At last, the adventure is coming to an end!

Chapter 12: The Final Battles

NiGHTS glared at Reala. "I know we have a big battle thing to go on, but I must ask you something first."

"Shoot."

"Whenever I got captured, you seemed to be, uh, nice to me. Care to explain?" NiGHTS asked.

"Yeah, care to explain?" the four echoed.

Reala sighed, then answered, "Ok, you see... I missed you."

"You missed me?!" Elliot asked in shock.

"Not you!" Reala snapped. "NiGHTS."

NiGHTS gasped, "I-I'm flattered!"

Reala explained, "Ever since you left Wizeman, I missed you being my former roommate. Even though I had to obey Wizeman to destroy you, I sort of felt that there was some hope of you coming back. So I tried to be nice to you to come back to us."

NiGHTS glanced at the four Visitors, then spoke to Reala, "Sorry, but I like saving Nightopia rather than destroying it."

Reala then said, "Then you leave me no choice." He lunged at NiGHTS, but she dodged. The two battled each other directly, with the Visitors cheering NiGHTS on.

"I always thought that NiGHTS and Reala battled each other with giant balls." Will commented as he watched them fight.

"No, they always had fought directly. Who told you something as weird as that?" Elliot questioned.

NiGHTS then delivered the final blow, knocking Reala off the Bell Tower of Song. Reala cried as he went down, "Wizeman will take care of you!"

After watching Reala fall, NiGHTS flew back to the Visitors and told them, "The time has come for us to defeat Wizeman. Let's do it!"

Wizeman's Throne Room

NiGHTS and the four Visitors flew up to Wizeman. Wizeman sneered, "So, you finally made it. Don't think you can destroy me forever. Remember last time we had this discussion?"

"Yeah," NiGHTS replied, a hint of uneasiness in her speech. "You said that if I beat you, then I'll be destroyed, since I was your creation. But I beat you, and here I still am."

"Yes, I was pondering about that abnormality myself the last time I came to be. Then I remembered that I am alive as long as there is darkness in the hearts of humans. That was when I realized that you are alive as long as there is good in the hearts of humans."

"So what are you getting at here?" NiGHTS asked.

Wizeman responded, "I know that I must conquer the Night Dimension first, then conquer the Day Dimension. Every Visitor in the Day Dimension shall work for me, and be forced to do away with their good traits. And then I shall be guaranteed to truly live forever."

"That's what it is all about? Conquering both dimensions just for your selfish pleasure of being immortal?" NiGHTS challenged.

"It's not called a pleasure if it is crucial to your to how long you shall live." Wizeman answered. "But we're wasting time. Let's begin!" His hands glowed with a bright energy, then were released with a bright flash.

NiGHTS and the four Visitors tried to shield themselves, but the blast didn't hit them. Instead, it was intended to shift the direction of the gravity in the Night Dimension, enough to make everything fall sideways.

"How does it feel to have your world rotate 90 degrees?" Wizeman laughed. The four Visitors and NiGHTS flew around and settled onto Wizeman's cape. His six hands surrounded the heroes, ready to attack.

NiGHTS turned to the Visitors and announced, "Now is the final battle. All of us have to Dualize. Ready?" Before the four could respond, NiGHTS grabbed Will and Claris's hands, then the rest proceeded to hold each other's hands. In a white flash, the four Visitors and NiGHTS transformed into four NiGHTSs.

Wizeman cackled, "You may outnumber me, but you haven't outnumbered my hands!" His hands started to shoot beams at the Dualized Visitors. All four quickly dodged them, but more beams kept being shot from Wizeman's hands.

"Hold on, maybe his hands are his weak spot this time!" Claris thought outloud.

"Are you sure? How can we find out?" Helen asked.

"We have to attack the hands without being shot!" Will responded.

"We can do that by confusing him!" Elliot suggested. He flew around wildly, but still being careful to avoid the beams. The other three saw were this was going, so they flew around as well.

"Just give up and stay still!" Wizeman growled. He continuously shot more beams, but didn't notice Helen flying towards one of his hands. She watched her timing, then Drill Dashed into the eye. Wizeman howled with pain as his hand fell down. Still, Wizeman persisted, shooting more powerful beams this time. Yet, the Visitors continued to take down his hands. Soon, Wizeman had no hands at all. All four Visitors Drill Dashed into Wizeman to finish him off.

NiGHTS congratulated, "Yes! Wizeman is defeated!" As gravity shifted back to its original direction, NiGHTS UnDualized with the Visitors.

Wizeman grumbled, "So, you chose to still defeat me and destroy yourself in the process, only for both of us to live again. But this time, we shall be gone for a much longer time. Much, much longer." A white light began to engulf Wizeman and NiGHTS.

"No, NiGHTS! Please don't go!" the Visitors cried.

NiGHTS smiled and spoke, "We will meet again." The white light continued to grow larger and brighter, until it filled up everything...

Yep, that's the final battle. We shall see how this story concludes in the final two chapters that are coming up.