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That night…
At 2025 hours
Wednesday 12th May
SAM
I was the killer of the night
Without the slightest sound, I could kill a mouse before it realized what happened. I was the night. The night belong to me
I was the great-horned owl and I was flying around the fortress, going out only so far, before returning as Adam flew out. Ashley waited on the roof with a stopwatch, timing how long we have in morph before we'd become trapped
(Anything over on your side, Alpha 1?) I asked
(Nothing yet, Alpha 2, how about you?)
(Going down to check the ground level, over)
Adam laughed, as I skimmed along the ground, seeing with my all-seeing large eyes, my tufts tuned to hear anything, ANYTHING moving
(Any success, Alpha 2, check)
(Nothing to report, Alpha 1, coming back up)
I flew over Ashley, low enough to hear her report
"You have half an hour left in morph"
(Alpha 1, we have half an hour left, repeat, half an hour left)
Since we had included Ashley in this conversation, I heard her say something, but Adam was closer
(Control Tower wants to say we're jerks, over)
(Tell her that we're the ones flying around, watching over everyone)
(She'd like to say that she liked to be a damsel in distress)
(Ashley, fall off the roof, so Adam can save you)
(She would like to say that you're a feather duster)
I flared my wings and landed at Ashley's feet, before demorphing. Feathers melted into flesh, my vision and hearing dimmed and I shot up to my height. Adam was sitting on her shoulder, before he hopped down and demorphed
"Twenty-five minutes left, wanna go and kick Marco out of bed?" asked Adam
"It'll take about ten minutes"
"Fair point"
"Hey, what's that?" asked Ashley
We all looked over the wall and saw something move
"I'm going out there," I said
"I'll go with you"
"I'll just say here and watch your backs," muttered Ashley
Adam I morphed into owls, before flying off towards the object. I saw what it was. or what they were. There was about five of them
(What the hell are they?) asked Adam
Instead of describing all five, I'll just describe one of them, so you get the idea
First off, the head look liked an ant's, with the mandibles, eyes and antennas. The body was just a dark brown spine with an armour-like chest, no guts or anything, just ribs curling over the chest and four further down the spine
They had two pairs of arms, splitting off from the shoulders and ending in four sharp claws. The legs were humanoid, except that they ended in two claws instead of toes
Oh, and they had a set of wings from what I could see, a pair over a pair. And they all carried Dracon beams
(Yeerks?) asked Adam
(It's possible. Let's get them, what do you think?)
(Tiger and Berzerx, sounds good. I mean, these things are bugs, right)
(Right, let's go)
We dived towards, unseen and unheard, landing behind a rock and began to demorph. Once we were human, we morphed again. Adam started moving into the silent, deadly and powerful tiger. I concentrated on the Berzerx DNA inside of me
I had acquired what I called a Berzerx during the game in the maze. I acquired it because it was large and powerful and that the fact was it was covered in spikes, making it hard to penetrate it. And it could also fire its spikes like missiles
The first thing that changed was my height. I shot up to eight feet tall, gaining muscle as I did. And nothing else had changed yet
My skin changed, going from a light brown to a deep red. Fangs grew in my mouth, as my spine elongated to form the spiked tail. My vision got better, though not any better than an owl's, but I could see clearly in the dark
And finally, the part I had been waiting for, the spikes. They grew from nearly every part of my body, from my forearms, shoulders, legs, back and tail
I looked over at the four hundred pound tiger next to me and nodded
We slipped out from behind the boulder and followed the Yeerks. Adam was low to the ground, being hardly seen at all. I just had to stand upright
(Ready?) I asked
(Let's go)
We charged, catching the Yeerks off guard. One of them turned around, but Adam was upon him, sinking his four inch fangs deep into its throat
By now, the other four had been alerted and turned around. I swiped at one with my spiked arm and struck crusty flesh, throwing the Yeerk through the air. Adam leapt onto another Yeerk, taking it down and killing it, as I got struck by a Dracon beam. I roared and charged at them, swinging my arms. A Yeerk flew ten feet in the air and collapsed in a heap. Adam leapt past me to kill the last one
(I got hit) I said as I demorphed
Adam demorphed, before remorphing as the owl and flying back to Ashley. I morphed and followed him, landing as he was demorphing
"We've got a couple of minutes left," Ashley said
"Let's go, bro," said Adam
I grinned and followed them back into the mansion, heading to my parents room. Adam opened the door and I went in, going to the bed and shaking Dad by his shoulders
"Dad, get up, it's your time"
His eyes shot open and he got out of bed. I always knew he was a light sleeper. Dad yawned and I saw he was wearing his morphing outfit. He put on a shirt and a pair of jeans, before leaving the room. We followed him and bumped into Tobias
"See anything?" he asked
"We met something," answered Adam, "we'll tell you tomorrow"
"Alright, see you tomorrow"
He left with Marco. Adam and Ashley went to their room, while I went to mine, collapsed on the bed and fell asleep in my clothes
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