Discliamer: even though this is one of my Favorate chapters, I do not own animorphs. Neather do I own myself.
Chapter 19
We took a vote. It was unanimous for her coming in. Even Tabitha voted.
"Okay, so now what do I do," she asked.
"Cassie? Do you have the box?" asked Jake.
"Yea, hold on, let me go get it." She ran to the back of the barn.
When she came out again she was holding a small blue cube in her hand. It was the morphing cube.
It was the cube that started it all.
"Ax," Jake turned to the Andalite, "would you mind doing the honors?"
((I would be honored to, Prince Jake.))
"Don't call me prince."
((Yes, Prince Jake.)) He took the cube.
Tabitha listened attentively as Ax told her how the cube worked. ((When you press your hand on the cube, you will feel a warm sensation. Afterwards, you will have the technology to morph.))
"I feel like we should do something, I dunno, more ceremonial," Cassie put forth.
"What, like sing something?" Rachel bantered. "Don't sing Marco."
"You just wish you could sing as good as I." he bantered back.
((I know what we could do,)) Ax offered.(( If it fits, we could all do our favorite morphs.))
They thought this over. "Yes, I think that is a wonderful idea. If it fits in here." Cassie looked over at Rachel pointedly. Rachel had an elephant morph that she was fond of.
"Okay, okay, no Dumbo in the barn. I wasn't going to pick that one anyway."
They all started to change. I could see a golden muzzle come out of Jake's nose. A fluff of tail came out of Marco's bottom and a layer of white feathers started popping out of Rachel's head, but Cassie remained standing still. Often she was the first to be done. Cassie seemed to have a talent for morphing.
"I can't do my favorite in here," she said.
((Dolphin?)) I asked knowing her love for the playful dolphin well.
Cassie nodded and began to change. At first she was shrinking, and after that she started to develop a white stripe down her back.
Ax lost his tail and gained a mouth.
As for me, I hadn't changed.
((Come on Tobias, that doesn't count,)) Marco called up to me.
I thought about all the morphs I had. No bugs, that was for sure. Then it came to me. I fluttered down and started to form a blue hint to my feathers.
After our morphs were completed, Tabitha was surrounded by a golden retriever, the form chosen by Jake marking his happiness and carefree nature, a bald eagle for Rachel known for its freedom and incredible predator skills, a skunk for Cassie well known for their stink, a way of defending themselves without hurting others, and a human for Ax since he overwhelmingly enjoyed the taste buds and the sounds of the mouth. That left Marco and me. Marco was a… a llama?
((Marco? Why a llama?))
((Because I am by far the cutest of all animals in this barn.)) He answered facetiously.
That left me, bird boy. I chose the truest form for my soul, an Andalite. This form was an exact and accurate copy of Ax. The Andalites were known for their arrogance, but for us, friendship.
"Now place your hand on the cube… ub… ube?" Ax said.
Tabitha was the only one in the barn in her own form, the form she was born to anyway. One could agure that we all were now in our truest forms. She reached out and placed her hand on the cube. Her eyes closed halfway and a moment later...
"Tabitha," beckoned a human voice. "You are done now… ow… wow. You are now an Animorph."