The Animorphs #1: The Invasion by K. A. Applegate

Author:K. A. Applegate
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9780545291514
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1996-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

They’re all going off to a separate meeting,” I said. “All the full members. I’d sure like to know what goes on in that meeting.” I struggled to sound normal, but my insides were churning.

“I saw people heading that way.” Rachel pointed.

“Let’s see if we can get close,” I said.

“What’s going on?” Marco asked. “I thought we just decided everything was normal here.”

It was Cassie who answered him. “Nothing is normal here,” she said. “Can’t you feel it?” She shivered. “All these so-called full members, they’re all being so perfectly nice. So perfectly helpful. They’re so perfectly normal it’s abnormal. And all the time their eyes are following you, watching you. Watching you like … like a hungry dog watching a bone.”

“Creepy,” Rachel agreed. “Like if you took cheerleaders, combined them with gym teachers, and made them all drink ten cups of coffee.”

“They are all just a little too happy, aren’t they?” Marco admitted. “People keep telling me how all their problems disappeared once they became a full member of The Sharing. It’s like some cult or something.”

“I’m getting into that secret meeting,” I said. I had to know. I had to be dead sure. “Let’s get away from the fire. Over behind that lifeguard stand.”

“How are you going to get into the meeting?” Marco asked.

“They won’t worry about some stray dog that’s walking along the beach,” I said.

“Some stray … oh,” Marco said.

“Good idea,” Cassie said. “I’d do it, too, but the only morph I can do is a horse. They would notice a horse.”

I checked to see that no one could see us. I waved over my head. A few seconds later, Tobias came swooping silently out of the starlit sky. He landed on the lifeguard stand.

What’s up?

“The full members are off in some private get-together,” I told him. “Do you know where they are?”

Of course. With these eyes I can see the mice scampering through the dune grass. Nice, plump, tasty-looking things.

“Tobias! Get a grip. Don’t start eating mice just because you’re in a hawk’s body. What’s next? Roadkill?”

He didn’t say anything. Maybe he was offended at my suggestion that he would ever eat roadkill. Or, worse, maybe he wasn’t offended.

“Where are the full members?” I asked.

About a hundred yards down the beach. There’s a little bowl-like area formed by the dunes. There are people posted all around, though, like guards.

I nodded. “Good job. Tobias, you’ve been in that body for more than an hour. You need to morph back.”

No, I’ll keep watch from above for a while longer, he said.

“No, Tobias,” I said sharply. “You need to morph back. You’ve done what we needed you to do.”

Um, there is that little problem … I don’t exactly have any clothes on.

“Marco has your clothes in a bag. Rachel and Cassie will turn away while you morph.”

Cassie grinned. “I am going to have to teach you boys how to morph clothing.”

Still Tobias hesitated. I hate changing back. It’s like going back into a prison or something. I hate it when I don’t have wings.

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