I do not own animorphs or any of the original character's. The only things that are mine are the name's of my character's and friends, my writing, and my plot. But the ideas and other things go to Ms. K.A. Applegate
The wolf was running through the forest. The wind flowing through the fur and the wolf dodging the trees like they were nothing, breathing in the smells like the rabbits and birds and the mouse to his left. The wolf started to veer to go catch it but Mathew wouldn't let his senses get the better of him. Mathew was trying to get back home before his parents really noticed he was gone. They never asked him why he was gone so much or where he went, and he never really had curfew. But he never wanted to push it too much. So he had decided to take a shortcut through the woods of the town that he lived in. It cannot be named only because if they knew, if they knew what he was. What he could do. Who he is. He would be dead. Not dead as is not breathing, but dead as in no longer able to do anything of his own free will. No longer able to choose what to do or who he may love. Nothing. Not even free to go screw someone if he wanted to. That was because of these things called Yeerks. Little slug like creatures that entered through the ear canal and made their way to the brain where they took control of your mind and bodies. You can think and feel but that is the limit of your abilities considering the Yeerk is what will control your movements and speech. People with Yeerks inside of them are known as controllers. Now you would think that they would be easy to spot, right? Well the really bad thing is this: They can be anyone. They move, walk, talk, breath, eat, and sleep normally. So it's harder than hell to tell them apart from anyone normal. But the Yeerks had their weakness: They had to have a host to do anything AND every three days they had to go and recharge themselves in a Yeerk Pool every three days.
All this Mathew had learned just about 6 months ago, when he was along with Jake, Marco, cassie, Tobias, and Rachel that day they went through the construction site. He was trying to get back to the hotel because his parent's were only visiting some relatives. He found the power to morph into animals totally awesome but hated the 2 hour time limit. But he always was afraid when he used it because he was never sure that he could totally control the creature's instincts enough to get the job done. But recently he had been practicing on his favorite animal that he had acquired as his first morph from Cassie's barn, the wolf. His wolf was a beautiful black wolf with grey paws and slightly grey muzzle. He was a beautiful wolf. And with the brain of a wolf and a human, he was basically a genius. WHAM Mathew ran head first into the 20 year old evergreen that signaled he was almost home. Man, Mathew thought only to himself. I really got to stop thinking so high of myself. I ain't that great. He hated when he got too full of himself. He always ran into trees for some reason.