Chapter 4

Elise followed Helen as she guided her through Aqua Garden. Elise was so amazed by the beauty and wonder that filled this nightopia's of Helen's. Elise eventually got over the surprise that even though her and Helen were underwater they weren't able to get wet. Helen even told Elise about her two other nightopia's, Crystal Castle and Memory Forest. Elise was so overjoyed by her conversation with Helen. She was even more overjoyed to learn that Helen knew NiGHTS too. But she admitted to Elise that she never met Illia before. Elise just then noticed something. Helen was being like a friend to her. Just like NiGHTS something told Elise that she could trust even though she usually doesn't make friends to avoid being hurt. But now Elise was beginning to open up and unafraid to be friendly but she still had her fear slightly.

"You know I never seen Jackle before either." Helen finally stated which snapped Elise out of her thoughts.

"Oh. Well It seems NiGHTS and Illia knew him." she replied.

"Well consider yourself lucky it wasn't Reala."

Elise just then froze in shock. Helen saw this and that told her instantly that Elise had already had a run in with Reala.

"So you did end up meeting him." Helen said.

"First at the Dream Gate and second at my nightopia Pleasure Plains."

Pleasure Plains is what Elise finally decided to name her nightopia. She called it Pleasure Plains for how it seemed to give her the feeling of pleasure when she was there and the fact that there was nothing else but plains.

"He was after NiGHTS after first but the second time he said he wanted to talk to her alone." Elise said.

Helen became instantly confused by this and wondered why Reala would want to talk to NiGHTS. Of course Elise and Helen had no kind of idead of what might have happened since they're pretty clueless on what was going on between NiGHTS and Reala. Finally the two tweleve year-olds reached the door that lead back to the Dream Gate. Elise thanked Helen and waved goodbye before going through the door. Once she was back at the Dream Gate she quickly ran to the door that lead to her nightopia Pleasure Plains and entered it. When she entered she saw Jackle zoom past her with a look of panic. She turned head to see NiGHTS shaking head with a sigh and Illia laughing out loud. Just then the two noticed Elise.

"Elise your alright!" NiGHTS exclaimed.

Elise ran over to them with a smile on her face.

"That hole I fell in sent me Aqua Garden were I met Helen."

"Who's Helen?" Elise asked in a dull tone.

NiGHTS answered "It's a child vistor I helped in the past."

Illia mouthed the word "Oh." and took a sitting position where she leaned on her arm that was supported by her leg which was crossed over the other one while her other arm rested on top of her crossed legs. Elise still tried to get use to the fact that NiGHTS and Illia can sit in a sitting position while still floating off the ground.

"Okay let's go find your ideya." NiGHTS told Elise while holding out her hand.

Elise nodded and touched it causing her to dualize with NiGHTS.

"You guys go look for the ideya. I'm going back to the Dream Gate and will be back after a while." Illia said.

NiGHTS nodded which of course caused transparent Elise to nod too. The two took off and Illia flew back to the Dream Gate. As Elise and NiGHTS searched for the ideya NiGHTS couldn't stop thinking about Reala. Every single time she tried to focus on the current task she thought of Reala again. It was unaware to her that she had a face of pleasure on her face as she thought about Reala. Elise saw this but decided to not to say anything about it.

Meanwhile back with Eric and Derek they were still looking for Derek's ideya. They searched and searched but still couldn't seem to find it.

"Eric?" Derek asked. "Can we take a break from looking for the ideya?"

Eric thought about it and undualized with Derek.

"Okay you can play around here for a while but make sure you come back to the Dream Gate before the awakeners come because if they catch they'll make you wake up." he said.

Derek nodded in understandment. Seeing Derek was clearly aware of what he was told Eric flew back to the Dream Gate. When he landing next to the fountain he was about to play on his invisible piano until he saw something. There he saw across from him was Illia leaning against a tree, staring at the sky. With a smirk on his face he flew up behind Illia and quickly wrapped his arms around her. Illia spun around to meet his face and formed a smirk on her face too.

"Must you always do that Eric?" she asked in a playful tone.

"Yeah becuase you're too beautiful to ignore." he smirked.

Illia shook her head with a smile. Instantly she got out of his arms and zoomed up in the air.

"If I'm so beautiful you'll come after me!" she laughed.

Eric laughed as he flew after her. He chased her deep in the forest while both were still laughing. Finally near the lake he caught her."

"Got ya!" he laughed as he tackled her. They were rolling on the ground from the landing caused by Eric tackling Illia. When thye stopped Eric quickly leapt up and pinned Illia underneath him.

"Eric get off!" she laughed

"I caught you so what makes you think I'm going to get off." he smirked.

Illia smiled as she wrapped her arms his back and Eric wrapped his arms around her waist. Finally Eric kissed Illia gently on the lips. Illia closed her eyes, moving one of her hands from Eric's back to his head and turned the kiss into a passionate one. They stayed like that for three minutes until finally pulling apart.

"You know I have some time to kill so we could do something." Illia smirked.

"I like that idea." Eric smirked back.

They both returned back to their passionate kiss which would end up leading to something else.

Back with Elise and NiGHTS they continued searching for the ideya. Just then Elise spotted something. She noticed these strange creatures. They all looked like beatiful women except there skin was as white as snow. They had long elegant hair except each one had different colored hair. Not natural hair color like brunette or blond but bright vibrant colors like green, pink, yellow, and all the colors you can think of. They wore long elegant dress that had long strings of crystals to make up the dress. Elise noticed that the creatures had no sign of feet. Infact they had no sign of legs either. They did have hands and arms. On their arms they wore long elegant gloves that sparkled with crystals. Their face had sparkling markings that were made of glitter. Elise could also see they had the ability to fly since they floating off the ground.

"NiGHTS what are those?" Elise asked.

"Oh those are Color Spirits." NiGHTS answered.

"Color spirits?"

"Yeah. It pretty rare to see one since most people don't ever get to see them."

"What do they do?" Elise asked in amazement.

"Well you see they're the ones that give Nightopia it's color. Using the light they give vibrant colors to each of the nightopias."

Elise watched in amazement as she saw the Color Spirits. Soar through the light and where they flew there was brighter more vibrant colors. Finally the Color Spirits flew off to bring vibrant colors to another nightopia.

"That was amazing!" Elise exclaimed.

"Sure was and who knew you would end up one of the lucky ones to get to see them." NiGHTS said.

Elise smiled with happiness and they continued back on their search for her ideya.

Back in Memory Forest Reala was sitting on a tree branch hidden deep within the tree's leaves so no one could see him. His arm lay across his knee which he had up. In his other hand he held on tightly to his persona. Reala let out a rough sigh as he thought about NiGHTS. Usually his main focus would be always totry to take her back to Wizeman but now he doesn't want to take her back against her will since Reala is now in love with NiGHTS just as much as she is in love with him. Reala help but smirk to himself thinking NiGHTS' beauty and that special moment that they both shared in the hidden area of Memory Forest. He glanced down at his persona in his hand.

"Soon I'll make everything work out." he muttered to himself.

Derek was tracking through the snow in his nightopia making sure to stay close to the door so that when the awakeners show up he can easily get to the Dream Gate where they can't get him. Just then he noticed something sparkling in the distance. Curious of what it was he walked off in that direction. When he got to the spot he saw the shinning object he noticed something was burried underneath the snow. He uncovered it to discover the most shocking thing. The white ideya of purity. Right as he was about to pick it up he herad something. Out of no where appeared a giant green chameleon lizard wearing a pink top hat, pink jacket, had no lower legs, and carrying a magician's wand. Derek began to panic slightly because he was never fond of lizards. He swiped the white ideya and stuffed his inside it's jacket.

When he was coming towards Derek all of the sudden he was blinded by snow. Derek didn't know what was going on until a hand was extended out to him. Infront of Derek was a creature that looked like a Color Spirit except this creature had tan skin and had white hair. Instead of the dress and gloves being made out of crystal this creature's dress and gloves were made out of snow.

"Come with me to safety." the creature said in a soft voice.

Derek nodded and took the creature's hand. The creature took to the air with Derek in tow. They kept flying until the creature landed in front of the door that lead back to the Dream Gate.

"Make sure to be more careful." the creature said.

Derek nodded and watched it fly off. Just then Eric finally came back.

"What did I miss?" Eric asked in a dazed voice.

Derek didn't know why Eric was talking like that but he he answered "I found the white ideya then this giant lizard showed up and stole it."

Eric shook his head and said "Oh come on! Not Chamelon!" in an angry tone.

"And before he could get me a strange creature with white hair and a white dress saved me." Derek finished.

Eric stared at Derek in shock.

"You saw a Snow Spirit!"

"Snow Spirit?" Derek asked.

"Yes. Snow Spirits are creatures that give only certain nightopias snow."

Derek was amazed to learn he saw a rare creature.

"But right now we need to get your ideya back from Chamelon." Eric stated.

Derek nodded in agreement. The two dualized with eachother. Derek knew even though he isn't fond of reptiles he still needed to go and get his ideya back. So the two took off flying in the direction Chamelon was last seen to get back Derek's white ideya.