Disclamier: I DO NOT OWN JAK AND DAXTER THE GAME/SERIES AND/OR IT'S CHARACTERS. ONLY MY OWL PLOT AND CHARACTERS ARE MINE.
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It was the middle of the night now and really…I was tired. My day had been full of crap and I didn't have time to look for a guy that honestly- I had no idea what the hell he looked like!
I figured that out the first two minutes in. So here I was, wandering around Spargus, looking for a male that I had never seen before. That and one that looked like fresh meat out here in the Wastelands. After another twenty minutes or so of looking, I just headed back where I started. How the hell did an injured man who had no idea where he was got so far away?!
My green scanned over the area once more before shaking my head and going towards the Coast Area. Turning, I walked passed some of the market stands and mentally wondered if I actually needed some stuff at home. I mean, I wasn't there often, so I didn't eat that much. But lately I had made sure the other children to Spargus had food. I guess I didn't realize if my supply was low or not.
My body flew to the ground hard and I bounced off my back with extra weight on me. Instinct kicked in and before I knew it I was wrestling a form that was heavier than mine and hadn't slammed into me on accident. Flipping our mashed bodies I landed on them but before I could get the sand from my eyes they pushed off and we did a somersault. Cheering erupted from around us and I could tell that the citizens of Spargus were urging the fight on. I landed hard on my back and tsked at the fact whoever it was nearly caught me before I could hit my head. I shoved my feet into their chest, not hesitating as they soared off and I landed on them hard.
There was a beat as things slowed when I pulled my knife back and my hair fell over my shoulder, catching teal-green gazing up at me. Around us, the sand we sat on, the waves that were beside us- all of it was gone as my hand pressed above their heart. We were in a world of black, a world of silence and the only thing I could hear was the heavy breathing we gave off from fighting..but even that dulled. Everything registered in that moment, the crowd around us bringing me back as things snapped back to normal and I stared for a shaking moment, the knife falling numb and landing next to his head.
He looked over at it before looking up at me once more and I watched the dirty blonde hair fall from his forehead completely. A binding tattoo began bending and reforming on his forehead, burning orange before it was solid black again. I could feel my green look over every feature he owned and it was then I realized my lungs needed oxygen as I inhaled deeply.
Putting my hand down slowly, I couldn't find words. Shaking my head, I blinked repeatedly, processing it. I saw water trickle on his face, the same drops falling down my cheeks. There was another beat and a hand grazed my face, Adriel cracking a small smile.
"You're crying."
"This isn't possible," I breathed instantly. Adriel was wary as he sat up but I made no attempt to move as I simply slid off of him and into the sand below us. The thing in my chest that I thought was numb from pain suddenly was alive and it pined for him.
I…pined for him. Adriel shook his head a bit and I couldn't help but keep crying. I missed him. I always had missed him and I knew that. That was not something I was going to deny. Our last moment together replaying in my mind as if it were a song on repeat. Our kiss, his words, his tears.
'Don't cry.'I snapped my eyes back up to him as he spoke in my head and it seemed that caught him off guard also. Sighing he brought both hands to my face and caressed it, everything shining in those bright teal he owned and I could see everything in that moment.
He was trying to control himself from doing anything that was so far out there. He had missed me and naturally my protector longed for me as much as I did for him. As much as Jak had for me. But he held it back because he was afraid. Afraid of what? I didn't know. Maybe me. It made sense as Jak had pointed out so many times I was a different person.
But that wasn't entirely true since in that very moment I melted right back to the girl I once was before I left Heaven. By this point there was no stopping the held back tears and I sat limply on the ground as he simply pushed my hair from my face lovingly. Really I was in shock. More shock than I was in when Jak and Daxter arrived. It was so shocking because I…wasn't angry. I wasn't mad. I felt nothing but sadness, sorrow, miss.
Staring at him my green watered and I frowned deeply, trying to stop it but it didn't work. Adriel clearly found amusement to this, chuckling blankly as his eyes softened and he nodded some. I felt his thumbs wipe the tears off the corners of my eyes as he spoke.
"I missed you too, Ki," he breathed quietly.
That was all it took as I pulled him to me quickly, pressing my face to his shoulder and shaking my head.
"Why couldn't you come here sooner!?" It was supposed to come out as a yell, but with my face buried into his shirt and my broken tone, it came out as a whine. A desperate one at that. Adriel laughed a bit, the vibration going through his chest as he sat with the secure grasp around my waist.
"I'm sorry…I…" I heard the shake in his breath and pulled away, looking up at him and he had a pained expression. When he looked to the side hard I read the guilt- felt the guilt coming up his throat as he nearly choked on it.
"I thought you were dead, Kida. My world ended. I snapped out, I-"
"You're hurt." Looking down, my words simply cut him off and I brought my hands back. Blood soaked them. I blinked looking up at him and he looked down at himself.
"Well look at that." He tilted his head interested and I stared up at him and then it began clicking. He had a bad excuse for a shirt on. Really, his entire top half was poorly bandaged like he was tearing them off. Then give him his torn cargo pants and boots- Adriel.
"You're my mission," I mumbled. Adriel looked at me like I was on drugs and rose a brow.
"Excuse me?"
"You're the new Wastelander. You're the one that ran away from the healing quarters!" I smacked his arm and he grabbed it moving away from me.
"What the-!? Ow!"
"Damnit, Adriel! We need to get you back to recuperating chambers," I said solidly. The male almost huffed and began to complain but I glared at him harshly. His hard gaze fell and he nodded softly, holding his bandaged side.
"Fine."
We were headed down the hall and if anything it was a comfortable silence. Well not very comfortable since we were both in our own minds, but silence none the less. I had so many questions but they weren't for Adriel. If anything they were for myself. Some were for him, but they were the basics. How has he been. What was happening in Haven. Why he was banished to the Wastelands.
Adriel's arm was over my shoulder and I could feel he had a limp as I held him up easily. A part of me wondered if it was even the desert that put him in this state. Pressing my lips thin in the thought of what he had been through, I turned the corner into the recovery chambers and went through the double doors.
A few of the monks that were already in there turned their attention to us and I could nearly feel the distaste that came off. It disappeared however at the state of Adriel which I had to admit was pretty poor. Limp, bloody, heavy breathing and weak. All this moving around had taken its toll.
"Please.." I breathed gently. The girl nodded softly and walked over, taking Adriel with the help of another from my grasp and I watched them walk him over to the seated area. Glancing my jaded around I could see there weren't a lot of people here which wasn't very surprising. The warriors of Spargus liked to keep their injuries unknown, myself included.
"Ki." My attention quickly went to Adriel and I saw him fighting to sit up causing me to frown instantly. He cracked a smile at my disapproving expression, motioning me over and reluctantly, I obliged.
"Don't look so out of place," he teased, patting the spot next to him on the bed. I made a wary face but sat down beside him anyway. I watched his bandages get changed and I could see the huge cuts across his back and side.
Unconsciously I reached out and grazed them, watching as he flinched a bit. Putting my hand down quickly I frowned shaking my head, "What happened to you, Adriel…"
He looked away rather quickly, his eyes filling with something dark- something familiar that I had felt in my own, "The city is dying and they have no one to blame but themselves." A bitter smirk flittered on his lips and he glanced at me, "Well and me."
I rose a brow to hide my rising confusion and that dark look didn't falter from his teal but he smiled anyway, shaking his head some. Reading my mind he replied.
"Of course I didn't do anything, Ki. But that won't stop them from blaming everyone else but themselves," he explained. I nodded but said nothing more. Instead looking away while the monks continued to treat him.
That dark look in his gaze made me wary but it wasn't him I was wary of. It was myself. If that's how evil I looked when I spoke of something I disliked, I could only imagine why Jak and Daxter were so afraid of me earlier.
It took about fifteen more minutes and Adriel was healed by green eco and the monks weird voodoo powers. My protector ..er….ex-protector stood straight once more. Looking completely like the strong male he was and he looked at his arms, flexing his knuckles some.
"I feel brand new," he breathed surprised. I nodded some, motioning to the full body bandages he had on as I stood in front of him.
"Take a look." His teal blinking some as he looked at himself, he ran his hands down the bandages and they unraveled of to reveal completely smooth skin. No slashes, burns, bruises, or scars.
"I'm impressed." Glancing at the monks he flashed them a brilliant smile and I swore I saw one of them swoon, "Thank you. I owe you guys."
They waved it off before we were out of the doors.
"Put your shirt on," I mumbled walking beside him. Adriel smiled over at me, pulling on a poor excuse for a brown sleeveless vest like my own. Really it still showed his…everything..but he didn't seem to mind as much as I did.
"Jealous?" I glared over at him and he smiled holding up his hands, "Kidding."
I looked him over but he seemed completely fine now, down to that darkened look in his eye that was no longer there. Brown combat boots, bagged and dirty tan cargos, and then the cloth of a curtain.
Shaking my head I walked towards the lift that went to Damas' main tower with the male beside me, "We need to get you a shirt. Hell- we need to get your armor."
"Why? We're in the desert and girls like this," he teased nudging me. I shook my head ignoring him as we began to rise but said nothing back to him.
It was at my lack of answer that my chin was grasped and I was forced to look up at him. I blinked stopping. Adriel was staring down at me rather intently and for a long time didn't say anything which made it even more questionable. He looked…focused.
There was another moment between us. As he held my gaze I watched his pupils pulsate before they were nearly engulfing his iris. Everything around began to fade to black, my breathing slowing just as his did and we were in our own world- our bond mixing and solidifying like he was inside my head once more.
But right before we landed on the Palace Tower level he let go and stepped away like nothing happened. I blinked repeatedly as everything snapped back into place- nearly knocking me off of my feet at the spinning it sent me into. It was surprising to me and I didn't understand what had happened. When I looked over at Adriel he seemed as out of it as I was.
I was going to question what that just was- the feeling that was in the pit of my stomach, but I decided against it. Instead I calmly stepped off of the platform in front of my ex-protector with a scowl. I heard him nearly do the same, throwing his hands in his pockets while looking around the Palace. Who wouldn't? If it were your first time in the area of Spargus, admiring what little view there was, was something everyone did.
"There you are." My eyes jetted up to Damas as he stood from his throne, staff in hand. When he saw my scoff he rose a brow but I dismissed it, folding my arms.
"I realized about five minutes into it I never asked for intel on what this man looked like," I stated matter-of-factly. The king to Spargus nodded with a slow smile and I glared. "Well it's clear you already knew that."
"Missions of that low-class do not usually take you a great deal of time, Kida. Yet here you are-" he glanced over at the window, "Past sundown."
I nodded mutely and glanced over at Adriel as he stepped beside me.
"Why was I being looked for?" he asked boredly. His lack of interest in his tone made me roll my eyes pointly.
As if I needed another damn problem. First Jak and Dax. Then Pecker's ass. Now Adriel. Though out of the list I could say the male beside me was the least of my issues.
"Alright, Kida?" I blinked repeatedly, looking up at Damas who was waiting. Glancing at Adriel I let my arms fall to my sides and then looked at Damas again.
"I zoned." Damas sighed and I glanced to the side a bit sheepish before paying attention this time around when he began speaking.
"Then I will repeat it. The training area is not open at the moment due to how dark it is, so we cannot test his will just yet." I nodded and he held up his hand, "However. Because of this he will need to be put under strict probation. And because you are the only one who, again, knows the outsider- you will be in charge of him."
My green looked over at Adriel who shrugged and I merely shrugged too with a nod, "Alright."
"He will be staying with you until we can either build or find him a new place of stay. If he survives." Damas said nodding. I nodded calmly while Adriel cleared his throat and rose his hand a bit.
"Hey there- uhm…so what do you mean 'if he survives'? Like…am I sick or something?"
I shook my head at his question and grabbed his arm, nodding at Damas while taking our leave.
"Until tomorrow, Damas," I said smiling some. He nodded at me amused as Adriel struggled some.
"O-Oi. I was asking a question!"
I rolled my eyes, hitting the button as we descended on the platform, "Welcome back, Adriel."
YAY! Adri's back! Kida's back!
Yaaaaayyyy, NiiNii's back…. I got motivation to get my butt off of hiatus though I'm still sorta there. Really this chapter has been done for a while and I kept forgetting to upload it ._.
Anyway! Sorry life is hectic but I shall tryyyy and update as soon as possible because of my support and I'd be nowhere without you all. Ano- review, pm me, keep with the drawings! You guys are so cool for that. Annnd I shall get back to all of you over time. Kisses and love one another! !