A/N: I bet you are all going to skip over this little segment and get on with the story lol. The characters seam to cry a lot. The Sap/romance is fading away but there will always be the drama hanging around cause I can't just write a full on action story I run out of ways for them to fight XD. Oh the Romance will be absent for a long time, but I'm still building friendships so there will be sappy friendship moments but thats it lol. A lot more people are going to die and they are not going to get gifts, BECAUSE there are tears in war. The characters will get mad and fight because they are lost and confused. And for the people who hate Tess, sorry but she's going to be around a hell of a lot more....okay I'll shut up!
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Tess was sobbing uncontrollably on Daxter as a light snow started to fall once again. Tess scream had also caused Lucca to come running out of the Naughty Ottsel. She held her breath as she looked from Zuk, to Daxter, to Jak and then Tess. Lucca walked over to Tess and sat down in the snow, she did not even need to be told that Daxter was dead.
"It's not fair, it's not fair!" Tess cried and Jak felt the same way. It seamed their last conversations with Daxter were really not that good. Defiantly Jak.
"Stuff like thins happens every day...." Lucca said, which was no comfort for the two grieves at all.
"Why to Daxter?! They should have killed me!" Tess cried as she lifted her head from Daxters chest. "It was my butterfly those other ones did not like! I attacked them first! Why did they not kill me?!"
"I was the one who called them out Tess....I made the vine bleed..." Jak said as Tess and his tears were starting to freeze to their face.
"No one is to blame," Lucca said more gently then her last comment. "We could go on for years whose fault it was that Daxter was killed...but he is dead, and there is no way we can reverse that...."
"Oh Daxter...." Tess said as she brushed some snow off his face.
"Come in side you guys will freeze out here," Lucca said as she went to put her hand on Tess but Tess smacked her away.
"Then I'll die, at least I'll be back with Daxter...." Tess said as she closed her eyes as the tears kept streaming down her face. "I'll stay here forever!"
Lucca turned away and sighed heavily, she had to do something. Jak and Tess could not die like this. She was about to get to her feet when something on Tess's back caught her eye. Along with her shirt being a hulter top, there were slash marks long her shirt. But thats not what was interesting, something was starting to form on her back.
She moved closer to Tess as she moved Tess's shirt slightly and looked at the image that was now on her back. It was as if she had just gotten a tattoo. As the color on her back started to fill in the image was of two red butterfly wings. Then her back started to glow as if they were the wings of a real butterfly.
Lucca turned her head around as another part of the snow was glowing. But that glow turned into a small ball of red light hovering in the air and then it shot threw the sky. Zuk looked up at it as the glow few down towards the ground and hit Tess's back.
Tess screamed as she sat upward and looked towards the sky as the light disappeared into her back. Jak turned and looked at Tess and he saw the butterfly wings on her back as well. Tess then fell back over on Dexter, Lucca put her hands over her mouth, it appeared that Tess had died as well.
Tess moved her arm letting the others know she was very much alive but she was not the same Tess as she was before. She closed her eyes as she put her hand on Daxters face. When she closed her eyes all the sounds around her disappeared. She did not want to hear them, she was searching for a sound, for Daxters voice.
"Tess..."She heard is voice call out to her.
"Daxter come back to me...." Tess said softly as she reached out towards the voice. "Take my hand Daxter...."
Lucca jumped backwards as a read light start to form around Tess as she extended her hand out in the air. Jak stared with wide eyes as something came out of the light and took told of Tess's hand. Zuk was just as stunned as the others as a strong energy wave passed all of them knocking them over. Tess got to her feet as she moved her hand towards Daxter.
With a flash the light disappeared and Tess fell over backwards in the snow.
"Tess!" Lucca said as she checked for her pulse, Tess was alive, and so was someone else.
Daxters hand started to move in the snow and his color was returning to his skin. (Did you people really think I'd keep Daxter dead? heheh) He sat up but he soon fell over as Jak tackled him. Jak hugged Daxter tightly and Zuk could not help but smile.
"You stupid moron don't you ever die on me ever again!" Jak yelled happily threw his sobs.
"Say what?!" Daxter asked a bit confused as Jak let go of him.
"Even if you explain it to him he wont understand, I don't even under stand what happened," Zuk said as Tess started to come back around. She felt really light headed and weak. She smiled as she saw Daxter sitting up rubbing his head.
"I was dead?!" Daxter asked a bit scared as Tess reached out for him and he took her hand. Daxter pulled her towards him and she hugged him tightly.
"Oh baby your all right, I new you wouldn't leave me," Tess said as she rubbed his back and squeezed him never wanting to let him go again.
"What happened to the butterflies?" Daxter asked.
"They left after they killed you, and the red one," Jak said, fortunately for Daxter he had come back to life. The butterfly was still pretty much dead. Tess pulled away from Daxter and then took his hands kissing them over and over again. To think she had almost lost Daxter, that had been the worst feeling she had ever received and she never wanted to feel that way again.
"I'm sorry hun, I knew how much you loved that bug," Daxter said when Tess stopped kissing his hands.
"I'm going to miss that butterfly a lot, if it had not been for her you would have still been dead Daxter," Tess said as Daxter watched the image of the butterfly appear on Tess's cheek. Just like the tattoo of the wings on her back this new marking on her face was like it as well, but the full thing and not just the wings. "She told me that if ever I wanted you, all I had to do was call out for you, and you'd come back. And you did..."
"This has been one long morning", Lucca said as she fell back in the snow, she let out a breath of hot air as she watched a snow flake fall on her nose.
Tess hugged Daxter again and they might have sat there for a while longer if an unnerving sound did not ring into their ears. They looked towards the city walls, something was banging against it. Daxter got to his feet talking Tess with him, Jak got up as well and Lucca just sat up.
"Oh shit...." Jak said softly.
"The minks...." Daxter finished for Jak. With all the commotion with the vines and butterflies they totally forgot what Chasmin had instructed them to do. If those things got into the city all hell would brake lose. And the picture Chasmin had described to them on how the minks killed. "I love you Tess."
"I love you to babe, but- NO! You can't be thinking of going to fight what ever that is...Daxter you just died! I can't lose you again, in the same day!" Tess said and Daxter patted his chest then kissed her cheek.
"I have to, me and Jak are the only ones who can fight them off, we don't have the other two sword wielders, and Ashelin and Torn are not back yet. If I don't go everyone in the city might die," Daxter said as he looked over at Zuk. Zuk nodded with a proud smile as he walked over to Daxter.
"Who cares about the city! I care about you!" Tess said as she grabbed onto Daxters arm tightly.
"Come on Jak, we have a city to defend," Daxter said as he pried his arm free from Tess. He leaned in and quickly kissed her on the lips as he ran up Zuks wing and onto his back. Jak looked over at Tess, shrugged his shoulders then ran up the dragon to sit with Daxter.
"Daxter! you better come back!" Tess yelled as the Dragon kicked off the ground and went flying through the air towards the walls of the city. "Stupid men!"
"I'll say," Lucca said "At least he's being stupid in a productive way."
"Lucca can you watch after Kiera?" Tess asked and Lucca looked over at her.
"Where are you going you were just hurt as well, your a hypocrite you know," Lucca said as Tess looked down at the small wounds she had gotten from the butterflies attack. She had not seen her face or back yet and really had no idea she had new Tattoos on her body.
"Hypocrite as it may be, I'm not the one who died, he did!" Tess said as she pointed in the air towards Daxter. "And Daxter said only him and Jak could fight those things, he must be talking about the weapons. There has to be something I can find that can help me aid him."
"Tess, no offense but your nothing special when it comes to fighting," Lucca pointed out.
"If Jak and Daxter have no problem with it then I should have no problem either," Tess said and with out another word she went flying threw the snow. Lucca put her hand to her head and thought about what had just happened. And she came to the simple conclusion, that all these people were insane.
Zuk flew there the air as fast as he could as the city wall still was shaking from being attacked by the minks. Zuk flew over the wall and all of their mouths fell open as they looked at how many of them there were. Chasmin had under stated how many of these they were going to be fighting.
"This is nuts!" Daxter called and Jak was a bit hesitant to start fighting.
"Daxter you don't have to fight, you, were only dead a few minutes ago," Jak said he was starting to have the same feelings that Tess had.
"And you were crying like a baby, so what," Zuk said and Jak narrowed his eyes. Zuk seamed to have a problem with being completely too blunt and to honest, at the wrong moments.
"You were crying over me?" Daxter asked and Jak smiled, at least death had not changed Daxter. "You big lug!"
"What did you expect?" Jak said as he rolled his eyes at Daxter as he took his sword in his hand. Now they had the figure out a good place to start their attack.
"Never knew you cared!"
"Daxter shut up," Jak said and Daxter took out his sword.
"A hundred or more vrs three, nice odds," Daxter said as Zuk turned his head slightly to look at the two guys.
"I'll clear a path and then do what ever you do best!" Zuk called and Daxter nodded. Zuk flew towards the ground and opened his mouth. The best idea would be, to take out the ones closest to the wall so it would not collapse over. As Zuk opened his mouth the fire started to form and then he shot a fireball down at the Ottsel sized creatures.
The minks were about two feet tall, black with six arms and four legs. They had two small red eyes and a slit for a mouth. There were tiny sets of claws on each one of their hands. Turning their attention towards Zuk, Jak was the frist the leap down off the dragons back followed by Daxter.
They did not waist a moment as Jak brought his sword down upon two minks and they all started making weird chirping sounds. Zuk then landed on the ground smushing about three of the small creatures. They had to keep the minks in small groups. because if they all attacked one person, there was going to be a major problem.
Daxter sliced one in half as it leaped in the air at him. Daxter and Jak staid as close as they could to one another, mainly to watch each others back. Their swords went flying threw the air, and they got a feeling that these little monsters were not nearly as strong or smart as Chasmin lead them on to be.
Because the mink population was getting smaller and smaller, and not a single one of them had laid a hand on Jak, Daxter or Zuk. Zuk who had not talked to Chasmin really did not mind if the little monster were easy to kill as he walked around stepping on them.
Jak killed a few more Minks as he looked up from what he was doing as the last few of them started to scatter off in the distance. Zuk roared and ran after the fleeing ones as Daxter put his sword in the ground, proud of what he had done and not been harmed. Jak and Tess had just been over reacting.
Daxter looked towards Jak as he was staring at the wall that the Minks had been attacking. Jak looked over at Daxter and the expression on his face let Daxter know he had just found something important.
"They were not trying to get into the city," Jak said as he pushed away some of the crumbling stone. There was a hallow part of the wall and as he pushed more of the stone away he saw a small wooden box. Jak took the box in his hands and turned it over. From the looks of it there was no way to open it.
"They were after this thing? What is it?" Daxter asked as Zuk walked back over to them with triumphant look on his facing most, having killed the rest of the little runaways.
"Zuk do you know what this is?" Jak asked as he turned towards the dragon and lifted up the box.
"No, never seen it before in my life," The dragon said and Jak tossed the box to Daxter.
"Zuk do you think you can take us to the Ice castle?" Jak asked.
"I suppose, though I'm not a fan of the Ice Queen, but do I have the right to ask why?" The Dragon asked and Jak nodded. Daxter to waited for his answer.
"I believe this was the other reason Chasmin sent us out here this morning...."
A/N:: Woop. Oh and I wanted to make one thing clear. TESS was NOT the reason why Daxter is alive. It may have seamed that way but she was only one third the reason why Daxter is alive. And there will be a hint to what it as in chapter 13 when we go to Torn/Ashelin, no they did not bring Daxter back to life either lol. You don't get to see the thing that did bring Daxter life tell after the midpoint of the story :D.
Also sorry the battle was lacking details, its just battle after battle after battle can get very redundant. But I will write the next battle it will have in more detail saying in Chapter 12 Jak and Daxter get some magic! any who, what was in the box That Jak found? Will Chasmin tell them or keep hiding facts, is Chasmin as honest as she says, coming in Chapter 12: Direct Attack on Chasmin of Unfortunate Fantasy!