The Journey (Animorphs 46) by K. A. Applegate

Author:K. A. Applegate
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Children's Fiction
ISBN: 9780439115162
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2009-11-17T06:00:00+00:00

leg and hold him back. But it was like a bunny trying to stop an eighteen-wheeler.

Not happening.

<Rachel! Let go!> Cassie hollered. <They're going to drag you over!>

Over. . . what?

I let go.

Too late!

One of my massive front legs tipped into an abyss. Momentum dragged my other front leg over. I slipped. Fell.

<Aggggghhhhhh!>

I tumbled wildly.

Down, down, down into absolute darkness.

<Aaaaahhhhhhhh!> I yelled.

Flipping trunk to tail. Over and over. Couldn't sense the bottom. Couldn't sense the shape of the tunnel through which I fell.

<Rachel, it's okay!> Cassie's voice in my head.

<You're falling down Marco's esophagus — >

<Oh, gross !>

<You should hit in a few seconds,> Cassie continued. <Don't panic, we're coming after you.> Above, beneath, beyond Cassie's voice — a deep, resonating —

Thump thump.

Thump thump.

The slow rhythm vibrated through me the way the bass guitar does at a loud concert. Discon71

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certing. At the same time, something about the I needed air now!

rhythm was comforting, like the hum of the I tried to see above me. Too dark!

fridge in a darkened kitchen.

Air. . .

Also . . . I smelled something. Something that I needed air. . .

wasn't pleasant. Something sour. Like rotting And then, through the panic, like a vision, came food. No, not exactly. More like —

an image from the Discovery Channel. An elephant . . . swimming. Puke!

I let the elephant brain bubble up. My massive Oh, man. What else would be in your stomlegs kicked. Slowly, I started to rise, I reached my ach? Half-digested food mixed with some sort of trunk high, up toward where I thought the air stomach juice. I didn't even like thinking about should be.

the stuff much less —

Yes!

KER-PLASH!

I broke the surface. Sucked air in through my I went under!

trunk, filling my lungs. Ahhh . . .

Submerged into a pitch-black sea.

Rotten, stinking air. Glorious.

My elephant body started to sink. And then I Whoever says TV isn't worthwhile isn't watchrealized the fluid surrounding me was strangely ing the right shows.

hot. My leathery skin began to itch. To burn!

I looked around, dazed and disoriented. My Air!

weak elephant eyes more useless than before. I flailed my big back legs. Rose higher. But the sounds! Overwhelming sounds. SloshI hit something soft with my head. Something ing. Bubbling. Far away, that low thump thump. that gave under the impact and sprang back. Also — voices!

The side of Marco's stomach? Or the top?

<Look! One of the aliens has followed us!> My lungs were burning!

Tseeew!

Was there air inside a stomach? Good quesI jerked sideways. tion. And not one I had an answer to. I had to The Dracon beam shot went wide.

find the opening I'd fallen through! Somehow get The Helmacrons!

back up . . .

The beam had lit up the air pocket long enough Morph! I told myself.

for me to see I was sharing the cavernous space No time!

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with eight or ten of them. They were huddled tofirst time I'd been nearly digested. But that's angether, way off to my left side. To me in my subother story. miniature state, they seemed about half a mile

<Cassie!> I roared.

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