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Post by Cass Ryonas on Oct 20, 2008 19:21:04 GMT -8
Eva stared at her father." Wait, you mean..." Finally realizing it, her eyes shone with excitement. "What kind of cool stuff did you do?" She was excited that she was in fact related to an Animorph.
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Post by marco on Oct 20, 2008 19:32:33 GMT -8
"Yes, I mean just that. I was an insane kid who fought an intergalactic war." He quirked a brow at Eva's question, "Cool isn't exactly how I'd put it. What happened to you 'Idiot Kids with a Death Wish' theory?"
"Oh, come on, dad!" Laura chimed in, her eyes sparkling, "Some of it must have been fun!"
"Well..." Marco pondered, tapping his chin with his finger, "Dolphin morph waws pretty awesome...and the dog morph was a real ladies magnet. But anything actually cool happened after the war."
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Post by Cass Ryonas on Oct 20, 2008 19:35:46 GMT -8
Eva pouted. "Touche." She took another bite. "So, since you obviously know so much, you'll help me, won't you?"
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Post by marco on Oct 20, 2008 19:43:24 GMT -8
"Sure I will." Marco replied, returning to eating his own meal, "Just let me know what you need me to do. Like, I assume you'll want to know about how I got the Morphing power and found out about the Yeerks."
He took another bite, "And of course you'll have to include the others in your paper."
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Post by Cass Ryonas on Oct 20, 2008 19:58:07 GMT -8
"Others?" Eva raised an eyebrow. "Who were the others?" Eva took a sip of her drink. "I couldn't find a thing in my history book, totally useless." "Yeah, about. She said that I mainly need to talk about the war. We're being assigned people to look up when we turn this in."
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Post by marco on Oct 20, 2008 20:08:08 GMT -8
"Uncle Jake was one, wasn't he!" Laura asked in excitement between bites of lasagna. She'd often noticed that Jake seemed tired alot of the time. Being in a war was supposed to do that to you. That plus his and Marco's close friendship, it just made sense!
"Yeah, Jake was the leader. Then there were Cassie, Tobias, Rachel and Ax." Marco explained, "Man, too bad you guys never knew Ax, he was a riot. Give the guy a cinnabon and watch out!"
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Post by Cass Ryonas on Oct 20, 2008 20:13:47 GMT -8
"Uncle Jake was the leader?! No wonder he scares me sometimes." Eva laughed at that. "Watch out? Did he throw it at you?" The image of a cinnabon sitting on her father's head entered her mind. "Who's Rachel?" She tilted her head.
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Post by marco on Oct 20, 2008 20:20:42 GMT -8
Marco laughed aloud at the image of Ax hurling cinnabuns around the food court, "No, he was an Andalite. And when you get an Andalite turned human around food, they tend to get...excited."
"Ah...Rachel." Marco's eyes grew a bit sad as he thought of his friend, "She was probably the most brave of us. Insane, definitely, but brave. She was Jake's cousin...if it weren't for her taking out Jake's brother Tom, we probably wouldn't have won the war. Tom was almost as dangerous as Visser Three...er...one...er...well, yeah. He was One by the time the war ended. And I guess it was Tom's Yeerk that was the dangerous one...not Tom himself..."
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Post by Cass Ryonas on Oct 20, 2008 20:24:02 GMT -8
Eva tilted her head to the side, and said, "So, Rachel sacrificed herself for the war? If I were in the war, I'd want to be brave like that." She thought about it, and knew it would be worth it. She remembered watching Mulan and the quote, "A single grain of rice can tip the scale. One man may be the difference between victory and defeat." Yeah, if she had to to save her friends and family, it made sense.
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Post by marco on Oct 21, 2008 9:26:17 GMT -8
"Yeah, well, you're never being in a war." Marco said, his tone taking a serious air for a moment. He never wanted either of his children to suffer through a war the way he had. He didn't want to risk them dying the way Rachel had, "It was total insanity anyway. The idea of 5 kids and an alien kid taking on an entire empire...no way should we have won that fight!"
He took another bite of his meal.
Laura looked at her father sadly, the war had really taken a toll on him, and now that she knew he had been an Animorph, she could tell it. But he'd come out of thing with his sense of humour intact at least.
"Hey, dad..." Laura suggested between bites of lasagna, "Maybe after dinner you can show us some morphs..."
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Post by Cass Ryonas on Oct 21, 2008 11:11:06 GMT -8
Okay, okay, OKAY! So maybe Eva shouldn't have said it aloud, but she highly doubted she would ever be in a war! "Of course not, Dad. I'm sorry." When Laura suggested that he showed them some morphs, her eyes lit up again, "That would be so cool!"
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Post by marco on Oct 21, 2008 12:00:08 GMT -8
"Alright, I guess I could show you guys some morphs," Marco gave a nod, a small smile returning to his lips. His daughters were interested in his past, something not alot of fathers could brag about. Most dads he knew had to force their children to listen to stories about way back when they were kids.
Laura grinned at her father, "All right! Which ones are you gonna show us, Dad? Nothing icky, I hope." she wrinkled her nose.
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Post by Cass Ryonas on Oct 21, 2008 13:58:14 GMT -8
Eva was excited but couldn't help herself. "Nah, it won't be interesting Laura. All he's gonna do is turn into a roach." She laughed and finished her food. She put her plate in the kitchen and rinsed it. "Anyone else finished yet?"
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Post by marco on Oct 21, 2008 17:32:29 GMT -8
"Ewww!" Laura didn't like bugs at all, she cringed at the mention of a roach, "Oh ick! Eva, don't even go there!"
"So the roach morph is out then? Bummer." Marco let out a soft laugh, and Laura pouted at being made fun of. But then again, in this household, you were as likely as not to get teased for something or other, "Gorilla...maybe Osprey. Make that a definantly osprey. Man, if there was anything cool about being an Animorph it was turning into a bird and soaring through the skies."
He took another bite of his lasagna, a distant look taking over his features as he remembered the time, early on, that all of the Animorphs had gone flying together. How they'd been shot at by some idiot hunter...okay, that part wasn't cool. But the soaring was. And Cassie, managing to control her morphing so she looked like some strange sort of angel...that was pretty awesome. After Ax showed up they found out that Cassie really did have some bizzare talent for morphing, and that she could have been an entertainer on the Andalite home world.
"Yeah, I guess some of the morphs made the job pretty awesome. But not the bug morphs." He shuddered as he remembered the time he morphed an ant and was attacked by an entire colony of ants. He'd been picking ant heads off of him for days.
Finishing their meals in near unison, Marco and Laura held up their plates for Eva, "Done!"
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Post by Cass Ryonas on Oct 21, 2008 17:47:23 GMT -8
Eva laughed at her sister's reaction. "I just did, sis. I just did." She said, "Oh, you morphed Gorilla? That's my favorite animal!" Eva always loved the Gorillas whenever she went to the Gardens. Eva smiled at her father excitedly.
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