CHAPTER 1
My name is Patrick. I’d like to tell you my last name but I can’t. If I did they’d get me. Who? The Yeerks.
The whats? The Yeerks. The Yeerks are parasitic slugs that crawl into your head and control your mind. But I didn’t know that then. Back then when I was normal.
It was Friday and me and my best friends, Tom and Nick, were having a sleep-over. We played video games for a while but then when we got bored, we went to sleep. We slept pretty soundly for a while. But then at about 2:00 A.M. there was a sound. BOOM!
I woke up suddenly. I looked around. Darkness.
“What?” I said dumbly. I stood up and walked across the house.
“Mrrrow!” I was so surprised a fell over. I looked over at my cat.
“Bad kitty! Bad Onyx! Go away!” I yelled at the stupid cat and got up. I looked around again and got up. I walked over to the backdoor. When I looked out the door I fell over. In the middle of my backyard was a smoking crater. I just stared for a while. Then I got up and walked over to it.
“No no no this isn’t really happening I’m still asleep” I told myself. I looked into the crater. Inside was a blue box.
At that moment I heard a huge crash from the woods. I twisted around. I was quickly getting more and more freaked out. I picked up the box and ran toward the house. When I got to the doorway I got a shock. It was almost pleasant somehow and that really freaked me out. I dropped it there and ran to my friends.
“Tom Nick Get up NOW!”
“Go away” mumbled Tom.
“Noooooooo need sleeeep,” said Nick.
“Okay ill just get a bucket of water and…”
“I’m up! I’m up!” yelled Tom.
“Me too!” agreed Nick.
“Something crashed or exploded in the woods come on we got to check it out!”
“What?” they said at the same time.
“No questions lets just GO!”
I grabbed them and dragged them to their feet. I pulled them toward the door grabbing the blue box. Then we ran toward the house.
“Is it just me or has Pat gone crazy?” commented Tom. I ignored him and kept the running. Suddenly we saw it. A spaceship with a body lying outside. We stared. Suddenly it looked up. It didn’t have a mouth but I suddenly heard a voice.
<Help me> it said.
“Whoa where did that come from?” asked Nick.
<I said it> spoke the creature in our heads.
“Who and what are you?” I questioned the strange blue mouthless person.
<I am an Andalite> it said <and I am here to tell you that your world is in danger. >
“What?” all three of us said at once.
<Slug-like creatures called the Yeerks. They want to take over your race. They…>
I felt a shock of pain and realized the Andalite was sending it.
<They crawl into your head and control your mind and body. >
“What are we supposed to do then?” pressed Nick.
<I can give you a small power. A power to defend against the Yeerks. That blue box you hold. >
Everyone looked at me. I gave the Andalite the box.
<You must place your hand on one side of the box. You will feel a shock it won’t hurt. >
“When I picked it up I felt a shock” I mentioned.
<You already have the power then. You do not need to touch the box. >
Tom and Nick pressed their hands against the box and a second later fell back.
“Whoa” they both said.
<You now have the power to morph. To touch a creature and absorb its DNA and become that animal. >
“You mean we can become animals?” Tom said.
<Yes exactly. > The Andalite started to seem very weak. <Do not stay in morph more than two hours or you will be trapped forever…now go… I will die now. >
“What? No! You can’t die!” I said starting to cry.
<Its too late I will die in seconds, > he said sadly <Go use your new power. Go save your planet. >
And then the Andalite died. We sat there for a while and eventually started to head back to my house.