A/N: I would like to clear something up. This is not meant to be a continuation of Animorphs. It is supposed to be an insanity fic. That will become much clearer this chapter. Also, thank you to gwenalyn and Lady Lupin for helping me with some research.
Chapter 2
"You aren't Ax," Tobias pointed out.
The girl turned to face him. "Okay," she said, "so my real name isn't Ax. But my little brother did call me Ax when he was a baby and couldn't pronounce my name! Anyway, Ax is my penname. You can call me Allee instead."
Everybody just stared at her dumbfounded. Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and the other students and teachers were confused with the apparent Apparation into Hogwarts, the American Muggle Animagi, and Cedric coming back to life. The people who had just come off the ship or appeared in the room did not understand how they had suddenly appeared in the middle of a school in England and how dead people were coming back to life. The only person who seemed to have any clue whatsoever was Allee.
"So, do you know where the real Ax is?" Jake asked.
"He's not here?" Allee questioned, looking around. "I must have forgotten him! Oops! Just a sec." She typed furiously on her laptop for a moment. There was another popping noise.
Ginny gasped as another blue centaur-thing appeared directly in front of them. Prince Jake! it called. Don't ram the Blade ship! It's a trap!
It looked around and stepped back in shock. Prince Jake? Marco? Tobias? Cassie? Rachel and Tom?
"Hi, Ax," Tobias said, lacking anything better to say. No one knew what was going on.
"Did you just do that with eckeltricity?" Ron demanded of Allee.
Hermione sighed with obvious distress. "Ron, I've told you before, electricity does not work on Hogwarts grounds!"
"But I did use electricity!" Allee protested, holding up her computer.
"And, uh, how did that happen? How did you get Ax here?" Marco asked, eyeing her with a small grin playing on his features. "You know, life has just gotten stranger and stranger since that day in the construction site. First body-stealing aliens and morphing power, then fame, then traveling on a space ship for months, now I'm trapped in a room with dead people suddenly springing into existence, people's physical bodies changed, people babbling about magic, and a chick claiming she's doing all this with her computer."
Allee grinned and bowed. Everybody stared at her blankly.
Allee sighed and rolled her eyes. "As the author of this story, I can do anything I want. See?" She typed more on her computer, and there were two more pops. In front of her were two strange figures. One was a large thing, part machine and part organic materials. On the top of a throne of machinery was a single red eye. The other was a small old man, although the wisdom in his eyes was infinite. Both creatures stared with surprise at Allee.
"Who are you?" the red eye demanded. Pure evil seemed to seep out of it.
"Hey Crayak, Ellimist," Allee said, waving. "What's up?"
The eye blanched. "Oh, no," it said.
"Aw, poor widdle Cwayak-Wayak is scawwed!" the old man said, laughing at the eye.
The eye, called Crayak, glared the man. "Watch it, Ellimist," it growled.
Harry put his head in his hands, confused. He went through everything that had just happened in his mind.
First, he, Ron, and Hermione had been transfiguring pincushions into porcupines. However, when Harry tried to change his, a spaceship had appeared out of nowhere. Out of the spaceship walked four humans and one alien who seemed to be just as confused as they were. Their names were Jake, Marco, Santorelli, Jeanne, and the alien was Menderash. They were capable of changing forms. When they were trying to explain themselves, another girl, Cassie, had appeared, soon followed by a girl named Rachel, and older boy named Tom, and Cedric Diggory, who had died last year. In utter chaos, Harry and his fellow students and newly arrived humans tried to figure out how in the world everything had happened. Then, Jake had asked where somebody named Ax was, and a girl had shown up, who told them to call her Allee. She then made another one of the aliens pop into existence. That one was called Ax. She claimed that she was doing all of it with her computer. Next, she made two beings, called Crayak and Ellimist, appear.
"How do you know who this girl is, Crayak you piece of filth?" Rachel demanded, her hands on her hips.
"Umm, Rachel? Maybe you shouldn't go around insulting evil, all-powerful galactic pain-in-the-butts. I didn't say that!" Marco said.
"They're not all-powerful anymore, Marco honey," Allee said, smiling sweetly in Marco's direction.
"Of course I'm all-powerful!" Crayak cried. "Just watch!"
He looked at Harry, and Harry felt dread growing inside of him. Crayak's eye started to glow, and fire danced inside…
"The rules, Crayak," Ellimist said with a warning tone. Crayak ignored him.
"Don't worry, Harry," Allee said agreeably. "He won't do anything! Crayak, behave yourself and stop, or I will be forced to use extreme measures."
"How do you know my name?" Harry muttered, still totally confused and nervous because Crayak was still glaring at him with murder in his eyes.
"You asked for it," Allee said. She typed more on her computer, and suddenly Crayak was a human. A little girl, to be exact. He was dressed in a little pink dress, his hair in curly pigtails with pink ribbons.
"What the f***?!" he cried. He continued to yell obscenities as he started to dance the Macarena. A song that sounded as though it might have been in Japanese was blasting from Allee's computer. Allee was grinning like an idiot.
"That was not smart…" Marco muttered.
Professor McGonagall, who had finally come back into the room, looked at Allee with admiration. "Miss, that was one of the best transfigurations I've seen!" she exclaimed. Allee beamed with pleasure.
Will somebody please explain what it going on?! Menderash yelled, finally earning silence.
Allee stepped forward, turned off the music, and cleared her throat. Everybody watched her expectantly.
"Alright. My name is Allee West, and I am from earth." She held up her hands as everybody, Hogwarts student or spaceship inhabitant, started to say that they were from earth, too. Only the two alien-centaurs were quiet.
"I am a big fan of both Harry Potter and Animorphs. Where I'm from, they are both book series."
There was a collective gasp of surprise from all the people in the room. Professor Flitwick, who had just finally regained consciousness, fell down again.
"However, Jake, Cassie, Rachel, Tobias, Ax, and Marco, your series ended one year ago. The one year anniversary for your endings will be May 14th for me. The last sentence of the series were your words, Jake. 'Ram the Blade ship.' As you can understand, I was very upset by the fact that you were about to die, Cassie was left behind with that jerk Ronnie, Rachel was dead, and Ax was absorbed by The One."
All of the non-Hogwarts people, who Harry now understood to be people from Animorphs, were gawking at her, their mouths hanging open. The two aliens had their main eyes wide open. Crayak was still grumbling under his – her – breath as she continued to dance unwillingly.
"As for you, Harry, we haven't heard about your fifth year yet. J. K. Rowling is still writing it."
"Blimey," Ron commented.
"As a fan fiction writer, I decided to write a story continuing where your various writers left off. I had to do something to let you meet, and I figured that the way I did it was as good as any. Also as author of this fic, I can make you do anything I want." Allee gestured at the still-dancing little girl that Crayak had turned into.
Ellimist started laughing to see his opponent looking so ridiculous.
"That is the reason why Menderash is an Andalite: I wanted him to be one. And Jake, Tobias, Cassie, and Marco? That's the reason why your human bodies are all sixteen. That is also the reason why I can use electricity on Hogwarts grounds and bring the dead back to life."
Hermione stared at them. "But its not possible!" she whispered. "It's not possible."
"Okay, now to tell you guys a bit about each other. People of Hogwarts, these are the Animorphs, plus Tom, Jeanne, Santorelli, Menderash, Crayak, and Ellimist. In their universe, they fought a secret war with Yeerks, which are parasitic aliens that go into your head and take over your body, for three years. They saved the world and are now hailed as international heroes. However, in the last battle, Rachel here died. So did Tom. Jake went into a big depression. Tobias disappeared. Marco became rich. Cassie worked for the government. Ax went into deep space to look for the last big Yeerk spaceship that got away. He was absorbed by some big meanie called The One, and so Jake, Tobias, and Marco went to go save him. They were about to run themselves into the Yeerk ship. Crayak and Ellimist are all-powerful beings, who mess with people's lives, even though they insist that they don't. Well, they used to be all-powerful. But then I came along!" Allee started giggling insanely. "Anyway, Crayak is evil and demonic and just plain mean, and Ellimist is good. Somewhat. So they've been fighting in a sort of chess game for the past few millennia."
"You mean wizard chess?" Ron asked, his face brightening. They rest of the people from Hogwarts were staring dumbly at Allee and the Animorphs people.
"As for you peoples from Animorphs," Allee continued, still grinning, "This is the Harry Potter universe you are in right now. In this universe, there are wizards and witches living in secret among Muggles, or non-magic people, like you. There used to be a really evil dude named Voldemort–"
"Moldywort? What?" Marco interrupted.
"DON'T SAY THE NAME!" Ron thundered.
"Sorry," Marco said.
"Like I was saying," Allee went on, shooting a death look at Ron and Marco. Marco blushed. "There was an evil dude named Voldemort, or You-Know-Who, or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Fourteen years ago, he came to this boy's house. This is Harry Potter, by the way," she said, waving in Harry's direction.
The people from Animorphs waved weakly. They were still too much in shock to do anything else.
"Well, You-Know-Who killed his parents, and tried to kill Harry, but the curse rebounded and left You-Know-Who nearly dead and powerless. Harry grew up with his horrible aunt and uncle and cousin, never knowing anything about his magical ancestry until he turned eleven and received an invitation to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where we are now. Since then, he has faced You-Know-Who four times, and escaped each time. Last time he met him, You-Know-Who regained his power and Cedric Diggory, the dude over here who just showed up, died."
"Right…" Marco said, voicing the opinions of every person in the room.
"Okay," Allee said. "Now that you guys have learned what happened, I'm going to return some of you to your own universes. I just brought you here so that everybody would know you were okay. When I return the people who stay to their own universe, you'll already be there. Bye!"
With that, she typed more on her laptop, and Tom, Menderash, and Jeanne disappeared.
"Wait!" Jake called after his brother, "come back!"
"It's okay," Allee said. "Don't worry, he's in your universe now, in your parents' house. They're probably trying to figure out how he's alive right now."
"Fine," Jake grumbled, but he did seem happier than he had been when he had first shown up in the room.
Hermione raised her hand, and asked, "What did you want us to do, now? Besides wanting to defy all rules of physics and magic, and wanting us to meet these Americans, you haven't given us a real reason for bringing them here."
"That," Allee said, grinning maniacally, "is my favorite part. I will give you a series of tests and trials you have to go through. People from Hogwarts and people from the Animorphs universe must work together. For each contest and-slash-or test, I will send one of my friends and fellow fan fiction authors to watch."
"Great," Ron complained. "More crazy girls."
"Thank you!" Allee exclaimed. She always considered being called crazy a compliment.
"What is the first test?" Hermione asked eagerly, wanting to show off her intelligence.
Allee grinned, feeding off of their suspense. Finally, she said, "It will be a game. A game of chess."
"Great!" Ron exclaimed, being a chess master.
"There are two individuals in here," Allee said, "that have been playing a chess-like game for a few millennia now."
Crayak, still a little girl dancing the Macarena, glared at her.
"Well, I have gotten sick of their game lasting this long. So it is time to end it. Crayak and Ellimist, those two individuals, will engage in a game of wizard chess. Whoever wins will control the Animorphs universe. Each of you," Allee continued, facing Crayak and Ellimist, "will have six people on your team to help you. On Ellimist's team will be Jake, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Hagrid, and Marco. Crayak will have Snape, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, Wormtail, and Nagini. Harry? You're going to translate for Nagini."
As Allee said that, the three Slytherin boys, the head of their house, Voldemort's two biggest supporters, and Hagrid popped into existence.
"As for the rest of you," Allee said, addressing the Hogwarts students and teachers, "Crayak and Ellimist need to play their game in peace. However, Cassie, Rachel, Tobias, and Ax can stay. Now go to your common rooms!" She typed more on her computer, and all the Hogwarts students and teachers not selected to play in the game disappeared.
"Master?" Peter Pettigrew, or Wormtail, said.
Crayak, who Allee still had not released from doing the Macarena, laughed evilly. "I am your master now," he said with malice.
"Harry? What 're yeh doin' here?" the giant gamekeeper Hagrid asked.
"What's going on, Potter?" Draco drawled.
"I didn't do anything, Malfoy," Harry replied. "The crazy girl over there has been bringing people here from all over. We're supposed to play a game of wizard chess. You're helping that guy. If he wins, he controls another universe."
"A likely story," Draco scoffed. "And what do you mean 'that guy'? It's a little girl! And what the hell is that dance she's doing?"
"BOW TO ME!" Crayak thundered. "I AM NOT A LITTLE GIRL!"
"Fifty points from Gryffindor!" Snape snapped.
"For what?!" Hermione shrilled.
"For lying and bringing strangers into Hogwarts," he answered, eyeing the Animorphs.
Nagini hissed, and Harry blanched.
"Well?" Allee asked. "What did Nagini say?"
"She said," Harry muttered quietly, "'Harry Potter must die.'"
"Oh," Allee said, smiling. "Isn't that nice of her?"
"What a cute little snake!" Cassie exclaimed, bending down to pet and play with Nagini. "Come here, little snake!"
"Right…"
"I guess this means that I have to change Crayak back to normal now… Although he does make a cute little girl!"
"YES! CHANGE ME BACK! I DO NOT MAKE A CUTE LITTLE GIRL!"
"If you're going to be that way, I won't! You can stop doing the Macarena now, though," Allee said as she typed more into her computer. Crayak stopped and stood, smoldering at Allee.
"I'm getting out of this nuthouse," Draco muttered.
"Wait!" Allee exclaimed. She typed frantically, and suddenly Draco could not move. Crabbe and Goyle clenched their hands threateningly. Allee glared at them. "Listen. You guys are going to help Crayak, the little girl, beat Ellimist, the old man, in a game of wizard chess. Also on Ellimist's team are Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Hagrid, Jake, and Marco. Ellimist, Crayak, Jake, Marco? Wizard chess is just like normal chess, but a bit more… violent."
"Oh, great," Marco said sarcastically.
"Well, I need to leave now! Class is almost over for me, and I need to go to English. I'll see you guys in a bit! Have fun playing! I'm sending my friend to watch you guys and make sure you don't get out of hand. Oh, and here you go, Draco." She typed some more, and Draco fell to the ground, able to move again. He stood up glaring and brushed off his black robes.
"Byes!" Allee said jubilantly. She disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"She's enjoying torturing us," Ron said dejectedly.
"Probably," Tobias agreed.
There was another pop, and another girl came into existence. "Hey, y'all!" she said.