The Silver Badger: Hi. Sorry my story wasn't up dated sooner. My leukemia returned. Killed most of my white blood cells, and I got this infection in my eyes and since there were too few white cells, my body couldn't fight it and I went blind.

GoodMorningBeautiful2005: It's okay. I know you would have had trouble doing this. But how did you get it written if you're blind?

The Silver Badger: I had someone help me.

GoodMorningBeautiful2005: .who?

The Silver Badger: You don't wanna know

The Mask: Hi GMB. Remember me?

GoodMorningBeautiful2005: You brought her? AHHHHH! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

The Silver Badger: I'm sorry GMB. But I'm blind! I couldn't type anything! Besides, she's my friend! I already had this chapter written before I was diagnosed again. So she volunteered to type it for me and send it to you.

GoodMorningBeautiful2005: Fine….Just don't let her get near me

The Silver Badger: Hey, hey, hey! What's that supposed to mean? Well, just for YOU GMB, I'm gonna always help her for this! That way you'll see MORE of me.

GoodMorningBeautiful2005: NOOOOOOOO!

The Silver Badger: Ahem! The story!

Mask and GoodMorningBeautiful2005: Sorry!

Chapter 2: Dark Sages and The Curse
(Jak's POV)

I saw them! The most frightening people I have ever seen! At least thats what Daxter thought. I thought they were kinda interesting. Night had fallen by the time we reached misty Isle, so it was kinda hard to see them, but by the looks of them Id say they were dark sages. There was a male and female. The male had blood red eyes and snowy white hair. He had grayish colored skin and was very tall! He had a glove, made of precursor metal on his hand that had tubes coming out of it into his arm. He wore a dark blue tunic hemmed with red; and he wore a belt of steel with mines, I guess they were, attached. He had a raspy voice to. As for the female, she was like him as she was different than him. She had crimson eyes just like him, same grayish skin (only hers looked smoother) and was just as tall. But instead of snowy white hair, hers was white at the roots but darkened into brown at the ends. And instead of a tunic or dress or something, she wore armor, making her look like some kind of female gladiator. Her eyes burned with a fighting fire, I could see she was antsy and wanted to fight or something, anything but stand there and wait for the male to speak. At last he did, and his message was not a cheery one. "Keep looking for artifacts and eco. If any of the villagers contain precursor artifacts, you know what to do."

Then as if her reflexes were the speed of light, the woman responded instantly, "If anyone strays too far from the village deal with them harshly. Well deal with them in no time." Those made me burn with rage towards her. I felt like I wanted to just run at her and attack her. What she just said was awful! It was cruel! In my rage I just looked her in the eyes and instead of seeing hatred and cruelty, I saw sadness, loneliness in her eyes. That shocked me. As I was pondering this, Daxter made a smart move and slipped and fell down the side of the wall, right in front of the dark sages, both were absolutely surprised. I gave an exasperated sigh and jumped down to help him. When I landed, not only were both dark sages even more surprised, but now the lurkers were as well. As the group of lurkers and two dark sages just gawked at us, Daxter got up and, as usual, not paying attention ran smack into the female sage. Now usually that's not too bad, but the fact that, out of shock, the to now literally stood on the ground instead of floating instead of running into her stomach, or middle, he ran right into her breasts. She was shocked for a while at this, and then her red eyes filled with rage. She grabbed Dax and actually threw him! He went flying who knows how many feet! Or yards at that! I could see he was now in danger as for the sagess had now unsheathed a dagger hidden among her armor. The razor sharp blade glittered evilly in the moonlight. I took action now. I ran at her with more speed and force than I had intended, but the result was spectacular. I hit her so hard that she actually fell over onto the male sage, I had forgotten about him, and underestimated him; which I was about to regret. I ran into him to, but he stood like a wall of steel. Which hurt, I could have sworn the impact broke something in me, he glared down at me, though his eyes held no anger. He actually looked kinda impressed. However he still punished me, he punched me in the stomach, knocking all the wind out of me in a big whoosh! His hand was like iron! And he didn't even hit me with his gloved hand! As I sat there on the ground grasping my stomach and gasping for breath I saw the female move towards Daxter again. I got up and bolted at her, blocking her way painful as it was. I wasn't about to let her hurt my friend. She made another move to go around me but then punched her! I guess it hurt me more than her because while pain shot from my hand up through my arm, all she did was just grunt. I ran to Daxter, picked him up and dragged him to the nearest exit, which was a big steel, precursorain door. I grabbed him tighter and ran through it, in side was a big door in the middle and a pool of dark eco at the far side on an elevate platform. We climbed up there to hide, just in case they followed, as we walk toward the pool Daxter suddenly tripped. I turned around to see what he tripped over; Dax could trip over a ladybug he was so clumsy, but I wanted to make sure he hadn't hurt himself. Daxter even looked to see what he tripped over, he rose his foot, rolled his eyes and said, "Eh…. Stupid precursor junk." he picking it up, blew the dust off and continued talking. I wasn't paying much attention though. I was busy keeping an eye out for those sages or their lurkers. But the next thing I knew, I had the odd artifact the Dax was holding come hurtling at me. I caught it just before it hit me. It started to glow in my hands; I was rather shocked by it, when I heard Dax shout "WOW! How'd ya get it to do that?" I just shrugged when I heard a loud thud. Not one of those like when you fall, more like when some thing heavy lands on metal, something like an armored lurker. The lurker roared and charged at us. Daxter jumped behind me and yelled, "I think we're in TRO3BLE!" I winced after he said that. My first though was the nice, hard artifact in my hands. Before I really thought it over, I threw it as hard as I could. It hit the lurker hard and the artifact blew up! Along with the lurker as well. But the impact of the explosion knocked me back and Daxter was knocked into the pool of dark eco I gazed down into the pool, hoping to see him; I then heard a strange sound and Daxter came shooting out of the pool. When I turned to see him I saw he wasn't him anymore! He changed into some kind of furry rat. He sat up a moment and looked around then turned to look at me, "I told you we shouldn't have come here! And you listened--WHAAAAAT?" He saw I was looking at him funny he then looked at himself, "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screamed as he pounding the ground with his fists. "I'm fine, I'm fine." He then examined himself again to make sure he wasn't hallucinating, that's when he jumped on me and grabbed my shoulders and began screaming again, which I was sure could be heard across the ocean.

(Normal POV)

Keira paced back and forth in her garage; hoping, praying Jak was okay. She then heard the steamboat returning to the dock. She ran to her window to make sure she want hearing things, it was they! Well, it was Jak; she couldn't see Daxter. Maybe he was on the floor of the boat or something. But when Jak steeped out she didn't see Daxter instead she saw a funny looking orange rat of some kind. She then realized Daxter had been transformed. She did her best to stifle a giggle. It was pretty funny. Jak was coming closer to her house and closer, closer and she was practically having a heart attack now. He walked up the steps to her fathers lab. She held her breath for a moment and when she heard her father lecturing them. She let out her breath and headed up to her father's lab to give Jak some aid. She knew he would need it. She could just sense her father's anger rising. When she got up she heard, he father saying something about a sage named Gol that lived up north. She leaned closer against the door to eavesdrop on the conversation.

"The only way north is through the fire canyon." Samos began, "but its volcanic soil is hot enough o melt even precursor metal. You can't just walk through it."

This was her chance to help Jak! And get his attention at that. She turned so they could see her at the doors entrance, "No, but you could fly over it, if you had an A Grav-zoomer equipped with a heat shield, I happen to be working on such a thing this very moment."

Jak looked at her, rather impressed, this made her blush a little. She waked into the lab continuing, " All I would need is twenty power cells." Ahe walked right on by, not even noticing Daxter trying to flex his non existing muscles. "Isn't that right daddy?"

"Yes, Keira, I suppose that would work, but where's a boy and a HALF," he said this by whacking Daxter on the head with his staff, "going to get twenty power cells?"

"From the villagers. Most of them have a power cell or two stashed away somewhere. And even if they're not willing to just give them away, a few precursor orbs greasing their palms should do the trick. And I'm sure there are even more power cells out in the wild just waiting for a brave adventurer to find them." she said fluttering her eyelashes at Jak. He turned and blushed a little, which pleased her.

"At least we have the brave adventurer." Daxter said, putting on another pose.

Keira leaned against a wall, waiting for her father to respond to that, which of course he did. "Brave adventurer? You two couldn't find your way out of the village without some training. Before you go anywhere, got threw the warp gate to geyser rock to get some practice."

"Ehh…..we wont find anymore of that dark gooey eco stuff will we? Cuz I'd hate to fall in again and turn into you!" Daxter said, rather snippy at the green sage.

"GET IN THERE! BEFORE I TURN YOU BOTH INTO FERNS!" The very angry sage yelled.

Jak and Daxter looked at each other and then Jak jogged into the warp gate. Daxter turned, put on a grin and ran after him. Samos sighed, "What am I going to do with them?"

Keira got up and answered, "I dunno, but I have work to do, so I gotta go back to my room if you don't mind." She then walked out, returned to her room and resumed with her work.

(Jak's POV)

Keira! That was her name. Her name was as beautiful as she was. I was glad she was going to help us on our newly decided adventure I wanted her to come along anyway, company reasons of course. Dax is a good friend, but I would like it if she came too. The more the merrier as my uncle always says. I strolled around geyser rock a bit, and then did what I had to do. As I headed back to the warp gate with the four power cells I had just retrieved, I remembered the two sages from misty Isle. Why were they there? What did they want with eco and artifacts? What was their plan do with all of those things if they ever got them? These things troubled me. Maybe I would find out. Maybe I'll find out some time in the future. As my uncle always said, you can never know what fate has in store for you.
The Silver Badger: That wasn't so hard, now was it guys?

GoodMorningBeautiful2005: So torturous...can't go on much longer …….

The Mask: Never! I repeat never! Force me to sit by her when we write a story! She was about to strangle me! And dont lie GMB! More than one occasion you reached for my throat!

GoodMorningBeautiful2005: Innocent 'til proven guilty.

The Silver Badger : Review please. Before these two hooligans kill each other.