Chapter 7: Pressure

Date: October 15, 3657

Location: Port

Jak looked up sleepily as Daxter was once again spinning one of his tall tales to the barmaid Tess. He flirted shamelessly towards the girl, who giggled and cooed when he'd finish a story and then filled his cup up with some more purple liquid, meanwhile Jak was still nursing her first glass of the stuff. It was during this last story that Sig joined them. Jak looked over at Daxter and smirked as her friend's arms waved around as he got more into the story. She also was still surprised by the changes since Daxter's un-ottselfication. While he'd always had bucked teeth that stuck out now they just minimally stuck out when he smiled or gave that cocky smirk that always meant trouble. His hair too had undergone a transformation, gone was the bright orange-ish color on top of his head and replaced by a golden hue which faded to a faded red color as you went downward on the strand of hair. His hair was now mid-back length; ha having cut some of it off one night. It was now constantly in a braid with loose pieces around his head giving him what Daxter called a manlier look. Keira had somehow talked their friend into getting his ears pierced; two on the left lobe and two on the right tip. Jak was still trying to figure out why he'd done it that way. He'd also had Jak help him find a bow so that he could start using that or have her teach him how to use the morph-gun, which she'd done immediately, which had lead him to instantly want to beat Jak's score at the gun course, which he was close to doing.

"…and when the dust settled there were fifty less metal heads in the world." He finished as he chugged the last bit of his drink down his throat.

"Nice story Cherry," Sig congratulated the former ottsel. "I guess you're just the animal that I'm looking for." Jak glared at her friend and looked sheepishly at her. "Twenty some odd cloaker metal heads have been seen lately in the deeper parts of Haven Forest, I was going to go do it myself, but since you have animal-like instincts I'm sure these fella's won't be any trouble for you." He looked at the young man, who now was wishing he'd kept his mouth shut. "Am I right?"

"Hehe…" Daxter laughed nervously. "Y-Yeah, hell yeah!" he said hiding his nerves.

Sig allowed his mechanical eye to drift towards Jak who was yawning and probably wishing her red headed friend had kept quiet. "If you do this and complete it before dawn, I'll ensure you get paid double."

"Oh!" Daxter yelled excitedly. "That's awesome Sig!" he turned towards Jak. "I love this guy." He pointed towards the wastelander who laughed.

"Let's go Dax." Jak said with a deep sigh, wanting to get this job over with so she could get some sleep, sleep she'd been putting off for the last day or so because of all the missions both of the Samos' had been sending her way. It was like she was the only one who could do these things. 'Couldn't they send Jinx and his crew into the sewers last night or couldn't they send one of the more experienced underground members into Dead Town and retrieve that seed for elder Samos?,' she thought distantly as she grabbed the two seater zoomer and got into the passenger side and let Daxter drive.

"Uh…" the red head looked at his companion. "Yer sure?" all he got was a grunt. "Okay babe."

There it is again. Jak thought as she looked at Daxter as he began to drive towards Haven Forest. I've gotta know why he keeps doing that. "Dax?" she asked only getting a hum as an answer. "Why do you call me babe?"

Daxter cursed as he barely missed hitting a guardsman when he swerved through traffic. "Uh…" he began and scratched the back of his neck. "I don't know. I just do." He shrugged. "You want me ta stop?" he looked at her face for the answer.

"No, I…" she paused. "I just wanted to know." With that she stopped talking until they got to the entrance of the forest.

As Daxter got out of the vehicle he grabbed Jak's morph-gun, which she no longer used. When he'd asked if he could have it she'd said yes and that was that. As they went through the warp gate his mind went back to what Jak had asked him. Since he got his body back a few days ago he'd been getting reacquainted with certain parts again and was happy to find that everything was the way it was supposed to be. It was also the first night when they'd gotten back from the underground that Daxter had realized that he and Jak could no longer share a bed and had told Jak he was going to sleep on the tiny sofa they'd bought only days ago. She'd been cool with that, however later that night he'd waken up to her alter ego pouncing on him in the middle of the night and had gone pawin' at him and purring and tryin' to entice him back up into the loft. The damn beast wouldn't leave him alone until he'd gone up the ladder and gotten into bed with her. An hour later the creature had relinquished control and he'd had Jak snuggling him like he was still an ottsel.

Morning came and he'd snuck down before Jak had awaken and found that he had mornin' wood. It not only would've been embarrassing, but it'd also make her start askin' questions, questions that Daxter still had no answers for. Daxter sighed as the lift to the deeper parts of the forest came to a stop and suddenly he came up with a great idea. "Hey," he whispered. "Why don't we go separate ways and get this done faster." He smiled. "Let's make it a game. If I get the most kills, you owe me a back massage." Jak's eyebrows both lifted in surprise. "And if you win…"

"You stop sleeping on the couch and come back to bed…willingly." She added the last part quickly causing Daxter's jaw to drop. "Adriana tells me everything." She said as she looked out at the forest and sniffed the air. "Sounds like fun-"

"Pause!" he cried out just as Jak was about to move causing one green eyebrow to rise up in surprise at him. "Who's Adriana?"

Jak blinked and smirked. "My dark persona." She simply stated as she took off with her blade drawn.

Daxter's eyes widened. Wait a dang dong minute! His mind yelled at him. Does this mean Jak wants to cuddle at night? Does that mean… his mind stopped thinking at that moment as he realized. "Holy shit, Jak's actin' like a chick!" Daxter always knew he was a bit slow in the thinking, but he never thought that just because Jak looked like a chick meant he'd start actin' like one.

Daxter took off down the hill began to count the already dead metal heads and groaned as he realized that Jak was cheatin' with her powers. Dead and dismembered body parts of cloaker metal heads were everywhere. Daxter ran across the stream and up another hill and almost shit himself when he came across three cloaked crab heads. Setting the mod from scatter to the new blaster mod he began shooting the bastards until they fell dead. Once he was sure all three were dead he went after the rest of them.

By the time Daxter had cleared the area around the large tree he'd gone down the bridge to see if there were more down there only to come across Jak or rather his alter ego Adriana who was covered in blood, gore and brain matter as she pulled the head off of the last of her victims. Clearing his throat she spun around and gave him a toothy grin as she dropped the head of the last metal head and stalked her way towards him, a deep purr breaking loose from her throat. It was strange how the creature could be covered head to toe in blood and guts and yet be able to turn on that purr and Daxter went from leery to calm in a blink of an eye.

"Err…" he began as she was now nose to nose with him, another good thing with being an elf again, he was taller; taller than Jak by one two inches; but her who was counting? "Looks like you had fun."

He watched as one ear twitched and the other perked upwards. "Mrr…" was her answer.

"Words." He said as she suddenly put herself into his personal bubble and began sniffing him. Now she was making him nervous. What? Do I stink? He silently wondered. Duh, ya idiot. You've been muckin' around killin' thangs, o'course ya stink. His brain answered him. When her nose nudged his cheek he almost jumped in surprise…almost. If it wasn't for one of her taloned hands on his hip, he'd a been twenty feet in the air. "Heh heh…funny." He said nervously. "Come on, stop playin' around babe." Her ear twitched and her onyx black eyes seemed to give a mischievous twinkle and that was his only warning as she pulled away and then pounced on him. "Eeep!" was his only noise as he went down with a grinning she creature who began rubbing her cheek against his and rubbing her body against his.

Ah shit! his mind screamed as he was vaguely familiar with what she was doing and found his body responding.You will not get aroused by yer best friend who's actin' all weird and his- his mind suddenly shut down as her hips suddenly ground down against his very aroused member. Shit! he cursed. Bad body! No…ya…oh my that feels good. He sighed as the creature's teeth began nibbling against his neck causing his eyes to shut in pleasure. His hands found her hips, which still moving against him and he suddenly groaned and noticed that she was panting and gave a whimper as her hips gave a needy thrust. Daxter's eyes widened and suddenly he was all too aware as to where this was going to end up if he didn't stop it right now.

So with every bit of strength he grabbed her hips tightly and stopped her from moving on top of him and moved himself away from her. "S-Stop." He groaned as he scooched away from her and panted. Okay, now calm yer ass down. He thought to himself and looked up with her heard her moving back towards him. Looking up he suddenly wished he hadn't. She was crawling on all fours and once again leapt at him, but this time he rolled out of the way and when she looked down to find her prey she found grass instead and turned her head towards Daxter who was now standing and was about three feet away from her. "Easy Adriana." He said, "Let Jak take control 'cause yer not in yer right mind." He put his hands in front of him to stop any other attack she'd throw his way, but that didn't stop her as she jumped on him again.

This time Daxter was proud to say he didn't fall, but this also caused a problem because now he had a horny dark eco creature in his arms and she was taking advantage of everything that wasn't covered by nipping, licking, and biting around his neck, ears and lips. Yes she was kissing him and nipping said lips. He was surprised to find that her lips were warm and not cold like her body was. Suddenly a light bulb went on in his head and he knew there was a lake in this area of the forest and carefully, not trying to get her attention because let's face it she was busy sucking his neck now. I'm so gonna have a hicky. He groaned and that's when he saw the edge of the lake. Being careful he waddled over to the lake and realized that with her sharp fangs in her mouth so close to a very important vein on his neck he didn't want to drop her into the water.

Turning his head slightly he saw a hill and cliff and smiled. If the creature had seen the smirk she would've known something was up, but now she was trying to get Daxter's shirt off and that was taking too much of her attention. So when Daxter walked up the hill with her squirming in his arms, her legs wrapped around his waist and her arms around his neck, she wasn't expecting anything especially when Daxter walked purposely off the cliff and into the lake.

The splash was epic and the result was exactly what Daxter wanted. When he came up for air the creature was looking at him in the water with a look of shock. That was all it took for Jak to take control and when she shook her head and looked at Daxter she was blushing furiously. "Heh heh…." Daxter laughed. "Had ta cool ya off somehow." He explained and that's when the most epic water fight began as Jak dunked the red head and when Daxter came up he saw Jak trying to make a break for the shore. He grabbed her ankle and pulled her back and proceeded to dunk her. By the time both had made it back to the shore they were both soaked to the bone, laughing, and had forgotten what had transpired over the last few minutes.

When the two got back to the city they both headed to the bar where Krew proceeded to tell them that he'd already signed their names to a contract for a racing name and that basically he now owned them when it came to the racing circuit. As they headed up the steps to the stadium Daxter was complaining the whole time. "Argh!" he groaned. "This guy is going to have more hair in area's ya never want to know about. I'm a tellin' ya. All mechanics are the same, except fer Keira."

Jak rolled her eyes. "We'll see." She said as they walked into the garage. "Hello, Krew said you were looking for some driver's."

"Is that what that tub of lard is saying now?" came a female voice from behind the curtains. "I'm not! Now go away!"

"Is there something we can help ya with sweet toots?" Daxter asked in a flirtatious voice.

"Daxter?" the voice questioned behind the curtains.

Walking up to the curtains and upon opening them Jak and Daxter found Keira under what looked like an almost finished Rift Rider. "Nice." Jak said with a smile.

"Thanks, Jak," she asked as she stood up and dusted the dirt off of her clothes.

Daxter chuckled as he grabbed one of her rags. "Ya missed a spot toots." He pointed to her cheek.

Gasping Keira walked over to the mirror that was hanging on the wall. "Damn," she cursed. "I was certain that I'd gotten it all." Looking back at them she saw Jak admiring her Jetboard. Keira then ran over to Jak and began to look at her once boyfriend now turned girl. Oh gosh. I can't date him as a girl, I'm not into girls. She then raised an eyebrow at the way Jak was looking at Daxter. Maybe I don't have to worry about that. She giggled.

"What is it?" Jak asked as she eyed the thing.

"A Jetboard." She stated as she picked it up and activated it. She then jumped onto it causing two synchronized whistles to erupt from her friends. "I bought one of those hoverboards and then took it apart and found why they kept sputtering and dying." She then jumped off of it and shut it off. "I then redesigned it."

"Niiiice." Daxter said as he eyed the machine. "Where can I get one?"

Keira giggled. "I make them now." She admitted as a blush appeared on her face. "I'm in the makings of the Mark II. This is the Mark I Prototype."

Jak and Daxter mouthed the word Prototype and nodded at each other. "So nobody's gonna have one like this?" Daxter asked hopefully.

Shaking her head Keira picked up the Jetboard. "Nope." She said and as the Jetboard suddenly shrank down to the size of a dinner plate she handed it to Jak. "Take it for a spin in the course at the Stadium and if you like it, you can keep it." she looked at Daxter. "You can take it for a spin too, while I finish the other one off." She walked over to the almost finished orange and black tiger striped Jetboard that was on her station. "If you like it, I'll give you this one when I'm done with it as well." Jak and Daxter smiled at each other and then took off. Laughing silently Keira smirked. I wonder how long it'll take them to realize that they care more about each other than they let on. Sighing Keira turned back to her project. Some things just never change.

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