By: Anthony J. Coimbra
Chapter 1
My name is Anthony.
That's pretty much what I can tell you. You see something that happened years ago is happening again. An alien race known as the Yeerks are planning another revolution. Yeerks are gray slug-like creatures that crawl through your ear and expand over your brain, and then the Yeerk controls you. You have no choice or say on what you do. Years ago a group of kids and another kind of alien from another race known as the Andalites fought the Yeerks. The Andalites were a peaceful civilization. They had deer shaped bodies, a human torso, about 7 fingers on each hand, 4 eyes (2 on stalks), no mouth, and a deadly tail-blade. I learned all this in one day. One day that changed my life, and on top of that I had a History test on that day and forgot to study.
I woke up and checked the time. It was 8:20 AM. "Oh no" I said. "I'm going to be late". I changed my clothes, drank a glass of milk, and headed out the door. I rode my bike to school, but I heard the bell ring a block away. I had 5 minutes to get to 1st period or I was going to be late again. I pedaled like a lunatic. I chained my bike to the bike rack, and started running to the portables. I finally made it, barely with 10 seconds left. I sat down and started to unpack. Mrs. Buczyner's phone rang and told a girl in my class named Alice to go to the principal's office. My teacher told us we were going to work in the boring workbook so I slipped my headphones on and turned on my MP3 player.
The bell rang. I walked out of the classroom and I was trying to cram before my test in 2nd period. All I memorized was that Howard Carter found King Tut's tomb in 1922. I made it to class (I'm always mad that my 2nd period is across the school from the portables) on time. I had about 2 more minutes to cram. Then Mr. Powers handed out the test. I read over the first few questions and they seemed pretty simple. Then I read question 5, and my jaw dropped, I had no idea what question 5 or the ones after it were. The phone rang, and Mr. Powers picked it up. He then hung up and told my friend Ayo and I to go to the principal's office.
He gave us passes and we left the classroom. Ayo said, "I'm really glad we are going to the principal's office, I haven't studied for the test", "Yeah me too" I said. We passed by a water fountain and each got a drink. We walked into the office and asked someone there were the principal's office was. As we walked closer to his office I started to get worried if I was in trouble or something. We knocked on the door and my other friend Robert opened it. I asked, "Hey, you know why we're here?" he shrugged his shoulders. I then saw Alice and her friend Rose in there. Principal Ax told us to sit down. Robert then asked "Why are we here?" Principal Ax smiled and locked the door. I was officially getting freaked out. Then he walked back to his desk. The next thing that happened made most of us there scream or say what the hell.