Post by The Ellimist on Jul 23, 2009 16:42:49 GMT -6
Believe it or not, the earth is under attack. It's a threat you can't see, because it's inside of your neighbor, your mailman, your pastor...anyone, maybe even you. It's inside, controlling them, knowing everything about them, and acting just like them. It's a threat called the Yeerks.
So, what exactly is a Yeerk? It's not much, really. Just a big slug. But that big slug crawls into your ear and wraps itself around your brain, taking over your body. Your trapped in a living hell, able to think and feel, but not act on your own free will. You want to scream, but you can't. You want to warn your family, your friends...but instead the Yeerk tries to trick them, to lure them into becoming unwitting hosts, using method's like the Sharing...a combination boy scouts and girl scouts type organization completely controlled by the Yeerks.
But there is hope. Five children, and an alien aristh, a cadet in the alien military. What good could five ordinary children do, you wonder. But these are no ordinary children. They were visited by a good alien, a warrior from a race called the Andalites. The Andalites fight to stop the Yeerks, and Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, in his dying act, gave us hope. He broke the Andalite laws and gave these five children the power to morph. To absorb the DNA of any animal they touch, and then become that animal.
It's a gift, yes. A chance to fight! A chance to save the world from the unseen foe. But it is also a curse, for stay in a morph longer than two hours and you are trapped...forever.
Shortly after receiving their gift these five children met with another Andalite, Elfangor's younger brother. Aximili-Esgarouth-Isthil, a mere child himself, had been stranded on the planet Earth after the ship that carried he and his brother had been attacked.
There is also a third Andalite to this story...but he is one you would not want to encounter, for he is no longer in control. That's right, the one and only Andalite controller, Visser Three. It was he who murdered Elfangor, and it is he who is in charge of the Yeerk invasion of Earth.
The five children, known as the Animorphs, fight to protect the earth. The Yeerks think they are Andalites, and it is essential that they continue to think this, or else they will track down the Animorphs and kill them...or worse.
Recently the Animorphs came into possession of the Escafil Device, the very piece of technology that gave them their ability to morph. They used it to enable a boy named David to join their cause, but David turned against them, and they trapped him in morph as a rat.
Now it is your chance to join the fight...will you be taken as a controller, or can you discover the Animorphs' secret and join their fight?