THIRD CHAPTER! Farthest ive ever got on an update. Im so proud of myself. And JIC you were wondering, my eyes actually do look like I explained them the second time. I love my eyes, just about the only thing I do love about me, that and my writing skillz that I sometimes have! Well enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: You know the drill. I do not own anything. Some of the dialog in this chapter will be taken straight from the game . . . I do not own the characters, or the spine of the plot. Im just adding myself, and some knew things.
CHAPTER 3 – Misty Island.
I don't know why I didn't warn Daxter what could, would, happen at Misty Island for him. Practically, I knew what was going to happen so it was technically me that screwed up his life. I wanted to tell him, but that would change the whole story line, and I didn't want to risk the chance of something happening that wasn't supposed to, what if someone died because Daxter never got turned into an ottzel.
Well, for starters, the ride there was pleasant. After seeing them, I knew my adventure in the video game world was about to begin. Jak was gesturing we want you to come along, too."
Feigning confusing and to hold up the pretense, I said, "Go where?"
"To Misty Island of course. I don't want to go that much, but Jak really wants to go."
I looked at him and he shrugged. "Sounded like fun."
"Sounds . . . fun. How are we getting there?" Of course I already knew.
"We're jacking the fishermans boat to go there. We'll bring it back it one piece." He sounded worried. I saw both Jak and Daxter glance over at the red fishing boat with a bite taken out of it.
"We'll be fine, I'm sure. You guys do know how to fight . . . right?" Daxter shrugged and Jak looked away sheepishly. "Well then. Guess we'll have to learn. Don't want any big bad lurkers scaring you do we?" I was waggling my fingers in Daxter's direction.
He put on a brave face and said, "Let's go!"
Ten minutes into the ride, we arrived at Misty Island after a quite funny scene where Daxter had fallen in the water. I had to pretend to get sea sick, and be scared about being on a boat. I had been in a boat wreck after all. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
"Jak? Are sure this was a good idea? Ol' green stuff told us not to come here…" Jak just shrugged it off. I could sympathize with Daxter. Misty Island looked scary. And I mean scary. There were bones everywhere, and it was dark. You could hear the sound of the Lurkers shuffling off in the distance.
O.o.O
Minutes later we were walking along and saw the congregation of lurkers. Even though Jak and Daxter didn't know what was going to happen, I did. I had butterflies massively assaulting my stomach.
"Continue your search for artifacts and Eco." said a voice I knew was Gol Akaron. "The locals possess Precursor items. You know what to do.
Then came another voice that makes my spine shiver. Mia. "Deal harshly with anybody who strays from the village. We will attack it in due time."
Jak and Daxter chose to ignore the foreshadowing of the apocalypse, and I followed, not wanting to screw anything up. The whole storyline of the game is at stake by what I do. So I just decided to let things flow out.
We walked around and explored the island a bit more; we even saw a cute little yellow cat thing that I knew was to be the sculptors muse later on for when we came back.
"What are we doin' here anyway, Jak? This place gives me the creeps."
"Man up, Daxter!" I said with a sarcastic smile on my face. He puffed up his chest and I laughed again. As he let out the air, he tripped over something small and cylindrical.
"Huh? Oh, stupid Precursor junk!" He picks it up and walks over to me and Jak, the latter staring into the pit of Dark Eco.
"Eech! What is that dark ooze? It sure don't look friendly. The sage yaps on about the Precursors who built this place all the time. 'Where did they go? Why did they build this crap?' Now, I like Precursor Orbs and Power Cells as much as the next guy, but if you ask me? They must have been real losers."
"Sure, Daxter. You got the precursors who built all this, and thrived using only the power of Eco to survive! And what are you doing? Walking around on an island you're not supposed to be!"
"Hey! You're here, too!"
"Yes, but I don't have strict orders to not come here, I just followed you two."
"You show him." Jak chuckled inside my head.
"I'm talking to you, too. You're not supposed to be here either!"
"Why are you talking to Jak like that? It's like you can here him." Jak's eyes flashed to mine.
"Why don't you want him to know?" I asked him.
"Let's just, just keep it a secret a while longer, 'K?" This all happened in a span of about three seconds. Long enough for Daxter to notice, but short enough for me to put it off as a distraction.
I shook my head. "Couldn't you tell? That is sooo what he was thinking."
"Whatever." Daxter shook his head at me and tossed me to precursor artifact. The second it touched my hand, it started to glow red, as it had Jak in the game. I quickly tossed it to him, knowing this was his job to do, hoping he hadn't seen it.
As quickly as it had lit up, it turned off, so to speak, when I let go of it, and lit up again when it landed in Jak's hand.
"Whoa! How'd you guys do that?" My heart sunk; so he had seen. But, as a sufficient distraction, Daxter's moment of awe was disrupted as an armored Lurker came crashing through the wall behind us.
"Guys! I think we're in trouble!" What a nice deduction, thank you Daxter.
Jak suddenly knows what to do, and throws the artifact, which turns out to be a precursor bomb, at the Lurker. This succeeds in blowing up the Lurker, but instead of being blown into Jak who hits Daxter, it hits me, then I hit Daxter. He is thrown into the pit of Dark Eco, and, almost instantaneously, he's shot back out. The only difference: he's a rodent.
Both Jak and I we're staring at Daxter's new form as he said, "Man, that stung! I told ya we shouldn't have come here, and you listened! . . . What?" Suddenly he looked down at himself; his pupils dilated, and he started screaming. "OK. I'm fine, I'm fine. . ." He looks down at himself again and starts screaming again.
It was really weird to see things I had seen multiple times in my life happen literally, right before my eyes.
Jak picked Daxter up, with worry clear in his eyes. Though the two may tease each other, it was obvious that they cared for one another.
"Come on, Jak, let's go back. Samos will fix him." A complete lie. I gently pushed his shoulders until he started walking again. 'This is going to take awhile.'
Sometime later, Jak, the now fuzzy Daxter, and I arrived at the Green Sage's hut. Daxter attempted to enter unnoticed, but the Green Sage was meditating and heard his little rodent feet.
"What in green tarnation do you three want?"
"We- we- we was...! I-I was...!"
"Don't tell me! Instead of heeding my wisdom, the two of you went mucking around in the only place I told you not to go: Misty Island!" At this point I tried to fade into the background and let the events take place.
"And you!" He roared at me, making me jump. "You went with them! You let them go! I thought you were more responsible than that!" So much for fading into the background. I hung my head in shame.
"That's right! And then we..."
"And then, Daxter, you finally took a much-needed bath. But in a bath tub filled... with Dark Eco!"
"Look, old man! Are you gonna keep yappin', or are you gonna help me outta this mess?"
"I'm gonna keep yappin'! Because, in my professional opinion, the change is an improvement. And besides... I couldn't help you if I wanted to."
"Whaaaaaat?"
"There is only one person who has studied Dark Eco long enough to have a chance at returning you to your previous form: Gol Akaron, the sage. But he lives far to the north. Far, far to the north! Nobody has spoken to him for 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 awhile."
"Maybe it's because of you're infectionous personality, eh Samos?" I thought, forgetting that Jak could hear everything.
"He means well," He said, half reprimanding, half laughing.
I chose to ignore that and keep listening
"The only other way north is by foot on the Fire Canyon. But,
its volcanic soil is hot enough to melt Precursor metal. You
can't just walk through it!"
"But you could fly over it!" Kiera walked into the room. Seeing her standing next to her father, I assumed she must have gotten her looks from her mother. There was nothing in common there. You've got the suggestively shaped Kiera standing next to the gnarled and old green sage. Both Jak and Daxter instantly perk up when she enters the room. I glared at them both, but mostly Jak, who gives me a look and shrug that says, "What did I do wrong?"
She must have been listening in, because she seemed to understand the situation.
"If you had a Zoomer equipped with a heat shield... and I just happento be working on that very thing this moment. All I would need is 20 Power Cells to give it enough energy to withstand the canyon's heat. Isn't that right, Daddy?"
"Yes, Keira, that might work. But where are a boy... and a half... going to get 20 Power Cells?"
"Don't forget Maddy! What else are we going to do with her?" Before I could get offended, she winked playfully at me. "And they can get them from the villagers! Most of them have a Power Cell 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." Upon saying this, she bats her eyes at Jak.
I felt a disconcerting pang of jealously run through me. This made no sense at all. I knew that in the end Kiera and Jak are supposed to get together. Not noticing me, Jak smiles.
Daxter points to himself. "Well, we've got the brave adventurer, at least."
"Brave adventurer? You three couldn't find your way out of the village without training! Before you do anything else, you 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!"
"Get in there before I turn you all into ferns!
