Animorphs II: The New Beginning

By: Anthony J. Coimbra

Chapter 4

It was 7:35 PM so I grabbed my backpack, a flashlight, and my pocketknife, just in case. I told my grandma I was going to sleep. I locked my door, and stuffed pillows under my blanket to make it look like I was underneath it just in case someone opened it. I threw my backpack with my stuff in it outside my window and it landed on a tree branch. I then started to morph into Candy, this time I shrank and then my paws came in. My tail sprouted and my other features came in. I then felt a little nervous because I was going to leap onto a tree, 2 stories above ground. I crouched down and pounced. I landed! Then I held my backpack with my teeth and jumped from branch to branch. When I finally made it down, I demorphed and rid my bike to the school. (But before that, I ate a lizard I found, which still grosses me out to this day)

I make it at around 7:50 and everyone was already there, except Principal Ax. We then discussed what morphs we had so far. I felt kind of left out because I only had 1 morph while everyone else had 2 or 3 morphs. Everyone had a cat. Rose, Robert, and Ayo each had dogs. Alice, Ayo, and Rose each had pigeons. Then we heard some noises in the bushes. Then a deer shaped, scorpion tailed, creature popped out. It was Principal Ax. Our first mission will not be against the Yeerks It will be to acquire more morphs I will ask the 5 of you to go on a "Field Trip" with me during school tomorrow, we're going to the zoo

Robert said "Sweet, field trip!"

Alice then asked, "Why do we need more morphs aren't we just going to fight some slugs and humans?" No, I forgot to mention the Yeerks have enslaved, unfortunately, 3 other species and maybe a few others since the last I found information about them: the Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, and Gedds. The Hork-Bajir are similar to 7 feet tall reptiles, with blades on their bodies. Taxxons are cannibalistic gluttons that are similar to large centipedes. Gedds are small ape-like creatures We were kind of shocked. How were 5 six graders and an Andalite going to destroy Shaq sized dinosaurs, man-eating centipedes, and apes? After some talking we each agreed that we would acquire different morphs for different obstacles tomorrow and tell each other which ones. There was still a problem. How will we get the morphs without letting other people, and possibly controllers seeing us?