Miss.Ecofreak: What can I say about this? Oh yeah, this is the chapter where the title finally start to make sense, Shara mentions the light wihtin for the first time.

In case you wonder, the light within is what the precursor oracle in Jak and Daxter. Precursor legacy talks about all the time.

Zakura: who cares?

Miss.Ecofreak: I DO! Oh well, here's the next chappy.

CHAPTER 5

THE RESCUE

Daxter

As we sneaked around in the fortress, my thoughts wandered back to the first time I tried to bust Jak out of somewhere.

And I was worried, I hadn't liked what I found in the baron's cell, and I was worried I wouldn't like what I found here either.

Tanya and Tetra certainly wasn't bothered by this, then again they had never seen Dark Jak.

Tetra jumped up into a broken window and stuck her head in, but she quickly jumped back out.

"These guys never clean their toilets" she said to us, "It smelt like someone had died in there too"
"Wouldn't surprise me, he was a great man that baron" Tanya said sarcastically, "He killed more of his own citizens than he killed metalheads"

On a normal day I might have laughed of that, but I didn't feel like laughing at anything right now.

Tell any joke you want; tell the funniest joke ever imaginable! I still wouldn't laugh.

I stopped, probably a bit too quickly because Tetra crashed into my back.

"What in the name of the precursors was that for?" she asked, sounding very annoyed.

"Do you smell something funny?" I asked.

"It smells like my parent's house" Tetra said, "And trust me, that was not good".

"No, not like that" I said, I didn't really wonder why she hadn't noticed.

I had been close to dark eco so many times I knew exactly how it looked like, how it smelt, how the crackling of it sounded, how it felt like to touch it, heck even how it tasted to swallow it (although I only did that once and that was two years ago, I never forget it).

"He's close" I said.

"Who? Jak?" Tanya asked, "How can you tell? Are you psychic or something?"

"No, but I know the smell of Dark eco when I smell it" I said, "Jak has been pumped with that stuff for two years, so he stinks of it. Don't worry, I only feel his regular smell, not the one of Dark Jak" I added as I saw the worried look on their faces.

"So where is he?" Tetra asked.

I sniffed in the air to figure out where the smell came from.

"Over there" I pointed and ran towards one of the small cells.

Jak

"That sounded like shooting" Shara said, "Did you hear it?"
"No, I've become temporarily deaf" I said, "Of course I heard it!"

"Do you think it could be the freedom league?" she asked hopefully.

"I doubt, they have too many things to do inside the city" I said, "They probably haven't even noticed I'm gone, either that or they're partying"
Shara looked at me with a surprised look.

"Why would they do that?" she asked.

"Haven't you heard?" I asked, "I'm not exactly on the top of the good guys-list".

"But you are a hero" Shara said, "And the heir of Mar. And by being one of his ancestors' means you have the light within right?"
I tried to laugh, but it sounded more like coughing.

"Had the light within you mean" I said, "Two years of dark eco changed that"

"How can you tell? Have you checked?" Shara asked.

"I just know! Okay? How do you know so much about it anyway?" I said, perhaps with a bit more anger than I wanted to, but then again, since my time in prison I always had a short temper.

"I had a project about it in school" Shara answered, "And there's no reason to be angry"

"Sorry. I can't help it" I said.

I wished for her own good she would leave me alone; my dark side was getting angered by this girl. It never liked it when people asked too many questions, and I had a feeling that the mentioning of the light within made it even angrier.

But no, this girl just can't shut up.

"Do you think Daxter has noticed you were missing?" she asked.

That's when I struck me; I was on my way back to him when I was kidnapped.

He certainly must have noticed I hadn't come to pick up Crocket yet, perhaps he had even called Keira, realizing I wasn't there.

And maybe he's happy about it a voice in the back of my head said; perhaps he's glad he no longer has to be afraid of you.

I just shook my head to make the voice silence.

"He's probably worried" I said, "He must have noticed."

He doesn't worry about you! The voice said; you're nothing but a monster!

Shara must have noticed I was looking unfocused.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

"Sure, I'm fine" I said, straightening up, "I just wished I could have some fresh air in here".

Suddenly the door opened.

"I can fix that" said the ottsel who had opened it.

"Daxter! How did you find me?" I asked in surprise.

"Well, I have to admit, I didn't do it alone" Daxter said, that's when Crocket decided to jump up into my face, quickly followed by a small bird and a chinbit who ran over to Shara.

"Tanya! Tetra! How I am glad to see you" Shara said as the animals jumped up onto her (the bird didn't jump, she was flying).

"Okay doggy, get of" I said and pushed the crocadog of me.

That's when he decided it would be a smart idea to great Shara as well, which surprised me.

"Funny, I've never seen him being so kind to anyone but me before" I said, "Unless they have a treat"

"I've always been good with animals, and your dog obviously sensed that" Shara said.

"That's great, and then you can watch him next time Jak decides to take Keira out on a date" Daxter said, "Come on you two, let's go before the guards get back"

Zakura: Daxter smells dark eco?

Miss.Ecofreak: um, yeah. Just a little thing I added to allow him to find Jak quicker, so they wouldn't have to check every room in the fortress. And it might seem a bit funny that he actually knows the taste of it too, but I figured, when he fell into the dark eco in Precursor legacy I didn't think it looked like he kept his mouth shut, he had his teeth together but that can't stop liquid from coming in, espesially not whith those teeth.

Zakura: He has rodent-teeth before he became a rodent

Miss.Ecofreak: right, that's one of the pointless things I've been wondering about in Jak and Daxter, the other thing I wonder about is why dark Jak is white while Light Jak is dark blue

Zakura: get a life. Why can't you think about more important stuff? Like should I stay indoors in the spring or go outside?

Miss.Ecofreak: I'll take you outside, my wires will be a lot safer then

Zakura: hey!

Miss.Ecofreak: review people, and if you of some reason know why Daxter had rodent-teeth when he's an elf you can tell me:)

Zakura: stupidhead.