It was still dark outside and not many people were around. Jak, Daxter, Torn, Tess and Sig arrived to Haven Forest about 2.06 am the same night. They had almost sneaked out there, avoiding to be seen by any crimson guards, or worse Erol. The reason why they went there was to find the special and very rare blood of a small animal called Tjiev. To create the serum, one needed to mix the blood from the victim with a bit from the Tjiev, the thing was just to find it.
"Well, this seems like a nice place!" Sig, as spirited and happy as always, exclaimed to the others. He was pointed the peacemaker towards a cave looking place, where tall green grass was growing over the rocks around. Somewhere in the background, the sound of water could be heard in the dark.
"It's perfect…", Tess sighed as she and Jak was practically dragging Torn along and had been doing so through the whole forest. No one wanted to say it was a bad place their friend had found, since he'd been running around several minutes to find the best place where they could rest and where he could watch for metal heads. Nothing can stop Sig when it comes to beating some monsters up.
The grass was a bit cold and wet, but it could be worse, it could be raining…."rain starts to fall from the sky"…ops. Well, it could be worse, it could be…oh, I shouldn't make it harder on them.
The two blondes helped Torn to sit down, leaned against one of the cold hard rocks behind, Tess then put the sleeping little ottsel in the grass next to her as she sat.
"Is it okay with you Torn?" Jak asked this gently and sat down himself, trying to make it as comfortable as possible next to the older elf. The reply was just a simple snort, but the blonde could've swore that he heard something else, but then the rain was probably making him hear things.
"Goodnight everyone", it was too dark discern Tess, but her voice sounded anything else but glad and Jak could hear her shudder on the ground. He couldn't really say he was tired himself, he should be, but he had other things that concerned him for some odd reason. Looking over to Torn, he noticed the other elf wasn't so fond of sleeping right now either. He had buried his face in his knees, breathing loudly from the cold.
An orchestra of snoring soon filled the little cave, Jak thought he could likely to look for metal heads, if there were any around, someone had to be awake…his heart jumped suddenly as two yellow spots appeared a distance away from the group. His heart jumped again when he realized he recognized them….that thing. The eyes disappeared and the blonde kept staring around him, to be on his guard in the dark.
"Jak…..", turning around, he saw Torn turning to him slowly, even in the darkness he could see his eyes were closed, but still his face seemed to express so many different kinds of feelings. The younger elf positioned himself in front of the older one before answering.
"Yes….?" Torn turned his face to Jak when he heard his voice from the other side. "Why did you defend me against Erol?" he had questioned this as simple as if they were talking about whether or not they should have yakow sandwiches for dinner. Jak was speechless, twisting nervously, avoiding to look at the other man.
Why had he done such a thing anyway, he could ask himself, but he didn't know the answer either.
"Torn….I….", he couldn't get the words out, and the silence around them made him feel even worse as if the whole forest was listening. Without thinking, he leaned forward and kissed Torn's lips quickly before pulling away shocked about his action. His heart started pounding inside his chest, like if it wanted to jump out and run away into the forest in shame to never return.
A smile has formed on to dark haired elf's mouth.
"I wish I could see you…", he sighed with a low voice, a bit of sadness in the tone of it. Jak brought a hand up and caressed Torn's cold cheek.
A distance away
"Soo… I want the two of you to go and find that ugly little animal, while Joo and I'll go and get Torn…" two crimson guards nodded and left their hiding place. The binoculars Erol held in his gloved hands, were currently directed towards the group in the cave. "That serum sounds interesting", he wheezed maliciously.
He'd been following them all the way here with three other crimson guards, and had also overheard the recipe Sig had told everyone about. Just imagine what kind of things you could do with it, especially if you're evil.
Jak was just to kiss Torn again when a terrified noise from behind made him turn around. A crimson guard was staring at them, he had recently used his gun to knock Tess, Sig and Daxter out, and was now pointing his weapon at Jak's face. If it wasn't for that stupid helmet, the blonde was sure he'd been greeted with a sneer.
A creepy laugh was heard and followed by a gasp from Torn, Jak turned around slowly without risking that guard pulling the trigger. Erol was standing there with that annoying grin glued to his lips. He had wrapped one arm around Torn's neck and the poor elf struggled for air.
"Let him go!" Jak growled, staring at Erol with pure hate. The crimson guard behind moved a little closer as to warn to him not to make any rushed movements.
"Hahaha, you know Jak, you should really be more careful about what secrets you tell people, especially when I'm near", he grinned at the blonde while searching through his right pocket for something. "That serum sounded….let's say, interesting, so, I'm just going to borrow your boyfriend here…" as he said that, Jak snorted, not able to do anything else with the gun pointed at the back of his head. Fear shot through his body as Erol brought a needle out of the pocket, it looked like some sort of mechanism used to take blood samples, but it was far thicker and sharper.
"No! Don't…", the blonde almost pleaded, part of him hoped for Erol to have mercy, but part of him knew what kind of scum he was. He felt the metal from the gun pressing against the cold skin of his neck.
"You better calm down, or maybe I'll have thehonor to blow your head off", the elf behind chuckled evilly. And the redhead put his fake and sarcastic smile on.
"Don't worry Jak…it's just a blood sample….", he sneered and then looked at his partner with the weapon. "It's quick, easy... and painful", both guards started laughing. Jak could only watched as Torn struggled, twisted and did everything to get away from Erol's grip, without success.
A terrifying scream escaped the dark haired elf as the needle was injected into his shoulder, the blonde had no time to react himself before a loud thud came from behind and the peacemaker was put really near the redhead's face. The guard behind Jak fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Drop that thing",Sig's voice showed disgust as he gestured towards the needle with his left hand. Erol growled, his face turning red of anger as he carelessly ripped the metallic thing out and dropped Torn. Actually, he didn't really dare to turn around and run, one reason was that he knew Sig would probably be faster than him…AND stronger, besides he had the peacemaker stuck up his face. To be honest, he was a bit afraid of the tall elf and his clumsy weapon, but who wouldn't be?
"Torn!" Jak rushed over to the other elf, pulling him up gently into his arms. "Are you okay?" he could hear his voice shaking a bit but he didn't care, he could feel Sig and Erol watching them. The dark haired elf only grunted lowly and stirred in his arms. No one noticed a dark shadow sneaking up on them.
Finally I managed to get this chapter update, it was a bit hard to come up with something this time, I guess I just haven't enough will to just write this time, anyway, thanks for all the reviews so far, it's closing in at the end now.