Hi everyone & anyboby who reads this little story, Tigre here after a LONG haitus in writing. I know, I know, the last time I posted a chapter was September 15th, I'm sorry! I had school that kept me away, so blame that! Anyways, good news, the suggestive chapter WILL BE COMING! But sadly, that chapter is not this one, but it will be coming soon, I promise! Also, I'd like to thank Zero the Fox for that wonderful last name for Meldalvyna & Cynder, I do think I will use that name as Mel's last name, & the one I had in mind as her middle name.Stuff I own: Plot & OCs; Stuff I DON'T own: Any characters that aren't OCs & the places these characters live in.
Meldalvyna's POV
I stare at Jak, trying to find a way how to answer him without creeping him out make him feel self-conscious. "Yeah, how did you know that, usually I'm the only one who can tell," Daxter says, now also curious on what I had to say. I look between the two of them, realizing they weren't going to drop the subject until they got an answer. "Um, you know how some animals can smell fear?" I ask with a sigh of exasperation, a little nervous as to what their reactions would be. "Ya," they both say in unison, the scent curiosity seeming to stick to them like glue. "Well, you see, I can smell all emotions, & I can use those scents to tell if a person is lying to me or not," I say slowly, looking at them for any visible change in emotion.
Jak's & Daxter's faces pull into slightly surprised expressions, the unmistakable scent of wonder wafting from them. " Cool, what does, I don't know, curiosity smell like?" Jak asks, his head slightly tilted to the side like a puppy. I smile gently at him, unable to get the puppy thought out of my head. "It smells kind of like puzzlement, kind of watery, more like a rain, though," I say, trying to be as descriptive while also not trying to overload them with a long-winded description. "Ooh, ooh, what does happiness smell like?" Daxter says, scaring me a little when he jumps on my shoulder. "Happiness smells kind of like flowers, or like a tropical fruit," I say, shrugging my shoulders, getting used to the unfamiliar weight.
"Dang girl! How much can you lift, because your shoulders are ripped! Jak come here & feel this chicks' muscles!" Daxter exclaims right into my ear. Jak only grins & shakes his head at Daxter's antics. "No dude, seriously! She is frigging a beast, no offence," he says, grinning sheepily at the beast comment. "None taken, all my freinds back home used to call me that when I'd beat them in races or in sparring contests" I brag with a small grin. "Dude, Jak's the best racer in Haven, Spargus, Kras, everywhere pretty much!" Daxter says, now jumping onto Jak's shoulder. Jak nodds his head side to side, then nodds with a cocky smile on his face.
"Wow, finally I get to meet another famous racer. Maybe you and I could race one day," I say, starting to walk again. "Wait, you're famous?" Jak asks slightly surprised while speeding up so he could walk beside me. "Yeah, where I'm from at least. I'm the champion of the annual winter races, & have the second best racing time ever, the number one spot being held by my mother," I smile while nodding my head. "That's awesome, but again, how much can you lift?" Daxter says, a little annoyed that his question had been forgotten. "Oh, sorry. I can lift 175 pounds with one arm, 350 with both my arms, but with my back, I'd say around 700," I list, trying to remember the last time I had lifted for exercise a week ago. "Oh my god," Jak and Daxter say in unison, the scent of a mix of fear and amazement immediately coming from each of them.
"If you think that's scary, you should see my mother lift when she's angry, because not only can she lift 2000 pounds, but she can throw that amount one hundred yards with a deadly accuracy," I laugh nervously. As Jak and Daxter look at each other with an expression of horror, I catch a scent of my double-step-uncle Sparx's scent not too far away. I slow down so that I'm right next to Jak, while not changing my footsteps. "Jak, I think my step-step uncle is following us," I whisper to him while ever so slightly leaning in towards Jak, still keeping my earlier pace. Jak looks at me quickly with wide eyes while just barely nodding. I then begin to pretend to fidget with my chain-mail skirt while walking, feigning the attempt to be inconspicuous to the act.
"Um Jak, Daxter, I need to, uh, go fix my skirt. I'll just go over there, be back in a second," I say slightly louder than I needed to, but still close enough to my tone so it wouldn't be obvious I was lieing while pointing at a tree just off the path a little ways. Jak & Daxter fake a surprised nod as I walk off behind the tree I had pointed to. I walk over to the tree & quickly phase through the ground using my Shadow. Following his scent, I quickly find Sparx hiding behind a brush watching Jak & Daxter. I let off a deep growl while slowly rising up out of the ground behind the dragonfly. Sparx whips around with a terrified look on his face.
Before he can react, I snatch him out of the air, but still careful enough to not crush or rub his wings. "Hey, let me go!" Sparx exclaims, surprised that I had seemed to suddenly appear behind him. "No," I state simply with an angry edge to my voice. I watch him swallow nervously as I begin to walk back over to Jak & Daxter. "You will let your double-step-uncle go right now or so help me I will tell your mother," he shouts just before we become visible to the path, trying to threaten me. I make it obvious that his little plan wouldn't work with a simple deep growl coupled with an 'you & I both know that won't work' look.
I finally walk close enough to the path to be seen by Jak & Daxter. Daxter bursts into laughter as Jak's expression pulls into that of confusion when they catch sight of Sparx. "That's your step...step uncle?" Jak asks, a disbelieving look caught on his lips. "Yes, he is," I say slightly annoyed while releasing Sparx from my iron (to him) grip. "How? He's a bug, your a dragon," Daxter asks this time. "He is my step father's step brother," I state simply while watching aforementioned double-step-uncle stretch his back out by pushing his tiny chest forward with his hands behind his back.
"So you're that Jak guy Meldalvyna's told us about last night, I'm Sparx, Mel's double-step-uncle," Sparx says while looking at me through the corner of his eyes with a cocky glare. Jak looks up at me with one of his eyebrows raised quizzically. "What? I had to explain why I came home covered in blood last night," I say exasperatedly. "When will Sparx leave?" I think to myself while listening to Daxter ask my double-step uncle thousands of purposeless questions. "Hey, if you guys wanna come up & meet the rest of the family, you can. I'm pretty sure Spyro wouldn't mind meeting you two, but it would be this lil' missie's mother you'd have to hide from," Sparx says while pointing to me, the suggestion bringing me out of my current thoughts. I look at Jak & Daxter only them to look at each other in thought, silently asking each other wether or not they were up to the offer.
"Sure, why not? Well, only if you don't mind, Meldalvyna," Jak says, looking to me for approval. Before I can even react, Sparx answers Jak for me. "She would love for you guys to come over some time. You know what, why not now?" Sparx says with a tone that only the people who know him can identify as teasing. "Oh, Sparx, we can't just invite them over & expect them to come. I mean, Jak & Daxter might have stuff to do later," I say, trying to persuade them not to come. "Well, I don't have anything else to do, sure," Jak says, ruining my hopes to save my already failing pride from any more embarrassment. "Alright then, it's settled, follow me," Sparx says while sneaking in a gloating grin pointed at me.
Jak's POV
After Daxter having successfully making me sweat-drop by asking Meldalvyna how much she could lift, then telling me to come over & feel up her shoulders, I put on a fake 'as if' smile & shake my head at him. "No dude, seriously! She is frigging a beast, no offence," he says, grinning sleepily at Meldalvyna with the possibly offensive comment. "None taken, all my friends back home used to call me that when I'd beat them in races or in sparring contests" Meldalvyna brags with an amused grin on her face. "Dude, Jak's the best racer in Haven, Spargus, Kras, everywhere pretty much!" Daxter says, now jumping back onto my shoulder. Going through my racing experiences during my Kras City Grand Championship career, I bounce my head left to right slowly, & come to agree with Daxter with a cocky smile. "Wow, finally I get to meet another famous racer. Maybe you and I could race one day," Meldalvyna says with a gentle smile as she starts back down the path, taking me completely off guard.
"Wait, you're famous?" I ask surprised while jogging to catch up to Meldalvyna. "Yeah, where I'm from at least. I'm the champion of the annual winter races, & have the second best racing time ever, the number one spot being held by my mother," she says with a gentle smile gracing her obsidian scaled lips while nodding her head. "That's awesome, but again, how much can you lift?" Daxter asks again, annoyed that his question was ignored. I was about to smack Daxter in the back of his head when Meldalvyna gives him his answer. "Oh, sorry. I can lift 175 pounds with one arm, 350 with both my arms, but with my back, I'd say around 700," she says with a thoughtful look on her face. Taken by utter surprise & slight fear, Daxter & I say the same thing at the same time.
"Oh my god," Daxter & I say in unison, fear & awe having taken our thoughts out into broad daylight. "If you think that's scary, you should see my mother lift when she's angry, because not only can she lift 2000 pounds, but she can throw that amount one hundred yards with a deadly accuracy," Meldalvyna chuckles nervously with a cautious grin her face. Daxter & I can only quickly glance at each other, horrified expressions running rampant & untamed on our faces. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice Meldalvyna suddenly stiffen & slow down to meet my own pace. I bring my attention back to her as she slowly leans her head towards my ear with a worried expression on her face. "Kiss her, Jak! Kiss her now!" I hear Dark suddenly scream in the back of my mind, time seeming to slow down to fractions of seconds.
"What! Why?" I ask Dark, taken completely off guard by his frantic command. "Dude, she's hot! Don't deny it, I know what you think," Dark retorts, stating my most confusing feelings about the woman in front of me. I had tried to figure out why I had become so quiet & shy around her the night before. "Jak, I think my step-step uncle is following us," Meldalvyna whispers just loud enough for Daxter & I to hear, bringing me out of my distracted reverie & shutting Dark up. I look at her with a knowing look & just barely move my head in a nodding motion. "Her uncle? Her uncle is here? Oh sweet Precursors, let me make a good first impression for once," I mentally panic as Meldalvyna drops behind me a few paces, afraid as to what her uncle will react to me.
I hear the shifting of Meldalvyna's chain-mail skirt ring out behind me, which is soon joined by the sound of her footsteps approaching me. "Um Jak, Daxter, I need to, uh, go fix my skirt. I'll just go over there, be back in a second," Meldalvyna says just above her normal tone with a embarrassed waiver. I notice she's pointing to a tree not too far from the path. Realizing this was part of her plan, Daxter & I fake a surprised nod, to which she turns around & starts walking towards the aforementioned tree. As she leaves, I can't help but watch her hips sway as she walks, slightly hidden by her wings. At the very top of her tail, I notice almost blue markings so dark they appeared almost black in the shapes of triangles & diamonds.
"Whoa, are those tattoos?" I think to myself, my eyes not leaving her tail. "I don't believe those are tattoos, I believe those are just markings. There are similar markings on her shoulders & on her forehead that are slightly hidden by her hair," I hear Light say in the back of my mind. Before I could think any further about the markings, my subject of 'observation' disappears behind the tree she had pointed to. "Aw man, she went behind the tree," Dark pouts, also apparently having been just watching Meldalvyna walk. I hear Daxter chuckle lightly on my shoulder, probably knowing exactly what had been going through my head. I look up at him with at 'what are you laughing at' expression on my face.
He simply widens his already large grin while seeming to say 'you were just staring at her butt dude, I saw you' with his eyes. I narrow my eyes angrily at him, to which he only gives me an even larger triumphant smile. "Hey, let me go!" an unfamiliar masculine voice exclaims somewhere beyond the path out of sight. "No," Meldalvyna's angry voice replies. "You will let your double-step-uncle go right now or so help me I will tell your mother," the voice from earlier shouts, threatening Meldalvyna. Daxter bursts into laughter as Meldalvyna steps through a bush just to my left upon seeing her hand clasped around some sort of large glowing insect resembling that of a dragonfly.
"That's your step...step uncle?" I ask, surprised to see that her step uncle was a dragonfly. "Yes, he is," Meldalvyna says with venom in her voice while releasing the bug from her grip. "How? He's a bug, your a dragon," Daxter asks with a disbelieving tone. "He is my step father's step brother," she replies while the step-step uncle stretches his back. "So you're that Jak guy Meldalvyna's told us about last night, I'm Sparx, Mel's double-step-uncle," the insect says while looking at Meldalvyna out of the corner of his eyes, the voice from earlier apparently belonging to him. I look up at Meldalvyna with a questioning look, surprised that she had told her family about me.
"What? I had to explain why I came home covered in blood last night," she says with an exasperated tone to her voice while Daxter starts to ask Sparx so many random questions without enough time to answer them that I couldn't even keep up. "Hey, if you guys wanna come up & meet the rest of the family, you can. I'm pretty sure Spyro wouldn't mind meeting you two, but it would be this lil' missie's mother you'd have to hide from," Sparx suggests while pointing at Meldalvyna, bringing my attention away from the female in question to him. I look at Daxter, trying to decide whether or not to agree to the offer. "Sure, why not? Well, only if you don't mind, Meldalvyna," I say, wanting to clear the deal with Meldalvyna first. Before she can say anything, Sparx answers for her. "She would love for you guys to come over some time. You know what, why not now?" he says with a strange tone I can't identify.
"Oh, Sparx, we can't just invite them over & expect them to come. I mean, Jak & Daxter might have stuff to do later," Meldalvyna says in a sudden rush. "Is she trying to tell us not to come?" I think to myself, curious as to why she was acting so strangely. "Well, I don't have anything else to do, sure," I say after thinking through my options. Upon saying that, I notice Meldalvyna's expression fall to what I think is one of horror. "Alright then, it's settled, follow me," Sparx says with a barely noticeable smile pointed at Meldalvyna as I start to follow the insect further down the path. As Meldalvyna drops behind me I think to myself "I'm about to go meet Meldalvyna's parents, & he said that Meldalvyna's mother is the one I should hide from. I wonder what her mother looks like?"
Author's note: So this chapter had some humor in it, I love how I made Jak get all nervous when Meldalvyna leaned in to his ear. Also how Jak was staring at her 'tail' as she walked towards the tree ^_^! Anyways, this chapter, just like the last one, gave a hint to as what the antagonist of the story is. Remember, an antagonist doesn't have to be a person, it could be a feeling or a force of nature as well. Can anyone guess who or what the antagonist is? Well, until next time, Tigre OUT!