Chapter 2
I awoke the next morning early because of a knocking sound on my window. I slowly got out of bed, opened my curtains and peered out- there was only a small bird there. I turned around to go back to my bed "Stupid bird" I scowled because I had been woke up
Zach... I span around and looked at the little bird, frowning. I had heard a voice in my head like I had with the Andalite Zach, it's me
"Who?" I walked to the window and opened it
The small bird fluttered in and perched on my cabinet Zach, this is Sora
I came closer to the bird and peered confusedly at it "This is just a bad dream..." I went and sat on my bed "Just a bad dream!"
Suddenly, the bird began to enlarge quickly, becoming more human with its features and less bird-like. Then, sprouted Sara's golden locks from the head- it was Sara...
I quickly jumped back to the wall beside my bed in fright as she began to fully take shape "What the hell?" I exclaimed
When, she was fully formed I looked at her and realised she was naked. She looked extremely embarrassed "Can I have something to wear, please?" She asked, blushing.
I closed my eyes, threw her a shirt of mine that was on the ironing pile from what I could feel and let her get changed into it before I looked again.
"It's all true, Zach" She smiled at me "That Andalite was telling the truth"
"What did you just do, Sara?" I asked in reference to her coming from a robin
"I acquired a robin's DNA and became it" She said it so casually
"How?"
"I don't need to explain that now but, Zach, we need to tell the others, we need to save the world" Her eyes looked at me despairingly
"So, you really think that these Yeerks are taking over the world?"
She quickly nodded her head "Yes"
"It is lunacy though, Sara, don't you realise that it is impossible for aliens to be taking over the world- they do not exist!" I tried to reason with her
"And what I just did is usually possible?" She raised an eyebrow at me- Sara had won this little argument
I sighed "Where can we meet?"
"Mine probably" Sara smiled "My parents have gone on an expedition trip to Kenya for two weeks"
"Ok" I nodded "Get everyone together for me please"
"I'll be off then" She stood up
"You're flying again?" I asked
"Of course" She suddenly began to morph back to the robin. This time it freaked me out even more because I was actually seeing it as Sara changing and not the robin changing to become Sara. Sara slowly decreased in size firstly. Then a beak suddenly began to form on her face; then her arms became wing-like, shortening at the same time. Her skin then began to form feathers upon it, starting at the top and quickly rippling down her body. Her feet were the final thing to change into the tiny claws of a robin. Now, she was that small robin once more
Bye She began to flap her little wings and lifted off of the floor. She made her way to the window and flew out of it
I went to the window and watched her fly away as far as I could see. Then, I slowly made my way back to my bed. I just stared at the wall "Crap..."
I must have sat there for a good half-an-hour, just thinking about, well, I don't know what I was thinking about really. I only stopped thinking when my Mum came into my room, hovering. I hadn't even heard her approaching.
"Morning Zach" She greeted me with her usual vigour for life. My Mum was pretty in her day, you could tell because she still had that prettiness in her eyes even though age and the fact of having had three kids had begun to take its toll on the rest of her.
I didn't respond her but just stared instead
She frowned at me, turned off the Hoover and sat beside me "Are you Ok, dear?"
"Yeah" I quickly snapped out of it
"Good" She got up, turned on the Hoover and began to clean once more.
"Mum, where is Millie?"
"Downstairs dear" She shouted over the Hoover
I grabbed some jeans and slipped them on and rapidly made my way downstairs, into the front living room. There she was: Millie, our black Labrador "Hello girl" I gave her a
pat on the head and sat down reaching for the phone. I dialled in a number and it began to ring.
"Hello?" the voice answered
"Sara, how do I do this?" I looked to the dog- I was going to morph into Millie.
"Are you sure, Zach?" She sounded unsure as to tell me
"Yeah"
"Ok... touch her or whatever for about 5 seconds or so, focusing solely on her and that will allow you to acquire her DNA. She will go into a slight trance-like state but that is nothing"
"Ok, what after that then? How do I become her?"
"Well, just focus on the animal, about what it looks like and how they act, what it would feel like to be that animal" Sara explained "Sound simple enough?"
"Yeah, see you later" I quickly put down the phone and reached out for the dog "Come here, girl. You're gonna be fine" I placed my hand on her head and focused on her solely as Sara had said. She did just go limp for a few seconds but soon recovered from it and was her usual bubbly self "Thanks, Millie" I got up and made my way back to my bedroom.
I grabbed for the chair that was in my bedroom when I got into it and placed it behind the door, jarring it so that no one could walk in on me morphing. Goodness knows what Mum would think if she saw me half-human/half-dog, never mind what Emma and Claire, my older sisters, would think.
Keep clam, Zach I told myself as I began to focus on the dog: what she looked, how she acts and what it would feel like to be her.
I felt the fur suddenly develop all over me instead of my normal skin firstly- just a mass of blackness engulfing me from head to toe. Then, I looked to my hands which were quickly becoming paws. I then felt my backbone begin to extend outwards into a tail. That was when I fell over onto all fours and began to become smaller to the size of Millie. My eyesight was the last thing to change, going from full colour to a black and white world.
Then I noticed it: the sense of smell. Now, a human has a pretty good sense of smell but you would not believe how immense a dog's is! I could suddenly smell so much around my bedroom, and around the house- wait, something was cooking downstairs! My dog brain took over my human one and made me run to my bedroom door. I began to scratch on the door to be let out- I had to get to that food! It smelt so nice! I barked suddenly. Oh no I thought I can't bark, someone will try and come and get me!
I needed to take control of the dog's mind, it was in charge momentarily. I slowly pulled myself away from the door and back into the middle of my room. The Millie in me wanted that food, but I was now in charge and I needed to get out of this morph. It was only a quick morph if anything but now I knew what it was like to be in a morph and I was sorted for the future if I did ever have to morph again. I, the human, needed to be in charge of the other mind, the animal's, in all morphs no matter what because things could wrong if not!
I began to focus on what I looked like, what the real Zach looked like. I felt myself grow again and could see my paws forming human hands again. I managed to stand up once more as I felt my extended backbone shoot back into me, shortening in size to what a typical human's. My normal vision returned- I could see the world in colour again. I suddenly felt my ears reposition themselves from on top of my head to the sides (I had felt them move when I first morphed so this was new for me). Then the fur suddenly disappeared and I was normal again!
I looked down at myself; I was naked as Sara had been. I grabbed for some clothes on the floor and quickly put them on.
Now, I had experienced my first morph and I knew that the Andalite had been telling the truth, it wasn't all just a bad dream officially! Now it was just us six kids against a whole race of aliens- who do you think was most likely to win...?