Growing Desires

WARNING: This Chapter contains crude language and mild violence.

Disclaimer: I do not own Jak and Daxter/2/3/ or X.

***Chapter Seven: Tension Part Two***

((Ashelin’s POV))

I tossed in my sheets feeling sightly unease. I reached out for Jak but I felt nothing but a cold bundled up blanket. I opened my eyes and noticed the room looked very dim. Shadows crawled out in every corner. I sat up looked out the window. The soft glow of the sun just peering over the horizon. ‘Is it still morning?’ I said to myself only to notice later that the sun was going down and not up. I groaned, I couldn’t believe I slept right through the day. I had never overslept before in my life but after what happened the night before, I shouldn’t be surprised.

Even though my cuts and wounds were healed, my body felt torpid. But I wasn’t to weak to stay bed ridden all night. With one sheet wrapped around my waist, I rolled out of bed. Rubbing my swore shoulders, I slowly walked into the bath. I leaned against the cold stone counter, and silently commanded the computer to turn on the cold water. It obeyed and I watched the rushing water slowly fill the sink.

My mind drifted off with the sound of small steady splashes. Eventually my thoughts focused on one person, Torn. I sighed, I wanted to keep the affair between Jak and I a secret until this, relationship died off. Well now I know that plan back fired. I told Jak I loved him, but what’s going to happen now?

How long could I possibly continue this game with Torn. Things had grown far to serious to believe that every thing will be alright. I knew someone was going to get hurt, badly. Maybe even emotionally scarred for life because of my own selfish desires.

I dipped my hands in the sink and splashed water over my face. The icy chill jolted me out of my daze. I combed my dreads back with my fingers and stared at my reflection in the mirror. I looked appalling! There were small bags under my eyes, my hair was a tangled mess, and dried blood smeared all over my skin and sheets. I was not going to have a good day. Or in that case, a good night.

I turned off the water and walked out of the bathroom, rubbing my thumb and forefinger over my eyelids trying to adjust my eyes to the room light. I suddenly stop remembering the lights were off when I woke up. I looked around the room and saw a Krimson soldier crouching down near the broken dresser.

I gasped. “Torn!”

He was too busy studying the broken pieces of glass to look at me.

“What are you doing in here?” I asked.

He ran his fingers through the dark red stain in the rug, unfortunately it was still damp. He stood up rubbing his blood fingers together before he made a fist.

In a low deadly voice he spoke, “What happened in here?” He asked.

“You should be in the med room, you’re injured.” I said trying to deluded the conversation long enough to think of something.

His eyes were as wide as ever when he saw me. I tried to cover myself up but he grabbed both my arms and yanked me closer to him and I turned away, ashamed.

“Tell me what happened to you.” He spoke calmly, “Please Ashelin, look at me.” I didn’t look, I was so ashamed of myself to do so. “Who did this to you? Did somebody hurt you?!” He yelled.

‘You wouldn’t understand.’ I whispered.

“Ashelin, tell me what happened. Tell me who attacked you? Was it one of the guards? Or was it more then one of them?”

“Nothing liked that happened.” I lied, “You wouldn’t understand.” No matter how convincing I must have sounded, the truth was to evident.

His grip tighten around my arms, he opened his mouth to speak but something caught his eye. He practically tossed me aside and picked up something off the bed. My blood ran cold, it was Jak’s goggles. His worried expression changed to disbelief. He looked around at the mess then the blood stains. He was unable to accept what he was witnessing was real.

He turned to me and roughly placed one hand on my cheek and the other holding up the goggles.

“I know who this belongs to.” He said, “Their Jak’s aren’t they?” I didn’t answer.

“Jak, he...” he hesitated. “The bloody knife, the broken glass, the reason you look so...”

“Torn,” I said, “There’s something I need to tell you. Jak...” Before I was able to finish he turned away, cracking the googgle’s lenses with his bare fist.

“Son-of-a-BITCH!” He shouted, “I should’ve known from the start he was a monster and I trusted him! This is my fault”

“I know this looks bad. but if you let me explain...”

“I’m sorry.” He said confusing the hell out of me. “I should’ve been here to stop him, but I wont let him get away with what he did to you.”

I can only imagine how things looked. In fact there wasn’t much to imagine. Bloody floor, dark rings under my eyes, not to mention I’m naked. “No! Torn, he didn’t mean to!” I should’ve never said that.

“You don’t have to defend him! He ain’t gotta excuse for what he did. No man who does that to woman has the right!”

“He changed Torn! He was something else last night. He couldn’t stop what he was doing!”

“The fuck he couldn’t!” He wasn’t listening to me, instead he started talking to himself. “I’ll kill him! I don’t know where he is now but I’ll find out. And when I do, I’ll carve his heart out.”

“Listen to me!” I shouted, “The monster who did this to me was not Jak! He would never hurt me like that and you know it!” I took a deep breath and placed my hand over my chest. “He loves me Torn and I love him too.”

The room was so quiet but I didn’t care. I said what I needed to say and all that was left was Torn’s response. I stood there and I waited. And waited. I waited so long I thought I was going to burst from tension. I thought it was over. No more hiding from the truth, pretending to be completely oblivious to our emotions. I was so tired of lying I thought it would eat me alive and it almost did.

“Torn?” I said.

“What did he do to you, Ashelin? You don’t know what you’re talking about” I knew he wasn’t asking about just physical pain. He really believed Jak made me crazy.

“It’s true, I am in love with him.”

His face turned dark and murderous. He tried to leave the room but grabbed his shirt. Anyone who knew Torn as long as I did knows when he’s about to do something rash.

“Torn don’t!” I pleaded.

“You stay here, understand!”

“No I wont! I'm not going to let you kill Jak!”

He turned around and grabbed my arm, dragging me across the room. I struggled with him as best as I could while holding up the sheet with on arm to cover myself. I was so swore I couldn’t even put up a decent fight.

“Let me go! NOW!” I shouted angrily.

Before I knew what was happening he threw me in my closet. I tripped on my own sheet and fell. I got up quickly but the door slid shut behind. I heard a gun shoot from the other side.

“No!” I screamed. He shot the control panel from outside the door. I tried to press the release button to open the closet but it wouldn’t go. All it did was play a computer recorded voice that repeated ‘ERROR’ over and over again. I tried to open it by voice command but nothing happened.

“Torn!” I screamed, “Don’t kill him or I swear...”

“I wont let him get away with this Ashelin.” I barley heard his voice, “I promise.”

“Torn, listen to me, Jak didn’t mean to hurt me! He loves me!” I couldn’t hear him anymore, all I could hear was the faint sound of foot steps leaving the room. “Torn, don’t you dare leave me trapped in here! I order you to let me out, now!” I kept yelling even though I knew he was already gone. “He lost control! He never wanted to hurt me, you have to believe me! Torn? Torn?!”

I was trapped in small space unable to free myself from the inside. He was going to kill him, I had to stop him. With my last outburst I screamed to the top my lungs “TORN!” I leaned against the door and slowly moved down to floor. For the first time in years I started to cry. “God damnit, Torn.” I whimpered. “...I love him.”

I looked up in the darkness, trapped in small room feeling weak, powerless and alone. The only thing I could do was pray. Praying to the gods that nothing will happen to either of them.

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((Jak’s POV))

Everything looked so bright. The colors around me looked so vibrant, shades of red and gold were decorated all over. I heard myself laughing like a kid again. My small stubby hands reached out for the edge of what looked like a giant balcony. I pulled myself up and stood on the ledge. I looked over the edge and I saw all hundreds zoomers whizzing by. The people on the streets looked smaller then bugs. Suddenly I felt warm gust of wind and lost my balance.

Then someone grabbed me seconds before I fell over. “Easy there boy!” the person said and gently put me back on the ground. “I don’t know how managed to walk all the way out here without anyone noticing. Aren’t you the adventurous type? Just like your mother.”

I looked up at the man, he was dressed as a king, and I couldn’t recognized his face. “If you keep this up, you’ll be dead before I can give you this.” He knelt down and pulled something out of his shirt. My stubby hands wrapped around the medallion. “Priests and monks say that a great hero wore this pendent when he fought the evil forces thousands of years ago. His name was Mar and when you become a man, you can wear it. ”

“One day,” The man continued, “You will accomplished great things. You’ll be a warrior unlike this world has ever seen. You will be brave noble hero just like him. I know it in my heart. That is why I named you Mar, my son.”

I jolted awake practically swimming in a thick sticky substance. I tried to move around but I couldn’t see anything. Soon the soft glow of one of the planet’s moons lit the cave. I swam towards the wall where the water was shallow. I was able to walk but I was still knee deep in the swampy water. I started coughing and throwing up the strange water that flooded my lungs. My arm and chest throbbed in pain.

I looked up at the hole Torn and I fell through and man did we fall far! If it wasn’t for this weird gooey water I’m sure my injuries would’ve been much worse. That’s when it hit me. Where was Torn?

“Torn...” I coughed. “...Torn?” There I was, looking for the man who tried to kill me and I was worried if he survived the fall. I wasn’t thinking about watching my back or getting revenge. I just wanted to see if he survived.

I heard a groan. I squinted in the dark and saw Torn a few feet away from me. It looked like he was having a hard time standing up. My guess, he hit the shallow part of the pool when we fell. I rushed over to help.

“Torn! Are you all right?” I asked lifting him up to his feet.

He violently shoved me away and I fell backwards. “Don’t touch me!” he growled. I watched him struggle to get up bet he fell back down. “Shit!” he said in pain grabbing his knee.

“Your leg, is it broken?”

“When I saw you floating over there I thought you were dead.” He said. “And to answer your question, no.”

“So you still wanna kill me.” I bluntly said.

“To be honest I changed my mind about killing ya.”

I should’ve felt relieved but knowing Torn that was hard thing to do. “Why?” I asked.

“When I saw you over there a few minutes ago, I felt pissed.” He wiped the slimy stuff off his face. “You would’ve died just like that. Death by fall, it was too pitiful even for you. But now that you’re alive I know what I’m going to do to ya.”

He looked up and spoke with determination. “I’m going to throw you back in that prison for the rest of your life. I’m going to put you in a cell so deep, that lil’orange bastard wouldn’t be able to find you in million years. And I will personally make sure that every day of your life is so much shit, you’re gonna wish you were in hell.”

I could blame the horrible stench of the water, my bodily injuries, and the thought of being stuck in hole so deep, climbing out to freedom wasn’t even an option, but I had enough. I made a decision not to kill Torn but I never said I would lie on my back without once defending myself.

“I know what I did to you was more then fucked up, I admit that.” I said, “I know I broke our friendship for good but I’m not going stand here and let you think that throwing me away in prison is going to make everything better between you and Ashelin.”

He shakily stood up. “Don’t you say her name! You ain’t got the right anymore!”

“The hell I do!” I yelled back, “You need to stop this jealous boyfriend shit and open your fucking eyes-”

“You raped her Jak!” He shouted over my voice. My eyebrows raised. “You raped her and now she’s delusional. Of all the sick monsters I’ve met in the world I never believed you were one of them.” He turned his back to me. “Not once.”

“I maybe be able to turn into a monster but I know that’s not who I am!”

“Then tell me you didn’t hurt her!” He shoted back, “Weather you changed or not, tell me you didn’t rape her.”

I lowered my head and said nothing.

“So you admit it.”

I looked up again. “I didn’t want to hurt her.” No matter how guilty I felt I wasn’t going to lower my voice. “That night when Ashelin had meeting with the Council, I followed her. I wanted to protect her just in case anything happened. When I got there I hid in shadows and just waited for her to show up. When they started talking I heard Ashelin. She said that I was just some asset to her missions and that I meant nothing to her.”

“I was angry, Torn. I never felt so betrayed in my life, even before that day. I swear to the gods my intentions were to tell her off and leave. I was going to tell her I was never coming back to this city again. But I couldn’t control my anger and the dark side of me leeched on it. When I realized I was losing control it was too late. I told her to run but she didn’t understand what was happening to me.”

“I tried to fight it off but nothing worked. Everything went black after that. All I do remember was the blood and hearing her scream. When I changed back she was hurt badly. That’s when I realized what...It did to her. I used light eco inside of me to heal her but nothing I do could take back what happened last night. Believe me if I had that power, I would.”

I sighed. “That’s truth I swear it. But there’s more I have to tell you. Me and Ashelin were together long before that. I didn’t want to tell you because I didn’t think things would go this far. I...I love...”

“Don’t you fucking say it!” He spun around. “Say it and I’ll kill you!”

“But I do love her, Torn.”

He tackled me to the ground and slimly water splashed around us. He grabbed my collar and I grabbed his. “It’s the truth!” I grunted, “Every word of it! I love her!”

“You can’t be in love with her!” He yelled in my face.

“Why not?! Because I’m a monster?! An Eco Freak!”

“NO!”

“THEN WHY NOT?!”

“Because I love her!” He shouted.

There was long awkward moment of silence between us. Both of our grips loosened from each others collars. Two men in love with the same women. Everything was just a big disaster now, in more ways then one. I heard his heart beating from where I was laying.

‘Ba-bump, Ba-bump, Ba-bump...’

After a few seconds I realized it was impossible for his heart to beat that loudly. Even in the dark I saw that Torn noticed the sounds too. We got up slowly as the walls of the cave began to glow an soft purplish light. The bubble like walls expanded and contracted with the beat of a heart.

‘Ba-bump, Ba-bump, Ba-bump...’

We both looked saw the entire cave wall was covered with purple glowing pods and in the center of each one was an black silhouette of a long clawed monster. Some did nothing but most of them twitched violently. I moved away from the walls until my back hit against Torn’s.

“Metal head eggs?” He asked himself. In my mind I could only wish they were but I knew the truth. I’ve seen inside Erol’s ship, I know what horrible black creatures I saw. I know what’s really in those eggs. My stomach twisted in fear and that kind of fear is something I haven’t felt in long time.

“No.” I said answering Torn’s question, “This is much worse.”

We were hurt, wounded, and mostly exhausted. We’re stuck in pit with hundreds of dark eco eggs about to hatch.

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((Ashelin’s POV))

I took a deep breath and slammed into the door again, almost dislocated my shoulder. I yelped grabbing my upper arm, afterwards I thought it would be wise to find another way out. The closet was pitch black but I knew were all my clothes were. I dressed very slowly in my uniform because my body was still in great deal of pain. I was aching for relief, I knew if I was lucky enough there might be green eco container left in the med room I can use when I escaped. If that was even possible.

I sat back down on the floor and began to think long and hard about my plan of escape. I could blast the door down with the weapons I kept in there but I’ll blow myself up as well. Not smart.

‘Think Ashelin, think.’ I said aloud, ‘You’ve lead your army to victory a hundred times over but you can’t get out of your own closet!? How long do you think you can last in here without...’

I stood up. ‘Air.’ The oxygen supply haven’t decreased since Torn trapped inside. That had to be the reason why I was able to breath normally for so long. I moved around in the dark and took deep breaths trying to find the vent. In an corner there was small steady gust of cold air blowing in. I grabbed as much stuff as I could and threw it into pile. I stood on top of it and felt the ceiling with finger tips. I smiled with I felt the bars of the vent. But when I tried to pull it open it wouldn’t budge. I pulled it again with everything I had left in me.

“Com’on! Open!” I yelled before I lost my grip and my balance. I fell to the floor and hit the back of my head against the wall. I saw stars twinkle behind my eyelids. I rubbed the back of my head for blood. I tried to think of genius plan to escape and in instead I got throbbing headache and a lump.

Just when I finally given up there was loud crash and room shook. ‘Perfect,’ I thought, ‘Now the HQ is under attack. Things could not get any worse.’ Sadly I was wrong.

“Ashelin!” I heard someone yell out. “Ashelin! Ashelin babe are ya in here!”

“Don’t call me babe you little rat!” I yelled back. “Wait, Daxter is that you?”

“Ashelin, where are ya?”

“In here!”

“In where? I can hear ya but see can’t see ya.”

“In the closet, I’m stuck inside the door won’t open.”

Then I heard a squawk. “See, I told you this was her room. Uh, but why are you in the closet?” Pecker asked.

“Long story,” I answered, “the important thing right now is getting me out of here.”

“How? The panel looks busted.” Daxter pointed out.

“Listen to me carefully Daxter. I want you to find a knife of something thin and strong enough to pop the panel open. Inside there’s going to be bunch of wires. I know this is going to be difficult but you have to find the right combination of wires that will open the door manually...”

There was loud clank sound and the door slid opened. In the middle of my bedroom was an crashed zoomer, pieces of rubbish, smoke, and big gaping hole in the wall. I looked down at my two little heros amazed and confused.

“How did you open the...” I said.

“Pecker threw a rock at panel.” Dax answered.

“What can I say,” Pecker gloated “It’s not monkey physics.”

“Okay, now what did I come here for again.” Dax scratched his chin. “Oh yeah now I remember.”

He jumped on my chest and yanked my dreads, screaming in panic. “JAK’S IN TROUBLE!”

“What?”

“Jak and I was looking for something somewhere in someplace where the Onin told us about to stop Erol’s ship and Torn followed us and Jak didn’t think it was big deal but I had this fishy feeling something was up and he shot’em right in the back I tried to help Jak but Torn sucker punch me out and by the time I woke up they both fell this huge freakin’ hole I tried to call out for Jak but he didn’t answer he might be dead you gotta help me!”

I grabbed the orange pest off my bosom and shook him until he stopped talking. “Dax calm down!” I yelled. Sure enough he did but only little. He was still shaken and scared. “You’re not making any sense. Where’s Jak?”

“That place where the palace fell down.” He said.

“Why would he go alone? Doesn’t he know that place is crawling with those monsters?”

“Monsters!” He screamed “There’s monsters there too! We gotta go save him! We gotta...”

I shook him again. “Daxter please, concentrate! What about Torn? Is he with Jak too?”

“He knows Ashelin.” He said in almost sadden voice, “He tried to kill Jak for you. Even if they survived the fall, how long until they might kill each other.”

“Arrggkk, I know this might be a bad time to mention this,” Pecker said, “But if Jak don’t make it to the portal in time then we’re, how you say? Seriously screwed!”

I put Daxter on my shoulder. “Right, we have to save Jak and Torn if want to save our world. But we can’t do it alone.”

Pecker flew on my shoulder. “I’m with you General! Let’s go kick some butt!”

“Oh now you have balls!” Dax said to him angered, “Wish you had’em when you flew off with you tails between your legs.”

“Hey, You’re lucky I came back to see if you guys were alright.”

“Yeah lucky, you were so scared you couldn’t even fly down that hole to see if Jak was still alive.”

“I sensed bad mojo coming from that stink pit and I wasn’t going to risk my feathers for a hunch. Beside I flew you all the way here, so you should be thanking me.”

“No ya didn’t! You were so slow it would’ve taken us years to get here. You’re lucky we found that zoomer when we did, ya feathered bastard!”

“Orange, Arrgghhkk, rodent!”

“Shut it!” I yelled. “We don’t have time for this, so you two zip it or else!”

The door slid open and two guards rushed the room with guns loaded and ready to fire at any intruder. One checked the zoomer while the other marched up to me and saluted.

“General are you all right?” He asked me. I nodded.

“We heard a crash. Are we under attack?”

“No, it was just these two idiots.” I answered pointing at the two on my shoulders.

“Oooh...” Both guards said and lowering their weapons. One of the men spoke on their communicator. “Nothing to worry about on this level” he said, “Just a pest problem.”

It was as if there weren’t surprised that two animals managed to crash a zoomer right in the middle of my room. Thank the gods they didn’t kill anyone.

“You two guards listen up.” I ordered. They quickly formed a straight line in front of me. “We have a situations that calls for rescue team. You find every able bodied man in this building, give them the finest weapons we have and meet me outside in the front. You have less then fifteen minutes.”

They looked at each other then to me. “But...General.” One stuttered. “We were given orders from Torn...We...Can’t let you leave.”

I raised an eyebrow “Do you boys remember what happened last time you said that to me?”

They gulped. “We apologize. We were just following...”

“Follow my orders!” I barked and with two quick salutes they marched out the room.

“Alright, so what’s next?” Daxter asked.

I knew what was next and it wasn’t going to be easy. I left the room and took the elevator down to the lab. There is only one inventor in the entire city that would be a great help. But I had to tell her about the circumstances and how they came to be. I wasn’t sure if should be completely honest or spare her the hurtful details.

The elevator door opened and I walked down the corridor looking for the room labeled lab. The door automatically opened and Keira was sitting near an computer, working hard as usually. She turned around surprised to see us but completely turned back. We were never close and it wasn’t odd to me that she didn’t bother to say hello.

“Keira we need your help.”

“What is it now?” She said dryly.

“Jak’s in trouble and so is Torn. I’m going to save them but I might need something to stop any metal heads or Eco monsters. I heard about your new invention, you know, the new gun upgrade that could cause some serious damage.”

She continued to input data. “Jak’s been in plenty of hot jams before, I’m sure he’ll have no problem getting out of whatever trouble he’s in this time.”

“This time it’s different.” I tried to explain, “Jak’s been hurt really badly, if we don’t act soon he might die.”

“Then go save him,” She waved her hand at me in annoyance. “I have very important work to do.”

Dax and Pecker hopped off my shoulders. “I think we should we leave her alone and just, uh, go.” Daxter said.

I didn’t leave. I thought she was being a brat. I walked up to her chair and spun her around. Her eyes were looked red and puffy but at the same she had this uncaring expression.

“Jak’s in serious danger and you’re telling me your work is more important? Don’t you even care?”

She huffed and crossed her arms. “Why should I care anymore?”

“Why should you care?” I said, “You love him!”

She smacked my arms away and stood up. “I don’t love him! Not since he told me he’s in love with you!”

I didn’t know Jak told her about us. Any other day I wouldn’t feel a hint of guilt for hurting her, like I mention before we weren’t exactly close. But the sorrow I saw in her eyes I knew she was still in love with him and she hated me for it. I swallowed my pride and apologized, kind of.

“So he told you about us?”

“Yes, he did and I had to hear about it first from Tess.” She threw her hands in the air. “Tess, for Precursors’ sake!”

“I understand why you’re angry Keira and I’m...Sorry. If it wasn’t for me things probably would’ve...”

“If it wasn’t for you things would’ve a whole lot better!”She said cutting me off. “You know what Ashelin you are really something else.”

“Excuse me?” I asked.

“You’re a General, so everyone listens to you and whether they like it or not. You’re paretically a Queen and you can have anything you want. You have Torn, a guy who literary will bend over backwards for you. Yeah he’s a little rough around the edges but he loves you so much. Any one can see that. How could you do this to him?”

“I...” I didn’t have anything to say.

“But you had to go for Jak. You could have any other guy in this city but you wanted the one guy I loved.”

“It wasn’t like that.” I said trying to fend for myself. “Things just happened.”

“Oh yeah right. You think I’m blind? That I couldn’t see you wanted Jak since the day you two were in my garage?”

“I was attracted to Jak back then but I didn’t elaborate some evil scheme to...To steal him from you.”

“You were able to fool Jak but you can’t fool me. You’re just using him for your own ego.” She said, “And I bet Torn doesn’t know about you two yet. This is so typical for someone like you.”

“What does that supposed to mean?” I said in threatening voice.

“It means you’re an two timing tramp!”

I smacked her across the face, leaving a red mark behind. Her eyes were watery when she looked at me. She was upset for all the right reasons and I had no right for my actions. I was ashamed for what I did, it was childish to hit her.

“Keira,” I said, “I’m so sorr...”

The younger women punched me in the nose and I stumble back. I never knew she had it in her to fight back, let alone throw a decent punch. I was in no shape to fight but I was angry and to stubborn to care. I knew over twenty-nine different moves to kill someone with my bare hands, three moves to paralyze them for life, and countless attacks to break bones. I had to make sure not to use any one of them.

I smacked her again with the back of my hand. The force I hit her with was weak and I wish I could say it was my intention. She lunged at me but I caught her wrist and threw her on the floor. She use both her hands to grab my hair and pulled on it hard. It was not doing well for my already pounding headache.

“Alright now you two break up!” Dax yelled as Keira and I grappled on the floor. “As much as this pains me to say, ya both gotta stop! Jak’s in trouble remember!”

Struggling with Keira’s wrists I finally was able to pin. I was mounted on top her keeping her down with all the strength I had in me. Even though I was swore from way earlier, I had to give the girl some credit.

Our chest heave up down as we stared into each others eyes. I could tell she wanted to call me the most horrible names. She hated me now more then every. I had hurt her worse than I thought. Deep Inside.

Without noticing she lifted her foot between my legs and kicked me off of her. I got up a few seconds later holding my stomach. A guard came in grabbed Keira moments before she was able jump me. He probably scouting the floor and heard all the commotion.

“Let go of me you creep!” She shirked.

“Quiet!” He said, “It’s a major offense attacking the leader of Haven City!” The man was slightly taller than her and very strong, she wasn’t going to get loose from his grip. “Should I lock her up, General?” He asked me.

“No, let her go.”

Hesitant at first he loosen his grip and Keira rubbed her arm.

I stood before her, no longer wanting to fight. I sighed and bent down on my knees and looked up at her. The guard looked stunned, Keira did as well.

“I know you hate me and what I did to you was unforgivable but I’m not asking you for a favor.” I said, “Help me save Jak and Torn. I love them both so much and if anything happens to them I would never forgive myself. Please Keira, I’m begging you.”

The former leader of Haven City, General of an entire army, kneeling and begging to a inventor for help. But I didn’t care how demeaning it was or my pride. I just wanted to save the man I love and I was willing to do anything, even beg like peasant.

As I stood on my knees I waited for her answer. “Keira,” I repeated. “Will you help me?”

***End of Chapter Seven Part Two***

(A/N): I always wanted to see a real cat fight between Keira and Ashelin in the game. Now how fucking cool would that be? But it wouldn’t be a fair fight since Ashelin knows all those kick ass flips and junk. If Naughty decides to make another Jak installment and somehow manages to go for the “Keira Vs. Ashelin” match then Keira should be allowed to use a huge wrench! You know, to make things fair. That would be awesome.

But I wonder what’s Dax point of view of the fight would be like....hmmm....

((Dax’s POV))

“It’s so typical for someone with big breast like you.” Keira said brushing back her soft blue hair.

“What does that mean you slut?” Ashelin said in low sexy voice.

“It means you’re an tramp.”

And just like that Ashelin smacked her, then Keira turned around pushed on the floor. She jumped on top her and they started to wrestler. They grabbed and squeezed soft fleshy body parts. Rolling all over the floor, their bodies pressed together like soft, curvy, marshmallow. Suddenly there’s pieces of hair and clothing everywhere. Forbidden fruit peaked through their clothing, their skin glistening with sweat. In fact I think I saw nipple. No, I saw two! One from each.

Ashelin pined Keira’s hands behind her head. “You like that don’t you bitch.” she said all sexy like.

Keira’s breast went up and down and up down and up, (you get the point), and she said “Get off you big titted tramp”

“Make me.”

Then, like in some cool kick ass video game, she kicked her off. But Ashelin wasn’t down for the count yet. She got up and Keira did too. She grabbed her hair and Ashelin ripped off her shirt. Keira screamed then ripped Ashelin’s shirt of too. Neither of them were bra. Shame, shame. Well not really.

Before the two beauties were able to scratch their perfect smooth skin I jumped in between them.

“Hey! Let’s not lose our minds here.” I said, “Fighting ain’t gonna solve our problems. Now you two apologize to each other right now.”

“Daxter’s right.” Keira said.

“Daxter’s always right, ya know we should really listen to him more often.” Ashelin said.

“I’m sorry Ashelin.” Keira extended her arms out for a hug.

“I’m sorry too, Keira.” Ashelin excepted her hug and slowly rubbed her backs in small strokes.

Keira hugged a little harder and smelled her hair then she moved back and caress Ashelin’s cheek with her hand. They giggled awkwardly before they leaned in for open kiss....

(A/N): Okay, I think we gotta enough of that. I’m pretty sure at they end of Dax’s interpretation there’s a fountain of chocolate, pants, and Pecker died of some incurable bird like disease.

The story is finally coming to a end. Two chapters in left and counting! Personally I can’t wait! Not because I lost interest or anything, it’s just the feeling of actually completing my first ever FanFiction! Like I said, I can’t wait!

Next Chapter: Former friends are now rivals and their only chance of survival is cooperation. But will their join efforts be enough against hundreds of obstacles?

Chapter Eight: Our Last Hope

-Till next time readers, much love.