Chapter 12. Heyy. I'm back. I actually have a liable excuse as to why this is up so late. I've been on vacation and my laptops broken to ive been having to use my regular computer and we weren't at home so I haven't been able too. Forgive me? Thanks for all the awesome reviews :) I'm really going to try to stop procrastinating so much. So im sorry if you feel like stopping reading this story cuz of my procrastination.
Disclaimer: I do not own 'Jak and Daxter; The Precursor Legacy' in any which way. All credit goes to the producers. I'm just a fan girl.
"What did you do to set off Kiera like that? She refuses to come out of her room now." Samos said. I didn't really want him to know. Thankfully, as I arrived at the Blue Sage's hut the Green Sage had shooed everyone out, telling Jak and Daxter to go finish the Lost Precursor city and get the rest of the Power Cells there. He hadn't needed to kick Kiera out, because she wouldn't come within twenty feet of me.
"I kissed Jak." I said, almost discernibly, feeling my face rip into the open flames of blush.
"What was that?" Samos said, holding his hand up to his ear. "I couldn't hear you. Speak up."
"I kissed Jak." In real truth it had been Jak that had kissed me, but I didn't want to say that, for fear of angering Kiera further.
"Well I don't see how that could affect someone that much . . ."
"No I mean I kissed Jak." I said, stressing the word to get the meaning I wanted across. I couldn't say it aloud. I was already embarrassed enough about this. What did he expect me to do? Say 'Jak kissed me. Actually, it was more than kissing. More of a snogging session. And Kiera has liked Jak for sometime and is now, at this very moment, going insane with jealousy.' I didn't think that that would go over well with Ol' Green Stuff.
But I didn't have to explain any further, because a look of understanding dawned on his face at that very moment.
"Oh." He said, obviously equally as uncomfortable as I was.
"Yeah . . ." I trailed off, wondering if the awkward talk was over.
Just as Samos opened his mouth again to say something, a beautiful distraction appeared. Jak and Daxter burst through the door, stopping the mortification that was sure to come if this conversation continued.
"We're back!" Daxter says in a high sing-song voice and I felt like kissing him, which was kind of ironic, thinking of the conversation I had just had. "And ready to go through the Mountain Pass."
I had completely forgotten about the Mountain Pass, and the big rock throwing monster up at the top of the hill. "You forgot about Klaww." I reminded him.
Suddenly, Daxter shivered and said, "Nevermind. We're not ready."
"Oh come on you big baby." I gently teased, but I knew he was right to be scared. All the drama in my life had been all consuming, and I had forgotten our mission to turn an orange rat back into a boy. Or on bigger scale, save the world.
I turned to Jak, "You have all your Power Cells?" I wasn't mad at him, so there was no need to be awkward near him. He nodded. "Good. Let's go. I think I know work the machine to move the boulder. . ." I hesitated because I really didn't know how to do it.
"I can do that." Kiera had finally emerged from her room.
"Ok. Thank you." I said formally. "Let's go guys."
O.o.O
"Right!" I yelled at Jak, seconds before a flaming boulder landed on the spot Jak had been moments before. My turn; I jumped the platform in the middle to avoid Klaww's boulders. Two people seemed to be confusing the simpleminded monster.
Klaww momentarily stopped his bombardment of boulders and dove into the lava, leaving a small bit of Blue Eco behind on the rock platform I was standing on. Klaww rose above the lava and started charging a massive boulder that would undoubtedly crush both me and Jak.
I quickly stepped into the Eco and it automatically triggered a small bridge to build across the lava. Jak took his cue and ran across it. I stayed where I was and watched Jak in action. He was so into it as he took the Yellow Eco into his body and started shooting at the monster in front of him.
I had been very reluctant of Eco in most forms since my incident with the Yellow. The Green Sage had put down my aftereffects of the Eco as overdose. Yes. According to Samos, I had almost died of Yellow Eco Overdose. But I still felt different than I had before whenever I had any sort of Eco coursing through my body. It seemed to have lingering aftereffects. Like now I still felt jittery, even though the Blue Eco was long gone out of my body. Nothing serious, but still something that hadn't been before.
The only serious thing about Eco in my body is that my eyes would spontaneously ignite into the colour of the Eco. Like right now I'm sure that my eyes were still and electric blue.
Yellow Eco seemed to be more attracted to my body, and would come flying to me if I was in a distance of five feet of it. It could be a help or a hindrance. It all depends on how you looked at it.
I woke up out of my cloud and looked up to see Jak running like a bat out of Hell towards me; making a beeline for the rock to the right of me, running from the huge rock that was rolling behind him.
When he landed next to me, I exhaled. He didn't make it to the rock he was aiming for, but he was still safe. I quickly grabbed his hand and squeezed before letting go and jumping towards the next rock. It wasn't very smart to stay on the same rock because then Klaww then had a single target, while when we were split, he didn't know which one of us to hit.
The next rock landed in between the two platforms we were on, showing how confused we were making the dimwitted monster. This went on for a while until the monster got fed up with the confusion and dove into the lava for a second time. I, again, picked up the Blue Eco while Jak jumped across the now broken bridge to the Yellow Eco and the monster awaiting him, charging a large rock.
Jak started to shoot at Klaww, and hit him in the head, making the gargantuan rock to drop on him and started rolling down the bridge, breaking it more. Jak took off again, and landed in the right spot this time. We both waited while the rock rolled into the lava at our feet.
Klaww got up again and started shooting his flaming boulders at us, faster than last time. Both Jak and I were jumping back and forth between rocks, our feet barely touching the rock before pushing off again.
For a third time, Klaww dove into the lava and came up at the end and started making a huge rock. I ran into the Blue Eco, ready for the same thing that had happened two times to happen again. But I was wrong.
During the last time the huge rock had rolled down the length of the bridge it had broken off a piece of bridge close to Jak, making it so he couldn't get to it. This time it was up to me. I had to brave the Yellow Eco and hope it didn't have any lasting effects on my body.
I ran along the bridge, still powered up from my elongated lengths of Blue Eco usage until I was standing in front of the two floating clumps of Yellow Eco.
Still jumpy from the Blue Eco, I stepped into the cluster of Eco, wondering how the two would mix. I started shooting the Yellow Eco from my palms, noticing how the blasts seemed to have gotten more powerful and seemed to shoot longer.
Then it happened again. The moment of power. The moment of wanting to protect everyone around me from all forms of danger. I felt it building inside me, ready to unleash a monster I didn't know I had. I reminded myself of Dark Jak. The intense burning. The Power. The Anger. The feeling that you can take on anything.
'Maddy! Calm down! Don't you dare do that again.' I heard Jak yell in my head.
'I can't stop Jak. Help me. It won't go away.' I groaned inside my head.
Suddenly the rock was bouncing on Klaww's head, and I took off down the, now severely broken, path. I jumped onto the rock platform to the right of the bridge. I looked over at Jak and saw him channeling Yellow Eco and writhing on the rock in pain.
"Jak!" I yelled, not knowing what to do. I couldn't reach him, and I couldn't do anything. How had he taken the Eco from my body while he was 100 yards away from me? Was our connection that strong? "Jak!" I didn't know what to say. He was going through something I hadn't. How come I hadn't? We had had the same things happen to us, so why was he in pain while I hadn't been? Was it too much power for him? Am I really that powerful that I can stand it and he couldn't?
I didn't know what else to do, so I reached into his mind and took the Eco from him. I saw it zoom out of his body and fly towards mine. I didn't understand how the Eco hadn't run out yet. I took it into my body and thought of all other things except the Power coursing through my body right now.
I felt like screaming bloody murder from the build up inside of me. I lifted my hand, out of all other ideas, and withstanding it was impossible. Not because of the pain but because of the Power inside me. It was building and I could feel the pressure; the need to let it out of me.
I let out a strangled scream and lifted my right hand, using my other to shield my face, and shot the Eco out of my body. I didn't have any particular aiming spot, so the spot that the Eco hit was very bad. I had hit right above the rocky archway that connected us to rock village. The arch caved in, blocking all sources of communication back. The only good thing was that another rock had landed in the lava, its bumpy surface sticking out off the molten rock, giving Jak and me a way to get to each other.
Unlike last time, I didn't feel any sort of exhaustion after my encounter with the Eco. I looked over at Jak and saw him sitting on the ground, panting.
I leaped over to him, feeling better than I had before. 'Jak?'
'How did you stand that? It hurt so much. I felt so powerful I felt like I could break everything. Hurt everyone.' And maybe that's why I hadn't felt pain. I had felt the need to protect, while he had felt the need to destroy.
AN: I have a question for anyone that can answer. Does anyone know how I can get a beta for this story? I was re reading it and realizing how many mistakes I made per chapter. Oh and I planning to end this in 2 or 3 chapters I have a really good idea on how to end this. So yeah… Please stick with this for a couple more chapters :)