Heroine of Reality
Part 1 of 2
The Magic Pickle Fairy
That Reala gal seemed like very rude and inconsiderate Nightmaren. Reala had completely rejected NiGHTS when NiGHTS had rebelled to take over Nightmare. There was no sympathy for Reala.
But Reala knew that was all a lie.
Reala was an obedient servant of Nightmare, whether it was for Wizeman or for the new supreme ruler of Nightmare: NiGHTS. Sure, Reala did try to defeat NiGHTS to the best of her ability when she was loyal to Wizeman, but Reala had also helped NiGHTS on his conquest for Nightopia.
Reala kept a loyal nature towards NiGHTS, yet a guiding nature as well; she knew when NiGHTS had gone too far. NiGHTS had a hunger for power, and wanted the Waking World, and Reala had made her statement that the Waking World was too much power. Plus, there was no way to get to the Waking World from the Dream World.
Or so Reala had thought.
Even though Reala was an embodied nightmare, she still had access to Nightopia's Library, since she was a minion of the King of Dreams. Reala wasn't one for books, but she was curious about the King Pian. Yet Reala had passed some books from the Waking World, and immediately became distracted by the titles. Reala strummed her yellow claws through the books, with all of the classic titles such as To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby, when a book fell on her head. "Ow," Reala rubbed her head, and then picked up the book that fell on her head, the title had startled Reala.
The title was, "Traveling to the Waking World."
Reala knew that NiGHTS, unlike herself, was into books, and not only books, but books from the Waking World. Reala had to hide this book, somehow. So Reala took the book with her, and decided to fly back to Nightmare.
Yet luck had run out for her, since Reala had bumped into her master, NiGHTS. "Oh, um, hello Master NiGHTS."
"I don't see you here often," NiGHTS had told Reala, "may I ask why you are in Nightopia's Library?"
"Oh, nothing," Reala had hid the book behind her back, "just looking on how to create a King Pian."
"Yeah, mix two mepians together," NiGHTS said, "Elliot told me that, I guess you don't need to take out that book then."
"No, I'm curious about other things on Nightopians," Reala made her comment, then sputtered at her master, "how about that you leave me alone about my curiosity?"
NiGHTS frowned, then snapped "hey, don't give me tongue about your 'curiosity!'" NiGHTS grabbed Reala's arm so tightly that Reala had dropped the book. "Huh, so this is what you've been hiding," NiGHTS had grabbed the book to look at the title, "Traveling to the Waking World, huh?" NiGHTS smiled, "why were you hiding this from me?"
A roll of eyes just came to Reala, she knew very well why she was hiding the book from NiGHTS. The reason would be because NiGHTS would definitely try to take over the Waking World, and that would be immediate chaos. "I just wanted to keep this a surprise."
"Well, I do like surprises," NiGHTS smirked, "but there are news that have to be let out."
Reala shrugged, "I just knew that you liked surprises."
NiGHTS began to laugh, "You know me too well, but it looks like I will get some new found power."
"Mr. Edwards, can you please pass the peas?" Aiden asked his stepfather, Elliot Edwards his brown eyes looked up from his black glasses, as his blonde spiky hair was downwards from his tilted face. Aiden wasn't the most stylish of boys, but he was far from the quiet type of teenagers, one of the annoying fourteen year olds.
"Please," Elliot confirmed, "you don't have to call me Mr. Edwards."
"Okay Edwards," Aiden nodded his head.
Eva just immediately stood up from the table and slammed her hands against the table, "can you respect our father for just one second?" Eva's blue eyes looked intensely at her stepbrother and her long black hair was wrapped into pigtails kind of stood up for a second from her anger. She was wearing a mini skirt and fashion top; she was also far from the quiet type at school, just as much as Aiden, but she was more considerate.
"He's not my father," Aiden said in a monotone way and shrugged. Aiden found that he never had a father, ever since his biological father divorced his mother, Claris Sinclair when he was four; he found that there was no one in position to be his father figure. Now this Mr. Edwards came into his life, things had been chaotic. His mother, Claris Sinclair, said that Mr. Edwards was a childhood friend of hers; they were also lovers at one point in their lives. Fate had found each other again, and after three years, they got married and had a house with their children.
"Well, our mom is not my mother either, but I still call her, 'mom,'" Eva shouted out, "so can't you just call Daddy, 'dad' or 'father?'" Eva, on the other hand, had faced the death of her mother when she was at the age of ten years old. She never had a bitter relationship with her mother, and often thought about that auto accident that took her mother's life.
Aiden looked up onto the ceiling, "um, let me think about that" Aiden thought about it, "…no."
"Now kids," Claris told the young ones in the house, "there is no need to fight, but Aiden, I think you should respect Elliot a bit more."
"Ah, I see that you're taking Eva's side," Aiden crossed his arms with disdain, "I still want my peas."
"I think you've had enough peas for today," Elliot's blue eyes glared at his stepson.
Eva tried to keep peace at the table, "so, how did you two meet?"
Both of the adults were hesitant about their answer, it is unbelievable that the two met in the first place. Yet for their children to believe the story of how they met is nearly impossible.
"Well," Claris began, "When I was your ages, I was nervous for an audition for Twin Dreams, when I had a nightmare about the producers and director attacking me—
"What does that have to do with anything?" Aiden asked, "We all have nightmares."
"Um, yeah, but when I was being chased, I found myself in a world called 'Nightopia,' where I met a flying purple jester whose name is NiGHTS."
"I think you're going senile Mom," Aiden commented on his Mother's dream.
"No, not really," Elliot told the kids, "I had a similar dream, with the same flying purple jester."
"So pretty much you somehow found out that you had the same dream?" Eva asked the adults.
"Well, we actually met in our dreams," Claris explained, "it's kind of complicated. Yet we are grateful for NiGHTS, he had helped us with our dreams and ambitions, for a cost, but he had helped us accomplish our dreams no less."
"And how did you meet in real life?" Aiden rolled his eyes as he asked his parents, he didn't find the story very plausible.
"Well, there was a festive at Twin Seeds, and I saw an advertisement to a musical that Claris was in, when I saw that she was the star, I rushed over to see her," was Elliot's explanation, "it seemed impossible that we would meet, but here we are."
"Hm, I guess that story is fascinating," Eva picked up her plate, "but I shall go and practice our routines, the big football game is on Friday. We're going up against Twin Seeds West!"
"That's great honey," Elliot exclaimed, "we will be there to root for you!"
Aiden didn't like football at all, especially if it's to support his cheerleading stepsister. Aiden had also picked up his plate, "the dinner was delicious, but I need to work on my comic."
"Okay, have fun kids!" Claris exclaimed.
NiGHTS flipped through the pages of the book that Reala had given to him. There was full awareness to the king that this book was fictional. Yet the method was worth a try. "Reala, Jackle," NiGHTS had snapped his fingers, "I need your services."
Both Reala and Jackle appeared in front of NiGHTS, the King of Dreams stood up from his throne and called out "So we have plans of ruling the Waking World!"
A huge smile came to Jackle, he was very happy to hear the news, "Will I get to see Claris again?"
"Well, she's been married twice, and has a son, I don't think you have any chances with her" was NiGHTS' full honesty to Jackle, "but yes, we will be seeing Claris and Elliot."
"Who cares?" Jackle asked as he flung his hand, "Like any of that matters!"
Unlike Jackle, Reala just wasn't as excited about going to the Waking World. If NiGHTS manages to have full rule of the Waking World, then he would have rule over everything. Nightopia and Nightmare had been in full chaos since NiGHTS took full rule, and the Waking World would be the same as the Dream World. "Well, hopefully you two are happy."
"Yes, I am," NiGHTS gave a huge smile, "I waited 30 years for this, and I'm finally getting to rule everything in existence." NiGHTS was about to fly out of his throne room, "follow me, we have to go to the Water of the Waking."
"Hey, Eva, wait up!" Aiden called out as his black messenger bag with a mushroom design bounced with every step of his run. They were both at Twin Seeds Park, right at the center of the city.
Eva rolled her eyes as she sighed; she had stopped walking right at the fountain, "What's up? Here to ridicule me some more?"
"No," Aiden said, "I just saw this book fall out of your bag." Aiden handed Eva a book, with a boy with goggles on the cover entitled, "Boneshaker." "I've read the back of it, I would never guess that you would like Steampunk."
"Well, any kind of punk actually," Eva confirmed, then she looked down, "it's just father doesn't allow me to wear such styles."
"Well, you know, Edwards is married to my mom now," Aiden began to make a suggestion, "perhaps you should ask her if you can wear Steampunk. You can say that its alternatively historic."
"That's actually a good idea!" Eva laughed; she was glad that she was getting along with her stepbrother. He was a very smart guy, a bit rude, but it was great that they both found something they had in common.
Just then, both of the kids had heard something from the fountain, they looked down into the coin filled waters to hear that the waters were bubbling with heat.
"I think I see something in the fountain," Eva whispered with fear.
"No duh," Aiden called out, "it's boiling, like that's strange enough?"
Just then, three heads appeared within the fountain, and then bodies attached to the heads had risen from the fountain. One of the beings was a purple jester like creature, the second was a similar looking creature only red and black, the third had a light red look to him, yet was mostly invisible.
"That is a little bit more than just the water boiling," Eva expressed in fear.
"No duh," Aiden had called out once again, "these weird beings just had risen from the fountain."
"Well, looks like that worked," NiGHTS told his brethren then he looked at the kids, "the bad news is; we have witnesses."
Eva looked closely at the three jesters, she remembered her family's conversation about jesters before, "is your name NiGHTS at all?"
NiGHTS gave Eva a look, "well, young lady, that is my name, but how would you know such a thing?"
"My mom and her dad both coincidentally had the same dream about you," Aiden explained to what he thought were hallucinations, yet Eva was also seeing the fellow so they probably were real.
"Ah, yes, you're the children of Claris and Elliot," NiGHTS nodded his head; "you're stepsiblings, aren't you?"
Eva nodded her head, "yes, we are."
NiGHTS smiled at the children, "wonderful, how about you show me to your parents?"
"Sure thing," Eva had said, "we were just walking home from school!"
Eva was about to take off, when Aiden grabbed her shoulder, "wait, something isn't right." He took a look at the three, "why are you guys here?"
Reala just crossed her arms; she really didn't like to hear the lies that would come.
"To see your mom and dad," was Jackle's answer, "they're too old for Nightopia, and we want to see them so much!"
An eyebrow rose from Aiden, "fine," he said with displeasure, "let's go home!"
"We're home!" Eva called out when they both got into their home, but there was no answer, so Eva called out again, "hello?"
"Hi kids!" Elliot's voice had called out, "just cutting up some tomatoes for some salad, I've ordered pizza since Mom's performing tonight."
"Really Mr. Edwards?" Aiden asked, "What happened to the Mrs. Dayton?"
"Illness," Elliot called back to Aiden, as he began to walk to the front room, "now how about we-" Elliot had stopped speaking when he had feasted his eyes on a site that he thought that he would never see. He once again, had seen NiGHTS. Elliot didn't know how to feel, he remember that this Nightmaren had help him accomplish everything that he could, but at the same time, he remembered why NiGHTS was in the Waking World in the first place.
"Clawz catch your tongue?" NiGHTS had joked, "but really, it's a pleasure to meet you and your beautiful daughter."
Elliot nodded his head, and then quietly said "yes, it is."
"So how about that pizza you ordered?" Aiden asked, "I'm starving."
"Oh, right, I need to pick that up," Elliot nodded as he grabbed his keys to leave, "make these three at home please." Then Elliot had shut the door.
Aiden looked over at the three Nightmaren, "well this is a world full of awkward."
"For once I have to agree," Eva nodded her head.
"So, do you guys have dreams?" Reala asked the two.
NiGHTS just gave Reala a look, "Reala, you very well know what these children's dreams are."
"Well, I was creating conversation," Reala shrugged to her boss.
"Well, I do want to be a professional cheerleader," Eva told Reala, "I'm not very good at it, but I am the only Freshman in my high school to make it to the squad. If only the other girls liked me."
"Well, there's always room for improvement," Reala told Eva, then she looked at Aiden, "and how about you?"
"I want to be a comic book artist," Aiden nodded his head, "I just want to create a comic without good or evil, I just need an idea of a plot."
"Oh, like how Nightopia and Nightmare is right now," Reala giggled.
"Um, no," Jackle disagreed, "the entire dream world is owned by NiGHTS, that is not in the gray side," then he looked at Aiden, "how is your mom by the way?"
"Well," Aiden began, "she has been understudies for Broadway Shows, and right now she is being the understudy for Emilie Dayton for the part of Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. It's an awesome musical, it's so violent, and gory and-" Then a centipede came crawling on the floor, a flustered look came to his face, then a squeal, "Eek! Get that thing away from me!"
Eva giggled, and then she slammed the centipede onto to floor with her foot, "you overreact over such small things Aiden."
A big smile came to Jackle, he just loved the look on Aiden's face when he saw that centipede. It reminded Jackle of Aiden's mother. "So, you're scared of centipedes?"
"Anything with more than four legs, really," Aiden told Jackle, "nasty, aren't they?"
"Yes…" Jackle put his hands together, as he smiled "very much so…"
It was late at night; Eva and Elliot were asleep while Aiden waited for his mother to come home as he watched Adult Swim on TV.
"Hey, I'm home," Claris called out as she went into the family room to see Aiden watching shows from Adult Swim. "How are you?"
"Had a good day, wrote up my paper's outline, and found some of your old friends," Aiden told his mother.
"Oh, who did you meet that I have known in the past?" Claris asked her son, "I never knew that you knew anyone that I know."
"That's very redundant of you to say the word, 'know,' so much," Aiden looked back at the television.
Just then, NiGHTS came into the room, "ah, Claris, good to see you!"
A surprised look came to Claris, "NiGHTS? How did you get here? In the Waking World I mean."
NiGHTS took off his diamond chest piece and showed it to Claris, "this is actually a way to get to the Waking World, combined with jumping into the Water of the Waking. You can thank Reala for finding out about this."
"Reala is a supportive friend," Claris smiled, "so what brings you here?"
A bizarre laughter came to NiGHTS, "Claris, don't you remember?"
Claris shook her head, "no, I don't. I remember defeating Wizeman, and…" Then memory had hit her, "oh, shoot, you need us to help you take over the Waking World, don't you?"
NiGHTS nodded his head, "yes, we will need your help."
Just then, there was a smash from a plate heard from the kitchen. Claris and Aiden came to look at what the commotion was about.
"Yes Jackle, I am leaving, there is nothing you can do about it," Reala cried out, "the Waking World is not for NiGHTS' taking! Do as you will, just continue with your obsessive collection of those…things! I see what you're doing, and I don't care!"
"Fine, be that way," Jackle cried out, "I don't care about your rebellion either, but I'm staying with NiGHTS."
NiGHTS had heard what was going on, so he flew to the kitchen to convince Reala otherwise, "really, you don't want to be a rebel, I know what it's like. You are going up an even more powerful force than Wizeman. Reala, don't be the hero, this is reality we're talking about."
Reala just gave NiGHTS a glare, and then drill dashed towards the window and left to the night.
"Goodness," Claris whispered.
Reala flew up into the air, and around the house, when she saw Eva walking down the street. Yet her dress style looked different, she had pink looking dreadlocks in her pigtails, a shiny purple dress and fuzzy pink legwarmers. Reala flew down to meet the girl, "I thought you were asleep."
"One of Dad's friends I see," Eva crossed her arms, "so you're going to bail out on me?"
Reala sat on the air, and then put her hands under her chin, "as long as you help me with my own conquest."
Eva fell silent for a few seconds; she didn't know that this Nightmaren was planning, or what this creature's conquest was. Yet she didn't want her father to find out that she was clubbing with some old friends. "Fine, I don't care what your conquest is; I'll join if you don't tell Dad."
"You won't regret it, I know," Reala had told the girl, "I'm trying to save the Waking World from NiGHTS."
"But, why?" Eva was a bit confused, "Isn't NiGHTS a good Dream Creature who helps kids with their dreams?"
Reala shook her head, "no, Claris and Elliot were the only ones he helped, and that was for NiGHTS' selfish desires to take over Nightmare. NiGHTS had also forced them to help take over the Waking World."
"Wait, and they're thankful for NiGHTS?" Eva glared at Reala.
"Well, NiGHTS had done a lot for them," Reala confirmed, "so much, that they will help him take over the Waking World."
Eva looked down, "so they are slaves to NiGHTS, they do anything that he tells them to." Then she looked up, "I'll help you, even if my secret life isn't at sake."
Reala smiled, "good, then we will find out NiGHTS' plan of taking over the Waking World."
"Great," Eva said, "but I better get some sleep, I have school tomorrow."
"Then why were you out?" Reala teased Eva, "you would have gotten more sleep if you didn't sneak out."
Eva came to admit something, "I haven't seen my friends ever since I've joined cheerleading, and they really missed me and its Jane's Debutant at Club Satyr."
Reala smiled, "Well, how about that you go home, don't tell anyone about out agreement, okay?" Reala commanded Eva.
Eva nodded her head, "okay," then she went home.
A plate of muffins sat on the table of the kitchen, they were of the blueberry variety. First, Eva grabbed a muffin, as she jolted out of the door to get to school, Aiden quickly followed as he grabbed the plate and poured all of them in his backpack.
Eva knew that she could warm up to Aiden, yet she was told by Reala to not tell anyone about their agreement. The agreement was all that was in her mind at the moment, and she couldn't tell Aiden about what was on her mind.
"You know what that 'NiGHTS' dude is trying to do, right?" Aiden asked his stepsister.
Eva nodded her head, "yeah, I sure do, he wants to rule our world." Then she looked down, she knew what NiGHTS was trying to do was not right. Also, her parents were mindless enough to help him out.
"Yeah, not much we can do about it," Aiden sighed as he walked a little bit faster, "do you think that a Dream Creature like NiGHTS could seriously be this world's supreme ruler?"
Eva shook her head, "no."
Aiden rolled his eyes, "and you have no way to do something about this?"
"Well," Eva cleared her throat, "I have met with the red and black one…
"Oh, right, she rebelled!" Aiden exclaimed, "then we need to find that Dream Creature." Aiden then grabbed Eva's wrist and began to run.
"Wait, what about school?" Eva asked.
"Oh, school's not as important as saving the world," Aiden exclaimed, "we need to find a clue!"
Eva smiled, perhaps Aiden was right, "let's go home, perhaps we can get some information out of NiGHTS, if we spy on him at least."
"Ah, you now have a rebellious mind," Aiden rubbed his chin, "I like that, let's go!"
So the two teenagers snuck up to the side of their house and looked into the window which leads to where the television room was located. Eva and Aiden looked through the window to hear NiGHTS, Jackle, Elliot and Claris talk.
"You know, you shouldn't believe what books say," Claris sighed at NiGHTS, "I mean, infusing our two worlds together? That's ridiculous!"
"Yes, but I also got my idea from how to get to the Waking World from that same book." NiGHTS had confirmed, "it is worth a try, and it's the best way for me the rule everything!"
"Well, that's what my coach always says, 'it's worth a try,' Elliot said, "And we are the two Perfect Dreamers, with the Ideya of Courage. All we need to do is find the city's central power."
"Well, of course it's Twin Seed Tower, where we first met in real life, Elliot," Claris confirmed to the others, "it's the center of the city."
"Great," said NiGHTS, "then let's go there!"
"Not so fast," Elliot said, "I need to go to practice, and we have a big game coming up."
"Yeah, I also have a rehearsal, Claris told the others, "but we can wait until tonight."
"Okay, then we will wait," NiGHTS had said, "then you will help me rule the world."
Both Elliot and Claris had left the house.
"Oh, Fudge, they're going to see us, hide!" Aiden cried out, he grabbed Eva's wrist and jolted to the bushes.
Once Claris and Elliot had started their cars, and left, Eva and Aiden came out of the bushes. Just then, Eva's sneezed, yet it wasn't like a regular sneeze, it was a really loud sneeze.
"Geeze, over exaggerating much?" Aiden asked.
"My sneezes are really loud," Eva explained herself to her step brother.
"Hey, aren't the kids at school?" Jackle asked NiGHTS.
NiGHTS had looked towards the duo's direction, "I thought so too, Jackle, retrieve the children if they're around."
Jackle had smiled, "oh goody, I get to see Claris' son again!"
"Oh fudge baskets," Eva whispered, "run!"
The two kids began to run; at least they tried until Jackle appeared in front of them. "Skipping school, huh?"
Eva put her hands into fists, and then threw a punch at the light red Nightmaren right in the face. Yet once she pulled back from the punch, but had seen that the Nightmaren was completely unharmed.
A cackle came to Jackle's mouth, "nice job, resulting to violence," then the cackle turned to full laugher, "but I have no face!"
"Yeah, very clever Eva," Aiden crossed his arms, "so…what's plan B?"
Just then, Reala appeared in front of the two, "leave them alone!" There was intensity in her eyes; anyone would know that Reala meant serious business.
Jackle had fear in his eyes, but he had backed off, "now, now Reala, no need for threats, I was only taking these kids to NiGHTS."
Reala still had that look in her eyes, "um, no, they're coming with me."
Jackle had just put his hands up, "fine, it isn't like you're going to win anyway."
Reala's intent in her eyes turned into a glare, "come on kids, we're going elsewhere."
At the park at Twin Seeds, Reala, Aiden and Eva ran until they saw a bench, where they sat down. Eva and Aiden took deep breaths, as Reala flew above the two, "so, did you find anything out from NiGHTS?"
"It sounds like the plot of a bad comic book," Aiden put his palm to his face, "but NiGHTS is planning to use our parent's Perfect Dreamer powers to infuse the Dream World with the Waking World."
Reala frowned, "doesn't seem too good."
"But we can stop them, right?" Eva asked.
"Well, with your corporation, we will be able to save this world at least," Reala nodded her head.
TO BE CONTINUED….
