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[DAiLiGHT]

Droiture's eyes widened as he heard the yell of pain from the other room. Through his blurred tears, he crossed his arms in front of him and said, "Celestial Shield!" A sphere of crystal came surrounding him, then the back end flattened out to form to the wall he sat against. He huddled in the shield for a while, letting his anger and sadness just drizzle out of him like a fondue fountain.

[Ventro]

In extreme anger, Jackle floated out of the room and made bunches of cards shoot out of his mantle.

"You can't escape Ventro. How dare you deny your master." Jackle yelled. Ventro tried to get the kiwi left and right to dodge the razor sharp cards flying towards him.

"Master! I know where Droiture is." the kiwi sqwacked.

"Good! Let's get him and get out of here!" Ventro yelled trying to look behind. Jackle's face showed an expression soo terrifying that made Ventro's feathers ruffle. The green ooze ran down his face from the kiwi's scratch.

[DAiLiGHT]

Ventro? Did I hear the scary voice say 'Ventro'? Droiture thought as he looked up from his huddled ball on the floor. He released the shield and stood up, looking around for any sign of the only person who stuck by him in Nightmare.

[Ventro]

They ran through the corridors and the halls, but Jackle was on their tail.

"VENTRO!!! YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR DEFIANCE!!!!" Jackle yelled and opened up his mantle freely in the air. With all his might. He caused made small sharp cards to fly towards Ventro. They tried to dodge them all, but it was too many for the kiwi to dodge.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!! Master!" the kiwi yelled when some fo the bladed cards hit Ventro's kiwi.

"Oh no!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!" Ventro screamed as the kiwi turned back into a charm, and Ventro rolled quickly into the ground. Jackle floated in the air in irritation.

"Why do you persist to deny my request to join us. You could of became a hero in this world. You gave it all up for one stinkin maren like human." Jackle yelled in disbelief.

[DAiLiGHT]

"I knew I recognized your voice, Ventro!" Droiture ran out to see Jackle over Ventro.

"Hey! D*ckless! You wanna scrap with a real fighter?" He taunted, clapping his hands. When he stretched them out, a scythe just like his old one appeared.

'Cause me and Enchantement Deux have a bone to pick with you! Leave Ventro alone, you d*ckless hack!" Droiture yelled, giving a vicious swing in Jackle's direction.

[Ventro]

Jackle gave a loud growl in anger and caused more cards to come towards Ventro and Droiture.

"You are the one who's wrong! You're the destruction of Nightmare and Nightopia. You don't belong here B*st*rd!!!!" Jackle screamed.

Ventro couldn't move from his spot since he still had the wounds from the fight with Claws. Quickly, he hid his head and face with his arms.

[DAiLiGHT]

Droiture jumped in front of Ventro and deflected the cards. "I am not destruction! I am not a b*stard! Well, actually, technically, if you go by the Christian bible, yes, I am, but that's not the point! The point is that you're hurting my friend, and I won't have it! I'll put you back where you came from!" Droiture lunged at Jackle, swiping at him viciously with his claws and scythe. "You will not be hurting anyone anymore!" Droiture cried out.

[Ventro]

Jackle noticed that Droiture's blade torn part of his mantle. At his current condition, he figured he couldn't when.

"You one this time kid, but you won't be soo lucky next time." Jackle laughed and jumped into a portal to retreat.

Ventro looked at Droiture, but he was too weak to get up from damage of Jackle's attack. Ventro's head felt like a ton of bricks when he lifted it up.

"Th... ank... you... Dro...i...ture....." he finally said before he finally let his head fall free to the ground. His eyes closed into a deep sleep.

Soon, Raid came around to the commotion. "What happened here? Ventro what are you doing here?" he asked in shock. The only response he got from Ventro was "Zzzzz.....! Zzzzz....!".

[DAiLiGHT]

"Ventro. Ventro! Wake up! I can't lose you! You're the only friend I've got! If you die I have no one! Mom's already woken up, Ventro, and she won't return here. You're all I've got left, Ventro!" Droiture hissed. "Crystal Chrysalis!" A chrysalis covered Ventro, healing him from the inside out.

[Ventro]

Raid noticed that the crystal was healing Ventro.

"Kido! Get the medical staff down here and carry Ventro back to his room." Raid commanded.

"Right! You there! Get him! You too!" Kido commanded the medical nightmarens, and they carried him to his room.

"You!" he looked at Droiture. "You saved him didn't you? How can I repay you? Money? Food? Hospitality? I would hate it if I lost my best money maker now." Raid said with eyes watered.

[DAiLiGHT]

"If you've got some food, I'd be really appreciative. I haven't eaten properly in days. But really, all I wanted was for Ventro to be okay. He's.... really my only friend. He stuck by me even when I went homicidal on his ass." Droiture laughed.

[Ventro]

"Alright granted!" Raid smiled.

Inside Ventro's room, there was a table filled with food for many to eat. The kiwis were sitting on the table singing happily.

"Yay! Master is saved! Master is saved. You saved Master. Master will be well." they sang and chirped on the table.

[DAiLiGHT]

Droiture dug into the food. He looked at the kiwis and smiled at them. "Nu hawd feewngs, hmm guws?" He said through a mouthful of food. He pet the kiwi closest to him on the head.

[Ventro]

"Hehehehe..." Ventro chuckled. Only his head was free from the Crystal Chrysalis in his nest. "Alright Kiwis! Time to sleep!" he commanded. All the kiwis turned back into little charms on the table.

"Well, this is the first I ever been in one of these. How on earth can you breath in here?" he asked curiously. "I'm surprised you did came back. I thought you hated me because of what happened to your mom." Ventro said in a soft voice. His body was still in pain from the recent incident.

[DAiLiGHT]

"All that matters to me now is that she's alright..." Droiture mumbled, taking a bite of bread. "You were the only person who bothered to stand by my lunatic ass." He said.

[Ventro]

Ventro looked at Droiture with a smile. "You know... one of the kiwis told me that you were crying after what Jackle and Kiera said. I can't believe you believed them. I didn't. Heh... You're such a cry baby. Ha ha ha...houch... ouch... ouch..." Ventro stopped. The pain on his chest made it hard for him to laugh.

[DAiLiGHT]

"What they said reminded me of what the kids at school used to say. 'He's weird!' 'He's a freak!' 'Don't hang out with Droiture, he's a freak!' Do you know how much it hurts day after day, to hear that?" Droiture said quietly, looking up. "But the truth to the matter is they were right. I don't belong here. I don't belong out there. I'm caught between worlds and it's just not workin' out."

[Ventro]

"Been there done that! I've been called an ideyan parasite, a vampire maren, and an Ideya leach. I was also called wizemans pet bird, stupid bird, and Bird brain. I've been through it all man..., but I didn't allow it to dictate who I am. Thanks to Jackle... the real one... He helped me understand about this world. Even when a small group doesn't like you, doesn't mean everybody thinks you don't belong. I thought I never belong, but I found someone people who accepted me for who I am." Ventro preached with a smile. Soon, he started to yawn.

[DAiLiGHT]

"Yeah, but you're not caught between two worlds. At least you know who you are. You're not a prisoner of your own blood." Droiture stared at his forearms, staring at the small, intricate design marking his wrists on the inside.

[Ventro]

"Maybe so... but I am still cursed though." Ventro looked at the eye on his hand that's still in the Crystal Chrysalis. "Anyway, we do have a serious concern. It seems like Jackle and Kiera are up to something. They're trying to do something and we can't let them have... yawn!... there... way..." Ventro went back to sleep on the nest.

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Back in nightmare, Jackle ranted and raved after he jumped out of the portal.

"I was soo close! This can't be! I had him for sure!" Jackle ranted on

[DAiLiGHT]

Droiture slipped into a chair next to Ventro's bed and slumped dead asleep.

[Ventro]

Jackle grumbled angrily.

"Argh! I'll make that boy pay for making a tear in my mantle." Jackle said angrily. He pulled out a bunch of junk he brought from the arena.

"Here's your souveniers Reala. I'm going back in my Realm to think." Jackle said angrily and jumped into another portal.

[Ookami]

Kiera leaned against a tree and sighed heavily, speaking to herself. "All of this is so much trouble. More trouble than should be needed. And now Jackle has lost his composure on the whole thing. Now will come a time when I will have to pry them apart." Another sigh escaped her as she sat down.

[Ventro]

Jackle came out of the portal with many types of papers.

"This can't be right. That child is loyal to me. Why on earth did he refuse my request. Maybe... it was that demonic child he called a friend." Jackle talked to himself. Jackle went into deep thought about what to do. He slowly looked at Kiera.

[DAiLiGHT]

Reala laughed as toys were dumped on him. "You realize my request for souvenirs was rhetorical, right?" He laughed. But he then became serious. "Listen, it wasn't Droiture that made Ventro rebel against you. Well, I guess it sort of was. Droiture helped instill a feeling of individuality into Ventro. Ventro just took it a step further and realized he didn't need you anymore. Get over it. You're a Second-Level Nightmaren, you can always put in a request for a new minion; I'm sure Master Wizeman won't mind at all." Reala said, poking a bobblehead doll in the head and watching it, well, bobble.

[Ookami]

Kiera stared at Jackle. "Reala's right. Ventro's not a mindless follower and he made that very clear today. And you know, I kinda don't blame him." Her voice got low with the last sentence and raised back to normal as she continued. "If that's how he is then that's how he's going to be. I don't think he's going to go changing his mind about it any time soon."

[DAiLiGHT]

"Right. What she said. So, if we've nothing better to do, how about a game of cards, eh, Jackle?" Reala teased, grinning, showing off his fangs.

[Ventro]

Jackle gave a glare at Reala, but he can't resist a game of cards. So, he pulled out his deck to play.

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Meanwhile, at the colossium....

"AHHHHH! Get off ME NOW!!!" Ventro yelled at the medical nightmarens. All the medical nigthmarens takcled him down to his nest, but Ventro flew around and tossed them everywhere.

"We got to get the stitches out." said one of the medical nightmarens.

"Get him!" another yelled.

Ventro kept fighting back, but the weight of all the nightmarens made him fall to the ground again. They were all holding him down trying to get it out. Ventro tried his best to knock some of them off his bodywith his tail.

[Ookami]

Kiera shook her head slightly at the two of them and looked into the woods. "You guys do that, I'll be back a little later, maybe when we have another plan." She traipsed into the darkness and wandered aimlessly, talking to herself. "What am I even doing here? I stopped working with Reala a long time ago. Maybe it's something besides Reala that's drawn me back..." She looked back in the direction of the two and catching a glimpse of Jackle through the trees. She sighed and continued walking, thinking of some place to go.

[Ventro]

Jackle noticed Kiera watching, but he didn't pay no heed to her. He was focused too much on trying to bet some of the souviners back from Reala.

[DAiLiGHT]

Droiture's eyes widened as he was awoken by the medical technicians and doctors. He began shaking as more people began filling up the room. Eventually he let out a rather feminine shriek and scrambled underneath the hospital bed, where only his eyes could be seen, peering out from the darkness.

[Ookami]

Kiera wandered around for a long time, staying in Nightmare but occasionally wandering closer to Nightopia, just to remind herself it was still there. She spent her time trying to think of somethng to keep everything from falling apart. "I wonder if they have these problems in the waking world?" She ruffled her hair with her hands and sighed heavily. "Nothing good is going to come of this, it seems."

[DAiLiGHT]

Droiture finally came out from under the bed and shrieked, "HEY! Partez! Sortez ici! Pas plus que trois visiteurs à la fois, s'il vous plaît!" He cried in French, something he had a bad habit of slipping into when he was truly afraid. He was truly scared of large groups of people, and all the doctors calling out and trying to restrain Ventro was scaring him. He shook as his left eye twitched. He fingered Enchantement Deux threateningly.

[Ventro]

"THAT's Enough OUT!" Ventro commanded. All the medical nightmarens left the room and the area was now silent. Ventro took a deep breath and landed on the floor by balancing on his tail.

"So... What are you going to do now? We know that Reala and the others are up to something more troublesome than usual. Are you going to head back to the waking world for a while for things to cool down?" Ventro asked. He looked at Droiture with concern.

[DAiLiGHT]

"Me, sit on the sidelines? Never. I think I'll chill here with you until I figure out what's going on...." Droiture said, laying back on the edge of Ventro's hospital bed, still leaving enough room for Ventro to stay there if he wished as well.

[Ookami]

Kiera made her way back to where she knew Ventro and Droiture would be. Her eyes darted over everything, searching for any sign of those Cerberus guards. She hurried inside to find the room the two now shared. The heavy wooden door was closed. She went to knock but stopped herself. "How does one person even begin to settle a dispute like this?" She sighed heavily.

[Ventro]

Ventro smiled.
"Well, I know I might not do a fighting gig for a while. Claws actually is a tough opponent to beat." Ventro said. But he laughed jokingly and looked around for his Ideyan gloves.

"I wonder what would actually happen if I did use Ideyan drain on you though. I never did a test if you were immune to it since you're one forth human. It doesn't work directly on humans. It only works if something possess Ideyan energy." Ventro thought sneaking one of his hands behind Droiture.

[DAiLiGHT]

"Try it and you lose your hand." Droiture said dangerously, glaring at Ventro darkly.

[Ventro]

"I was kidding... only kidding!!!" Ventro said quickly moving away from Droiture and waving his hands side to side frantically. The eyes on his hand showed an expression of fear. Ventro looked around to find his gloves again.

Ventro gave out a loud sigh... "Are you still going after Reala? You've been gone for quite a while... Where have you been anyway?" Ventro asked curiously. He was always in the colossium ever since they split up.

[Ookami]

Kiera listened in on the conversation between the two, waiting to see if she should bother with talking to Droiture about everything that happened. She was quiet, her ear pressed to the door. "Though I recall being this close to the door last time a bad idea."