(Hey yall, this is the fixed version of ch. 1. Thanks for the advice,
Nacho.)
Chapter One
Jake
My name is Jake. Just Jake. Of course, as you probably know, if I told you my full name, where I live, and where I go to school, I would be dead along with the rest of my friends. If you don't know who I am, and who we fight, here is a short run down. The human race is being invaded. Now, you're probably thinking I'm crazy, thinking surely if there was an invasion, I would know about it.
See, that's the problem. It's an invasion that no one knows about. Kids, we're being invaded by aliens. They call themselves Yeerks. They really aren't more than slugs, really. But they are slugs with an awful power. They can crawl into your head and make you theirs. You can't eat, can't sleep, can't even move your eyes unless the yeerk wills you to. You become a slave in your own head, watching as the yeerk uses your body to enslave the ones that you love.
I would be willing to bet now that you are ready to find the nearest bomb shelter and wait for the worst. I mean, it sounds like Earth is doomed, right? Not so. Not as far as my friends and I are concerned. You see, we were walking through an abandoned construction site one night when we witnessed an alien ship crash land not 30 feet from us. The being that piloted the ship called himself an Andalite, and it was by him that we learned of the yeerk invasion.
Not only did he warn us, he also gave us the prize possession of Andalite technology. The being that called himself Prince Elfangor gave us the power to turn into any animal we touch. The power of the animal kingdom was then at our disposal. Shortly after he gave us the power, our arch- nemesis, Visser Three, the one and only Andalite-Controller, landed on the scene and killed Elfangor.
Anyway.
We call ourselves, the Animorphs, short for animal morphers. Who are we, you ask? Well, there's obviously me, Jake, the unofficial leader of our leader of our little group. There's Marco, my main man. We've been friends since we were fetuses. Well, maybe not that long, but we've been friends long enough to have fought over each other's Play-Dough. There is Rachel, my fearless and beautiful cousin. I suppose you call her the relentless one of the group. She may be relentless, but I've seen the girl do some amazing things in her time. Next is Cassie. Cassie is the kind, gentle member of our group. She the most caring, sweetest, and most down to earth girl that I know.
Then there are the last two members of our group, Ax and Tobias. Tobias saw the Andalite crash with us back in the beginning, and was the first out of all of us to morph. A few days after, we attacked the yeerk pool, the operating base of the yeerks. Tobias used his red tail hawk morph to storm the pool, but stayed in hawk form for more than 2 hours.
You see, that is the curse of the andalite's gift. If you stay in a morph more than 2 hours, you're stuck in morph forever. And, as sad as it is, Tobias' true form is now that of a red tail hawk. Back a while ago a powerful being named the Ellimist gave him back his morphing powers, so he can fight with us full time. He even regained his ability to morph to a human, but his natural form is now that of a red tailed hawk.
The last member of our little group is Ax. Tobias may not be human in form, but Ax isn't human at all. Aximili-Esgourth-Isthill (Ax for short) is the only surviving Andalite that was involved in the battle between the Yeerks and Andalites above the planet. He is also Elfangor's younger brother, which is why he hates yeerks all the more.
Now that you know who we are, let me paint you a picture of a "normal" evening with The Animorphs. You would figure by now that we are all battle-hardened warriors, right? Ha ha, wrong. Marco had the brilliant idea one night to get everyone together to spend a normal evening around his house. Right.
"Now, prince Jake, what is the point of this video game? V-I-de-oh game- uh." Ax had morphed to human for the evening, which looks like a weird mix of me, Rachel, Marco, and Cassie, and is in fact a DNA mix of all of us. Plus, since he doesn't have a mouth, he likes to play with sounds.
"Ax, the point of the game is to kick Jakes sorry butt," Marco replied as he lolled in an armchair.
"And what is a football? And why is this football named Blitz?" Marco just shook his head. "Ax? Forget the game. Give me the control pad."
He handed over the control pad, and decided it was snack time.
"HANDY SNACKS!! HAN-DEEEEE SNAACKS-UH!!"
I shook my head. "Good Lord," I muttered. Ax, in his normal form, doesn't possess a mouth at all. So, I guess the sense of taste is lost to him as well.
I looked back at Marco. Tobias had flown through his open window without me noticing him, and started to morph into his human form. This was a "normal" evening, after all.
"Rachel and Cassie should be here in a little while. I saw them walking on my way." Tobias finished his morph to human, and walked over and sat down on Marcos couch, like it wasn't anything out of the ordinary.
Even now, I shake my head at the situation every now and then. The boy sitting on Marco's sofa was a bird three minutes ago, and not to mention we had a full-blown alien in Marco's kitchen wolfing down handi-snacks. I put those thoughts out of my head. " Alright, Marco, round 2 of Blitz. This time, you will BEG for mercy!!" Marco grinned and hit the unpause button, resuming the game.
Rachel and Cassie arrived a few minutes later, but Marco and I never noticed. I began to get irritated after Marco body slammed me onto the field for the 5th time in a row. "Sorry game anyway," I muttered after the game finished with Marco leading 63-6. "Hah, I am the KING of all video games!!" Marco exulted.
"Oh, hey Rach, hey Cassie." I was just noticing that they had come in.
Rachel was leaning against the wall with an amused look on her face. Cassie looked like she was suppressing a giggle. "Did Marco completely embarrass you AGAIN!?" Rachel snorted. She looked at Cassie. "You would think that he would learn."
"Hey, how come I wasn't invited to this little party?" A voice from nowhere said. "YAAH!!" Tobias cried, falling backwards onto the couch. Eric appeared before us.
If you saw Eric on the street, you would write him off as another face in the crowd. But, if you haven't guessed, he is anything but. Eric is actually an android, and has been walking the earth since Moses' time. The Chee were created thousands of years ago by a race called the Pemalites. The Pemalites died out, but the Chee obviously had not.
"Eric, you weren't invited for a reason," Marco said. "Anytime you come to pay us a visit, it's usually to send us off on a mission that is suicidal and has us screaming and running for our lives." I forgot to mention that the Chee help us from time to time with information from the yeerks.
"Aww, come on, Marco, can't I just drop by and say hi?" Eric said with a smirk on his face.
"There has to be a law for appearing out of no where in someone's house," Marco muttered. "Well, if you're here to chill, how about a game of Blitz?" Eric smiled. "Sure, why not?"
So went the evening, with the Animorphs chilling at Marcos house, and Marco being humiliated by the android. "Oh, Marco, did I forget to mention I can simulate 53,000 plays per second?" Eric teased as his game with Marco finished, 77-7. "I rename myself HUMAN King of all video games," Marco groaned as his held his head in his hands.
Eric's face suddenly turned serious. He froze, and didn't move. "What is it, Eric?" I asked.
"Something's happening," Eric stated. "I'm getting information from the Chee-net. Hold on." Eric was silent for a few moments more, then stood straight up and dropped his hologram, revealing his true form.
"Is it the Yeerks?" Ax asked, strolling back into the living room with cheese all over his face.
"No, it is not. I just received a message from Lourdes. She told me that she just watched a boy appear from nowhere in the sky. He was.just floating there."
We stood silent for almost a minute. "Floating there?" Cassie asked. "What does that mean, Eric?"
Eric resumed his human hologram. "It means what it means. There was nothing holding him up. Lourdes said that he looked confused, and didn't know where he was.
"Eric," I asked, "Do you know the location of his appearance?" Eric dropped his hologram again, and revealed a lends from his left breastplate. A map appeared on Marco's wall of the city.
"Now," Eric said, "He should be.here." I blinking red dot appeared right above The Gardens, a zoo and amusement park. "The Gardens? Let's go!!" Rachel, of course.
"Looks like we don't have a choice." I said. "Flight morphs, everyone. We have to see if this guy is friend or foe." Naturally, Marco started whining as he started morphing. "Man, what did I say?! Every single time Eric shows up."
Chapter One
Jake
My name is Jake. Just Jake. Of course, as you probably know, if I told you my full name, where I live, and where I go to school, I would be dead along with the rest of my friends. If you don't know who I am, and who we fight, here is a short run down. The human race is being invaded. Now, you're probably thinking I'm crazy, thinking surely if there was an invasion, I would know about it.
See, that's the problem. It's an invasion that no one knows about. Kids, we're being invaded by aliens. They call themselves Yeerks. They really aren't more than slugs, really. But they are slugs with an awful power. They can crawl into your head and make you theirs. You can't eat, can't sleep, can't even move your eyes unless the yeerk wills you to. You become a slave in your own head, watching as the yeerk uses your body to enslave the ones that you love.
I would be willing to bet now that you are ready to find the nearest bomb shelter and wait for the worst. I mean, it sounds like Earth is doomed, right? Not so. Not as far as my friends and I are concerned. You see, we were walking through an abandoned construction site one night when we witnessed an alien ship crash land not 30 feet from us. The being that piloted the ship called himself an Andalite, and it was by him that we learned of the yeerk invasion.
Not only did he warn us, he also gave us the prize possession of Andalite technology. The being that called himself Prince Elfangor gave us the power to turn into any animal we touch. The power of the animal kingdom was then at our disposal. Shortly after he gave us the power, our arch- nemesis, Visser Three, the one and only Andalite-Controller, landed on the scene and killed Elfangor.
Anyway.
We call ourselves, the Animorphs, short for animal morphers. Who are we, you ask? Well, there's obviously me, Jake, the unofficial leader of our leader of our little group. There's Marco, my main man. We've been friends since we were fetuses. Well, maybe not that long, but we've been friends long enough to have fought over each other's Play-Dough. There is Rachel, my fearless and beautiful cousin. I suppose you call her the relentless one of the group. She may be relentless, but I've seen the girl do some amazing things in her time. Next is Cassie. Cassie is the kind, gentle member of our group. She the most caring, sweetest, and most down to earth girl that I know.
Then there are the last two members of our group, Ax and Tobias. Tobias saw the Andalite crash with us back in the beginning, and was the first out of all of us to morph. A few days after, we attacked the yeerk pool, the operating base of the yeerks. Tobias used his red tail hawk morph to storm the pool, but stayed in hawk form for more than 2 hours.
You see, that is the curse of the andalite's gift. If you stay in a morph more than 2 hours, you're stuck in morph forever. And, as sad as it is, Tobias' true form is now that of a red tail hawk. Back a while ago a powerful being named the Ellimist gave him back his morphing powers, so he can fight with us full time. He even regained his ability to morph to a human, but his natural form is now that of a red tailed hawk.
The last member of our little group is Ax. Tobias may not be human in form, but Ax isn't human at all. Aximili-Esgourth-Isthill (Ax for short) is the only surviving Andalite that was involved in the battle between the Yeerks and Andalites above the planet. He is also Elfangor's younger brother, which is why he hates yeerks all the more.
Now that you know who we are, let me paint you a picture of a "normal" evening with The Animorphs. You would figure by now that we are all battle-hardened warriors, right? Ha ha, wrong. Marco had the brilliant idea one night to get everyone together to spend a normal evening around his house. Right.
"Now, prince Jake, what is the point of this video game? V-I-de-oh game- uh." Ax had morphed to human for the evening, which looks like a weird mix of me, Rachel, Marco, and Cassie, and is in fact a DNA mix of all of us. Plus, since he doesn't have a mouth, he likes to play with sounds.
"Ax, the point of the game is to kick Jakes sorry butt," Marco replied as he lolled in an armchair.
"And what is a football? And why is this football named Blitz?" Marco just shook his head. "Ax? Forget the game. Give me the control pad."
He handed over the control pad, and decided it was snack time.
"HANDY SNACKS!! HAN-DEEEEE SNAACKS-UH!!"
I shook my head. "Good Lord," I muttered. Ax, in his normal form, doesn't possess a mouth at all. So, I guess the sense of taste is lost to him as well.
I looked back at Marco. Tobias had flown through his open window without me noticing him, and started to morph into his human form. This was a "normal" evening, after all.
"Rachel and Cassie should be here in a little while. I saw them walking on my way." Tobias finished his morph to human, and walked over and sat down on Marcos couch, like it wasn't anything out of the ordinary.
Even now, I shake my head at the situation every now and then. The boy sitting on Marco's sofa was a bird three minutes ago, and not to mention we had a full-blown alien in Marco's kitchen wolfing down handi-snacks. I put those thoughts out of my head. " Alright, Marco, round 2 of Blitz. This time, you will BEG for mercy!!" Marco grinned and hit the unpause button, resuming the game.
Rachel and Cassie arrived a few minutes later, but Marco and I never noticed. I began to get irritated after Marco body slammed me onto the field for the 5th time in a row. "Sorry game anyway," I muttered after the game finished with Marco leading 63-6. "Hah, I am the KING of all video games!!" Marco exulted.
"Oh, hey Rach, hey Cassie." I was just noticing that they had come in.
Rachel was leaning against the wall with an amused look on her face. Cassie looked like she was suppressing a giggle. "Did Marco completely embarrass you AGAIN!?" Rachel snorted. She looked at Cassie. "You would think that he would learn."
"Hey, how come I wasn't invited to this little party?" A voice from nowhere said. "YAAH!!" Tobias cried, falling backwards onto the couch. Eric appeared before us.
If you saw Eric on the street, you would write him off as another face in the crowd. But, if you haven't guessed, he is anything but. Eric is actually an android, and has been walking the earth since Moses' time. The Chee were created thousands of years ago by a race called the Pemalites. The Pemalites died out, but the Chee obviously had not.
"Eric, you weren't invited for a reason," Marco said. "Anytime you come to pay us a visit, it's usually to send us off on a mission that is suicidal and has us screaming and running for our lives." I forgot to mention that the Chee help us from time to time with information from the yeerks.
"Aww, come on, Marco, can't I just drop by and say hi?" Eric said with a smirk on his face.
"There has to be a law for appearing out of no where in someone's house," Marco muttered. "Well, if you're here to chill, how about a game of Blitz?" Eric smiled. "Sure, why not?"
So went the evening, with the Animorphs chilling at Marcos house, and Marco being humiliated by the android. "Oh, Marco, did I forget to mention I can simulate 53,000 plays per second?" Eric teased as his game with Marco finished, 77-7. "I rename myself HUMAN King of all video games," Marco groaned as his held his head in his hands.
Eric's face suddenly turned serious. He froze, and didn't move. "What is it, Eric?" I asked.
"Something's happening," Eric stated. "I'm getting information from the Chee-net. Hold on." Eric was silent for a few moments more, then stood straight up and dropped his hologram, revealing his true form.
"Is it the Yeerks?" Ax asked, strolling back into the living room with cheese all over his face.
"No, it is not. I just received a message from Lourdes. She told me that she just watched a boy appear from nowhere in the sky. He was.just floating there."
We stood silent for almost a minute. "Floating there?" Cassie asked. "What does that mean, Eric?"
Eric resumed his human hologram. "It means what it means. There was nothing holding him up. Lourdes said that he looked confused, and didn't know where he was.
"Eric," I asked, "Do you know the location of his appearance?" Eric dropped his hologram again, and revealed a lends from his left breastplate. A map appeared on Marco's wall of the city.
"Now," Eric said, "He should be.here." I blinking red dot appeared right above The Gardens, a zoo and amusement park. "The Gardens? Let's go!!" Rachel, of course.
"Looks like we don't have a choice." I said. "Flight morphs, everyone. We have to see if this guy is friend or foe." Naturally, Marco started whining as he started morphing. "Man, what did I say?! Every single time Eric shows up."
