Chapter 2: Channelers

"In the Trevolone System there are thirteen category A planets, which all have a Aphelion between 1,513,325,783 km to 2,345,765,923 km and have an orbital period of 29.4571 to 45.6751 years…" the voice of the teacher went on and on over the class of thirty students, most of which had the dead to the world look across their faces, others were passed out from lack of sleep or sheer boredom; but a select few were awake to hear the lecture that would make up for twenty percent of their grade in this class; which was one of the most boring yet needed classes if you wanted to be able to use the new technology of the day that would allow space travel to far away worlds.

Once long ago the Precursor species was nothing but a tiny spec on the face of the galaxy, they meant nothing and yet nearly twenty thousand years since the time of their species birth, they'd become the most dominant species in the galaxy. They created technology they never existed before, cured the incurable, and even had the technology to created a wormhole through space and go from point A to point B; this technology was called Slipspce, though Slipspace cut down space travel from years to months of weeks; it was still a new piece of technology. Amongst the new technology was something call Terraforming, which in theory would cause a desolated world to become habitable.

Around six thousand years ago the Precursors had taken the Terraforming technology and used it on an unhabitable world called BX907; which was then renamed Gaia. This tiny planet was in a system with two stars; one bright red/orange/yellow and the second was green. It was very uncommon to find two stars in the same system and yet here was an example of one. The system was young, with a dozen or so small planets that littered the system. Amongst these worlds was one that was in the beginning stages of evolution. It was desolated, it had a magnetosphere and its core was active; it also gave off an odd energy that the Precursors of the time couldn't understand.

So using the Terraforming technologies upon the young planet it took only two hundred years for a habitable and stable atmosphere to come into being. After that it only took another hundred for the seeded trees, plants, and animals to begin covering the planet.

Then the first colonists began to come. The world was healthy and the people loved their new homes, but then a new evolution began to occur. At first some of the colonists began to say that the new children who were being born on Gaia were acting strangely, but nothing was found. Then the first Channeler appeared. A young boy with black fringe to his chin and an orange/yellow fur coat was brought into a hospital glowing an odd purple and black color. Days later another young Precursorean boy was brought into a hospital, he too was glowing; but was glowing pure white. After that more and more children began to be admitted to hospitals across Gaia, either glowing yellow, red, blue, or green; but only the two boys from the beginning glowed blackish purple or pure white.

The energy that the children were glowing with turned out to be the same energy that the scientist had discovered when they first terraformed Gaia several hundred years ago. It wasn't harmful to any of the children, in fact as the children grew to adulthood their unknown energies began to produce powers. The energy then gained a name; Eco. It was found that those who channeled only red eco began stronger and could lift things that were hundreds of pounds heavier than themselves. Yellow eco allowed the user to blast or seal things or even fly into the air if they aimed the eco to the ground when they channeled it. Blue eco allowed those who channeled it to become supper fast or go so fast that it seemed time had stopped. Green eco could be used to heal people or created a shield around one's self. Dark eco channelers were considered the strongest, most powerful channelers. The dark purplish substance could be made into a weapon that could explode, a mist that could poison you, or even into a liquid that could kill you if touched. Dark Channelers could be feared or they could be one's savior. Like Light eco, Dark could be used for either good or bad intentions. Light eco Channelers were created when red, blue, yellow, and green eco was combined together. These channelers were lightning fast, could fly, create shields, and heal. They were stronger, faster and smarter than the average channeler.

After this discovery the Precursors created the Channeler Army. The head of the army were the two boys who controlled Dark and Light eco. The two kept each other in balance and yet it was that balance that would be what would destroy each other.

Daxter was leaning over his chair very interested in the history lesson he was receiving. He loved history, hated everything else. He looked over at the green/yellow skinned ottsel next to him, who looked about to fall asleep and rolled his eyes. Jak was the only person he knew who could fall asleep during a great story, especially a story about the channelers; which was what his friend was.

Everybody knew how Gaia had been formed and how the channelers came to be, heck everybody also knew about Ying and Yang; but the story always seemed incomplete. Especially since nobody really knew what happened to the two best friends who turned enemies. All everybody knew was there had been a grand battle between the two and during this battle there had been an earthquake which had resulted it six separate continents being formed. On each of these continents, but one; the largest one, Precursors lived in harmony with their channeler warriors. However, on the largest continent nobody was allowed to go there, it was dark and had a fog around it; which made the area seem creepy; thus leading a lot of people into believing it was haunted and besides that it was in the far north; so nobody really went there, ever.

As soon as the bell rang Daxter picked up his books, threw them in his bag and followed Jak out into the hallway. Daxters tail swished back and forth with his movements as he ran to catch up with Jak. Next to his and Jak's lockers were the threesome fearsome; Keira, Ashelin, and Tess. They were the hottest babes in the entire school. Keira stroked Jak's back from shoulder to shoulder and down the middle of his spine as she leaned against him; as if she was staking out and saying he was hers and nobody else's.

"Keira…" came a low growl from the green/yellow furred young man who was obviously not interested in her advances at that moment.

The aqua furred girl giggled. "Yes?" she asked innocently, which caused Daxter to roll his eyes.

"Hey Daxie." Tess cooed at him, like him she had the normal coloring of an ottsel with no channeling powers; orange and powder-puff yellow. She was the sweetest thing you'd ever meet, but mess with her friends; which Daxter was proud to say he was, and you'd get one pissed off little bundle of fur.

"Move please." He said to her as he shoved his stuff into his locker and looked at Jak who looked more annoyed than usual.

"Daddy says that he'll be training you at my house today." Keira cooed as she flirted shamelessly with Jak, who didn't even blink at the very large proposal that the ottselette was giving him.

"Great." He sighed as he threw his stuff into his locker.

Ashelin snorted. "Has either one of you seen Torn or Jinx?" she asked the two boys.

"Uh.." Daxter began when he saw the dreadlocked redhead peeking around the corner at him. "Sure, but it'll cost ya sugar." He winked at her.

This earned him a growl from the tough female who placed a hand on her hip and leaned forward towards him. "How about I let you live runt." She growled at him.

Daxter's ears fell backwards at the insult. He'd always been a tad sensitive about his height; everybody knew right where to hit him. "Saw him and the mad scientist go down that'a way." He said this while pointing the opposite way of where he'd seen the dreadlocked man.

"Good boy." She said as she and her gal pals took off her red furr glistening in the sunlight as she headed towards the fields.

Daxter sighed and leaned back against the lockers. "Why'd you lie?" Jak asked as he saw Torn walking towards them.

"Simple Jakie boy," he said causing his friend to make a face at the name Jinx and he called the green/blonde channeler. "Now Torn owes me."

"What do I owe and why?" the dreadlocked man asked as he stopped in front of Jak. "Jinx and I are heading for channeler training; you coming?"

"You owe me because Ashelin was looking for you and I saw you tryin' ta hide from her o'er there." He pointed towards the corner Torn had been hiding behind.

Torn's ears fell back as he glared at the smaller ottsel. "Fine, but I don't do cheat sheets." He growled.

"Aye, there's my best friends." came the very well known and slightly annoying voice that had both Daxter and Jinx smiling.

"Hey Jinx." Jak fist bumped the older ottsel.

"Hey red, what's goin' on?" Jinx asked as he fist bumped Daxter's fist.

Daxter looked at the greasy dirty furred ottsel and smirked. "Hiya Jinx." He smiled. Though Jinx came from the bad section of Havenson City, he was notoriously brilliant; which was the only reason he was allowed at the high end school. Daxter knew the only reason a runt of an orphan like himself wasn't in that sector was because Jak's uncle and his dad had been best buds; so when Daxter's dad died he'd gone to live with Jak and Jak's uncle wouldn't allow Daxter to go anywhere but Havenite High.

"We goin' or no?" Jinx asked as he looked at Torn. "Not ta get ya goin' or anythin' but I ain't stickin' around when my cousin Tess and your Ashelin are gettin' back."

Daxter snickered. A big reason he wasn't chasing Tess was because of Jinx. He didn't want to lose a friend if things went south between the two of them.

"Yeah," Jak sighed. "Let's go. Keira says it's at her Dads house today."

Torn and Jinx looked at each other before Jinx spoke. "Hate ta say this, but she's a lyin'." Jak raised an eyebrow. "I just talked to ole greenie, he says ta meet in the gym in ten."

"Why would-" Jak began but was interrupted by Daxter.

"She's tryin' ta hook up with ya Jak!" the blonde/green haired boy looked at him with a slightly agape look.

"Shit." Jak groaned as the four of them walked towards the gym. "This is not the time.."

"No shit." Daxter snorted. "Ya know what her Daddy would do if you two did that?"

Jak winced which caused Jinx to laugh. "You'd be lawn fertilizer." The dirty blonde furred man laughed which got the entire group to laugh.

"Yeah, yeah…" Jak shook his head as he headed into the gym with his friends.

In a deep and darkened forest where the trees hung low and the winds blew cold a being shielded by a ball of darkness opened it's red eyes and looked at the world around him. Though thousands of years had passed since he'd gone into hiding he knew that his time was running low and that very soon his time for a second strike would come. He was the Dark Lord and he controled the darkness and the monsters of nightmares; however before he could strike on those who hindered him; first he'd have to ensure that his opposite was taken care of. He couldn't let the light weaken him once again.

Unknown to even the Dark Lord there was something else occuring, something that in the thousands of years since he began his sleep, had been evolving very slowly; something that would essentially end the time of the Precursors and bring into the light a new era for Gaia.

Angie-Eyes: Well, that's my beginning to this story. I hope everybody will enjoy it. ^_^

I kinda got inspired by Robin on adultfanfiction dot net and her story Safety.