Hi! My name is Nightwing D. Verde. Weird name, huh? For you who live on Earth, Terra, Luna, the Moon or any of the extrasolar human colonies maybe. Fortunately I live in a place that accepts weird names. I live in Fairy World, or as many humans call it, the Main Hub. All the Rainbow Conduits lead to Fairy World, which has changed much in the past five hundred years since the reign of my parents started. The fairies settled down on a planet near the center of the galaxy, renamed it Fairy World and set up the Main Hub on the F.W.S.S., or the Fairy World Space Station, which used to be the Fairy World of my parent's day. My parents are Morbius and Elizabeth. I'm sure you've heard of them, right? The king and queen of Fairy World? What!? Where have you been!? Planet Edgeway!? Sheesh.

Well, anyway, back to what I was saying. I may be only eighteen, but my parents are well over six hundred and seventy. And the amazing part? They still look like teenagers!

I can see why Dad married Mom. She is absolutely beautiful, with her long curly blond hair and her sky blue eyes, shining with eternal youth and what seemed like ageless wisdom, or so my dad says when he talks about her. My dad looked like he did in his high school senior picture, long curly brown hair tied in a ponytail (if he wanted to these days, which wasn't all that often anymore) and dark ocean blue eyes that also shone with youth and wisdom, or so my mom says when she talks about him.

I'm just a slight mixture. I have a mixture of dark blond and light brown hair, tied back in a ponytail most of the time and I've been told by my fairy friends that my eyes are a shade in between my parents.

I may be like them physically in some areas, but unlike them I don't wield the power of Sueñalon, or the power of dreams. My parents are the only humans wielding this power. Betania, my Fairy World teacher and friend, also wields it (she was actually the first being to wield it in a very long time), but I don't.

At least, not for the first eighteen years of my life…

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I had just gotten back from my Earth side school (my Fairy World education was just me being taught by Betania, my parents' old godparent from Terra). I was in high school where my parents had gone. It's amazing that school has lasted so long, but whatever.

I was lying in my room, playing with an ancient 2010 Dell Laptop from my parent's planet. Primitive technology, if you ask me, but if you asked someone from that time, I guess they would say that it's the most advanced thing they've ever seen.

"Hey, Northwest! Whatcha doin?"

It was Sparkle, the daughter of one of our servants. She may have been hundreds of years older than me, but she was still about a twelve year old in mind, and that was by choice. 'Northwest' was just many of the nicknames she had come up with for me. She thought they were funny as heck.

"Messing with an old Earth laptop," I murmured in reply.

"Sweet! Can I help?"

"No," I replied, probably a little harsher than I should have, "I wanna do this on my own."

Oblivious to my tone, she just skipped out of the room, humming some obscure tune. She slammed the door behind her. Everything in the room rattles slightly as the echo reverberated around the room. I sighed.

I may not have had a sister, but I didn't envy those who did. She was the annoying little sister I never had or want. Ever.

"Honey?"

Mom was calling me through my LINCs. I answered. "Yes?"

"Dinner's gonna be ready in about an hour. Just thought I'd let you know."

"M'kay, thanks Mom."

"Love you."

"Love you too, Mom," I replied, and then hung up. Tonight was Friday, the night when my mom actually took it upon herself to cook a meal. Her meals were the best meals ever made. Now, don't get me wrong, I love the food that the Fairy World chefs make, but none compare to Mom's cooking. Of course, she's had over half a century to practice.

I heard the door open again. Frustrated even more, I said rather loudly, "Go away, Sparkle!"

Instead of closing, the door swung open even more. I looked up and was about to shout again at her, but there was no one at the door.

"Sparkle! No more tricks," I shouted as I stood and closed the door. I walked back to the laptop when the door opened again.

"Sparkle!" I growled as I went and slammed the door again, "Knock it off!" I swore as I locked the door this time. Now I knew that her Æther powers wouldn't work on the door because it was a Sueñalo based locked my Dad had made for me.

I went back to the laptop and started to mess with it a little more, when suddenly the locks to my door began to slowly unlock. I became scared. I backed up against the wall. The door blew open.

I sat on my bed, letting the wind blow over me. It was unlike any wind I had ever felt. I could feel a power emanating from it. It lasted for about fifteen seconds and then it stopped.

"What just happened?" I asked myself. I opened up a new window in my LINCs and searched the Fairy World weather for any wind in the forecast. Nothing.

I suddenly felt very sleepy. I could barely keep my eyes open. I lay down and was asleep in seconds.

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I'm floating. Everything is dark around me at first, but then my eyes adjust. I see dark clouds of dark neon colors. It reminds me of the rainbow colors you see when oil is mixed with water and reflected in the sun.

I see flashes of lightening. Blue and yellow ones are far off, but they are close together. Bright red flashes are near me, nearly hitting me. I grow scared.

Suddenly the scene shifts. I am standing in an old Earth or Terra farm field, I can't tell. It looks like early morning. I see an old man standing in the middle of the field. He raises a small staff. Soon a multicolored dot appears near the tip of the staff. It expands to reveal the place where I just was. Two people fall out of the strange portal, I guess. I recognize them. It's Mom and Dad!

I'm suddenly aware of a person standing beside me. I turn to try and see if I'm right, but I see no one. Still the feeling persists.

I turn but the scene has changed. I'm standing in the middle of an old Terra street. The same man is standing in the street. He is in standard old Terra clothes. He drops some blue objects in the street. I move up closer. It is a necklace and two rings. I suddenly recognize them. It's my dad's Jewelry of Sueñalon.

The scene shifts again. For what seems like hours, I see my parent's adventures with Sueñalo on both Earth and Terra. I've read their Archives of Sueñalon, but I've never imagined it was like this. The vision ended with the New Years Battle.

After my dad lost consciousness, I found myself in a white room, sitting in a comfortable chair, with a mug of steaming liquid in my head. It's Fairy World's Hartberry Tea, some of the best I've ever had.

"What's going on?" I ask to myself.

I hear a door open. I suddenly see a chair before me. An old man is sitting in it. The same white jewel encrusted staff leans against the chair.

"Nightwing," he says to me, "You have been chosen for a great task. You do not yet realize it, but you are going to become very important."

"What do you mean?" I ask.

He smiles and begins to disappear.

"Wait! What do you mean?" I shout. "Come back!"

"As my master said, 'Watch and pray…" he shouts back.

"Wait!"

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I sat up quickly, that last plea still lingering in the room. I knew that I had shouted the last plea because I had fallen asleep in my main bedroom, and it was cavernous. I could hear the echo reverberate through the room.

"Nightwing? Where are you? Are you there?"

It was Mom again. "Yea Mom? What is it?"

"Dinner's ready."

"What? You said it wasn't going to be ready for an hour."

"I said that an hour ago. Come on down."

"Uh, okay Mom."

"Something wrong?"

"N-no, Mom. I'll be right down."

"Okay. See you soon." She hung up.

I lay back on the bed, stunned. I had been out for an hour? It only felt like fifteen minutes or so. I checked my LINCs clock. Sure enough, I had been out an hour. I got up and went down to dinner.

"Hey there, sport!" Dad greeted me when I entered the dining chamber "Anything wrong? You sounded a bit strange over the LINCs."

"No, nothing," I lied, and fell to eating. I tried to put the incident out of my head. I convinced myself that things would go back to normal.

How wrong I was…

New story about Sueñalon! Yay! It will include a minor character from FOP later as a major character in this story. Enjoy!

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