Author's Note: Hello Everyone, I started reading the Animorphs when they first came out. Man, that was a while ago, back in Fourth Grade for me. I started college this year and while on Christmas break I went into the attic and found a box of books. I opened it and what do you know, my Animorphs collection fell out. I quickly grabbed the first ten books and finished six of them in about eight hours. Then I stopped and reread the one where Jake becomes a Controller and thought, why not write a fan fiction about the feeling of entering the Yeerk pool. At first this was only going to be ONE chapter, but I kind of like extending this. Oh, and I've only read up to the one where Jake goes into the future where Earth is lost. If someone could tell me the end of the series I'd like to know….Thanks a bunch…oh and I don't own the copyright to the Animorphs but I do have QUITE the collection of books.
The screams are what get to you the first time you enter the Yeerk pool, yes the screams are the first thing that catches your attention. The second is the vastness of the Yeerk pool. The shear hugeness of it as you enter from one of the numerous passageways. The third thing is the aliens, definitely the aliens. The Hork-Bajir and Taxxons are quite terrifying. Of course once you have the Yeerk in your head they are quite ordinary and boring. If you are fortunate the Yeerk in your head will tune out everything and you'll just have the blind panic of having your body moving without your wanting it, if you are unfortunate then this is your first time to the Yeerk pool. So you HAVE to look around, at the cages, at the aliens, and then at the pool itself. Any Controller can tell you how it feels…well that's not true. The voluntary Controllers don't give a…well, no need to get vulgar. If you're like me, then you didn't want anything to do with the Yeerks and are being forcefully dragged down there for the first time. It's the pier that you finally see, with people suddenly waking out of their trances and screaming. Then you realize that you are at the end of a very different pier, on this one…people suddenly stop screaming. That scares you even more. The terror of why. Why did they stop? Why are they THANKING those strange tall creatures? And why, why are they laughing as they pass you? Then the Hork-Bajir grabs you with those giant hands and you begin to see the "pool" as it really is. Hundreds of thousands of slugs swim in that murky water and the person in front of you comes up for one last scream and you see it. Not much more than a glace of gray slipping into that person's ear. One of the slugs, one of those nasty creatures is in that person's head! Then it hits you…you're one step closer to the end of the pier and the horrible smell of that water hits you. You fight, and if you're like me, you put everything behind you. Unlike many people, I managed to break free and I got about three yards before TWO Hork-Bajir warriors grabbed me and began to take me back. Then it hits you, this is it, you scream, cry, beg, and threaten, none of it works and you know…your fate is sealed. They shove you to your knees, perhaps you're still fighting or maybe you're just weeping and begging. The water churns below you as your head is forced closer and closer to that murky surface and then you see it. One single slug sitting in the water. You know its been waiting for you. Its eyeless face turns to you and you know…deep in your subconscious, that it knows you're near. Then comes the final moment when your head is shoved beneath the surface. Maybe you choke on the water by accident or you blow air out of your nose to keep the murky water out. Whichever you choose it doesn't really matter cause the second your head is back in the air you feel it. I screamed, I know a lot of people scream. The pain is incredible as that little slug becomes like a liquid and shoves around your eardrum. Then you stop screaming, not because you want to. You stand up, again, not because you want to. You turn to the Hork-Bajir and thank it, only it's not you thanking the warrior, it's not you because you are no longer in control of your body. You are now a Controller, then you hear it. A voice, not the kind of voice you have in your head when YOU are thinking. It's a very different voice and suddenly it hits you, hits you like a brick wall as you stand there trying to move your own body.
Hello Slave it whispers and you know then…that slug…that filthy little slug is talking to you.
Welcome to the Yeerk Pool….Welcome to Hell.