Author's Note: As I mentioned in the previous chapter this chapter is going to be pretty short. Though it will introduce our Macguffins for the story, and reveal the main villains name.
Chapter 3. Discovery of a Star.
Jak and Daxter had driven towards the grey pillar of light for about 30 minutes before the pillar of light disappeared.
"Well that didn't really accomplish anything." Daxter said as they stopped and looked at where the pillar was coming from.
"Let's just go back to Spargus." Jak said. "A sandstorm should be approaching very soon."
Daxter looked in the distance, and Jak was right, a cloud of sand was approaching pretty fast.
"Let's go home then."
Jak began to drive back towards Spargus.
They drove for about 10 minutes, when Daxter spotted something. A person walking across the desert.
"JAK WATCH OUT!"
Jak noticed the person, swerving and nearly hitting the person.
He stopped the vehicle, and when he looked at the person, he noticed the person had stopped.
"Come on Daxter." Jak said "Let's see who this person is and what he's doing out here."
He and Daxter got out of the vehicle and slowly approached the person.
The person turned out to be the scout from the first chapter. Still holding on to the object he found.
As well as muttering the same thing. "I must find him."
"Who are you trying to find?" Jak said as he approached him.
Upon hearing him the scout turned his head.
He looked worse than the last time he saw him. He had severe sunburn, but at the same time was almost pale, his face was almost covered with black veins, and his eyes were almost blank.
Jak was startled, who took a couple of steps back. Daxter on the other hand, fainted, and fell on the ground.
The scout approached him. "I found you." he said.
"Okay, who are you?" Jak said, a bit confused and freaked out at the same time.
"He has reawakened, and if he isn't stopped, he will take over this universe and the others beyond this one."
Jak continued to listen to him, approaching him more slowly this time.
The scout continued rambling "When the sky turns black, that is a sign that his armies have arrived."
"Who are you talking about?" Jak finally asked.
"Tenebris, The King of Shadows." The scout said, and when he said that, the black veins began to grow across his face, and his eyes got foggier.
"He will command his armies, he will not stop until everything is under his control."
He then presented the object he held in his hands. "This is only one of the objects that can stop him. The others must be found."
Reluctantly, Jak took the object.
"If the stars aren't found. Then we are all doomed. You must stop Tenebris."
The scout then collapsed, dead.
Daxter having recovered from the shock of the scouts appearance, looked at the similarly shocked Jak.
"So what did I miss?" Daxter asked.
"Well, you missed his ramblings." Jak explained. "He said something about a King of Shadows and how he's going to take over everything, and then he gave me this thing."
He presented said object to Daxter.
"Huh. What do you think it is?" Daxter asked.
"I don't really know, but we're about to find out." Jak said as he unwrapped the cloth that was wrapped around the object.
When he finished he found a star shaped object, with some symbols written in a circle.
"What is this thing?" Jak wondered.
"I'm not sure either." Daxter said observing the object. "But judging by the symbols, i'm going to guess that it's something that came from the precursors."
"Maybe, but it's unlike any other precursor artifact i've seen."
Suddenly the sandstorm finally caught of with them, knocking them off their feet.
Jak managed to get up and got his scarf on his mouth, and his goggles on so none of the sand went into his eyes.
He then ran over to Daxter, grabbed him, and got to the vehicle as quickly as he could. Which wasn't easy as the winds of the sandstorm were pretty strong.
Eventually they managed to get to in the vehicle and drive off.
"What do you think we should do with the object." Daxter asked.
"Let's go to Samos, maybe he knows what it is." Jak said.
A while later, they were back at haven city.
Samos was observing the object they found while Jak and Daxter waited.
Eventually Samos finished his research on the item and walked over to the two.
"What did you find out?" Jak asked.
"Well, this object you found is known as a precursor star." Samos explained. "And apparently this isn't the only one."
"Wait, you mean there's more of them?" Daxter asked surprised.
"Yes, the precursors made 5 of them, and then scattered the stars."
"Do you know where the rest of them are?" Jak asked.
"Unfortunately, No." Samos said. "This is the first one found in ages, I'm not sure where the rest are though."
"What about the other stuff you heard the scout said." Daxter asked. "Like this Tenebris person."
"Couldn't find anything about him." Samos said regretfully.
"That's okay." Jak said. "We at least found some information on this object."
"Your welcome." Samos said smiling.
With that, the two left.
An hour later they were at Daxter's bar.
"So that's one mystery solved." Jak said observing the Precursor star. "What about this King of Shadows."
"Probably someone that scout made up." Daxter said. "That scout was a bandit after all, and Samos couldn't find anything about him."
"I would agree with you, but still, I have a feeling that he wasn't making it up. Those black veins, the fact that he was pale looked a bit suspicious, and the fact he just dropped dead. It just tells me otherwise."
"He was probably just playing dead, and had some makeup as some giant act to scare us."
Jak didn't say anything, and he walked out of the bar.
He looked at the sky, which looked slightly darker than usual, which means it was probably close to night.
However, after everything he heard today, he wasn't too sure.
Daxter came out of the bar and saw Jak staring at the sky.
He then came up to Jak's shoulder. "Look, if this King of Shadows is real, remember we've dealt with far worse."
This made Jak feel slightly better, but still kept looking at the sky.
He felt that something was coming, and the two weren't going to prevent it alone.