THEMAKEROFLIGHT: hello again and welcome to chapter seven, I finally got some reviews, well, one anyway.

Inuace: I'm glad you like the beggining, I'll be continuing for some time, I have planned to have about 15 chapters, so keep watching this space.

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE ALLIED ISLANDS

Jak was just getting used to the fact that he had a new future mother-in-law, and Keira had taken it without any grace at all, she threw tantrums often, trying to get out all the rage she had built up over the years about not having a mother, even Jak got kinda scared of her when she was in full swing. Jak hadn't been seeing Daxter lately, which he found strange,they used to be inseperable, now he spentmore time with Tess than ever, just sitting there and bragging about his so-called "adventures".

And he himself had been busy, a gargo cruiser that went off course in the Cataenas reported seeing a string of islands along the horizon, spanning many thousands of miles all the way down past Shassa and Mamoron, and Towards Nissen. Also there ws the small matter of young Maealan, the brave young lad had signed up for the FL not days after being rescued by Jak, and was quickly rising through the ranks, by the end of his first week he had gone from private to General, and then by the second week he was a fully fledged eagle captain, riding the skies on the ragles, he and Jak had become good friends, and Jak had once suggested to Torn that he should become a light trooper, the greatest honor a soldier can have, to be changed by the precursors themselves with light eco, into something like light Jak, this was sort of like the dark warrior program, excapt the experimentees actually volunteered for it.

But it wasn't all good news, Commander Kun had been sent to investigate a possible dark-eco infestation in Cafas north of Haven, he and his men never returned, and Jak deemed Cafas unsuitable for traversing by any other than the lurkers, who had generously accepted their offers and given full military support for any coming battles.

Jak was now headed for Freedom Tower, he had been asked (forcefully) by Torn to investigate the strange islands in the east, and Jak had decided to take Maealan, Keira and Karena, who would all be useful if it turned out to be metal-headed. He turned the corner to the Hyper-lift and ran straight into Kleiver's belly.

"Hello there an..."

"Yes I know, I know, ankle biter and all that, I havn't got time for your shit now Kleiver, so get out of my way unless you want another creaming, do you remember the Kras city championship, or do you need reminding?"

Kleiver just grinned and patted the side of his nose with his finger." Now I know you're trying to get me riled up, but it aint gonna work, I heard yer on yer way to those islands that everyone's talking about, I'm coming too, if ya' know whats good for ya'."

"I wouldn't let you come if you begged me, you'd probably just rape Keira on the journey just for the heck of it."

"I probably would at that, but what if I told you you could have me chained and locked the whole way there, and then even leave me there if it was metal-head territory, I need to get away from here, you've managed to tame the streets too much, Kras is safe now that you've put Rayn in her place, with Sig ruling Spargus I'm hardly gonna get any crime done there, you've managed the turn the KG into nice, loving FL troopers, and someone took away my passport so I can't get to anyplace more exiting, you owe me."

Jak considered it, catch a criminal, or jeopardise the safety of his fiance and friend, then again, he would be watching him the whole time, what could happen? "OK, deal." and he shook the Fugitives hand.

six hours later

The entire flight had been uneventfull, Keira had slept the journey, having been out all night celebrating her new found ability to drink. Jak had watched Kleiver like a hawk, making sure he didn't even look at Keira on Karena in the wrong way, the young dark eco sage had been in the simulation room fighting fake metal-heads for the first four hours, and only came out when the computer had broken down trying to keep up with the rate she destroyed the holographic monsters. By five hours in they could see the islands, and understood why the witnesses had been so amazed, he could see nothing but islands as far as the eye could see.

They landed in thick jungle, there was no sign of any metal-heads around, but there was a strange thing, a great hole in the ground that looked as if it had once housed a great tree, Jak looked on for a few metres and found the oak snapped in half lying over half a kilometre away, he wondered what could have done this, it wasn't mechanical, and a metal-pede wouldn't have had the dexterity to pick it up, only to knock it over.

They had wandered for a few miles with Kleiver on the end of a long chain about thirty metres in front, with Jak and Maealan at the back setting out a plan if there was a hostile creature there.

A great crash echoed through the trees, pounding footsteps shaking the ground, entire trees were uprooted by the sheer force, the group scattered, Jak and Keira ran off towards the clearing they had passed some time ago, Maealan and Karena scuttled in the direction they had been facing origonally, Kleiver waddled akwardly for a short time, but he couldn't go far, the chains were tripping him with every step, he fell, he could hear the thing coming closer and closer. He should have been able to see it in a second, and the pounding slowed down, the branches in front of him parted to show a vast creature of purple and black. It was emanating pure evil, malice in its eyes as it stepped smugly towards the old racer, sheer terror flooding his face for the first time in forty-eight years. It was the last thing he ever saw.

THEMAKEROFLIGHT: I'm glad I finally got round to a killing, and at least it was a character that everyone loves to hate, rather than Keira or Sig, who were my other possibilities, but I stand by my decision, I've just done chapter six on this very same day, so I've just done two chapters in one day, and I still had time to sleep in and watch dune, I'm really enjoying this and coyuld you please all review thank you, I've done seven chapters and still only got one.