(( YAY! I'm estatic! Two in one day! Another cliffhanger for those that dun like 'em. Sorry. I happen to like the way it draws a reader to read it. I get it from Mary Higgins Clark's books and stuff like that. Anywho, I like this chapter and I fixed Chapter 11. Just soes ya know! Reveiw peese. 3 It inspires me to write more.

And onto the chaptar! ))

Chapter 13

Kayliea continued to run, her footfalls growing slower and her panting growing louder. She forced herself forward, stopping only momentarily to see how far back the boulder was. She continued on, feeling the top of her head gently start to scrape the ceiling. She ducked farther down and hurried on, soon feeling her back touch the ceiling but barely. Her feet slipped and she was pitched head-first. Her hands instinctively reached out and her eyes were wide. She could no longer hear the boulder rolling over the sound of the wind rushing in her ears as she seemingly sped along.

She suddenly felt her upped body falling and tried to grip whatever it was that she was sliding on with her feet, something cutting into her ankle and causing her to cry out. Her slide had been stopped and she lay half into a dark abyss, half on smooth rock that felt somewhat like slate. Her eyes were still wide and she herd a thump, her head swiveling around to try and pick up anything that might make it easier to tell what it was, no relief coming to her pounding heart. Fear gripped her and she tried to push her upper body up, having the rock break out from under her, an astonished gasp coming from her as the pieces fell bellow. She tried to look behind her again, loud cracking meeting her ears and causing her eyes to widen. She let go of the sides of the rock like slide and slid slowly into the black abyss, her heart racing as she herd the crunching of rock hitting rock, just as her feet left the tip of the rock. Then, the sound was lost to her screams.

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Jak looked around the lush greenery of Haven Forest, glad that it had been restored to its old self. He gently touched one of the trees, the bark feeling good against his callused palms. His eyes softened slightly and a small smile came to his lips. It quickly faded as he looked aside, pulling out his morph gun and setting it to the Blaster mod. His eyes narrowed slightly and his nostrils seemed to flare, as if trying to pull the scent of whatever it was that had caused him to pull his rifle out from the air.

Unconsciously, he cocked the gun and his index finger gently squeezed the trigger, not enough to make the gun fire but enough to put the bullet within the barrel. He quickly spun around and aimed the gun at one of Kayliea's Metal Heads. He lowered the barrel in confusion, looking at the beast.

The being was walking submissively towards Jak, its head low and exposing its one weakness; the back of its neck. The Metal Head was joined by the other who was walking in the same manner and a bit smaller, meaning that it was a female. Both stepped slowly and cautiously towards the Baron, suddenly perking their heads up and looking to the side, as if hearing something he couldn't.

Jak looked at the two Metal Heads, suddenly wondering what could be distracting them from him. He eyed them almost suspiciously and then started enough to pull the gun back to firing position when the larger one looked back at him. The smaller one roared and lunged at Jak, knocking the gun from his grasp and then getting off of him and knocking the rifle into the churning waters of the river until it was washed down stream.

Jak stood and watched as his only weapon was carried away, looking back at the Metal Heads who were walking away, suddenly confused. One turned back to look at him and then continued on. He slowly stepped after them, wondering where they were going and what this had to do with him.

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Kayliea groggily opened her eyes coughing slightly and realizing that she was lying on a slab. She vaguely remembered having to swim to get to it and that the bottom of the water seemed endless and unreachable. She rolled over onto her side, almost surprised that the water held light while the chamber did not. She herd the same horse voice reach her ears and looked around.

" A warrior not only must be fast on their feet but must have fast working minds. Figure out why the chamber doesn't hold light while the water does in less than three minutes or you will end up dieing. "

" What's with this, you will die stuff! " Kayliea shouted, wanting an answer but hearing silence instead.

Silence…Why no echo?

'Kayliea! Dive into the water! NOW! You've only got less than a minute left!'

Kayliea took a deep breath and then spat it out, coughing slightly and her eyes opened to water surrounding her. She looked around and felt a burning within her chest, realizing she was running out of air. Her feet pushed her body from the ground and her face broke the water, her lungs taking in large breaths of air and then forcing it out in short gasps. Her arms and legs felt like lead and she quickly noticed a stone block that was attached to the opposite wall.

Her muscles screamed in agony as she forced herself to swim to the block, her whole body aching in pain. Her heart pounded loudly and her strength waned considerably. Her chin touched the water just as her hand touched the rock and her eyes shut, her whole head going under and her hand slipping from the rock's surface.