Miss.Ecofreak: I made it at last! I finished Growing Up In Haven City and started this sequel

Zakura: If you haven't read the first story, maybe this will give you a clue on what it was all about, if not... go back and read it!

Miss.Ecofreak: and don't forget to tell me what you think

Intro:

Growing up.

For wild animals, that's the most dangerous part of life.

That goes for the elves in Haven City as well, I should know, I had the hardest childhood of all.

As a kid I had a happy life.

I was sort of a princess, since my uncle ruled the city and his only heirs were my mother and me.

But I didn't care about that at that time.

I just wanted to have fun with my friends, Ashelin Praxis and the Elfin brothers, Erol and Cornelius.

It was too good to last.

When I was five, a terrible fire broke out in my uncle's house.

My uncle, and the city's king, died in that fire, and Cedrik Praxis, my dad's brother and Ashelin's father took over leadership.

And it got even worse.

One by one, my friends were sent of to the krimson school, were they were trained to become the baron's trusted warriors.

It was no good school though; Cornelius can tell you all about that.

He got expelled, not because he didn't fit as a crimson guard, but because he hated the baron, because he had seen with his own eyes what really happened to my uncle.

My father wanted me to go to the KG-school as well, but my mother refused.

She left my father and got married to another man, Jake.

In some ways I felt happier now that my father and my uncle, Baron Praxis, could no longer control my life.

I joined the underground with Cornelius, where I also met his new friend Tanya the sparrowflut.

But my mother's new marriage was short.

Soon after the birth of my little brother, his father disappeared and soon after that, mom was killed by metalheads.

My brother was taken in by the underground. And thank the precursors for that. If the baron's guards had found him he would be dead.

It was shortly after my mother's death that I met Daxter, an ottsel determined to bust his best friend out of prison (and to win the heart of Haven's female population but that's another story)

Cornelius and I received help from an old friend in the KG named Tetra and managed to break into the prison.

Things didn't work out exactly as planned, sure, Daxter saved his friend but the rest of us were captured.

Cornelius met his brother again, who had now become the commander of the krimson guards.

It was no happy reunion though, shortly after that Cornelius was thrown out to the Wasteland, Tanya told me later he had been killed by metalheads.

Tanya, Tetra and I managed to escape, but things weren't going better outside the prison.

My little brother had disappeared, and the citizens had one last hope in winning this war. That one hope was Daxter, or more precisely his friend Jak.

Though it seemed hopeless, after witnessing the death of Baron Praxis, Jak managed to break into the metal heads nest, where he rescued my little brother and destroyed the metal heads leader.

After that, things got even more complicated.

My brother was sent back to the past so he could grow up in safety.

The kid had a destiny he had to fulfill, but to do it, he had to grow up faster than natural, I learned from Pecker the moncaw that he had already returned to the present, actually he came back two years before he left!

The man who was seen as the city's savior…

He was my brother.

Kate Praxis

Heir of Mar and princess in Haven City.