"Keira!" Blaise called to her adopted sister. She was fourteen now and it was Daxter's fifteenth birthday. There was a small party being held in the village. Food, fun and some of the members of the town playing music, It wasn't a big party, but it was lively enough. Blaise moved through the crowd to find the other girl who she called a sister. "There are you Keira! I've been looking for you" She grinned.

"Oh, sorry, I was finishing Daxter's gift" She smiled and it looked slightly mischievous.

"Oooh! Last minute changes? Lemme see!"

"Nu-uh! You have to wait. Just like Daxter" She looked up at her. Kiera was taller than her with curves, already. Blaisa was about two inches shorter than her, her auburn hair falling down her back. She didn't have curves like Kiera, but she had curves. Still, with a smile, the two girls began to walk towards where Daxter and Jake were sitting and eating. Kiera kept her arms, and the gift, behind her back. It was actually a gift both of them had spent time working on together.

"Daxter!" The bother of them called at the same time and he grinned upon seeing them.

"Ladies!" He replied. Jak rolled his eyes and went back to eating, though he did wave to them. As they got closer, Keira held out the gift.

"Happy Birthday Daxter!" They cheered at the same time. It was a pair of goggles that they actually made themselves. Blaise had worked on the leather strapping while Keira had worked on the metal. Blaise could see Precursor Runes carved around the edge of the metal. So that was what she had been working on. Still it was a nice touch.

"Awesome!" He said, grabbing them from her and inspecting them. After a long moment, he seemed to realize that there were runes on it. He looked at them. "Eh...What does this mean?"

"You can't read it?" Blurted Blaise.

"Uh...no..." He gave her a look that clearly meant WHY should he be able to read it.

"You know daddy teaches about the Precursor runes so you can read them." Keira said and she shook her head at Daxter. "You need to listen to him more when he's trying to teach you something."

"Ugh, don't be lecturing me about his lectures on my birthday!" He pulled the goggles on though. "But thanks for the gift, I love it. What does it say though?"

"It says your name and the date" Blaise said. She smiled. "That was Keria's idea. It was a wonderful one though! Now you'll never forget us!"

"How could I forget two girls?" Daxter asked and Blaise and Keria laughed. They all joined the in some of the party goings, the night passing in a blur. Blaise ended up staying at Jak's house along with Daxter, all of the curled together in the same bed. It didn't feel awkward. They actually didn't go to sleep. They just laid their talking. Well, Daxter and Blaise talked, Jak listened, nodding every once in a while.

"I'm bored" Blaise finally said. "I wanna do something fun"

"Fun?" Daxter asked and Jak gave her a look that said he was up to it.

"Yeah, I wanna go out and do something" She got up and ruffled her hair. "Let's go!"

"Where?" Daxter asked, watching her. Jak got up and went to the window. She joined him, thinking.

"Some place fun...um..." Her eyes scanned the water, looking for a place. "Misty Island! Let's go there!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Daxter interrupted. "No way! Samos said we're not supposed to go there!"

"Since when did you listen to him? Let's go!" She already was clambering out of the house as fast as she could. Jak came out with Daxter chasing after him. She hurried down to the port where the Fisherman's boat was sitting in the peaceful waters. Before any of them could stop her, she jumped into it. Jak followed her. Daxter remained on the dock, glaring at the two of them.

"I'm not going!" He exclaimed.

"Hush! Get in the boat and be quiet!" Blaise hissed. "Get in Daxter!"

"No!"

She grabbed his arm, sighing and rolling her eyes at him, and dragged him in. Before he could protest at all she started the boat, keeping it on the slowest setting she could so that way it wouldn't wake up the entire village and they were off. Daxter sat up and promptly heaved his guts over the edge.

"Dax are you okay?" She asked.

"No, I get sea-sick!" He threw up again and hung over the edge and they slowly drifted towards Misty Island. She frowned and shook her head at him before looking at Jak. He was grinning and soon the two of them were laughing while Daxter looked at them like they were crazy. They had to work from laughing too hard.

Soon they had arrived at the island. They all crept out of the boat and began to explore the island. A thick mist surrounded it – though it was that mist that gave its name in the first place – and gave it a surreal, creepy look about it. It was kind of pretty, or so Blaise though. They wandered together through the island, climbing on things and exploring. It was when they came across a huge group of Lurkers and standing in front of them were two humans with strange blue skin tones. Actually, Blaise thought they had a weird gray tone that she didn't like the look of at all. It kind of creeped her out. She was so busy looking at the Lurkers and the weird gray skin that she didn't hear any of their words till the woman spoke.

"...Deal harshly with anyone who strays from the village."

"Let's get out of here!" She whispered to Jak and Daxter. They climbed down off the rock they were on and hurried away. She wanted to leave, the sense of adventure overwritten with a sense of fear instead. Jak wanted to explore more and while they did, Daxter complained. She just stuck close to them.

"Ow!" Daxter suddenly cried. She turned to look at him and saw he had tripped over some weird looking Precursor item. "Ugh! Stupid Precusors! Samos goes on and on about these guys. Where did they go? Why did they build this crap?" He threw the item and Jak caught it. He and Blaise moved towards a hole in the floor. A dark ooze was within and Blaise made a face at it.

"Ew" She grumbled. "What is this disgusting stuff?" She asked out loud.

"Don't know, but it's probably really dangerous so we should get the heck out of here!" Daxter suggested and she looked at him with a nod before they turned around to look at Jak again. The item in his hand was blinking. She moved closer, circling to see what he did. Daxter stayed where he was, gawking. "Whoa! How'd ya do that Jak?"

"I don't think we have time for that!" You exclaim, pointing at a huge Lurker that jumped up to where the three of them had been standing. It swung its club around and Blaise hurried to dodge it's strike. She managed to get out of the way but she was on the ground. The beast raised his club again once again. She cringed. She saw Jak throw the item he had in his hand and there was an explosion that had her covering her head. She noted that Jak was blown back against Daxter.

"Jak! Daxter!" She cried. Jak was fine, but Daxter had been knocked back into the goo. "Dax!" She got up and ran forward, falling at the edge of tank. "Oh no..." Jak was there with her, a hand on her shoulder. She felt tears in her eyes.

Then out popped a small orange animal.

"Man! That stung!" Cried the creature in Daxter's voice. Blaise and Jak crawled closer to him, curiosity in their eyes. He went on talking but Blaise didn't hear him until he seemed to notice what happened to him and he screamed. Oh yeah, that was Daxter. She and Jak covered their ears.

"It's okay Daxter" She told him. "I think you look adorable" He sighed, glancing downwards. He must have caught sight of his tail because he screamed again. "Shhh! Let's get back and ask Samos what to do!" She suggested. Jak nodded and scooped up Daxter. The three of them fled the scene then.

Blaise was happy to finally get off Misty Island. She just couldn't have guessed what fate might have in store for them next.

Bad ending to chapter is bad. I made it longer though so that's one good thing about this chapter. Now we're into the actual plotline, I'll probably skip through some scenes, but now they have an adventure ahead of them.

Oh and obviously, I don't own anything or anyone ( except Blaise ).