Animorphs: A New Beginning

[Cloak]

((Hu didn't drink the entire bottle -- well, flask.  It's been returned to his satchel, after he changed.  I must have forgotten that.  But then again, its permancy and effects varies with the species.  Yeah, Nohensen, but drinking Devolution Draught just might prevent morphing or further complicate it somehow.))

"Looks like the little Yeerkies won't let us go so easily." Hu said, baring his teeth eagerly.  "They have a death wish."

Hu was waiting for the others to escape.  He decided to unleash another massive roar, as he begun to attack.  He leaped onto a Bug fighter, and it worked about as well as trying to set a safe on an empty cardboard box.

[Chad32]

<We can't leave Hu. That would defeat the purpose of the mission. Even as big as he is, he's not invincible. Then there's the fact that this stuff could wear off that the worst time.> Cody said.

<Yarin, you stay ahead and hold onto Kelran. Emily, you help him carry Kelran, or push from behind. I'm staying behind with Hu. Nichole, you can do whatever you want.>

He was tired, and his thought speak was showing it. This had been a big day, and he was wearing down.

[Yarin]

Yarin carried Kelran he was struggling to do so.  It wasn't so much that he was to heavy it was more that Yarin was also trying to get his mental defenses back up.

[Cloak]

Hu heard Cody's orders, but Hu was going to make sure the others escaped.  He knew that the permancy of this state was tied with his emotions and stress level.  He was feeling plenty angry and plenty stress.  And then . . .

Tssssew!

"Little bladed thing," Hu said with more irritation then pain, "you are so dead."

So Hu sunk his right fang into him.  Hu looked up and noticed that Bened was gone.  That coward.  Then he looked over his shoulder and saw that all but Cody were gone.  "Go.  I'm right behind you."

Hu roared again to paralyze the crowd with the sound.  Then he turned tail, shrinking as he did.  By the time everyone was out, Hu was fully Smilodite again.

((Hu will now have a Bruce Banner syndrome, if you will.))

[Yarin]

(that's cool so how are we gonna work it so we all get affected?)

[Cloak]

((Hmmm. . . perhaps Bened tries cooking up his own batch, but botches it, and it spills on you guys?  If that doesn't work, Hu still has some in his flask.  I'm not sure how an austreopithecine (sp) would be useful (if a human takes it) . . . but . . .))

[Yarin]

(how far back does the de-evolution go is it to its most primal form?)

[Cloak]

((Depends on the dosage really, yarin.  With enough of the stuff, you'd go back to being a single-celled organism -- but that would take a lot of the Draught and it is notably difficult to make.  Of course, some species may be immune to the effects.  Gigantofatalismilodons are to Smilodites what the first mammals were to humans.  That's why it's so dangerous.  Well, one of the reasons.))

[Chad32]

Everyone made it out and high tailed it away. Finally, they made it back to Kelran's cave.

"Okay." Cody said after catching his breath. "We have about two and a half days until that thing in Kelran's head dies. I'm about to pass out. Someone else take first shift." He then found a spot and laid down. Emily sat down with him and stroked his hair.

[Cloak]

"I'll take up that responsibility." Hu said, assured of becoming the savage, hulking beast again if need be.  "You go.  Rest up.  I have a feeling that this isn't over yet."

[Yarin]

Yarin laid down to rest it had been a rough few hours and it wasn't going to get any easier from here.

[Kelran-Isthinar]

Kelran sat up and groaned. He knew, somewhere inside him that the Yeerk was still in him, still attached, but for this fleeting moment, it was still 'unconcious' and he was not.

The others, those that were awake, tensed visibly. "Its me, for now. Whatever Yarin did knocked Kressillet for a loop. I had to let him in all the way, in the end, to get the access I needed to stand still. He knows *everything* you can NOT let me escape, my life sanity and health are secondary... do you understand?"

[Cloak]

Hu nodded.  But he wondered if he would really be able to do whatever was necessary . . . Hu, by nature, wasn't a killer.  He couldn't even kill Bened.

((Is it me, or is Hu starting to become the Cassie of this RPG?))

[Chad32]

((Yeah. Hu is Cassie. Cody is Tobias. Emily might be like Cassie too, since I portray her has being kind. However, she's not as mature or at one with nature as Hu. Jason may have been the Jake of the group, but I really don't know what happened to Jmnar. Kelran is the Rachel of the group, since he's fierce and reckless. Yarin is Ax. We don't have a Marco, though I originally intended for Cody to have some Marco traits in him. Now he's more like Jake than Marco.))

"Yarin, do you have some kind of force field generator you could bring here?" Emily asked. "Something strong enough to hold Kelran? We'll definitely need to keep him grounded."

((FYI, I'm having Cody be unconscious for now. All narration will be dne by Emily for the time being.))

[Cloak]

((Yeah, I see that, Nohensen.  I originally intended for Hu to be a lot like Wolverine, as cliched as it may sound, but he has evolved into his own character, as have yours, I believe.  I assume you guys put a little of yourselves in your characters too?))

Hu turned his thoughtful gaze to Emily, and suggested Sleep Spice.  But it shouldn't work for more than a couple of hours on someone Kelran's size, and Hu wasn't sure that he could manufacture more with Earth plants.

True, he had seeds in his satchel, but how could he be responsible for a mass invasion of Aruten plants ((think of kudzu in North America)) -- he knew they would grow well here, the soil being much like Aruten's.

Half his mind was on Kelran's ordeal.  Moreso then the others, Kelran and Hu had the most in common.  Alone.  Trapped on this strange, yet familiar world.  The only decent representatives of their species on this planet.