Shattered Hope

Shattered Hope is a fanfiction within the NNT universe. It takes place in Bellbridge in Fall 2015 following Juliet Evans adventure into the Night Dimension and her life in her hometown.

Chapters are split into two parts. The first part being an event that takes place in the past, and the second part being what is occurring in the present.

the summaries are not split up entirely by chapter but by scenes to make it easier for myself to jump between and for people to read.

## Description

The Night Dimension is falling apart, and a new unknown leader has taken Wizeman's throne. On top of the new power threatening the dream world, children have stopped dreaming in Nightopia. With the help of NiGHTS, Juliet must reunite old friends in order to stop Nightmayr's plans for Nightopia.

## Chapters

### <EVENT> Youth

It's been 3 years since Wizeman was destroyed for a final time in Awakening, and NiGHTS is flying around the Dream Gate on his lonesome. The Dream Gate is slowly beginning to turn to ruin, the fountain no longer spouts water, the air is a bitter cold, and moss has begun to take over the stone structures and paths. Not a single Visitor has been to the Dream Gate all this time. Owl finds NiGHTS sulking, and NiGHTS mentions how he is still looking for hope to save the Dream Gate, as it is a very important location for him and Owl.

A young girl wakes up in her bed on September 19th, the day before her birthday. This girl is Juliet Evans. She gets up and in a rush prepares to leave for her school, Bellbridge Academy. In a strange arrival, the halls of the school are completely empty as if they were littered in a rush. 'Happy Graduation' banners line the hallways and Juliet finds a letter in her locker reading 'Good luck on future, you’re on your own from here on out! Love, Mom and Dad.' She runs to find a crowd of her classmates on the Cafeteria stage, all grown up and ready to walk on. They turn to her and begin chiding her for not being prepared and for not growing up with the rest of them. Her classmates eyes glow red and they crowd transforms into their true Nightmaren forms and begin to chase Juliet back down the never ending hallway, growing darker and darker as she ran. A bright light appears nearly blinding Juliet and beckons her forward into it.

Juliet arrives at the Dream Gate dazed and confused. With no welcome, she explores a little bit of the forest on her own, peering into the pond the same way NiGHTS had previously. Suddenly a voice whispers from behind her asking her what she is doing there. She couldn't make the figure out as it lunged at her, demanding to know a final time what she was doing there before she woke up.

Waking up after her strange dream, Juliet once again gets ready for school in the Waking World this time. While having breakfast with her mom Juliet mentions how her 16th birthday is that weekend and asks if it's possible for them to go out for it. Her mothers response is unsure, leaving Juliet disappointed in how her parents don't do things for her like when she was a kid anymore.

At school, Juliet is in a rush to see her friend Alaia in her class, Juliet's best friend who moved to Bellbridge when she was a kid. She accidentally bumps into Alice McHenry in the hallway and drops all of her things scattered on the ground as Alice chides her for not looking and leaves swiftly. Will notices and stops in the halls to help Juliet pick up her things briefly.

While in class Juliet begins to explain the dream she had last night to Alaia, from the nightmare to the strange location she was in for a short time. Alaia becomes intrigued with the story and tells Juliet to keep her updated on any more strange dreams.

### Flowering Fields

After her uneventful birthday Juliet finds herself back in the Dream Gate where something has changed. The fountain's water has returned. Owl appears and mentions to Juliet that it's her arrival which brought life back into the fountain. As Juliet steps further to examine the fountain, her Ideya begins to glow from her hands. Reala appears, remarking how he hasn't seen that light in forever. Owl frantically flies in to defend Juliet, rushing her through the door to Nightopia that appeared from her Ideya.

Owl and Juliet enter into Lilac Valley, but giving no time for Juliet to admire the beauty of the paradise Owl quickly summons her into a field of tall flowers to duck and hide from the army of Nightmaren swarming into the world led by Reala. NiGHTS appears, challenging Reala to a fight to protect Juliet. Reala unusually refuses and retreats.

NiGHTS introduces himself to Juliet and explains briefly what Nightopia and the Ideya that creates it is. Juliet learns she's the first Visitor in a long time to arrive to the Dream Gate and NiGHTS realizes she may be the hope he was looking for. Juliet's Ideya on its own isn't enough to save Nightopia, but Juliet experiences the grogginess of waking up before NiGHTS is able to finish and would not get the chance to see him again soon.

Reala returns to Nightmare where the new accurately named leader, Nightmayr, is awaiting him. Reala appears to be fearful of his empty return, noting how Nightmayr's anger can be rather intense to deal with. Nightmayr mentioning a Visitor who refuses a visit from him isn't welcome in this world, and lashes out at Reala. When Reala mentions that normal Nightmaren are unable to steal a Visitors Red Ideya, the mention of Wizeman's name sends Nightmayr into an outburst against the general.

### <EVENT> Persuasion

#### Past

Claris and NiGHTS are out in Mystic Forest together lounging about before the Alarm Egg arrives. Claris asks NiGHTS how big the dream world is, knowing its implications mean it could be endless. NiGHTS responds that he actually doesn't know much outside of Nightmare and the Nightopias he visits, but he has heard rumors around these places of something referred to as the 'Gate of Dreams'.

#### Present

During one of Juliet classes she zones out as usual. Juliet has been a daydreamer her entire life, and they can be hard to avoid or shake herself out of. She starts to think about her Nightopia and NiGHTS in her daydreaming and she begins to actual see herself back in Lilac Valley. While running around for a little bit with the Nightopians she catches a glimpse of Rachael, who is floating in her world grinning at her. Juliet's teacher yells at Juliet to wake up as he catches her dreaming in class again, and asks for her to see him after class.

When class ends Juliet stays after to see her teacher. When she asks what it was he wanted to see her about he begins to dig his nails into the chalkboard replying with 'your Ideya'. Her teacher turns into Rachael, who she had seen in her daydream and she begins to chase Juliet around the classroom frantically. Juliet runs out of the classroom, slamming the door in Rachael's face as she disappears. Outside of the door Juliet runs into Will again, who was on his way down that hall as an errand for another teacher. He helps Juliet up once again and offers to walk her to the nurse on his way, noticing how pale Juliet looked. The two part ways when Jake calls over Will for something and Juliet leaves for the nurse to go home.

After another night of not returning to Nightopia Juliet begins to do some research online about it with no results. She knew after the Nightmaren at school that it had to have been real, so it was suprising to her that no one else has talked about this experience.

In her free class the next day she notices Will and takes a seat next to him to properly thank him for helping her before. The two officially introduce themselves to each other. Juliet notices how behind on his work he seems to be and Will mentions the reason he's in that class is for a quiet place to catch up. He used to be a very good student but hasn't had the ability to study a lot lately. Juliet offers to help him catch up with math in the library after school since it's one of her favorite subjects.

They meet up in the library as discussed before and Juliet is able to help with a good portion of his work. Their session is interrupted when Will receives a call from his sister, Maria, that he needs to come home and go with her to the Halloween Party as much as she protested with her father to take him. Juliet is reminded of the Halloween Party in the city tonight and goes home to call and ask Alaia to go with her.

Juliet meets up with Alaia at the party, Juliet in her bat costume and Alaia dressed up as a black cat. The two go into the party together and spend the whole night dancing with each other. Will, who was begrudgingly dragged by his sister thanks to their fathers demand, was sitting by himself on his phone avoiding the event. The party was very hot due to the amount of people there and Will, wearing his hoodie, decides to get up and go outside for fresh air instead. On his way out of the party Will crashes into Helen who was there with her friends. As they go to help each other up they recognize each other, and the memories they had lost of Nightopia come back to them suddenly.

The slow dance music turns on and Alaia pulls Juliet in from another dance. Her fears of being together for it relax as the two dance together, and Juliet's mind begins to imagine to two dancing in her Nightopia. Alaia notices Juliet phasing out and stops to offer to get a drink for them. Juliet agrees and as Alaia walks away Juliet is approached by Alice who is in a mouse mask. A few more kids show up with her, all in different animal themed masks for their costumes. They begin to persuade Juliet to step outside with them to her objection. As the group drags her out the door this is noticed by Will, who was now with Helen. The two sneak outside worried about Juliet, but stay nearby to listen in on the situation before getting involved. The other kids with Juliet begin to ask her about Nightopia to her surprise, and offer her a spot in their group to receive 'Nightmare Immunity'. Will and Helen rush in, making up an excuse and dragging Juliet away from the group towards the café across the street.

### <EVENT> Bonds

#### Past

Claris meets up with Elliot in the Waking World while he's playing with his friends and asks him if he's heard anything about other worlds in the Night Dimension. She explains the Gate of Dreams NiGHTS mentioned, and while he says the concept sounds cool he is dismissive of her request for help not truly seeing the point in anything besides Nightopias. It's hard to help her when they hardly are able to see each other in the Waking World anyway.

In Spring Valley that night Claris receives a harsh welcome from a storm and the Nightmaren named Jolten who followed it. Jolten offers to take Claris on a trip to the Dream Plaza, with his own ulterior motive unknowing to her. Claris agrees and Jolten picks the dreamer up and Claris wonders why they aren't dualized. Jolten answers that he simply doesn't like to, the truth is that he can't.

#### Present

NiGHTS and Owl are enjoying their night in the Dream Gate together, NiGHTS excited about Juliet's arrival and hoping she somehow is able to bring more Visitors, including his old friends, back again. He wonders how Nightmare has been doing, and if Reala has taken over control from Wizeman. Reala's ambush a few nights ago was the first he's seen from the nightmaren since, he assumes Nightmare must be starving for Ideya, too. A rumbling noise and the staircase looming over the island crashing to the ground takes over their conversation, and the Dream Gate has begun to collapse.

In Bellbridge, the three kids take a seat at one of the booths at Fullmoon Café and Helen breaks the ice by immediately asking about Nightmare, noting how the kids there had mentioned it. Juliet is relieved to find out that Helen and Will have history with visiting Nightopia and confide in them about her experience. The two laugh at her claims of a Nightmaren attacking her in the Waking World and mention how it's not possible, but hypothetically wonder what it could mean for Nightopia. Juliet learns that Will and Helen both also had previously known NiGHTS but had forgotten all of their memories of him and Nightopia until tonight. Juliet was excited to tell NiGHTS about finding his old friends tonight, but the two were unsure NiGHTS would be as ecstatic as Juliet claims.

### Flowering Fields: Sailing Rescue

When Juliet enters Nightopia again that night, she mentions to NiGHTS she was able to find his old friends, Will and Helen, and NiGHTS refutes her claims of them being friends, saying he has no idea who they are. This confuses Juliet, but she decides to not push forward with it and instead mention what happened at the Halloween Party and the name 'Nightmayr'. NiGHTS says he'll look into it more for her. NiGHTS also tells Juliet about how the Dream Gate collapsed, but he and Owl are finding refuse in the abandoned Dream Plaza.

Juliet and NiGHTS go to play with the Nightopians by the lake. As Juliet approaches the water a loud rumbling erupts from below and a swirling water vortex is summoned. Several Nightopians begin to get swept away by it and are at risk of being pulled under. NiGHTS transforms into a sailboat and Juliet boards him, swimming out into the lake and using the vortex's winds to navigate around to save the Nightopians. They manage to save all of the Nightopians and figure a Nightmaren must have been behind the trouble. This was unusual to NiGHTS, as Wizeman isn't around to be sending them out anymore.

Back in Nightmare, Nightmayr is listening as the Visitors from the Halloween Party attempt to defend themselves from their failure. Their leader, Marcus, says they did their best with trying to recruit Juliet into their group while the group bickers with each other the entire time. Nightmayr claims it's fine as long as they keep their eye on her. Instead, he has another job for the visitors to do.

The next day Juliet talks to Will about what NiGHTS had said about not knowing him and Helen. He says he expected that and to not push further, sounding a little bit nervous. Juliet takes her seat next to Alaia in her math class. The reason math is Juliet's favorite has to do with her love for her teacher, Miss D, and how easy she makes everything to understand. The previous night when Juliet was dragged away to the café, she had texted Alaia about needing to leave but left the message vague. Juliet invites Alaia to FullMoon Café due to their date being ruined before, and Alaia is shocked at the word date which flusters Juliet, but of course she agrees.

Juliet and Alaia are served by Claris at the café, who Juliet recognizes on one of the posters inside for something called 'Dreamer's Night'. Claris explains it's an old poster and that she used to sing here on some nights, but she hasn't done in it in forever. Juliet encourages Claris to do it again and Claris says she'll think about it and thanks Juliet.

### Flowering Fields: Hiding Seek

#### Past

Jolten takes Claris to the Dream Plaza and leaves her alone to explore while he goes off to find the Shard of Courage that Wizeman had sent him to get. He needed Claris' Red Ideya's presence to find it. She finds the bridge which Jolten explains leads to the other abandoned plaza that gained the name 'the Nightmare Plaza'. He tells her not to worry about it, but Claris heads down the bridge to explore it herself figuring if it was abandoned it couldn't hurt. After sneaking past a few stray 3rd Level Nightmaren she runs inside a church-esque building. Inside the church her Red Ideya emits from her hands and she feels a strange energy leading her further into it. The dead end of the church disappears and she finds herself walking down a seemingly endless hallway. She follows the light from some torches and ends up triggering a trap as a large boulder hurls towards her like in an action movie. Claris figures out the puzzle of the hallway, grabbing a brightly lit torch and opening a secret passageway now finding herself stuck in a maze. Claris wanders the maze, unknowing to her being guided by the strange energy she had felt before. At the end of the maze was a large room where a small orb sat on a pedestal. The orb draws Claris in closer like a magnet and as she gets closer can feel the pure anger of energy it radiates. She senses life through the orb and concerningly asks if the anger she can feel is from it. A voice in her head replies with a 'yes', followed by confusion from the orb as a bright light took over the room sending Claris back into the church with the orb in her hands.

Jolten finds Claris and asks her what she found, but Claris tries to hide it from Jolten knowing he's still a nightmaren that works under Wizeman noting that she doesn't quite trust him. Jolten becomes angry and lashes out at Claris but is stopped by NiGHTS who appears just as angry, a side Claris has never seen before. When NiGHTS sees Claris he calms down and asks her what she found. Claris explains she doesn't know but thinks something is trapped inside of it. The two fly off back to Nightopia together while Jolten curses at NiGHTS.

NiGHTS explains to Claris that Jolten is a failed 1st Level Nightmaren created by Wizeman, like Jackle who they once fought together. He's treated pretty poorly by the other Nightmaren for his status. They change the subject as they bring up the Dream Plaza again, NiGHTS in amazement over it and the two excited to see what else it has in store.

#### Present

Owl comforts NiGHTS who is upset as he recalls what he did to Will and Helen again, worried that it's his fault everything is happening to the Dream Gate. He masks this fear by referring to the Dream Gate as he confides to Owl. Owl knows better and is able to see through NiGHTS' fears, urging NiGHTS to reconnect with his old friends once again. NiGHTS ignores Owl's suggestion and instead brings up the visitors Juliet mentioned to Owl, the two curious as to who could possibly be recruiting Visitors in Nightmare.

In Lilac Valley while Juliet is looking for NiGHTS she runs into Marcus. He warns her to leave and to stay out of Nightmayr's business so he can take over Nightopia, and says he's actually trying to help her by giving her this warning, mentioning NiGHTS is also a Nightmaren to her. Juliet defends herself and says she's going to stay to help NiGHTS because they're friends and this causes Marcus to leave flustered.

NiGHTS meets up with Juliet in Nightopia after his conversation with Owl. They watch as two Nightopians bicker with each other and hide in the tall fields of flowers. A swarm of 3rd Level Nightmaren approach and NiGHTS finally dualizes with Juliet, showing the visitor how to fly for the first time. They fly to save the Nightopians who are hiding in the fields from the Nightmaren, chasing off the Nightmaren with paraloops before they can get to the Nightopians. All the Nightmaren are chased off, and another rumbling noise echoes from over the plains.

### Curious Crocile

Juliet and NiGHTS find themselves in a nightmarish swamp, where the 2nd Level Nightmaren Crocile resides. The nightmaren splashes around as they attempt to attack him to no avail, his furious bite making Juliet nervous. NiGHTS explains that Crocile's weakness is his stomach and Juliet thinks of a plan to get him to flop over. She starts flying in circles around Crocile as he turns in place following their every move. Eventually Crocile becomes too dizzy to keep following and he collapses on his side exposing his soft belly. The dualized pair drill dash into him for a swift defeat.

Juliet's Ideya of Purity is revealed where Crocile had fallen and she recovers it back from the nightmaren who had been holding it captive. When the two return themselves to the familiar world of Nightopia NiGHTS offers to take Juliet to the Dream Plaza, however Juliet instead wakes up promising they can go tomorrow night.

### <EVENT> Remnants

#### Past

While enjoying her night alone in Memory Forest, Helen encounters a mysterious Visitor who explains they are lost and isn't sure where they are. Helen offers to help the Visitor and leads them to the door back to the Dream Gate out of Nightopia. Helen loses sight of the Visitor and is shoved into a opened portal which sends her to the Dream Plaza's Castle.

Helen's Red Ideya begins to emit as she moves towards the castle as if it was being called out of her. She follows this feeling through the structure before reaching a room in a high tower of the castle where Will is as well. The two shared a similar experience to arrive at this spot. They find a small chest in the room, inside of it a small peach tinted orb rests. Helen begins to hear an eerie voice inside her head, as does Will, explaining that it is trapped inside the orb and gained consciousness recently unable to free itself. It asks the two visitors to attempt to free it, Will is reluctant at first but Helen feels remorse and asks how they can help it. Before the voice can respond NiGHTS appears with a rather unusual attitude from his normal cheery self. He yells at the two visitors for being in the Dream Plaza and messing with the orb he and Claris had hid safely together. NiGHTS cannot control himself as a form of anger manifests inside of him while Will and Helen attempt to keep the orb away from NiGHTS due to the nightmaren's odd disbelief that it is conscious. Unfortunately the negative energy that found it's home in NiGHTS causes the nightmaren to snap as the two visitors drop the orb on accident, shattering it and releasing Nightmayr. NiGHTS' attacks the two in an uncontrollable rage, stealing their Red Ideya in the process leading to their memories of the Dream World vanishing as they awaken.

#### Present

(from this point on all of my summaries i wrote got deleted so im rewriting all of them so im sorry if they are very poorly written)

Juliet meets back up with Will and Helen at the café to tell them about her encounter with Marcus and what NiGHTS had said about them. The two aren't surprised over NiGHTS' reaction, but instead show more concern over the suspicious visitors. One of them being recognizable to them as Alice. The two mention Wizeman and insist he must be behind the recent Nightmare activity and Juliet inquires who Wizeman is which is a surprise to them both. The trio start to get creeped out and all get up to take their leave.

That night, NiGHTS finally brings Juliet to see the Dream Plaza and give her a tour of the new location. NiGHTS gives Juliet a brief run down on the history of the Dream Gate and how it was piece that was taken from the Plaza due to him and his old friends (Claris and Elliot). Juliet infers that NiGHTS is a Nightmaren, and although this takes him back she assures him it doesn't change her trust in him at all. When her Ideya glows from this revelation they discover new doors to Nightopia that appear around a small birdbath.

NiGHTS asks Juliet if she wants to see what remains of the old Dream Gate and Juliet accepted. They travel through a paraloop to where the Dream Gate is sinking into the Dark Ocean. NiGHTS explains why the Dream Gate is so dangerous now is because of the surrounding waters it's sinking into. Juliet asks if it'll ever be possible to save it, and NiGHTS responds that it would take a lot of power to be able to lift it back up again. Juliet takes this as an opportunity to ask about Wizeman. According to NiGHTS, Wizeman has been destroyed for a while, to which NiGHTS wasn't responsible for. This means that he can't behind commanding the Nightmaren. The two decide to look around the Dream Gate a bit more and Juliet spots a lilac colored orb buried underneath the pond in the small forest. NiGHTS turns into a dolphin and dives under to get it and they put it in Juliet's backpack for safe keeping, NiGHTS unfortunately recognizing it's similarity to the one Claris had found.

NiGHTS returns to the Dream Plaza without Juliet where he discovers Jolten on the run. NiGHTS begins to act hostile towards the Nightmaren who he assumes is up to no good, but Jolten instead begins to plead with NiGHTS to let him hide from Nightmayr. NiGHTS begrudgingly allows Jolten to stay, knowing he may be able to get more information about what's been going on from him.

Juliet eventually runs into Jolten her next night there, afraid of the Nightmaren at first but realizing quickly he's not as threatening as he tries to be. NiGHTS quickly intervenes, stealing Juliet away from Jolten out of protectiveness. NiGHTS quickly fills Juliet in on what Jolten had told him about Nightmayr taking over and rushes her to try to find her next Ideya.

### <EVENT> A Wary Slumber

#### Past

NiGHTS confides in Owl later after the events, still feeling a numb shock from what occurred. He is unable to grasp why he was feeling that way, but assumes it was the emotions of his own memories with Claris and Elliot and their short time in the Dream Plaza together. Owl assures NiGHTS that he isn't a monster and he has time to understand himself still. NiGHTS leaves Owl, off to meet a new Visitor he vows to not make any more mistakes with.

#### Present

The morning starts as usual for Maria Taylor as she sluggishly wakes up. She meets her brother, Will, downstairs for breakfast and offers to drive him to school. She brushes off his grumpy responses to her like normal, but still wonders why she still even tries to perk him up. She makes breakfast for herself while he leaves to get ready for school. While eating she hears a knock at the door and answers it to find a group of kids in animal masks and she jokingly remarks it's a little early for trick-or-treating.

While getting ready for school Will hears his sister scream from downstairs. He quickly rushes down to find her unconscious with the front door open. He runs outside to look around but there isn't a trace of anyone else being there other than a lion mask that had gotten left behind which he recognizes from the Halloween Party. He lays Maria down on their sofa before running to school with the mask. When Juliet sees the mask shes perplexed at what the Nightmare Kids would want with Maria but agrees that she will try to find her that night.

After meeting with Will, Juliet runs to meet up with Alaia who is a bit upset at her tardiness worried Juliet forgot about her. Alaia tells Juliet about how she talked to Claris at the café and that the café will be starting live music nights again in November. Alaia solemnly notes she'll probably be busy during that month and Juliet is worried she's lying to her.

That night in the Dream Plaza Juliet worries about how she's going to bring up Maria to NiGHTS, worried that any mention of Will could make him deny helping again. She unfortunately slips up while explaining the situation to him and just as she worried NiGHTS immediately becomes tense and is shocked that his old friends do remember him. He remorsefully tells Juliet the truth about what happened the last time he saw them, how he stole their Red Ideya in a suddenly rage. This revelation shocks Juliet- but she still encourages him to reconnect with them again. After listening to Juliet's hopeful attitude NiGHTS agrees. He calls over Jolten to watch over Juliet and to guide her to where Nightmayr's lair is to find Maria and he gives Juliet a quick pinky promise that he'll be there as fast as he can.

Jolten brings Juliet along the bridge that connects the Dream Plaza and the mysterious Nightmare Plaza, since he is unable to simply paraloop them there. Juliet inquires why they didn't dualize and fly across and Jolten becomes frustrated, and grumpily explains to her that he doesn't have the same abilities as NiGHTS. Jolten remains silent the rest of the time until they finally arrive to Nightmayr's Nightmaren Lair. The world they were in was a fast pool of fog they overlooked from a cliff of one of the many tall mountains that surrounded it like a bowl. Jolten explains that the main part of his lair is under the fog. The first to run and greet her to her surprise is Helen, who is excited to simply be back in the world. NiGHTS is following behind her along with Will. Jolten tries to dip out from the group but NiGHTS requests him to wait here in case anything happens which Jolten knows he can't deny. The three visitors dualize with NiGHTS, splitting into three different copies to Juliet's surprise. NiGHTS explains this takes a lot of energy to do, but it's easier for them to all be dualized at the moment. They fly down into the fog to where Nightmayr's Mansion sits.

Within the Mansion Nightmayr is playing with Crocile after the 2nd Levels recent defeat. He's intruded on by Reala by Nightmayr's own request. Nightmayr tasks Reala, alongside Rachael, with recovering the lilac orb that Juliet was seen with, as well as keeping an eye out for Jolten. Reala retrieves Rachael, who is a failed 1st Level Nightmaren who was revived by Nightmayr, and the two head to Nightopia together to try and find where NiGHTS and Juliet are. They ultimately cannot find a trace of them anywhere but fear returning to Nightmayr empty handed.

### <EVENT> Awakening

#### Past

14-year-old Helen's mother scolds her for the current state of her messy room as the now teenager is laying in bed playing on her phone. Among the mess of clothes on her floor is her violin, which her mother gently picks up to place back in its case as she tells Helen to clean her room while she's out shopping. Once her mother left Helen goes to open her laptop to video chat with her friend Mary while she cleans up her room. They discuss Helen's birthday next week, with Helen expressing sadness at Mary's predetermined absence from it.

While putting away some clothes in her closet Helen comes across her old dream diary from when she was a kid and Mary intriguingly pushes Helen to read some of it. Helen opens up to a random page which is simply titled 'Aqua Garden' and read an old story of her and NiGHTS exploring underwater together. Unfortunately, Helen had lost all of her true memories of her experience within Nightopia, and to her these are simply imaginary friends she once had. Mary jokingly pokes at Helen a bit about how she used to talk about her imaginary friends all the time.

Helen brings up her dream diary with her mother during dinner that night and expresses her concern for Helen's vivid imagination as a kid worried about what could have been causing these fantasies but mentions overall she had never seen Helen happier before than during that time.

#### Present

The trio of visitors, dualized with NiGHTS, drop down to the entrance of the mansion that resides in Nightmayr's lair. They decide it's best to split up into other entryways, worried that the possibility of Maria being inside could lead to a trap. Out of concern for Juliet, knowing she is Nightmayr's target, the others convince her to hide someplace outside until someone else lets her in when they're sure it's safe. Juliet remains outside the entrance, hiding besides a bush while the others go off to find a way inside. Getting an uneasy feeling while alone Juliet decides to peak into the mansions doors to see if she notice anything going on inside but the entrance appears to be empty.

Juliet creeps inside, unfortunately letting the large entrance doors slam shut. The loud noise scares her and she ducks to hide underneath one of the tables that was against the wall draped with a cloth. The commotions gains the attention of Nightmayr who walks down the upper hallway to peer down the stairs accompanied by Mary. She assures him it was probably nothing, just one of his visitors leaving but Nightmayr remains suspicious. Mary walks down the staircase and leaves out of the entrance and the room went quiet, making Juliet think this would be a good time to escape as well. She scurries out from the table and begins to make a run for a door away from the stairs but Nightmayr, who was still peering down them, startles her in his own surprise as well. Nightmayr comes face to face with her, and as he begins to approach her he's hit with a chair that was thrown by Will. The other two visitors and NiGHTS run in just in time to catch Nightmayr off guard. Shadowy nightmaren rise up and grab onto the visitors while Nightmayr flings NiGHTS against the wall and grabs him. His claws scrape against NiGHTS' gem on his chest, feeling a discomfort he had never felt before. The visitors continue to attack Nightmayr, releasing his hold on NiGHTS who flies away. Will demands to know what happened to his sister, but Nightmayr drops his guard in confusion, not understanding.

Jolten calls up from the top of the staircase holding Maria in his arms to everyone's surprise, saying that he figured he would sneak around and help. He's quickly shot down by Nightmayr who begins to chide him for running away. The two Nightmaren begin arguing about Nightmayr taking charge, and NiGHTS audibly puts together that Nightmayr is one of the beings that was split from the Nightmaren, Fryght, realizing that his ultimate plan is to reform the godlike-nightmaren. Nightmayr reveals the other nightmaren know nothing of Fryght or his plan. He returns to separating the others from Maria and rushes over to her, pulling out a small red gemstone that Jolten recognizes as the one Wizeman sent him to retrieve. Nightmayr continuously presses it to Maria in frustration at no reaction, but during his distraction is shoved away by Will. The red stone falls to the ground and everyone goes to dive for it before Nightmayr can, Helen managing to grab it. Nightmayr goes to rush towards the three visitors who are now staring at the gemstone in awe when a bright light emits from Juliet's backpack. In a panic she takes her bag off and throws it to the ground and the orb inside cracks as it tumbles out. Twylight appears in the orbs place, and they and Nightmayr greet each other. Twylight's presence sends calm over Juliet, but the circumstances cause Will and Helen shared nerves. Twylight bids Nightmayr a farewell and creates a portal that sends them and the others back to the Dream Plaza.

### Curious Crocile: Hard Ver.

#### Past

Helen and Mary meet up in town to hang out and shop together, Mary promising to buy Helen a birthday gift while they are out. Helen ends up catching glimpse of a window display from a jewelry shop, specifically a little silver ring with a white gemstone in it which Mary ends up going inside to buy for Helen.

The two stop at FullMoon Café for coffee and tea together before continuing their day of shopping. On their way out of the Café Helen takes her phone out to check on a text from her mom and ends up walking into Will, spilling her coffee on him and the ground in the process. Jake ends up acting particularly nasty to Helen and the boys join in berating her while Mary steps in to stare down Jake. Mary's interference causes the situation to become even more out of hand due to her hostility and Jake decides to end it by dumping his own drink on top of Helen with his phone out as well. Before Mary could approach Jake Helen pulls her away and leaves the group of boys embarrassingly.

#### Present

Juliet finds herself back in the Dream Plaza after Twylight has teleported them away. Twylight leaves their conversation with NiGHTS to check on Juliet who's dream self had blacked out from the stress of the situation. Juliet asks if all nightmaren have the power to teleport like that and NiGHTS explains that his paraloops are different from what Twylight is able to do. They have Twylight about what powers Nightmayr possesses but Twylight says they'll explain later, giving a sleepy yawn. Juliet notices Jolten chilling by himself outside of the large castle in the plaza and goes to talk to him, but he sends her inside to see Will and Helen instead.

The other two visitors were inside the castle, arguing back and forth about something as Juliet walked in. They stop as they notice Juliet entering. Juliet asks what the issue is and Will speaks up before Helen can, saying that she thinks the two of them are the reason that Nightmayr was freed. Helen explains to Juliet what happened the last night they were here, worried that the orb they broke was where Nightmayr was, similarly to Twylight. Will and Juliet both agree against Helen that it's nothing to worry about, and instead she asks what happened to Maria. They apparently were able to wake her up while her dream self was still in an unconscious state, hopefully avoiding any confusing dream conversations in the Waking World. Twylight also has taken custody of the mysterious red stone that Nightmayr had before. Wanting to try and learn more about Fryght, Juliet decides she wants to return to the Dream Gate where she found Twylight's orb and Helen offers to join her while Will stayed back.

NiGHTS was alone in the Dream Plaza after Twylight flew off, and NiGHTS is frustrated trying to understand things, particularly thinking about how familiar Twylight was to him. His thoughts were broken up by the arrival of Juliet and Helen, explaining they want to return to the Dream Gate, but NiGHTS quickly shoots down the request. The Dream Gate would be too dangerous to return to by now. They decide to go to Nightopia instead, but upon their entrance to the bird bath area Juliet's door to Nightopia are replaced with Helen's instead. They figure out the birdbath is able to sense their Ideya and summon the equivalent Nightopia, and the doors switch back to Juliet's with a brand new one shining in place. NiGHTS and Juliet excitedly head off to explore the new Nightopia while Helen stays out, wanting to reconnect with her own Nightopia again. When all of them have left, Rachael and Reala finally sneak out, Reala claiming he has a plan.

As Juliet and Helen leave Will, previously, he's approached by Jolten who caught onto his act. He confides in Jolten, admitting it's weird to here with Helen again after what had happened between them. Jolten tries to tell him he's overthinking it and in turn shares his own worries about how he feels being around NiGHTS. The two decide to spend the rest of the night together in Will's Nightopia, Jolten offering to show him how to get there. Jolten picks him up and speeds towards where the birdbath is but sees Reala and Rachael entering Helen's Nightopia. The two quickly run inside after them.

NiGHTS and Juliet enter Venturing Forest, Juliet's second Nightopia. Juliet exclaims in awe how much she loves the forest, and NiGHTS agrees it's always been his favorite as well. Their peaceful moment was intruded on by Reala who has Helen in his grasp. Reala says he's here to trade for the orb that Nightmayr wants and is only responded to with laughter from the others. NiGHTS jokingly chides Reala for missing out on everything that happened tonight which frustrates Reala, feeling humiliated. Reala's threats of hurting Helen get shut down by Juliet, who recognizes that Helen doesn't have pink eyes. Helen transforms into Rachael who is once again laughed at by NiGHTS for their plan failing so miserably, however Reala recounts that this wasn't the only part of their plan and alludes to the return of Crocile. Suddenly, a portal appears behind Reala and Rachael and Twylight emerges from it, tossing them through. Twylight explains that they sent Crocile to attack Helen and quickly portals them to Crystal Castle.

Will along with Jolten run inside Crystal Castle to find where the two Nightmaren had gone and enter inside Crocile's lair. Jolten instructs Will to go to Helen while he takes care Crocile. Crocile was much bigger than when NiGHTS and Juliet fought him, and his thicker swamp water would make it harder to budge him onto his weak point. Jolten realizes his lightning isn't going to be enough, and instead musters up his power to summon a storm from the swamp, an a tornado flips Crocile over onto his back where a final struck of lightning sends him to destruction. Crystal Castle begins to reappear as Helen thanks Jolten for his help. Twylight and the others arrive through their portal in time for NiGHTS to congratulate Jolten on his first nightmaren kill, to Jolten's dismay.

### <EVENT> Revelations

#### Past

The next week during her birthday party Helen and her friends escape into her room to hang out away from the adults. Helen's friend Hannah admires her new ring that Mary bought for her. The two discuss Mary's odd recent behavior including her darker style and the attitude she's put on lately unsure of what to really think about it.

#### Present

Mary returns to Nightmayr's mansion after the scuffle he had with NiGHTS and the other visitors, which he remarks to her. Mary assures him they still have the upper hand, despite losing the Ideya Shard. Nightmayr notes how he knows Twylight will just hide from him in the Waking World again, which means he must do the same. He tells Mary to have everyone meet him in the abandoned Nightmare Plaza for a meeting.

Nightmayr's Nightmaren servants as well as the visitors that Mary had retrieved for him upon his request meet up within the Nightmaren Plaza, confused as to what this could be about. Nightmayr announces he's going to explain himself to them all, and what his plans is. The Nightmaren tense up as he reveals his identity as Fryght, and his goal is to reform with his siblings. Reala protests that Fryght existing would destroy all of reality, which makes the visitors uneasy. Nightmayr reveals his plan to enter the Waking World through the power of Juliet's daydreaming, which he caught onto when Rachael experienced their strange visit. Nightmayr approaches Rachael to her fear, crushing the gem on her head with his hand, destroying her in front of everyone. The Nightmaren watch in fear at Nightmayr's strength to do such a thing, and he pleads for them all to continue working with him.

Juliet wakes up that morning feeling groggy after her rough dream. Inside her school she passes by a strange woman who smiles oddly at her by the main office when she walks by, creeping Juliet out. Forgetting about her strange encounter, Juliet nods off during class like usual and finds herself back in Venturing Forest, imagining herself walking around it's endless paths. A dead end stops her in her trail, where a peacock shoots up from the bushes, locking eyes with Juliet and startling her back to reality. Her class ends to her relief, and her teacher makes an announcement that they're having a new student join the class soon.

At the café the visitor trio meet up as usual, recounting about what occurred the previous night. They wonder about Wizeman, Fryght, the stone that was discovered, and whether they could trust Twylight. Their conversation is interrupted by Mary who notices Helen and calls her over, Will trying to hide himself. Mary introduced Helen to her boyfriend, Nicky, who Helen already knew about. Mary informs that Nicky is moving to Bellbridge, and is going to be attending the public school here. Will groans upon learning that the new kid in his class is going to be Mary's boyfriend, but Juliet sighs in relief knowing it's not Marcus. Helen tells the group she feels a little weird being here while Mary is here and they decide to pack up for the day.

Will returns home where he's caught from a greeting by Maria. He tries to subtly ask her if she remembers anything from her dream last night, and she responds that she actually remembers seeing her old imaginary friend in her dream. Based off her description, Will believes her to be talking about NiGHTS somehow and runs upstairs to his room.

That night in the Dream Plaza, Twylight summons everyone together so they can finally explaining everything that's going on. However, when Will sees NiGHTS he immediately intrudes about if he knew Maria. Twylight answers instead, solemnly noting that they were Maria's old friend. They start by explaining Fryght, how it was a single being whos power Wizeman could not control so was split apart. Each being created from Fryght received a portion of it's abilities. These abilities include their portals and Nightmayr's strength, but noted the shadowy nightmaren that Nightmayr had summoned were not part of Fryght's abilities. Their third sibling is safely hidden, and Twylight mentions they wish to not indulge further about her. Twylight continues explaining that they and their siblings were sealed away by Wizeman and were only able to be freed by a Visitor, and that Maria was the one who had first freed them years ago. Twylight changes their form to that of a visitor with familiar silver hair, which Helen and Will recognize as the visitor that sent them to the castle, and who NiGHTS once adventured with. They reveal that it was them who had sent them to free Nightmayr at the time, but that Nightmayr's leaked anger had caused the events that unfolded, apologizing for what they had unintendedly caused. After Twylight had freed Nightmayr, they found their third sibling, Nyght, and the three of them defeated Wizeman together. When Twylight and their sibling discovered Nightmayr's intentions of reforming they hid their sibling and imprisoned themself once again.

Twylight reveals that the red gemstone Nightmayr had taken from Wizeman when he was defeated was the Red Shard of Courage. The shards contain great power when they are bonded to a visitor with a strong enough heart. They and Maria had retrieved them all together, which prompted Nightmayr to assume she would either know the location of the remaining ones, or bond to the shard herself. Maria however has no recollection of her adventure, which Twylight sadly recounts. The group pressures Twylight to show them where the remaining shards are, figuring it could be a great asset to them. Unfortunately, Twylight explains they hid all of the shards within the Waking World, and they have no idea of their whereabouts by this point. They entrust the Shard of Courage to NiGHTS for the time being, joking that it matches the gem on his chest.

With Twylight's explanation wrapped up the group decides to put their buddy system into action for the night. NiGHTS and Juliet head off to Venturing Forest again while Will finally shows Jolten Delight City. Helen recounts everything to Owl as she and Twylight head off with him to Memory Forest.

### Stalking Scopopea

#### Past

At Bellbridge Academy, Jake is showing a bunch of his friends, including Vivian Rivera, the video of him and Helen from the other day. Will isn't amused by it and Jake wonders what his problem is, implying that he used to be more fun to hang around. The two boys get into an argument and Will storms off. Mary appears behind Jake, freaking him out. He immediately shows fear over her pleading that he'll delete the video he took of her friend but she states she's there to help him with the problems he's having with his friends.

#### Present

NiGHTS and Juliet return to Venturing Forest to explore more of it's offers. As they fly around the trees NiGHTS mentions he feels a presence following them, a Nightmaren. They stop to try and figure out where it is but are quickly pulled into the domain of Scopopea. The large peacock nightmaren flies around the bird cage he has brought the duo into, lashing out with his beak whenever they come near. Juliet notices that Scopopea's eyes on his tail feathers are a weak point when opened up after attacking but is unsure how they can hit it in time before they close once again. NiGHTS uses the power of the Rocket Persona in order to quickly and swiftly run into Scopopea's eyes sending the nightmaren to its destruction. However, Juliet's Ideya of Intelligence is not recovered from the bird.

Twylight appears through a portal to meet up with the two shortly after, NiGHTS fills them in on what just occurred and mentions that something is bothering him about it all. He explains that the second-level nightmaren are only able to come back from their first defeat through Wizeman's power, which he began utilizing after NiGHTS' adventure with Claris and Elliot and became desperate. Twylight admits that Nightmayr has another power aside from his strength, power absorption. Nightmayr can drain and use the powers and abilities of any other nightmaren, including Wizeman, as long as he has a source of their remains. The reason he wanted to activate the Ideya Shards is so Fryght can have those powers for itself.

That morning at school Will is acting more on edge than usual. He tells Juliet that Mary's boyfriend, Nicky, who recently transferred to their school, has been freaking him out and acting strange. He admits he's probably just overly suspicious of everyone now, knowing how Alice and the other Nightmare Kids are around, and Juliet tells him to not worry too much about it.

Ms. Dremarin, Juliet's math teacher introduces Nicky to the class as Juliet gets ready for the lesson. He gives an embarrassing introduction of himself at the proposal of Ms. D, and she quickly moves on to set the class up for their review day. While working on her worksheet Nicky interrupts Juliet. He says he needs help with it and he knows she helps people with math. He's very blunt, confused, and doesn't even know what a calculator is when she inquires if he has one, making Juliet figure this was going to be a difficult tutor session. He demands that Juliet help him finish the review after school to which Juliet tries to reject, knowing she's supposed to help Will. Unfortunately, Nicky is very set on meeting up, forcing Juliet to have to cancel with Will. Juliet meets Nicky in the library where he was waiting all day at the exact spot she meets up with Will in. She gets to work with helping him on the review, but nothing else strange is brought up by him to her relief. Meanwhile, Will had snuck into the library to keep an eye on the two of them, worried about Nicky's intentions. He's found by Alice who jokingly chides him about his actions, as if she's not there to do the same thing. She stands up to grab the attention of Juliet, who catches a glimpse of Will hiding himself in embarrassment from them.

### Wayward Wonders: Trailing Adventure

#### Past

Jake approaches Will in the locker room after one of their practices. They haven't been talking much for a couple months now, but Jake is determined to try to reconcile with his friend. He invites Will to his birthday party to which he agrees he'll stop by. When Will leaves Jake is once again jumpscared by Mary. He yells at her to leave, telling her he's not interested in joining her 'creepy group', clearly her prior invitation for him was rejected. She tries to build his ego up but Jake doesn't buy it, determined to fix his problems on his own without her help. She scoffs, mentioning she'll see him at the party, which Jake tells her she isn't invited to.

#### Present

While hunting for Scopopea in Venturing Forest, Juliet recounts how similar the woods are to the ones she used to go hiking in with her family. NiGHTS mentions he loves the forest again, too, and segways into asking Juliet how things in the Waking World have been regarding the Nightmare Kids. NiGHTS explains more about the creation of Nightmaren upon Juliet's inquiries and states he doesn't actually know when his own birthday is, by visitor standards. While the two are enjoying themselves a tornado blows the duo back, separating them in the air and sending Juliet spiraling into the forest by herself. Now alone and needing to find NiGHTS, she begins to trek her way along the forest paths, using the guidance her father taught her about trailing when she was a kid. She finally is able to find NiGHTS, and the two decide to head back to the Dream Plaza to find Owl. NiGHTS mentions he's been most likely enjoying himself back in his original home and mentions a library that's full of information and logs from the Night Dimension, piquing Juliet's interest.

NiGHTS brings Juliet to the library hidden in the forest and the Visitor is in awe by the amount of books and journals that line its shelves. NiGHTS explains its a mixture of old information and personal diaries written by older visitors. Juliet finds a scroll marked with a talon, joking that it must've been written by Owl who on cue appears in the library as well. Owl is ultimately surprised to catch the two here, and offers to help them find or record anything they would like.

The next day at school Juliet awkwardly encounters Will, having not seen him even in Nightopia since the previous day at school. They decide to not discuss Nicky further and instead Will invites her to come over for Halloween, Helen too. Juliet's shocked she forgot it's her favorite holiday, due to all the insane things happening lately, and agrees to stop by. She's stopped by Alaia shortly after, who also is wondering if she had Halloween plans.Juliet, sadly, has to turn her down with guilt, feeling bad she hasn't spent any time with Alaia lately.

Helen and Juliet meet up at Will's house on Halloween night. Helen was putting snacks together in the kitchen excitedly, claiming she doesn't get to eat a lot of snacks at her house. They discuss the plans for night, mostly including just eating snacks and watching movies which prompts Helen to protest against anything scary. Juliet notices a photo of Maria she recognizes, and inquires about the rest of Will's family which he awkwardly responses about his mother passing, but notes that it was so long ago when he was young it doesn't bother him.

While watching a horror movie together, Juliet begins dozing off and letting her mind wander into Nightopia again. Shes startled to reality by a bird-like nightmaren attacking her from above. Helen shrieking averts her attention to the nightmaren who flung into the television, escaping into the Waking World. The three visitors are stunned and confused as to what to do, and the nightmaren is acting no different. In panic, the nightmaren lashes out at them and flies away into the house and the visitors give chase to find where it went.

Helen ends up catching the Mewwy under a blanket and the three of them have a hard time trying to hold it down. The doorbell rings and Juliet leaves Will and Helen to hold the nightmaren, figuring it's just trick-or-treaters at the door. Juliet opens the door to Maria, who returned early to grab some things she forgot. Juliet runs to grab Will a panic, swapping places holding the Mewwy down with him. Maria becomes worried as she hears crashing from the other room but Will tries to assure her it's nothing and escorts her out of the house as quickly as possible. Once Maria leaves, Will returns with a plan to lock the Mewwy in his basement which they manage to do successfully. The two other visitors finally believe Juliet about Rachael attacking her at school, and Juliet has the realization that it always happens when she's daydreaming.

### Cowardly Custard

#### Past

Jake is enjoying his birthday party, hanging out with Vii, who only claims she's here so he and Will can make up again. Will finally shows up and Jake tries hard to get him to ease up and have fun. The two apologize and it seems like they're getting along okay again. Jake spots Mary hanging outside his house and starts cursing, to which Will thinks Jake is actually picking a fight with him instead. The two bicker a bit, and Jake finally let's out the anger he's been feeling relentlessly over his friend for the past few nights.

His yelling draws a crowd, only causing more stress in Jake's mind. Will turns to leave the house and when Jake realizes what's happening he pleads with Will to stay and talk again. He goes to grab him and Will shoves him away. Jake catches a glimpse of Mary laughing at him outside and in the adrenaline he punches Will, breaking his nose.

Jake chases Will outside and stops in his place by Mary. He repeats again to her that she wasn't invited and Mary responds that Jake said he could handle things on his own. She tells Jake that she wanted to show him that his friend still doesn't trust him, and never will. She once again extends an invitation to Jake to join the Nightmare Kids, and this time he agrees.

#### Present

Juliet arrives at the Dream Plaza quickly that night, intent on going to the library to see if she can find an explanation anywhere regarding her daydreaming, and the Nightmaren that appeared in Will's house. She bursts into the library with Owl chasing after her, explaining to NiGHTS and Twylight what had happened. She tells them she's specifically looking for information on the ability to visit Nightopia while awake. Owl responds that he has records of visitors possessing strange abilities, but none close to what she is experiencing. Owl offers to look in the library with the aid of Twylight for an answer.

Leaving Owl to browse, NiGHTS and Juliet go back to Venturing Forest to search for Juliet's Ideya some more. Their cautious observance is diverted by Octopaw, and naturally is pursued by NiGHTS. The duo chase the Octopaw around Nightopia up until Juliet finally has to wake up.

At school Juliet speaks to her teacher Miss Dremarin after her lesson that day when she notices her student acting strange. Juliet explains to her teacher that a lot of change in her life recently has been wearing her out and causing a lot of stress. While talking to Miss Dremarin Juliet experiences very strong upsetting emotions, ones she can't quite control, and begins to cry but is assured it's okay to feel this way by the other. She let's Juliet know she can always know when she's not feeling well and sends Juliet back on her way to meet up with Alaia.

Reala reminisces on Wizeman, and how Nightmayr was able to gain control over the world so easily. He travels to Jackle's lair to seek help from his old partner. Jackle, unsurprisingly, is still cross with Reala after he was abandoned so easily by his sibling and plays chase with him. Jackle is ultimately unhelpful to Reala with his riddles and Reala quickly retreats after receiving The Tower card from his sibling.

### Wayward Wonders: Treasure Hunt

#### Past

Elliot chases down Claris who is about to board at their train station to head towards the airport. Claris is leaving for Valland to attend a music school there. Elliot protests her departure at first, not wanting her to leave, but eventually comes around to supporting her in her decision after hearing how excited she is to study. The train announces it will soon depart and Claris leaves Elliot, but not before giving him a small kiss on the cheek.

#### Present

Many days continue to pass with nothing eventful occurring. The others continue to visit the library in hopes of helping Owl discover something to no avail. One of the possibilities Owl looked into was the possibility of self-actualization, a visitor's ability to change themselves in their dreams, to being the reason for Juliet's ability but quickly shut down his own theory. It's an ability that can appear in many different forms but would have no impact on the Waking World at all.

The Visitors all continued to meet up at the café for regular study-based sessions, not necessarily to talk about Nightopia related events. On one of their meetings they notice a poster advertising the live music schedule that was planned, what was previously told to Juliet by Alaia. Juliet urges the others to go with her on the night that Claris is singing but the two are busy, Helen being invited to one of Will's games that night.

NiGHTS and Juliet have been visiting Venturing Forest for a while now still with no signs of Scopopea. While on one of their patrols out Juliet notices the Nightopians are hunting for treasure along the tree trunks. Juliet asks NiGHTS if they could join in too, having loved scavenger hunts when she was a kid and remorses that she's unable to do it anymore. The two manage to find a jackpot of treasure, but after a Nightopian begins to prod at the Shard on NiGHTS' vest the two decide to walk away for a while before Juliet has to wake up.

Helen spent the night with Jolten in an interesting change, and is awoken rudely by Awakers after Jolten failed to help her escape. She meets up with Mary at her school, who lately she hasn't seen much of due to her spending time with Nicky. Mary asks her about the project she and Helen are working "together" (with Helen doing most of the work). She says she's seen Helen studying at the café with her friends and tries to persuade her to hang out with her and Nicky instead. which Helen rejects interest in.

### <EVENT> Comeback

TBA :)

Cover from Rise of Nightmayr(old) art by whalewithay <3

## Trivia

* This story used to be titled 'Rise of Nightmayr' before it had a heavy plot turn/rewrite
	+ the original plot was about a nightmaren stealing visitors from the waking world and using their power to aid in destroying nightopia.
* Ive rewritten this like 5 times and it's plot is so different from the first draft its insane
* i also change important plot details once a month. ive been working on this since 2015. someone god help me.
* the events of this story take place over a few months rather than a few nights in comparison to previous nights entries. this is due to reality and the dream worlds ongoing collapse onto each other and merging times (usually time in the night dimension is much faster) idk where else to put this info for now so its going here

***Shattered Hope***