Hey guys! This isnt as long as I wanted it to be, but I want to be consistant and upload a chapter every day or two so here ya go! Also I really want to know what you think so any review is welcome especially constructive criticism! anyway enjoy!
Jak awoke in the middle of the night to a stinging sensation in his side. He opened his eyes and saw Torn pressing a reddened cloth onto his abdomen. "Still bleeding huh?" whispered Jak. Torn, who hadn't known that Jak was awake, nearly jumped out of his skin. "Jeeze kid" said Torn "Dont scare me like that". Jak let out a pained laugh "Yeah sorry bout that... can I see?". Torn raised his eyebrows "Sure but it ain't pretty". Jak propped himself up on his elbows and looked down onto his stomach and wished he hadn't. He had a disturbingly clear view of his innards, while it was mostly just a dark hole if he looked hard enough he could see the tissue underneath which was thankfully unharmed. Jak fell back onto his pillow, heart beating rapidly in his chest. He suddenly remembered how he got this injury through the dark eco induced amnesia.
"Jak look out!" Daxter said but Jak was too far gone at this point to comprehend what Daxter said. It was then that the metalhead had tackled him, three inch claws gathered together to one point stabbed through his abdomen as they both fell. They fought like wild dogs, claws and teeth, until Jak proved superior. Jak lie on the floor panting and bleeding...
"Jak I need you to stand up" Torn's raspy voice broke Jak out of his reverie and he stiffly nodded his head and slid his feet onto the cold floor. Jak had to grip the bedpost to steady himself as his vision swirled with color. Torn took out a roll of gauze and medical tape and began to wind it around Jak's abdomen. Jak was a good patient, aside from when he had nearly ripped their throats out earlier, he didn't breathe a word of complaint and held down the ends of the gauze when asked. The two had slipped into an easy silence accompanied only by the snores of other Underground members. Torn broke the silence when he said "You probably won't be able to go on missions for
at least a month. "Nah" Jak replied "I heal pretty quick" Torn couldn't figure out why but the teen sounded bitter, as if he wished that this wasn't the case. What could possibly be bad about fast healing? The kid couldn't be serious anyway he had a gaping hole in his side, its not just going to 'heal pretty quick'. "Jak, I know you probably think you're invincible just like every other teenager in the world, but you have a hole in your side, you're lucky you're even alive" Torn said exasperatedly. "I've had worse" said Jak mysteriously. "And they don't treat your wounds in prison" he spat.
"Jak, as much as I hate to ask, I have to know" began Torn "What were you doing in prison? I just need to know that you aren't going to go berserk and rip our throats out". Jak turned around and looked Torn in the eyes defiantly "The only person I'm a threat to is Praxis". Just bringing up that vile person caused the eco within Jak to nearly break the surface. A shudder rippled Jak's frame and his entire body tensed up to suppress the eco. Jak's face showed wide-eyed panic for only a moment before reverting back to his normal stoic-yet-slightly-angry expression.
This did not go unnoticed by Torn who looked on with suspicion. He had the odd feeling that Jak did not have a good handle on whatever it was that brought on the strange and terrifying transformation Finally deciding that he didn't really care all that much Torn shook his head and taped down the last bit of loose gauze and left the room to clean the blood off his hands. Belatedly Torn realized that his hands were stinging badly, he rushed into the bathroom and flicked on the light. Torn was revolted for the third or fourth time that night by what he saw. Jaks blood has a shining purple tint to it and that could only mean one thing. Dark Eco.
Torn hastily turned the faucet on and washed the blood off with rusty water. 'Dark eco? transformations? Prison? This kid is definitely a threat, and he would continue to be a threat until I find out his story'