PStU: I am SOOOOOO very, very , very, very, VERY SORY, about this very late update. It was a lot later then I thought it would be due to the fact that my computer crashed and so did my dads Twice. I also had to start from scratch after my computer crashed and so thats why it has taken so long. Oh and also my muse's decided to take a 6 month long vacation and left me alone with writers block. Right now they are all very busy and will stay that way untill I say they CAN QUIT!

Star: Shesh we did not think you would get that mad. You WERE busy with school after all.

PStU: YA but school ended two months ago! And You all decided to have a major party and left me to do damage control. And I still have no Idea were Titlle and Giddy are.

Star: Lets just pray that they wern't put in jail again.

PStU: ~Sigh~ I do not own the Jak and Daxter seires Naughty Dog does. Right now I have to go and look Titlle and Giddy. Enjoy this over due Chapter Of Jaks Journal.


Entry 9

February 26 1765

I am writing this just before sunrise. I had that dream again, the one about that place I swear I have never seen before. It is weird the thing is when I am dreaming about that place I feel like I am seeing something important, but then when I wake up I ask myself how can that even be possible? How can I feel that, that place is important when I am very sure I have never seen it before? Have I? At least I think I have never seen that place before. I just don't know what to make of that dream and those people I can never fully see. Another weird thing is that I feel as if I know those people somehow and again I have to ask myself how can I know people I have never met that are from a place that probably doesn't even exist. At least I think it doesn't exist. All these questions about a dream are starting to make my head hurt. A dream is supposed to be the window into a person's subconscious (that's what Samos said anyway) and they are usually nonsense, random pictures and emotions, but then why does this dream seem to make some sort of sense and seem real to me one moment then the next I can't understand any of it. Another thing is I can never fully remember what that dream was about. It's like one minute it is there and the next it is gone. I wake up and only vaguely remember I even had a dream.

I am starting to think I should ask Samos about it after all he does know more about these things than anyone else, but I am reluctant to do so. The thing is I don't know what he would tell me. I don't even know if he would even answer my question. He might just go into some long lecture or explanation. I don't want to tell Keira about it because she'll get worried about me, and telling Daxter is defiantly not a good choice, he'd make jokes about it then tell me it is all in my head. It is times like these that I wish my uncle was around to talk to. He is always calm and patent when reading the questions I wrote done for him. He never rushes me when I am thinking about how to write down my question and he would read everything I had to ask or say. When I am done writing and he reads it, he never questions any of what I had written (He always said that a curious mind is a healthy mind, and that it is in an elves nature to seek out answers to the mysteries around us.) Once he had finished reading what I had written my uncle would tell me his view on my problem or question at hand then give me good advice on what I should do about it. I think he is really good at giving advice because he travels a lot and meets many different elves.

But my uncle is not here so I have to figure this one out on my own this time. I think it would be best if I kept this problem to myself for now. I want to be completely sure that if I ask for advice about the dream that I will be able to word my questions right. I also want to be able to receive the answers I might and might not get. At the moment though I am not that worried about it though, it is just really confusing. A dream is just a dream right? Even if this dream sometimes seem too real to actually be a dream.

As I am writing all of this down I am watching the sun come up over the horizon turning the once dark blue sky a mixture of orange, pink and purple. Which reflect off the dark ocean making it look calm and peaceful just before the day starts. As I am looking out at the calm and peaceful ocean I am starting to wonder how this adventure will end. I know my uncle will want to every detail about my first adventure, but will anything after this ever be as exciting as this adventure.

I need to go back to bed so that I will be up to today's challenge, I am very sure that ether Samos or Keira will have an important task for me to do, Once I come back from where ever they send ,e I will write about the day's events.

Later…

I never thought a place could smell just as bad or dare I say it worse than Daxter's room. Everyone but Daxter complains about how messy and smelly his room is. Now to me his room smells like fresh cut flowers compared to that place and I am not exaggerating. If I ever have to go back to that swamp I will plain out refuse to go. Daxter complained almost the entire time we were there and I can hardly blame him for it, though it would have been nice not to be reminded of the fact that I was knee deep in swamp muck.

Anyway after I woke up for the second time I heard Daxter complaining about being hungry (Even though he is much smaller then he was he still eats more food than any of us.) I walked toward Daxter's voice and saw that Keira was preparing breakfast while ignoring Daxter's constant complaints. When she turned around I smiled at her and shrugged at Daxter's comments. She smiled back and came over and gave me a bowl of freshly made oatmeal to eat. As she turned to go back to the pot filled with our breakfast I noticed her ears were slightly tipped with pink. When Daxter saw that Keira had given me breakfast before he had gotten any he started to complain even more. Samos came in not two seconds after Daxter started to complain and smacked Daxter smartly on the head with his walking stick.

Daxter rubbed his head and glared at Samos as he started one of his lectures, "You will eat when you stop complaining and fix it yourself. You are not that dumb as to not know how to fix yourself something to eat. If someone else is making your meal be quiet and wait for it!" Samos ended with a hard look at Daxter.

I then heard Daxter mumble something about "being too short to cook," "starving to death," and something along the lines of "needing to keep up my strength." I saw Keira rolling her eyes at each one so I suspect that she heard everything he said. After another minute Daxter was given his breakfast and quickly started eating it as Keira got some for herself and Samos. Daxter finished eating just as both Samos and Keira sat down to eat.

Samos ignored Daxter's demands for another helping and turned to talk to me, "Jak I want you to go to the swamp across the bay. According to the Blue Sages notes there has been a major Lurker infestation there. Apparently they are planning to use a dirigible to lift an important Precursor artifact from the muck! You have to get over there and dislodge their tethers! Who knows what they might want with the artifact? But like orange-stuff here's breath it cannot be good!"

Daxter did not like that comment about his breath and was about to tell him something I know Samos would not like so I grabbed him and left the hut before Samos's patents with my friend ran out. Once I was outside I made my way over to the village so to get to the bridge. As I walked through the village, I stopped every now and then to help a person with something. One lady needed a few of her things moved, while she tended a few of the still injured elves. Other people asked me to run errands for them. As I was doing all these things for these nice villagers Daxter went on and on about me "being too nice" or telling me to tell them no or tell them that I'm busy. He also said that I should ask for something in return. I can only shake my head at all that he had said. To me doing something nice for someone else even someone who I may never see again can be its own reward. I also had people come up to me to thank me for saving them or their families; others asked how I was feeling. I would smile at them, deeply touched by their thanks and concern. I only wish I could thank them in return but me being a mute that is not possible, but at least with a smile or a nod it would let them know how they made me feel.

After I finished listening to the people who came up to me, I made my way to the bridge (which is little more than planks of wood floating on the water) that led to both the large Lurker and Boggy Swamp. As I jumped from plank to plank Daxter clung to me for dear life because we both knew that if I fell into the deep water (which the planks float on top of) a Lurker Shark would quickly swim over and try to eat us both. I can't blame him for being scared, he had, had a bad experience with a Lurker shark when he was younger which has left him terrified of them. But he could have at least hung on to me without his claws. Which has me wondering why he even has claws to begin with?

After I got onto the other side of the bridge and stepped onto the Boggy Swamp shore, Daxter let go of my head then went onto telling me that he was not scared at all. He was just making sure that I wasn't going to fall into the water. I just rolled my eyes at that, but I let him go on about how he was someday going to defeat all the Lurker sharks. I had to smile as he acted out how he was going to do it.

As soon as we entered the swamp we were assaulted by both bugs and the swamps horrible smell. It was also raining making it very humid and not to mention I knee deep in swam muck. The bugs and the heat in the air weren't that much of a problem because the Forbidden Jungle has both, but the smell and the swamp muck made it much, much worse. I am still getting some of the muck off of me. The muck was also kinda thick making it harder to move around and fight. As I realized this I was trying to break open some containers. Daxter pointed out to me that they were full of yellow eco clusters. I smiled as I realized the yellow eco was the answer to my problem. As soon as I picked up the yellow eco clusters I felt its power go down my arms to my hands.

In one of Samos's many lessons on the different types of eco, he had talked about battle eco. In one of those lessons he said that yellow eco was a powerful eco which made a good weapon to defend yourself with. He also said that it should be handled carefully. As soon as I started to channel it, I could tell right away that he was right. I could feel fire balls leave my right hand and destroy some more boxes. I loved the feel of the yellow eco passing through me and the fact that with it I could shoot fire balls but I also know it can be very dangerous. I have to make sure I am really careful with this eco so that I don't end up hurting anyone with it.

I made my way over to a large fallen log after I used yellow eco on some swamp rats. The old log looked to be stable and worn down to the point it made a good path. On the other side of it were some really large thorns and some swamp bats. I used a old pole that looked to have once been a part of something larger to get across the thorns I then used the rest of the yellow eco I had to get rid of the swamp bats. To my excitement there were some wooden paths over some black swamp muck. That made me very happy just the thought of getting out of the muck was nice. I quickly got onto the wooden paths but I soon found out way they were there, it seems the black swamp muck is very toxic which I found out when my leg fell into it. The muck burned my skin really bad. I immediately dug into my pack for the stores of green eco my uncle gave me and applied some to my leg quickly. After that I made a mental note to both stay out of the black muck and to thank my uncle for the green eco when I saw him next.

Once my leg was better I made my way over to a blue eco vent that was on some somewhat dry land. I had just finished the yellow eco so channeling the blue eco would not be a problem. I used the eco to power a Precursor launch pad which allowed me to get to an area which would be impossible to get to on foot. Once I was in the air I got a clearer view of the dirigible and also saw where the tethers to it were. Once I landed I found a Scout Fly and killed a few swamp rats before I left to go after the tethers. Finding them wasn't a problem at all the problem though was the fact that they were guarded by ether swamp rats or lurkers. I found myself more than once having to retreat away so that I could catch my breath. The lurkers weren't that big an issue it was the swamp rats that would multiply quickly that were the big pain. Daxter pointed out more than once that I had to destroy their nests to stop them.

It was after I had destroyed two tethers that I jumped head first into another ambush set up to stop us from breaking any more tethers. It was a really good thing that I found yellow eco during that fight. After they were all dead I grabbed a power cell one of them had dropped and continued after the other tethers. At that point I had found 3 power cells 2 of which were used to hold down the tethers.

I left the ambush area after I got a look at what they were trying to get out of the swamp muck. It looked to be a giant arm to something. For some reason I just knew it would be very bad if the Lurkers got their hands on it. Before I went any deeper into the swam I destroyed the third tether.

Once I got deeper into the swamp Keira activated the talk box and told me that she had sent the Flut flut bird to a warp pad nearby and to help us get a power cell. I soon found it and it chirped happily when it saw us. Daxter was about to tell it, that he was not his mom again but stopped when I got on and quickly road of to find the power cell. I am really glad that Keira sent the Flut flut to us for one thing it was not harmed by the black swamp muck and also could jump very high. This was a good thing because it helped us both dodge and kill our enemies faster. I finally found the power cell that Keira had talked about and then added it to our collection. I got off the Flut flut and saw that it went straight back to the warp pad. Keira did a really good job at training it.

We later came across an elf who lived in the swamp and in both mine and Daxter's nose's smelled just as bad as it did. He needed help finding his pet hiphog. He told us that he set out snacks for his pet but the swamp rats kept on eating them. He wanted us to stop the rats long enough so that his hiphog could find his treats. We did just that and it too was a pain just like I knew it would be. I can really see now why so many elves hate swamp rats. He gave us a power cell like he promised and we quickly left.

After another trek through stuff I don't even want to think about Daxter pointed out the final tether. It wasn't too heavily guarded but then again it was high above the black swamp muck so it really did not need to be. Daxter found some Precursor lifts next to it and pointed them out to me. I nodded and used them to reach it. Once it was destroyed the dirigible floated away. Samos's voice suddenly appeared on the talk box. He told us that he had no idea why the Lurkers would want a Precursor Robot arm and that if we kept on work and succeeding like we are we might make it to hero status then he took it back by saying we would always be just shy of hero status. Daxter to say the least was not pleased with this response from Samos and planed to do something about it later. At that point I had, had enough of that swamp and quickly got out of there after I found the last Of Keira's Scout Flies.

Like I said before I am never ever going back there. Also it is really late and I plan to take out that Giant Lurker very soon. I need some sleep if I am to defeat it and save this village from its constant bombardment of flaming boulders. Also I need to try once again to get some more of this swamp muck off of me.

P.S.

I think now I have 63 or 64 power cells and at least 300 Precursor orbs.


Word Count 3114


Star: PStU is not here because she is bailing out Tittle and Giddy who actually DID get put into Prison. Please R&R and send in money to help with the bail. JK! But really WE are all so very sorry about this Chapter being so very late that we put two chapters to gether so to make it longer. Please do know that PStU IS NOT DEAD.

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