Chapter 1
My name is Gordon. If you know me, than I am dead. If you don't, I am the world's only hope. I consider myself one of the guardians of the Earth. Me, along with seven of my friends. Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Tobias. And you can't Forget Sam and Whitney. I hold Sam and Whitney in much higher respect than the others, because they seem to be set on doing their goal rather than worrying about some pitiful little moral issue.
Don't get me wrong, I love Cassie to death, but she is so irritating when it comes to morality vs winning fights. She would rather do the moral thing than win a fight for her life. I respect that too though, the desire to do what's right. But there are limits. Yes, Cassie is our moral dilemma.
I also respect everyone else's ways of doing things. Jake is our leader, in a way. We all just kind of laid that on him. Sam is already having problems with having a leader, but he will live, let him whine. Jake is a big guy, and responsible, that is why he's the boss. He is the only one who will get us out of a problem alive.
Jake's best friend Marco is somewhat different. Completely different, actually. He is like me. He plays video-games. But he is usually the first to whine about things. Let him. He will be the one to live through this war, not me. I am far too wreckless.
Rachel is a lot like me in many ways. Her attitude drips indifference and her passion is flaming. She is always ready for a fight. Just like me. Marco likes to call her Xena, for understandable reasons. She may look like an airhead, but don't accuse her of it, she will rip your face off and use it as a napkin. Rachel is Cassie's best friend, they are complete opposites.
Then, one of my best friends, is Tobias. Well, what can I say? He is quiet, smart, understandable, and he is a bird. Hard to explain, but he has a thing for Rachel, and who wouldn't.
The last two members are somewhat interesting. Sam and Whitney. Whitney is a short cute little thing. Black hair and brown eyes. She has the fighting spirit of Rachel ,the responsibility of Jake, and the quick thinking of Marco. She is a qualified genius at our school, higher than I was when I went to school. Actually, my IQ is higher, but it showed much more on her. I was gifted and lazy, so I never did any work. She was gifted and motivated, so she gets the marks.
My favourite Animorph isn't even an Animorph. It is Sam. He is the only one to not acquire our power, but I would trade mine for his. Us Animorphs were given the power to morph into any animal that we can touch. All we have to do is acquire the DNA of the animal and we can morph it. We use these powers to fight an invisible invasion.
Now, let's back up a bit. What is all this and why haven't I heard about this yet. Well, let's start from the start. Long ago in a galaxy far far away, there was a species called andalites. They fight the yeerks in space, keeping them at bay. But they have made their way here.
Yeerks are a parasitic species of slugs that can squish themselves into our brains and control us. We don't die, but we might as well be dead, because we can't do anything on our own when we have been infested. And don't even think ,'oh I have good willpower, I could do it!" because you couldn't. It is something biological. They don't persuade you to do things, they connect to your nerve endings in your brain and control from there on. They also can read your mind.
These yeerks are among us in secret because they can pass ourselves on as us in modern society by using the memories in our brain. They don't act us, they become us. They're only weakness is the fact that the only nutrients they get are absorbed directly through their skin, and to do that, they need to exit the host body and proceed to swim in something we simply call a yeerk pool. A huge underground lake that looks like molten lead. In there, they drain out of their host and swim around in the pool for a couple of hours. They need to do this once every three days or so, or they will die. About a three day limit.
While the living world is completely in the dark, we fight. We fight with all our hearts. We have only been fighting for a month, but we have suffered our first casualty, Tobias. He overstayed his visit in red-tail hawk morph. There is a limit of a little over two hours. He was in morph all night when we first fought the yeerks at the yeerk pool.
Now he is a hawk, and will probably be a hawk for the rest of his life, but we hope the andalites will have a way to fix that.
As the story goes, we found out quite a bit of information about the yeerk pool and how to get in. We also found out that the yeerks are secretly running under the co-ed little thing called the sharing. A boy scout/girl guide thing for all ages. It is the kind of club that tells you that you can be better than what you are and tries to convince you that you can be part of something better, then they try to make you let them put a yeerk inside of you to control you. I know that is a lot to absorb, but it is true.
After the yeerk pool battle, I went home to sleep, when I saw a couple of vans across from my house. They were yeerks. I don't know how, but they had figured out my identity and were searching my house. My dad was out for the week, so they didn't get him. But my two best friends were investigated and were also taken. They were Sam and Tobias. Sam was captured by us first so we had his help. Tobias was stuck in morph, so his identity was dead anyway.
When we went to find Sam, he was up bright and early in a harmless round of paint-ball with his other friends. We got there just in time and were forced to destroy two bug fighters in a forested paint ball arena. Many people saw this, but most of them died. I don't know how it was covered up by the yeerks, but it was.
After that, sam told us of his reconnaissance missions, spying out our friendly neighbourhood sharing organization. He knew an awful lot about the yeerks. We were cautious to trust him at first, but we kept him for three days and proved him to be safe. After seeing his talent in battle, even without any morphing capabilities, we went to his house to pick up his sword and dagger collection.
We had a small fight in his backyard and the other Animorphs were there to help us. It was a reckless move on our part, but I have decided to allow sam to participate in battle. I was useless, but I managed to hold my own with two hork-bajir for a good minute. I was slashed up badly at the ankle, but I discovered I could morph a selected part of my body and return it to normal. Cassie can partially control the way she morphs, and that is seen as a talent. I could partially do it, but I decided to keep it to myself.
Anyway, we were deciding to plan our next move when we decided to let ourselves have a little vacation for a while. We were all flying the skies as various birds of prey.
My name is Gordon. If you know me, than I am dead. If you don't, I am the world's only hope. I consider myself one of the guardians of the Earth. Me, along with seven of my friends. Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Tobias. And you can't Forget Sam and Whitney. I hold Sam and Whitney in much higher respect than the others, because they seem to be set on doing their goal rather than worrying about some pitiful little moral issue.
Don't get me wrong, I love Cassie to death, but she is so irritating when it comes to morality vs winning fights. She would rather do the moral thing than win a fight for her life. I respect that too though, the desire to do what's right. But there are limits. Yes, Cassie is our moral dilemma.
I also respect everyone else's ways of doing things. Jake is our leader, in a way. We all just kind of laid that on him. Sam is already having problems with having a leader, but he will live, let him whine. Jake is a big guy, and responsible, that is why he's the boss. He is the only one who will get us out of a problem alive.
Jake's best friend Marco is somewhat different. Completely different, actually. He is like me. He plays video-games. But he is usually the first to whine about things. Let him. He will be the one to live through this war, not me. I am far too wreckless.
Rachel is a lot like me in many ways. Her attitude drips indifference and her passion is flaming. She is always ready for a fight. Just like me. Marco likes to call her Xena, for understandable reasons. She may look like an airhead, but don't accuse her of it, she will rip your face off and use it as a napkin. Rachel is Cassie's best friend, they are complete opposites.
Then, one of my best friends, is Tobias. Well, what can I say? He is quiet, smart, understandable, and he is a bird. Hard to explain, but he has a thing for Rachel, and who wouldn't.
The last two members are somewhat interesting. Sam and Whitney. Whitney is a short cute little thing. Black hair and brown eyes. She has the fighting spirit of Rachel ,the responsibility of Jake, and the quick thinking of Marco. She is a qualified genius at our school, higher than I was when I went to school. Actually, my IQ is higher, but it showed much more on her. I was gifted and lazy, so I never did any work. She was gifted and motivated, so she gets the marks.
My favourite Animorph isn't even an Animorph. It is Sam. He is the only one to not acquire our power, but I would trade mine for his. Us Animorphs were given the power to morph into any animal that we can touch. All we have to do is acquire the DNA of the animal and we can morph it. We use these powers to fight an invisible invasion.
Now, let's back up a bit. What is all this and why haven't I heard about this yet. Well, let's start from the start. Long ago in a galaxy far far away, there was a species called andalites. They fight the yeerks in space, keeping them at bay. But they have made their way here.
Yeerks are a parasitic species of slugs that can squish themselves into our brains and control us. We don't die, but we might as well be dead, because we can't do anything on our own when we have been infested. And don't even think ,'oh I have good willpower, I could do it!" because you couldn't. It is something biological. They don't persuade you to do things, they connect to your nerve endings in your brain and control from there on. They also can read your mind.
These yeerks are among us in secret because they can pass ourselves on as us in modern society by using the memories in our brain. They don't act us, they become us. They're only weakness is the fact that the only nutrients they get are absorbed directly through their skin, and to do that, they need to exit the host body and proceed to swim in something we simply call a yeerk pool. A huge underground lake that looks like molten lead. In there, they drain out of their host and swim around in the pool for a couple of hours. They need to do this once every three days or so, or they will die. About a three day limit.
While the living world is completely in the dark, we fight. We fight with all our hearts. We have only been fighting for a month, but we have suffered our first casualty, Tobias. He overstayed his visit in red-tail hawk morph. There is a limit of a little over two hours. He was in morph all night when we first fought the yeerks at the yeerk pool.
Now he is a hawk, and will probably be a hawk for the rest of his life, but we hope the andalites will have a way to fix that.
As the story goes, we found out quite a bit of information about the yeerk pool and how to get in. We also found out that the yeerks are secretly running under the co-ed little thing called the sharing. A boy scout/girl guide thing for all ages. It is the kind of club that tells you that you can be better than what you are and tries to convince you that you can be part of something better, then they try to make you let them put a yeerk inside of you to control you. I know that is a lot to absorb, but it is true.
After the yeerk pool battle, I went home to sleep, when I saw a couple of vans across from my house. They were yeerks. I don't know how, but they had figured out my identity and were searching my house. My dad was out for the week, so they didn't get him. But my two best friends were investigated and were also taken. They were Sam and Tobias. Sam was captured by us first so we had his help. Tobias was stuck in morph, so his identity was dead anyway.
When we went to find Sam, he was up bright and early in a harmless round of paint-ball with his other friends. We got there just in time and were forced to destroy two bug fighters in a forested paint ball arena. Many people saw this, but most of them died. I don't know how it was covered up by the yeerks, but it was.
After that, sam told us of his reconnaissance missions, spying out our friendly neighbourhood sharing organization. He knew an awful lot about the yeerks. We were cautious to trust him at first, but we kept him for three days and proved him to be safe. After seeing his talent in battle, even without any morphing capabilities, we went to his house to pick up his sword and dagger collection.
We had a small fight in his backyard and the other Animorphs were there to help us. It was a reckless move on our part, but I have decided to allow sam to participate in battle. I was useless, but I managed to hold my own with two hork-bajir for a good minute. I was slashed up badly at the ankle, but I discovered I could morph a selected part of my body and return it to normal. Cassie can partially control the way she morphs, and that is seen as a talent. I could partially do it, but I decided to keep it to myself.
Anyway, we were deciding to plan our next move when we decided to let ourselves have a little vacation for a while. We were all flying the skies as various birds of prey.