Chapter 10: Nothing But Trouble
Jet: Well in the last chapter Rick had a bad nightmare in which Lilly died, and then the guys go back to their school. Then Jean gets to learn Magic and then there is a problem with Aria and she makes Lilly mad and then… you know what there is nothing to talk about with that chapter. So let's get started with this chapter.
Lilly and Sue walked back to their room, it was still plain as day that Lilly was still mad- so most people got out of her way and no one tried to talk to her. "Lilly," Sue said, hanging on Lilly's shoulder, "You really should calm down, you're scaring everyone." Lilly looked at everyone and saw that Sue was right; she took a deep breath and tried to calm down and kept walking. "So what are you going to do to Aria?"
"I don't know. She really crossed a line talking about my dad like that. I can't just let her get away with that and I want to fight her, but…" She trailed off.
"But what? She was being a jerk and she needs to get what's coming to her."
"Look Sue, I agree with you and I want to teach her a lesson but I don't want to get in trouble for fighting. That might just make people think I'm even more a monster then they already do."
"Well maybe, but still you have to do something about her."
"Maybe I should just tell a teacher."
"ARE YOU NUTS!" Sue practically yelled right in Lilly's ear.
"Sue!" Lilly glared at her.
Sue's ears drooped back and she gave a very Daxter like smile, "Sorry. But really you can't just go to a teacher."
"Why not?"
"Well, if you go to a teacher then people would start to think that you're a tattle tale, a stick in the mud, a push over - someone who is easy to walk all over."
"Well I wouldn't want that. I don't want people to be afraid of me but I don't want them to think that I'm a push over either. What am I going to do?"
"Well whatever you do, you're going to have to talk to her at least."
"Maybe that's all I have to do."
"If we're lucky."
That night after the others had gone to bed Lilly and Sue met in Lilly's room. Lilly got into her light form and Sue jumped onto her shoulder and walked onto balcony and jumped off, Lilly flew up over the roof and landed behind the school and changing back, Lilly and Sue looked around, "Um…" Sue said, squinting her eyes trying to see, "Lilly, I can't see a thing."
"That's okay," Lilly said, "You don't have to." Lilly got into her dark form.
"You know, it's still a little scary when you do that."
"Yeah well, at least I can see." Lilly started to walk looking for Aria.
"You can? I didn't know you could do that."
"I got the idea from Rick. He can see in the dark when he's in his dark form, so I thought maybe I could do the same and- wouldn't you know it- I can."
"Cool." Sue and Lilly walked for a few minutes, "Lilly, I think she's chicken out." Sue commented after a while.
"I think you right." Lilly got back into her normal form, "It's really cold out here, let's go back inside and forget about this."
The two of them turned around and Aria with Professor Holiday was standing behind her. "I want both of you in my office now." She didn't yell at them but it was plan just how mad she was that they were after curfew, again. The two of them walked past Aria- who smirked at them. Professor Holiday looked at Aria, "Thank you for telling me about this Miss Aria, I'm glad you heard them talking about sneaking out tonight."
Lilly stopped dead in her tracks. Her and Sue looked at each other with 'What the hell' looks on their faces. The two of them looked back at Professor Holiday, "Professor, she's lying." Lilly said, "She's the reason why we're out here."
Professor Holiday looked at them, "What are you talking about?"
Sue jumped off Lilly's shoulder, "She told Lilly and me to meet her out here tonight for a fight but Lilly wasn't really going to fight her. She was just going to talk to her and try to make things better." Lilly picked the ottsel out of the snow so her bare feet wouldn't freeze.
Professor Holiday glared at them, "I don't care, what I know is you two have snuck off after curfew and Miss Aria was the responsible one who told me. Now get to my office."
The two of them walked into Professor Holiday's office and waited of her, Lilly sat down in one of the chairs and Sue sat on the desk, "I can't believe that I walked into this." Lilly said, crossing her arms.
"I know." Sue also crossed her arms, "Aria's going to pay for this."
"I'm with you on that one. She said all that stuff about my dad and then she went the Headmistress Holiday and got us into trouble." Professor Holiday stood just outside the door with two of her husband's guards. She hesitated- as if waiting for the right moment- then she opened the door a crack, unscrewed the cap on the bottle she was holding and quietly rolled it into the room. Professor Holiday closed the door and waited for the girls to become affected by the sleeping gas that was now filling the room. Being smaller the gas started to effect Sue. Lilly looked at her friend, "Hey, are you okay?"
"I don't know I just fell so sleepy all of a sudden." Sue laid down on the desk, "Wake me up when Professor Holiday gets here…" Sue closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Lilly also started to feel the effects of the gas and also fell to sleep. When the two girls were out the guards walked in, one of them was nice enough to open the window so the room could air out, he turned around and picked the ottsel up off the desk while his companion picked up Lilly. The men carried the two girls out of the room with Professor Holiday follwing them, this had worked out better then she could have hoped.
The men took Lilly and Sue to the mountain hideout. Lilly was put back in the same cell that she and her friend were put in last time, but this time the guards put a chain around her neck so now even if she could somehow get the door open she couldn't get out of the cell. Sue was put in smaller cage- that was really just something that people put their small pets in- and put in the same cell as Lilly. Sky watched helpless from her cell as the guards imprisoned the young girls, "You men are horrible; they're only children." She glared at them but they ignored her and left. Sky looked back at the still sleeping girls and sighed sadly. She sat down in her cell and waited for them to wake up.
Lilly and Sue woke an hour later, Lilly was shocked when she found herself back in a prison cell but not nearly as shocked as she was when she found that she was chained up like a bad crocadog. She touched the metal ring that was around her neck and almost laughed, it was just metal, she could break that easy with a just little bit of dark eco blast. She tried just a small shock but got a nasty shock back, "OWW!" She yelled, when she shocked the metal the metal had reacted and shocked her back.
"Are you alright?" Sky asked, worried about her.
Lilly looked at her, "I'm fine. How have you been?"
"Fine, did you find your friend?"
"Yes. We all got of here okay, but I don't know how I…" She looked around and found Sue in the small cage. Lilly got up and looked at the lock, it was comb-lock and she didn't have the combination to get Sue out and she wasn't about to try to blast the small cage out of fear that Sue would get a nasty shock like she had.
Lilly looked at the still sleeping ottsel and grinned, just because they were being held against their will, that didn't mean that Lilly could have a little fun. She shook the cage. Sue woke with a start, "WHAT THE-!" she shouted, getting on all fours and looking a lot like a startled cat.
Lilly put the cage down as she started to laugh, "Sorry Sue, but I couldn't think of a better way to get you up."
Sue grabbed onto the bars on her cage and glared at Lilly, "You really could think of a better way to get me up than shaking me! By the way, where are we and why am I in here? And…" She trailed off, she had seen how Lilly was chained up, "What happened to us?"
"I don't know." Lilly said, resting her back agent the wall, "All I know is if I try to use dark eco to break out, I'm going to get a nasty shock, and I don't know what will happen if I try to get you out so I don't want to try anything." She smiled at Sue, "But don't worry, I'm sure we'll get out okay."
Sky looked at the young girls and wished there was something she could do to help them. But there was nothing, she was trapped just like they were and although she didn't show it she was sick. Really it was her ex-husband and his family that was making it possible to stay alive. To her that meant that Razer did still love her, even if it was just a little. Why else would he keep her alive? Why else would her keep her close? He was afraid to lose her again. She smiled to herself a little, she knew that the two little girls in the cell next to her would not be killed; there was still a bit of the Razer that she had fallen in love with still in him, and that part would never let a child be killed, not if he had anything to say about it.
Far away in Spargus, Jak stood next to the window in his room just looking down at the dark streets of the city while Keira slept. He heard her groan a little and shift in bed; he looked at her, with the moonlight that flooded the room he could see her open her beautiful green eyes and look at him, her eye lids were heavy with sleep but she still pushed herself up with one arm. Her other arm she used to keep the blanket up to cover her chest, something that was unneeded being that her nightgown already did that, "Jak…" She whispered, "What are you still doing up? It's late, you should come to bed."
"I will." He said in a tone that he used when he was trying to seem like nothing was wrong.
Keira looked at him concerned, she knew that tone all too well, "Jak, what's wrong?"
Jak just smiled at her. He walked over to her, sat down on the bed and ran his fingers through her hair, "Don't worry about it," his hand moved from her hair, down her face until it was resting on her cheek, "I'll tell you in the morning." He cupped her chin in his hand and kept her face looking up at his, he looked into her half opened eyes and kissed her, he was glad when she started to kiss him back. When he pulled away he was glad to see that her worried looked had changed into one of happiness, "Now go back to sleep." He whispered.
Keira wrapped her arms around his neck, "I will if you go to sleep too."
Jak just smiled, "Alright." He kissed her head and laid next to her. He held her close and the two of them fell asleep. If they could only know where their daughter was now, then Jak wouldn't have waited for the next morning to go the island that the child's school was on to help Danny save his mother. But he had no way of knowing that at that moment; his youngest daughter was sitting in a corner of the cold, dark cell that she was chained up in with her knees pulled to her chest and on the verge of tears because although she didn't show it, she was scared out of mind because she didn't know what was going to happen to her. But with Sue asleep in her small cage and Sky also asleep, Lilly allowed herself now to show just how scared she really was. But neither Jak nor Keira knew any of that as the two of them slept in the safety of their bed in the palace.
The next morning Jak woke to find Keira still asleep, he held her tighter and waited for her to wake up, he wasn't just going to run off and not tell her what was going on. It wasn't long before she did wake, she looked up at him and smiled, "Good morning." She said.
"Good morning." He replied and then he kissed her.
"So what's going on? What was bothering you last night?"
"Danny told me a while back that Razer is holding his mother prisoner and he asked me to help save her."
Keira looked at him shocked, "His mother? But I thought she was dead."
"So did everyone else."
"So where's he keeping her?"
"In a mountain hideout close to the school. So I figure I could get Danny's mother out of trouble and then go see Lilly."
Keira just looked at her husband, "Jak, you make it sound like you think this will be easy."
Jak smiled a little, "Keira, it's just Razer we're talking about. Sure on a race track he's dangerous, but come on, I've dealt with way worse."
"Well how are you even going to this mountain hideout?"
Jak got out of bed and started to get dressed, "I'm meeting up with Danny and he's going to show me where the hideout is."
Keira sighed, "Just be careful."
Jak walked back over to her, "Don't worry, I'll be fine and I'll be back before dark. I don't think this is really going to take long."
Keira smiled, "Okay I'll see you tonight then." He kissed her and walked over to the closet and grabbed his old morph-guns and went out the door. Keira fell back onto the pillow and fell back to sleep just for a bit longer.
Jak walked down the hall until he came to the room that had the rift gate and was about to jump in when Jamie walked in, "Dad?" He looked at her. "Where are you going?"
"Danny needs my help to save his mom so I'm going to the island that the schools are on to help him."
"Oh… can I come?"
"No." His said simply and obviously fatherly.
"Why not? I'm fourteen I can handle whatever is going on."
"Jamie, you're just too young and this could be dangerous."
Jamie crossed her arms and pouted like a little kid, "I bet you'd let Lilly go."
Jak smiled at his daughter's attempt to make him feel bad. "First of all, I would never let your sister come with me and second, sad faces aren't going to change my mind," he ruffled her hair a little, "but nice try." He kissed her forehead, "I'll be back tonight." And then he jumped though the ring.
Jamie looked at the ring, "What just happened?" and she walked out of the room just trying to figure out what just happened.
Jak jumped out of the ring at the bus station, the very few people there looked at him; he saw a mother pull her small daughter close to her, Jak just looked away. He saw Danny standing by the door and went over to him. Danny looked at him, "Hi, Jak… um… we've got another problem."
"What is it?"
"Well… Um… Jean called me and Lilly and Sue have gone missing."
"WHAT!" It took a lot to keep Jak from screaming aloud.
"No one has seen them since last night. I think my dad has them."
"Why do you think your dad has them?"
"Because my gran… Razer's mother is the headmistress of the girl's school."
Jak and Danny walked out, "Okay, just show me where this hideout is and I'll take care of the rest."
Danny looked up at him, "Thanks Jak."
Danny led Jak to the hideout, "I have to go in there now. They want me to do something so you're going to have to find them on your own."
Jak just smiled, "That's fine, you better get going." Danny smiled and went into the hide out. Jak waited a little bit before also going in.
A guard walked up to the cell that Lilly and Sue were in, and opened the door. He grabbed Lilly and unchained her, Lilly struggled, "Let me go!" She yelled. The guard didn't say anything as he dragged the young she-elf away. Sue just watched helpless in the cage.
The little ottsel sat in the corner of her cage and started to cry. Sky looked at the ottsel, "It will be okay. Don't cry."
"How can I not? Lilly's in trouble and I can't do anything."
It took Jak a few minutes to find the jail room but he did find it. He ran in and found a woman in the cell at the end of the hall. "Are you okay?" He asked the woman.
Sue looked at the sound of Jak's voice, "Uncle Jak?" She asked, happy to see him.
Jak looked at the small cage, "Sue?" He looked around, "Don't worry I'll get you out of there." Jak blasted the bars with dark eco and the bars shattered, Jak ran in and picked up the cage. He looked at the comb-lock, and zapped it with dark eco and it broke. However, after it was broken the cage started to shock her. Jak ripped open the door and pulled Sue out of the cage. He held the small ottsel, "Sue, are you okay?" Sue nodded. Jak put her down and then looked at the woman in the cell next to her, "Your Danny's mother, aren't you?" He asked. The woman nodded. "Okay, stand back." She did as she was told and Jak blasted the bars, "Come on I'm getting you out of here." He held out his hand for her, she took it and he helped her up. Jak looked at Sue, "Where's Lilly?"
"A guard came and took her away, but I don't know where."
"It's okay I'll find her. You two should get out of here."
Sue grabbed Jak's leg, "I don't want just walk around here. I want to stay with you, it's safer."
Sky looked at Jak, "I have to agree with her, it's probably safer with you."
Jak looked at the two of them. "Okay, but I have to find my daughter. If you have any idea where they could have taken her tell me."
Sky looked at the floor, "I'm sorry, but I don't know, I've been stuck in here for months.
"Then come on, we have a lot of ground to cover." Jak let the two of them out of the room.
Lilly struggled with the guard that was holding her, "Let me go! I'm warning you, if you don't let me go I'll go dark and then you'll be sorry." Lilly kept trying to get free but it just wasn't working. The man took her into a room. Lilly couldn't believe what she was seeing; It was a room filled with what looked like Metal-heads, but not real Metal-heads- whatever this man was doing it wasn't going to be good. But what was in the next room scared her more, she recognized it from the memory charm, it was the Dark Warrior Project or at least that's what it looked like. Lilly was terrified, "NO!" She cried, trying even harder to get free, "Let ME GOOO!" She yelled, a blast of Dark eco shooting out of her, the man let go and looked at his hand which was now bleeding badly. Lilly ran but then someone grabbed her from behind, she looked up to find Razer holding her.
The man just grinned at her, "You don't want to do that again." He said.
"Dad, don't hurt her. Just let her go." A voice came from behind.
"Danny?" Lilly looked at him, "What are you doing here?"
But Danny wasn't listening, "Just let her go."
Razer slapped Danny across the face, "Don't you dare tell me what to do, boy!"
Out of nowhere the sound of a gunshot filled the room, everyone looked at the door to find Jak standing there with Sky and Sue. He still held his gun pointed at the ceiling, a glare that put his own dark form to shame. Lilly smiled, "Daddy!" She yelled, grateful to see him.
Jak just continued to glare at Razer, "Let her go, now."
Danny ran to his mother and hugged her, "Mom!" He said as he began to cry and she hugged him back, "You're okay."
"Oh, Danny. It's okay, I'm right here."
Jak kept glaring at Razer, "I'm not going to tell you again Razer. Let my daughter go." Jak now pointed his gun at Razer.
Razer just smiled, "Go ahead, shoot me. But can you really do it in front of my own daughter?" Katrina came and stood next to her father.
"I don't have to, just let her go and we'll leave."
Razer pulled out a knife and held it to Lilly throat. Lilly looked at her father, "Daddy?"
"Razer, I swear, if you do anything to her I don't care who's here, I will kill you." A more dark edge came to Jak's tone.
Razer looked his daughter and then back a Jak and then let Lilly go; Lilly ran to Jak and hugged him. Jak looked at Razer and then led all of them out of the room. Razer looked at his daughter, "Katrina, I want you to go with them."
"What? Why!"
"Don't argue, just do what I say, I need you to keep an eye on your brother. He could still be useful to me."
Katrina looked at him, "Okay." She hugged him, "But I'm not going to like this." She muttered.
He hugged her back, "I know, but it will be okay." Katrina looked at her father and then followed Jak.
Jak led his group into the room with all the Metal-heads that was floated in green goo. Lilly looked at one of them, she could have sworn that it was moving and then it blinked, "DADDY!" She yelled, running over to him.
"Lilly, what is it?"
She pointed to the Metal-head in the tube, "That metal-head moved."
"What?" Everyone asked. Then the glass shattered and the metal-head broke out of the tube, "Everyone, run!" Jak yelled and everyone but Lilly started to run. "Lilly, get out of here!" But Lilly was too scared to move. She watched as the Metal-head started to come over to them; but as it walked it's skin seemed to melt off and some of it's bones were beginning to show- the Metal-head actually looked like it was in a lot of pain. Jak couldn't stand to see anything like that, the Metal-head was dying so more out of mercy Jak shot it and the Metal-head died there. Jak looked at Lilly, "Are you okay, Lilly?"
"Yeah…" Jak took Lilly's hand, she looked up at him, "I'm okay."
"Come on, let's get out of here."
Katrina followed them out and just before they left she ran up to them, "Hey, wait for me I'm coming too."
Everyone looked back, Sky smiled as her daughter walked over to them. Katrina looked at Sky, "Can I come with you?"
Sky hugged her daughter, "Come on." She said and walked out with both of her children.
Jet: Well that's the end of this chapter. So that thing I was talking about Veger.
Penny: And what is that?
Jet: Well do you remember when I was talking about how Jak and Daxter was like the Lion king?
Penny: Yes…?
Jet: Well, I been thinking and you know what Veger is a lot like Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Penny (Eye roll): Really?
Jet: What, tell me Hellfire is not something you can hear Veger singing?
Penny: I don't want to hear him sing anything.
Jet: Whatever Penny, you know I'm shocked that no one has made an awesome video on YouTube with Veger singing Hellfire. So tell me what you think about this chapter and I'll see everyone next week with the next chapter.