Disclaimer: I do not own any obvious characters, they belong to KA
Applegate and Scholastic, inc. Tamitha and the basic plotline do.
Warning: I recommend reading the first book in this trilogy, The Surprise; otherwise you could be very lost.
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Chapter 1
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...Tamitha, keep quiet, we'll get out of this together. Not alone...Never alone!
Hi, my name is Tobias. I am a rebel, not just to parents (I have none) or to the feds, but to the alien race trying to take over the Earth. As you probably heard from Tamitha I am one of a group of teenagers who call themselves the Animorphs. Not all of us are human, or at least not fully, myself included.
There were five of us originally, Jake, our fearless leader; Marco, his best friend, and the joker of the group; Rachel, Jakes cousin and our insanely brave, Amazon-like warrior; Cassie, the peacemaker and Rachel's best friend. Then there's me, Tobias, a dweeb, seemingly put on this Earth to be picked on.
We were all fairly normal teenagers, trying to get through school, until one night when the five of us met in the mall and decided to cut through the abandoned construction site on our way home. This was definitely not a smart idea, but hey, what did you expect? It was that night that our entire lives changed - and I still don't know if it was for the better. That night an alien spacecraft crashed not fifty yards in front of us. The alien called himself an Andalite, his name was Elfangor.
Elfangor told us that he was not the first alien to land on the Earth, which didn't come as a surprise to us. There was another race, a more evil race, hell-bent on taking over this planet. The Yeerks, he called them, were a parasitic species that controlled their prey by entering into their brain through the ear canal and latching onto that brain with their neurons. We found out later that the Yeerks had two real weaknesses; one is the fact that every three days they must exit their host and absorb Kandrona rays in what we so aptly named a Yeerk Pool. Their other weakness is that in their natural state they are basically overgrown slugs that are quite easily squished. Elfangor gave us but one weapon with which to fight these creatures; he gave us the power to become any animal we toughed, the power to morph. Elfangor died that night at the hand of Visser three, who is a very powerful and ruthless leader of the Yeerks, he infested an Andalite body, and so has the same power that we do.
I had felt a connection to him from the first moment he spoke to us. It was not until much later hat I learned the truth; Elfangor had come to Earth before, many years ago. He lived on Earth for a few years, hiding from the war between the Andalites and the Yeerks. An all powerful being, The Ellimist, came and brought him back to the war. As he was leaving Elfangor saw that the woman he had married would have a son. As it turned out she did have a son, me; but something happened that the Ellimist did not see; my mother actually gave birth to twins. Again, I was left out of the loop for this, and apparently so was my sister, but when I saw Tamitha for the first time, I laughed - The Ellimist was wrong!
Not too long after Elfangor crashed and died, we fought our first battle against the Yeerks, it was there that I suffered the worst consequence of morphing. You can only remain in morph for two hours or you will become that creature forever. I have been a red-tailed hawk ever since that night.
The Ellimist used me to rescue and free the first two Hork Bajir in more than a decade. In return for my services, the Ellimist returned to me the morphing power, though my natural body, which had been a human, was now the hawk. I can be my human self for two hours at a time, but at least I can still play a part in this war.
Not too long after Elfangor crashed we found a larger ship that had crashed in the ocean, and Elfangor's brother, Aximilli Esgarrouth Isthil, or Ax. In finding him we brought our small resistance up to six.
Our number of allies is very small but what we lack in numbers we make up for with knowledge. The Chee are a race of Androids created by the foolishly peace-loving Pemalites thousands of years ago. The Pemalites were wiped out and the Chee came to live on Earth, our friend Erek was actually a slave who helped to build the pyramids. Though they are very strong, stronger than superman, they have been programmed as peaceful creatures, but because of their holographic technology can work as spices within the Yeerk invasion.
When Tamitha came to Rachel about a week ago we had just tried accepting a new member into our group, but that sure as hell did not work. The Animorphs again has seven members, and like Ax and me, Tamitha does not have a place to call home.
Warning: I recommend reading the first book in this trilogy, The Surprise; otherwise you could be very lost.
~*~*~*~*~
Chapter 1
~*~*~*~*~*~
...Tamitha, keep quiet, we'll get out of this together. Not alone...Never alone!
Hi, my name is Tobias. I am a rebel, not just to parents (I have none) or to the feds, but to the alien race trying to take over the Earth. As you probably heard from Tamitha I am one of a group of teenagers who call themselves the Animorphs. Not all of us are human, or at least not fully, myself included.
There were five of us originally, Jake, our fearless leader; Marco, his best friend, and the joker of the group; Rachel, Jakes cousin and our insanely brave, Amazon-like warrior; Cassie, the peacemaker and Rachel's best friend. Then there's me, Tobias, a dweeb, seemingly put on this Earth to be picked on.
We were all fairly normal teenagers, trying to get through school, until one night when the five of us met in the mall and decided to cut through the abandoned construction site on our way home. This was definitely not a smart idea, but hey, what did you expect? It was that night that our entire lives changed - and I still don't know if it was for the better. That night an alien spacecraft crashed not fifty yards in front of us. The alien called himself an Andalite, his name was Elfangor.
Elfangor told us that he was not the first alien to land on the Earth, which didn't come as a surprise to us. There was another race, a more evil race, hell-bent on taking over this planet. The Yeerks, he called them, were a parasitic species that controlled their prey by entering into their brain through the ear canal and latching onto that brain with their neurons. We found out later that the Yeerks had two real weaknesses; one is the fact that every three days they must exit their host and absorb Kandrona rays in what we so aptly named a Yeerk Pool. Their other weakness is that in their natural state they are basically overgrown slugs that are quite easily squished. Elfangor gave us but one weapon with which to fight these creatures; he gave us the power to become any animal we toughed, the power to morph. Elfangor died that night at the hand of Visser three, who is a very powerful and ruthless leader of the Yeerks, he infested an Andalite body, and so has the same power that we do.
I had felt a connection to him from the first moment he spoke to us. It was not until much later hat I learned the truth; Elfangor had come to Earth before, many years ago. He lived on Earth for a few years, hiding from the war between the Andalites and the Yeerks. An all powerful being, The Ellimist, came and brought him back to the war. As he was leaving Elfangor saw that the woman he had married would have a son. As it turned out she did have a son, me; but something happened that the Ellimist did not see; my mother actually gave birth to twins. Again, I was left out of the loop for this, and apparently so was my sister, but when I saw Tamitha for the first time, I laughed - The Ellimist was wrong!
Not too long after Elfangor crashed and died, we fought our first battle against the Yeerks, it was there that I suffered the worst consequence of morphing. You can only remain in morph for two hours or you will become that creature forever. I have been a red-tailed hawk ever since that night.
The Ellimist used me to rescue and free the first two Hork Bajir in more than a decade. In return for my services, the Ellimist returned to me the morphing power, though my natural body, which had been a human, was now the hawk. I can be my human self for two hours at a time, but at least I can still play a part in this war.
Not too long after Elfangor crashed we found a larger ship that had crashed in the ocean, and Elfangor's brother, Aximilli Esgarrouth Isthil, or Ax. In finding him we brought our small resistance up to six.
Our number of allies is very small but what we lack in numbers we make up for with knowledge. The Chee are a race of Androids created by the foolishly peace-loving Pemalites thousands of years ago. The Pemalites were wiped out and the Chee came to live on Earth, our friend Erek was actually a slave who helped to build the pyramids. Though they are very strong, stronger than superman, they have been programmed as peaceful creatures, but because of their holographic technology can work as spices within the Yeerk invasion.
When Tamitha came to Rachel about a week ago we had just tried accepting a new member into our group, but that sure as hell did not work. The Animorphs again has seven members, and like Ax and me, Tamitha does not have a place to call home.