Fan Fiction ❯ Deep Thoughts ❯ Deep Thoughts ( Prologue )

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Deep Thoughts

On a planet far away from here there was an alien species. They look similar to wolves but they have been crossed with dragons. Their front paws look like fur covered human hands. If you look into there eyes you see and intellect far beyond any human. Their hind feet are dog like but they don't have paw pads. Instead they have coarse thick fur on the bottoms of their feet. They also have very large wings. Another difference from wolves is that their muzzles make up at least two thirds of the length of the head. Their ears are also the length of the head. They are called Sketti. One in particular looks like he has seen death many times. He sits on the top of a hill in the middle of a very, very large farm. The Sketti is sitting with his hind legs stretched out in front of him. He is leaning back upon his fore talons all the while starring up at the sky.

The sky is just spackled and dotted with bright flickering stars. There is no recognizable constellations or patterns in the stars. Well at least not to a human. It's so alien to any body who had never been there. The large farm was so big that it could cover the entire United States easily. At least 30,000 Sketti worked for the farm. Most of them worked off planet on ships and other farms that belong to the very extensive Skyotal Trade Franchise. Only 300 sketi lived there when it wasn't planting or harvesting time, but when it was all of a sudden the population doubled.

The Sketti looked down at his feet and let out a sigh. Why is life how it is? Why do we always have to fight? The Sketti was about 150 years old. In Sketti years he was only a teenager, but he had wisdom far beyond his years.

"Where are you Trio?" Another Sketti bellowed. Trio was the name of the Sketti sitting on the hill. The Sketti calling for him was his mate Uno. "Oh there you are dear. Why don't you come back?" Uno was only 40 years younger than Trio, but the age difference didn't matter to them they where soul mates. They loved each other too much to care what every body said. So far they had 6 litters of pups on the ground.

"No Uno. I don't want to leave here. It's to peaceful."

Uno walked over and sat down beside him on her haunches. "Hum, the sky is nice and clear. The stars are shining brightly to." She looks at her mate. Trio is once again starring at the sky. An Uno look up at the sky herself and lies down on her back. " Trio your only like this when you have something on your mind." Trio grunted at her. Uno sat up as Trio looked at her. "Well what is on you mind dearest. You can tell me. You know that." Trio looked back up at the night sky and sighed.

"I'm just thinkin."

Uno slowly shook her head, "About what?"

Trio looked at her and shrugged "Just stuff."

Uno rolled her eyes. Trio can be such a kid at times "What stuff?"

Trio realized that there was no way out of this argument. He let out a short bark of laughter. "Well I was just wondering why is life how it is."

Uno looked at him very seriously. "AND…"

Trio looked at her and laughed again. When he got done laughing he answered her. "And why do we always have to fight."

Uno sighed and snuggled up against him reaching up to scratch him behind his right ear. "Well I can answer your first question."

Trio let out a low bass like rumble of enjoyment. He turned and looked at her. Uno's bright copper colored eyes gleamed with merriment. Trio licked the side of her blue iridescent muzzle. "Will you tell me the answer Kochay?"

Uno gave Trio a really toothy grin. "What if I don't want to?"

Trio chuckled at her. Then gave her a smirk "Now whose acting like a child."

Uno lightly smacked him. Then she started to laugh. "See Trio we have to fight in order to protect our way of life. You know how Clyde is trying to destroy Skyotal."

Trio looked up at the sky. "Yeah I know that. But can't we solve that problem without fighting."

Uno looked at him them looked up at the sky. "You grew up on earth, right." Trio nodded, keeping his eyes on one of Skybo's three moons. "Well your mother's the Queen, right, and you're the prince of the Sketti." Trio looked at her once again and nodded at her not making a sound. Uno looked at him knowing that she was hitting a soft spot. She nuzzled his cheek and continued. "Trio I was born here at Skyotal and when I was 2 years old I had to have daily history lessons till I was 6 years old." Trio smiled remembering how Thundra had taught him all the history of the Sketti when she could. Trio waved one of his talons at her to continue. "See in those lesson they told us of the one time Clyde got past our defenses and almost wiped up out. We had to evacuate Skyotal for the first time, it wasn't even safe to stay on planet, and so we opened up a gate to TarQuach moisture farm on Travchurn. TarQuach only had the desert Sketti living their and was designed for them. They couldn't even support us food and water wise. They agreed, after 6 months of planning and working, to help us get our home back. In that 6 months Skyotal was in ruins we have just now gotten the farm back to normal."

Trio looked at Uno in complete shock. "So what happened? I've never heard this part of our history."

Uno laughed but then became serious. "We lost half out number after we attacked them."

A tear slipped down his cheek. "Did we win?"

Uno nodded. "Yes we did win but after that we fought very hard to protect out home. We also helped the other farms when they needed help, especially TarQuach." Uno looked up at the sky. The moon was very high. "Look it's late we need to get to bed dear."

Trio nodded and got up to go back to the mansion that they lived in with the other high ranking clans and families. "Hey Uno, I'll race yah."

Uno laughed, "You know I can't run in my condition."

"What condition?" Trio said jokingly.

"What condition?! Geeze are you that hard headed or have you already forgot." Uno grumbled at Trio.

"I'm just kidding Kochay. I know that you can't run when you're pregnant. Come on we'll walk back." Trio walked on Uno's left side with his wing draping over her back. They were the model parents and mates. They loved each other so much they couldn't stand to be apart for a long time. They would rather die the leave each other.

Uno and Trio finally got back to the mansion and went to bed only to be woken up 4 hours later by the other Sketti of the Gundana Squadron and their eldest son Boshkar who still lived with them cause he hadn't found the right mate yet.

The End =====> or is it????

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