Yasu XIII hey everyone! I hope your summer is going good :!!!!! welcome to TribulationsI: Revelations, this is a basic re-telling the game with an extra OC.
I own nothing when it come to Jak and Daxter. I don't even know what it is! (shifty eyes) I'm joking, I know what it is... I just don't own any of it, I do own the half of the story line that includes Michelle.
Summary-Michelle or Ella, lives with her foster mother the Bird Lady. All is fine in there's little village of Sandover. But when Jak and Daxter are up to their old tricks again, they get in trouble and are bring Ella along for the wild ride!
Tribulations noun-
An experience that tests one's endurance, patience, or faith.
Revelations noun-
something revealed or disclosed, a striking disclosure, as of something not before realized.
TribulationsI: Revelations
Chapter 1
Miss Independent
I hear low whispers.
Both of them act as if I'm an idoit, like I can't hear you two walking around the Bird Lady's hut! I dare not to move, I don't trust either of them. Damn it! Now I have to pee, why does these things happen to people when they don't want to go on another crazy adverture?
"Pss, Ella?" I roll my eyes, I slow my breathing down. I could hear them move across the floor to my bed. I AM NOT GETTING OUT OF BED. My body is looking up to the celing, then a shock of that I can't breath sends me sitting up. They covered my mouth, so I would get up!
I glare to the right them, a blonde with green roots gave his I'M THE INNOCENT ONE look to me. Yeah right. Why was he all dressed in his blue tunic and white and brown ties? He had his metal on his shoulder and arm, and why did he have his goggles on already? It wasn't even the afternoon! Then it hit me, they were going on an adverture again.
"No." I whisper and lay back down, I wasn't gonna look at Daxter because he'll figure out a way to make me go, I know it from the bottom of my soul. I Daxter say some words, but I'm floating back into sleep.
When I woke again, I could hear Keira's voice.
"Hello. Um, do you know where... Jak and Daxter are?" My foster mother made a sound and knocked on my door.
"Michelle, do you know where Jak and Daxter are?" 'hopeful in the buttom of a pit.' I think to myself as I sit up and look at my mother; with her yellow bird hat, I let out a small groan and lay back. The roof looked sooo much better then her hat, a pile of Yakow crap looked better then her hat!! I could hear my mother walk back to Keira.
"She doesn't know deary." I hear a low sigh from Keira, then her voice pipe up. "Could you ask Ella if she'll come with me to find them!" I let out another groan, this time louder. This one meant: NO!!! NOT IF THE PRECURSOR'S TOLD ME TO!
"I'll go ask her." Or in this case, I'll go order her too. I sit up and glare at her as she walks in. "Michelle dear, go help Keira find those boys." I glare at her again and slide out of my bed into my small shoes.
I love my shoes, dark brown they covered my ankles and they had the white ties that everybody wore in the village. I grab my goggles and walk out to a teal haired girl with navy blue roots. She wore those ugly purple overalls with that gross white tank top with her brown sandals/ boots with the white ties that everyone in the village basiclly had, and on her fore arms too. I had mine only on my forearms, we both wore brown gloves a gift from Jak on our birthdays. Hers for mech stuff and mine for bird stuff. Both of our ties peeked out of the top of our gloves. I close my eyes and she was teal.
"Stop that." The Bird Lady hissed as she walks over to Keria. I let out another loud groan. "I donno where they boys are Ker, maybe you could look for them yourself."
"Michelle, go help Keria dear find those two boys. Keria, I think your father should put those two on short leashes." Keria and me smile and both walk out of the hut.
"Well Ella, let's go to my hut frist and talk to daddy." I let out another sigh crossed with a yawn and we make our way up the wooden bridge to the island of the coast. Keria walks up the steps to her house as I stare down to the ocean below. I lay down on the grass and stare into the waters below, I let my green hair hang down. I could see my eyes in the waters below, everyone in Sandover Village had blue or green eyes. I had green eyes like Keria, but a little lighter.
I had a bluish grey dress on that went all the way down to my knees, but they had a slit going up each side. When I trun 12 the Bird Lady made me wear black shorts underneth. I had white ties sewn on to the front part of the dress at the top near the neck, the black goggles that Jak and Daxter gave me for my last birthday hung loose on my neck.
Keria sat down beside me and looked out to the ocean.
"Man Ella, you can daydream fast eh?"
"Hmm?" I mubble, since a certain cloud reminded me of something, she laid back on the grass and we watched the clouds pass by.
"Soo, what did Samos say?" Keria let out a sigh and crossed her legs at the ankles. "The boys are big trouble, the Fisherman says that his boat is missing. So that means-"
"They went Misty Island!" I sit up fast and look to Keria. She makes a face and nods.
"How did you-"
"MICHELLE!!!" We both wince at the sound of my foster mother, the Bird Lady yelling my name at the highest pitch in the whole world. I rumb my ears and look to Keria.
"I think you should go, I'll send the boys to find you when they come back." I nod and shrug at the same time. I stand and start to run, I yell over my shoulder to Keria.
"Bye Keria!" I run over the bridge and jump over a couple rocks and slid into my hut. The Bird Lady jumps at the sight of me and looks out the door.
"Michelle, that was fast." I nod and sit on her bed. She goes back to looking out the window.
"Um, mother? What did you want me for?" she looks back at me then out the window. She walks over and make a loud hawk call, a big brown bird lands beside me. I rumb his head, I liked bird that could hang off my arm or sit in my hand.
"Michelle, since your getting older, I think it's time for you to watch over a hawk or any kind of bird. Deathen needs someone to look after him for a little while, could you do it?" I nod and reach my arm to him, he jumps on arm.
"He's kinda cute, don't you-"
"WHAAAAAT?!" I winced at Daxter's yell, I look to the Bird Lady, she motions for me to leave. I bolt into motion, and I run up the hill; and over the bridge to Samos' hut. Deathen flies over head and lands on the top of the hut. I stop at the bottom of the stairs, and listen closly.
"Gol Acheron, the Sage." I came into the middle of Samos talking. "But he lives far to the north, far, far to the north. Nobody has spoken to him in ages. I would teleport you there, but I can't do that either. None of the three sages that maintain the other teleporter gates have seen fit to turn their ends on for quite a while!"
Samos pauses as though thinking about something, and I listen more intently when he begins to speak again, "The only other way is North by foot through the Fire Canyon. But its volcanic soil is hot enough to melt precursor metal; you can't just walk through it." I sit down on the wood stairs as Keria's voice appears. Why would they want to go through Fire Canyon anyways?
"But you could fly over it, if you had a zoomer equipped with a heat shield. I just happen to be working on such a thing at this very moment. All I would need is twenty powercell's to give it enough energy to withstand the canyons heat; isn't that right Daddy?" I think about the power cells, I remember that I have my very own powercell under my bed, The Bird Lady has one in her dresser.
"Yes... Keira, that might work, but where are a boy, and a half," I hear Samos' staff connect with something, most likely Daxter's head. "going to get twenty power cells?"
"From the villagers!" Keira begins to talk again, "most of them have a powercell or two stashed away somewhere. And even if they aren't willing to just give them away, greasing their palms with a few precursor orbs should do the trick. And I bet there are even more of them out in the wilds just waiting for some brave adventurer to find." It wasn't hard to figure out who she was talking to, but instead of the Silent Wonder answering she got a remark from Daxter.
"Well we've got the brave adventurer at least!"
"Brave adventurer? You two couldn't find your way out of the village without training!" and there's Samos putting the guys down again. I honestly think that he likes being mean to Daxter, maybe that's why he likes to pick on me? "Before you do anything else, you'd better go through the warp gate and get some practice on Geyser Rock."
"Uh, we won't find anymore of that dark, gooey eco stuff will we? 'Cause I'd hate to fall in again and turn into you!" Daxter makes me laugh, all the time. I walk up to the hut and see it glow.
"Get in there! Before I turn you both into ferns!" I stood at the door and waved at Keria.
"What happened up here?" I ask as she walks by me. She shakes he head and smiles.
"You'll see when they come back, it'll blow your mind away." I smile at her and follow her down to her room. I stop and trun around and look out at the sea, I sit down and close my eyes. Deathen flew over head, my eyes begin to close as he flies away.
Michelle, that was my name. Every since Samos and the other Sages agreed for me to live with the Bird Lady I've been called Michelle. I never knew my mother or father, I guess they died in some speical battle. On one speical day I got to meet Keria and Jak. After that Jak took me to meet his buddy Daxter, he meet me and on the spot he called me "Ella," instead of Michelle. He said it sounded so much better then Michelle. After that day, me, Jak and Daxter were buddies until the end. If there was trouble they would call out: Jak!Daxter! Michelle! Just wait 'til I tell the Green Sage! I would get grounded, Jak and Daxter would get a talking to by Jak's uncle and ten minutes later they would be bustin' me out of my room and we would be on our crazy next mission. Keria a lovely age 15, Jak's age 16, me and Daxter are 14 all around. I'm a couple months older then Dax, but I guess the means nothing, right?
I guess I'm starting to go on, on and on... Sorry. I get bored really fast, and that's why I daydream. Oh yes, one more topic! The colors I see, no I'm not being funny! People have their own certain colors, shows their moods and stuff I guess. I don't really care anymore, I used to love joking around with Jak and Daxter saying if their colors were black Daxter would die! It was fun for a little while, but it lost it's 'funness' when I truned 12. The Blue Sage said I'll grow out of it soon (I'm not holding my breath). I know most of the people in my life, Jak is blue, Daxter is orange, Keria is teal, Samos and all the other sages are the colors of their ecos. Bird Lady is a certain hit a green, and me? I'm a blue, just like Jak but darker.
"Ella, could you help me? I need to get this Zoomer done for the boys." She walks over to the Zoomer and looks at the back part. I nod and look at the Zoomer up and down.
"Could you go in the back and get me a screw driver?" I nod and make my way to the back, which is called Keria's room. I go under her bed and find a box of screw drivers and wrenchs.
"Why?" I yell back, I hear her give a low chuckle. "You'll see, it's not very hard to notice." I pull out one and smile, I push the box back and hear a voices.
"Hey baby, how about you and me go cruising on this A-grav zoomer?" I smile at hearing Daxter's voice, I pull down her sheets and walk to the door.
"Rule number one; I don't. date. animals." I roll my eyes, the apple doesn't far fall from the tree in this family. Why would she refer to Daxter as an animal? That's just plain old rude.
"You don't know what you're missing!" he exclaims, and I walk back to the door way and drop to the tool to the ground. I stood in awe looking at the source of Daxter's voice. I swallow and take a step forward and look at the now orange fuzy Daxter standing infront of me.
"Dax... is that you?" Daxter truned and grined at me. He jumped on my shoulder and leaned on my head. "What's up sweetie?" I stared in awe, as Keria and Jak laughed at me.
"Wha... happened?" Daxter glared towards Jak, Jak shrugged as if he had no clue what was wrong with Daxter. There he goes again with his I'M SO INNOCENT look.
"You see, after we went to your house... we went right to Misty Island. We were goin' around takin' out all of the nasty lurkers when we came across a dark eco pit and before we knew it a reeealy ugly one-"
"Did it look like Samos?" I muttered as I see smiles cross Jak and Daxter's faces, I got an eye roll from Keria.
"Yeah! Just like ol' green one! Anyways, Jak threw some stupid precursor crap at it and it blew up!" Daxter jumped off my shoulder and back unto Jak's. "Unfortunately, Jak flew backwards into me and knocked me into a pool of dark eco, and I got spat back out looking like this! And here we are talkin' to you and Keria!" I nod and look towards Keria. She looks totally bored with this topic and she starts to talk about her Zoomer.
"If you guys need something to keep you busy, my fathers always talking about an old precursor pipeline that runs deep underground," she pauses, motioning to the floor, "This carries blue eco through vents. Some of the vents are open, but some are closed off. There must be some way to turn the closed vents on. I traced part of the pipeline back to the forbidden temple. Maybe you should check there for some kind of switch." I nod and smile.
"The Bird Lady keeps talking about that, 'Michelle why don't you and those boys do something useful with your time and go fix that blue eco vent line?' like I have nothing better to do with my time?" Jak and Daxter both nod in agreement. I hate it when they do it in unison.
"You comin' Ella?" I shrug off the question and close my eyes tightly. I enter the world of colors again. The teal was reaching out for the blue and the orange was getting ready to leave, I re-open my eyes.
"I'll go along, it's better then listenin' to the Bird Lady and Green stuff yell at me for the same thing every day." Jak and Daxter both walked out, not before Jak shots a smile at Keria.
We walk down the bridge that connects the island to the main land. Daxter goes on about how cool everything was and how cool Misty Island was and about all the Lurkers around and a freaky couple talking to the Lurkers. I glance over to Jak as we keep on walking. Ever since I truned 10, I had a crush on Jak. I didn't know why, sometimes I wondered why I didn't like Daxter. Then it clicked, I didn't like him because on my 6th birthday he pulled on one of my many braids back then. I knew that Keria liked Jak, liked him alot. (and the colors showed it too) But oh well! Can't cry over spilled milk.
I hear a hawk call, I trun my head and see Deathen flying down towards us. I lift my hand up and he lands on the glove. He spreads his wings out and sits quietly. I look towards Daxter, hiding behind Jak's shoulder.
"Okay. That bird is even freakier when I'm short and fuzy!" I rumb Deathen's head, and lift my arm up. He flies off not looking back at us.
"He wouldn't hurt a fly," I look to Daxter and smile. "but maybe a rat." I run towards the village and stop at the mayor's hut, since he's pacing around his hut. Jak and Daxter both slam right into me, I guess the breaks aren't working today?
"What's up wit him?" I mutter, as Jak and Daxter walk closer. The mayor jumped at the sight of us, I close my eyes and re-open. His royal purple is racing, which I hate. I hate purple, it's gross color.
"Jak! Michelle!" I guess he didn't notice that Daxter was sitting right on Jak's shoulder? I sit down on the couch and watch the Mayor pace back and forth.
"It's horrable! see those gears up there?" he points above his head, and I look up, frowning at the still and silent gears, "See how they're not moving? That means our village has no powers! The eco beam coming from the jungle has been cut off. And Jak, everyone's to afraid to go out and see what's happened!"
I let out a sigh and stand. "Would you give us a power cell if we reconnect the beams for you?" I ask, and he brightens up, nodding quickly.
"Of course dear girl! A-and if you'd like to contribute to my re-election campaign, I'd be willing to part with yet another powercell!"
"I'll just reconnect the beams for you, I'm not old enough to vote yet." I said with a smile. We step out and I look to Jak and Daxter. I sigh and raise my hand for Deathen to land. I lower him down and smile at him.
"Hey cutie." I said rumbing his head, Jak walks past me with Daxter on his shoulder making faces at Deathen. I roll my eyes and walk beside them, Daxter must have a death wish if he keeps messing with Deathen.
XXX
I stop and look at the bridge that lays ahead of us, Jak and Daxter stop about a couple inches behind me. I could hear Deathen over head, I swallow and back up. Below the bridge is a small stream and the fisherman, I hate heights. Did you know that? Once me, Jak and Daxter went down to the beach. We went in the water and on top of the cliff, well when we were up there a lurker jumped out from no where. We all jumped back at the sight of it, but you see I jumped back and fell off the cliff. I grabbed an old root, but I was still scared to death.
I look to the boys, with my PLEASE DON'T MAKE GO OVER THAT BRIDGE smile.
"Soo? Where are you two going?" Jak pointed to the Fisherman below. I let out a sigh and put one foot on the bridge, it wobbled. I backed up and bumped into Jak. Both of the boys rolled their eyes and pushed me out.
I land on my hands and knees. I look down below, the stream looked soo much smaller. I inch my way across the bridge, when I made it to grass on the other side; Jak and Daxter were making their way down to the Fisherman. I swallow and stand, a snake zoomed down to me as Deathen's sharp claws went into it's neck. I let out a sigh, and smile to Deathen.
"Thanks, Deathen." I start to walk towards the frist beam, I move it into place. A lurker came right for me, I jump and kick it away. I land and look at the dark eco laying on the ground.
"Michelle, this is gonna be a long day." I mubble and move towards the next beam.
XXX
I smile at Deathen as he flew over, that was the last beam in the jungle! One more left, and then it was over! I let out a sigh and looked up towards the sky, it was getting dark. Lurkers, dark eco, snakes, eels and blue eco. It was fun jumping up in the air with blue eco away from the lurkers, I did it a couple of times until I got sick. Then later I did it a couple more times, I haven't run into Jak or Daxter since I left them at the river side. 'boys...' I think shaking my head, maybe my mother's words were right I should put them on a short leash.
It'll be funny walking around with them, I could teach them tricks and stuff.
"Daxter. Don't speak! Roll over, stay away from dark eco!" Or "Jak. Speak! Roll over, go piss on Samos!" I laugh at this and fall over something. I look and it was a rock by the waterfall, I feel my whole body go limp. I had daydreamed half way across the jungle, now that was dangerous.
I stand and make my way across the bridge, half way over I yell down to the Fisherman.
"Oh Mr.Fisherman!" He looks up to me and smiles.
"Ella! You've grown soo much!" I smile, Fisher was the only adult who called me Ella.
"Thanks! Do you know where Jak and Daxter went? Did they help you with you're issue?" He nods, then goes back to laughing. I give him a werid look and make my way across the bridge. When I got across, I made my way down the ledges and landed in Sandover.
"Yes! I made it!" I look back, and sigh. I can't leave the boys all by themselves. Then again, I had the last beam to attend to. I run over to the beam and align it with the last one, I stumble a little running back into the village. I stop and look back, the beam is coming into the village. I start to chew on my nails, I sigh and run back.
"Jak!" I yell, getting over the legdes. "Daxter! Where are you guys!" I know they're old enough to get themselves out but they proved themselves that they can't stay out of trouble. Hint, Daxter as a furry rat!
I stop when I see the Fisherman still laughing like a crazy man, I let out a sigh and lean on the post. My eyes begin to close, it's never a good idea to fall asleep in the middle of the jungle with snakes, lurkers and anything esle with dark eco.
"Michelle!!" I open my eyes and see Jak and Daxter coming across the bridge. I wave them off and stand. "I'm fine, clam down." I look to the sky and see the stars coming out slowly.
"I think it's time we returned back to Sandover Village." I said running down to the village.
TBC...
