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Nights as Echoes

Notes from the author

Nights as Echoes is a fan fiction about the character NiGHTS and the world of dreams he/she is in, a constant changing world that can grow or dim in the glimpse of an eye.

I am a writer, an adult story writer most the time… I do like to write about sex as I do have the belief that if there was an adventure where you could lost your life, I can assure you one of the things any human, or not human, being would want to assure is that if you had to go, you would make every day you could a bit pleasurable at least.

This means Nights as Echoes will be a porn story? Not in rotten hell that would be the purpose… This is a story about adventures and fantasy, though it may have a sexual scene or two here and there, though it is not really necessary for the story I do enjoy writing them and even more if the people like them.

Now, now, what is Nights as Echoes? Well, to place you on the situation… A plane crash happens at the beginning of the story and a lot of people are saved, but end up in a heavy coma which, sadly, will probably never end… This resumes as their souls end up being sucked (but not eliminated) from their bodies because of the primal fear to death which forces them to accept any way to slow down the inevitable end of their existence.

And here is where our story begins… What I have told you will be explained latter… How? You will see. Why? The same as before. As for who will do: Read to find it.

Also: NiGHTS and all the characters of the games (Reala, Jackle, as well as any other official Nightmaren and Wizeman) as well as the official dream world are property of Sega Studios. The new characters here and the realms are of my property, though free to use as far as you give Uros Osium Tokker, Uros only if is not too much to ask though… I like my name short (or within NiGHTS stories, Locutus is also good) credit if you like them.
Also, NiGHTS and the other characters are mostly up to the imagination of the readers, so I give a description of my own, after that is your work to create. Wile the basic characters (Reala, NiGHTS…) don’t have description; imagine them as you desire with the basic drawings and photos of them as well as the games so you can have them more or less as you want.

Side note: When ***Adult*** appears means that, until you see this again, it will be an adult section, so if you don’t want to read (May be yaoi as well as yuri or normal plain sex, also they will be announced in each ***Adult xxxx***) continue until you reach the next ***Adult*** and you will be out of danger.
There is also ***Semi Adult*** that may include kissing or some mildly arousing teems, or some really hard violence in some cases (In which cause it will have four stars like this ****Semi Adult****)
Note that this doesn’t mean the things will happen right away, they will happen in that part of the story, sooner or latter, but in that scene it will take place, only have patience if they take a wile.

Second Side note: These notes will be in all chapters with any other news that are necessary under this Second Side note as “Last News”.

Last news: Well first chapter :3 8 pages in size 12 times new roman and six hours of working at night (I begun at 00:00 more or less as I couldn’t sleep…). I hope this is of your liking ^^.
Welcome the constructive criticism only X3 will not pay attention to flames or adulation (First I seem possible, second I do not) as I prefer to grow better with each drawing and not only to have good comments, though I DO want comments in general to continue working on this if it is not much to ask :3

Now onto the chapter

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Chapter 1º: Echoes of soul

NiGHTS was sitting on the border of the new formed dream… The purple jester was looking around the place with his big and beautiful blue eyes *This place is… so sad… not fun, not even a dreamer coming here* He thought as he looked over, it was bringing back memories, memories of his old home alongside master Wizeman as this place was dark and gloomy, even at day.

He took his invisible flute and begun to play a beautiful song, something to contrast with this place as he thought, he thought of the last three months…

***

Wizeman had returned a few weeks after Helen and William returned to having only nice dreams. NiGHTS still played with them and had some adventures, but they were now together easily without anything to worry about so he said goodbye to them, saying they could ask for him whenever they wanted.

It wasn’t as much as he didn’t want to endanger the kids as he wanted some more freedom again to, both, kick some ass that served Wizeman and to fly wherever he would want to have his own fun… after all, he loved to be free.

The thing is… it begun to change dramatically after the last friendly call from Will and Helen; they said that there was a plane crash on the news as the plane was intact and mostly all the people alive and well… Except for a number of people they didn’t knew, but was said that they were in a deep coma and some… had died.

That day was when new places begun to appear, one of the latest was this one, though with the places appeared new things, new enemies… and some of them looked a lot like Reala and him.

Even more to that instatement, Reala usually was with at least one of them, and as far as NiGHTS had seen, there were four of them, each one different from the previous and different from himself and his brother, though every one of them seemed loyal to the core to Wizeman.

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*And since that, more than three months have passed and a whole lot of new lands have been created… Though I can’t explore them* Lets admit it, NiGHTS was up for the exploring, to be curious and to, maybe, crush the new plan Wizeman had, but he was mostly curious as how the new realms of the dreams would be than anything.

He then looked forward, taking his flute away; he was in the border of the dream, the place in front was small and he had explored it whole *Small and boringly plain except from the castle in the middle* His thoughts were right, the place was a plain desert with some dead threes and a huge black castle in the middle with only one entrance, and it was at the bottom.

NiGHTS got up and looked at the castle with his sharp eyes “I would have explored you before if your master wasn’t making my life so hard” he grumped, remembering again.

***

“Come here you dam buffoon!” NiGHTS looked back to see a green jester crushing a tree with a punch “Master Wizeman wants to have a few words with you! Don’t make me get the old man mad” The jester grinned under his sadness mask, NiGHTS could tell only by looking at him.

NiGHTS laughed though as he begun to fly gently, the sparks leaving his hands as he got fast into the air, leaving the green jester on the ground, as NiGHTS had learned that he was a lousy flier “And where is the fun of that eh?”

“How dare you?!” The jester jumped fast and tried to fly, leaving a trail of spiked stars behind him as he tried to punch the air, sending a wave against NiGHTS who, gracefully, giggled wile avoiding it “Come to the ground and fight like a man!” the jester roared, wanting him to do so, so he could ambush and punish him the old good way.

NiGHTS was definitely having fun… even in Nightopia, where his enemy could do anything he would want to try and catch him easily, he was even more easily driven out of any plan by teasing him “Oh? And who said I am a man? Even more: Who said you would put up a good fight?” Hi giggled, adding “Pansy”

The jester took his right hand to his mask and with a loud smacking noise, mix of stone hitting a glass, mix of angry groan; he looked at NiGHTS “For the love of… That is it!” he pointed at NiGHTS and with an evil look shouted “I, Locutus, dare you fight me in a duel in MY home under MY rules and against ME alone”

“Oh buh huh… two months of fighting… if you call that fighting… and you are already losing your nerve? Come on, tomorrow we make three months… Don’t you want something else for this nice anniversary of ours? I never told my fatter we are dating and I want to see what the old Wizeman thinks of it” He laughed hard as he could swear Locutus was blushing heavily under his mask before he ran out of the dream.

***

NiGHTS finally grinned after he remembered that, he was about to laugh when he remembered the month Locutus had to fly to fight since he got in a fight with Reala after he tried to lie to Wizeman and Reala picked on him too much calling him stupid and bonehead, and also was very interesting to see Reala trying to fight with only one arm for the whole month too.

Well in any case he had to get inside, this was the only dream that directly connected to the other ones, now freed from the grasp of Wizeman, so if NiGHTS wanted peace to fly, explore and play again, then he needed to go and crush the plans of Wizeman… again…

He simply positioned his hand against the black metallic door of the castle a second before a laugh was heard “Hahahahah! I seem you really want to fight then, eh NiGHTS?” Locutus’s voice was heard from everywhere “Then let me… open you a way”

The doors opened slowly with little sound... only one was heard wile the doors were opening, and that was the air being cut! “Almost” NiGHTS grinned deeply as he got the knife in his hand “Such primitive manners… and such rough treatment to your date” He giggled, throwing the knife away.

“Heheh… Don’t get angry… I still have a lot of surprises for you” Locutus voice disappeared as the door finally opened, showing a wall that broke in two and opened as the first gate, then a third and fourth one, all of them got open and NiGHTS entered with his face filled with a smirk.

Looking to the place it seemed empty, rocky pillar and walls adorned with gargoyles and statues here and there where the only thing in the huge emptiness of the first floor, then a rock crashed into the ground, not small, not big… but fallowed by a few more that took NiGHTS curiosity to look up.

What would have been about twenty or more floors were simply an empty black space… The gargoyles and statues were looking down at him with a grin wile stones were falling from the upper part “If you can get up here, we shall play” The voice of Locutus said.

“Piece of cake, you make this all easy to the ones you like?” NiGHTS chuckled as he begun to fly, leaving his sparks behind, dodging some rocks and looking around, knowing that the gargoyles and statues weren’t there to offer a good look at the place.

And right he was, when he passed what should have been the ring of the fifth floor as the statue of an angel took and throw a rock at him wile a gargoyle begun flying against him. The easy dodge that fallowed that ended with the gargoyle falling, stunned by the rock from the angel and crushed under the bigger one that was falling from the ceiling up there.

After that the things got a bit more interesting, each few feet more gargoyles and statues begun to attack him fiercely to end up being dodged, crushed or simply ashamed of how NiGHTS dodged them, laughing at their tries of taking him “This is interesting… but getting old soon” he murmured between his lips.

And old it got, sadly no more than bigger rocks, meaner statues and gargoyles and a few darts and knifes (That seemed to glow with something green he though would be poison to wear him down) appeared on his way until he finally found the ceiling and the creatures creating the boulders. A small group of Nightmaren round and almost plain with dumb smirks, probably almost like pets for Locutus, and now they were unable to harm him so the only thing that was left was… opening the door in the ceiling that was besides him and…

“Took you long enough!” When NiGHTS took a peek inside the new room, filled with eight big pillars of emerald with three gargoyles made out of silver and a perfectly polished white floor, he found himself almost eating Locutus’s fist, luckily he flied away in a fast motion, avoiding the hit completely.

He looked over the friendly lord of the house. Locutus had a three tailed jester hat with two of them in the same position as his own, though the third one was in the front, falling in a way it could block his line of sight, hadn’t it already be halved by the mask of sadness he wore that was blocking his right eye, leaving his left one to be the only one able to see behind the drop like hole in the mask that showed his blue eye and blue tainted skin.

Asides that he could see the open mouth of the mask with the insidious smirk in Locutus’s lips sadden by the sad grin painted in his lips by the green makeup he had. His body wasn’t better than that; an old crude shirt covered his green leather protector, which worked also as his shirt with patterns of teats in the right arm and hearts in the left, both of them green in color and crude in the making.

Wile that was actually a bit weird as much as interesting, NiGHTS should admit that his weapons were far better. Precious metal made knuckles with a dark emerald color in the right, alongside with two drops made out of pure emerald and placed in the base of the knuckle and a blue sapphire tear in the hand. The left was, however, made of silver with two diamond hearts in the base and a bigger ruby hearth in the hand. Both of them beautiful, but crude and filled with claws and spikes meant to harm and make pain.

Down, though, he had a belt that was divided into three parts that were holding against him for some reason with a pair of locks; a tear and a heart mixed in the front and the same, but backwards in position on the other side.

The pants, like his upper body, were covered with rags of coarse silk wile the green leather that joined up with a pair of boots thanks to two belts, the same as the one holding his pants. The boots were the same as the knuckles, but they changed places as the right was the left and vice versa (in motives and precious metals).

“Done looking at me hun?” Locutus grinned as he looked towards NiGHTS to, then, punch the air and send a wave that ended crashing against a wall, not doing any damage at all, when NiGHTS flew off.

“Only barely as it is the most exciting thing that I can do with you” He grinned as Locutus raged up, throwing a pair of waves against him “No conversation…” And Locutus launched more waves, his rage pressing wile NiGHTS danced on the air “No excitement of a battle… this is a boring party”

Locutus twitched in place as he looked at NiGHTS grinning deeply “Oh… so no challenge at all eh?” he said trying to contain his anger “Then my first rule… No flying!” He yelled, and then NiGHTS found himself on the floor as Locutus jumped forward, punching into the ground as the surprised Nightmaren had dodged the attack.

“Even cheating you cant hit me” NiGHTS, even surprised and having a glimpse of fear when Locutus jumped against him made it out, dodging at the last second, the attack, finding it dangerous but interesting.

Locutus jumped again, this time not aiming for NiGHTS but for what was behind it. As NiGHTS looked back he could only see one of the eight pillars of the room, with the gargoyles looking at him like if he was a prey… So did the other gargoyles, but not a sign of the other Nightmaren.

That is when he found someone breathing heavily on his neck “You are mine now” and as Locutus said that, he got his hands on NiGHTS wile he did the same on his armed hands.

A second in the dream world was a whole life in Locutus’s head after that. He saw himself in the real world as he got away from NiGHTS… NiGHTS, a nightmare that had tried to be friendly on… his own peculiar way, someone that had played with him even if it was all teasing, someone he had been with for three months…

“Three months… dead… no… not dead” Locutus looked up at NiGHTS who was now looking at him with a smirk “Three months dreaming” As fast as he said that a cough was heard besides him.

Then all happened in a fast motion: NiGHTS had a worried look on his face as he tried to jump forward wile Locutus looked to his side and a clawed fist collided against his face, tearing the mask out of his face and shattering it into pieces, throwing him far away, into a side.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk… Master Wizeman had so much hope placed into you” The cold voice of Reala sounded into Locutus’s mind as the dark Nightmaren took his sibling from the neck “You had to discover what made him aware don’t you? Or… maybe you didn’t even know about the Outburst?”

Locutus slowly got on his feet, his hat falling to the ground and leaving his hair out, the three long parts of his hair falling to his back as he looked towards Reala with both his eyes free, the tear and the heart, blue and pink “Leave-him-alone” He growled showing his fangs.

“Now that I have him?” Reala smirked, he only needed one hand to hold his traitor sibling wile he used the other to take a boulder he made appear from the ground “I doubt so… also, you are coming with me so master Wizeman can re-educate you” he grinned as he throw the rock against Locutus.

Locutus took the boulder with one hand and crushed it wile with the other he launched a wave towards the dark Nightmaren, pushing him against one of the pillars and forcing him to lose his grip on NiGHTS “I thought you were the one doubting?” He grinned before Reala opened his eyes; now sadden by hate “Crap…”

“Want me to doubt?!” Reala dashed forward and punched Locutus in the belly making his fellow companion cough some green blood “Then let me doubt your existence!” After that, and with a swift motion, Reala turned and kicked Locutus hard into the face, sending him across the room and out of the castle when the seer force broke the wall, pushing him out.

“Dam fool” He grunted as he turned to face his brother “What?! NiGHTS!?” NiGHTS wasn’t there, in fact as Reala turned and looked, searched and explored, NiGHTS wasn’t anywhere to be seen “AAARGH! I swear NiGHTS! When I find you… I WILL CRUSH YOU AND MAKE SURE YOU COME WITH ME!” He roared punching another hole in the wall.

***

NiGHTS could hear his brother yelling as he went down slowly, holding Locutus in place. Locutus’s right eye had been turned from pink to purple after the violent kick, also, should he have ended falling all the way alongside the rocks, he would have probably been killed.

*cough!* a bit of green blood spurted out of Locutus’s mouth as he opened his left eye and removed a bit of his bright emerald colored hair from his face “Hey… thanks… NiGHTS *cough* I think… I overdid it” he groaned looking embarrassed.

NiGHTS was grinning a bit as he looked at the former Nightmaren… no, former human being “I must admit it was pretty reckless…” Locutus, even being a bit hurt, couldn’t help but laugh as he saw the holding face of NiGHTS “Ok… don’t laugh… I am trying to… hold here” he said before he burst into laughs too “What the hell!? That was overly amazing! I never though someone could face my brother like that AND STOP thinking they had done enough!”

Locutus laughed coughing a bit, some more blood fell to the ground, but that was nothing for a Nightmaren of first rank… or what had been a first rank, or a Nightmaren at all “Heh… it could have been worse” he grinned as they finally touched the ground near was seemed to be a growing lake… as well as grass and trees “Oh… seems like my domain is changing…”

“Yea, you change, your heart change, your dream change” NiGHTS pointed out as he helped his friend on the ground “I must admit that the idea I had was really reckless… And god how I enjoyed that” he giggled “Though I must admit I had no idea how to see if you were really one of those that…”

“Don’t… please, don’t say anything, I don’t remember the plane crashing and I prefer not to… My body is technically alive and my soul is here… I am dreaming, lets leave it to that” Locutus looked to the lake, a small tear dripping into it as he groaned, seeing he had something he didn’t want “I hated makeup in life and never went even near girls with it… and I have to wear it on “death”” He groaned and tried to clean his face, not minding that he didn’t have a nose and that his eyes were huge in comparison of his human self, he only cared about the makeup.

“Technically you aren’t dead” NiGHTS teased, poking his friend as he turned and looked at him with only one eye open and a grin that, even with the makeup of sadness, looked quite nice “Alive enough to play and help me, if you want”

Then Locutus got up and NiGHTS finally noticed that the muscle that made them different wasn’t there anymore, not physically at least. His emerald green hair was as long as his own, maybe a bit more, it made him look feminine too, maybe that was one of the things Locutus didn’t like… Also he saw it now, but his face was a lot like Locutus, though his own was maybe not as wide and with a smaller smirk with no makeup.

Also the leather in his chest disappeared and formed a leather collar on his neck wile smooth silk with the same motives as the leather had (Though now smoother, better defined in color and form as well as a bit smaller) and the gauntlets changed into warm an soft leather without spikes, though it remained with claws and the jewels they formerly had.

The boots and pants had the same change, as well as a changed belt that was now connected by silk, joining the three previous parts into one and holding the two lockers in their place.

“Well… technically… but now I can sense what would have trigged whatever was making me… a nightmare” He muttered out, sitting, rubbing his harmed eye and belly “Loneliness” He said as he looked away, blushing a bit as he, sadly, remembered all times he had said horrid things to NiGHTS as well as all the times he had tried to do worse things than the ones he said.

“Hey buddy, come on, don’t look like that… What are we? A couple? Or are you trying to find a way to say you like me? That is why you are blushing and not looking at me?” NiGHTS burst to laughs as he saw Locutus blushing profusely and hiding his head between his arms and legs.

“I was… thinking about each thing I have done… and wonder why, as well as being so sorry for it” He mumbled wile NiGHTS stopped laughing “I am a friendly, shy and honorable person… I would give my life before taking one… Worse than that, I can’t tell a dam lie… Why am like this now?!” Locutus looked again at NiGHTS, Nightmaren cant cry, Nightmaren don’t have feelings… Locutus was crying, and not because of the pain.

“Sssh, sssh… nothing happens Locutus, come here” Nights kneeled and hugged Locutus against his chest, taking care of the gem he had there “When one of my friends told me about a strange thing happening… the crash, I thought I didn’t have to pay much attention, then, I saw you and the others”

Locutus looked to NiGHTS and wondered, crying still from his tear eye “At first I didn’t notice anything but the few battles you and the other did against me before you were the only one sent each time, thanks to that I could feel this” He said placing his hand against Locutus’s heart, then, pushed gently away from it.

“Green Ideya” NiGHTS said with a smirk, showing the green sphere crystal to Locutus “A Nightmaren doesn’t have feelings, a Nightmaren doesn’t cry… Nightmaren don’t have Ideya inside, and this, is why you have your color, why you were easy for me to recover… You can overcome yourself easily”

Locutus nodded and smiled gently, hugging NiGHTS close “Maybe… but… one thing I will not overcome, no matter if I have that within me” He stopped crying and looked at NiGHTS “I remember why I am here and why I am this now… I sealed my soul here, made a deal to Wizeman to save my life until I awoke in exchange of serving him as a host for the same power you and Reala had… that is why I am… like this” he said looking down “I was a coward… I always thought I was not going to fear death when it came and I finally feared it enough to seal a pact with something evil… That is a huge dishonor”

“Then help me do the right thing and free all the souls Wizeman took from the real world, I am sure his plan is not only have the red Ideya, but to have a firm grip of reality to expand the chaos and fear in the real world so the Nightmare grows stronger” NiGHTS asked gently wile petting Locutus’s head and hair, trying to encourage him

“You are asking me to fight and die… both if we win or if we don’t” He said bluntly still looking down “If we win, my contract with Wizeman will be erased and my coma will probably end in shock and death” He looked up at NiGHTS with his blue eye vividly sparking wile NiGHTS, not being good or evil, not being friend or foe, only being in the middle for fun, felt worse than physical pain could have made him feel ever, this was regret and pity, both because of what he said and because of what he answered.

“Count me in” He said simply before closing his eye and falling onto NiGHTS, recovering his Ideya wile he begun to snore slowly, without strength.

***End of first chapter***
***To be continued***