DISCLAIMER: No I didn't create these characters, I just wish they were
real...not really...
well...maybe...
There's not going to be any sex in this chapter, so don't bother speed
reading till you get to it.
Sorry. Maybe...later...
Oh, and duh, this takes place after the last book, in case you haven't
guessed.
Chapter 1 Tobias
I sat by Ax's parents scoop, feeling another numb spell coming on.
By numb I mean, well, no feeling. Stunned. I felt unconnected to everything around me. Was it really me sitting here, on this grass, in the warm suns? Was I really still here, still alive, breathing fresh air?
I couldn't believe we'd actually survived the impact of The Rachel.
Ax was free, everyone else had survived too.
Jake had little damaged. Broken leg. And a huge cut on his face.
Marco had broken his right arm at the upper arm, and a disconnected shoulder.
I actually broke my neck, just near the collar bone.
Of course, nothing we couldn't morph out of. Somehow, somehow, we survived.
It had been a month ago. One month since we were brought to the Andalite home world to recuperate (and get awards and medals from the Andalite military, for rescuing Ax's butt. Marco and I were going to be declared Warriors.) Besides, Ax wanted me to meet my Andalite grandparents. They had more or less accepted me.
Today, I was just sitting, waiting. You see, we have to wait for a ship back to Earth, since the Rachel was pretty much too messed up to fly without at least three months of repairs.
So I was hanging out, chilling with Ax and my grands.
It was one of my moments of numbness.
It was mainly that feeling that I couldn't believe I was still alive. The feeling of being detached from everything around me. As if I wasn't really there. I couldn't believe I was really sitting here, staring at a sky that looked like perpetual afternoon. A strange place of two moons. The Andalite home world.
I was in human form, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, barefoot, enjoying the feel of grass on my feet.
Enjoying breathing. Being alive.
I sighed. What a day! A light breeze was blowing and I inhaled, relaxing.
What a day to enjoy with the people you loved. Or the girl you loved. I thought, and my heart felt that familiar ache.
"Rach..." I whispered softly. "Oh...man..." I groaned, and drew my knees up. I put my arms across them and rested my head on my arms.
I no longer felt the screaming, insane grief. Now my soul was just...tired...weary...no longer really caring if I lived on.
I remember not really caring if I died after...after it happened.
I still didn't really care as Jake's Rachel hurtled toward The One.
I was glad that Ax was free now. He deserved freedom. He had fought so hard for it...lost so much.
He came out of the scoop, interrupting my thoughts stretching and reaching. He sniffed, trying to wake up. He wiped sleep from his eyes.
He looked over at me and eye smiled, the way Andalites do.
"Hello Tobias."
"Good morning Ax man."
Ax smiled and looked over his family's land. "Yes. It is a good morning. A very good one."
I had never been enslaved. I looked up at him, imagining how grateful, how thankful he must be
to just be free again, and back on his own planet, with his own, biological people.
"So." I said, getting up. "You wanna go see Jake and Marco?"
"Yes. Why not?"
I demorphed to hawk, then went andalite. Ax fed as we ran to Jake and Marco's scoops, about a mile away.
*** Yay! My first chapter done! Well, hope yall liked it! Next one coming up soon! I promise!
Now go review!!! Please!!!
Chapter 1 Tobias
I sat by Ax's parents scoop, feeling another numb spell coming on.
By numb I mean, well, no feeling. Stunned. I felt unconnected to everything around me. Was it really me sitting here, on this grass, in the warm suns? Was I really still here, still alive, breathing fresh air?
I couldn't believe we'd actually survived the impact of The Rachel.
Ax was free, everyone else had survived too.
Jake had little damaged. Broken leg. And a huge cut on his face.
Marco had broken his right arm at the upper arm, and a disconnected shoulder.
I actually broke my neck, just near the collar bone.
Of course, nothing we couldn't morph out of. Somehow, somehow, we survived.
It had been a month ago. One month since we were brought to the Andalite home world to recuperate (and get awards and medals from the Andalite military, for rescuing Ax's butt. Marco and I were going to be declared Warriors.) Besides, Ax wanted me to meet my Andalite grandparents. They had more or less accepted me.
Today, I was just sitting, waiting. You see, we have to wait for a ship back to Earth, since the Rachel was pretty much too messed up to fly without at least three months of repairs.
So I was hanging out, chilling with Ax and my grands.
It was one of my moments of numbness.
It was mainly that feeling that I couldn't believe I was still alive. The feeling of being detached from everything around me. As if I wasn't really there. I couldn't believe I was really sitting here, staring at a sky that looked like perpetual afternoon. A strange place of two moons. The Andalite home world.
I was in human form, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, barefoot, enjoying the feel of grass on my feet.
Enjoying breathing. Being alive.
I sighed. What a day! A light breeze was blowing and I inhaled, relaxing.
What a day to enjoy with the people you loved. Or the girl you loved. I thought, and my heart felt that familiar ache.
"Rach..." I whispered softly. "Oh...man..." I groaned, and drew my knees up. I put my arms across them and rested my head on my arms.
I no longer felt the screaming, insane grief. Now my soul was just...tired...weary...no longer really caring if I lived on.
I remember not really caring if I died after...after it happened.
I still didn't really care as Jake's Rachel hurtled toward The One.
I was glad that Ax was free now. He deserved freedom. He had fought so hard for it...lost so much.
He came out of the scoop, interrupting my thoughts stretching and reaching. He sniffed, trying to wake up. He wiped sleep from his eyes.
He looked over at me and eye smiled, the way Andalites do.
"Hello Tobias."
"Good morning Ax man."
Ax smiled and looked over his family's land. "Yes. It is a good morning. A very good one."
I had never been enslaved. I looked up at him, imagining how grateful, how thankful he must be
to just be free again, and back on his own planet, with his own, biological people.
"So." I said, getting up. "You wanna go see Jake and Marco?"
"Yes. Why not?"
I demorphed to hawk, then went andalite. Ax fed as we ran to Jake and Marco's scoops, about a mile away.
*** Yay! My first chapter done! Well, hope yall liked it! Next one coming up soon! I promise!
Now go review!!! Please!!!