Hello, my name is Donna. Nope, sorry I can't tell you my last name or where I live. Trust me, I would love to but I don't find the idea of a parasatic worm putting up home, sweet home signs in my brain very appealing. I guess that you are probably thinking something like "HUH?" I admit that this will sound a little strange but it's the ultimate reality. The Yeerks have come to earth. Now they move among us.
I guess I better explain what Yeerks are. Have you ever seen a slug without a shell? Okay, now try to imagine this slug about six inches long. It probably does not seem very threatening but appearances can be very decieving. Yeerks live in the minds of other species and manipulate their bodies. Once inside your head the Yeerk gains control and has access to your thoughts,memories, and dreams like home videos. And it runs them whenever it wants.
Only a week ago I had no idea what was going on. Not until my friend Mica and I accident stubled on to our first Yeerk Pool. A Yeerk pool is a place that the ugly little slugs have to go every three days to...."recharge." The Yeerk Pool contains a certain chemicals that keeps them alive. The chemicals are called Kadrona Rays. You ae probably wondering how come I'm still alive and have all this info on the Yeerks.
Well, when we went down their we ended up locked in cages and facing the deadlies Yeerk of all. Visser Three. They were going to put Yeerks in our heads and make us controllers when Mica had an idea and we ended up torching the Pool and killing all the Yeerks in it. This of course got Visser Three so ticked off that he threw Mica into the pool and while in it she accidently swallowed some Kadrona Rays. Somehow this gave her increadible Telekenises powers. Telekenises means that she is able to move things by using her mind and she is able to pick up info on Yeerks while she sleeps by reading their thoughts. The only problem is that Mica remembers only small parts of her dreams but they have told us enough to give us all a reason to hate the Yeerks.
Mica just found out that her teacher Mr. Martin is a controller. If that didn't make her angry enough she also learned that her favourite French teacher Mr.Lafratta is one too. That really gave her a reason to want to strangle Visser Three.
There are only four of us that know what is going on and are still free.We can't tell our parents becase they would think we were either making it up or if they believed us in the future they could still get captured and we would be dead meat.
I don't know why I ever agree to help Mica in what she had planned that day, but I guess it was because Mr.Lafratta was my favourite too. Mica had a plan that would get the Yeerk out of his head and if it worked he would be free. First she had to get herself an after-school detention with him but we were the best in his class so it would be a little difficult.
It was Shari that pulled it off. She went up to Filomena and Marta the two bossiest and hatable girls in the class and Jaime quickly followed her. Filomena looked up from what she was doing and smirked at Shari. "Hey, loser did halloween come a little early for you," and Marta added in "or do you always wear that costume." That was enough to set them off. Jaime took Marta's desk and Shari took Filomena's and as if on cue they slapped them both hard on the face.
That started up a huge fight in which me and Mica quickly joined in. Since Mr.Lafratta saw Shari and Jaime take the first blows and Mica and I take the rest he gave all four of us a detention with him after school. Perfect!
He lectured us for about an hour before he sat down in his desk and told us we could go. We all got up but instead of leaving lined up infront of him. I came up and spoke " Exuse me sir, is it just today," and Mica finished telling him telepathically <or do you allways keep a Yeerk in your head?> He looked at us in shock and his eyes fell on Mica. <Get out of his head you filthy Yeerk scum>
He suddenly drew out a Dracon beam, which is sort of like a gun but it shoots a lasrer beam. He pointed it at us. "Stay right where you are," he commanded.
Mica just gave him a smirk "Oh, must we resort to violence?" With that she reared her head forward and struck at him invisivly. One blow sent the Dracon Beam to the scrap heap.
Jaime and Shari came up behind him and held him down. I watched as Mica came eye to eye with him and started to consentrate. She shut her eyes and sent shock beams to the Yeerk in Lafratta's head. The Yeerk was being pulled apart. She forced him to crawl out of Lafratta's head and their was a wet plop when it hit the ground. With one intense look the Yeerk exploded.
Lafratta was on the ground unconciase but alive. Mica knelt down and whispered in his ear "forget."
The next day Lafratta had no clue of what had happened to him or anything else. Mica had completely wiped out his memory. The rest of the day went along pretty good and Mica recalled a dream she had that gave us our next mission. She had dreamed of five teenage youths with increadible morphing ability and of an alien that fought the Yeerks she remebered their names clearly. Jake, Cassie, Marco, Rachel, Tobias and Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil, an andalite.
Through he dreams Mica had discovered their location and that weekend she used her powers to fool her parents into thinking that we were at some school trip even though it was saturday. We got to the airport and got ourselves first class tickets on a plane thank's to Mica.
It was a pretty boring five hour trip. We were all exhausted by the time we landed and we got ourselves a hotel room. The next day we went to Cassie's barn. That would be Mica and I Shari and Jaime went to find the other "Animorphs." I looked at the forest behind the house it was just as Mica described it. We walked for about ten minutes before we found him. Ax stood in the middle of a clearing doing his morning rituals.
I went up to him. The minute he noticed me he whipped his tail forward and brought in an inch infront of my neck. <Who are you?> he asked.
At that instant I answered. <We are friends> I saw him turn and look at Mica. She began to concentrate and opened all her thoughts and memories of the past week to him. He staggered back as all of her experience hit his mind.
He lowered his tail. <Welcome, I am Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil>
"I know," Mica answered smiling. So we all ended up jammed in Cassie's barn. Shari, Mica, me, Jaime, Ax and the Animorphs. They still doubted what I had explained to them butMica sent them the past events in the mall and they quickly changed their minds.
"This is definately good," Marco said smiling. "Now their are ten of us."
<But you gotta remember Marco, their are thousands of Yeerks> Tobias thought-spoke to him. I looked up at Tobias. I felt kinda sorry for him, but at least he could morph again.
"Visser Three has a new attack plan," Mica said.
<What is it?> Ax asked her.
"The school, he is going to infest everyone at every HighSchool in the country."
Greetings! I am Ax. At least that is what my human companions refer to me as. My full name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. For some odd reason they have trouble speaking it. I have no clue as to why. I on the other hand find human names quite absurd. They are so short compared to an andalite name.
At this instant we were all gathered in Cassie's barn. When I say "we" I mean the ten of us. The Animorphs which consist of myself, Prince Jake, Cassie, Rachel, Tobias, and Marco. The remaining four are a new group of allies which we only met today. But with what information we have recieved from them we trust them. There is Mica, she somehow gained increadible telepathic abilities on her first encounter with the Yeerks. Her powers are quite similar to an andalites. She can thought-speak without being in a morph, not that she has morphing powers. She can also send images with her mind and wipe out memories. It is rather interesting. Probably the most powerful of her powers is the ability to identify the Yeerk in a host. So if we were to stand up ten people in a straight line, one of them being a controller she would be able to indentify him or her.
Then there are three others. humans. I believe they are called Donna, Shari, and Jaime. I find that Donna is a logical human, Jaime being one which takes risky chances and Shari, well she is a little bit like Tobias. Solitary and alone in the group. At that moment are concentration was fixed squarely on Mica.
"What do you mean?" Rachel asked her.
"Just what I said, Visser Three plans to infest the entire student body in the country," Mica answered.
"Oh my... I get it," Cassie said with a startled look. "If he infest every kid then they will be controllers and be intact with The Sharing. And once that is accomplished all they have to do is go up to their parents and say something like; hey mom have you heard about this great group called The Sharing?
Prince Jake looked at Mica and spoke " of course, the parent population will be reccomended to join by their own kids and I doubt too many would refuse."
"But at that rate once they begin we could have hundreds of Yeerks finding new homes within a few short hours," Tobias said.
"Prince Jake, Jakuh, kuh. Sorry. This must concern the school in some way, wayuh." I said.
"Yes, so what we need is an attack plan," Jaime said calmly.
" I have an idea." We all looked at Mica and she smiled.
"stupid,stupid,stupid," Rachel kept muttering. We were all in front of Prince Jake' school and were getting ready to morph. Our plan was; Donna, Jaime, and Shari would stand infront of the school with small walkie-talkies and would alert us in any dangerous situation. The rest of us would go in.
I slowly morphed out of my human body and back into my comforting andalite self. Morphing is an interesting experience. It does not hurt but at times it can be frightening. Tobias was going into his red-tail morph, Rachel had grizzly, Marco had a gorilla, Cassie had a wolf, and Prince Jake had a tiger morph. Our school ended at 3:30pm and it was 5:00pm so it was still open. We snuck in quitly and passed the office of the human-controller known as Chapman.
Mica stopped for a short while and stared at his door with a deep hatred in her eyes. I put a hand on her sholder. <You know what he is?>
"Yes," she whispered sadly.
<Do not worry everithing will be alright>
"I know," she said with a weak smile. I was strangly drawn to her at that moment. I'm not sure why. She felt like...like, well almost like an andalite. But that was impossible.
We continued down the long corridor and came to the teacher's staff room. The door was locked but we could hear faint voices inside. I looked at Mica. <Are they all...?>
She looke at me and sent me a private thought-speak <Yes, all of them>
<Let's rock> Marco said in his deadly voice.
Rachel lifted herself up on her hind legs and with a strong left-paw-punch reduced the door to splinters. We barged inside roaring, screaming, barking, whatever. Our main goal was to scare them not hurt them. We were surprised to find that the entire teacher council were all controllers. "Andalite scum," I heard Chapman scream as he and half the other controllers there pulled out Dracon Beams and pointed them at us.
<Ooookay, I say we dump the original plan and we hurt them enough to put them in the Yeerk hospital for a few days> Marco said. Their were controllers, Dracon Beams and claws n' jaws snapping all over the place. Meanwhile I watched Mica as she fought her way through to the center of the room and stood up on the long table. She began to concentrate. Suddenly controllers all over the room fell to the floor in agony. I watched as they beat at their heads, screaming and writhing on the floor. I saw the Yeerks crawl out of their ears and fall to the floor. With an intense look from Mica the Yeerks exploded onto Yeerk soup.
We spent the next half-hour waiting for Mica to finish erasing all their memories. Then she put them to sleep for a couple of hours. We hurried to the computer room and Mica sat behind a small computer. she turned it on and managed to get herself on a file of just what the Yeerks were planning. She had to bypass a bunch of passwords but I helped out with that part.
She opened up all the files in every school that was involved at the same time. She sent a super-strong wave of telepathic power somehow into all the files. So the next time a controller opened those files they would find the Yeerks inside them rappidly turning into brown slushy.
Of course she made it so that it only effected only controllers so regular humans were safe from any brain damage.
The next day Mica told me of a rather amusing dream she had. It involved Visser Three going nuts with rage when he found out that Yeerks all over the country were dropping dead and on top of that his "flawless" plan had failed. I suspect it will be a while before Visser Three cools down.
Go read Part Three, The Secret