My best friend, Erol, is the comander of the Crimson Guard. I am his main assistant, and best friend ofcourse. But the only thing that annoys me the most, is when he gets pissed off when Baron Praxis orders him around more to get Jak. But he tries not to get angry around me. But lately.. I've been beginning to wonder if me and Erol are more than just friends.
This is my story. My name is Laona. My main objective right now, is to be able to live and survive peacefully, and help the war out. If Erol ever gets stuck in stupid messes, I am the one who usually gets him out of it, quickly. He has my back by making sure I'm safe in pertrols. He's like a big cuddely red head teddy bear around me::giggles: But away from the Erol subject for a minute.. Erol doesn't know this, but I am double sided with the resistance. I work secretly with the underground, and I help Vin with the computers, and sometimes discuise myself, and help Jak and Daxter out with the heavy duty search and kill routines. I only go on longterm breaks from Crimson Guard duties, and rarely so I won't have Erol suspecting anything. If he found out I was working for the underground part time, he'd kill me. Litteraly, friend or foe. He hates the underground, that's why he would do that. But Erol is very gentle twards me, and worries for my safety every second whenever I'm out on assault missions. But most of the time, I'm with him in pertrols, or sometimes we split to double the effort... But onward to the story:
We were on a suicide mission, I was the leader of the second group. Erol was on the opposite side of the swamps. We were suposedly making a shipment of eco to a large group of metalheads in a secret spot in Dead Town. Erol's group had the shipment in a flat zoomer truck thing, while my group spied for anything out of the ordinary. My group reached the location a few seconds before Erol's group did. Erol bobbed his head once signaling for all of us to suspect the place. The guards and myself started to grip tight onto our weapons, notacing how quiet it was. Both of our groups blended into one, with my back against Erol's.
Suddenly, we heard a loud roar, and countless numbers of metalheads, large and small, started rampaging into the secret location. "IT'S AN AMBUSH! LAONA GET THE CARGO OUT OF HERE!" He pushed me over close to the cargo, and I rushed to get in, get up into the air, and drive as fast as I could, shooting at metal heads, knocking them off. But I felt very guilty leaving Erol behind at the risk of getting killed by the ambush. "DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME! GO!" He yelled. I looked back with a funny face and then I couldn't take it any more. I had 5 guards take my place. I ran shooting 5-10 metalheads at a time with this advanced gun Torn gave me. Once I spotted Erol, I got out my hand gun, and put away my other one. Erol spotted me in shock seeing me not cary the cargo, and that just made him fight harder.
A giant metal head was right behind me, and almost got me, until Erol grabbed my waist by jumping, grabbing me by the waist, and both of us fell on the ground. He shot the creature several times making sure it was dead. Then kicked another one in the head that was attacking us. We both got up and started running, " LAONA! WHERE'S THE CARGO!" He yelled angrily. "Don't worry! I have some of the bigger guards ride it back to the station!" "Goo-AAAGH!" he almost completely said, when suddenly a metal head whacked him in the chest, knocking him down. The creature's claws completely penetrated his chest armor.
I fell back, and the metal head started attacking Erol more brutaly. His helmit and mask got smashed, he was now unconcious. Naturaly knowing my friend and commanding officer is being attacked, I shoot the metal head sencelessly with my advanced gun. With that, it killed several other metal heads behind him. "Come on Laona!" One krimson guard said, as a few other guards. They helped us out and defended us as much as they could. I grabbed Erol, and I struggled to move him quickly. I got real aggitated from the attack, so I then just started shooting one-handedly with my advanced gun, helping the remaining krimson guards helping us. We finally got out of there, and we were in the open area in Dead Town. "Men, go back out there! Thank you so much, if you live, I'll reward you." With that after I gave them a weak smile, they nodded and ran off.
Erol had several deep cuts around his shoulders and head. It wasnt so severe on the head. You could feel a big bump on the front of his head. He was bleeding pretty bad, and I knew that I could hurt him even more by moving him very early after injury. I found a good spot to lay him on, close to Samos's Old Hut. (It was where Jak and Daxter faught their way through metalheads, and found Samos's hut.) I had some healing hurbs I found in the forrest while I was fighting with Jak, and I took some out. I had Erol's head resting on my lap on the side. I patched him up a little, and cleaned the blood off of him. "Damn it..." I said in frustration, " I need to get Erol to Haven City to heal these serious wounds.." I rested my back and head onto the wall behind me and sighed.
Then, Erol started couphing. It came to my attention, and I for whatever reason, held his hand. "Laona..? What.. What happend?" His eyes were still closed. He gripped my hand, trying to get up. " No.. No Erol don't move, you're too hurt." I said in concern. He grunted apperently agreeing, and he rested on my lap. With my other hand I half-ley cradled him, with my arm covering his shoulder and part of his arm. " Did we win? Where are we?" He asked. " I don't know if we did or not.. We're outside the location." I sighed. I started looking for a walkie-talkie thing, and spoke into it. "Laona to base. Laona to base." No reply after a few seconds. "Laona to base, Laona to base, do you copy?" I waited a few seconds, then static came though, "Base to Laona, how may we help you"
"Commander Erol is wounded, send Haven Ambulence to the Northern wall." I instructed in a cross serious voice. About 10 seconds later they replied, " They're on their way." "Thank you!" I said in a relieving voice. Erol looked up at me and smiled. " Thank's for saving my ass out there." I laughed, "No problem, after all those things you've done for me, this is my thanks." He continued on. "But you shouldn't have gone back to get me." I fround. "But if you hadn't.." He let go of my hand, and put it on one side of my face. " I wouldn't be here with you right now." I smiled lightly, and held his hand again, but upto my face.
We were cuddled up like that for about 10 minutes, until the Haven Ambulance arrived. They put Erol onto the bed thing they have in ambulances, and put him in the back of the hovering truck. I sat down beside him. He held my hand while I was hugging his middle section on the side. The last thing I needed was not see Erol recover. The more I thaught about our friendship, the more I thaught about us being more. I bet he was thinking the same thing. The doors shut, and we went off. After a few hours in recovery at Haven in the hospital, Erol was given crutches and a lot of bandages around his head, and shoulders. The doctor wrote a note to Baron Praxis that Erol and Laona are on break until Erol recovers. The doctor also strongly advised him to stay with me, so I could take care of him. I am known to be very useful and tallented with phisics and medicine.