They arrived back in Sandover at dawn. The sun had barely peeked over the world. They made their way up to Samos's hut where he'd probably be awake and talking to plants or something. They crept up to his house and the moment Daxter stepped in, Samos turned to the three of them.
"Blaise, Jak, Daxter – what are you doing?"
"We-we-we was! There were! We-we-we!" Daxter stuttered jumping around and pointing and then looking back at Samos. Blaise really did think he looked quite cute jumping around but she focused on the Green Sage instead.
"Don't tell me!" He roared, landing on the ground, tapping his staff furiously against his wooden floor. "Instead of heeding my wisdom, the three of you went mucking around in the one place I told you not to go! Misty Island!"
"Well…uh…" Blaise stuttered, biting at her lip. Man, this was all her fault!
"Well, yeah!" Daxter exclaimed like it was the obvious answer. He threw a glare at her. "But there-"
"And Daxter, you took a much needed bath! But in a bathtub filled with Dark Eco!" Oh, that didn't sound good. She threw a worried look at Daxter, hoping he was going to be ok. Dark Eco sounded like the deadly sort of stuff.
"That's great!" Daxter crowed back "Now are you gonna help me out of this horrible mess or are you going to keep yapping?"
"Dax!" She hissed. She knew that if he really wanted Samos to help him, he should be a bit more respectful to the man.
"I'm going to keep yapping! I think the change is an extreme improvement and besides that I couldn't help you even if I wanted to anyway!" Daxter looked angry at the former comment while Blaise and Jak exchanged wary looks. He couldn't help Daxter, at all? What were they going to do?
"What do we do?" She asked quickly before Daxter could explode.
"Well, there is only one person that could help him. Gol, but he lives far to the North. Far, far, far to the North. No one has spoken to him in ages and he's the only one who has studied Dark Eco enough to even have a chance at returning Daxter to his pervious form" He tapped his staff against the floor again.
"Is there any way we can get there quickly?" She asked, cutting Daxter off once more. Daxter gave her an annoyed look.
"Well, I'd love to use my warp gate to send you all there…But I can't do that either. None of the other Sages have seen fit to turn theirs on for a long time" He seemed a little annoyed by this fact but for as long as she could remember he hated using the gates.
She waited for him to go on and he did.
"The only other way north is by foot and do that you'd have to tread through Fire Canyon. It's volcanic soil is hot enough to melt Precursor metal."
"So we can't walk across it" She sounded disappointed. Daxter rubbed his hand on his face and Jak crossed his arms, probably thinking.
"But" came Keira's voice "You could fly over it…if you had a zoomer equipped with a heat shield"
"Which you're working on right now!" Blaise grinned at her and she grinned back, looking sassy and smart.
"But, I'll need twenty power cells to power the heat shield withstand the heat in the Canyon." She said walking towards Samos. Daxter tried to impress her, as he always did but she walked right past him forcing Blaise to swallow a giggle. "Isn't that right daddy?"
"I suppose that would work…" he muttered, placing one thick finger on his lip But then he turned to Daxter, Blaise and Jak "Where are a girl, a boy – and half-" Daxter received a rather heartfelt smack on the head "Going to find twenty power cells?"
"Get them from the villages. Most of them must have work to be done and if you manage to help them I'm sure they'll cough up a power cell. You guys also have those precursor orbs stashed away. Cough up some of them and I'm sure you'll be able to gather a power cell or two." She smiled at Jak. "And, I'm sure there are plenty of Power Cells out there waiting for any brave adventurer to find" She batted her eyelashes at him. He just grinned and blushed. Blaise frowned.
"Well we've got the brave adventurer" She said, leaning against Kiera's shoulder with a grin. "Now all we need is the Power Cells"
"Well, there are a few on Geyser Rock I think" Samos said. "It'd be good training for these 'heroes'" He said throwing a withering glance at Jak and Daxter. "You two head through the warp gate and collect those Power Cells."
"What about me?" Blaise asked.
Jak glanced at her and then at Daxter. Daxter was thinking as well. "You know where we keep our orbs right? Go get them all and see how many power cells you can tempt from the villagers while we're gone." He suggested. She nodded.
"Care you guys" Jak just grinned before jumping through the warp gate, Daxter following. With that she turned to go get the orbs and get as many power cells from the villagers as she could. The faster she got the power cells, the faster that they could save Daxter from a particularly hairy fate.
It actually only took them two days to gather power cells from the surrounding area. There had to be some on Misty Island, but Daxter refused to go back, even after they had free access to the Fisherman's boat. It annoyed Blaise but they had bigger problems to worry about as they reached the Blue Sage's hut. She knew they'd go back to Misty Island someday; it'd just take Daxter a little while to get over his stupid fear of falling into more Dark Eco.
It seemed that the Blue Sage had been taken somewhere against his will. According to any villager they spoke to, the man had just simply disappeared. He had taken all his power cells with him. So started the next leg of their adventure. They had to save Rock Village from the horrible monster that was throwing burning rocks onto it. They also needed more power cells to use the Blue Sage's device to get to the monster. It was like starting over again, but they just needed to collect more.
It was a pattern for them. They'd get to a new place and then they'd have new troubles. They actually discovered in the Red Sage's hut that Gol and his sister were responsible for the disappearance of the Sages and they were really, and very obviously, quite evil after their extended exposure to Dark Eco.
It became clear that Daxter would not be returned to his old form…. And though Blaise felt bad, she also felt like they all had purpose – to stop Gol from doing terrible things to their beautiful world. So they traveled to his home.
She remembered standing before it, after having watched Samos be kidnapped with Kiera and taking Jak's hand and squeezing it. He squeezed back, reassuring her that it would be alright. Samos would be saved and then…They would go home. Everything would go back to normal and everyone would be happy.
At least that was what she sincerely hoped.
Okay, sorry for my prolonged absence! My laptop broke, leaving me with no computer except at the school and I didn't like using their computers. Plus I was horribly busy with all my schoolwork as well. But now I am back and in a serious writing mood! So be prepared for chapters, chapters, chapters! Or at least the finishing of this story and the start of Book 2! Sorry this chapter wasn't very long though. I just wanted to sum up the adventure. The next chapter will be the last!