Author: Hi everyone, this is Tigre. This is my first story to ever be published, so please be nice if you comment. Remember anything in parentheses & italicized, ex:(Tigre Note: Look up "The Hanging Tree" on You Tube) means that in order to get the full feeling of a scene, you must open up another tab & look up whatever it says in the I own: All my OCs & plot idea Stuff I don't own: Any & all Jak & Daxter, & Spyro character/references. So here we go.
Jak's POV
I park my cobalt blue, special customized, extra strength armored zoomer outside the Naughty Ottsel. After getting off my pride & joy in Haven City, I walk to the Naughty Ottsel's grimy, weather-beaten front door. I knock three times on the door, & press the buzzer next to the door twice to let Daxter know it is me. I hear the door unlock as it hums to life. As the door opens, I see Daxter sitting at the counter with a pile of paperwork to his right, & the days finished work to his left. I slowly walk in, trying to not seem as if I have to be anywhere in a hurry.
Hey Dax, what's up?" I ask once I reach the counter. "Oh, just doing alot of brain-torchering calculations, finding out just what things can be left out, stuff like that," Daxter says distractedly. I look down at the paper work to see hundreds of additions, many of which were either crossed or scribbled out. "Geez, that is way too much for one person to do by themself, where is Tess?" I think to myself after realizing just how much paperwork he had already done, & still has to do. "Well, I have a proposition for you. Do you want to have a break from all this paperwork & do something exciting?" I ask, seeing just how stressed Daxter was. "What do you mean by 'exciting,' Jak?" Daxter asks while looking up sarcastically, but still obviously curious at what I had to say.
"Well," I started off, "these guys at work, Carl & Luke, saw two unidentified creatures near or heading towards the Haven City Mountain pass, & Torn wanted me to go on a recon mission to see if I could snap a few pictures of them. It wouldn't be the same if you didn't come, plus, it'll get you away from all that paperwork for about 3 hours, so what do you say, Dax? Are you going to come with me, for old times' sake?" I say, trying to make the mission sound the least dangerous as humanly possible. Daxter stops writing to look up at me, weighing the options & the consequences in his head visible upon his small, furry face. "Sorry man, I can't. Tess is out shopping, & you know I would have to clear this with her face to face first, or else I would go. I also have to get this done, & you know it would be better to do this now instead of a month before the wedding." Daxter says, a truly genuine upset expression on his face. "Oh, that's alright Dax, I had a feeling asking this was kind of pointless before I came in here" I say putting on a small half-smile, slightly dispirited. Daxter gives me an understanding face, then says "Jak, I truly am sorry, it's just that I have alot more responsibilities now then I did before, or else I would go with you" he apologizing with a sad tone to his voice. "Dax, I mean it, it's alright. I understand what you are going through, & I know you have allot to do, man, so don't feel bad" I say while getting up from my seat next to Daxter & walking to the door, "See you later, Dax." "See you later Jak" I hear Daxter say behind me as the door closes.
I get back on my zoomer & start heading to the Haven City Mountain lock. When I get there, I park my zoomer directly in front of the lock & jump off. I wait for less then a second in front of the door when it opens. I walk inside the small transition room, & wait in front of the door to the mountain pass. When the door opens, I walk into the silent mountain pass & take a breathe of somewhat clean air. I take out my communicator & bring up the patrol map that Carl & Luke had taken when they had seen the second unidentified creature.
I start on the path, taking the left to get to the eco-powered elevator that the Precursors had built all that time ago. "Wait, was it the Precursors or me that built this elevator?" I question mentally. "It was the Precursors, Jak," Light says in the back of my mind. "Okay good, because I have no idea how to do any of this" I reply to Light. "You will in time, Jak" Dark says, surprisingly sagely. "Since when did you decide to start giving me useful advice?" I ask Dark sarcastically while taking a right into a small path where I remember fighting shielded Metalheads.
"Since just now, idiot" Dark says just as sarcastically as I had in his deep, echoing version of my voice. I smile & shake my head while taking a turn onto an overgrown path that I hadn't noticed when I was fighting Baron Praxis. As I continue down the path, the trees to my right begin to get so dense that I couldn't possibly run through them, even if I had to. To my right, a large cliff with sharp, jagged chunks of rock jutting out keeps me from being able to get too close. After a few minutes of walking, I begin to get the feeling that something is going to ambush me, so I take out my morph gun & switch to the Vulcan Fury mod just in case any cocky Metalhead decides to try its luck at taking me down. I look down at the map to see that I am already almost at the location where the second mysterious creature was spotted by Carl & Luke.
I hear a branch breaking ahead of me & snap my head up, already aiming my gun. I see nothing, & continue to very slowly walk forward, looking over my shoulder every few steps. After sketchily creeping around a bend, I see a small clearing that looked like a resting area with low set branches, the trees surrounding the area except for a small area occupied by the side of the cliff, a large boulder that had fallen from the cliff a long time ago from the looks of the stone, & a rotting tree trunk that was rather recently felled, possibly only a few weeks ago. I continue carefully down the path, looking at the branches above my head just incise any Metalheads were resting in the tree branches above me. On a branch directly above the path, I notice a strange, almost shifting shadow seemingly resting on the branch. I stare at it for a few moments, having the strange feeling that the shadow is staring right back at me. After a few more seconds of watching the seething shadow, I shake the strange feeling from my head & continue down the path. Less then three seconds after passing under the branch, I hear a quick, low growl, but long like a regretted sigh of relief come emanate from behind me. I whip around & see glittering, cat-like pupiled, green eyes staring at me from the branch that I had just passed under. I then notice the rest of the creature, & realize that this was the creature that Carl & Luke had seen in the forest. The creature that had ripped out a Metalhead's spine by its skull. "Oh crap" Dark, Light, & I all say at once.
Author: Dun, dun duuunnnn! What do you guys think of that? I have some news to tell. Since it has been taking me forever to post chapters lately, I decided on a way to resolve that problem for anyone who happens to be reading. Inspired by a certain x-jam-x, I have decided to (attempt to) post a new chapter every 15th & 30th of every moth, excluding this one, since I still have to write it, & I am a freshman in high school will boatloads of homework every other night. So, with that out of the way, I am also curious if any of you viewers have any ideas where I could go with the story after I introduce a few more characters (they are mentioned at the top).
Publisher: I go to the same school and get even more homework but I can still publish something at least once a week. The author just gets distracted by other things... but due to this writers block I haven't been able to think of anything for any of my stories. -_- Though I have started writing a crossover of my own where I bring in my assassin from Crash Bandicoot New residence. That reminds me I still haven't fixed the Bio for him or Tettra, because they are ridiculously long. Oh well I need some help for a new story idea people and I already have two choices in the works, choice #1 is a Spyro story not a crossover. #2 is a Star Trek the Next Generation also not a crossover involving different people that in their own way is strange. Or I could just do a Danny Phantom thing... though I doubt anyone will like it what with me being bad at trying to capture how the characters act. Well I have to run, because Tettra is outside my place with Crash and I think that their planning on storming the place. At least I prepared for this day and got a stock of food in a bunker fifty miles away from my place and fifty miles underground.