Here's Chapter 8, just like I promised. You might want to go back and read the last chapter of Betmilionali's story to make this chapter make sense.
(Chapter Eight)
(Betmilionali)
(Go ahead, take me to your visser.) I spat out the word 'visser'. (I'll just kill myself on the way. He won't like that.)
"Andalite? No, Eric said he was the only Andalite an Earth besides Visser 3." The human sounded like she was talking to herself. I sniffed her again. And again. And again. I couldn't believe my nose.
(There is a very familiar scent on you. But I must be smelling things.)
"What do you smell?"
(I smell an Andalite that is close to me. I thought he was sent back to the Andalite home planet.)
"What is his name?" Did she know him? As an Andalite?
(His name is Eriaca-Maheen-Eggfata.) I didn't think she'd recognize his name.
"You know Eric?" She sounded surprised.
(You call him 'Eric'?) She shortened Eriaca's name!
"I can't pronounce it in full." So that's why she shortened Eriaca's name.
(Oh.)
"How do you know him?"
(Why are you so full of questions?) I was getting very tired of questions.
"I'm so full of questions because it's in my nature to ask questions."
(Oh. Eriaca is my brother.)
"Do you want me to take you to him?"
(Yes.) She could take me to my brother! I could talk with him!
"Okay." She tried to pick me up.
(NO! Don't touch me!) I was a bit touchy about being touched.
"Okay, then. Hop into the basket."
(The what?) What is a basket? I wondered.
"The basket. The dish-like thing on my bike." Oh.
(Your transport is called a bike.) I never knew that.
"Yes."
(Okay.)
I hopped into the basket. The human sat on the bike and made move by pressing down on platforms the size of the bottoms of her feet.
(Faster! Faster!) I cried. This was almost as good as running.
"I'm going as fast as I can!" So?
(Do I look like I care?)
"Ummm…, no?"
(Good answer.) Then the trip was over. The human girl stopped her bike.
"Can you find your way from here?" She sounded concerned.
(Yes. Thank you for bringing me here.) I hopped out and then I was gone, running into the forest. I smelled my way through. Then I smelled Eriaca's scent. It was only a few minutes old.
(Eriaca!) I shouted, making sure that only Eriaca would hear.
(Betmilionali?) He sounded surprised.
(Yes!) I was jubilant.
(How did you get on Earth?) Bad question.
(I have no idea.)
(How did you find me?) No! More questions!
(That is a long story that I cannot tell.)
(At least tell me how you found my forest.)
(A human controller that recognized your name brought me here in her bike.)
(What did she call me?) Was he friends with any human girls? And why didn't he ask for her name?
(Eric.)
(That was Ellen.) So he was friends with the human.
(Ellen?)
(Yes. Ellen was the first person to figure out that I was not a human. She's with the peace movement.) What is the peace movement? I wondered.
(The peace movement?)
(The Yeerk peace movement is a group of voluntary controllers who are trying to tell everyone about the other Yeerks. The ones that are trying to take over Earth.) I began to wonder if Eriaca was a controller.
(Don't mention HIS name,) I pleaded.
(Whose?)
(Get Ellen to tell you how she found me. I cannot tell. It is too soon for me to tell you.)
(What happened to you to make you act like this?) He sounded concerned. Great, I thought, More people are worried about me.
(I was captured. That is all I can say.) I shuddered. Eriaca saw me shudder.
(Why were you captured?) Why couldn't he guess?
(I was captured because I didn't check my surroundings before demorphing and morphing.) My stupidity.
(You were captured by some human.) He still couldn't guess?
(No. A controller.)
(And that controller took you to Visser 3.) I cringed when he said Visser 3. It was all I could do to not run.
(HIM. HE whose name I cannot say because of what HE did.) I nodded.
(It was that bad?) There was that concerned tone again!
(Yes.)
(What did he do?)
(I cannot tell. The memory is too fresh. Perhaps I will be able to tell you someday, just not in great detail,) I sighed.
(When did you escape?)
(Today.)
(That would explain it.)
(I am near my time limit,) I said. Then I demorphed.
(How old are you? I have forgotten.)
(I don't even know how long I have been on Earth.)
(Oh. I have to demorph too.) A blue bird flew down from its perch on a large maple tree, landed next to me, and demorphed. It was Eriaca.
(Betmilionali?) He already had my attention.
(Yes?)
(While you are on Earth, it would be best if you learned some tail fighting.) Tail fighting? I thought only males were supposed to learn tail fighting.
(Why?)
(Self protection. I will not always be near you to fight for you. Plus, it will help you get some battle strategies ready in case you are captured again.) Those were some good reasons.
(Oh.)
(We need to figure out how to get you back home,) Eriaca said.
(Home?) I asked. (Earth is home. I don't remember any other.) I stamped my back hoof for emphasis.
(You don't remember Mom or Dad? Not even the Andalite home planet?)
(No.)
(Oh, Betmilionali,) he said, shaking his head. (You were too young to leave home. We need to figure out how to get you back.)
And thus concluded the reuniting of Betmilionali and her brother. You also see why Ellen and Betmilionali's stories have been thrown together.
Review? Please? I'm a little stuck, maybe...
~ukrainianelfhorse