Chapter One: My Name Is
I guess I could start this account as "my name is" but that would seem like I am trying to be them and trust me, I am far from it. You may know who I am talking about because in this world, they are characters in a book. Nothing but fiction. But there are other worlds out there. Other than a few, like me, can travel between.
They, the them that I am trying not to be, were five kids who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were given the power to morph into animals. So they aptly called themselves Animorphs.
I'm afraid that I have ruined the natural order of their world and now I am stuck. During the three years that Jake Berenson and his crew fought The One, I experimented with traveling. And when his crew returned, I returned with Rachel from a time before.
Tobias came back and forgot about me screwing with time because he was so happy that Rachel was alive. Marco and Jeanne Gerard came back. Prince Aximili came back. And Jake, if you could still call him that, came back. But Rachel couldn't stay in a world that she was supposed to be dead in. I returned her, with no memory of the world she visited but just the fact that what happens, should happen, and left the remnants of her for the surviving Animorphs to deal with.
I left that world and went to my own life but time always goes slower when you are there. You can tell a story that took hours in minutes. A year passed and I wasn't the sentimental 15 years old I was. I doubt sweet sixteen would be the right phrase.
But one day- I am still not sure how and neither is Prince Aximili- I got an email from him, that something was there and they needed me. And because I had been so helpful last time, I went. That was sarcasm, by the way. Just to find out that it had been seventeen years for my one year.
My name is Riley Shay Sinclair and I am helping the next generation of Animorphs on a different type of an adventure. We weren't fighting parasites but we were trying to fight a force that killed through dreams.