A/N: If you haven't read The Beginning, then you shouldn't read this, because this is what happens when two disgruntled Animorph fans band together to end the Animorphs series once and for all!

Thank you to all the people who reviewed, especially to Darth Vader es Cool 5, who gave us our most helpful review, and animorph19, who was our first reviewer.

We're going to reply to the anonymous reviews here, 'kay?

sam: Twin2: more below

Twin1: glad you liked it!

animorph19: Twin2: we refuse to give away any of our secrets this early in the game.

Twin1: however, you are our first reviewer and so you deserve a hint.

Twin2: the Ellimist addressed Jake specifically, as he is the leader of the Animorphs, and so it was vital that HE understood.

Twin1: also, your original assumption was as to her parentage was false.

Jake

I woke up, my head pounding. I glanced around, blinking in the sudden light. Where am I? Where are the others? How did I get here? Oh, wait. The Ellimist. I could hear Marco in the background muttering something rude about said Ellimist. Okay, Marco's nearby. That's good.

((Where are we?)) came Tobias's thought speak.

"Far, far away and in a completely different time than when we started?" guessed Marco. "But I wonder where Jake is. Oh, fearless leader!" he shouted suddenly, "Did we get stuck out here on our own?"

"No," I grunted, sitting up. "I'm here too." I looked up at Marco. "Say, any id –" I broke off, and stared. Yes, it was still Marco, but it was the fifteen year old Marco I'd once known. Not the grown man.

Marco was equally shocked. "Jake… You're a kid again."

Tobias shot down. ((Hello, Jake. So, where are we, when are we, and all those other important questions?)) He paused and flapped to a branch. ((Like, why you look like you're fifteen again?))

The girls and Ax came walking up behind me. "Hey, boys," said Cassie cheerfully, as though nothing was wrong, and this was a perfectly normal, everyday situation. "Figured anything out yet?"

"Not quite," I said, getting to my feet and grinning at her. I had missed Cassie on our long voyage through space. The three of them had reverted to their fifteen year old state as well.

Quiet footsteps interrupted us. We all froze.

"Plan please, Jake," said Marco.

I thought for a second. "Okay, it could be a group of Hork-Bajir coming to kill us. Or it could just be a group of tourists."

"He asked for a plan, not a definition." Rachel retorted.

"Okay… I want everyone on the edge of the tree-line. Hork-Bajir, into the trees fast, morph birds and haull butt. Tourists, then…"

"Into trees faster," Marco completed with a grin.

We waited. The footsteps padded closer. Every now and again they would stop for a minute, and then start again. It was close enough now for us to realize that there was only one or maybe two people.

Finally, our person made her appearance. It was a young girl. About fifteen, and breathtakingly beautiful. In fact, if you listened really closely you could hear Marco's jaw hitting the ground.

The moment I saw her, I had the strong feeling that I had met her before.

"That's impossible," I told myself. Yet the feeling would not leave me.

The girl had tumbling thick brown hair that curled and tangled around her shoulders. Her huge eyes matched her hair, and were deep, full of secrets and mystery. At the same time, they were laughing, dancing, cheerful, happy, gentle eyes that made you want to laugh with the pure joy of it. They also held an element of danger and excitement. They shone like stars, betraying that she had just done something dangerous or reckless, and enjoyed it. Her skin was pale and smooth. She stood a little taller than Marco, but not as tall as Rachel. She was slight and, as mentioned before, very, very beautiful. Her cheeks were flushed with running. When she moved, she did so with an almost inhuman grace and speed. Even when she was standing stock still, you could tell that she was fast. Her feet made almost no sound on the forest floor when she moved. In fact, it had not been her that we had heard at all, but the wolf that now came trotting up by her side.

She froze upon the sight of us. Panic and indecision began to fill her face, and then evaporated. She smiled.

"HI!" she said, bounding towards us. She was moving so fast that I thought that she would crash into us, but she stopped in front of us without even skidding. She looked around at our semi-circle. "Andalite, human, human, human, and human." she said, not a bit perturbed by the presence of an alien, "Who are you?"

I hesitated, but decided that I could probably tell her the truth. "We're the Animorphs," I said gaurdedly. "Who are you?"

"Kiadicash Rachel Berenson," she recited.

We all stared.

"Right, do you have a nickname that goes with that?" asked Marco.

"Kia," she laughed.

((Kiadicash Rachel Berenson.)) repeated Ax.

"Yep." Her eyes narrowed. "But call me that and I may be forced to kill you. My name is Kia."

((But, kiadicash is an Andalite word,)) said Ax, confused.

"I know." She rolled her eyes. "Go argue with my parents. Dad insists that it suits me."

((It means 'of the Prince' or 'Prince's Pride',)) offered Ax.

"Which might explain it, as Prince Jake is my father," was her sarcastic reply.

A/N:

Twin1: well, there it is! The second chapter is up! Yay!!!

Twin2: actually, that's the first chapter. The other one was the prologue.

Twin1: whatever. Anyway, please review! Even if you don't like it, review, and tell us what's wrong with it! Review!!!

Twin2: or don't. your opinions don't matter to me. I just like writing the stories.

Twin1: NO!! Don't tell them that! Anyway, you DO take on board the reviews that ARE sent to you!!

Twin2: good point. But I want to read the reviews the reviewers want to send me. You, reader, are not being coerced into reviewing.

Twin1: ignore her!!!!! PLEASE review!!! Please?