Heroine of Reality

Part 2

The Magic Pickle Fairy

All of Reality was in danger of being infused with the Dream Realm, and the only hope would be two stepsibling teenagers and an unexpected revolutionary Nightmaren. The three walked around, as they planned for attack, "but first, I think we need to do some shopping," Eva had noted to her companions.

"Wait, what?" Aiden asked, confused "How do your prissy little shopping activities have anything to do with saving the World of the Waking?"

"Well," Eva answered as she pointed to her orange and pink uniform, "We are wearing the official uniforms of Twin Seeds High School East we'd be caught if we were skipping school if anyone if everyone sees us. We can't go back home to change, since our enemies are there. Besides, I am not your average shopper, ever seen me in Abercrombie? I think not!"

"What's an Abercrombie?" Reala asked, as she didn't know much about Waking World fashion.

"That's not important," Eva said as she shook her head, "let's go!"

After their shopping excursion, Eva has the appearance of a black tank top with pink fishnet shirt with black baggy jeans. "Ah, back in my own style, feels great, doesn't it?"

"Well, I do feel more attractive," Aiden said as he wore a puffy white shirt, brown pants, an elaborate long coat and goggles on his head. "I've never knew you were serious when you said that you liked any kind of punk."

Reala was also in a new outfit, with a pinstripe black and red vest, two heavy belts, argyle arm warmers and goggles on her head. "Well, I have to admit, I do like it."

"See?" Eva said, "We won't be caught skipping school, and we look fantastic."

"You win," Aiden rolled his eyes, "but how about our plan?"

Reala looked at her yellow claws, they looked a bit chilling for the kids to touch, but Reala knew that they would have to touch these unruly claws in order to save this world. "Well, NiGHTS and I do have this power to fuse with Dreamers, in order to borrow their power, perhaps I could teach you kids how to fly, like NiGHTS, Jackle and I."

Eva looked up at Reala, "really? Do you think we are powerful enough to have you borrow our power and defeat NiGHTS?"

"Well, your parent's powers combined are the most powerful thing in the Dream World," Reala had explained to the kids, "So if you're the offspring, you must be just as powerful."

"That makes a ton of sense," Aiden nodded his head, "I guess power is genetic."

Reala took out her claw, "so who's first?"

"I'll go," Aiden excitedly called out as he touched Reala's yellow claw. Both Reala and Aiden fused, and then Aiden took the goggles that were on Reala's head, and put them on her eyes, "let's fly!"

So Reala and Aiden flew around, they tried the paraloop trick, which worked quite well Reala had even showed Aiden the acrobatics, which Aiden enjoyed very much. Aiden was quite a natural at flying, they flew to where Eva stood and they unmerged with each other.

"Nice job," Eva told the two as Aiden and Reala unmerged with each other. Eva was about to give Aiden a high five, but Reala took Eva's hand.

"Your turn now," Reala told Eva.

"Um, Sure," Eva hesitantally said as she touched Reala's claws they merged and Reala flew off to the sky. Yet Eva had a more awkward flying style than Aiden. She stubble in her posture and tried to close her eyes half of the time.

"You won't be able to fly well if you close your eyes," Reala strictly told Eva.

Eva opened her to see the world from a taller standpoint; then began to scream. Eva had stopped for a second and took a few deep breaths.

"Come on Eva," Reala had told the girl, "If you want to save your world, you have to get over this!"

"F-fine…" Eva told Reala as she stuttered, and began to fly, it was still awkward, but at least she was flying.

"Good," Reala said, "now try flying in a circle; it will create a vacuum that will suck anything into the paraloop.

Eva had made a beautiful paraloop, the roundest that Reala had ever seen. "Is-is that good?"

Reala nodded her head, "yeah, that was great!"

"C-can you put me down?" Eva had asked Reala. So she flew to the ground, where Aiden was suppose to be, but wasn't present at all.

"Shoot, what happened to the boy?" Reala asked Eva, she was very upset that Aiden would just leave like that, was Eva that bad of a flyer?

Eva had also found Aiden's disappearance strange, knowing him, he would have enjoyed making rude comments about her flying skills. Eva came into the store to ask where Aiden went. "Hey Shelly," Eva came to ask the store owner, "Have you seen my step-brother?"

Shelly nodded her head, "yes," she said, "someone else wearing a costume, similar to your friend here," as she pointed to Reala, "came by, soon enough your step-brother disappeared."

"Is the person in purple or orange?" Eva asked.

"Well, I would have to say a light enough red to be orange," Shelly contemplated, "but definitely not purple."

"Fudge baskets," Eva told herself.

"Fudge baskets indeed," Reala told Eva who was floating behind her, "Jackle is as crazy as a hatter."

"What do you think will happen?" Eva asked; frightened.

"Well, save him, I guess," was Reala's answer, "the only issue being, it might be a trap."

"We have to save him!" Eva yelled out, "If it's a mad Nightmaren we're talking about, who knows what horrors Aiden might be coming through."

Aiden had woken up in a clock work like environment. "Am I, inside of the clock tower?" He knew that it wasn't at the performance stage under the clock tower, but above where the clock actually worked.

Aiden had stood up, and took a few steps, when he heard a voice behind him, "You…have the same eyes as your mother."

Aiden had looked back to see Jackle, "yeah, so?" Aiden asked, "I knew that already."

"Hmm, you don't have the same facial expression as your mother when you see me," Jackle smiled that infamous smile, "I better fix that."

"I'm not my mother, you idiot," Aiden had cried out, "you can't fix me on my views of you, I am myself."

"Hmm, a spiteful one," Jackle laughed out loud, "is there anything that you're afraid of in particular?"

"No," Aiden outright told the Nightmaren, "If there was anything, I wouldn't tell a Nightmaren like you."

Jackle took out a jar of centipedes, "I think you're lying"

Aiden took a few steps back, "um, really, don't do anything with the centipedes," then Aiden almost fell over the platform, "fudge," he cursed to himself.

Jackle threw the jar of centipedes onto Aiden as the boy became covered with the small hundered legged creatures.

Aiden hated it all, he hated bugs and he hated Jackle. He knew that Jackle only wanted to scare Aiden, being in a Nightmaren's nature, but this was overbearing for Aiden, he had to scream, and he did, repeatedly. One scream at a time he knelt down and writhed from his worst fear, crawling all over his body. "What do you want from me?" Aiden yelled out.

"Oh," Jackle slyly responded, "just what you're doing is giving me enough pleasure."

Eva and Reala ran over to the home where Eva's family lived. Their only guess of where Aiden would be was their home. Eva had quickly taken out her keys, and put them into the lock. She opened the door, and called out, "you better have Aiden, you mad Nightmaren."

The only one, who was in the home, was NiGHTS. "I don't know where the boy is, young girl, and neither do I like to be called 'mad.'"

"Oh…" a very long pause came to be, then Eva stated, "I was referring to Jackle."

"I don't know where he is," NiGHTS said, "but I sure do know where you are," NiGHTS snapped his fingers, "Nightmaren, get them." Nothing happened; none of the Nightmaren that NiGHTS had called was there.

"You're in the Waking World, stupid," Reala crossed her arms, "that was a fatal attempt to restrain us."

"Hey, you do not call your King, 'stupid,'" NiGHTS sternly pointed at Reala, "you must respect me."

"You didn't respect Wizeman when you rebelled and had your little coup." Reala wagged her finger, "and now I'm a rebel against your plan, so I really don't have to respect you."

"You wench!" NiGHTS cried out as he drill dashed towards Reala. But Reala also drilled dashed towards NiGHTS on time, both of their hands grabbed onto each other, NiGHTS cried out, "you won't stop me, your little Dreamers aren't as powerful as mine!"

Reala smirked, "how would you know?" Reala had let go, "but we have more important manners to attend to, come on Eva."

"How do you know where Aiden is, if he isn't here?" NiGHTS had asked.

Eva took out her Cell Phone, "Oh, technology can be so great in the 21st century, tracking technology, you know!"

Both Reala and Eva ran out of the door, but NiGHTS tried to grab Eva's shoulder, but missed.

Claris was on the Twin Seed's Clock tower stage singing, wearing a nineteenth century styled dress, "There was a judge 'ya see, wanted her like mad, Everyday he send her a flower. But did she come down from her tower? Sat up there and sulked by the hour, poor—

Just then, the repetitive screaming was heard from Aiden.

Claris had recognized those screams, "Aiden? Honey?"

"Ms. Sinclair, you're out of character," the director looked at Claris quite sternly.

"My son is up there," Claris had pulled her skirt up, "I have to see what's happening." Claris ran across the stage, and went to her son.

Claris looked upwards, to where the sound was coming from; then found a ladder; she climbed up, to see Jackle laughing manically, as Aiden writhed onto the ground covered in centipedes. Aiden may not care for his mother so much, but his mother cared for Aiden. Claris knew Aiden's greatest fear: creatures with so many legs, if not hundreds. Yet at the same time, she knew her greatest fear: Jackle.

Jackle very well knew where Claris was at the moment, he looked back and smiled.

Claris studdered, "I-I'm not afraid of you anymore…"

"You think you've grown out of me?" Jackle asked, "no one grows out of their fears, I'm afraid, I can see it in your adorable face."

Next, Jackle scream with laughter, which startled Claris even more, that her hands slipped, and was about to fall down.

But Jackle grabbed her hand, and flew her up to the platform.

Claris took a few breaths, then saw that Aiden was still on the ground, screaming, "Aiden," she yelled out, and began to pick the bugs off of Aiden's skin, then smashing them, one by one. Atleast until she felt two hands on her shoulder that had thrust her back. Claris had fell to see what was of Jackle's face, she had looked at Jackle with fear, "no!" Then her hand grabbed onto the cape, then pulled it off.

Jackle was now vulnerable, "ah, no, my one weakness," he cried out, as he flew to the bottom to retrieve his cape.

Claris got up, and threw the cape down to the first floor. Then she grabbed onto Aiden's body, but then realized how she got up there, by ladder. Which would require at least one hand; her son's weight would require carrying with both hands. "Aiden, you have to be brave, you have to climb down, with the centipedes on you."

"Just pick them off," Aiden cried out.

"There isn't enough time," Claris told Aiden, "Jackle is very dangerous; we have to get away from him quickly." Then she looked at Aiden's face, "fine," then began to pick the centipedes off of him.

Jackle flew back up to where the mother and son were, he was a bit annoyed, but he had to do something, "okay, I will strike you a deal, you caring mother."

Claris took a centipede and squashed it with her hand, "Oh, I don't make deals with nightmaren who put me through horrible nightmares, stole my first kiss and put centipedes all over my son, it just isn't done."

"But my end of the deal would be to get the centipedes off of your son," Jackle had said, "and it's really just a simple favor in return."

Claris pointed her finger at Jackle, "but I want one more thing," she said, "When you return to Nightmare, you will never give my son any nightmares, understand?"

"Sure," Jackle stated without hesitation then took out some bug spray and sprayed it all over Aiden. The centipedes soon enough died away onto the ground. "But what you have to do for me? When NiGHTS takes over reality, I want you, and your son, to help me defeat NiGHTS, and take over everything he owns."

"Wait, no!" Claris whispered, "I can't…"

"Too late," Jackle laughed, "now how about doing your day job?"

Claris sulked as she climbed the ladder down to the stage.

Aiden glared at the nightmaren, this wasn't a look of fear, but of anger.

Jackle only smiled, then said, "oh, you're free, for now."

Eva and Reala ran over to the clock tower, only to see Aiden exit the building.

Eva looked at her phone, and then looked at Aiden, "So, I suppose you just walked away, huh?"

"No," Aiden was a little annoyed, "I was tortured by one of NiGHTS' minions, and Mom had to get me out of it, only that she's inclined to help Jackle take over the world after it has been fused."

"Wait, why?" Eva asked.

"Jackle stopped the hideous torture, but he had that end of the deal," Aiden said, "but now I'm inclined to stop NiGHTS, before that other hideous nightmaren rules everything."

NiGHTS strummed his fingers through the books that Claris and Elliot had owned on the bookshelf. They were nothing that NiGHTS had already owned, but it sparked his curiosity of what books the couple and their children had possession of, their collection was pretty clichéd, but NiGHTS was glad that they had a collection of books.

Just then Elliot had came through the front door, "Hi NiGHTS, I'm ready for your assignment."

NiGHTS had looked back at Elliot, and then smiled, "I like your enthusiasm."

"Hey," Elliot shrugged, "30 years ago, I made your conquest for Nightopia difficult, so I just want it to be easy for you this time."

"Very good," NiGHTS continued to smile, "we just need to wait for Claris…"

Speaking of the devil, Claris slammed the door opened, and immediately addressed, "Elliot, NiGHTS, I'm not going to do it."

"Not going to do what?" NiGHTS had asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Claris glared at NiGHTS, "I'm not going to help you. I have done enough for you, this is too much!"

Elliot put his arm around Claris, "Now, Honey, you know how much NiGHTS has done for us, now we have to do more for him."

Claris wasn't much of a fighter especially with her husband, "fine," she sighed, "but you won't like our futures."

NiGHTS took out his two hands, and merged with the two dreamers, "I bet you will like your futures just fine."

Claris just sighed, then mumbled under her breath "You can be so naïve sometimes."

Reala was also merged with his Dreamers, with two copies of herself, as she waited for NiGHTS to come. "NiGHTS should be here soon," Reala had told the kids.

Eva had looked down and gulped, "I sure hope so; I want this battle to end soon."

Aiden could tell that Eva had a fear, just as Aiden did, he looked at her critically, "I had to face my fear, and it's your turn to face yours."

A nod came to Eva's head, "you're right, it's good for the fate of our world."

Two copies of NiGHTS had come towards the Twin Seeds Tower; they looked at the two copies of Reala. All NiGHTS had to do was laugh, "you seriously think you could defeat me?"

A big smile came to Reala, "these kids are just as powerful as their parents, I can tell, I think I have just as much of a chance as you."

Suddenly, one of the Realas' mouths began to open, Reala couldn't control it, but vomit began to come out of the mouth. The mush fell down to the empty sidewalk, it came from Eva's side.

"Oh, yeah, what a way to support the cause," Aiden rolled his eyes.

"I can see that your Dreamers are not as experienced as mine," NiGHTS grinned, "but let's begin your sad attempt to save this world." NiGHTS immediately drill dashed towards Reala.

Yet Reala knew NiGHTS' tactics too well, so she dodged, and flew around NiGHTS in order to paraloop the purple jester, and with success.

NiGHTS knew that Reala has the upper hand, but there was still time to get his world infused with the Waking World. NiGHTS had also known that Reala was only blocking the tower, if there was a way to get around Reala; then NiGHTS could use the crystal on his chest to fuse the two worlds, so NiGHTS drill dashed towards Reala again.

Reala had thought that NiGHTS was being clichéd again, so she dodged NiGHTS once more.

But NiGHTS took the crystal off of his chest, as both copies' hands began to glow with red. They had both fastened the jewel onto the tower.

"Shoot," Aiden cried out, he immediately drill dashed towards one of the NiGHTS and grabbed his wrists.

The other NiGHTS kicked Aiden off of the second half, "get off my wife!"

Aiden just flashed a glare; he knew the one who kicked him off was Elliot, "she was my mom before she was your wife!"

Elliot looked at Aiden with surprise, "Aiden, is that you? You're the one opposing to all of this?"

"Yeah, and guess who is also merged with Reala?" Aiden had asked, but before Elliot could answer, Aiden said, "That's right, it's Eva!"

"Aiden!" Eva called out, "don't tell our father."

"Well, I just did." Aiden crossed his arms.

"More pressing matters," Reala cried out, as he flew both children to the center of Twin Seeds Tower, "we need to get this jewel off before we fail our intent."

Quickly, Eva and Aiden grabbed the crystal, but soon enough got electrocuted from touching the powerful object.

NiGHTS began to laugh hysterically, "no way to stop me now!"

"Okay, let's put your Ideya to work," Reala had told the kids. All four of the hands of Reala's glowed red, and they touched the red jewel, slowly, the jewel had risen from the building.

NiGHTS dove to stop Reala, but both copies of NiGHTS got electrocuted himself from the touch.

The Jewel went to Eva's side of Reala's hands, they had grasped it closely. The jewel was still shining in their hands. Reala flew off with his other copy, in which Aiden was inside.

A huge disappointment came to NiGHTS, but he was still not willing to give up, "don't just stand there; go get them!"

The two dreamers just stood there, "no," Elliot protested, "those are my children that we're fighting, and we don't want to hurt them; I bet that Claris agrees."

Claris nodded her head, both her son and stepdaughter were important to her, and she wasn't going to hurt them, just for the sake of NiGHTS.

"Fine," NiGHTS flew down and unmerged with the two, "then I'll go find Reala myself."

"And how are you supposed to find her?" Elliot had asked.

NiGHTS had grabbed Elliot's cellphone from his belt, "I know these things can track other people!" NiGHTS flew away from the two Dreamers.

Eva and Aiden were at the park, unmerged with Reala, as Eva hid the jewel in the bushes.

"You know," Reala had mentioned, "we need that crystal to get back home in the Dream World, that's how we emerged from that fountain."

"Oh, right!" Eva put the jewel in her pocket, "I guess we can also use it to our advantage."

Just then, NiGHTS came over to the three, "and what's the advantage?"

Eva gave a glare to NiGHTS, "how did you find us."

NiGHTS took out Elliot's cell phone, "Oh, technology can be so great in the 21st century."

"Shoot," Eva cried out, she couldn't believe that the cell phone could be such a disadvantage to her, since she used them so much, her only option left was to run away from NiGHTS.

NiGHTS had glared at Aiden and Reala, then flew towards Eva's direction.

"Wow, NiGHTS," Aiden told himself, "very smart of you to chase Eva." Yet the next thing he did was to run towards NiGHTS' direction.

Reala rolled her eyes, and then followed the others.

Eva ran all the way to the fountain at the middle of the park, and then took the red crystal out of her pocket. She extended her arm with the crystal in her hand towards the fountain.

NiGHTS suddenly stopped flying towards the direction of the young girl, "what do you think you're doing?"

"Exactly what it looks like," Eva cried out on the top of her lungs, then smirked, "placing this jewel back where it came from," then she gave a glance at NiGHTS, "and without you I see."

NiGHTS began to laugh nervously, "Oh, you silly girl, don't you know how much trouble that would cause?"

Eva nodded her head, "Yeah, so unless you give up on your operation, I will drop this."

"You are a lot of more trouble than I thought you would be," NiGHTS smirked, "but fine, as much as you are taking away my own life's ambitions, I would rather not lose everything I worked for."

Aiden and Reala made it to the center of the park, when they saw Eva toss the jewel to NiGHTS.

NiGHTS looked at Reala, "I guess you've won!"

Reala smiled, she was glad, it seemed as though NiGHTS had learned his lesson on being so power hungry. It never would work out if NiGHTS had owned everything that was possible, never works in Waking World history, and would never work for NiGHTS.

Just then, Aiden felt pinned to a tree, as dark red hands grabbed his shoulders, Aiden looked directly at a clear colored face, "Jackle?"

A loud high pitched laughter came out of Jackle's mouth, "Looks like NiGHTS gave up, and guess what? You can't do your part of our deal!"

"So that would mean, that I can't do anything," Aiden objected.

"No…" Jackle rapidly shook his head, "that means, I can bother you all I want when I'm in Nightmare!"

Aiden just glared at Jackle, "well, fine, it's not like I'm scared of you anyway."

"Oh, don't be so sure about that," Jackle sneered, "I know you like the back of your hand." Jackle flew off of Aiden, then to NiGHTS and Reala, "shall we go back?"

NiGHTS looked down, "yeah, I guess," as he fastened the red diamond on his chest.

Then the three held hands and jumped into the fountain, which was the end of their adventure in the Waking World.

"Well," Eva said, "thanks so us, the world is saved."

"Yeah, but I still have to deal with that Jackle fellow," Aiden mumbled.

"Well, we should count our blessings," Eva smiled, "we don't have to live in our dreams."

Then, they saw Elliot and Claris run over to Aiden and Eva, "hey kids, is everything all right?" Elliot called out.

"Yeah," Eva called out to her dad, "everything's fine, no harm done."

"Almost," Aiden muttered.

"Hey, Aiden," Claris put her hand on Aiden's shoulder, "what's the matter?"

"Since you can't put up your end of the deal, I'm getting a lot more visits from Jackle," Aiden muttered, "what's wrong with him?"

"Well," Claris took a deep breath, not sure what kind of advice to give her son, "you do have your courage."

"Well," Elliot joked, "you could always ask Uncle Simon for free energy drinks."

"Elliot," Claris critically told her husband. She knew her sin of drinking too many energy drinks at her young age, even with her valid excuse.

"Oh, ha, ha, Dad," Aiden said in a sarcastic manner, even though were his Uncle Simon worked, gave him the advantage of free energy drinks, Aiden still thought those varieties tasted awful.

Elliot had also smiled, "wow, never knew you had it in you to call me 'Dad,'" he patted Aiden in the back, "so I guess less fights at the dinner table?"

"Yeah, sure, whatever," Aiden put his hands in his pockets.

Eva smiled, "well, let's go home, I'm starving!"

"Oh, look at the time," Claris looked at her cell phone, "we should probably pick up some pizza."

"Sure," said Elliot, soon as he realized that his cell phone was taken to the Dream World, "let's go."

So the family walked to out of the park, they have changed for good, and perhaps for the better. Once again, even if it wasn't directly, it was thanks to NiGHTS.