Hello, My name is William, I am 11 nearly 12 years old and I LOVE animals. Big, Small, you name it. I love them, but anyway back to the story. It is the summer holiday, and my parents got tickets for 2 on a cruise for 1 mouth. Great, now I am shipped of to the UK with my cousins. But that holiday was a world changing event, if I had not been there...the wold would have ended. I looked at the dull street at the dull house in a dull town. The only attraction that interested me was an old shop that sold vintage items. I had 4 cousins Mike, 16 years old, a computer nerd, who seems to be tied to his PC, Beth,14 years old, a shy artist and rock climber and the red haired twins Kit and Thomas, 9 year old. Kit is a loud and trouble making, Thomas is the same but he is unwilling to do it even he is a sly as a fox. one the first day I arrived they played many mean pranks on me, Kit is the one that does it the most, she put itching powder in my bed, locked me in the downstairs toilet for 2 hours and electrocuted me when I picked up the phone (it was low voltage). But then came that faithful day. I managed to spare myself some time to go to the shop I saw, the shop looked older then my Grandpa. The shops name was, 'Oldie shop of items' I pushed the big creaky door as dust blew into my face, the room was darker than trying to see a crow fly at a pitch black night, the shop was empty I began to get the creeps when the lights turned on, and at the overgrown desk was a man in his 70's,

"Hello?" I said to him,

"Good Afternoon..." the man said rudely in a thick tone, he had dark eyes and hair, his nose seemed out of place as was his mouth and chin, and his eyebrows was the color of lemons.

"Can I buy something?" I asked

"Yes, how much money do you have?" He asked, his lips did not move at all

"Only 20 pounds..."

"That can only get you this old box." the man said "Let me get it" , I noticed his tone did not change at all, he got out of the chair, I saw he was as fat as a sumo wrestler, He walked, no walked is the wrong word, he more waddled down the corridor filled with plants and spider webs...

after what seemed like all of time he came back with a brown box decorated with every animal you can think of, Wolves, Foxes, Fishes, Falcons, Dogs, Cats, Sea Otters, Birds, you name it, they were carved so well on it that it looked it was carved by a carving specialist's tutor.

I felt really freaked out by the store that I forked over the money, snatched the box from his beefy hands and I was out of the store in no time.

When I arrived home, storm clouds that was even darker than the store seemed to stalk me. When I got in the house a Wolf on top of the stairs it growled very deeply and it ponced on top of me!

"AAAHHHHHHHH!" I screamed but the wolf seemed to laugh, it was Kit in a costume, I was mad at this point but then I heard a sound outside and looked out and I seemed to smile, there was my best friend Mathew, 13 and his brother Samuel, 11 and Ella, 17, in a car going to the house next to ours (I knew their grandpa lived there)

I ran out to meet them but as I did so, the box fell out of my bag and the car crushed it as it was backing up to the garage! Then the whole world went bright.

What felt like all of my life, I began to stir, I was surrounded by trees and all the houses seemed to disappear, I got up, mud slid down my best coat as I searched for anyone,

'What happened?' I thought to myself, then I remembered the box, but it was gone!

Then I herd a sound above me, I looked up, and my jaw hit the forest floor, a UFO was patrolling the area!

Before I knew it my legs was running faster than I can imagine, the woods seemed to get deeper and deeper the faster I ran after an hour I stopped to catch my breath back, but as I did so, I didn't see a frying pan going to hit me on the head! The last thing I felt was 2 giant tugs on my sleeves pulling me away.

I woke up with a blanket on top of me and a bandage on my head I got up and I nearly screamed on what I saw, I was in a cave with dustbins on fire and surrounding me was a grizzly bear with frizzy hair, a small elephant that has paint stains on her body, a black wolf with red hair, a fox with glasses and red hair that isn't visible by his fur, a chameleon with dark hair, a dog witch is a blonde. But I knew who was around me.

"Mike! you are a Bear!, Beth! you are an elephant!, Kit! you are a wolf!, Thomas! you are a fox!, Mathew! you are a chameleon!, Samuel!, Ella! you are both dog's (newfoundland dog)!" I cried "what happend?"

Ella sighed "we got turned into animals, that is what. we hid from some sort of aliens, someone built some sort of resistance"

I got up and saw we were in some sort of theater mixed with a cave, we were on a small platform and there were around 40 different animals I even saw a fish and a shark in a was when I felt odd, I heard a strange rustling behind me, I lept in horror on the sound, my ears became more sensitive to it, I tried to look at my nose and I saw a nuzzle.

'WHAT HAPPEND TO ME?!' a voice in my mind shouted, I looked down and that was when I snapped in horror! I was a wolf! Like Kit! I panicked for a while until, I heard more sounds behind us, I jumped in fear and I saw a giant dog, a rabbit and a mouse.

"This is Asia" Said Thomas pointing a paw at the dog, it was a girl and it looked viscous with the red eyes staring at anyone, fur darker than the night, the giant teeth that can go through metal and looks the toughest of the lot, Thomas continued "The leader of the Resistance" Her job seemed perfect

"That is Charlie," Mike said pointing a nose at the rabbit, the rabbit was perfectley white and was the opposite of Asia, he looked friendly, welcoming, and cute and cuddly. Mike continued "The second in command, he may not look like it but he almost killed a man only using a ball point pen." That changed evreything I saw to him now he is a little devil. "It was a fountain pen." Corrected Kit

"And this is Lilly, the third in command," Said Beth, pointing her trunk at the mouse. "Lilly is Charlie's partner and she terribly injured a woman just using a yoyo and she did not use the string"

"So yes the toughest doers and lookers are the leaders." Said Ella

That was when we herd a big explosion at the front of the cave!

Thomas seemed to sigh "I hate you Loran!" he cried, he then seemed to slump "she is a liar bird"

"Hey I am over here!" said a bird over us we looked down and was mortrified on what we saw all of us were frozen as our eyes semmed to fix on some animals, a kangaroo, a jaguar and a dog! they were holding ray guns! then everything went black.

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(note italic is Thomas's pov)

When I saw the animals I immediantly thaught the were the alies, I called them the invaidors, I done a sensible thing i hid in a small hole that is hard to find, Kit seemed to join me as we saw them capture everyone, I was thinking of Mom and Dad, they were dead. I was still scared by this as we saw their lazer beames pick everyone up. After a long time we got out of our hiding place, we were the last ones there I gave out a small cry, that was when we saw Asia crawl out of a ledge with a bowl with a fish in it that 'was' her father. He cant talk, there was one question in my mind, what are we going to do?