Chapter 13 Jake: The Reunion
I was following Cassie into the woods by air, I was also looking for Tobias as well. I figured that he wouldn't be all the way out here but Cassie was still headed the same direction, still heading deeper into the woods.
I was looking forwards, my keen, powerful, hawk eyes looking at Cassie. When the peregrine in me sensed a bird above me. Suddenly I saw a figure to my right, then a figure to my left. An eagle of some kind to my right and a condor to my left. Both were several times my size. When I was suddenly attacked from above. My back was being shredded, torn apart, by an unknown bird above me. Then the back of my neck was being torn by the birds powerful beak. I was being forcibly brought to the ground. The bird on my back was driving me to the ground. Trying to have me crash into the ground, to disable me or to kill me, which one I didn't know. Until it suddenly let me go, I couldn't flap, I tried but my wings were trashed.
I hit the ground at a good twenty miles per hour. Slamming into the ground knocked the wind out of me. My head was suddenly grabbed from above. Upon impact I could feel several of my fragile bird bones shatter.
[Aaahhhh!] I screamed in pain. My eyes were being stabbed by large talons, being ripped out of their sockets. Then I could feel my legs being cut and clawed at by the two other birds. Then it hit me, they took out my eyes and now they were taking out my legs. My wings were already useless, they had me beat, there was no I'd be able to escape in my current form.
But who were they? Who in the world was attacking me? I knew that it wasn't a group of real birds that were attacking me, there was no way that three different kind of birds would work together to drive me to the ground. Was it Visser Three or the Yeerks? Had they somehow figured out how to infest birds as well?
The pain was unbearable, I had to demorph, to get rid of the pain and to see who and what was attacking me.
I started to demorph as fast as possible, with the birds trying to remove my legs. As soon as they noticed me demorphing they started to let me go until my birds sense of smell smelled something, something I didn't understand. It smelled like a human, but strange. And the weird thing was that I recognized this human. Someone I would never forget, but someone I thought I would never see again.
"Hello, Jake." David said. "Long time no see, why don't you demorph to human? So we can have a nice little chat."
