Chapter 2
I woke at nine in the morning, like I usually do on Saturdays.
I saw my cat, Megadeth, curled up at the foot of my bed.
I looked at him. "What should i do today?" I asked sleepily.
Since he was a cat, Megadeth didn't answer. He just raised his head to look at me.
I remembered this really weird dream I had. Something about an alien named Elfangor who warned us about the Yeerks, which were a different species that took over human brains.
Where had I come up with that?
I looked down at my cat, and a crazy thing entered my mind. It was really silly, and not in a good way. I picked up my cat.
This would prove if it had really been a dream.
Elfangor had said that we only needed to touch a creature and concentrate on acquiring it, and then I would have its DNA pattern in my blood or whatever. Then I could become the creature.
I wasn't sure if that meant I had to acquire the DNA every time I morphed, and I had to touch it again, or the morph was permanently in me so I could become it whenever I wanted.
I touched Megadeth and concentrated on becoming him. I noticed he went incredibly still for a moment, and a strange sensation went through me, similar to when I touched the morphing cube.
Suddenly, my cat went back to normal, and he jumped out of my hand.
Here goes nothing, I thought to myself.
And I concentrated on becoming my cat.
I could swear I felt something.
My body began to shrink. It felt like I was falling, but no, I was shrinking.
Suddenly, I was a cat, and I was stuck in my clothes which felt seriously weird right now.
I felt a change in my brain, too ... Where am I?
I crawled out of whatever it was that surrounded me, and I saw another cat.
That was interesting. Was it trying to get all the cat food in this house.
I hissed at it and it hissed at me.
"David!" A voice came from outside, and somewhere in my mind, I wondered what a David was. "Your friends Tracy and Alan are here to see you!"
Okay, that was weird. After this, I wondered if there were any mice around for me to eat. Even better, was there anything for me to chase?
Then ... All right. That was weird.
i began to morph back, and found that I was completely naked. I got back into my clothes. Then my mom opened my door.
Luckily, I was completely dressed.
I saw that there were two other people with my mom. Tracy and another boy who looked sort of like a mix of James and Nate.
I realized that this was Elfangor's human morph.
"Thank you very much for leading us to David." Elfangor said in a strange way. It was like he was emphasizing every syllable. That was certainly not how people would talk normally.
"You're welcome, Alan. David, why didn't you answer me when I told you they were here?"
"I was getting dressed." I said.
"Why couldn't you hear me?" My mom asked.
"I was listening to music with my headphones." I said.
"No you weren't." My mom said. "You left your headphones at Alan's house yesterday. Him and Tracy decided to give them back to you. It's okay if you say you were just sleeping."
"Yeah. You caught me." I said, pretending to be disappointed at being found out. But sleeping wasn't against the law or anything, so I really didn't need to lie about it. In reality, I was just relieved that my mom had an explanation for my not answering that wasn't morphing. She could very well be a Controller.
My mom closed the door and Tracy sat on my bed. "What happened last night was real." She said.
[Of course it was. Would I not be living proof of that?] Elfangor said. [And how could multiple beings share the same dream? Are dreams not your subconscious mind's way of sending you messages?]
"Why are you using thought-speak?" Tracy asked.
[You do not realize that if a Controller were in this house they would recognize the particular speech patterns of an Andalite.]
"Yeerks can't hear thought-speak?" i asked.
[I am using private thought-speak. Only the two of you are able to hear me.]
"You could just morph back to Andalite." I said.
[You fool! If I demorphed, one of your parents could come in and see an Andalite!]
That was an extreme reaction. I remembered that although Elfangor had reluctantly agreed to work with us, he did still think he was better than us humans. He was arrogant and short-tempered and not exactly the nicest guy on the planet, but he certainly didn't want to take over Earth. As far as we knew.
It occurred to me that Elfangor might not exactly be telling the truth. But I dismissed that thought. He did give us his memories after all.
We talked about normal stuff for a while.
Then my dad entered. "David, friends of David, your mother and I are headed to a Sharing meeting. It's really important. Mr. Visser himself is going to be there."
The Sharing was this club my parents went to. They were full members. And they worked for this guy called Esplin Visser. After all the memories that Elfangor gave me, something about that name nagged at the back of my mind.
Then it hit me. A Visser was a Yeerk rank. The Earth invasion was being lead by Visser Three, whose Yeerk name was Esplin 9466.
The Sharing was also the name for a club the Yeerks were using for silent invasions, and the full members.
Elfangor and Tracy seemed to realize it, too.
[David] Elfangor said, [there is no easy way to say this, but your parents are Controllers.]
