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[Minn]

Celia stood in thought, gazing out over the dreamscape expanding in front of her while absent
mindedly tossing and catching the white orb of energy that was her 'Ideya' in her right hand. She was trying
to adjust to everything the little Nightopians had just explained, about Nightopia, and Nightmare. The
thought of going to a different world every time you fall asleep was kind of...odd. Especially since she'd
been sleeping for her whole life and was only now being told this. For a second, she considered the fact
that it was all a dream anyway. Her mind could be making all this nonsense about dream worlds up as it
went. Ah well. If nothing else it was interesting and she decided that she might as well play it out. She
shrugged and released the Ideya letting it orbit around, when she felt someones hand on her shoulder.
"Hey." Andrew said cheerily. "You done being emo yet?"
Celia smiled a bit and swatted her brothers hand off her shoulder. "Not emoing. I was just thinking, you
dork. Anyways, you find out anything else from the...Night-o-pians?"
Andrew nodded "Yeah. It seems might have a chance at getting your Ideya back, if we ask someone for help.
There are a few beings in nightopia that might be willing to assist, like a strong dream guide or a rebel or
something."
Celia blinked slowly and stared at him. "...What?" She asked.
"Oh, you know. Nightmaren who grew a conscience and rebelled, or dream characters that help dreamers out..."
Andrew started chattering on but then stopped as he saw Celia growing more lost by the second. He raised an
eyebrow and asked. "Were you even listening to half of things the Nightopians were talking about two minutes
ago?"
Celia spun away from him and shrugged. "Nope."
"Dude! We were like three feet away."
"Ehn." She waved hand dismissively, wishing to drop the subject.
Andrew raised a hand to his face and shook his head. "Wow, I mean really Cee, you have a gift."
"Yeah yeah." Celia crossed her arms and looked back over her shoulder at Andrew. "So where should we go? It
doesn't look like anything, or anyone else is here."
Andrew looked around the area, and had the same conclusion. There was literally almost nothing there, just
sand, some weird looking grey flowers, and rock formations that eerily resembled trees scattered around the
landscape. "Well...um." He started, unsure of what to do.
Celia cracked her knuckles idily and started walking off in a random direction across the barren sand field,
behind her Andrew speed walked to catch up. "Where are you going?" He asked. "Heck if I know." She muttered,
sounding bored. "But it's somewhere."
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Roughly six minutes later, and the two had found 'somewhere'

It was some kind of ruin, with huge stone architecture carved with strange symbols strewn about. Statues that
resembled vaugely human forms were arranged around a strangely small egypt styled pyramid, that had two
separate entrances on either side of the main wall. Random posts were scattered around and some not so
random ones acted as a kind of platform staircase that wound around the pyramid and rose up out of sight
into the sky. Everything was ancient, and the desert sand had worn down everything over time giving it a
forbidden look.

The two dreamers stood before the strange structure, overlooking it before they could say anything.
"Wow." Andrew sighed, a feeling of wonder in his voice. "Yeah." Celia agreed.
Andrew looked over to the huge double of entrance, then to the pillar staircase. The back to the entrance again. "...Should we?" He started, and immediately Celia saw what he was thinking.
"No."
"Can we?"
"No."
"But-"
"No."
"Why n-"
"NO, Andy. Does this place somehow NOT scream 'ancient deathtrap' to you?"
"Well, someone nice could be in there."
Celia just gave a him cold stare. "You cannot be serious."
"Aw, come on Cee! Where's your sense of adventure? It's all just a dream anyway..." Andrew gave her a light punch in the arm. "What, don't tell me you're scared of some old temple that doesn't exisist. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?"
Celia punched him back, a little harder than needed. "Look, I ain't scared okay?" She said as he hopped around, holding his arm and muttering 'owowow.' "This place just...feels wrong, you know?" She muttered uneasily.

[Nyclone]

A young gothic-punk looking boy, aroud the age of 14, walked out of the shadows. "Hello." He said in a sweet, yet sickening voice, that if it were food, you would eat it, throw up, and try to eat more.

[Minn]

The sudden appearance of the other boy made Celia jump a bit. "Oh..um..hi?" She said kind of awkwardly. She wasn't expecting another human to...well another anything really, to just appear out of nowhere like that.
Andrew wasn't caught off guard at all, almost like he'd expected it. "Hi." He said cheerfully, and took a few steps towards the new boy. Behind him Celia reached an arm out like she was going to call him back, but she decided not to and put her arm down again. "Sorry to intrude, but are you the one who lives here?" Andrew questioned politely. Celia stayed back and never took her eyes off the newcomer, mentally wondering if he was a real kid or a creature of the dream dimension.

[Nyclone]

"No. Like you two, I came to investigate. What's it to ya?" He said, reaching for his necklace.

[Minn]

"Just wondering." Andrew smirked, casting a curious glance at the boys necklace before turning towards the temple. Now out of range of his sister he felt free to go over to it, knowing that he could outrun her if necessary. He turned back towards her and gave a short wave, before setting of towards it at a brisk walk.
Celia watched him go in disbelief. Usually he wouldn't attempt to go against her will like that, so he must really have wanted to explore that place. "Andrew...?" She called out a quiet warning. He kept walking. Celia cast a quick glance at the strange boy and steered clear of him as she began following her brother. "Brat." She growled, just barely audiable.

[Nyclone]

"Let me come. You'll both get killed fast in there without me to help." He said, smiling. He looked as if he knew something they didn't.

[Minn]

Andrew and Celia stopped dead in their tracks. Both turned around to look at Diskue, and Andrew unconciously took a few steps away from the temple. "Killed?!" He said in suprise."You're kidding, right?" "I told you, dipstick." Celia couldn't help but laugh a bit at her brother, then she was serious again as she looked back to the stranger. "So just who...or what, are you?" She asked, crossing her arms. Andrew frowned at his sister for a second and turned away, although he was still listening to whatever the guy had to say.

[Nyclone]

"I am Diskue. I am a dreamer. Though I am only sixteen, I can weild a sword with perfect ability. You?"

[Minn]

'Sixteen, and a swordsman? Right.' Celia thought sarcasticly. Andrew stepped in and gave the introduction. "I'm Andrew, and this is Celia. We're both dreamers." 'Obviously.' Andrew gave a slight bow to Diskue, before looking back at the temple. "So ... what's in there thats so dangerous?" He asked.
"It doesn't matter, we've got reason to go in there anyway." Celia said, looking first at Andrew, then Diskue. "So, kid, do you know any sort of place where we could find a good...what are they called? Dream guides? We kind of need one."

[Nyclone]

"I am one." Diskue said. He opened his locket, pullling out a small dagger fit for a Lego man. "This is my sword."

[Minn]

"...." For a few seconds there was an awkward silence among the group. Then a small smile appeared on Celia's face, and it grew, and grew until she had to turn around and put both of her hands over her mouth to keep from laughing. Mentally though...'OHMYGODAHAHAHAHISTHISKIDSERIOUHAHAHABAHAHA!' While his sister was shaking with silent laughter, Andrew was also trying to keep a straight face. "So...I-is that...It's magic or ssssssomething. Heh Right?" He was trying not to smile like an idiot, but the sight of Diskue holding what resembled half a toothpick and saying it was a weapon was so rediculous that it was hard not to laugh.

[Nyclone]

"Yep." He tossed it in the air, and when it came down, it was a full sized, celestial bronze katana with steel spikes on it, a maren-leather grip, and on the hilt sheath, it read in a different language: "Gias". It also had two sapphires on each side of the word. "Nice, huh? It's called Gias."

[Minn]

Andrews eyes widened in wonder as Diskue revealed the weapons true form, and instantly he didn't feel like laughing anymore. "Woah!" He said, absolutely impressed. 'This guy is actually a swordman.' Celia hadn't bothered to turn back around yet, and was still laughing. Andrew rolled his eyes and decided to ignore her, instead he said "So, you're a dream guide..and a dreamer at the same time?" The concept was somewhat confusing, but he decided to go with it. "Awesome. If you don't mind fighting a bit we could use your help...you know, if you're interested. We had a bad run in with a pretty nasty Nightmaren." About that time Celia had regained her composure and was just turning around, when suddenly a strange sound started emanating from nowhere. It was a low rumbling that started growing louder and louder, until the ground itself was shaking. Celia fell to the ground for a moment, but then managed to regain her balance and get back up while Andrew looked around in confusion. "What is this?" He said, but the sound was too loud for his voice to be heard easily. Some of the pillars in the ground began to shake loose in the sand. Andrew saw one of them shudder- and then it was falling down like a logged tree. Right towards Diskue! "DISKUE MOVE!" He shouted over the still ongoing loud sound. He was barely able to hear a " -ndrew!" And turned around just in time to see a pillar falling towards himself. "Yaa!" Andrew yelled as he barely jumped out of harms way, as the giant stone pillar fell where he had been seconds before and kicked a huge cloud of sand up into the air.

[Nyclone]

Diskue saw a nightmaren making off with Celia. "OH, NO YOU DON'T!" Diskue says. He pulled apart the sword, it becoming two daggers. "IKE ZUKE!" He yelled, running up to the monster and stabbing it in the back. It made a loud shriek, and it momentarily stopped.

[Minn]

Celia screamed as she suddenly found herself in the jaws of what appeared to be some sort of giant stone lizard, then she was flung back to the desert floor hard as Diskue stabbed the beast in the back and it shreiked in pain. "Ugh." She groaned on the ground, and considered staying there until she saw one of the marens paws heading straight for her head, so she rolled out of the way. It wasn't really aiming for her though. It had begun thrashing about wildly in an attempt to shake Diskue off its back.
Andrew pushed his way out of a cloud of dust kicked up by the pillars, only to see Diskue struggling on the back of some sort of living statue-like maren. "Oh fish." The Beast roared in anger, finding it difficult to shake Diskue off, then it curled up like an armidillo and started rolling. Straight for Celia. "WHY ME?!" She shrieked, running for her life. Andrew stood in a panic, not shure what to do. Until he saw some of the still standing pillars strewn about the area, and an idea came to him. "See if you can lure into one of those pillars!" Celia didn't seem to be really listening, and dove behind one of the fallen pillars on the ground, as the maren followed and hit the pillar like a ramp- launching it high into the air.

[Nyclone]

... and when it came down, it nearly missed certain death. Diskue's sword was aimed for it's neck, but it missed. He ran up to the beast, and held his knife to it's throat. "I can kill you in a single movement. If you don't release that Ideya, I'll kill you." And sure enough, in it's mouth, was the white Ideya.

[Minn]

The Nightmaren hissed angrily at Diskue and reluctantly released the Ideya, spitting it off to the side. Before Diskue could attempt to go after it though, the Maren made a last ditch attempt at pummeling the boy by swiping its club-like tail at his head.

Not all that far away, Andrew had managed to find Celia again and he crouched next to her. "Cee are you alright?" He asked, worried. She was shaking a little, and as Andrew watched he saw her body flicker in and out of exsistence a few times.
"I feel weird." She said, and gasped as she saw her hands dissapear for a second and come back.
"Whats happening?!" "You must be waking up..." Andrew looked around to see what had happened to Diskue and the big Maren. "Wait right here, and try to stay calm."
"O-Okay."

[Nyclone]

Diskue got up from the hit, and ran up to the maren, and slit it's throat. "You don't keep your vows, and I don't keep mine." He says, grabbing the Idyea. He looks at Celia, flickering and looking sickly. He ran up to her, and shoved it in her. He pulled out of his pocket a bag of golden cloured taffy-like substance. He pulled off a square and gave it to Celia. "Here. Eat this. You wouldn't normally eat it and live in the Waking, but here it can replenish your health."

[Minn]

The second she got the ideya back the world started to stop feeling like the world was spinning so she slowly stood up. At Diskues offer of the health replenisher she raised an eyebrow. "What is it, poison?" She asked, but took the stuff anyway and ate it. Andrew was examining the now dead nightmaren and watched as it's body desintigrated into dust. He walked back to where Diskue and Celia were. "I think we've found that help we wanted Cee." He stated looking at Diskue. Although the way he looked reminded Andrew of some strange anime hero, Diskue had proved that he was more than strong enough to be a great help. 'The way he fights, this guy must have taken loads of maren down. I bet that thing won't stand a chance!' He thought excitedly and held a hand out to shake hands with Diskue. "Think you could handle another beast like that? We'd appreciate your help." He said, waiting for a response.

[TORiAS_the_fallen]

TORiAS reclined in the air thinking I wonder when they'll notice me....?

The Maren's bright red hair fell into his eyes, and he grinned. He didn't wear a 'human guise,' unlike some other Maren he could mention.
He twirled his hair on a grey clawed finger, "Heh..." He chuckled.

With ease he glided in front of the humans "Ambroisa?" He asked ", Got any Nectar on you? I'm kinda thirsty...," He was hanging upside down in the air, his long hair in one of the human's faces.

[Nyclone]

"WOAH!" Diskue held up his sword to TORi, but realized who it was. "TORi? How have ya been?!" He asked, holding out a canteen of Nectar.

[Minn]

Andrew stepped back in confusion as something red smacked him in the face, and looked up to see that it was the hair of a strange person. Until he saw the claws and horns and such, then he realized it definetely wasn't human. It didn't really matter though, as Diskue seemed to be friends with it. So Andrew stepped back by Celia and was content to watch for a little bit, wondering how the two knew each other.

[Nyclone]

"Ah. TORi and I go way back."

[Minn]

"Uh-huh." Celia clicked her tounge and looked between Diskue and TORiAS, not quite making the connection that TORiAS was a Nightmaren. Due to his humanoid form she figured he was another dream guide (Albeit a creepy looking one) of some sort. 'So, what now?' She turned around to ask Andrew if he had any ideas, but he wasn't there. "Andy?" She asked, looking around the bland sandy landscape. For a second there was no response, and she started to wonder if he'd been attacked by another maren or something.

Then he poked his head around a collapsed pillar and called to them. "Dude, you have to come see this!" Before he disappeared behind it again. Having nothing better to do, Celia trotted over to where her brother was and found him standing before what looked like a doorway of some kind. Just, you know, doorless. "Weird huh?" Andrew said, standing besides the structure. Celia raised an eyebrow as her brother started examining the thing, like he was looking for an on switch.
"What are you doing?" She asked as she walked over to him. He'd finished searching one side and started on the other.
"Trying to open it." He said.
"Open it. Yeah...you do realize there's no door right?" Celia said, and waved her arms through the empty space where the door would have been. Andrew scoffed and gave her an almost pitying look.
"No imagination. Look, we're in the middle of a desert that only exists in our dreams. We're supposed to find this thing, I think. Do you really think there would be a random doorway here for no reason?" He asked, stepping back to get a better view of the thing. Celia reached out an arm and leaned against the door frame. "Well, if this is a dream then it isn't required to make sense-" But she stopped mid sentence as something started happening. Where her hand was touching the door way a white light began to show and it extended around both her and the door frame like an aura in a matter of seconds. Then the light began filling in the middle of the frame, quickly creating a wall of light before it all kind of fell away in white glowing specks. The end result of the process was a door. Just right there, in the middle of the desert and out of no where. Celia stared in confusion at the now exsisting door while Andrew stepped back next to her and gave her a light pat on the head.
"Ding! Absolutely right, it doesn't have to make sense." He snickered.'Score- me 1, Cee 0.'

[Nyclone]

"Ugh." Disk ran over there, and said, "You do know the only reason I'm helping you is because you need it." he said. He looked at the doorway, said, "Look!" He was looking at a long coding of enscription.

[TORiAS_the_fallen]

TORi watched with interest ", This reminds me of the time I got stuck in the Desert of Confussion....."
He drank the Nectar gratefully ", But they did find the door..., so, what the hey!" He gracefully floated to the door ", It's a Nightmaren language... isn't it, Disk?"
He looked at the two humans ", Aren't you afraid of me? I am, well, you know.... a Nightmaren. Who are you anyway? This is, quite obviously, your dream I've stummbled into."
TORiAS concentrated on the writing", It says something about sibling dreamers...."

[Nyclone]

"I've studied prophecies before, so I might get something out of this." He said. He studied it some more, and spoke,
" 'A reapeat in history done,
dreamer, two, shall win the one,
an ally falling a proud defeat,
dreamer, twos' match we meet.' Hm. Well, this should be interesting."

[TORiAS_the_fallen]

TORiAS' face broke into a sinister grin ", If these two will it, I'll stick around and see the fun. I like my days to have variation, and, who knows, this may help me in my quest for Truth."

[EZEKiAL]

Scykle the Nightmaren loomed nearby, listening to the conversation. He stayed as quiet as possible, as not to cause trouble for himself by being detected.

[Nyclone]

Diskue sensed the creature behind him, and said, "I belive we have a listener." He snickered.

[TORiAS_the_fallen]

" Really?!" TORiAS asked, suprised ", I couldn't tell..." He sighed ", Maybe I'm loosing my senses....." he muttered.

[EZEKiAL]

Hmph, pretty angsty for a dreamer, aren't we? Scykle grinned, turning to the other dreamer. My, the Night Dimension is certainly booming tonight... He said sarcastically.

[Nyclone]

"TORiAS, would you like to do the honors?"

[TORiAS_the_fallen]

"Indeed I would, Disk." TORiAS spun around "Come out, come out, where ever you are! And angsty?! Are you talking about Disk, or me? I'm a Nightmaren, you know!"

[Nyclone]

"Uhh... How did you hear that?" Diskue asked.

[TORiAS_the_fallen]

"I think I'm going insane..." TORiAS sighed.

[Nyclone]

"Who knows...." Disk says with that "Oh, cr*p." look on his face

[EZEKiAL]

Scykle blinked a few times. Err...right... He backed off a few feet.

[Nyclone]

"Why are you here?" Diskue asked. "State your name."

[EZEKiAL]

Who are you to be telling ME what to do? Scykle scoffed. But, if you must know, the name's Scykle.