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Chapter 3: Because of the Eco

Jak sat up against the door in the bathroom as his breathing grew heavy.

'Calm down, Jak. You know what happens when you get like this.' he thought. Damn. Why did Daxter have to find out like this? He was going to tell him eventually about the eco. Daxter probably thought he was trying to get high off of it. Jak smirked at the thought. No amount of eco could make him feel THAT good. He looked down at his hand. Was he really that pale? It wasn't the grey pale when he turned into his dark alter ego. Wearing a long cloak and gloves just protected him from the sun. Maybe it was time for a tan.

Jak sighed. He just made his best friend so upset that he was on the edge of explosion and he's thinking about getting a tan? What was wrong with him? He should be thinking about how he was going to face Daxter when he walked back out that door. Jak considered his options. He could stay in the bathroom, but it was kinda cramped. He could try to sneak outside. Ya, that's the option he'll go with

Jak stood up and used his dark eco to turn invisible and slowly turned the doorknob and slid the door opened. He peeked his head out the door to see Daxter laying in bed. He sighed. How could he sneak out now seeing him like this. He knew how Daxter felt when he thought he was mad. 'Okay, Jak. You can do this.'

Jak became visible again and walked over to the bed. He reached out to touch Daxter's shoulder.

"Go away." Came Daxter's voice. Jak ignored him and turned him on his back. Daxter glared at Jak, his face was still red from earlier. "What do you want?" he said with venom. It intimidated Jak hearing something like that come from Daxter and be directed towards him.

"Move over." Jak whispered.

Why would I do that? I'm still mad at you." Daxter saw the hurt in his eyes when he said it.

"Move, or I'll move you myself." Jak said louder this time. Daxter simply rolled over and ignored the threat. "Fine then." Jak picked Daxter up bridal style and set him on the other side of the twin bed and crawled in.

"Hey!" Daxter yelled.

"Hay is for metalheads and yakows." Jak retorted. Daxter became flustered and started to hit Jak with the pillow. The green-blonde scrunched his nose as he got hit in the face. Jak's hand made his way around to Daxter's side poking it playfully.

"EEP!" Daxter dropped the pillow and covered his sides as Jak continued to poke them. "HAHAHAHAHAHA JAK JAK STOP HAHAHA PRCUROSOR STOP!" Jak decided to show mercy for once and tickling Daxter. The redhead calmed down and settled next to Jak. Jak stared at Daxter taking in the details of his new elf body. Not tan but not pale, red hair with an orange tinge on the ends, and soft dull blue eyes. Jak blushed and a goofy smile spread on Jak's face as he laid down next to Daxter. "I wasn't really mad at you ya'know. I just wasn't expecting the injections, or the horns, or the claws, oh, and the eyes."

Jak put his arm across Daxter's stomach as his friend laid his head in the crook of his shoulder. Daxter felt Jak's body relax to the familiar feeling of them sleeping together. Daxter never liked sleeping in his own bed when he stayed over at Samous' House so he and Jak slept together. After a while Jak couldn't stand the thought of sleeping alone.

"I left because of the eco."

"I'm listening." Daxter said. Jack smircked.

"It was getting harder to change back from my other forms. So I left to seek help...wherever I could get it atleast." Daxter nodded. "I'll tell you now I went to alot of places to find some decent eco sages."

"There's others besides Samous in this time?"

"Ya, surprised me too. Anyway, I worked for some of them in return to see if they could do anything. None of them could really do that much. Then I came across this one yellow eco sage. While I was working for her I met her apprentice. They had the same condition as me, only they were how I am now. They got in an...incident with yellow eco when they where born. But, ya. They helped me out. They said that this is the worst it would get but since I have two types of eco I should keep myself balanced. So they suggested eco injections when I needed to get balanced out. After a couple of weeks after getting everything undercontrol I started to come back here."

"Then how did you get the horns and stuff?"

"I'm getting to that. Anyway, I was making my way from city to city to get here and ..." Jak paused for a moment, "...the apprentince was traveling with me so she could meet other sages and we we're attacked be a band of metalheads. They transformed into...well whatever a alter yellow ego is and I turned into Dark Jak." Jak paused again," After that I wasn't to completely transform back. Only my skin and hair turned back, and I'm sure you've noticed that the blues of my eyes are black, still got the whites of them though!"

"Well what happens when you go all Darkie now?" Jak looked away.

"It's alot worse, more feral, another two pair of horns. One pair on the shoulders and another directly behind they ears, unless you want to count the ones I have now, claws are longer and I've got fangs. Ya, just add a glowing skull and you could mistake me foe a metalhead."

"I'll be the judge of that. Hey, not that I wasn't listening or anything, but you want to go back to sleep? Because it's still like eight ol'clock in the morning." Jak laughed. This is one of the qualities he loved about Daxter. He could tell him just about anything and he wouldn't freak out.

"Ya, Dax. I kinda've want to too.