"Well." Malice said happily. "It is good to see you Reala."
Reala hissed as Malice flew down from the throne.
"Where did you catch him Jackle?" Malice asked.
"Near the medical room Sir." Jackle said saluting. "He tried to get in to see NiGHTS."
Malice smiled darkly.
"And how is my female doing?" Malice asked trying to taunt Reala.
"The birth was going well as I left Sir." Jackle said.
Malice chuckled evilly.
"Now Reala, You've lost." Malice taunted. "Nightmare is under my control. And so is NiGHTS. With the baby in my grasp, I control her! NiGHTS is mine!"
Reala hissed and pulled against his bound hands.
Malice laughed as Reala pulled against his ropes.
"You can't even accept defeat!" Malice cackled. " Face it, NiGHTS is better off with me."
Reala smirked as the ropes fell off. Malice's eyes went wide as Reala slugged him in the face.
"Hello!" Jackle said throwing his prized sharpened tarot cards at Malice.
NiGHTS giggled as the fight went on. She wasn't one to like violence, but she'd make an exception in this case. NiGHTS thought back to when they thought up this plan.
"I'm going to say this one more time!" Reala hissed. "This never happened!"
NiGHTS's eyes came together in concern.
"I'm sorry Reala... but Jackle's right, this is our best shot." NiGHTS tried to compromise.
Reala sighed as Jackle tied his clawed hands behind his back.
"Wait, how does Reala get out of the ropes when Malice gets close?" NiGHTS asked.
"See here." Jackle said pointing to one lose coil. "This will be in Reala's hand, all he has to do is pull it and the ropes will go lose."
NiGHTS returned from her flashback and returned to the dream world... or reality... whatever, you know what I mean.
NiGHTS waited for her moment. Malice needed to be led as far away from Wiseman's prison, and then NiGHTS would free him.
"Now!" NiGHTS thought as she dashed out of her hiding place in the tunnel system to Wiseman's prison in the large red ideya.
NiGHTS closed her eyes and concentrated. She placed her hands once again on the red ideya and channelled its power.
"Last time I did this it knocked me out for days." nights thought as she channelled the power. "But now I have a place to send it."
NiGHTS allowed the power of the red ideya to flow into her, but instead of keeping the power inside of her, NiGHTS released it in a giant wave of pure power. A red glow started emanating from her body and started flowing from her into the air. Although NiGHTS couldn't see what was happening, she knew that right now all the nightmaren were being freed from Malice's brain washing.
NiGHTS's sighed in relief as she felt the red ideya free all her friends. She could feel the red ideya being pulled from the 'maren's bodies.
"Their free!" NiGHTS shouted happily.
"NiGHTS..."
NiGHTS turned and looked behind her. There was Wiseman... but something was wrong.
"Master Wiseman?" NiGHTS asked. "Are you ok?"
"Malice drained... my power." Wiseman said slowly. "I only... have so much... life left."
"But you're a god!" NiGHTS shouted sadly. "You can't die... can you?"
"I cannot ... be killed, but... my power has been ...drained completely." Wiseman gasped. "I have... run out of... time. You must help... Reala."
NiGHTS nodded her head. "Hang on; we'll be as quick as we can."
With that NiGHTS turned and flew off as fast as she could fly. She flew around, heading towards the sounds that were coming from the battle. Suddenly, all sounds of the fight stopped.
"Reala?" NiGHTS shouted out as she looked for her mate. "Where are you?"
"NiGHTS. I'm over here." Reala said tensely.
NiGHTS looked out the window and saw Reala and Jackle floating in midair staring at Malice. Nobody was moving.
"What's going on?" NiGHTS asked as she flew up to Reala.
Malice laughed evilly.
"Hello NiGHTS." Malice said darkly. "I should have known you'd be around."
NiGHTS snarled and flew at Malice, until Reala grabbed her arm and pulled her back.
"NiGHTS wait!" Reala hissed.
"Why?" NiGHTS asked.
"Malice has Zoren." Reala said.
"What!" NiGHTS gasped in fear. She looked at Malice, and indeed, he did have Zoren wriggling and crying in his arm. "How? Puffy was-"
"She was intercepted." Malice said.
"By who?" NiGHTS snarled angrily.
"By me NiGHTS!"
NiGHTS turned around to see Chay flying behind her.
"Chay!" Reala hissed.
"Wait, I thought Chay ran away after you two mated?" Jackle asked.
"I did." Chay snarled. "I knew I couldn't get my revenge alone, so I gathered many red Ideya's from visitors, and I used them to bring Malice back!"
NiGHTS's eyes went wide when she suddenly heard her baby cry.
"Zoren!" NiGHTS shouted as she began to fly towards her baby.
"Not another step!" Malice snarled. "Come any closer and I kill him."
NiGHTS flew back to beside Reala.
"What do you want?" NiGHTS finally asked defeated.
Malice laughed insanely. "Do you honestly think I'd trust you? You have beaten me twice! So, it will give me greater pleasure, to cause you eternal pain. I'm taking your child with me!"
"No!" NiGHTS screamed as both she and Real began to fly towards Malice. Jackle had to grab both their arms and drag them back towards him.
"Stop, both of you!" Jackle hissed. "You'll get him hurt!"
Reala's eyes narrowed. "You don't even know how to care for a child."
"I know." Malice said cruelly.
"But I do." Chay said flying around to beside Malice.
"Please give him back!" NiGHTS begged. "He isn't even a night old! He needs me please!"
"Give him back!" Jackle shouted angrily.
"None of you can stop me!" Malice shouted in victory.
Suddenly a blue blur flew past Malice. The baby was out of his hands... and in Bubbals arms!
"No." Archer said flying beside Reala. "But we can!"
Bubbals gave Zoren to NiGHTS. Zoren stopped crying instantly and started cooing and smiling at his mother.
Reala didn't wait. He flew up and began fighting with Malice, rage being his drive. Jackle and Archer dove into help him. Bubbals went a started fighting with Chay.
Zoren looked at his father fighting and began crying.
"Shh." NiGHTS comforted. "It's ok Zoren. Dad's going to be fine."
Zoren cried for a minute. The he shut his eyes tightly and began concentrating.
"What?" NiGHTS asked herself. "Zoren?"
Zoren opened his eyes and they began glowing red. He pointed his baby hand at Malice and red light shot out.
"What!" Malice shouted angrily as the beams hit him in the arm. "Brat!"
Malice broke away from the nightmare fighting him and he charged at NiGHTS and Zoren.
"NiGHTS! Zoren!" Reala shouted as he tried to catch up to Malice. "Get out of there!"
NiGHTS snarled angrily. She looked at her baby whom also looked angrily at the approaching evil nightmaren.
"Shall we?" NiGHTS asked her infant. Zoren cooed and smiled at his mother, nodding his little head.
NiGHTS closed her eyes and drew out the power of the red ideya base inside of her. She could feel her baby doing the same. They simultaneously opened their eyes as a wave of pure red ideya went crashing down on Malice.
"No!" Malice shouted as he began to disintegrate from the pure light hitting him. Soon, there was nothing left of the evil 'maren.
Reala approached NiGHTS and Zoren.
"What was that?" Reala asked as he pulled them both in for a hug.
"Zoren can control the red ideya too!" NiGHTS said happily as she nuzzled her little baby boy, who cooed in response and nuzzled his mother in return. He then reached up and swiped Reala's persona mask and started biting down on it.
NiGHTS and Reala chuckled and looked at each other.
It was over.
OK! ONE MORE CHAPTER AND IT'S THE EPOLUGE! I HOPED YOU LIKED THE STORY.