A/N: School has started and I have had little time on the computer every weekend. This will be a short chapter because my dad has been bugging me to get off. I don't own anything from Jak2, but Roxie is my character and always mine! Please R&R!

Chapter 7

Roxie heard Daxter yell something to her and she looked up faintly. Her face was covered with sand and her eyes stung from it getting in her eyes. Daxter was about to get eaten by the Metal Head! She had to do something.

In a desperate attempt to save her friend, Roxie dug her hand into her pack on her belt and threw the dice at the Metal Head's butt. It exploded the creature's butt and sent him flying over Daxter with a helpless cry of pain. Roxie would have laughed at her aim, but this was no time for joking around.

Daxter got up quickly and watched as the Metal Head took its last breaths. It sucked in air fiercely and it looked over at Daxter. It then died and fell to the sand with a soft thump. Daxter took in a deep breath and let it slowly out. He turned around when he saw a flash of green from behind him.

Roxie got up slowly while breathing hard. She picked up her hat that had fallen off and put it on her head while glaring at the dead Metal Head. She got her dice back and this time put it in her jean pocket for a quick reach.

"That's it!" Daxter yelled loudly up to Roxie. "I already swore to never touch any precursor crap again! And I'm going to keep it. I'm not doing anymore searching for that Mod fellow today. We can find some other place!"

"Where is your spirit of adventure, Dax?" Roxie said with a sly smile. Daxter folded his arms in front of him and gave her a warning glare. He did not want to be messed with. A Metal Head almost ate him! He was not in a happy mood.

"I left it with Erol," Daxter said sharply and watched as Roxie walked over to the dead creature. "What the heck are you doing?!"

"I've heard that the Metal Head skulls are coming to be worth a ton," Roxie answered while looking over the Metal Head. She grabbed the smooth glowing rock in its forehead and gave it a hard tug. It popped out and she held it up to the sun peaking through the rain clouds above.

"So why did you not take the scull from the other one?" Daxter asked while putting his hands on his hips and watched her closely. He started to tap his foot impatiently.

"Because it was gross and bloody," Roxie answered while turning up her nose in disgust. "Would you like to go stick your paw into a Metal Head's forehead and pull a bloody skull out?"

It was Daxter's turn to look disgusted. "Don't even joke like that," he said and stuck his tongue out. "Now what are we going to do? I'm saying that I've been in enough adventure for one day. What do you think?"

Roxie thought about it and gave a heavy sigh of defeat. "Fine," she said while glancing around the clearing. "I change back to kid form any minute now. I would not want to be stuck out here being in my little form. Let's head back."

"I knew you would see it my way," Daxter said with a smile. Roxie rolled her eyes in response and started to follow Daxter out of the clearing. At the corner of her eye she saw something, though, and stopped. "Now what?" Daxter asked her.

Roxie did not answer. She slowly crept away and kept low to the ground. Her eyes were stuck onto something she saw in the water next to the clearing. Daxter watched her and tried to see what she kept her eyes on.

"Oh, c'mon, Roxie!" Daxter pleaded. "I know you're one of those people who laugh in the face of danger, but I'm not! No more adventure for today. We can come back tomorrow or something."

Roxie snapped her head back and glared at him. "Zip it!" she hissed and the royal confusion swept over Daxter's face, but he stayed quiet. She started to make her way to the edge of sand that went off into water. Daxter followed right behind her as he strained his eyes to see what she saw.

"I don't see anything," Daxter whispered to her as he looked down into the water.

"Me neither," Roxie answered. Daxter gave her an annoyed glare, but let her continue. "I saw a flash of light, though. Something has to be in the water."

"Let's pick options, shall we?" Daxter asked while folding his hands together and giving her a fake smile. "We have lurker sharks, things with big sharp teeth, lurker sharks, things with big sharp claws, and did I mention lurker sharks?"

"Don't be such a wimp," Roxie said with a smile. "I think it was a precursor shimmering light from the sun."

"So you're going to jump in the water to go get it?" Daxter asked sarcastically with a laugh. "You got to be crazy."

"I thought that I was already crazy?" Roxie asked her furry friend with a sly smile.

He looked up at her with wide eyes and said, "Oh, no! You're not leaving me out here on my own while you dive in there in search for some precursor that you 'thought' you saw!"

"Who said I'm leaving you here?" Roxie asked and grabbed him before he could protest. She dove into the water with a tiny splash and felt Daxter cling onto her shoulder for dear life. They both opened their eyes and saw the four precursors floating in the water.

Roxie came back up to the surface while Daxter gasped for some air. He had had no time to hold his breath because of Roxie pulling him in without warning. He let go of her shoulder and coughed some more before asking, "So are we going to get them?"

"You grab two and I'll grab two, got it?" she asked. "With four more we will have seven in all. It will be easy after this."

"Have it your way," Daxter said while rolling his eyes. "But we are heading home after this." She nodded and dove into the water again. Daxter was right behind her and looked very much like an otter while swimming swiftly through the water. He easily swam past her and grabbed two of the precursors. Roxie grabbed the other two and turned around in the water with Daxter.

Right in front of them was an under water Metal Head looking at them with evil eyes. (a/n: I know they don't live in the water at the pumping station, but this is two years before Jak comes into the picture. Things could have changed. And this is my story! I can do whatever I want!)

Terror flashed onto both faces as they stared up at the Metal Head hovering above them with its long tentacles floating lazily around it. Roxie and Daxter then split up quickly going opposite directions underwater. Roxie swam quickly to the surface and gasped for air. Daxter could stand a lot underwater and did not come up so quickly.

His fuzzy head broke the surface and he yelled, "It's coming for us!"

Something pulled on Roxie's leg and she felt some metal punch into her leg while smashing her bone into two. She screamed from the pain. "Give me your dice!" Daxter ordered and Roxie shoved him her blue dice. Quickly Daxter dove back underwater and made sure the dice touched his skin before dropping them down onto the Metal Head.

With a giant explosion the dice exploded and the grip on Roxie's leg released. A giant wave swept Roxie and Daxter to the shore and they both lay there on the sand coughing up water and trying to gain some air to their lungs.

Roxie winced and glowed green. Her giant cut vanished and she rested her head back on the soft sand. "That was a lot of fun," she said sarcastically and held up her two precursors and the ones Daxter had given to her while he had demanded for her dice that were now lost in the water. "Four precursors," she said with a smile.

"Yeah," Daxter said, "And for what price?! An arm or a leg?!"

"But we are still alive," Roxie countered. She saw her pirate hat wash up to shore and grabbed it while still laying down.

"When I get Jak free I'm heading home," Daxter said with a giant sigh, "Where guards don't patrol every corner, there are no such things called Metal Heads, and Lurkers are always evil!" Roxie just chuckled in response.

A/N: Sorry for short chapter. I hade little time on the computer. Please give a review!