Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (Fan Fiction)

2: Meeting Her

Jak's P.O.V

KABOOM! The force of the exploding artefact blew me backwards, into Daxter. He went flying into the pool of purple goo and stayed there.

Oh no! I thought, rushing to the side of the pool and staring at the dark stuff. I just killed Daxter!

A laugh resounded from the bridge surrounding the pool, and a girl swung down to me, followed by a little orange rat thing with short black hair.

"Hey there, villager! What are you doing on this island?"

She smiled at me. Her blonde spiky hair had an arrow in it, like those old geishas used to have chopsticks in their buns. She was dressed in a singlet, a pink one, with a yellow lightning bolt across the middle vertically. Her pink camo pants came down to her knees. The ends were frayed and one knee had a hole, hastily covered with a couple of Band-Aids.

I opened my mouth to answer, momentarily forgetting I'm a mute, but at that moment, a tiny rat thing went flying out of the pool. It landed at my feet and I knelt to see if it was alright. At that moment it leapt up and began to shout in my face. "Ugh, Ja-ak! You would not believe how-" The thing looked down at its feet. It began to shout and scream. "AAH! I'm a... a... an ottsel!"

I snickered. I knew what - or, rather, who - this thing was now. Ha ha ha! Daxter! You look so weird!

When Daxter got over the fact that he was tiny, orange and fuzzy with a tail and no pants (which took a good five minutes) he hopped up onto my shirt. "Not bad. A little hard."

"You get used to it," the girl's ottsel suddenly said.

Daxter tilted his head slightly, looking at me. "Who's that?"

I don't know. Somehow, Daxter heard my thought-speech.

"Uh, Jak? I just heard you speak..."

I didn't though. I'm just thinking words that I want to say.

"Oh." Then he seemed to notice the two girls. "Hi, I'm Daxter, and this is Jak, my sidekick."

I rolled my eyes. You're so immature! Everyone knows that the animal is the person's sidekick! I stuck out a hand to the girl.

She shook it suspiciously. "Jaklyn."

The ottsel leapt onto my hand. "I'm Daxterette."

Daxter leapt onto my other shoulder and walked down my arm. "Huh. That's my name, but with an 'ette' on the end."

I, meanwhile, was staring at the girl.

So, now I knew her name. Jaklyn...

Jaklyn's P.O.V

So, now I knew the guy's name. Jak...

He didn't seem to talk much. But Daxter, the guy's ottsel, seemed to think he could hear Jak talking.

"So, Jak?" I asked. "Are you from Sandover?"

He nodded.

"Are you going to go back there?"

Again he just nodded.

"Did you come by boat?"

Daxter cleared his throat. "I'll answer this one. Yes, we did."

"Can... can we come with you?"

Daxter was Jak's voice once more. "Okay, sure!"

The two guys turned and began to walk back the way they came, but I stopped them. "Do you want to die?" I asked. "If not, don't go the way full of lurkers! I have a better way. Can you jump, Jak?"

He nodded.

We climbed up to the top of the bridge around the pool, and I pointed to the tallest rock. "Jump up there, Jak. You can follow me. Daxter, follow Daxterette." With that, I took a huge run up, rolled, jump-rolled, and when I landed on my feet after jumping, immediately I jumped again, causing me to jump really, really high. I used my forward momentum to grab onto the ledge at the top, and I climbed up to the top, where I could see the whole of misty island.

Suddenly, a huge freezing wind began to blow, and in front of me, Gol and Maya materialised. The two sages were trying to dig up old eco silos to power an old Precursor Robot. To do this, they had to rally the lurkers, which was why they were here, on Misty Island.

"Hello, Jaklyn." Gol smiled at me. "Have you found the boy?"

"Yes, sir," I said, curtsying. "He and his ottsel are here. I have found a way for me to get close to Samos. We are heading back to Sandover as we speak."

Maya smiled at me. "Good job. We... require Samos for our little project. And this boy, he is close to Samos. He could be useful to us. I sense that Dark Eco will do him well. Bring him to us. We will... change him as we did you."

I nodded and curtseyed once more. "You'd better leave. He'll be up here any..." As I said this, I felt his hands grab onto the ledge. Gol and Maya nodded and dissipated into thin air just as Jak pulled himself up.

"Hi!"

He smiled. I pointed at the wire in front of me. "Do you like flying foxes?"

He nodded and eagerly grabbed the handle, sliding down to the banks of Misty Island.

I pushed the button to move the wire back to the starting position, and followed him once the handle had returned.

Daxterette's P.O.V

"...Daxter, follow Daxterette."

Jaklyn did her special jump to reach the rock ledge, and I started down the wire that led to my cave, which had a teleporter gate in it, that I could program to send me anywhere.

As we went to the cave, I could see Gol and Maya talking to Jaklyn. I decided to take a slight detour.

"Daxter, let's go this way!" I called, to stop him from seeing my best friend dealing with her evil master and mistress.

He followed me out to where lurkers roamed free, so we could go to the banks of Misty Island without seeing Jaklyn or Jak.

"Uh, Daxterette?" Daxter started. "I don't think we should be going through here. There're lurkers everywhere!"

I laughed. "Scared?"

"Me? No! Just, we could get eaten, and then where would our sidekicks be? Lost, dazed and confused, that's where."

I turned and smiled at him. "You're good at impromptu!"

Suddenly a cold wind blew, bringing with it Gol and Maya. "You cannot pass, ottsels!"

Daxter froze, but I remained cool and calm. "Hey! What's wrong with two lovebird ottsels going for a stroll on our native island?"

"L-l-lovebird? Whaaaaat?" Daxter whispered in my ear.

"Don't worry. I don't mean it."

"Okay. Good!"

Gol stroked his bearded chin, before picking me up and freezing the world. "Daxterette, I just spoke to Jaklyn. Are you on your way to the boats?"

"Yes. I just didn't want Daxter to see you speaking with Jaklyn. So we took a shortcut."

"I see. Now, where were you standing?"

I hopped out of his hands and stood in my exact position. Gol unfroze time.

"Alright," Maya said, "we will let you go, lovebirds. But stray not near the banks, for if you do, lurkers shall have your heads."

With a POP they disappeared.

"What was that about?" Daxter looked at me sideways, but I'd already started sprinting off, the banks in sight.

Not wanting to be left behind, Daxter followed me.

Two lurkers stood guard at the steps to the banks, but we managed to slip around them. We reached the boats and saw Jak just stepping off the flying fox.