Time To Think
the sequil to Warriers Don't Cry
Here comes the day for the world to know. Who we are who he was. I heard Noorlin say standing up tall. (((And now for the ones who fought all. The ones who fought as we were coming. Welcome to the stage of the age. What started as six and ended in five. The Animorphs the morphers of most!))) We looked at each over the gluped down some air. We stepped out of darkness and into air. People grew quiet as we stood there. Four kids an andalite we dreamed of this day. Years far ago back when there was six not five. Our parents had gasped looking at us. Jake's brother Tom looking quit faint. We looked at Rachel who looked ready to think. That's when she said in barly a whisper "I need to time to think." Then she rushed off. We rushed after her. We found her near a wall. She was cying her heart out. I rushed to her side. My arm went around her. "I can't do it Cassie." She said in one breathe. I smiled and said "just take time to think."
I looked at Cassie comferting Rachel I thought to myself time to think? I thought about Tobias who flew oh so high. In the sky the place he loved most. No I thought that's not it at all. Above everything thermals and more. What he loved most was right here. On the ground crying tears. Taking the time to think. Think about the one who she loved. Time to think about the war that went by. Time to think more about herself. Her life her choices her time to think going by. I then say Cassie give her a thing. Rachel looked at it and then said "okay. My time to think is over. Or so it would seem. I'm ready now I'm ready at ceen." Then we went back Rachel in tow. She walked up and took center stage. She said in a voice to grown up to be hers. "What started as five and then went to six. Then in the end it ended at five. Four kids a bird an andlite. Stood our ground in fight. We fought hoping the andalites will come. Before it was too late. They came one day but not before. Our friend our eyes in the sky. Had perished one day. He took a blow that could have got me. If it weren't for him I would be gone. Were he is now? I can't answer that. No one can all I can say. Every time I look up at the sky. And see that one bird flying so high. His name comes to mind the one that I've loved. His name which means the lord is good. His name for I which shall never forget. The name Tobias I shall never forget. For it is inscribed within a stone. Tobias Collen along with just one word. Which he used to describe the feeling in which when he would fly. The word many who were a yeerk came to mind. The word freedom is written in stone. Along with his name we shall never forget. I shall never forget him. No matter how hard I may try. It's funny to know what his name means. He who's life is more worse than may seem. Bullied day after day. Till that one day when he was now a hawk. His life still went down hill way after that. He almost died way more than all of us. All rolled in one. Not to mention that day that one day. When he soon found out who his father was. A name that is known within all. The person who gave us the power to morph. His father Elfangor is famous you see. So all of you all take this and ponder. Who was this one person who is now gone. Every time you see that one hawk. Remember the name Tobias the red-tailed-hawk." I knew that was that Rachel came to me and said "thanks to you Jake."
After Rachel was done everyone clapped. Jake soon went up and said this. "We all took the time to think. What could just a few kids do? To take down the yeerks. After every battle we always thought. Were we just a thorn or somthing more. They wanted us gone that we knew. We just thought that was becuase of one thing. Our greatest enemy said that all andalites were dead. You see just they thought we were andalites. We soon figured out we were way more than that. We stopped everything big you see. Tobias made them think that the A.M.R didn't work. Did it? Well we shall never know. So after we left the war once and for all. We couldn't keep fighting for our glue disappeared. I now know after my time to think. That what Tobias gave was way more important. Than my leadership. Marco's jokes, Cassie's moral. Rachel's arge to fight and Ax's knowlage. What he gave he also gave them. The involitary hosts of the yeerks. What he gave we all needed but once he was gone. He took that with him or so it would seem. Instead of it dieing with him. He split it up and gave it to us. That one thing he gave us that one little thing. Was hope the hope to keep going. When Taylor got him it almost went away. After some time after a while. After his time to think. He soon got it back all of it. He may have not known it. Not known what he had. It was the key to our succsese. When he died and he gave it to us. We couldn't keep going. I felt responible for his death that day. After we taught Noorlin that warriers need to cry. We took our time to think. We quit just becuase we couldn't go on. A team of five well it could have worked, but everytime I would have gone to make sure everyone was there. I would count only five that I couldn't bear. So just as my cousin said before me remember Tobias the red-tailed-hawk." I smiled at Jake he smiled at me. Then I gulped and went up to bat. "My name is Marco" I said between teeth.
Marco began his story. You see this wasn't really a time to intorduce us. It was a time we told of our friend. The one that had perished all in the end. Then I listioned to Marco's speach. "You see I wasn't that close to him. In fact I think I may have really bugged him. Some how like the others he put up with my jokes. Even the ones which were mean. LIke the time I said I could never be friends with someone who ate mouse. At that time we were going to spy on Chapman's house. Though even with that he still helped a lot. Even with that one gross mission. I couldn't go to. Well it would be kind of impossible to go on that one. Oh I'm babbling sorry bout that. I don't know what to talk of him. Bird boy I called him though it made sence. He always tried his best to help us. He went after David even though David was that bird he hated so. Even after he lost him he still did his search. Sometimes bird boy did some weird things. So he could help us. I knew he whanted to help us. Once he was trapped I knew he felt useless. Then that one day when he got the power back. I think he still may have felt a little useless. Maybe that's why he vollentered to do that one mission. Or maybe he knew it was what he should do. To help win the war I don't really know. That's bird boy for you. Very mysterious and yet very helpful." I clapped politly had Marco finished his speach. "Your turn mother nature" he said to my best friend. "Go get them." I told her smiling so "okay Rachel I had my time to think."
Cassie began her little speach. It was beautiful I admit that so. "Just like Marco I didn't know Tobias so. Not like Rachel or Ax even so. We had the same opions that I know so. He lived in the woods right near my house. The think I remember much more than most was the time with the skunks. He ate one and then helped save the rest. It's weird to know that I know that so. I remember the oath that he had made. Probably the weirdest that I know so. He promused me that he would not eat my patents. Not even one somtimes when I found some kits. I told him they were off limets. I remember that time that he broke into the mall. Rachel was doing gymnastics. He flew in really confused. He just made his first kill. Soon the hawk's insteces were to much to bear. If it weren't for Marco and his supperer aim. Tobias would have been as flat as a pancake." The audience chuckled I didn't know why. Probably becuase some of them remember that time. "That is all that I really can say." Then she smiled at me and said "go, on." I gulped and walked on the stage and said "hello my name is Aximilli."
"Tobias was to me what my kind calls a shorm. To you wonderful creatures of cinnamon buns it's best friend. To me Tobias and I were outsiders you see. Him a nothlit me a visitor. We told each other everything. I was the first that he told of who is dad was. I taught him the ways of an andalite. Whenever he found money he and I went to the glorious mall for a cinnamon bun and a taco. He taught me a lot of human things. That I did not find out in the allimac. Like he told me about this one movie he saw. Called Hercules he told me of Greek gods. All that he knew. He told me of their battles and all of that stuff. I found it rather disguesting that a father would eat his kids. And then one of his kids made him puke out the others. It was rather quite weird to tell the truth. He told me of movies which one was bad or good. To him High School Musical the first was better than second. It was the same when he saw the third. He told me of disney and their aleins. In a one movie called Leo and Stich. He also helped me with artafiltal skin and hooves. I learned underwear doesn't go on you head. When he died and my dad told me warriers don't cry. I releized that that saying was bogez. I called it balony and left in digust. Tobias was more than a nephew and shorm. He was much more to me than that. I know this sounds weird I don't care if it does. He was my role model if much more than none." Ax ended his speach and I turned away. Then looked at the sky so brillent and free. I smiled knowing that their time to think was gone. I greated Death like a old friend. Their time to think was over, and I was free at last.
