The Kinkou of the Yajuu

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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

-telepathy-

XD Scene change

/ Different point of view

):P Flash back

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Chapter 16

He watches as the original group and the first batch of recruits try out water walking, the second batch try out walking up the side of trees with Soul joining the second batch with the tree climbing. Tom and Rachel's two siblings were watching the Animorphs with interest, clearly wondering if they should join in or try it in private. He glances around the spot, he finds a lot of Hork-Bajir and the Animorphs' families relaxing around, enjoying the fine day and the change in scenery.

Everyone seems so focus on perfecting their chakra control, it seems that already the original batch that he had been training have been able to push the limit by three hours, allowing them to spend five hours in a morph, it also seems that they've become aware of the way their chakra feels when it's close to the time limit. It's mostly because of those kind of results that they're pushing themselves so hard, they don't ever want to be trapped in a body that's not their own. He could only imagine the Andalites' reaction to finding out that the rebel forces of Earth have found a way to go pass the time limit that's suppose to dictate morphing usage.

He glances at the newest members of the group, they're doubts had vanished on watching the first two groups start walking on water, they're also trying to catch up to Soul. The growing chimera, he now knows that the Kyuubi didn't stick to just using coyote and puma DNA and therefore Soul's technical classification is a chimera, will soon be ready to attempt water walking. The little beast, the heir of Kyuubi was currently resting on the ground, at the base of the tree that Soul's been training with.

Soul's closest ear flickers in his direction and then Soul glances in his direction. He looks over at the stream to find Marco in the river, Rachel chuckles at the fallen Animorph and Marco pushes her slightly, causing her to fall into the small stream. Suddenly those doing the water walking exercise are laughing and it's not long before a water war erupts, Rachel's younger siblings surge forward to take part of the mini war going on.

About fifteen minutes the soaking teens and preteens exit out of the stream. They reach and grab their towels and that includes Tobias and Ax. Those that are working on tree climbing take a break as well. It's not long before some of the mothers come towards the resting teens with offerings of food and drink, the offerings were well accepted and soon they're conversing about things not related to the war.

He watches as Tom sneaks a glance over at Toby, confusion flickers on his face until he realises that Toby seems to catch the elder teen looking at her, the two share a look before they turn away from each other. He looks up into the sky, not sure what to think about what he just witnessed other then it's obvious that those two were interested in each other. 'It's not like it couldn't work, it just means that Tom's going to need to start training in chakra control so he doesn't have to worry about the time limit.' He muses to himself.

He blinks as Cassie's mom, Michelle, hands him a sandwich. He smiles and thanks her before taking a bite out of the sandwich. His thoughts have been drifting since he's returned from his home reality. He just had a lot to think about and yet he really couldn't really focus on anything in particular even though he knows he should have some kind of plan concerning not just Soul's training, but training of the rebels calling themselves Animorphs.

He knows that the upcoming mission has some members of the group going to be morphing into Taxxons, which kind of reminds him of Elfangor's fellow cadet that ended trapped in a Taxxon morph. He sighs and picks up his pack once he's done with his sandwich. He walks towards the group of adults, right to Loren, Tobias's mother and Ax's sister-in-law.

"Could we talk privately?" He asks her, Champ's head comes up as Loren stops petting the German Sheppard. Loren looks slightly confused, but nods. Loren bits Champ to remain and they walk off into a stand of trees.

Once he feels secure about the distances between the main group and Loren and himself, he takes out the memory player. "Here, I think Elfangor would like for you to watch it. I keep meaning to bring it to Tobias's, your's, and Ax's attention but I just never could find my nerve to approach you guys. I thought you'd want to have some time alone after you've watched it. I'll be over there; also the triangle is the play button." He says to her, he then heads off a short distance to give her some privacy.

It was about two hours after he left Loren alone, she walks towards him. "Could you get Tobias please?" Loren asks him and he nods. On spotting Tobias, he motions for Tobias to come. "What's wrong?" Tobias asks, looking alert. "Your mother wants to talk with you." He says silently and Tobias jerks with a confused expression on his face.

"It most likely has to do with your father." He says and tells him where to find Loren. It's not long before Tobias heads off, surprisingly, not in as a red-tailed hawk. Rachel comes up and asks, "What's going on?" "A family matter. I think Ax will be needed shortly, since he is Elfangor's brother, Loren's brother-in-law, and Tobias's uncle." He says and Rachel gives him a piecing look before Rachel looks off into the direction where Tobais head off in. "He'll talk about it when he's ready. I'm still not sure if I should have waited longer or brought it to their attention sooner, I really didn't expect to find it." He says.

"What did you find?" Rachel asks in a demanding voice. "Elfangor's final statement, his hirac delest." He replies and notices Rachel looking slightly puzzled about that. "But it's just a will… Isn't it?" Rachel asks and he shakes his head. "It's more like his final memory dump before Visser Three killed him." He says and Rachel gets a far away look in her eyes, most likely replaying that night in her head.

He doesn't feel like it's his place to correct Rachel's assumption about the memories that Elfangor left behind. He figures that for now at least, it's a family matter and that it should be up to Elfangor's family to decide what to do with the hirac delest of one Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, Andalite Prince, elder brother of Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, husband to Loren, and father of Tobias. He just hopes that they'll understand how hard it was for him to find a way to bring the hirac delest to their attention.

XD

Watches as Taylor runs off with the morphing cube, he glances at Cassie, he could very easily catch up to her and take it from her, but he trusts Cassie's judgment in this so he doesn't give chase. Blue and Danielle each sigh, the four of them just watch as Taylor takes their Trojan horse back to Visser Three, who will most likely get promoted once the cube is in his profession. He agrees with Cassie's reasoning since Cassie had run it by Tom, who most likely knows more about what's going on with the invasion then any of the Animorphs.

-So begins the end of this war.- Blue says, saying what they're all thinking. –Ironic, isn't it? For them it's like that apple that snake tempted Eve to eat, it's forbidden fruit, it's their door way to hell.- Danielle adds. –The peace movement will be the snake in their paradise.- Cassie muses. –And Visser Three is a mixture of God and Adam in this little story.- Blue finishes, he doesn't say anything, he might have read some paragraphs from the bible, but he never bothered to read it a second time since he found it too preachy for his taste.

It's not long before Rachel with Marco come towards them. –Where did she go?!- Rachel asks, glancing around while blood ebbs from her wounds, matting the course bear coat. –I'd like to report that plan Trojan is a go.- He says dryly since none of the others were going to say anything. –Plan what?- Marco asks, looking startled. –You remember that Yeerk Cassie wanted freed? And how she's now a whale?- He says and the pair nod, he continues, -Well, the peace movement is still around and now they have ammo to use to undermine the most basic Yeerk need, one of the basic ways that the chain of command is kept in line.- Marco then gets it and says for Rachel's benefit, -You just gave them the opinion of deserting.-

-How could they desert? They'd still need Kandrona rays… You're saying that they could desert by becoming nothlits, by stop being Yeerks.- Rachel says, clearly awed by just what kind of ripples this one act will most likely cause. –That's Cassie's hope.- He says, confirming that Rachel guessed correctly.

-I guess we're finally going to alert someone in the government about this, huh? I mean, this is the beginning of the end.- Marco says. –I think we need to first get the rest of the families out of sight first.- Cassie says. –It'll be hard getting them to the main base, but I have been preparing the apartment building for this. We can move them to the main base with the Chee's help.- He says.

-Jake and Ax aren't going to be pleased about this.- Marco says and then everyone glances at him. –Fine, I'll take the blame, but you and Jake better start doing more then give each other longing looks.- He says, looking straight at Cassie, he watches as Cassie's wolf morph look shy. –Let's head back then.- Blue says and within minutes, they're all in their respective owl morphs, flying through the night sky.

XD

He stands before a good hundred controllers, not in a morph but in his own body. The squad standing before him snicker, clearly doubting his threat level, he shouts out, "Put down your weapons and you'll be spared. If you don't, well, you'll never know what killed ya." He gives them a predatory grin and let's loose bit of killing intent on the squad.

The leader gives order to open fire and some of them fire. He doesn't flinch as the beams pass by him; he just stares at the lot. He could tell that he's already unnerving most of the controllers, a few had enough common scents to lower their weapons and lie on the ground. Once more they open fire on him, he shakes his head and within seconds, a huge black fire dragon is moving towards the squad, more then a few dropped their weapons and lie on the ground in surrender.

The beams from those lasers only make the dragon grow in size. The battle is over within two minutes, only those lying on the ground were spared, they gaze at him in awe and fear. They watch as he deals with the ships coming toward them, he creates a wall out of mud, the bug fighters slam into the solid wall.

He glances behind him, a group of Hork-Bajir controllers witnessed what he had done and were looking at the wall, at him, back to the wall, and then at their weapons in their hands. He watches in amusement as they drop them and hold their hands up in complete surrender. He thumbs them to the human controllers and they walk to the group of prisoners. He summons four shadow clones to make sure that the prisoners were safe before he heads off to find new opponents to deal with.

By the end of the day, he's helped out two army squads, taken out well over fifty bug fighters, and ended up with well about five hundred controllers becoming his prisoner. He's even stop Taxxons from eating the injured, he had to separate the Taxxons from the other prisoners, the only way they cooperated was when he told them of the deal Arbron made with Jake, the leader of the 'Andalite' bandits.

By the next day, the war was over; the Animorphs had captured the flag ship and regained control of the morphing cube. It's not long before the Taxxons he captured were taken up into the sky so that their Yeerks exit out of their heads, to acquire the morphing ability, and finally morph into anacondas.

The Chee and the free Hork-Bajir came around with portable Yeerk pools by the end of the evening, the Yeerks exit their host bodies, once the Yeerks were out, the human hosts began to weep, go into shock, or start cheering and celebrating their freedom. The Hork-Bajir join up with the ones fighting on their side and join in the escort around said portable pools.

It takes about two more days before the army finally feel that the area was secure and began moving about the ruined city. He found himself the go between the Chee, only they're pretending to be Hork-Baji, and Hork-Bajir and the US army. He even stopped mishaps from occurring when some of the squads came upon the Hork-Bajir, he's use of shadow clone jutsu was pretty handy in such matters.

In time, reporters flocked for the return of the Animorphs on earth. He stood with Toby and Erek as the ship comes in for a landing. High ranking officials step forward as the doors open, the first one out were the original members in uniforms, he had to wonder where they found them but he has to admit he's glad to notice the symbol of Hidden Leaf in the cat paw they're using as their symbol. Once the originals were out, Ax steps through the door way wearing a slash with that symbol on it.

Now came something he really didn't expect, but had to admit was impressive display. Blue, Danielle, Kit, and Nathaniel in their battle morphs come out. Then two rows of five come out, one row contained red foxes while the other row contained coyotes. Blue and that group stood to one side of the opening while Grey and the other group head to the other side. Then before the cameras, they de-morph. Pride swells up in his chest as he notices how quickly they de-morph, even if it weren't pretty.

"Where did they get those uniforms?" He asks Erek. "I believe Kevin did alterations to the uniforms the Yeerks had stored away. Impressive, aren't they?" Erek says and Toby nods her head in agreement.

The uniforms were black with green trim, Jake had what appeared to be the bars of a general, most of the others had bars of various ranks bellow Jake's general rank. Blue and that group weren't marked as privates like the last batch that contained Grey and them. He watches as Ax receives some weary looks, especially Ax's tail tip.

He doesn't really pay much attention to what's said, he figures that he'll get a news copy from the Chee. He does step forward, he notices that he's given the rank of lieutenant in charge of special operations and ambassador of Leaf. Toby's named Seer of the colony of Hork-Bajir on Earth and ambassador of the Hork-Bajir, he notices how proud Ket and Jara were when Toby's name was called. Aximili's rank was that of Andalite military representation on Earth, he figures that they got that from the Chee, and of course, they don't mention the Chee at all, respecting that the Chee's wish to remain anonymous on Earth.

'It's a damn good that I'm now a jonin or else my presence here would be a joke. I wonder if Soul's watching this…' He muses privately to himself. He stares out at the crowd gathered before the ship and the make shift stand. He wonders just how many people were watching all of this on TV and in how many countries as well.

XD

It takes the Andalite feet two months to make it to Earth, even when the Andalites arrived and found that the message sent two months ago was telling the truth. Already the Taxxon population, with the exception of Arbron, were nothlit snakes and about five percent of the Yeerks were nothlits of various beasts, Cassie had encouraged the Yeerks to try for endangered beasts, often times they choice to become either winged beasts like birds or bats or water beasts like whales or otters.

Visser Three's host, Alloran, had continued Ax's Andalite training; it seems that he's not the only one to get promoted for the sake of relations between two different populations with different beliefs, since it seems that Ax now ranks that of a Prince. Alloran was more then a little surprise to witness Ax's ability to walk around on walls and on ceilings, Alloran especially was stunned to hear that Ax learnt how to do this from him, a human, they left out the bit about him originating from another reality.

Once the Andalites arrived, the process of Yeerks becoming nothlits was sped up since they brought with them about eight more morphing cubes, making it a total of nine cubes being used. He doesn't know what happened with Alloran, the old worn out Andalite head to the Andalite home world and was never heard from again. It also wasn't long before some documents were signed concerning a temporary truce until the Yeerks were dealt with.

The population at the base was emptied, though he doubts that it'll remain so, but it'll give the Chee time to take out the technology they don't want discovered by either races, the humans and the Andalites. They're still keeping the fact that such beings exist since the Chee wouldn't know peace and quiet with humans and Andalites attempting to figure out how to use them to their advantage.

There were groups of humans that were resisting the fact that there were aliens on Earth. Though most of those groups were religious and nobody was taking them seriously. Oddly enough, Toby and the Hork-Bajir plight were often the main focus of alien affairs. Already the US government were attempting to find better homes for the population, which means that in a few months, the population could be moving to, hopefully, more suitable habitat.

In his private life, Soul's beginning to figure out how to alter his voice box and was beginning to speak, much to the shock of Animorphs and Chee. It also seems that Soul considers him, Naruto, his 'papa.' He didn't know what to make of that, but he couldn't really bring himself to inform Soul of the fact that he contains his 'papa.'

Already Soul's beginning to attempting to alter his whole body, often times making him look like some kind of hybrid between a human and feline/canine beast. He often wonders if by trying to do this, Soul's unlocked his ability to grow faster, already Soul's body length is around five feet from nose tip to tail tip, he also knows that Soul's still growing and that Soul could easily grow to the size of a Siberian tiger, if not larger.

He glances up from the journal he's started writing in once they've won the war for Earth. He had trouble deciding where to start and had in the end, decided to begin when he first arrived on this world, in this alternate reality. It helped him get a clearer picture of his history in this reality and he feels more comfortable with the responsibility he's carrying on his shoulders.

"Dad?" He glances towards the door way, he smiles as he notices Soul leaning on the door frame, standing on his unsteady hind legs. "Yes, Soul?" He asks. "We got visitors." Soul says. He blinks as Kiba stands behind Soul. "How did you guys get here?" He demands as he closes his journal and gets up. "The Ellimist." Shino says from behind Kiba. He chuckles, knowing that he should have known that.

To be continued …