Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs or anything related to it. I just own Joshua, Ben, Jessie, and Jimmy/Sub-visser 1.
Chapter 6
He headed toward the birds of prey exhibit. It was a brown building. The inside of the building was a hallway where you would walk down it and see the various birds. Each bird was perched on a stand with a trainer. The trainers where answering the questions that the people around them asked.
"All right, lets acquire some birds," I said.
We looked around awhile. He checked out a couple of exhibits, and asked the trainers questions about the birds. We finally all had decided what we would morph.
"I going to morph the Prairie Falcon," Ben said.
"I guess I'll morph an Osprey," I said.
"I'm going to be an American Kestrel," Jessie said.
Ben made his way to where the falcon was. He reached up and touched the bird. Then ran back toward us.
We then moved to the osprey exhibit. I wondered up to the large bird, and touched it. I focused on him and felt his DNA become part of me.
Jessie led us to the kestrel. Ben saw it and said "That little thing?"
"What's wrong with it being small? It could be an advantage," Jessie said.
She then acquired it.
We left the zoo and headed to a deserted alley. There we morphed into our bird of prey forms.
"So what are we going to do?" Ben asked as he began to sprout feathers.
"We take to the air and find a place to hide us from the yeerks," I said.
We finished morphing. I was an Osprey. I had brown and white coloring. My sense of sight and hearing improved greatly.
Jessie was an American Kestrel. The Kestrel was about half the size of my osprey morph. It was red, with a light brown chest, and blue marks on it. It was a male.
Ben was a prairie falcon with brown feathers on top, and white on his chest.
Ben screeched and backed away from me.
(Hey, you okay) I said in thought-speak.
He backed away farther. He was probably being controlled by the falcon's instincts.
(Hey, snap out of it.) I said.
(Huh?) he said.
(You were being controlled by the falcon's mind.) I said. I looked at Jessie to make sure she was okay. She seemed to be in complete control of the morph.
(Let's get out of here.) I said.
(But we don't know how to fly.) Ben said.
(Maybe the bird can do it for us.) Jessie said.
(What do you mean?) I said.
(I mean we can use the bird's instincts to fly.) Jessie said.
(All right, let's try it.) I said.
I jumped into the air and flapped my wings. I then did a loop and landed back by the others.
(Wow! That's fun. You guys have to try that.) I said.
And so we were soon up in air. We were spread out far enough so that we wouldn't look suspicious to any bird watchers. We were looking for a suitable place to live for a while.
We came to the forest. I was getting tired from all the flapping I was doing so I caught an updraft and rose to the top of it then glided to another.
(Hey, there's a cave.) Ben said. I followed his gaze and saw a cave in the side of a mountain. The only way to reach the cave was by flying.
(All right, good enough.) I said. We dived and landed. I began to demorph.
The others did the same. I watched them demorph. I saw Jessie's feathers melt away to reveal bare human skin.
(Ah, Ben you might want to look away from Jessie.) I said turning my head away. (I guess you haven't learned to morph clothing yet?)
I heard Jessie quickly walking into the cave. I looked back thinking she would be out of sight. Turns out she wasn't.
"Ah, Joshua you pervert!" She said.
"Ah! Sorry," I said turning away.
Ben was fully clothed.
"How'd you manage that?" I asked.
"Manage what?"
"Morphing your clothes when Jessie couldn't morph her clothing?"
"Don't know I guess whatever we're morphing has to be skin-tight. Like spandex or something," He said.
"Well your clothing doesn't look like spandex," I said.
"Yeah, well this stuff is too small for me," He said.
"Then why are you wearing it?" I said.
"Because everything that fit was in the wash," he replied.
"You guys better find we something to wear quick!" Jessie shouted. "Or else I am going to really hurt you."
"All right, Ben and I will go see if we can find something," I said. "You stay here."
"You bet I will," she said.