Awaking from Dreams 8

NiGHTS Awaking from Dreams Saga
Chapter Eight- A Nightopain Meeting

"Are they here yet?" Will asked for like the seventh time.

"No Will and would you stop that pacing your making me dizzy." Helen groaned "You are even making Owl dizzy too."

Will does stop. "But what if they didn't get the message, what if they got attacked?"

"They'll be here Will just relax, okay? It won't make thing faster or better if you go on about worrying."

"The lady is right, the older visitors will be here soon enough. It is harder for them to come back to the night dimension then it would be for you." Owl had told Will before and again several times since they had arrive here.

Will sits down on the dry patched grass. "You're right, I don't want to jinx anything do I?"

"We do not want to 'jinx' as you say" Owl responded.

The dreamer twirls a blade of grass between his fingers. "Sure I mean that, I'm just worried that's all."

"Yea we know your worried Will, I am too." Helen smiles sweetly. "We just need to hold tight for the others till they get -"

"You mean when we get here?' A voice asked from behind them in the plant growth.

Both the dreams and Owl stand up, tensing ready to fight if they had too. The ferns rustle and the blood pumps in their ears, a small roar ready to go. Soon two kids, a young boy with blue hair and a young lady come out from the undergrowth. A bit dirty, they brush themselves off and look at the other dreamers. Recognition flashes though the boy's eyes when they land on Will and the lady's when they fall on Helen.

"Helen? Will? What are you two kids doing here?"

Both kids mouths drop. "Mrs. Sinclair? "Mr. Edwards?? Is that really you?"

"Of course it is, how many people do you know with pink and blue hair?"

Then Helen runs over and hugs her teacher. "I'm so glad your hear Mrs. Sinclair, I never knew you knew about this place. It's so wonderful you are here." Then the older dreamer hugs back. "I quite agree Helen it just thrills me my best student has also been here, tell me everything you've seen, what did you do? Did you meet NiGHTS?"

Up until that last question both Will and Helen had been pretty much smiling ear to ear at the sight of their favorite teachers. But as soon as it was asked. " Did you meet NiGHTS?" Both stop in their tracks and look at each other sadly.

"So you did?"Asked Mrs. Sinclair concerned at the sudden change in mood.

"That's the problem."

A lot has happened since both of you came to Nightopia years ago. Since then both of theses dreamers here." Owl motioned with his head at Will and Helen "Met NiGHTS and defeated Wizemen and- please let me continue." Both Teachers were about to exclaim in glee but stopped short as Owl quieted them. "As I was saying" clearing his throat. "Both of theses children have defeated Wizemen many months ago but since then and quite recently NiGHTS has gone missing after racing towards the Dark Ocean while being pursued by Reala."

"Oh No!! What..how....OH NiGHTS." Mrs. Sinclair started to sob. Mr. Edwards wraps his arms around her. "The Dark Ocean......do you have any idea what would of became of NiGHTS?"

Owl sighed sadly. "I'm afraid I do not. If dreamers fell in there we do know that they would be casted from Nightopia and never able to return. The effect that the water would have on any dream being is unknown to me. "

"Do you think the same thing would happen to NiGHTS?" Questioned Will

"Always possible young dreamer." Owl sighed again. "If that is true NiGHTS would likely be somewhere in the Walking World. Possible hurt or captured or....well I do not wish to think about that."

Mrs. Sinclair sniffs wiping her eyes. "Then we have to find him somehow, someway. He needs us and I will not give up on him for what he's done for us and all of Nightopia."

"He was there for us now we need to be there for him" Mr. Edwards proclaimed with Helen and Will's smiling approval. "You're right we'll find NiGHTS and save him as he would always save us."


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"That was so sweet, it make me sick." A sly voice spat from behind full of disgust.

They all knew who was the owner of that voice. Instantly Both Will and Mr. Edwards pushed their girls behind them taking up a defensive stance and glaring at the red jester that had been hiding behind them during the whole conversation.

"My my isn't this a surprise" cooing falsely at the two teachers, Reala sneers "It's little Elliot and Claris back here in nightopia, you should of called I might of had more time to set up a welcome back party"

Mrs. Sinclair come out from behind Mr. Edwards full of anger. "What did you do with NiGHTS?!" she demanded pulling her arm away from being pulled back by her husband.

Reala tilts his head at them. "Right to the point there. But first how do you think? Do I looked much more frighting and deadlier then before?" His eye flash with amusement and joy. How fun it was to mess with theses dreamers, he almost forgotten. He taps his persona letting his attitude mess with them.

"Don't change the subject!" Mrs. Sinclair barked "You were the last one who seen NiGHTS, your going to tell me what you did to him and your going to tell us right now!!"

" Mrs. Sinclair? You ok?" Helen asked gingerly. "I'm fine Helen it's just this jerk has messed with me and my husband so long ago and for so long. He is going to tell us what happened to NiGHTS or else."

"Oh ho ho or else? Is that really supposed to frighten me dreamer?" Reala laughs "Your hardly worth a squeal compared to a Nightmaren such as myself"

"And you supposed to scare us?" Will shot back at the crimson nightmare. "We've kicked your but before and we can do it again" he puffed out his chest a bit as well trying to act confident and a lot more then he felt. And Reala seemed to be reading his mind when he says this next...

"But NiGHTS isn't here........is he." Reala chuckles. "But you already knew that, didn't you dreamer?" He knew that the child had called a bluff being a master of it himself and called Will out on it.

He leans closer at the dreamer, smiling with glee as the kid flinches at the proximity between them "But there is one thing you do not know and-" He let's out a fake sigh. "Without that little piece of knowledge, you never find your precious NiGHTS."

"What?! What is it?"

Again Reala laughs throwing his head back in the air "Like I'd ever tell you, and make it easier to find NiGHTS? Not a chance but how about I tell you this instead, when we do find him- Wizemen and I. You all are going to be in a real world of pain, hehehe" Then he shoots into the air and flys away before they could do anything laughing as he went. All five of them look at each other, what could they do? None of them could fly, except Owl and he wasn't nearly fast enough to catch the Nightmaren.

"So what now?"