Miss.Ecofreak: Who was the hero from the past who saved the world from the dark sage? Hmp, any Jak-and-Daxter-fan should know but still. And what is his connection to the so-called Dark Ecofreak?

Zakura: or Miss.Ecofreak

Miss.Ecofreak: knock it of. Okay, you probably already know the answers to the questions above, but I ask all the same. But Kate and Co doesn't know, lets se if she can find out.

CHAPTER 33

SECRETS OF THE PAST

Kate

"See? I told you"
We were looking in a book Erol had brought us (after a lot of persuasion from Tanya) called "Legends of Sandover Village"

As the title said, the book was about the village that once stood where Haven City is today, there were many books on this subject in Haven City, but for obvious reasons, we chose to take a picture book.

The picture we now were looking at was a two hundred years old picture of a nineteen year old boy.

The boy looked casual, but still Tetra meant it was no doubt he was related to Mar somehow.

He had blue eyes, just like many in my family, his hair was greenish yellow like Jacob's had been and his eyebrows dark green.

His ears even had the little twist on them like mine and little Jak's.

But the thing that perplexed me the most was what he had on his shoulder.

As I remembered from my school days, the boy had an ottsel on his shoulders.

Coincidence Tetra had said; there had to be more ottsels around than Daxter.

But as I saw the orange creature on Jak's shoulder, I knew it had to be him.

"It all fits! Everything from his eyes to the goggles on his head!" I said.

"This is too weird" Tanya said, "These pictures were taken like two hundred years ago, Daxter surely didn't look two hundred".

"He was twenty-one, he told me" I said, "But it has to be him!"

"What about the boy? Does he look like the so-called Dark-ecofreak?" Tetra asked.

"Yes, he looks younger though" Tanya said, "But it might fit if Daxter said he was looking for him for two years, adult ottsels don't change much when they're grown up".

"And that's not all" I said and flipped to the last chapter, "The metalheads arrive" was the title.

"It says here the hero disappeared at the same day as the metalheads arrived, along with his friends, including the sage of green eco", I pointed at a picture of an old man with green skin and a log on his head, "Does he look familiar to you?"

"Now you're creeping me out" Tanya said, "He looks like an older version of Shadow, but how is that even possible?"

"There has to be a natural explanation to this" Tetra said, "Elves can live to a two hundred years but they don't get younger!"
"Maybe he took an extreme makeover?" Tanya joked, "But it still doesn't explain why Daxter said he was twenty-one."

"This is giving me a headache" Tetra said, "Can't we just call it a day? And then Tanya can ask Erol to bring me cake, I need sugar right now".

Tanya and I stared at her.
"I am addicted; since I came to this place I hadn't had as much as a chocolate" Tetra said, "So what if chinbits can't take sugar? I need some now!"

She kept complaining as I read through the book to find an explanation.

"Perhaps I can have some kind of sugar-replacement, something that tastes better than bread and water" Tetra said, "I have this weird feeling of wanting to eat hay. If I have to stay here for much longer I'll go insane! Does anyone have a packet of rabbit-food?"

She fell to the ground and buried her face in her clothes, I could still hear her muttering but at least I was able to concentrate more about the book.

There was quite a lot written about the fight against the dark sage, Gol and his sister Maya (Are they siblings? I haven't played JD for some time).

I had to resist the urge of reading only about the orphan flut-flut who adopted Daxter as her mother, to find out more about how these people two hundred years ago could look so similar to those alive today.

"Hey, this could be something" I said.

Tetra looked up from her "pillow" and stared blankly at me, "Still reading that book?" she asked.

Tanya flew over and landed on my head.

"It says here that after Gol and Maya fell into the silos, Jak found some kind of precursor machine" I read out loud.

"Do you think it could have been a time machine?" Tanya asked.

"Precursors are known to have made the most amazing machines" I said, "And it included a portal, perhaps this was the portal the metalheads came through" (She's smart, I'm so proud to have created such an intelligent character)

"They came through a portal?" Tetra asked, still with her face buried in the clothes.

"Nothing is certain about how they appeared" I said, "But there is an old legend saying that the metalhead leader appeared in Sandover that day, and he was seen coming through a large rift ring"

"And if he came to Sandover through it, Jak and Daxter could have left through it" Tanya said and nodded, "The rift ring is legendary; it can be a portal to other worlds or to different periods in history"

"Drop it! I'm trying to sleep!" Tetra said.

"That explains it for Jak and Daxter, but what about Samos? From what I've heard he hates teleporting" I said, ignoring Tetra's muttering, "I can't picture him going through a rift"

"So maybe he didn't, maybe Samos is just a relative of the green sage" Tanya said.

A lot of maybes, would we ever know for sure?

A month passed, we didn't get to hear a lot of what was going on outside the fortress but seeing that Erol became more and more grumpy every day, we took it as a sign that things were going well for the underground.

But one day, that changed.

I was awoken at three AM because Tetra was making a lot of noise, playing with a plate.

"Tetra, what are you doing?" I asked drowsily.

"I can't sleep!" Tetra said, jumping on one side of the plate making it flip and fly through the air, "And of some reason, this seems really fun, I think I'm going nuts!"

"You're not nuts, not more that natural at least" I said, "Chinbits are nocturnal. They sleep during the day and are awake at night."

"But can you please stay awake a bit more silently? Kate and I are day-animals" Tanya said.

Though I had hardly slept an hour before the door opened.

"What now?" I asked, it was too early for breakfast.

"You" the guard said, pointing at me, "Come with us"

Suddenly I was wide awake, awake and scared.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"Confidential" the guard just answered, "Now come here, Kate Praxis".

"What did you…?" I started but the guard just laughed.

"The room is under surveillance" he said pointing at a hidden microphone in the ceiling, "We heard all you said, except for the times when the batteries were out. Come now, your uncle wants to see you".

He grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the room; Tanya and Tetra managed to sneak out and hid nearby.

It didn't take long until we were in the main office of the fortress.

Baron Praxis was there, along with Erol who was looking away as I entered.

"There you are, how you've grown since I last saw you" my uncle said, trying to sound as the nice uncle I thought he was sixteen years ago.

"Shut the hell up" I said, "What do you want?"
"Oh come on Katy, I don't want to hurt you" Praxis said, "I just need you to do me a little favour"

"And what makes you think I want to help?" I asked.

"Well if you put it that way" Baron Praxis said and sounded disappointed for a moment, but then I noticed he was grinning at something behind me.

I turned around and I saw a krimson guard who had just come in, he was holding Tetra by her tail, "Let me go you big bastard!" she said, "Chinbit-teeth never stop growing and I haven't had much to chew on the last two months"
"Let me put it to you this way, help me or your little rodent-friend dies" Praxis said.

"Hey! I'm no rodent, chinbits are lagomorphs!" Tetra said. (Zakura: a little thing she has inherited from the rabbits, we are not rodents, chinchillas however are. Don't ask me what the difference is though)

I was terrified, whatever the baron wanted me to do could not be good, but I didn't want Tetra to die either.

"Fine, I'll help" I said.

Miss.Ecofreak: what's going to happen now?

Zakura: only you can answer that

Miss.Ecofreak: I sure can, I wrote no less than three chapters yesterday, that also meant I had no time to update this or Dork3

Zakura: or Undercover Ottsel

Miss.Ecfreak: whatever. The next chapter will be up soon, meanwhile, a little review would be nice.