Chapter 15 §
So, nobody noticed the inconsistency in chapter 14 about Tobias being up in the rafter? *I continually slap my forehead.* Stupid, Sarah, stupid. Tobias is human! The Ellimist made him human! Augh! This is what I get for being obsessed with the Lord of the Rings series! My mind is NOT WORKING! Well here is my fifteenth chapter. And for those who didn't notice its ok. I didn't notice until I read that chapter to figure out this chapter. Anyway to explain my stupid error; being a hawk is now natural for Tobias so he enjoys being in hawk form often (within the 2 hour time limit of course. Rachel won't let him get stuck again, as will be noted in this chapter.) A little key you might won't to remember, for this chapter at least:
Tobias' thought-speak
Rachel's thought-speak
Ani's/anyone's thoughts
Tobias' POV.
Do you see her yet, Tobias?
No, we should probably turn back. She couldn't have run this far.
But she could've morphed.
Morphed what? According to Ax she only has a few morphs.
Like?
Um… she has, I searched my brain for that information while watching the ground below. The kafit bird, a Hork-Bajir, we just got her a human morph with Cassie's and your DNA—oh nuts.
What?
She has a human morph, do you realize how many female humans there are in the vicinity?
Dang it! Why would she choose to morph human though?
She's not stupid she would try to fit in. Well, we'd better tell Jake we need more surveillance. I changed my direction from the mountain towards Cassie's.
Aw, come on Tobias, he'll send Marco and if he sends Marco I'm gonna kill him!
Who, Jake or Marco?
Marco.
Why? I glanced up at her Bald Eagle form. Well more of a speck than a form.
Marco, came to my house last night and told my mom, Jordan and Sara that I had a date with him. My mom sat stunned, Sara ran to the bathroom, and if looks could kill you would be going through another depression courtesy of Jordan's glare.
I grinned on the inside as I asked, What did you do to him? She laughed. I walked up to him and slapped him. You didn't see the red welt? That was from the ring I was wearing.
Then Rachel, I'm thinking that you don't have to worry about Marco coming with us. But to make you happy, we will go and head to the mall, and look for Ani there. That will be our first stop. Then we could probably—
Nuh-uh, first we need to demorph. I don't want you to get stuck again.
Yes, Rachel. I smiled.
In an alley behind the mall…
"Tobias?" Rachel called from the dumpster where she was getting into some more suitable clothes, than her morphing suit.
"Yeah," I called back.
"How are we going to know who is Ani?"
"Well, I'm hoping that, like most Andalites, she'll go crazy over the taste of food."
"It's not much to go on."
"It's all we have."
"Okay, I'm done. Let's go."
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Anidoria's POV
The mall-- a big building where lots of people come to buy artificial skin, food, and other things that some would deem 'essential.' There are dozens of shops with weird names such as Old Navy, Kay, Gap, Sears, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Waldenbooks. See weird names right? The stores are on four levels which can be reached by stairs, rickety elevators, or the moving stairs. All of which are highly crazy short transportation devices. Andalites have better transportation which, as always, is too high in science and such for humans to understand. The floors are made with marble in the colors of black, white and grey. Terribly dismal colors, but the marble is shiny like glass. Potted plants are placed in bad strategic places; it doesn't look like the outside at all. And another thing, the shops all have open fronts, no guards or password pads, people are given prime opportunity to walk in and steal something and get away with that despicable crime. No Andalite would dare lower himself to steal. As I look inside the unguarded stores I see bright red signs that read, 70% off… SALE of all sweaters… CLEARANCE SALE. I wonder why it must be so crowded, it's so claustrophobic. Of course all Andalites are claustrophobic; we would rather be running a field of beautiful blue grass than in an enclosed area. That's why we have the dome on our spaceships, so we have a bit of home with us…
"Whoa!" I almost fell over as a young man ran into me. Then I did fall, which obviously is not a very good thing to do in the busy mall.
"Hey, klutz, get out of the way!" I'm trying to jerk.
"What are you, just learning to walk?" Kind of, I haven't morphed human before.
"Go back to where you came from, Clumsy!" I sure wish I could! Earth is terrible.
I slowly got up onto my two clumsy legs, "what I wouldn't give for a tail-blade right now." I muttered under my breath. I quickly walked into a store marked; La Ropa. As I glanced around the store, there was a scream and a grunt as the cashier fell to the ground from a well placed hit to the neck. Two humans dressed in black shirts and pants with black belts around their waists stood behind the counter. All of their face, but the eyes, were covered in black swathes of cloth. They started shouting for us to get on our stomachs with our hands behind our backs. When I did not obey the ruffians, an older woman on the ground whispered, "Hurry, dear, please get down on the ground before they shoot you." Quickly I looked for a weapon in any of their hands. There was none, but they had their fingers in an odd position; the hand was pointing in front of themselves with the thumb pointing straight up and the index finger straight forward. The rest of the fingers were curled against the palm. (Me ▬like a gun shape if you didn't understand my Andalite description. ) "But those men don't have any weapons, but their hands." I whispered back in confusion.
"HEY! You, with the curly blonde hair!"
"Me?" I asked.
"Yeah, you. Why aren't you on the floor?"
"Um… maybe because you don't have a gun?"
"Jacob, somthin's wrong with this girl."
"What do ya mean, Geraldene?"
"I told you not to call me that, my name is Gerald!"
"Sorry, what's wrong with this girl?"
"She says we don't got any guns."
"She must be insane; don't she see these things in our hands?"
"Oh, well we could kill her now—"
"No don't think that will work cause she's a girl. You know momma always told us to be nice to girls."
She, ain't no girl, she's a young lady. And Momma didn't tell us nothing about young ladies."
"I seem to recall"—
"PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR OR WE'LL SHOOT!" A deep man's voice shouted from the doorway.
"AHHHH!" Both the men dropped their hands and fell to the ground crying.
"Ladies, and gentlemen, everything is under control. We'll just take care of these two lunatics. Thank you ma'am for keeping them occupied while we were able to get here. You all can go back to your shopping now." I ran out the door as fast as I could and then calmly slowed down to a walk. Then I started walking in a random direction, which I will never do again. You see I had done a human course in The Academy, so I knew the dangers that we Andalites tend have when we are around food. And it's worse when we haven't ever tasted before. Which I… haven't. So when I chose my random direction I just so happened to choose the way towards the food court.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! CLIFFHANGER! So what do you think is gonna happen at the food court? Will she go bananas and have to be saved by Tobias and Rachel? Will she have trouble with a vending machine, then go bonkers at the food court? Or will she do the last question and be saved by an unlikely person? All the questions and more will be answered if you just press that magical little green button below me. I also seriously need ideas for the evil plan V1 has for capturing the Animorphs! PLEASE HELP ME or I will go on and on forever in the POVs of the Animorphs. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!
