A/N: Sorry for the delay, I had an internship that blocked me from writing all of the time. I have been trying to continue Back to Earth, which I may say, is not going so well. Although, I will try to finish Back to Earth.

Disclaimer: All dream creatures, such as NiGHTS, belongs to SEGA. Hannie and Reese belong to EternalFluffy, Tuikempy belongs to Kloa and Jen belongs to Angel. I own Pomona, Gwendolyn, Denton and Professor Gale.

NiGHTS into College

Chapter 5

"What would you do if aliens came to invade the college?" asked James, Reala's roommate, when he was called at the college orientation's Q and A.

The college administrations, which were sitting at a table on a stage, looked at each other, Denton stood up slowly and said, "I guess…we would try to make peace with them, convince them for us to coincide."

The crowd cheered as if they were a bunch of college student. Everyone cheered, except for NiGHTS, who was too worried about the good of the college. Slowly but surely, the students will disappear from Wize College because they would succumb to Nightmare. To NiGHTS, Wizeman's plan would be worse than an alien invasion. At least aliens would be cool.

"And please," requested Professor Gale, an elderly woman with a strict look to her eyes, "ask legitimate questions."

Reala rolled his eyes at James' question. Of course aliens didn't exist, let alone invade the planet. Reala knew why James was originally left without a roommate, because he was so stupid about everything. Reala kicked his legs forward to the empty chair in front of him.

A girl who sat next to the chair that Reala had his legs on gave the Nightmaren a glare. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. She wore a sweater vest and a buttoned up shirt along with a plaid skirt. "Excuse me," she whispered, "but can you keep the back of our chairs clean?"

Reala smirked, then said out loud "and how about you not speak during the Q and A?"

"Mr. Wize," Professor Gale called out to Reala, "do you have a question to present?"

That was when Jackle stood up, "why yes, I do!"

Reala knew that the question was presented to him, but Jackle was also a, "Mr. Wize," he called out anyway, "yeah, do we have to worry about the cleanliness of the school's furniture?"

"Well," Denton told Reala, "if you perhaps, spilled Coke all over the seat, you should clean it up as best as you can."

Jackle then shouted out, "and what about our own cleanliness? Do we have to worry about that?"

The crowd laughed, and Denton also answered that, "it is best if you shower daily, we will not allow un-cleaned students into the classes for the health of the professors and students. So do any of you have any other questions?"

The crowd stayed silent, there was a slight chuckle from the last question, but no questions.

"Then you may exit at the back of the room," Denton told the crowd.

The students began to leave, Tuikempy approached Reala, "hey, why did you ask about furniture's cleanliness? That seemed like an odd question."

Reala had a feeling that the little guy wanted to be friends with him. Reala had no clue about his Ideya, but if Tui wanted to be friend so much, then it would be nice to have a friend. He was much less annoying than James anyway. "Some girl was criticizing me about putting my feet up onto the chairs."

That very girl passed by, she gave Reala another glare, then approached Jackle.

"Your question was very insightful," the girl told Jackle, "how did you come up with it?"

Jackle shrugged, "well, it just popped up in my head; everything just pops up in my head. Including the thought of how flushing has anything to do with royalty."

Her eyes just gave a confused look at Jackle, she had no idea what he had meant, and so she took out her hands for a shake, "well, my name is Gwendolyn Seward, Psychology Major."

The bright blue eyes of Jackles just stared at the hand, then back at her face, "My name is Jackle Wize, I am also a Psychology Major."

"Aren't you going to shake my hand?" Gwendolyn asked.

"Nah," Jackle said, "you've probably sneezed on it."

"And I may ask," Gwendolyn decided to question, "Why are you a psychology major?"

Jackle was glad to answer that question, he had given Gwendolyn a big smile, "well, I like the minds of humans, how their brains work, and how easy they are to manipulate."

Gwendolyn looked around; obviously, the only reason why he was admitted to this school was because of his family status. She knew the story behind the name of Wize College very well. She just didn't know who Manton was, what he did for a living or why all of his children were deformed without noses, wrists and had added horns. Yet one thing was true: Jackle was insane. She decided to give him an offer, "I know a lot about psychology since I've took psychology many times in High School. I can tell that your mentality is a little over the top. So how about I can help you be like everyone else?"

A shake came from Jackle's head, "nope, I like myself the way I am. You on the other hand, when I've met you, I knew that you would be a new challenge."

An appalled look came to Gwendolyn, "challenge?"

"Oh, you'll see," Jackle laughed. He stepped out of the room, still in a maniacal laughter.

**

Hannie came by Pomona's and NiGHTS' room, "hey, how was the Q and A?"

NiGHTS was reading one of Pomona's magazines, looked up from the magazine then sighed, "My brothers, once again, were an embarrassment."

Pomona began to giggle, "Yeah, one of them asked about our personal hygiene."

A giggle came from Hannie's mouth too, "that is so much worse than last's year's haunted dorm question."

NiGHTS groaned she liked her brothers better when they were in Nightmare and she was a rebel. Yet this was the team that she had to cope with for the mission that she didn't really want to do. NiGHTS wasn't even sure if she would even execute the plan.

Hannie walked over to NiGHTS and sat at the corner of her bed, "this whole thing about your brothers coming here was unexpected, wasn't it?"

NiGHTS nodded her head, she wouldn't care about her brothers being there if it wasn't for them trying to turn the students into Nightmaren, then NiGHTS had realized that probably Hannie and Reese were most likely the next two to have their bodies transformed into dream creatures, once they had Claris out of the way. NiGHTS never knew that Nightmaren could have nightmares in the Waking World. It was most logical since humans had Nightmares in the Dream World. Yet she just hoped that Claris wouldn't come to the same nightmare.

**

As for Claris, she was walking from the College Bookstore, to her dorm, when she heard two foot steps behind her. She looked back to see Reala and Jackle.

Reala made a smirk, "so you must be the Claris that Jackle is always talking about."

"What do you want?" Claris asked without much enthusiasm. She knew about NiGHTS' warning, but there was no harm done to just talking to the Nightmaren. She stopped dead on her tracks.

"Oh, we just want to be friends, like we once were," Jackle slyly walked over to Claris, "like the good old days?"

Claris shivered through the thought, maybe talking to the two wasn't a good idea, although if NiGHTS was loyal to Wizeman, then Reala and Jackle could be okay marens too. "Yeah, we could be friends, if NiGHTS and I are friends, it's only logical."

"Great!" Jackle put his arm around Claris' shoulder.

That, had creeped Claris out, she pushed Jackle out of the way, "get off of me!"

Reala just laughed in reaction of Claris pushing Jackle. He didn't know Claris that well, but he liked her personality. She was someone who would make a good coworker for him. Defiantly the first to be turned Nightmaren.

Jackle, for one, did not like being pushed, especially by Claris. Jackle took offense and took out his tarot deck, ready to throw the first card.

Even after four years of not seeing Jackle, his tarrot deck still scared Claris. She took a few steps back, and then said in a nervous tone "now Jackle, most Visitors like their personal space."

To Claris' bad luck, Jen came up to the three, and even defended the Nightmarens once again, "what do you mean personal space? You give random hugs to your friends all the time, and you get very close to Elliot."

Claris just wanted to shut her sister up. She knew that Claris was very annoying to Jen sometimes, but did she have to annoy her back? Being annoying wasn't really the role of the older sister. Reala and Jackle were the ones who attacked her, not the other way around, maybe not physically, but mentally.

"Oh, yeah, Elliot, you get really close to him!" Reala told Claris in a snarky attitude, "and why not my older brother Jackle?"

Claris was trying to keep her anger inside; she took a few deep breaths, "because Elliot is my boyfriend, and I feel more comfortable getting close to him!"

"Aw, come on," said Jen, "you do the same thing with all of your friends in High School."

As the bickering continued, they both heard another voice, "excuse me," it was Reese who was carrying a bunch of books from the College Bookstore.

Claris had thought she was saved, that this boy would stand up for her. That maybe Reala and Jackle would leave her alone once his words came to play for her defense.

"Can please you move aside?" Reese politely asked.

Jackle, Jen and Reala had done so, by stepping off of the sidewalk to let Reese by.

Claris felt kind of traumatized by Reese not standing up for her. Although she had found opportunity to escape, so she ran past Reese to go to her dormitory.

"What's wrong with her?" Reala asked out of curiosity, "I thought she was friendly."

Jen shrugged, "well, Claris can be weird sometimes." Then she glanced at Reala and smiled, "but you know, I can be friendlier than Claris was to you."

Reala looked around, as he thought what Jen had said was kind of awkward, "what do you mean?"

"Well," Jen slightly blushed, "the Wize Campus is showing the movie, 'Legally Blonde,' I was wondering if you would like to see it with me, Reala?"

Reala actually had nothing to do that night. Without much thought Reala had said, "Yeah sure."

"Great!" Jen squealed excitedly, she gave Reala a kiss on the cheek, "I'll meet you in front of the Caf!" She waved to Reala as she left for the bookstore.

When Jen had kissed Reala on the face was the same moment that he realized that this girl didn't just want to be his friend, but something much more. A groan came out of his mouth.

**

As Claris ran, she went past Reese, gave him a smile then made a sarcastic comment, "thanks for helping me out with those bullies!" Claris gave Reese a smile then ran off.

Reese actually was unaware that Claris actually needed help, and if he had seen her in need, he wouldn't have helped anyway because Reese wasn't the type of guy for arguments, yet he felt like calling out to this girl "Hey, wait!"

Claris only made a few more steps until she stopped. She wondered what this young man had to say that would have made her stop running.

Reese took up the courage to say, "Is this the first time these boys have been doing this? Because, if they ever do it again, you should tell someone all about what they are doing, this isn't right."

There was a sudden realization to Claris that Reala and Jackle maybe going to bother her again. "This is the first time, but I doubt they'll do it again, they probably have better things to do." Claris knew that her situation would be way too complicated to talk about to authorities. If Jen didn't believe in the Dream World then no one else would.

Reese was still worried about the pink haired freshman, but all he did was nod his head, "okay, if you think they will leave you alone, then that's fine."

Both of the people took their separate paths.

**

"So what classes did you take NiGHTS?" Pomona asked as they walked out of the Dormitory. She was curious about what a dream creature would want to do.

"I took the Freshmen Preceptorial, a ballet class, a math class and a music class," NiGHTS told Pomona, "everyone seems to hate math, so I've decided to get that out of the way first."

"What major are you anyway?" Pomona asked, "Is it Music?"

"Undecided," NiGHTS answered, she took a few steps then asked, "What's yours?"

"Art," was Pomona's answer, "I enjoy drawing, especially fashion."

"Well, you're very fashionable," NiGHTS complemented to Pomona. NiGHTS was glad to have a roommate that was also a good friend, she was also glad that Pomona only had one Ideya. The situation takes away the drama of their relationship. Unlike Claris, who had all of her Ideya.

Speaking of the devil, Claris ran over to the two roommates. What she had said, would appall anyone, "I pity you NiGHTS." Her feelings were true, and very new to her. Claris had known why NiGHTS had rebelled, but still didn't know why NiGHTS had come back. Life with NiGHTS' two brothers must have been Hell for the purple Nightmaren.

This was the first time that NiGHTS was ever told that she was pitied. NiGHTS may admit she was one to be pitied upon. A Visitor had never felt any empathy towards NiGHTS. She wasn't appalled at all, just surprised.

Before NiGHTS could say a word, Pomona spoke up, "why all of the pity?"

Claris had looked around; her presentation of her pity was projected well, but not the reason "well, just your brothers, I pity you for having them."

Indeed, this was a sign that they tried to do something to Claris, she rubbed her eyebrows "what did they do this time?"

"Well," Claris hesitated, "Jackle was all in my personal space, and when I pushed him, they took it as if I were the offensive one."

NiGHTS stopped rubbing her eyebrows, then gave Claris a glance, "Claris, Nightmaren don't know anything about personal space. The whole concept is purely human."

That was a huge eye opener for Claris, maybe she was actually the wrong in this; she told NiGHTS "I better apologize to them."

"Yeah, you're right," Pomona agreed, she assumed that Claris knew about the whole concept of the Dream World since NiGHTS released some information to Claris, "maybe to NiGHTS too."

"Yeah, sorry NiGHTS," Claris nervously giggled, "I guess I was upset over nothing, I better go apologize now."

Claris was about to walk away, when Pomona mentioned, "I heard that the college will be showing 'Legally Blonde,' I was wondering if you would like to join NiGHTS and I on seeing it."

"Nah, I've always found that movie stupid," Claris shook her head.

"I find the movie stupid too, but we have nothing better to do," Pomona explained, "I would prefer if they showed: Kamakaze Girls myself, but any activity would do!"

"Okay," Claris smiled, "besides, we can laugh about it later."

"Then it's a date then?" NiGHTS asked, before any response NiGHTS squealed out, "Great!" Even with Claris and her life's risk, she was still a good friend. Even if they were going to see a movie that both Pomona and Claris seem to dislike, she was still going to hang out with some friends. NiGHTS no longer felt lonely, just worried about the well beings of her new and old friends.