TwilightXDawn/Nate Story

"You know that phrase, it's not about the destination, it's about the journey? Yeah, I think I'm going to miss this when all this is over." 
- Lightning, speaking to Nate.
Nate's story is one out of 4 stories from TwilightXDawn (Twilight Cross Dawn) which is a crossover game
== Chapter 1 (Melodies) ==
Nate (Yo-Kai Watch) finds himself floating in a black abyss. He hears a voice from a woman named Queen Mary (Mother) who begs him to go out and seek the 16 melodies. As a test, he finds the first melody in a forest dungeon. After completing the small tutorial, he is sent on his own to find the next few.
While on his way, he meets a hero by the name of Edrick (Loto or Roto in the Japanese version) who is also searching hard for the 16 melodies. Erdrick has also found a melody but he needs to find the rest.
They head towards a town (aurora). When they enter, they capture Nate due to his use of Yo-Kai which are thought to be evil demons. Nate is defended by a girl named Kylie who tells them that they are overreacting. Soon, a militant [like] gang arrives and tries to capture the town as their base of operations. They also attempt to capture some of the girls but Erdrick and Nate defend the town on their own. 
The town thanks them and the two ask about a melody. They say that it is a scared thing in their town and the two must face a trial in order to get the melody. The first trial is the Kaizo Tower in which nobody has survived due to a combination of floors and enemy encounters.
The boss on the top is a dark clone of Erdrick and Nate. They both defeat it and the towns people give them their melody and blessings, letting them go. After leaving the town, they wonder why that couldn't have been easier... when they are suddenly attacked by some random girl...
== Chapter 2 (Secrets) ==
After subduing this girl, she snaps out of her mind control and introduces herself as Terra Branford (Final Fantasy) and says that for some reason, she was collecting some melodies. They decide to go together as a group and they all head off as a group. While they sleep, Queen Mary gives tells them that their next destination is a cave and warns them about some enemies that are also looking for the 16 melodies.
After waking up and heading out. They find the cave that they were told to find (Lost Cave). After getting through this dungeon, they fight a boss named Virus.
After beating him, they find the next melody and head out on their way. Erdrick and Nate decide to set up camp where they are. However, as they begin, some random girl shows up and introduces herself to the two as Lightning (Final Fantasy). She explains that she has been sent by Queen Mary to recruit all of the people that had been sent to this world. Around early morning the next day, they set out for the location of the next melody which is in some sort of swampy and murky area of the island.
On their way through, they find a tree that has some secret text on it. After checking it out a bit, they figure out that this must be the entrance to the next dungeon. They enter the mysterious dungeon (The Hidden Sanctuary). The dungeon has skeleton bodies all over the place and Zubats fly all over the place.
Nate notices a music box that is playing the same melody over and over again. He reaches it when suddenly, it explodes and a black figure emerges from it and attacks the team. During the battle it takes the form of Lightning and then Erdrick before eventually settling with some boy in a red cap and blue-red shirt. They defeat the monster but it gets away, leaving the melody behind. They collect it and head out. They rest once more, however, when they wake up they notice that Terra has just vanished without a trace... 
== Chapter 3 (The Hate Comes Out) ==
As soon as they wake up, they begin looking around for Terra. By noon, they realize that they've wasted time and head to their next location. Nate, Lightning and Erdrick all begin to head forward to what is supposed to be their next location. A small village (Vital) is undergoing a war with another village not too far away.
When they get their, they are not allowed access into their sanctuary out of fear that they are from the other village (Sol). They are preparing to evacuate the town before a kid mentions that some of the men in the village are planning on going over to Sol and burning it down. Erdrick doesn't like the sound of it and the rest decide to go and try and stop them. However, by the time they get their, they are too late and it is already burning. However, they do see some little kids escaping the fire...
Lightning then gets a message from Queen Mary which mentions that there are people currently going and collecting the melodies for evil. Those people just so happen to be in the sanctuary under the village so Lightning decides that later, they should ambush them.
As they head back to Vital, they come across a kid fighting off Pokemon. This kid reveals himself as Red. Interested in Nate's Yo-Kai, Red challenges Red to a battle between their Pokemon and Yo-Kai. 
Red wins the battle and joins the party in their quest to find the 16 melodies. Later on, they make it to the next island using [Blastoise, Golduck, Poliwhirl, etc] where they end up in the desert. Here, they end up in another town (Navel). There isn't much outside of a fruit shop but there, they see a mysterious person in a dark cloak walking around.
The entire group is curious about who this person is but they don't question it. Later on, while they are exploring the town, they learn about a group named Team Gaia which has been causing terror in the desert. Around this same time, a group named Team Rocket V2 also emerges and attacks the town. Red, Nate and Erdrick put a stop to them while the others aren't around. Lightning comes back and tells them that they might need to watch out because they are probably on Team Rocket V2's hit list.
The group asks about any melodies but they are told that they have a sacred one that nobody is allowed to touch, but even though the village knows of the reason they need the melody, they won't let them have it because they caused the town to get attention from both Team Rocket V2 and Team Gaia.
Team Nate decides to go and infiltrate both of the cruel teams bases. They first go and stop by Team Gaia's base where they discover a canal and an underground base right on it. 
They charge through all of the enemies in the first quarter of the dungeon where they come across the boss: Prototype GaiaMew. This is a prototype of a clone of Mew made to compete with the rumored MewThree made by Team Rocket V2.
The group barely manages to defeat GaiaMew in battle. After they take him down though, they find themselves in a white, empty and foggy room with nothing in it. As the look around though, they are attacked by their worst fears. The leader of Team Gaia comes over the intercom and announces that there is no escape for them.
However, Red manages to quickly ignore his fears and jump straight ahead to the next room where Team Gaia's leader reveals himself. As the others begin to fight against some mysterious looking enemies (Heartless from Kingdom Hearts), Red and Team Gaia go at it. Team Gaia uses Yo-Kai to fight against Red's Pokemon and proves that he is superior trainer. That is until Red reveals a secret weapon that he had been hiding. Enter: Pikachu. It isn't his Pikachu, he got it from Queen Mary who had kept it safe from some strange man. 
Red uses Pikachu to defeat Team Gaia's leader who retreats to the top floor. Red decideds to follow suite as the others continue to battle off against their nightmares. Nate and the rest manage to face them and finally defeat the nightmares. As they begin to head out, the notice one last nightmare standing in front of the exit. The nightmare forms into a familiar form... Terra...
As their fight begins, Red chases Team Gaia's leader to the top floor and confronts him. Team Gaia's leader then reveals that he cannot defeat Team Gaia and calls Red a loser who thinks of himself highly just because he can. Team Gaia's leader then jumps out of the windows and hitches a ride on a Charizard all while Red grits his teeth, realizing that he may have had a point.
As this is going on, Nate and the rest are battling it out against a nightmare Terra who is seemingly stronger. Nate and Erdrick try to get her back to her
senses while Lightning watches from afar, confused as to why the nightmare has taken her form. As the fight goes on though, the characters begin to notice her slowly slipping back to her senses. Lightning discovers that this is the actual real Terra being controlled by her nightmares and so she joins the fight.
After they get her back to her senses, Terra is quiet and won't explain what had happened to her or why she left the group during the end of chapter 2 so they decide to head out where they discover Red looking out the windows. He sadly reveals that he accidentally let him get away and proclaims himself a failure.
Nate tells him not to think of it like that since they can get him later on. Red realizes how much they care for him even though he is a bit egotistical. He has a flashback to when he got his first Pokemon and was constantly under verbal attacks by Blue. He realizes that he probably turned into Blue by the way he acts.
The group head back to the town who accept and give them their melody.
They also give them a second melody which they had. However, the tunes don't really match up which confuse them. As they go to sleep, Nate gets a vision of a kid with a cap walking a girl home as that same tune plays over and over again...
== Chapter 4 (Vengeful Spirits) ==
The game later cuts to a few days later as the group are on the other side of the island which is very tropical like and peaceful compared to the rest of the islands on Carnia. Nate and the team seem to be a little more relaxed as they make their way to the next area in which the melody is thought to be in.
As they make their way towards the next dungeon (Wooden Temple), Lightning suddenly tells the group to get down and hide. They hide in trees and notice Cloud and Ash walking through the forest. Lightning tells the group that she is confident that these kids are the ones taking the other melodies and so they decide to ambush them. Nate is unsure about it but goes through with the plan and the team of five attack the two who barely stand a chance. However, after loosing to the five, Cloud unleashes his Black Materia which wipes out the team completely.
Nate (Knocked Unconscious) is transported to his consciousness where he ends up in Magicant. The people of Magicant realize who he is and send him straight to the castle.
At Magicant castle, he finally meets Queen Mary who is slowly suffering from an illness. She claims that the cure is the 16 melodies which she needs and when she gets those melodies, she can officially make sure that Carnia (The world the game takes place in) will stop being chaotic. She makes Nate her secondary messenger and tells him to head to the darkness east of Magicant which will not only lead him out of Magicant, but it will also prove to be his final quest to prove his courage.
He enters the darkness and sees things from his past, present, possible future and fights against things from his imagination and nightmares.
When he does make it out, he finds himself in another dark room, but he is greeted by a man sitting alone in a corner.
Nate asks him where he is and who he is but he has a sort of dialogue that confuses him. He introduces himself as The Forgotten Man.
I am a forgotten man. I'm not really here. You didn't have to notice me.... Please ignore me. I am a man who does not exist. You talk so kindly, I don't know what to do. If I miss people, I cannot live alone anymore. My conversation is always a monologue. I've been alone from the moment I was born... Lucky, unlucky... It makes no difference to me. Sometimes, even breathing becomes too much. Why do you insist on talking to me? Are you a forgotten man, too?"
- Monologue from The Forgotten Man.
After explaining the situation, The Forgotten man just insists on teleporting him back to real life which he does right away.
Nate appears in a grass field at night time where the rest of his group is resting up by the night fire. Lightning is the only one who was awake and she asks him how it went. Confused, Nate asks what she meant. Lightning revealed that she knew what had happened because Queen Mary had given her a message about it.
Since they are the only ones still awake, Nate and Lightning talk as the sun set. Lightning talks about her past and the friends she had made before the events of the game. She also asks Nate how Yo-Kai work since she doesn't know what they are and how they operate. 
After that, they just sit and watch as the sun sets on a new day. Unbeknownst to them, Terra was busy fighting her own spirits in her head...
Terra can't peace together her past and personality. Struggling with the voices in her head (Queen Mary and the 'Weird Guy' from clouds story). She tosses and turns in her sleep when suddenly, she has a flashback to when she met Locke in Final Fantasy 6. He says that he will protect her... however his words are suddenly altered. He tells her that her friends will protect her if she just stays with them. She wakes up from her nightmares to find herself in a dark room. Looking around, she is attacked by a dark figuration of Kefka created by her memories. After that, she gets a message in her head from Queen Mary who tells her that she has done well and that her memories have officially returned to her.
She fights and defeats it. After that, she wakes up as Nate and Lightning are talking. She tells the two about what she remembers and that she thinks she knows who is behind everything. With this knowledge, the next day they go out and search for next melody at a village somewhere in a snowy area.
Here, they rest for a while before they are awoken by Lightning who is having some sort of strange panic attack. Nate, Lightning, Terra and Erdrick all rush outside to see what the deal is when they find a very odd creature... a Missigno!
Right as they go to attack it, a random girl jumps in and tries to use magic to attack it. As she does this, 3 other children come in and also attack. However, Missingno just takes all of the attacks. Red wakes up and notices it. Though it isn't exactly a Pokemon, his Pokedex actually picks up something from it.
Red attempts to use all of his Pokemon against it only for it to fail. The missingno retreats while also destroying apart of the village. The heroes are shocked at the power of this Pokemon like creature and go out to find our more about him.
== Chapter 5 (Is this fate? Or is this just the beginning or our Destiny?) ==
Queen Mary tells Lightning and Nate that he isn't natural and that he is possibly a failed fusion between a Pokemon and Yo-Kai. They tell the rest of the group about it before going back to the inn. At the inn, many people lament about the fact that the village has been failing to catch a break since that random Pokemon attacked a week and a half before.
The 3 children and girl that attacked MissingNo are all being helped to recovery in the inn that the heroes are staying at. The girl wakes up and introduces herself as Jessica Albert. She mentions that she is helping those 3 children hide from the dangers of the monsters that are all attacking them. However, the monsters are specifically attacking those 3 children for some odd reason. 
The next day, they ask one of the kids, Isaac about what has happened in the past few weeks. He mentions that a battle went down, some guys came to their village looking for melodies and then their village got burned down. Erdrick then brings up the fact that he saw them escape from the fire and he was going out to stop them from burning down Sol but it had been too late.
Jessica tells Lightning that the 4 have their own business to attend so they leave on their own adventure. As the group prepare to leave the snowy village, they learn that the next melody is in Doragon cave which is actually pretty far.
After a while, the manage to make it to Doragon Cave where they stumble into Cloud (FF7), Ash (Pokemon), Sun/Moon (Pokemon) and Sofia (Dragon Quest). Knowing them to be a threat, Lightning threatens them and both of the groups head straight into battle.
In a series of fights that look something like this: 
Lightning and Terra vs Cloud - Since Cloud and Lightning are both the appointed leaders of their groups, it made the most sense. While Terra uses both her magical mending capabilities, fire power while Lightning uses her speed and strategical advantage, Cloud uses mostly his brute force in order to make this an even battle. Keep your ground!
Nate vs Sun/Moon - Nate doesn't know why but he kind of likes Moon. *Ahem* Anyhow. Sun/Moon wants to see the difference in power between Pokemon and Yo-Kai. Nate puts his foot down with all the insults to Yo-Kai considering he's failed to prove his worth and his Yo-Kai have been considered worthless in comparison to Pokemon. Get ready Pokemon and Yo-Kai fans! This is the battle that will decide which one is stronger! 
Red vs Ash Ketchum - Ash is only somewhat familiar with Red but Red tells him that he was the champion of the Kanto region and that he shouldn't underestimate him. The two are both major Pokemon trainers and so this will be probably the biggest Pokemon duel in history!
Erdrick vs Sofia - The two heroes of their eras. The hero of Alefgard Erdrick vs The chosen heroine, Sofia. The two both have very similar strategical abilities and builds which gives neither one of them any advantage. However, Sofia's speed actually gives her quite some ground. Keep at it though! You'll win if you try hard enough Erdrick! 
Though you'll win these matches, this will all be for nothing. After all 4 battles have been won, Cloud accidentally releases his black materia which knocks out the entire team. Meanwhile in magicant, Queen Mary looks on with anger as her team fails and the other 4 grab their materia and go into Doragons Cave to hand to the strange man.
She laments on how those 4 (Cloud, Ash, Sun/Moon and Sofia) were all such good souls and the fact that they let themselves get used is sad to her. However, she still has great plans for the other 4 (Lightning, Nate, Red and Erdrick).
This ends Nate's story... however, this is only the beginning. 
== Trivia ==
* Though this story is Team Nate, the leader of the group is Lightning
* At the beginning of the game, you can choose between either Nate or his female counterpart, Kate.
* Unlike his appearances in his actual games, Red (Pokemon Green/Blue/Red/Yellow) isn't mute and he has a more rude personality similar to Squall from Final Fantasy 8.
* Magicants actual Famicom/NES theme plays in Magicant instead of having some sort of remix. This isn't news or anything, just everyone found it pretty sweet.
* Red has brown hair in the promotional material for the game and certain cutscenes. In game, he has jet black hair.
* Nates story is significantly longer than Clouds story. The opening of chapter 4 happens around the same time as the ending of chapter 2 for Clouds story.
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