NiGHTS: Dreams of Light
Chapter 1
Elise came running home as quickly as possible. Laughing as her long blond hair flowed the air as she ran. She wore an aqua green dress that cut off at the top of her knees and she wore blue tights underneath and white dress shoes upon her feet. She finally stopped and turned toward something heading for her. The sun shine made her green eyes sparkle with magnificence. She stopped and let a young seven year-old girl caught up to her. The young girl wore a long pink sleeved sweater that draped over her hands and a white skirt with black shoes.
"Lily will you ever keep up with me?" the playful twelve year-old girl asked. "Sorry big sis." Lily coughed. Elise smiled and leaned down to her younger sister's level smiling at her. "It's okay." she laughed. The two continued laughing until Elise froze and gasped. Instantly her surroundings became black and a cold wind entered. She turned around and saw a bunch of kids with dark evil faces with glowing red eyes. "Your sister is stupid!" one smirked. "Yeah she has asthma and has to stop five seconds for a breath!" the other laughed.
Elise could see past the kids that more kids were beating on her sister. "Try breathing now!" one yelled as he punch the young girl. "LILY!" Elise cried out with tears streaking down her face. The red eyed kids blocked her from reaching her sister and glared at her. "What are you gonna do loser?" one asked in a dark tone. "You gonna beat up us? Ha!" Elise fell to her knees with fear filling her. She never did like to fight so when she was always faced with these situations she would ran away in fear. She cradled herself crying as she look up at the kids all laughing at her. Finally she couldn't stand it anymore so she screamed as loud as she could. The kids instantly transformed into dark shadow creatures with evil grins.
Elise saw this and quickly got to her feet and took off running. She looked back and saw the creatures were still after her. All of the sudden she tripped in the darkness. She tried to get up until she saw a figure approaching her. She couldn't she what it was since it was hiding in the shadows. All she could see was two glowing green eyes full of hate and fear. Elise backed up in fear of seeing this figure's eyes. The figure snarled at the young girl and lifted one of their hands showing the long deadly claws on it. Elise whimpered in fear as the figure got closer. Before the figure could attack a bright light appeared out of no where. The figure stared at the light until it backed up and ran away.
Elise got to her feet now staring at the light. She loved the warm presence it gave her and how it seemed to comfort her. Loving the feeling so much Elise decided to run toward the light to escape the darkness. She kept running until she didn't feel ground anymore. Elise saw that she was now falling through a rainbow of stars. She kept falling until finally she landed softly on solid ground. Elise gasped in awe as she saw before her was a beautiful fountain surrounded by empty doors frames. Elise took a few steps through the gate cautiously making sure it was safe. She sighed in relief until she heard a voice say "Hoo. Welcome Visitor."
Elise quickly turned around to see a brown owl wearing a red vest and glasses. "Don't worry my dear. I bring you no harm." the owl said. Elise was instantly shocked. "You can talk?" she asked in a bewildered voice. "Why of course I can." he replied in a confused voice. Elise went crossed eyed for a minute from confusion but finally shook her head and asked "Who are you anyway and where are we?" "Hoo! I am Owl and the place we are right now is the Dream Gate." he replied. "Dream Gate?" Elise asked. She took a few steps foward looking at her surroundings again. When she turned back to Owl she asked "Dream Gate? So this is a dream?" "Not exactly." he replied "The Dream Gate is the entrance to Nightopia, a world that you can only go to when you're fast asleep. But that doesn't mean the world itself doesn't exist. It's a dimention that your consciness travels to when you go to sleep."
"Ah! Now I get it!" she exclaimed. But before she could make another step a purple jester flew past her instantly. "Sorry you have to listen to the old bird. He can bore you to death by talking." Elise figured by how femine this jester looked and how the it had a female voice that it was a girl. "Who are you?" Elise asked in amazement. "I'm NiGHTS." she replied to the young twelve year-old. Finally NiGHTS landed infront of the girl with a smile. Before Elise could speak they heard an evil laugh. NiGHTS stood in a fighting stance and grit her teeth. "Reala!" she growled. Elise backed up in fear from what she saw looked like a red jester wearing a persona over his eyes. "What do you want Reala?" NiGHTS demanded in an anger voice. A smirk formed on Reala's voice as he replied "Master Wizeman isn't after you today. Another traitor has been seen around here and he ordered me to take them back to Nightmare."
NiGHTS lowered her fighting stance but only by a bit. "But since you're here might as well capture you and take you back to Master Wizeman." he smirked. NiGHTS clenched her fists in anger. "Figured you were going to say that." she smirked back. The two took to the air and began to fight. NiGHTS tried to use a drill dash on Reala but he easily dodged. He flew at NiGHTS at full speed with his claws out in front of him. NiGHTS tried to dodge but Reala's claws caught her arm. NiGHTS yelled in pain as she gripped her arm trying to stop the blood that just emerged from her wound. Reala froze a second in shock as he stared at NiGHTS' wound. Finally he shook his head and slammed NiGHTS to the ground. "NiGHTS!" Elise cried out in worry. NiGHTS tried to get up but colasped back onto the ground.
Reala landed next to NiGHTS body and began to laugh. "Honestly NiGHTS usually you put up more of a fight but this time you were too easy to beat. Honestly I expected more of a fight." "Then how about fighting me?" an unknown voice said. Both Elise and Reala looked around until Elise saw a figure walked out from a tree. The figure had it's eyes closed. An evil smile formed on Reala's face. "Ah so that's where you've been hiding. Very unlike you." "Oh please Reala." the figure smirked. "I never hide from people. I hide to attack at the most unsuspecting momment." At that momment the figure's eyes shot wide open. Elise gasped seeing the figure had glowing green eyes excepting these eyes were filled with good and comfort. "Then let's fight shall we?" Reala commented. "Gladly." the figure replied. The figure in a flash emerged from the shadows of the trees revealing to be a green jester.
She wore a slender green jump-suit, red boots that had gold outlines and soles, an apple green jacket that had white sleeves that were loose at the bottom of them and also had gold designs on the edges of her jacket. She had light colored skin and her jester hat was green with two horns that drooped down close to her back making it act like hair. Upon her chest was a giant red jewel that glowed sometimes. Finally on her hands she wore forest-green glowes with tiny flaps on the end that stuck out. She flew at top speeds at Reala with her fist in front of her. She made contact with Reala's jaw making it pop slightly upon impact. When she tried to paraloop him he grabbed her leg and slung her into a tree. The green jester recovered quickly even though she coughed up some blood. "My dear cousin you're still very hard headed I see." he smirked.
"Cousin?!" Elise gasped to herself. The green jester wiped the blood away from he mouth and replied "That maybe true but remember I still have my tricks." She began to drill dash right toward him. Reala easily dodged the spinning jester but what he couldn't dodge was her sneak attack. Right as he dodged her she created a giant green crystal out of no where and shot it at Reala. It smashed him to the ground and gave him many injuries. When he tried to get up he winced slightly from the pain running through his body. He grabbed ahold of his arm and made a smirk toward the green jester. "Well I see you still have you're fighting skills." The green jester put her hands on her hips and replied "And that is why I'm better than you dear cousin." Reala snarled at the green jester and left.
Finally the green jester walked over to NiGHTS smirking at her. "You know Reala is right. Usually you do put up more of a fight. But I think I know why you went easy on him this time." she smirked. NiGHTS looked up in shock at the jester. "Illia?!" she exclaimed still in shock. Elise and Owl came over to the two. Even they were surprised NiGHTS knew this green jester. "I haven't seen you before." Owl commented. "Oh that's because I've been hiding all this time. Haven't revealed myslef until now." she replied. Elise stared at Illia for a few seconds until she asked "Have I seen you before?" Illia was quiet upon this and finally answered "No we have never met." Illia turned toward and NiGHTS and her smirk returned. "Why are you here?" NiGHTS asked. Illia continued smirking and answered "Well that's a secret. Anyway lets fix that wound of her."
Just like before she formed a crystal in her hand except this one was as small as your hand. She blew on it causing it to glow a bright green and then she gently placed it on NiGHTS cut. NiGHTS winced slightly but eased up in the end. When she pulled the crystal away the cut in NiGHTS arm was gone. She tossed up the crystal and caught it in her hand again. She turned to Elise saying "Healing crystals always come in handy." Elise wanted to ask Illia more questions until she noticed something that wasn't there before. A door. "Where did that door come from?" she asked. Owl gasped in shock and said "If that door is there that must mean you have and ideya." "Ideya?" Just then Elise's hands began to emit a crimson glow. "You have the ideya of courage!" Illia yelled in shock.
Elise stared at her hands in confusion. "You mean I brought forth that door?" she asked. "Yes indeed you did." Owl replied. "You see ideya is a part of your heart. Orginally there's five but luckily you've managed to hold on to the ideya of courage." Before Owl could continue Illia yawned in boredom. "Are you always like this!" Owl scolded her. "Hey Reala is my cousin. What did you expect?" she smirked. NiGHTS shook her head. She turned toward Elise and said "Come on let's see what's behind that door to your dream world." Elise nodded happily in agreement. NiGHTS smiled and took off as Elise walked to the door. "Hey wait up you two!" Illia shouted as she took to the sky. Elise opened the door watching as the blinding light began to leak out. She began to walk foward the door. Before the light engulfed she thought about Illia and how the thought kept haunting her that see saw her before.
