Chapter 4 - By Days the Valley, by NIGHTS the Forest

Nick: Where the heck are we?

Nights: I dunno. It seems like we're in the first dream, the one most
commonly visited.

Liza: It sure looks like it. Where are we?

Nights: We're in Upside-down Valley!

Kelsea: Upside-Down Valley?

Nights: Yup! Ever had a dream when you're in a meadow? Skipping through
field of flowers? Peacefully walking across a dusty country lane?

Liza: Yah!

Kelsea: Uh huh.

Ace: I suppose.

Aaron: Sounds familiar.

Nick: No!

Everyone stares at Nick...

Nick: OK, yes.

Nights: This is where you've been to! Upside-down Valley is where all
the fun peaceful dreams take place!

Aaron: Well, what are we standing here for? We got some blue chips
to find!

Nights: Me and the bird will take to the skies. The rest of you search
on the ground! OK?

Ace: The bird? You mean me? I-I can't fly.

Nights: Sure you can! You're a bird, aren't you?

Ace: LOOK at my belly! LOOK AT IT! I'm not a bird, I'm a HEAVY one!

Nights: There MUST be some way you can fly, kid! Give it a try!

Ace: A'right. Here I go!

Aaron: And with a leap of incredible faith, Ace the Hawk manages to
take flight, only to-

BAM!

Aaron: Come crashing back down!

Nights: He's large, he's cute, but he can't fly. I suppose I'll have to
search the skies myself! If you find any chips, you can give them to ME OK?

Liza: You got it!


5 minutes later...

Aaron: ....THIS IS STUPID!

Ace: What is?

Aaron: We're looking through bushes and trees for a bunch of thin coins?
What is this? A quest to save the WORLD or an Easter egg hunt?

Ace: Well, Nights is the only one among us who can fly.

Aaron: It's still not fair that SHE gets to do all the cool stuff
while we walk around, faces to the ground! Look at THAT!

Nights: Hi Nightmaren! Bye Nightmaren! DIE Nightmaren!!!!

WHAM! BAM! BASH! BOOM!

Aaron: I wish WE could join her! I wish WE could be of more help! Is saving
Planet Earth from Eternal bad dreams SUPPOSED to be as hard as trying to find
a quarter in the park?

Ace: I guess this just proves that a life of saving the world isn't ALWAYS
a glamorous one!

Aaron: But still! I want action! I want danger! Something! Anything!
Swoop down and HURT me! I don't want the EASY way out!

WHAM

Aaron: Ow! Me and my big mouth!

Ace: It wasn't ME! It was HIM!

Aaron: Him? AAAGGGHHHH!!!! Is that a monster or something?

Nights: AARON! That's a Nightmaren, a servant of Wizeman the Second!

Aaron: I thought YOU were a Nightmaren!

Nights: Well I'M the only one that uses powers for GOOD! I wouldn't
mind if any OTHERS were destroyed!

Aaron: OK, finally. I get to have some FUN! Join me Ace!

Ace: Yes SIR!


About 10 minutes later...

Aaron: I think we have all the blue chips! I got 2, Ace has 3, Liza has
3, Nick has 4, Kelsea has 3, and Nights?

Nights: I got FIVE!

Aaron: That means we got all the blue chips!

Nights: Give 'em to me and I'll rush them to the capsule and blow it up!

BOOM!

Aaron: The capsule's gone and Upside-down Valley is saved!

Nights: The adventure has only just begun! Next we need to get that Ideya
outta there!

Ace: I wonder what color it is?

Nights: *dives into the exploded capsule* Here it is!

Ace: It's the blue one you gave me!

Liza: What's blue represent?

Nights: Blue is intelligence! I gave Ace the Ideya power of intelligence!

Ace: INTELLIGENCE?! ME?????

Nick: Yah really! Ace is dumber than a chicken with no head!

Kelsea: Ace practically IS a chicken with no head. (or at least no brain)

Nights: Don't say that! I've seen Ace and as dumb as he is, he seems to
have an intelligence lurking deep inside him!

Ace: Hmmmm...I never would've guessed.

Aaron: Well that means we have ONE Ideya!.....

Nick: Whaddoo we do with it?

Nights: Choice number one, we take it with us and use its powers of
intelligence to aid in our adventure...

Aaron: (you mean YOUR adventure)

Nights: Choice two, we seal it in the Ideya Palace so that neither us nor
Wizeman will have access to it.

Liza: Ideya Palace it is!

Nights: It's unanimous! Let's go!


At the Ideya Palace...

Aaron: Hmmm...That's a very small palace.

Nights: Well this was made a long time ago, during the time when dreams
were even born! We have ONE Ideya!

Kelsea: And four to go!

Ace: That was almost TOO easy!

Nights: Well, we have three dreams left to liberate. It will only get
more and more difficult from here. New Nightmaren, new settings, and
new suprises await us! Let's move along kids! So many dreams, so little
time.

Aaron: Hey Nights! Thanks for helping us! You were born to be evil
and to steal, and to serve that freak, Wizeman the Wicked. But you
turned the other way and exercized your freedom to do whatever you
want? You're the only Nightmaren who's been so brave and courageous....
Why'd you do that?

Nights: I dunno. I guess I just didn't wanna serve some spiky haired
spaz who has six hands. About 9 years ago, I helped two kids named
Elliot and Claris defeat the first Wizeman, but what we didn't know
was that Wizeman the second inherited his power from his brother-in-law,
Wizeman the Wicked. I was created with the power of free will. The only
other Nightmaren with free will is somebody named Reala. Somehow, she
doesn't want to exercise those powers. It's probably 'cause she's afraid
of Wizeman despite the fact that she overranks him.

Aaron: So is Reala your friend?

Nights: It seems that way. I'm always trying to get everyone convinced
that we work together, but deep down, I DESPISE her! And SHE despises
ME! It's been that way for as long as I can remember. I wish Reala could
just break out of the cold prison cell her mind is trapped in and prove
that Wizeman has no power over her, but she seems to think that Wizeman
has more power over HER than SHE has over HIM!

Aaron: Maybe we'll run into Reala, Nights.

Nights: That would be nice, but on the other hand it wouldn't be so nice.

Aaron: Why? It seems like you WANT to be friends with Reala!

Nights: Perhaps, but for now, we have things to do, places to go, people
to meet, Ideya to claim, and dreams to liberate!

Aaron: RIGHT! Let's go!

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