A few words about this story: I do not own main character or the names of the species I used in this story.
This story is about Preed's past. I wrote this from his point of view and in each chapter he tells us about what happened in his life. The chapters are parted in the years of his life, so the title of each chapter tells us how old Preed was at that time. I have read many other people's versions of Preed's past and now I made my own version. I tried to be as close as possible on logics and facts I got to know from the movie Titan AE and franchise like trading cards, books etc to get as much as information as possible. I want my story to make sense. You all know Cale's and Akima's story and I have seen many of you wished there would be a 'Peed's Story' too. So, now here you get the 'Preed's Story'. *grin*
Please note: Some of the following chapters have detailed mature content and because this story will be 'rated T' here and not 'MA' content, I need to re-write some stuff. If you want to read the original 'MA' chapters, please send me a PM.
Thanks for reading~
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Reviews of the Past
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Preed belongs to Titan AE, Don Bluth and Fox Animation Studios-
All rights lay by them.
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Chapter 1 - Four Years
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This is a small review of my life at the time when I was four years old.
I lived with my parents in a small house in one of the not so good districts of Imea, my home town where I was born.
My mom was all day home and tought me the things I had to know since home-schooling is the typical way to teach children on my home planet.
My dad was gone nearly every day. He worked as a slave trader, but he wasn´t that successful with it.
But at least we had our own house, a vehicle for interstellar traveling and a small garden were I played most of the time.
I never was much interested in the stuff my mom tried to teach me.
Usually most members of my species become what their parents are. So my mom told me everything about the job, my dad worked for.
But I was a bad student and mostly didn´t listen. Or the stuff my mom told me just went into one ear and escaped my head through the other ear again.
"Preedex" someone shouted from inside the house.
I looked up and ran into the house again, facing a female Akrennian with dark brown skin and grey colored markings. She wore
a dark green horn on her nose and the only thing she resembled me was her reddish noseplates.
My eyes met with her green eyes: "Yes?" I asked.
"Come, it´s time for home schooling now, let's go into the lesson-room"
"Aw, please, can´t I play some more 5 minutes? I wanted to ask Lil if she has time to play with me" I begged.
"No, I am sorry, you have to learn today, at least for one hour." she said taking my hand.
I walked with her into the lesson-room.
We entered a room which was all grey colored and a table and 2 chairs with a small closet filled with books was all you could see.
The room didn´t even have a window.
Mom said, it´s good because you don´t know how fast time goes by when you can´t look out of the window.
She placed me on one of the chairs and sat herself at the other side of the table.
"Now, yesterday you got to know that slave trading is a job where a guy sells people of different species to earn money. Today, I teach you how that looks like."
"I want to draw something!" I said, resting one hand on my cheek-bone.
My mom stood up again and reached me a sheet and some pens.
"Here you go, but draw something related about the things I tell you now. Maybe you draw your dad selling a slave, ok?"
"Yes I draw my dad!" I said and began to draw a mud-grey colored Akrennian with bright grey markings and huge yellow eyes.
My mom talked about how my father advertises his slaves, what he does, how he gets people buying from him and what kind of species he mostly sells.
It was all boring if I wouldn´t be allowed to draw what I got to know.
It helped a bit to keep it in mind and my mom had something in her hands to show my dad how I have learned today.
After the lesson was over, we stood up.
She took the picture and hung it up the wall in our dining room.
"You could be proud today, you have learned very well" she said.
"No you can go out again. I will call you for dinner."
I went out and crossed the garden to reach the neighbor house.
There my only friend Lil was at home.
Her parents were kind of arrogant and always were afraid about their daughter.
Mostly she wasn´t even allowed to play outside because it was 'too dangerous'.
But the sun was shining and it was such a pretty day, they just had to allow her today.
I knocked at the door.
"Helloooo, it´s me, are you in there?"
Someone came to the door.
It was Lil's mom.
She looked down at me and pleased me to enter.
"Hey Lil, your little friend came for a visit!" she shouted, and right after a second I heard some footsteps from above.
A small girl Akrennian stormed down the stairs.
She wore a small dress with flowers on it. Her skin color was orange with dark brown stripes and bright yellow markings.
"Hi Preed, Mom, can we play outside?"
"Yes, but I call you for dinner soon, don´t go out of our garden!" her mom said.
"Alright, see you" she said and we left the house.
We liked to roleplay animals we knew from movies and theaters.
For example we played 'Ripch'zta' or 'Malinesa'.
The Ripch'zta is a flying animal which is closely related to us, but it is huge and eats us and other animals. It is a very dangerous animal. My mom told me, one of my uncles got killed by one when he made a trip to the mountains.
And my dad told me about if I don´t listen, I get catched by one some day, because that´s what will happen to all children who don´t follow the rules.
The Malinesa is a huge marine animal, living in our oceans and well-known for eating whole ships. I had one as a plush animal. It was the only stuffed animal I had since my parents never bought me anything I wanted to have.
I pleased my mom to buy me a plush doll but she said, I should make one myself.
So I took a pillow, a pen and some rubber bands when I was 3 years old and made myself a plush doll.
After my dad found out, I used his expensive neck pillow for my crafting, he slapped me right across the face. But he didn´t take it away luckily.
Maybe my mom pleased him to let me have it.
"Preed, come in for dinner!" I heard my mom shouting.
"Aw I don´t wanna go now." I said frustrated.
"You must go, my mom also will shout soon. Maybe we can play tomorrow again." Lil said with a grin.
I stood up and ran back through our garden into the house I lived in.
The table was already ready for dinner and dad came back from work, too.
"Hi Dad," I went to the picture my mom hung up on the wall some hours ago: "Look what I have drawn!"
He came to the picture.
"Wow, is that me? You need to practise more, but I see you get what my job is like" he said petting my head.
"Hey, stop that!" I truly didn´t like it if anybody treated me like a cute 'something'.
I went to the table and sat down.
My mom came with the dishes and my dad finally came after he got his bag and jacket into his office room.
"So, how was your day, Love?" my mom said.
"It wasn´t that good. I had a slave none wanted to buy and that for days now. I think I need to send him to the trashed." he shook his head.
"I played with Lil today" I threw in. I thought, maybe my dad would get happy if he knows at least I had some fun.
"That´s nice, my son," he said and turned to his wife again: "If I don´t sell something in the next days, I need to visit a new space port or maybe sell here on our planet."
"But that is illegal!" my mom said with a bit scared voice.
"I know, but we don´t have another choise." he said shaking his head.
"Maybe I can help you selling, Daddy?" I threw in again.
"This is not a kindergarten-show! Do you want to get killed by a Mantrin or other alien species only for trying to help me? Slave trading is a tough business. You are too small yet to understand. Now go up and play in your room." he barked, pointing up with a finger.
I was kind of sad and stood up from my chair walking upstairs.
"Was that necessary? He just tried to make you happy..."
"Is it good to spoofed him with lies how easy life is?"
"No, but he is just 4 now. You can´t speak with him like that!"
"You see I can. Now he at least shuts up, doesn´t he?"
"Yeah, maybe he is sad now about how harsh you have been and he just meant it good with you."
Late at night I was sleeping in my bed.
My parents also were already in bed.
Suddenly I woke up by some noise of deep loud grumbling and flash lights.
It was a thunderstorm.
How I was hating thunderstorms.
I was alone in my dark room and tried to fall asleep again.
But suddenly I heard an extreme loud crash.
I shot up in my bed and didn´t know what it was at first.
When I heard another grumble, I noticed it was still the thunderstorm which just came near.
I took my plush doll and ran out of my room.
Crossing the dark corridor on the upper level of our house I could feel how my legs were weak and the small hair on my back and neck raised up.
When I reached the door of my parent's bed room, I grabbed the door knob with my hands, but it didn´t fall open.
I shouted: "Let me in, get up, please, I am afraid, I can´t sleep, I wanna sleep with you!"
At the other side of the door, my mom and dad were laying in their bed already awake from the loud storm.
"I should have known he would come." my dad said tired.
"Well, shouldn´t we open the door?"
"No, if we let him in again, he will come the next time and then he will run to us till he is adult." my dad refused.
"But he´s afraid. He is so small, it´s just normal he is afraid."
"Yes that´s true, but look, we took him all these years ago when he cried, and now we see how it will end. I don´t want him here in my bed anymore. He is old enough to learn that damn thunder is not harming anything!" my dad said crossing his arms.
Suddenly a loud crash was to hear. The room was I waiting in, enlightened for a millisecond and I screamed in shock. "Let me in, please let me in!" I banged my fists against the door.
"NO!" I heard my dad shout.
It was so loud I backed away from the door.
"Go back into your room Preed" I heard my mom shouting quietly.
I sank to the floor and grabbed my plush doll.
With that I knew, they never would help me in this situation anymore.
I tried to get into their bed a couple of times in my life again when a storm was outside, but it always was the same result.
When I got older, I didn´t try it again. Just hid myself under the cover sheets or build myself a cave where I felt save in.