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Chapter 13- Heroes in Training begin!

Jak and Jaklin spent a few more days by themselves. Being a smart man Jak had gone out and bought a dry erase board for Jaklin so that he could keep it in his room so they could talk. It was hard to get used to at fist but he soon started to talk to her like she was an adult. Often times he would be chide by Keira telling him that she was to young to understand what it was that he meant. Three days before the next race Daxter woke Jak earlier than usual.

"Hey buddy wake up," Daxter said in ha hushed tone.

"Dax, what the hell?" Jak asked slightly irritated that he was being woken up at seven in the morning.

"Come on lets spend the day together, just you, me, and the girls. We could get a head start on teaching them how to be heroes," Daxter said with a laugh. Jak sighed and got up, there was only two reason why he was doing this now; a) Tess was still asleep and B) the two of them hand spent any time together with just them and the girls.

Jak gently picked up Jaklin and changed her then put some clothes on her. A loud noise startled Jaklin as they walked out side to the car, she was still half asleep but could hear her dad and uncle Daxter talking about something. She was greatly irritated by the noise and chatter of her father and Uncle. Why was her dad even up right now? Ah, Uncle Daxter must have forced him to get up.

("Hey your awake!") cried out Dez in her mothers normal morning cheer. Man how Jaklin hated morning people, Tess was ok because she was a grown up. Dez on the other hand was something different all together.

("Dez I really want to kill you right now,") Jaklin growled lightly at her as she glared at her. Daxter looked down at Jaklin and laughed. Jak looked at Daxter with the same look on his face. Dez wiggled in Daxter's arms laughing her little tail off.

Jak was ever so NOT the morning person just looked at him with a raised eyebrow. Jak loaded up Jaklin in the car seat and Daxter put Dez in a special car seat that Jak had some how managed to create.

("What do you think we are going to do to day?") asked Dez excitedly.

("I hope its something fun, other wise I'm going back to bed. I wasn't ready to get up yet,") Jaklin said yawning loudly.

("I'm sure it will be, I heard all the stories my daddy tells me what they did together maybe something cool will happen!") Dez babbled on. All Jaklin could do is roll her eyes at Dez and look to see if her dad was looking at her to see if she could figure out what was going on. Annoyingly for Jaklin he wasn't looking at her and it was getting on her nerves. Why couldn't Jak just tell them what it was that they were going to do to day?

("Dez you know as well as I do that your dad talks out of his ass about some of the things that he does,") Jaklin said in irritation. Dez just huffed at her and started to listen to what the adult men were talking about.

They had gone all the way back to Haven City for some reason and Jaklin couldn't put her finger on it. Once the car stopped and Jak opened the door Jaklin groaned inwardly. They were some were where there was a lot of noise, Jaklin pus early morning plus loud noise equals disaster waiting to happen. Jaklin glared at Jak as he pulled her out of her car seat. A small voice nudged in the back of Jaklin's mind telling her that their dad had to be kidding about this.

Jaklin let off several pulses of dark eco at her dad to let him know just how she felt about it. Jak bit his lip as he walked threw the bazaar to get to something to eat. He knew Jaklin wasn't happy and he swore that if Jaklin went dark he was going to punt Daxter in a vat of something unsavory.

The four of them got some breakfast, Jak hoping that food would help Jaklin's mood a bit. Jak loved his daughter but he didn't love the dark eco that she kept zapping him with, it felt funny it didn't hurt like the dark eco he was used to. Jak gave Jaklin a few pieces of fruit to see if she would eat yet, he really hoped she did.

Sadly she didn't and Jak had an idea, Daxter had said that he wanted to start the girls on "hero training" so that is what they would do. Jaklin was smart enough to start eco training any ways he didn't know what he was going to start teaching her but he would start with a less powerful eco like dark.

'may I suggest green or blue?' asked his light side to make sure that dark didn't have any objections. Jak thought about it for a minute, the first eco he could ever remember coming into contact with was green eco so maybe he would start her out with that. Jak got up and put the fruit in a bag and got Daxter and Dez to go.

"where are we going?" asked Daxter.

"to the desert you said you wanted to train them so that is what we are going to do." Jak said. Jaklin smirked at this though no one saw it, she had been waiting for this. She wanted to know every thing that daddy knew. Jak could feel that Jaklin's mood had improved a little but he couldn't figure out why.

Jak drove to the naught ottsel and parked in the back and walked to the transport not far from there, it didn't take long for Jak to get the guys to take him where he wanted them to go. Forty minuets later they landed in the hot dry desert. Jak smiled he really did like it here. Maybe a little later on he would take Jaklin to go see Damas' grave.

Jak walked into Spargus and was greeted by many people. The people here knew who he was and most looked up to him as their new leader after his father died. Jak had made sure to tell the others that Sig was in charge of the place he was no leader. Many people told him that one day he would be and they would be waiting for him.

Jak walked to the palace but noticed that Sig was gone. That was ok though because he wasn't looking for Sig he was looking for Seem. It didn't take him long to find the monk he was looking for. Seem was busy praying so Jak sat back and waited for the monks to get done. It was only a few minutes and they had finished one of the younger monks pointed out Jak to seem and they walked over.

"what can I help you with great hero?" asked seem eyeing Jaklin.

"I'd like to know how you train people in eco." Jak asked unsure of how to ask his question. Seem seemed interested and nodded towards and area that was more quiet. Jak fallowed, hoping that this would go right. He remembered Samos teaching him how to do something's with green eco but he hadn't practiced it in a long time he wandered if he could still do it.

"I suppose you have a reason for asking me?" seem asked as soon as the door was shut.

"yes I want to train my daughter," he said, seem knowing the family history of the house of Mar looked at Jaklin.

"and this is her?" seem asked again.

"yes" Jak said holding her up so that seem could see her. Seem's eyes widened when he noticed something about her.

"so that is why there are no girls allowed in the house of Mar" seem trailed off.

"what do you mean I remember Kas saying something about it but he really didn't go into detail about the forbidden eco." Jak said kind of confused as to what seem had seen.

"white eco, is the forbidden eco, you have touched it yourself but it didn't manifest like it should have because of the dark eco, though perhaps in time you will get that ability back with the help of your child." seem said still looking at Jaklin.

"her name is Jaklin by the way but how do I teach her how to use eco." Jak asked again.

"you would have to wait until she is five in order for her to understand what it is that you are teaching her I don't think and mere nine and a half month old baby is going to know what is going on." seem said, Jaklin scrunched up her nose and produced a small amount of green eco in front of her and moved it around then made it disappear and replaced it with some blue eco. Seem could only raise his eyebrow.

"well it looks like she already knows how to do it so the only real thing you would need to teach her is control over whatever type of eco she is practicing with." seem said. Jak nodded his head and thanked seem.

Jak and Daxter spent an two hours teaching the girls how to do some basic things. Jaklin was throwing small balls of green eco at Dez by the end of it and the had the basic know how of the morph gun. Jak promised Jaklin when she was three he would start to teach her how to use it. Dez was able to blink to almost every location that her father went in rapid secession. Jak looked at Daxter after they had stopped for the day.

"Hey could you give me a moment with Jaklin alone?" Jak asked, Daxter looked at him for a moment then understood what it was that he wanted to do. Daxter hopped off of Jak's shoulder and landed on the ground with Dez in his arms.

"Don't take to long buddy, Tess is already going to have my ass when we get back." Daxter said. Suddenly Jaklin got a funny idea.

("Hey Dez?") Jaklin called to Dez.

("Yeah?") she asked

("I dare you to say ass out loud,") Jaklin said with a smirk on her face. Dez was in a tough spot she wanted to but she didn't want to get into trouble.

("I don't want to get into trouble,") Dez said.

("You're a baby they are going to think that it is cute and ask you not to say it again then your daddy will get in trouble by your mommy and it will be funny!") Jaklin squealed.

"Dax this was your idea so if Tess chews your ass out your on your own," Jak said

"Ass!" squeaked Dez making both of the guys look at her. Jak tried hard not to laugh and Daxter hand a look of amusement and horror on his face. Dez couldn't help but laugh herself at the looks on the guys faces. Jaklin not wanting to be left out needed to do Dez one up. Lucky for her Kleiver walked right in.

"Fat ass!" Jaklin screamed and pointed at Kleiver who just growled at her and made her think he was going to eat her. Jak had dropped Jaklin on the ground he was laughing so hard. Daxter had fallen into one of the water springs and Dez was sitting in front of Jaklin with her arms wide open.

"Fat ass no eat!" she yelled at him.

"Can it ya runt! Ya think this is funny aye? We'll see who's laugin in the end" he said and stormed off. Jak was laughing so hard that he couldn't breath he couldn't believe that Jaklin said that or that Dez said the same thing. It took a good ten minutes for them to stop laughing finally Jak picked up Jaklin.

"We'll be back in a bit." Jak called behind him. Jak walked out side and to the car garage he looked around to make sure that Kleiver wasn't any where in sight and jumped into the dune buggy. Jaklin thought the little car was funny looking.

" Me, me!" Jaklin said as she tried to reach for the wheel of the little vehicle, this made Jak laugh again but buckled her in the seat, Sig had said that the raiders attacking people had died down a lot after the dark makers. Jak drove to the spot that Sig had shown him where the family burial grounds were. He had only seen the outside, he had never gone inside.

Jak unbuckled Jaklin and picked her up and carried her into the area. Jak took in a deep breath and walked in to the tomb area. Jak's skin prickled the further in he went. Jaklin was looking around the darkly lit area soon they came to a very large room that had statues in small alcoves. Jak walked up to the first one and read the plaque out loud.

"Mar Eversong, founder of the house of Mar and many other things that I'm not going to read off right now." he said after a bit he walked up to Damas' statue.

"Damas T. Eversong, founder of Spargus City. The wasteland king." Jak couldn't keep reading as the memories of that day came back to him. Jaklin didn't know what to do she didn't understand why they were here. Jaklin wiggled a little but Jak just held on to her. He walked over to a bench and sat down.

"Daddy?" she asked him, she was unable to project to his mind what she wanted to say due to the poison and she didn't have the knowledge of how to say a lot of the words yet. Jak looked at her and could only tell that she was confused about something. Though he didn't know what he felt that he should at least explain this to her now he knew she was smart enough.

"That statue was made for my dad when he died," Jak said pointing to the statue. Jaklin understood now, Jak's distress came from sadness. This knew knowledge made Jaklin frown as she looked at it. It wasn't fair to her she didn't get to meet him.

"I just wish I had had the time to know him," Jak muttered under his breath. Jaklin wanted to cry but she didn't she could see that her daddy wanted to cry but he wouldn't because of her so she wouldn't cry for him. Jak looked at Jaklin in a small amount of wander there was something in her eyes.

"Why is it that the dark eco you have feels different then what I'm used to." Jak asked her.

("Because its not hate filled, it has a purpose other than causing harm.") she babbled to him even though she knew he couldn't understand her. Jaklin wiggled onto the floor and did something amazing. She made a small ball of white eco for Jak to see. Jak wasn't sure if it was safe to touch or not but he did any ways.

That is what answered his question, she was born with the darkness and had no reason to hate it and that is what made it different then his. Jak watched as Jaklin crawled over to Damas grave and infused the statue with white eco. Jak was awe struck at what she did. Jaklin toddled back over to him and grabbed his hand and pulled him over to the statue.

The next thing that happened is Jaklin forced Jak to touch the still glowing statue. All of the other colors of eco that his body held sparked out and accented the statue. Jak sat on his knees looking up at the statue. There was nothing he could say all he could do was sit there and cry. It was the first time in a long time that he cried.

He cried for everything that had happened to him, he cried for the fact that he lost his father, for not being there the day Jaklin was born. He cried for the darkness and the light, for his friends and their families. Jaklin sat there and waited for him, she knew this is what he really needed she crawled up into his lap and hugged him.

It took about twenty minutes after that for Jak to regain his composure, by that time Jaklin was asleep. Jak got up and headed for home he knew that Tess was going to kill the both of them for being out so late and not letting her know that Daxter was taking Dez with him. If Jak had known what to look for when he left he would have seen the first Mar and Damas standing there watching him, smiling.

"She's going to be a hand full when she is older," said Damas to Mar.

"I do hope this world is ready for her," Mar said laughing and both of them vanished.