We had been flying for hours, but it only felt like a few seconds since we sat down on the metal chairs. Daxter had fallen asleep next to me. His head was resting on his tail and his body was curled up tightly. Every once in a while he'd whisper things like "Never fear, Orange lighting is here."

My palms were staring to ache.

I looked down at the journal that I was gripping with all my strength. Somehow I just couldn't relax my hands, enough to open up the book. I felt a cold sweat trickle down my neck.

"You're scared." Said an ominous voice I knew all too well. The dark, bitter suddenly became more and more apparent as Dark made his presence known. I closed my eyes and locked my jaw.

What the hell are you doing here?

Because, you're angry. I just adore violent emotions…so wonderfully mouthwatering…

I'm not mad at anything

Jak, Sig was right about you needing to handle yourself. When will you ever learn we are apart of each other? Just embrace me. You're mad at the fact you are weak and can't even look at daddy's final words. It was a snicker at the end.

This conversation is OVER!

Using all my light eco power I pushed dark back in being dormant in the back of mind. Light made a pleased sound before his presence disappeared too. That's what I liked about Light, he wasn't nearly as vocal as Dark. I sighed and looked at the book.

Father…

I kept thinking it, hoping it will motivate me to open it. It's so stupid. I can shoot up anything, survive dark eco, kill, blow up, and fight until the world ends because I'm forced too. But the one thing I desire, to finally know who I am, it's scaring the living hell out of me. I banged my head against the transport plane's wall and Dax stirred at the metal crash.

"Huh, What? I swear it wasn't me this time!" he sat up looking around, but not seeing.

I laughed. Good ol' dax knowing how to assuage a stressful moment.

"Relax, it's just me."

Daxter rubbed his fuzzy eyes and yawned. "What time is it?"

"A little past 3am."

He stretched out his arms over dramatically. "Yeesh, Get some rest, big guy. We've been flying for 6 hours now."

I smiled at him. "I think that's for the best." I leaned on the wall and closed my eyes, but I still felt daxter's stare on me.

"Jak?"

"Yeah Dax?"

"I miss my family too."

I opened one eye causally in opposite of what I was feeling. He was curled up like he was sleep again. His back was towards me.

"I know. You were orphaned, because a lurker shark sunk your parent's ship right?"

"I still remember what it felt like to be swimming in bloody water. All I could hear was the pounding of my own heart. Thank Mar I washed up on SandOver beach. No one ever found my parent's body. I guess that was one hungry Lurker."

"Do you remember them?"

"Like it was fucking yesterday buddy. My mother was a real looker, you know. Now particularly well endowed like Tess, or curving Like Ashlin, but her face was priceless. Her name was Anne and she was the best story teller. My mother had such a vivid imagination. There wasn't a night I wasn't put to bed with one of her stories. I never knew my old man, but I knew my grandfather. He was a lot like old green and ugly. But I respected him, because he was a strong man. I tell you Jak. I had it good. I don't remember why we were out at Sea, or where I came from though."

I let out a deep gust of air and closed my eyes again. I never heard Dax talk about his past like that.

"What I'm getting at is that if I knew for a fact I could learn about Anne more, I would jump into another pool of eco pronto." Daxter said with a yawn.

I sighed. "I'm trying." I admitted softly.

Daxter seemed to understand, because it was quite for a while. Soon I heard his snores again and this time they would joined with mine.

A few hours later.

"Daxter." I said rousing up my osstel best friend.

"What?" he said with a frown.

"wake up, We just landed." I said picking him up and slapping him on my shoulder. Daxter perked up fast.

"Oh yeah! Luxury Baby. Bring on the beaches and Babes!"

I smiled. "Tess is going love that idea buddy." I said rolling my eyes.

Dax shrugged. "hey I won't cheat, but can I help it if I'm just way to hot to handle?"

The airlock then unclamped with a huge cranking sound and the doors opened. First thing I noticed was clear blue sky. All around. Litterally.

The brink and Destiny Island included were a group of island land masses floating in the air. Scientist concluded that here the eco in the earth's core that induce gravity was so immense that it reacted like two alike poles of a magnet. It repelled it, thus creating the "air Islands" known as the brink.

The second thing was the captivating beach area. From here I could see that there was a rather huge ocean on this island. I could also make out mountains and a Forrest. I stepping out and felt the crunching of the sand. I looked down and was shocked to see the sand was littered in rainbows.

"Well I'll be damned." I said looking all over at the rainbow colored sand. It covered the entire island it seemed.

"Looks like the sky threw up skittles on the ground." Daxter said.

"It's because of the eco." Said a voice.

It was a teenage boy with blonde hair and black eyes. He was dressed in cargo shorts and a Hawaiian styled shirt open up exposing his chest. He was rather short, but he looked all business. It was like a younger and blonde version of Torn.

"Um?" Daxter said skeptically, but the kid nodded towards the ocean. "It's like that under water too. The island has so much eco within it that it mixes. The Eco is literally the soil here now. The rainbow color you see is the effect of that. It's the green, red, yellow, blue, and dark eco, but it's all in balance so one doesn't out power the other. That's why our food and water is so healthy, because it's full of everything our bodies need to grow."

"You're very well informed." I said slowly.

"Lived here a long while."

"And you are?"

"The person, you report to for your missions."

"Excuse me?"

"Jak and Daxter." The kid said without emotion. "I know everything."

"How can we trust a kid?" Daxter said hoping off my shoulder.

"Because I'm in that gang you want in so badly." He said emotionlessly.

"You?" I said shaking my head.

"I'm commander Torn's …" he hesitated before clearing his throat. "Son." He finished.

I looked at Daxter. He looked at me. We exchanged the classic "WTF" face before returning our gaze on the kid.

He shrugged. "You're no the only one who accidently stumbled upon a rift gate, Jak Mar."

"Oh my God." I said.

"Does Torn?" Daxter started.

The shook shook his head. "No. I dyed my hair to make sure he didn't find out. I crashed here about seven months and within that time I was able to do my research on this time period. If I want history to repeat like it's supposed to, then I had to join this gang."

"Oh. So your mom…"

"Is Ashlin Praxis. Indeed. Mom here seems to be uptight, but I never got to meet her. The only reason I know dad, because I lied and said I was one the underground's top men's son."

I shook my head. "I guess we aren't the only weird ones Dax."

"Clearly." He answered. "What's your name kid?"

"Cyrus." He said slowly. "Cyrus Praxis. And I'm not a kid. I'm actually 21 years old."

"…"

"…."

Cyrus looked at our blank expressions before laughing. He shook his head. "I'm serious as a heart attack Boys." He held out his license and sure enough he was older than us by a year.

"Rainbow sand and a pedo in reverse. This Destiny Island is great so far." Dax said groaning.

Cyrus kept his face blank. "We should be going now."

"When do we meet, the leader?" I asked focused on the mission again.

"When I think its safe." He answered. "The leader, Viper, is secretive much like your "shadow" I never meet him, but I know how to find him."

"Well then why are we here, if you know what you're doing?" Dax asked.

Cyrus frowned. "Viper is…blessed with eco powers beyond what my gun could handle." Cyrus waved a long pistol in the air. It was sliver and old fashioned.

"Sounds right up my alley." I said in a dark voice. As much as I hating dark, cutting loose was always so damn amazing.

Cyrus nodded as he took the path underneath some fruit trees. Soon we reached the main village. It was Sandover used to be. Huts instead of building, but hover cars drove around. It was very beautiful; a few citizens eyed me nervously when they saw my morph gun on my waist.

"Oh wow." Daxter said. "It's gorgeous here."

"This is Destiny Village." Cyrus said. We walked down the roads in silence as we toured around the village. Cyrus was indeed his father's son when it came to simple displicne. I could imagine even if he came up to my chest, he could handle himself in combat as well.

"And this." He said after several minutes of walking. We had walked up to the ocean where main rivers ran into the main city. Hidden by rocks was a door.

"Is the hideout of the group known as the anti. As you I'm sure you know our next target is to eliminate m- Ashlin. We cannot let that happen. If it does…" Cyrus sighed and shook his head. "They will usurp power and Viper would be just another baron. Just another story of a evicted king."

It felt like Damas' journal in my backpack started to grow heavier when Cyrus said that.

"Typically, I will have you do missions, until Viper request you. But while you are on break." He turned and pointed back to the city. "Enjoy yourself. If I need you, then I will find you."

"Oh baby! That's what I wanna hear. Let's go drink! No eat! No let's gamble! We're legal now buddy! No Let's go the beach. No let's find a hotel and just relax." Daxter was bouncing. I laughed. "Don't wet yourself Dax."

"I trust you two will enjoy yourself." Cyrus said starting to walk away when all of a sudden a rather rough looking man appeared. "Sir, There are metal head in the mountains."

"What?" Cyrus yelped. "If somebody doesn't stop them all of our supplies will be destroyed!"

I smiled at Daxter who was already crestfallen.

"I didn't even get a chance to tan my fur!" He yelled at I picked up and jet boarded towards the mountains. My goggles pulled down and my scarf wrapped around my face. I forgot how good my trigger felt in my hands.

"Never a dull damn moment." He said shaking his furry head.

I laughed and hurried to the one thing I was the very best at.

A/N *whew* that was a lot to take in. a new place? Viper the crime lord? A son from the future? And Let's not forget Jak has yet to read his father's journal. Well I hope that was interesting for you all to read as it was to write. :D please send feedback. I'll see you guys in about a week or so!