The two boys didn't hesitate to run upstairs to get to the portal. The two boys ran up to the portal, seeing the dark blue fog that was coming out around it, and nothing but the sight of red being inside the vortex itself. It was probably the scariest thing James has ever encountered in his life, that's for sure.

"Leaf, just so you know, if we're really going in there to save Makoto, I feel like there's no turning back." James said. "Don't you know that you're weak whenever you're near this nightmare stuff? What if you..." Leaf looks down, shaking his head.

"I maybe into Petal more than Makoto, but I'm not just going to let her get destroyed in that dimension." Leaf said. "Who knows what could happen to somebody like her in there anyway."

"But Leaf, what about you?"

Leaf looks down, before looking behind himself at Petal who was trying to make sure that the crown was high in the air. Esma was already trying to stand up, as Preston was still trying to wake up from being knocked down. Closing his eyes for a couple moments, Leaf looks at James.

"Then...I already said what I needed to say to Petal. The other elves might not see me as much of one of them, but I'm happy that I was able to call somebody a friend for once." Leaf said, smiling at James.

The geeky goth pulls out the toy badge that he's been keeping ever since his father's death. He hugs it for a couple seconds, before placing it back into his pocket. He then wipes a tear from his eye, before facing the portal.

"Then I hope my dad is watching over me when I do this..." James said, before he and Leaf nodded at each other. "Then let's do this."

"Let's do this." Leaf said, bumping fists with James.

The two boys ran into the Nightmare Realm's portal, leaving Petal and Pine-Cone to fight off Esma and Preston. Or in this case, just Esma, as the prep decided to go into the Nightmare Realm to follow James and Leaf in there to stop them. Petal stared at Preston as he entered the portal as well, not being aware of the fact that Esma was coming right behind her.

At the last second, Jenny came into the warehouse, through the back door, noticing the MorcuCorp girl behind the female elf. The geeky girl kicks a nearby cart with boxes on it, sending it going straight towards Esma. The female elf opened her eyes, seeing the cart knocking Esma out.

"You okay, Petal?!" Jenny asked, running up to her. Petal nods her head, looking at the MorcuCorp girl laying in a pile of boxes. "Where's James and Leaf?"

"They went into the Nightmare Realm to save Makoto." Petal said, looking back at the portal upstairs. "We can't destroy the crown with them in there! They'll be trapped forever if we do so!" Jenny then looks up at the crown that was above on the branches of the trees.

"At least the crown is away from Esma..."

The two looked over to the boxes, seeing Esma standing up from them. The girl then ran straight up to the branches, ready to climb up them. Jenny decided to hold Petal onto her own shoulder, keeping her eyes on Esma as she was climbing up to the crown.

"Of course she is..." Jenny mutters to herself, glaring up at the MorcuCorp girl. "Think we can try to stop Esma together?" Petal looked at the geeky girl for a few seconds, before nodding her head.

"Alright. What do you want me to do?" Petal asked her.

"Just try to slow Esma down as best as you can. I'll try to get to the crown."

"We'll try to stop her as best as we can." Pine-Cone said walking up to them.

"Thanks."

Jenny then charges straight towards the side of the trees. A branch broke right through the wall of the warehouse, as Jenny got onto it. She looks up at the ceiling as the branch went higher off of the ground.


Inside the Nightmare Realm...

It was a lot worse than Leaf would've thought it would be when they got in...

Once they got through the portal, it actually looks like the exact same place as it did in the town before. Exact the place was dark, and the color red was pretty much everywhere. The smell of death nearly made both boys sick to their stomachs. The two were standing in the exact same spot as the warehouse had the vortex located at.

The two ran downstairs, and over to the garage door that leads outside of the building. None of them could see Makoto anywhere in this town. It was the same as the town that it was back outside the Nightmare Realm. The only difference was was that it was completely red where the ground, and plants were, and the sky was completely black. The buildings looked the exact same as they did back outside of the Nightmare Realm, but they all looked old and abandoned. There also appeared to be pretty high mountains around the area they were in.

Leaf held the side of his head, as he was looking around the nightmare version of the town they were in. "So...I really need to know dude..." Leaf started off saying. "Is there anything that we need to worry about in this place, or not?"

"Yeah, we totally have a lot to worry about. Let's just say that there's monsters around here, and the last thing you need to do in here is to imagine your worst fear." James told the elf. Leaf walks over to the grass that was to the left of the outskirts of town, seeing the dying, red grass on the ground.

"Damn...if this is really what the plants looks like around here, I'd hate to see what the Forest of the Elves would look like in this place. Hell, I don't want to imagine how the elves around here are like, if everything here is a nightmare." Leaf cringed, before shaking his head. "Damn...the idea of actually using magic to save nature would be...oh crap...I can't imagine that..."

"Dude, whatever happens, we need to keep our minds off of what we fear the most, and not stumble upon those beasts around here."

"But where would Makoto be around a place like this anyway?" James looks over to the town, before looking at Leaf again.

"I really don't know..." James points at the town ahead of them. "...But if you ask me, I feel like Makoto isn't too far...hopefully, I mean...we just better hope she's in this part of the town and nowhere else."

The geeky goth then looked forward at the town again. He saw that there were black shadowy figures walking into the street. James then looks over to the nearby building. He saw an alley-way that leads behind the buildings. He then looks at Leaf.

"Then let's not stand around and wait for these guys to come find us here. If Jenny was here, she'd be telling me that these guys are not wanting visitors coming in their dimension. Come on." James said, running into the alley-way behind the nearest row of buildings.

Leaf then looks ahead, before following James into the back alley-way that the geeky goth was running into. The two boys ran through the alley-way, trying to find and reach Makoto before it's too late.

Little did they know, Preston just entered the Nightmare Realm once they entered the alley-way, anger shown on his face. The prep didn't see James and Leaf running through the alley-way, but he knew he was going to get his revenge on them, one way or the other. He didn't care if the monsters ended up finding him, he just wanted to get James and Leaf to die first, even if it kills him too.


Back outside of the Nightmare Crown...

Esma was just close to getting the Nightmare Crown from the top of the many tree branches that were breaking through the warehouse. The MorcuCorp girl gave the crown a smirk, before attempting to make her way towards the item hanging off of one of the branches. Esma ran as quick as she could, only for her to grab to the crown in the end...

But not before Jenny came along, also grabbing the crown from the other branch across the building...

Esma looks up, seeing Jenny also holding onto the crown as well. The girl's smile of victory turned into shock, then anger. She tried to pull the crown away from Jenny, as the geeky girl was holding onto the branch she was on. Jenny also pulled at the Nightmare Crown, glaring at Esma.

"Let go of the crown, you bitch! You lost!" Esma screams at her.

"Me, James, and Leaf didn't lose yet, Esma!" Jenny shouts, attempting to pull the Nightmare Crown from the MorcuCorp girl. "Morcubus's plan back, he didn't succeeded in it...there's no way I'm letting you finish this!"

"Oh, I know exactly how I'm finishing all of this!" Esma pulls at the crown even harder, sending Jenny off of the edge. Esma glared down at Jenny. "Time for you to die, Jenny!"

Esma kicks Jenny's hand, making the geeky girl let go of the ground. Petal threw some magic up towards the spot that Jenny was falling at, causing a branch to come out of one of the trees. The branch comes Jenny, just in time.

"Thanks Petal!" Jenny shouts from the branch. Petal began to float herself upward towards the direction that Esma was running towards. The female elf got in front of Esma, stopping her from moving anywhere else. "What the?! Oh, I'm so scared, an elf has be stopped with her little gem..." Esma glared at Petal. "...Step aside, chump!"

"Do know that the power you have in the Nightmare Crown is hazardous to the world around you!" Petal shouts. "It doesn't matter if you want to rule or the world or not! Opening the power will not only endanger the rest of the elves, but you'll destroy the world as well!"

"You know, if only I cared what you're telling me..."

"Then you'd probably care if we stop you." Pine-Cone said, holding up a hand full of magic. "Hand over the crown so that that gem can be destroyed, once and for all!"

"Oh...you know, you say that...but then I took the realization that the Nightmare Realm is where James and Leaf are in right now, saving that robot girl from being destroyed by a bunch of nightmare creatures." Petal and Pine-Cone kept their glares on Esma, as she was backing up from them. "You know...since you guys want to destroy this new Nightmare Crown, I think I'll destroy it...after a monster comes out of the portal. But it might be awhile until a monster finds that portal...but enough talk, once I see a figure come out of there that's either Preston or a shadowy nightmare creature, this crown is going to be destroyed."

"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Jenny shouts from behind Esma, running straight at her.

"What the..."

Just without a warning, Jenny starts to attack Esma, trying to get the crown from her. Esma tried her best to fight back, only for the crown to be taken away by, once again, another tree branch that just broke it's way into the warehouse. Esma and Jenny glared at each other, before they started to charge straight for the crown again.

Petal sends some magic towards Esma, keeping the MorcuCorp girl from moving any further. Jenny hops onto the branch that the Nightmare Crown was on, picking it up, then looking over to the portal into the Nightmare Realm. She looked extremely worried for her boyfriend and her two other friends.

"James...I hope you're okay in there..." Jenny said softly to herself.