Chapter 2

Enya sat on the couch, Knees pulled up to her chest, staring through the wall.

Her mother came into the house, "I'm home," she sat down next to her daughter, "what's wrong, nothing good on?"

"I can't get back," Enya whispered.

"Back where?"

"Nightopia," Enya pulled her legs closer to her body, "I tried I really did, but I couldn't. I was too hard on him, I need to go apologize, and I left Baby without a mother, how will that do to her?"

"Enya?" Enya's mother was getting nervous, "are you okay?"

"No," Enya shook her head, "I hurt my husband and left my child."

"Your husband?"

"Nights!" Enya said impatiently, "my husband, and Baby, my child, she's only five…"

"Where are they?" Enya's mother was afraid now; her daughter was acting like her mental patients.

"Nightopia," Enya said angrily, "you can only get there when you sleep, I tried to get back but I can't, Nights, I'm so sorry…"

"Enya," Enya's mother pulled Enya to her feet, "come with me."

"Are you taking me to Nightopia?" Enya asked hopefully.

"No," Enya's mother led her daughter out the door.

Enya never walked though that door again.

To Nights, it felt like Dulization, except it hurt a little more. When the light died, he was standing in darkness, "Elijah?" Nights was attacked by an unknown source. It tore his cloths and made him bleed, badly.

"Elijah?"

Elijah stepped into Nights line of Site.

"Oh there you are, are you okay? I was attacked-"

"I know," Elijah smiled.

Nights heard the clinking of metal on metal, and was bound by large chains, "Elijah! You liar!"

Elijah laughed, "You're so perceptive Nights. Yes I lied, that was my job, 'do whatever I had to take over your body."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, Master Wizemin created me to replace you. All those little 'defects' you have, yeah, that was my fault, sorry."

"Why did you keep trying?"

"Because Master will come back of course," Elijah said without a doubt in his voice, "and when he does he'll say, 'oh Elijah you've done perfectly, I knew you could Elijah, you are my greatest creation."

"Except he won't call you Elijah will he?"

"What?"

"He'll call you Nights, that's all you are, just another part of me."

Elijah growled at Nights, "it doesn't matter, I didn't like the name anyway," he turned and disappeared into the darkness.

"Nights?"

Elijah opened his eyes, and looked up and E.C.

"Are you okay?"
"I'm prefect," Elijah sat up and looked her up and down, "hey, I've never noticed before, you're pretty hot."

E.C. blushed, "uh… um… thank you, I guess."

Elijah stood, and stretched, "i feel great," he looked at E.C. "it's great to be alive, isn't it?"

"Uh, Nights, what about Enya?"

"What about her?"

"She just left you."

"Ah, I didn't like her that much anyway, girls like her are a dime a dozen, but you, you're interesting," Elijah smiled, "how's 'bout you date me?"

"Uh… are you sure you're okay?"

"Does that mean no?" Elijah asked, crestfallen, "come on, It'll be fun."

"l-let's just go home," E.C. touched her burning cheeks.

"Fine,"

Elijah felt amazing, if that's what you called it, he could feel the texture of the walls, the warmth of skin, the chill of ice, the softness of a bed, if that was how you described them. The others found his behavior strange, he had just lost his wife, and yet he was flirting and fooling around, like nothing had happened, in fact, he wasn't acting like Nights at all.

"Have you noticed how he touches stuff," Matsu said to E.C. and Reginald, "not like normal touching, like he just stands there and strokes the wall, like he had never felt a wall before."

"Yeah," Reginald stifled a laugh, "I caught him pressing his face against one of the mirrors, and he was talking to it, he was all, 'oh, you're so smooth and cold…" Reginald stifled his laughter as Nights walked by.

"hey cutie," he winked at E.C. "my offer's still open, we could go over to edge garden as the sun's setting, oh yeah, that'd be super romantic,"

"Take a hike, buddy," Matsu said angrily.

"Whoa," Nights said defensively, "I'm sorry I didn't know she was taken."

"what," Matsu's cheeks turned bright in, "oh no, I don't like her, well I do, but not like that, I mean, she's my friend…"

"Oh come on Mat," Nights laughed, "don't lie." He left.

Matsu glanced at E.C. she was blushing too.