I'm back! Sorry for the long gap between updates, but umm… well, I had other things to do.

This is Ax's POV, and enjoy!

Ax

I was admiring the Earth scenery, when I saw Marco dragging my shorm to his 'car'. Which is very usual of course, but since I had no plans for today, decided to investigate. I morphed to human and ran out on those clumsy two legs. I still don't understand how humans manage to balance on these without falling over.

"Wait for me!" I yelled, almost to the door of Marco's car.

"No, Ax! Save yourself while you can!" said Tobias dramatically. Obviously he didn't want to go where Marco was headed, as usual, but, as usual, had no choice.

"Where are you going? Going?"

"Why, to fetch my old drum set, of course!" sang out Marco from behind the wheel.

I raised an eyebrow, a habit I picked up from Prince Jake.

"What is a drum set? Set?" I asked, as I got in the car next to Tobias.

"You're going with us?" asked Marco in amazement. "Never thought I'd see the day when the local alien goes and picks up my old drum set!"

We then drove over to Marco's old house, while Tobias explained to me what a drum set is. I must confess, I do not understand why humans invented that very loud, head aching instrument, as Tobias has described it.

We finally got to Marco's house. The human cars are so rickety, that they give me an intense feeling of nausea, so by the time I came out, I was not feeling very well. But I went on, curious about the drum set.

Marco rang the doorbell, and waited. Soon, his father came. He seemed mildly surprised to see Tobias and me, but did not say anything.

"Come on in," he said, and we went in. He led us to the (A/N: LilManiac, was it garage or attic? I forgot). There I saw a giant-something. I suppose it must be the drum set. It was a set of cylinder-like boxes that was white on the inside and shiny red on the outside. It had silver on the outer edge. There were also two circular golden things which I suppose were the cymbals. Last, but not least, (a human expression I learned) there were two wooden things. The drumsticks, I think Tobias called them.

It all made a quite impressive sight. If it sounded good, I'd have called it a good human invention.

As it turned out, I was soon to find out. Marco grabbed the drumsticks and set down on the chair right behind the drum set.

Tobias's face expression changed to one of pure horror. It was clearly obvious that he had absolutely no trust in Marco's music ability.

Then Marco began to play. It became painfully clear to me that I did not like the sound of a drum kit. It was the furthest thing from real music I ever heard. Even a crash was more melodious than the drums. It sounded as though Marco took something made of metal and dropped it in more metal.

Soon after, Marco finished 'playing'. He looked at us expectantly.

"That was pretty good," Tobias said sincerely. I decided to say nothing. I think I preferred other human instruments more.

"How do we haul this thing back?" Marco said, gazing at the drum kit curiously. We contemplated it for a moment, before deciding to drag it back.

Twenty minutes later, we were contemplating how to get it in the car. It was too big to put in the back trunk, or the top. So we decided to put it in a big wagon Marco had in his (A/N: attic or garage?). I still do not know how come Marco had a wagon in his (A/N: attic or garage?) And then Tobias or me (since only Marco could drive the car) would morph a horse, and haul it all the way back to the house. Since I was nauseous in a car, I volunteered to morph a horse.

"Good man, I mean Andalite, Ax," said Marco encouragingly. "Morph right here."

He pointed at a point in front of the wagon. I obliged.

Three minutes later, I was trudging to our house, which I remembered was far away. And the horse instincts wanted me to run, but I could not, because if I did, the drum kit would have fallen off. So I was going on a reasonably slow pace.

Marco rolled right along me, in order not to lose me. Since a Yeerk could probably have beat us in a race (a human thing where humans or animals competed in a competition who was the fastest), the drivers behind Marco were rather annoyed. I saw a lot of curious gestures where the middle finger of the hand went up. There were also a lot of the f words.I do not understand why Prince Jake and the others wanted me to say the f word instead of the word. Humans say it all the time.

Marco, Tobias, would you please explain me the gesture where the middle finger of the hand is raised while the hand is in the shape of a fist?

There was silence only broken by the honking of the cars, the f words and the angry yells of drivers.

"It's a rude gesture, Ax," Tobias finally explained. "It expresses anger at the guy."

Are the humans angry at us? They seem to be yelling at us.

"Yes, they are, Ax."

Some thirty of their minutes and a lot of the rude gestures and f words later, we arrived at our current residence. I heard the joyous shouts of many humans as they drove on faster.

I demorphed and morphed into human. Experience has taught me it is better to be human most of the time to avoid recognition. Then I helped Tobias and Marco drag the drum set to Marco's room, which is on the third floor. Needless to say, by the time we got there, which was about ten of their minutes and two explanations (to Prince Jake and Cassie, who wished to know why we were taking a giant drum set into Marco's room), we were rather tired and annoyed.

That was how the drum set got into our lives.

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A/N: sorry for the shortness of the chapter and please R and R!