This is just a Prologue explaining the regular Animorphs humbug. You know, the whole backstory of the groups morphing capabilities, the Yeerks, the whole shenanigans.

Most of it can be skipped over but it does sort of talk about Delphi's powers.

Have fun and feel free to comment!

Prologue

My name is Delphi. I can't tell you my last name, even though I wish I could, and I can't tell you where I live. Because, like my friends, I have secret. And with that secret I have enemies.

Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.

You see, we're not alone in the universe. I know in this day and age we're going out and exploring space and finding wonderful things out there. New stars and planets. It's all very exciting and fascinating. But even further than what we've been able to see, further than most people can imagine, there is a war going on.

There is a race of aliens called the Yeerks. They are parasites. They look like harmless slug like creatures, but they crawl their way into the heads of other species and take control of their body. Beneath the delicate snailish bodies lay cynical, manipulative, cunning, and cruel minds.

The Yeerks are invaders. They are the bad guys.

There are other races that are fighting the Yeerks. But they can only go for so long. The Yeerks are smart, and selfish and survivalist. There are many of them and they keep coming at you no matter what you do.

The worst part is that you can't tell who is infected with a Yeerk. We call them Controllers. You see, when a Yeerk takes over your mind it can read your memories, your actions, your speech patterns. It can act like you, and to the rest of the world you are the normal you. Only you're not. Only you can't control your body or your eyes or your mouth. Only you are trapped and screaming and crying in your own head.

Anyone can be a Controller. Your mom, dad, brother, sister, best friend, teacher, police officer. You wouldn't ever know until it's too late. Until there's a Yeerk crawling into your own head.

It's a terrible war and the outcome affects all of us, even you. Because this war is not limited to space. It's happening here. It's happening now. The Yeerks are on Earth.

That's what we're up against, my friends and I. My friends call themselves the Animorphs.

Remember how I told you the Yeerks are the bad guys? Well the good guys are the Andalites. They are beautiful intelligent people. They look kind of like blue centaurs with a tail that has a blade at the end of it. They have two sets of eyes. One set are like human eyes, but larger. The other set rests upon eye stalks at the top of their head. The eye stalks can turn 360 degrees around and can move separately from each other. It provides full view of their surroundings.

Andalite's have no mouth so they developed the ability to speak through their mind. They project their thoughts towards a person and you can hear those thoughts in your own head. My friends call it thought-speak. I call it telepathy. But I digress.

The reason I bring up the Andalite is because it was an Andalite that gave my friends their abilities.

One night an Andalite ship crashed while my friends were walking home. They came to the fallen ship and met Elfangor. I wish I could have met him. From what I was told he was a graceful honorable person.

Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul gave my friends the ability to morph. They touch an animal and can absorb its DNA and then they can turn intothatanimal. It boggles my mind even now.

Elfangor also warned my friends about the Yeerks, before he was killed by the worst Controller we know: Visser Three. He is the only Yeerk known to ever possess an Andalite body, which means he is also the only Yeerk who also has the ability to morph.

The Animorphs have made themselves up as a small resistance. They've hurt the Yeerks, yes, but we are a small group.

Okay, so where do I fit into all this? Good question. I wasn't there that night when the Animorphs became Animorphs. I don't have the power to morph. But I do have powers.

I am what you might call…psychic.

Calm down calm down I can hear your disbelief through the pages. Psychic, really? I hear you say. Come on Delphi, you're losing it. Animal morphing children is one thing, future telling mind reading people is another.

But hear me out, just for a bit.

I can't read people's minds or predict the future on demand. But I can feel people's minds.

I've had it my entire life so it's hard to explain. How do you explain sight to a blind person? The best way I can describe it is I can feel a person's presence. I can sense a beings mind, their life force or aura. Even if they're in the next room. It's like hearing someone's voice when they're down the hall and around the corner. But you can also see through the walls and look at them clearly while they're talking.

Everyone has a different feel, just like everyone looks different. Their aura's change a bit according to mood, but that's like different facial expressions.

I can also 'though-speak'. Usually my human friends can only do that when they're in a morph, but I can do it normally. And my thought speak isn't limited by distance, like theirs is. No matter where a person is on the planet, all I have to do is concentrate on them and I can talk in their mind. And if they want, they can thought-speak to me too, I just have to be concentrating on them at the same time to hear it.

I don't know anyone else with this ability. Like I said, I was born with it so for a while I didn't even know I was different. It was my mom who finally questioned me and discovered I had this gift.

My mom and I are really close. She's my best friend. She had me at a young age but her and dad said that I was the best thing to happen to them. After dad died mom and I became a lot closer. She's busy all the time with her job, so I had to learn to do a lot of stuff by myself, so mom and I act more like roommates then mother and child. Still, I know she loves and cares about me. I can sense it. I don't know if this is a product of my ability or if it's normal, but there's never been a doubt in my mind that my mother loves me.

Which is why it's so hard to lie to her all the time.

Our group, the Animorphs, has to be careful about our secret. My mom isn't a Controller, but that doesn't mean she never will be. If I told my mom, if any of us told our parents, and then one day they were infected, then our secret would be reviled.

The Yeerks think we are a group of Andalites. Of course they would, they know of no other people that can morph. So if they found out we were human they would be able to take us and turn us into Controllers and that would be more morph capable Yeerks and one psychic one.

So it's better to for them to think we are Andalites hiding on earth.

In that respect, though, they are partially right. One of us is an Andalite. His name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, or as we call him, Ax. He's one of us. His ship also crashed on our planet and he's the younger brother of Elfangor. He misses his older brother, and looked up to him a lot. I try not to bring up those memories. I know what it's like to lose someone close to you.

That's where I was headed now, to see Ax. He lives in the wooded area that my house is near the edge of. That's how I met him, all of the Animorphs. When I first moved here two years ago…