Chapter 1
My name is Kelsey. Plain old Kelsey. I can't tell you anything else about me, like where I live or what my last name is. If I did, I might get killed. Or worse. It's scary, you know, to live your life in fear. To know that there's the ever-present fact that you or one of your friends might get killed, or turned into Controllers, or captured. And I also bet that you are wondering what a Controller is. And why I am so afraid of getting made into one. Well, it's a long story. But I have time. All the time in the world.
Only a month ago, I lived a normal life. I got up in the morning, got dressed, got breakfast, went to school, came home, got a snack, did homework, got a bath, and went to bed. And I still do all of those things. But back then, defending Earth from Yeerks was never part of my busy schedule. Never. Morphing other animals to do it wasn't there either. Or meeting an Andalite, or having to worry about Earth's very existance.
Okay. I bet now that you are really confused. Let's start with a basic question, like, WHAT ON EARTH AM I TALKING ABOUT?! Well, that's kind of hard to explain. You see, there are these things called Yeerks that are coming to take over this planet. Okay, they're already here. They are all over, living among us in human bodies. That's why we Animorphs can't trust anyone. Even you. Because you might be a Controller. We don't know. Only Ax would. Anyway, a Controller is a person who has been infested by a Yeerk. The Yeerk gets into your head by crawling in through your ear canal and flattening out. Then it wraps itself around your brain, absorbing your every thought and memory. It has to do this, so that it can control your body, ensure that you act like yourself. So the Yeerk won't arouse suspicion. Then, you are a Controller.
The Yeerks are trying to take over the universe. They already have control over many races that we know of. Of course, there are others. Other races that the Yeerks have taken over and destroyed. That's why we, the Animorphs, have to stop them. We can't let them take over us, humans. And the other races in the galaxy that we don't know of. We can't let them infest us like they did to the Hork-Bajir. Once, they were peaceful creatures with long blades on their elbows and knees and other parts of their bodies. But when they were infested, the Yeerks turned them into ruthless killing machienes. And they'll do the same to us if we don't fight back.