The Dark Entity
There was a calm silence over the dessert, a creepy sort of silence. Keira was driving the Sand Shark with Jak in the passenger seat. Daxter was sitting on the right gun and Pecker was perched on the left. They drove all around the dessert, not finding any sign of the little girl, or even the Slam Dozer.
"Man, we've been looking for four hours. She's probably buried somewhere." Daxter said.
"Well, we've got to keep looking. She's got to be here somewhere." Jak said.
Keira suddenly stopped the car. She got out and knelt down by a palm tree with boulders around its base.
"Keira," Jak said, "what did you stop for?" He got out of the car, stood beside her and saw her tugging at what looked like a piece of cloth in the sand, the same cloth that made him loose control of the car.
He bent down and tried to help her pull it out of the sand but it wouldn't budge. "Let's dig it out." Keira said. Pecker and Daxter decided to help them.
After about an hour of digging, they found the small piece of cloth wasn't so small. It was about half the size of a bed sheet and it had multiple holes in it, probably from the storm. Through the holes, it looked as if it were covering something.
They were about to finish digging this thing they found out of the sand when two cars pulled up behind them. All four of them turned around to see Torn and Sig driving the Gila Stomper and Kleiver driving the Slam Dozer.
"Hey, you found it!" Jak said, surprised.
Jak and Keira stood up from their knelt positions.
"We found something in the sand, you wanna help up dig it out?" Keira asked as the three of them got out of the vehicles.
"You actually managed to find something, impressive." Torn said surprised.
"Cough it up mate. That's three hundred big ones." Kleiver said, looking at Torn. Torn Grumbled as he handed Kleiver the money. "Easiest money I've ever made." He said, running his finger through the money, laughing slightly.
"You guys bet on us finding something?" Keira asked in an irritated voice.
"Could we just dig this thing out of the ground before people start throwing punches?" Jak asked, gesturing towards the distinct item partly buried in the sand.
"Yeah, come on guys, I don't want to be out here all day." Sig said, his metal head armor glistening in the sun.
"Fine." Keira said, still irritated.
Torn, Sig and Kleiver walked over to the dark lump and started to help unbury it. After a couple of minutes, they found out what it was.
"This thing is…a person? How could someone have survived the storm?" Jak asked himself out loud.
"Well you survived the storm Jak." Daxter said.
"Yeah, but I didn't stay out here the entire time."
He was wearing that black leather Jak had found for his pants, jacket, hat, cape, shoes, shirt, and gloves. His cape had multiple holes in it, probably from the storm. He was hunched towards the rock, holding his cape against it with his feet and his left hand. With the other he was holding his hat on his head. Between him and the rock, he was covering something with his cape, like he was protecting it from the storm.
"Is he alive?" Daxter asked poking him.
"Well, we can find out." Jak said, kneeling down and rolling the person over onto his back. "He's unconscious."
"Is that the little girl you were supposed to be looking for Jak?" Pecker asked as he flew to the other unconscious being.
She was wearing an orange dress that was torn in several places from the storm. There was a white ribbon around her waist; it was tied in the back. She had brown hair that was in two braided ponytails.
"Maybe, let's go find out." Jak said, "We'd better take them to the hospital to make sure they're both okay."
They put the little girl on Jak's lap in the Sand Shark while Keira drove and the unconscious man they put in the passenger's seat of the Slam Dozer with Kleiver driving. Torn and Sig went into the Gila Stomper.
With everyone situated, they drove back to Spargus City.
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Jak, Daxter, Pecker, and Keira took the two unconscious people to the hospital while the others went to make repairs on the Slam Dozer and Jak's jet board.
At the hospital, the nurse had the four of them stay in the waiting room till after they did their examination on both of them and made sure they were healthy.
After thirty minutes of waiting, the nurse walked up to them. "Well, we checked them both. The little girl only has a few scratches but the other one has three broken ribs, a broken wing, a fr…"
"Wait, you just said he has a broken wing?" Jak questioned.
"Yes, we found he had sings after we took his coat off. You didn't know he had wings? I didn't, and I was a little surprised at first but, they kind of go with his creepy out look. Would you like to go see him and the girl?"
"Sure." Jak said, getting out of his seat. Keira stood up, Pecker took flight and Daxter jumped off his seat.
The nurse walked down a hall and to a closed door with the number thirty-two on it. She opened the door to reveal a room with a long sink on the right side of the room, cabinets above it. Beyond the sink was a door leading to another room. On the opposite side of the room was a window seat. On it's left was a red chair with his belongings on it, his big coat, his hat, shirt, gloves, and his shoes beside the chair. On the opposite wall of the sink were the beds in which the little girl and the man lay. The man had long black hair tied into a ponytail. He had long bangs that were held back by bandages around his head. He had fangs that stuck out of his mouth about half an inch, maybe longer. He had a silver chain necklace around his neck. His shirt seemed to be really warn down like its never been taken care of. He had scars all down his arms. He had long animal-like fingernails that went to a point at the tip of each. His skin was tanner than most people. He had wings that were each held up by two carts. They were long wings, each shimmering a dismal green color, the rest a demonic black.
"What the hell is that guy?" Daxter asked in utter shock and amazement.
The nurse turned to face them, "We were wondering that ourselves. We did some research and found out he was exiled from Haven City at the age of three and Exiled from here at the age of seven. No one has seen him for nineteen years."
"How has he survived this long by himself? Is there another city in the dessert?" Jak asked.
"Not that we know, but when he wakes up you can ask him." The nurse replied, "Are you guys going to stay in the room?"
"Sure, might as well wait for them to wake up." Keira said.
"Okay," the nurse said, "I must be getting back to the other patients." And with that, she left.
They were waiting on the room only ten minutes when the girl stirred. She opened her eyes, sat up and looked around the room.
"Oh, you're awake!" Keira exclaimed.
"Hu?" the girl blinked her eyes in confusement.
"We found you in the dessert under that guy's cape." Daxter told her after jumping on her bed.
The girl looked towards that man on the bed parallel to her own. "Well than tank you for finding us. He saved me from the sand."
"What's your name?" Jak asked.
"Oh! Sorry, it's Sandi." The little girl, now known as Sandi, said.
"Polite little girl." Keira said with a smile.
"How did you end up in the storm?" Pecker asked, perched on the railing of her bed.
"Some mean boys took my dolly and made her fly over the big wall. When I went to go look for her, I saw her sill flying in the sky. When I saved her, the wind trapped me an my dolly."
"How did you meet tall, dark and gruesome?" Daxter asked.
"When I was trapped, some one pick me up and carried me to a rock. I think that was him."
"Hay Sandi, you wanna go home and see your mom?" Jak asked her.
"Yea! Mommy!" She said, excited as can be. She got out of bed. Jak, Daxter, Keira, and Pecker escorted her to her house.
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"Mommy!" Sandi said, excited to see her. She ran over to her mom who welcomed her with open arms.
Her mother hugged her and broke out into tears, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you mister Jak so much for bringing my little Sandi back to me! Thank you!"
"Your welcome. Now Sandi, if those boys do that again, you go get a grownup to find your doll okay?" Jak said.
"Okay!" She said with a smile on her face.
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The creature stirred. Sniffing the air, smelling unfamiliar territory. He opened his eyes to find that he wasn't in the desert anymore. A rush of emotion came to him, fear, anger, excitement. He quickly sat up and was shot with pain, he immediately clutched his chest. When the pain had settled, he examined himself, seeing a white an alien-like substance wrapped around his chest, arms and his right wing.
He looked around the room trying to find his belongings. He finally found them lying on something red. He cautiously got out of bed, making sure they were safe to touch. He touched the red thing and it felt soft. Sense that was okay to touch and it wasn't going to hurt him, he decided to pick his shirt up and put it on. Next, his shoes, jacket, and cape. Last was his hat. He put his arm in the pocket of his jacket and a white rat with red eyes and a chain collar, sort of like his but smaller, climbed up onto his arm. He petted her to say hello and to make sure the storm hadn't hurt her. He put her back into his pocket. He noticed a hole in the wall. It was shiny and he wondered why. He looked at it and sniffed it; he put his hand on it and took it off. He tried again sense it didn't hurt him and wondered why his hand stopped. He tried again and he still couldn't touch the outside of the room he was in. He heard a noise outside of one of the walls. He looked towards the noise. Tap, tap, tap, the noise was getting louder.
He ducked down onto all fours behind the bed he had woken up in and folded his wings in towards himself, making his right wing sting with pain as he tried to hide from the somewhat familiar noise. The nurse walked in.
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"What are we going to do about the creepy guy back at the hospital?" Daxter asked.
"Well, we could go see if he's awake yet." Keira said.
"I'm going to go tell Onin what has happened so far." Pecker said. And he flew in the direction of the gates to the city.
"Okay Pecker, see ya later." Jak said.
The three of them walked to the hospital and went inside. They herd screaming and shouting, things crashing to the floor, the sound that Jak usually hears when he turns into Dark. Jak looked at Daxter then at Keira and they went to see what the ruckus was all about.
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Author's notes: I thank you all for reading and I thank Dax the metalhead for reviewing! I love reviews! Anyway, the story's getting interesting now isn't it? If anyone wants to see the creature than go to my web! Idrew a picture of him and put it up there. If you don't get him popped up on the screen and you see a comic instead, go to the scroll down thingy and click the one named 'creepy guy'. That's what I called him sense I don't exactically have a real name for him quite yet. I'm pondering on a few.
drunkduck .com/midnightdetectives
(take out the space between duck and .com, it wouldn't let me put the website up without it)
Comments and reviews please! I love comments and reviews! If you're thinking it is a stick figure with clothes, think again, it is quite more than that and it will give you a visual of how the people of Spargus and Haven reacted to him as a kid and currently, an adult. And yes, I am one of those few people who can't draw hands so please don't say anything about the hands. They're the only flaws in the drawing. I HATE DRAWING HANDS!...I'll shut up now.
Tigermon signing out.