Hola! Meh, sorry for late update. Got sidetracked. XD -has been roleplaying alot lately, as well as working with photoshop 7 which she just got- Wanna see some of my art if you haven't already? Go here: www.night-eco. NEW CHAP FOR j00! Laughter will ENSUE! As well as scaryness... HAPPY BELATED HALLOWEEN!
The incredible searing pain... The memories... The feeling of lonliness...
It all enveloped her, encasing her in a web of dismay, but as soon as the torture had begun, it seased. To her, it felt as if it had been an eternity... An eternity of suffering and hate she could never forget. It was burned into her memory... Her very senses were scarred by the time she endured the feeling.
"S-Sake, GET UP!" With clouded vision, she opened her dark eyes. She could barely make out the blob of orange color above her face. She felt like she was in Prison again when she felt weightless as someone carried her away. Away from the pain, to a place where she could live happily. The scents, the familiar scents. His scent... It smelled so good to her... No matter what they had endured, she could always smell that special smell. It was the smell of the ocean, and the beach, and relaxing in the sand with the tunes on. The smell was replaced with that of technology. An ill black and fowl smelling odor consumed her. This was also a familiar scent. She was on a zoomer, and was gong somewhere. But to where, she hadn't the slightest idea.
"W-Where are you taking me?" She asked, becoming slightly dellusional. She felt a hand on her forehead, the hand was quickly removed and the vehicle she was riding sped up.
"Oh mar, she's burning up!" Maybe that was the reason they were going faster.
"Am... Am I dying..." She croaked out, voice weak. Her vision had not yet returned to her, yet she continued to blink thinking that would help. She could feel a cold bead of sweat roll down her pale face, making her shudder lightly. Something soft brushed her hand as two concerned paws wrapped themselve's around her own cold clammy hands.
The vehicle slowed to a halt, but she couldn't really tell where. A strange light, a florescent pink, made it's way into her line of view. Then it faded. Then it came on again. This pattern continued until she felt her body being removed from the uncomfortable seat of the zoomer.
"Don't worry Sake, we're going to take care of you..." She could feel water hitting her face. Repeated drops. She thought they were tears from whoever was holding her. She couldn't tell. "Dax, get in there and tell Torn to get a bed made." The paws around her hand removed themselve's as the one named Dax did as told. She couldn't tell exactly what was going on.
And then the headache set in.
The drops of water continued to splash against her, but then faded as she was carried elsewhere. They were now obviously inside a building. This was easily notable from the small of alcohol and tobacco. Her gaze settled upon someone. It was still cloudy, but she could make out basic features.
"Who-s .." She was silenced once she was layed to rest.
"Torn, do you know anything about how to bring down a fever?"
"Yes. get me a bag of ice and some of that green stuff in the blue bottle over there. Her hands are badly burned."
The was an uneasy silence to her ears. A new voice entered her senses. It was her own... No, not her own. Someone elses. It had this eerie... echoe to it that made her uncomfortable.
'...You're dying.' Was all that it said at first.
"No..." She replied. Those around her had heard what she said and looked at her quizically.
'Yes, you are.' The other protested, the echo ringing through her pounding head.
"I. I can't be dying..." Was she going insane? Had the years of torment and suffering finally taken their toll on her mentality?
"C'mon Sake, Snap out of it!" That voice didn't sound sinister, but saddened and afraid.
"Am... Am I dying?" She asked again aloud.
'Yes.' "No." Two voices... They both were familiar now.
"Whos there?"
"Sake, It's me Torn. Just calm down and lay still." 'We haven't introduced ourselves yet, have we? After all, this is our first meeting...'
"Leave... Leave me alone..."
"OW! Damnit jak, GET ME A FUCKING ACE BANDAGE!"
"What the hell was that!"
The was the slight sound of something being moved around as someone gasped through their teeth. "Shit that hurts..."
"Torn, are you alright? What happaned?"
"I don't know. It was like something just shot from her and cut the crap out of my hand!"
The voices all melded together. She could no longer tell who was who or what was what for that matter.
'Death... Death is your only option... Let your puny existance fade... so that I may take control... and sease the suffering of this planet's life...'
"I... I don't want to die..."
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
A cold blackness washed over her. She heard no voices. She didn't smell the ocean or the zommer. She didn't see anything or feel anything. It had all completely faded. She thought she was dead, and just floating in nothingness.
Then, vision returned. She saw a face... A bit fuzzy at first but it was a familiar face. As soon as vision became clear again, she migrane began.
"She's awake." The face said.
"Good." Said another next to that one.
"Am I dead?"
"No." Was the reply from the first face.
"Where am I?"
"Sake, let's not worry about that now..."
"J-Jak?" She asked, the name finally matching the voice that she had tried so hard to remember. This disturbed her, that she couldn't remember the name of her fiancee'.
"Shh... Rest now." Why rest? She wasn't.. tired... Okay, so maybe she was a little. Alot actually. Sleep came easy. It was a deep dreamless sleep that ended too soon the next time she awoke.
She arose from the bed in which she had been placed, opticals gazing upon the semi-familiar room. Her hands were bandaged, but the palms were dyed slightly crimson red. Her armor and boots her been removed, set on the floor next to her. She thought she would feel pain in her hands, but didn't. She could barely move them, and when she did, felt nothing.
"You've been out for almost 5 days. Jak is in Spargus right now." She frantically looked around for the source of the voice. "He should be back soon." Finally, she found it.
"Torn... What happaned to me?"
"Well, To refresh your memory, I sent you and Jak on a mission to destroy some Dark Eco weapons. However, something happened. Daxter had to tell me this part. He said that you two came in contact with some kind of crystal. You went unconcious, and Jak was granted some new Dark Power or whatever." She looked oddly at her hands. "The crystal burned your hands. That's why you can't feel anything. It will take some time for the nerves to grow back. Those are 3rd degree burns." That made sense to her. She, after all, couldn't feel anything in her hands, but she knew that they were injured from the blood red bandages around them. She thought of it as a miracle that she was still alive, after EVERYTHING she had been through. "You were also knocked unconcious.So, again, Jak is on his way. He said that if you woke up before he got back to not let you go anywhere." Torn set a tray in front of her on her knees. Some rather odd looking food bedecked a small oval plate. "Eat up. It's a special kind of Eco laced food to help you get your energy back." Despite the fact that he was actually doing something NICE for her, he still sounded pissed at the world. Then again, that was just Torn's way.
Happily, she downed the meal, able to taste the green Eco in the food. It had a strange fruity flavor to it, but it was better than the irony taste of Dark Eco which she was so accustomed to. Luckily, she was able to keep the food down despite her slight case of nausea. It reminded her of Prison yet again; the never ending feeling of throwing up your guts.
The door behind her opened, and a tall muscular figure stepped through; large gun gripped in a hand. "Damn it, I swear, if you or Damas send me on yet another death mission..." he stated, but stopped when he realised that his beloved was awake. "How are you feeling baby?" he dropped his gun, the exhausted ottsel on his shoulder jumping off to raid the fridge.
Sake inspected Jak closely. His armor had several new scratches on it, and a cut on his face bled lightly. She eyed the blood, then bent forward and actualy licked it off of his cheek. "I'm fine." She replied, getting the taste of his blood in her mouth.
Jak raised an eyebrow oddly. "Um... Sake... Are you honestly feeling alright?" She nodded.
"I promise." Then, she placed a loving kiss on his lips and scooted closer to him. He felt... akward... when she cuddled up next to him, finding her behavior very unusual. Since when did she lick blood off of someone! "So, Wanna tell me about your missions?" Jak had obviously completed quite a few while she was unconcious.
"Well, Most of it was standard stuff. Lets see..." he began to counted his fingers. "I killed a bunch of plants, nearly got eaten by giant centi-pede metalheads, defended this port and you from an attack from the Metal Heads AND Krimzon Guard, got some new armor, defended Spargus from some Marauders, and destroyed their Stronghold." he finally said in a matter-of-factly kind of voice. Sake stared blankly at him. "It was all actually kind of boring without you there..." With a smile, Jak hugged Sake before standing. "Think you can walk?" Sake nodded.
"Yeah, I can." She stood slowly, a bit unbalanced at first, but was capable of walking with no major problem. Her legs were weak though. "So, where are we going next?"
"Haven Forest." That very name rang through her ears in a heavenly tone. She would forever know that forest as the most important place of her life, the place in which Jak proposed to her that long time ago. She could feel the cold water on her skin, the moons bright reflection making her seem to glow. Then, she looked up at Jak, noticing the same glow in his eyes from the time he proposed to her.
Sake readied herself, but didn't put on her armor. It was too encumbersome for the time being, and they weren't planning on fighting anything in the forest. Samas was wanting Jak to swing by the forest and do a little more looking at the Precursor pillars in the water there. And thus, once she was done getting ready, Jak helped her outside and onto a zoomer, and at last onto the forest. Sake immediatly noticed that the forest wasn't the calm place she was in those years before... It was quite different, dead leaves blanketing the ground and surface of the still crystal clear water. In the center of the large goldfish filled lake were several small pillars and one main large pillar. Elsewhere, there were other strange Precursor artifacts scattered about. Among them were 5 large statues, the eyes glowing a faint yellow. Jak approached one, the eyes getting brighter upon his arrival. "If you are a true hero, then you will prove it to me by passing my ring challenge." A blue ring of light appeared out of thin air a few feet from Jak. He tried to do the challenge on foot, but fond that it was going to be impossible. Sake suggested his hoverboard, which made things about 100 times easier. The other 4 obelisks also tasked Jak with the mission of the Ring Challenge, each harder than the last. Once he completed this farfetched mission, the small pillars in the water began to rise, the each going slightly higher than the last until they formed a climbable pathway to the top of the central pillar. Jak made his way up, helping Sake along since she was having a ligglt bit of trouble with the heights issue and her legs being weak.
With the assistance of 3 artifacts Jak had collected throughout his time in the Wasteland, he was capable of activating a strange device, known as the Astro Veiwer. He was instructed to look through the lense by a disembodied Precursor voice. Unwillingly, he did.
"Behold, the seed of our destruction..." The voice said as Jak stared in fear at the oddly shaped horror in space. The tentacled ship glowed an eerie purple that made the teen shudder. Sake was already quite aware of the glowing menace, thanks to Kaolinth, the mysterious old man. The voice told the blonde-haired hero the tale of the now named Dark Maker's arrival. It continued, ending a matter of seconds later. They would have to hear the full version at a later date because the two were hard pressed for time, which they didn't have very much of until the Dark Maker ship landed on their tiny planet.
Now, with the fate of the world once again resting on the shoulders on the strong hero, he lifted Sake into his arms and jumped from the platform, Daxter gripping onto his armor piece for dear life as they plummeted into the deep water of the central lake. They popped out, Jak letting out an excited laugh. "We should do that more often!" Sake agreed.
"Talk about exciting!" She replied, shaking her head to get some hairs away from her eyes so she could see. Jak carried her to shore, then escorted her back to the safety of the Naughty Ottsel. The daylight was fading into a cold night, promising to bring storms. So, to avoid them, the two shacked in the Ottsel for the night.
However, again, Sake was unable to sleep. Something was resting heavy on her mind. Jak was also partially awake; something telling him that something wasn't right. "You okay?" He asked, looking at his lover who layed silent in her bed, staring up at the cheaply assembled skylight that always leaked, and was now leaking thanks to the thunderstorm outside.
"Yeah.." She replied. There was a happy, and yet scared tone to her voice.
"Something bugging you?"
"No, Not really, Everything is okay... It's just..." She looked over at Jak after sitting up in her bed. He also sat up; eyes of blue meeting.
"Just what baby?" he climbed out of his bed, climbed onto hers, and sat behind her to hug her. She sniffed the air lightly... There it was... that sent of the sea again.
"Well..." She seemed worried. "I'm not really sure how to say this... But..." he brought her gaze to meet his.
"What?"
"Well, I want to have a baby..." She said, making the blonde raise an eyebrow. "I just wanted to talk to you about it before we... ya know." A small sheepish grin crossed her thin lips. Jak's thoughts were screaming through his head like bullet trains. Sure, he had had his little fantasies about her at the beggining of their relationship, but never actually concidered it. He wasn't sure she even wanted a child, expecially after her terrifying prison event, which she still had no clue that he knew about it.
"That's a great idea." he replied, hugging her and kissing her quickly. "But just to be safe... After this war. Then, we can have all the children you want. We'll live in this big house, on the edge of the sea. So, every morning, you can watch the sunrise..." he told her. She nodded, resting her tired head on his shoulders. She closed her eyes, just enjoying the embrace. She let her imagination fly away to the wonderous land Jak had put into her mind. It was beautiful, the morning sun glinting on the ocean, A slight breeze blew through her bedworn hair, making her gown flow majestically.
"I love you..." She whispered. This made him hug tighter.
"I love you too Sake." Gently, he layed back and pulled the covers over them. As he layed, he noted that Sake has passed out in his arms. So, he joined her in the land of sleep, dreaming of his pleasent days in Sandover. He dreamed about his and Daxter's wild adventures to Sentinel Beach and Forbidden Jungle. He dreamed about the time he almost kissed Keira on the beach when Daxter hooked them up for a 'date'. He dreamed about his fight with Gol and Maia, eveyrthing. All of it seemed so... special to him. After all, it was those events that made him the hero he was now.