Nightroad

Nightroad is Season 1 Arc 1 of KyRoad.

It is the only book in the series whose initial cover was too large to fit Wattpad's dimensions.

## Creation

It was supposedly created to come after Mistroad (KySketch called it Fliproad because Olive Waffles was looking for names for the third arc at the time), followed by Stardom, Naturun, Cyberun, Gamerise, and HEROad, but Olive Waffles never took in the ideas.

## Brief

Shadowlings, creatures that usually remain hidden and out of other peoples' business, are threatened when their homes start to collapse. After a search party finds Inkopolis, Noir and 7 other shadowlings decide to take over, driving the rest of the citizens to Octo Canyon to hide.

Will the Squidbeak be able to get it back before everything they've known and loved is lost?

## Plot

**(Note: This summary does not go over ALL the details in the story. For the full experience, read the story yourself on Wattpad.)**

The prologue explains how the Shadowlings came to be, and that Ebony is the next to rule despite his brother Noir being older. It also explains that the Shadowlings' home in Black Forest is slowly weakening with old wood and building materials, and that things keep breaking. Needing a solution fast, the pressure is put on Ebony to do the right thing.

It starts with Rider having a nightmare about a monster chasing him. It is explained that Rider keeps having these sorts of nightmares, and has had them for a while. Over time, two other nightmares are brought up, one of him climbing up something to escape, and one of him riding a rail but failing to reach the ending. The group at first suspects nothing of it, but then they start to see strange things, like shadows seemingly darting through walls, bodies that have been weakened, and more. In a bit of a back and forth story, the Squidbeak attempt to figure out what is going on while Noir and Ebony try to figure out what to do. Emperor also starts to become hyper-overprotective of Prince, which the younger does not approve of but cannot do anything about. A Shadowling search party is sent by the royal brothers and they find Inkopolis, to which Noir suggests taking over instead of simply asking if the Shadowlings can live there. Ebony does not agree to this, but Noir somewhat blackmails him to.

Meanwhile, Off The Hook plans on a party with the Squidbeak in an attempt to cheer up everyone over recent events, but during the night (when the party is held), the Ebon 8 attack the place. Noir takes over and allows those who do not want to fight to leave peacefully. He then signals the rest of the Ebon 8 to leap off the building they are on and splashdown, knocking out everyone except the Squidbeak (who were in the very very back of the square and therefore were not hit). A fight ensues, and Prince and Ebony realize there's a more peaceful way to solve this. Everyone else starts fighting each other, but soon enough, Gloves realizes that regular inkling ink won't affect shadowlings. The Ebon 8 quickly gain the advantage as Ebony introduces each member, and eventually Noir and Emperor arrive next to their brothers and fight. In the end, the Shadowlings overpower the Squidbeak, and the Squidbeak are forced to retreat underground after Rider throws a smoke bomb he had from a mission that took place out-of-story.

The group arrives in Octo Canyon and see the other citizens there. They explain that they failed to defeat the Shadowlings, but everyone is still willing to help them. The group then goes to sleep, with Prince thinking about how much him and Ebony are alike. The next day, a girl named Seira is seen bringing Shadowling brand weapons to the Squidbeak. These will allow for the Squibeak to properly fight back against the Ebon 8, and she explains their sub weapons and specials. Marie finds a map that contains Black Forest on it, so the group knows where to head to. They start to leave Inkopolis, but Negro finds them and swipes their map without them realizing as they leave. Gloves had attempted to trick him, but even that failed.

Upon finding that their map is missing (and torn to shreds), the Squidbeak panics. However, they still continue through the forest. as best they can. In Inkopolis, Kuro requests (to Noir) that Ebony, Pitch, and Heise go back with her to round up the Shadowlings from their home and bring them over. Noir agrees, and the four head out. There is then a brief adventure through the forest as a timeskip of sorts, switching perspectives from characters. Eventually, the Squidbeak reaches 4 separate paths branching off from each other, and decide to go in twos down the path. Hachi and Nana go down the first, Prince and Emperor the second, Goggles and Rider the third, and Gloves and Flip the fourth.

Rider encounters a beast from his nightmares, Flip and Gloves discover that there are traps on their path, Prince is split from Emperor via a tree falling in between them, and Hachi and Nana soon find that their path takes them to a maze. Prince finds Ebony and the two agree to work together. Meanwhile, Negro reports to Noir, Jet, and Crow, and the four of them take off towards the forest after suspecting the Squidbeak might be up to something. Emperor also hears a voice in the forest that guides him along a path

After some time, Rider and Goggles encounter Pitch along the way, and initially trick him into not attacking by stating Goggles' pickled plum jar is lost. Pitch is eager to help, since he'd eaten a pickled plum back in Inkopolis before and liked it. However, Goggles accidentally reveals the plums were on him the whole time, and Pitch is angered. The two have a fight in the woods on the terms that Rider will not interfere, a 1v1 style. Rider agrees and the two shoot at each other until Pitch starts losing. He then transforms into his shadow animal, a wolf. Goggles still manages to defeat him despite his new advantages, and Pitch flies back to Inkopolis after getting a plum from the jar.

Nana, while walking back from seeing the maze, encounters Kuro. The shadowling counterpart then attacks her, and Nana does her best to weave away from her. The two start using their turf weapons, but it quickly switches to physical fighting as Kuro's patience grows thin. Nana eventually gets the idea to get Kuro to fly into something, so running back through the forest, she gets Kuro to break her nose after crashing into a tree. Nana and Kuro then part ways.

Rider and Goggles find a boat and use it to cross some water, but rocks break the boat and cause them to take separate paths down the water.

Meanwhile, Gloves and Flip encounter Heise on the path. She initially acts rude towards them, but drops some information about the reasoning for her behavior. Flip attempts to befriend her, but she somewhat regretfully turns her down rudely. Flip's temper reaches its point, and the two fight. As Flip manages to overpower Heise, she then envelops both of them in a dark area, and launches some new attacks involving staying still and moving. Flip keeps attacking her, but stops once she realizes she might kill Heise if her HP reaches 0. She instead spares her, and Heise flies away.

Goggles finds Prince from drifting down the water. Him and Prince and Ebony team up. It soon becomes nighttime, and Nana notices.

Rider's half of the boat hits something, causing him to investigate. He sees that it's an abandoned highway, and explores it a bit before hearing a motorbike noise. It's Jet, who surprisingly offers Rider the chance to ride a motorbike. Rider agrees, since this will be their 1v1, but questions how they will fight. Jet explains, and Rider gets a bike from a nearby pile, turning purple and gaining strange symbols in reference to the fact the trait of justice is purple and the element is psychic. The two swing their dynamos while standing up on their bikes, with Jet also holding them stable with his powers. Jet nearly loses, but then ditches his bike and dives into the shadows, coming out as a monstrous mutant barracuda resembling a sea serpent. Rider then takes it upon himself to attack, attempting to ink the whole body. Jet is eventually defeated, and flies away as Rider decides to take a motorbike and use it to travel.

He also finds Nana with it, as she finds a lantern and uses the glowing bugs around her to light the way. The two also find Goggles, Prince, and Ebony.

Emperor following the weird voice leads him up a mountain, which is later revealed to be a no longer active volcano. He also finds Noir at the top, who reveals he has been using telepathy on him. The two fight, but in the end it seems Noir has not quite been "defeated" like the others have. Emperor decides to continue down the mountain anyway, though he soon decides to sleep with leaves on him. Rider and co find him soon enough.

Hachi is still lost in the maze when he finds Negro passed out on the ground along with a map of the maze. Negro then wakes up and uses his sleep control power to keep the two up as a battle starts. He also crushes all the walls of the maze, revealing the exit that Hachi cannot access until he defeats him. At first the two start out using their turf weapons, but Negro suggests changing it up by doing a "take turn" battle instead. Hachi still wins regardless, and manages to get out of the maze before the walls spring up. He passes out once outside of the map.

The group finds Flip soon enough, but plan on sleeping. Ebony suggests they do so in trees so that predators won't pick them up, so they do that.

Gloves is wandering around by himself when he runs into Seira and Crow. Crow believes Seira is on his side, but Gloves knows she doesn't support Noir's ideas. Seira also reveals that she is half Shadowling, surprising Gloves. Gloves accidentally reveals he knows about Black Forest, causing Crow to question Seira's loyalty. Now wanting her to get in trouble, Gloves offers to fight Crow, and the shadowling accepts. The two start out with their turf weapons, with Gloves escaping numerous attacks, but then Crow pulls a similar tactic to Heise and traps Gloves in an area of darkness. Gloves is forced to dodge projectiles while attacking only when Crow is vulnerable, but also realizes it might not be good to let his HP hit 0. Gloves spares Crow, and him and Seira leave the area.

The group manages to get back together after saving Hachi from a mutant anglerfish. They are now all on Rider's motorbike. As they reach Black Forest however, the Shadow 7 (Ebony being on the motorbike) appear, forcing the group to turn back around to Inkopolis (a bit of lore about a shadowling's past is also revealed). They do so, but must endure attacks thrown at them from the others. As they get to Inkopolis, the motorbike runs out of fuel, and they nearly crash land. They run into Inkopolis anyway, but keep an eye out for the Shadow 7. They are then attacked once more by the group, but they stop as Noir realizes Ebony hasn't "properly" fought Prince yet. He mind controls him and forces him to fight Prince, but during the battle Prince manages to convince Ebony to snap out of it. After both younger brothers state they don't want to fight, the Squidbeak 7 and Shadow 7 briefly part ways to talk to them separately.

Seira also comes by to heal Prince after the fight, with the Shadowlings healing Ebony as well. Both sides plan on fighting each other, 8 on 8, and eventually resume where they were in the Square. A large fight breaks out, and everyone splits up according to their pairs. Noir mind manipulates Prince into thinking there is no hope for saving the Shadowlings, and taking over is the only option. This enrages Ebony, and the two clash. As the Squidbeak gain the advantage, the Shadowlings have Ebony use his "fallen angel" form, where he summons a pair of stolen Skyling wings and his powers increase. The Squidbeak are in trouble, but eventually Emperor realizes what Noir did to Prince and calls him out on it. Ebony hears it and forgives Prince, then reveals that there's a thing that happens sometimes when two sword weapons clash. Prince agrees to do it, and the two successfully execute it, causing a shockwave of energy to knock everyone out.

As everyone wakes up, they realize Noir and Emperor are gone. None of them have a good feeling about it, so they all heal and team up to go through the forest and find the two. They figure they might be in Black Forest, so that's where they head. Upon arriving there, they are greeted by Shadowlings, who also seem interested in the Squidbeak despite the group's initial attempts to hide. They are directed to the mansion as they ask where Noir went and search the place. They eventually locate a ballroom and enter it, only to find out that THAT is where Noir resides. Prince attempts to free his brother once he realizes Noir has him, but Noir challenges him to a battle to free him instead.

Prince agrees, but is shocked at what Noir does before he fights him (spoiler!). Regardless, the other members are forced to wait along the sides as Noir challenged Prince only. Eventually, the group manages to locate a leak in the ceiling, and after opening it a bit, Prince winds up getting his foe to slip and fall towards a suction bomb, which damages them greatly. As Prince attempts to get Noir to give up, he only cackles as he reveals he's been draining power from his brother as a means of healing himself. He then leaves the mansion and becomes giant and powerful, the trait energy having strengthened him. The group is stunned and lost on what to do, but then they hear Off The Hook and realize they've been captured and put in the basement. They free them, and the idol duo summons their helicopters to take them back.

Upon returning to Inkopolis, the group sees Noir by the Zapfish tower, almost double/triple its height. They label him "Omnoir" and the duo prepares to execute an altered version of the Octo Expansion Finale by firing hyperbombs onto him to weaken him. However, it is revealed that the Squidbeak alone might not have enough power, and the group becomes worried. Luckily, Prince comes up with a solution and they use that after planning who goes where and what to do. The gorup then superjumps to their locations, and the battle starts. Headphones, Bobble, and Specs are revealed to have gotten Shadowling brand weapons as well, and help the group out. As the group makes their way to Noir's head, the idea of flinging Goggles and Hachi up to him is brought up.

As a reference to the Splatoon Manga Octo Expansion, Goggles and Hachi are flung up by Rider and Specs while a Prince fused with Ebony carries them up to his head via wings. They start exploding all the bombs, and despite almost missing one by the end, they all accomplish their mission. The group superjumps back, and as Pearl prepares to fire her Killer Wail, Omnoir shoots her down. The Squidbeak scream into the Killer Wail instead, but it is evenly matched with a laser Noir shoots from his eyes. Pribony flies all the way back to Omnoir to deliver the finishing blow to his eyes to get him to stop firing, and succeeds. The three then resume their normal forms (Prince, Ebony, Noir) and fall to the ground before being picked up by a shadow form Crow.

As Prince opens his eyes, he finds himself in a dream realm where he meets King Bery, Noir and Ebony's biological father. The two have a friendly conversation, and after that, Prince wakes up. He finds out the Shadowlings are leaving, but still wants to help them with the others. The Squidbeak gathers a large group of citizens and the Shadowlings teleport them to Black Forest to help rebuild and stabilize. Once done, they teleport back and erase their memories of the place, though the Squidbeak for some reason retain theirs. After a final goodbye, the Ebon 8 leave for good and Peace is restored.

Some time later, the Squidbeak revisit the Shadowlings to see how they've been. They reveal that they're good, with Noir also revealing a plot twist in the story (spoilers!). The Epilogue ends with the group preparing to try Shadowling Turf Wars.

## Other Info

- It has an ending image that thanks the readers, but also foreshadows Nightshatter by hiding a dotted silhouette of Luna in the moon, while Noir is behind everyone protecting them with his cape.

- There are many other references within the story, though only a few of them are listed on the Wattpad story page.

- Olive Waffles/Doggerwoofle drew fanart of the Shadowlings (though she thought they were Nightlings) as part of an art trade with KySketch, who drew Team Beam in return.