Animorphs II: The New Beginning

By: Anthony J. Coimbra

Chapter 3

I need the 5 of you to fight the Yeerks along with me He then went into his drawer and took out a blue cube. I then remembered he mentioned it.

I asked, "Is that the Blue Box?"

Yes, the device that will give you 5 the power to morph into any animal you acquire. You must touch the cube and focus then you will receive the power to morph I reached out to it first, then Robert, then Ayo, then Alice, and finally Rose.

You must touch the animal you wish to acquire and focus then you will acquire its DNA and you may change into it when you want to And there is one more thing, no matter what you cannot stay in morph for more than 2 hours, if you do you will be trapped in that morph forever. We all gasped. I could never imagine being a fly, or a rat, or a roach forever.

Each of you meet me behind the school at 8:00 tonight And whatever you do, DO NOT repeat this to anyone else, including your families, anybody can be a controller

We discussed and asked a few questions. After Principal Ax let us out it was already halfway through 6th period and school was going to be over in 30 minutes.

"Wow my life just got more interesting" Ayo said as we left the office. I headed to 6th period and my friend who sits next to me in 6th period, Alejandro, asked where I was.

"I was at the principal's office," I said.

"Why?"

"Uh, I saw this fight and the principal asked me some questions."

The bell rang and I headed home. Since I missed most of school I really didn't have much homework. My grandmother ordered some pizza, which was strange because she always cooks. I thought maybe she could be a controller, but how could such a sweet lady be infested with such a horrible slug. I ate 2 slices of pepperoni with some cold Coke and washed the dishes.

I went into my room and watched TV until maybe 5:00 PM. I locked my door. I brought my cat inside my room. I decided to try to morph. I touched Candy and focused, and then Candy when into this trance like stage. I hadn't realized lately how soft she felt. I started to focus on the image of her. She was a soft, gray/black haired, pointy-eared cat. Then I started to shrink. A tail popped out of my back and my body started to grow gray hairs. Then my hands and feet turned into paws. They had soft black pads on them that felt leathery. Then my ears, they turned cat-like with hairs that made them look pointy. My face grew thick white whiskers. I could hear my bones change and shrink and I felt very weird. It wasn't painful but it felt like it should. When I was almost done, Candy started hissing, and suddenly pounced on me. I finished morphing then I reached my hand/paw at her. I wasn't trying to, but I felt like I needed to defend my territory… Candy bent down and her tail lowered as if she was showing respect. I felt sort of proud like I accomplished something. I heard tweeting, but that was impossible the only birds there are, are outside. I then remembered I was a cat and had much better hearing than humans so of course I was going to hear unusual things. Then I was starting to feel weird like something was building in my throat. Eggh! Hairball! I then quickly demorphed before I grossed myself even more.

First my fingers came out which looked weird. Then my tail shot back into my body. My feet started to emerge and my ears turned back to normal. My hands were now fully human. My face was now back to normal. I was still about 2 feet tall so I focused harder. I started to get bigger and bigger then I was human again. I unlocked my door and my cat ran into the kitchen looking for food.