Zakura: Now we've got the main characters out of the cell, how can things go wrong any more?

Miss.Ecofreak: oh trust me, things can definitely go wrong. Even if the guards die a slow and painful death, things can still go bad... as long as not all the guards die. Chapter title here is the opposite of the title for the story.

Zakura: I've noticed

Miss.Ecofreak: that's amazing seeing you're a rabbit and can't read

Answer to JaksgirlKenya: oh yeah, that was the main reason aI wrote this story, I can't wait to see Jak (or Daxter)'s reaction!

Zakura: you can't wait? you're the authour!

Miss.Ecofreak: but I haven't written the last chapter yet, all I have written is this one and the next in norwegian, read, enjoy/hate and review.

CHAPTER 6

DARKNESS WITHIN

Jak

"Now all we have to do is get out of here without receiving to many fatal injuries" Daxter whispered as we sneaked out of the cell.

"If only I had my morph gun" I said.

"No problem, it's over there" Tanya said lazily, pointing her beak towards the morph gun and the jetboard that was standing by the wall.

"These guys are really bad at hiding things" Daxter said.

"Or maybe they just didn't expect us to escape" Shara said, "I don't like this"

"And you will definitely hate this" a new voice said.

At least ten guards were standing in front of us, blocking our way, all with their guns pointing at us.

The guard standing closest to us smirked and pointed the gun at the bird, Tanya, who was sitting at Shara's ear.

"You probably think it was a smart idea to fly at me like that did you?" he said, "That really hurt!"
"Are you a Krimson guard or something? Cause if you are I see why the baron lost the war" Tanya said, "If all his guards are as weak as you I mean, beaten by a small bird"

"Shut up" the man snapped, "Get back into the cell all of you before I shot your heads of".

I snarled at him; don't tell me what to do the voice in my head whispered.

"And what if we don't want to go inside?" Daxter asked, "In fact, this place stinks!"
"I've always heard about your little pet Ecofreak, does he talk all the time?" the guard said, "Because you better tell him to shut up before I make him"

Daxter decided it might be a smart idea to stop talking, and ran onto my shoulder.

"Don't you dare" I said.

"Oh, afraid of me hurting your friend eyh?" the guard asked, "What are you going to do about it? You're unarmed"

I'll show you unarmed!

I wasn't even aware that I had transformed until the guard lay dead before me, his neck had four deep scars from my claws.

But I didn't care, I proceeded towards another guard.

The guard tried to shoot me in defense but I hardly felt the bullet, I ripped the gun out of his hand and punched him in the chest.

I could hear a girl screaming, Shara had obviously been scared of the way I killed those guards but I was unable to stop it.

The rest of the guards tried to run away and I tried to follow.

I grabbed one in the foot and almost tore it of before I fell to the ground.

I turned around to see who had stopped be, it was Shara, and she was holding my feet so I couldn't get up.

"Stop it please!" she cried.

Stop now? Why should I? I thought these guards tried to kill me; they're on the baron's side!

"That's okay Jak, I think you've scared them enough" Daxter said, even he sounded a bit shaken.

All I wanted was to tear them all apart, kill all krimson guards and everyone who ever stood on the baron's side.

This girl tried to stop me, her and the little ottsel.

Don't listen to them someone whispered, kill them all if you have to!

Kill them? Kill the girl who's helped me in the cell? Or the bird and the chinbit by her side? Kill Daxter? No way.

My horns quickly disappeared and my claws shrunk down to normal fingernails again.

I felt dizzy as my dark side let go of control.

As my skin regained its normal color Shara quickly let go of my feet and backed of.

"Er..." even Daxter didn't know what do say in this situation.

"Are you alright? Both of you?" Tanya asked.

"I-I'm fine" Shara said, "Jak?"

"It's okay, I'm getting used to it" I said, "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you"

"I know" Shara said, but she didn't look at me, I could see she was still crying.

"Come on, let's get out of here while the guards are still hiding" Daxter said.

We got out of the fortress without any problems, but as we got outside the walls, the passage between the mountains that Daxter and the others used to get here had been blocked.

"Great! The guards must have realized what way we came from and caused and avalanche" Daxter said, "Now we have to go around the mountains, into the wasteland-desert", he shuddered, "I hoped I never would have to go there"

"The wasteland desert. Not good" Tanya said and looked away.

"What's the matter?" Daxter asked, "I know it's hot and dangerous and all but you look like you just lost your best friend"

"Shut up Daxter, you wouldn't understand if you had it tattooed on your skull" Tetra snapped.

"What's wrong with Tanya?" I asked.

"She lost a good friend back in the desert" Shara answered, still not looking at me, "He had been exiled".

"Creepy, that's practically a death sentence" Daxter said, "So that's why the brow-haired kid isn't with you"

"His name was not brown-haired kid! It was Cornelius!" Tanya said, "And you shouldn't talk bad about him, if it weren't for him you would never have saved your precious friend here!"

"Okay drop it both of you" I said, "There is no reason to fight"

"Oh, that wasn't a sentence I would have expected from you" Tetra said, "After the way you slaughtered all those guards".

I'll show you fighting you damn little…

"Don't say that, it's not his fault" Daxter said.

"So can we go now or what?" Tanya asked, "I'm not getting any younger here"

The desert wasn't far away from the fortress; luckily we didn't have to go far into the sand dunes as we followed the mountainside to get back to Haven City.

"I'm tired" Daxter said after a while, a very silly thing to say seeing he was on my shoulder, "Can we take a break?"
"Do you want to get past this desert or not?" Tanya asked.

"It's not wise to go through the desert on mid-day, that's what my mother used to say" Daxter said.

I had to laugh, "Why would she say that? You lived by the ocean"

"Probably she said it in case of situations like this" Daxter answered, "She noticed I was hanging a lot around you and you attract trouble like Crocket attracts fleas"

Crocket barked at the mentioning of his name, though he didn't seem to know what we were really talking about.

"There's an oasis over there, perhaps we can camp there for the day" Shara said.

We got to the oasis and Daxter jumped up on a mossy rock and fell asleep instantly.

"Wow, he really was tired" Tetra said, she herself climbed up in a three.

"Chinbits prefer either threes or borrows to sleep in" she explained, "You can sleep on the ground while Tanya and I sleep up here, we can look out for trouble as well".

"Great, sleeping outside has always been my dream" Tanya said sarcastic, "Right now I almost wished I had a cardboard box"

"What's the problem? It hardly even rains in the desert!" Tetra said.

"Hardly, but it does" Tanya said, "I prefer to be prepared, but if this is all we got I guess I have to deal with the shelter from these threes"

"I could have fallen asleep on a rock after today" Shara said and laid down in the grass, "Well, sweet dreams"

She didn't seem to have much problems sleeping; either that or she was just pretending to sleep.

I certainly didn't find it easy to sleep.

One thing was that I was far away from anything called civilization; the heat didn't bother me much seeing the threes provided shade, but I couldn't stop thinking about the guards that I had killed.

Those things rarely bothered me before, they were the henchmen of baron Praxis, the man responsible for turning me into the ecofreak I am today.

But the look on Shara's face after seeing Dark Jak…

And I couldn't shake of the feeling that I had known her, somehow long ago.

How could that be? I couldn't have met her in Sandover, seeing it had been destroyed over two hundred years ago.

I knew I had lived in Haven City before going back in time, but if no one had told me I never would have known, I didn't remember anything from that time, except the light from the rift ring as I was sent back to the village that stood where Haven City is now.

Somehow, I still managed to fall asleep, but I did not have sweet dreams.

Miss.Ecofreak: and now you have to wait for the next update to see what Jak is dreaming (makes funny pose) because I'm bad!

Zakura: stop copying Lizzie Mcquire

Miss.Ecofreak: quiz time! In the last chapter (chapter 5) Shara talked about the light within and Jak said it was gone, how many of you think the light within is gone or is it still there only Jak hadn't noticed?

If you answer corrrectly you will win... nothing, But I'll mention your pen-name in the next chapter. If you answer wrong you will get... definitely nothing, but if you have a question I'll answer it in the next chapter (as long as it isn't a spoiler

Jak: I think it's gone!

Miss.Ecofreak: I know you do Jak, but I was asking the readers

Jak: I can read

Miss.Ecofreak: I don't care, get lost.

Jak: (gets lost)

Miss.Ecofreak: just hope he finds his way back before the next chapter, review folks (goes to get Jak back and apologize)