-One Month Later-

It was late in the day as Jak, Daxter, and Zon sat inside Samos's Hut being treated for Wumpbee stings. It was Jak's ninth birthday, and they had gone exploring. Sadly, curiosity got the better of the three boys as they followed a buzzing sound straight to a Wumpbee nest.

"Those things were mean!" Zon said as his father dabbed a little Green Eco on his stings.

"Mean nothing! Those things were nasty!" Daxter said as he looked around for any stingers that he may have missed. Jak was being treated by Keira, who was doing her best to be very gentle with him as he tried not to cry.

"All three of you had the chance to run. Yet you stayed and tried to get some Wumpbee honey." Zal said.

"Let this be a lesson." Samos said. "Stay away from Wumpbees."

"Lesson learned." Zon groaned.

"I think it's time we call it a day." Zal said as he bandaged his son.

"My thoughts exactly." Samos said. After tending to the trio's wounds, every left for their own homes and beds.

-At Gol and Maia's Citadel-

Gol was hovering through his Citadel towards his little sister's room. She had been acting funny for awhile and had suddenly shut herself into her room for the past three weeks. Despite his Dark Eco twisted mind, he still cared for her. He stopped and knocked on her door.

"Maia." he called.

"I'm here." she called back.

"Are you ever coming out of there?" he asked.

"I'm...not feeling well." she said.

"Whatever is ailing you can be fixed with some Dark Eco." Gol said.

"I have some in here. I'll use it later." Maia said.

"Good. Get well soon, dear sister. We have much work to do on our robot." Gol said before hovering away, leaving Maia to herself as she paced inside her room. She hadn't told her brother about her sudden trip to the Green Sage's hut in Sandover Village a month ago, nor about the Light Eco she witnessed being formed and used against her. Since then, her mind has had a strange buzzing sensation every now and then that kept annoying her. It was Light Eco that had caused it, so she figured some Dark Eco would make it go away. With that in mind, she had tried many ideas to get the buzzing to stop. She would keep some Dark Eco around while she slept, add a spoon of it to her meals, even added some to her bath water and soaked for hours. Nothing made the irritating buzzing go away.

'Curse those two boys!' she thought angrily as she slammed her fist against the wall. 'That little thief for stealing the artifact. And the little blonde one for using the Light Eco against me! How did they even come across Light Eco?! It should be nothing more than a myth!' She was practically breathing fire as she thought of those two boys before taking a deep breath to calm down. 'There must be a logical explanation.' she thought as she remembered the events of last month. She remembered appearing inside the village at night and silently spying on the Green Sage's Hut, where she saw the two boys talking about something before walking towards them. She remembered how the little thief was hurriedly shoving phials of what appeared to other kinds of Eco all in the same bag, and how he hand landed on and broken the phials inside. Her eyes snapped open as a thought shot through her mind. 'That boy's father said he was collecting all types of Eco for study. That brat was playing with them, but there was no Dark Eco in sight...Could Light Eco be made by combining the other Ecos?' Her brows furrowed before she steeled herself. 'I must find out!' she thought before vanishing in a purple haze.

-3 hours later-

Maia had returned to her lab with four phials in hand, each one containing a different kind of Eco. She then began to mix them together in an attempt to recreate Light Eco. She tried adding a very tiny bit of each into a beaker in a certain order. However, each attempt ended in failure.

'Green, Red, Blue, Yellow...no. Red, Green, Yellow, Blue...No! Blue, Yellow, Red, Green...NO!' She slammed her fists against her desk, causing the phials to jump on the desk. 'Why isn't this working?! I've been combining them, but no reaction each time! WHY?!' She took another deep breath to calm down and think once more. 'The phials were inside that kid's pack. Maybe they have to be mixed simultaneously.' She decided to try and mix them all at once the same way she saw them mixed before. She wrapped all four phials of Eco into a cloth and swung it against the wall, breaking the phials inside. She waited for something to happen for a moment before she glared at the bag. What was she doing wrong? Did she not use enough Eco? She was about to throw the bag out before a tiny light shined from the cloth. She quickly unwrapped it and let the empty broken phials and cloth fall, leaving a tiny blob of Light Eco floating before her. "I...I did it." she whispered. "Now, what to do with it? Tell Gol? Destroy it with some Dark Eco? Experiment with it? Or..." She stared at the little blob as if mesmerized by it, not realizing she was about to touch it. Her hand clenched down on it, letting the Light Eco absorb into her body. She screamed as the buzzing in her head got worse while she stumbled out of her lab and into her room. She clutched her head as she walked to her bed, hoping that some rest would make the pain go away. She fell asleep the moment she hit her bed before visions began to play before her. A giant silo was spewing Dark Eco everywhere, with Gol hovering above it with a mad smile, watching as everything was being warped by the dark substance. She awoke in a cold sweat as her breathing was ragged, fear wracking her mind. She didn't realize it, but the Light Eco was slowly restoring her sanity. She looked down at herself as she thought of what Dark Eco had given her. She looked beautiful, was powerful, and could control Dark Eco in moderate amounts. She by no means despised Dark Eco, but her brother's plan was flawed. No one could control that much Eco. At least, not the way her brother was trying. A smile came to her lips, one that would have anyone run for the hills.

A/N: Mostly a Maia-centric chapter. Hope you all enjoyed.