This chapter is from Harry's point of view. I am in need of a beta. I am Mexican an I think I have decent Spelling and grammar but no guaranties.

Oh, as I have not been able to get either Applegate or Rowling drunk and buy the book rights for something around a dollar (if I could get one) I still don't own either Universe.

Originally, the shortcut was supposed to be a new shopping center. Now it was just all these half-finished buildings looking like a ghost town. It was a very deserted place, full of shadows and sounds that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up. When the inseparable trio went there during the day, they always found all these beer cans and liquor bottles or the ashes of little campfires back in the hidden nooks and crannies of the buildings. Tobias and myself where the ones that (who) saw it first. We had been walking along, gazing up at the sky. I guess we sort of knew or something. That is the way we have always been. Doing strange things and having knowledge we shouldn't. Suddenly we stopped. Tobias was pointing to it. "Look," he said.

"What?" Jake said. He did not want to be distracted because he was pretty sure he have heard the sound of a chain-saw killer creeping up behind us. (He always thinks that)

"Just look," I said.

So Jake looked up. And there it was. A brilliant, blue-white light that scooted across the sky, going fast at first, too fast for it to be an airplane, then slower and slower. "What is it?"

Tobias shook his head. "I don't know."

Jake looked at Tobias and he looked back at me. We knew what we thought it was, but we didn't want to say it. Marco and Rachel would have laughed, we figured, and I couldn't let Rachel laugh at me could I?

But Cassie, seeing Tobias pointing just blurted it right out. "It's a spaceship!"

"A spaceship?" Marco said. He'd laugh. That is, until he looked up.

We could feel our own heart pounding in our chest. I felt weird and excited and afraid, all at once.

"It's coming this way," Rachel said.

"It's hard to be sure." Jake could barely whisper, his mouth was so dry.

"No, it's coming this way," Rachel said. She has a very definite way of talking. Like she's

totally sure of everything she says.

Rachel was right(Damn it. I wanted to put it in her face). Whatever it was, it was coming closer. And it was slowing down. Now I could see pretty clearly what it looked like.

First of all, it wasn't all that big. It was about as long as a school bus. The front end was a

pod, shaped almost like an egg. Extending from the back of the pod was a long, narrow shaft.

There were two crooked, stubby wing like things, and on the end of each wing was a long

tube that glowed bright blue on the back end.

The little spaceship looked almost cute. You know, kind of harmless. Except that it had a sort of tail - a mean-looking tail that curved up and forward, corning to a point that looked as sharp as a needle.

"That tail thing," Jake said. "It looks like a weapon."

"Definitely," Marco agreed.

The little ship kept coming nearer, going slower all the time.

"It's stopping," Rachel said. She had the same strange, not-quite-real tone in her voice that Jake had. Like we couldn't believe what we were seeing. Like maybe we didn't want to believe.

"I think it sees us," Marco said. "Should we run? Maybe we should run home and get a

camera. Do you know how much money we could get for a video of a real UFO?"

"If we run, we might miss them landing," I said. I meant it. I wanted to know the owner of the ship. No I need to.

"And we wouldn't want that for?" Marco said, rolling his eyes the way he does when he thinks we are being a dweeb. Like he was some kind of expert on not being a dweeb. Right. The ship stopped and hovered almost directly over our heads, maybe a hundred feet in the air.

I could feel the hair on my head becoming messier that it usually is. When I glanced at Rachel it was almost

funny. She has this long blond hair and it was sticking straight out in every direction. Only Cassie looked normal.

"What do you think it is?" Marco asked. He sounded a little shakier, not so laid-back now

that the thing was so close. To be honest, I was a little scared, too. Tobias was actually grinning and I found myself doing the same. . "I think it's going to land," Tobias said, this huge smile on his face. His eyes were bright and excited, and his blond hair was standing up in clumps. The ship began to descend. "It's coming right at us!" Jake cried.

I think we all had to fight an urge to run yammering across the field all the way, where we could crawl into bed (or couple of blankets in my case) and hide. But we knew that this was an important, amazing thing. We knew we had to stay and see it all.

We all just stood there, as the ship hummed and glowed and slowly settled down in an open space between piles of junk and tumbled walls. I noticed there were black burn marks along the top of the pod section. Some of the skin of the

pod had been melted. It touched the ground and instantly the blue lights went off. Rachel's hair fell back down onto her neck.

"It isn't very big, is it?" Rachel whispered.

"It's about - "I tried to think, "about three or four times as big as your minivan Jake."

"We should tell someone," Marco said. "I mean, this is kind of major, you know? Spaceships don't just land in the construction site every day. We really should call someone.

"Yeah, you're right," Jake agreed. "We should call someone." But none of us moved. None of us was just going to walk away from a spaceship,

"I wonder if we should try and talk to it," Rachel suggested. She was standing there with her hands on her hips looking at the spaceship like it was a puzzle she had to figure out. "I mean, we should communicate. If that's even possible."

Tobias nodded. He stepped forward and held out his hands. I guess he was showing whoever was in the ship that he wasn't carrying any kind of weapon or anything. "It's safe," he said in a loud, clear voice. "We won't hurt you."

"Do you think they speak English?" I said.

"Well, everyone speaks English on Star Trek" Cassie said with a nervous laugh.

I tried this time. "Please, come out We won't hurt you."

I know.

I froze. Okay, I had definitely heard someone say "I know," only . . . there hadn't been any

sound. I mean, I heard it, but I didn't really hear it.

Maybe this was all a dream. I looked kind of sideways at Rachel. She looked back at me. Our eyes met. She had heard it, too. I looked at Cassie. She was turning her head back and forth, like she was looking for where that sound - that wasn't a sound - could have come from. I started to get a sick, twisty feeling in my stomach.

"Did everyone hear that?" Tobias whispered.

We all nodded at once, very slowly.

"Can you come out?" Tobias asked in his loud, talking-to-aliens voice.

Yes. Do not be frightened.

"We won't be frightened," Tobias said. I agreed.

"Speak for yourselves," Marco muttered. The others giggled nervously.

A thin arc of light appeared, a doorway, opening slowly in the smooth side of the pod part of the ship. I stood there, totally hypnotized. I just stared, waiting.

The opening grew, like a crescent moon at first, then a full, bright circle.

And then he appeared.

My first reaction was that someone had cloned a person and a deer together. The creature had a head and shoulders and arms that were more or less where they should have been, though the skin was a pale shade of blue. But below that he had fur, a mix of blue and tan, covering a four-legged body that really did look like it belonged to a deer, or maybe a small horse. He ducked his head out the doorway and I could see that even the fairly normal-looking parts of him weren't all that normal. For a start, he had no mouth, just three vertical slits. And then there were his eyes. Two of them were where they should have been, although they were a glittery green color that was kind of shocking (It actually remind me of my own eyes). But the real shock was the other eyes. He had what seemed like horns; only on the top of each horn was an eye. The horns could move,

twisting to point the eyes front and back or up and down.

I thought the eyes were interesting, until I saw the tail. It was like a scorpion's tail, thick and powerful-looking. On the end was a wickedly curved, very sharp-looking horn or stinger. It reminded me of the alien's spaceship. It had seemed kind of cute and harmless, till you noticed the tail. The alien seemed kind of harmless at first glance, too. Then you saw that tail of his and you thought, whoa, this guy could do some damage if he wanted.

"Hello," Tobias and myself said nearly at the same time. Tobias voice was gentle, like he was talking to a baby. I was talking, I think, like you talk to someone you have missed. We were both grinning.

I realized they were all smiling too. And at the same moment, I realized that there were tears in my eyes

Hello, the alien said, in that silent way that you only heard inside your head.

"Hi," we all said back.

To my surprise, the alien staggered. He fell out of the ship to the ground. Tobias and myself as the nearest ones tried to grab him and hold him up, but the alien fur slipped from our grasp and fell back to the dirt.

"Look!" Cassie cried. She pointed at a burn that covered half the alien's right side. "He's hurt."

Yes. I am dying, he said.

"Can we help you? We can call an ambulance or something," Marco said.

"We can bandage that wound," Cassie said. "Jake, give me your shirt. We can tear it up and make bandages." Cassie's parents are both veterinarians and she's totally into animals. Not that this was an animal. Not exactly, anyway.

No. I will die. The wound is fatal.

"NO!" Tobias and myself cried. Then I said "You can't die. You're the first alien ever to come to Earth. You can't die." I don't know why I was so upset. I just knew that way down deep inside, it hurt me to think of him dying. I think Tobias felt the same.

I am not the first. There are many, many others.

"Other aliens? Like you?" Tobias demanded.

The alien shook his big head slowly, side to side. Not like me.

Then he cried out in pain, a silent sound that echoed horribly inside my mind. For a moment, I had actually felt him dying.

Not like me, he repeated. They are different.

"Different? How?" I said.

I will remember his answer forever.

He said, They have cometo destroy you.

Well hope you like it this part is almost the same as the ones in the animorph book but the little changes are important.

I don't know how much I will update it depends on my available time. And that my favorite stories aren't updated so I can work in this instead of reading others.

By the way , for those of you that don't review. Not that it is a hint or anything but I have learned that the reviews really motivated the writers. I won't complain if you don't want to review me but we as the writers really get moving faster if we know someone wants to read us.

Next chapter will be a lot more me and will be out by Tuesday or Wednesday if I got a lot of homework. This one is special, it wont be always like this. I will probably add on Sundays.