• Welcome to Nightopia

    It’s a cloudy day at St. Ricket High School, all the students are inside doing their usual business in class. In one particular class, a young girl named Laura Jacobs sits at her desk, with her notebook open, scribbling notes. The day goes just fine for her until the end of day bell rings. As she leaves the school, she feels she is being followed. She then turns to see a group of teachers and students behind her. Before Laura can ask why they’re following, the group suddenly chases after her. She ran for her life, wondering why they were chasing when she hadn’t done anything. She runs into an alleyway and evades the group.

    “Why are they after me?” she asks herself, “I didn’t do anything wrong.”

    She continues walking through the alley, looks back and sees the path she took no longer exists. Panic soon sets in as she looks around to see nothing but darkness. Spirits soon appear from the darkness and begin to haunt her. Laura ran for her life, to see a bright light. Preferring the light to the spirits, she just kept running. The next thing she knew, she’s in a plaza that looks like a park, with a large fountain in the middle, 3 doors on the left with 3 broken door frames on the right, and a large set of stairs at the far end.

    “Where am I? What is this place?” she again asked herself.

    “Why, this is the Night Dimension, Visitor.”

    The voice sounded like an elder person speaking. Laura looked around for the person talking, but saw no one. Again the voice spoke.

    “I’m right here, Visitor. To your left.”

    Laura looked to her left, still saw no one there aside from an owl in a vest wearing glasses.

    “Hello there little owl, are you lost?” she asked it.

    “’little owl’? I am Owl, and I oversee everything in the Night Dimension” Owl said.

    Needless to say, this surprised Laura. She picked up Owl and looked around and saw there were no strings nor mechanics. This wasn’t a really pleasant experience for Owl either.

    “You won’t really find anything making that old owl talk if you look like that” a cheerful voice said.

    Laura let go of Owl, who scoffed, and looked around. She saw a jester-like person float down in front of her.

    “NiGHTS, must I remind you to respect your elders?” Owl said to the creature.

    NiGHTS simply ignored Owl and turned its attention to Laura. The girl just stood there, in utter confusion, looking at both NiGHTS and Owl.

    “Who are you two?” Laura asked.

    “I’m NiGHTS, and you already met the old bird here. But his lectures are pretty boring, how about having some fun?”

    “…what kind of fun?” she asked NiGHTS

    “You’ll see, just touch my hand, that’s all.”

    As the awkward introductions were getting done, in the dark realm of Nightmare, the creator of it, Wizeman, and his henchman, Reala, oversee the creation of a new Nightmaren.

    “Reala, you will command this new Nightmaren. I expect good things to come.” The dark lord himself said.

    “I will see to it, Master Wizeman.” Reala replied.

    This new Nightmaren had gray skin with a gray outfit similar to Reala’s. He has a yellow outline on his body and shoes, and had dark stripes on the head spikes. His eyes were golden yellow as well, and he has a purple cloak over his body. The Nightmaren opened his eyes and looked around, wondering who, what, and where he is. He looks at himself, then at Reala and Wizeman. As if by instinct, he bows down to Wizeman and Reala.

    “You have been created as a new servant to me,” Wizeman began to say, “I am your creator, you may refer to me as Wizeman.”

    The Nightmaren just looked at Wizeman while still bowing and nods.

    “Your name is Luminix. You will serve under Reala’s order, however you will always answer to me. Do I make myself clear?”

    Luminix just looked at Wizeman and nodded, then said “As you wish, Master Wizeman.”

    “Good. Now then I want you to go out and find a traitorous Nightmaren named NiGHTS and bring him to me. Alive or dead, it matters not to me”

    Luminix simply nodded and disappeared. Reala expressed some concern about Luminix, unsure if he can be any successful since he was just created.

    Back in the Night Dimension, Laura and NiGHTS go into the first dream door. Laura feels more content now knowing that NiGHTS and Owl are not her enemies, but friends. She’s about to explore the world of her dreams.