Hey… everyone… or maybe I'm just talking to myself… :'(
If there IS anybody out there, please review this. I'm lonely. :(
Jake's POV
My son, Cam, had just turned seven. Cassie (his mom) and I were wrapping up the blue box for his birthday present. Poor little Cam was entirely unaware of the war his mommy and daddy were fighting, but we had decided that on his seventh birthday, we'd give him the ability to morph and tell him how his Uncle Tom was not who he said he was. Why he wasn't allowed to join the Sharing.
"Cassie? Do you think… Do you think we should tell him at all? I mean… Would it be better off if he didn't find out at all?""Jake, we have to tell him. You heard his friend Tim this morning. He really wants to join the Sharing. We can't keep coming up with imaginary excuses. And remember that nightmare he had last night? He told me what it was this morning. He saw you turning into a tiger. Me turning into a wolf. It wasn't a nightmare, Jake. He saw us coming home from that infiltration mission. Thank god Marco agreed to baby sit, I mean, anybody else would have freaked."
"I guess."
Cam walked into the room. "Mommy? Daddy?"
"Yes, sweetie?"
"What's in the box?"
Cassie looked around the room until she spotted his "present."
"It's an early… birthday present for you. Open it."
His eyes lit up like the morning sun. I wish it was a normal present like an action figure. I wish.
Ellimist's POV
I looked at Crayak. He smiled evilly.
"Ellimist, you fool. Allowing the war between the Animorphs and the Yeerks continue was the worst mistake you have ever made."
"Crayak, we both know that with the addition of the children and the Auxillary Animorphs, this is still anybody's game."
"Ellimist, it's almost pitiful how oblivious you are to the change in events."
"We'll see, Crayak. We'll see."
Marco
You know what's unfair? That Tobias got Rachel, Jake got Cassie, and I got nobody. Even Ax got some Andalite hottie.
Everyone except Ax got kids, too! I mean, thanks for rubbing it in my face, everyone!
I'd hate to be a parent anyway, though. At least during the war. I mean, how many ten-year-old kids do you know that's fighting to save their enslaved best friend? Poor Cam. It was almost worst for Tobias and Rachel's kid Ashley, though. Her dad was a hawk. Her dad was the family mouse trap. Thank god, though, that Ax was posing as a billionaire here on earth. It's very hard to keep up a job when you're constantly fighting an underground war.
I went outside a collapsed on the front lawn, staring up at the stars. What led us to this? We had come so close to winning the war years ago… why were we still fighting? What had stopped us? It was like some invisible force had made everything fall apart. I stood up and went back inside. The universe was a strange place.