Free At Last

A sequil to Warriers Don't Cry and Time To Think

I looked at the place I now call home. I ruffled my feathers and watched as he came. He sat beneith my tree and looked up and smiled at me. I flew down and morphed now I had no time limet to watch. "What is it like?" He asked me again I smiled and told him. "It's grass is still green and the sky is still blue. Though that's not the thing that is best you see. The thing that is best is what wasn't there before. Every one was free not a yeerk to be seen. The yeerks are around that I know. They are nothlits like me. Earth is free at last. Tom was there smiling a smile. A real one not one that is fake. One that is made by him not a yeerk. It's the best thing that I know. Tom is free at last. I saw my old friends there that day. They spoke of me I still wonder why they were doing that." That's when he looked at me and then said. "You still doupt yourself and that needs to stop. Along with all the bad rthyming. You think you don't deserve to be here. You belong here way more than Heracles. You helped save the world and died doing so. That is what matters. You say you don't matter and that is a lie. You matter more than you let yourself think. That's one of the reasons you are like me. I think I don't matter I think I'm a fool. You helped me releize I am more. You have always looked at me as a hero. Not some fool that was killed by one hit. You told me that I'm more. So I will help you discover that you are more than you think you are." I looked over at him and sighed. Then I said turning to him. "I'm just glad to be free at last."

I look at the grave that I've been before. That's when a man appeared. With a black cloak. Then he waved a hand and then. Three words appeared on his grave the three words free at last. I look back at the man. His hood fell down. Then I see a handsome man. He had black curly hair and eyes like black holes. His skin was pale as white as cloud. "My name is Hades lord of the dead." He told me shaking my hand. I stare at the man then say clear as day. "Why oh why did he have to die?" The man smiled and said "I used to get that a lot you know. The answer I do not know. That's for the fates to tell. If you want to know why he is dead. Then look for the fates they will tell thy." I looked at the man and said "where will these fates you tell of be?" The man shrugged and disappeard not before Ax appeared. Ax came up and looked at those words. He then said something I will hold dear. (((Those words discribe Tobias more than you know. I remember the words he said in my head as he died." I stared at Ax my temper than bouled. "Why did you hear them and I did not. Why didn't you tell us of them." Ax looked at me and said these words (((he said it to all. You just weren't listioning you were to busy in your mind to hear him. The last words he said were free at last. Those same words are on anouther grave. Martan Luther King Jr's grave."

I looked at Rachel as she ran to me. "I met a god" she said between breathes. "He added three words to Tobias' grave. And those words are free at last. The god's name is something to hear. The god's name is Hades lord of the dead." I stared at my friend standing there. Then she shouted up at the sky. "Why oh why did he have to die?" That's when three woman appeared. They had a bunch of string. "The answer to your questin is clear. His time on Earth was up. He died a hero's death that is clear. He died becuase he was the price to pay. The price to pay for the war to end. If he died the war end was clear. Earth was to win yeerks were to fall." I stared at the woman then Rachel said between tears "how come it wasn't me why him?" The woman looked at each other and said "in a differant time you were the price to pay. The time your in now Tobias was it. In differant times you each were prices to pay. Tobias was this one that is so clear. His last words are differant then yours. Rachel yours were I love you. Cassie you said may peace rain again. Ax he said justice is here. Jake's was a simple it is time. Marco's was his last joke. When I die kick yeerk butt. All of them differant all of them clear. Free at last may have been his last words but they aren't the last he will ever speak. They're just the last he will say on Earth. Goodbye you Animorphs do not disppar. You have the fortane of the fates. You all are free at last.