A/N: This is set before book 54, before Visser Three became Visser One. I don't know a lot of American slang, so bare with me. Anyway, hope you enjoy it.

Shifters

By Son Of Evil

Prologue

Hey. Glad yer took the time t' read this. Am not gonna tell yer my name, but it's not f' the same reason as the Animorphs. Even in real life, no one knows my name. 'Cept a few.

What you can call me is Alpha. Everyone else does. 'Cept that few I me mentioned. Though most times, they call me Alpha too. You might be curious about me. You might not be. For those of you that are, I'll tell you some things about me. I was born in July, 1987. For those of you that are too lazy to do the math, that means I'm 15.

I'm also English. I've been an orphan since I was four. Car accident. Mum, Dad, little brother and little sister. All dead. A waned 'round for a bit, for I got found by this gang. They took me in. Drop outs from society who called themselves the Dragons. Dragons. Not the most brilliant gang name is history. Still, I've heard worse.

From there, life went down hill, and it just kept goin' down. Drugs, fighting, robbery, rape an' murder. But I've never raped. I've killed people, but they were fair fights. I'm not gonna tell yer I've never murded anyone, 'cos this is a true story. I have murderd people. Some times it was an accident. Some times it was a fight that got out of hand. 'An sometimes I went out just to kill someone. Ain't I a charmer?

When I was 11 I came to America. I'll tell you later how I managed that with no passport and no money.

Sometimes I think, if there really is a God, He saved me from that car wreck just to see me suffer. Or maybe Hinduism's real, and I wuz Hitler in a past life. My human enemy's know me as leader of the Jaggid Skulls. The Yeerks know me as leader of the Shifters. But that's all they know. Our name, that we're human, ('cept for two of us) and that I'm the leader. I think they're only guessing that though, but I'm not sure.

Visser Three doesn't know our faces, or that we're also the Jaggid Skulls', thankfully. They'll find out sooner or later. If any Yeerks do suspect, which I don't see how, I can imagine what would happen if they told the Visser. He'd either laugh at them, or take it as an insult that a common human street gang gives 'im such grefe, and decapitate the poor fuck. We didn't exactly go advertisin' that we're human, but how they found out is a tale for a different time.

If you're reading this, then you're probably a fan of Animorph books. Y'know, I wuz the one that told 'em to to do it. They went to a Chee named Applegate, and she went to some publishes with what they gave her. I decided not to publish any Shifter stories, and the Animorphs kept us out of their books. I didn't want the world to know about us. Then I found this sight. Fanfiction.net, where I could safely pass my work of as just that. Fan fiction.

I'm typing on my laptop. It's stolen. I'm also hooked up to the Internet illegally. Jara set it up for me. He's a Hork-Bajir seer and ex-controller with a passionate hatred for the Yeerks. Sometimes I think it's unhealthy how much he hates them. You'll find out later how I got a Hork-Bajir in my gang.

Unlike the Animorphs, I get new recruits. Someone in the gang occasionally suggests someone, and Kluh checks him or her out. He's a Leeran, and another ex-controller. But, even though he's telepathic, sometimes I godda check 'em out for myself. Again, you'll find out later how I managed to get him. Anyway, now we go to what his is all about. The birth of the Shifters.

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