Animorphs is the brilliant brain child of KA Applegate. She laid the foundation for a brilliant series and fandom, I'm just borrowing her characters.
Chapter 1 -
My name is Jake. I can't tell you my last name, it's to risky. Think of any last name you want me to have, and use it. I used to be a regular kid. Spent my time playing basketball, video games, and hanging out at the mall with my friends. I did okay in school, good enough, anyway. Now, my friends and I are the only defense against the invasion of earth. If this is the first you've heard about it, buckle up. You're in for the ride of your life. Earth is under attack by the Yeerks. They're a parasitic alien species from a galaxy far, far away. They insert themselves into your ear canal and make you their slave. You will look like yourself, sound like yourself, and be completely normal to everyone around you, but you will be trapped inside your own head. a prisoner in your own mind. They've enslaved millions already. Gedds, Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, Leerans, and now they have their sight set on humans. We don't know how many are enslaved, just that they are here, in force. We were all just normal teenagers living our lives, until one night while on our way home we seen a spaceship crash in an abandoned construction site. There we met the Andalite Prince Elfangor. He told us about the Yeerk invasion of earth and gave us the only weapon he could. The power to morph. To change into any animal we touch. Myself, my cousin Rachel, best friend Marco, Tobias, and Cassie. We were joined later by Elfangor's brother, Aximilli, and it's the 6 of us against the most foul empire in the universe.
Marco, Rachel, and I were all at Cassie's barn, otherwise known as the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic, watching her give a very angry badger his meds. 'Cassie, now I know why Jake likes you so much' Marco said, 'he spends so much time as an animal, that seeing you wrangle them all the time gets his motor running'. I shoved Marco off the bale of hay he was sitting on for that. Cassie and I have a very, well, deep affection for one another. I like her. As in like her. Everyone knows it, but Marco is the one who constantly making jokes about it. We take it in stride though. He jokes a lot to get through what has become our normal living nightmare. This war hasn't been easy on any of us. It's taken my brother, and Marco's mom. We all have our ways of coping. Cassie turns to Marco, having finished medicating the badger, and says 'Marco, one day you're going to confess your undying love for Rachel, and I hope I'm there to see her wipe the smirk off your face'. Marco immediately replied 'Undying love? For her? No. No, no. Rachel and I have a relationship of nothing but jokes, mockery, and me wondering how she goes from super model to Xena in 2.5 seconds'. Rachel just rolled her eyes. Xena is Marco's nickname for her. She hates it, but she deals. I look at Marco to tell him to shut it, when Tobias swoops in and lands on a rafter and Ax comes in the back of the barn.We have a very serious problem. says Tobias. We've been doing surveillance on the new construction going on next to the beach, and we're pretty sure theirs Yeerk involvement, Chapman has been there for the past 2 days. Prince Jake, we have reason to believe Visser Three is attempting to tear open a dimensional portal. If they succeed, they would be able to invade other worlds almost immediately. They are using technology stolen from the Gadrahar. 'The Gadrahar? What are they'? I asked. The Gadrahar are a highly advanced race that we Andalites know very little about. Their technology is more advanced than anything we have ever seen. I faintly remember learning about them in the academy, and what I remember is very little. They are amazingly powerful, with technology so advanced that it appears to be what humans call magic. Ax replied. 'Ax, when you say magic, what do you mean exactly'? I asked. The Gadrahar technology that Andalites have studied is so advanced that our top scientists were baffled by it's existence. They were able to manipulate space time in ways that we can't even fathom. When Andalites had just started living in community groups and humans had just discovered fire, the Gadrahar had been traveling the stars for a millennium. They are able to manipulate Z-Space in such a way that they appear to teleport, and they have genetic engineering capabilities that make the Arn look like children. They have visited earth before, they first came during the time of the empire called Greece, and again in the time known as the Dark Ages. Your history is filled with references to the Gadrahar. They were seen by humans as gods and great workers of magic. They are, for lack of a better word, Sorcerers.
We all sat with our mouths hanging open. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. First it was the yeerks, morphing, and kids fighting a war, but now space wizards?! 'Ax, are you serious? Marco replied. 'Alien wizards? We're supposed to fight the yeerks when they are using space magic? As if this fight wasn't hard enough already'! 'Stop whining Marco. We've stopped the yeerks before and we'll do it again. Let's do it'. Good ol' Rachel. Ready to jump in guns blazing with an all out offensive. She's unbelievably brave, but sometimes I really wonder if she's playing with a full deck. 'Rachel, this isn't just Visser 3 were talking about here. We need to do more recon before we make a move. This isn't something we've dealt with before'.
Chapter 2-