ANIMORPHS: Book 1: The Intruders

[shakoa]

I waited some more, then read a book from WARRIORS, and it was the 3rd book of Omen of the Stars, Night Whispers. I got bored, then read an animophs book: Book #37.

[Galanor Rosewind]

"I see," Galanor said, rising to her feet. "I am Galanor. Welcome to Earth; I'm sorry we cannot be of more assistance." She was tempted to do the Vulcan Live Long And Prosper thing, but shoved the urge away. Besides, the Andalite wouldn't have understood it anyway. The words, yes, but not the meaning behind it.

"I don't mean to be rude, if I was," she continued. "I just believe in being prepared... and in not trusting easily, especially when anyone could be one of them."

[shakoa]

I sighed an Andalites sigh. <You are correct, Galanor. Maybe we should start, wait for Forlin, then choose a leader.> I looked at Claire with my main eyes. <You still read those?>

I nod. "Yes, Elizan." I put the book in my back-pack I brought.

[shakoa]

I eyed her, then drew my attention to the 'blue cube' as my father pronounced it.

[shakoa]

I yawned. It was almost...uh...I think it was almost...9 o'clock in the afternoon.

[Galanor Rosewind]

Galanor, too, focused on the object in Elizan's hands. She had never seen one of those before, either, but she had long searched for one like it. She needed search no longer; it was before her eyes. The Escafil Device. The source of the ability to become another creature.

"Forlin, I think, can already morph," Galanor said, thinking. "But he may wish to be here when we recieve the power. But if you think it's best, please go on." Her expression remained solemn. She was thinking of everything. The burden that this power would be, but the good that it could do. The good, and the bad... she was weighing it all as she waited for a response.

As for Claire, she hadn't paid her any mind so far. After the immediate business had been taken care of, there would be time to speak.

[shakoa]

<So, put your hands on the side of this cube.>
As I put my hand on the top, I felt a relaxing, sudden feeling. "Woah."

[shakoa]

I held the device firm. Soon, these would be my people until I went to my true home: The Andalite home world.

[Galanor Rosewind]

Galanor approached slowly, and placed her hand on the device. It was warm to the touch, and she thought that when she contacted its surface that she felt sort of a tingle, a shock of electricity, run down her arm.

[shakoa]

It only took 2 mins, then the feeling stopped, so I lifted my hand. "So," I said, kinda shaky. "Wheres our first morph? And what is it?" I looked at Elizan.

[shakoa]

I saw a rat nearby and pounced, and, with knowledge of the Animorphs, focused on it and got its DNA. "Thats done." I set the rat free. "Kinda hurt, too." I looked at a few bruises from pounceing ion cement, and a few scratches and bite marks fronm the rat.

[shakoa]

I watched, surprised that humans ever go so far to get a morph. I was also very shocked at how Claire could hold up the pain she must've felt, but then again, this must've happened to her alot.

[shakoa]

I waited a little bit, then focused on the rats image in my mind, then felt my body start to shrink. In the shrinking process, I felt my 2 top teeth begin to grow. Suddenly, my eye-sight began to dim a bit. I looked down at the rushing floor, then fell on my hands, which were already small. The ground stopped coming up, then the fur...I demorphed as fast as I could, then sighed with releif that my clothes were on me. "Weird..." I said, shaking as I got up.

I watched as Claire demorphed. Was she scared? I thought.

[shakoa]

I decided to search for skin-tight clothing, found a swimsuit that was tight to my skin when put it on(out of sight, of course) then came back. I saw that the swimsuit had a hole on the side, then shrugged. I focused on the rat, then morphed again, this time differently. The fur started growing, then my eye-sight dimmed. It took only seconds to be on the floor, as a full rat. <Cool. A new halloween costume,> I said in thought-speak for the first time. Suddenly I started scurring away, the rat mind afraid of what it saw: a crow. I took control again, then demorphed as the crow came.

[shakoa]

I knew the cue. I grabbed the crow, but it almost slipped as I collected the DNA of it. I quickly passed it to Galanor. <Acquire it!> I shouted.