[Gah, I was in a mental block with my idea about the Yeerk Pool, About to start writing the flashback, and my brain gave up on me! So, I'm improvising.. Nehal, sorry but I can't wait forever for your morphs, so Osprey is now your bird morph, hope you don't mind.
Oo Edit: I just thought of some cool ideas for the next chapter, guess we won't be going to the Yeerk Pool just yet... Oh and guys, as much as I love your feedback, could you please remember to post it in the other thread, so the story doesnt get too interrupted, thanks!]
Chapter Seven
Bird morphs
We all met up at Tim's house, he had a big garage in his backyard that was great for meetings.
Ken told us about the Yeerk Pool, he said he had read Elfangor's mind and learned a lot about the Pool.
After discussing that, I realised we needed bird morphs, since we had to walk around everywhere, and flying would be simpler.
"I think we need bird morphs." I said to the others. "This running around from place to place is getting ridiculous."
"This girl from my school.. whats her name... Cassie that's it, her parents have a a barn filled with sick and injured animals." Ken told us.
"Well we can't exactly sneak in there, and do you even know where she lives?" I asked.
"Um.. I kind of forgot." Ken admitted.
"Alright, theres this place near my house, exotic birds and stuff. We'll go there first and if we don't all find a bird morph, we'll check out Cassie's barn." Issam suggested.
"That's a great idea." Tim said.
"Hey, can't I just use Orsino as my bird morph?" Jen asked.
"Bird of Prey would be more useful, faster, stronger than a ****atiel." Mike said.
15 minutes later we were at the bird place, looking around.
"You need some help?" A woman with a falcon sitting on her shoulder came out from a side room.
"Ken, check if shes a controller." I heard Anna whisper in Ken's ear.
He seemed to be concentrating. "She's not" He whispered back.
"Wow, nice bird." Issam said. "Can I pat him?"
"Sure go ahead. He's a peregrine falcon and his name is Sam." The woman smiled as Issam patted the bird.
He must have acquired it, because the bird seemed really calm. Ken walked over and patted the bird too.
"Sam really likes you guys." The woman said.
"Hey, isn't this bird Australian?" I pointed at a really gorgeous bird.
"Yea, thats a Wedge-Tailed Eagle."
"Ooo can I pat him?"
"Actually it's a she. I name all of the birds here, she's called Nicole."
"Right. So can I pat her?"
"Since you guys seem nice, I'll let you." She opened the cage for me, and I reached in. The bird didnt seem to mind at first, but got a bit agitated, moving away from me.
I finally got to touch it, and patted it gently. I concentrated on the bird, acquiring it.
Mike chose a Harris Hawk, Rachel chose a White Bellied sea eagle, Tyler chose a Crested eagle and Estelore chose a Harpy eagle.
The others couldn't find any that they wanted to acquire, so we left to go to Cassie's farm.
We snuck in, luckily no one was around. We had seen a man in a truck leaving earlier, so we came at a good time.
"I like this bird." Jen said, pointing at a bird in a cage. "Red Tailed Hawk." The bird had a broken wing.
"So if you morph it, it won't have a broken wing right?" I asked.
"Yea, it shouldnt be hurt, since I'm just acquiring the DNA." Jen replied. We found a set of keys and opened the cages that we needed.
Tim acquired a Golden eagle, while Nehal chose an Osprey and Anna chose a Common Black hawk.
"Well we all have bird morphs now, this will be a lot easier." Tim said.
"We should get a seagull morph while we're here." I pointed at a couple of cages, where three seagulls were sitting.
"Good idea, they are everywhere and less suspicious." Jen said.
"Yea, shouldn't we practice flying or something?" Anna suggested.
"Yea, for sure." Mike agreed.
"It's Morphin' Time!" Tyler yelled.
"I can't believe you just said that." Estelore said, shaking her head at him.
I concentrated on the Wedge-Tailed Eagle. My arms were itchy all of a sudden, feathers were sprouting on them, they stretched out and became giant wings.
"Claire, that looks awes-" Tim began to say as his face stretched out into a beak.
Estelore had started to shrink before any other changes began, it was a weird sight to see.
Tyler had giant talons as his feet and Mike was almost all bird, just his head hadn't changed.
Now I was shrinking, and my legs and feet were the last things to change, must have looked really weird.
I looked at Jen and suddenly wished that I hadn't. She had no feathers on her arms yet, it looked like a bone was sticking out. Gross, but I couldn't look away at first, until the feathers began to grow.
Once I was finished, I looked around at everyone, I had an urge to flap my wings and fly away from all the noises around me, and the other birds.
<Don't lose control of the morph again Claire> Anna said, making everyone laugh.
<I knew I'd never live it down> I said. If I was human I would have rolled my eyes.
<Hey, I have a question. How do we fly?> Nehal asked.
<I have absolutely no idea> I admitted.
<The bird knows how> Mike said simply.
I flapped my wings awkwardly, and eventually I got off the ground and flew out of a high open window. The others flew out the same place as me, Tim only just fitting with his morph being larger than ours.
<This is awesome!> Issam yelled excitedly.
<I know! Wooooo hoooooo!> Anna shouted.
None of us were shutting up. We kept yelling about how cool it was. We flew over our houses and all around town.
<How long has it been?> I asked nervously. I didn't want to get trapped as a bird, can you imagine if that happened?
<One hour, 13 minutes.> Mike answered. He had the bright idea of strapping a watch to his left talon. He would have looked suspicious though.
We stopped on the roof of a fast food joint and demorphed. Mike demorphed quicker than any of us.
"How'd you demorph so quickly Mike? And you looked alot better than us, we make morphing look gross." I said, making a face.
"I don't know." Mike shrugged.
"I'm hungry, aren't you guys?" Tyler said.
"Yea. But look at what we are wearing, we can't exactly walk into McDonalds looking like this." I gestured to our clothes.
"You're right." Jen nodded in agreement.
We remorphed to seagull to be less suspicious and flew to our homes to have lunch.
We all said we would meet tomorrow, after we had all finished with school and work and family commitments.
