Since Simone3191 has a computer problem, I may have to continue it without checking. I apologize about the late notice and update. I'm not sure if this story is good to all of you, but it is satisfying to your interest, is it?

Chapter 3: Two Years Later: The Balancer

It wasn't the same in Haven City like the last two years. The Freedom Guards are in high alert in the second year. The streets were empty, and the zoomers were not driven yet. Ever since the attacked of the winged elves, the three cities were not the same. Yes. Three cities. Haven City managed to contact Spargus and Kras after the attack. The two cities also had an attack from the same winged elves in the same day... at the same time. Since the Wastlelanders were independent, they were not worried about the others. However, they were so on a high alert that they also shot birds thinking those animals were spies of the winged creatures. Kras City was a little on a high alert because of the love of races. However, the people in there would use weapons from their cars to shoot a far away flying object.

Jak wasn't the same as he was before. Ever since the abduction of his love, Keira Hagai, he was taking missions nonstop, killing the surviving Metal Heads to get his anger and frustration out, and taking challenges from other racers. Each two weeks, Tess would talk through the communicator for new information on the new place called, Celesin, or telling them that she is fine. The static in the communicator was getting worse but giving them little hints that Ashelin could barely translate.

"Ce!e$!# !s a f!0at!n9 is!a∏6 !n t#e $ky."/"Celesin is a something island somewhere."

"7he !n9e6 (r&Â7ure$ are (a!le6 'Angels'."/"Something in there are called 'Angels'."

"7here i$ Å pr0j3ct (a!l3d 'Angelus Creation Project' !n$!de 7he enem!e$' 6Å$e."/"There is something called 'Angelus Creation Project' inside the enemies' base."

"We 0un6 Keira! $he i$ $0mew#3r3 6e3p !n$id3 7h3 6Å$e."/"We found Keira! She is somewhere deep inside the base."

However, he was hoping to find a way to contact Keira clearly without using a communicator. Through anything for the Precursor's sakes! His friends were worried about him... a lot. Daxter thought he was going to be a little shaky for a long while but not this much! Sig already had his hands full protecting Spargus city from Marauders and Metalheads. Vin left a message for his friends, but they were happy to find out that he was helping the Resistance in Celesin.

"Hey, guys. I'm not here right now, but I am going to help you find Keira and this new place called Celesin. You do know about 'Unholy 1' , right? She sent me a brief message without being detected from the place that she needs me to search the codes to get Keira out. She couldn't do it because there are at least thirty codes out of millions of random codes, not to mention a major need of hacking to get the codes. I'll keep in touch with you guys, give you information about Celesin, and find a way to get some of you into Celesin."

Not long after the message, Torn finally got a full blown information about Celesin. Celesin was a city... excuse me... floating city in the sky where no vehicle, zoomer, or Hellcat could reach. It was like Haven and Kras City combined into one. However, there were no vehicles in there or any transportation... just flying and walking. They were disappointed that they didn't received an information about the whereabouts of Keira Hagai. He also heard about the "Angelus Creation Project." The infamous "Angelus Creation Project" was almost the same as the "Dark Warrior Project" that Jak went through. Not only the Angels were using Dark Eco and using only one person, they were using captured people and using both Dark Eco and Light Eco that could harm a person's body when they were mixed together at the same time. He now wanted to kill the Angels so bad because they were used as guinea pigs.

Vin also sent them the information about the problem of the communicators, which the Angels have a new device to disrupt the signals, and the history of the Resistance from the far away place. It was like the Underground, but they were slier, cunning, hidden, and stealthier. They were infamous for the people who lives closer to the palace, but they were famous for the people who were walking without wings, for the people who were used for experiments, and for many of the angels who are against the "Angelus Creation Project".

The "Angelus Creation Project" was stated that it will help them fight off enemies as well as having reinforcements. The project was so infamous because it was using against the wills of the land people who were captured from their homeland. Many of the land people and angels who lived in Celesin protested to stop the project. The government seized their work and told them that it has been eliminated, but it was a lie. They secretly continued their work under the palace. Some of the soldiers were disgusted by their governors' lies that they quit with a false reason. The naive governors accepted the reason and dismissed them to let them have their own choice. The ex-Trinity Guards left with the secret and organized the Resistance. Thus, the Resistance was born.

Jak couldn't sleep because he was worried about Keira and what the dream mean. He dreamt of her being hurt or tortured by the winged creatures. He silently screamed in the inside and felt himself change into Dark Jak to rip those winged bastards limb from limb. However, he aimed at the wings first for they would not fly away ever again. Almost every dream, he would wake up in sweat and sometimes shot up after the nightmare. He could remember the horrible dreams.

One of them was the worst dream he could not handle. He dreamt that he killed all of the winged elves that were surrounding around Keira who couldn't fight back. He finished off the last one and ran back to the beaten and bloodied maiden who was curled up on the floor. He could remember blood dribbling out of her mouth as she whispered the three words. "I love you." She lightly grabbed his collar of his shirt and pulled him down for one final kiss. He felt his lover go limp and sighed her last breath. He wanted to scream in agony and pain to see the young she-elf die in his arms. However, Jak would wake up to see that it was all a dream.

"Hey, Jak! Would you calm down?" Daxter snapped Jak's attention back to reality. Jak focused on where he was. He was in the middle of a desert, driving the Dune Hopper toward the destination.

"Sorry, Dax. I just have a lot of things in my mind..." Jak focused back to the desert road.

"Well. Do you know where are we supposed to be heading?" Daxter asked his best friend. Jak blinked twice and looked at Daxter who sighed in disbelief.

"We're going to the Precursor Temple because Seem (AN: Is Seem a girl or guy? I'll just say that Seem will be a girl.) found a new area that was hiding below us, remember? Geez, Jak. I know that you are worried about Keira, but you have to take things easy. We don't want Keira to see a tight-ass Jak around, now do we?" Jak sighed.

"You're right, Dax. Sorry. My mind was just..." Daxter sighed and patted Jak's shoulder he was on.

"Yeah. It's alright."

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Seem smiled to hear a vehicle coming toward the entrance of the temple with the loud yell from an orange fur ball. She was standing in front of the entrance with two other face painted monks standing beside her.

"JJAAAAAAKKKK! I SAID SLOW DOWN!" The vehicle was seen now by the high jump with the little rodent grasping on the hood of the car. When it reached to its destination, the car stopped with the screeching sound in front of the entrance. Daxter panted from screeching and gripping on the hood tightly. Jak stood up from his seat and jump off the Dune Hopper, yanking the ottsel off from his death grip. He was armored (see Jak 3), brought a fully loaded Morph gun, and had the JET-board connected on his back to remind him to get Keira back.

"Follow us." Seem turned around and started to walk toward the double doors. Jak rose an eyebrow and followed the strange monks. They were walked through almost every past obstacle until they reached to a room when the robots were protecting in a circle. They stopped in front of the statue that was the facing across the door in the far end.

"Here. This is where my monks and I must stop, hero. I sent a few of my monks in the passage way. Sadly, they have not returned from the last three days. Find anything that caused the deaths." Seem put her hand on the wall and pushed the stone that was moveable. The statue moved aside to reveal a secret passage that had stairs spiraling downward.

"Oh, great. Another way that has all dangers and death." Daxter sarcastically said. Jak ignored the lump on his shoulder and took out his Morph gun that was in Blaster Mode. Before they could go any further, Seem warned them.

"Be wary, hero and little one. There is a power far greater than the Precursors or the Dark Makers. We are not sure if they are our salvation... or destruction." Jak nodded and walked down the stairs.

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After dodging arrows and spears, shooting large bats and giant beetles, solving jigsaw puzzles while shooting huge beetles, running through a labyrinth in less than three minute while riding an ancient zoomer, using his Light form to fly toward high places, and discovering what happened to the last monks, Jak and Daxter reached to a double door that ended the crazy traps.

"Finally! I thought I was gonna die in this place!" Daxter sighed in relief to relax from the tension of holding onto his dear life. Jak examined the double doors. Unlike the Oracle's entrance, the carving were made of platinum and were drawn as two different mystic creatures. The left door had a body of a phoenix but the color and grace as a swan that had a gleaming sapphire eye and looked like it was reaching for heavens. The right door had a raging dragon that have eagle wings and ruby fire coming out of its mouth. It had the fiery ruby eyes and looked like that it was going down into battle against its enemy. Below in the middle of the door, there was a elven demon who have horns and rose its hand up high as their golden eyes shown through the darkness. In the top middle, emerald carved eyes gleamed in calmness. The figure above looked like a winged elf figure holding out the seal of Mar. Jak silently sneered at the top figure.

Angels my ass. Everyone says that they are merciful and holy. So, why did they take Keira away and killed so many?

"What are those weird drawings?" Daxter asked as he jumped off from Jak's shoulder and knocked on the platinum stone.

"Those look like the animals in the books back in Sandover." He couldn't remember what they were because when Daxter was still an elf and Jak was in his teenage years, they slacked off in knowledge due to Samos's boring lecture.

"I wonder if the doors open." Daxter tried to push the heavy doors to see or take a peek of what's inside behind the doors. However, it wouldn't budge or move a crack by the attempts of the ottsel. For a few seconds, Daxter panted and was holding up by his knees. Jak noticed the glare that was sent from his best friend. Jak resisted his urge to roll his eyes and walked toward double doors. He held his hand out and touched the carvings. When he touched the doors, the double doors slid away from each other quickly. The two jumped a little from the sudden action.

"Uh... that was weird." Daxter scratched his head to be confused by what happened. The two walked inside that was behind the double doors. Unlike the Oracle room, this dome room had light on the bottom floor as snow-like light was floating upward to the endless tunnel above. There were pictures of the elven people on the walls who were holding weapons like they were preparing to fight. On the edge where they stood, there were four small pillars that had markings written in columns. Behind the pillars, there were four huge statues. It was like the figures from the doors before.

"Uh... hello?" Daxter called. Then, the eyes of the four statues glowed as four different colored light appeared on the tip of the pillars.

"Hi." A woman's voice called from the green light. The two jumped a little in surprise to hear that the light could talk. Jak heard the voice somewhat familiar from the light... but he couldn't figure out whose voice that was.

"The name's Elisen. I am life to all things. I am the source of the Green Eco and healing."

"I'm Krusic. I am strength and courage. You already know me from Red Eco, young one." A deep manly voice came from the red light.

"Hey, dude. The name's Serf. I'm known to be Blue Eco and quickness. I may sound weird to you, but I am the main point for wisdom." A surfer's voice came from the blue light. The last light was yellow, but this had a different introduction.

"Jak... my son." A very familiar voice came from the yellow light.

"Father?" Jak couldn't believe what he was hearing. His father's voice was from the Yellow Eco light!

"Yes. It is me-" There was a short pause. "Well, sort of."

"Sort of, Damas?" Daxter asked.

"We are actually Spirits. We are not alive, but we are not dead. We don't have a body, but we do talk to others in this room." Elisen explained.

"Before we died, we were the previous heroes during the Metal Head War and Dark Maker War." Krusic added.

"So... how come you didn't leave?" Jak asked.

"We chose to stay in this world because there is a new threat upon this world, Jak." Damas explained. Jak and Daxter had questioning looks.

"Have you heard about the Balancers?" Serf asked. The two shook their heads. There was a lot of questions about this new word, Balancers, and the questions were giving them headaches.

"I'll tell you about the history of the Balancers. See... the Balancers are the unheard and undiscovered Precursors living on this planet. No one knew about the Balancers because our ancestors have hid the secrets away from future generations. We, Spirits, don't know the reason why they hid them, but my guess is that the Balancers may be the most powerful Precursor. Since the Precursors have Light Eco and the Dark Makers have Dark Eco, I presumed that the Balancers have both."

"Both?" Daxter and Jak asked. Elisen explained.

"It's complicated. You, Jak, may have Dark and Light Eco in you, but it was given instead of forced-" Elisen stopped for a second, "... well the Dark Eco was forced but the Light Eco was given. So, you can't be a Balancer."

"However, being forced to take in both Ecos against the will become a Balancer if they are not removed within a year. This could be a good thing or a bad thing. It could also be a blessing or a curse, depending on the whim of the user." Damas added.

"The Angels may have discovered the power accidentally through an old book or some part of secret passage way on their own. Right now, they may want the power of the powerful Balancers, but they are not quite sure about how to receive them." Serf added.

"Is that why they captured many people?" Jak asked them. He needed to know if they took Keira as a guinea pig. His heart beat faster as the four lights were silent like they were looking at each other. He needed an answer from them, or he'll never know if she has to risk her life on the battlefield. Krusic answered his question.

"Yes. They are. Why do you ask?"

That made Jak afraid and snap at the same time.