Jak could only stare in shock at Damas' spirit. He didn't know what to do. It would be too dangerous to go in with all that eco whirling around. Jak could handle some dark eco, but he didn't know how much colored eco he could take. 'This might be my only chance.' Jak thought. He took a step through the door and all the eco shot at him hitting him and knocking him back a couple of feet. The returned to the room it was once in. Jak rubbed his head and groaned as he got up.
"Jak." Damas' spirit called. Jak looked over to the door to see Damas standing there waiting for him. Jak got up and walked over to him.
"Damas."
"Jak, no one can enter this room."
"Why are you here? I thought you were dead!"
"Only the spirit goes when we truly die."
"What do you mean? Your dead! I- I watched as your finest warriors buried your grave! Even Sig helped!" Damas sighed. He could see Jak was about to have a heart attack if he didn't start explaining.
"I was not ment to die that day. The precursors wanted me to live on. So I preside here in what the monks call the life chamber. By mastering all four eco colors one can come into this room and resurrect one person of their choice and when the day comes that I am destained to truly die I will join the precursors." Damas looked over at Jak to see how he took the information in. It wasn't what he expected. He was expecting Jak to keep his cool, rock hard expression going, instead he got Jak staring at him gaping like a fish. Damas rolled his eyes and continued to talk, "If you really want to ge into this room you can start by mastering some eco and finding your friends that have been kidnaped."
"How do you-"
"I'm wired into the temple, Jak. Think of this chamber as a control room. Now get them and get out of here, they're heading for the top of the temple, and I would hurry if I were you." Jak smiled and replied with a nod and started the long dash up the stares. Damas smiled at him until the stares weren't lit anymore signaling that he was gone. Hopefully he would make it to the top in time.
It was not Torn's day.. He's had some bad days but this one beat them all. All in one day he was kidnapped, beaten, stabbed, shot at, and chased. Well, he was still being chase but that wasn't the point. The point was that him and Mary needed to get out of there, and the stairs were not helping. Torn and Mary kept feeling up and down the walls for some secret exit but to couldn't find one.
"Out of all the places to be taken it had to be a temple?" Torn questioned himself out loud. Mary took a glance at Torn and shrugged with a sigh returning back to her work.
"Maybe we should look on a different floor." Mary suggested as she began walking up a flight of stairs. Torn wasn't one to take orders but his curiosity got the best of him and he decided to follow the girl. Mary took the first step onto the stairway. Red eco shot out of her body and into the floor lightning the stairs and walls up. Torn gave a suspicious look at Mary and continued to follow her without a word. The two made their way up the stairs a couple of floors before they started to run out of breath. Mary was the first one to suggest that they stop for a break, of course Torn refused. It wasn't twenty minutes until Torn finally collapsed.
"I think it's time for a break." Torn said heavily wheezing. Mary stopped and looked to Torn with a 'I told you so look' look.
"That's what I said twenty minutes ago!" Torn scoffed.
"I'm just getting too old for this and your just too young. Of course our stamina is low." Mary shook her head. She knew what her commander said was true but he was also known to push himself to he collapsed like he was now. Torn and Mary turned their heads when they heard foot steps coming from below. Once again, it was not a good day.