Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs. I wish I did, but I don't. ^-^ Anyways this story and any characters that are made up are mine and Cassie's. So don't use them without asking.

Just so people now this isn't just my story. My friend Cassie and I came up with this together. We're co-authors. I come up the ideas and she types them up. And the chapters will switch between Kitty's POV and Loren's POV. Enjoy!! ^_^

************************************************************************ Summary: It's been years since the Animorphs went missing and the Yeerks are back. Now it's time for another group of teens to stop them, before it's too late. Fighting the Yeerks the same way the Animorphs did, by using morphs technology. They now the risk of failing could mean death or worse. Can they stop the Yeerks like the Animorphs were able to do years ago? Or is the Earth doomed?

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Kitty's POV

My name? You want me to tell you? Well, I can't. People can't know who I am, who any of us are, or where we are. But I'll tell you this: things are very wrong. Wars that were over have started again. The Yeerks have come back, or at least made themselves known to us. The names that I say may or may not be our real names.

It started years ago. Even as I tell you, fighting is still going on. Sad things have happened to all of us. We are forever changed. I know that I would trade anything to be able to go back and stop that fateful ride in the woods that changed our lives.

"Hi Mom!" I bounded into the barn. I was a spunky teenager who preferred to be running with animals than to be stuck in a building. Loren, my best friend, was with me. She was quieter than I was, but fun loving. Her ebony hair flowed past her shoulders in a straight line. But what caught most people was not her complexion, which was fair, or her hair, but her eyes. They were doe brown, and seemed to have something under them that was unexplainable. We had only met that year, but we had become fast friends.

I dumped my book bag in the hay in a corner of our barn. The barn was a rehabilitation clinic for hurt animals. Not the kind of animals that you find inside your house, but big animals, the kind that roam in the wild. It still smelled of new wood, even though it had been there for more years than I could remember. The whole city was fairly new, actually. I never found out why for a very long time. The only thing that had been saved, I heard, were the woods in the back of our house.

Today in the clinic, we had a hawk that had hit a power line, a rattlesnake that had been grazed by a car, a baby skunk that we had found, too young to live on its own, and that was about it. There was nothing out of the ordinary. Loren came in behind me and set her bag down next to mine.

"How come you're home so early?" My mom worked at a park, preserving animals and natural habitats. It sounded like fun, actually.

"I'm taking a week off, Kitty. I need a break." That was all she said to me, and she turned back to tending the hawk.

"Okay. We're going out riding, Mom," I told her. Actually, she wasn't really my mother; she had adopted me. I didn't wait for her to answer me, and I ran out to the stables, which were connected to the barn. I selected two horses, and saddled one of them. Shadow, my horse, was black, with a wild look in his eyes. Breeze was a chestnut mare, much more calm than Shadow, and paced about the stable when I took her out. I saddled Breeze quickly while Shadow whinnied impatiently. When I was done, I led them both out into the bright sunshine, without saddling Shadow. I liked to ride bareback.

"All right, here you go Loren," I said, and handed her the reins. She put her foot in the stirrup and leapt onto Breeze's back with ease. I jumped onto Shadow, and urged him into a gallop, leaving Loren behind me.

"Kitty! Where are you going?" I didn't respond. I looked back, and saw her kick Breeze into a trot. "Come back here!" she yelled.

"Come get me, Loren," I yelled back over my shoulder. She kicked Breeze into action, and sprang after me.

I galloped into the woods, and Loren followed behind. Shadow was faster than Breeze, and we both knew it. But Loren still urged Breeze on. I held tight to Shadow's mane, and hoped that I didn't hit a low tree branch. I could hear Loren yelling after me, and the hoof beats of Breeze, but I didn't care. I loved riding, and I loved being outside. I had spent the whole day in a building, sitting in desks that were too small. I finally had a chance today to get out and do something.

After a bit, I looked up, and slowed Shadow. I couldn't hear Loren anymore, or Breeze, for that matter. I looked around me. I didn't know this part of the woods. I looked behind me, and tried to see Loren. I saw her in the distance, and faintly, I could hear Breeze snorting and stomping about. I dismounted, and listened for a while. Shadow stood quietly, panting. It was a beautiful day, and the sun was shining. It wasn't hot, but it wasn't cold. Just right for the middle of spring. The life was beginning to return from the cold winter. There were buds forming on the trees, and I thought I could hear a stream a little off to my right.

I led Shadow to the stream, and tied him loosely, so he could pace around and drink some water. Then I went back to where I had been, and waited for Loren. I knew that she had seen me, so I didn't call out to her. The woods were too peaceful to disturb. I looked all around me again. I thought I saw a rock wall behind clumps of shrubs, bushes and trees. I thought it was a cave, but I made myself wait for Loren.

When she finally got there, Breeze was panting and sweating. I led them both to where I had left Shadow. He was still there, drinking happily. I tied Breeze up next to him, and Loren and I raced back to the spot. She beat me by a second. She was always a better runner than I was.

"Well," she said panting, "what do we do now? Why did we come here? I've never seen this place before."

"Me neither. But come here, I want you to see something. I don't know what it is."

"Sure." We walked over to the rock wall. Sure enough, it was a cave. The black opening was twice as tall as me, and about five times as wide. Loren followed me into the cave, and we looked around. There seemed to be a long, straight passage in front of us but I couldn't see well enough to tell. I could only make out vague outlines here and there. We walked a little ways, when Loren stopped.

"What is it Loren?" I asked softly

"I don't know. I just get a weird feeling about this. I'm going to stay outside and wait for you. Have fun exploring."

"Loren," I called after her, but she had turned and started running out. I wanted to explore this place, so I let her leave, and started walking again. The tunnel opened up into a very vast chamber. It was lit very dimly, though how, I couldn't say.

I wandered blindly toward the light. I had no idea where I was going. But I knew I was going the right way. Something said that in the back of my mind, and the light kept getting brighter. It was a bluish light, but it eventually got so bright that it was white.

Shading my eyes, I moved closer and closer. It was too bright now to see. I bumped into a wall, and my foot touched something hard. I bent down to look, and the light grew dimmer as my gaze moved.

What I saw was a little iridescent blue cube, partially buried in the cave floor. Being curious, I picked it up and examined it. It was about a foot on each side. The blue seemed to have hidden depths, which I couldn't fathom. I stopped staring at it, and looked around me.

I realized that the light was gone, and I was again in darkness. I started to move around, to try to trace my steps back to where I had come from. I banged into another wall. In the middle of a muttered curse, I heard Loren's voice somewhere in the blackness behind me.

"Kitty?" she said into the dark. "Kitty, where are you?" She sounded scared, so I tried to follow in the direction of her voice.

"Loren, I'm right here," I said softly, as not to scare her. She scared easily, but I loved the adrenaline. "Just follow my voice, Loren."

"Kitty? I can't see you." We were getting closer, I could tell. Finally, with outstretched hands, we met. "Kitty, let's get out of here. I don't like it."

"Then why did you come in here?"

"I didn't like it out there, alone." I smiled silently in the pitch black of the cave.

"All right. I'm done exploring now. We can go." I heard a sigh of relief escape her lips.

We turned around and started walking. I felt a slight breeze to my right, and turned that way. I commented on it to Loren, and she said something about nature girls under her breath. I would have played around with her, but she was too frightened; she would have taken it the wrong way. Finally, we exited the tunnel. What we saw was not the outside.

It was like we had been transported to a different dimension. The trees there were not brown on bottom or green on top. The grass was coarse and rough, parts of it an aqua color, and parts of it pure emerald green, but nothing like what I had just left.

I edged myself around some of the trees, and heard Loren whimpering. "Hush," I said softly. "It's okay." I turned my back on her, and went stalking silently through the long grass.

When I stopped, a tree loomed in front of me. The bark was rough, like a palm tree, but its leaves were out of this world. They were such an odd shape! They were almost star-shaped, but they had seven points, and were a pal shade of pink. The trunks were blue.

I don't know how long I stood there, mesmerized by the strange beauty of this strange place. I looked up, and the ceiling to the cavern was too far up for me to see it. My eyes slowly worked their way down the side of the big chamber, and to the other side of the circle of trees. But it wasn't the trees that shocked me.

In the middle of the chamber, there was some sort of creature, standing perfectly still among the tall grass and odd-colored trees. It also was a very odd color. It's fur was a dull blue-green. My gaze moved to what I assumed to be the head, and noticed two things growing out of it. They looked like long, slender bean stalks. I gasped, and covered my mouth. I hear Loren whimpering again, and assumed that she had just discovered the same thing. I moved a little, to the front of the creature, and back all the way to the wall, so I wasn't too close. Its face was not formed in a way that I had seen any animal's face. And I had worked with a lot of animals. There were two almond-shaped eyes, about where they should be, but instead of a nose, it had three slits, almost like gills. There was no mouth.

I was sickened for a moment, but then curiosity again got the better of me. I moved around to its side, and noticed that it was shaped like a centaur. Its upper body stood free of its horse-like middle and rear. There were two small blue-green arms coming out of the upright portion of it, and it was standing on four hoofed legs.

That wasn't the worst part. Its tail was longer than any horse's tail, but by then I should have realized that I couldn't compare this creature to anything that I knew on Earth. It was supple, and covered in hair, almost like a cat's tail, but much thicker and stronger. It was thick at the base, and proceeded to get thinner and thinner until it reached the tip. At the tip was a golden sickle-shaped blade, which I assumed was probably as sharp as it looked. I muffled a small cry as eyes appeared on top of the stalks, and the whole body turned to face me. It was advancing on me.

I ran near the wall to the right. I finally caught up with Loren, and she and I both ran. Then all of a sudden, she was gone. I could hear her scream, but I couldn't do anything about it, because I had a big, horse- like creature following me. I ran into a wall again, and turned around. The blue box in my hands was vibrating slightly. The shock of that almost made me let go of it, but I held on. I had a feeling that this thing was of great importance. I held it in front of me, and the creature stopped moving. I then veered around to its right side, and the tail flicked up so fast that I couldn't see it in movement. The only thing that I perceived after that was the golden blade a few inches from the base of my throat.

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