Is it her?

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Prologue

My name is Rachel.

And I had just seen my Cousin give the dreaded order. I had watched it from the world of the dead. I was dead, but I didn't want that to happen to them too, it was a waste of life. Maybe Jake was already dead, he just wasn't himself after my death. I'd seen everything from the frightful world of the dead since I'd died, I'm not sure I could remember much before I died anymore. I can't remember the peace I felt the moment before I died. I know it must still be there. But there is no such thing as emotions here.

I watched as Menderash prepared to 'ram the blade ship' but I couldn't take it. I had watched too many lives end while I was an Animorph. I could normally handle it. But my old friends dying in a battle they never knew about till the last second. It was something I don't think anybody could take.

My eyes were watering and I knew I was crying I couldn't stop what was about to happen. I cried for the lives that were about to be lost. My good old friends.

YOU WANT TO STOP IT RACHEL? I heard a voice from nowhere,

"Ellimist?" I was no fool, I knew the Ellimist when he spoke. Beside me I saw the form of an old man appear.

"That is right," he said to me.

"What do you mean?" I asked him, only a small sound echoed from my lips, it had been a while since I'd spoken. I guess, there was nothing to do or talk about in the world of the dead.

"I mean, time can be stopped, and I can send you there to help, only for a short period of time though. Let's say: a year." I felt something in my heart I hadn't felt for years now. Hope.

"Wouldn't that be against the rules of your millennia long war with Crayak?" I asked, certain there was a mistake somewhere.

"There are possibilities Crayak didn't come across when the rules were created, he never thought of this possibility, indeed he will be mad when he finds out, but we will let that be, it is not in our rules." The Ellimist told me.

The hope I felt in my heart only moments before was expanding. But I was missing a feeling I should've felt. But I'd lost that emotion long ago; happiness. Happiness hasn't been needed since the end of my life. I would only be back for a year, but I was grateful.

"So you'll bring me back for a year?" The Ellimist beside me disappeared. I knew better than to think he wasn't there.

THAT IS WHAT IS TO HAPPEN I heard his voice.

I scanned my eyes over the screen I had been watching before, it had stopped, like it was on pause. But I knew time had stopped there.

Slowly, my head began to ache with pain; I twirled around in circles, while getting dizzier and dizzier. I tossed and turned in nowhere. I closed my eyes and prayed the sickening twirling would be finishing soon. But it didn't go away, it was strange, I would've puked but I haven't eaten anything for ages. As I began to get used to the spinning headache, the dizziness, and the sickly feeling everything began to slow down. Getting slower and slower until it stopped. And I can tell you, I was relieved.

I saw now through my own eyes, Jake, Tobias, Marco and the rest I didn't know. I had only seen them on the screen in the world of the dead, Santorelli, Jeanne and Menderash. I also saw 'The One' for the first time, I wanted to go and hit the screen that I saw him on, but I figured that was stupid and would only result in a broken fist.

I could feel the air around me, I could smell the smell of the ship they named after me; The Rachel. I swear I could've kissed everybody on the ship, maybe even Marco, after all, time had stopped and he'd never remember. I suddenly came to my senses and realised I didn't want to kiss anyone, but was that a spark of happiness? Will I ever know?

TIME WILL NOW START AGAIN, GOOD LUCK, RACHEL. And time started again…

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Hiya everybody, sorry for not writing my other fic for a while, I kinda have writers block. Anyone got any ideas for it? Back onto this fic. Please review! I know it was a short prologue but it'll get better, I swear.

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