Chapter 6

As I suspected, Tracy spun around to glare at me.

"How do you know?" She asked. "Who told you?"

"Mr. Tidwell told me. Relax, I know you're in the Yeerk Peace Movement. I know that Innah has a Yeerk disability that makes her unable to control her hosts."

Tracy visibly relaxed, although not by much. "Elfangor?" She asked nervously.

[My experience with Lanilin has taught me that there are more Yeerks than just the Empire. If you can hear me, Innah, remember that I will accept you, so long as you do not betray us.]

Tracy looked relieved. "Innah wants me to pass on her thanks. She says that it's good to know that she can be accepted."

[Yes. It is good to have friends. And I consider the four ... Five ... of you to be my friends. You rescued me from the Yeerks, rather than running off and leaving me for dead. You agreed to defend your planet against the Yeerk Empire. I will never forget that. I will forever be honored to fight by your side, Morphalites. And I will take any orders from you, Prince David.]

"Prince? You've made a mistake. I am not the son of the king."

Elfangor laughed inside our heads. [Oh, yes. I forgot that a Prince among humans is a title of royalty. A Prince among us Andalites is an important military leader. That is what I think of you, David.]

I turned to James. "Can you believe him? He thinks I should be the leader?"

"He's right. You have all the qualities of a good leader." James said. "I can't think of anyone better to lead the Morphalites than you."

"I like how you just use the name I randomly made up." Nate said.

"It's not actually a bad name. I mean, what else could we call ourselves? The Anti-Yeerkers? The Escafil fighters. You know, since we used something called an Escafil device to get our powers."

"How about Animorphs?" Tracy said.

There it was again. In that dream, that look into the previous timeline, the Yeerk fighting group called themselves the Animorphs.

"Na. That's kind of stupid." I said.

Tracy laughed. "Innah agrees with you. She also says that you're a good leader, David. I agree."

"Yeah. I think so, too." Nate said.

"I'm going to need a second in command." I said. "I think Elfangor would be good for the job. I mean, you're in the Andalite military. You probably know about Yeerk battle tactics and strategies and ships and all that."

[My guardian, Alloran, did his research. Back before his death at the hands of a Yeerk Visser. He trained me and educated me in Yeerk fighting abilities. I know a decent amount. But I feel Innah would be better suited for this job.]

"No. Innah is a civilian Yeerk. All she's supposed to do is recruit new members for the Sharing. She's never even been on a Bug Fighter. She was born on Earth in the early stages of the invasion. Elfangor, you are better."

Elfangor nodded at Tracy. [Very well. I will take this job, Prince David.]

"Also, Mr. Tidwell said we have to meet in three days."

"As soon as Innah gets out of the pool." Tracy said.

"We also need battle morphs." I said.

"We should go to the Gardens." Tracy said. "My friend, Cassie, said her mom works there. Maybe we could use that to our advantage. We could get Cassie to let us in for a discount price."

"No. None of us know Cassie other than you," James said, "And I don't like taking advantage of people like that."

"Good point." Tracy said. "We'll just have to pay like normal people."


Long story short, we got to the Gardens.

I managed to get a morph of a rhino.

Tracy got a leopard morph.

James was a wolf.

Nate was a gorilla.

And Elfangor decided his natural form would be his true Andalite body.

We decided to head back to my new house.


It was a few days later. I was adjusting to becoming Damien Fangor almost all the time.

I was getting to know Elfangor. He is nicer than his first impression. He has certainly come a long way from the Andalite we saw come out of that spaceship, ready to kill us.

Our meeting with Lanilin is tomorrow.

But we would accompany Tracy to the pool. Just not as humans.


A/N: And that's it for this chapter.

We're getting close to the epic Yeerk pool scene.

I know that you are all excited to read that. Or at least the one of you who reviewed.

By the way, I'd like to thank DBZfan45 for their reviews of my chapters, which are basically their own little summary and thoughts on my chapters.

I really like reading that.

I'm going to post another interlude sometime today. I'm going to make it longer than the last one.

Until next time.