THEMAKEROFLIGHT: this is my first fanfic so go easy on the flames, OK?

THE BATTLE OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT

chapter 1:the sighting

Jak and Keira trudged through the mesh of human and metal-head corpses, they were both appalled by the sheer scale of the destruction. It was four hours after the final leg of the battle had ended with the destruction of the warp gates from the Hora Dailan (A/N the hora Dailan is the metal head land, it means, horror land in precurian), but there were still a few stray metal-heads that had survived the short purging, which was why Jak had been sent out to kill them, naturally Keira had wanted to come along, the two had of course been inseperable for the last few weeks. They were in the city centre of Shassa city, a place that had never seen the wrath of the metal-heads, and they were unprepared, if haven hadn't sent troops to aid their ally, no one would have been spared. And they were just about to head back before spotting a small group of human survivors under a canopy of rubble.

"Help", they cried,"We're over here, please help us, the dark creatures killed them, they killed them all, we're the last ones left.

jak, not being one to let innocents die, leapt into action, the building was coming down fast, it'd soon crush the group.

"Keira, radio Torn that we've got some refugees for Haven coming through, and we need lifting equipment," bellowed jak through his comm unit,"And by the sound of that howl, we may have potential MH units on the way, SHIT HERE THEY COME."

He could see the dark animals moving in the darkness, they could smell the blood of the survivors on the wind, and they were hungry. They moved around the unstable building containing the people, slowly circling it as if the knew Jak would never make it in time, one of them, a wolf metal-head, moved in towards the entrance with almost intentional casualness, and received a peacemaker blast up the backside from Jak's morph gun as a reward, some of the large four legged ones were beginning to figure out that the building could give up the ghost at any moment, and were starting to poke around at the supports of the upper rooms. Jak sprinted the last few metres before whipping out the needle lazer and letting rip, he caught the first few creatures in mid-air as the y leapt at him, the small cluster of scorpion metal-heads were blasted apart by the arc weilder, and as he pounced on the four legged ones, changing to dark Jak in the air, he caught something out of the corner of his eye, a strange light coming from the north, the same direction as Haven, he ignored it as he hit the first one though, the dark lightning spreading over its body as Dark injected his laws into the hard armour, he destroyed one after another in this same way in the space of about ten seconds, when he slammed into the last one, the entire bottom half was simply ripped away from the body, in the things extreme pain, some chemical reaction inside its body set off the gun on its arm, the pellets of darkness spreading in a wide arc across the city street, and through some combination of unfortunate circumstances, one of them clipped the support cable of one of the pillars holding up the upper floors, sending ten tonnes of steel and rock tumbling down of the terrified men and women, their screams were lost to all but dead ears, there was nothing anyone could do.

It was at that moment that Keira arrived with a transport ship and troops, just in time to see a lone hand pocking out of the pile, it stuggled for a second, then went limp, she nearly broke down there and then, but she told herself, "No, i musn't cry now, if people see a potential queen of Haven despairing they may lose hope". So she composed herself and approached Jak warily, giving him time to revert back to his human form, she knew he could sometimes not control his darker side when he was angry, and he was always angry when his people died , he always blamed himself when he couldn't save people, he thought it was his fault.

"What happened Jak," said Keira softly,"I thought the building was stable for the moment."

"It was, metal-heads got here first, I could have saved them, but I was too slow, those bastards in armour shot the pillars out, the whole top floor fell on them...I couldn't even save one, not even one."

Keira sighed exasperatedly, "Come on, lets go home, we need to figure out how they got here, and how they managed to get warp gates over the Cataenas ocean without us picking up their fliers on radar."

The two climbed back into the transport and gave the order to take off, the ships on-board computer flashed green, a mechanical female voice said, "Flight plan confirmed, destination: Freedom Tower, Haven city, passengers: King Jak Mar of Haven city, Keira Hagai of Haven city,Governer Ashelin Praxis of Haven city, pilot rosh of Haven city, and co-pilot Barnen of Haven city."

Ashelin? You in there!" Called Jak into the cockpit.

"Yeah Jak, i was called in by Commander Kun to escort you, he happened to be looking at the moniters in Shassa central when he saw a large flare up of dark eco around the place where you went looking, he figured it was you turning Dark, so he sent me to make sure you didn't need support."

"Never misses a trick that one," said Keira amusedly, " He'll go far that one."

Ashelin climbed through past the co-pilot into the passenger area in order to talk to the two directly, "Yeah, he's already up for promotion onto the high council, I've a feeling he'll turn it down though, he likes action too much to give it up for nothing but a comfy chair and a safe position to watch people die from."

"At least this one's better than the last lot that were placed in charge, now that they're being chosen by someone COMPETENT." Invoiced Jak with a glare at the Governer.

"Well how was I to know that six of them were Praxis loyalists, they seemed level enough in the interviews," She said indignantly, "And besides, it all turned out for the best in the end, what we should be discussing is what the hell happened out there, first Keira turns up at the base saying something about survivors and metal-heads, then when we get there, all we see is a pile of rubble and some dead metal-monkeys."

Keira shot daggers of ice at Ashelin and told her everytning that happened, "And then the metal-heads b-broke the cables a-and the whole thing came crashing d-d-own on them." She finished with some difficulty, wiping silent tears from her cheeks, Jak looked sympathetic, Ashelin just looked disgusted and muttered a sentence containing the word "pathetic".

Jak yanked her arm and dragged her into another section of the flying craft, he was clearly very angry at the treatment of his girlfriend.

"AND WHAT MAY I ASK WAS THAT ALL ABOUT!" He thundered once the soundproof glass was closed.

"Well just look at her," said the woman calmly, " Shes meant to be the future queen and shes acting like a baby, shes your only real weakness Jak, if any of Havens enemies found out how much you care for her, they could very easily use it against you."

"OH AND YOU THINK MAKING FUN OF HER IS GOING TO CHANGE HOW I FEEL ABOUT HER DO YOU, DO YOU THINK ANY OF US ARE SAFE WHILE THOSE CREATURES STILL LIVE, I CAN'T PROTECT EVERYONE, BUT I AM CERTAINLY ABLE OF TAKING CARE OF THE ONE I LOVE! IF YO...

But he wasn't able to finish as the ship gave a violent jolt, the whole cabin seemed to move like a zoomer, Jak staggered back through the door and into the cockpit, just in time to watch a thin spine covered hand rip the pilot and co-pilot out of the ship and throw them bodily out onto the cold hard ground that was steadily rushing up to meet the three people aboard the transport as well, Jak quickly flicked the switch marked 'AUTO PILOT', and seized the arm still dangling from above the top of the side door and pulled hard. He met more resistance than expected, he actually had to try to get the thing to give up whatever purchace it had on the roof and swing down to meet the end of the heros boot, Jak caught a fleeting glimpse of it before it slammed into the concrete, it was black and purple all over its body, it had long pointed spines running up and down its body, and what looked like greyish boils on its stomach, he couldn't help feeling he had seen it somewhere before, somewhere in the distant past, somewhere he had been before.

Two solitary figures crawled up from the ruins of the old palace, they could both see a new structure high above them, built by Haven over the exact location of the catacombs to hide them from prying eyes, neither could fully understand how the tower got there, or even how long they had been down there, but they were obviously ancient beings, the dark eco below had warped their bodys beyond repair, they might once have been human, but not anymore.

"Ahhh my sister, we are at last free from the imprisonment of the darkness below, more powerful than ever before." Said the first wheezingly.

Yes, now that we have returned, we shall seek that basard hero that brought us down before and the world of the green sun will once again know the terror of Gol and Maia.

THEMAKEROFLIGHT: alright thats the storyline set, and just to clarify Gol and Maia wont be appearing again until the sequel, so just hold onto your hats, i'm going for a whole series here.