This is not Goodbye
By Kuro Kin'youbi

Chapter 5


Jak could tell something was wrong. Even as Tess and Keira said to him and Daxter that Ashelin wasn't really seeing Veger, that it was just a sick joke. Something still felt strange. He didn't know how to explain it... Daxter was suddenly feeling much heavier than before. Jak brushed Daxter off his shoulder, and walked into the bathroom.

"Jak...?" Daxter muttered as Jak closed the bathroom door.

Keira shrugged. "He has been acting weird since you guys came back from the Precursors. Not through time, that is."

Tess nodded. She walked over to Daxter and hugged him. Remember, she was an Ottsel and now it was much easier.

"AAAAAaaaaaaHHHHHH!"

The three heard Jak's yells from the bathroom. They ran to the door, and Keira tried to open it, but it was locked. They could hear scratching sounds on the other side of the door, above Jak's yelling. Finally, the door was opened... and an... Ottsel ran out.

"Where the hell is Jak?" Daxter screeched.

"I am Jak, you guys!"

Jak... an Ottsel?

"He does remind me of Jak..." Keira said.

Tess nodded. Keira looked down at the 3 Ottsels that were around her ankles. She moaned.


"Ashelin has to go with you this time." Keira explained.

O. Jak, Daxter and Ashelin sat in the Rift Rider, listening to Keira's briefing. Daxter was muttering things about why he had to risk his life again for what reason. Jak told Daxter that he was going to not kill Veger so he wouldn't become an Ottsel. Daxter just nodded.

"Why don't you come?" Jak's mousy ottsel voice sounded from behind Ashelin.

"I wasn't invited." Keira said coolly. "And besides, what could I do to help?"

Ashelin sighed, then had an idea.

"Keira!" She said with a laugh. "I won't forgive you for what you said to Jak about Veger!"

Keira laughed at Ashelin. The rift rider lifted up into the air and was gone in another pop.


Ashelin got off the Rift Rider first and climbed up the tower to where Veger was. She pulled out her gun and watched him for a while. Finally, she pulled herself up over the ledge and aimed her gun.

"This is the end of the line." She said.

Veger turned around and smiled warily.

"Oh, but it isn't. Even if you kill me now, Ashelin, I have won. I took Mar from Damas and now... I will end Damas' suffering!"

Ashelin held the gun up to Veger's neck.

"You don't move one bit." Ashelin said.

Veger stood still. He laughed though, as Jak and Damas drove up the ridge in the Ram 'Rod.

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Jak looked at Damas, and nodded. Damas looked impressed with Jak. Then, a whizzing sound could be heard. Jak knew what it was and dove at Damas, throwing them both out of the vehicle as a cannon ball smashed it up.

"Jak!"

Jak landed roughly, rolling under a tower. The tower that Ashelin and Veger were fighting on. Damas landed near Daxter, who landed on his head and went skidding across the ground. No-one landed near the ruined vehicle. Jak crawled over to the other two - he knew Daxter would be unconcious but Damas wasn't. He was picking himself up. He looked at Jak as he approached and helped him off his knees.

"What the hell happened?" Damas demanded.

Jak shook his head. He had no idea.

"I saw that thing coming towards the car... and I pushed us off the car so we'd live..."

Damas grinned and shook the dust off his clothes.

"You are a very smart warrior." He praised.

Jak smiled with gratitude, and Damas fell silent.

"You are as good... as my son would have been, at your age."

Jak was silent. He walked over to Daxter and picked him up. Out like a light. Nothing surprising.

"Let's find your son." Jak said.

Damas looked at Jak and narrowed his eyes. He pointed his staff at Jak, and said: "Why? He is dead."

"Do you know that for sure? Did you bury him?"

Damas shook his head.

"Tell me about your son." Jak said.

Damas sighed, and leaned against a wall.

"He was very young when Veger kidnapped him 3 years ago. Only an infant. He had one of these around his neck."

Damas pulled out an amulet... one Jak recognised immediately. The seal of Mar he had been given. Damas was talking about the young Jak he had seen in Haven City a year ago! He had sent him to the past!

"Oh, god..." Jak said.

He felt faint. Damas watched him sit in the puddle at his feet and take deep breaths.

"Are you sure? I know that boy. I saw him in Haven City, a year ago."

Damas lightened up as soon as Jak said that.

"Really? How is he?"

Jak smiled and closed his eyes. "Your son, is fine."

Damas looked at the calmed look on Jak's face.

"What else do you know?" Damas asked.

"The Shadow - Samos - sent him into the past, to grow up and train to defeat the worlds evils today - as a man."

Damas frowned.

"Then..." He said finally, "He must be in this time now, at about your age."

Jak nodded. He looked up as the rain started to fall down. He looked back at Damas, and took the seal out and showed it to him.

"Mar?"


What do you think? I know its short, but I really wanted to get this up quickly. Please tell me what you think! Oh, and if anyone was following my old story, Knowing is Everything. with Rose being Damas' long lost daughter, I re-posted it as Something worth waiting for. It has shadows-of-flame in it as a cameo in chapter one and maybe a permenant character! Does anyone want a cameo in any of my stories? Just let me know a tiny bit about yourself. But trust me, I'm not a stalker! I swear!