Kleiver smirked and stood next to the vehicle, watching Melina start the engine. She revved it up a little, before she set on her goggles. She gave the thumbs-up sign before she took off, out of the hangar. Melina raced across the wasteland, aiming her machine guns up a little, hoping that was how high she needed it to take down the Wastelander Metal Heads. The ground began to rumble and she looked out her rear-view mirror, her jaw dropping as she picked up speed. She whipped her buggie around, head on against the Metal Head. It roared, it's Tyrannosaurus- Rex like legs hitting the ground at full speed. It shot some dark eco out of the canon on it's rugged back, the eco landing right in front of her dune buggie.
The Metal Head roared, swinging its head side- to- side, trying to hit the buggie to throw it off track. Melina kept fireing, eventually bringing the large beast down. It fell with a crash. Melina stopped in front of her prize, grinning wildly from her mission. A huge shockwave- like rumble came in from behind her. Then from the right. And the left. Melina panicked, trying to turn her vehicle around so she could escape. The Metal heads came in, blocking her in and slung her buggie, what seemed like half way across the wasteland. She landed with a thud, her forehead bleeding just a little. The Metal Heads growled, still not satisfied with what they had done. They came in at her, until a couple of bullets were shot. Melina looked up, seeing another buggie appear over the hills.
Who ever it was inside the vehicle fended off the beasts, taking them all down at once. Melina struggled to get out, trying to lift the vehicle off of her, as if she were strong enough to do it. The man stepped out of his dune buggie and started towards her's. She struggled to get out, grunting as she pulled. She began to feel slightly dizzy from the crash, but had enough consciousness to speak.
The man looked over her, his goggles and bandana covering his face. He reached down and pulled the buggie off of her, pulling Melina off the ground. She stumbled around a bit, holding her head, blood seeping through her hands. The blood hit the arid ground, staining it. She looked back, and the man was gone.
'Who the hell was that? And why did he help me to begin with?' she thought quietly. Melina walked over to her prize and contacted Kleiver with her walkie talkie, "Good news, Kleiver. The prize was won, and I'm headin' back!"
"Aye, mate! Meet ya at the gates. I've got some more missions for ya, and Damas wants to talk to ya."
Melina hopped into her buggie and took off, going back to the hangar, where she was greeted by both Damas and Kleiver. She pushed her goggles onto the top of her head and looked at Damas, who was giving a short smile.
"Melina," Damas started, "You have shown great skill in combat, but in order to become a citizen in this city, you must show courage, and most of all: Survival."
"I understand my liege." Melina said, nodding.
Damas looked at her, "Melina, I'd like you to fight in the arena tonight. The city of Spargus needs great and powerful fighters like you. Especially in times like this."
Melina nodded and then watched as Damas walked away, and out the doors. She looked back at Kleiver who was currently talking to a man, whom she hadn't seen yet.
'This must be the new kid. I'm surprised that Damas had kept him here in Spargus…' Melina thought, rubbing her temples. She walked over to Kleiver, and watched as the boy took off.
'Somehow, he seems a little familiar…'
Melina yet again, won another match in the arena and got a brand new gun upgrade, and another metal. Melina went back to her small home and layed down, exhausted from the battle. Melina layed there, trying to think as hard as she could. She moved her hand to her neck, where a small black chocker was wrapped around.
'Why do I even have this thing? Where did I even come from? What and who am I?' she thought, millions of questions of the same genre swarming her mind. She fell asleep shortly thereafter.
The room was pitch black, the only lights on were those of large computers. There lay a young girl of 15, on top of an experimentation table. "Project NMD-P, serial number 23," a young woman read off to the girl's captor, Baron Aksel. The older brother of Baron Praxis.. "Eco flux online," the same voice said, reading everything out. A few men in lab coats approached her like she were some rabid creature and forced two IVs into the veins of her wrists. "Subject restrained. Begin Eco transfer." She then pressed the Execute Command button.
The machine above her crackled for only a very brief moment before dark purple lightening shot out, into the girl. Immediately, she was so cold, she was in physical pain. It burned all through her body, through her arms, her legs, all throughout her veins. Her own blood pounded in her ears and it drowned out all other sounds. In the background, she could hear someone screaming. It took her only a moment to realize that the person screaming was herself. All she could see was that bastard Aksel and only one thought had begun to burn itself into her brain, deeper and darker, more vehement and furious than ever before-
Revenge.
She looked at Aksel, eyes blazing like coal embers waiting to be stirred. Aksel grinned back at her, eyes lit up with a sadistic glee.
Azuka-chan: Hey there guys! How'd ya like the chapter? I know, it's kinda hard to read this, but this is my first REAL fanfic, and I shall explain more in the next chappie! What is her connection with Baron Praxis? Who is Baron Aksel? Wait for teh next chapter to find out!
DISCLAIMER: Jak, Daxter, and all of those other characters belong to Naughty Dog!
Melina, and Baron Aksel belong to me! Steal, and you shall die!