Animorphs: Lost Journal 1, Chapter 19 - Ross and Rachel

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#5 of Animorphs: Lost Journals


My name is Tobias. By now you all know my last name. Yes, I'm that Tobias, the "Animorph."

Jake had us all record our thoughts in journals, just in case the Yeerks killed us all. Our parents would find the journals, and maybe publish them, or something. Now that the war is won, and Earth is free from Yeerk control, we released all the journals written over the years.

Or what you thought was all of them. But there are more, many more, that we didn't release. Here and there, each of us skimmed over things that happened, things that were far too real. But I'm here to fix the record.

Rachel was used to keeping journals. I was impressed by how little reluctance she had in writing these events. She always was the brave one. I guess she never really thought anyone would read them. Or perhaps she figured no one would read them unless she died, and then who cared?

When we were editing the journals for publication, I requested this one be left out. But that was wrong of me. Rachel wants it in there. I know it.

Chapter 19

"Security!" Cassie yelped. "Oh, man, they'll take us all in to the office. They'll call my mom. I do not want to explain this to her."

"Split up!" Jake said. "Just like at the construction site: One guy can't get us all!"

"This guy looks like my grandfather," I said, trying to exude a bit more confidence than my friends. "Not like that Hork-Bajir that was after us."

"You kids hold on!"

"Oh, man. Oh, man," Cassie said. With that, she took off down one hallway. Tobias and I went after her.

Marco was already twenty yards down the other hall, the one that led out to the large

exhibits. Jake ran to catch up.

The guard reached the corner. He glanced at us, but started after Marco and Jake. I wanted to help them, but they were on their own. Tobias, Cassie, and I hurried down the hallway, escaping into the sunlight gasping for breath.

"Oh, I hope he didn't recognize me!" Cassie exclaimed. "I'll be grounded for a week!"

"I don't think he got a good look at us," I said confidently. "But do you think Jake and Marco will get away?"

Tobias leaned against the wall, panting. "I...never...run out of breath like this...when I'm a hawk..."

Cassie reasoned, "They're fast. That guard certainly didn't look fast on his feet. I'm sure they'll be okay."

I stepped back and forth, conflicted. "Still, we should go back and make sure they're okay."

Cassie's eyes widened in horror at me. I hated to see that look. That look said, "I really don't want to do that, but if you think we have to..." What she actually said was, "If we go back in there, we might get caught, even if the boys are fine."

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes, telling her with a straight face, "Alright...I'm sure they're fine."

Tobias had regained his breath finally, saying, "Well, what now?"

"We go acquire some new morphs," I said, matter-of-factly. "That's why we're here, isn't it?"

"Yeah," Tobias said, but it seemed to me like he wasn't interested. I'm starting to get the feeling he wasn't kidding when he said he thought that red-tailed hawk morph was good enough. I wouldn't want to face a Hork-Bajir like that! "Hey, why don't we split up? It'll be faster, right?" he said.

Cassie said, "Alright. But stick to the outdoor exhibits. I don't want us to risk getting caught again. There've got to be some pretty dangerous animals that we can reach out and touch."

I nodded. "We'll meet by the entrance when we're done; that's probably where Jake and Marco will think to find us. Let's aim for thirty to fourty-five minutes."

With that, we split up. I started walking down the hill, glancing left and right at the exhibits. Ostriches...no thank you! The antelope were too skittish to come up to the fence, and they wouldn't make very good warriors anyway. I walked quickly, but I knew where I was going. It didn't make any sense, but I was heading to the dolphin exhibit.

Some girls liked horses. Cassie's one of them. I always liked to think I wasn't the sort of girl who dreamt about animals. I didn't collect My Little Ponies, or cute kittens, or even dolls. I don't even think Cassie knew about my collection. Glass dolphins, plastic dolphins, dolphin posters. When I was younger I fell in love with the animals; the way they gracefully flew through the water and were always smiling. They made happy little chirps and could dance on the water!

I was embarrassed to admit it, of course. But every step I took, I knew where I was going. What good would a dolphin morph be at the Yeerk Pool under our school? But I had to try. On the way to the dolphin tanks, I kept looking for a more practical morph. I passed by the bears. The polar bears looked pretty powerful...but none of them could compare to the grizzly bear. It didn't matter, though, they were all protected by deep moats.

But there was one animal that was pretty tough that I could just reach out and touch. The elephants walked around a large enclosure, entertaining a small crowd of people as their trainer watched. Some of the kids were reaching out to touch them, but they were too short. I guess I made up my mind kind of impulsively, but why not an elephant?

I stepped up to the railing, edging my way through some of the children, and leaned forward with my hand to touch a large African elephant on the flank. I immediately began concentrating. "Hey!" the trainer yelled, "Don't touch the elephants!"

I wasn't about to stop now. I wasn't sure if it was working or not, until the elephant just stopped. It stood in place, it's tail no longer flapping back and forth. It wasn't moving anymore. The elephant was in a trance, as if sleeping with its eyes open. The trainer had no idea what was going on, stopping in his tracks at the oddly behaving elephant. "Stop that!" he said again.

I was pretty sure I was done, so I let go, and the elephant slowly started acting like normal again. I looked sheepishly at the trainer and said, "Sorry...I didn't know we weren't supposed to touch."

Still perplexed at the elephant's behavior, the man simply said, "Well, alright. Just don't do it again."

I ran along. The dolphin pens were just ahead! I was in luck, they were doing a dolphin show as I entered the amphitheater. A young female woman with curly black hair was standing on the platform at the edge of the massive tank. I mean, it was like five swimming pools put together. The sides of the tank were glass, and you could see that the tank was really deep, too.

It was hard not to watch the dolphins doing tricks. They were just so much fun to watch as they glided effortless through the water, on top of the water, out of the water. Splash! But I needed to get close enough to touch one. Maybe the trainer, who introduced herself as Eileen, would let some people from the audience up to see them? I watched the show for a little while.

"Every give a round of applause for Joey!" As the audience clapped, another dolphin shot out of the water at thirty miles-per-hour and did a complete back-flip before diving smoothly back into the tank. Laughing, the trainer said, "Rachel isn't about to be outdone!" It was odd to hear my name...but then I realized she was talking about the dolphin.

There was another round of applause, and some questioning looks from the audience, so the trainer explained, "These four dolphins are Joey, Chandler, Rachel, and Phoebe." There was laughter from the audience, before Eileen continued, "Don't worry, we have Ross and his sister Monica too, but they're in the back tanks right now."

I wondered why. This tank looked easily large enough to hold six dolphins. But I realized this was my chance. If I could just get back there...

At the curved edge of the tanks there was a metal gate with sturdy bars. Clearly I wasn't supposed to go that way, but I knew I could jump the gate. Was anyone looking? I noticed two security men, one at each entrance to the amphitheater. Eileen was busy with her presentation. I suddenly wished I had a morph I could use to discreetly sneak into the back tanks. All I had was the elephant though.

When the two guards looked away, I sprinted and vaulted the gate. I kept listening for any surprised gasps or anything, but the only gasps were about how acrobatic Phoebe was. I quickly went down the hallway, looking out for anyone.

I'd thought there'd be more people in the back, working. It was surprisingly quiet. There were lots of extra tanks with sea lions and seals, and I even saw a killer whale. I wasn't about to try touching that! I walked on quickly until I saw them. In the furthest tank down, two beautiful bottle-nosed dolphins, swimming lazily in the water. I knelt by the water. They were larger than I had thought they'd be, more than three times as long as I was tall. "You must be Ross and Monica!" I said politely to the siblings.

Now I needed to acquire one. Monica, I mean...I wasn't even sure I could morph Ross. Could I? Come to think of it, what gender was the elephant I touched? Well, I'd make sure this time that I got Monica.

The two dolphins swam to the surface and popped their heads up at me, expectantly. They made their gentle, melodic laughing sound. I think they wanted fish. Looking around, I saw a bucket with dead fish in it. Yuck! But it would be perfect for getting them to come closer.

Grabbing the tail of a small fish gently between my outstretched fingers, I held it out for the dolphins. I was too far away though, so I had to take off my shoes and socks, and walk onto the platform. There was about a foot of water here, but five feet in there was a steep drop off to the bottom of the tank. Once I was stepping through the water, one of the dolphins came rushing up and landing on the platform!

I stepped back in surprise. The huge creature had been ten feet deep a second ago, and now it was just a few feet away, churring happily in one foot of water. It opened its mouth, as if begging for the fish. I couldn't resist, throwing the dead fish to the playful dolphin. In one gulp, the fish was gone.

The dolphin stayed on the platform, however, looking at me. I felt awkward looking at those eyes. They seemed to study me unlike any other animal I'd seen. I wondered how smart dolphins were, really. But I realized then that I had to hurry. Not only could I be caught at any time, the longer I stayed back here, but I only had fifteen to thirty minutes to get back to the entrance!

I moved closer to the dolphin, who stayed there, smiling at me. I was just a foot away from the beautiful creature. But I had to know if this was Ross or Monica. Discreetly I moved down to the dolphin's tail and reached out to touch the soft blubber. It was like rubber! But I couldn't see the dolphin's gender.

As if reading my mind, the dolphin rolled onto its side. Perfect. Now I was a foot away from the dolphin's exposed tail. There it was, a cleft in her skin near where her huge tail met the rest of her body. This had to be Monica, since there certainly wasn't anything male there to speak of! So I reached out a hand to touch her, and began concentrating, my entire body shaking with the anticipation. From now on I could become a dolphin at will!

Monica fell almost immediately into a trance, but when I was done, she flopped back into the tank. I was disappointed. This was the first time I had ever been so close to a dolphin, much less touched one! Looking at my watch, I realized this had all taken surprisingly little time. I couldn't help myself! I had to try it, just once. Fifteen minutes of swimming, then fifteen minutes to get back to the others. No one would even have to know.

Looking around to make sure no one was watching, I quickly undressed, placing my clothes in a pile on a dry part of the platform. Now I had better really hope no one found me. It would be hard to explain myself, standing naked in the off-limits part of the zoo! I was a strong swimmer, so I decided I'd better morph out in the open water. I didn't want to get stranded in the shallow water. I lay in the water to get used to the cold...boy was it cold! Then I slipped into the main tank with Ross and Monica. I could see them watching me.

Treading water, I began to concentrate on becoming Monica.

My skin began to change color. I had seen Cassie morph before, but this was my first time, and the shock almost made me stop. But I really wanted to be a dolphin. I could hardly believe this was real.

The second change was my arms. They began to shorten, flatten, and become stub-like. That's when I stopped being able to tread water. I began to sink...fast. Panicked, I tried to shift back, unable to concentrate on anything. I was four feet underwater now, and dropping quickly, stuck in some bizarre combination of human and dolphin. If I didn't do something, I would drown!

I gasped for air. That was a mistake...water filled my lungs and I began to choke. This far underwater it was really dark. I had no idea which way was up. I tried to kick my legs, but I realized that they were partially fused together. I couldn't swim, I couldn't breath, I couldn't even see. I was going to die.

My body began to shudder from lack of air, but I was vaguely aware of my surroundings. It was getting brighter... Then, I burst into the open air. I immediately spit up the salt-water in my lungs, coughing and gasping for air. I never thought breathing could feel so good! But how had I made it to the surface?

I could see again, and I could tell I was still half-way between a dolphin and a human. Now, my face bulged forward and I could see my huge nose, but I was still the same size as I normally was. But now I could see why I was still alive. Beneath me, lifting me up, were Ross and Monica.

They had seen me drowning, and carried me up to the surface! I could hardly believe it. They had saved my life. Even now they were holding me up, and with this extra sense of security, I could concentrate on changing the rest of the way. There wasn't much left to do, but I began to bulk up, becoming much, much larger. I heard my spine crunching as it warped and stretched, and a large fin grew out of my back. In seconds, the morph was complete.

With my massive new dolphin lungs, I took a deep breath. Then I prepared for the instincts I knew were supposed to take over. Jake and Cassie had talked about it, and Jake had even eaten a spider! I wasn't sure what would happen.

But in the end, I couldn't really identify any instincts, other than my sudden, incredible ability to swim! Beating my tail through the water, I began to build up speed, swimming in circles around the tank. My eyesight was pretty awful, but somehow I always knew exactly where the walls of the tank were, and I would go shooting along the sides as I built up speed. Then, with a singular burst of energy, I broke free from the water, leaping into the air!

Woah! This was so cool! It was even more fun than I had imagined! I swam around the tank again, narrowly avoiding one of the other dolphins as I shot up for another jump. I mistimed it, landing on my back, but it didn't hurt. It was like my very own water park!

The other dolphins chattered at me, and I chattered back. I don't think any of us knew what we were talking about, but it didn't matter. Why would it? We were dolphins, swimming through our water as kings, with an endless supply of fish...delicious fish. I realized I left the bucket of fish in the shallows. Effortlessly, I shot up to the platform, wading onto it. It was hard to move around in the shallow water, but it was absolutely doable. Grabbing the bucket in my long mouth, I pulled it into the deep water with me. Dead fish went flying everywhere. Quickly, the three of us chased the fish, snapping them up. I closed my mouth around a particularly large and juicy looking fish, gulping it down in one simple swallow. Delicious!

Once the fish were gone, it was just us and the water. Wait, did I just swallow a bunch of dead fish whole? And liked it? I didn't even like cooked fish! Maybe there were more to my instincts than I thought. I gathered my wits, trying to see through Monica's instincts. I was the one in control...Rachel, not Monica. Suddenly things seemed different. It was like being an outsider again, like a person watching the other two dolphins play. It was still fun to swim around and leap out of the water, but my childlike wonder was gone.

I missed it.

It seemed like once you were aware of the instincts controlling you, you could overcome them. Although I was pretty sure Jake was aware it was instincts forcing him to eat that spider, when he was a green anole. Maybe dolphins are so smart that it's easier for a human to relate.

I watched Ross and Monica swimming through the water, together. It was adorable: brother and sister enjoying their simple world together. I swam in place, watching them, feeling like I didn't belong here. Who was I to intrude on their lives? Just because I thought dolphins were cool? It was time for me to go. I'd get to the front before the others, but I had a lot to think about, anyway.

That's when I saw it. Ross was swimming around Monica slowly, in sharp circles. How did I know it was Ross? The old-fashioned way. Down there, dolphins don't look anything like the drawings of boys in "What's Happening to my Body: Book for Girls". It's all curvy, and light pink. And much bigger...

I looked away. I wasn't supposed to see that. Though I guess dolphins didn't really care. I mean Monica wasn't disgusted, and she was his brother. I looked back, unable to withstand my own curiosity. He was obscured as he swam around Monica, but as he circled, she spun in place too. I saw her privates too, but there was nothing much to see. He swam next to her, both dolphins almost standing in the water, flapping their tails to stay up. My eyes locked on his thing again.

Wait, what was he doing? Even as I watched, floating in place, Ross wrapped his flippers over Monica's until they were belly to belly, almost touching. I had a perfect side view from where I was, and I swear, my jaw dropped. It must have looked silly on a dolphin, underwater. But I watched as they embraced, getting closer and closer together. I couldn't believe it when I saw Ross push himself inside of Monica.

Right in front of me, the dolphins were doing it! But Eileen had said they were brother and sister! I was transfixed, watching the siblings push and pull against each other, Ross's pink organ no longer visible. It was all the way in her. I never saw anything like this on "Friends".

They began to spin around, shifting their lower bodies. Monica's mouth gaped open as she kept herself locked with her brother, their flippers entwined. Both dolphins chattered, somehow able to make sounds underwater. They sounded distinctly like moans. I had never watched animals, much less humans, mating. It was unreal. They began to build up speed, rocking their hips against each other as they spun in place, disturbing the clear water of the tank.

I began to feel weird, watching them. Not like before, where I didn't belong. This time it was a sort of grumbling in my gut. I could see bits of Ross's penis when he pulled back before shoving himself back inside of his sister. I felt like I needed air, but I wasn't about to return to the surface and miss anything. The two dolphins were getting close, I thought.

Any second now...but that's when I realized something else. I had drifted a bit, and when I swam to correct my position, I saw something strange from the corner of my eye. On me. I twisted my body to get a better look and my jaw dropped again. There, out of the slit on my lower body, was a curvy, pink bulge. That wasn't supposed to be there! It extended a good foot from my body, and it took me a second to realize what was going on. I...I was Ross!

How did that happen? I had checked specifically then the dolphin was on its side! Well, that answered that question - I could, in fact, become a male animal. On top of that, watching the brother and sister going at it was turning me on. I glanced back, feeling sheepish...which is strange since I was a dolphin.

I looked at the dolphins just in time to watch Ross...the other Ross...push himself deep inside of Monica. Then the two dolphins began shuddering, emitting these clicks and low-pitched squeals, their bodies vibrating back and forth as they clung to each other. I couldn't believe that these dolphins were okay with that. They were brother and sister, and I was pretty dang sure Ross had just - what was the word? Ejaculated in her. Was she going to become pregnant by her brother?

They certainly didn't seem embarrassed, floating there together for almost a minute as their bodies convulsed. Their mouths were open, twitching slightly while they continued to push their lower ends against each other. Then suddenly, they were apart. Ross pulled away from her, his s-shaped-like penis still sticking out from his body. It looked exactly like mine.

I felt weird, like I had never felt before. There was still that pit in my gut, but beyond that, my little pink thing tingled. Whenever I felt that I just had to thrash my hips. It felt so good, but I knew I was missing something. And I knew what I was missing. All thoughts of returning to the surface and changing back to Rachel were gone. I needed another dolphin.

Monica drifted away, apparently satisfied, but Ross swam in tight little circles, as if he were dancing triumphantly. Eying Monica, I began to beat my tail flukes. I didn't let myself think about what I was doing, but I know now what I was planning. I wanted to repeat what I had just seen, first hand.

Before I could reach her, Ross intercepted me, swimming quickly around me. I kept trying to get past him so that I could get Monica, but he kept getting in the way. He swam all around my body, and then I realized he was pressing himself up against me. I could feel his little bulge pressing up against my back, my dorsal fin, by stomach. Then he swam the opposite direction from me, belly to belly, and I felt him against me. I mean, for the briefest second our genitals touched.

I don't know what I was doing, but reflexively I pushed against him, grinding myself against his moving tail. It felt great! I needed more, now, and Monica was still thirty feet away, so I swam around Ross just like he was doing to me, nestling up close to him. Whenever my penis pressed up against his gray, rubbery skin, I felt amazing, and he must have felt the same when his touched me. Was this how good sex felt?

Spinning around and around each other, Ross and I...well, Ross and Ross really...pushed our lower bodies against each other. If the other games we had played were fun, this was pure joy. Even though, in the back of my mind, I knew what we were doing, I didn't care. At the time, it would have been crazy to stop.

And then suddenly we were belly to belly. Ross wrapped his flippers around mine like he knew what he was doing, and I could see him out of the corner of my eye. We were, of course, the same length. I shivered. Our penises were nestled up against each other pressed between our blubbery bodies. We held that pose for several seconds while Monica watched with interest from a distance. I was in bliss.

Then Ross shifted me upward, placing his flippers just beneath mine. My penis rubbed against his abdomen now, but his was below me, tickling the strange cleft that must have led me to believe the dolphin I morphed was female. Apparently male dolphins tuck their genitals inside this cleft. Even though my penis was protruding, there was still a long bit of the vertical slit available. Checking out dolphin anatomy afterwards, I realize that for streamlining, they keep their crotch areas inside their bodies. I wonder why humans don't do that? It seems like that would be more convenient. But below where my penis was, was room for my rectum. Dolphins have to go to the bathroom sometimes too!

Ross had a different idea. I don't know how he decided this was a good idea. I'm not sure why I went along with it. It couldn't be instinctual, could it? It was just me, Rachel, calling the shots. Wasn't he weirded out that I looked exactly like him? Anyway, with a shove, he pushed upward. It's like he thought I was a girl dolphin. I opened my mouth in surprise as his foot long penis slipped inside me.

And pleasure. I moaned like Monica had when Ross had entered her. My folds surrounded him, squeezing powerfully around his bulge. His penis connected us close together so I couldn't drift away, and it pushed my own penis closer against his belly. It was simply too much for me. I began thrusting back and forth, pushing myself against his stomach as I squealed. My penis felt like it was warm and glowing, though the water must have been at least forty degrees.

He pushed and pulled against me in time to my thrusts, his rubbery organ probing my insides. We began to spin in place, squealing in our delicate embrace as he mated me. Don't ask me why, but this was the precise moment that I realized the significance of what was going on. Since I first noticed Ross's penis, I'd been caught up, everything seemed like a blur. But now I realized.

I was doing it with a dolphin. As a male dolphin. By the very dolphin I'd morphed into! I'd never even kissed a boy before. My first time was supposed to be something special I'd remember forever. Well, I'd definitely remember it...

Part of me wanted to get out of there, to escape to the surface and pretend nothing had happened, but a larger part of me refused. I squealed again, not caring anymore about the human implications of what I was doing. It felt really really good, and that was all that mattered to me.

Again and again Ross pounded himself into my vertical slit while I rubbed myself against his soft belly. I seemed to have an unlimited supply of air in my lungs, since I never needed to take a breath. I pushed back, hard, feeling his penis penetrate deeper and deeper into me. He was so wide at the base it was almost painful, but the pleasure overwhelmed any other feeling.

The pit in my stomach felt like it was growing. I felt like I was going to implode like something I saw on Bill Nye, the Science Guy. What was going on? The book about puberty my Mom gave me wasn't much help. It didn't really address what would happen if you were a boy dolphin!

It turns out that you sort of hurt the most right before you feel the best, because a second later I beat my tail with all my force, pushing up against him until my penis was squeezed neatly between our bellies, and I ejaculated. More than that, I had my first orgasm. That's what it's called when you finish sex, and for a couple of seconds there is just nothing at all in the world but the feelings washing over your body. You know when you've had an orgasm.

A large spray of white fluid shot out between us with such force that it almost drifted to the tip of my nose. My entire body trembled, including my insides, clenching powerfully around Ross's penis. I squealed in joy, sending several more waves of semen into the salt water. That's when Ross joined me. Deep inside me I was struck with such force, it was a wonder I didn't shoot off of him like a rocket! I could definitely feel him ejaculating against my rubbery walls. Then we shuddered together, moaning as we drifted effortlessly through the water.

Then it was all over. My head was clearing. That was it. I lost my virginity to a dolphin. In a way, I wondered if that wasn't something I had hoped for, when I was a little girl, collecting little dolphin baubles. Maybe Cassie's fascination with horses was more than just an appreciation of their beauty, but something on a deeper level. I found it very hard to regret what I had done.

I needed air. I pulled away from Ross, wincing slightly as his penis ground against my insides as I pulled away. Semen flowed out of my cleft as I swam to the surface, drinking in a large amount of air through my blow-hole. Today had definitely been an experience! But I had to go, or the others would get suspicious.

Sliding onto the platform, I began the shift back. It had only been about thirty minutes, so I was fine for time, and morphing back was easier than I had expected. I didn't have a way to dry off, so I shook myself off and grudgingly got into my dry clothes. With a wave and a smile, I left Ross and Monica, and snuck back to the front exhibit. Would you believe no one saw me?

It wasn't the last time I'd see these dolphins though, not by a long shot. But that's another story.