NiGHTS
Here Kitty, Kitty
Summary: There is a shift in power in the land of dreams and with this change come new friends, new enemies and the return of an age old threat that all of Nightopia must stop, or all the dreams will fade away forever.
Even the King of Nightmares must aid this fight or die a fool.
Chapter 1; The Guardians
Ideya.
The foundations of Dreams and Nightmares alike, the life force of the Night Dimension and the power that keeps all Nightmarens and Nightopians alive.
Without Ideya there would be no Night Dimension... No Night Dimension would mean there would be no Dreams and our world would cease to be.
To forever insure that the Ideya would always be there, ten Guardians were made by the two Lords of the Night Dimension, within each a whole Ideya was placed and to insure they were forever safe, the lords spread the Guardians over the Night Dimension.
Burning Courage as red as the sun, Bright Intelligence as blue the ocean, Endless Hope as yellow as a sunflower, Eternal Growth as green as grass and Innocent Purity as white as snow. Deep Faith as brown as the earth, Undoubting Destiny as gold and a crown, Fearless Justice as orange as fire, Seething Hatred as black as night and Sweet Love as purple as violet flowers.
Five hidden in Nightmare.
Five hidden in Nightopia.
Guardians who kept a balance stable until the end of time.
Wiseman was silent, his chambers dark and his orders clear.
Leave him alone unless it was a life or death matter or if it was to tell him that NiGHTS had come to speak with him.
Odd you might think, but over recent months, Visitors had not come, Ideya were scares and that had caused great worry in all the inhabitancies of the night Dimension.
Until this strangeness ended, Wiseman had agreed to a Truce.
Reala had tripled the guard around all of Nightmare's boarders and ALL Nightopians were staying inside a safe house known as Sanctuary a hidden fortress Only NiGHTS and Wiseman had a Key too.
But now, it seemed something worse had unsettled the King of Nightmares and Reala was worried.
"Master?" He dared to ask as Wiseman seemed to straighten from his slouched position.
"The balance of Ideya is weakening..." Wiseman said as his hands spread wide and his six eyes blinked slowly. "Something is wrong..."
NiGHTS paused in his flight and looked back towards the edge of the Dream gate, down towards the endless Dark Ocean and placing a gloved hand to his chest, over his red Ideya shard.
"What's this feeling... like someone I know is gone... What is happening...?" he asked himself.
"NiGHTS?" Owl asked as he flew closer to the purple Nightmaren. "What is it?"
"I don't know Owl... I really don't know."
"Wiseman?" Owl asked.
"No... Even Wiseman wouldn't attack now." NiGHTS said shaking his head. "Whatever it is, it is far bigger than Wiseman."
She didn't know where she was.
She didn't care where she was.
She was cold, hungry and sad.
She wanted to sleep somewhere warm and nice, not in these broken and dangerous buildings.
She sighed and looked at her doll. "Where do I go Dolly?" she asked.
The doll stared at her, unmoving, silent and lifeless.
"To the edge we go then," She said holding her doll tighter before going to the edge of the island she was trapped on, her body shaking as her tiny hands gripped her oversized waist coat and also holding her baggy shirt up so she didn't fall over it.
Her tail slowly flicked as she reached the edge and began to look around. "There has to be away off this place..." she said. And then she saw something on the edge of the island, leading away into the fog over the Dark Ocean.
A Bridge.
An old, rotten wooden planked, moss covered, unstable looking bridge.
"Ok, Kitty... you can do this... it's just a bridge... you aren't going to get off this island by standing and looked at it..." she told herself.
She looked back towards the place she had called home since birth, once beautiful and grand, now broken and in ruin, her family gone... taken by something in the night... she had nothing left here... she had to leave.
They had named her Kitty because of her horns, when under the hat they looked like huge kitten ears, and her tail seemed to behave like a cat's tail, even if instead of fur, her tail was pale coloured and had a small pointed tip to it.
Kitty swallowed her fear and slowly put one foot on to the bridge her small body made it creek softly but it held her weight as she slowly, ever so timidly began to cross the bridge, it would creek every so often, but other than that, it didn't show any signs of braking.
She carefully made her way across the bridge her doll tightly held against her chest and her eyes starting to shimmer with tears as she felt the heart ache come back that she was alone and she was leaving the one place she knew as home.
The bridge suddenly groaned and Kitty grabbed a tight hold of the side ropes, looking around she noticed that the bridge was starting to slowly rise up as if joint to something that was above her.
Tightly clutching to her doll she started moving again, holding tightly to the ropes that held the bridge together and before long, she saw the end of the bridge ahead of her, like a light at the end of the tunnel but the last three bits of wood had fallen trough, leaving only the ropes. Swallowing another lump in her throat, Kitty tightly held onto the rope on the left of the bridge taking a deep breath she searched for a happy thought in her mind and then slowly began to float up only a few inches from the old wood and pulled herself along with the ropes, tightly holding it in her hands as she made her way end of the bridge, the doll now being held in her tail.
Once she was over the ground she let go of the ropes and touched the ground smiling a little as she hugged her doll in her arms. "We made it Dolly, we made it over the old bridge." She said smiling at the doll.
The ground began to shake and Kitty cried out as the ground and bridge fell towards the Dark Ocean.
"Got you!" a British accented voice said as Kitty felt something grab the back of her shirt collar. "Oh dearest me..." the voice added as Kitty was rather quickly carried up, up-up above the ground and then slowly and gently lowered on to a soft patch of grass near a large empty fountain and a large old set of gates.
"Dear me, are you alright little one? That was awfully frightening wasn't it?" the voice asked as an old looking Owl with a waist coat and jacket landed on a large stump beside her.
"I... I'm ok..." Kitty said still rather shaken. "Who... who are you and where am I?" she asked looking around. "I don't recognize anything here." she added.
"Well little one, let me be the first to welcome you too the Dream Gate, the place that Visitors come when they are sleeping," the old owl said. "My name is Owl, the keeper of the gate." He added, "And you are?"
"My... My name is Kitty and this is... where's Dolly?" Kitty asked looking around for her beloved toy. "I must have dropped Dolly when I fell..." she said her tail sagging and her shoulders slumping deeply.
"Would this be your Dolly little Kitten?" a new voice asked as Dolly, all in one peice and looking a little dirty was held out to Kitty by a white gloved hand. "I found her falling from the sky." The voice added and Kitty smiled brightly upon seeing her beloved doll and hugged it tightly.
"Thank you, Thank you!" She cried looking at the one who had saved her beloved doll.
He was like her, a Nightmaren with an odd looking purple hat over his downward bent horns with no apparent neck, just a red ruff, catlike bright blue eyes and a kind smile, gloved white hands and a white shirt that sat neatly around a red Jewel in his chest. The shirt was covered by a pink waist coat and the rest of his outfit was a light shade of purple and had small decorations, down the arm sleeves and pant legs leading into large booted feet much like Kitty's.
"You are most welcome little one, but tell me what were you and Dolly doing playing ear that old bridge?" the older Nightmaren asked.
"We weren't playing; we came from the other side, sir..." Kitty explained, "When I put my feet back on the ground the ground started to shake and then fell and we fell with it."
"I see..." the older Nightmaren said then gasped. "Oh how rude of me, My name is NiGHTS."
"I'm Kitty, and this is Dolly." Kitty said smiling.
"A pleasure." NiGHTS smiled back. "Now, what made you cross the bridge? Was something chasing you?" he asked.
"I don't know," Kitty sighed. "Everything was nice... and then the darkness came and everyone went missing... Mama said to run away and get far away... we would go to the place where the story starts and stay there until others find us... she said we would be safe if we ran away... but we got lost and then the Darkness came again and... Mama didn't wake up... Dolly and me are the only ones who got away... we are the only ones..." She explained rubbing her long sleeve against her eyes.
"Oh little one, I'm sorry," NiGHTS said gently embracing the little Nightmaren as she cried into his shoulder. "There now, it's alright... you are safe here." he said.
"What story could her mother have meant?" Owl asked.
"It doesn't matter right now," NiGHTS said. "We need to get you somewhere you can rest and have a good wash." He added gently rubbing Kitty's back. "Does that sounds good to you?" he asked.
Kitty nodded, rubbing her eyes with her sleeves.
Reala paused in his steps and looked back down the hall way he had come down. "You have something to say to me, Jackle?" he asked, there was silence for a moment then slowly Jackle, stepped from the shadows, head bowed and horns slightly sagging.
"She is safe but... Firefly and I are worried," the invisible jester said gravely.
"What is there to be worried about? As long as she is safe that is all that matters." Reala stated, inspecting his claws, "What is it brother?"
"She wishes to become a General." A new voice said and both Nightmarens turned to see another 1st level Nightmaren hovering by a door, his long orange hat covering his single horn that tilted slightly to the left behind him. His attire was a simple orange waist coat and boots, over brown shirt and pants, his shirt cuffs were also orange.
"Firefly." Reala greeted. "Who is her choice of mentors?" he asked.
"Jackle, myself, NiGHTS or... yourself." Firefly said and then handed Reala a document. "She has already been declined by the two of us because we are her guardians... and we all know NiGHTS will not take her away from here."
Reala sighed and handed the document back. "I can't."
"Reala... she isn't a baby anymore... sooner or later she will need the truth..." Jackal said.
"No she won't... I lost her brother... I refuse to put her in danger like that again." Reala said. "Find someone else to mentor her..." he said.
"But Reala..." Firefly began to say only for Jackle to stop him and shake his head.
"As a Brother I ask to you think it over Reala... I know having you as her mentor would mean the world to Shard." Jackle said before leaving with Firefly while Reala was left once again alone in the corridor.
He saw a door way he hadn't opened in years and his shoulders sagged deeply before he turned away from it and continued on his way.
NiGHTS smiled softly as he watched Kitty curl up into a tight ball as she slept, Dolly tightly held one arm while she hugged the pillow in the other arm, her tail hung over the side of the small hammock she was sleeping in tucked up nice and warm under a blanket, her hat slightly pulled down over her eyes as she slept.
Now that he looked at her, NiGHTS could see the shirt was FAR too big for her, it was more like a dress on her, only staying on her body thanks to the waist coat she wore, the zip on that was broken badly and it looked old and somewhat moth eaten.
But they were the only clothes Kitty had and none of NiGHTS clothes would fit her.
So she stayed in them even thought NiGHTS had insisted she at least let him clean then up a little while she had a warm bath in the hot spring near where NiGHTS had made himself a home.
The view out of the windows was beautiful, a view of all the night sky of the Night Dimension, stars twinkling and shining and the crescent moon shining softly over the stream outside.
This was one of NiGHTS's many special places, the one he liked most because of its view.
NiGHTS smiled as he heard a softly purr from Kitty and turned back to find two Nightopians had curled up with her to sleep the night, he settled down in his comfy chair and closed his eyes.
"You summoned me, Wiseman?" A Nightmaren asked as he knelt before the huge Lord of Nightmare.
His face was pale white; his hat covered two thick horns that curved back in a stead arch before the tips sharply jutted inwards towards the back of his head, his hand were also pale white, black names ending sharp tips, his body was covered in total black, all save the tiny white cuff links that fasted the sleeves of his shirt.
"I have a task for you Blackbird. A task I fear may lead to a terrible truth, if my suspicions are correct." Wiseman stated. "You will tell no one of this task. And you will carry it out without a word to any of your fellow Nightmarens, is that understood?"
"Yes Wiseman." Blackbird said.
"Very good." The Lord stated. "Now, here is what I want you to do..."
To Be Continued...
I promised you guys a new story and here it is!
Totally revamped and set up diffrently... and completely diffrent to the first version of this story...
Ok. Yea it took me WAY to long to get this intro done. I am still not happy with how some events are planning in my mind so this story will take a LONG while to get done.
Please beare with me dears, and please give good feedback.
thanks and bye now!
Note; fixed the colour of Destiny to the correct colour, sorry folks, I missed that one ^^;