Chapter 3 Rachel: The Bear
"I'm fine, now." I said coldly.
"Who attacked you?" He asked frantically.
"Not a who, it was a what." I replied a little more calmly.
"What do you mean, did Visser Three attack you, or were you attacked by a Hork-Bajir?" Jake asked me, with voice rushed.
"No, it wasn't the Yeerks. I was attacked by mountain lion."
"What? Tell me what happened?" He asked.
"I was at home," I told him "My mom and sisters were gone at a school thing for Sarah, I was in the kitchen making some dinner, singing with the radio, minding my own business, when it broke through the sliding glass door to the backyard. It just stood there, looking at me. Then it lunged, right at me. I spun around, and ran into the hallway. It grabbed me by my legs and slammed me to the ground."
"Then what happened?" He asked, "How did you get away from a mountain lion?"
"Well, when it had me on the ground, my mind went blank, I didn't know what to do, then it just hit me. I just needed to become stronger than the mountain lion. So I morphed grizzly bear."
"You did what?" He asked. "What happened?"
"You should have seen the look on the mountain lions' face," I laughed. "It was terrified. But when I started started morphing it didn't back away, it just kept attacking me.
When I was almost all of the way morphed, I grabbed it by the stomach, picked it up with pure grizzly bear might and slammed it into the counter, cracking it under it's weight. It tried to get back up but..."
"But what?" He asked.
"Well, I kind of lost it at that point, I kept just slamming it into the counter over and over... then I bit it."
"You bit it?" He asked, shocked. "You did what?"
"Hey, it was the bear, not me. But after that it just layed there for a while, not moving, until I guess it threw in the towel, because it got up and dragged itself out the way it came."
"What happened after that?" He asked.
"Well after that I demorphed, caught my breath and laid on the couch. But I didn't get to rest much because the whole neighborhood heard the lion." I said.
"My neighbor came over to my house, pounding on the door and screaming blood murder."
"Well what did you do? What did you tell them?" He asked.
"I did the only thing that I could do, I told her what happened, I left out the part of me morphing, of course. Then a few minutes later the cops were called, along with animal control." I told him.
"Rachel, something happened to Homer." He said, with sadness in his voice.
"What? What happened?" I asked.
He told me.
"Wow," I said. "I'm really sorry, Jake."
"Is Homer okay?" I asked.
"I don't know, Rachel, he's at the animal hospital."
"Oh, wait, sorry, I got to go Jake, my mom just got home, and she doesn't know what happened yet. This is going to be a very interesting conversation. See you later."
"Yeah, see you tomorrow." He replied.
"Tomorrow?" I asked, confused, not knowing what he was talking about.
"Yeah, remember, we are going to the mall with Philip tomorrow to have a day off and have some fun."
"Oh, yeah, see you later." I said as I hung up the phone. I remembered who Philip was.
