Jak and Daxter: Heirs of Mar

by Blackdrag-rose

Precursor: Into the Jungle

What the siblings decided was that Jak and Twilight would tackle the Forbidden Jungle and that Starlight and Cozy would do the same for Sentinel Beach, though the first thing they did was collect every Precursor Orb they walked by and made sure to free the Scout Flies that they passed by, the first box resting inside the Fisherman's house, the second being hidden in one of the Mayor's side rooms in his house, where they found a third one resting under the bridge that lead to the Sculptor's place, and they found the fourth one resting near the path that lead to Sentinel Beach, or at least it was off to the left of the lantern path that would take them to Samos' Green Eco collectors rested. From there the siblings quickly separated into two small groups, exactly as Jak described earlier, and they went their separate ways for a time, where jak and Twilight headed over in the direction of the Farmer's hut, as that was what most of the villagers called the man who herded yakows and grew most of the crops that everyone enjoyed in their daily lives, even though lately he seemed to be losing sleep and every so often Samos, one of the other villagers, or even one of the siblings would notice that he was sleeping during the day and would be startled if someone approached him. As they walked over to the farm area they quickly found out that one of the other boxes that contained the Scout Flies rested in the Farmer's hut, one that was smashed and the little robot that had been trapped inside was freed, before they walked over to where the resident of the village they were interested in speaking to rested, as he was sitting on a barrel of hay and seemed to be sleeping at the moment, which made sense given what they knew about him and how dedicated he was to his job, though at the same time there were a few brown furred creatures happened to be grazing outside the pen that the Farmer had put them in at some point in the past, even though the pair knew that the yakows should be resting inside the pen, meaning the Lurkers either caused what they were seeing or it was due to the Farmer being asleep at the moment, hence the reason that they wanted over to where he was sitting and let Daxter jump down so he could shake the man for a moment.

Sure enough, not even a few seconds after Daxter made contact with the Farmer, the individual that they had decided to talk to for a few moments stirred and started to move like crazy, like he had been in the middle of a dream involving either the yakows that were roaming around this part of Sandover Village, which was lower than the others and happened to be near a beach that had some rocks and the odd Precursor Oracle that Twilight stared at every now and then, though it did take him a few moments to settle down before realizing that he wasn't dreaming.

"Gotta milk those yakows, gotta milk those yakows..." the Farmer said, as his movements had definitely been the ones he went through whenever he moved one of the couple of yakows into an area to be milked, though as he noticed who was in front of him, even if he might not recognize Daxter, which was for the best since most of the villagers were like their Uncle in regards to their friend, he settled down and just stared at them for a few seconds, as if he was trying to figure out who was standing in front of him, before he smiled, "Oh! It's you two! Oh, I'm just restin' my tired bones, as I've been tryin' to get those ornery yakows back into the pen all day! Some strange creatures tried to steal 'em earlier, and I chased 'em off! You think you can help an old man and try to get 'em back into the corral?"

"Don't worry, we'll take care of them," Twilight replied, as while she knew that herding yakows wasn't important, since she, Jak, and their siblings were focused on gathering Power Cells and stopping the Lurkers, before making their way north so they could figure out how to help Daxter, she did know that the Farmer had a Power Cell, one he didn't seem to care for, and that if they did this task he might offer it to them as a reward, hence the reason that she and Jak moved out to find all five of the yakows and herd them back to the pen, to earn an easy Power Cell before moving into the Forbidden Jungle, so they could search it for enemies and artifacts.

What they discovered was that there were five yakows scattered around the rest of the farm and that they were hard to move from the areas they were grazing in, as for the most part the beasts of burden, as they were mostly called by most of the villagers and all of the residents of the other villages, just ignored them and continued with eating the grass or walking around the area that they had been standing in, to which the pair took a step backwards for a moment and considered all of their options, something that was followed by Twilight suggesting that Jak hit the yakow in the back with a swift kick or a swift punch. Both her brother and Daxter glanced at each other for a moment, as if they were considering what she just said and why she would even suggest such a thing, before Jak shrugged and walked over to one of the roaming yakows for a few seconds, where he swiftly kicked it in the rear and the beast shuddered for a moment before walking forward, which was where he pulled on one of the horns and directed it back to the pen it was supposed to be resting in, but even as that happened Twilight frowned for a few seconds as she realized that this might not work out all that much and thought about a few other ideas that might work better than what her brother was doing at the moment. A few seconds later she came up with a good idea on what to do, instead of just whacking a yakow and then pull it by the horns when it cooperated with one of them, where she channeled a small bit of her magical power as she walked over to one of the other yakows, which was when she stopped beside it and applied a little shock to the beast, just enough to prod it along while doing no harm to it, as the Farmer would be annoyed if something happened to the couple of yakows he watched over and tended to, and it wasn't long before she returned the second to the pen and let it stand near the one Jak had moved. As soon as they knew about the little trick Twilight walked over to each of the remaining yakows and gave them a little shock as well, where Jak would take the reins and direct them to the pen once each of them started moving, and it only took the pair about two to three minutes to make sure all five of the yakows were back in the pen, as well as taking a moment to find the wooden gate that went to the pen, which happened to be resting on a ledge nearby, and reattached it to the pen, which was when they informed the Farmer about their progress and he, upon thanking them and saying that they had done a good job in helping him out, rewarded them with a Power Cell.

With that claimed and stored away the siblings then took a moment to climb up the path that would allow them to see the entrance of Fire Canyon and collected a number of Precursor Orbs that were resting along the way, before doubling back to jump up onto the ledge that was above where the wooden gate had been located, which was just across from the hut the Farmer lived in, and discovered one of the sort of rare Precursor Caches, vert-like objects that contained a number of Precursor Orbs inside them and could only be opened by channeling Blue Eco through their bodies, like the door they had opened earlier. Fortunately there was a pillar of earth nearby that just so happened to have a pair of Blue Eco clusters for one of them to absorb for a few seconds, which was what Jak did and Twilight watched as the theory was proven, as the power he was channeling opened the cache as soon as he approached it, where they waited for the lid to rise into the air and come to a stop, revealing the Precursor Orbs in a straight vertical line between the lid and the base of the cache, even though it didn't take the pair long to snatch all of the now freed Orbs, which left the lid just floating an inch or two above the rest of the container, to signify that it had been claimed by someone. From there they jumped down and walked over to the couple of stones that rested near the cliff wall that separated Sandover Village from the Forbidden Jungle, save for a hole in part of it that allowed people to go from one area to another, where they jumped up onto the main path they were interested in and the Jak jumped up to the highest point of the rock he and his sister were standing on, where he found yet another Scout Fly box, the sixth, and three Precursor Orbs, so he collected the Orbs and then smashed open the box that they had been resting around, meaning they needed to find one more to collect the Power Cell they supposedly found as each of them were exploring the village. Once that was done the pair discovered that there was one move they needed to use to reach the next stone that was a fair distance in front of them, as all four of the siblings were capable of doing a roll forward that allowed them to jump greater distances than the double jump, making it a roll jump in Twilight's books, but at the same time Twilight could always conjure small purple square with her magic to form a path for them, just in case they failed a jump enough times, even though she followed Jak's lead as he leapt over the first gap, landed on the rock that was in front of them, and then did so again to reach the next pillar that was beyond the first one, before turning to his left so he could reach a small platform that had a bridge that lead to the Precursor Oracle.

As Twilight followed him they found a fair number of Precursor Orbs for them to collect and the seventh Scout Fly box, the latter having another Power Cell for them to collect, before they walked up the short wooden bridge and focused on what they were doing at the moment, which was approaching the Oracle, which was a Human sized Precursor artifact that had an insectoid face, two large bug-like eyes that had to be made out of some sort of glass, a hollow Precursor Orb-shaped nose where the nose should be, and an odd proboscis that was attached to the face, even though both Jak and Twilight knew that it had to be waiting for something, given the fact that no one knew much about them, save for the fact it had two Power Cells floating behind the glass of its eyes.

Who awakens the Oracle? a rather booming voice declared, something that had to be coming from the Oracle which was in front of them, even though the reason it said that was due to the fact that Daxter jumped over to it and raised his left hand in an attempt to awaken it, so the fact that it started talking caused him to retreat to the area that was behind Jak and Twilight, putting them between him and the Oracle without delay, before both of them noticed that the Oracle was rather silent for some odd reason, Wait, two of you have the light within. From before time, I have watched and waited for the true hero to return. Present to me one hundred and twenty Precursor Orbs for each power cell I contain.

Jak and Twilight glanced at each other for a few seconds, as neither of them were expecting the Oracle to come to life just like that, meaning it had either responded to Daxter's attempt to awaken it or it felt them approach it and woke up just a few seconds after they came to a stop in front of it, but at the very least they had a good understanding of what the old Precursor wanted for its Power Cells, something that meant they would have to scour the nearby regions near the village and gather all of the Precursor Orbs that were scattered around them, which might give them enough Orbs for both of the Oracle's Power Cells and what the residents of the village had. Once they were done with the Oracle, and Daxter was back on his perch once more, the pair headed back over to where the hole in the cliff wall rested and Twilight took a moment to think about all of the Orbs that she and Jak had found inside Sandover Village, where she suspected that they had found all of them in the process, before they headed through the opening and found a familiar set of stone steps that lead up to the entrance of the jungle itself, which just so happened to have a wooden bridge, with a few missing planks, that crossed over to the first part of the area they would be exploring, and had a few Orbs resting just above the wood. As they took a few moments to cross over the slowly collapsing bridge, which rested above a river that came from a small waterfall, one that came from a river from the inside of the jungle, Twilight paused for a moment as she noticed the large Precursor structure that was at the heart of the region, a temple or something that had to have some Power Cells and a number of Precursor Orbs for them to collect, though one thing that was missing was the Blue Eco beam that came from the temple, the one that powered the windmill of their village, confirming the Mayor's story about what was going on, not that either of them thought he had been lying since they knew the beam was gone by just looking at the house. Of course the jungle was also filled with dangers that they would have to take out, as there were long red scaled snakes who coiled out of the trees they had been in and swayed in the air for a bit, some thick green vines that had spikes on them, which both Jak and Twilight knew hadn't been here the last time they were in the jungle, an odd green furred Lurker that looked similar to a frog and hopped around like one, which Twilight was going to call a Hopper, and some poisonous eels inside the river that was to their left, though though they also found a swinging log trap in front of them and some wooden stakes to jump over, no doubt left behind by their enemies.

The first thing the siblings did was head down the path that was resting directly in front of them, where they found a few stone pillars to their right that happened to have a few Orbs above them and formed a path that ended with a Scout Fly box, which would also allow someone to get beyond the traps, so while Jak jumped along the side path, and headed for the end of it, Twilight carefully crossed over the areas that the couple of traps were located in and blasted the Hopper in its side with a small bit of her magical power, just to see if it had any effect, and sure enough it hit one of the pillars her brother was jumping on and took it out. She paused for a moment as the Hopper burst into puff of dark smoke and left behind a few bits of Green Eco, something that informed her that the dark masters of the Lurkers must have taken some time to experiment with the types of Eco and managed to create more aggressive versions of the creatures that called the jungle home, meaning it was possible that Starlight and Cozy would find the same thing in Sentinel Beach, but for now this told her and Jak that they might not have to hold back when dealing with some of their enemies, because if the next few groups of foes did what the Hopper had just done they could adapt their strategies for everything else that was inside the jungle, even if the red snakes could either be ignored or just punched in the face to make them retreat. Jak then revealed that he had recovered the first Scout Fly of this region and that he was ready to move forward, which was pretty much a dead end that had an odd metal device on the floor, one Twilight suspected went to the Blue Eco beam they had been told about earlier, and another set of stone pillars that just went in a circle and happened to have some Precursor Orbs above them, but if they backtracked a tiny bit, and stopped near the swinging log trap, they could use another set of pillars to get over the river that was resting nearby and access part of the temple's exterior, which was great since she was sure that she had seen a wooden and metallic machine in this area, one that had to be what they were looking for. Along the way Jak picked up a few more Precursor Orbs, along with locating a second metallic device for later and punching a red snake in the face so it would leave the area, before they walked around the outside of the temple and found a few Lurkers just standing around, minding their own business, even though their business happened to be making sure the machine that his sister had spotted consumed the Blue Eco and stored it so it could be transported to wherever the mysterious pair had told their minions to put everything that they eventually stole from the village and the temple.

What was interesting was that the two Lurkers didn't even seem to notice their arrival, so Jak walked over to one and took it out with a swift kick to the side of the head, which knocked it to the floor, while Twilight punched the other Lurker in the stomach and let it crumple to the ground, even if she also blasted a Hopper with a bit of magic as well, before they took a moment to climb onto the moving pistons that were at the back of the machine and used them to reach the top part of the contraption, where both of them found five more Precursor Orbs to collect and Twilight found that her thoughts had been correct, the Lurkers were stealing the power of the temple, though as she readied herself to break the mirror that was redirecting the beam Jak stepped into the Eco and empowered himself, all so he would walk up a nearby ramp and opened a Precursor Door for a Power Cell that was behind it. Once he was done with what, and had returned to the area that the machine rested in, Twilight smashed the mirror and the beam flew off into the distance, or at least that's what it would have done had the first metallic device rise out of the ground, revealing itself to be a mirror and revealed what the others had to be as well, before she focused on looking through it and bounced the beam to a brand new location, one that just so happened to be the one at the dead end they had found a few moments ago, though with that done Jak took a second to smash another Scout Fly box and freed the robot inside it, the second by Twilight's count, before they headed back over to the mirror they had passed by a few moments ago. The reason they were doing it this way, instead of just jumping over the side of the area that the machine was resting on right now, which Twilight was planning on tearing apart with her magic so she could get at the Eco that was stored inside it, was because it was safer to go around the rest of the jungle, and it would allow them to follow the path that the mirrors created with the reflected Blue Eco beam, so she and Jak retraced their steps and came to a stop by the next device, where Jak redirected it to the third one in the sequence, which was the other one that he and Twilight had walked by to find the machine that was interrupting it, to which he nodded and Twilight headed up to where it was located, reflecting the beam to the next mirror, which rested down part of the other path that they hadn't taken yet, meaning it would be guarded by their enemies and would have more Precursor Orbs for them to acquire. From there the siblings returned to the first bridge of the jungle they had jumped over and jumped over the river that was in the way for a moment, something that was followed by them picking up a few more Orbs that were resting along the path and avoided a vine that was trying to smack them when they got close, but as they approached the bridge that the Orbs brought them to, which would allow them to access the area that the next mirror was located in, Jak found a set of stone steps that lead down to the bottom of a waterfall and spotted the Fisherman standing down there with a net and a basket.

The Fisherman was a stout Human who had a large build, due to all the work he put into the ruined fishing boat that he used to use to head out onto the water between their village and Misty Island, to catch fish much easier than just using all of the streams, where his skin was tanned and he had a blue beard, with the center of it being gray, though his attire was a light shirt and a brown vest, an orange belt, no shoes to speak of, blue gloves with white wrappings around his hands, a red bandana, and a dark red pair of shorts, and the pair noticed that he had an anchor tattoo on his right arm, but both of them could see that he seemed disappointed about something.

"So, what do you have in the basket?" Daxter asked, where he climbed off of Jak's shoulder when he and Twilight stopped in front of where the Fisherman was standing at the moment, which just so happened to be a small bridge that he must have set up at some point in the past, after his boat had been broken by one of the dangerous yellow scaled Lurker fish that swam in the waters between Sandover Village and Misty Island, though those fish were incredibly dangerous and had been that way for a long time, but none of that stopped him from approaching the basket to see what was inside it, only to find total darkness, as no fish were inside it.

"Nothin' to talk about." the Fisherman replied, showing that he wasn't too happy about what had happened to him and the fact that he was unable to catch fish at this point in time, which was just sad when one considered that this was basically his specialty and that the village depended on him doing his job so no one starved, even if his fish was only part of what all of the residents ate, before he growled as he glanced out in the direction of the open water again, which caused the pair and Daxter to follow his gaze for a moment, "Them monsters patrolin' the ocean took a bite out of me fishin' rig, and now they're goblin' up me catch! No matter what I try, I can't seem to catch a single fish in this river... and using a tiny net isn't helpin' me at all!"

"What if we added a little magic to the mix?" Twilight inquired, because based on everything she had read about the art of fishing, which wasn't a lot since there was only one book on it in the entire village and it seemed incomplete, she knew that Jak could easily take on whatever challenges the fish of the river were throwing at the Fisherman, and even if he didn't give them a Power Cell as a reward for helping him out, like the Farmer had done earlier, this would help stock up the village for whatever the future held for them, especially since they had no idea what the Lurkers and their mysterious leaders were planning at the moment.

It only took a few seconds for the Fisherman to agree and Jak picked up the small net as they waited for the fish to come down towards them, where Twilight focused her power for a moment and readied herself as she did that, applying a small spell to the net so that any fish her brother caught would be teleported right into the basket, prompting the Fisherman to take off the lid so he could see what the pair was going to be doing, which was when they found that there were two types of good fish, a small green one and a large yellow one, though they had to avoid the purple poisonous eels, as catching one of them would poison the entire catch. What Twilight did was channel her magic to make sure the fish didn't swim by the net or the bridge, meaning they would be heading towards her brother thanks to what she was doing, though the main thing she focused on was the poisonous eels, where when one of them appeared she bounced it out of the water with a small bit of her magic and it sailed over their heads for a moment, allowing the eel to land in the water behind them and, more importantly, not poison the entire catch, which would have freaked out the Fisherman if they wasted good fish, but with her method they didn't have to worry about that at all. The Fisherman was overjoyed by what Jak and Twilight were doing at the moment, the former making sure to snatch each fish with the net he was holding onto, by targeting the green and yellow fish before any of them managed to get away from his grasp, while the latter continued to focus her magic as she redirected all of the poisonous eels that were coming their way, of which there were a fair number of them based on what they were seeing at the moment, but even then her power was more than enough to move the eels without getting exhausted at all, something that always impressed Jak since he wasn't sure what sort of limits his sisters had, as Starlight and Cozy seemed to be sort of similar to Twilight in that regard. In the end it didn't take them long to acquire the amount of fish that the Fisherman wanted them to collect, which happened to be two hundred pounds of good fish, as that would keep the village going for a few weeks and give him time to either master fishing in a river or rebuild the fishing boat so he could return to the water near the village, and in thanks for their efforts he gave the siblings two things, the first being the one Power Cell that he happened to be carrying while the second was his permission to use his speedboat whenever they and their siblings wanted to, meaning that they now had a way to get to Misty Island.

With that done the siblings headed up the stone steps and returned to the side of the bridge that they were near, which was followed by Jak and Twilight jumping over each of the three gaps as they headed over to where the next mirror rested, where the area in question happened to have a few Precursor drums that formed a set of points for them to jump up and get up to the highest object in question, and there were a few Precursor Orbs for them to collect, with a few beyond where one could normally jump, where Twilight smiled for a moment and gathered the highest ones with her magic, just so they didn't have to come back here at one point in the near future. From there Jak found a small jump contraption, which was a cloth between two sticks that were attached to the ground, which allowed him to jump up into the area that the Blue Eco beam was heading to, though while Jak redirected the beam over to what appeared to be the entrance of the jungle area, near the very first waterfall, Twilight jumped up a few stone pillars, after avoiding a swinging log trap and zapping a lone Hopper into a vine that was near her, and collected all of the Precursor Orbs that were in the way, even though that ended with her smashing one of the remaining Scout Fly boxes and freed the robot which had been resting inside it. After that they had two options, the first being heading over another bridge, one that would take them to an area that was across from the temple's entrance, while the second would be them walking down a side stone path, just like the one Jak found to locate the Fisherman, and it would bring them to a river that seemed to connect to where the Fisherman was standing, though in the end it only took a few seconds for them to decide on what to do and that was carefully jump down the new set of steps, while ignoring the couple of jump platforms, so they could reach the ground that was near the river. What was down there were two Lurkers that seemed to be in the middle of staring at a few yellow crates, ones that had a sinister marking on their sides that had to mean that Dark Eco was inside them, so what Jak and Twilight did was lash out at their enemies, Jak punching one of the pair in the face while Twilight dodged the attack and kicked hers in the stomach before knocking it to the ground, but as they did that both of the siblings found that one of the Scout Fly boxes rested nearby and there was a Precursor Cache in the middle of the area as well, though for now they walked down the rest of the river and headed for what appeared to be an opening below where the Blue Eco machine rested.

What they found near the opening was another Scout Fly box, a few clusters of Blue Eco, and a pillar of earth beyond the opening that had a Power Cell above it, so what they did was have Jak collect a few bits of the floating Eco and rushed over to where the platform was located, even though Twilight noticed a jump pad nearby, something that needed Blue Eco to access it and would allow someone to ascend to great heights if they used one of them, before she watched as Jak also found a few Precursor Orbs that were around the platform and collected them, before doubling back to where she was standing so they could smash the first Scout Fly box and then returned to where the Cache rested, allowing them to gather all of the Orbs that were inside it and break apart the next Scout Fly box, giving them five for this region. With that done Jak and Twilight headed back up to where the bridge rested, the one that they hadn't picked yet, and then walked over it after climbing up to the side of it that they had been near earlier, though as both of them moved forward they had to take a moment to avoid the swinging log traps and some wooden stake traps, before arriving in an area that had thee Lurkers and a Blue Eco vent, not to mention a short curved post that had a blue lightning mark on it, just like the Precursor Doors they and their siblings had opened so far, but first they needed to deal with the enemies that were in front of them, before doing anything else. Of course they also found a few Precursor Orbs resting nearby, just before the area that the Lurkers were standing in, so what Jak did was jump down into the area and dodged an incoming punch so he could punch his foe in the chest and knock it to the ground, while at the same time Twilight did something interesting and let both of the other two charge at her, even though she jumped backwards and let them punch each other, meaning she didn't have to waste any energy or magic to take them down, and sure enough they were knocked out cold by the attacks that they threw at each other, allowing the siblings to focus on something else. Jak walked over to where the vent rested and empowered his body for a few seconds, to which he returned to where Twilight was standing and they watched as the post lit up for a few seconds, something that was followed by several Precursor walkway pieces bursting out of the river and ground that was below them, the area they had walked through a few moments ago, before the couple of pieces settled into a pathway for them to use and jump over to the entrance of the temple, even though the three vines that were in front of the door did seem to be at the ready for any and all intruders, not that it mattered since Jak and Twilight walked around them and the door opened once it felt the last bits of the Blue Eco Jak had been channeling.

On the other side of the door the siblings and Daxter found that there were two paths to take, the one to the right being a jump contraption that would let someone explore part of the temple's outer wall while the right one was a small platform that needed a bit of Blue Eco to power it, to which Jak used the nearby jump contraption and reached his target area, where Twilight watched him for a moment as he carefully walked forward and collected a few Precursor Orbs, along with the sound of a box being broken not a few seconds later, only for him to return a few seconds later with one of the two remaining Scout Flies, which meant it had been a Scout Fly box he had broken open. With that done Twilight opened one of the chests that were near the lone jump contraption and found some bits of Blue Eco inside it, something that allowed her to power up the platform so the two of them could ride it up to the next part of the temple's exterior, which was where she and Jak found two more chests and noticed that one of them contained another bit of Blue Eco, enough for them to power another platform and move even higher as they headed towards the top of the temple, where an odd Precursor device rested, one no one could even identify at this point in time. As it turned out the platform they jumped onto was connected to a second one that powered up at the same time as the first one, meaning they got two for the price of one, before they found that it brought them to an area that had a Blue Eco vent, the last of the Scout Fly boxes, and a jump pad that would allow both of them to access the upper part of the temple, to which Jak smashed the container that was nearby and collected the Power Cell that the Scout Flies of the Forbidden Jungle had collected, before he and Twilight walked through the vent and allowed the Eco to flow through their bodies for a time, something that let them brace themselves and jump high into the air when they tried to use the jump pad, and sure enough they were able to reach an area that a Lurker, oddly enough, was just standing in and was just kicked over the edge, where it hit the ground with a thud and just stayed there as it breathed in and out. While the two of them were sure that it should have fallen, given the height, Twilight was sure that parts of its body were in shock at the moment and decided to continue moving forward, where they took a few seconds to collect a couple of Precursor Orbs and then used the jump contraption near the edge to get up to the next part of the temple they would be exploring, which was where a number of platforms were resting, some near each other, and just a bit of Blue Eco caused them to move once more, shifting in a spiral formation around the central pillar of the temple, and it wasn't long before Jak and Twilight jumped onto the first one and only switched when it was time to jump onto the next one in the line they were following.

As such it only took them a minute or two to reach the highest point of the temple, where they were beneath the artifact that Twilight was vastly interested in, and they happened to located another Power Cell for their efforts, though when they claimed it the floor shook for a moment as Daxter, in a spur of happiness for them acquiring so many Power Cells in such a short period of time, before it lowered into the ground and took the trio deeper into the temple, as in they were standing on a platform, and something told Twilight that they would have to fight their way through something before being able to leave the temple, though it wasn't long before the platform to come to a stop and reveal that they were inside the depths of the structure, with three tunnels to pick from with two being locked. What they discovered was that there was a sealed Eco vent near the edge of the platform, which had to open at some point in the future, and a jump pad in part of the only tunnel they had access to, not to mention some moving platforms and a few vines that seemed to be in the way, which did allow them to pick up a number of Precursor Orbs along the way, before they turned around the corner and noticed that there was a massive Precursor machine of some kind that had a blue colored core, which rested between two ramps, ones that happened to wrap around the device and went from the bottom to the top and then back down, and there was one of the sealed vents near it. In the following seconds Jak walked up to the top of the machine and found a Power Cell up there, but when he stepped onto the top of the machine it sunk for a moment and their view of the core disappeared, which was also at the same time that the sealed vent became active and started spewing Blue Eco from it, not to mention the fact that Keira spoke to them, where she revealed that Blue Eco vents all over the part of the continent they called home, which counted the village and the two provinces they were taking care of, were becoming active once more, meaning they might have made their quest that much easier in the future, to which the pair and Daxter smiled for a moment as they walked through the vent and used the Blue Eco to grab some Precursor Orbs that were in front of them open a few doors that were in their way, and then returned to the jump pad that could be used now, which only gave them more Orbs to collect for the future. As soon as that was done Twilight opened the door that was in front of the platform and found that it also contained a tunnel, which she and Jak had been expecting based on what they had seen so far, even though they did have to be mindful of the small platform that spun forward and came to a stop every now and then and did have to use another jump platform to get some more Precursor Orbs to add to their collection, before traversing the rest of the walkways and a few more moving platforms before they came to a stop for a moment, as what they were seeing was beyond what they were expecting to find in this area.

There was a massive plant monster, like Dark Eco had tainted Green Eco to the point to create something like this, and it was plugged into a number of Eco slots, like it was feeding on all of the types of Eco that were in this area, though that was when they jumped over the platform that was in front of them and entered the combat arena it was resting in, where the blue faced plant monster just stared at them for a couple of seconds as they reached its domain before growling as it tried to bite down on one of them, something that Jak and Twilight just avoided by moving out of the way, and while it did that they found a small green creature, like a plant beetle of some kind that produced spikes and took them away after a few seconds, walking towards them. What happened was that neither of the siblings let the creature get close to them and the moment the spikes disappeared Twilight kicked it and blasted it into a wall, something that, interestingly enough, caused the monster to pause as it raised two of its vines and formed leaf-like platforms for someone to walk on as it bared its chin to both of them, where Jak jumped up the leaves for a moment and then punched the underside of the monster's head for a moment, causing it to stagger as he was knocked backwards, even though Jak didn't take any damage from it. For a few seconds the siblings did nothing as they watched what the monster was doing, while Daxter half cowered inside the pack that Jak was wearing while he watched what was going on, before it resumed battling them and tried to bite them all over again, and this time around it sent out two more of the plant insects, which marched towards the pair and tried to bring them down by stabbing them with their spikes, or at least that seemed to be their plan right now and it was a total failure since they dodged the attacks that were coming their way and knocked them out. After that the monster bared it chin and created a walkway up to it, just like it had done a few moments ago, to which Jak sighed as Twilight just blasted their foe in the chin with a slightly more powerful blast of magic, causing it to stagger and growl at her, like it was angry with her for some odd reason even though this was mostly its fault that it was so bad at fighting and should be using its vines against her and Jak, but not a few seconds after that it seemed to reset and sent out three more plant insects to take them down, where the pair sighed as they quickly took down the minions of the monster and then, when the path was exposed, that was when Twilight punched it in the chin and backed off as soon as she had attacked it.

A few seconds later the monster collapsed in front of them, like it was dead or something, and it spat out a Power Cell as its vines were pulled out of every piece of machinery that was in this chamber, and Twilight was sure of that after looking around the chamber for a few seconds, though as that happened they found that there was a jump pad which seemed to be the way to exit the temple itself and Jak found a few Precursor Orbs inside the monster's mouth, meaning it must have eaten a few or something, before Twilight discovered that the monster had been feeding on a Blue Eco vent, which would give them a way to power the pad that would allow them to leave the temple.

"That was an... interesting fight." Jak said, as while he was sure that he and his siblings hadn't faced something like this in the past, otherwise he would have remembered it and Daxter would have either not been there or wiped his memory of what he had seen, he did have to admit that this had been a rather interesting fight between them and the monster, even if it had been rather easy in the grand scheme of things and they had emerged without taking any damage from it, but at the same time he had to wonder if Samos knew about it and if he would be happy when he heard that it had been taken out, despite the fact that he was likely going to show them the same expression he always showed them.

"To be honest, it was kind of disappointing... it could have done better, given what it was," Twilight replied, as she felt that the monster must have only just been created, like in the last couple of days or something since it didn't seem to have a good sense for fighting whatever enemies came into this chamber, before she sighed for a moment as she pulled out her sketchbook and quickly added a picture of the monster to it, when it was in its full glory anyway, which was followed by the pair of items being returned to her pack and she nodded to her brother, as she was ready to get out of here and see what else needed to be done, even if she was sure that they had found most of the Power Cells in this province.

With the monster defeated, and the way was cleared, Jak and Twilight gathered some Blue Eco from the nearby vent and used it to launch themselves through the tunnel it was connected to, one that allowed them to quickly leave the temple and let them land in the area that the couple of Precursor posts rested in, meaning they were just beyond where they had found the Fisherman in and retraced their steps back to the entrance of the Forbidden Jungle, where it was easy to find that the beam they had been reflecting did come to a stop at the beach and that all one of them had to do was redirect it back up to the mirror that rested on the cliff wall between Sandover Village and the Forbidden Jungle, something that was followed by Twilight peeking through the opening and found that the windmill was moving once more. As such the last thing the two of them did was walk back to the Mayor's house and found that he was overly excited about the power being restored to the windmill, which meant that the rest of the village had power, despite the fact that not many of the other villagers actually used the type of power he used, but he was happy and that was good for them, as he reached into his top hat and withdrew a Power Cell for them to take, where Twilight did so before she and Jak headed over to the entrance of Sentinel Beach, even though they knew that Starlight and Cozy had likely cleared out any enemies that were there and were just wrapping things up, so the four of them could regroup and head to Misty Island once more.

Comments

[PrismStrike]

By the power of Gir I wish Twi was part of the og game, she is making the mini game portions so much easier to do.

[badninja]

I think the first game will be a cake walk for everyone. Unfortunately with what we know happens at the start of the second game I think we will be getting Midnight Sparkle and whatever you want to call Cozy Glow’s powered up form.