Chapter 3 - He's got the Whole World in His Six Hands

But he didn't touch me with all of them. He touched me with one hand and I began to feel
a little nervous...but it wasn't so bad actually. Then started to touch me with a second
hand I felt like I was gonna DIE. NiGHTS and Reala looked away like they were watching an
R-rated movie. And he touched me with two hands. They felt cold and big, but...I wasn't
scared. I wasn't scared at all! I didn't feel the least bit nervous! It actually felt GOOD!
NiGHTS and Reala slowly turned back towards me, opened one eye, and their mouths dropped
open. I was in the grip of two of Wizeman's hands and I still kept a straight face. So
Wizeman grabbed a hold of me with the rest of his hands, and I just felt a little dizzy.
I wasn't dead. I was perfectly fine. Wizeman frowned looking unimpressed and dropped me.
I didn't understand what had happened at that time, but I eventually figured it out.
Wizeman spent the next half-hour grabbing me, poking me, touching me. He even did the
same to NiGHTS and Reala and they presented the exact same expression, NOTHING!

Well one year had passed and that incident quickly became a funny memory. At the award
ceremony, we were presented with our awards. Reala and I got a blue medal symbolizing
intelligence and a snowballs chance at becoming one of Wizeman's first class Nightmaren.
NiGHTS got a red medal. The best medal anyone could've ever recieved. I was proud of her.

"I can't believe I got the red medal!" NiGHTS said cheerfully. "And I was the only one
who got it!"

"Yah, that's awesome!" I said. "You should give yourself a pat on the back...or better
yet, SIX!"

NiGHTS smiled. So then, we were going to serve Wizeman the Wicked as Nightmaren! That
night, NiGHTS and I placed our medals where all could see. On our chests. They look
real cool in between the cool star designs on the hips of our Nightmaren uniforms.
The next day, the story began to take shape.

"HAHAHAHAHA!!!" Wizeman laughed maniacally. "I've NOW devised a plan to travel into the
real world beyond Nightopia and destroy it! So everybody will have nothing, but
Nightmares! HAHAHAHA!!! NIGHTS!!!!! RAV!!!! REALA!!!!!!

"Yes SIR!!!!" we said coming towards the door to Wizeman's room in his castle.

"I need you three to do a favor for me." Wizeman said calmly. Then he began to raise his
voice a little. "I now hold four of the magical Ideya since ONE of them was lost due to
your mischeviousnous."

NiGHTS and I showed a grin of guiltiness, but Reala kept a straight face.

"And that Ideya happens to be the Ideya of bravery! The rarest Ideya
EVER!" Wizeman said as NiGHTS then presented a greedy smile. "Your task is simple! GO AND
GET IT!!!!!!!! You made this mess!!!! Now YOU need to clean it UP!!!!!!!!!"

NiGHTS and I just couldn't agree to that. Normally Wizeman would force us to say yes
using his strange otherworldly powers, but for the first time in my life, I felt free.
Like I could make my own decisions. And then a loud and confident "NO!" exploded out of
my mouth. I nervously looked at NiGHTS. She smiled and bravely sided with me with a
selfish, feminine, upward point of her nose which of course meant NO. Reala agreed though,
but Wizeman was furious at us. It was then when we realized that that incident with the
Ideya had given the three of us the power of free-will. The power to break free of Wizeman's
evil grip on all of us Nightmaren, but Wizeman DID do something about us. We were thrown
into jail for disobeying his orders. We couldn't break out so we had spent a few months in
there. NiGHTS and I got the same cell so we talked a lot. We had to use the same toilet,
but I won't get into that.

"What we did got us sentenced to 15 years here in this Nightopian prison, Rav." NiGHTS
sadly said. I silently nodded. She paused and then added, "but I still don't regret
doing it." I looked at her and then said, "Yah!", waited about 10 seconds and said
"I don't either!" But I knew I couldn't sit in there for 15 years doing nothing just
for fighting for what I believe in. I knew that we needed to break out...but how?

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