NiGHTS: Back to Earth

Actuality 3

It was a Saturday morning, but the alarm clock at Pammy's house rang anyway. It was set loud so Pammy could hear it in the first place. The overture of The Phantom of the Opera played vociferously, which woke Will and Helen up. It was even heard in the basement where NiGHTS and Reala were taking place.

"Gosh, I hate that girl," Reala commented with the remote on his hand, surfing through channels, "the one song that she had to choose, and it was that one."

"It could be worse," NiGHTS said, "could be screamo."

Helen covered her ears, while Will was just surprised by how an alarm clock could be so loud.

Pammy had finally turned the snooze on, and then turned off the alarm clock. She made a loud yawn, and then made her way downstairs, "Hi!"

Helen rubbed her eyes, "Morning Pammy, still have that song for your alarm clock?"

"Yeah, I think it has the right amount of volume, I won't be changing it any time soon," Pammy confirmed, "but we better get some breakfast, we have some cereal."

"Cereal sounds good," Will confirmed as he nodded his head, but took something else into consideration "should we ask NiGHTS and Reala if they would like some?"

She thought it was all a dream, but it was reality. Pammy looked at the door to the basement where she heard sounds from the television. "So, they're really here?"

Helen looked at Pammy confused, "of course they are."

The door of the basement opened where she saw the two Nightmarens on the couch. She came to ask, "Would you like some breakfast?"

"Sure," NiGHTS stretched his arms, then flew up the stairs, ""how about you Reala?"

"I'm not hungry," Reala answered.

"We're Nightmarens, we never get hungry," NiGHTS told Reala the cold hard fact, "but food tastes so good!"

"Fine," Reala rolled his eyes, "I'll eat for once."

The three went back upstairs where Will was pouring some Coco Puffs into a bowl, it seemed like they already served themselves the chocolaty cereal.

NiGHTS flew over to the kitchen table to pour himself a box of Coco Puffs. Reala just leaned on the wall.

That was when there was a knock on the window. It was a teenage boy with long brown hair and dark blue eyes. He waved to his friends.

"Oh, hi Devin," Pammy waved, she opened up the window for Devin to climb over.

Reala couldn't believe this human behavior as he watched Devin climb the window; he just had to say "it's called a door you know," from the ridiculousness of that boy.

What Reala had just said made Devin looked over at Reala which gave him an astonished look on his face. He was so surprised by the creature that he slipped and fell over the window.

Which marked another reason why Reala didn't like humans, they were so clumsy. This was the second time a human fell at his expense. If they weren't so absent minded they wouldn't fall so often.

"Holy guacamole," Devin cried out, "what kind of costume is that?"

For some reason Reala never liked Devin from what he viewed on the Waking Watcher. He just thought that he was the most pathetic of humans. This wasn't the first time he met Devin; Reala took the joy of giving him Nightmares and stealing his Ideya. "It's not a costume you imbecile."

Devin got up to rub his head, "then you're some kind of monster?"

"Monster?" Reala had an offended look on his face, "I'm a Nightmaren, not a monster."

Helen had to cut in again, "don't you guys have human forms?"

"I've never tried that ever since I got here," NiGHTS observed, "I better try it." NiGHTS clapped his hands to summon a purple light, where he circled the air above him. The circle came down to reveal his human form, a fifteen year old boy with longish blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing the same clothing as NiGHTS. "Hey, it worked."

"Wait a second," Pammy butted in with quite the suggestion, "if you have a device that could send you back to the Dream World, then why can't you just go back to where you come from?"

The human NiGHTS bit his lip, "Oh, yeah, about that…"

"When NiGHTS threw me down in the rain, they broke," Reala coldly admitted, he gave his brother a glare, "thanks a lot!"

"We tried to come back to the Dream World last night, but his paraloops just seemed to be normal ones." NiGHTS shrugged.

The whole conversation just made Devin confused, "wait, Dream World? Are you guys from the world that us humans go when we sleep?"

"You've guessed it," said NiGHTS, "have you been to the Dream Gate before? I don't seem to remember you."

Devin rapidly shook his head, "I don't know what a Dream Gate is, I've only assumed from conversation. I also assume that the device that brought you here broke, so you're stuck here in this world."

"So you think you're so smart huh?" Reala faced Devin so closely that it went beyond Devin's personal space, "then, fix the shoes!"

"What shoes?" Devin asked.

"The device that sent us to this world," Reala explained, "I thought you were smart."

Devin didn't like Reala just as much as Reala didn't like him, "fine then, I will try to fix the shoes," he yelled out to the creature, "just let me look at them!"

Reala took off his boots them threw them at Devin, in which Devin caught. "Try your best."

"I will," Devin nodded his head, "I sure will."

Reala flew over to Pammy who was taking out a box of Cheerios, "Good thing you dumped him."

Pammy flashed a look at Reala, "We agreed to break up; looking at the situation we might get back together again."

"Sure, I'm having a hard time getting a date anyway," Devin explained with an open mind, "also, we still get along, so why not?" Devin walked over to the table where everyone was eating then placed the shoes on the table. He took a look at the shoes.

"Can't seem to figure out what's wrong with them?" Reala asked with a smirk on his face.

"Are you able to figure this out?" Devin talked back to Reala; before Reala could respond Devin said, "I didn't think so." Devin took another look when he found some kind of containment, which he opened. "I think I might have found something."

Everyone went over to Devin to look at what Devin had found. It was five gray looking Ideya that spilled out of the boots. "What are these things?"

"They're Ideya," said NiGHTS, "energy that dreamer have, most Nightmaren steal them from dreamer."

"So that's what Nightmarens do with the Ideya," Will came to conclusion, "I've always wondered why they needed them."

"We primarily need Ideya for our quest to take over Nightopia," Reala explained, "but sometimes Wizeman uses them to make magic items too."

"Well, I guess we need more of this, 'Ideya,'" Devin said, "but I guess someone needs to sacrifice their energy."

"But we just can't get Ideya in the Waking World," NiGHTS protested, "it's physically impossible."

"I think I could try," Reala smiled, "anyone has all of their Ideya?"

"No!" Will and Helen cried, "We aren't going to give you our Ideya!"

That was when Devin came up with a better solution, "I'll ask my little sister about the situation, she knows a lot about this kind of thing."

"Oh yeah," said Helen, "Bridget, she's really into magic and the paranormal."

"It's worth a try," NiGHTS shrugged, "let's go Reala, if I can turn human, so could you."

"Nah, I'll just go out in public in my Nightmaren form," Reala became sarcastic. He clapped his hands to summon a dark light. In which he circled the air above his head with. The circle came down to reveal a sixteen year old boy with long black hair and blue eyes. "Okay, let's go see your sister."

"Finally you're being agreeable," Devin rolled his eyes, "let's go to my house, Bridget is probably there."