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The Light looked so inviting… So reassuring and peaceful…
In the midst of this Shining Road… She stood. Into the Light. Upon the Light. She was the Light… Inside the Light.
She was beautiful… An angel… Her beloved one's angel… She was a heroine… A saint… A Goddess? No… Gods are immortal. She was not.
She could feel it. The end was near… The Vessel of the Apocalypse has been vanquished… Thanks to her sacrifice. She did it.
She did it!
In the purity of the Shining Road… She didn't feel pain… She didn't feel sadness… She felt nothing more than peace… All was numb. All was quiet. All was perfect…
All was so… Lonely.
We all die alone, it seems.
A few tears softly escaped from her blue eyes… She was ready to embrace her destiny… Only, she didn't want to do it alone… She was scared of solitude… Of the frightening feeling of being lonely… Without someone to hang and have fun with… Without Him.
And so, she felt them … Sadness and regret. They were numb no more.
She endured them all too well… She was going to the Light… To the end of the road… She was going to die… Alone.
Alone.
Alone… Not!
She heard the screams… The cries… Calling her name… Begging her to stop.
She turned her head and her eyes widened… He was there! He has followed her! He came for her…
Her lover.
His image was not clear… But she knew it was him. She could not mistake the sound of his voice… His desperate voice.
Her heart skipped a beat… He was not supposed to be there… He would die with her… She didn't want him to follow her. She wanted him to live!
No… You don't belong here… Return to your world… Return to your life… Forget her.
Forget her existence and live! Do it…
Do it for her… Live for her… Fight for her… And don't look back… Be happy.
Be happy… Without her.
But it was too late… He has reached her and didn't want to let her go… He said he loved her with all his might… She cried in commotion… He cried too.
They kissed each other tenderly and tenderly embraced… The Shining Road was ending… Pure Lightness was upon them.
Suddenly… A foreign force pulled him away from her… He desperately tried to stay but he couldn't… She sweetly smiled at him…
A smile full of sadness… And love.
This is where they shall separate… This is where the road ends.
She cried her love for him… She yelled it until he was in sight no more. Her time has come…
But where a life would end… Another would begin… Or at least, this seemed to be the case.
Her now long, two-tailed light green hair were gently moved by a sudden breeze… Her pink side roses shook mystically as if in preparation of a great event. She closed her eyes… Tears still spreading like a river…
And then… It happened.
Something dropped from her bloomed buds… Something small and delicate… Two seeds… Two unborn children… Her children.
Two twins… Two twin seeds. The future of her species… Born from her love towards him.
She watched her prodigies fall away from her… She smiled a motherly smile at them. She then took off her chest the red Chaos Emerald she utilized to save her world and let it fall along with the seeds…
They all shall return to the dimension they belonged… Her descendants shall grow strong thanks to the power of the red gem… The gem she was born with, in the first place… Her legacy.
She dried her tears and, slowly, turned towards the Light… She was ready for it… Or so she thought.
Her last remembrances before pure numbness: her soul mate… And the unborn children…
Yes, they would grow and live the life they deserved to live… Both of them would…
Hopefully.
It was a beautiful morning in Nightopia, NiGHTS's own realm, as always… And its jester ruler just awoke from her latest strange dream…
We shall gladly ignore the disfiguring paradox of having a dream inside a dreamland and move on with the story.
… She was having a lot of those strange dreams lately and all of them would give clues about her family's genesis… Or better, the family she dearly hoped to find… Someday… In the real world… If a real world existed, that is.
For some reason, she could not see her father's features (or the features she thought were her father's) and that clearly annoyed her. She almost felt as if her own dreams were backstabbing her… Or maybe, they were just trying to protect her from a dangerous truth… Who knew? Not her for certain.
And it bothered her the fact that she could not understand her own dreams anymore… She was the guardian of dreams, after all! She was the vessel of those joyful and happy utopias… But, as she already realized before, she was more than that.
She was a living person and therefore, she had her issues… Was her?
NiGHTS just sighed… It was perfectly useless to get distressed by such things… Especially since she now had a new friend to play with.
She yawned and stretched her arms and legs, ready to begin the day. She fixed her long two-tailed purple and black hat and checked her dress… She wanted to appear impeccable in the eyes of her guest… Those cute blue eyes he had, similar to her own. She couldn't wait to meet him again, she only hoped he wasn't as grumpy as her brother used to be.
Once she felt ready, the joyous childish being darted towards the place where she left her visitor the last night… While flying, she couldn't help but compare him to some kind of a cute, fluffy pet ready to be hugged and cuddled to death… She giggled within herself at the thought.
Somewhere… A certain vulpine boy shivered in sudden fear… Impending mushiness was upon him.
