HERE'S CHAPTER TWO!!! I hope you guys liked my last chapter, and same goes for this one DON'T FLAME ME!!!

Disclaimer: I do not own NIGHTS into Dreams or any other characters than Zee, Alex, Andrew, and Alex and Andrew's parents also the other nightmaren who let's Zee go. That is all. Please keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times while reading the story, thank you!

Well, ten years went by and Zephyr grew up from a little kid into a young woman. She was going to turn 16 in a few months, until then she was still riding a bike. She never did forget her promise to NIGHTS and vowed she never will. That necklace he gave to her never left her neck, well…only on the event she needed to polish it or something like that. The strange thing was that whenever it did break, it would repair itself overnight and she never needed to replace the strap because it seemed that it grew with her.

Zephyr opened her grayish blue eyes in response to the morning sun of Saturday. She sat up in bed tiredly as she glanced over to the calendar to see that today was the annual beach retreat that all the sophomore and up got to go to before summer break. She leapt out of bed and sprinted to the bathroom to freshen up before the big day. She came out still drying off her hair but was in her two-piece swimsuit that was navy blue with a light blue and white stripe across the center on the top piece, short swim shorts that were the same navy but had white hibiscus flowers decorating them.

While stretching, there was a knock on the door and she ran to answer. When she opened the door, she saw her two best friends Alex and Andrew, Andy for short.

" Zee! Come on! We're gonna be late if you don't hurry up!" Alex said while flailing his hands in the air, almost hitting his twin brother.

"Pipe down, as you can see she's already dressed!" Andrew said while yanking on Alex's red-tipped sandy blonde hair that still was in the bed head zone. Andy looked exactly like Alex with the exception that his hair was only slightly neater, was tipped with blue and he wore glasses instead of contacts like Alex. Although you'd think that these two would have exact opposite personalities, surprisingly they have almost exactly the same personalities.

"OW!! HEY LET GO!!" Alex yelled so loud that it rang through the hall.

"Why should I?" Andrew taunted while pulling on his brother's hair harder.

" Uh…guys…if you two are done with little spat, can we please head to the beach?" Zee, Zephyr's nickname, said standing in the doorway with her black surfboard that had blue flames on it. She had finished getting ready while the twins were fighting, right down to getting her long hair into a low ponytail like she always wore it. The boys looked at her bewildered frozen in place. " Well, come on!" She yelled as she ran down the hall with her surfboard in hand.

The trio ran outside to see a van parked out front with two surfboards on the roof. All three of them knew how to surf and they loved it. They ran to the car and Zee tied her board on and when she got in the car they drove down to the beach. While in the car Mr. Samone was bragging about how he was going to make the best BBQ of all time for his boy's first beach retreat and Mrs. Samone was telling Zephyr about some uncomfortable stuff to say in front of a bunch of guys causing Zee to sink down in the seat.

"Alright kids! We made it!" Mr. Samone said loudly out of the car window as they approached the beach. As soon as the cr stopped they all funneled out and grabbed what they needed and charged to the party. Alex and Zephyr had a race to see who could hit the waves first while Andrew stayed behind to help out his dad with getting the rest of the supplies out of the back.

At the beach there were a lot of teens and teachers about, a DJ, volleyball, and a snack bar. The rest of the day was filled with surfing, volleyball and food!! Not to mention dancing, and a live performance from a few students. And at the end of the day everybody was roasting marshmallows over small fires big enough for five people each so the entire beach was littered with crackling warm fires. There was one fiasco when Zee ate one of her marshmallows only ten seconds for it to cool off and she ran around with her mouth on fire and Alex had poured ocean water on her which put the fire out, but resulted in him getting chased around the fire by a very angry Zephyr.

It wasn't until around 10:00pm until everyone decided to go home for some sleep. Zephyr said good night to her friends before entering her place and heading off to bed. Before she turned out the lights in her room, she noticed the weirdest looking costume hanging in her closet doorway. An orange and white cape that was jagged at the edges, a striped orange jester hat, orange gloves and orange shoes. She climbed out of bed and walked over to the strange wardrobe. Zee examined the cape, it was obviously designed for a person who was very tall 'cause it was taller than herself! She wanted to see what fabric it was made of, but when she ran her hand down the cloth it moved and a muffled laugh was heard. She stood there bewildered for a few seconds, since WHEN did capes have ticklish spots? She did the same thing, only this time she actually tried to tickle the cape. It started to laugh hysterically as one shoe moved up and down stomping, the gloves looked like they were clutching a stomach, and the strangest thing was that a mouth opened to reveal a sharp set of teeth letting out a terrible cackle. She stumbled back a few feet and screamed while the possessed laundry's cackle got louder and louder.

Zephyr shot out of bed screaming "POSSESSED LAUNDRY!!" And was breathing heavily. She looked around the room to see nothing on her closet door and that it was now Sunday. She sighed out of relif as she found that her little fright was just a dream. She washed up and slipped into her regular clothes which was a white T-shirt with dark purple sleeves covered with a navy blue track jacket with a silver colored collar sleeve cuffs and stripe across the chest, black jeans with light blue flames at the bottom the silver straps that formed an X shape on each pants leg, and black boots. She tied her hair in the usual low ponytail and her bangs that dangled lazily over her forehead swished from side to side. She fixed her necklace and fixed up some breakfast. When she was done eating she decided to flip through some old scrapbooks.

She had many pictures and like most people they followed the timeline of her life. There were two pages of she and her family, like her brother's big soccer game and her father holding him up with the trophy in his hands. Another time was of when she and her mother baked a cake for father's day. There were other pages about when she met NIGHTS. Well, she didn't have a camera then so there were drawings of her and NIGHTS playing around. The drawings were of different levels of skill because she got better and better at drawing him. She skipped to when she first met the Samones. At the time she wore a loose turquoise long sleeve with a red diamond shape in the middle, a white knee-long skirt, black shoes and her hair was in half-up pigtails. There was her favorite picture of the three of them making faces at the camera, Alex was puffing out his cheeks crossing his eyes and sticking his tongue out, Andrew was just sticking his tongue out with his hands on his head so his palms were facing the camera, and Zephyr had her pinkies hooked in her mouth and was pulling while sticking her tongue out (remind you of a nightmaren we know?). She put the scrapbook down and went into town. She grabbed her bike and rode to the flower shop where she bought three bouquets. Then she headed to the cemetery to visit her family. When she arrived she found their tombstones and placed the flowers at each one of them. After she gave her respects, Zephyr peddled all over town out of boredom.

It was nearly sunset and she hadn't seen any sign of Alex or Andrew. Then she thought about when she would see Nights again, and if she did what would she say? They've been apart for ten years and there was no sign that he was even alive. She was so lost in her thoughts that she failed to see the oncoming hill. She could feel the wind pick up and her bike lean forward. Zee clutched onto the handlebars and prepared for the second ride of her life, the first was when she flew with Nights. She was flying down the steep hill at such speed the chain on her bike started to smoke. A scream of fright that escaped her lips as the teen sped down the asphalt, and to her dismay there was a wall at the end and when she hit it, Zephyr was sent flying off her bike, and right into a tree.

"Today is just not my day…" She muttered. She had gotten down and walked home because her bike was trashed. When she entered the house, Zee plopped down on her bed and started to pick out twigs from her hair. After that task she walked to her dresser but tripped and the weirdest thing happened. She fell and used her mirror for support it was as if her hand went right through it, there was a ripple and everything. Out of pure curiosity Zee stuck her hand in and there was a ripple all over again. Then she lost control of her body completely, her legs moved on their own as she stepped through the mirror. Before she knew it, she was in another room with a mirror, but that was it. The room was bleak and seemed lifeless and as Zephyr stood up she could hear voices outside.

" JACKLE!! How could you not bring the girl here?!" A loud and commanding voice boomed through the door.

Zephyr stepped through it and saw a hallway, she looked to the side to see a dead end but the other way turned.

"I'm sorry, sir. But believe me, she will be here, in fact she's just arrived." A faint voice said.

" Is that so?" The first voice tested. Then a force yanked on Zee's collar and dragged her down the hall. Soon after many turns and stretching of her shirt, she came to a HUGE double doorway.

The doors swung open as Zee approached and when the tugging stopped she was launched forward for the second time today and tumbled until she crashed into the wall.

"As promised, my lord." The other voice said, and as Zee regained her vision she could see it was the same floating heap of clothing as in her dream.

" AHHH!!! IT'S THE POSSESSED LAUNDRY!!!" She screamed while sitting upright and pointing to the creature before her. He cringed at the name, which gave her much satisfaction.

" So, you are the one that Reala failed to do away with. I'm surprised to see that you've avoided him for a decade." A being that looked slightly similar to the possessed laundry but had an actual head, a blue cape, six hands each with an eye in it, and a helmet with a whole mess of spikes protruding from it. Oh, and he was like twenty times bigger.

Zephyr just sat there dumbfounded with a confused look on her face. She hadn't been avoiding anyone, let alone for ten years… and who the heck was Reala? As Zee was pondering this the doors swung open as another neck less, wrist less being walked into the room. But, this one had a different hat, bluish skin, had a red vest and three diamonds down his chest.

"Ah, Reala. It appears that Jackle has accomplished what you failed to do ten years ago more or less." The giant boomed as Reala, who Zee now knew the name of, looked up in astonishment. Then he glared at Jackle (aka: the possessed laundry).

That's when little red flag…no that's not right…a blaring alarm in Zee's head went off. She could definitely recognize those ice-blue eyes anywhere. They were the last things that her brother saw, let alone her entire family!

"YOU!!!" She yelled while getting up from the sitting position that she was in.

"Do I know you?" Reala asked with a scowl.

" I'm surprised you forgot! Let me refresh your memory, I'm the little sister of the seven-year-old you killed ten years ago! The same girl's life who you ruined by destroying everything she ever loved!!" Zee yelled at the top of her lungs tears tearing at her eyes as those painful memories relived themselves in her mind.

Reala smirked at the girl's obvious pain by her forced back tears. He did remember who she was; he just wanted to see her cry like she did so many years ago. "Oh, that's right. The family said to have a red ideya amongst them. I was going on rumor that a member of your immediate family had a red ideya- the one we need-and I didn't want them to know about me so I did away with them all. Except for you of coarse." He said on a low and sadistic voice, which really creeped Zee out.

Out of nowhere she bit her thumb at the trio (A/N: And if you don't know what that means ask someone other than me). Reala was ticked, Jackle was caught off-guard, and the giant guy was unfazed…crud. No sooner than when she appeared in this world, there was an unbearable pain being forced throughout Zephyr's body. Then…all went pitch black and she could feel her head and the rest of her body hit the hard ground head-on. The last thing that was seen was Reala having great satisfaction in his eyes.

Nights was racing through the sky towards Nightmare Castle. He didn't know why, but he could sense something was wrong somehow…he just hoped that if someone was in trouble he wasn't too late. Soon, the red ideya embedded in his chest began to glow as if it were an alarm. Earlier, he was thinking about Zephyr and what she would say if they ever met again. The Ideya he had given her was something that she would most likely cherish for the rest of her life. But now, something big was up and he couldn't let his mind wander.

Zee woke up feeling something ice-cold on her wrists and great strain on her arms. She looked up to see that she was hanging off of a wall by her wrists and MAN did it hurt. All that she could do for the next few hours was do some pull-ups, try to sleep and count how many rats there were. After much boredom she actually made attempts to escape but all failed, from trying to kick the shackles off from trying to speak rat and ask them to find the keys. After all her attempts she miraculously fell asleep but someone roused her from her slumber when they opened the door. It was another creature like the others that she had encountered there that flew in and they had the keys. That's when Zee got an idea, she'll never do it again, but it might work.

"OW!!!" She yelped. Whoever was in the room with her was startled and spun around to face her. She noted that he wasn't very experienced by the way he yelped.

"Uh…Pipe down!" He stammered. Zee could tell that he was nervous and didn't have much self-esteem.

"Oh, I'm sorry…it's just that…these shackles are so tight, I think my wrists are going raw!" She complained in a slightly flirty tone. Zee HATED when she had to flirt with someone, at least it got you out of sitting on the window seat on the bus.

"Sorry, Reala said not to let you down for any circumstances!" He said trying to act firm. But, he melted like butter on a hot plate when he received full blow of Zephyr's puppy pout. "Alright. Fine…" He scowled and let the teen down.

A grin was plastered onto her face as she quickly sprinted past the nightmaren, knocking him out on the way to the long corridor. Her legs were getting tired at a steady pace, but luckily she came to a door that was slightly ajar. She peaked inside to see Jackle put something down and he started to walk to the door. Zee started to panic and did the only thing she could do…HIDE!!! As the door slowly started to creak open she pressed her back against the wall where the door might hit. Luckily for her, Jackle didn't open it all the way so her nose was safe.

When Jackle was out of sight and earshot, she slipped into his room to find some way of escape. There were a lot of books, empty and full vials, multiple dried plants lying around, and the smell of herbs. Then she saw a deck of some BIG cards lying on the windowsill, just big enough for her to ride. Zee snatched one being careful not to mess any of the others up and climbed onto the windowsill.

She hadn't realized how far up she was from the ground and being afraid of heights didn't help much. Then she noticed jewel on her necklace start to glow and was reminded of NIGHTS. If there was that one guy, Reala, here and if he looked a little like NIGHTS…then that means that her friend is somewhere in this realm! Just not in the castle. Before anymore thought she lost her balance and out of the window. She used the card as a parachute and held on for dear life. As the wind picked up, she was lifted into the air higher and higher, but strangely she had enough air to breathe properly. After sometime she emerged from the clouds and came to see that she was over the same place where she first met NIGHTS. The windmills looked tiny from that height so she looked back up at the ace card she was holding on to. At the worst of times she began to feel increasingly weak and her mind started to get hazed. Figures that they would drug her to make escaping harder…Her mental rant was silenced when her grip on the card slipped and she plummeted to the ground.

NIGHTS….. Was her last thought before passing out.

NIGHTS stopped immediately as if something had just snatched him in midair. He looked around as a small voice came to his mind, whispering his name. Then, as if on instinct, he whirred around and headed for Spring Valley, hoping for the best.

WHEW!! That took a while to finish. PLEASE REVIEW!!!! XD

PEACE OUT DUDES!!!