A/N: Hi all. soooooo sorry I haven't updated in so long. I just have so much homework and 'responsibility' as my mom calls it now. I'm hoping next update will be sooner but just keep hoping and if you really want me to update real bad, just e-mail me and keep bugging me till I update. I'm sure that'll motivate me to write more. Well, ciao!

P.S. The part about the dust and Guards firing at eachother and X flying up was thought up by my sister. She helps me with my writer's block! Yay!

Chapter 8

Crimson Sun

Around two weeks after that incident everything was finally beginning to calm down for Jak and the others. Jak's injuries had mostly healed and there was another exciting race to enter in and win.

It was another bright and sunny day in Haven City with all the people in the city as busy as bees like usual. Jak was in Keira's shop by the racing track with Daxter and Keira discussing whether or not Jak should enter in the race.

"I'll be fine Keira." Jak said.

"Jak, you're still hurt. You can't race like this. Your arm still needs more time to heal." Keira said to him.

"Keira, I'll be fine, I promise." Jak said, trying to reassure her.

"Jak," Keira sighed, "you'd better be."

"Yeah, he'll be fine, I'll make sure of it!" Daxter said from below them.

Jak suddenly herd a muffled voice from the communicator located in his pocket. He pulled it out and pressed the talk button. "Say that again, I couldn't hear you."

"Jak," it was Torn, "come to HQ, something's going on that I think you might want to see."

Jak looked at Keira then at Daxter, he pushed the talk button again, "I'm on my way," He put the communicator back into his pocket, "come on Dax, let's go!" He pulled his newly repaired jet-board from the strap on his back, activated it, hoped on with Daxter and they headed for HQ as fast as the jet-board would take them.

Crimson Guards were running through the streets in hundreds, talking on their communicators, clearing people into their homes for protection and partially encircling a Dark Figure that was the city. The Guards were cautious and kept their distance of fifteen feet away.

There was only one gap in the circle and that was at the entrance to an alleyway, an alleyway that led to the HQ that Jak and Daxter was headed to. Torn, Ashlin, and Samos were watching the Crimson Guards and the Dark Figure in secret from the alleyway.

All the Crimson Guards stood armed and ready. They were silently watching, waiting for the Dark Figure to do something. But it only stood there with its back to the alleyway so Torn, Ashlin, and Samos could not identify it.

Jak and Daxter finally reached the scene.

"Jak, how are we gunna pass all those Guards? We can't fight them, there's too many." Daxter said.

Jak stopped the jet-board and returned it to the strap. He looked at the crowed of Crimson Guards then to the buildings next to him. "Hey Dax, have you ever been roof hoping before?"

"No, why do you ask?" was Daxter's response.

"Well, you're going to now." Jak jumped onto a hover car with Daxter on his shoulder, started it up, raised it to the top hovering level and jumped onto a windowsill. They climbed the rest of the way up the building.

Once they were on the roof of the building they could see there was a rather thick wall of Crimson Guards between where they had stood on the ground and where the giant thirty-foot circle started.

Daxter jumped off Jak and pointed out the obvious, "That's a LOT of Crimson Guards!"

"Yes it is." Jak half-said to Daxter because of something small and white that had caught his attention. It was hiding by next to the entrance to the HQ, "What's that?"

"What's what?" said Daxter; oblivious his friend was looking the opposite direction, "That person the Guards are surrounding?"

"No, not that," Jak started to climb down the building to enter the alleyway, "I see something down here."

Daxter walked to where Jak was climbing down, "Uh, Jak, that would be the HQ." Daxter saw his friend wasn't stopping so he decided to go too.

When they reached the bottom, they found Torn, Ashlin, and Samos hiding from the Crimson Guards behind the building and watching what was going on.

"What's going on?" Jak asked, forgetting about whatever it was he was.

"I haven't the slightest idea." Torn said, "It's been in the city for hours now and everyone's running from it. We have no clue why. The people decided to call the Crimson Guards for a creature that was disturbing the peace."

"I've been watching it go through the city. It looks like it's searching for something." Ashlin said, hoping the information would help.

"So what's this guy's story?" one of the Crimson Guards asked another while waiting for orders from his commander.

"They say twenty-four years ago it almost leveled the entire city." Another Guard responded.

"Really? I mean, come on, how could one person level an entire city?"

"It just did. This thing was being bullied by some kids and they hurt him pretty bad."

"Wait, some kids? How can some kids bully that guy? He looks like an even more bad-ass version of Van Helsing!"

"Yeah, he was a kid; twenty-four years ago. I was a kid, twenty-four years ago. You weren't even born twenty-four years ago!"

"Ha ha, very funny just continue with the story."

"Fine, spoiled sport. When he was injured, he lost a lot of blood then passed out for two seconds, woke up, transformed into a giant dragon and went rampaging through the city destroying everything and everyone in site. More than two million dollars in damages were done. More than a thousand people were killed and another thousand were badly injured."

"How can they tell this is the same person?"

"First of all is the brand mark on the left side of his neck. Everyone who is permanently exiled has that mark branded onto their neck."

"Than how come they didn't brand that eco-freak?"

"Because he was banished, not exiled. There is a difference. The other way they can tell is the necklace he has on. That kid had the same necklace."

"I wonder if they made those kids pay for the damages since they made him transform."

Both the Guards started laughing. The commander signaled for everyone to move in slowly and cautiously.

"Eeek! Jak, it's that stupid rodent that bit me!" Daxter raised his right leg to squish her.

"Dax wait!" Jak ran to Daxter who was only standing seven feet away and picked up the rodent, "If this is the rodent..." she curled her self up into a ball, ruffled her fur then started to clean her face and whiskers, "...than, could he be...?" Jak looked at the Dark Figure in the middle of the shrinking circle.

The question was left unfinished.

The Dark Figure lifted wings out from under a black trench coat, blowing a slight gust of wind to either side of him and startled a Guard.

"Be who?" Ashlin asked-Ashlin was never told of what had occurred after they went back into the dessert to search for the missing girl.

The startled Guard was frightened and started shooting the Dark Figure as it stood there.

"D." Samos said and looked at Jak.

That one shot fired cased other Guards to be confused and join firing at the Figure, which unfortunately caused a chain reaction.

"X." Daxter said and looked at Jak.

"Stop! Stop firing! I did not give the signal!" The commander was frantically trying to get them to stop but they wouldn't.

"Drakenok." Torn said and looked at Jak. -Torn was informed by Cleiver of what happened afterward and at the cave.

Because of all the commotion going on around the Dark Figure and all the gunshots being fired, a thick cloud of dust formed that was growing larger and thicker from smoking guns, which were overheating.

"Project Exodus." Jak said looking at the commotion and confusion in the street.

The five of them-now out of hiding-watched the Guards fire at something they could no longer see. They fired into the dust cloud hoping to his their target and not a fellow Crimson Guard on the opposite side of the circle witch was exactically what they were doing.

"He's up there!" Samos said, pointing into the sky.

The Dark Figure had burst out of the dust cloud and was flying high into the sky and made himself a silhouette in the sun.

A/N:I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouche! scaramouche! will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me! Galileo! (You say Galileo)

I'm sorry, I had that song stuck in my head and wanted to see if anyone would respond ;P

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