Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (Fan Fiction)

4: Reaching the end of our Training

Daxterette’s P.O.V

I got really nervous when we saw the boxes. I knew Jaklyn was too. It’s a sisterly bond thing.

Yep. Jaklyn and I are sisters.

I wasn’t always an ottsel. Once I was a lovely lady, with lush black hair, fair skin, and big blue eyes. But then, when Gol and Maya showed up, they changed us with Dark Eco. Jaklyn got some cool shape-shifting power, while I got this lousy ottsel body.

Her power is that she can morph into a Dark-Human, kind of a lurker if it mated with a dog, whose babies mated with a human. Anyway, it’s pretty cool.

So, back to the story. We busted those boxes and got a Power Cell in exchange. I liked that.

We continued along the island, collecting Precursor Orbs and stuff.

Suddenly Jaklyn gasped. “Blue Eco!” She seemed a little scared, because usually Coloured Eco counteracts Dark Eco.

The communicator flew out of Jak’s pocket. “That zapping blue energy,” Samos explained, “is Blue Eco. While channelling it through your body, you can run fast, break boxes and even open doors that have been closed for centuries.”

Jak ran over to a zapping cluster and touched it. It shot up through his body, and suddenly he sprinted off.

Jaklyn too walked over to a cluster and stepped into it. Suddenly Dark Eco started gushing out of her body, falling into puddles on the ground. She tried to stop it by shape-shifting, but as soon as she sprouted claws they went back into her skin, and all of her Dark Eco was gone.

My mouth dropped open. Gol and Maya would be so mad! She was no longer a Dark Eco freak! Actually, when you put it that way…

She smiled. “This feels so much better than the Dark stuff! Come on, Daxterette! Let’s move!”

I hopped onto her shoulder and we sprinted after Jak.

Daxter’s P.O.V

“Okay, lemme just say one thing!” I said to Jak as the Blue Eco ran dry. “That – was – amazing!”

That was three things, Dax.

“Oh, shut up!”

I am shut up. Is my mouth open?

Jak was snickering silently (well, given that he can’t make a single noise, I guess that’s expected of him). I gave him a glare but then Jaklyn zoomed up behind us. “Hey boys!”

The communicator shot out of Jak’s pocket, almost hitting me in the head in the process. “Hey!”

Samos laughed his deep, gravelly laugh before beginning to talk. “This is a Precursor Door.”

We all looked up to see a huge door. It was shut tight.

“It can only be opened while channelling Blue Eco through your body.”

“And this,” Keira interrupted, bringing our attention to a column of Blue Eco spouting from the ground, “is a Blue Eco Vent. More concentrated than the individual clusters, Blue Eco from a Vent will give you a full burst of Eco, letting you use it for the maximum time!”

Jaklyn grinned at Jak. “Race ya, Jacky Boy?”

Jak nodded. You're on! They both took off for the Vent. I raced along beside them, commentating. “And Jaklyn’s in the lead now, folks, but Jak is gaining fast. They’re reaching the bridge… Who will get there first? It’s looking like Jak… now it’s Jaklyn, Jak, Jaklyn, JAK, JAKLYN, AND IT’S… a tie? Well there’s an anticlimax!”

Jaklyn and Daxterette burst into laughter, and at that moment, Daxterette and I linked eyes. She wiped away her tears of laughter and smiled at me, a genuine smile, not a sarcastic smirk. I smiled back. She looked away, flicking her short hair, and I noticed Jak looking at Jaklyn in the same way.

I hopped up onto his shoulder. “Interested in the girl, are we Jak?” I whispered in his ear.

Not on your life.

“Ah, you party pooper.”

What about you?

“No way!”

Then… why’d you stare at her? Why’d you smile?

“What are you thinking?”

He smirked and shook his head. Then he stepped into the Blue Eco fountain spewing from the Vent.

I leapt onto his shoulder quickly as he charged up. Jaklyn charged up as well and I noticed how close together they were standing.

I stifled a snicker and we took off.

The Precursor Door slid open with a creak, and shining right in front of us was a Power Cell.

“I bags this one!” I shouted and grabbed it before anyone else could react. I slipped it into Jak’s pack and, again, we took off.

The grassy ledge we were standing on dropped off into a pool, with some floating pontoons and some Precursor Orbs.

“Wonderful!” came Samos’s voice from the communicator. “You managed to open the Precursor Door. With Blue Eco, you can breathe life into all kinds of Precursor Artefacts which have lain dormant for years.”

I spotted another grassy ledge. “Over there!” I said, pointing. Jak and Jaklyn swam their way over to the ledge. A wobbly wooden bridge connected the ledge to another ledge, which was connected by a much sturdier bridge to another ledge. Jak gripped the ledge and tugged himself up with… a grunt?

I looked down at him. “Jak! You just grunted!”

I did? Oh, wow!

I heard a laugh escape from his mouth, but when he tried to talk it still didn’t work.

Okay, so no talking. But the Eco must have awakened my vocal chords, just a little bit.

Jaklyn seemed pretty surprised when we – well, really it was just me – told her about Jak’s newfound power (other than channelling Eco).

“Eco hasn’t been known to do that. Maybe you’re just growing up.”

We keep going, collecting Precursor Orbs as we go. Samos comes on the communicator line every so often, telling us about how we can collect Green Eco to increase health and how Jak and Jaklyn can jump in mid-air to reach higher ledges.

There were some Precursor Platforms that Jak had to use the jump trick on, and, might I add, the jump trick doesn’t feel all that good when you're sitting on the jumper’s shoulder.

At the top of the Precursor Platforms was a ledge, another grassy one, which Jak latched onto and tugged himself up.

Waiting there was a Power Cell. I swaggered over to pick it up, but just as I reached out for it, Daxterette ran for it and plucked it from my outstretched hands.

“Hey!” I shouted, but Daxterette had already stuck it in Jaklyn’s backpack and hi-fived her friend.

I rolled my eyes, hopped back onto Jak’s shoulder, and shouted, “Onwards!”