Nik: thank goodness for my possessed evil dream catcher. it may cease all brain activity while I'm sleeping but because of it, I never worry about nightmares after a horror movie! ah well.. now here I know I kind of fibbed a little last time.. I am jealous of Kiera so theres a little bit of bashing.. But not that much! and since your all going to be completely confused by the end of this chapter I would like to quote Ron Stoppable by saying 'Time travel, its a cornucopia of disturbing concepts..'
"if they didn't take that rat somewhere he would be dead right now.." Torn growled angrily as he paced back and forth around the cell like a caged lion. his head snapped up and his eyes narrowed as he heard the metal door click unlocked.. Torn didn't bother to try and prepare for some dramatic escape, knowing full well the power of the guard he himself once ordered around.
"You have been quite busy since you left my side ex-commander Torn. I always wondered how I had lost track of you so abruptly when you resigned.." Two guard rushed in and slammed Torn painfully against the wall, holding him there securely as the baron himself walked in. "Now after all these years our reunion is so sad.. because I find that what you've been busy with is overthrowing everything you and I once worked to build." Torn pulled against the guards angrily even though he knew it was futile..
"You were insane. You are insane. Those experiments you've had were ludicrous. keeping a specimen from the precursors to learn more about them is one thing, but genetic research?! Your mad with anger and fear of the metal heads. and you'll kill everyone in the city to satiate your hunger for their destruction until either they are dead or you are!" one of the guard punched him hard in the stomach with an armored knuckle. Torn just looked back up at the baron with murder in his eyes.
"that research was on criminals! the specimens weren't even elfin. they were just the same as you." Torn snarled darkly..
"and what about Jak? the rat kept telling how you ordered Erol in to capture him the moment he showed up.."
"Silence!" the guard punched him again, this time in his chest.. Torn felt several ribs crack and he went into a coughing fit, throwing up blood. The baron gave a satisfied smirk and turned away, making a motion of the hand and the two guard dropped Torn where he was held, following the baron obediently. Torn was left in the cell, still coughing up blood and burning with hatred for the baron..
"Torn was right.. Damn it those are some words I would never have thought to be coming out of my mouth.." he paced in the small cage where he was imprisoned.. he would have picked the lock but could find nothing to work.. even the buckle on his goggles had failed to coax the tiny lock into opening and letting him out.. but he paused as he heard some guard speaking, seeming to be a change of guard duty.
"Yea, Erols infuriated. The rumors spreading that the girl who brought in all those underground traitors didn't return yet, and she has the most dangerous of the traitors.. Erol thinks shes betrayed the baron as well and is helping the outlaw.." The other guard shook his head as he switched places with the other..
"Id hate to be in her shoes right now. Erol seems to hate that kid. Then again, Erol seems to hate everyone and relish in it." the two waved each other off but Daxter had since then lost interest.. So she hadn't completely betrayed him.. If Jak was still out there it meant he had not been completely wrong about her! Animal instincts win again!
Jaks vision swam in and out of focus as the serum wore off from his body. but he found himself paralyzed and tied to chair. Shamira sat beside him on the edge of the chair, smiling as he opened his eyes.
"I see you have awoken." Jak tore his face away from her as he looked away in disgust.
"Why am I not in the prison?" she smiled and prepared something in his blind spot.
"Because I chose to bring you here instead." she giggled softly, acting just like the girl he had thought she was, though it was mocking him slightly, although she didn't mean to.
"Why?" she started humming slowly, her voice eerily sounding like his memory of Kiera so long ago.. Jak couldn't stop himself before a tear slid down his face and behind his ears.. she walked over and wiped it off.
"Because, I didn't lie to you Jak. Well, mostly anyway." she untied him and picked him up slowly and had him lean on the couch she had placed him on. she sat down across from him. "Its true everything I have told you about my being a precursor, but I had a promise to honor. Erol was the one who found me. I had to lead him to you and your friends." Jak interrupted her.
"And Kiera? She wasn't part of the underground.. Why her?" she smiled softly.. "Well Ive got to say that was a little jealousy of how much you idolize her. its true though.. she is bouncing between you and Erol. He may be too hard headed to realize but you aught to know that after two years she isn't the same girl you once knew. You are only a shadow to her. You aught to forget her. There is no Kiera in your future."
"So if your so smart, what exactly is?" Her smile widened
"I don't know.. my father never told me that much about his past."
Nik: Yay. I have fans. nobodies said anything about her betrayal yet though.. even though I now find that I can review other stories and don't understand why anyone else couldn't.. anyway, I hope you like the cliffy. I'm leading you on to what I think will be the final stage of Shamira's 'evolution'. Forgive me that its a little short but Ive run into some writers turbulences known as writers block and am now painfully immersed in trying to escape it.. any suggestions would be welcome since I have been depressively detached from my good friend pat whom I fabricated a response from in the eighth chapter because I'm that much of a sap and I miss the deranged freak of a lovable guy. (in case hes anywhere nearby, I mean a deranged freak in a great way because we all know how much fun insane people are )
