have a flight morph, there are too many dangers in the sky, more than on the ground. It is best to stay low." Nomikna advised. I took in the information and did a scan of our morphs in my mind.
"So Cassie, what can we do?" Jake asked me. I shrugged.
"I can't really know for sure on this planet, but I think we should go wolf. They're quick and if we have to fend off an attack, we can still fight."
"We can't go wolf! Jake's gonna pee on everything!" Marco protested. Jake glared at Marco, Rachel stayed silent. I frowned as I studied her. It was unlike her to not comment any of Marco's complaining.
"We need the wolf's agility…but we aren't from around here, so any combination of morphs we choose won't look odd moving together."
"So we each do a different morph?" Marco asked, looking excited.
"Well, not necessarily. For instance, you're gorilla morph probably won't get you too far in these closed spaces and from the looks of the trees; I don't think you could do much swinging. I think we would all be better off doing wolf, but Ax could stay Ax, and Jake could morph tiger since, as Marco put it, we don't want to have to stop to let him pee all over the place."
"Ok, so wolf it is."
"Yup." I said with a nod.
"Let's do it." Rachel said and we all jumped and looked at her. She had barely said two words since, our sort-of sentencing.
"Great, even Xena thinks we're gonna die. Oh thank you for once again cursing our very existence."
Rachel just shrugged nonchalantly. We all began to morph and no one thought to warn Nomikna about how gross the morphing process is. She never screamed, but she watched us with a look of sick fascination. Once I finished the morph, I looked at her and her face was slightly paler than it was before and she was looking more and more disturbed.
((Are you ok?)) I asked her. Her eyes widened.
"Your voice….it's…it's in m-my head…" She said, looking more confused.
Ax, who had stayed in his Andalite form, began to explain the sciences behind thought speak. I could feel my head starting to hurt with the long winded explanation.
((It pretty much works like projecting thought. Don't listen to Ax-man's explanation, you'll just end up with an even bigger headache and more questions if you think about it too much.)) Marco said, cutting Ax off. Ax looked slightly annoyed and muttered something about inferior races.
((OK team, let's go!)) Jake said, and bounded into the woods, with Rachel and I behind, and Ax following lose behind. I did not fail to notice that Marco and Nomikna stayed together at the end.
New Word!
Yumphat- Pronounced as it looks, Yum-fat. :D
To My faithful (and new) Reviewers:
Free Soul: you've got your wish. :D I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as you've enjoyed the rest.
rockergurl13: I'm glad you like Nomikna. She's actually loosely based off a character in one of my original stories…I stress loosely. I pretty much stole the name and some character traits, so she's been 'real' to me for a couple of years. Glad to know you like her because she was a fun character for me to create and recreate to suit this story. (I used her because I liked the uniqueness of her name and I was feeling too lazy to come up with a new one. lol)
CASSIE101: As much as I'd love to give you a straight up answer, I have to just say 'you'll see' and leave it as that…did I just say straight up? Wow, I've been hanging in the ghetto way too long…(not meant in a bad way!)
LucreziaNoin86: I'm glad you enjoy my updates. :D I hope you liked this chapter…even though it's kind of a bridge chapter for what's to come.
GenesisDragon Well, as stated before, the Rewolf has powers no other being (possibly even the ellimist) possesses. It is absolute power and when used the wrong way…well, I'm sure I don't have to explain it. I picture the Isriska as the guardians of this power, though many of them believe it to be a fairy-tale.
Quillian Thank you. I'm trying to debate whether I should insert another Nomikna chapter. I originally left it as the one, but now that I'm seeing reviews, I'm beginning to rethink my plan…but if I do another chapter…but there's…issues I have with doing another chapter in her perspective, especially when I have it wrote and all I have to do is hound my beta. :D