A/N::I'll say one thing. I'm such a sap for super close friendships/amazing bounds. Like what Jak and Daxter have. One reason why I totally fell in love with the game series XD. Also I'm found of the Jak/Torn Friendship though it's not nearly as strong as Jak/Daxter. So guess what I'm going to try and capture that friendship level with Jak and Daxter along with JakTornDaxter! Seriously I totally need your guys in put on this....tell me if I'm doing a good job or a bad job. I wanna know cause thats one thing I wanna make really powerful in this fic. And later on I'm going to try to build one of those bounds with Kiera/Ashelin..after stuff...happens... XD if you are now totally lost... Sorry just keep reading the story LOL X3
Response to reviews:
MissEcoFreak the dark ottsel:: Hee hee I know this might sound weird but I thought it was cool that you said "At first I thought it sounded stupid to change Haven City into some snowy wonderland but it's great!" not cause you said 'it's great' but 'sounded stupid'!! It makes mee soo happy when people are completely honest with me :D ehehe thanks :D thats why I ramble so much before the story starts, cause I like people to know me, and me to know my reviewers! thanks again so much for all your comments you've given me so far :D--- lady poison:: Thank you as well for being honest! :D I love you reviewers!! throws kisses to everyone okay now to answer your questions- 1) No Ashelin does not know Torn is jealous of Jak, she has a slight idea how Torn feels about her, but She will find out that Torn is jealous in chapter 7 :D but not in a way the readers might think. 2-3) The Unicorn Torn saw will come back in the story, it kind of disappeared for a moment because of the snow storm that took place. however it's important , oh and the vines....they shall become even more weird, when they find out why they are moving (like a heart beat). thanks again for your comment!
Whiskers: LOL, I'm not sure what the dragons name is going to be yet...good question. epp I better figure it out, he's coming back in chapter 9 in my notes I've been calling him 'purple dragon' ehehe. Nope, Ice Queens daddys not the bad guy...but she knows this guy pretty well :D
oh right before I forget THERE IS A JAK 3 SPOILER AT THE END OF THIS CHAPTER! you have been warned.
Gezzeee I talk to much
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Jak, Daxter and Torn ran across the snow covered streets and towards the castle, they looked up at the tall wooden drawbridge. Obviously who ever was causing this storm was not just about to open the doors to them, so they kind of figured they would have to find an alternative way inside.
Jak approached the castle as far as he could and looked down into the moat. Of course, it would be pointless to have a draw bridge with out some kind of water formation around it. Torn looked down in the water as well, for some reason this water was not truing to ice. He then reached into his pocket and pulled something else out. It was a small radar, he clicked the screen twice as it turned on. Just as he figured there was something living in the water.
"What is it?" Jak asked and Torn wished he had the answer to that question.
"Not sure, but I suppose we can guess it's not going to welcome us," Torn said and Jak took out his hover board and looked at the moat. He would not touch the water at all with this, but the problem was, there was more then just him and Daxter this time.
"I guess we could all try and fit...." Jak said a little unsure of himself.
"It's going to be a little bit close," Daxter comment and Jack hit him lightly.
"A little close, how closer can you get, you where hiding in my shirt," Jak said and Daxter crossed his arms and said nothing more as Jak tossed the board down on the ground. He jumped on and stood as far front as he could. "Come on Torn."
"Are you sure....?" Torn asked like Daxter was not to sure about this idea.
"I'm positive, were not getting any younger, come on!" Jak said and Torn stepped on the hover board behind Jak. Daxter jumped off Jaks shoulder and onto Torns, so Torn could hold on to Jaks shoulders when they started to move. Torn put his hands down and Jak nodded as the hover board started moving, slowly at frist just incase anything went wrong.
Then Jak arched his shoulders slightly as they started going as fast as the hover board would take them. Then jumped off the side of the moat and down into the water. The hover board splashed up some water and then contented on around the side of the castle.
"There has to be some alternative way in, like a pipe line or something," Torn called out above the wind. Daxter from his perch looked at the wall as they went flying past it and when they turned around the corner of the castle.
"Something like that?" Daxter yelled in Torns ear as he pointed to an oval shape that was halfway under water with a couple of bars on it to prevent a brake in. Jak slowed down as then stopped to look at it. It was a way in but it did not look to pleasant.
"Yeah something like that," Torn answered as he rubbed his ear.
"I got it covered, I'm borrowing your gun," Daxter said as he took the blaster riffle off Torns back and aimed it at the bars. He was about to fire when the hover board lurched backwards almost causing Daxter to fall off Torns shoulder.
"Do we want to know, thats real the question here...?" Daxter asked as he lowered the rifle slightly and Jak laughed a little.
"Not really, you shot I'll keep us from being attacked by fish," Jak said as the hover board moved to the right as Daxter fired the first shot of the riffle. However, when the blast hit the bars, it did the opposite of blowing up the bars, the bast backfired and hit the three of them.
The blast sent them flying back into the snow above the moat and the hover board flew off with the wind and smashed into a building. Torn rolled over on his back, it really did not feel to good being hit with a blaster riffle.
"Damn! What the hell is going on?" Daxter asked referring to why the weapons were not working on anything. He got up and ran to the side of the moat as there were lots of fishes jumping out of the water attacking the snow flakes. One glimpse at their teeth and Daxter went running back over to Torn and Jak. "Any other plans?"
"There has to be another way to get into this place," Jak said as he pushed his goggles down over his eyes to get a better view of what they were dealing with.
"Maybe we should try knocking," Daxter said, it was at least a little bit less dangerous.
"We need to get in there and quickly! Ashelin could be in danger!" Torn said as he picked up the blaster riffle and with all his anger and worry he threw it towards the stain glass window. To all of their surprise the rifle smashed into the glass and disappeared into the castle. The three guys were quite for a moment as they all just looked at what Torn had just did, it seamed to be their first dash of good luck.
"Well now we have a way in, but how are we going to get up there?" Daxter asked and felt a shiver down his spine, and not from the cold, how Jak was smiling over at Daxter and so was Torn. He had a funny feeling he knew who was going to be going threw the window first. "No way!"
"Come on Dax, I could easily throw you into the window. And then you could find some rope or something and throw it down to us and then we could all get in," Jak said as he walked over to Daxter who still looked a little hesitant to be thrown threw the air. "Can't save Ashelin with you Daxter."
"Of course you can't, you would not be a hero with me buddy," Daxter said and Jak let out a small laugh as he picked Daxter up.
"Don't let me down!" Jak called before throwing Daxter with all his might. Daxter let out a small yelp as he disappeared into the castle. Jak nodded at Torn letting him know they could full trust that Daxter would find something that would allow the two of them to get into the castle.
Daxter went flying threw the window and towards the ground. He hit the ground with his butt first then skidded to a stop. He looked around, the broken glass was no where to be seen. Either they had fast service or this place was a lot creepier then it looked.
Rubbing his butt as he stood up Daxter started walking down the hall way. Inside this castle was a couple of degrees lower then it was outside, even though there was no wind or snow. It felt like the stone walls were made out of ice. As he reached a turn in the hallway Daxter flattened himself up against the wall and peaked around the corner slowly just incase there was anything there.
When he saw nothing he crept around the corner and started down this new hall way. On the walls were some paintings of people Daxter had never seen before, and all the paintings looked as if they were staring at Daxter as he walked past them. With that thought creeping into his mind the frist door he came across he was quick to open and slip into. Anything to get away from those eyes.
The room he entered was large, if Jak and Kieras house was still around, two of them could fit into this single room. Daxter walked forward taking in everything he saw. There was a for post bed in here, a book shelf filled with books that did not have titles, a large study table, and a tiger skin rug. Avoiding the rug like it was alive Daxter jumped onto the table and noticed the only thing on it was a book. It was opened right down the middle, but the strange thing about it, was there was nothing written on the pages.
Thinking along the lines that maybe it was someone's diary Daxter flipped both ways in the book, maybe he could get a small idea of who was living in this castle. However no matter how far or how much he flipped, this book was completely empty. That was boring, Daxter turned away from the book and looked around the room, something in here had to be useful for climbing up the side of a castle.
Giving the room one last thoughtful over view Daxter found himself staring at the four post bed. Its drapes tied to the post. Daxter eyes what was tying them together. A very fancy golden rope. Daxter could not help but to beam at what he had found. Jumping on the first pole he climbed up to the rope and untied it. The drape fell down and cover a part of the bed as he pulled the rope off a silver hook and tossed it down to the ground. He went around to each one of the post and pulled the ropes off.
Daxter jumped to the ground with the last rope and went around to collect the other three. Tied together the four of them should be long enough to reach more then half way to Jak and Torn. Daxter, being around Jak almost his whole life knew that Jak could jump pretty high. And he had faith that Torn could jump as well. As quick as his little Ottsel hands could move he tied the ropes together then stood at a distances to get a good look at his handy work.
He the pulled the rope together and slung it over his arm as he started for the door. This time Daxter walked over the tiger rug as he walked out the door, as the paw of the tiger rug started to move. Pulling into a run so he could hurry up and throw this rope down his friends.
Daxter rounded the corner once again not really noticing that he did not shut the door, thinking he really had no need to. He walked up and jumped upon the broken window frame and waved down at Torn and Jak.
"Shoulder getting cold Jak?" Daxter asked with a smirk as he tied the rope down in place then threw the rest of the rope out of the window.
"It is," Jak called up as Torn was the frist to leap across the moat and grabbed onto Daxters rope. He climbed up half way before Jak jumped across and grabbed onto the rope as well. Jumping off the window frame Daxter landed on the ground to wait for the two of them to get up. Daxter turned his head towards the turn in the hall way as a strange shadow was on the wall.
He started to walk over to it when he stopped moving when the shadow started to move as well. Then the head peered around the corner and Daxter stepped back as the rug was now moving towards him.
"AH!" Daxter screamed as Torn and Jak looked up towards the window. They both started to climb faster as Torn jumped threw the window and looked at the Tiger rug that was chasing Daxter around the hallway. Torn turned around and grabbed the rope which Jak was still climbing on. Jak needed to get up here and Torn needed to think of a way to help Daxter out as well.
Torn grunted loudly as he pulled on the rope as hard as he could. He pulled it over his shoulders and moved his arms out in front of him. Jak came flying threw the window and in the direction of the moving rug. Jak smashed into the rug as the both hit the wall. Daxter stopped and cringed slightly as Torn put his hand behind his head, he had used just a little to much force.
"Ouch..." Jak said as he pushed away from the rug and Daxter ran over to him.
"Nice save," Daxter gave both of them a thumbs up as he jumped on Jaks shoulder.
"Um guys...it's still moving," Torn pointed towards the rug as it turned its head towards them. Jak got to his feet and the three of them started running down the hall way with the rug right on their butts, and tail.
"What did you do to that thing Daxter?" Torn asked as Daxter turned around and looked at the rug that was running after them.
"Nothing, I just walked on it!" Daxter protested as they started up a flight of stairs. The rug was going up the stairs much faster then they were and in a moment it would be upon them. As Daxter was encouraging them to run faster Jak turned around and kicked the tiger in its head as it started to roll down the stairs.
"This way!" Torn called as he jumped off the railing of the stairs and grabbed onto the chandelier that was hanging from what appeared to be the top of this castle. Torn looked up and he could not really see where the chain ended.
Jak and Daxter jumped over onto the chandler as well as the rug started it's trip back up the stairs. Torn grabbed onto the chain and started to climb up not really knowing where they should start to look for Ashelin, he just wanted to get away from the crazy rug that was running after them.
"How much you want to bet Ashelin is at the top of this place?" Daxter called up to Torn.
"What makes you figure Daxter?" Torn called down but Jak answered for Daxter.
"The princesses are always in the tallest tower," it made sence, either they were down in the dungeons or up in a tower. And sence they were heading upwards they might as well check out what was going on around this area.
The climb up the chain was not enjoyable for a couple reasons. The chain was freezing cold and both Jak and Torn were getting pretty tried. The castle from outside did not even seam this big. Torn looked over towards the stairs that were still spiraling upward. He noticed that each floor they went up that there would be another door that he figured lead to a hall way.
He also kept a look out for that rug. They had lost the rug a few floors down, he did not think it got tried, more likely it had found a better way of getting up with out all this climbing. Torn looked down at Jak, even if he would not admit it, he was getting just as tired as he was.
"Maybe we should walk the rest of the way up?" Torn asked.
"I guess," Jak said as Torn took the chain and pushed off it with his legs and leaped towards the banister of the stairs. He garbed onto it as he pulled himself over and onto the steps. Jak did the same thing, Torn offered his hand to Jak as he took it and Torn pulled him over the side of the banister.
"Only a couple of hundred stairs to climb...." Daxter said.
"Yeah lucky you get to sit on someone's shoulder," Torn said with a smile and Daxter nodded.
"Some of us are luckier then others," Daxter said and Jak smirked as the three of them made their way up the stairs. These would have to end sooner or later. However the stairs took them up for a couple more hours, the conversations were always small and short and each of the guys were quite surprised when they did not see anyone else wondering around this stair way.
When then he stairs finally came to an end, instead of hop around happily like most people would, Jak and Torn collapse on the top step and just sat down for a moment. Daxter who had not walked at all jumped off Jaks shoulder to stretch his legs.
"There has to be an easier way then this..." Jak said out of breath.
"Well it's not like we had a lot of time to look, with skin and bones running after us," Daxter said.
"Speak of the devil..."Torn said as Jak groaned as the rug poked it's head out of another door and looked at the two of them who were sitting on the step. "Maybe we should just let it eat us." Torn said who was not really looking forward to moving.
"Maybe another day," Jak said but he felt the way Torn did. The two of them got back to their feet.
"Hey guys there's a door over here!" Daxter called out and the two of them ran over to where Daxter was standing as the rug started up the stairs after them. Torn and Jak leaned up against the door and tried to push it in. But it felt as if something was blocking the way. Daxter helped as well but it felt hopeless that they would get it opened in time.
Jak looked over as the rug started to crouch low on the ground as if it was about ready to pounce on them. Jak kept his eyes locked on the rug as it leaped in the air. Jak let go of the door and shoved Daxter and Torn out of the way as the rug smashed into the door. It fell down on the ground and started twitching as the door had opened slightly.
Kicking the rug out of the way Jak went to the door and looked threw the small crack that the rug had made. No wonder it was not opening, there was snow in side this room. Torn and Daxter helped Jak as the finally pushed the doors opened enough to crawl threw. They walked into the snowy room gazing around it as if it was a whole other world.
"Jak! Torn! Daxter!" Ashelin called out as she crawled over the snow mound in which had hidden her from view when the guys frist came into the room.
"Ashelin your okay!" Torn said as he ran over to her and she hugged him tightly.
"What happened here?" Jak asked as he picked Daxter up, saying the snow was almost as deep as his knees.
"She's happened thats what," Ashelin said as she pointed over to the Ice Queen who was looking out her Ice windows. She had not turned around once sence the guys entered the room. "They use some kind of weird magic! Like this one guy had put these weird ropes around me, I could not get out of and they all kind of disappeared when the palace stopped shaking!"
"Magic?" Daxter asked out loud. "Look lady whom ever you are, we are taking Ashelin back with us, don't try to stop us because we might be forced to kick your butt!"
The Ice Queen did not move, she just silently stood where she was with her hand upon the ice looking out it as if she was lost in a daze. Ashelin then turned towards all of the guys and pointed over at the woman.
"She's been like this for a while now, and to top it off, she said she's the Queen of Haven City!" Ashelin said still a little upset about that whole ordeal which was why she was still stuck in this freezing room. She rubbed her arms once more before she looked back at Chasmin. "I think we should leave...."
"You mean...she's just going to let you go?" Daxter asked a little confused. "No fighting, or yelling..."
"I guess," Ashelin replied.
"Then why did you not just leave on your own?" Daxter said almost yelling.
"I was trying to get answers out of her Daxter!" Ashelin said and Jak was kind of happy this woman was just going to let them leave.
"As long as your okay Ashelin...." Jak said and before he could say anything else the Ice Queen spoke up for the first time. Not truing around to see them. She lifted her left arm and the four of them looked out the ice windows and saw that the snow stopped at once when she closed her fist.
"Mar." Ashelin turned and looked at Jak as Chasmin had just spoken Jaks real name.
"Yes?" Jak asked as he walked a few steps in front of Ashelin and Torn. "I'm Mar, Son of Damos."
"Look at this Mar," Chasmin said as if she had been waiting for Jak all day. She turned to her side, giving Jak, Daxter and Torn their frist view of her extraordinary beauty. Another one of Chasmins heat orbs appeared in her hand as one of the windows started to melt.
And sence she had also stopped the snow storm all four of them could see very clearly whats she wanted them to see. It appeared that on the other side of Haven City, maybe outside the city boarders was another castle. It was not made out of stone or wood, it was slick black, it looked like it was made out of a smooth black stone. The windows looked like they were on fire and there were strange black things flying around the castle.
An eerie feeling washed over them as they looked out at the castle, not only did it look completely evil they feel it as well.
"The Dark King," Chasmin started softly her angelic voice ringing in their ears. "Has come to kill us all..."
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A/N:: Another Chapter done, woop dark and Evil King has now appeared! Woop, he wont be seen for a while though. Wonder what the groups going to do about this little problem they ran into....2 powerful forces and Ashelin already does not like Chasmin...wonder wonder wonder :D Thats going to be the main topic in the groups next conversation when they are all together again. Don't miss out...in chapter 7 of Unfortunate Fantasy! :D
The quote I used for Daxter 'Is your shoulder getting cold?' lol I got that from the game 'Jak 3' it humored me so much I thought I'd add it into my story :D
A Small rant: (please don't kill me....XD)- you know what I think is stupid? when someone says something like 'I wont read this story because Jak/Kiera are a couple'. Thats just dumb, no it has not happened to me in this fic yet, but I bet there's someone thinking it. Why did I bring this up? Well my friend said 'I'm soo not going to watch that movie Troy because Brad Pitts in it!'....and I'm like....hello the story is not about Brad Pitt!.....arg I may not like Torn/Jak as a couple but I read some fics about them and they are pretty damn GOOD! I guess the point of this rant is....Give everything a chance take a risk and dive into something new...you might enjoy it. love: You've been blessed by teen wisdom