OK. This is the first official chapter. Hope you like it, sorry its so short but I cant seem to make them long enough. Oh well I'll try again on the next one and hope that its longer. Thanks to Vickie1, Desteny Wolf, and last, but not least, SouthrnBelle. Hope this chapter lives up to what you were expecting :-)

Jake

I didn't get what was going on. I had just told Mendrash to ram the blade ship, and now I was…floating…if you can call it that, in a purple mist. Then it clicked, "Ellimist" I said, "Yes Jake it is me." Boomed the voice that came from everywhere at once. "What do you want? And where are the others?" The Ellimist turned his head spoke a few words and turned back to me, a Red Tailed Hawk fluttered up and landed on his shoulder, Tobias looked right at me and even now I could feel the slight hate he felt for me because of what I did to him when I sent Rachel to her death. Marco, Ax, Cassie, Toby walked round either side of him on ground that seemed to just appear out of the mist as they walked, like some bizarrely cool automated walk-way. "What's going on?" I said uneasily.

"I have one final task for you, all of you. Crayak has proposed a final game, we chose Champions and now if they accept will go to a new planet we will create and there they must create a working camp with roles and a leadership hierarchy. When both camps fulfill specific rules set out between me and Crayak then both camps will be given an object that the other camp must steal by any means necessary even inciting treachery with in your camp, and likewise for you." Boomed the Ellimist. "IF you do not go then you will be returned to where you were before." He concluded

"So if we choose not to go then we die." I said "Well I choose to go believe it or not"

"Very good" boomed the Ellimist "It will now take about 10 of Earths minutes to summon the last two members of your team. Until then simply wait here." He turned and closed his eyes and sat down looking strangely like a blue old Buddha. "Well, everyone" I said "Here we are again."

Try not to get any of us killed senselessly again Mighty Jake said Tobias

"I did what I had to Tobias. There was no other way." I said firmly

Yes there was He replied morphing to human.

"Then you tell me what you would have done if you where in my position." I said getting angry now

"I would have got everyone to where we were with Visser Three and the Blade Ship, but I would have told Erek to repower up the Dracons otherwise the Blade Ship would fire and kill everyone onboard the Pool Ship. I would have told him we would just take out his engines and his weapons. He would have had no choice but to power them up. Then I would have destroyed the Blade Ship, or just disabled it saving Tom anyway and also saving all the Animorphs." He stated.

I thought about it, and it could have worked, my anger levels soared, why hadn't I thought of that?! Right at that moment I hated Tobias, and he hated me. We stared each other down, daring the other to make the first move. Then Tobias simply turned his back on me, in a very insulting way, as if to say, 'your not worth my time and effort.' I snapped, I leapt at him, he spun round, too late, and my fist connected with his face, he was thrown off his feet and landed hard, but he jumped up and glared at me, "WHAT THE HELL?!" he roared then he leapt at me and rugby tackled me, we rolled around on the floor, the other let us do it, I still don't know why, maybe they just thought it would be better to let us get it out of our systems. We fought for 10 minutes when suddenly someone shouted:
"TOBIAS WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

That one shout, from a voice so familiar to me yet so unfamiliar, brought Tobias scrambling off me and looking around in shock, we looked around wildly, and eventually spotted her, and his eyes grew wide with shock, Rachel was walking towards us looking very angry, Tobias stared in obvious shock. Rachel walked right up to us and glared at us, "What was all that about?" she demanded Tobias still just stared, then he did something I really didn't expect right then and neither did Rachel, He turned and ran, without a word, he ran. He ran until we could no longer see him, but at that moment I wasn't too worried about Tobias, my cousin that I had thought I had killed was standing in front of me, I tried to keep the tears away, I really tried, but I couldn't do it, I broke down and cried into her shoulder, and held onto her like I would never let go. After some time she pulled me away from her and smiled at me. "Hey Jake." She said, and a huge grin lit up her perfect features, then her face grew serious "What were you two fighting about? I've never seen two Animorphs at each others throats before."

"Well, I don't really know why we were fighting it just sort of happened." I told her

By this time all the others were talking to each other glancing at Rachel and then in the direction Tobias had fled.

"We cannot start this game without Tobias" The Ellimist said "AND I believe it is you, Rachel, that he needs right now."

Rachel looked at me and the other Animorphs smiled her smile that had haunted me for so long and took off after Tobias. I watched her till I couldn't see her anymore and turned round to face my, once again, team members in a fight that would be long and hard.

I couldn't have been happier.