I would like to apologize for the LATE update... >.>; I blame Furcadia... damn that game is addictive. Well, anyway, heres that juicy updte you pup-people have been waiting for so much. Also, if you also play Furcadia, whisper me! My username is SylverNight. Ill be in Naia Green at the Help Center alot or in the Coffee House just down the road a ways. Or ill be in my dream.
Once again, i apologize to you all for being rediculously late... But now that its summer, i should be able to type more!
"Sake, wake up..." A voice pleaded quietly. She opened her eyes to find her loer staring down at her with a faint smile. "How are you feeling?" he asked while helping her onto her feet. She nearly toppled over and hear head pounded with a headache.
"Well, I feel like a yakkow just slammed its hoof right into my face..." She replied, trying to make the pounding stop. "So your not dead yet, eh?"
"Nope. Daxter and I managed not to get fried on our way into that volcanoe..." He smiled at both the Ottsel and Sake.
"Yeah, but I did most of the work!" Jak scoffed at his little comment. Sake simply smiled and laughed after watching the two fuss around for a few seconds.
"So, where too next?" She asked looking around. "Theres only one place to go around here, but its blobked by some kind of odd eye like thing..."
"You mean that?" he pointed to the white glowing eye floating above the pit. She nodded. "Watch this.." he smiled and looked at the small purple statue fora moment. He reached up to touch it, but Sake stopped him.
"Uh... Jak... I don't think you should..." He simply shrugged off the comment...Slowly, he placed a hand on the object, making several small volts of Dark Eco snake up his arm. Then, his arm, and soon his entire body dissappeared into thin air! "Jak!" She called and called for him but there was no reply. Oddly enoughm she did notivce small clouds of dust moving about on the ground and there was no wind.
Suddenly, the eye like orb glowed for a second or two then vanished completely. The door it had been guarging slid open right as Jak came back into veiw.
"While in that volcanoe, I recieved some kind of invicebility power... Maybe you should try or something..." She looked at him oddly.
"That's the thing that knocked me out in the first place!" He shrugged and urged for her to try it anyway. She wearily reacher out to the small statue, closing her eyes shut tigh upon brushing its cold glowing surface. Nothing happened...
"Huh... I thought for sure you'd get some kind of power as well... Oh well..." he looked over his shoulder when he heard an odd clicking sound. There was only one thing that could survive this long in a temple; spiders! Large spiders, about the size of a newborn child, began to crawl towards Jak. he whipped out his Blaster and wasted them in a matter of seconds. With a flick of his wrist, he motioned for her to follow. Reluctantly, she went.
The steps spiraled down around what seemed to be a large pillar. On the way down, they had been ambushed by several more spiders. The walls of the passage had begun to crumble. In one spot, a person could clearly see a small cascade of water. Soon, the bottom was in site. The familiar of spider claws against stone floors echoed from the room at the end and the two readied the,selves for yet another archnid ambush. About 5 spiders charged at them; their long transperant fangs gleaming in the dim light. Their eyes were fixed upon the three bodies of warm flesh that stood before them. One jumped right at Sake, but Jak kicked it away, splitting it wide open with his blaster.
A faint purple glow had been cast about the room by what looked to be a vent of pure untapped Dark Eco. Many knew that this substance, even in its refined and concentrated forms, which had been used for experiments, was highly dangerous to anyone who came in contact. It flowed errily, mixing and churning like blood in water.
Jak eyed it with a quizical gaze, unsure of how it would effect him. "So, are we just going to look at it like a lump on a log or do something?" Sake shrugged to his hairbrained question.
All of them shrugged at each other, then turned towards the nearby hall, ignoring the vent for now. Sake looked back at the vent over her shoulder, feeling some kind of craving. She had to come back to Jak's world to live, but since she arrived, she hadn't felt sick at all... This puzzled her to a degree, but they had a mission to complete and she couldnt worry about that now.
Yet another obstacle stood in their path. 8(i think) small objects floated around a central pillar of light which shined down onto a small glinting button. As Jak took even the smallest step towards them, they all turned to face him; small tips on their faces arching electricity. "Is it me, or were the Precursor drunk when they designed this place?" He shrugged and looked around for some way to get past the defense mechanisms. Then he noticed another small Precursor obelisk statue on the oppiside of the cirdular room. He ran around to the other side, and as he ran, the small objects continued to follow him with their glowing gaze. he reached out, touching the cold metal of the statue. Once again, the volts of Dark Eco kissed his skin, making it disappear before his eyes. His entire body faded out. Even the small ottsel, Daxter, was cloaked.
Before it wore off, he ran as fast as possible to the center of the room, pressing the button upon stepping into the rise pilar of light. The door to his right slid open to reveal yet another passage way. This was going to be a loooong day... Then, after a few more seconds, the cloaking wore off. However, the robot-like objects hadn't noticed him. With unseen hands, he took out his Scatter gun and strapped an odd modification to it. It morphed into a new kind of gun; one Sake had never seen before. He held down the trigger, causing the tip to glow a faint red. it grew brighter as it revved u for something. A little while later, he let the trigger go, sending a wave of what looked to be fire 10 feet in all directions. The robots exploded on contact, allowing him freedom.
"Nice... That cloaking will come in handy..." Sake smiled taking out her Blaster gun. She cocked it and headed for the door which Jak had opened.
Daxter mouthed something inccoherent about Sake into Jak's ear, which made the blonde blush. he reached up, slapping the Ottsel over the back of the head. "What! You know you wanna!"
"Wanna what?" Sake asked turning around to face them. Jak waved his hands in the air with a halfhearted smile.
"I-It's nothing! Really!" She gave them a fake glare.
"Right... and I suppose your blushing because your sunburnt..." She rested her hands on her hips while leaning to the left on one leg.
"Well, I HAVE been out in the sun all day..." She rolled her eyes and turned her back to them. She aimed her blaster forward when she heard the familiar sound of claws on conrete. Jak also pulled out his blaster and fired a few rounds, hitting the first few spiders that came screaming around the corner.
Wave after wave of large spiders swarmed the teens, but they were mowed down like grass in the summer. The gunslingers exchanged twisted smiles and continued slaughtering the spiders one way or another. Arachnaphobics would have had a heart attack...
The last spider slumped to the ground upon being shot. At the end of the tunnel, the three could see the faint purple glow from a vent of Dark Eco. they entered the hallway, exiting it into yet another large, hallow room. Just as they entered, several gates closed off many of the passageways. Many of the floating eye objects watched them from a distance.
"Let me handle this..." Jak groaned. he went up to a one of the amany Precursorian statues and touched it, cloaking himself in the process. He cleared the moving bars and got to the other side beofre his cloak wore off, which deactivated the floating eye. Sake then swung across after him, which took her a little longer than Jak would hve liked. She didn't nesscesarily like the idea of dangling helplessly over a seemingly bottomless pit...
They cleared several more of these pitfall obstecals and reacted the end of the room. The gates sank back into the ground as they approached a nearby door. If only those gates had stayed down... It would have made things alot easier. The door opened. Just what the doctor ordered... more spiders.
They eliminated this wave just as they did before, which wasn't very hard considering the sipders were all bunched up. With the FINAL wave, hopefully eliminated, they continued into a large hallow chamber. The roof had to be at least 40 feet up. Voices reacher the trio's ears, which made them duck and hide to get in on the conversation.
"You told me this could be done..." hissed a rather bald man with an angry gaze. Seem, the monk from Spargus stood fearful in front of him.Their conversation was rather quiet, but they made out a few words. Something about 'Catacombs...' The man left, leacing Seem behind, who soon followed. The only ones left in the chamger were Jak, Daxter, and Sake.
"Hey, it's one of those goober-eyed Precursor thingies!" Daxter smirked while looking at a large statue which held two platforms in its hands.
"Greetings Great Warrior..." The Precursor entity began in a deep, ominous voice. Jak listend intentively to every word it had to say, even chuckling at the "shorty" comment is gave Daxter, who wasn't too happy to hear it. With it's speech over, it surrounded Jak in a pure light, one only created by the heavens. It lifted him slowly, infusing him with a new ability; The ability to heal wounds that would otherwise prove fatal in battle.
Sake also watched, wondering if the entity would bless her as well. Her thoughts were stopped by the deep voice. "It has been a long time since I could feel this hope that i feel now. Even now, your world is in danger... In danger of being destroyed by a 1000 year old evil. It was one we Precursors have faced many times, and were unable to overthrow completely." It stopped brefily before speaking once more. "I am unable to help you, but i can give you this:" it paused again, making a small object appear in her hand. it resembled the same bracelet that Jak had givent o her as a token of his love. "Keep that with you. It is very important that you do so..." She nodded for a moment before it dismissed them to return to the lost desert city of Spargus.
