disclaimer- i no own Animorphs, i do own Animorphs Next Generation (aka the kids) and myself! no, wait, my parents own me...
anyway, this is the first Animorphs Next Generation book! yea yea, i know i have other stories with Anilie and Jared and the rest, including The Letter2 and etc, but i was still a beginner writer then. i'm either not bothering redoing or redoing them (The Letter2 will be the next book after this one). so this is the first OFFICIAL Animorphs Next Generation book.
up to chapter three will be posted soon- they're all done, but they're not that long. i'm still thinking about what should happen in the next chapter.
and yes, The Hidden has been rewritten. this would be version 2. the first version is still on my comp, i might post if u guys want me 2.
i'll shut up now.
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Prologue: Anily/Lyzah Fangor-Fuentes
I have a secret.
No, not that one. Nearly everyone knows that I'm Tobias Fangor's twin sister, daughter of Andalite Elfangor and Human Loren, niece of Andalite Aximili, wife to Marco Fuentes, and morph capable. But there's a secret I've never told anyone. This letter is the only proof of it.
I'm on the verge of death right now. Which is why I'm writing this- in hopes that if the next generation of the Animorphs get cursed as well, that they will find this and know how to deal with the Curse.
There's no guarantee that they would actually be given the Curse. They might not even have it, and it could skip to the next generation, or maybe I might be the only generation that has it for thousands of years.
But I have to be safe. Just in case someone does get the Curse.
Now, to tell you what the Curse is...
CHAPTER ONE: Anily/Lyzah Fangor-Fuentes FLASHBACK
It was a year before I found out about my twin and his friends when it happened.
I was sitting in a chair in the willing Controllers area. I knew all about the Yeerks, having been a Controller for as long as I could remember, but nothing else- nothing about the Andalites, except that Visser Three was the only one to control one, the only two non animal races I knew were the humans and the Yeerks.
I didn't like the fact that I was the youngest willing Controller, and that I was hated by nearly all of the non-willing Controllers, but it was one I had learned to accept after a few years. Besides, I was given a nice Yeerk- Kala One-One-Five. He nearly always let me have control, unless we are in the Yeerk Pool, or a Controller was talking to us- he knew I'd probably do something horrible to them if he didn't take control then. He acted as a reminder time to time, well, a lot of the time, since I have pretty much a horrible memory. And he's one of my closest friends. He's always there for me, unless he was feeding on Kandrona Rays every three days, even though most of the time he doesn't need it because we kept our own personal mini pool in my house for when he needed it and we couldn't get out for the meeting.
"Hey Lyz." An older guy willing Controller host said as he said across from me. His name was DeTrall, two years older than me, an African American (I hate saying that label!), at least half a foot taller than me, and a good friend. He knew how much seniority I had over him as a Controller, but we disregarded it. He had only joined to make sure that I would have someone watching over me in every mission Kala and his Yeerk were sent on- at least DeTrall's Yeerk is like Kala as well.
"Hey DeTrall. How did the competition go?" I asked. We were both in Science Olympiad, a science (mostly) competition, but I had a different competition that I had to go to that morning, which was that day, a math one that made me really stressed out.
"Eh, not that good. But we'll beet Beckendorf next week with you at the regional!" DeTrall answered, a large smile on his face.
"Beckendorf?" I wondered.
"Some other school out of our district." DeTrall replied, sighing. "Got our asses beat by them."
I laughed. "Then we'll probably won't see them until the regional if they're not in our district. But I have a feeling I won't hear the end of it even after then."
DeTrall smiled again. "You probably won't- that is, if Truc is still there!" Truc was another guy that was in DeTrall's class. I didn't really know him, but I knew who he was- after all, he was my partner in an event! "OK, enough about our total failure, what about yours?"
I put on a fake expression of shock. "DeTrall, how could you assume that we failed?!" We laughed some more until I continued. "But actually..."
"A-ha! I WAS right!" He exclaimed.
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Our highest placing person-"
"You," DeTrall interrupted.
"-got 96th place, and our lowest placing person-"
"Clifford,"
"-got in the 200s, with 7 questions right." I rolled my eyes at DeTrall, knowing he knew he was right. Again.
"Hey, cheer up! At least you and Thomas got into the top eight back in January!" DeTrall stated.
"Y- wait, I didn't know you back then! How do you know?" I wondered. We had barely met two months ago back in February, and even though we quickly became friends, I never told him about that.
"Hey, I actually LISTEN to the announcements..." DeTrall began.
"And Ms. B." We finished in unison.
Then suddenly time froze. And I don't mean as in Ellimist froze. No one moved other than me and no one even looked like they were going to anytime soon. I went over to DeTrall to see if he was alive, and was surprised when I felt his heartbeat. I did the same with several others and found the same thing- they all had heartbeats, but weren't moving.
Stressed, I sat back down and thought about what I had done right before time froze. I had spoke in unison with DeTrall, but I had done that multiple times before; I had smiled, but how can a smile make time freeze?
My eyes then wandered to my left wrist and onto the wa...
"Watch?" I muttered. "I wasn't wearing a watch!" The crown was pulled out of the analog wrist watch, so it wasn't moving. I shrugged and decided that what I was about to do was worth a shot. I got back into the position I was in before time froze then pushed in the crown.
"Hey, I actually LISTEN to the announcements..." DeTrall began.
Major sense of De Ja Vu...
"And Ms. B." I said in unison with him. I was worried that time would stop again but instead time continued normally.
A Hork-Bajir Controller came up to us. This Hork-Bajir was being controlled right now by a very serious Yeerk, one that doesn't really like DeTrall' and my Yeerks. But she was kind to us when we weren't under control, believing hosts shouldn't be treated badly if it is the controller you hate.
"I'm guessing that Kala's ready?" I said.
The Controller nodded. She had had her tongue cut out, so she couldn't talk- at least, until she got a new host- but DeTrall and I always knew what she wanted to tell us.
"Well, I'll see you on Monday DeTrall." I stood from my chair as I waved goodbye.
"See ya," DeTrall replied.
The line went quickly for once, and I was at the end of the infestation pier. I felt the cold hearted glares at the back of my head from the non-willing host behind me, and the ones behind her.
As I bent down over the edge in order for Kala to enter, she spat on me- the host, not the Hork-Bajir Controller. I took a deep breath, and wiped off the spit. I sighed, tired of this routine. I was used to this- they always did this. Angry at me for willing to be a host the majority of my life. Angry at me for allowing myself to get into this mess. And basically angry about everything about me. But I got used to it. Just like I got used to being a Controller. I just ignored the woman.
The Hork-Bajir Controller gave her a cold glare for me while I leaned over and waited for Kala to enter. It took a while, but he did.
Kala took control, like he always did when he entered me again. He made me stand, then turned to the Hork-Bajir Controller. "Thank you for your service and making sure my host didn't get into trouble, Liek." He always thanked her, and he always meant it, even if she didn't always like him. He always disregarded the fact that she rarely liked him, and took the fact that she couldn't talk right now as an advantage- "Since she can't talk, she can't cuss me out!" he would tell me. I would always laugh, because I think something different- that Kala liked Liek!
Kala walked us off of the pier and towards the stairs that were pass the willing Controllers area. He let me wave to DeTrall before he took control again, which only lasted until we were out of the pool entrance. After that, he "leaned back" and read my memories, wondering what I did during the time he was in the pool. If he had a physical body then, he'd be raising an eyebrow in confusion.
((What's this about time stopping? And what watch? You're not wearing one now...)) Kala asked me.
((That's the thing, I don't know where it came from! I don't know what happened either!)) I replied.
((Hm...)) Kala would have rubbed his chin if he was a human. Then he would have slapped his head when he said, ((That's it!))
((What's it?)) I was completely confused. I got a drink from a vending machine (the entrance we had gone through was in a mall) and sat down at a table in the food court.
((I know what happened to you back there.)) Kala said.
I rolled my eyes. I had figured that much out. I suddenly felt hot. I removed my jacket and tied it around my waist. ((And that would be?)) I muttered, drinking my water.
((Ingrate.)) Kala mumbled. ((It's an old Yeerk legend, really, but it matches what happened to you, and the reason why now your head feels like you have a heat wave in here!))
((What do you mean by the heat wave? It's not that hot...)) I stated, having gotten used to the quick blast of heat fast after I drank some water. ((And what Yeerk legend?))
((They called it The Curse because the first person to get it, will be cursed with a large burden with the powers that come with it. It is also said that it will continue passing on from generation to generation until the person's bloodline is completely extinct.)) Kala explained.
((You're hiding something.)) I said calmly as I sipped some more water. ((Spill it.))
Kala sighed. ((They also said that the first person to ever get The Curse would be from one of the Yeerk's most feared enemy's race.))
((The Andalites. Go on.)) I took in this information unsure. Did that mean my parents also had The Curse? And JJ as well? And everyone before me? And that we were descended from ALIENS?!
((The first one will be of Andalite blood- and yet be sided with the Yeerks.)) Kala finished, dread in his voice.
((You mean the Visser?)) I wondered, confused. I wasn't related to him at all! Right?
Kala sighed again. ((No, Lyz. He's not the first one to be with The Curse.))
((You are.))
-present day again-
That was my first day with The Curse, which I would later start calling the Hidden, because all of it had to be kept hidden until the next person with The Curse got his or her powers.
At first, I had thought, "This has to be bull! There is no way I have powers!" But it was true, and I couldn't change that fact.
After a while, I had learned how to control my powers. Kala and I had done some tests first, to see what powers I had exactly. I only had control over Time and Fire. It had taken a while, but after several accident trips back and forward in time, and some "fevers" and fires, I had it down. If I knew this was something serious I would have gone around in a mask and cape, calling myself Endless Flame, endless from time since I could control forever, and flame from, of course, fire.
If I had known being the first victim of The Curse wasn't so great, I would have gone back in time and tried to prevent it at first. But even me, controller of Time in this world, couldn't have known what would happen to myself in the future- or rather, now...
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*mock gasp* what will happen to me? find out in the next chapter! :D