Just Another Adventure

Disclaimer: I do not own Jak, Daxter or anything else created by the lovely Naughty Dog.

Nirvana: Well, It's good to be back in Jak and Daxter Fanfiction. Just as I'm finishing up my other FMA fic. (sigh) I'll miss it dearly.

Envy: (snorts) Liar.

Nirvana: (pats Envy's head) This is my new muse. Blaz decided to go and quit on me.(mumbles) evil, golden-eyed muse...

ON WITH THE STORY!

"Daxter... have you ever thought whatit would be like to go back home?" Jak asked, his arms crossed behind his head, blue eyes shielded from the world.

Daxter looked up from a game of cards he was playing with Tess and tapped his chin. The sun shown brightly down onto the high plateau above Haven Forest and it made for the perfect outing which everbody gladly--besides Torn--joined in. "Don't know... never really gave it much thought after it ended up that your destiny was to stay in Haven, where you were born and all. Why? Missing the beautiful sands and the giant puddles of EVIL dark eco?"

Jak just gave a snort of laughter and stretched his right hand above him, catching the light on a small golden ring. It winked playfully and the blonde hero just smiled over at the ottsel. "Just wondering... if anything's changed or if we did go back, if we could change the past to change the future without Baron Praxis running Haven and possibly no Metal Heads... Just a thought."

"You think too much." Daxter said firmly and stole some of Tess's homemade mince pies. "It's hard on the brain. Especially one as frail as yours. Too much Dark Eco is unhealthy for the Brain."

"What Brain?" Keira said teasingly as she walked up the hill, a bottle of water in one hand. She grinned down at Jak who had fallen asleep and uncorked her bottle. "Shh... quiet Daxter!" She hissed as the ottsel was making obnixiously loud chomping noises. She stood above him and tilted the bottle, icy cold water splashing over his face and bare chest. He sat up, sputtering loudly, his blonde hair wet and limp against his back.

"Keira! What was that for? I was sleeping peacefully!" Keira gave a quick giggle before dropping her bottle and running in the opposite direction as the hero took off after her. "This is how you repay the hero of 3! Count 'em, THREE adventures! And all have to do with saving the world? Ungrateful, little..." Jak's further mumbling was cut off as Ashelin stood up behind Jak and slid a piece of ice down his shorts.

Torn even let out a bark out laughter as the so-called hero, jumped around like a kangaroo, trying to shake the ice out of his pants, further freezing his bum. "What is it? Tortue-Jak-to-insanity Day?"

Daxter looked up at that, his hands digging around the pockets of his shorts for a piece of chocolate he knew he had put there. "I thought that's whatPraxis did? He sure gave you an evil Dark side..." Keira continued to chase Jak as he grinned at her. "Nevermind... weird lovebirds..."

Keira chased Jak to the edge of the cliff where a large pool of water was at the bottom, and grinned triumpthanely. "Ha! I got you! You can't escape!"

Jak smirked and backed up to the edge. "Are you so sure about that?" He slowly asked and went even further, his feet slipping slightly. Keira nodded, still grinning and suddenly Jak jumped off the ledge and dove down. Keira, shocked, stood still until she scrambled to the edge and looked down, glaring at the figure that was hovering only two feet from her nose.

"Hiya, Keira." Light Jak said happily as his transparent wings beated slowly, pulling him back up to the cliff edge, landing him smoothly and taking the 'Holy Stance'. "You must learn to never underestimate the powers of Jak. He is very cunning as you know."

Daxter scrambled up the blue shoulder and high-fived the angel. "That's our boy!"

Ashelin walked up, a pair of sunglasses resting on her head as Light Jak changed back to Jak, shaking his head and shielding his eyes for a moment. "Geeze... He might want to warn me next time!" The blonde grumbled, running a hand through wind-blown hair.

"Jak, what are you going to do know? Apparantly the world doesn't need saving at the moment, so, what? Retire? Get a family?" Ashelin asked, shifting her weight to the other foot, her green eyes commanding, but with an unusal softness in them that wasn't there three years ago.

Jak, who was unprepared for the question, blinked and stuttered slightly. "I don't know... I've always gone and done wild missions.. protecting the world from Dark Eco people, saving a measly city from wild beasts and against all odds, save the rest of the universe possibly! It's going to be unusally boring now..."

Daxter nodded. "Yeah! What are we supposed to do? And I'm not one to go willingly looking for trouble!" Everybody agreed on that and Tess pulled down her ottsel counterpart, taking him over to where a pool of water was.

"I guess all we have to do is wait until another wild, heart-stopping adventure comes along, eh, Dax?" Jak looked around until he spotted the orange animal and then sighed, leaning against a tree, it's hard, smooth bark soothing to his back. He closed his eyes and heard Ashelin shuffle away on her bare feet and then felt Keira lean against the back of the tree he was on.

They were in a peaceful silence, the only sounds of Torn and Ashelin's bickering, Daxter's splashing and Sig's loud voice as he retold his more... famous stories to Seem. Jak opened one blue eye as he surveyed the forest that was slowly growing up again.

After the war broke out and the MetaPedes took over the forest and everything died or was tainted with Dark Eco, it was hard work restoring it to it's former, green, lush foresty self. But, with Samos's help, everything was pulled back, the walls rebuilt and the Metalpedes killed.

Something about the War didn't seem right to Jak. It ended as soon as the Dark Maker ship was destroyed. Not a single Metal Head had been spotted for the last ten months and that included the patrols that Sig had going in the Wasteland. They left without a scuffle and seemed to disappear from the Earth.

Almost as if they were--

"It looks like you won't have to wait long." Keira interrupted his musings and Jak pushed himself up, off the tree, looking off in the direction she was pointing to a solider that was coming on the back of azoomer, several other zoomers hooked up to his. Ashelin stood up and they stopped before her.

"Governor Ashelin! Lord Sig!There has been terrible word from the Wasteland! Four Wastelanders who had been sent on patrol now just showed up, two dead and the other two too insane to speak properly!" Jak walked over silently, his brows furrowed together as he pulled on his tunic and redid his buckles.

"Where are they?" Sig demanded, standing up, his PeaceMaker in one hand and his knife in the other. The browned man who had reported to them nodded quickly and gestured to a zoomer.

"They are being held in the Palace's Cold Room, being treated for as we speak. We must hurry back to the Wasteland before the two who are alive cannot form a coherent line of thought!"

Jak followed them and Daxter scrambled up onto his shoulder, grinning broadly as Tess got on Keira's shoulder. "Well, at least now we won't be horribly bored!"

Jak just frowned and took the offered zoomer his thoughts swirling about the insanity and death of the four wastelanders. 'What could cause a Wastelander to go insane?' Keira climbed on behind him, her arms hanging loosley on his waist. 'The Dark Makers didn't and neither did Metal Heads... what could bother them so?'

As the group of nine sped towards the blue transport that would take them toSpargus, a quiet feline-like creature perked it's ears up, unnatural red eyes swimming with emotions as it watched the group leave. It slunk out of a tree and disappeared with a flash of bright orange smoke.

Does anybody like it? Updates will be like... err... once a week or so.. remember, I have school.