Chapter ! The Meeting *I dont own Aninorphs they belong to KA Applegate and Scholastic. This story is based on the series Animorphs but a lot of the characters lifes have been altered to fit my story and I came up with it.* My name is Raechalli-Estlid-Corras-Shamtul, Im better know as Rachel around here. I live in California. Beach, sun, friends, the usual...you know all those thing every teenager wants;only one problem: Im not normal. You probably figured that out by my name and even to the people who are used to that sort of name it is unusual because it is so long. My people only, but always have three names. I say my people because Im not human, yeah you read that. Im not human. Im an Andalite. We are a race of ÔaliensÕ as people so charmly put it. My father escaped from the Home World because he was sick of the fighting. He came here with mother but she died along the way. If you are reading this it means the war is over and earth has been saved. Also I am probably dead. I know it is very stuped of me to start this journal but this is a seperate one, one were i can speak about everything and not have to hide the actual truth. One were you can learn every detail of what went on in the war. I designed the lock on this vessel so that only a non infested andalite could open it. The information held in this journal will probably help with fights against the Yeerks if they havenÕt ended yet. My personal files will also be included, although I havent had much of a life right up to now with all of my fathers training sessions. Ever since we came to Earth and I think even way before that he had been teaching me the Andalite of fighting and here I have a Black Belt in Martial Arts. I also have to take meditation courses to control the mind and Gymnastics because I like them. I didnt grow up here in the States; I lived in Isreal up to when I was 5 and father was able to contact his brother here so we could come and live here with them like he had promised mother. He got married to an Isrealy woman while we were there. I have 2 sisters, Sarah the youngest and Jordan the middle one; Im the oldest. Because we lived there for so long father though it more conbinient for us to fit in with the crowd, so we became Jewish. For me its cool I guess because I grew up Jewish, I was only a baby when we arrived on Earth so my developin age I was raised as an Isrealy and that is what says in my birth certificate, that I was born there. Once we reached the States father completely forgot about going to a Temple and of the Sabbaths, but Noami(my new mom) was completly devoted to trying to get father to be Jewish again but in the Andalite world there are no religions and that is how he was raised. I just very recently turned thirteen but I didnt have a Bat Mitzvah because my parents just got a divorce and father was still nto wanting to go back to the Jewish thing and insisted I got off it quickly but I could not forget about it as easily as he had. For the Andalites who donÕt know what a Bat Mitzvah is, it is a ceremony type of thing that introduces a young girl to the community and ab=nounces her as a coming of age party that tells she is ready to marry, of course the marrying part is illigal in this country until im over eighteen. Anyway...Oh the life here... it could be worse. I could be living in the Andalite Home and being treated like a woman did here a century ago. Yes for the Andalites readings this that was not a complement. My life here is hell, with me being a sub-visser and all; I have to live four seperate lives. I have to be the Estlid and fight for my biologycal people, I have to be a sub visser and fight for the Yeerks, I have to be a girl and do the normal human things, and i have to be a daughter. All of this while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA and a perfect physical state so I can fight well. Today Cassie and I went to the mall and while in the food court we encountered my cousin Jake, his best friend Marco and this cute, really shy guy named Tobias. ÒYou guys going home?ÓJake asked me,ÓYOu shouldnÕt go through the construction site by yourselves. I mean, being girls and all.Ó Ooops, Jake bad move . Never will anyone not even my sweet cousin is going to give me that. Not with the hell that IÕve gone through. ÒAre you going to come and protect us, you big strong, m-a-a-a-n?Ó I responded, ÒYou think we are helpless just because-Ó ÒIÕd appreciate it if they did walk with us.Ó Cassie interrupted me, Ò I know you are not afraid Rachel, but I guess I am.Ó And that is how the Animorphs began. with that little sentence, Cassie doomed herself and three other innocent bystanders.