Animorphs #33: The Illusion by K. A. Applegate

Author:K. A. Applegate [Applegate, K. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Extraterrestrial beings, Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction, Metamorphosis, Fiction, Fantasy, PAPERBACK COLLECTION, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9780439070331
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1999-09-01T10:00:00+00:00

36 - The Mutation

<But I have to give a "thumbs-down" to the oily look.>

<Jake?> It was Cassie. <Look at their necks. They're . . . they're gilled.>

<And webbed,> I said grimly. <Feet and hands.>

<And the eyes. They're oversized, like the ones on the seagull,> Tobias noted.

<Not a bad body on that one,> Marco said.

That earned him stares from all of us.

<What? What? I can't compliment a fish girl?>

<We come here chasing Yeerks and we end up with this?> Cassie wondered. <is this good luck or bad luck?>

<It's our luck,> Rachel said dryly.

<Let's take a closer look,> I said. <I don't think the Sea Blade is ever leaving here. But let's be sure. And let's be careful.> I opened my wings and flew, silent as only an owl is silent. My owl's eyes easily pierced the murk and gloom. It was noon on a sunny day to me.

Over the city walls. I had to force myself to focus. This was a find beyond imagining. A city, a species, all right here on earth. Here for a long time, judging by the collection of ships.

It was beyond belief. And yet real.

And dangerous, I reminded myself. These people, whoever they were, had stuffed and preserved Viking and Roman warriors, pirates and Royal Navy officers, Japanese carrier pilots and U.S. Marines.

Maybe all those bodies had been dead, drowned before these creatures got hold of them.

And maybe not.

We swept across the city, silent visitors from another world. A squadron of terrestrial predators.

The city was alive and active. There were men and women - if those terms applied -

walking along narrow streets. There were workers trundling wheelbarrows or driving forklifts.

There was building going on. I had to look away from the painful blaze of arc welders.

The "river" flowed by the city, then turned and flowed right beneath the walls, through the city, bisecting the weird jumble into two unequal halves.

And there, in the middle of the town, tied up at a dock, was the latest ship to be brought here.

The Sea Blade.

<Let's land,> I said.

<There's a good perch over there, on the tower,> Tobias said. <Looks like a wooden mast. And a crow's nest.>

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