My name is Jordan. I can't tell you my last name or where I live. That would be too risky. What I can tell you that is the yeerks are here. They can be anyone. They can be your friends, or the paper boy, or even your parents. Well, I guess I am getting a little ahead of myself. You probably don't even know what yeerks are.
They are parasites that take over your mind and body; slugs really. You want to scream but you can't. You try to move, but you no longer control your body. They control your every move. That is what people with yeerks in their heads are called; Controllers.
My new friend Jake's brother is one of them. And his friend, Marco, is not one, but his mother is. The thing is you can't tell who is a Controller or not. They look and sound exactly the same.
Yeerks go around the galaxy infesting other species. They have made controllers out of the gedds, hork-bajir, and the taxxons. The gedd evolved on the home planet of they yeerks and are pretty much half blind and half deaf monkeys. The hork-bajir are walking razor blades; or salad shooters as Marco calls them. Hork-bajir were once a peaceful race but now the yeerks have infested all but a few that are hidden in a colony in the woods. When the yeerks are in their head peaceful is not the word I would use to describe them. Hork-bajir are about seven feet tall and have blades on their wrists, elbows, and knees. A serpentine neck connects their heads to their bodies.
Taxxons are nasty little buggers. At 10 feet long and as big around as a redwood they are anything but little. Four jell-o eyes situated near the big black hole that they call a mouth give the taxxon relatively decent vision. Most of these creatures are voluntary although there was a small resistance on the taxxon home world.
The yeerks think that a small group of andalite bandits have been messing them up it was really us 5 humans, a hawk, and an andalite named Ax. Cassie, Rachel, Jake, Marco, and Tobias discovered a crashed andalite ship and were given the power to morph by an andalite named elfangor. He told them to use their power to fight the yeerks. And they did, but there was a price to pay; only 2 hours in a morph. Tobias overstayed his time to be an animal and now he is stuck in the body of a red-tailed hawk.
You might be asking: Were does this Jordan kid come in?. Just wait a moment and I'll tell you.
One day I was walking through the beach at a cook out for The Sharing; the front organization for the yeerks, when I heard something going on in the sand dunes behind me.
"Roooo-aaawww-r!" roared a tiger who was ripping out the throat of monster covered with blades form head to toe. Off to my right was a huge grizzly bear that ripped another monster in half.
I saw a gorilla in the trees beyond turning into a human! A human face was emerging form the gorilla's. It was Marco! I had met him when I first moved here. And sat with him at lunch once before.
He saw me and said Oh crap it's Jordan. Only I didn't hear it- I did but I didn't.
I realized it was in my head! Marco finished demorphing and after the battle was over invited me to his house the next day.