Ha-ha I told you this chapter wouldn't be a long way away…enjoy, reviews are greatly appreciated.

Chapter 9

The day had come at last. I finally got to go on a real date with Arianna. She looked gorgeous, in jeans, heels and a black top, one of the round the neck ones, whatever they're called. Halter neck, that's right. Anyway, back to the story. We were waiting in line to get our tickets when Tobias interrupted.

(Hey, sorry to cut this short but the yeerks have got Cassie. Jake says to get your asses there NOW)

Arianna and I looked at each other and made an excuse to get out of line. We quickly found a secluded spot, also known as a dumpster, morphed and followed Tobias.

(Well, this is a Great date isn't it Rhi?) I asked. (I mean, how much better could you get, waiting in line for half an hour, only to get out of line to jump in a dumpster! I mean, I can understand jumping in a dumpster if there was kinky stuff going on but there was nothing kinky about that. Morphing bird is ANYTHING but kinky. And now we get to go and fight the aliens and see if they will fry us today or not. Or better still, the taxons might EAT US ALIVE, now THAT would be fun. BUT…)

(Okay Marco, we get the point, SHUT UP ALREADY! We should be able to talk to Jake and the others soon.) Tobias said.

(Tobias? You back yet? Rhi? Marco?)

(Yeah Rachel, we're here.) Tobias answered

Jake took charge, (About time. Now, battle morphs. Rhi, I want you to sneak up behind them, Marco, take the left, Tobias the right and Rachel and I will take them head on. Do not, and I repeat, DO NOT get Cassie hurt. Now go, and await further instructions.)

We all followed Jakes orders.

(Where's Ax?) Rhi asked?

(No one knows, get on with it, stop talking we have more important things to do.)

I spotted Cassie as I moved into position. She was being held by two hork-bajir and surrounded by heaps more. She wasn't even in morph, she was human and they had her, we were SO screwed. I finished de and re morphing and awaited Jakes orders.

"Come forth, my servant." An overly large hork-bajir said.

This was weird, hork-bajir are not in charge, Visser Three is and why would he be in hork-bajir morph. Something was way wrong. Slowly, the crowd of hork-bajir behind hi parted as if letting someone through.

(ARIANNA, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?) Jake screamed in thought speak.

"You called Visser Five?"

"Yes, I would like to thank you for delivering the 'Animorphs' into my hands. But one appears to be missing, where is the andalite sub-visser?"

"I am sorry Great One, but the human named Jake said that no one knows where he is."

(TRAITOR!) Jake screamed (I thought you were on our side. I thought the yeerk was dead, I watched it die!)

Arianna laughed, and it wasn't a pleasant laugh. "What you saw was a hologram that my master created"

Rachel took a step forward in her bear morph (Burn in hell, you lying deceitful little bitch, burn in hell. I swear to God if you hurt Cassie I will tear you apart.)

(And I will help) Jake added.

Arianna laughed again and walked over to Cassie. "Hello Cassie. Are you making some new friends with the hork-bajir are you? That's very good to hear." She patted her on the head, and Cassie spat in her face.

"You will regret that." Arianna said, looking at a nearby hork-bajir who walked over and slowly cut down Cassie's arm, allowing blood to flow. Arianna laughed again.

(Attack.) Jake said quietly.

We all ran forward and began attacking.

(I suggest you call them off Jakey-boy, or she dies.) Arianna said, still fully human.

(Stop!) Jake ordered as Arianna moved closer to Cassie. Everyone stoped, even the hork-bajir.

Visser Five laughed "Haven't you been taught not to play with your food, sub-visser?"

"But it's so much more fun this way, besides, I don't think the taxons will mind too much. Little Jakey-boy doesn't want his precious Cassie to get hurt." Arianna said and laughed a very devious laughed, which scared me a lot, I was positive she had a plan to get us all killed. She stood behind Cassie.

(If you touch her again I will kill you.) Rachel said menacingly.

"You wouldn't kill your friend Arianna, would you Rachel?"

(Yes I would, just to get to you.)

"But then Marco would kill you and Tobias would kill him then Jake would kill bird-boy for killing his best friend and then Ax would kill Jake for killing his nephew then someone would kill Ax. Then there would be no more Animorphs so the yeerks would rule Earth and then thew GALAXY!"

(You are one screwed in the head yeerk.) Tobias commented.

Arianna began morphing hork-bajir (I know you are you said you are so what am I?)

(That's just stupid and immature.)

(Yeah and it came out of your girlfriends head!)

(SHUT UP!) Jake yelled in open thought speak. (Attack)

The fight started again as the hork-bajir I was pretty sure was Arianna put its wrist blade on Cassie's throat. Rachel screamed, I'm not sure if it was because Cassie was about to die or because a hork-bajior just sliced her, or both. Jake ran in the direction of Cassie, just as the hork-bajir slit her throat. Arianna's maniacal laugh filled our heads as Jake lunged at the hork-bajir and ripped its throat out with his powerful tiger jaws. The laughing stopped.

(Arianna said sorry.) Were the yeerks final words.

"Stop!" the visser yelled. "This fighting shall cease for now. We must collect our dead, the taxons are hungry. You may collect your girlfriend if you want Jakey-boy. Necrophiliac."

I walked up to Jake.

"Marco, pick up Cassie and we're all out."

I picked up the limp form of Cassie and glanced at the dead hork-bajir beside her, that was once Arianna.

(No Marco.) Tobias said firmly, (She was a traitor, let the taxxons have her.)

I nodded my gorilla head and followed the others through the woods.

(Stop) Jake said as we reached the construction site. (Put her down and demorph)

We obeyed in silence. As soon as Rachel had finished demorphing, she shot a glare at me and walked off into the trees, Tobias morphed human and followed. Jake sat next to Cassie's body and did something that no guy should ever do in public, he cried. So me, being the best friend and all, sat beside him and put my arm around his shoulders, in a manly way, none of this gay shit.

Jake looked at me "What? No wise crack?"

"Nope, nothing funny here."

"Where's Arianna's body?"

"Tobias told me to leave her for the taxxons." I said "It wasn't her fault though." I added quietly.

"I know Marco, I know."

A few hours later after burying Cassie's body in the construction site, where it all began, I was flying home. I was in my osprey morph flying over the place where Cassie and Arianna had just been killed. I don't know if it was just me but I could have sworn that I saw a flash of Arianna. But it was dark and my osprey vision isn't too good in the dark, maybe it was just my imagination, or maybe it wasn't.

Okay, I've had a change of plans, at this rate this is how the sibling will finish, I might add a little chapter after maybe…I don't know. Hopefully I haven't disappointed you too much. This means that I have now finished my first fanfic…hope you all liked it, I enjoyed writing it. Hahahahahahaha this is sad……oh well. If you liked this and want more, I am writing a sequel and it should be called "The Next One". It' going to be set during and after the last book and everyone's favourite character will return…just so you know, it's not Ax…hmm don't know what happened to him…lolly oh well.

Anyways, I'm gunna leave you all now.

Love Princess Alexis xxx