hey i know its been a really long time since i have updated, and if i do update further, its likely to not be often. i have loads of stuff going on in life still but i got randomly inspired yesterday and tried my best to write an 11th chapter. i hope you like it c:

Zoey's P.O.V

I honestly didn't like the fact of going to confront drones. Haven was never like this when I first came here…at least…that was after all this anyways. I mean the more I interfere with the past the more I totally screw with the future.

I slowly walked to the Baron's palace. Every step I took, I felt farther and farther from reality, from my daughter and from my husband. "Oh, Jak…" I whispered, slowly playing with my wedding band on my finger looking up to the sky. "I miss you so much…I just wish I could see you…" my heart felt heavy with longing to see the blonde hero. Just as I spoke such longing words of love and loss, it was like as if by chance, I saw him zoom by overhead as if he was being chased. I automatically scanned the streets of Haven only to find no sense of danger. 'What could you be doing?' I thought to myself as I almost let myself become distracted with the fact and follow him.

I shook my head and kept walking, but with my eyes closed from time to time. I was trying to picture that night, seven years ago by the old pumping station at night. How the water smelt, and how the air tasted with its winds that kissed our faces. It was beautiful that day.

"Hey! Watch where you're walking!" I opened my eyes and bounced back a bit to see who I had bumped into. It was a Krimzon Guard. 'Well howdy fucking doodle do to you to.' I thought with annoyance. Yet at the same time, my heart stopped for a second. I couldn't feel anything anymore, and I was starting to lose the ability to hear from my fear. I just blinked and slowly nodded with a bewildered look on my face.

As I began to pass the guard he turned around and stopped me by putting a hand on my shoulder to spin me around. "Hold it." He glared into my soul. I could feel it. There was no denying it behind those terrifying red lenses he was trying to place me from somewhere. But he couldn't remember where.

"Hand me your citizenship card to Haven." He growled with impatience. I nodded and fumbled through my pockets with a sheepish smile. I was getting clumsy and almost dropped my communicator out of my pocket. "Here you are." I handed him the card and he scanned it. With a discouraging grunt he handed it back and motioned for me to keep going. 'I wonder what is making the guards so testy and blood thirsty these days. Things were bad before yes but ever since Jak broke out…they have just had a taste for blood these days.' I thought to myself as I kept on walking.

On my way, I saw a man with a buzzed haircut, it was blonde. He had some signs of balding on the top of his head. Not very noticeable, unless you really looked at the top of his head near the back. He had a tribal tattoo on his left forearm that was very well done and eye pleasing. He wore thick black sunglasses, baggy jean shorts up to his knees, a white t-shirt with blue sleeves, and a black and grey back pack. I wondered what he was doing on the side of the street constantly moving his arms and face, as if to cover himself. It was daylight; people didn't do this till it was near sunset. I decided to push the oddity of someone acting strange on the streets past me and kept going. Eventually I reached the door, checked around to only see a market nearby with different colors and assortments of fruits I entered the building.

Lights from multiple systems where going off. Beeps could be heard from anywhere. "You know…" I trialed as I saw an overhead air vent, "I'm not that keen on seeing or facing any of those drones…" my voice was a hushed whisper and barely able to be heard over all the sounds on the bottom floor. Yet I knew that I was indeed not alone. I had a feeling I was being watched. I carefully scanned the room as I climbed up one of the machines and unlocked the vent to only find many eyes inside. They glowed with a sense of evil. Blinking almost in unison they all began to slowly, but surely creep towards me. I couldn't move. It was so creepy.

Then it made a sound. A sound that raked against my senses like crazy. It moaned and groaned as it thumped at a fast pace towards me. The eyes growing closer and closer and the moans, shrieks, crys and groans of pain and disgusting discomfort growing just as close. I slammed the vent shut in a heartbeat and sealed it in time for it to ram into the vent. It had a hideous face, like a mutated freak of some horror movie. I felt all my hairs stand on end as its ten eyes glared at me and it slipped its small hand-like paw out towards me in a gesture for me to touch. I looked at its paw, then back up at it to see it had to beautifully colored eyes. The dim flickering light made the cane eyes on the creature light up and glisten with a scared look almost. I kept staring at it, its skin so smooth like my own and so delicate.

Yet the more I looked…the more it appeared to become agitated. It motioned me to take its paw, but I didn't, I kept my hand close to myself.

Suddenly, without any signs of warning, its large dilated pupils became slits, its skin became ridged and its oval like face was contorted into a snarl, showing its teeth and holding a look of displeasure. Its small paw like hand extended further and had enormous claws that grabbed desperately for me causing me to lose my balance. I held my breath and regained my balance as the thing in the vent growled at me. It wanted to shred my face. I wanted to scream.

It was so ill tempered. So violent. I looked down at my hands and only saw Kitten's destructive nature and blood covering her claws. "Its no way to live…" I mumbled.

The clattering from the metal vent against that creature's claws was bound to get attention and I knew it. Quickly I hopped down, letting my ankles take the shock of the solid earth almost making them give. I hid for a bit only to see something come out and investigate.

It had a dark nature to it. It growled and ran back, leaving me to sit there and wonder. "Those drones don't sound so bad now…" I trailed as I got up and walked slowly against the wall. I crept around the corner to see purple static lick across the surface of the ground and vanish around the other corner. "Jak?" I said in confusion to myself. How did he get here? Well better yet why is he here? I needed to figure out that last, I was here to save my daughter. But then again, they mean the same to me. Sure we love our daughter then both of us could imagine but we also love each just the same as we do our daughter. It was a splitting decision, I'd feel bad if I chose one over the other…but then again Jak could probably take care of himself so I mean…id have nothing to worry about. Roxy on the other hand probably couldn't.

At that, I chose to look for my daughter further but follow Jak at the same time. I carefully walked around the corner and checked around for any signs of danger. From what I saw there were none. "Hm..." I breathed as I walked down the hall way that constantly turned left and right. There seemed to be no end. It was hopeless, I lost his trail. "Well…there goes that." I said with a sigh of defeat, "I was so close…"

Just as I thought my hope had died, it sparked back up when I saw a trace of dark eco dance along the floor up ahead. My eyes lit up at the sight of the purple and magenta lightning as it struck the ground. I grinned and swiftly moved over to the doorway. Holding my breath, I slowly peered over to see it wasn't Jak. In fact it was someone else…they had a devilish tail, short hair purple hair, long horns, small bat like wings and had white cat ears that laid down . A gasp escaped my breath and I covered my mouth and turned around to the corner to be unseen. I know it saw me, but I didn't care I was too scared.

I heard the sound of a hiss emit from around the corner and close to my ears, seeping into my brain to taunt me as if to say, 'I'm here. You die.'

I collected myself, 'what am I running from? That thing is much smaller than I am. I can handle myself. It's probably just a loose animal or something.' I thought to calm myself down before turning around the corner and facing the beast. When I did, I noticed something odd right away. One eye had a cat like slit of a pupil; the other was a soullessly black. No life.

Then I felt completely threatened when it charged me out of nowhere. I quickly dodged its attack, with claws extended, only to have myself go through immense internal pain. I placed my hands over my face and cried out in pain. It was as if my skin was on fire and peeling away like old paint on a rusted up van. I screamed so loud, I felt bloody tears drip from my tear ducts as my skin paled and my fingertips developed claws. My ears receded and then were replaced by cat ones on the top of my head and then a cat like tail ripped through my jeans. I was on my hands and knees at this point still screaming, but lowly now. Then, my eyes were encased with black pools; magenta iris's with cat like slits. My human k-9's where replaced with long fangs.

By the time everything was done I let out one blood curdling cry and got up slowly, staggering almost. I glared at the now petrified creature before me. I ran up to it and raised my clawed hand, about to strike when I stopped myself. Something in its eyes zapped me down to bone and made my body seize. I lowered my hand in a lesser vicious meaner, made my eyes half open and slowly touched the side of the face of the child before me. It was my daughter.

"Roxy…" Kitten cooed as the child's dark form began to ball and cling to my leg. Burying her face into my body. "Mommy!"she sobbed, "I was so scared." I stroked her head softly with sadness. It had happened. I prayed this wouldn't happen but the doctors where right. "It's okay…I'm here now." I said softly and one fang poked out from my lips as I smiled at my daughter.

Everything slowed down almost, until the lights went out. We were blind. Roxy only trembled and sniffled more now from pure fear. No matter how much I tried to calm her it seemed pointless, she was going to make noise and I had a terrible feeling we were going to be found by whatever killed the lights.

I growled as I saw two blue lights appear side by side, at what looked like an even eye level of six feet tall. I was at a major disadvantage.

"By order of his eminence, the grand protector and ruler of Haven City, Baron Praxis, you are hereby under arrest for trespassing onto royal ground. Surrender now." Said a mechanical voice. I heard the sound of a zero gravity simulator as it hovered whatever was in front of me, presumably the drones.

"Well," I hissed as my eyes lit up with a cocky demeanor, "you can go tell his eminence to go suck it!" I growled and bared my teeth at the drone I could only see the eyes of. In that instant I grabbed my daughter and began to run, I didn't care where, as long as I could feel the wall beside me, I'd keep running and follow it.

Its eyes turned red. Blood red. "Scanning code sequence for battle." It said out loud. "Code found. Prepare yourself, citizen."

'Citizen? Is the Baron that nuts to harm his own brain dead citizens?' I thought in confusion only to see a golden red bullet fly by me and just barely graze my shoulder. 'That answers that!' I thought with enormous eyes and ran ten times faster.

"Surrender and die." It stated as I ran around a corner and hid Roxy behind a number of boxes. I told her to be quiet and not dare move, nor make a sound.

"Hey rust bucket! I'm over here!" I called to drone, it turned to me and I ran as fast as my feet would carry me in the impairing blackness. As I ran I noticed that the eyes became separate slowly. 'There is two of them!?' I almost fell over from shock in the midst of my sprint. 'How am I supposed to deal with two? Let alone one?!' I had to think fast and make sure my plan worked. It was a one shot deal. I had no weapons but what was in me.

'Wait why am I running? I can fight these rust buckets!' I thought as I turned around and charged it on all fours. When I saw its gun reload and aim at me near the floor I waited for it to be fired, then leapt into the air and aimed for its face.

When I was on it I covered its eyes and began to slash at it, but nothing was working until the other one saw me. I stopped and waited. When it fired I jumped straight up to see the drone I was on now down on the stared at the drone and about to touch it when I heard a snarl. "Now what?!" I groaned with impatience and looked around in the blackness around me like a blanket or fog that wouldn't lift. "Not like I'm trying to not die her or anything. I mean that's always going to fit on my schedule. But whoever and whatever you are, I'm afraid you are never going to fit."

Then I heard a cackle in the distance and my dilated pupils became slits. "…Dark…" I whipped around in the darkness only to see nothing and hear his echo bounce off of the walls all around. "Hmm…seems like I'm well known now. You know I think I'll only help you out this one time Kitty." He was so over confident as always. With what was said all I heard was a grunt and then a smash against the ground. I saw everything light up purple in a ring and then grow outward. "Shit!" I cried as I went to jump out of the way. My tail was nearly hit by the wave; I flicked it around a few and checked it over. Then, I saw the lights go on and Roxy was by the switch. Dark finished pushing the last bit of scrap metal over a ledge. "Hope you bastards like my gift. Its simple I know. Don't go thanking me all at once by using your bullets." He grinned.

I just perched myself on top of boxes with my tail still flicking and my ears back. "What do you want?"

I saw a glimmer in his eyes. Then a sly grin appears as he dashed over and in front of me, inches away from my face, "I get a choice?"

I scowled at him and turned around reverting back to my normal self. "Just get out of here. Alright?" He wasn't pleased with that statement. He wanted something but I wasn't going to give it to him. He already had that once.

He grabbed me by the wrist and whirled me around to face him, "Not this time." He trailed as he pulled me in and pressed his lips against mine. I froze for a second, but let my eyes close like his were. He had softer lips then I had remembered last, and as he broke the short kiss for a quick bit of air he lightly nibbled on my bottom lip. My eyebrows shot up and eyes opened, "Sorry, this was a mistake." I said as I pulled away but couldn't get myself free from his grip no matter what I did.

"Yeah," he paused with a serious tone, "A really bad one…" he trialed with a grin that slowly crawled across his face with a dark message behind it, and a wicked look in his eyes. He isn't supposed to love me yet. He isn't supposed to know me yet! He is supposed to love Keira! If he doesn't love Keira he won't know me in the future and Roxy won't be born!

'Okay not what I was hoping for!' I thought in slight panic and quickly tugged my wrist free. I ran to my daughter and grabbed her, looking back to see Dark with his handsomely tattooed face grin at me with a toothy grin. "One day…you will be mine…" he said soft enough for me to hear.

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