Alpha: Sorry I haven't updated in a while but I got distracted with my other stories and am trying to make the chapters longer per your request and really that shit is hard this is the longest chapter I have ever done.
Tye: And don't take that as her trying to guilt or blame y'all or nothing.
Alpha: Yeah I'm just trying to explain why I took so long. Please send a review with constructive criticism.
Tye: Yeah you have no idea how happy that makes her. As soon as she gets one she's on the fucking laptop for an hour working on a story. And if you enjoyed this one you might enjoy her other stories as well.
Alpha: Just a heads up Jak and Alpha start to get a little closer in this chapter, and a little insight to Alpha and Tye's past. Also I have pics up on Deviant art. The links are on my profile.
After my lovely, *cough painful cough*, fall we walked down the millions of bridges and went into the small village. Jak turned in the direction of the beach but frankly I hate the beach so I turned the opposite way and went to the big ass house. Jak being the nice boy he is followed. Inside a man was pacing back and forth worrying, but that's not what I went in there for. I heard a scout fly and I needed to get it. Tye went over to I'm guessing he was a politician of some sort with Jak and Daxter.
The politician looked at them and groaned in an upset way, "Don't tell me you three have problems as well!" I guess he hasn't noticed me yet. He took a deep breath and mumbles to himself. He then points above us and we follow his finger, "See those gears up there boys, see them?" There were a bunch of giant gears up at his ceiling but the odd thing was that they were just sitting there still. "See how they're not moving? That means that our village has no power. The eco beam coming from the jungle temple has been interrupted." I'm still trying to open the fucking scout fly box. I don't have the upper body strength that Jak does. The mayor whispers behind his hand and leans towards them. "Boys everyone's too frightened to go out and find out what's happened?"
"Did ya pay the bill?" Tye asked crossing his arms over his furry chest and leaning all his weight on his left leg. Of course this was a reference to our dimension so the others didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
They old dude looked at him like he was insane before laughing thinking that what Tye said was a joke, "Oh, you're funny," he then turned serious, "Now look if you three fix the eco beam I'll give you a power cell." Then he suddenly remembered something, "Ooh, ooh and another thing. If by any chance you're interested in making a contribution to my reelection campaign I might be willing to part with yet another power cell." I snorted. I've always hated politicians. Oh I had also got the scout fly. Turns out that all I had to do was jump up and slam my, out of nowhere, strong leg on the top. When I say out of nowhere I'm referencing the strong part not the leg part. I have always had two legs. "The contribution is very modest, 90 precursor orbs."
"Yeah ok old man," Dax said before Jak and them walked out of the hut me trailing behind them, the politician still not noticing I had even been there, idiot.
We head back through the village and go towards the jungle. We pass by a ledge and I jump up and explore it. I jump up the top and see this thing that had a blue lightening on it which meant it needed blue eco to activate it. Looking forward there was another cliff with two blue eco clusters on it. Jumping across I landed in the middle of the two eco clusters and grabbed them. Once again feeling the energy run through me, I smirked. Everything seemed to go in slow motion around me as I jump back over and the object on the ground activates going up in the air and bringing 15 orbs up with it. Reaching out I touched the orbs and the thing came back to the ground once I had all of the orbs.
Jumping back down I smile at the guys and we continue on and notice an old man sitting down asleep leaning on this really long stick. There's a name for it I know, but I just can't remember. I looked around noticing a bunch of cow like things. "Hey Dax what are those?"
"Oh those are Yak Cows. They're REALLY stupid." He answered.
"So they're just like you?" Tye summed up and smirked high fiving me. Heh, heh.
Dax turned and glared at Tye, "What did you say? You wanna fight cause I'll give ya a fight!" he yelled in Jak's ear causing him to flinch and put Dax on the ground away from his ear.
Tye jumped down and bared his teeth at Dax, "Please I have skills you only have wet dreams about."
Dax gasped, "How did you know about that?" He looked appalled.
… We all stared at him blankly before I broke the silence, "Wait dude … its true?"
Daxter looked at all of us before trying to brush it off as a joke, "Psh, yeah right I had you fooled didn't I?"
"Oh, yeah because that was so much more believable," I said before walking to the farmer with Jak while Tye and Dax got into a slap fight over something. I don't know I think it had something to do with one's mom being an ugly whore and one being a fag or something. I got bored and really didn't want to pay attention. Ignoring them I nudged the farmer's leg with my foot to wake him up.
He was still in a sleep like state when he started talking, "Gotta milk those yak cows; gotta milk those yak cows," I nudged him again and he jumped up with a startled snort and he looked up at us, "Oh! It's you." He let out a tired sigh, "Just restin' my tired bones," he said and rubbed his knee before continuing, "I've been tryin' to get those hungry yak cows back into the pen all day, some strange creature tried to steal 'em earlier. You think you could help an old man try to get 'em back into the corral?" We agreed and I heard a scout fly in his house. Walking over to it I jumped in the air and brought my right foot down onto the top and break the box before grabbing the scout fly and walking back over Jak.
'So how we gonna do this?' I asked Jak looking at the yak cows scattered around the beach.
'All you have to do is walk behind them and they walk forward, pretty simple.' He answered and smiled at me encouragingly. Not that he needed to of course, cause I'm not afraid or unsure of anything!
'Hm, you take two, I take two, and they take one?' I asked counting five of the yak cows.
'Is that smart?' He asked and looked to Tye and Dax, who were still in a slap fight. I just shrugged before walking over to the two ottsels and told them the plan. They nodded and glared at each other before running off to find the largest yak cow to herd in, as if it were some great feat.
Jak and I had finished herding in our two yak cows and were watching Tye and Dax attempt to bring in the last of the five yak cows. I was sitting on the top railing of the fence and Jak was leaning back on it with his arms crossed, we were both laughing at the poor idiot creatures that we called friends. Dax was pulling at the hair on the chin of the yak cow while Tye was on its back kicking it like one would when riding a horse. Sighing I jumped off the fence and slowly started walking behind the cow, steering it into the pin. I didn't notice that the yak cow had walked over Daxter leaving nice hoof prints all over his front and that Tye had fallen off and onto his face, but Jak did and had to hold onto the railing of the fence in order not to fall over from silent laughter.
"Hey that lazy farmer owes us a power cell!" Dax yelled out as he walked past us and up to the once again sleeping farmer. "Let's go talk to him." We followed him and nudged the farmer again to wake him up.
He looked to the pen and chuckled, "Ah, well done m'boy you actually got those flea bags back into the pen. Now I can sleep in peace." He takes out a power cell and hands it to Jak. "Here take this power cell for your trouble." As soon as we had the power cell he fell back to sleep.
"You think he's a narcoleptic?" I asked looking at the old man.
Tye shook his head and answered, "Nah, that's the dude from Moulin Rouge."
"And that arrancar from Bleach."
"No I think he was just tired all the time."
"True but he was cool."
"Hey didn't you like that one, uh Grimmjow or something?"
"… What's your point?"
"He's a pussy."
… It took about two seconds for Tye and I to start laughing and as soon as we would try to stop we would look at each other and start all over again. Jak and Dax just stared at us before looking at each other and shrugging. After we almost pissed ourselves from laughter we started to walk towards the jungle, once again, but Jak stopped and turned. We followed suite as he walked forward and jumped up the six ledges to get to the top. He left the seven orbs for me to grab. At the top there were two more. Then we went up another ledge and around the corner was fire canyon.
"Wow that's hot." Tye said.
"Yes it is Paris Hilton. Now pray tell where is tinker bell and your annoying as hell pink phone?" I replied and looked to see his reaction. (AN: Paris Hilton is known for starting the 'that's hot' craze)
He smiled and said, "I lost them while I was up Mr. Slave's ass," and once again I almost pissed myself laughing. Poor Jak and Daxter though, they had no clue what we were talking about. (AN: South Park reference) We went back down and this time I saw some creepy thing on a ledge.
"Hey guys, what the fuck is that?" I asked and motion to the thing with my thumb over my shoulder. They looked to where I was pointing and a confused look fell over their faces. "I take it that means that you don't know." We all walked over to the first really tall but very skinny island and jumped up to the top. There were three orbs and a scout fly.
Across the water is another ledge that Jak did some kind of roll jump thing to get to it. I however used my new found abilities to simply jump over to it. Seriously I'm like a ninja now. There were three more orbs. Then we jumped forward again and grabbed another three orbs. To the left is a ledge connected to bridge connected the ledge with creepy thingy. So we followed the yellow brick road. Only it's not yellow … or made of bricks.
"This must be the precursor things the sage always goes on about. I hope they weren't as UGLY in person," Daxter said and we came closer to the creepy thingy, putting an emphasis on ugly.
Then suddenly the thing started talking, "Who awakens the oracle? Wait on of you has the light within."
"What the hell is the light within?" My question went unanswered.
"From before time," The oracle continued, "I have watched and waited for the true hero to return. Present to me 120 precursor orbs for each power cell I contain."
"How many do we have?" Tye asked as I brought out the touch screen device that Samos gave me and showed them.
"Eighty."
"Wow I thought we would have had more by now."
"Yeah same here." We then went back down to the jungle entrance and you know what? We actually went through it this time. In front of us were five orbs then a cliff to go up. At the top was a bridge with a few planks missing. Jak and Dax went to the left and jumped across the small river grabbing two orbs on the way, while Tye and I went to the right to grab the rest of the shit.
I hadn't taken two steps before an orange cobra hung down from the tree. "Oh shit!" Tye and I cried out as I jumped outta the way of its mouth when it lunged for us. Well actually I think it was after Tye seeing as he is a small animal that would make a very tasty snack for the snake. Maybe I should just give him to it. Then it might leave me alone, but of course I'm too nice for that and just kicked the snake in the face causing it to turn into a bunch of little green eco balls.
I continued to walk forward and we came upon some spikes. "Y'know I think Jak and Daxter knew all this annoying shit was here and they left it to us to do on purpose." Tye said relaxing on my shoulder.
"We?" I asked jumping over the spikes and kicking this frog like thing. "I'm the one doing all the work. You're just getting a front row seat."
"Yeah but I still have to feel all the bumps from when you move. You should be more gracef- AHHH!" Yeah I knocked him off my shoulder again. The stupid bastard deserved it. Looking around there is a bunch of tree stumps with some orbs on it. I jumped up and grabbed all 4 of the orbs and the scout fly. I jumped down only to duck another snake. I had rolled out of the way but hit this weird spiky vine thing coming out of the ground and let me tell you that shit hurt! I heard a warrior cry that sounded a lot like Xena and looked up to see Tye swinging on a vine towards the snake. He dropped down on top of it and hit it in the face with a stick. "Booya bitch!"
"Oh my god, I just got saved by Tarzan lord of the orange plushy rats." Good lord have I gotten pathetic. I grabbed the green eco and felt the scratches where the spikes on the vine ad cut into my skin disappear. Tye walked over with a big ass grin on his face and opened his mouth to say something but I cut him off, "Shut up." He opened his mouth again, "Nope, not a word." He just gave me that big grin again and jumped up onto my shoulders. I ignored the bastard and jumped up onto the other tree stumps and grabbed five more orbs.
I then jumped across the river and grabbed two orbs on the way. Jak and Dax were on the other side waiting for us. They each had been watching us and looked at us like we were a couple of idiots, which I guess we are. Ah well they can go screw themselves. We walked around the corner of the giant jungle temple and saw this large metal contraption with three platforms that go up and down each one higher up than the next. We jumped up them and there were two orbs at the top. I looked forward and almost fell over at what I saw. "You have got to be shitting me." There were two spinning platforms that we would have to jump across to get to the other side.
"Yeah," Tye said, "see these are the times I wish I could fly."
"Wish granted," I said and dropped kicked him all the way to the other side where he landed face first.
"YOU BITCH!"
"I love you too!" I yelled back with a wave.
"Wow, y'know I almost feel sorry for that guy," Dax said leaning against Jak's head from his spot on Jak's shoulder.
"Really cause you're about to join him," I said and grabbed Dax and drop kicked him so that he landed on Tye, who had just stood up.
"Damnit!"
Jak then jumped across the spinning platforms and grabbed the three orbs on the last one. I followed and almost fell on my ass. Damn Jak and his ninja like ninjaness. On the other side of the giant machine was a blue eco beam that was hitting a mirror. Tye looked over and saw something before jumping up into the eco and running off. We watched him run off and saw him go to a door that none of us had noticed and it opened to show a power cell. "Ha! That's right I'm awesome!" he yelled out and flipped us all off. "You guys are sssoooo jealous of me aren't you?"
"Hell no," Dax and I said at the same time while Jak shook his head to say 'no'. Jak then walks over and breaks the mirror causing the ground to shake before a tall thing came out of the ground. It had a blue crystal ball at the top of it and the beam that was hitting the mirror was now hitting the ball and going off in some direction.
'That must be what the Mayor was talking about,' Jak said, well 'thought', to me.
'What was the Mayor talking about?' I asked.
'Huh? Oh that's right you were uh trying to get the scout fly,' Jak said laughing even though I was the only one to hear him. And to be completely honest I was surprised at his laugh. It was so care free, like he had never had any real trouble in his life. It was completely foreign to me. Tye and I had been through things most people wouldn't be able to imagine … unless you're a really sadistic bastard. (AN: I wonder what that says about me -.-)
'Hey are you okay?' I heard Jak ask and shook my head. I had been lost in the past for a moment. It took me a second to realize I had been staring at him.
Great now I'm blushing, fucking idiot I am. 'Uh nothing sorry I kinda spaced out for a second. Heh, heh, and hey! don't laugh at me you jerk!'
He just smiled, 'The Mayor was saying that the village power was gone because someone redirected the blue eco beam so now the eco isn't getting to the village. He offered us a power cell if we directed it back to the village.'
'Oh,' Yeah, I kinda remember that, 'Well, let's save that for later.' I took out the little touch screen device. 'We still have plenty of stuff to do and if we are redirecting it then it should take us back to the village.' We then jumped down onto the ground only to have two lurkers jump at us. Jak punched one in the face while I spun on my heel and kicked the other in the face. Against the wall were two green eco boxes and a scout fly. Tye, who by the way still had his little staff in his hand, walked over and got the green eco while Jak got the scout fly. I was too busy looking at another one of those vine things that are coming from the ground. It almost seemed like it was part of a larger plant, actually I'm positive it is part of another plant. I saw Jak walk over to the ledge and jump.
"What the hell?" I ran over and saw these little outlets out of the ledge next to the one we were on leading to a piece of land. I picked up Tye and followed Jak jumping on the outlets as well. Once I got to the bottom I didn't have time to look around because a lurker charged at me. I stood still until the thing was right in front of me before kicking it right in the chin causing the bastard to fly into the air and turn into four green eco balls that fell to the ground.
"You sure have some powerful legs," Tye commented looking me over.
"I know," I said pulling out a cigarette, "I fell like Sanji except I'm not obsessed with women."
"And you can't cook worth a shit," Tye said walking over to a ledge and climbing up it.
I jumped up after him, "I'm not that bad!" I could feel my eye twitching.
He gave me a condescending look and replied, "You burn the water."
"Yeah, well, y'know just shut up." Tye grabbed the two orbs that were up there and hopped up on my left shoulder and we went back down to Jak and Daxter, who were by the blue eco vent. "What ya waiting for?" I asked confused as to why they were just standing there.
"We're not exactly sure what we're supposed to do with it," Dax answered looking over at me then at the cancer stick in my mouth. "You better not let the old man see you with those."
"Why?" Tye asked grabbing it from my mouth and taking a drag before putting it back.
"He doesn't like them, says they're bad for you," He said sniffing at the smoke. It smelled like strawberries. Sure this brand was more expensive but money wasn't an issue Tye being the amazing con artist he is.
"Yeah they are but it's my life and I'll do whatever the hell I want," I said and put out the now done cigarette and opened a old bottle of water and put it in there, then put the bottle back in my messenger bag. I noticed Jak looking at me. 'What?'
'Why do you do that?'
'Do what?'
'Something you know is bad for you?'
'Cause it calms me down.'
'Oh ...,' He looked down at the ground a little dejected.
'Don't worry about it,' I smiled at him, 'I would have been in a lot worse places if I didn't have them. Hell, knowing me I'd probably be in prison somewhere for going off on somebody if I didn't have these to calm down.' I paused for a moment, 'Tye too.' He still looked a little unsure but smiled back anyway. "Grab the eco and walk around I'm sure some thing will happen."
"Yeah that might work," Daxter said and slightly tapped Jak on the cheek with his paw, "Let's do it Jak." Jak nodded and walked through the eco vent. He then ran off around the area and when he got the edge where you're facing the temple entrance the ground started to shake causing Tye to fall off my shoulder and onto the ground but that wasn't it. As soon as he hit the ground he started vibrating on the ground.
"Ah! Help! What the hell?" looked around wildly for whatever was causing the mini earthquake. Then I saw Jak standing at the edge where a bunch of bronze pieces hovering in the air making a make shift bridge. When the shaking stopped I picked up Tye and walked over to Jak and Daxter who had calmed down from the blue eco they were channeling.
"What the fuck was that?" I exclaimed lighting up another smoke sucking in the nicotine in hopes to calm down. The strawberry scent also helped to calm my nerves. Tye looked at me his eyes still wide, fur poofed out everywhere, and nails digging into my shoulder.
"Damn you all," he said right before he passed out.
"… Well at least it will be quieter now," I said. Jak and I then looked at each other then slowly turned our attention to Daxter.
He saw us looking at him and gave us a suspicious look, "What?"
"Nothing," I answered looking away. He just rolled his eyes at me and looked to Jak about to say something. I say about because as soon as he opened his mouth I reached out and punched him in the back of the head effectively knocking him out.
'Could have been a little gentler couldn't you?' Jak asked.
'You want to listen to him?'
'Not really.'
'Okay then.' With that we made our way across the bridge jumping from bronze platform to bronze platform. There was a door that would be activated by blue eco but Jak had already run out, fucking typical. So with a sigh I handed him Tye and went back across the bridge grabbed some more eco and ran back and opened the door. Because I was still buzzing with blue eco I ran passed Jak turned right and the energy from the eco broke the two boxes. And, much to my delight, more blue eco came out of one; I jumped on the mini trampoline thing and jumped up on the ledge.
There was a door way leading outside and some ledges that wrapped around the temple. I jumped up the ledges with ease, grabbing 6 orbs on the way and at the top was a scout fly. "Sweetness!" I yelled and hopped back down at a normal pace. The blue eco had long sense left. It's a good thing that shit doesn't make you crash or I'd be in a shit load of trouble. Now that I think about it could eco be addicting? I sure as hell hope not. I'm already addicted to too much as it is. Oh well I'll ask them later.
"Sup hot stuff?" I asked Jak feeling playful at the moment. My smirk got wider when I saw his face turn bright red. He looked away quickly and started walking to the left where there was a blue eco platform that would take us to the top where there was another story to the temple. Jak handed me Tye back but kept his eyes on the ground before grabbing some blue eco and going up first. I looked at Tye and then at the top where Jak was waiting on me.
Poor thing, I've embarrassed him so bad but he's still too good of a boy to leave me behind. I then thought back to the conversation Tye and I had earlier. My legs have gotten more powerful, hmm. I crouched down and then jumped landing easily on the ledge next to Jak. He looked at me wide eyed. 'How did you do that?' Jak asked looking down at where I had just jumped from.
'Uh, I jumped,' I said not really sure how to answer.
'Yeah, but how did you jump so high?'
'Hell if I know,' with that I walked over to the boxes and broke them. I had green eco the other blue eco to activate the two blue eco platforms that went up to the next story. I left that for Jak sense I could apparently just jump up there. At the top was an eco vent and four boxes and a scout fly. I kicked open the scout fly box and grabbed the little bastard. On the ground in front of the ledge to the next story was a blue circle thing with a lighter blue lightning bolt in the middle meaning it needed blue eco to activate it. Question is what does it do once activated?
"That's a precursor launcher," Daxter said looking up at me groggily, " and you are a bitch."
"And you're a furry bastard. What's your point?" I replied bored and lit another smoke letting the cherry aroma fill the air. "And when the hell did you wake up?"
"Oh, about two seconds ago," he said glaring at me.
"If you want to keep the eyes I suggest you stop glaring at me. Now, what's a precursor launcher?" I flicked the ashes of my cigarette into my old water bottle.
Dax glared at me for a few more seconds before he answered anyway, "It's a platform activated by blue eco that shoots you into the air."
"Ah, well you have fun with that." I jumped into the air and apparently as soon as my feet left the ground Tye woke up because I almost fell over when I heard a very high pitched scream go off in my ear. "SHUT THE HELL UP!"
"GET YOUR ASS BACK DOWN ON THE GROUND AND I WILL! AAHHHHH!" Why the hell do I put up with this shit? I landed on the edge and put my hand over Tye's mouth to shut him up.
"We're on the ground now," I said in my usual bored tone, "Stop before you burst a lung." With that he stopped and took a giant gulp of air and then looked from me to where we jumped from opening and closing his mouth repeatedly but not making a sound. "Yeah leg strength also means I can jump higher I guess." That seemed to suffice because he just nodded his head and grabbed my cig. and took a drag and kept it in his mouth. Geez this place is getting us both stressed.
Jak then landed beside us and two orbs came to us because of the blue eco and with those two orbs came a lurker. Tye jumped in the air and hit the thing in the face with his staff. I think he's become quite attached to the thing. Jak still seemed a little embarrassed from earlier. He refused to make eye contact and that was not gonna work well with me damnit! 'Any reason while you're avoiding me?'
'N-no.' another blush came to his cheeks. 'That's not possible I've been with you the whole time.'
'Ah,' I raised an eyebrow at him, 'then you must be some kind of special because you've made the impossible possible.'
'…'
'Listen if it's about earlier I'm sorry.' He looked up at me startled. 'I tend to play around with people and be a bit of a flirt. Well, when I actually hang out with people, that is. I'm not much of a people person.' I put my hand to my chin as if in thought. 'At all really now that I think about it.'
He smiles a little and looks back to the ground, 'It's alright. There just aren't a lot of people around here and the only other people my age are Dax and Keira. And we don't really flirt; Dax for obvious reasons and Keira because she is more of an annoying cousin than anything.' I don't know why but when Jak said that he didn't really care for Keira I felt this thump in my chest. What the hell? Don't tell me I'm turning into those little bitches from a flippin' romance novel, son of a bitch.
'Well sorry to make you uncomfortable,' I said and looked ahead to where we were walking. There was another ledge and I crouched down to jump it. Just as I went to jump up I faltered and looked at Jak in surprise at what he said.
'That's ok. I liked it.' Well damn aren't I just the corruptive little bitch? Hn, great. It was my turn to blush but I quickly jumped to the next ledge hopefully before he could see it. But I guess God hates me because then I hear. 'Are you blushing?'
'Nope, sure aint.'
'I don't believe you.'
'Then don't.'
'So you are blushing.' That was more of a statement than a question.
'Nope.'
'Yes you are.'
'The hell I am. I don't blush.'
'Apparently you do.'
'God damnit,' I thought but apparently I thought it loudly.
'I heard that.'
'Grr, just, will you, just, j-just shut up!' I walked away quickly just as he jumped up. There was another ball of eco and three blue eco platforms. Jak activated them and made his way up while I lit up another strawberry cancer stick and sucked in the nicotine in hopes to calm my nerves.
"What the hell's got you so flustered?" Tye asked looking over at me from his spot on my shoulder. I had already explained to him about my little ability so I told him about the conversation. "Wow, hun, you've got it bad for this dude. And you've known him what? A day?"
I hung my head in shame, "I know. Fuck my life."
"I'd rather fuck you-"
"Don't even start this shit. I mean really? I'm emotionally fucked up right now and you're trying to hit on me?" I gave him an incredulous look.
He just shrugged his shoulder and said, "Eh, that's when it's best to go after a girl." He gave me a bored look. "That's when they are vulnerable and desperate and will get in the bed with anyone."
"Oh, yeah," I raised an eyebrow at him and crouched down to jump, "How many times has that worked for you?"
"About five," he said as we reached the top to see Jak with a power cell and Dax doing a little ballet victory dance. "Gay." Tye said jumping down to smack him and then looked back at me. "Of course most of them passed out drunk off their ass before anything could happen."
I sighed and shook my head in shame. "Fucking typical," I muttered before trying to walk away only to trip over a blue button thing that flipped some sort of switch and the ting we were on went down into the temple like an elevator. "Well shit, that hurt." I said rubbing my forehead, which had taken most of the damage by the way. Suddenly a hand was thrust in my face. What the hell? I followed the hand up the arm to look into a pair of crystal blue eyes and felt my face heat up again, son of a bitch. I grabbed his hand a let him hoist me up. Apparently I look fatter than I really am or Jak was just trying to show off, but he pulled me up with so much force that I fell into him. We stared at each other for a second before I freaked. I pointed behind me in every direction and said, "Oops, heh heh. Um, I'm just gonna go check that thing, uh, stuff out over that way, heh."
"Smooth," Tye said watching the whole thing. Dax was too busy trying to get his ear unstuck from his goggles.
"Shut the hell up," I said and Gibb's slapped him before going over to the ledge and hopping up. Jak and the fur balls followed suite and we walked across a precursor launcher.
"Yeah so we got a precursor launcher here but you aren't powered up with the blue stuff," Dax said finally haven gotten from his goggles of doom, "So it aint gonna help us!"
"Can't you jump up there and get it?" Tye asked looking at me.
"Nah not in a little area like that," I said looking up into the tube like thing above us. "I'd end up hitting my head and knocking my ass out. Most likely thing to happen would be I'd jump up and clip my head on the side and either bust it open and pass out from blood loss or I would give myself a concussion and then pass the fuck out. So either way not a smart idea for me."
"Yeah your aim is good but not that good," Tye agreed patting my head in mock condolence, the cheeky bastard. "So jak will have to do it." Oh right let's let Jak do all the dangerous shit. Man now I feel bad. Jak just nodded his head with a confident smile and jumped onto the first floating thing in front of us. There were two of them going back and forth leading to a platform with another one of those vine things. When Jak landed on next to the vine I jumped over and landed just behind him.
"I hate those things," I said glaring at the little bastard. It was just wiggling. Just trying to snitch onto any little thing it could with its little thorns of pain on it, ugh. Tye snorted at me in amusement. "The hell are you laughing at?"
"How is it you can be so pathetic at times?" He then started poking me in the butt with the staff. Getting annoyed I snatched it out of his hand and hit him over the head with it.
"I'm too awesome to ever be pathetic," I said and hopped on the moving platform. I had to actually use it this time because the next piece of floor was around the corner and I can't exactly faze through walls. I'm not fucking Shadow Cat. Good lord I would be able to say 'like' every three words. That shit gets annoying. So any ways the platform went in an L motion.
Jak then landed next to me and said, 'Is it just me or did they build this shit like this just to annoy people?'
'Holy fuck, did you just cuss? ZOMG I am so proud of you!' I smirked at him.
He smiled back at me and replied, 'I guess you're rubbing off on me.'
I blushed and Dax said to Tye, "Don't you wish you knew what they are talking about?"
"Hell no, Knowing Krys it's probably some perverted kinky shit," Tye said but quickly shut up after I grabbed him off my shoulder and threw him on the ground and stomped his face into the ground.
"Why do you always have to be such an ass?" I asked through gritted teeth ignoring the looks I was getting from Jak and Daxter and the pleas for mercy from Tye. "I mean I take care of you. I take you in I feed you, I let you live at my place, I bail you out of jail repeatedly!"
"First of all," Tye said having escaped from my grasp, "It's my money that buys the food; you just have the place to keep it."
"'First of all,'" I said putting up some nice air quotes, "It's not your money it's whoever's you feel like stealing from. And most of that money goes into bailing your ass out of jail when you do something stupid like; oh I don't know, run around through town in a powder blue cocktail dress with the fabric over the ass cut out and no under wear on." I said glaring at him. With this new piece of information Daxter slowly scoots away from Tye.
"Fucking Tequila," Tye muttered gazing off into space trying to remember the night but of course he only remembering waking up in a jail cell with a fat guy next to him on the bunk and me laughing at him from the other side of the bars.
"Wow you guys are some sort of screwed up," Dax said looking back and forth between us. I just nodded my head with a happy grin while Tye flipped him off. I'm not sure what it is with Tye and him flipping people off but I think he enjoys doing so very much.
'How have you two survived though out the years?' Jak asked looking at me with wide eyes.
'Huh, oh no that was nothing. You should have seen us at this one party,' I smiled at the memory. Tye and I had always been together. When I was eight both my parents had died and I was left in the care of my eighteen year old brother Bryson. Life was tough, but it was better than before. My mother was a whore sleeping with any man who was willing to spend the money on her. My father was well let's just say my father was the worst man you could imagine. I had met Tye when I was ten.
*flash back*
I was running from the cops after stealing some new equipment for the computer I was trying to build and had turned down an alley. When I got to the middle of the alley way I ran into a boy my age. He was also running from the cops having stolen a few people credit cards and a few licenses.
We quickly hid when the cops met up and then they took off in the direction the boy had come from. When I had first saw him he had long messy hair that looked dark brown from the dirt in it. He was extremely tan most likely from being out in the streets all day and his clothes were dirty but not worn out. Obviously he didn't spend a lot of time at home. "Who the hell are you?" I had asked. Being raised by a teenage boy does nothing for manners.
The boy had glared at me before answering, "Tyler, what's it to you?"
I looked him over before grabbing his hand and dragging him towards the apartment where my brother and I stayed. "Cause I need to know the name of the jerk face I'm taking home. Not like I can just bring you home and tell my brother I don't even know your name." I had looked back at him and he was looking at me like I was some sort of idiot. "So where're you from?" I looked him over again. "Doesn't look like you live on the streets."
"I live out in the apartments down the way," he said pointing in the direction of where all the rich bastards live.
"Wow really? So your parents are some rich bastards huh?" I asked taking a right down another alley way and coming out in a really crummy area. The buildings were old and had graffiti all over them.
"This is where you live?" Tye asked looking around gripping my hand a little tighter in fear. Yeah this was a well known neighborhood with a bad reputation.
"Yeah," I couldn't hold back the bitter sarcasm in my voice, "lovely isn't it?" We walked up to the one apartment that was completely covered in pictures. There were random characters from various anime and video games. I noticed him staring at them and asked, "You like them?" He looked at me and nodded his head hesitantly. He was probably scared I'd be offended or something. "It took me forever to do them." His eyes widened at me but I just ignored it and continued on happy to finally brag to someone other than my older brother, Bryson. "It's really dangerous to do up at the top because if you lose your footing it's a long way down but it's worth it."
"Don't your parents get mad for the vandalism?" he asked still trying to take in all of the pictures before him so he didn't notice the tears in my eyes.
I blinked them away quickly before answering, "Nah, both of my parents are dead." I once again ignored his look of surprise and continued on in a happy voice. "It's just me and Bryson he's my older brother!" I opened the door and pulled him in. There was a plain hallway with random pictures of Bryson and I on the walls and candy wrapper, multi colored wires, and beer and soda cans were strewn across the floor. "Bry! I'm home and we have company so get your lazy ass up!" I then picked up a book and threw it at the ceiling. It hit with a loud bang and then there was a yelp and a thump from the next floor up. "Of course he's just waking up," I sighed in shame and Tye was still staring at the ceiling. We heard a few more thumps and some loud inaudible curses before a guy with choppy short black hair and gold eyes came down the stairs to our right.
"The hell do you want?" he asked rubbing his eyes. Bryson was dressed in his usual attire, black cargo pants, black combat boots, and his prized black hoodie with white fur around the hood. He refused to wear shirts unless absolutely necessary and even then all he did was bitch, moan, and complain about it. When he finally noticed Tye he looked to him and said, "Who the hell are you?" Ah, yes, our usual greeting to everyone.
*End flashback*
I laughed a little and smiled at Tye thinking back on how cheerful and carefree I had been. Of course like usual life makes a huge turning point when you least expect it.
*Start Flashback*
I ran as fast as I could home. Today was October 23, my birthday, and I was trying to get home as soon as possible so I could see Bry. Tye was running alongside with me. Ever sense we had met each other in that alley way four years back we have been inseparable. I already had on the present Tye had gotten me. It was a beautiful silver chain necklace with a blue dragon on it, but in a certain light it almost looked like it was glowing white. I had hugged Tye close to death when he gave it to me and then had to fend for my life from all the fan girls that then wanted to kill me for being close to their 'lovable Tyler'. Please give me a break if only they knew half of the shit he did.
They'd be so horrified that the disgusted expressions on their face would cause the thirty layers of make up on their face to crack. I looked back ahead of me and ran into the colorful apartment only to stop short at the sight in front of me. There was Bryson hanging from the ceiling in the hallway lifeless from one of the many computer wires that had once lain on the now blood stained floor. There was blood everywhere on the walls on the floor on the ceiling. I was so over whelmed that I just slumped onto my knees and stared at the sight in front of me. Tye had taken one look at the sight and had to run outside and throw up. He took out his cell phone and called the police who showed up a few short minutes later.
At the station they handed me a beautifully wrapped present that they had found. It was my birthday gift from Bryson and inside was his most prized possession, his hoodie. I couldn't take it anymore and for the first and last time ever in my life I cried.
*End Flashback*
I never thought about that day. It didn't really hurt that much. I guess I've just come to terms with it and don't feel like taking the past out of the past. Hakuna Matata. I fingered the fur on the black hoodie around my neck and jumped when I felt the cool chain of the necklace Tye had given me. I never took these things off. They meant the world to me. I then noticed that the others were looking at me. "What?" I asked quickly putting both of my hands in my pockets.
"You've been standing there spaced out for the past five minutes," Dax said giving me a speculating look. "Are you going insane? Because an insane person is not good to be around so if you are I would very much appreciate knowing right now."
Tye wacked him on the head and said, "Shut up, dumbass." He then looked at me out of the corner of his eye. It was obvious to him what I was thinking about but being the nice guy he is instead of letting everyone know about it he embarrasses the hell out of me. "She tends to space out when in the presence of a hot guy," He winked at Jak who blushed like hell and looked at the floor in embarrassment, "but what can you do Jak? It's not like you can uglify your-"
"Shut. The. Fuck. Up," I ground out through my teeth while clasping my hand over his mouth. That idiot is gonna make me lose it and kill him one day. In hopes of getting away from everyone I jumped over the two moving platforms that had three orbs each over them to the ledge and grabbed the six orbs there. Jak landed next to me looking the other way. I noticed the blush that covered his face. Great more awkwardness thanks Tye, you fucking bastard. You always have to aggravate a situation don't you? Why yes Krys I do. I just can't imagine letting you have a normal day, grr, fucking prick. 'Sorry about the fuck face,' I said looking ahead and adjusting the laces on my boots. They were getting loose.
'It's ok…' he glanced at me and after a pause asked, 'do you, uh, really think I'm, um, cute?' Both of our faces heated up and I tightened my shoes a little too tight.
'Yeah,' I calmed myself and looked up at him, 'I mean who wouldn't.'
'Th-thanks.'
'I must admit it's really your eyes that I like,' I looked straight in his eyes and almost felt as if I was drowning in the clear blue pools.
'I like your eyes,' he said smiling. He's almost like a naive little kid. 'They're such an odd color. How did they get like that?'
'I'm not sure really,' I stood up and crossed my arms in thought, 'My brother had odd eyes too, his were gold. It was almost like looking at gold that had been melted down. They were beautiful but I'm not sure how they got like that.'
'Oh … what's your brother like?'
'Hm? Oh he was great. He raised me when I was eight and he was eighteen after my parents had died. When I had turned fourteen he was murdered. I don't know who or why they did it, but they did.' I messed with the fur on my hoodie, 'This used to be his hoodie,' I smiled a bittersweet smile. 'It was my birthday present that day.'
'Wow,' Jak said looking down, 'I never knew my parents, but I'm sure that doesn't even compare to what you've been through.'
'Ah, it's fine. I'm over it. I have Tye and he's sort of taken over the role of the over protective brother that I have to take care of. He reminds me of Bryson so much it hurts sometimes but I can't help but love him more for it.'
I jumped when I felt someone's hand clutch mine and snapped my head in the direction of the owner so fast that I heard my neck pop. Ow. 'It's ok. I know we haven't known each other long and all but Dax and I, we're your family. We'll be there for you no matter what!'
I smiled and squeezed his hand before letting go and jumping to the next platform. 'Thanks.'
'No problem … oh and by the way,' he said jumping across on the three floating platforms and landing beside me. 'I think you're pretty cute too.' With that he walked forward and up one of the walkways up a giant egg shaped thing of bronze and possibly blue eco, I'm not sure, with a power cell at the top.
Tye walked over and sat on my shoulder, "Well, looks like you've really got it bad for this guy." I shook my head to clear my mind and focused on Tye who had a serious look on his face. "I'm not going to have to give you the talk am I?"
I pushed him off my shoulder and jumped up to the top where Jak was. "Bitch," he muttered under his breath before getting up and following. As soon as we grabbed the power cell the thing we were standing on lurched down and a blue eco vent turned on in the corner.
Suddenly a scout fly came out and we heard Keira's voice come from it. I had to cover my ears because the way the speaker distorted her already pitchy as hell voice. "Wow, did you guys see that? Blue eco vents have been activated all over the world! There must be places to turn on the other eco vents as well." I tried to kick the thing away but it moved out of the way, causing me to stumble back and fall off the thing we were on, and quickly left.
"What's up with you?" Daxter asked looking at me from his spot above Tye and I. Tye had landed on my stomach and knocked the wind out of me. "Why were you covering your ears?"
In a raspy voice I replied, "Her voice was very close to making my ears bleed." I then pushed Tye off me and rolled onto my stomach and pushed myself up to stand.
"Aw come on her voice isn't that bad," He tried to defend.
"The hell it isn't," I snapped and shook my head rubbing my ears in hopes of getting rid of the ringing. I then walked over to the vent and got some blue eco to open the doors on the opposite side of the room. In front of the first door were five orbs and in front of the second were seven. The doors opened up the room we were originally in. Remembering the launcher Jak grabs eco from a now activated eco vent in the room and jumps up grabbing ten orbs and walked back over to us. "Good to know that you have better aim than me."
With that said I grabbed some eco and opened the door to see a small platform that would turn upside down every few seconds. I simply jumped over it and saw the launcher in front of me. I turned to Jak and said, "There's another launcher. You should get some more eco." He nodded and grabbed some eco and then when the platform was right side up again he jumped across to where I was passed me and jumped up and grabbed another ten orbs. There was another platform that turned upside down that I jumped over and landed next to another one of those godforsaken vine things but I had to get closer to reach around it to grab the two orbs next to it, fuck my life. Once I grabbed them I jumped to the other ledge and looked forward to see a giant ass plant monster. It reminded me of the plants from Mario. Oh, no wait two eyes just popped out. The Mario plant didn't have eyes.
Jak jumped up next to me and Dax asked, "What's wrong you look pretty-WHOA WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?" he yelled out noticing the monster thing half way through his question.
"I don't know but it looks like it could kick our ass with no problem," Tye answered looking at it wide eyed and fur standing on end. I just took out another cigarette and lit it. Taking in two drags I gave it to Tye who sucked the nicotine out like it was his life.
"Well," I said as I blew out the smoke, "Looks like we don't have much choice if we want to get outta here." I jumped over to the other side and stood in front of the plant it looked at me and the Jak when he came up next to me. 'You know how to handle this thing?'
'Never seen anything like it.'
"Well," I said blowing out another stream of air, "Looks like it's up to my totally amazing awesome video game skills to get us out of this mess."
"Totally awesome what?" Daxter asked looking at Tye.
Tye shook his head and said, "Different dimension stuff. Don't worry about it." He then looks to me. "What's the plan?"
"Normally with plant monster things there's a distraction thing and then it will give you a moment to attack before doing the same distraction." I put my hands in my pockets taking a relaxed pose and amazingly enough can still talk around the cigarette in my mouth. "So the question is who wants to take care of the distraction and who wants to take out the big man himself?"
"Distraction," Tye and Daxter said at the same time.
"Okay then, Jak?" I asked looking at him.
'Uh distraction I guess,' he said shrugging his shoulders. I nodded and threw the now out cigarette down the crevasse behind me and we all walked forward. The plant growled at us and lifted a leaf letting out a small little green bug.
"That's it? That's the distraction?" Dax asked walking up to it. As soon as he reached his hand out to touch it spikes popped out of it. "Aye! It's an alien!" he yelled out and ran back to hide behind Tye who was also on the floor. It kept walking towards us and seeing as they said they were taking the distraction I went towards the plant to get a better watch for an opening. But I didn't expect him to rear back his head and snap at me.
"Holy fuck!" I yelled and jumped out of the way. "The fuck is this shit?" I dodged again and landed in a roll ducking another snap. "You guys kill the bug yet?" I called out in a annoyed voice.
"Not yet, hun but you're looking great just keep going," Tye yelled from his place against the wall where he was smoking.
I glared at him and flipped him off, "Get off your ass and help!"
"In a minute I want to fini-"
"Now Jackass!"
He sighed and put out his cigarette and then walked over to where Jak and Dax were backing from the spiked bugs. Looking at the thing Tye then poked it in the face with his mighty staff of doom. With a squeak the bug fell on his stomach, clinched his eyes shut and retracted its spikes. Jak took that moment to punch the thing and it burst into green eco balls. "Finally," I said sighing and jumping back next to the boys. The plant put his head back and froze leaving an opining. With a run I jumped up and kicked the ting in the chin and fell back next to the guys again. After a small pause I held my foot and said, "fuuuuccckk that hurt!"
And y'know what the bastard plant just shook his head and sent out two more bugs, fucker. I glared at the plant and pointed my finger at it one hand on my hip, "You are a very rude little, er, big plant you know that?" I pulled my finger away quickly when he snapped at it. "See that right there was extremely rude!"
Tye glared at me as Dax picked up the last of the eco balls. "Maybe you should stop lecturing the plant," Is that a condescending tone I hear? "And kick its ass." I looked at the plant and noticed it was in the head up 'kick me already' pose. Oops, heh, heh, maybe I should pay more attention. I jumped up and kicked the plant in the chin once again causing severe foot pain.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" I hopped around on one foot but tripped over Daxter and fell on my ass. "Fuck my life." I looked up to see a bunch of teeth snap at me. Luckily Dax and I were pulled out of the way just in time. Tye had –reluctantly- saved Dax. While Jak had my waste in a protective grip and was pressed up against a wall and because of his hold on me I was pressed up against him. Great now I'm blushing. Inappropriate time Krys! "Heh, uh, thanks for y'know saving me." I gently stepped away from him and he seemed to just notice how close we were. He let me go quickly with a blush.
I jumped forward towards the plant once again as they took out the bugs. With one last kick to the chin the plant monster went down. And being the mature person that I am I completely ignored the power cell and took out my anger at the plant by jumping repeatedly on its head. Amazingly five orbs came out of his mouth. "Hellz yeah, jackpot bitches!" I grabbed the orbs and noticed that there was a launcher. Looking up I saw that it went way higher than I could ju-
What the hell? Okay so now I'm going through the air with Jak holding onto me and we're shooting up out of this giant bronze tube with a bunch of small bronze pillars around us. "Holy shit," I said wiggling out of his grip and falling off the thing and onto the nice soft ground, "Warn a girl next time." I then let myself fall back completely to catch my breath.
'Sorry,' jak said jumping down the pillars one by one to get the orbs. Tye had just taken out a lurker and was messing with these odd looking boxes.
'It's alright. You just surprised me that's all. I just really don't like it when someone sneaks up behind me.' I looked up at him with a small smile. Well that is until I heard a small explosion from Dax and Tye's direction. Turns out the boxes he was messing with were filled with dark eco and it blows up if messed with. Both of their fur was standing on end and singed. I looked back at Jak with an unamused expression. 'If anyone asks I don't know them.'
'Likewise,' he said holding out a hand to me. I took it and this time he didn't use too much force so we didn't collide like usual. We walked over to the two fur balls and picked up our respective shoulder buddies. Jak led the way and jumped up another mini trampoline thing to the top. I followed shortly after. I had to light a smoke first. Jak was taking care of a frog thing so I got the three orbs and the scout fly from off of the tree trunks.
We then saw a bridge and went across it grabbing the two orbs on it. Jak glanced down and saw something that caught his interest. He jumped over the side of the bridge and I followed. On another bridge just above the river was a really fat guy dressed like a pirate. He was standing next to a large basket glaring at the water. We walked over and Daxter stuck his head in the basket asking, "What do you have in the basket?"
The fisher man looked to us and said dejectedly as Tye jumped down next to Daxter, "Nothin' to talk abou'. Dem monsters patrollin' took a bite outta me fishing boat and now their goblin' up me catch!" He got in Tye and Daxter's faces and continued, "No matter what I try I can't seem to catch a single fish in this river."
Daxter held his nose and waved a paw in front of his face while Tye started to dry heave and said, "Wooh! Maybe it's your breath."
The fisher man offended stood up straight and put his hands on his hips, "You think you can do better? Try scoopin' up river fish with a tiny net!" he motioned to the net next to his feet and turned to Jak. "I'll give you a power cell if you can catch 200 pounds of dem critters. And I'll let you, your girlfriend, and the shrimps here," he pet Tye and Dax on the head while Jak and I blushed, "use my speed boat to get to Misty Island. Ye want to try the challenge?" He motioned to the river.
"Sure," Tye said picking up the net and waling over to the side of the mini bridge. Sat down and paused for a second. "Uh, Krys you want to help a brotha out?" I sighed in shame and put the cigarette I was about to light behind my ear and sat down and held Tye's legs as he hung off the dock to catch the fish, fucking typical.
The fisher man stood next to us and explain the 'rules' to Tye, "Der are two types of good fish to catch, one pound fishies," he motion to a small green fish, "and five pound fishies," he motion to a larger yellow fish. "If you miss twenty pounds of good fish den I'm gonna take me net back from ya!" He pointed to a long purple fish, "Der are poisonous eels in dis river. Catch even one of dem buggers and you'll poison the whole dern catch!"
So we start and Tye would catch a fish and throw it over my head to I hope Jak and the basket. The whole time he's wiggling and I'm trying not to drop him while both of us are cursing whoever's idea it was to do this. *Cough Tye Cough*. Eventually we caught the 200 pounds of fish only missing seven pounds.
"Ya did it!" the fisher man yelled out, "Ya caught 200 pounds of fish!" He smiled at us and said, "Not bad for a couple of land lubbers." He took out a power cell. "Here's the power cell I promised and you can use my boat at the village dock whenever you like." Jak took the power cell and started following the river.
'Where ya going?'
'Well there must be something along this river,' he said and looked at me. I shrugged and put my hands behind my head and looked up at the clouds. It was getting dark.
'So where do you guys sleep?'
'Dax and I share a hut at the beach. You guys are welcome to stay there if you want,' he smiled and then looked away blushing.
'That's cool. Tye and I used to share an apartment where we came from,' I said and looked at the ottsel running through the river smacking down any eels that came near. It's nice not to see him all stressed out for once. Normally he's all worked up about being caught for stealing credit cards and junk.
'Really? What was that like? Sharing a place with Tye I mean?'
'Messy, violent, loud, annoying… the list goes on and on.'
'If it was so bad why did you do it? And what do you mean by violent?'
'Hn, have you even payed any attention to Tye and I when we start to argue?'
'Uh, yes.'
'And how have they ended?'
'With Tye's face in the ground.'
'Exactly, that's what I meant by violent. And I never said I didn't like living with him. Frankly I wouldn't be able to function any other way.' I smirked at Jak and winked. He smiled at me and bumped my shoulder with his. I poked his side and he squirmed. 'Oh, is Jakie boy ticklish?' I asked with a devious smile on my face.
'No he most certainly is not.' he replied moving away from me.
'Really then why do you do,' I poked him again making him squirm, 'that?'
'None of your business.'
'Ha! So you are ticklish! C'mere!' I pounced at him.
'Oh yeah and what about you?' I asked catching me and holding me against him my back to his chest.
'Ach! No!' I said struggling to get away.
'Looks like I'm not the only ticklish one.' He started tickling me and I couldn't stop laughing.
'Ha! You admit you're ticklish!' I yelled out between giggles.
Alpha: Please review I would love to get your opinion on this! And just for the record I never want to do another chapter that's this long again.
Bryson: Don't worry she'll do another chapter even longer than this just to see if she can do it.
Tye: The hell? Aint you supposed to be dead?
Alpha: -punches Tye- Don't be such an insensitive asshole! –Glomps Bryson- I so sorry I wrote that about you! –Cries uncontrollably-
Bryson: -Sigh- There, there.
Tye: Yeah that's right! Cry you sick, sick person!
Alpha: WAAHHHH! –Cries harder-
Bryson: -pulls out pistol- Shut the hell up you fucking bastard!
Tye: Ha! Like you would really shoot me.
Bryson: -pulls trigger-
Tye: Ow! You fucking shot me!
Alpha: Bye people! I have to take Tye to the emergency room now!
Bryson: My finger just slipped.
Tye: Bull shit!