Once upon a time in the world of humans or mortals, there lived a happy family the Coles. In this family was Richard the dad a successful business man, the mother Lorie who worked for a newspaper team as the writer, and Nickie and Molly two very different twins. Nickie was born a few minutes earlier than Molly and he ended up growing much taller than her. Nickie was 5'4 and Molly was 4'7 even though they were both 12. Nickie ended up becoming more popular than his sister because of his various athletic competitions in basketball, soccer, fencing, and badminton. When ever introducing himself and Molly he would always say "I'm Nickie and this is my little sister, Molly."
As for Molly, she was a short little girl who never did anything athletic besides the swings at the park. Her hair was long and blonde coming down to her elbows and would look pretty except she always wore it tied back. Molly wasn't very popular in comparison to her brother but she did have a small group of friends she turned to. The only thing Molly was better than Nickie at is academics. She made straight A's while Nickie pulled his way through with C's. No matter what happened, Molly always came home sad.
One day while she and her friends were stopping for ice cream on their way home from school, Molly's best friend Janet noticed her sadness.
"Molly?" Janet asked. Molly didn't respond. "Molly!"
"What?"
"Why the long face?" Janet asked.
"I don't know." Molly sighed.
"Are you sick?" Her other best friend May asked.
"No no its just," Molly looked up, "oh-no I don't want to ruin your good time."
"Its no trouble at all, Molly, we're friends." Janet pulled a seat out for her at the nearest table. The three sat down casually, May staring at Molly. Janet gave her a look to cut it out.
"Its my brother."
"Is he sick?" May asked.
"I wish," Molly mumbled. Janet smiled warmly at her.
"It's ok Molly my brother bothers me too. Once he even dyed my hair blue while I was asleep." Janet told her.
Molly giggled. "What'd you do?"
"I walked in front of his room, took a deep breath, and said 'thanks for the new hair style bro' and skipped back to my room. Oh he was mad." Janet said proudly.
"I wish I could do that," Molly smiled, "but when I'm mean to Nickie he always tells my parents and I always end up getting in trouble."
Just after she finished that sentence, the bell above the shop's door dinged. They all looked up but Molly was the one to put her head down fastest. The people to come in were Nickie and his friends from a higher grade he played basketball with. She was blushing pretty hard at this point. One of the boys Nickie hung out with was a 7th-grader named Shaun. Molly had a big crush on him and Nickie knew it alright and teased her for it.
Maybe he won't notice me, Molly thought. I sure hope so.
"Hey sissy!" Nickie called knowing it would embarrass her.
"Go away," Molly grumbled. Of coarse her saying that only made the boys pull over some chairs to their table.
"Hi, Nickie." May smiled blushing a little. Since Molly and her became friends she's always had a crush on Nickie. Nickie, of coarse, ignored her.
"I hope you don't mind us sitting here," Shaun said gently to Molly.
Molly shock her head but before she could say anything, Nickie butted in.
" 'Coarse she doesn't she never minds anything." Nickie gave her some sort of glare. "Oh and mother told me to give this to you sis." He slipped her special dandruff shampoo into her hands. Molly blushed harder than ever before and stumbled to shove it into her bag.
"What was that?" May asked trying to get a better look.
"Nothing," Molly growled.
"Molly Sandra Cole are you ashamed of that?" Nickie was close to bursting out laughing as he said that. He loved saying Molly's full name in public. He lunged for her bag only to be stopped by Molly. She tried to knock him back just enough for her to make a dash for the door but its hard to stall a 5 foot well muscled boy especially if he's your brother. He smacked her right across the check bringing tears to her eyes and pulled out the shampoo.
"Look at what she needs to use you guys!"
May burst out laughing while Janet just sighed sadly. Most of Nickie's friends laughed all except Shaun who gave her a sad look. Molly's eyes filled with tears and she ran crying home.
Molly burst through the front door, dropped her bag with a plop, and ran upstairs into her bed. She tucked the covers around her and wept uncontrollably. A few hours later, Nickie finally showed up still laughing about the event at the ice cream store.
"Hey mum," Nickie called, "where's Molly?"
"Probably still in her room," answered Lorie, "she's been crying since she got home. She didn't even bother to say hi."
"What a wuss," Nickie thought skipping upstairs.
Meanwhile in Molly's room, tears had entirely coated her pillows and she was weak from sobbing so hard. Why was Nickie such a jerk? Why did she have to be her brother? When oh when would she be able to be like Cinderella? Run off with her prince instead of having to stay home taking care of her evil brother. If only…if only…
Molly's heavy eyes suddenly closed without warning and she was instantly asleep. And of coarse following it was-
"Where am I?" Molly asked. Her voice echoed through the abyss. She looked around for any sign of life. All she heard was a hissing sound.
She turned around only to find the darkness still creeping behind her.
"Mummy? Daddy?" She called reaching her arms out. Both pictures of her parents appeared in front of her. She smiled and reached for them but both their eyes flashed red. Then faster than she could even catch her breath, the pictures turned into clouds of black thick dust. Molly screamed and tried to run but it seemed no matter how fast she ran, she couldn't escape. She was panting heavily and knew there was no escape from here then, she felt someone grab her arms. Molly screamed at the top of her lungs as she was lifted off the ground.
"Let me go! Let me go right now or so help me I'll-"
"Relax," A kind voice said, "I'm not going to hurt you."
In a burst of light, Molly found herself in a much safer looking place dimly lit of coarse. A brick road stretched on and on through an iron gate, towards a fountain, and in a complete circle connecting to several doors leading onto a thick forest.
"Where?" Molly carefully walked to the gate, leaning against it casually wondering who or what caused this.
"Hoo hoo. Welcome, young lady." An older voice said, defiantly not the one who brought her here.
"Huh?" Molly turned around. Slowly, a fat older looking owl dressed in a purple regal looking vest and a monocle flew over to her. Molly jumped. "H-hey did you just…"
"Talk?" The owl asked, "Why of coarse. In the Night Dimension anything can happen."
"Night Dimension?"
"Yes yes. Although most people in your world refer to it as dreams."
"I'm in a dream?" Molly asked slightly confused.
"Yeah…thanks to me."
That voice, it was defiantly the one of the person who saved her. Molly spun around to see the person, maybe since it was a dream it would be her prince. Instead behind her was someone or something else. If who she was facing was a human, which she highly doubted, they were wearing a purple jester like hat that curved outwards and towards his head. His eyes were dark blue, he wore a red vest with jewels on it, long white sleeves with purple and yellow cuffs, and long purple and pink pants that seem connected to his feet which were the same colors. Molly stared blankly at him.
"You're the one who saved me?" Molly asked.
Then the person did something surprising, he begin hovering. He flew over to Molly leaving sparkling dust behind him.
"Sure did. Well you didn't think I would let those Nightmarens hurt you?" He smiled.
"Nightmarens?" Molly asked.
"Hmmm…I guess people of your world haven't heard much of ours," He crossed his arms, "oh I forgot to introduce myself. My name is NiGHTS."
"Nice to meet you, NiGHTS. My name is Molly."
"Molly? That's a pretty name." NiGHTS smiled.
"Thank you." Molly smiled back.
"Oh and the old bird is Owl." NiGHTS leaned back, his arms behind his head.
"Old?!" Owl snapped. "Now see here, NiGHTS, you had better respect your elders and-"
"Hey Molly have you ever thought about flying?" NiGHTS asked.
"Flying?" Molly asked in amazement. "Well yes of coarse. I think it would be just splendid to fly!"
"Why don't you give it a try?"
"But I don't have wings."
NiGHTS laughed. "Who said anything about that kind of flying?" He snickered. "I meant dualizing."
"What's that?"
"Allow me to explain, Visitor," Owl said, "NiGHTS is a special creature with the ability to become one with Visitors such as yourself. If you touch him then you'll become one with him and have the ability to fly freely alongside him."
"It sounds fun!" Molly smiled.
"That's right," NiGHTS nodded. He held out his hand. "Let's give it a go."
Molly nodded and put her hand in his. Everything was bright like when she entered this place. When she opened her eyes, Molly was floating behind NiGHTS.
"This is dualizing?" Molly asked crossing her arms. NiGHTS crossed his as well.
"Yes it's a breeze to use once you've gotten used to it." NiGHTS told her.
"Really? I never could imagine flying as easy." Molly said.
"It is. Allow me to give you a proper demonstration." NiGHTS told her flying around in loops.
"W-whoa are you suppose to feel sick on your first flight?" Molly asked.
"Naturally." NiGHTS told her.
"N-NiGHTS I think I need to take some time on the ground before I can get used to it." Molly tried to hold back her sick feeling.
"If you say so." NiGHTS descended. As soon as their feet touched the ground, they undualized with each other.
"Ugh," Molly groaned stumbling around, "I feel sick."
"Its ok you always get a little dizzy on you're first time. Go ahead and catch up with your stomach and we can give it another go." NiGHTS told her.
Another? Molly thought. She sat by the fountain taking deep slow breaths when she thought she saw something. If she had it disappeared the moment she looked. It was nothing…
Then from the exact spot she had seen something, shot a creature a lot like NiGHTS. This one had a red and black stripped jester hat, a red vest without sleeves, had a gold eye mask surrounding half his face, and red and black stripped boots. He lunged at NiGHTS shoving him against one of the doors behind him with a great thud. Molly jumped at the sound, struggling to stand after her flight incident. NiGHTS struggled with all his might to get freed, apparently this person wasn't a good friend of his.
"NiGHTS…there you are. I can't even begin to tell you how I've waited for this moment." The creature said.
"NiGHTS!" Molly leapt up, only to be pushed back by Owl.
"Careful, Visitor. You don't want to get involved with that Nightmaren." Owl told her.
"But NiGHTS-"
"He can handle him on his own." Owl reassured her.
"Reala let me go!" NiGHTS struggled to break free.
"Not until I deliver you to my Master. Then you may be free to do as you wish." Reala chuckled.
Molly didn't know what to do but leapt up before Owl could stop her. She grabbed a rock from the edge of the road and threw it as hard as she could against Reala's head. "Let him go you-you big bully!" She screamed.
"Now what do we have here? A little Visitor from the other world. If I were you I would stay away far away from this captive." Reala seemed amused by the whole thing.
"I-I don't take orders from you!" Molly screamed. Reala didn't pay her any mind.
"It seems fitting you would save a Visitor from the Nightmarens. Of coarse just to use to your advantage."
"You liar!" NiGHTS glared down on Reala. Rela gave one last glare of hatred in return and opened a portal of darkness on the door, shoving NiGHTS through.
"NiGHTS!" Molly ran to the door but it was too late. "H-he's gone. And I couldn't even help…him…" All of a sudden, Molly's hands began glowing red.
"Why I'll be-it's the red Ideya!" Owl said in shock.
"The what?"
"Ideya is a power that all Visitors possess. There are 5 of them: red, blue, green, yellow, and white. Most Visitors loose their Ideya when they come here and Nightmarens seek to steal it from Visitors. The red Ideya of Courage you have cannot be stolen. The only Nightmaren who can steal it is-" Owl stopped himself.
"Is who?" Molly asked.
"N-no one. No need to worry Visitor. With your power of Ideya, I know you can free NiGHTS."
"Think so?" Molly asked. She looked at her hands and gripped them feeling the Ideya flow through her body. But why was it that someone like her who worries regularly and doubted herself could possess the Red Ideya? "Alright. For NiGHTS." Molly nodded. She turned to the door Reala and NiGHTS had disappeared into. Slowly, it began glowing intensely. A stain glass image of a storm cloud appeared over it. Molly walked slowly over to the door and tugged it open. A beautiful light shone on her and many butterflies flew out from it.