Note to self: get a life, clean room, clean computer stand, and update more often. >.>; Furcadia is fuuuuun... ; Well, at least im updating earlier than before this time, right! Also, ITS BEEN REVISED! Yay! hopefully no typo hell! (just to let you know, i typed and revised this at 1 am, just a warning) im not completely sure ifs its rid of all typos. Im too freaking lazy to check
Jak, Daxter, and Sake all returned to Spargus using their recently aquired Dune Hopper. The entire ride back, Sake was staring at the trinket the statue had given her. Why couldn't she get some fancy powers like Jak! Ahh well, she'd live. After all, she was damn good with guns and could hold her own quite well in battle.
"Hey, Sake, you okay?" Jak asked, looking at her. He wondered why she keapt staring at the bracelet... She seemed to snap back into reality.
"Huh? oh, yeah, I'm okay... I'm just wondering why that thing told me to hold onto this..." She looked at it, watching it sparkle in the bright sun overhead. Luckily, many of the Marauders that usually swarmed the area had packed up because there was another sandstorm on the way.
"Hope so..." Jak looked straight ahead, slamming his foot onto the peddle. The dune buggy lurched forward, picking up even more speed as he literally flew over the dunes. Daxter had to practivally hang on for dear life.
Suddenly, Jak's communicator began to buzz. Sake took it from his belt since he was driving. "Yeah, Sake here. What do you want?" She asked in a calm voice.
"Aye sheila, Ye two on your way back? Good. Come to the shore once you get back. I need to show ye somethin." it was Keliver. Not even a goodbye and he hung up. She closed it, holding onto it till they got back.
"Kleiver wants to see us..." She rolled her eyes, sounding a tad annoyed. Jak chuckled.
"When are not wanted?" he asked, pulling up to the gates of Spargus. They slide open, he drove through, and they closed behind him. Parking the buggy, the three climbed out. "We're always on the move... I can't wait to actually get a life... Not one that involves killing something every damn minute."
Sake couldn't help but snicker at his comment. After all, he had a point... "Well, let's just get this over with. The sooner, the better..." He nodded and continued on through Spargus. Daxter seemed to have passed out on Jak's shoulder. How he was able to sleep with Jak walking the way he did was beyond anyone. After a short walk, they reached the beach of Spargus. It was merely a small bay set into the rocks Spargus was built into. Kleiver was waiting next to a tall pillar of rock topped with a rusty turret.
"Aye mates, that turrent used to be the only thing that stood between us and the desert's cruel kiss. Without it, Spargus would be toast. Wanna try and beat me score?" He rested his large hands on his rolling hips and let out a billowing laugh. This made the sleepy Daxter come to life. The Ottsel leapt from his friend's shoulders and smiled.
"Oh, don't worry... Jak 'beats things' all the time..." he made small quotation marks with his hands. When Jak finally registered what the furry rat had said, he reached down, whalloping him over the back of the head as hard as possible. Sake stared, mouth agape and eyes wide. The side of it twitched every few seconds.
Jak noticed her vacant expression and rolled his eyes. "What!" She simply turned away.
"Don't wanna know!" She stomped off, still disgusted at the thought that Jak spanked the monkey in his free time. She always wondered what he did when he locked himself in his room... He shrugged and climbed the ladder to the turret, then sat down, taking hold of the controls while Daxter perched atop his shoulder.
"Let 'er rip big guy!" Daxter cheered. Pressing hard on the fire button, several rounds left the barrel at tremendous rates, piercing the distant targets that were seemingly thrown out of the ocean's waters. He was wracking up points with each one he hit. A few more rounds left the barrel and they stopped coming. Kleiver watched in disbelief. Jak literally beat his old score of 7000 into the ground.
"Ay, ye nippers whalloped me score, eh? Well, the top puppy's gotte be snipped some time." he pulled a crystal from his side pouch. It looked like a pure white crystal set into a shard of Precursor metal. "Law of the land says the top gunner holds a reward in honor of his, or her skill. Don't worry though, I'll be getting that back..." He tossed it to Jak and stomped off right as Sake returned.
"Niiiice job blondie!" Sake joked. He scowled. "Seems you haven't lost that magic touch while I was gone." She smiled, pecking him quickly on the cheek. Daster made a gagging sound. Jak simply shrugged.
"What, did you expect me to sit around on my ass and be lazy?" She shook her head. "Well, what did you expect?"
"Well, I hadn't really thought about that... I didn't think I was gonna make it back..." Jak and Daxter both perked up at this one.
"How exactly, DID you get back?" Daxter asked with an interested smile spread on his furry face.
So, she told them to sit down and she joined them on the beach, letting the cool water wash over legs. The tale began about how she had returned home and got her life back. Then, everything began to go wrong. A few days later, a strange man named Kaolinth helped her return to this world using the bracelet Jak had given to her. They both LOVED that story.
"Kaolinth, eh?" Jak asked, bewildered.
"Yeah, he was a really nice man. Something about him seemed a bit... familiar... so to speak..." Sake rubbed her chin before standing and stretching. Their comms began to buzz, and they both answered with a unified 'hello?'. Damas was calling them to the battle arena to test their skills against live enemies. They had to prove their loyalty to Spargus somehow, or else, the Sand King would throw them out for the metal heads like the people of Haven did.
It was merely a short walk to the arena. Upon their entry, thousands of people chanted Jak's name. They all loved to watch him fight.
Damas tasked Jak to fight onslaughts of marauders captured from the desert. He smiled with confidence. This would be no problem for him. After all, he had killed so many, he had lost count. However, the battlefeild inwhich he was forced to fight was a tad different than the last one. This one was mere catwalks connected together in an '+' with four sides around. They werent but 2 feet in width, so he couldn't use his best attacks. He did get a nice gun mod to use though. It was his personal favorite besides the Peacemaker, the Vulcan Fury!
A quick elevator ride, and about 50 baddies afterwords, Jak was nearly done. He backed up against an ammo despencer and peeked around to see the buisness end of a Peacemaker pointed right at him. Only one person weilded a peacemaker with a Metal head skull on it: Sig!
"Sig!" Jak cried, lowering his gun. However, Sig didn't let down his guard.
"Let's end this cherries!" he yelled, fingering the gleaming trigger.
"Woah, I'm not going to fight you Sig!" Jak put his hands up in defeat. Sig also put his gun down after a few tense seconds.
"What!" Damas roared. "This is a fight to the death! Only one can leave the arena alive!" The crowd roared wildly. Jak and Sig both refused to fight. So, as punishment, Damas had them arrested and brought to his Throne Room.
"You two have defied me... But, because you are my finest fighters, I cannot simply kill you. You are important to this city's continued existance." Damas paced back and forth, shaking his head, displeased with their actions. "But, your actions will not go without proper punishment. The Metal heads have set up a nest just north of here. Go in there, and take out all of the eggs you find." They both nodded and left without a moment's hesitation. Sake was forced to stay behind because it was their punishment, not hers. So, to pass the time, she simpy sat in the throne room, skipping small rocks over the spring water. She hoped they would return soon, and alive...