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Jak and Daxter: A Different Legacy

Chapter Three: You Smell Like a Rotten Yakow

I sat on a ledge near the Green Eco collectors. I couldn't cry anymore. My house was empty and wrecked; looking like a tornado went through it. There was nothing I could do. I just sat there, looking at the sunset like Spike and I used to do every night.

One tear forced itself out. No more. "I have to be strong, I'm alone now," I whispered to myself.

"You're never alone," he sat down next to me with a small smile, his friend next to him.

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Jak and Daxter gathered the four Power Cells from the island and hopped back through the teleporter.

Jak landed back at the Green Sage's hut without incident. However, Daxter was shot out rather painfully across the floor.

"Good training, boys. But that's nothing compared to the challenges that lie ahead!" Samos informed on his usual 'wise but really loud' voice.

"Aaaaah, they're nooo problem! We got the moves, eh, Jak? We'd like to stay and chat, Big Green, but we're uh, itching to get on with our adventures," Daxter said.

"Fine, fine. "Adventure" away then. And while you're out "adventuring", why don't you make yourself useful? My darn Green Eco collectors are clogged up again. Head out to the far side of the beach and clear them out, why don't you? Follow the lamps. They'll take you right there," Samos informed.

"Wait a minute… where's the chick?" Daxter asked, looking around Samos's hut for Jeninna.

"Well, I can assure you she's not hiding in my home," Samos said, irritated.

Daxter glared at Samos and jumped on Jak's shoulder.

"Go and find Jeninna as well. She could assist you on your "adventure"," Samos instructed. "Now… all of you… GET OUT OF HERE!" The whole hut shook as Samos shouted.

"Somebody's in a rotten mood," Daxter mumbled as Jak walked out of the room with Daxter on his shoulder.

Jak pushed Daxter off his shoulder as they walked to the beach.

"Hey!" Daxter shouted, now walking beside Jak.

"You smell really bad," Jak said.

"I'm an animal, what do you expect? For me to smell like flowers?" Daxter asked skeptically.

"No, not really," Jak said simply. "But I don't want something that smells like a rotten Yakow on my shoulder."

"Thanks," Daxter said sarcastically. "You're a great friend, Jak."

"Any time," Jak said, throwing a pebble in the air and catching it.

It went on like that until they saw Jeninna lying on her back on a boulder near the windmill.

Jak and Daxter walked up behind her.

"I have to be strong, I'm alone now," Jeninna whispered to herself.

Jak lay down on his back beside her, and looked up at the dark sky.

"You're never alone."

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I sat up and looked at Jak in surprise.

I grinned. "Thanks."

"I know what it's like to feel alone. You, at first, feel terrible. But you just wait… because everything is going to turn out alright. And you aren't alone. You always have us," Jak spoke quietly, still looking up at the stars that now illuminated the dark sky.

"Yuck. So, you're mushy with her and she likes it, and when I get all mushy with girls they hate it," Daxter complained.

I snorted. "Maybe it's because they aren't interested in small, orange, and fluffy rodents for boyfriends."

Daxter glared. "BEFORE I was a rodent!"

"I have to say; even then you probably still looked like a rodent," I continued.

"Now that I think about it, he actually did," Jak chimed in with a playful glint in his eye.

"Thank you, Jak. I really wonder why Daxter can't see this," I said in fake shame. I tisked three times and shook my head in fake disappointment.

"I wonder the same thing every day," Jak commented.

"Hey! I'm standing right HERE!" Daxter shouted, annoyed.

"Oh, I'm sorry. You were so short I couldn't notice you were standing there," I teased.

"Very funny, Jeninna. Very funny," Daxter huffed, crossing his furry arms.

"I try."

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After sitting there for a while in silence, I spoke out of nowhere.

"Shouldn't you be "adventuring" and helping Samos with his Green Eco collectors?" I asked.

Jak and Daxter shot up to their feet. Jak let out a deep breath and furrowed his eyebrows. "How did you know that?" Jak asked.

"Samos can be heard all the way from Misty Island, I didn't have any problem hearing him from here," I laughed lightly.

"True," Jak agreed.

"You guys can go ahead, I think I'm going to stay at the windmill for the remainder of the… well, my life," I said simply, pushing them towards the Green Eco conductors quickly.

Jak turned towards me and crossed him arms across his chest. "Oh no you don't. You're coming with us on this journey whether you like it or not," he said.

"Oh am I? Make me, Mr. Man," I crossed my arms and planted my feet to the wet green grass.

He smiled, and I swear I could see an evil glint in his eye at that moment.

He put his hands on my waist and hoisted me over his shoulder. "Okay," he said simply.

"Hey! Put me down! I telling you to PUT ME DOWN RIGHT NOW or I will THROW you all the way to Misty Island!" I pounded on his back with my fists.

And then:

"JAK! PUT ME DOWN, YOU PERVERT! YOU BETTER PUT ME DOWN OR I'LL SCREAM! SAMOS'S SCREAM IS LIKE A MOUSE'S COMPARED TO MINE! AND IF YOU FART, I SWEAR, YOU WILL DIE!"

And then:

"I DON'T WANT TO GO ON A REALLY LONG JOURNEY ONLY TO DIE ALONG THE WAY! I HATE LURKERS! THERE ARE PROBABLY THINGS WORSE THAN LURKERS OUT THERE!"

"Don't worry, I'm sure you can scare them all off with your 'scream of wonder'."

"Wait a minute… are you wearing EARPLUGS! THAT'S SO CHEAP! YOU CAN'T DO THAT! IT'S… CHEATING! CHEAP-O!"

And finally:

"Okay, fine. You win. But I swear, I think my evil streak is rubbing off on you. You used to be normal," I pouted.

He smiled and let me down.

"I think so too," Daxter said after we took care of all the Green Eco conductors.

I raised a skeptical eyebrow.

"He told me I smelled like a rotten Yakow before!" Daxter complained.

I sniffed the air near Daxter and wrinkled my nose. "I don't blame him."

Daxter glared at me.

"Except I would use a better insult, because we all know very well you smell way worse than a rotten Yakow," I added.

Jak laughed. And I kept going, "More like a rotten Lurker."

"I DO NOT smell like a rotten Lurker! I'm way too strong," Daxter informed us.

Jak and I both nodded our heads in fake agreement.

Daxter sighed, speechless.

"Wow, Jeninna, the Great Orange One is finally rendered speechless," I said to myself.

"I'm not speechless! I'm just… damn… you're right."

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Hey it's me again. Thanks for the reviews. And I'm just warning you, this is turning out to be a really long story. Because I'm going through the story with Jeninna in there and a change to the plot. So I have to play through the game all over again and get the words right. And then I'm going through the other two games. So, this is gonna be really long. Please review. And I have one question that's been bugging me. What in the world is a Mary Sue?

-ED Renalds