Falling.
That's all Jak felt as he fell from the arena. No fear, no hatered, not even sadness. He realized that this was it, this was the end.All the people he had failed all the lives that would be on his hands. He had failed miserbly in his attempt to rescue Keria and all his work had been wasted. Gol would attack Haven City again and this time no Dark Warrior would be able to save them. Everyone would die, Daxter, Tess, Sig, Samos, Ashelin, Torn, and then when everyone was dead he would kill Keria letting her absorb that fact that Gol had finally won and that there was no way Jak could save her. That made Jak mad, really, really mad.
Then he hit the eco.
Pain. The only word that could describe what he felt. A hundred, a thousand times worse than the expirements that Praxis had conducted on him. The eco being so concentrated and full that it made him sick. It had the consistincy of honey as Jak slowly began to sink. For about 10 seconds Jak felt the intense pain that no other living person, expect perhaps Daxter, had ever felt, then the pain ended and Jak heard a mystic, deep voice.
Everything that has a beginning has an end Jak. I see the end coming, I see the darkness spreading and you are all that stands in his way. If you cannot stop him tonight I fear tomorrow will never come.
Jak let a scream go and shut his eyes tight. When they were reopened they were black.
As Jak fell Gol let go a triumphent yell. He began screaming down to the eco.
"You worthless fool!" he yelled hoping that Jak could hear him. "You never stood a chance against me, nothing can stand in my way now! Your precious city will be made an example of what happens when I am crossed. No one will cross me again and I shall rule the world! Aha ha ha aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Keria fell to her kness began crying. Gol didn't seem to notice for about 30 seconds but he did. He flew up to her platform and stood before her.
"What's the matter?" he said in a sneering voice. "Sad that your savoir is dead?!" Keria was unable to do anything but cry and sob. "ANSWER ME!" yelled Gol and he kicked her in the stomache. She let out a cry and tried to turn away from him cluthcing her stomache. Gol lifted her up her up by her shirt and slapped her across the face and let her fall. He lifted her up again and brought back his fist. "No one to save you now!" he yelled. Keria's eyes went wide as Gol started to bring his fist forward. Suddenely his wrist felt cold and his fist stopped. He turned his head and saw two pitch black eyes staring at him.
"Suprise," the voice growled and punched him in the face. Gol flew backwards but stopped himself before he hit the wall. He turned to examine his new opponent. It looked like Jak; the build was exactly the same but he could not fathom why Jak looked like this beast. It's hair was white as chalk, skin purple, eyes black hands and feet were like claws and talons and he was much larger, he stood at least 15 feet tall and two great wings came out of his back.
The Dark Wings were the final power of the Oracle and gave DarkJak the power of flight, something Gol also had, now the fight would be fair. Gol and DarkJak were now both hovering in mid-air facing eachother daring one another to attack first. Finally DarkJak bared his razor sharp teeth and flew at Gol with amazing speed. Gol didn't dodge fast enough and took DarkJak's attack in the chest. Gol was stunned as he fell out of the air and landed on his back on the arena again. DarkJak let himself down carefully and watched Gol struggle to his feet.
"You cannot hurt me boy," he spat. "You couldn't hurt me before and you won't now."
"I've always had the power to hurt you Gol," DarkJak said. "I just had to want it bad enough, you know what I wanna do now you dirty son of a bitch!" With that DarkJak leapt at Gol and let his horned head spear Gol's stomache. Gol managed to force DarkJak off. DarkJak stared at the gash in Gol's stomache and watched as it sealed itself.
"Just like new." said Gol gesturing to his stomache.
"AARRGGGHHH!!!!!!" yelled DarkJak as he flew at him again. His head rammed into Gol again but this time DarkJak was also landing punch after punch into Gol's sides. He backed Gol into a wall and began just slamming him in the face with a strenghth fueld by hatred and fury never seen before. Finally, when blood began to flow freely from Gol's nose and mouth DarkJak grabbed his shoulders and threw him into the opposite wall, over 200 feet away. The wall collapsed and a huge pile of rubble fell on Gol. DarkJak watched for a few seconds. Then the citadel started to shake and Jak saw Gol fly out of the rubble, looking no worse than when he went in. "Now you've pissed me off" snarled DarkJak as he flew at Gol again.
Gol was ready this time and spun in just the right amount of time. DarkJak flew right past him. Luckily he caught himself and used the wall to push off of as he sped at Gol again with his fist ready to collide with Gol's face. But Gol again was too fast. He caught DarkJak's fist and spun him around and sent DarkJak into a wall. DarkJak flew into it and the force of Gol burrowed him into the wall nearly 30 feet. DarkJak stayed down for about five seconds. He picked himself up and stared out of the hole. Gol was hovering outside of it in a fighting stance. He extended one hand and motioned for Jak to come forward. DarkJak kicked off the wall and flew at Gol again. Gol took him in the chest and the duo were fighting in mid-air flying backwards.
Punch after punch and kick after kick were being thrown and taken by both combatants. Finally they both threw a punch at the same time and connected at the same time. They were both thrown backwards. On opposite sides of the arena DarkJak could feel his strenghth starting to slip Jak was starting to fight for control. DarkJak knew he had to end this fight. He knew he had one chance and it had to work. If he failed Jak failed and that could not happen at any cost. DarkJak raised his arms and let DarkEco fly from them. The bolts of eco flew in an arc and landed in the eco pool. Gol looked on confused and dazed. DarkJak ignored him and pushed harder forcing himself to control what was happening. He had to bend this place to his control. Gol owned him here but DarkJak wasn't backing down. He was tired of this uphill fight, time to even the playing field. He looked back to the pool and saw what he needed to. Two pillars of the liquid Dark Eco were rising. DarkJak pushed harder and the pillars came together. A huge arc of DarkEco flowing above the men. DarkJak was taking control, he was letting this place, which seemed alive with evil, that HE was in charge now and that HE called the shots.
Gol stared in awe at how DarkJak was manipulating the very power that he despised. But along with his awe was fear. Gol was very intune to Dark Eco but enough of it could kill even him. "No," he found himself saying. "No this isn't right this can't be right."
Soon DarkJak had drained the floor of DarkEco and it was all in a massive ball above his head. DarkJak kept it suspended with his own Dark Eco power. He looked across to Gol. Gol, who's eyes were transfixed on the ball of death above him. This much Dark Eco, focused on such a small point would kill anyone, even Gol.
"HEY GOL!!!" DarkJak roared, using his last few ounces of strenghth. "CATCH!!!!"
DarkJak used all of his remaining engery to hurl the ball of eco at Gol. DarkJak leapt back and covered his eyes with his arms.
KA-BOOM!!!
The blast was enormous. It rocked the entire mountain that the citadel had been carved into. The sound left a dull ringing in DarkJak's ears for nearly an hour afterwards.The Metal-Heads began to run into the sea as far away as they could get from the mountain. The main chambers began to collapse around them and when DarkJak reopened his eyes he saw the world through Jak's eyes. He was back in his cage, he had done what he had meant to do and now it was up to Jak to pick up the pieces.
When the clouds had passed Jak saw Gol lying face up on a clump of rocks. He was still breathing.
"No," said Jak coldly. "No, you are not still alive, you are not going to live another day, this time I'm going to make sure your dead before I leave." Jak walked up to Gol's body and saw a small device in his hands. Gol's thumb pushed a small black button and s small digital timer appeared with the number 300 on it. 300 seconds, five minutes.
"You...may have....won the....battle Jak," wheezed Gol. "But....I've...won....the war."
"What are you talking about?" said Jak.
Gol handed Jak the small device with a red and green button on it.
"If you... push the green button.... the bomb under... Keria will be defused.... but all 50.... of the bombs.....under the city.... will explode... and kill....everyone....inside." he wheezed with an evil smile. Jak placed his foot on his throat.
"And if I push the red button?"
"The bomb.... under Keria will explode.... but the city bombs.... will be defused."
Jak's eyes widened. "No."
Gol smiled again. "Better choose quickly.... if the timer hits zero....all the bombs will explode." With those wrods Gol, the sage of Dark Eco, died.
Jak turned away from Gol's corpse and looked at the timer. It was all the way down to 30.
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But where could they go? Jak knew there had to be other places where human's lived in this world but they wouldn't last long anywhere, the pain of losing everyone else would be too much.
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What had the city done for him? He had been captured, tortured, and tried to be killed more times than he could count. But hadn't they redeemed themselves? Plus everyone else was there. Daxter, Tess, Torn, Sig, Ashelin, Samos, they were all he had left without Keria.
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But how could he ever look Samos in the eyes again? The sage had been like a father to him and now to have Jak come home empty handed, Jak didn't know if he could live like that.
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Jak shut his eyes and did the hardest thing he had ever done. He pushed a button.
That's all Jak felt as he fell from the arena. No fear, no hatered, not even sadness. He realized that this was it, this was the end.All the people he had failed all the lives that would be on his hands. He had failed miserbly in his attempt to rescue Keria and all his work had been wasted. Gol would attack Haven City again and this time no Dark Warrior would be able to save them. Everyone would die, Daxter, Tess, Sig, Samos, Ashelin, Torn, and then when everyone was dead he would kill Keria letting her absorb that fact that Gol had finally won and that there was no way Jak could save her. That made Jak mad, really, really mad.
Then he hit the eco.
Pain. The only word that could describe what he felt. A hundred, a thousand times worse than the expirements that Praxis had conducted on him. The eco being so concentrated and full that it made him sick. It had the consistincy of honey as Jak slowly began to sink. For about 10 seconds Jak felt the intense pain that no other living person, expect perhaps Daxter, had ever felt, then the pain ended and Jak heard a mystic, deep voice.
Everything that has a beginning has an end Jak. I see the end coming, I see the darkness spreading and you are all that stands in his way. If you cannot stop him tonight I fear tomorrow will never come.
Jak let a scream go and shut his eyes tight. When they were reopened they were black.
As Jak fell Gol let go a triumphent yell. He began screaming down to the eco.
"You worthless fool!" he yelled hoping that Jak could hear him. "You never stood a chance against me, nothing can stand in my way now! Your precious city will be made an example of what happens when I am crossed. No one will cross me again and I shall rule the world! Aha ha ha aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Keria fell to her kness began crying. Gol didn't seem to notice for about 30 seconds but he did. He flew up to her platform and stood before her.
"What's the matter?" he said in a sneering voice. "Sad that your savoir is dead?!" Keria was unable to do anything but cry and sob. "ANSWER ME!" yelled Gol and he kicked her in the stomache. She let out a cry and tried to turn away from him cluthcing her stomache. Gol lifted her up her up by her shirt and slapped her across the face and let her fall. He lifted her up again and brought back his fist. "No one to save you now!" he yelled. Keria's eyes went wide as Gol started to bring his fist forward. Suddenely his wrist felt cold and his fist stopped. He turned his head and saw two pitch black eyes staring at him.
"Suprise," the voice growled and punched him in the face. Gol flew backwards but stopped himself before he hit the wall. He turned to examine his new opponent. It looked like Jak; the build was exactly the same but he could not fathom why Jak looked like this beast. It's hair was white as chalk, skin purple, eyes black hands and feet were like claws and talons and he was much larger, he stood at least 15 feet tall and two great wings came out of his back.
The Dark Wings were the final power of the Oracle and gave DarkJak the power of flight, something Gol also had, now the fight would be fair. Gol and DarkJak were now both hovering in mid-air facing eachother daring one another to attack first. Finally DarkJak bared his razor sharp teeth and flew at Gol with amazing speed. Gol didn't dodge fast enough and took DarkJak's attack in the chest. Gol was stunned as he fell out of the air and landed on his back on the arena again. DarkJak let himself down carefully and watched Gol struggle to his feet.
"You cannot hurt me boy," he spat. "You couldn't hurt me before and you won't now."
"I've always had the power to hurt you Gol," DarkJak said. "I just had to want it bad enough, you know what I wanna do now you dirty son of a bitch!" With that DarkJak leapt at Gol and let his horned head spear Gol's stomache. Gol managed to force DarkJak off. DarkJak stared at the gash in Gol's stomache and watched as it sealed itself.
"Just like new." said Gol gesturing to his stomache.
"AARRGGGHHH!!!!!!" yelled DarkJak as he flew at him again. His head rammed into Gol again but this time DarkJak was also landing punch after punch into Gol's sides. He backed Gol into a wall and began just slamming him in the face with a strenghth fueld by hatred and fury never seen before. Finally, when blood began to flow freely from Gol's nose and mouth DarkJak grabbed his shoulders and threw him into the opposite wall, over 200 feet away. The wall collapsed and a huge pile of rubble fell on Gol. DarkJak watched for a few seconds. Then the citadel started to shake and Jak saw Gol fly out of the rubble, looking no worse than when he went in. "Now you've pissed me off" snarled DarkJak as he flew at Gol again.
Gol was ready this time and spun in just the right amount of time. DarkJak flew right past him. Luckily he caught himself and used the wall to push off of as he sped at Gol again with his fist ready to collide with Gol's face. But Gol again was too fast. He caught DarkJak's fist and spun him around and sent DarkJak into a wall. DarkJak flew into it and the force of Gol burrowed him into the wall nearly 30 feet. DarkJak stayed down for about five seconds. He picked himself up and stared out of the hole. Gol was hovering outside of it in a fighting stance. He extended one hand and motioned for Jak to come forward. DarkJak kicked off the wall and flew at Gol again. Gol took him in the chest and the duo were fighting in mid-air flying backwards.
Punch after punch and kick after kick were being thrown and taken by both combatants. Finally they both threw a punch at the same time and connected at the same time. They were both thrown backwards. On opposite sides of the arena DarkJak could feel his strenghth starting to slip Jak was starting to fight for control. DarkJak knew he had to end this fight. He knew he had one chance and it had to work. If he failed Jak failed and that could not happen at any cost. DarkJak raised his arms and let DarkEco fly from them. The bolts of eco flew in an arc and landed in the eco pool. Gol looked on confused and dazed. DarkJak ignored him and pushed harder forcing himself to control what was happening. He had to bend this place to his control. Gol owned him here but DarkJak wasn't backing down. He was tired of this uphill fight, time to even the playing field. He looked back to the pool and saw what he needed to. Two pillars of the liquid Dark Eco were rising. DarkJak pushed harder and the pillars came together. A huge arc of DarkEco flowing above the men. DarkJak was taking control, he was letting this place, which seemed alive with evil, that HE was in charge now and that HE called the shots.
Gol stared in awe at how DarkJak was manipulating the very power that he despised. But along with his awe was fear. Gol was very intune to Dark Eco but enough of it could kill even him. "No," he found himself saying. "No this isn't right this can't be right."
Soon DarkJak had drained the floor of DarkEco and it was all in a massive ball above his head. DarkJak kept it suspended with his own Dark Eco power. He looked across to Gol. Gol, who's eyes were transfixed on the ball of death above him. This much Dark Eco, focused on such a small point would kill anyone, even Gol.
"HEY GOL!!!" DarkJak roared, using his last few ounces of strenghth. "CATCH!!!!"
DarkJak used all of his remaining engery to hurl the ball of eco at Gol. DarkJak leapt back and covered his eyes with his arms.
KA-BOOM!!!
The blast was enormous. It rocked the entire mountain that the citadel had been carved into. The sound left a dull ringing in DarkJak's ears for nearly an hour afterwards.The Metal-Heads began to run into the sea as far away as they could get from the mountain. The main chambers began to collapse around them and when DarkJak reopened his eyes he saw the world through Jak's eyes. He was back in his cage, he had done what he had meant to do and now it was up to Jak to pick up the pieces.
When the clouds had passed Jak saw Gol lying face up on a clump of rocks. He was still breathing.
"No," said Jak coldly. "No, you are not still alive, you are not going to live another day, this time I'm going to make sure your dead before I leave." Jak walked up to Gol's body and saw a small device in his hands. Gol's thumb pushed a small black button and s small digital timer appeared with the number 300 on it. 300 seconds, five minutes.
"You...may have....won the....battle Jak," wheezed Gol. "But....I've...won....the war."
"What are you talking about?" said Jak.
Gol handed Jak the small device with a red and green button on it.
"If you... push the green button.... the bomb under... Keria will be defused.... but all 50.... of the bombs.....under the city.... will explode... and kill....everyone....inside." he wheezed with an evil smile. Jak placed his foot on his throat.
"And if I push the red button?"
"The bomb.... under Keria will explode.... but the city bombs.... will be defused."
Jak's eyes widened. "No."
Gol smiled again. "Better choose quickly.... if the timer hits zero....all the bombs will explode." With those wrods Gol, the sage of Dark Eco, died.
Jak turned away from Gol's corpse and looked at the timer. It was all the way down to 30.
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25 Keria, she was what he had come for. She was what he had fought and nearly been killed over. She was the one who should be spared.
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But where could they go? Jak knew there had to be other places where human's lived in this world but they wouldn't last long anywhere, the pain of losing everyone else would be too much.
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What had the city done for him? He had been captured, tortured, and tried to be killed more times than he could count. But hadn't they redeemed themselves? Plus everyone else was there. Daxter, Tess, Torn, Sig, Ashelin, Samos, they were all he had left without Keria.
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But how could he ever look Samos in the eyes again? The sage had been like a father to him and now to have Jak come home empty handed, Jak didn't know if he could live like that.
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Jak shut his eyes and did the hardest thing he had ever done. He pushed a button.