THIS CHAPTER IS 13 PAGES OH MY GOOD GODS!
good gods, there have been so many things preventing this chapter it is not even funny. my pc crashed, writers block, helping my parental units build house and harry potter. so busy. i assume by now the harry Potter world is attempting to bite its own head off. so here it is. enjoy. the next chapter is all about Clue fyi O.o and thanks to eruka this has been spell checked but not grammer checked so capitalization may be wonky.
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--Get Your Freak On--25--
"Jules," Jak leaned his head on the door to the dune hoper, "your not driving."
"yeah sweet cheeks ," Daxter said climbing in the vehicle and across the dash, "you dragged him here, the least you could do is let the guy drive, plus he gets all pissy when he doesn't."
Jules pouted, gave a breathy sigh and scooted over to the other seat, "at least tell me you know where the temple is."
Jak nodded, he wondered how he always got roped into these kinds of things. he turned the key and put the vehicle into gear. the engine rumbled to life and he maneuvered it to the front of the mechanical gate. like most of the other vehicle's he had encountered this one lacked a windshield, so he pulled his goggles down onto his face then gave a questioning look at Jules from behind the sheltering lenses.
she was rummaging in her pockets and pulled out the large round rimed goggles he had seen her with once before. the goggles where far to big for her face and absurdly round, she gave him a full hearted grin.
"Mental disorders," Dax whispered discreetly taking his place on Jak's shoulder
"Make life interesting?" Jak whispered back surprising himself a bit with his own optimism.
"We gonna go or we just gonna sit here?" she asked him naggingly.
Jak didn't answer but revved the engine and drove toward the automatic doors and into the desert. the sun had yet to come out in full force yet and the dunes spread out like mustard waves as far as he could see.
"Hey?" Jules asked after the silence of the ride started to get to her, "why are you out here anyway? I mean in Spargus, i thought you were a big smoke boy?"
"I ah, wasn't to popular," He said with a smirk.
Jules laughed, "They kicked you out? well, i got kicked out once, it's not fun." she was quiet for a while and adjusted her baggy yellow hat. Again Jak wondered how she crammed her ears in there.
Jak maneuvered over a larger dune and the heavy duty hydrolics of the Dune Hopper baulked with the slight impact. Jules sighed.
"Hey," its was Daxter's turn to need conversation, "speaking of which what were you and Clue doing in Haven, you know back about a year ago?"
"Oh! I was making him look for power cells and something else."
"what for sweet cheeks?"
She manuvered the long hammer like mechanism from her back, "For this baby! don't call me sweet cheeks rat boy..." the hammer had the distinct style of something homemade and constructed from precursor scraps. it had a short handle and had two small round hammer heads on it. Daxter remembered that the hammer heads could get bigger.
Jak shot her a glance, "how did you get into the city," he sounded nearly hopefull and more than a bit curious.
"TURN LEFT!" she shouted at him, Jak snapped his attention back to the road, erm... desert and took the sharp left between the two rock outcroppings.
"And he says he wants to drive," she muttered to her self. she took a deep breath and forced herself to enjoy the ride. She sighed and scolded herself, she had nearly forgotten what it was like to drive through the desert. she hadn't had sand in hair like this in long while.
"Jules?" Jak said suddenly snapping out of some kind of desert induced driving trance, "how did you know my name back then?"
"yeah chikorita, that was creepy..." Dax added moving to the woman's shoulder.
"Clue told me," she said simply. she took in the otsel's unconvinced look, she stared back with her googled eyed goggles, "well you both know Sigy right?"
Jak nodded. At least somethings was starting to make sense.
"Oh boy! do we know Sig!" Daxter cried out referring to the arena incident. Jules giggled at the small creature and scratched him behind the ear.
"lower...and a little to the left toots... I can call you toots?" Jak rolled his eyes and ignore them.
the way they had come had steered them completely clear of the marauder camp, and the small island chain that led out to the temple was now in site.
"hey how come there were no monks in there last time we went?" Daxter questioned leaping to the dash board after his ear had been thoroughly scratched.
"the temple is sacred, the monks only go there on special occasions. they fear the Precoursors will smite them or something if they're disrespectful and stuff." She said enlightening them.
"so they just leave it empty?" Jak asked, "Cause there were metal heads in there when we went with Clue."
"Wait you got him to go into the temple?" She sounded slightly amazed.
"More like he got us to go!" Daxter told her.
"Meh, hes a weird kid." was all the alchemist had to say for herself.
Jak let the little conversation wash away as he examined the hydrolics system again, Kleiver had given him the crash course but there hadn't been any actual gaps involved. he rolled up to the first island slowly.
he carefully lined the vehicle up for the jump, he prepped the hydrolics and felt the whole frame of the vehicle begin to shake. he hit the acceleration and drove straight for the drop off, with the quick switch of a lever the car launched its self into the air.
"HOOOOOOLLLLLYYYYY SHIIIIIIIIT!" Daxter plastered himself to Jak's head.
Jak clenched the steering wheel as the vertigo feeling rushed into his stomach followed quickly by a surge of panic as the ground came rushing back to meet them.
the cockpit bounced violently on its suspension with impact , rattling around its passengers like a couple of rag dolls.
Jak exhaled, released the steering wheel and the break and peeled Daxter off the side of his head, "well, that was fun... lets do it again," the words flowed out of his mouth in a malevolent way. he looked over at Jules through his tinted goggles. She had both hands braced against the dash board and looked like she was about ready to have a heart attack.
Daxter had composed himself now and looked over at the shocked alchemist, "you gonna make it champ?" he hopped over to her shoulder.
Jules visibly relaxed a bit and took a shaky breath and gave a little grin, "I forgot how...how... unsettling this thing is."
"well Chikorita, you picked the wrong guy to drive," he said taking a seat on her shoulder. Jak was already was already lining up for the next jump, "when you ride with Jak, you ride with death."
the female wast lander quirked an eyebrow,"really now?" the otsel nodded confidently. "you've obviously have never been in a gun turet while Clue was driving."
"No, and I hope I never am!"
"You guys wanna shut up." Jak growled at them. the next jump would be tricky, the next island was higher up than one they were on and he didn't much care for the looks of it. the islands they had crossed by leaper had been much milder. Jules followed his line of sight and bite her lip at the sight of it.
with out another word he backed the vehicle up a few feet then threw his passengers against their seats as he raced toward the impending gap. yet again the dune buggy launched itself into the sky.
Jules clenched her eyes shut and Daxter hung to her hat. Jak felt the the suspension bounce and the whole vehicle slipped backwards slightly.
Jules opened her eyes with a bit of nervous laughter. Jak shot her a look and the laughter died. the cockpit was leaning backwards in an unfamiliar manner.
"Don't move," he said flatly, he couldn't see but she blinked in confusion behind her dark lenses. he slowly reached one hand out the side of the cockpit and carefully adjusted the mirror there.
the back end sudenly came into view. The two back wheels dangled precarious over the gap. the ocean waves crashed hungrily below them.
"Oh fuck."
"Jak! We're dangling!" Dax yelled a bit hysterical looking over Jules' shoulder toward the rest of the vehicle.
"Oh gods!" Jules mumbled.
Jak wrenched the steering wheel to the left, at least that would make it difficult to slip backwards into the surf. He pressed the gas peddle lightly at first, the wheels lurched forward slowly. the back wheels hit the lip of the drop off and spun a few agonizing times then grappled their way up and securely onto the small island.
"any one else need a new change of pants?" an otsel that shall not be named asked.
Jules lifted off her goggles and let the m rest on her forehead, "you don't have any pants."
"yeah well thats all his fault..." Daxter led off into mumbling about pants were wonderful garments that always seemed to lift and cradle.
Jules blinked her big doe eyes and suddenly glared at him, "Wanna not get me killed!"
he gave her a dirty look out of the corner of his eye, "your riding with death remember..."
she crossed her arms and rolled her eyes, feeling very out of her element. the next few jumps were child's play and consisted of relatively level islands with consistently better landings than the previous.
the dune hopper was officially Jak's new favorite toy, and felt confident as he manipulated the hydrolics to leap over where the waterfall had washed out the road. The hydrolic jumping contraption landed with a solid bounce on the other side and fish-tailed to a stop.
Jules was first out and examined the deserted desert temple. the large metallic doors where wide open and instilled a strange sense of awe in her. the size of them themselves was amazing, though to her disappointment they seemed smaller. That always seemed to be the price off growing up. she hadn't been there since she was young, but she adamantly remembered the brass colored ying yang door.
(Authors note: I skipped the volcano mission, and the part with veeger and the robot I should be shot so things are going to go a bit differently here. I try hard.)
Jak strolled up beside her with his characteristically confident stride, he stood beside while she stared up at the behemoth doors.
"Spargus to Jules, any one home?" Dax called from his usual perch. She blinked her self out of thought and looked at the two.
"Ladies first," Jak said giving a cynical half bow.
she glared at him, but somehow still manged to look cute and innocent.
"Well then," was all she had to say as she strode into the large open ceiling lobby of the temple.
"what the hell is that?" Daxter pointed towards a rather queer thing hovering in front of the door to the left.
"Whoa, creepy," Jules exclaimed with a hint of curiosity, "What is it?"
Jak shrugged in that unconcerned way of his and began to strut the distance between him and the disembodied eye. it sat poised above the large door, its dark slitted pupil eyeing him as he approached.
he stopped. Kashink. Jakk blinked at the large metal spike that had launched itself in front of his face. he took a small step away and looked up at the unblinking astral eye and the small garden of spikes.
"Thats just great!" Dax shouted in his over dramticaly way, "We don't really have to go this way do we toots?"
Jules nodded her head firmly
"Great." the blond echoed looking up at the eye again.
"well," she chirped, "its gotta have an off switch somewhere!"
Jak didn't seem to keen to her optimism as he started his investigation of the round courtyard. Jules wasn't really being that helpful and the whole expedition was starting to seem like a complete waste of time.
Jules took another step to the left and watched the eye intently follow her, she pointed, "What you looking at?"
Jak looked over his shoulder at her but Daxter beat him to the line, "What the hell are you doing?"
Jules shrugged. "Just keeping myself entertain?" Jak just rolled his eyes.
"Glad your enjoying yourself..." His voice dripped sourly with sarcasm but the alchemist seemed not to notice.
Jak continued snooping about, something in the room wanted his attention. he could feel it.
it wasn't long till he found him self walking towards the far wall, toward a small neat niche in the wall.
"OOH what do ya think this is?" Daxter jumped off his shoulder and onto the niche next to the black canister artifact.
he felt the tell tale cold crackling at the base of his neck, "don't touch it!" Daxter stopped in mid-poke and looked at him. "Its some kind dark eco...thing." he explained lamely, "Who knows what else the stuff might do to you."
Daxter stood in the niche and put his furry little paws on his hips and looked at his faithful sidekick indignantly.
"Could it really get any worse?"
Jak felt compelled some where halfway between amusement and guilt. he shrugged at him.
"I don't even have PANTS! so you know what! I'm gonna poke it any way!" Daxter waved his gloved paws about crazily.
Jak just looked at him, "You do know the pants thing can only get you so much sympathy before it gets old, right?"
Daxtter pointed at him for a few moments. Jak snickered quietly at him, his furry mug was quite priceless. The otsel was at a lack of words or any kind of witty defense, then finally,"I'm poking it!" he yelled like some naughty toddler, making a made lunge at the evil looking artifact.
with out thinking to much he snatched the artifact away in the same childish spirit that the whole argument had escalated into. as soon as his hands clapped onto the oddly shaped squarish device a cold oily shiver seemed to run up the length of his arms and down his body and back again.
he gasped and stumbled back at the strange sensation but managed to hang on to the device. he looked down at the device in his hands, it hadn't burned or hurt in anyway at all, which surprised him greatly.
Dax had landed hard in the middle of the niche were the artifact had been not moments before, "Jak?" he said looking around as he stood up, "JAK! HEY JAK! Where the HELL did you GO! I only wanted to look at it!" he yelled looking over towards Jules who was entertaining herself by dancing about and watching the luminus white eye follow her every move.
Jak cocked his head and bent in front of his friend, "Hello?" he waved his hand back and forth slowly as Daxter hollered over to Jules and pried her attention away from the eye and onto the current problem.
Jak felt a tinge of panic as Jules nearly walked into him. he looked down at the artifact in his hands again and decided it was most likely a smart idea to put it back. as he placed it in the niche it crackled with a purple spark for a moment and then sat quietly in its niche.
Daxter had just nimbly leaped to Jules shoulder loudly proclaiming the posibilities that could have happened and making himself paranoid.
"Eh!" Jules jumped slightly as the artifact rematerialized with a loud electrical pop.
"Okay but where's the Blondy?" she leaned in close to the artifact till her nose was less than half an inch from it.
Daxter smacked the side of her yellow floppy hat, "Don't touch it..."
Jak heaved a sigh that fell on deft ears, he was feeling rather stupid after his last bought of arm waving, and in truth was quiet glad than neither of them actually saw him. He had thought of perhaps pushing one of them, but remembering the artifact worked on dark eco, had thought better of it. He had been rather confident that putting down the artifact would make him visible. even the foreboding luminous eye didn't not set itself on him as he approached muttering angrily.
the looked far past him at the two inspecting the artifact, Dax was standing besides it again calling loudly, "Jak, buddy? you in there?"
Jules gave him a funny look, "I really don't think he could fit in there you stupid fur ball. maybe it took him some where..." she stuck out a hand hesitantly.
meanwhile back to the invisible Jak, his arms were crossed as he stared up at the eye. he waved an arm experimentally, back and forth, then giving it the finger. the eye expressionlessly stared past him. he stopped in front of the large holes in the floor where the spikes had popped up before, and when they failed to attempt to skewer him as he approach he quickly darted across the holes. as he came up underneath the strange device he felt the less familiar yet unmistakable feeling of white eco beseeched him. and the same time the cold tingling shiver assaulted his body followed by a loud crackling hiss.
the hiss was suddenly punctuated with a scream.
Jak suddenly sat down hard, feeling light headed and drained as if he had just been knocked senseless. he shook his head and blinked, looking out across the round circular temple space. Jules stood bent over cradling her left hand against her chest. "Hey you okay!' Daxter hopped down from the niche and stood in front of her as she gasped in a few strangled breaths.
Jak scrambled to his feet and dashed over the spike holes with out a thought. If his dark cloaking device hadn't short circuited the light eco power sentinel then things would have happened tragically different.
Dax noticed him as he ran toward them, "The HELL?" it seemed to sum up both events rather well.
"You touched it." he said almost bitterly as he came to stop next to her.
She bit her lip and nodded as the cold numbness that had spread from the small burn on the back of her hand slowly turned to pins and needles over shadowed by a sharp ache.
"lem'me see it."he ordered more than asked.
Jules didn't bother to argue or question how he had suddenly appeared and carefully held out her hand with only the small complaint of, "Don't touch it."
the burn on the back of her hand was small and red, surrounded by large purple and blue bruise that was quickly staring to turn a sickly yellow. He could feel the small amount of the dark substance coursing through her, the dose he decided wasn't enough to her much harm accept hurt like a bastard. there was nothing they could really do for the wound, bandaging would only make it hurt worse.
"Well we ought to head back..." the blond said tilting his head toward the large doors, open to the desert.
Jules bit her lip, the pins and needles in her hand suddenly grew to knives and daggers. why did she always have to do such terribly stupid things all the time, she thought harshly. at least it wasn't spreading and the terrible aching numbness stayed isolated in her hand, there was nothing worse than full blown eco poisoning.
she was quiet for a moment, "I dragged you out here damnit, and I'm damn well not going back till I'm damn well satisfied on whats on the other side of that damn door," she said stubbornly.
Jak gave her a doubting look, his ice blue eye attempting to bring her to submission.
"I've had worse," she said honestly trying to ignore her hand, which was a task in a half.
"Fine," he said after a moment, "its you misery, not mine."
"Hey...Jak?" Daxter said making himself heard from the floor, "Ah...what happened to you?"
"Yeah, why didn't that thing try to bite your hand off?" she gave the artifact a sour look.
"magic.." he said flatly.
"Hey!" Jules pointed a finger at him with her good hand, "Don't try and pull that one, thats what Clue always says!"
Jak shrugged and continued his explanation not really feeling like expanding on his 'magic' at the moment, "its some kind of invisibility device. i even managed to short circuit that thing." he through his thumb in the general direction of the door. Daxter scampered up to his traditional perch for a better view as Jules began hopping up and down, still cradling her hand awkwardly against her.
"Sweet! you rock Blondy boy!" she chirped happily despite the biting pains in her hand. Jak shook his head as she started walking off toward the now trap free door, she turned back towards them, taking a few backwards steps, "You boys coming?"
Jak followed a bit relieved that they hadn't drove all the way out there for nothing, and a bit surprised at Jules good mood under the circumstances.
"she's crazy." Daxter said sounding more convinced than ever, "Her head must be numb for her to be that chirpy."
Jak snorted, "Your calling her numb? she not the one who thought that i was in the artifact."
"Erm...you saw that?"
Jak nodded and suppressed a snicker as he passed though the door way into a dark narrow stair well. he could just make out Jules's yellow hat bouncing down in front of him.
"Well, weirder things have happened before." the Otsel said flatly defending his stupidity.
Jak just shook his head, and ran into the back of Jules when she suddenly stopped at the bottom of the long set of stairs.
as he hit her he himself was hit with a wave of crackling shivers for the second time that day. there must be a whole pull of the dark stuff in the next room, he thought dismally.
Jules held her self ridged, part from fear and part from awe, she scooted over on her bottom step. Jak joined her looking out into the small round room.
Carved precursors lined the walls, staring uncaring at the large flowing vent that had made their temple its home. half gassius half liquid the substance rolled and bubbled up from the floor into a dazzling plume of shifting darkness. The vent flowed and ebbed in a mesmerizing pasterns of of iredecent obsidian with flashing shifting shades of violet and purple.
Jak took an involuntary step forward.
Jules grabbed his arm, "What are you doing?" she whispered loudly.
Jak snapped his attention back from the flowing mass of dark eco and looked at her, "why are you whispering?"
she dropped his arm roughly, "I don't know, maybe cause that's damn creepy," she pointed at the accused substance.
Jak shrugged and took another step toward it, some how he just couldn't help himself.
"hey..aaah... that doesn't look very healthy, buddy. not even for you." Daxter said near his ear sounding more than a bit nervous.
Dax took Jak's silence as a queue and hoped onto Jules's shoulder.
Jak found himself inches away from the dark plume. He stood transfixed, the swirling darkness encompassed his vision. he could feel it. both hot and cold some how at once. He shut his eyes tight. But still he could sense it, a slick flowing inky feeling that softly called him. he opened his eyes, intrigued, this was not the eco he knew so well. Dark eco had always shouted at his senses, demanded his attention, and he had always answered, like an addict to bad drug.
so what is different now? he thought slowly. All thought of the young woman behind him the steps, Daxter and even the reason for him standing in front of the vent was forgotten.
he bit his lip in anticipation as his finger tips floated bravely before the eco. He plunged his hand in quickly, expecting the burning, numbing sensation that always accompanied his dark addiction. he blinked slowly, he could faintly see the dark outline of his fingers in the vent. he wiggled them, felling the rushing inky substance flow through them. It crackled and flowed over his hand as if looking for entry. he flexed his hand inside its depths, it felt like flowing pins and needles only less painful and more annoying.
this is different. he thought, thinking more in feeling than in word.
He opened himself to the dark force greedily. Now that the eco had offered itself up to be taken rather than forced itself painfully into him, he felt somehow victorious. Power.
he felt it stream through him, the slight pain of it overridden by the feeling of satisfaction he had. He let it trickle into him till he thought he would burst, and then instead of attempting to over fill him, the dark substance relented.
he pulled his hand away quickly, and stood back. He inhaled, he hadn't realized he had been holding his breath.
"Jak?" he turned and blinked, it was Jules. She rose from her perch on the steps, "are you alright?" she asked doubtfully.
Jak blinked again in an almost innocent manner and a dark spark danced across his palm and settled with in him. this seemed to prompt Jules forward, she snatched up his hand with her good one.
"what the hell did you think you were doing?" his hand was fine save for the odd scar here and there, "how the hell did you manage that? that's not natural."
she held her burned hand insecurely and looked up at him, "I told you not to worry toots, your alright, right buddy?"
Jak grinned at the otsel on his shoulder, "why wouldn't I be?"
"See sweet cheeks, I told you not to worry."
"wait just one minute! just how did you manage that! your not even burned. you scared the shit out of me! You stood there and stared at the damned vent for over five minutes, and you wouldn't even answer us!" she glared up at him, his over confident smirk irking her more than his odd behavior.
"sorry," he said unconvincingly with a shrug. Daxter was grinning at her frustration.
"sorry my ass!" she pointed at him accusingly and accidentally jostled her burnt hand. she winced then added, "who the hell did you do that any way, its just not fair!"
Jak snorted, it wasn't. he waved his hand in front of her face and wiggled his fingers, "Magic."
she cocked her head at him and looked at him meaningfully as if she just realized something she should have before. Jak blinked back, he didn't think he had said anything meaningful, he was just being a smart ass to piss her off.
she sighed and slouched her shoulders forward as she cradled her hand, "still isn't fair." she mumbled to herself ruefully.
"Well come on! Let find this stupid door of yours and get out of this dump." Dax urged them.
Jules needed no second bidding to leave the plume of dark eco behind and bolted through the door way into a corridor. Jak followed at a more subdued pace and cast one last look over his shoulder at the vent, grinning wickedly.
this would have been the end of this chapter, but alas, Jules began screaming shrilly about spiders. Jak hurried to catch up with her.
"Gross! Disgusting! Arachnoid! Bastards! I!...Hate!..Spiders!" each exclamation was punctuated with the sound of a black and red spiders splatting against the female waste lander's hammer. The arachnoid plague rushed down the corridor and swarmed about her ankles. she wielded her hammer one handedly like a mad golfer with eight legged balls.
Jak whipped out his morph gun and quickly contorted it into his blaster and began picking off spiders further down the passageway.
"Guess she doesn't like spiders,"Jak heard in his ear. even though the otsel had merely stated the obvious he couldn't help but chuckle. Despite her disgusted complaints she seemed to be faring well and proving to be a bane to all things aracnid in nature.
Jak continued picking off the hissing insects, trying his best to ignore Jules's hysteric war cries. Jules kicked a spider angrily, its plaintive hiss was ended abruptly by a wall. she looked about fervently for another victim. she found the vile creatures being held at bay further down the hallway by Jak's shooting.
He sidestep towards her still firing rapidly, "Stay behind me." he said warningly as he flipped the gun around in his hands.
"wait, pull this!" Jules exclaimed suddenly, pushing the shaft of the hammer at him. there was a pump action handle on it much like the one on his scatter gun for reloading. he appeased her and pulled down on it, it clicked into place instead of popping back up like the scatter gun's did. she grinned as the contraption emitted a whirring sound and the maillot head suddenly twisted around, some how making the flat of both sides of the hammer expand.
"Lead away Blondie!" she yelled over the mad clicking of spider legs
'Bam' the next way of spiders trying to cram themselves through the temples doorway found their broken bodies being propelled fang over spinneret to their doom.
'Bam! kachink bam! kachink bam! kachink' he continued firing and reloading at the beasts for what seemed longer than his patients was willing to allow. Jules picked off on of the more clever spiders that had run along the wall toward them, the ill fated creature was crushed with a sickening crunch. th e other spiders seemed to tack the new stragety to heart and there were quickly as many arachnids on the floor as the walls. Jules did her best to scamper between both walls slaying eight legged annoyances left right and center, dispite the wound hand she still coddled awkwardly against her chest.
"How many of these f-" Bam "-ers are there Jak!"
"No idea!" Jak yelled then fired again.
"Shut ups fur ball! you are do not helping!" Jules smashed two unlucky spiders at once, "these things are some god damn annoying bastards."
"Hey! Hey!" Daxter stood up on Jaks shoulder like a meercat, "There no more coming from the door!"
"Thank gods." she said stopping and panting, all that running back and forth between walls had been tiresome. the spiders seemed to have given up the wall idea and seemed to be making a final rush with what small numbers they had left. Jak fired and grinned all that remind of the original arachnoid plague was a small handful just out of range.
Jules kicked a twitching body of a spider absently.
Kachink click...click...click...
"THATS SO NOT COOL!" Daxter erupted from his shoulder perch.
Jules popped up beside him as he stared disappointedly at his gun, "well they're more annoying than harmful. we could you know just run past them... kick a few maybe?"
Jak looked down the hall at the swiftly approaching web spinners as they clambered over their twitching and crumpled comrades that littered the floor. Jak took off toward the door way without another word, Jules wasn't far behind.
thus began a mad leaping and cursing journey down the hallway. involving much to Jak's sadistic glee the stepping and kicking of many a spider attempting to latch its over sized pincer around his ankles. Jules on the other hand was not particularly enjoying the sensation of squishy spider exoskeleton under foot. she looked as though she had invented some kind of new trans dance as she hopped madly about trying to step in places where the bodies of spiders did not already occupied the space.
Jule caught up with Jak quickly and suddenly found her self smacking into his back "Come on! go! go!" she said pliantivly, dancing a jig behind him.
Jak took the liberty of smashing in the head of a spider that had scuttled up the door frame and bolt through, with Jules Pushing him from behind for good measures.
"look! look thats the door!" she shouted.
"Hey toots we don't even know if this thing will even open!" Dax yelled down at her while she pushed against Jak's back. the ran into a high ceiling room with a large precursor statue looming out of a seemingly bottom less pit. The spiders didn't seem to keen to pursue, lacking the numbers for any hope of a kill.
"You can stop that now," Jak said over his shoulder, trying his best to drag his heels as she pushed him. she looked over her own shoulder at the disbanding arachnids, and reluctantly stopped pushing him.
"You said you could do this!" a loud nasally voice echoed over the room.
Jules looked about like a startled puppy, Jak grabbed her and threw her behind one of the many Pillars lining the sides of the ledge. She Pushed him away angrily and opened her mouth to complain, but Jak clapped a hand over it and and just as frustrated, made the signal to be quiet.
"Yes but, You've seen the whats in the sky, you know what it brings!" Jak peeked around the pillar and recognized the soft husky voice of Seem before he saw her.
"YES, and soon this world's fate will be decided, and I, We need access to the catacombs! and with the technology there I can obliterate the darkness from this world and only glorious light will remain! You and your monks said you could do this, I expect nothing less!" th pompous naive waved about a long scepter and the door in front of him whirled to life and opened for his exit.
"of course," the small framed monk said to his back with a slight bow, she walked off through another door still holding her self proudly. Jak released Jules and came out from behind the pillar.
"what's so important about the catacombs?" he asked no one in particular, looking deep in thought. Daxter shrugged.
"how the hell should i know...who was that any way?" she question as she experimentally flexed her burnt hand. she winced and looked at him for an answer.
"Veegar..." he answered bitterly
"And Monk Boy Seem!" Daxter chimed in happily, not forgetting the coloring book faced monk.
"So what are the catacombs?" she looked around the room, taking in the architecture, the pillar's, the statue and the mind throttling drop. she wasn't really that interested in what the answer might be.
"We don't know." Jak said nearly as biter.
"thats interesting..." she was still marveling at her surroundings.
Daxter groaned, "Come on you stop pay attention way now?"
"Um?" she looked around. There was a door going both left and right from where they entered, "That way!" she said confidently.
Low and behold through the door was another medium sized round room, a large bronze door stood at the opposite end.
"Told ya." she pranced as cockily as one could with an injured arm.
"Quick lets ditch her!" Dax whispered desperately into his sidekick's ear.
Jak just shook his head, "then she'd stalk us for the rest of our lives..." Jak took pleasure in his companion's face as he strolled over to the door.
"Sooo..." the three were standing in front of the door now, "what do you think is back there?" Jak asked as he fumbled around in his pockets for the seal.
the alchemist shrugged. Jak pulled out the seal and placed it the conveniently shaped indent in the middle of the matching door, it turned with a click and fell out again. the door clanked and rolled into the wall leaving a round door way and another set of stairs leading down.
"Well we found a set of stairs... lets go home." Daxter said making to point back the way they had come from. Both Jak and Jules shot him a look, "fine, lets go down the spooky stair then!" he said ruefully.
"Aye Aye! Lead away captain!" She pushed Jak and the reluctant otsel onto the steps. and in her excitement kept both hands pushing impatiently against his back and the gadgets slung on it. and in this manner they descended into the dark of the temple's depths.
"Will YOU STOP THAT!" he shouted angrily.
"well then go faster!" She shouted back, "Why d omen always have to take there sweet time!"
"Well I'd have you know sweet chee-"
"DON"T call me SWEET CHEEKS!"
Jak was still being pushed down the steps unnecessarily, whatever is down here better be worth it he thought aggravated.