Hello! YAY AN UPDATE! SQUEE. I actually wrote this one also up in NY, but Never finished it up there. Finally finished it, but it's not edited, so FOREWARNED IS FOREAMED. PLEASE PLEASE do NOT flame me about my horrible typing! If you do,I will ignore youand go on with my own buisness.Have a nice day:3
Also, I'll be putting this fic on semi hold. I had a dream recently, and it's going to make one hell of a freaking awsome fanfiction. I'll be writing that, and this one, so ill be staggering my updates.
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An ear-shattering scream filled the halls of an unfamiliar building. "Leave me alone!" She shouted, trying to break the bindings that bound her wrist and ankles. The sadistic man standing over her smiled a toothy grin, eyeing his 'catch of the day' lustfully.
"Awwww... It's been so long wince we've been together..." He snickered, looking deeply into his prey's eyes. "Too bad Jak is still in the picture... once I eliminate him, I'll have you, my desert rose, all to my self." He stood to his full height, the flesh side of his face smiling evilly. "Want to know how long I've been planning my revenge for what Jak did to me?" He used his robotic hand to grip her face and forced her to face him.
"Errol, It's not his fault you're like this! Leave him out of this, Please!" She begged, trying to force back the tears of fear. She was indeed scared, afraid to go through what had happened before again. I'd be a bit more difficult for Errol this time around however.
"Sake...Sake... I don't think you understand what I'm really getting at here... Because of him... I look like this!" He pointed to his face with what was left of his original right hand. His entire body was metallic, down to the very tip of his toes to the top of his head. The only thing that was still 'human' about him was half of his face and his right hand. "I also want him gone, so I can have you all to myself..." He snickered with a sinister chuckle. "I may not have the proper 'equipment' anymore, but at least there are other ways." He got very close to her, speaking into her ear. His cold lifeless breath caressed her skin, making every hair on her body stand on end. It was prison all over again as memories of her child and him rushed back into her head. Errol didn't realise it, but Sake had been slowly trying to escape from her bindings. She was slowly cutting the ropes around her wrists with a small poekt knife she had hidden for something such as this. Hey, a sexy girl has to be prepared, no?
Suddenly, a loud ringing filled both of their ears. Errol's eyes jerked around and found that it was coming from a communicator unit on the table next to where she was held. It was her communicator which Errol had confinscated. Errol snatched it up and held it firmly in his robotic hand. "Well well well... looks as if your lover is trying to contact you... I don't see why he cares, seeing as how you two are in a major crunch..." He got a fake caring look on his face as he held the tiny communicator mere inches from her face. She glared at him, her eyes beggining to get milky black around the edges. This would be the first time she had gone to her dark form in quite a while. She was actually suprised her darker self hadn't been bugging her at all.
"How did you know about our fight!" She hissed, her short canine teeth slowly growing longer and longer. Her jet black hair seemed to become a starch silver and white that shined in the light over her.
"Sake... how did you think I knew exactly what room you stayed in in Spargus?" He crushed the ringing communicator with the littlest of ease, then opened his hand. The pieces fell to the floor, making several clattering noises. "I have hired several Haven rejects to spy on you and Jak. I've paid them good money to give me every detail about your everyday lives..." She was shocked and abhored. Errol was crazier than she thought. He was stalking her!
"Well, looks like you have me... now what are you going to do to me?" She was completely transformed into her dark self. Beady black eyes, silver hair, pale grey/blue skin, obsidian horns and sharp claws bedecked her slender form like it usuallly did. However, the horns were slightly different this time around. Instead of forming a dog-leg type of curve that jutted out, back, then up to form two sharp points, they were long, and looped back over her head. They were still sharper than ever.
"Well... I'll violate you again, kill Jak, and make you ny permanent slave..." He tried to pin her down, but met with her clawed fist. She pushed him off with her freed legs and took off running. As she ran, she managed to lose Errol. She came to a screeching stop as a ledge quickly approached. Believe it or not, she was floating hundreds of feet over Haven City! Errol came up behind her, smiling madly with unmeasured excitement. "So... if it's a chase you want... then it's a chase you get. End of the line sweetheart..." He inched closer as she inched back to get away from him. When one foot nearly went off of the edge, she looked behind her. Her heart jumped into her throat and beat like crazy. It was the Palace incident all over again.
"Something tells me it isn't..." Indeed, something in the very back of her dark mind was speaking to her. She hadn't noticed it before, but she could feel it. She felt it the day she recieved the piece of jewlry from Jak, and it got stronger when she got an identicle one from the Precursor statue. Maybe that was why it told her to keep the artifacts close.
"What are you going to do... jump?" He laughed heartily. She smiled, her beady black eyes brimming with unseen plans.
"Actualy, yes." She placed her arms over her chest in a 'X' pattern and let her feet slip off of the edge she had been cornered to. Errol looked down at her, annoyed that she had resorted to this, but laughed any way. If he couldn't have Sake, no one would, especially now that she had committed suicide.
Errol was wrong in every way however. She had not killed herself. The voice in the back of her head was steadily getting louder. She felt a strange urge rush over her, then a flaming pain that felt like acid flowed through her veins. The bones on her back, and all the way down her spine seemed to be snapping in and out of place as something began to grow. Two nubs formed at the base of her shoulder blades, then jutted out to look like spikes. They continued to grow longer, breaking this way and that to form large, long-fingered boney frames. Flesh began to crawl all along them to form flaps between each of the 'fingers'. More bones were sprouting off of the end of her tail bone, and also wound longer and longer. Flesh blanketed the new appendege, ending in 3, inch long spikes. Mere inches from the concrete borders of the Port, she spread her wings out as wide as possible while flipping over to face the ground. Instead of turning into a demon pancake, she beat her large demonic bat like wings as hard as possible. With ungodly strength, she climbed into the air at an incredible speed, scaring the mess out of the locals.
She soared high into the clouds, feeling free as a bird. "I have waited 3000 years to be realeased... I must go pay my respects to the ones who helped with my release." As she continued to fly, she felt herself getting weaker and weaker. Despite the fact she was 'awakened', she was still quite weak. There were obviously more pieces to the puzzle that she had to collect to become 'whole'. Over the city and through the clouds, she flew, the wind carrying her gentle gliding form gracefully.. The wind was in her face, blowing her hair behind her in a silver river. She passed out over the wasteland where she and Jak had fought Metal Kor, then out over an expansive ocean. Land wasn't visible for miles around. She was at home in the sky, where the air was fresh and the clouds carresed her skin. Land was soon visible. It was hazey, and she knew why. A Sandstorm was covering the desert.
A mere sandstorm was no problem for her now, concidering she could simply fly over it. The Monk Temple was fast approaching. This was her destination. Once inside, she landed and made her way into it's bowels. She stopped before the Precursor statue that granted Jak his powers and spoke in a soft echoing tone. Her voice flowed like a river.
"I have arrived." She bowed before it, her jet black wings majestically displayed behind her. The eyes of the statue opened to reveal a bright blue light that shined down on her.
"Ahh... It is good to see you again Catalyst." A glowing human figure appeared over the chasm in front of her, displaying rather angelic wings.
"It's good to be awake. I have sleapt for 3000 years and I'm tired of sleeping. Cut the small talk. Give me the necklace, now." She demanded, rishing from her bow. The entity let out a low growl.
"Still impateint, are we? I'd give you the necklace, but you haven't earned it. What would your creator think if you spoke to her that way?" Her obsidian eyes narrowed to slits.
"How am I supposed to earn what is rightfully mine!" it stopped her before she went any further.
"Simple. Be one with your host and help her defend the innocent. Only then will you recieve the rest of yourself." Crossing her arms defiantly as it spoke, she scowled.
'I'm being ordered around by a rat... how fun...' She thought, remembering her origins. They weren't even her creator! "So, I gotta save people! I was crated to kill you here! I'm not one to save lives!"
"You are in no position to deal Catalyst! You may have been created by Setarea 3000 years ago to eliminate we Precursors, but you failed, didn't you! Because of the fact that we freed you from her grasp, you are indebted to us. And unless you do as told, you will never be complete!" The entity landed in tront of her on trhe pedestal and glared at her, their eyes of oppisite meeting.
"I'll be complete, no matter what. And once I am complete, your ass is grass." She turned and exited the temple, flying back to Spargus. She landed in front of the gates, and changed back before she was seen. The wings did a reverse transformation and reentered her back. Her winding tail did she same. Skin took on color and eyes became normal again as horns and claws faded. The back of her shirt, and the seat of her pants were torn horribly from the transformation.
"How did I get here?" She thought out loud, rubbing her head. She was unaware of what the creation inside of her had done. So, she snuck into Spargus, making sure to be unseen because of the condition of her clothes. As she entered the Throne room to get to her private quaters, Damas stopped her.
"It's a little late to be out and about, isn't it Sake?" She turned to face him, laughing lightly.
"Um... went for a stroll?" She thought to herself. Not a stroll, rather, she had been kidnapped and had no clue how she ended up at the gates of Spargus.
"Sake, Jak has been worried sick about you. He called her about 4 hours ago, wondering if he could talk to you." She looked down at her feet. He noticed the briuses on her wrists and ankles. "What happened?" He took her wrist and inspected it.
"I hurt them... when I tripped..." She looked away, sighing heavily. He could hear it in her voice that she wanted to cry. Something had definatly happened.
"Sake, falls don't do that to people... what really happened?" He lifted her chin then helped her over to a seat. Why he was being to caring with her was beyond her.
So, she told him everything. Absolutely everything. From the time she was pulled into to Haven, up until now. It was a fascinating story to him. "...and thats how I ended up with these bruises. At first, I woke up with Errol, then wound up at Spargus. Don't ask me how it happened." She looked at Damas, who had reached for his ringing communicator.
"Yes, who is it?" He asked simply.
"It's Jak! Any word on Sake's whereabouts?" Jak asked on the other end. Damas smiled at her.
"Yes, actually. she's sitting next to me."
"Tell her to stay there! I'll be there ASAP!" Jak immediatly hung up and the line went dead.
"Jak's been extremely worried. He'll be here in a few. Why don't you go wait on the beach? I'll tell him once he gets here." She nodded to him and stood. Slowly, she headed outside onto the beach where she sat and waited for him. She had practically forgotten all about what he had said. The moon was no longer full, and did't have the usual radiant glow that she loved to bask in. There was no one around, only the soft whispers of the ocean spoke to her. The waves seemed to sing a soft melody to her, lulling her off into a world all her own. The water was cool and refreshing to her face when she took a bit of it and splashed it on herself. The waves contonued to roll in and out... still singing their gentle song. It was a tranqauil tune of a peaceful sort. She was so into the ocean's music that she didn't see or hear the person coming up behind her.
"Hey Sake..." A deep voice that sounded scared spoke to her in a tone as gentle as the sea. She turned around to face Jak, who stood smiling down on her.
"Hey Jak..." It felt as it the ocean's song seased to exist. It was replaced with tension so thick, it could kill a person. The moment they saw each others' face, they both froze in their tracks. After an uneasy silence, Jak finally got around to saying something.
"Mind if I---- Join you?" She shook her head, patting a spot on the sand to her left. Moving slowly, he sat, digging his fingers into the sand.
"The ocean was singing to me..." She whispered in a distant voice. His eyes inspected her battered clothes and bruised body, wondering what she had gone through.
"It sings to me too at times..." It felt weird to say, but it did indeed sing to him when he needed consoling. "Hey---Sake... I just wanted to apologize... for the things I said... I never meant to be so cold to you-" She put a finger to his lips, and he stopped.
"I know. I can see it in your eyes. And... I'm sorry I tried to push you into something you didn't want to do. She wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him. He in turn wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close.
"No, you were right. It took me a while to realise it, but I think my only pupose in life is to help those who need help. I've decided to help Torn and the others with the war in Haven City." She smiled, hugging even tighter. He did the same. The two were quiet for a little while longer, enjoying each others' company and warmpth. Once again, it was only them in the world. They were the only ones that existed. Sake felt something again... She felt as if she and Jak were floating in absolutely nothing. She was her darker self, embraced in the proective arms of his light form. It was like a Ying Yang. One could not exist without the other. Without them, balance could not exist.
"I love you Jak... and I always will..." She burried her face into his shirt as he kissed the top of her head.
"And I will always love you to Sake. Nothing will ever change that, I promise." He listened to the waves as they began to sing to them again. Instead of a calming tune, it was a harmonic melody that gave Jak goose bumps. "How about we go for a swim?" He suggested simply.
"Sounds good to me." She stood up and went behind a rock so no one could see her undress. She dove into the water, swimming out a little deeper to where her feet couldn't touch. He also undressed and dove in, chasing after her. He grabbed her sides and turned her to face him. Then, he suddenly planted his lips to hers, kissing her as passinatly as ever. She returned it, instinctively closing her eyes.
Little did the lovers know, they were being watched. "Whooo-whee! Damn Jak got a good one!" The ottsel smiled to himself, peeking out at them from behind a rock. He couldn't help but stare at Sake. "This is even better than the time I saw her in the shower!" The ottsel, though the watcher, was also being watched.
"What in Mar's name do you think your doing!" Daxter wheeles around to see Damas staring down at him.
"What does it look like!" Daxter turned around and smiled. Damas picked Daxter up and cupped a hand over his mouth before walking away. Damas didn't understand why he was helping Jak and Sake. Maybe it was because he really thought everything was going to work out. He carried Daxter to the palace and forced him to scrub the floors, which the ottsel wasn't happy about.
After a little while, Jak and Sake both got dressed. Sake hugged Jak and kissed him good night. "Thanks, I had fun." He smiled, and waved to her as she headed for Damas' palace to get some sleep. Slowly, he sat back down on the sand, just listening to the ocean roll in and out. He layed back, still listening to the ocean's serene music.
Sake sauntered back to her room and heard someone whispering to her from a dark corner. She stopped, recognising the voice. "Who's there?" She asked firmly. A father haggered man with rosy red cheeks stepped out, his hands behind his back and a smile on his face. "Kaolinth!" She smiled. "How did-"
"Same way you got here, through that portal. You better be glad I did that. Because of that, this planet is in mortal danger. The dark ones have found this world again, and if ou and jak don;t stop it, we're all doomed." She gasped, wondering what could possibly be on it's way. He pointed out at the night sky through an overhead window. "That. In a matter of weeks, That ship will have landed. If it does, we're dead meat."