AN: Double upload. Did I surprise anyone? Normally I would have left this one until next week, but seeing as it's not really much, I thought I'd spare you the wait.

Epilogue

Harry

My name is Harry Potter.

The crowd of people at the zoo was nothing short of amazing. It was tricky to get to the barriers of most habitats, especially with the little kids forcing their way through the tiniest of spaces. So imagine how tricky it to do it invisible and sneak into the exhibits.

It wasn't our best plan, we all knew that, but it was the safest that we could come up with. That morning's Daily Prophet had yet another front page story about the breakout of Azkaban and some of the information got a little close.

The out of control fire managed to cause a lot of destruction, and even an explosion that turned half of Azkaban when it reached the rotted food in the basement apparently, however, all the guards on the roof were still alive and, after being treated in Saint Mungos, declared that a chimpanzee had been among the attackers. Doing the attacking. As well as identifying Hermione and Ron.

In addition, the fire failed to destroy all of the remains left behind. The Aurors found fur samples and large, insectoid parts. As such, the Ministry had declared that it was us and a team of either unregistered Animagus' or that we'd transfigured our allies, as we'd hoped, but the Yeerks were likely to be a bit more suspicious. We quickly decided that returning here was too risky at night, so we'd have to do it in the day and use my invisibility cloak to get close.

Like I said, not our best plan, definitely one that could have been busted when the animals noticed us through scent or vibration, but if we wanted morphs that could actually fight, and we all knew we'd need them eventually, it was our best shot.

Ron had found it especially difficult. The habitat he'd just entered was a bit of a drop and if it wasn't done right, he would have missed the small rock and gone straight into the water with a big splash, alerting both the spectators and his target of his presence instantly. And you really don't want to be in the water when you confront a polar bear.

"Hey Mommy look, the bear's falling asleep on his feet. I didn't know you actually could do that!" A little girl cried excitedly, pointing at the bigger bear. It had been heading straight for a small waterfall before tilting its head...and growing droopy. Ron had sent it into the trance. It wasn't the best moment on his part, a lot of the crowd was murmuring about the bear's sudden drowsiness, but I wasn't going to complain. It was a bear! You get it done quick or get eaten. He was lucky so far that the other two bears weren't interested.

"They'll forget about it in a moment." Hermione muttered quietly beside me, her worried eyes never leaving the bear. "When it starts moving again, they'll shrug it off, right?"

"Of course." Justin nodded calmly just as the crowd gave a happy 'whoa' as the polar bear jerked back into realty and dived into the water. Ron was done and the bear had deemed his scent unimportant. Good.

"Yet another without a hitch." I grinned as Hermione sighed quietly, letting her body relax a little. Ron was the last of us to acquire a tough morph, he was too picky. Hermione had been the first, knowing what she wanted before we even arrived. Expecting us to go with brutal type creatures, she decided to go for speed and grace. She was really to find that this zoo did in fact have a cheetah habitat. Justin was quick to follow her lead and ran straight to an aviary. The birds were tamed and the handlers were happy to let touch a number of them. Ron, Hermione and I each held and acquired a grey and white owl, but Justin eagerly asked to pat what the handler called a red kite as it flew over his head.

Our next trip was back to the reptile house. That one was a fair bit trickier and we needed to make a little distraction as the only way into any of the habitats was to find and open a door behind them, but I still managed to go unnoticed as I acquired an anaconda. It wasn't the greatest battler, something Ron pointed out, but I already had the alligator and you never know when something like a snake could be useful. This one was huge and their thin, overly flexible bodies can get where most other predators can't after all.

Justin decided to get a big morph after that, so we set out to towards the back of the zoo. He quickly found what he called a widow maker and took my cloak from my bag before I could blink. He was in and out of the cape buffalo habitat before I could even determine what exactly a widow maker was.

"Well that was fun. Let's not do that again anytime soon." Ron muttered reappearing beside us as we walked away. He looked a little pale and his voice was a little shaky, but he was fine.

"You're the one that declared you wanted the largest, toughest predator the zoo had Ron." Hermione reminded him with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, but I didn't realise just how big and deadly they are until I was right in front of one with my wand stuck behind the cloak. That thing had fangs longer than my fingers!" He whined, holding up a hand in her face.

"Oh, stop it Ron!" She snapped quietly, knocking his hand out of her face. "I went in with animals that could kill me before I could blink and Justin jumped into a meadow filled with buffalo that have very short fuses and possibly as dangerous as your bears and you don't hear us whinging!"

"Come on guys, there's nothing to fight over." Justin cut in jovially as Ron was opening his mouth to retort. "It's a beautiful day, we've got what we came for, why don't we just relax a little and enjoy the zoo now? You know, forget our worries for a day. I need to get some more sun anyway, it's amazing how quickly that hellhole removes your tan."

"Yeah. Why not?" I shrugged, smiling a little. He almost jumped for joy when the others agreed too and dragged us off to see the gazelles. After all, this place was much too mundane for a Death Eater to be around unless they wanted to cause very obvious chaos and the Yeerks wouldn't be able to tell us from anyone else with everyone wearing hats and sunglasses. Besides, I knew he needed it.

I was pretty worried about Justin. So was Hermione, though Ron missed it. He seemed fine most of the time, but there were a few seconds here and there when he'd shiver or look ready to throw up. Plus, he hasn't slept more than a couple of hours here and there since he was freed. I keep hearing him moving around restlessly at night.

A bit of true freedom, outside in the sun would do him good. I just hope that his decision to help us doesn't end up causing a reversion to the state he's hiding from us.

But I could worry about all of that tomorrow. Today, it'll be nice to make some good memories with my friends. After all, who knows when we'll get to do this again?

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Neville

My name is Neville.

We were busted for being out, just as we knew we would be. Our excuse of getting lost in the woods was completely ignored, in fact, we were accused of planning a major act of rebellion. I guess it's not that far from the truth really. On second thought, it's a little too close. Fortunately, even by the morning when news of the prison break made it to the public and apparently got a thunderous cheer from most of the people in the Great Hall, none of them made the connection to our disappearance. Otherwise, we'd be dead by now.

Our punishment wasn't actually as bad as we thought it would be though. For anyone else it would be bad, but it actually worked out pretty well for us. In some ways at least. We were stripped of our wands and sentenced to a dungeon cell for a week with only one meal a day. Normally, that would be horrible, we were all in the same cell, it was the kind with a barred door and only the only time anyone came down to see us was when we were brought a meagre portion of food, once at night when the Carrows came to make sure we were still there and taunt us and the visit of the occasional rat. Pretty horrid for a normal person.

We however, were now Animorphs. And the rat that would creep the average prisoner out became our ticket to freedom.

Ernie caught it easily enough and all of us acquired it. Then we'd take turns morphing it one at a time, slip through the bars and head out into the school. While one of us was out, the rest of us would set their clothes to look like someone was in them and sit together in front of them, making it look like the mission prisoner was sleeping just in case we had an unexpected visitor.

No one other than the Carrows could pass through the door to that area of the dungeons without setting off a magical alarm, but a rat had not problem at all. From there, Ginny and I had acquired owls and Seamus, Luna and Ernie had all acquired cats, allowing us to move faster and easier through the castle. Usually, our first stop is the kitchens, where we'd had some outer robes stored for us to put on before asking the elves for some real food before looking for Anthony.

That's what I was doing now. See, unlike us, Anthony had a clean record with the Death Eaters, so they never really suspect him. Especially when Ginny, Luna , Ernie and I are missing. Apparently that hasn't changed either thanks to quick thinking in the Ravenclaw boy's dormitory.

Terry and Michael had noticed Anthony was missing and acted quickly, stuffing his bed with a pillow from each of their beds and one from Kevin Entwhistle's vacant one and placed a glamour charm over them to make it look like Anthony was sleeping. In their rush and lack of care for the blond when there were two known troublemakers in the dorm, they barely spared the glamour a glance before declaring him present and moving on.

Too bad the others hadn't thought of that. Even Seamus' fairly clean record could resolve the fact that he was out after curfew with us. Especially since he and I are so close.

It was apparently time for break by the time I left the kitchens and taken to the sky on my wonderful wings. Even if I didn't spend so much time in a dungeon, flying on my own wings would feel like the ultimate, blissful freedom. I don't like flying on a broom, but as a bird? It's perfect. But I'm getting a little sidetracked.

It didn't take long to find the free teammate. The only problem was that he was in a crowd of people he was in. since school felt like prison, we all always spent as much of the little time allotted between classes to get outside. The main entrance was currently releasing a river of black that spread out all over the courtyard. Anthony was about halfway through it.

/Hey Anthony, find a place./ I called down as I flew off. He couldn't answer me after all, so I figured I'd have fun exercising my wings. I managed to fly peacefully around the courtyard five times before Anthony managed to get past it and followed him on his way to a big tree. Taking a seat, he opened his bag and pulled out a book that could barely fit through the opening. I could never be sure if the books he pulled out when he met up with one of us were for the pretence of reading alone, him actually studying while holding up a conversation with us or there as a safety blanket. Probably all of the above.

"Padma and Hannah have gotten most of the DA to settle down." He muttered softly without even looking up as I perched on a low branch. He knew what I was and that I'd warn him if there were any eavesdroppers around. Owl eyes and ears are nothing short of amazing! "But it's still pretty much running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Their arguments about whether or not to bust you guys out have simply been diminished to calm debates. They also want to set out on revenge on the Carrows, but everything someone suggests is declared too extreme or to insignificant. Slughorn still seems to suspect nothing." He added before releasing a small sigh. Double checking that no one was around, he lifted his head for a few seconds to let his troubled eyes meet mine. "I couldn't tell you if any of them have been infested in the last few days. Have any of you had any luck with that side?"

/Not really./ I replied irritably. Anthony was doing the best he could to watch over the DA and kept us informed of its actions and we spent a lot of our time in morph patrolling the castle for any signs of Yeerk activity. The problem was that our best advantage against the Yeerks had its drawbacks. Thanks to the portraits, elves and frequent use of most areas, finding moments when the Controllers would say anything that would reveal themselves or their plans to us was almost impossible. The best we could do was follow the Controllers we knew about as best we could and hope for the best. There was one thing that might help us though. /Have you talked to Zabini yet?/

"Um...no, I haven't." Anthony ducked his head further into his book in shame at that. "Parkinson, Crabbe and Goyle have been hanging around him a fair bit, not that he's enjoying it at all. I don't want to risk triggering their erased memories yet. It'll be safer when the memories are older, more distant.

/Fair enough, but try to do it soon./ I responded, holding back the urge to sigh. /Our current methods of gaining information aren't working and he's in the perfect position to spy on the most infiltrated house. We need his help./ As much as I hated to admit it. A Slytherin is a Slytherin as far as I was concerned, but the facts were the facts. He was a potential ally and a horrific potential enemy if the Yeerks got him. It was critical that we got to him first.

"I have Arithmancy tomorrow. I'll try to talk to him then." He nodded, flipping a page in his book. Our conversation had to end there as Terry and Michael were heading his way, so I took flight once again and started circling the castle for half an hour. It was a good time to be out, I was more likely to find Controllers having private conversations out in the portrait free grounds.

Though honestly, I was mostly focusing on enjoying the wind in my feathers. It's not like any of our enemies' plans were moving too far ahead right now anyway.

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Jake

My name is Jake.

Fortunately, nothing seemed to have changed since we'd left home. Everything was exactly how we left it.

Thanks to the Chee, our parents hadn't even noticed we were gone. What was even better, the one posing as me even did all my homework for the next two weeks for me. Sweet, one less hassle for a while.

The Yeerks hadn't done anything particularly major either, just advertised The Sharing some more. Meaning no catastrophes to stop. We could actually come home and relax after being almost torn apart, burn, impaled and pancaked.

It was pretty nice. Pretty normal. Bantering with Tom, playing video games with Marco and doing a few chores my parents forced on me. Everything you'd expect of a normal life. The life I missed and longed to have back.

Yeah, it felt good, especially when combined with the sense of great accomplishment we got from basically destroying the most despicable place on Earth and freeing dozens of people. And on top of that, we now had a resistance on the other side of the world. That would split the Yeerks' focus and give us a better chance of saving the world.

Things were looking pretty good right now. It's an indescribable feeling to know that we weren't in this alone anymore. But for now, that was as far into the invasion as I was going to think about. The Yeerks would make themselves known again sooner or later. Until then, I had a best friend coming over to play video games and I was determined to revel in kicking his butt.

AN: And that wraps this whole story up. I hope it was enjoyable all the way to the end. Thank you one last time for everyone who reviewed, subscribed to or Favorited this story. if you right a review for the last two chapters, thanks in advance.

I'm currently working out a plot for the next two additions to this series, though I can't say how quick they'll get on the web and I'm only working on one at a time. One will follow Harry's group and one will follow the Hogwarts group. So I'll ask you guys a question. Does anyone have a preference? I have a preference to one, but I will take others' into account.

Oh, and yes, both stories will begin he use of magical morphs. Well, bye for now.