Reviews of the Past
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Chapter 10 - Back from Dead
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I was still 35 and my life seemed to become worse by every second...
The guy who bought me finally didn´t have to pay a lot. Akrennian slaves are not that often, but none seemed to want a guy like me and the slave trader wasn´t very successful with selling either. So the guy grabbed the rope I was hanging on and pulled me down from the platform. I followed him unwillingly, but here were still too much people to start the runaway. So we were going away from the market and he was babbling something to me, but I didn´t listen. My only wish was getting away as soon as possible. In a more quiet street I kicked at his back, which caused him to stumble and fall to the ground. He lost grip of the rope and I could run away. But while I was running I could hear "Stop that Akrennian! Stop him! He is my slave, where are the guards when you need them!"
But I kept running. The bigger place filled with people was a good option to hide in there. Suddenly I heard the guards come. "Hey stop running!" I could hear. I bumped into some people accidentally and they shouted and were calling names at me which gave the guards the right direction to follow me. So I made my way into a different direction. Already panting I needed rest and a place to hide. But I found myself in a dead-end. The guards, plus the guy who bought me were right behind me. 'If I have to die now, I want to die as a free person' I thought to myself and turned around to face the guards and the human. The guards stopped and drew their laser blasters. "Don´t move you dirty slave!"
The human guy grimaced at them: "No! Don´t shoot him!"
I stormed at them to fight them and before I could reach them, I felt a stinging pain on my head. I was jumping, but I jumped at the empty air and reached the ground instead of one of my targets. All I could see was a blurry silhouette standing in front of me and it was very dizzy, but I thought I could hear someone shout "Nooo! Stop that shooting!" I could smell my blood before I felt unconscious and all I remember was my thoughts about my death.
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It took a while till I was able to open my eyes again. But some loud groaning woke me up. I thought I was dead. 'And why does my head hurt like hell?' I thought annoyed. I looked to the side where and realized I was in a trashy old hospital. The walls were dirty and looked like they never have been cleaned because they were built of old rusty metal plates. Beside me was a bed and a male human sat on it while a nurse put some bandages around his torso which seemed to hurt. I couldn´t hear that groanings anymore.
"Would you be so kind and stop that annoying groans for me? If my head has to take more of them, I swear me brain goes nuts!"
The guy looked at me and I fell into a shock mood when I saw it was the guy who bought me at the slave market.
"You?" I yelled.
The nurse stood up and left the room. "Guess I should come and see you later..."
The guy shrugged with a grin. "Well yeah, after you got some damage, I had to drag you here. Thanks to your incredible silly action of self-defense, I had to save you from being shot and got some wounds myself. But they are just some scratches."
"Oh nice, tell someone who wants to know..." I said, crossing my arms. "Why did you buy me anyway and who are you?!"
"I bought you because you seem to be the right guy for my mission. I need a skilled guy, right at your age and I heard Akrennians are a well-known species with special features I could use. By the way, Joseph Korso is my name."
"So Mr. Korso, you think I would go on a mission like a slave would do? Did you also know, Akrennians don´t play slaves?"
"I didn´t expect you being my slave. I will pay you for the work and you will be satisfied in the end for sure!"
"Only because you pay me wouldn´t mean I will be satisfied."
"It´s 'Captain Korso' just to let you know. I would rank you as my first mate, we go to get a fair mount of money."
"Would I also get my own room on your ship, enough food, girls, whatever I want?"
"Haha I see we have a deal here!"
"First I want to know what the mission is about and where does the money come from?! You don´t look like someone who is rich and does it for fun..."
"That´s right. Well, there is a ship called the Titan. It´s a huge ship which was created to build new planets. A guy called Sam Tucker once build it before the Drej blew up earth..."
"Blah-blah, what´s about the money?"
"Yes yes, the guy could get away before earth got destroyed and now the Drej hired me to find it. They will pay as much as they need to find the Titan and after we found it and hand it over to them, they pay us some extra cash."
"I didn´t know the Drej go on ship-hunt these days" I laughed slightly: "Ohhh my head..."
I grabbed at my head and was shocked when I felt something hard on the left side and my ear, where was my ear?!
"What the hell..." I looked at the guy.
"They had to replace a part of your skull with something and the most part of your ear got turned into ash when the guard shot it off."
I was in rage: "Couldn´t you tell me this a bit earlier?!"
The guy shrugged and ginned again.
"Well, they had to save your life somehow and with this look you will get every girl!" he blinked.
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah if they don´t think I am ugly now..."
I had to stay at the hospital for a week. They released Captain Korso earlier but he promised to come back. And after a week he did and got me and my things to his ship. It was a huge human vessel in a slender design. 'Must be fun to run this ship on high speed' I thought while entering it. I got a room all for myself. It wasn´t the most huge room, because the biggest room was already given to the Captain. But my room was bigger than the other cabins.
"But don´t you have some other people working for you? It could be hard to find that ship without any help..." I mentioned.
Korso carried a box into the room. I was going to use it for clothes and other stuff we bought before.
"Yes you are right about that and we will find a pilot and a navigator soon. Someone who can defend us with weapons could be useful too. I once was serving on earth military bases, but you don´t look like you learned something special?"
"My father was slave trader..." was all I could get out of my mouth. I uncomfortable, I couldn´t tell him that I never learned something 'useful'. I wasn´t a pilot, only could watch how people pilot ships. I also never learned to fight professionally or to get into the construction of ships and guns.
"Don´t worry, I didn´t hire you because I need a pilot or weapon's specialist. I need you for your sneaky and intelligent attitude. I hope you are the way I expect an Akrennian to be." He grinned and put one hand on my shoulder.
"Well I will give my best." A weak grin slipped over my face.
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Note from the Autor: This is the last chapter of this small story, But because I made up more stories with Preed in the main-role, I have a sequel of this story, called 'Renegade Survivor' called after the song, they officially used in the movie Titan AE. It is Preed's theme-song and Renegade Survivor was my very first fanfiction ever. So, if anybody wants to read more, I would say, just continue with Renegade Survivor. Thanks for reading~