A wish

Once, every or twice a year you get to make a wish. Wether it be for santa clause or upon your birthday cake, it is wish. I have wished upon every star, every moon, every birthday and Christmas for one thing. It is the one thing I have desired sense I was little girl and saw my favorite animes and shows and comics. It was wish that I knew could never be fulfilled, And this scared me every time. I did not understand back then the power of wish, I do now.

It was the last day of November, every day of November I waited till this moment. Last of day of November I made my wish as always. It was comforting to me as it always was. Even though I knew the truth as all fans do.

My name is Mari, Mari Steele. I have lived with my mistakes all my life, never able forget. I have been cursed with the gift of death sight, seeing souls. It scares all the time and Their is nothing I can do to change that. Yet the only way to escape it was to, Wish. I wished when I could all the time. It for same thing over and over and over again.

For my Anime characters, And comic book characters and game characters to come to life for the rest of my life.

I wished for such A silly thing because no one in my school liked me at all. It was tease and after Tease after tease. In Junior high, it wasn't as bad. When I was younger, I would get beat up for several things. That does not matter how ever, What matters it that every night I came home and cried into my pillow. Then one day, I woke up to find a letter for me in the mailbox. I never letter back then. But yet here was one, In my mailbox for me. Wrapped in a red envelope and sealed with wax. I peeled off the wax gently and opened the letter. Inside was a card, with a gold line border in the center written in gold cursive letters read;

A Wish for YOU.

I opened up the card, which seemed much like a invitation to a party. On the inside also written in golden letters was a set of instructions. It was club, A night club for party ing. I was surprised I was only 13 but yet I was invited to A night club! On end of the list of instructions was a again a message.

It is only for you Mari,

Your wish shall be yours

Come to the party to make it true

I gasped at the bottom lettering it knew my name. Now I had to go to this Night club. This was strangest thing I had ever seen! I was going to ask about this as soon as I got into the Night club the next day. The Night clubs' name was 'Wish' It couldn't be to hard to find..

At the wish…

I pulled open the wooden door to the building. A gaint star adorned the top of building. The Word 'Wish' written across the front in big sparkly lettering.

Inside it was almost completely dark except a light on the ground. I felt scared and cramped in the small place. Not a sound was herd except my own heart beat in dark room. Then A loud crackling sound shattered the eerie silence like a rock against a window. I clapped my hands to my ears, the sound was loud! It hurt my ears it was so high pitched!

The Tone slowly evened out in to something I could hear with out it hurting. I stud up straight for what happened next. Adrenaline pulsing threw my thin body. The tone cleared into a mans voice which ran around the room about me.

"you have desired one wish sense you were little correct?"

"YES! Yes I have! The invitation said.."

" Yes I know what it said! Your wish has been granted do you except it?"

My heart skipped a beat. This was my chance!

"Yes.."

I said breathing deeply to my self. The energy still pulsing threw my veins. My eyes wide with pure excitement about what was to happen next. When the voice did not return I became more worried than before. Was I going to get my wish granted or was some one pulling my chain?

Their was strike of purplish lighting in a far of corner of the room that blanketed in darkness. It was familiar to my eyes, oddly familiar. Yet, I remained silent struck with unexplainable fear. No longer was the echo of my breathing in the only other sound in the room, but was accompanied by two others. I was frozen with terror in the center of the room in the only shower of light that existed. Listening to the silent foot beats of one yet the breaths of two.

I did not call out nor did I run from my spot. Curiousty and fear acting like cement and sealing me to the spot. The foot beats sounding much like leather boots with either metal or harder leather at the bottom. Heavy…yes it was a heavy figure! I was starting to peace it together, but the foot beats stopped.

Their was something slightly dipped in the light but not by much, It looked kind of like a ear. I could not be fore sure but I did not figure it out. The light grew larger to grow over its new occupant.

I clapped my hands to my mother to catch my breath and hold it in, never mind how futile that was. Their standing before me was a rather confused looking character. His hair was yellow and greenish, his ears were long and pointed like an elves. He had blue and kind of whitish clothing, almost tied together with leather and a steel ring. I knew who this was! I had only recently discovered this character from a game my cousin showed me! It was that Jak character from thoughs games!

"Hey, uh kid do you know were we're at?"

I tried to think of words to answer Daxsters question. Daxster, as I could remember talked a lot more than Jak did.

"Your in, Austin…Texas. I think,"

I went back to the door to see what was out side. I swung open the door only to find that the buildings, houses and streets were gone! What had happened to my home city?

"Or not…."

"You may find the others of your wish else were, he is here as he is the most recent and he is a good fighter."

The voice mumbled in the back of my head. I could barely understand as I fought back the tears to cry. What had happened to my family? My dogs? My brother? Were they? Were they still alive?

Jak and Daxster, had already walked out of the building but I just stud their right out side it. Staring at the forest that surrounded us. Birds in the trees chirped and flew about. I looked back at them, they had already started ahead,Almost completely ignoring me.

"Hey! You can't leave me here!"

"oh yes we can!"

One of them yelled back at me. I gave a distressed sigh and ran up to gain the space with them. I stopped in mid run, something

Had rustled the bushes and trees behind us. I turned around slowly thinking about all the awful things that could be behind me.

It was one of those metal head things that were in the jak2 games! I must have forgotten, it I brought the character to life the baddies had to come to! I screamed in fright, catching the attention of Jak and Daxster, who were still very far ahead of me.

It saw me and I saw it but neither of us moved. I was frozen with terror and knowing that just about anything could happen now. I couldn't tell if it knew I was there if it was getting ready to attack me. I took a gulp of fear, still not daring to make a move.

The Metal Head leapt at me, I screamed in terror. Defensively raising my arm to shield my self. Though in all truth it does little good to guard against a metal head. There was sound of soft click and resonating sound of two rounds of the Falcon Fury being fired. The shots struck with beast razor sharp targeting. It fell to the ground blackish blood pouring on to the ground.

I had fallen on the ground, and now sat their breathing deeply. My body shoke with fright at what only just happened. That the truth and full power of what I had wished for really was. Indeed I had gotten what I wanted but I had wish the characters real. And it brought the bad guys to life, like the metal head.

I felt a warm hand, touch across my shivering shoulder.

"Ignore daxster, We can't leave you at here now that they are around"

His voice was deep and I found it calming. I stud up and followed him but I still felt very strange about all that was going on. I ran to catch up with him.

"were do you think this forest ends?"

"it ends at some point but I don't know were."

I grumbled to my self. "That's comforting."

I crossed my arms in frustrations at this. The fact of being lost in a forest did not make me any better. It also didn't help that this forest gave me the creeps.

Sometime later….

"JESUS JAK!"

I clung to the leather covering of the hover car. Ducking rather low below the hood of the car. Not being used to hover cars or Jak's driving skills, which were very much off.

"What?"

"Don't you think you going a LITTLE fast!"

He shrugged is shoulders and drove on. I still clung to the leather, MY stomach muscle tight from trying not to hurl.

"SHIT!"

The car hovered at the lowest level. The people ran away from the lower hovering car. Till there was loud metallic thump.

"You moron JaK! You ran over one of the Guards! DRIVE!"

The Car hurdled forward and he shifted it into the second level hovercraft. Hitting the smaller little hover crafts and sent them hurtling to their deaths. Guards below us firing off their shocking sticks and lasers at the car. AS it drove down the crowded areas filled with people and cars.

A bright light sprung forth from the distance ahead of us, directly to where we were going. I could not tell if we were the ones coming up fast or wither the object was. IT took shape into a spherical orb of light kind of bluish. I didn't scream this time just held my breath. It struck the front tip of the car, knocking a fairly big chunk of the hover car straight off.

It came hurtling down into yet again another forest. I fell out of the hover car on to the green grass. My head racked with pain from the crash. Jak was still alive but soundly unconscious from the accident. This didn't bode well for either of us, I sat by his side not knowing what else to do.

Hours passed and the forest was still quiet, and night was starting to come. The wind of the forest was starting to get really cold. I was already freezing from the temperature. My knee's knocking at my arms wrapped about me for warmth. Finger tips and toes frozen off completely. Jak still hadn't woken, it was starting to worry me. He stirred and that gave me hope every time his ear or finger wiggled or twitched.

Finally after several hours there alone with out any sounds or voices. There was a loud Echoing crash in the forest. It frightened me so because so many thing s could be out there. Another crash accompanied it minutes latter, louder this time. Then another and another, what was out their was coming upon us. I couldn't possibly lift jak up! And I couldn't leave him behind to what ever was out there! So I waited again by his side, some how I managed to find a hiding spot.

I hid under it with jak propped up against the wall. I didn't dare look out and see what was out there. However, I was coaxed out by curiosity when I heard something fall. When I peered out from behind the hiding spot, there was fallen tree lying there. The creature that had knocked it down standing over it looking blankly at the sky. The creature looked kind of robotic and inorganic so it could not a creature.

As I proceeded to come out a little forth it let out a frightening roar that made my ears hurt. Not like the sound of static at the club before this had all happened. It was far weaker than that. It looked at our hiding spot and I knew then that it knew we were there. I yelped and ducked back under.

However, with one mighty hit of its swift clawed paw it knocked it away. The area around seemed to rain bits of the car. It raised to attack again, I raised my arm again defensively. IT'S claws racked threw my soft skin and cut it down almost the bone. I howled in pain collapsed back. My arm and hand that held it, were now drenched a thick coat of crimson blood.

My yelp and howl did not go unnoticed by every thing. A red blur shot out at the robot that attacked us. It howled in pain as a bright light shaped like a sword cut threw it's chest plate. Cracking it apart. It happened fast enough that I can no longer explain it to you.

The rescuer stud before us, My vision quickly blurring from blood loss. The last thing I could make out before I blacked out was that he had blonde hair and was kind of red looking..

Maverick hunter HG : Medical bay

I woke up next morning feeling terribly dizzy and kind of weak. My left hand rested on my forehead And their was an odd tightness to my right. Which I found was that it had been wrapped rather tightly. From the look of were I was at, it looked kind of like a recovery room. My heart leapt, was I back home? Home in the real world again.

The rush of metal footsteps past me or rather, past my bed, told me other wise. Robots, robots with a game I was familiar with, it was under the name of megaman x. Although I'd never played it I thought it was coolest thing. I would continuously get information it from the Internet.

But now I couldn't just get on my computer and look up things.

They looked like medical robots; they carried off another robot who looked pretty torn up. A shiver ran down my spin as I remembered what had happened only the night before. The screech still rang in my ears.

"Well! It seems your awake today!"

I jumped, startled by the cheerful voice behind me. Their was a kind of blond hair medical robot was craned over me. (its pretty easy to tell) She had a silly smile over her face.

"Uh yeah I'm awake. But how long was out?"

"oh, about three days!"

Three days! That long had they all ready released Jak from the area? I could never really be sure then but I felt really bad like I'd done some thing wrong.

"Did the person I came here. with, Jak, where'd he go?"

"Oh! Hes okay he woke up almost a few hours after you all were brought here. He's downstairs, trying to find something to eat I guess."

I grimaced, at her. Ditzy blonde robot.

" can I go and see him?"

:"no! No you can't! you've got to rest."

I gave her a dark look. I didn't want to stay right here! I wanted to go have a look around! My legs were already hanging off the end of the bed.

"I'm fine!"

Course I didn't really feel all the great but I really want to go about. I leapt off the cotton bed, on to the floor. The tiled flooring was cold to my bare feet.

"Miss! Please Get back in bed"

"NNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

I stuck my tongue out at her and ran down the hall way.

"this Is what I get for being a medical reploid."

I followed whatever instructions I found that gave direction to were, the As I guessed it, the cafeteria. Careful not run into any to of the robots, or reploids. I wasn't all that interested in making new friends today.

The cafeteria was filled with reploids, and I guess A few living creatures. With the amounts of color it kind of looked like a sea of colors. Almost alive with and vibrant with life. Jak stud out amongst them his ears and strange attair. He didn't really eat his food more or less was poking it with the fork.

Daxster didn't have the same additude that Jak had about eating.

The plate, as I guessed it, was daxsters, had been cleaned of food give or take a few crums. Now was sleeping silently or not so silently on the edge of the table.

"You should eat! I'm sure its good for you…"

I sat kind of next to him, not completely because it was after all, a square table. A wood square table thankfully so the surface wasn't that cold.

"I'm not that hungry.."

"Ways that?"

"I'm worried"

"about what?"

"about a friend."

"who?"

"NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS! STOPING ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS!"

He said angerly. It caught the attention of several reploids that were also in the room and woke up Daxster.

"hm? Whats all the yelling about?"

Daxster was ignored by me and Jak and took this as his cue to leap on to Jak's shoulder. Who left the room in huff, I decided to have a look around, and found the place in need of decoration. Alas I didn't mention this to any one before I was caught.

"Shouldn't you be in the Medical bay?"

I frozen in my tracks. I turned around to face the questioner. He was reploid, as most things in the building were. A fighting one ( I could see the tip of something and he really looked the part) At that, which ment high ranking, Well I guessed that it did. Much of his armor was red and he had blonde hair. How A robot could have blonde hair was still beyong me to this day.

He was familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it.

"haven't I seen you before?"

I asked, wondering I had, he was awfully familiar. Then it came to me I did know him! He was from that silly game called megamanx, or rather the whole serios of MegamanX Games! His name was Zero and he was a really good maverick hunter.

"you have and your not supposed to be up around."

He sounded kind of upset and annoyed that I was wandering about. I nodded my head in shame.

"Now follow me, and don't wander off to any were."

"Yes sir."

I said guiltly and he lead me all the way back to the medical bay. Were I instructed to remain their till my arm was fully healed. Which at the at point I realized that I had arllready blood soaked my bandage. From which point he left and that dammed blonde reploid came back again. She un rapped the one I had on, washed my cut and put a clean bandage on.

At this point I was bored again and wanted again to know were jak was staying.

"heres my friend, Jak staying at?"

I asked her again. Half expecting answer and half expecting her to be ditz again.

"He's staying in his own room. Having already recovered from his injuries."

I nodded and felt oddly sleeply. It was then that I noticed that she had given me a shot. At whence point a felll back into a lovely dream.

BY the next two days or so, I was aloud to go about but I had to check back and have my arm looked at. Apparently I hat three Deep cuts that whent almost all the way around my arm. Aswell as deep to the bone, literally. When I asked why I couldn't fell I was told that it was numbed out by the cleaner.

I walked down the walls almost completely ignore and that was the way I liked it. I hadn't seen zero in awhile sense He called me down and lead me back to the medical bay. On the other hand, I didn't really want to seem him that badly. I walked down the hall way, to were Jak's room was. I was wereing the only thing I had that only resently been washed of blood stains. A black long sleeve shirt with sleeves that went over my finger tips. And my pants were the usual sweat pant style that I loved. The tears were I had been cut were sewn up.

I knocked on his door expected a reply with lots of anticipation. I was so excited it was so hard to hold it in. My heart almost hit the floor. It wasn't who I expected to answer the door. The orange fur took shape on in the door way. Small and only three feet or so in size.

" Well hello their Mari."

Some how I just wanted to drop kick him, and I didn't know why. I just wanted to kick him and see how much distance I got on him.

"Here to see tall dark and gruesome I suppose?"

I nodded, I wasn't much into talking lattely. Hadn't said much to really any body. Daxster opened the door,to my amazment that he could. Being so small he must have been severlly weak. I calmlt walked in to the room with out hesitation or thought really.

Jak wasn't really doing much anything really, Just sort of sitting on the edge of his bed. His head in hands in full attair. All his clothing on that was his, His guns ready and every thing. It worried about that. I don't know why, because I knew very well that he didn't like me very much. Daxster took his place on Jak's shoulder again.

" so were you head'n off to?"

"out to look for keira"

Ah! So that was who he so worked up about! His girlfriend keira, she must around some were and he knew it. And because so manythings were happening he was worried about her. I must have forgotten about her.

"oh, so your leaving.."

"yeah I am"

he sounded kind of happy about it.

"Well I'm coming with!"

"no your not you'll just give me away."

He started for the door. And I followed as fast as I could out the door as he went out it. I grapped hold of his sleeve, begging him not go now! To just wait a little longer so that I could go with him. He just pulled away and ran out of the building as I guessed it.

I on the other hand, just sat on the ground in the hall way of the building. My hands pressed out flat, fingers out stretched, crying. It felt like their was nothing else to do and I was guilty. So I just cried for what every reason. I heard ahead of me, up the hall the clank of metal foot steps. I didn't flinch or move from my spot I just sat their.

They stopped infront of me and I didn't look up. I didn'stop my tears at all I just let them fall on the floor. Crying to my self about something I would never tell. I felt hand touch my back and heard the soft creak of metalick joints.

"Hey, are you okay?"

It was familiar but I still was upset at jak. I simply stud up breaking away from whoever was infront of me. Thou I remember then that he looked bluish mostly. And that was about it, and then I walked back to the medical bay. From their I didn't got anywere but their and the whole time all I did was think.

After awhile, around 5 days or so I was fed up with staying here. I didn't want to stay here any more and it was pissing me off. My arm was now almost done healing,The wounds had healed up past the bone and now were only half as deep as they were.

I was up and around again now,but I still pissed at just about every thing. Now I was even getting odd looks from others. It just made me all the madder, staying here and wanting loose. I knew were I going today, I had been carfully planning my escape. At the HQ they had these bike things, kind of like motorcycles but with out the wheels. They had larger ones that were used for shipping I guess. I knew just how I was going to pull it off. The shipping ships left every morning and came back in the evening. If I could make it down their unseen in the early morning I could sneak a ride out of the HQ.

My plan worked almost perfectly, I was able to get down to the gargage unseen. Now was the real challenge getting on to the ship unseen. I waited until the very last reploid returned from the ship. I ran as fast possible to before it took off. It's engines starting to heat up ready to go. I dove in to the back and hopped the driver had not spotted me.

I relaxed until the building was out of sight, at the point I leapt off the ship. I didn't feel nervous at all about being alone in the forest. I didn't quite know why, I had already in countered a maverick and Metal head in the forest.

I walked down the forest area for what seemed like hours, and not a sign of jak or any one else. It silent and eerie alone in the forest and I was finally starting to worry.

"you too?"

It seemed like a question but it wasn't. I jumped in my skin hearing some one's voice behind me. I turned around only to find Zero standing over me looking disappointed.

"Yeah"

I responded kind of annoyed and not so submisvive As I was before. He sighed. And Knew then just who he was looking for before he came upon me.

"Your looking for Jak aren't you?"

He nodded.

"then I'm going to help you."

" fine but no trouble"

I just followed him and he lead the way.

A while latter

The night had fallen over the sky and it had become hard to find our way. Their was hardly any dim light and I was only able to see Zero because of the moonlight. It reflected of his red armor.

Intruth I was starting to become worried and frightened. The terrain we walked upon had become muddy and wet. He said we were near a swamp and that worried me more. I didn't like mud or anything to do with it, or swamps.

My shoes were sticking to the squishy terrain which made a sucking sound every time I lifted them from it. It was starting to become freezing. I hugged myself in effort to try to keep warm. Zero could not feel it, he was reploid, but maybe he could, but I didn't bother to ask.

Their was a kind of splashy sound then. Kind of the like when you feel down in the mud or something along those lines. For a split second before I looked back at Zero, I thought nothing of it. Mud was three quarters up both of Zero's metallic legs. It was quicksand, the ground most have been very extordinary weak. Him being a reploid, and being mostly metallic matter, was VERY heavy.

I grasped his arm as best I could, The metal of his arm was freezing. Yet I still held on to his arm.

"what the hell?"

"Its quicksand Zero!"

he was going down quickly. Like a rock in the ocean. It was already at his waist, and I was already tired. The ground beneath my own feet became liquid earth. I was not as heavey as Zero but by the time I had noticed,It was over my knees. It was cold all around, And their was not a spec of warmth.

It may have taken hours, or minute or what ever but quickly or slowly, I was at my My waist, and around his chest. My lips had turned purple as had my finger tips. Now almost incapable of rational thought. My sight was blurry, I was holding on to his hand. Breathing was now laborious for me, so cold as I was.

Then their was kind of engine roar in the distance, I couldn't make out wat it was. My vision was blurry at the time.

Jak came up board a hover car, Daxster upon his shoulder. It was bigger hovercar then the one I had road in. Their was also another girl then I blacked out.

(I can't tell the story in first Person any more, so THe SEcond PArt is In Second person. )