Authours Notes: This chapter is mainly setup for the rest of the novel, not all of it will make sense, but if you stick with it all will be revealed in the next chapter which I should have up in the next few days.
My name is Stipolla-Andorouth-Lindill.
I don't know if my fellow Andalites will recognize that name, they probably won't for some time.
Yeerks know that name, you see I, or my body, was the former host of Subvisser-3, one of Visser 3's henchmen.
My fellow, or former fellow Humans will never recognize that name, they would know me by the name of Sterling. Simply Sterling, I can not tell you more, as my human family can not know I still am alive in any form, it's one of the rules I play by. Rules instituted by Crayak and Ellimist. The only people who call me this name now are my human friends who have too hard of a time saying my andalite name.
I'm confusing you aren't I? Well this is normal, I must explain my story to you, you must believe it. You must believe that everything I'll tell you here is true, is real. The Yeerks exist. If you don't, then you may perish, in one form or another.
However, my story begins when I believed it to be a lie, in a book. A book marked fiction, a book I can't remember beyond what has happened to me thus far, but I know existed, I know they existed because I read them, but I can't remember a word from than other than the title, Animorphs.
I was human then, living a normal life. But I lost a friend. A friend to suicide, to be honest I really liked this friend, you know as in loved. Before this I had my issues, let me tell you, but after that, I lost it. I did not want to live anymore. I prayed every night for death to find me. I was a Christian though, so I always thought suicide was wrong, I knew that if I did it, I would go to hell. However, I found something so revolting, so hard to deal with, I didn't care. I found a letter to me from this girl, saying I was a weakling, saying I was nothing she wanted, saying that she killed herself because I would not leave her be.
This pushed me over the edge, I knew then the only escape I would have from the memories, from the pain, from the longing. I knew death would be my only escape, so I went home. I went home, grabbed a knife, and begin sawing at my wrist. Suddenly a light flashed, a light so bright it paralyzed all my sense.
Slowly but surely, I began to be able to speak, hear, and see, but I could not move, before me stood a creature so beautiful nothing could describe it, but... it felt weird, I don't know how to describe it, evil is the only word for it. I knew it was God... or... Satan.
The creature began to speak. "Sterling, you have committed a vile sin. A sin so evil you will be sent to Hell for it. However, I am willing to give you another chance." At that moment I knew it had to be God, I just knew, or I thought I knew but in reality I had no idea.
I asked, "What chance?"
The creature responded, "I have need for your mind elsewhere on this planet. I have need for you to become something else to help me wage a war that we must win." I must confess, this confused me, I thought to myself wasn't God omni-potent, couldn't he do whatever he wanted, but then I remembered that we each have a free will.
"And what must I do?" I asked, hesitantly.
"You must become another creature, you will remember your life as it was, all but a few small details, but also remember the invented past of this creature you will become, you will then have full freedom to choose your destiny as that creature, to reverse this great sin you have done." The creature replied to me, giving me the hope of redemption.
"But... what will happen to my human body, and my family?" I asked.
The creature gave me a look like, before proceeding, "They will believe you are dead, your body will remain here, it is your mind I need, not your body. This is your only rule of this deal, you may never tell your parents if you see them that you are their son, you may never tell your family what has happened to you."
"And if I disagree?" I asked?
"You will be returned to your dying form, and live out your eternal destiny. Hell." The creature responded.
So I said yes, at the time it seemed logical. God was giving me another chance. But I was soon to find that God did not exist, that this creature was evil embodied, and that this entire talk had been a trick.
Right after I said yes, another blinding flash hit me, and I fell asleep, into a sleep that was so deep, it was unlike anything I had ever had in my life.
I would awake to find that the "God" I thought this creature was, was really a trickster and deciever, and that I was to be trapped in a living hell.