WOW. Its been more than a month im SUPER SUPER SUPER sorry. Ive been so sick recently and when im sick im not creative. Thank you SO much to my amazing Co-Writer MoonLitSky262 for all your help. I don't know what I would do without you :)! Oh, and she happens to be the one who wrote this whole chapter… wow. Thank you all for putting up with my lateness…. :) Please read and review… OH. And guess what! Im feeling so much better so my updates will probably be less that a month apart now.
"Hey, that's not fair!" I blurted out randomly.
Well, random to everyone except me and Jak, who was telling me that I should
stay back from helping out today. Again.
"Uh, Maddy, are you feeling oka-" Started Daxter, and I am positive that Samos
started to say something the same, but I blocked them out, listening to the
words in my head.
"It's not that I think you can't do it, it's just that I don't want you to get
hurt again; what if a side effect comes out of nowhere from the Dark Eco?"
I choose to speak out loud, hoping the others would catch on and stop thinking
I was crazy.
Shaking my head, I said, "No, nothing is going to happen! Daxter fell into it
and turned up that way right when he came out! If something was going to
happen to me, it would have already happened, some random side effect isn't
going to pop up a week and a half later!"
Yesterday, Jak had gone to Spider Cave, not allowing me to go. I had wanted
to. Badly. But he gave me the same thing yesterday as he was doing today. I
wasn't going to take it this time. I was going to go to Snowy Mountain.
Not only was I going stir crazy, I also really wanted to see the snow.
"But Maddy, you don't kno-"
I cut off the words in my head and turned to Ol' Green Stuff "Samos, if I was
going to die from the Eco, I would have already, wouldn't I?" I asked.
He looked between Jak and me, and then slowly nodded, as if understanding that
I wasn't going insane. "Dark eco doesn't just hold off what it is doing. It
stopped her heart three times," I slightly shuddered at the memory, "and that
must be all it is going to do. Once it starts attacking a body, it continues
at a steady pace, until it accomplishes its job, or it is forced out.
Something in her body made it leave. That's probably why her heart stopped,
because it was over-working, trying to stop it and, apparently, it did the
job." He explained.
"See? I told you! So please for the love of Go- er, Precursors, stop making me
sit around here going stir crazy!" I said to Jak.
He just rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders. "Fine, but when you find
another way to hurt yourself, we won't be there to save you." Jak replied
blatantly.
I resisted talking out loud this time and then used my mind to talk. "Is that
really what you think? That all I am is just someone you have to save?" I
paused. It hurt that he thought of me like that. "Well fine then, I'll prove
that I can do stuff on my own, too! I'll go and do some stuff on my own, and
now you can sit around going crazy. See how much there is to do around here."
I said, and then with that, just walked out.
-
When I got to the ladder that leads up to the mountain, I expected Kiera to
tell me to use it whenever, like in the game. Of course, she wants me to die,
so she didn't say anything.
I got up there and took down a few lurkers. I jumped over a ledge, and just as
I was gaining my bearings from being knee deep in snow, some icicle monster
came at me. I jumped out of the way, but it still slid down my leg, cutting
it, and then falling off the edge.
"Ow!" I yelled out. How was I supposed to walk now?
I started blinking repeatedly to try and stop the tears, but it wasn't any
use.
I guess Jak was right about me just being someone they need to take care of.
I sighed, tears flowing freely. Maybe I would freeze to death, then Kiera
could get Jak and they wouldn't have to look after me, and I could stop
worrying about changing the storyline, which I sort of already did.
Even if I did survive, I had to get through this without changing the story
line.
Being with Jak, was changing the storyline.
By now I was freezing. I closed my eyes and drifted off into sleep, or death,
or where ever I was headed.
-
I awoke on what appeared to be a stone bed. I looked around to see a shadow
standing there.
"Jak?" I asked. Great, they saved my sorry ass again.
I heard a deep breath. "No, guess again, sweet cheeks." I heard a weird voice.
That was the only way to explain it, weird.
Then it hit me. "Gol."
"Yes…It seems that Jak is quite fond of you, and will obviously come save you, giving me the chance to get rid of him when he is distracted."
I felt my eyes slightly widen.
Does this count as changing the storyline? This is why I shouldn't have let
anything happen between me and Jak, because if I had just been some random
girl to come help him, he wouldn't save me.
He wouldn't be in danger because of me.
I looked down to see my leg fully healed. My brows furrowed.
"You fixed my leg?" I asked, confused.
"What?...your leg…Was fine when I came to you."
That didn't make sense. It was sliced straight down the side. There wasn't any
green eco near me either.
I looked up to see that I was alone again. I took the time to investigate
where I was, and I was in a cell with bars. The ceiling was the only way out,
and it was, well, impossible to get there.
It stood really tall above me, almost to the ceiling of the actual room I was
cased in.
"Ugh. I just want to go home!" I yelled out to nothing in particular, eyes
watering once more. Jeez, I was really being a baby lately, I never used to
cry.
"Relax, my child. This is your new home." I heard. It was a deep voice, but it
just seemed so calming, and nice.
I jumped and looked to see someone with greenish blonde hair, cut short. His
eyes were a dark sort of blue with a slight purple tint. He was quite tall.
He looked like Jak from Jak 3, but, he looked about 10 years older.
"What? But you're not, this isn't.." I trailed off.
He chuckled slightly.
"You have beaten what are games to you, have you not? I would expect you to be
able to figure this one out." He said, smile on his face.
More like a smirk, but whatever.
"Well I haven't exactly had a good day, and I'm kind of stressed, so it would be
nice if you would just tell me what the hell you mean, who the hell you are,
and how the hell you got in here!" I said, flustered.
He chuckled slightly again.
"Relax I told you. The name is Mar. I think you know now how I am here."
"Oh. My. God." I said, with my eyes wide.
He laughed at my reaction.
"Now listen, I don't have a lot of time before Jak appears here-" He started,
but I interrupted him slightly against my will.
"You mean you?" I asked.
He smiled and shook his head. "I suppose, but, listen, I am going to tell you
this as easily as I possibly can." He started.
"This world, it is not real in yours, is it?" I shook my head. "Well, then
you must understand, then, that this world is very real. Our worlds live, co
existing and clueless about one another. Someone managed to get to this one
once, and they found out Jak's story, and ended up getting back, trying to tell
the world of Jak's story, but of course, not one person believed her. She
wanted to get the story out any way she could, and knew some people in the
video game business. That is how this world became a fantasy video game." He
explained.
"Okay…but then why am I here?" I asked.
"You are here, because you were originally from here. You were taken from this
world at birth, but it is part of your destiny to accompany Jak along on this
journey. So I had to bring you here."
"But...what about my family? Will I be able to go back and visit them? At least
say goodbye?" I asked.
He only looked away sadly, and I felt it pulling at my heart strings.
"Never?" I asked.
"I'm sorry. I would, but it is bad for the fabric of the universe to be
sending people back and forth." He said, my heart cracking slightly. I would
never see my family again.
I felt tears running down my face.
He sighed. "Here" He said, handing me a mirror. "You can use this to watch over your family and friends whenever you want. Just be careful
with it, I can't give you more than this one."
I wiped my eyes and took the mirror.
"Now, if there is nothing else..." He started.
"Wait! What about Jak... And Samos and Kiera? Am I…Can I tell them?"
He smiled. "They already know that you came from the future. They know you aren't from here."
I gasped.
"Jak is approaching. He will be here soon. Here," He handed me a bag with
clothes and other things. On top was a stuffed bear I have had since I was
little.
"The clothes are new, since I know that people don't wear your kind of clothes
here, but I have included some of bracelets and rings that you had at your
house. Put the mirror in there and hide it under stuff. This bag is made out
of material with eco in it. It is strong and anything in it can't be broken
when in there. Don't lose it. I must leave now, be safe, I will see you again someday." He said, while stepping back and a blinding white light appeared.
When I could see again, he was gone.
A/N: One more thing…. The next chapter is going to be the end of this story, and im going to start its sequel soon! Yay? Please Review they make me feel better. And make sure to thank MoonLitSky for this amazing story.