Cassie
I waited impatiently. Shifting my horse hoof uneasily as I waited. Minutes passed and still no sign of Reyes or Jake.
Before Jake arrived at my barn Reyes explained to me why he was being chased down by the Yeerks. Reyes explained that the Yeerks were researching on some sort of ray that could disable morphing ability for a certain amount of time. Meaning to stop anyone from morphing or demorphing. And that amount of time was two hours.
Reyes had told me how he knew about the Yeeks invasion. The story seemed unrealistic but I had no choice but to trust him for now. He mentioned that he was from Singapore yet to our knowledge Visser Three was still operating his secret invasion in our country. I didn't think that he would be spreading the controllers to the East. Erek didn't mention anything about it too.
"The ray is still under developing. But it wouldn't be long before they are ready to test on the Andalite in morph. Please Cassie, I need to inform warn them. Tell me where they are hiding."
I had lied to Reyes about knowing where the "Andalite Bandits" were. Even though Reyes was not one of the Yeerks didn't mean that I could reveal the truths about Animorphs to anyone. Not without Jake's approval.
"They... I don't really know. They are keeping their hideout a secret. You know, how dangerous it is to know the details if I get infested."
It was then I had decided to call Jake.
Jake had carelessly exposed our secret to Reyes. He had mistaken Reyes for a controller. Reyes had cried out "Andalite Bandits" when he saw Jake demorphing. This is a normal reaction for a controller to have.
What if the controllers got them? I thought to myself. I was deciding whether to demorph and remorph into battle morph when I heard something.
"Cassie..." Reyes' voice! I trotted towards the voice.
No one was there.
(Reyes?) I called out; from the tone just now Reyes seemed to be hurt badly.
(Reyes!) Still no respond.
"Here." Reyes suddenly got up from his hidden bushes and waved at me. He seemed to be holding something. Then he collapsed.
(Oh my god! Reyes! Wake up Reyes!) I was already demorphing. Shaking him even before my front hoof had demorphed into hands. That's when I noticed his left arm was missing. And a burnt hole at the left side of his torso.
(Jake! Reyes had being shot! Jake! I'm demorphing right now. I need to stop his bleeding before he loses too much blood.) Fully human, I tore apart Reyes shirt, revealing the wounds at his shoulder. I bandaged the best I could with Reyes torn shirt. Then I realized Jake hadn't reply.
"Jake! Where are you?"
No respond.
"Jake!"
Nothing.
"JAKE!"
"Here…" Reyes managed a whisper and handed me something. It took me a while to realize that something was a burned owl.
"Jake! You have to demorph! Jake! Can you listen to me?" I shook Jake as madly. My emotion had taken control more then my clear mind.
"Jake! Please, wake up! You have to demorph! Don't die on me here!" Reyes lifeless hand was on my knee but I didn't really care. At that moment all I worried was Jake. Tears formed around my eyes yet I held it back from flowing down my cheeks. I had better things to do then cry.
Tseeeeeeeeeeew!
A darcon beam blasted somewhere near where I was kneeing down. The controllers! I had forgotten about them! I spun around and saw two shadows, running. It won't be long until they saw a girl in tears hugging an Andalite in owl morph.
I had to get out of here, fast.
"Reyes, wake up, Reyes!" I desperately whisper into Reyes ears as I dragged his unconscious body into the bushes. I looked at the blood stains left behind by Reyes. It left a path to where I had dragged him to.
With the blood trail I knew I have no choice to fight them. No way could I lose them those blood leaving traces.
Reaching the clearing, the controllers searched the ground frantically. "Over here!" One of them shone the torchlight at the pool of blood. The other controller followed him as they trailed the blood.
There was no time for a full morph. Maybe a half morph, I decided to take the risk. Fur sprouted from my skin and at the same time my nose lengthened. My nails started growing long and sharp. My body grew bigger and about 2 feet taller. Then fangs started to grow and fur grew long enough to camouflage me just as the two controllers shone their torchlight at me. By then I looked more like a werewolf than a human.
"What the…" was all the first controller could say. I swiped my claws across his chest and gave a kick. He fell off and lay there, breathing heavily. I hoped I had not caused a fatal blow to him. The second controller pointed his darcon at me. But he didn't have a chance to fire.
His face connected to my elbow and he went down, hard.
"A werewolf?" The first controller struggled to get up. "Yes." I lied and stomped my feet on his head, knocking him out cold.
The second controller was unconscious too. Without much hesitation I quickly rushed over to where I had left Jake and Reyes.