Title: The Twins
Author: Alexis Steele
Fandom: Animorphs
Characters: all the majors
Genre: Alternate Universe, after #23 The Pretender
Series: First story in the "Descendents of the Ellimist" Chronicles
Summary: Rewrite of #23 The Pretender. Tobias is about to find more family than he can deal with. Who is telling the truth, and who is spinning a web of lies?
Author's Notes: This fic was my first attempt at fanfiction back in 1999. It has been lying dormant in notebooks and my computer until I pulled it from the Net in 2004. Looking back on the fic about a year ago, I realized that I had a lot of interesting ideas that I wanted to portray in this fic – eventually to become a series – and that I wanted to pick them up again, but I had some major changes that needed to be done to my OC, Shayla. She was a blatant Mary Sue, and now she's become an attempt to see if I can write a competent OC without her becoming a Mary Sue.
And, while I will be following more closely to the events that occurred in the book series, I will always see the characters as their TV counterparts. Let's face it, ladies, the TV series might've deviated a lot away from the books, but it definitely gave us some nice eye candy to glance at. I will also be extending the timeline of the story to five years, instead of three. Therefore, the Animorphs have been fighting the Yeerks for over two years.
Normal speech denoted with "…". Thought-speak denoted in ((italics)). From this chapter onwards, there will also be periods of telepathy written. Telepathy will be shown by ((bold-italics)).
Each chapter heading will tell you who is narrating this part of the story. If you don't see a character's name in the chapter heading, assume that the character from the previous chapter is still narrating.
Disclaimer: With the exception of Shayla and any other minor OCs, all the other characters are the property of K.A. Applegate and Scholastic Books. All feedback is greatly appreciated
Author's Notes #2: So sorry for the long hiatus. I had writer's block for the longest time (and sadly that's only in regards to the chapters that I was revising from the original story), and my muses didn't want to work on the story for awhile after that. But, I finally sat down and was able to get the muses to cooperate. Good news is I have about five more chapters to post now. Bad news is I'm out of original material so now I'll have to battle with the muses again to get them to work on the story again. See the end of the chapter for review comments. Please R & R! Thank you!
Chapter 10: Tobias
Well, at least I wouldn't have every class with Shayla, just our math and lunch periods together. I guess I could live with that. It was better than having all our classes together. I heard twins can sometimes do that. In fact, I even upped her one. I'm in Chemistry and she's in Biology. I must remember to thank the Ellimist for those transcripts. I guess all that studying with the other Animorphs paid off. I breezed my way through the first three periods of classes, taking the opportunity to test out my telepathic abilities by conversing with Rachel throughout our first period chemistry class when we were situated at opposite ends of the classroom from each other, until I met up with Shayla outside of our math class for fourth period. I knocked on the door, as class had already started before we arrived. A fairly young man answered.
"May I help you?" he asked.
Shayla handed him the hall passes given to us by Mrs. Schultz and said, "Sorry to disturb you, but we're in your class now."
"No problem at all, come on in," the teacher returned.
As he read over the schedules, I surveyed the room. I was hoping that maybe one of the other Animorphs would be in class with me, but to my surprise I saw all four of them sitting in desks in the back of the room. In fact, the only two available seats were next to Rachel and Marco.
"Welcome back Tobias," the teacher announced.
"Do I know you?" I asked, perplexed.
He explained, "You probably don't remember me, but I had you in my class two years ago when you were in middle school. I was promoted when Mr. Perkins left."
I remember Mr. Perkins. It was after we destroyed the Kandrona situated at the EGS Tower. Perkins was a controller and when his Yeerk died, he tried to free Tom, but failed. He's now living out in the wilderness somewhere.
"Oh yeah, now I remember you," I returned. "Mr. Starr, right?"
"That's right. Why don't you and Shayla take the desks next to Rachel and Marco?" Mr. Starr suggested as he handed us our textbooks. We took our seats. I sat next to Rachel. I just hoped Marco wouldn't mess up Shayla's studies.
"Shayla, Tobias, we are currently on page 78," Mr. Starr said.
"Thank you," we both replied, simultaneously. That got a chuckle out of Marco. Rachel "tapped" him upside the head.
The rest of the class period flew by so fast. The next thing I knew, the bell rang and class was over. It was time for lunch. Shayla and I walked back to our lockers and proceeded out to the picnic bench from earlier before. The others were already at the table with their lunch trays. While I went to get lunch, I noticed Shayla stayed behind and chatted with the other Animorphs. I tried to listen in, but she was blocking me. Hmm, that's strange. When I reached the table, Shayla went back inside to get her lunch.
"What was that about?" I inquired.
"Oh, nothing. Just something Shayla had to tell us," Rachel answered.
"About what?"
"It's nothing, don't worry about it," Shayla interjected.
"Whatever," I concluded, shrugging my shoulders. I could probably swindle the truth out of Rachel later.
"Good, then let's get back to what we were discussing earlier this morning," Jake said.
Author's Responses
Anily AKW-DPP – Thanks for your review. It's amazing happens when you re-read portions of a story you haven't read in 10 years, isn't it? *winks*
Digitalmonster911 – Thanks for your review! How's your own 'Tobias meets twin sister' story going?
Nara-chan25 – Welcome to the story! Thanks for the review!