Chapter 6. Tobias's POV

A few days later.

I watched as Arianna landed beside my tree and demorphed.

(Hey Rhi.)

"Hey Tobias."

(So is this just a social visit or did you come for a reason?)

"What, a girl can't visit her big brother whenever she feels like it?"

(Yeah sure.)

"I came for as reason actually, I want to talk to you about something."

(What is it you want to talk about?)

"Well first of all I want to know if, just say…ummm, okay. Say someone got stuck in morph, would they be able to use the blue boxy thingyo to be able to morph again?"

(I don't know, maybe. You'd have to ask Ax.)

"Okay then." She bit her lip "If that does work that means you could be human right?"

(Yeah it would.)

"Well would you?"

(No.)

"What? Why not?"

(Because.)

"Because why?"

(Because im a hawk, I have been for ages. Everyone thinks of me as a hawk. Besides, I have no where to go if I do go human and no desire to be human for a prolonged period of time.)

"But you have to!"

(Why do I have to Arianna? This has nothing to do with you so drop it.)

"This has a lot to do with me actually."

(How?)

"Fucking hell! You're my brother, I can't have a brother who eats mice all day. It's just not right!"

(Well that's how it is. Maybe I don't want my sister to eat salad. Did you think of that?)

"Oh you're so funny. I'm so glads my brother has such a great sense of humour."

(And I'm just as happy that my sister is a stuck up, sarcastic, self centred bitch.) I retorted just as sarcastically.

"So you wont do it?"

(No.)

"Not for me, not for the rest of the Animorphs, not even for Rachel?"

(Leave Rachel out of it.)

"But she would rather you be human than hawk. I don't see whats so great about being a bird most of the time, apart from flying. Or do you just like it because you're a big tough predator not a wimp?"

(I'm not going to do it.)

"Well Rachel's just going to have to be depressed then isn't she?"

(I told you to leave Rachel out of this.)

"You know, she can stick up for her self, unlike you."

(I'm not doing it and that's final Arianna.)

"And you say I'm selfish."

As I watched my little sister storm off I realised that she was very good at manipulating people. First her 'parents', now me. But she hadn't gotten me to do what she wanted, not yet anyway. I had a feeling that she wouldn't give in until she got her way.

Arianna's POV

I was a little pissed off, okay, I was a lot pissed off. Why did Tobias have to be so selfish? It's not like I was asking for much. I was trying to help give him a life but obviously there was something wrong with that. I went to the mall, shopping solved everything, it was just like chocolate.

"Hey Arianna."

"Hey Melissa."

"You here with Rachel?"

"Nope, I came by myself and im going to try not to get lost."

Melissa laughed "You can come with me if you want, im pretty sure you wont get lost then."

"Okay, thanks. Lets go find some form of lunch first because im starving."

"Theres that new place up here, we can go there."

We set off talking about things like school, music, guys.

"So is there anyone you like Arianna?"

"Not really." I replied.

Okay, I was pretty close to Jake. Probably too close considering he was kinda with Cassie. But oh well, you get that in the big jobs. He didn't seem to have a problem with it and Cassie was just so boring.

"Really?"

"Yes Melissa, really. What about you?"

"What about me? We're talking about you at the moment."

I laughed "Whatever."

"So you don't like anyone?"

"I've been here for like three and a half weeks, I don't know these people as well as you do."

"What about Jake and Marco?"

"What about them?"

"You know them don't you?"

"Yeah so?"

"Do you like either of them?"

"What is this? Twenty questions?"

"No. Do you like either of them?"

"Maybe…"

"Is that a yes maybe or a no maybe?"

"A maybe maybe."

Melissa laughed "Just tell me."

"Later…maybe."

We reached the new café and headed towards the bathroom. I pushed open the door and was grabbed by strong arms and got a hand put over my mouth. I saw the same thing happen to Melissa as she walked in, a Hork-Bajir grabbed her and another put a hand over her mouth. Well she wasn't a controller, she was absolutely terrified. We were half carried half dragged over to a wall were a human controller did something to a hand dryer thing and the wall opened up to reveal stairs and Hork-Bajir. The Hork-Bajir passed us and went into the bathroom and Melissa and I were taken down stairs. We went lower still and I heard screaming. We rounded a corner and I saw the source of the screaming. People in cages, Hork-Bajir, Taxxons and human controllers everywhere. In the middle of all this there was a huge pool. The yeerk pool. Oh crap. We were all totally screwed. As soon as that yeerk got in my head it would know everything. Absolutely everything. It would have access to all of my thoughts and memories and it would find out about the Animorphs and one by one they would be caught he yeerks would triumph. This was all Tobias's fault. If he had of agreed with me I wouldn't of got pissed off and went to the mall. I wouldn't of met Melissa and I wouldn't of went to that stupid café. And I wouldn't be getting dragged around by Hork-Bajir. I knew that if I tried to resist the Hork-Bajir I would be cut to shreds. It had sliced my tiger morph up pretty badly the other night and if it did the same to me I was screwed. Screwed, screwed, screwed. If I ever got out of here and got control of my own head again, I would pull out Tobias's feathers one by one. The hand was taken off my mouth and I screamed, and Melissa soon joined in. I watched as Melissa was dragged down the pier and had her head forced under the murky water. The Hork-Bajir pulled her head up. She had stopped screaming. She was calm, she was composed, she was yeerked. Soon I was dragged off down the pier and it was my head under water. A yeerk touched my ear and started entering my head. Just before I became a controller I decided something, I was never using a public toilet again.