NiGHTS Into Dreams: New Ascension Of Evil
Chapter 1: The Past Revisited
By: Me-Rite-Much
Disclaimer: NiGHTS and all the other stuff associated with it is the intellectual property of SEGA. The characters I make for the story however are my intellectual property and I still have the copyrights to it.
AN: Well, here it is, finally. I have waited quite a while to write the story, and now here it is. I just want to take this chance to say that NiGHTS was sure a great idea for a game, and I'm glad that people write the fanfics, but, it really does suck that its fanbase is almost, completely gone. I know, I know, it's a 7-year old game, but it was a great one. I really wish the game makers would do a remake for gamecube. Hopefully someone out there will start an online petition to get the remake on Gamecube. Well anyway, that's pretty much all I have to say about that, and now that that's done, here is the story.
Some side notes: italics indicate thought.
"It's already started" Nights whispered to himself as he flew to the town that was being desecrated by Nightmaren. A few of the wooden cabins were on fire, and screaming could be heard from one. "My god." Nights mumbled to himself as he saw the terror that the nightmarens had caused. Nights couldn't believe he would ever live to see even part of Frozen Bell this desecrated by the nightmaren. The snowy plains, the snow-lush floor, now replaced with a mixture of white and red, the red blood of the innocent victims.
Many slain bodies were on the ground, the blood stained many places, and the fires on the cabins made things more morbid. The few people that were left alive where fleeing. Nights tried to stop one man to ask him what had happened, but as he grabbed the mans arm, the man jerked Nights arm away and simply ran away faster. "Ple..a..se.. he..lp" Nights barely heard. He looked around for the source of the sound, and quickly found it. It was a female nightopian, completely covered with blood, and dying on the ground by him. Nights quickly walked over to her and held her dying form up to hear her. "I. can feel it. my life. I'm going to die.." "No, you will be just fine, just stay strong" Nights tried to assure her, but it didn't work. "Nights?" she quietly whispered to herself as she suddenly realized who was holding her up. "Nights." she struggled to say out. "Please. help. my sister, she is still stuck inside the cabin, please. rescue her." The female nightopian tried to say more but she started to cough uncontrollably, it took a bit for her to stop. "Please rescue her. and please." she barely managed to say, "Stop the madness that the nightmarens have created.." And with that, she looked straight in his eyes, then, with one last breath, she died. "No!" Nights screamed out. He then closed her eyes with his fingers and let her down. He now had a look of pure hatred on his face, and with the anger, he rushed inside the burning building. Inside was a young female nightopian, close to Nights' age, her face had been covered with soot from the ashes, and she had already passed out on the floor of her and her sisters cabin.
After Nights kicked down the door and rushed in, he took a second to survey the area. It was an inferno. Pretty much everything was aflame, and the heat was unbearable. Some things were so torched that you couldn't tell what they were anymore. The cabin was small, but enough for two people to live in. There was a small fireplace to the left of the room, but it had no use right now. To the right was a small table, with a plate on it, no food, just the plate. There was a door to the far right, Nights quickly rushed in that room while trying to avoid the flames. Nights tried opening the door but it was jammed. With one brutal kick, Nights managed to break through. This room was much worse. Nothing was left untouched by the flames. The two small beds were both on fire, and the little cabinet next to the door was building up flames inside. Nights could barely breathe in there, so he quickly looked around and found the female nightopian he was asked to rescue. She looked awful, her face was covered with soot, ash, and sweat. The left sleeve of her shirt was completely torn to shreds, and her hair was also a big mess. If she wasn't stuck in this inferno, Nights would guess she had light-brown hair. Even with all the soot on her face, she still was pretty, her features shone even in this flaming mess.
Not making any more hesitation, Nights quickly picked her up. He saw a small necklace slip from her hand as he picked her up. He quickly reached that as well, since it must have some importance if she were to hold it so close to herself as the flames were engulfing her home. Before any more flames could spread, Nights ran through to the outside, just as the cabin was going to collapse in on itself. By this time, many of the people that had been fleeing nowhere had come back to try and take out the flames. There were quite a few people in the former cabin the two female nightopians shared. They all saw how Nights bravely rushed in and got her out just in time. Now Nights gently lay the female nightopian on the snow- covered floor. "Somebody," Nights said to the townsfolk. "get me some water, something, anything that will help me wake her up." One male nightopian handed Nights a small mug of water. Nights set it on the floor for a second as he tried to wake her up without it. With that not working, Nights got the water and splashed her face. She started moving. As she started to wake up, she began to cough violently, trying to force out the soot, ash and all the other harmful things her lungs had breathed in while she was stuck in that inferno. Slowly she opened her eyes. It took her a second for her vision to adjust, but when her eyes adjusted, she did not like what she saw. To her left was her sister, covered in blood and apparently dead. She frantically ran over to her. "No! Please god no!! She was all I had left, no, please not my sister."
She gently brushed off some of her sisters her from her bloody face as she stared at her closed eyes. All Nights could do was look on helplessly, the poor girl having to go through all of this, her sister was probably the only family she had left. With a sad look on his face, Nights gently lay a hand on the shoulder of the crying female nightopian. "Don't worry, I promise you, I will not stop fighting to avenge this, I won't stop fighting until I breathe for the last time." With that, Nights looked at the mountain which contained the Megaideya, the stone that controlled the balance between the dream world and the dreamers world. "Get the other townsfolk and go to Mystic Forest and hide there. Tell the people there that I sent you, they will help you."
With that, Nights launched off and flew towards the summit of the mountain. It got colder and colder as he was flying towards the summit. He saw how each ledge had more and more snow as he got higher. The sky was a deep gray, to match the gloom of the events past. As Nights looked on, he almost missed the cave which led to the Megaideya. Nights stood in awe as he saw the dark cavern. It's dark appearance alone would have kept pretty much anyone out. Before he could spend any more time gazing at it however, something had tackled him hard to the ground and started pummeling him. With one quick glance, he saw his brother Reala, Damn, why didn't I know he would pull something like this, Nights thought to himself. He was able to push off Reala, but before he was able to, Reala had hit him hard over the head with a rock. Beaten and dazed, Nights saw Reala dash into the tunnel entrance. As he slowly got up, and rubbed his head, only one thought was in his mind, I have to get to the Megaideya before Reala does. With one more quick glance, Nights rushed in after Reala.
Closer, and closer, "Damnit, I can't let him reach the chamber before I do!" Nights mumbled to himself as he was trying in vein to catch up to his brother. "I can't let all that I've done go to waste!!!" Nights quickly raced against Reala to the dimensional chamber that led to the Red Megaideya stone, the rarest and most powerful of the ideyas. Reala was just too fast and quickly reached the end of the dark, sub-terrain tunnel that led to the chamber. The tunnel was very cold and completely dark except for the usual torch here and there that lighted it. The air in the tunnel was unusually brisk, probably due to the cold which helped freshen it.
Before Reala was able to exit the tunnel however, Nights had finally caught up, and tackled Reala hard into a wall on the outside.
"Pathetic weakling!" Reala screamed as he struggled to get Nights off him. "Why do you keep defending these fools when you should join your brother in the time of nightmaren victory?!?! All you are doing is helping to prolong the inevitable!" "Don't you see what you are doing Reala!?!" Nights groaned as he was being overpowered by his brother. "You can't simply end the lives of all these people with your sick plans Reala! And I will never stop fighting for them; I won't stop fighting until my last breath." "Well then," Reala replied as he finally overtook Nights and pushed him off, " I guess you will stop fighting NOW!", and with that, Reala drew out his weapon, a fine ,razor sharp sword and slashed as hard as he could at Nights.
With a great thud, Nights body fell to the floor. Reala slowly walked over to his now weakened brother and simply looked at him with shame. "Tisk, tisk," Reala said sharply "and you were such a good warrior too. But why wouldn't you be, you were my brother after all, but in the end it seems your love for the weak nightopian fools led to your downfall." Slowly, Reala leaned in closer and grabbed Nights weak and bleeding form by his collar and stared him dead straight in the eyes. "No," Reala blurted out all of a sudden, "you will live to see this, yes, it is much better to let you see what will happen after you fail so miserably." With that, Reala sneered angrily and threw down his brother back on the floor. Turning sharply, Reala slowly walked through the dark, torch-lighted room, going towards the hall that led to the Megaideya.
All Nights could do was lay there and bleed as his brother approached the Megaideya. No, Nights thought to himself as he weakly held up a hand towards Reala. I can't let him reach the Megaideya, there has to be something I can do. Nights looked around the stone room, It was actually a big room, "L" shaped. To the left of him, Nights saw the tunnel entrance, where he came out and tackled Reala. Now he looked around some more. The Hallway entrance where Reala was was very lit by the rows of torches. Nights finally gave up and dropped his hand to the floor as he lay there, bleeding from around the stomach, where Reala had slashed him. I'm sorry, Nightopia Nights thought to himself as he finally passed out, a mixture of his wounds and all the energy he spent fighting Reala as the cause of it.
Reala finally reached the end of the well-lighted Hallway and for the first time in his life, he saw the magnificence of the Megaideya. There were no torches in the Megaideya room, all the light seemed to come from the crystal itself. The near blinding light made Reala shade his eyes for a bit until he could get adjusted to the brightness. Then, Reala dropped his hands and laughed out evilly, after all the things he had been through to get to this moment, he just couldn't help himself. "AHAHAHA. FINALLY!!! After all the suffering I have been through, after all the battles with my foolish brother, now my moment of glory has come!" And with that, Reala unpackaged the nightmaren shard he had in his pocket. It was a dark, evil stone Reala had pulled out. The very essence of it was poisoned with evil, and a shadowy aura revolved around the small crystal. It was about as big as his hand, but the terror it was capable of breached even the holders' comprehension. Walking slowly towards the Megaideya, Reala thought of the last few moments that had just happened before. The destruction of the town, the battle with his brother to reach the summit of the mountain, the fast-paced chase through the tunnel, and finally, how he brutally slashed Nights, his brother, his own flesh and blood. That's what the fool gets for getting in my way, Reala evilly thought to himself. Quite a pity too, he would've made a great general for my armies.
Coming back to reality, Reala slowly turned around and saw the beaten, bloody body of his brother on the floor. All the trouble and suffering the nightmarens have been through were all because of him, everything, yet, Reala couldn't come to finish Nights off. "You are very lucky that we are brothers, if you were anything else but that I would've killed you the first chance I had gotten." Reala whispered to his brother. Turning towards the Megaideya again, he grasped the nightmaren shard and slowly walked towards the Megaideya. "Finally." he said to himself as he brought his arm back and as hard as he could, slammed the stone into the ideya. All of a sudden, the place where the shard hit shone bright white and an unseen force slammed Reala towards a wall. A small trickle of blood dripped from Realas forehead and fell onto the back of his palm. The Megaideya now glowed a fierce dark-red with such a force that Reala was nearly completely blinded by its light. A fierce rumble could be heard from the Megaideya, now the roof of the chamber was crumbling as some debris started to fall, and the rumble was soon replaced by a thunderous roar that nearly made Reala move 2 feet to the left of where he was.
"What have I done."Reala whispered to himself as he too, passed out.
Chapter 1: The Past Revisited
By: Me-Rite-Much
Disclaimer: NiGHTS and all the other stuff associated with it is the intellectual property of SEGA. The characters I make for the story however are my intellectual property and I still have the copyrights to it.
AN: Well, here it is, finally. I have waited quite a while to write the story, and now here it is. I just want to take this chance to say that NiGHTS was sure a great idea for a game, and I'm glad that people write the fanfics, but, it really does suck that its fanbase is almost, completely gone. I know, I know, it's a 7-year old game, but it was a great one. I really wish the game makers would do a remake for gamecube. Hopefully someone out there will start an online petition to get the remake on Gamecube. Well anyway, that's pretty much all I have to say about that, and now that that's done, here is the story.
Some side notes: italics indicate thought.
"It's already started" Nights whispered to himself as he flew to the town that was being desecrated by Nightmaren. A few of the wooden cabins were on fire, and screaming could be heard from one. "My god." Nights mumbled to himself as he saw the terror that the nightmarens had caused. Nights couldn't believe he would ever live to see even part of Frozen Bell this desecrated by the nightmaren. The snowy plains, the snow-lush floor, now replaced with a mixture of white and red, the red blood of the innocent victims.
Many slain bodies were on the ground, the blood stained many places, and the fires on the cabins made things more morbid. The few people that were left alive where fleeing. Nights tried to stop one man to ask him what had happened, but as he grabbed the mans arm, the man jerked Nights arm away and simply ran away faster. "Ple..a..se.. he..lp" Nights barely heard. He looked around for the source of the sound, and quickly found it. It was a female nightopian, completely covered with blood, and dying on the ground by him. Nights quickly walked over to her and held her dying form up to hear her. "I. can feel it. my life. I'm going to die.." "No, you will be just fine, just stay strong" Nights tried to assure her, but it didn't work. "Nights?" she quietly whispered to herself as she suddenly realized who was holding her up. "Nights." she struggled to say out. "Please. help. my sister, she is still stuck inside the cabin, please. rescue her." The female nightopian tried to say more but she started to cough uncontrollably, it took a bit for her to stop. "Please rescue her. and please." she barely managed to say, "Stop the madness that the nightmarens have created.." And with that, she looked straight in his eyes, then, with one last breath, she died. "No!" Nights screamed out. He then closed her eyes with his fingers and let her down. He now had a look of pure hatred on his face, and with the anger, he rushed inside the burning building. Inside was a young female nightopian, close to Nights' age, her face had been covered with soot from the ashes, and she had already passed out on the floor of her and her sisters cabin.
After Nights kicked down the door and rushed in, he took a second to survey the area. It was an inferno. Pretty much everything was aflame, and the heat was unbearable. Some things were so torched that you couldn't tell what they were anymore. The cabin was small, but enough for two people to live in. There was a small fireplace to the left of the room, but it had no use right now. To the right was a small table, with a plate on it, no food, just the plate. There was a door to the far right, Nights quickly rushed in that room while trying to avoid the flames. Nights tried opening the door but it was jammed. With one brutal kick, Nights managed to break through. This room was much worse. Nothing was left untouched by the flames. The two small beds were both on fire, and the little cabinet next to the door was building up flames inside. Nights could barely breathe in there, so he quickly looked around and found the female nightopian he was asked to rescue. She looked awful, her face was covered with soot, ash, and sweat. The left sleeve of her shirt was completely torn to shreds, and her hair was also a big mess. If she wasn't stuck in this inferno, Nights would guess she had light-brown hair. Even with all the soot on her face, she still was pretty, her features shone even in this flaming mess.
Not making any more hesitation, Nights quickly picked her up. He saw a small necklace slip from her hand as he picked her up. He quickly reached that as well, since it must have some importance if she were to hold it so close to herself as the flames were engulfing her home. Before any more flames could spread, Nights ran through to the outside, just as the cabin was going to collapse in on itself. By this time, many of the people that had been fleeing nowhere had come back to try and take out the flames. There were quite a few people in the former cabin the two female nightopians shared. They all saw how Nights bravely rushed in and got her out just in time. Now Nights gently lay the female nightopian on the snow- covered floor. "Somebody," Nights said to the townsfolk. "get me some water, something, anything that will help me wake her up." One male nightopian handed Nights a small mug of water. Nights set it on the floor for a second as he tried to wake her up without it. With that not working, Nights got the water and splashed her face. She started moving. As she started to wake up, she began to cough violently, trying to force out the soot, ash and all the other harmful things her lungs had breathed in while she was stuck in that inferno. Slowly she opened her eyes. It took her a second for her vision to adjust, but when her eyes adjusted, she did not like what she saw. To her left was her sister, covered in blood and apparently dead. She frantically ran over to her. "No! Please god no!! She was all I had left, no, please not my sister."
She gently brushed off some of her sisters her from her bloody face as she stared at her closed eyes. All Nights could do was look on helplessly, the poor girl having to go through all of this, her sister was probably the only family she had left. With a sad look on his face, Nights gently lay a hand on the shoulder of the crying female nightopian. "Don't worry, I promise you, I will not stop fighting to avenge this, I won't stop fighting until I breathe for the last time." With that, Nights looked at the mountain which contained the Megaideya, the stone that controlled the balance between the dream world and the dreamers world. "Get the other townsfolk and go to Mystic Forest and hide there. Tell the people there that I sent you, they will help you."
With that, Nights launched off and flew towards the summit of the mountain. It got colder and colder as he was flying towards the summit. He saw how each ledge had more and more snow as he got higher. The sky was a deep gray, to match the gloom of the events past. As Nights looked on, he almost missed the cave which led to the Megaideya. Nights stood in awe as he saw the dark cavern. It's dark appearance alone would have kept pretty much anyone out. Before he could spend any more time gazing at it however, something had tackled him hard to the ground and started pummeling him. With one quick glance, he saw his brother Reala, Damn, why didn't I know he would pull something like this, Nights thought to himself. He was able to push off Reala, but before he was able to, Reala had hit him hard over the head with a rock. Beaten and dazed, Nights saw Reala dash into the tunnel entrance. As he slowly got up, and rubbed his head, only one thought was in his mind, I have to get to the Megaideya before Reala does. With one more quick glance, Nights rushed in after Reala.
Closer, and closer, "Damnit, I can't let him reach the chamber before I do!" Nights mumbled to himself as he was trying in vein to catch up to his brother. "I can't let all that I've done go to waste!!!" Nights quickly raced against Reala to the dimensional chamber that led to the Red Megaideya stone, the rarest and most powerful of the ideyas. Reala was just too fast and quickly reached the end of the dark, sub-terrain tunnel that led to the chamber. The tunnel was very cold and completely dark except for the usual torch here and there that lighted it. The air in the tunnel was unusually brisk, probably due to the cold which helped freshen it.
Before Reala was able to exit the tunnel however, Nights had finally caught up, and tackled Reala hard into a wall on the outside.
"Pathetic weakling!" Reala screamed as he struggled to get Nights off him. "Why do you keep defending these fools when you should join your brother in the time of nightmaren victory?!?! All you are doing is helping to prolong the inevitable!" "Don't you see what you are doing Reala!?!" Nights groaned as he was being overpowered by his brother. "You can't simply end the lives of all these people with your sick plans Reala! And I will never stop fighting for them; I won't stop fighting until my last breath." "Well then," Reala replied as he finally overtook Nights and pushed him off, " I guess you will stop fighting NOW!", and with that, Reala drew out his weapon, a fine ,razor sharp sword and slashed as hard as he could at Nights.
With a great thud, Nights body fell to the floor. Reala slowly walked over to his now weakened brother and simply looked at him with shame. "Tisk, tisk," Reala said sharply "and you were such a good warrior too. But why wouldn't you be, you were my brother after all, but in the end it seems your love for the weak nightopian fools led to your downfall." Slowly, Reala leaned in closer and grabbed Nights weak and bleeding form by his collar and stared him dead straight in the eyes. "No," Reala blurted out all of a sudden, "you will live to see this, yes, it is much better to let you see what will happen after you fail so miserably." With that, Reala sneered angrily and threw down his brother back on the floor. Turning sharply, Reala slowly walked through the dark, torch-lighted room, going towards the hall that led to the Megaideya.
All Nights could do was lay there and bleed as his brother approached the Megaideya. No, Nights thought to himself as he weakly held up a hand towards Reala. I can't let him reach the Megaideya, there has to be something I can do. Nights looked around the stone room, It was actually a big room, "L" shaped. To the left of him, Nights saw the tunnel entrance, where he came out and tackled Reala. Now he looked around some more. The Hallway entrance where Reala was was very lit by the rows of torches. Nights finally gave up and dropped his hand to the floor as he lay there, bleeding from around the stomach, where Reala had slashed him. I'm sorry, Nightopia Nights thought to himself as he finally passed out, a mixture of his wounds and all the energy he spent fighting Reala as the cause of it.
Reala finally reached the end of the well-lighted Hallway and for the first time in his life, he saw the magnificence of the Megaideya. There were no torches in the Megaideya room, all the light seemed to come from the crystal itself. The near blinding light made Reala shade his eyes for a bit until he could get adjusted to the brightness. Then, Reala dropped his hands and laughed out evilly, after all the things he had been through to get to this moment, he just couldn't help himself. "AHAHAHA. FINALLY!!! After all the suffering I have been through, after all the battles with my foolish brother, now my moment of glory has come!" And with that, Reala unpackaged the nightmaren shard he had in his pocket. It was a dark, evil stone Reala had pulled out. The very essence of it was poisoned with evil, and a shadowy aura revolved around the small crystal. It was about as big as his hand, but the terror it was capable of breached even the holders' comprehension. Walking slowly towards the Megaideya, Reala thought of the last few moments that had just happened before. The destruction of the town, the battle with his brother to reach the summit of the mountain, the fast-paced chase through the tunnel, and finally, how he brutally slashed Nights, his brother, his own flesh and blood. That's what the fool gets for getting in my way, Reala evilly thought to himself. Quite a pity too, he would've made a great general for my armies.
Coming back to reality, Reala slowly turned around and saw the beaten, bloody body of his brother on the floor. All the trouble and suffering the nightmarens have been through were all because of him, everything, yet, Reala couldn't come to finish Nights off. "You are very lucky that we are brothers, if you were anything else but that I would've killed you the first chance I had gotten." Reala whispered to his brother. Turning towards the Megaideya again, he grasped the nightmaren shard and slowly walked towards the Megaideya. "Finally." he said to himself as he brought his arm back and as hard as he could, slammed the stone into the ideya. All of a sudden, the place where the shard hit shone bright white and an unseen force slammed Reala towards a wall. A small trickle of blood dripped from Realas forehead and fell onto the back of his palm. The Megaideya now glowed a fierce dark-red with such a force that Reala was nearly completely blinded by its light. A fierce rumble could be heard from the Megaideya, now the roof of the chamber was crumbling as some debris started to fall, and the rumble was soon replaced by a thunderous roar that nearly made Reala move 2 feet to the left of where he was.
"What have I done."Reala whispered to himself as he too, passed out.