They realised then that the threat to Earth was real, and resolved to carry out Elfangor's last wish - to fight the Yeerks using the Andalite morphing power. Hiding from him and his force of human- Controllers, the group watched helplessly as the Visser morphed into a huge, alien beast and devoured Elfangor. Shortly afterwards, the Yeerk leader known as Visser Three arrived. Knowing that the Yeerks would follow him to the construction site, Elfangor chose to tell the five humans of the terrible threat that the Yeerks posed to Earth, and - breaking the Andalite law of Seerow's Kindness - shared with them the morphing power, explaining its function and telling them that they must use it to defend their world against the Yeerks. Elfangor's fighter was shot down, crash-landing in the same construction site.ĭrawn in by curiosity, the group investigated the strange spacecraft, and met Elfangor.

Above them, the fighter of Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, an Andalite Prince, was engaged in battle with Yeerk forces. The five teenagers who would become the Animorphs - Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Marco and Tobias - were walking home from school one night, and decided to take a shortcut through an abandoned construction site. We could become any animal we touched, the Andalite told us. But it was the power that turned fear into obligation, that laid the weight on our unready shoulders. Without the power the knowledge would have just been a worm of fear eating up our insides.

There was the destructive worm of knowledge: You are not alone. 'We were five kids taking a shortcut home from the mall at night.

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