A/N: I'm changing the ending of this story so it will not be a tragedy. Anyways, more about the little girl will come in this chapter and others. On with the chapter! I don't own anything of Jak2! Naughty Dog does! So don't sue me! Please R&R.
Chapter 2
Daxter walked next to the little girl down the street of the city. He still could not figure out where he was. The girl would not talk to him and he had to follow her wherever because that was the only way to get food that day. He did not mind that much. Jak was mute for years and Daxter was pretty much his voice most of the time.
"You need to lighten up a bit," Daxter said. It was one of the first times talking to the little girl. He was determined to break the ice. "Go to the beach or something and get popular." He then went on about how her life should go. The girl just kept walking with a tiny smile on her face.
Daxter stole an elf fruit from a stand and opened his mouth to bight into it, but someone poked his shoulder. He looked over to see the little girl looking sternly at him. Daxter knew the glare in her eyes was disapproving. She did not like it that he stole from the stand.
Daxter was just about to be his annoying self and just eat the fruit, but then the little girl did the puppy-dog-pout. It killed him.
"Oh don't do that to me," he whined. He tried to look away, but she was just too cute. He gave a sigh and slowly nodded. "Okay, have it your way! Have money, kid?"
The look then said do-I-look-like-a-piggybank-to-you? She then rolled her eyes while shoving her hand into a pocket of her pants. She had on a deep red shirt and torn jean cargo pants. After fishing for a few seconds she pulled out some money.
"You're sweet, kid," Daxter said while tossing the money to the lady in the stand. The girl just kept walking. He had to run to catch up with her. She was just a little taller than he was, so she was faster a little.
"So what does your dad do for work?" Daxter asked while trying to get the girl to talk. He knew she could talk, she just did not want too. He looked over to her and she looked straight ahead.
"Okay, kid," Daxter said while looking for something else to ask. "Got any really good friends?"
The girl sniffed and looked over to him with her big green eyes. He saw her nod and he knew he was getting somewhere with the girl. She then played out how many she had with her fingers. She only held up one. His heart went out to the little cuteness next to him.
"One?" he asked while taking a bight from his fruit. "You'll get popular in a few years. Especially with that cute face you have now."
Before he could say anything else the girl grabbed him by the shoulder and put her hand on his forehead. Daxter had no idea what she was doing and tried to get away from the grip. There was a sharp pain and he winced, but when closing his eyes he saw a picture.
The picture was of a little kid like the girl. He had big blue eyes kind of like Jak's. Daxter noticed this right away and notice the kid looked similar to his friend too. Did this girl know about Jak?
The little girl pulled her hand away from his forehead and the picture vanished. Daxter opened his eyes and he looked stunned over to the little girl. She messed with her long elf ears and glanced up at Daxter.
"H...how did you do that?" he asked in disbelieve. "That kid looked just like Jak!"
A puzzled expression swept across the girl's face as she cocked her head to the side. He had to explain what he meant. "I have a friend here," he said. "Him and I landed here after teleporting. Those big guys in red carried him off. I searched for him, but before I could go very far your dad scoped me up in his pack by mistake."
The girl still looked confused, but still nodded like she knew everything what Daxter had said. She then motioned her hands that she wanted to show him some other vision and he let her put her hand back on his forehead. He closed his eyes and felt the shock of pain come for a few seconds.
vision
The little girl was walking down her hall of her school she used to go to. The little kid that looked like a mini Jak was beside her. They were both younger than what Daxter saw.
The only thing that was real different was that the little girl was talking calmly. The other little kid nodded and they both giggled over something. Daxter could not hear anything, but knew she was talking because he saw her mouth move.
Suddenly, the two cute little kids stiffened and looked ahead to where Daxter could not see. Then he saw gunshots from the direction they were looking to. Krimson Guards started coming out of nowhere trying to arrest the girl's friend. By mistake they fired at the girl's head and she slummed to the floor with blood coming out of her forehead.
The vision started to get fuzzy now. It was like the girl was having a real tough time getting it out. What Daxter could make out was that someone saved the friend, but the school got burnt down. The little girl's dad was there with the rescue party and saved his daughter.
end of vision
Daxter opened his eyes one more time. This was the most weirdest day in his whole life. Exept that day he fell into that pool of dark eco and came out with his fuzzy self. They started to walk again and it was silent for a few seconds. Daxter had to say something to cheer the poor girl up. Jak liked it when he would say something to break a silence.
"Never talked since?" Daxter asked the girl. She nodded and Daxter understood her. He was still baffled about the little kid looking like Jak. He threw the idea out of his head and kept walking while shoving mouthfuls of fruit into his tiny mouth. If he was not talking he was either eating or sleeping.
"So, kid," Daxter said with more cheerful voice. If you could say his annoying voice could be real cheerful. "Got a name?"
The girl put her fingers into a V shape and put it up to Daxter's forehead again. In his head he heard the name Roxie. This girl was strange or what? Maybe the shot in the head made her not talk but be able to give visions to people. One word came to Daxter's mind after thinking of this. Lucky. She was lucky to still be alive.
"I got to ask you, kid," Daxter said and pretended to not see the mean glare from the girl. She did not like him calling her kid. "Did you ever see your friend afterwards?" She shook her head no as they kept walking.
"Too bad," Daxter said. "You two would make a real cute couple. You were both so cute." He glanced over to her and she hid a smile behind her hand. Roxie liked the little fuzz-ball. He was funny and only stayed on one topic for two seconds.
"We got to find that kid!" Baron Praxis yelled to Erol with his stern voice echoing around the main chamber of the palace. "He got away from us last time in his school. The Underground will never roll him in another school now."
"That was two years ago, sir!" Erol said while standing just a few feet away from the Baron. He crossed his arms in front of him with his familiar snarl on his face. He was getting tiered of looking for the kid.
"I don't care!" the Baron shouted and saw that Erol was not happy with himself for talking back. "The kid had a friend in the school. Find her and capture her. Make her tell us where the Underground is and the kid. Her dad is working with the Underground, but he just barely got away from us yesterday."
"I'll find her, sir," Erol said with determination in his hard brown eyes. While walking out of the room he held a communicator to his mouth and barked out, "Get me five Krimson Guards right now! We are heading to the slums."
"Catch!" Daxter yelled to the Roxie while throwing a lemon-like fruit from a stand as if it was a ball. Roxie caught it with both of her hands and looked up at Daxter confused. "Just throw it back," he called to her. "It is a game."
Roxie did a one-shoulder shrug and threw it back to her new fuzzy friend. It did not go very far in the air and Daxter had to come closer to catch it. "You throw like a girl!" he yelled to her. Her glare said to him maybe-it-is-because-I-am-a-girl.
He threw the fruit back to her and she caught it this time with one hand. She then aimed her fruit to Daxter and threw it as hard as she could. It was a perfect throw but it never made it into Daxter's hands. The thing exploded in his face and the juice from it landed on all over him.
Daxter spit the juice out of his mouth and glared around to see what happened while yelling out to whomever, "I paid for the fruit!"
Roxie ran up to Daxter and hid behind him while pointing ahead. He looked ahead and saw five Krimson Guards heading their way with that same evil guy who took away Jak leading them. He was the one who had shot his gun at the fruit to blow it up.
"What do they want?" Daxter asked Roxie and hoped she would answer him. She just sighed while rolling her eyes. She then quickly pressed the two fingers in a V onto his forehead.
"Who cares!" the voice said in Daxter's head. "That Erol guy is crazy and I don't want to stick around to see what he wants with us. Let's get out of here!"
"You go ahead," Daxter said while picking up an elf-fruit from one of the stands. "I'm giving the evil dude a piece of my mind."
Roxie rolled her eyes and Daxter knew it meant whatever. After being with Jak for a long time he could tell by rolling of eyes what he meant. She then took off down the street while winking to him. She was getting stranger every second Daxter was around her.
"There she is!" one of the Krimson Guards yelled and pointed to Roxie running down the street. It was not that crowded because it was around noon or so. Daxter hid behind a fruit stand and grabbed another fruit to arm himself with something.
Erol came by and Daxter jumped up while throwing his fruit at him. It was perfect aim and smashed onto the side of his face. The juice covered his face and it made Daxter laugh. "Eat fruit, freak!" Daxter yelled while still throwing fruit at Erol.
The guy got smart and started to shoot at the stand. Daxter shielded himself with his arms as fruit flew all over the street of the slums. "Die, you giant rat!" Erol yelled while firing again at Daxter with hatred in his eyes.
The animal dodged the shoot and stuck out his tongue at Erol and made a funny face to him while saying, "You missed me!"
"Go get the girl!" Erol yelled to his Krimson Guards. They ran off while Erol started to shoot wildly at the animal on the ground. "Stay still!" he shouted in frustration.
Daxter quickly dodged another shoot while saying, "What's the matter? Can't shoot a moving target?" The little fuzz-ball was having fun. He jumped around Erol like some acrobat and ran across his foot once. Erol was stupid and frustrated enough to shoot down.
Erol shot his foot by mistake and yelled in pain and hatred for the small talking animal running around. "I swear I'll kill you for that!" he said to Daxter while aiming at him again.
Daxter would have dodged easily, but another Krimson Guard fired at him too. Daxter dodged this one and had no time to get out of the way of Erol's gun. The guy aimed smartly and pulled the trigger. Only by God there was a clicking sound and no laser.
"You do not want to tick me off!" a girl's voice yelled loudly as Daxter heard some bones being crushed from around the corner. Erol came at Daxter and was planning on killing him whatever way possible.
"Mess with him and you're dead!" a girl said coldly while coming from behind the corner and punching Erol in the chin perfectly. The girl had long black hair and burning green eyes that glowed in the light of the battle. She was around 15 and wore a tight red shirt and torn jeans. She had on a seat of gloves. One was long and came up to her elbow and the other was fingerless. (a/n: when I say how old they are it means how they look for human years. I'm just saying that the elves live longer than humans and always look younger. So she could be really around 18 or so in elf years.)
"You've messed with the wrong person, babe," Erol spat out while whipping some blood away from his lip and getting up from the ground because of the blow. He jammed some more ammo in his pistol and fired at her. She quickly dodged the lasers in swift movements.
"Yeah," she said while knocking the pistol out of Erol's hands. "Like that is ever going to help you." She then jumped into the air and swung her leg around in a roundhouse kick. It was perfectly executed and her foot collided with Erol's ear.
It took the guy to the ground. He took out his communicator and yelled into it, "Fall back! We will get bigger numbers and come back later." A Krimson Guard zoomer came up to Erol and he jumped on while yelling down to the girl, "I'll be back for that girl. And I'll kill you and that rat!" Then the zoomer took off and Daxter and the girl were left alone in silence.
"Whoa!" Daxter whooped with excitement. "That was great! You kicked his butt!" He smiled up to the girl and saw that she looked very much like Roxie.
She looked down with a sly smile and nodded. She was breathing real hard and looked real tiered. "I guess it was pretty good. You okay?"
"Yeah," Daxter said while giving her a high five. "Thanks for saving my tail back there. What is your name again?" This teen was hot. He for sure wanted to hook up with her.
"Daxter?" she questioned. "It's me! Roxie!"
First there was confusion. Then panic. "ROXIE?!" he yelled while jumping in the air and waving his arms around.
A/N: Okay, real surprise ending and long chapter. More to come and explaining will come in next chapter too. I was not too sure on how to spell Krimson Guards here. Everyone said it begun with a C but I read a fan fiction that it started with a K. Help me out here, please. Give a review if you liked it! Thanks!
