Verdaifei Two-hundred-thirty
Ryo-Mew-Ki, Rank: Perinduro GP-Solider 725, has still not found Prince Elfangor-Sirinial- Shamtul's Escafil Device. I need to find who took it. I have two suspects so far; Yeerk Controllers HISS! or humans. Which has it? I don't know. But I will find it! I'm not scared! I laugh in the face of danger! Bwhaa-haa-haa-haa-haa-haa-hee-hee-hee-heh...
...Who am I kidding? I wanna go back home. I'm cold, hungry, tried and want to eat megai berries.
But I cannot go back. No matter what, I will find it. I have to. Otherwise...I won't be forgiven. It was my fault I lost it.
I am now staying under a shelter where three humans live above. I have found a hole accessing into a room below the shelter. The humans are making a lot of noises above me. Didn't think humans can be so noisy.
This will be my place for the time being. Now, time to look for some rations.
End of Verdaifei Two-hundred-thirty
Kaoru
My name is Kaoru. Real name. But my present codename is Zoe. You can call me either one if you like. It doesn't really matter. Okay, maybe it matters. Just call me Kaoru in my missions and Zoe in my life. But I can't tell you my last name or where I live. Not that I'm being different.
"Yaaaa!"
Okay, so maybe Takehiro and me are different in a way.
KACHING!
A hit! Did Takehiro get him?
"Bw-ha! You still have a long way to beat me!"
"Where are you, old man!" Takehiro hissed.
He must be around. But where?
Focus, Kaoru. Focus. ...He's there!
"Yaaaaa!" I screamed.
KA-KANG!
"Did I get him?" I wondered.
"N-No... But you got me..." someone moaned.
"Takehiro?" I looked through under my blindfold. And then...
KA-THWAK!
Grandpa's bamboo sword hit me right on the head. I collided and groaned in pain, holding my head. Grandpa bellowed.
"Like I said, you still have a long way to beat me," he laughed.
Takehiro and I looked up, rubbing the sores on our heads.
"Just how the heck are we supposed fight without seeing?" Takehiro snapped.
"And how the heck can we tell who's friend and foe?" I barked. "I nearly hit him."
"You must open your other senses wider and tell the differences of who is friend or foe," Grandpa explained. "That's part of this lesson."
Heh. Could be easier if you were a bat and echolocation was your guidance.
...Okay, maybe we are different in a sense of way. But this is our culture.
There is a reason why Takehiro, which his present codename is Zack, and I can't tell you our last name and where we live. And no, we don't live in Japan. We used to but not anymore.
And you need to know this. About what is happening to Earth, to humanity.
There is an alien invasion that goes about secretly. A parasitic species called Yeerks, from a far-distant planet, are invading Earth and want a source. Human hosts.
And you ask how the heck some parasitic species the size of slugs can do that without being noticed? Simple. They enter through the ear canal and drill their way into the crevices on the surface of a human brain. It's like a computer chip in a computer. Only the Yeerk controls you, knows your thoughts and memories. You'll become a slave, a helpless slave to the Yeerks.
They're known as Controllers, slaves to the Yeerks. So far, the Yeerks have already taken over control of a whole species of Hork-Bajir and Taxxons. Now they want us. Humans. Humans capable of doing almost anything.
Sure, you all think I'm crazy and am need of paramedic. No, I am not crazy and I do not need paramedic. As what Grandpa told me, 'A samurai's word is truth'.
If there's the bad side of the universe, there's the good side. Andalites. They're fighting against the Yeerks, trying to outsmart and outfight the Yeerks. Sometimes they have their loses and wins...
But they're not the only ones fighting. There's a small group called the Animorphs right here on Earth fighting against the Yeerks with a special ability to morph into any animal they acquire.
Who are they?
We are 'them'.
Who's 'we'?
There's Jake, the fearless leader.
Rachel, the warrior-princess and Jake's cousin.
Marco, the smart-aleck friend of Jake. He's really an idiot to my point of view.
Cassie, the expert when it comes to animals and the fastest morpher or known as Estreen.
Tobias, a red-tailed hawk. He was once human but overstayed the time limit of morphing and is now struck as a red-tailed hawk. This is what you might say a curse when having this ability.
Takehiro, the fighter who uses martial-arts and my over-protected twin brother. He is gifted with the Shields of Karine. He can protect just by summoning a powerful shield from his own battle aura.
Aximill-Esgarrouth-Isthill, or Ax for short, an Andalite. From what I heard, he was the only survivor to make it alive on Earth and joined the team. He happens to be Elfangor's brother. Elfangor was the one who gave the power to morph to us human kids.
...Well, except me at that time. I had run away because of a dark past that once haunted me.
And lastly, me, Kaoru, the girl that can see everything deeply. Takehiro isn't the only one gifted. I am gifted with the Eyes of Karine. As Ax said that having the Eyes of Karine, I can see who's a Controller, who's not, what will happen today and tomorrow and one's thoughts, dreams and fears. Actually, I only began using this power so, basically, I only see visions. Takehiro and I don't have absolute control over another power called the Jauria Knight Armors yet.
And what is Karine? It's a source of power that only Jaurias, a peaceful race in another part of the galaxy who apparently doesn't know about the Yeerks invasion, can use. How come we two have that power? We don't know either but we do know my brother and I are somehow connected to the Jaurias.
As a team, we work together to fight the Yeerks and ever one alien that the Yeerks even fear the most. Visser Three. He is of course a Yeerk in the mind of an Andalite. He's the only one who's pure evil and can morph.
Now you know that there's life in outer space and one part of it is trying to take over the whole universe.
It would be helpful if any other intelligent species could help the Andalites and overcome the Yeerks. It would be helpful if we had some help. I mean, the more the merrier.
Right?
"Oooh," I groaned as I crashed onto Takehiro's bed. A whole morning of kendo and finally a break. I was alone in my room. Actually, Takehiro and I shared it.
We live in a bungalow with one elder and a little cousin that Takehiro always call her demon. Don't know what his problem. Emily's a nice six-year-old girl.
The room was quiet. I only heard Paws running inside his wheel. Paws is our pet ferret, the one who found the box and changed my whole life around. Talk about an upside-down world.
I sat up and gazed at myself in the mirror. My black hair was matted, even though it is tied in a ponytail. I was quite built but a little skinny. My skin was pale beige because it's been a long time since I've ever taken a tan.
One thing that was unusual was my eyes. They were blue. You never seen a person with black hair and blue eyes, right?
Well, I'm not the only person. Takehiro has the same blue eyes too. We're twins of course.
Takehiro may not look like my twin anymore. He's now got short hair, between brawny and average. When we were kids, our parents could even tell the different between us so we always switched places and confused them. It was fun back then.
That was before I had the worst time of my life. Also, Takehiro's.
When we turned five, our dad left us. We don't know why but I know he'd come back. Takehiro doesn't think that.
At age ten, my best friend, Sakura was murdered. Our dojo was attacked by a bunch of gangsters and that was when I went insane. I killed them all with a sword.
And we had to leave Japan when we were older. Leave everyone before. Miaso, mom, our group (can't tell you what's the group's name. It's our oath) and our friends.
We really missed them.
But that's all in the past. I had a new beginning. A new start.
Thanks to a certain Ellimist and three Guardians of Karine.
Guardians of Karine are actually beings that give the power of Karine to whoever is their master. They are 'fated' to aid the master. There are as many Guardians as you can count stars. But out of these Guardians are the most powerful ones, said to have been born from within the planets.
Since I have the Eyes of Karine, I'm the Master of three Guardians: Mercurdhe the fire dragon from Mercury, Marigaya the water dragon from Mars and Earthegra the air dragon from Earth.
Takehiro, having the Shields of Karine, is the Master of another three: Juretoji the electricity dragon from Jupiter, Plutium the ice dragon from Pluto and Saturain the rock dragon from Saturn.
We haven't found out why we have the powers of Karine and the Jauria Knight Armor. Only that the royal family of Jaurias can own those powers. But I guess the answers will come to us someday.
Or will not. Who knows.
"Kaoru?" Takehiro called. "What happened to the rice-cakes you just made this morning?"
I looked at him dumbfounded. "They should be in the kitchen."
"Well, they're not there anymore."
"But I just put a load of rice-cakes there," I declared. "Maybe Emily must have taken it."
"Now do tell me how can an six-year-old eat eight rice-cakes?" he asked.
"Um... Big appetite?" I said, shrugging my shoulders. "Hey, didn't Cassie say she was going to hide the you-know-what box?"
"Yeah. And needed some help taking care of the animals," Takehiro said, wiping his forehead with a towel.
Since Takehiro is a sucker for animals, he volunteered to help Cassie out whenever he has free time.
"Now the decision comes to this. Should we continue kendo or help Cassie?" I asked him.
Before he answered that, Grandpa called. "If you're not busy today, we can continue the lesson. This time, I'll be blindfolded. Let's see if you can beat an old, blind man again."
He laughed.
Being blindfolded was bad enough but having to try and beat an expert on kendo blindfolded is worse! We tried that once and we were easily defeated.
"Bye, Grandpa!" Takehiro shouted, taking his bag.
"We gotta help Cassie with a few things!" I told Grandpa, running after Takehiro before Grandpa would do anything to us.
I could have sworn I heard sounds from the trees. Maybe it was my imagination.
A/N: To all my readers who have read A Twist of Fate Book 1: The Recruit, here's the second book you all have been waiting for, The Solider! Through each chapter may take time as I want to update my (nearly-dead) fanfic, Strands of Destine as much as possible. Geez, that fanfic is much longer than my Twist of Fate series. :P Feel free to read it if you like (and do please read it. I'm begging on my knees here Cries). In the meantime, hope you like this second book. R'n'R!
Baranth - ...You really do like dragons, don't you? Well, to tell you the truth I've already used a race of humanoid dragons in my other fanfic, Strands of Destiny so I can't used that for Animorphs. These humanoid dragons I made in SoD are called dragonoids, a clan that have dragon and human appearances but are partly mechanical organisms. I've already introduced one certain dragonoid in SoD Chapter Nine and there will be more of her coming in future chapters. Sorry I can't think of an alien race of uh, dragonoids, cuz I've used up my idea. Gomen! But if you like dragons, then I suggest you read the rest of the first book of Twist of Fate, cuz I added six dragons in there. And SoD has a lot of dragons popping out. Anyway, thanks for the review and I'm really sorry I can't do your request. Me sorry. Me really sorry. Me-
Aurora: Punches authoress in the face Would you shut up and get on with the reviews?
Ouch...
Tigerlily-2250 – You bet! With Ryo-Mew-Ki in it, there's gonna be a lot of trouble and mayhem for the Animorphs. :P
Aurora: Or is it you just like to torment them? ¬¬
Ignores her OC Thanks for reviewing!
Anonymous-cat – Yes, Ryo-Mew-Ki has feline traits. She's a cat alien in the first place, a Perinduro. Thanks for the review.
Gill – Hey, nice to see ya again! And for your questions:
1. Takehiro and Kaoru used to be from a group in Japan and they had used codenames there. Their friend and leader, Miaso, thought this idea.
2. A reversed-edge sword is a two handed sword, which the edge is pointing in the opposite direction of its blunt side. I think that's what it means by 'reversed-edge'.
Thanks for reviewing and adding me to your favorites.
...You added me to your favorites? 0o THANKS! I'm so touched.
Aurora: And you just realized that.
Ta-dao – Thanks for your review!
Next chapter will come pretty soon. Hopefully in three to four days.
