Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs. I just own Joshua, Ben, Jessie, and Sub-Visser 1.

Chapter 8

I flew up out of the forest and landed on the rock ledge jutting out from the edge of the mountain were the cave began. I could hear the others inside the cave thanks to my incredible Osprey hearing.

I demorphed.

(Hey guys I'm back.) I called in thought-speak.

Ben and Jessie climbed out of the cave entrance. Jessie looked at me half-demorphed and said, "Yuck, that's disgusting."

I looked down at my leg. My leg was becoming bones. The bones grew into the shape of human bones and were then covered by flesh that grew over it.

I finished my demorph. Very freaked out by the experience. I collapsed exhausted from the continuous morphing I had done.

"So what's our next move?" Jessie asked.

"I don't know," I said sitting up. "I guess we watch the mall see if we can find the entrance."

"What makes you think there is an entrance in the mall?" Ben asked.

"Why else do you think they would have been in such a hurry?" I asked.

"They could have been just shopping," Jessie said.

"Maybe," I said. "But do they usually rush like that just to go shopping?"

"No," Jessie replied.

"Okay," Ben said. "But why would they need to go to the yeerk pool right away. I mean Jimmy's parents were just infested. Their yeerks are probably not hungry for kandrona rays yet."

I considered what Ben had said. He was right. So why did they rush off. Then Ben answered his own question.

"They probably saw your little stunt on the news," he said. "I mean if an Osprey flies through a clothes store the yeerks are bound to think it was us. So they saw it on the news and rushed off to inform the other yeerks or to start a search."

"What stunt are you talking about?" Jessie asked.

I quickly filled her in on how I had acquired her morphing outfit.

"You stole it?" she asked.

"Well, yeah. What else could I do. I mean we couldn't go and buy it. What if some controller recognized us?"

"Well, okay, I guess we have no choice," Jessie said.

"We still don't know what we are going to do next," Ben pointed out.

"Well, first we have to get something to eat and then come up with a plan," I said.