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Chapter 2: I swear
The Freedom Guards were shooting at the new beings from the ground while the new beings were flying up in the sky and were shooting everywhere since the Hellcats and zoomers were armed with guns. These new being were actually elves with wings on their backs. They were shooting newly developed guns at the guards and using their electric black shields to block the shots. Their white armor gleamed in the sun like bright lights to temporarily blind the Freedom Guards. The winged elves wore a mask that has only one eye hole on one of the sides. Their symbol was the same thing that Onin showed and was on their helmets. There were thousands of them in the city, searching around the area, pushing back and attacking the Freedom Guards, and going inside the buildings. Most of them had black wings on their back, and a few had white wings.
Jak was on the middle front line of the battlefield, using his morph gun that is in Blaster mode. He continued to shoot the strange elves in the sky. He bulls-eyed most of the black winged elves and very few white winged elves. However, there were so many of them that he had to back up and dodged many shots aimed at him. He got one of the shots grazed on his arm, and it was burning like hell. Jak growled dangerously and switched his Blaster mode to Vulcan mode. The elf put up his black shield to block the shots, but he was a little late. He was shot on the head and fell down to the ground as red liquid oozed out from his head. Many winged angels fell down the the ground dead or injured. There were also Freedom Guards on the ground either injured or dead. The only difference between them and the winged elves was how they treat their fallen comrades.
Jak and Daxter were confused at this. In Haven City, the injured were brought to a nearby tent to heal or give small green ecos to heal. They were different. Their own comrades killed and burned their own wounded and dead. It was like they were burning the evidence that was related to a committed crime. The wounded winged elves were silent as they were burned into ashes. The healthy ones didn't even shed a tear for their own kind. Jak was shocked and angry of how they treated each other. It was like committing murder and suicide at the same time. If this was their way of help, it was unbelievably the opposite.
"What the hell are they doing!" Daxter exclaimed while witnessing the gruesome death of the fallen winged elves.
"Whatever they are doing, it making me sick." Jak growled as he shot down another winged elf as he fell down like a wounded duck.
"They're crazier than a muse on steroids if they keep on killing their own men!" Jak and Daxter witnessed a healthier winged elf flew down and talked to the fallen one. It was like they were giving a brief talk. The healthier one nodded and held his hand over the mask of the wounded one. They stayed there for a while until the winged angel removed his hand from the mask and summoned a fireball on his hand. He tossed the fire on the wounded winged elf's chest and engulfed him. The wounded angel didn't scream but lie there like he was dead.
"I don't understand how their rules work, but it's like they are trying to clear any evidence of something important." Jak dodged another shot and fired at the winged elf. The winged elf blocked the shot and fired back.
"Jak!" The blond elf looked behind him and saw Ashelin on a Freedom Guard zoomer. She shot at the winged elves that were shooting at her and hovered next to Jak.
"Need help?" She asked. The blond elf smiled as he continued to shoot down the winged elves. The two elves continued to shoot the winged elves as the healthier elves were disintegrating the wounded and dead.
"How could they do that to their own comrades!" Ashelin sneered in disgust and anger. It was true. There were so many questions the other elves wanted to know about this new kind. Jak noticed that the winged elves were coming closer and backed up with the other Freedom Guards.
"Keep pushing!" One of the white winged angels yelled. The Freedom Guards, Jak, and Ashelin tried to push forward, but they were getting pushed back by the winged angels. After a few minutes, Jak and Ashelin recognized that they were in a familiar town. However, they couldn't place it where were they.
"Push them back while we search for her!" One of the other white winged elves yelled at the other winged elves. Ashelin's eyes widened and realized why were they attacking and searching.
"DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM PUSH US BACK OR SEARCH ANY FURTHER!" Ashelin commanded the Freedom Guards. Jak doesn't know why she said that, but looking at her frantic facial expression, he continued to shoot back rapidly. The governess rapidly shot at the upcoming winged elves as the Freedom Guards were following her orders. The winged elves knew this and fought harder. The white winged elves commanded the black winged elves to push them back harder. When Jak shot down another one, he caught a scene where three of the enemies knocked down a door on a familiar house. Jak's eyes widened as he recognized the house. It was the house where Keira took him to visit a mother and five young elves.
During one of their breaks a half year ago, she wanted to go somewhere where she was needed. Jak agreed to go with her because he thought there were going to be stalkers. He never told Keira about many stalkers he encountered on his ways. When she got to a town that was unfamiliar to him, he was surprised that not one elf tried to follow the beautiful maiden. The town he was in was suspiciously nice. Keira told him to relax and introduced to him to some of the people she knew around the town.
During their visits, Jak and Keira came across a house where a woman was living in. Keira waved a greeting to the woman who looked like she was in her midthirties. Jak heard children yelling and assumed that there were about two or three at home. However, he was wrong. Five little elves jumped out of the door at the same time who are at the same age. He was stunned to see the five jumping around the beautiful maiden calling her "Big Sister." Hell, he thought that the woman in front of him was her mother who didn't look like Keira at all. However, Keira cleared things up for him about the orphaned three boys and two girls who are living with the adopted mother. She also said that she sometimes visited them to make sure to give them company after the Metalhead war.
He growled and felt a dark surge in his body. He also felt horns growing from his head, his teeth grew sharper, and his nails grew longer and sharper. His skin color turned paler, and his hair turned white. Those creatures are not, NOT allowed to search for ANYTHING inside their house. He was like an older brother toward the little five year olds, and if those creatures dared touch a single hair on one of the young elves...
Jak didn't wasted anytime and attacked the winged creatures. Many of the winged elves gasped and changed their focus on the dark elf. He heard some of the commanders yell "We have an Eco Channeler here!" and "Change of tactics! Eliminate the Eco Channeler!" Jak smirked to here what they were saying and yelling. It seems that the winged creatures have a fear of Eco Channelers.
He roared at the creatures, and half of them fled. The other half were many white winged elves and a few dark winged elves. They tried to aim at the dark elf, but they were aiming badly due to the shaking and pulling the trigger at the wrong time. Jak slashed his claws at many of the winged elves and sent Dark Strikes at the winged elves in the sky while the numerous amount of winged elves fell from the sky. The winged elves tried to fight back, but they were losing a lot of comrades, fast.
"I FOUND HER! LET'S GO!" A voice boomed from the house. Jak turned his head toward the voice. At the same time when he turned his head, his heart turned ice cold and dropped on the pits of his stomach. On the arms of the white winged elf, Keira was knocked out unconscious and had blood oozing out on her temple. The winged creatures nodded to the three winged elves and started to fly away from the dark elf.
"RETREAT!"
"OUR OBJECTIVE IS DONE! LET'S GO!"
"MOVE! DON'T LET ANYONE GET NEAR THE GIRL!"
The shouts of the creatures gave the message toward others. Jak growled dangerously and ran toward the winged elf who had his beautiful she-elf. He was about to attack the white winged creature only to be knocked back to the wall violently by five other creatures who shot at the dark elf.
"KEIRA!" He called out to the she-elf as he dodged the shots and ran toward the winged elves. He roared as he slashed the five with one strike of his deadly claws. The dark elf caught the sight of the blue-and-green haired maiden being taken away from him. Dark Jak ran as fast as he could and jumped on the nearest Hellcat to another. He continued to jump on the Hellcat as he reached to the rest of the winged creatures. He jumped on a black winged elf's head and jumped on another like platforms in the KG factory two years ago. He was close to the winged elf who was carrying his she-elf and was about to take him out for harming Keira. However, before he was near the elf, something grabbed him around the ankle. He looked down and saw something very shocking: an elf with a black wing and white wing. Jak was about to fight back, but by a strong force, he was knocked out by the same elf who caught him.
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"...Jak..."
Jak slowly opened his eyes and met a pitch black background. He heard his name called out by a sad sweet voice.
"...Keira?"
He spun around to find his she-elf in the darkness, hoping to find her somewhere in the dark. However, he didn't see any living signs of her but only hear her voice in the abyss.
"...Jak..."
"Where are you!" He cried out. The dark elf started to run to wherever her voice was coming from.
"...please... don't leave me..."
"Where are you, Keir! I won't leave you!" He was getting frantic to find the she-elf. Her sobbing was making it worse as his heart was pounding madly. He imagined Keira being alone in a strange dark place like this, beaten and hurt. He felt rage coursing through his veins. The image of a wounded Keira made his blood boil and wanted to kill anything or anyone who hurts his she-elf.
"... Jak... please..." He ran faster while the sobs were getting louder. He saw a figure far away and ran a little faster. Jak felt happiness surging through his veins as he got closer. He got there in the nick of time and knelt down to examine the blue-and-green haired Keira. She had cuts and burns on her arms, legs, and back. He hugged her gently as he can and felt her stiffen. He whispered soothing things in her ears as she lessen the tension. He felt her head was lifted from his shoulder. He pulled back and gasped what he saw.
"Keira?" Blue eyes met crimson red. She bit her lip as a life fluid dribbled down from the sharp canine tooth.
"What happened?" Jak asked. He tried to touch Keira's cheek with his right hand, but she disappeared when his index finger was a millimeter away from her face. Jak felt his whole body frozen before he blacked out.
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"Do you think he's alright?" A familiar feminine voice spoke in the room. Jak doesn't know where he was, but with the indication of a beeping machine, he thinks that he is somewhere in a hospital or the infirmary.
"Yeah. He is. Only a bruise on his forehead." A gruffy voice answered the feminine voice. Jak stirred from his unconsciousness and felt a painful throb on his forehead. He cracked his left eye and cringed at the light.
"Ashelin! He's awake!" Torn's voice alerted the governess of Haven City. Jak's eyes opened slowly to see the surroundings. He was in an infirmary with other wounded soldiers. He saw doctors and nurses being busy around the injured and wrapping them in casts and giving them medicines from vomiting. Next to him was Torn standing on his right side and Ashelin on his left side.
"Jak!" An orange blur jumped up from the floor on his chest.
"Geez! Don't scare the living shit out of us! We thought you were dead!" Daxter was a little loud for some of the soldiers nearby, so Torn whacked the precursor's head. Ashelin smiled a little and looked at the dark elf with sympathy and anger. He was like a little brother to her over the years, and she would be damned if she let her little brother get killed.
"What happened?" He asked.
"Torn saved you from the fall. Jak, if you do that stunt again, I'll make sure that you won't use your gun for a month. You gave all of us a scare out there when you got knocked out." Ashelin said. Jak laughed nervously at the redheaded governess. His laugh faded when he remembered what happened before he was knocked out.
"How long was I out?" He asked.
Torn, Ashelin, and Daxter looked at each other and back to him.
"Two days." Jak's face had a surprised expression to hear this. Two days? Are the winged elves stronger than them?
"Where's Keira?" asked Jak. The governess looked away like she was ashamed. Torn lowered his eyes to his feet to avoid Jak's eyes. Daxter scratched his head trying to find an answer. However, the answer wasn't the way to make up the disappearance of Keira Hagai.
"Well... Keira's... ah... going for a vacation?"
"She was kidnapped, wasn't she?" Jak said in a deadpan way to his best friend. Everyone cringed at the dark elf's voice, meaning that he knew.
"Yeah. She was." Torn said.
"We... couldn't get to her in time because those creatures counterattacked us." Ashelin sadly said. She turned her gaze back to the Mar heir, who was depressed like he lost all hope, and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Hey. We'll get her back. Tess is already spying in a new place where Keira is." That's where Daxter panicked.
"You sent MY Tess to that place!?"
"With a person who is spying on that place." Ashelin corrected herself before Daxter was about to start to wail like a baby. Jak looked confused. A new place? Where?
"What new place? Is it near?" The Freedom Guard commander shook his head.
"It's not near Haven City. We contacted Spargus and Kras after the battle.The place is nowhere near Spargus or Kras." Jak was surprised that after the battle, Haven could communicate Spargus and Kras again.
Are the winged creatures responsible for blocking the communication?
"Well... where the hell is the place?" Daxter asked, wanting to see his girlfriend. Ashelin placed her hands on her hips.
"We don't have any information..." Then, the communicator went on near Jak's bedside. "...yet."
"... Ashelin, th!$ !s Tess..." The female ottsel's voice was heard through the low static.
"Tess!" Daxter was happy, but the two Freedom League leaders were serious.
"Tess, where are you and 'Unholy 1'?" Ashelin asked. The statics from the communicator were getting louder.
"#'re a+ a 9!a(# cal!#d Celesin. T4# communication !s 9#77!n9 #ker! Un40!y 1 4$ a pro8!#m 4#r#!'m s0rry! T4# $!9n!$ 9#77!n9 #k#r! 0v#r nd 0u+!" (1) The communicator went off, giving the elves one clue: Celesin.
"Tess!" Daxter exclaimed, worried about his girlfriend in the new place.
"Celesin? I never heard about the place." Jak stated. A second the words slipped from his mouth, the infirmary were murmuring about the new information through the communicator.
"Celesin?"
"Is that a new place?"
"The winged creatures live there?"
"Listen up, everyone!" Ashelin's voice boomed inside the infirmary.
"This conversation must be kept top secret and away from the public! We only have very little information through our two spies in a place called Celesin, but this conversation must not be heard through public, understood!?"
"Yes, ma'am!" The soldiers saluted. Jak was quiet and thought of so many questions. Why did they want Keira? What are they going to do to her? Is she going to be alright? Jak's dream haunted him in his mind, and his fist clenched as his knuckles turned white. He growled and silently spoke in his mind.
I swear, Keira. I swear that I'll get you back safely, protect you, and kill all those winged bastards who harmed you. I swear.
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In Spargus City, an armored clad elf looked at the scene below him. He didn't want Haven to worry about him, but he was worried about the Wastelanders. The scene from the balcony was a disaster. There were many elves lying on the ground dead or barely alive. The other Wastelanders aided the injured or aided themselves to survive from the battlefield. There were some collapsed buildings and many ashes. He shook his head and rubbed his arm that was shot. He was also in the battlefield and used the Peacemaker that was placed beside him. The wind blew and carried the ashes and feathers that were left behind.
"Geez, what were those winged creatures anyways?" His communicator went on, and a feminine voice familiar to him was speaking through the communicator.
"Hey, Sig. Long time, no talk. What's up?" The Wastelander king, Sig, grinned.
"Shouldn't I supposed to be the one saying 'What's up?', Kayt?"
Aaaaaaaannnnnnnnnd... CUT! Second chapter is done here! If you want to see Keira's story, go to my profile, click on "My Tainted Angel: Keira's struggle," and read.
(1) We're at a place called Celesin. The communication is getting weaker! Unholy 1 has a problem here! I'm sorry! The signal is getting weaker! Over and out!