I have spent some time now reviewing chapter two and three into chapter two. same synopsis, but differently told. hope you enjoy and review


Gol quickly stopped at the edge of the cliff, overlooking the monk temple. He turned back and saw two large metal heads stop atop a sand dune looking down at him. They roared out a terrifying roar that echoed throughout the darkness of the wasteland. The only light source was the moon and the small towers of fire that surrounded the islands leading to the monk temple. Gol snared at them, baring his fangs and extending his claws, letting dark eco spark out and marking the desert. The light winds picked up, sending sand up into the already tensed air.

Gol attacked first, launching himself into the air and flying straight to the one on the left, piercing the metal heads skull gem. He yanked it out, killing the beast instantly letting dark eco spill across the desert sand. As the beast fell, he jumped off; standing in the moonlight laying a shadow across the wasteland that enveloped the remaining metal head. The metal head looked up at the shadow, seeing only the eyes of Gol glow purple with dark eco.

Gol disappeared, leaving only the shadow. The metal head looked around, confused. The shadow began to move, slowly getting darker and compressing right at the center where the metal head was. Jumping out of the shadow, Gol appeared right in front of the metal head sinking his claws into the skull gem, ripping it out and spewing dark eco across Gol's face, which slowly merged with him as he landed on the ground next to the creature's dead body. He threw the skull gem out of the way and clutched his sides, panting. He fell onto the sands, lying motionless.

Not too far from where he was, Mar was gliding through the desert. His shadow from the moonlight followed him as he scanned the dark wasteland for Gol. Coming near the battle zone, he noticed the dead bodies of the giant metal heads, landing in front of the nearest one.

He scanned it, noticing the skull gem had been cleanly ripped out. His eyes trialed off and saw Gol lying not too far from where he was. He rushed forward, "Gol, are you alright?"

No answer. He picked him up and flew unto the sky, noticing the monk temple. He glided over the islands that connected it to the mainland, all a while carrying the unconscious Gol. He landed gracefully at the door, where two monks were just walking out.

The monks saw him land before them, letting Gol go upon them. He looked up, catching the eye of the monks, who instantly bowed at him. Both of them were draped in familiar fashion, to the point of them having white powdered faces. One of the monks straightened up, taking a cautious step forward.

"I am Seem, leader of monks that reside at this temple," she said in a raspy voice. She bowed again. Mar studied her precursor armor, on her forelimbs and her body plate. She continued, "It is an honor for a creature of pure light to visit our temple."

"The honor is mine, to visit a temple for mine creators, a safe haven from the wastelands. My name is Mar, and alas I shall need your monks help, for my," he paused for a bit, thinking of what to say, "friend here has battled those creatures called the metal heads and is severely out of eco,"

Seem looked down at Gol and frowned, clearly recognizing him. "Ah yes, he has visited us in the past before. Although he is pure dark eco, he is actually quiet harmless and leaves as soon as he's replenished of his eco."

She turned around and muttered to her other monk, who nodded and rushed back inside, "My monks will help you take him into the temple,"

As soon as she said that 5 other monks appeared. They each grabbed Gol and carried him inside. Seem and Mar followed behind them, talking along the way.

"What an amazing temple," remarked Mar as they descended the stair case down into the temple, "Clearly you have done a good job to show homage to our creators."

"Indeed. The secrets of our creators we guard here, but we still don't know much about eco, especially dark eco," she explained, passing a dark eco vent that gushed out dark eco into the air.

"I understand your curiosity. Dark eco is rather mysterious in a sense, being the byproduct of myself," he explained as they entered a circular room where light eco shined from above.

"Dark eco was the byproduct?" seemed asked as the monks stopped a precursor door. One of the monks did a quick hand sign and the door opened, revealing another room with another door that instantly opened, revealing the giant precursor oracle at the center of the temple. Its squinting eyes shined bright with dark eco as the monks laid Gol at the platform before it.

"Alas, I sense an evil presence before me!" the oracle spoke, its booming voice echoing about the temple. "But this eco, it is familiar. Gol, your eco is weak, I can't believe your depleted yourself this low, I suppose I should help you, again"

As it finished, dark eco flowed from under Gol, picking him up in the process. As the dark eco merged with him, he stretched, allowing all the dark eco to enter his body. It sparked violently about, adding a purple aura about the chamber. Once filled, the dark eco stopped flowing and he landed on his feet, opening his eyes. Sparks of dark eco escaped his body as he looked up to the oracle.

"Thanks," he said turning around and stretching his body, hearing it pop and crack at the joints. He looked up at the monks and smirked, noticing Seem talking to Mar in the back. He scratched his goatee with his claws as he slowly stepped down from the steps. A monk at the bottom of the steps bowed and presented Gol with a black long coat and a matching Fedora. Gol took it and put it on, walking over to Mar and Seem, who got quiet at his presence. He smirked as he adjusted his hat.

"Did you bring me here Mar?" he asked fixing his coat. Mar nodded a Gol smirked. "So that means you took care of the other metal heads that had gotten away, am I correct?"

Mar nodded again as Gol muttered to himself and looked down at Seem, who automatically bowed. He smirked and lifted her chin slowly with his claws, making her look right at his face, into his pitch black eyes that gleamed with the light of the candles.

"Now, no need for the leader of the monks to bow at a deity now," he gasped for breath, looking up as he grasped his chest with his free hand, "you have the same respect from me,"

Seem glared up at him as Gol eventually let go, striding off through them out into the precursor hallway as Mar and Seem stared at him walk off, his coat swaying until the precursor doors closed on them.

"I am sorry for my, brother's behavior," Mar explained, his voice echoing throughout the empty chamber as Seem shook her head.

"It is nothing we aren't used to here, for the past two years since the great hero Jak had arrived; he has been visiting us here at the temple." Seem explained as the monks moved out of the way, "Come Mar, your eco must be depleted as well, let the oracle rejuvenate your eco."

Mar nodded and walked upon the platform, looking up at the oracle as its eyes shone bright blue.

"Aha! I sense a bright light at my presence, one all too familiar. Mar, good to see you once more, and I see your eco is depleted a bit, let me change that," the oracle said, sending some light eco to fall from above upon him.

Mar looked up into the light and felt the light eco enter his body. He closed his eyes and felt the light eco lift him up as he let his arms fall to his sides. He felt full quickly and felt the light eco begin to let him fall. He landed gracefully as the last bit of light eco entered his body. He opened his eyes and checked out his body, feeling the light eco empower his inner self.

"Thank you," Mar stated, bowing. The oracle didn't reply, simply shutting off itself. Mar walked off the platform toward the monks at the precursor door. The monks automatically bowed as he neared as Seem bowed as well, straightening up earlier than the rest.

"Please Seem, my brother may be of dark eco, but he has a point, you have no need to bow to us," he stated walking through all them and through the door. "I thank you for your hospitality but the night is young and the wasteland is a vast and mysterious place,"

Seem nodded and simply stated, "You are welcome here anytime Mar, but I do have one request,"

Mar stopped and turned around, "Anything Seem,"

"We have reports of some red and green eco activity at the great volcano. These surges of eco are new and pose no threat, for now. We don't know if they will pose a threat for the future but we would like to make sure nothing out of the ordinary will occur as my monks partake on more exhibitions. Will you please make sure for us?"

Mar thought for a bit and nodded asking, "Where is this volcano you speak of?"

Seem gestured him to a door opposite of the candle shrine, which automatically opened with a simple hand gesture Seem did as Mar approached the door. Inside was a precursor lift, and Seem gestured him to get in as she turned around and spoke to the monks in their ancient precursor language. They nodded and bowed, shuffling away as Seem turned around and entered the lift, providing another hand gesture making the lift rise.

Mar closed his eyes, thrust his chest out and folded his hands behind him, meditating. Seem stared at him for a while, admiring the light eco glow that radiated from every inch of his body. She wondered how the light eco even glowed off of his clothes.

"No, I do not know why my clothes glow with white eco," Mar said out of nowhere, making Seem jump and gain a slight pink on her face, although she was glad her face paint blocked it from view.

"I am sorry, I didn't know…" she began but was cut off.

"Don't be, to meditate is to free the mind of thought, it doesn't help if there are others around you thinking and that you yourself can read other peoples thoughts." He explained, opening is eyes as the lift slowed to a stop.

The lift had brought them to the very top of the monk temple. Before him was the vast dark wastelands, the moon and star shone brightest here than in Haven city, and the green star illuminated some of the sands and mountains that call the wasteland home. The breeze blew by, sending a chill up Seems spine as she stepped off the lift with Mar who looked out.

"I know it is difficult to see at this time, but against the dark sky you can see the tallest of mountains in the middle of the wasteland. You can enter through a cave at the side of the mountain. I would offer you the glider we had to access the volcano, but I'm afraid your host used the last one," Seem explained as she pointed toward the dark mountain outline. Mar stepped forward and looked down the temple.

"No need," he stated simply as he dove off the temple. Seem automatically gasped and fell forward, looking down where he had fallen. Below she saw him extend his wings and catch a gust of wind and fly up above the sea and towards the wasteland.

Mar looked down at the various islands that connected the monk temple. He noticed a trail in the sand leading away from the temple. He also noticed a hint of dark eco in the trail, knowing full well that Gol had passed by here earlier.


Gol stepped out of the monk temple onto the cold windy wastelands. He passed the parked dune hoppers and under the various ruined arks above his head to the trail leading around the mountain island. He looked up and noticed the green star directly in the middle of the sky.

Midnight, he thought looking back down at the trail. He relaxed a bit as he closed his eyes, letting his dark eco start to reach every inch of his body. He opened his eye quickly and took off, the dark eco pumping his body to go at very extreme speeds. He jumped over the gap where the waterfall broke through and continued on, reaching the beach and jumping across the islands towards the main land.

He arrived to the main land and stopped at the shore line where the torches illuminated the dark beach. He turned to his left and took off again, running around the mountain to where the lake connected with the sea. Turning the corner he came face to face with two marauder cars heading right toward him. Frowning, he gained speed and extended his claws, aiming for the middle of the two cars.

He got through, tearing the sides of the cars as he raced by. The cars themselves flipped over and crashed, sending sand up into the air. Gol looked back and smirked at the carnage he caused. He turned back and ran over the bridge over the lake, passing through the mountains and turning right, running through the palm trees towards the oasis. He stopped at the shoreline.

The oasis water was calm, although the breeze made small waves. He stepped forward and bent down; concentrating dark eco to his claw which sparked out with dark eco as he slowly and steadily touched the water's surface, sending a ripple across the water that settled the water itself. As the water settled, Gol felt a sharp sting in his left hand, sending pain throughout his fingers.

Damn, the pains getting worse! He thought as a flash of blue light came from the lake. He looked up, the pain still pulsing through his hand as the lake began to pulse with blue eco. The lake began to ripple from the middle as a being appeared, head first. Gol smirked weakly as the being fully appeared.

Standing on the water's surface was a young woman, long blue hair that waved in the wind. Her skin was a pale blue color and she wore a navy blue tank top with darker blue leggings and black boots. Her eyes were closed, but they opened as she looked up, sending a spark of blue eco about the water's surface as her bright blue eyes met Gol's black ones, making her smile. Her hands went up to her face and her claws pushed her bangs out of her face.

She began to walk across the water, sending sparks of blue eco across the water's surface with every step she took. Swinging her hips, she arrived at the water's edge and staring at Gol, who stood up straight. They were standing close to each other, sparks of dark and blue eco connecting between them every now and then as the wind blew by again, teasing the bangs on her face.

"Gol, you seem well tonight," she said breaking the silence between them. Her voice was high pitch with a hint of static that came from her blue eco. Gol smirked and shook his head.

"You seem well too Azul, how is your host?" he asked checking his left hand as he spoke, turning around from her and pacing a bit.

"My host is well, but I see your pain is back," she said gesturing to his hand. He clenched it into a fist and smirked, looking back at her.

"Pain is who I am Azul," he paused, gasping for air, "You know it's in my nature."

"So it's normal for you to feel pain?" she asked, beginning to pace around him.

"I think you out of all people would know my pain," Gol stated, shaking his hand a bit. Growling a bit, Azul stepped in front of his face, causing both to glare at each other. In the next split second, they both disappeared, reappearing on top of the cliffs towering over the river, their claws colliding in midair, sending sparks of blue and dark eco about them. Their eyes met and they both smirked, disappearing again and reappearing in the sands next to the cave, both apart as they charged their attacks.

Azul had her hands spread apart, a ball of blue eco in each hand as Gol had both his hands next to him, charging a ball of dark eco, the next split second they both sent their attacks to each other, colliding and making a small shock wave of blue and dark eco. They both disappeared again and reappeared multiple times across the western side of the wastelands, each time their claws colliding and sending more sparks of dark and blue eco which scarred the sands.

Eventually they found each other far apart, where Gol took his opportunity and rushed forward. Azul jumped over him and extended her claws, going for an attack. Gol flipped back and jumped in the air, Azul quickly jumping as well following him. As his ascend began to slow down, he found himself at the peak of his jump and looked down at Azul with a smirk. Azul barely reached his boots as she grazed the bottom.

Confused, she began her fall while looking at Gol who stood in mid air smirking down at her. She growled and yelled out to him, "You cheating bastard!"

She felt the land under her and jumped back, her hand in between her legs as she skidded to a stop at the base of the cliff. Gol slowly floated down, keeping his eyes on her as she stood up and dusted herself off. As he neared the ground, she pounced once more, her claws out and aiming straight for Gol.

Gol noticed the attack and dodged it swiftly, grabbing one of her arms and pushing it up from her back, his other arm securing her neck as he kept on pushing up, making her groan in pain. He chuckled and whispered in her ear, "Now you tell me of your Pain,"


Mar glided swiftly around the mountain, looking for the cave that Seem had told him about. Finding it, he glided in, landing swiftly on the floor. It was a dark cave with a teleporting gate next to him. He walked opposite the gate and looked up, noticing another cave that led far into the volcano. He flapped his wings and flew up there, walking through the cave to the other side.

As he stepped through the cave, he looked out into the main crater of the cave. The whole volcano had some solid ground and what was most surprising was the abundance of plant life on the solid ground. At the very top was the green sun, shining at the very middle of the crater adding some light along with the glow of the lava. He also noticed some animals, mostly metal heads to his view, living among the denser areas of plant life.

No wonder this place has some red and green eco activity, he thought as he walked along the ledge, there so much plant life with lava. He was stopped by a river of lava flowing down slowly deeper into the volcano. He looked up at the towering cliffs and flew up, landing on a plateau where there seemed to be dark eco vines coming from the earth and beginning at a weird giant bulb at the far end. He walked forward and inspected the particular object.

Behind him a glow of green light distracted him, causing him to turn around. At the center of the mesa was a glowing ball of green eco. The ball then appeared to blossom as layers of green light began to fold away. At the center of the ball was a young girl standing with her head bowed. Her short green hair fell down to her neck, held back with a vine. Her light green skin clashed well with her green short sleeved shirt and lighter green skirt. She had dark green leggings that went down to her black boots. She opened her eyes as she looked up, revealing her glowing green eyes as it looked up at Mar. She tilted her head in curiosity as she stepped forward, walking slowly toward Mar.

Mar tilted his head in curiosity as well, stepping forward and thinking, a being of green eco, how intriguing. They both met each other in the middle, walking around each other without saying a word, inspecting each other. Before either one of them could say a word, a geyser of lava erupted next to them. Mar jumped back, but noticed the girl of green eco stay at her spot looking right up geyser.

The geyser began to slow down as a being appeared at the tip. As it slowly descended, the head first appeared. This being was also a young teen girl, with dark red hair. Her head was bent forward, and more details began to appear. She was wearing a red vest with precursor bracelets on each of her arms. She was also wearing dark red leggings that went down to her black boots. As the geyser slowed to a stop at her feet she looked up, revealing her glowing red eyes as it looked down at the green eco girl, then to Mar. She frowned and jumped off, landing next to the green eco girl and sending a small shockwave of red eco at her feet. The ground below her feet crumbled as well as she straightened up, whipping her hair out of the way of her face.

She kept her eyes on Mar as she asked in a deep voice, "Verde, who is this?"

The one called Verde giggled and replied in her young soft voice, "I'm not sure Roja, I just appeared here like always and he was already here."

Taking a step forward, Roja asked loudly, "Who are you and what are you doing in our Volcano?"

Mar stepped forward and bowed, replying in his loud precursor voice, "My name is Mar, the deity of Light eco created by the precursors at the beginning of this world. I come to investigate the abundance of Red and green eco at this volcano for the monks at the monk temple south of here. I see now that you two are the source of the said eco's, am I correct?"

"The deity of light eco," Roja asked glaring, "That is impossible, we would have known if our creators made us a light eco brother!"

"And yet I am at your presence," Mar retorted. This caused Roja to growl and leap forward, going to strike. She radiated with red eco as she pounced. Mar took a step back and put up his light eco shield. As her fist connected with the shield, a shockwave of red eco went out, and Mar found himself being pushed back, shocked that she was still going with the attack.

She's strong! He thought digging his heels into the dirt. He noticed that she was lifting her other fist, ready to attack again. Before she could, a flash of green light blinded him for a second, only to reveal Verde standing between the shields and holding the fist of Roja.

"Roja, enough!" Verde demanded. Roja glared at Mar for a while then pulled her arm away from Verdes grasp, turning around. Mar put down his shield and tilted his head in confusion.

Verde sighed and smiled weakly at Mar, "I am sorry for my sister's actions. It has been a while since we met one of our brothers or sisters, especially after Gol appeared."

"Gol?" Mar asked as Verde nodded.

"He appeared here about two years ago, back then it was just me and Roja here, we didn't know where our sisters of yellow and blue eco were and we had no idea that we had a brother of dark eco. Well he appeared here with us and we were surprised, more than him. Roja and I immediately sensed the dark eco presence as he stood there with a smirk. He introduced himself as Gol, and began to explore the volcano. Back then we had more plant life thanks to me living together with the magma thanks to Roja. But the Gol came and tainted the ground he walked on. We haven't seen him for a couple of months now and the last bit of his dark eco has disappeared." She explained. Mar nodded and sighed.

"I am sorry for my brothers behavior, it appears I have been apologizing for him all tonight." He said as Verde gasped.

"He is your brother, then you really are who you say you are," Mar nodded, "You are our brother as well,"

"It appears so, and to prove it to my sister here," Mar said making Roja turn around. Mar stepped at the ledge overlooking the volcano and raised his hands, a glow of light eco radiating from his hands. All around the volcano the air was tensed as dark eco began to rise, heading towards Mar. Verde and Roja watched on as the dark eco reached Mars hands, floating around him as he concentrated all the dark eco into a ball in between his hands. As all the dark eco became concentrated, he began to push down on it, until his hands cupped together. He suddenly let go, and at his presence was a small light eco crystal, letting out violent sparks of dark eco that it contained inside. The crystal floated in front of him as he turned around, gently touching the top and bottom tips with his thumb and forefinger as he showed them.

"I have taken all the dark eco and concentrated it here," he said, pocketing the crystal, "I hope this proves for you that I am who I say I am,"

"I believe you," Verde said proudly stepping forward. Mar smiled and looked at Roja, who looked away.

"I guess I shall believe you, for now," she said frowning, "but thanks to your show, we have wasted almost all of our stay here, the sun is soon to rise,"

Mar looked up at the crater and noticed the sky was beginning to glow red with the suns rising. He looked back down and asked, "You too are to return to your host when the sun arises?"

"Yes, we come out every night when our hosts fall asleep; it is the only way we can go out. As soon as the sun rises our hosts wake up and we are sent back into their minds." Verde explained.

"The same is for me," Mar said nodding, "Well I guess I shall meet you the next night, hopefully you can help me understand more about this wasteland."

The volcano became more illuminated as the sun's rays reached the tip of the volcano. Verde nodded and smiled as she disappeared in a green flash. Mar looked over at Roja who stared back, before disappearing in a red flash. Mar sighed and closed his eyes, feeling his white eco circulate. Soon he saw a white flash and was gone.


Gol smirked as Azul pushed herself off. Before she could say or do anything, the sky began to glow with the suns first rays of light. She turned around and frowned staring at the light.

"You win this round Gol," she said turning around with a smile, "But you won't get lucky two nights in a row,"

She disappeared in a flash of blue light. Gol smirked as he stepped forward, staring at the sun. He closed his eyes and saw a flash of purple light, disappearing from the sands.


and there it is. next chapter i will show Jak and his daily routine in the day, while an interesting conversation occurs inside his head. please review