Me: Here Starlight redecorates her new room and the nightopians aren't afraid of her anymore.

Reala: Why wouldn't they be afraid of her? She's a nightmaren. Isn't she?

Me: You're going ahead to far into the story! Just say the disclaimer or I'll let Cerberus out!

Reala: ppgXrrb20 doesn't own me, NiGHTS, Jackle, Owl, the nightopians, Pure Valley, or Cerberus. Happy now.

Me: Very :3

A thin line of light slides into Starlight's bedroom right in the gap of the window shutters. Starlight blinks her sleepy eyes when the light hits her in the eye. She tosses and turns in her bed not wanting to get up and end her dreams. But she slowly starts to get out of bed and place her feet on the cold wooden floor. She pulls the covers off and stands up, stretching her arms to the ceiling and gives a big yawn. She drops her arms back down to her sides and starts to remake the bed. She places her hand on her mouth and stiffens a yawn. She walks to the old wooden door and opens it. Walking down a flight of stairs she comes to another door that is nicer than the first door but has pale, chipped deep blue paint on it.

She turns the nob and walks into a white polished marble bathroom with a small mirror above a marble sink with sliver handles and a faucet. To the right is a stone marble bathtub with a silver shower faucet and handles with an ocean theme shower curtain. Right between the sink and shower is a white toilet. She takes off her clothes and hat and neatly places them on the toilet sit. Pulling back the curtain she reaches over to the silver handles and turns on the water and tests it. When it is warm enough she steps in and starts to wash herself off. When she washes off all the dust, she turns off the water and steps out of the bathtub. She grabs a towel from the rack and dries her body and hair off. She places the towel back and grabs her clothes and hat and puts them back on.

Going back up to her bedroom she opens the door and looks over the whole room. She sighs and puts her hands on her hips. She floats up to the top of the wardrobe and finds a dusty, old, black feather duster. She grabs the duster and starts to dust the wardrobe and walls creating huge puffs of dust, making her cough. She stops and flys over to the window and opens it, letting out the huge puffs of dust and going back to work. She finishes dusting the wardrobe, walls, ceiling, desk, and bed. She puts the feather duster back and grabs the billows and flys outside with them and starts to shake the dust out of them, banging them against the tower wall knocking all the dust out. She flys back inside and places the billows down and grabs the blanket and sheets and flys out again doing the same.

She flys back in and notices something underneath the wardrobe. She puts the sheets and blanket back on the bed and goes over to the wardrobe. She gets on her hands and knees and looks under. It is a black metal dust pan. She is a bit confuse by it, but reaches out for it. She grabs it and fiddles with it for a while. She looks at the wardrobe ' I wonder...' She thinks. She puts the dust pan down and dusts her hands and pants off. She grabs the handles of the wardrobe and opens it.

Like the outside of it, it is also white inside. Inside is a little dusty but not bad. There is a straw broom inside and two dresses. One is a dress that stops right below the knees with light blue frills at the bottom and the bottom of the short sleeves, it is a mixture of blue and purple in the top part and slowly turns into a brighter bluer color on the way down it, lavender and baby blue stars dots all over the dress. The second one is a long white dress with no sleeves that goes past her knees and to her feet and has a long bright yellow ribbon around the waist and white strap on sandals on the bottom of the wardrobe. In Starlight's opinion the dress with stars looks like a nightgown. The dresses look like they will fit her. She touches the white dress and feels how soft it is.

She then grabs the broom and closes the wardrobe behind her. She starts to sweep up the dust on the floor, creating a bit of dust clouds. Gathering into one big pile, she sweeps it all into the dust pan. She cocks her head about wondering what to do now. There is no trash can. Then she cocks her head to the window. Well she already dusted all her sheets and blankets out there. She puts the broom aside and flys out the window. She pours the dust out of the pan. 'I hope that didn't hit anyone on the head.' She thinks a bit worried, but doesn't hear anything that sounds like it. She flys back inside and puts the dust pan back underneath the wardrobe and the broom against the wardrobe's side.

She then looks over the whole room once more, nice and clean. 'Now for the fun part.' She thinks, smiling. She flys over to her desk and slides four cans of paint out from underneath it. She smiles brightly at them, remembering yesterday.

Yesterday at the Dream Gates

"Hey Owl" Starlight said, closing the door behind her, "Is NiGHTS okay?"

"Yep just fine." NiGHTS said, coming out of his house.

"That's good." She said happily.

She then noticed something at the base of a tree. It was four buckets of paint.

"What's that?" She flew over to the cans of paint.

"Hoo that's Nightopian paint." Owl said, flapping over her head.

"Nightopian paint?"

"Yes, the nightopians make this paint once in a while. I don't know how they make it, I never seen them make it before, and they won't tell me." Owl said, fixing his spectacles so they don't fall off. "It's quite special."

"Special?" She cocked her head to the side. 'Hows it special.' she thought. She picked a leaf off the ground and dipped it into the paint. She was shocked to see the paint turn into the same color as the leaf.

"That's right. This paint can copy any color it touches while in the can." NiGHTS chuckled, telling her.

Starlight was speechless. NiGHTS bent down and touched the paint with his white glove. The paint turned back to white. Starlight thought for a while and thought of an idea.

"Hey is it okay if I use the paint for my home?" She asked hopefully.

"Sure." NiGHTS said, "We don't use it much anyway."

"Thanks" she said happily.

She opens the can lids and looks down at the white paint. She opens one of the draws to her desk and pulls out a violet sack with a gold string sewed to the opening. NiGHTS gave it to her yesterday, saying he doesn't need it anymore. She also pulls out a medium sized jar full of water from the fountain in the Dream Gates. She opens the sack and pulls out some grass blades and yellow flower petals. She puts the grass blades in one can and flower petals another. She unscrews the jar and places the lid on the floor. She pours one-third into one can and two-thirds in the last one. She puts the jar down and smiles brightly as the paint changes color. The first one changes into a luscious bright green. The second one changes into a bright cheerful yellow. The third one changes into a light baby blue. The fourth and last one changes into a dark blue.

She smiles and reaches back in the draw and pulls out a small paint brush and a big paint brush. Dipping the big brush in the dark blue paint she flys over to the wall and starts to paint. She paints all the walls and ceiling, but left the shape of a crescent moon on the ceiling. She then places and balances the brush on the dark blue paint can and moves the desk and wardrobe, revealing the parts she missed, and takes down the mirror and places it on the bed. She finish painting the room dark blue. She quickly picks up the jar and flys down to her bathroom and fills it halfway with water. She flys back up and places the jar down, grabbing the big brush, she washes it out and shakes the water off it.

She dips it in the light baby blue paint and turns to her bed. She starts to paint her dark wooden canopy bed, light baby blue. She soon finish painting the bed. She looks at her wardrobe, tapping her cheek with her finger and smiles again. She flys over to the wardrobe and starts to paint the white parts light baby blue as well. Carefully trying not to paint over the flowers and finishes up. She goes back and washes out the brush once more and puts it down, grabbing the small paint brush. She dips it into the luscious bright green. She flys over to the bed and paints in the carved flowers where it looks like leaves and stems. Lucky Owl told her that the paint dries super fast. She gets all the curves that look like leaves and stems. She then flys over to the wardrobe and starts to paint leaves and stems that are dull and painted over. She sighs happily. She washes the small brush out and dips it into the bright yellow paint. She flys up to the ceiling and starts to paint stars all across the ceiling, and color in the crescent moon. She flys back down and paints the curves in the bed that look like the petals and does the same to her wardrobe. She washes out the brush once more and places the two brushes back in the drawer.

She stands up and looks over the room again. The light baby blue bed and wardrobe with yellow flowers. A dark blue room with a crescent moon and bright shining stars on the ceiling. She smiles happily at the beautiful room. She puts the lids back on the cans and slides them back under her desk. She picks up the jar full of colored water and flys to the bathroom, dumping the water. Flying back to her room, she places the empty jar on the desk.

She sighs. 'Now what to do?' She thinks sitting on her bed, ' I finished all my work for the day. Hmm... I guess I can go look for NiGHTS and see if he wants to do anything.' She sits back up and flys out of her room and closes the shutters behind her. She flys up the top of the tower and goes through a portal. She had found out that all the towers in the castle has a portal on top that leads to one of the different dream lands. The portal leads her to the mountains in Pure Valley, at least that's what NiGHTS told her it is call. NiGHTS often plays around here a lot. But it looks like he isn't here. She then hears giggling and laughter. She turns around and sees a bunch of nightopians playing with a pink and purple ball, tossing it back and forth. She is happy to see them playing, until they see her and run away, leaving the ball. She sighs. 'There never gonna like me, are they?' She thinks to herself sadly.

She listens to the wind as it gives a soothing melody. At first she thinks it is NiGHTS, but the tune is different. She feels something warm inside building up. Her heart sways and begins to sing:

Open your eyes

This is a new world to you

Open your eyes

Follow my voice

My little one

Don't cry

I am here

Reach to the sky

Open your eyes

My little one

I love you

There are many fears and danger in this world

But do not worry

I will protect you

For I love you

My little one

Follow your heart

Don't worry

I will always be by your side

So fly high

Let nothing stand in your way

The sky is the limit

For you are my little one

And may we meet again

In heaven's light...

She fiddles with the sparkly dust coming from her wrists. The dust shapes into a phoenix and flys from her hands and flys about and slowly starts to fade away.

She then hears rustling coming from some very tall grass. She turns around to see a nightopian slowly fly up to her. She is confused at first, but smiles and holds out her hand to the nightopian. The nightopian flinches.

"It's okay." Starlight says calmly, still smiling, "My name's Starlight. Would you like to be friends?"

The nightopian looks at her hand and back at her. The nightopian smiles and wraps it's small fingers around her hand and shakes it. The other nightopians come out of hiding and surround her, talking that weird language. She smiles brightly at them.

"Wow I must say you sing really beautiful." Says a familiar voice.

"NiGHTS?" She turns her head around and sees NiGHTS floating down to her, smiling.

"Yes, I must admit you do have a very pretty voice." Says an all too familiar cold voice.

The nightopians flee, flying as fast as possible for them. She turns around to see Reala, and Jackle by his side.

"What in Nightopia do you two want?" NiGHTS growls, getting in front of Starlight with his arms up in guarding way.

"Why we're here to take you back to nightmare?" Reala says mocking the question.

"Forget it." NiGHTS glares dares at him.

"Fine. Then we'll take her." Reala points a claw at Starlight. She hides behind NiGHTS, scared.

"Not gonna happen." He takes a step back.

"Then how about this. We have a little race, you and me." He says with his cruel smile, "Whoever makes it back here first after going around all Pure Valley wins. If you win we'll stop bothering Starlight."

"And if you win?" Starlight squeaks behind NiGHTS.

"Then you two both come with us to Nightmare."

NiGHTS flys away from Starlight and to Reala. "Deal." He glares daggers at him.

Reala smiles as the two fly up in the air, getting ready to race. Jackle flys over to Starlight. Starlight takes a deep breath, worried about NiGHTS.

"On your mark..." Starlight begins raising her arm high up. "Get set... GO!" She throws her arm down as the two fly off at high speed.

She watches the two fly all over Pure Valley. And sees Reala use a dirty trick. She flys up to stop him but is grabbed by the shoulders and brought back down.

"Uh-uh-uh, not now." Jackle coos, digging his claws into her shoulders.

She watches as the two get closer and closer to the finish line. They are neck and neck and getting closer. NiGHTS quickly does a spin dash and wins. Starlight cheers and flys over to NiGHTS, hugging him.

"Way to go NiGHTS." She cheers smiling.

"Thanks." He smiles, slightly out of breath. He then looks down and notices the claw marks on her shoulders. "Let's go get you cleaned up." He leaves holding her arm tight.

Starlight looks over her shoulder and sees Reala glaring at the two and Jackle looking worried at his brother.

"Thank you." She says smiling.

Leaving a dumfound Reala and Jackle and a confused NiGHTS holding her.

Me: Yay! It came out greater than I thought and the song Starlight song is called White Phoenix and it belongs to me along with Starlight. No stealing!