My Animorphs: The Start
Author's notes will come up every now and then to point out some stuff in the chapters that might be a little confusing or I just feel like pointing out. Sooooooooo yeah…enjoy the story
Jeff
My name is Jeff. That's all I can tell you. I can't tell you my last name, my address, not even what state I live in, it's too risky and I can't trust anybody. If you are reading this than either we've finally won the war or I'm dead(or worse) and the Yeereks found my journal, the one I've been writing in for a very long time, the one that nobody can see until it's all over, the one that reveals my life as an Animorph.
It all started when I was walking to the mall after basketball tryouts with my best friend Brian.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I got my inspiration for Brian from none other than…ME!!! We are exactly alike except we have different names. Normally I would make the character based off of me be the first person to narrate but that right is reserved for the leader of the Animorphs which definitely wouldn't be me. Just letting you know…you can keep reading now.
"Man I sucked; I am definitely not getting on the team this year." I said
"You know what your problem is?" Brian asked
"What?"
"You never think on the bright side, there were a lot of people who did worse than you I'm sure you'll make it on the team."
"That's easy for you to say." I said "You did great, you made 4 three-pointers in a row, and you beat the entire team with nobody on your side except me and that one kid in our math class. What's his name…uh…um…?"
"Nathan"
Brian and I turned around and we saw that kid that played on our team at the tryouts.
"What's your name?" I asked
"Nathan. You did pretty good I'm sure you'll make it on the team. But I was terrible."
He wasn't lying, if anyone that tried out for the team was worse than me, it was him. He didn't make a single basket, he can barely dribble, and he's the slowest runner I've every seen in my life. I've seen 200 pound men with 5 large pizzas in their hands run faster that him (Yes, I'm exaggerating but he was just the least athletic person I've ever seen)
"No, you did way better than me." I lied "I wouldn't be surprised if the coach makes you team captain."
You ever have that moment where you just meet somebody and you say a few nice things but then that weird, awkward silence comes? Well that's exactly what was happening I just couldn't really find anything else to say but "Good bye" or "Well, nice meeting you but I have to go." But that's why I always have Brian who always knows how to break that awkward silence.
"Soooooooooooooo." He said. "We're going to meet our 2 friends at the bus stop a few blocks away and then we're going to the mall. You want to come with us?"
"Uhh…sure" Nathan answered
We walked for about 10 minutes before we met up with Tanya and Jasmine at a bus stop. (The 2 friends that Brian was talking about, well one's my friend the other is my sister)
"Took you long enough." Jasmine said "Where were you two? We've been waiting for 3 hours."
"I told you I had Basketball tryouts, jeez get off my back." I snapped
"Well you could have at least answered your cell phones when we called you."
"We…were…at…basket…ball…try…outs." Brian repeated slowly and clearly like Jasmine couldn't hear. "Do you think we'd have our cell phones on?"
"Guys can we please not argue let's just wait quietly till the bus comes again." Tanya said.
"By the time the bus comes again the mall will be closed we might as well go home."
"Your right" I said. "It's getting late and mom will kill us if we're still out past 9:00."
We introduced Tanya and Jasmine to Nathan and the five of us walked home, luckily, we all lived on the same block so we'd be able to stay together the entire time since it was getting very dark. Too bad we wouldn't make it home till about 11:00 since we decided to cut through an abandoned construction site and well…
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The end of chapter 1, you'll learn more about the characters in chapter 2 plus there will be some morphing.