Okey dokey, here's chappie 5 to my story! Sorry it took me so long to update, I've been busy with applying to college and such. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this chapter, sorry if it isn't too long.

(Human) Jackle POV

Is it possible to be so nervous that you can't breathe, no literally…can't breathe?

So here we are, preparing to go to the Night dimension to save the waking world…that is if this place even exist, which I highly doubt it does. But everyone else seems to buy it, including Monroe; he's practically the only reason why I agreed to go. I like him, no really, I really like him. It's funny, I've only met him a little while ago, but…there's something about him that I just really like.

Anyway, I'm just packing and getting myself ready. I don't exactly know how long we'll be gone, so better to be safe than sorry. I just figured that if we do meet some Nightmare people, I should at least make sure that I look cute. I rummaged through my closet and located one of my favorite outfits; my orange finger-less gloves, orange knee high socks, black mid-thigh shorts, and a black tight T-shirt that said 'bite me' scribbled in orange writing. Hey. If those Nightmares are allowed to look weird constantly, why can't I, huh?

Plus, I think I look hot, I wonder what Monroe will think. I grabbed my blue backpack off my bed and slung it onto my shoulder. I'm pretty sure I packed everything I needed; extra clothes, first aid kit, tazer and mace, cell phone charger, cell phone, map, hairbrush, toothbrush, uhhh, I think that's all. Oh, almost forgot my medication, don't wanna forget those. I grabbed the six pill bottles of my dresser and fit them into my backpack, along with my favorite fleece blanket (this is a really big backpack). Okay, I headed out into the hallway and hear everyone else, I guess I took a bit longer that I thought.

The clock strikes 12:30 am; Monroe must have run home for a bit because he was sitting on the couch with a big black tote bag resting between his calves. Reala and NiGHTS were in the kitchen, debating on what food to bring along. While the nightmaren were in the corner of the room, looking over at us, muttering something. Damn, they're weird, really weird.

I cleared my throat to get their attention, "Mkay, are you all ready? Cause I wanna get going."

NiGHTS looked over at me, "Took you long enough, we're going to save a society, we're not going to a fashion show." Monroe chuckled at his comment.

I looked over at him, "What, do you not like my outfit?"

Monroe looked back at me and smiled, "Of course not, it's very flattering on you."

I blushed and smiled back, "Thank you, ya see NiGHTS, at least Monroe is nice to me," I playfully stuck my tongue out at him and he rolled his eyes at me.

I turned to the Nightmare guys, "So are you guys ready?"

Ree ree eyed me and floated forward, "Yes, if you all are."

"We definitely are, so lets see this world of yours." Yea I was being totally sarcastic, but come on, who would believe a lame story like this.

Ree ree motioned for all of us to come in the room, and grabbed a strange looking orb crystal thing from his jacket. The object began to float and an eerie red glow came from it, casting everything in a red fog.

Reala and NiGHTS looked around at each other with confused expressions; NiGHTS moved in closer and wrapped his arms around him, whimpering slightly.

"Wha…what's going on?" NiGHTS asked.

Ree ree looked up at him, "We're opening a dimensional gate. This allows us to leave this dimension and enter the dream dimension."

"Dream…dimension," Reala looked just as confused as NiGHTS did.

A strange sound began to spout from the orb, making the whole room shake and quiver. I tightened my grip on Monroe's hand, not that I would ever admit it, but I was pretty freaked out. The room's fog increased to the point where I couldn't even see in front of my face, then…silence.

The room went pitch black and nobody was anywhere to be seen. I though maybe it was the darkness that made everyone seem to disappear, but I could see myself perfectly. In fact, I was almost like I was glowing or something. I felt weightless, like I was falling, and sure enough when I looked down, I had to have been at least a hundred feet in the air. I wanted to scream but nothing came out, I wasn't even scared, I was just kinda drifting down slowly into the odd meadow-looking field. It was beautiful, if only the cross-country team ran here. The sky was a deep royal blue with tinges of purple and red and plenty of stars, the grass looked lush and soft, and there were dandelions and other beautiful glowing flowers that were taller than I was. Lakes and small streams ran through the more wooded areas and little bald cone headed creatures frolicked though them. Everything looked like…like it came out of a dream or something. Soon enough, I drifted down and landed pretty gracefully right on my ass. I guess I underestimated how numb my legs were from dimension jumping.

Wait a sec… if we are really in a different dimension, than those freaky nightmare guys really weren't lying…freaky. Wait where is everyone?

I looked all around, but all I could see were those freaky bald cone headed thingies. But I figured, what's the worse thing that could happen.

I walked over and grabbed one of the bald things, holding him out in front of me like he had the plague or some sort of STD.

"Uhh…hi. Have you seen any boys around here?"

"…ggggggglllll…"

Not knowing exactly what the unsettling gurgling noise meant, I decided to try to continue.

"Uh, one had purple long ponytails, one has red and black hair, and…three are nightmares."

"…gggggggllll…"

I face palmed myself after setting him down, though he was still staring at me."

"Umm, one of the nightmares kinda has a face like…this" I said, pulling at my face with my fingertips, trying to make my best 'Ree ree' impersonation.

"…AHHHHHhhhhh"

The poor thing floated away faster than I ever thought anything could float, bursts of tears spurting from his eyes, tripping over his own inflated tiny wings in the process.

"Oh…uhh, sorry little guy…" Geez, I didn't mean to terrify it in the process, though that was kinda funny.

"We leave you for a few minutes and you already terrorize a local, what are we to do with you?"

I looked behind me and saw all the others coming over, Monroe laughing at my just-got-caught-red-handed expression.

"Where did you guys come from? I was with you all and then you all just weren't there."

We all began walking in the direction that the nightmares were heading.

Ree ree responded, "The dimension jump method works best with only a few people, the larger the group, the bigger the chance that everyone will get separated. It just so happened that you were sent astray."

"Lucky me…" I muttered under my breath.

Reala began fiddling with his black military style jacket, "Where are we heading?"

Nii turned his head with a smile, "To Wizeman's castle, hopefully, with you all here and with the help of your…our ideyas, this war should be over soon."

NiGHTS slowed his pace to walk in step with Reala, "Who's Wizeman?"

Jacks raised his hand enthusiastically, "MY TURN, MY TURN TO ANSWER SOMETHING!" He cleared his throat dramatically, "Wizeman is the creator of Nightmare and the Nightmaren, he our Lord, Master, Leader, Ruler, Chief, …Superintendent, uhh excetra."

"So," I began, "If this Wizeman guy created you all, and we are parts of you all, then technically we were created by Wizeman too, right?"

Nii rubbed his chin in thought, "I never thought of it that way, but yea, I guess you are right."

"Then that means that we aren't human…" I was getting really freaked out now, I mean, I always knew that I was different, a little odd, but I never though that I wasn't human.

"I guess you guys aren't, you have nightmaren blood in a human shell. But I'm not exactly sure, you can ask Wizeman about that."

I guess Monroe could sense my discomfort, cause he slid behind the group to walk next to me.

[A/N: if you guys are having problems visualizing how they are walking; the nightmaren are leading the way, NiGHTS and Reala are in step behind them, and Monroe and Jackle are lagging in the back]

He touched my arm slightly, "Hey, you alright?"

We spoke quietly enough so nobody else would to be able to hear us.

I was honest, "No not really, I'm really freaked out and confused. I always felt like an outcast because I'm really, really strange, I don't have parents, I don't have any clue where the hell I came from, I have a serious gambling and magic obsession, and I can't seem to hold a relationship to save my life. And then these nightmares waltz their way into my life and inform me that I'm not even human, hell I wasn't even born, I was assembled by fragments of their ideya soul thing-..."

The last thing I wanted was to sound weak but I couldn't help it, it was like word vomit, I just couldn't stop rambling.

"- so how am I…wow…look at that."

Our whole group, minus the nightmarens who stared at us like we were stupid, stared at the large kingdom in front of us.

"This is Nightmare, and that is the Nightmare palace where Lord Wizeman lives." Ree ree spoke in his official tone.

The place was huge, I couldn't even see where it ended, length or width wise. It had a creepy black/purple foggy haze coating the ground, or at least what I though was the ground, and the sky was a similar color. The palace looked more like a Medieval Renaissance castle on steroids; super high pointy rooftops, high arched window, and wrap around balconies around the higher levels of the pointy tops. It was truly a sight to see.

Jacks spoke up first, "Well, don't you all want to meet him?"

"I don't know…" NiGHTS responded, "I've always wanted to meet my father, but now I'm kinda having second thoughts."

"I'm not too keen on this either, I was perfectly happy living a lie…" Reala added in monotone.

I had to say something, "Well guys, as much as I would love to back out, we can't, we made a deal remember…"

"No", NiGHTS answered.

"Yea, we promised that if they were right, we'd stay and help out, and…they weren't lying." As much as I hated to admit that I was wrong, I was one hundred percent wrong on this one. "But Monroe, if you don't want to stay, you don't have to. You're the only one who doesn't have to be here."

Monroe looked over at me and gave me a smile, "Nah, I'm not going to abandon you guys. Plus what kind of a teacher would I be if I left my students in a different dimension to fight a war."

I returned his smile and grabbed his hand, I figured that if he minded he would have pulled it away, but he didn't.

So we all walked towards the door, the feeling of dread settling deeper and deeper into my stomach. Before we reached the door, we saw another nightmaren in a strange costume. She had pink rabbit looking ears, a pink corset top that held her unusually large bosom, and…a beach ball for legs. She was holding a thin wineglass gently in her gloved hands as she sang another ungodly high pitch note. I suppose she was trying to make the glass break, at the rate she was going, she could easily demolish a town with the voice, and that's not a compliment. When the glass wouldn't break, she muttered angrily to herself in a high pitched voice, and then took another deep breath for round two. Thankfully Ree ree got her attention before she could destroy any more innocent eardrums.

"Oh you're back, I'll go and inform Master Wizeman." Before the woman-rabbit-thing could bounce away, she took a glance at us; first at NiGHTS and Reala, than at Monroe and I.

"Who are those visitors?" She asked.

Thankfully Jacks was quick to clarify, "Puffy, did Master Wizeman tell you about our mission," she nodded as he continued with a smile, "well, these are our ideya halves."

He pointed each of us out, "That's NiGHTS, and that's Reala," they gave a little wave, "This is Jackle and that is Jackle's friend, Monroe." I gave a nice half-hearted smile.

"…Ohhhh…" I can't tell if she said that with understanding, fear, or just plain confusion. But all I knew was that she was looking me up and down, like I was some kinda piece of meat or something. She covered her blushing face and bounced into the building as fast as she could, while we just stood in her dust cloud, confused as always.

"Are they all going to have that reaction," Cause I might just have to reconsider this field trip if I'm gonna be eye-groped all day. Monroe didn't seem too happy nether, and if I'm not mistaken, I swore his grip on my hand got a bit tighter. I couldn't help but smile a bit more.

"Trust me," Nii began with confidence, "I know nightmaren, and unless it involves them personally, they aren't really into gossip."

He flew forward and opened the front doors. We all walked in a bit timidly, and either Nii was wrong or Puffy knew how to spread gossip pretty quickly, cause every single nightmaren, over a hundred or so, had their eyes on us.

Ree ree, Nii and Jacks all changed their demeanor and had their heads held high and backs stiff as they floated through the crowd of nightmares. We, on the other hands, had to scurry and weave our way through because they didn't part like the Red Sea when we came through. I just focused on not making eye contact with anyone, because every time I happened to look up, there was some freaky creature staring right back at me. I can't remember how many hallways we've passed, but there are so many levels, corridors, and hidden passageways in this place. Eventually, we reached a pair of large doors, at least 25-35 ft tall, with an engraved picture of a large floating hand with an eye in the center.

Weird, where have I seen this before. I reach my hand into my bag and dig around for a second before calling out to the others.

"Look, it matches!" I held out the onyx colored necklace that was found with me when I was a baby; it was shaped like a hand with an eye in the middle.

"Yea, NiGHTS and I have one too," Reala and NiGHTS pulled theirs out of their shirts, I guess they never took theirs off.

"Well are you all ready?" Ree ree stepped forward and pushed the doors open.

We all took a deep breath and walked inside.

Okey dokey, kinda left on a cliffhanger there. Anyway, please give me some feed back on if I'm moving too fast on Monroe and Jackle's budding romance. Thanks, hope to be updating soon. LATER!