Animorphs: The Hidden Trilogy- The Eighth

Chapter 1

Hi. I am Caleb.

Caleb only. I won't tell you my last name. I won't even assure you that it's my true name. I won't even tell you where I live. You could be one of them who wants to get me. Yeerks are everywhere and know me at a glance. And the Animorphs. Life since I moved in here became pretty hard and dangerous.

You might think I'm nuts but this is true. There are aliens here in Earth. Much more than just what you think. They are evil, parasitic slugs, slithering into your ears and invading your brain and everything in there. Your memories. Your body.  What's worse, your loved ones won't notice that there is an alien parasite inside your head, doing everything you should have done. Saying everything you should have said..

These alien parasites are called the Yeerks. And their victims are called Controllers. And they enslaved a lot more alien species than we can imagine. Gedds, Hork-Bajirs, Taxxons, Gavatrons, Leerans. . . and the list is still growing. Now they are in the process of enslaving humans.

And I think their very next target is me.

You may ask why would they want an Asian kid traveling around the world. Maybe because of my father. But Yeerks don't seem to have any interest in our money. It is because of my power to morph any animal I touch. Yes, any animal or insect or alien as long as it has a DNA. And no one on this Earth has that power except for me, some select individuals, the Animorphs, and Visser Three.

The Animorphs. Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Marco, and Cassie. I've known them before, since the day they met the dying Elfangor at the construction site. And then Ax. One of them now is a nothlit, which is what you will get when you stayed in a morph for two hours. You will be stuck as a morph forever. Scary, right?

Which made me more scared, considering what they will do if they ever caught me. The new Animorph guy, David, was forced by the Animorphs to morph a rat and be a nothlit.

A rat nothlit.

But I guess I understand them. It's better if I should be just stuck in a morph or anything. They know they can't risk being seen with a runaway chased by Yeerks. Me.

Not that they want to be with me in the first place, though. The Animorphs and I didn't exactly meet each other in good terms.

And it's enough.. more than enough for them to have a visser on their tails. And it's not just any visser. It's Visser Three.

Visser Three. The Abomination. How can I explain his evil? He is the only one who has an Andalite host and the power exclusive to Andalites to morph every single creature or monster he'd acquired at every corners of the universe. He is the head of the invasion of Earth, which, if successful, will be his contribution to the Yeerk Empire.

How come I know something that much? I have the power to morph, and it doesn't limit me to large animals only. As I have said, any animal, big or small, alien or not, can be acquired by touching it. To acquire it means to get its DNA and pass it to you. Neat, huh? But what I'm doing now isn't. I flew inside the barn as a fly.