A/N: Only one more chapter after this! This story is almost at a close. I'm glad you are all enjoying this. Hope you like this update!

Chapter 35

Cassie

I ran from the fight. I felt like a coward, and I knew why Jake had me leave the fight. I wasn't good in a fight, but I still felt ashamed that I ran from the fight while the others could possibly still need me. I ran as fast as I could get the wolf to move and when I felt I was a good distance away, I slowed and tried to get my bearings. I remembered what Nomikna had said about the Rewolf's location. I glanced up and looked to see how far from the top I was. I was pretty close but I felt I needed to get higher and the path was getting rockier.

I carefully moved up, testing the footing before I began to move up. I got near the top and I heard a voice behind me.

"Cassie!" I turned. It was Nomikna.

((Nomikna?))

"Yes, Jake told me to come help you."

((Oh, Ok. I think I'm getting close to the Rewolf. How far do you think I need to be?)) I asked her.

"I think here is far enough." Nomikna stated.

((What?)) She smiled.

"Cassie, Cassie, Cassie. Do you really need me to spell it out to you?" Nomikna asked. "I can't let you have that flower."

((Why?))

"Because. You're story of your poor sick friend may have touch my mother, but I know better. For years we have had foreigners coming to our lands to use the power of the Rewolf for their own selfish needs." Nomikna stepped closer, taking a crossbow from behind her back. "But not anymore. I have made it my life's mission to protect the Rewolf."

((And the Isrika? How do they fit in?))

"I'll eventually be queen, Cassie. In a few years time, the Isrika will be accepted back to the cities. No longer shunned, if they help protect the Rewolf."

((You think years of discrimination are going to end with one law? I can tell you from experience on our own world, it doesn't happen like that.)) Nomikna smiled.

"I know. What they don't know won't hurt them. They don't want to be isolated from their families anymore. Who am I to tell them the others still won't accept them as the defective people they are?"

((That's misleading them.)) I said.

"Yes, but it will help me in the long run."

((What have you done with my friends?)) I asked. Nomikna smiled again.

"They won't be a problem." I felt my heart break. Jake. Did she kill them? What about Rachel? No one could take Rachel down. That girl is indestructible. At least, I thought she was. "Oh come on Cassie. You're about to see them again real soon." She took aim with the crossbow and I let out a low growl. She fired and I leaped out of the way, missing being hit by mere inches. "So, you're going to make this harder." She smirked. "You can run, but eventually, you'll tire." She reloaded and as she was, I leaped at her and she fired. She missed anything fatal and hit me in a leg. As I landed, I stumbled and fell. I tried to get up, but it was hard with my front right leg not able to support me.

"This was too easy." She said, with a smile. She walked closer to me, and I realized I couldn't do anything to save myself. I couldn't run, not with the arrow still lodged in my leg. I couldn't attack her, because she'd just hit me again. She took aim and I closed my eyes, if I was human, I would be crying. Good bye Mom, Dad. Hope you someday learn of what I've done and are proud of me. I thought, and I heard a familiar sound that was music to my ears. Fwaaapp.

I opened my eye and saw Ax smiling at me with his weird Andalite smile.

((Hello Cassie.)) He said. I felt relief flood over me.

((Jake, Rachel, and Marco?)) I asked, as Ax folded his legs under him so he could get the arrow out of my leg so I could demorph.

((They are alive.)) Ax said, and I could sense he was keeping something from me.

((Ax?)) I asked, and he pulled the arrow out of my leg and I let out a whimper of pain.

((You should demorph. We need to find the Rewolf soon. We're running out of time.)) Ax said. I sighed and did what I was told.

"Ax, what aren't you telling me?" I asked as I was once again human. He looked slightly pained.

((We should hurry.)) He said, and began to make his way up towards the top of the mountain. I sighed and followed, trying not to think the worst about my friends.

We managed to get to the top of the mountain and when I saw the sight before me, it took my breath away.

Before us against the light yellow sky, before us was a field of bright blue flowers. They had five petals on them, deeper on the edges and getting lighter towards the white center. The two orange suns beat down on us and over the field.

"Wow." I said, not realizing I was smiling. Ax looked at me.

((We should get down there.)) He said. I nodded. I started to work my way down the steep dirt path, slipping slightly on the loose stones. Ax didn't follow me right away and I waited in the field, the flowers so close together, you could hardly see the purple and blue grass beneath. Ax came down after me, in human morph. I looked at him, quizzically.

"I didn't think I would make it down." He said. "Mmm-aaaakkkkuh. Kuh."

"Let's get our flower." I said, making my way through the field. "How do we know if all of these are the rewolf?" I asked Ax. He shrugged.

We walked through the field, trying to figure out if the flowers we found were indeed the Rewolf. I bent down and picked one. The Ellimist had said he would take us back if we found it. Nothing happened. I looked at Ax.

"Now what?" He shrugged again. I frowned as I surveyed the landscape. There had to be something there. Something I missed. I remembered Nomikna saying it would only show itself to you if you had a pure intention. I sighed and thought about Tobias back in my barn, possibly dead. I thought about Jake, Rachel, and Marco, about the possibilities of them being injured where Ax had left them. I let my worry and my sadness wash over me and I felt tears sting my eyes.

"Cassie?"

I kept concentrating. Feeling the devastation I would probably feel if Tobias didn't make it, if I didn't see Jake again. Behind my closed eyes, I could see a bright light. But I kept them closed and concentrated.

"Cassie. Open your eyes." Ax said, and I noticed he didn't play with his sounds. I opened them and was surprised by what I saw. It was like a portal had opened before us and there was a golden flower shimmering in the light between the blue flowers before us. I smiled at Ax and walked forward, feeling myself being pulled into the light.

"Cassie?" I couldn't answer him. I wanted to tell Ax that I found it, but I couldn't. I wanted to ask him if he could see it, but something stopped me. I just kept moving forward in the light and picked the flower. The light stopped and I stood in the field, facing Ax, holding the Rewolf.

"Where did you get that?" Ax asked, studying the flower in my hand.

"It appeared to me." I said, studying it. Before Ax or I could say more, I felt this world folded away from me and I was back in my barn, just as we had left it.

RG13: Sorry to disappoint, but it felt like a good plot twist. :D

Quillian Yeah, it had been awhile for Ax, so I thought one more chap couldn't hurt. I had added parenthesis as an after thought. You must have read it before I realized I forgot to change it. Sorry!

LN: lol! I hope you enjoy

C101: you weren't supposed to see it coming ;D that's why it's a plot twist ;D