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forever, brilliant blue, far more vivid and bright
than the oceans of Earth, which are usually gray.
I tried to look around and spot some landmark.
Some outline of coastline that would seem familiar
from my faint memory of the holographic maps.
But it was just endless miles of muddy shallows,
overgrown with rushes and reeds and strange yellow
trees that swirled horizontally.
Big ocean,"; Rachel said. How do
we--";
How do we what?"; Prince Jake asked.
It took several seconds for us to notice,
to realize.
Rachel was gone!
Rachel!"; Cassie cried.
Rachel!";
We searched the sky. Nothing. Not even our
powerful raptor eyes could see anything. No
clue. No sign. Nothing.
What's happening?"; Marco demanded,
angry because he was afraid. She was just here!
She was talking!";
Ax, what is this?"; Prince Jake
asked. First Tobias, now Rachel!";
I don't know. I don't know.";
Maybe someone on the ground shot her,";
Cassie moaned. Oh, God, Rachel!
Rachel!";
There was no Dracon flash,"; I said.
ationothing. One second she was there. The next
second she was gone.";
Maybe it was someone or something on the
ground,"; Prince Jake said. We
have to get out of here. Into the water!";
We dove from the sky. I knew no one had
fired at us, but I dove as fast as the humans.
Whatever was making my friends disappear, it scared
me. Whatever it was, I didn't want to be in
its sights.
Down we dove, wings back.
Splash!
I went under, plowing into the warm water. I
instantly began to demorph. I bobbed to the
surface, already more Andalite than harrier. The
water saturated my feathers, but the feathers were
disappearing. I sucked air in through a nasty hole
that was part beak and part Andalite nose.
I dove under again, and finished demorphing. I
surfaced and found Prince Jake, Cassie, and
Marco all treading water, finishing their own
demorphing.
"Dolphin morph!" Prince Jake said.
"Ax, you'll have to morph your tiger shark."
"Wait, no!" Cassie said. "We don't
know what's in this ocean, but the Yeerks thought
hammerhead sharks would be the baddest things around,
right? That's why they wanted to create
shark-Controllers to fight in this ocean. We should
all go shark."
"Yeah. Good point," Jake agreed.
"Okay, then. Let's go shark. And everyone
watch everyone else. We've had two people
disappear. We're not going to have a third!"
Shark, I thought, and began to perform the morph.
I should explain the Earth creatures called
sharks. They are fish. They breathe by extracting
oxygen from the water itself, using thin membranes
called gills.
But there are many fish in Earth's oceans.
Only a few are called sharks. Some sharks are
pleasant, peaceful eaters of plankton.
Others are small and prey only on smaller
fish.
But there are some sharks that humans call
"man-eaters." These sharks are swimming killing
machines. If it is possible to imagine a
Yeerk having its own natural body, a body
perfectly adapted for the Yeerk's ruthlessness and
destructiveness, the shark would be that body.
It has massively powerful jaws lined with
razor-sharp teeth. It has skin that is literally
covered in millions of very tiny teeth. Skin that
can rip human flesh. And it has an
array of senses each attuned to one thing: finding
prey. Finding and killing.
Excellent eyesight. Excellent sense of
smell that can detect a handful of blood
molecules diluted in a billion gallons of
salt water. An electrical field sensor
that feels the energy of other living creatures.
If some scientist had sat down to design the
ultimate seagoing predator, the ultimate
seagoing biological weapon, and had come up with the
hammerhead shark, he'd be very proud of his work.
I felt myself morphing the shark. Felt the
scythelike dorsal fins grow from my spine.
Felt my tail blade split to become the
swept-back, skin-slicing tail. Felt my
stalk eyes move out to the sides to become the
ugly hammer's head. Felt the new senses come
alive in my brain. Felt the teeth--the rows of
serrated, triangular, flesh-ripping,
bone-crunching teeth.
And I felt the shark's cold, clear,
brutally focused mind join my own.
I kicked my tail and moved through the water.
Jake, Cassie, and Marco swam beside me. I
suppose, like me, they felt powerful at that
moment. And would have felt more powerful still, except for
one terrible reality: There should have been six of us.
And now only four sharks swam out into the
Leeran ocean.
I wish Rachel and Tobias were seeing
this,"; Cassie said. Her thought-speak voice was
a mix of wonder and bitterness. This is nothing
like Earth's oceans.";
It was true. The continent might have been a
dull, uninteresting place, but the ocean was
amazing. Earth's seas contain many fascinating and
wonderful creatures, but most of what you see as
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