If You Could?
By Artisan Kloa
Disclaimer: I own not NiGHTS or Reala, or any other SEGA licensed character you see in this following thing.
Summary: A simple question asked at the end of one journey… starts another. Through time and space, one can see the possibilities that never were and never had been. Time streams are like spider's webs, after all.
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It was a glorious night, a celebration was in order later on, and that would be nice. The troops had earned such a party anyway. The last obstacle was out of the way, and it'd certainly taken quite a few casualties to take down such a being. But the end result was satisfying to the new lord of Nightmare Core.
Reala watched with amusement as a bound, gagged, and trussed NiGHTS was brought before him, the disgraced nightmaren still struggling like mad against the third-level creatures dragging the ropes and pushing against it. NiGHTS glared at him with hard eyes, fangs wedged open and rendered harmless by an ingenious and humiliating gag device that held his mouth open, capping his fangs in rubber and rendering him essentially voiceless.
Reala grinned, gently clicking his gold-covered talons. The gag was removed, and NiGHTS gagged at the sudden ability to close his mouth, and he took the opportunity to rotate his jaw, working out the kinks. Reala looked amused at that.
"Tell me, NiGHTS, have you any words to say before I sentence you to the dungeons for a few hundred years?" he asked, his tone full of glee at the thought of putting away his greatest enemy.
NiGHTS grumbled, thinking something out. The only thing he really wanted to know… well, he might as well ask. "If you could, Reala… if you could turn back time… would you?" he asked. His question was deep, and somewhat obscure if you didn't know what he was talking about.
"If you are referring to the time… when you went against us… and me… then yes. I would turn back time and stop you." Reala replied. "But… we both know that I nor any other nightmaren alive can do this." He waved his hand, giving the third levels the order to take NiGHTS away to the dungeons.
But even as NiGHTS was led away, Reala pondered. Would he REALLY change the outcome of that fateful day? Could he really do it, and change the time line to fit what he desired? After all, he had the means to do so… Of course he'd lied when he said that no nightmaren could turn back time.
It would be interesting to see the outcome of the future… if he had changed the past.
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Author's Note- Well… now we see the idea of this. Reala's about to experience what it will be like to change the future and past.