I do not own the NiGHTS into Dreams series. Also, possible OOC-ness. The costumes in this story are from when you play the game with the calendar set to October. Piggy's design is just my own interruption of how she would have looked. I'm not use to describing action scenes so sorry if the action in this isn't all that exciting.

Little side note, since NiGHTS was created with no gender, leaving NiGHTS gender up to the player, I am going to be referring to NiGHTS as they/them.


In the city of Twin Seeds, everyone is preparing for Halloween. Everyone is setting up decorations and stalls filled with food and games for people to enjoy. There are a bunch of people who are trying to take a peak at the preparations. Then, there are people who are getting things set for the Halloween parade.

We see are two heroes, Elliot Edwards and Claris Sinclair helping out with the preparations. Claris and her classmates from school are working on their parade float while Elliot and his classmates are helping set up stalls. While Elliot and his friends are struggling with building the stalls, Claris and her class are trying to figure out where some of the decorations for the parade float should go. But after some time, they finally got their jobs done.

After they finished, a man with brown hair and a beard, shades covering his brown eyes and wearing an indigo suit approaches everyone. This is the mayor of Twin Seeds.

"Great job everyone! You all did a great job in helping us set up for the festival!" The mayor congratulated everyone for their hard work.

Claris and Elliot walk over to each other to talk.

"Geez, that stuff was heavy! I wish Roger and his friends would help out by doing more lifting and less cracking jokes." Elliot complains to Claris.

"I know what you mean. Everyone was complaining on what we should start with for the parade float. But, at least it's finally done." Claris tells Elliot, trying to be optimistic.

"Your right Claris. Despite what happened, I'm excited for the Halloween parade! I already got my Halloween costume ready!" Elliot tells Claris enthusiastically.

"Me too!" Claris tells him.

"I hope everyone will sleep peacefully tonight and be excited for the festival!" The mayor continues talking. "Hopefully you won't get any nightmares. Many people have talked about having weird nightmares on the night before Halloween. Then, when they go to sleep on the night of Halloween, their nightmares start to feel more realistic. So everyone, rest up and sleep well."

After hearing what the mayor have said, Claris and Elliot start to get worried.

"Strange nightmares that start to feel realistic. Do you think that it could be...?" Claris asks Elliot.

"Yeah, I think it might be the Nightmarens causing trouble for innocent people. But how could their power be that strong? Especially if none of these people have actually been in the Night Dimension?" Elliot Starts to question.

"We should probably go see what NiGHTS has to say about this." Claris suggested.

"Alright, tonight we go see what NiGHTS has to say. But where should we meet up there?" Elliot agrees.

"Hmmm... Let's meet up in the Mystic Forest." Claris suggested to Elliot. Elliot agrees.

After they discuss their plans, they leave with their classes to head home. While everyone is excited about Halloween and the festivities coming tomorrow, Elliot and Claris decide to see if any Nightmarens have any plans are up to anything.


Once night came, Elliot and Claris fell asleep in their rooms, hoping to reach the Night Dimension. Before they knew it, they have arrived there in the Mystic Forest. The forest is filled with fog and road signs and ancient ruins that are just waiting to be explored. While looking around, they noticed that the Nightopians were dressed up in costumes that are a dark maroon with a hood, a giant red collar that resembles bat wings and small red devil horns on their heads. They also notice that the place is filled with Jack-O-Lanterns, small tombstones, some dead trees, cobwebs and little ghosts.

"Looks like we made it in one piece." Elliot tells Claris, relieved that they haven't run into any difficulties.

While looking around, Claris notices the Nightopians wearing their costumes. "Awww, look. The Nightopians are dressed up for Halloween! They look so cute!" Claris tells Elliot.

Elliot notices that he isn't wearing his normal clothes. He is dressed up in his costume that he plans to wear for the Halloween festival. He is wearing a a black coat with gold details on the front over a white shirt with a black bow tie, black pants, black boots with golden yellow cuffs and soles, a long black cape with the inside red being held on by small black bat wings, pale blue marks on his cheeks and fangs. "They're not the only ones that are dressed up." Elliot tells Claris.

Claris looks over at Elliot and notices that he is dressed up as a vampire. She then looks at herself and realizes she is also dressed up in her witch costume. She has her pink hair in a bob and is wearing an indigo witch hat that has orange stars outlined in cyan on the tip with colorful tassels hanging off the tip and an orange hatband with cyan trimming and the same orange star on the band on her head. She is wearing an indigo dress with shirt puffed sleeves, a cyan collar and a single yellow button at the collar, with the bottom decorated with the same stars from her hat. She has tan markings under her eyes, indigo gloves with light orange designs on the cuffs, a Jack -O-Lantern purse over her left shoulder and indigo boots with light orange cuffs and soles.

"So much for my costume being a surprise. By the way, I like your costume Claris." Elliot tells Claris.

"Thanks. I like yours too." Claris compliments him back. "Now let's go find NiGHTS."

Claris and Elliot are walking around, trying to find NiGHTS. While looking around, they are greeted by the Nightopians and hear them singing. Unaware to them, some Nightmarens have spotted Elliot and Claris. While the Nightmarens close in on Elliot and Claris, the Nightopians see them and run off in fright. When Claris and Elliot turn around, they notice the Nightmarens. But it was too late for them to escape, as the Nightmarens take away all but their red Ideya and put them into Ideya Capsules.

"Great, the Nightmarens are here!" Elliot says out loud in frustration. He checks to see if Claris is okay and helps her get back on her feet. "How much you wanna bet they have NiGHTS imprisoned?" Elliots asks Claris.

"I say the chances of that are really high. Let's go!" Claris tells him.

They climb up a mountain and, with great relief, they found NiGHTS. Unfortunately, their prediction of NiGHTS being captured was correct and they realize that NiGHTS needs help. When they got closer, they notice that NiGHTS is also dressed up for Halloween. NiGHTS skin is now silver and their eyes are forest green with cyan cat like pupils. Their hat is titanium gray with the ends of the hat being black and have gray skulls hanging off the ends. They are wearing a titanium gray bodysuit with a wide gray-reddish collar decorated with red and black wings with gold buttons all around it. The cuffs of the sleeves and boots and gray with a reddish-black demonic wings pattern. They have a black belt with red gems around the waist, white gloves and a red jewel in the center of their chest with red and black demon wings on the sides of it. While they are not use to seeing NiGHTS dressed up creepy, they know it's just their friend wearing a costume.

"NiGHTS!" Elliot and Claris exclaim out loud to their friend.

NiGHTS hears them and looks at them. "Elliot! Claris! I'm glad to see you two." NiGHTS tells them in joy.

"NiGHTS, what's going on? What are the Nightmarens up too?" Elliots asks their friend.

"Just their annual Halloween special. Every Halloween, they like to take advantage of the scariest night of the year and use every little trick possible to scare the humans in the Waking World. I know the point of this holiday is to be scared, but it's suppose to be for fun. It shouldn't be used to create horrific nightmares that can scar them for life. But they just love to use this time of year to get stronger." NiGHTS explains the details to their friends.

"How can we stop them?" Claris asks.

"They have Puffy guarding a device to help them increase their power. If we defeat Puffy and destroy the device, then their power will be weakened." NiGHTS tells them how they can stop the Nightmarens.

Elliot and Claris both dualize with NiGHTS, creating two NiGHTS, and escape. They go in different directions so Claris and Elliot can retrieve their Ideyas that the Nightmarens took from them. They Drill Dash and Paraloop the Nightmarens that try to stop them and harm the Nightopians. Eventually, NiGHTS, Elliot and Claris were able to retrieve all the Ideyas. After they've retrieved them, they get pulled into a vortex, ready to face off against Puffy.


They find themselves in a long hallway reminiscent of haunted houses. Everything is red, black and gray, with the walls covered with long bookshelves and cobwebs. There are long dining room tables with floating utensils and empty knight armor armed with weapons, ready to attack anyone in their way.

They look up, seeing Puffy dressed up in a black black strapless outfit with a black cape that has a spiderweb pattern on the back, long black gloves, and a black sparkly mask. They charge at Puffy for the attack, so she won't be able to get the first attack. They keep pushing her though the hallways and destroy the fake walls until they finally reach the end of the long corridor. Once they reach the end, they push Puffy into the knight armor, causing the armor to fall apart and crush Puffy under the weight of it. When the armor collapses, they notice it was a giant tower with a giant orb filled with sinister energy.

"Is that the device?" Claris asks NiGHTS.

"That's right. The Nightmarens use it to help increase their energy to give nightmares. But it can only work on Halloween." NiGHTS explains it to them.

"All we need to do is destroy it and that will prevent them from getting an energy boost?" Elliot clarifies this with NiGHTS.

"You got it. You two ready?" NiGHTS asks them.

"Yup." "Ready." They tell NiGHTS. Claris and Elliot while dualized with NiGHTS paraloop around the device, destroying it.

After it gets destroyed, they get sent back to the Mystic Forest. Once they reach the ground, Claris, Elliot and NiGHTS cancel the dualization, allowing their to be one NiGHTS again. The Nightopians gather around them and cheer for them over their success. They look around and notice the Nightmarens have left.

"Looks like we don't need to worry about them for the rest of the night." Elliot says out loud.

"Maybe it's because they know they lost their extra boost of power." Claris suggested.

"At least we don't have to worry about them scaring everyone to the point they can't tell what's real and what's fake on Halloween. Now everyone can have fun. Speaking of which, you two should probably be waking up by now. Don't wanna miss out on Halloween." NiGHTS tells Claris and Elliot.

Elliot and Claris both agree and said their good byes to NiGHTS and the Nightopians, promising they will come visit again someday soon.


Elliot and Claris wake up in their own rooms and get ready for the Halloween festival. They arrive at the festival wearing their costumes they had on in Nightopia. They interact with everyone, trying out the food, playing games and got to take a hayride. When it was time for the parade, Claris went onto her school's float to sing for everyone during the parade.

When the parade came to an end, everyone was able to go trick or treating. Everyone all dressed up, going around getting candy and everyone giving people some small scares. Everyone is out having fun and enjoying the night. No one knowing that everyone could have suffered from nightmares afterwords, except for Elliot and Claris.