A/N: This chapter is for folks that don't know much about the Animorphs.

Chapter Two: A little explaining/Introductions

Allow me to tell you about myself. I'm Marco. That's it; that's all I'll say about my name. Okay now that that is out of the way I'll tell you about my friends. My best friend is Jake. The tall, confident (well kind of confident) leader-boy. Cassie, Jake's girlfriend, though it would take shoving sharpened bamboo shafts under his nails to admit it. She's very peace loving and kind. Very intuitive about people and their feelings, and pretty much a tree hugger. Rachel, the beautiful berserker warrior girl. Tobias, a boy trapped as a hawk (not so in this adventure, but more on that later). And Ax, an Andalite (think a thin blue centaur with no mouth, eyes on top of stalks and a tail that ends in a razor sharp scythe). Fully his name is Aximilli-Esgourth-Ithsill, which sounds like you're coughing up something, so we just call him Ax.

We are the Animorphs. Animal morphers. Idiot kids with a death wish. On an adventure that a combination of ecstasy and LSD could only hope to reproduce.

It all started in a construction site. There an alien ship piloted by Elfangor (Ax's older brother) landed as we took the short cut home through the construction site. There, through a small blue box, he gave us the power to morph. The ability to transform into any animal (more accurately any biological organism) by first acquiring their DNA through touch then focusing on the animal, become it. He did this to help us fight the Yeerks. The Yeerks are a race of slug aliens that go through your ear canal and take over your body. You are now a Controller. Your mouth moves when the Yeerk wants it to. You walk, eat and breathe on its command. Only every three days do you get to be in a semblance of freedom while it leaves your head and sucks in nourishing Kandrona Rays.

Another interesting individual we met is the Ellimist. He is, as people on sci-fi websites put it, a GLB. A God Like Being. We learned through him that another GLB named Crayak and him were playing a game on a galactic scale. One wanted the universe to be unmolested. The other wanted to reshape the entirety of creation into an image of himself. Cruel. Merciless. Evil.

This is why we think we are at this Ohtori Academy. A part of the game those two are playing for the fate of the universe.

Ax, Jake, and I went down the hallway of the boy's dorm. We turned the corner and found are next member, Tobias. He was (as always in human form) squinting and leaning forward to get a good look at things, human eyes being so weak and all. He looked towards us and jogged up to meet us.

"Let's get the girls," he said immediately brushing past us. We all looked at each other and followed him.

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More will be added soon. If someone could, through a review, direct me to a site that may have a map to Ohtori I would be very appreciative.