Animorphs - M1 - The Andalite's Gift by K.A.Applegate

Author:K.A.Applegate [Dace]
Format: epub
Published: 2009-12-21T22:24:45+00:00

BAM BAM BAM!

"Whoever is in there, come out. This is the police!"

"Ahh!" I yelped, then covered my mouth. Flashlight beams pierced the darkness around me. Spears of light searched for me. I rolled quickly into a corner. 70

"Don't make us come in there after you!" a policeman said. "Neighbors reported someone climbing in. So just come on out."

Trapped! I should just... I should just give myself up.

No! No! There were enemies. Enemies everywhere. I couldn't... I couldn't. . .

"I'm gonna count to three and you'd better come out with your hands over your head," a policeman yelled.

I had to get away! Had to think. Had to find out who I was. What I was. But I was surrounded.

Morph! Like when I became a bear. Only not the bear. I didn't know if the bear inside me was injured.

I searched the jagged memories from my dreams. What had I seen? What pictures had I seen? The ant? NO! Never the ant. Never again. I felt that in my bones. Larger. More powerful. Yes!

The cops were banging and yelling. My skin was still electric from the terrifying nightmares. But I calmed myself. I focused on one image from my dreams. Large. Very large. Too large for the police to handle.

"Ohhh!" I cried out as my nose and upper lip suddenly exploded outward. Exploded in a long, massive growth that reached to the floor.

I was growing larger. Larger. Filling the room!

"Come out of there now, or we're coming in!"

Don't worry, officer, I thought. I'll be out soon. 71

Chapter TWENTYtHREE: JAKE

It was just dumb luck that we even saw what happened.

Our meeting broke up with all of us mad and scared and upset. No one wanted to believe that Rachel and Ax might have been killed. Ax was a new friend, sort of. And an alien, not someone we had grown up with. But Rachel was my cousin. She was Cassie's best friend. And we looked up to Rachel. She was fearless. She made the rest of us braver than we might have been without her.

We went out into the night, the four of us. Tobias flew off toward the forest. We watched him fly away, flapping hard in the dead night air. Marco and I picked up our bikes.

"Cassie? Are you out there?" It was her mother, framed in the doorway of their home.

"Yes, Mom. Right here."

"That show you like is on. Do you want me to tape it?"

"I'll be in in a minute," Cassie said. "I'm just talking to Jake and Marco."

"Hi, Jake. Hello, Marco."

We said hello back.

"Well, don't stay out too late," Cassie's mom said. "It's almost nine o'clock." She went back inside.

"Nine? Man, I better be getting home," Marco said. "I'll be toast."

"I'll walk you guys to the road," Cassie said. We walked in silence down the long driveway, then down the dirt road that connected the farm to the highway. Marco and I pushed our bikes, and the only sounds were our footsteps and the rattle of Marco's bulky bike chain.

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