Maybe last chapter wasn't as long as I expected. But this one should be longer, with a little humor. And thought-speak in now in (…) instead of the other things, cause the first one never shows up… if it's in bold and brackets, it's a change of POV.

Chapter 2: Americans! (Harry's/Ax's POV)

We were all down in the kitchen of Sirius's old house. Of course Sirius was no longer here. I sighed in depression. I took a seat between Ron and Ginny, and stared at the peeling wallpaper on the other side of the room.

Mrs. Weasly had just placed dinner on the table, when there was a loud commotion upstairs.

A noise that sounded human and birdlike shrieked. There was aloud thud. Then… silence.

"What was that?" Hermione asked. Mrs. Weasly, Lupin, and I got up to investigate. I poked my head through the door.

"TSEEEER!"

A bird of some sort swooped down, aiming for my face. "STUPEFY!" Lupin yelled. The bird fell to the ground with a crack and a thud.

"Oh god, Oh god!" A female voice yelled. "You killed him!" A blonde girl launched herself at Lupin, tackling him and punching him repeatedly in the face.

"STUPEFY!" Mrs. Weasly yelled, the girl fell limply to the ground. I thought it was all over until…

"It's a tiger!" Mrs. Weasly yelped. Indeed there was a tiger leaping down the stairs, followed by a wolf, a gorilla, and… some weird centaur-like creature.

The centaur creature leaped at me, and pressed it's scorpian like tail against my throat. A twitch from it would send my head rolling.

(Cease fighting! Or I shall kill this hum!) It was a voice that spoke, but it was in my head. Mrs. Weasly and Lupin froze, and lowered their wands. They turned and faced me, and the centaur-creature.

(Ax's POV)

I was not sure what was important about this particular human, but that an odd thing human's have.

The moment the older humans turned to look at me, I knew that they were probably thinking of killing me, but the fact that my tail blade was against this human male's throat made them think otherwise.

(What should I do Prince Jake?) I asked.

(Ax, don't call me prince. First thing we need to do is make sure that these people are not Controllers) Prince Jake explained.

I inclined my head at the tiger, who was Prince Jake. "HARRY!" A frantic female voice yelled. My stalk eyes caught sight of a human female with long bushy brown hair. I tensed.

"Oh my god!" A human male with red hair yelled. "What the bloody hell is that thing?"

(Prince Jake) I started.

(Yeah Ax. If they don't have a clue as to what an Andalite is then they aren't Controllers…) Prince Jake told me. I relaxed my tail and leaped away. I landed beside Prince Jake.

(Harry's POV)

The centaur thing leaped away from me and landed next to the tiger. (Okay,) another voice spoke in my head. (Since we know you're not Controllers, then I guess that we can trust you…)

"First of all bloke," Ron started. "Why am I hearing voices in my head?"

(Maybe I should explain this…) The same voice that had spoken while I was trapped by the centaur. (Prince Jake we are in a situation. The others…)

(Ax, DON"T CALL ME PRINCE!) The one that I assumed was Prince Jake.

(Yes Prince Jake,) the one called Ax replied. I snorted.

(I think I'd better demorph…)

The tiger slowly began to change. Slowly the tiger regained a human shape. He was a fifteen year old boy. He was tall, taller then me, but an inch or so shorter then Ron.

"What are you?" Ron asked. He was standing beside me. "Are you Animagi? Beginner ones?"

"What's an Animagi?" Jake asked. He was wearing skin tight bike shorts and T-shirt. He had an American accent. "Whatever it is, I am NOT one. What did you do to my friends?"

"Stunned them," Hermione replied. "Mrs. Weasly perhaps you could-"

(Huh? Ax-man? Jake? What just happened?)

"Tobias you're awake!" Jake asked. The hawk fluttered to his shoulder and surveyed us with intense eyes.

(This is a big risk they could be-) Tobias started.

"Nope," Jake replied. "Tobias? Do me a favor, morph human." The hawk glided to the floor and slowly changed to a human. He was shorter then Jake, with dirty blonde hair and he squinted slightly.

"That was gross," Hermione commented. I nodded.

(Yeah? It's even grosser when we do bugs!) The gorilla got up, and also changed to a human shape. This one was short, with dark hair that went to his shoulders and dark brown eyes.

"Welcome back to the realm of the living Marco!" Jake teased. "We thought you'd died."

"Well ha, ha, and ha," Marco replied. "Xena still out?"

"NOT IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP!" The blonde female yelled, she walked over and stood by Tobias. "Cassie?"

(Yeah I'm here.)

The wolf limped over and went to human. She was a black, Marco's height, with brown eyes and dark short hair.

"Time to explain," Jake said. "We are the Animorphs."