Neon Darkness (Invite Only!)

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Uboa only laughed insanely at NiGHTS' response to his taunts. The laughs seemed to be mixed with pained screams, until they completely faded into screams. Uboa's body began to bubble forth and become more grotesque as it answered NiGHTS.

"What, just so you can steal them from her all over again, NiGHTS?" Uboa said. Its form began to bubble out even more, and formed into even more of the Nightmaren that plagued Madotsuki's mind before Poniko herself rose out from within the blob again. Half of her face was covered with the black ooze as well. "Mado-chan stole something from me first. She stole my life. Wasn't it fair that I stole something back?"

The Poniko that had risen out of the ooze was grinning insanely, and it reached its shadow arms out around the room toward NiGHTS and Madotsuki. Madotsuki realized what was coming, but too late, as the arms grasped NiGHTS' legs.

"NiGHTS-san!" Madotsuki yelled, just as the arms grabbed her too, and pulled the two of them into the sea of blood. The Poniko-Uboa fusion was floating in the air in front of the two of them.

"Mado-chan... you never should have trusted NiGHTS. He just pulled you into this nightmare... he's a Nightmaren, after all. It's his goal to... he's just helping you get rid of me so he can make your nightmares even worse!" Poniko screeched. "Stay with me Mado-chan! You're at least safe with me! Your Ideya are safer with me than with that monster!"

Madotsuki looked toward NiGHTS with a slightly confused look on her face. She also looked mostly terrified. Well, these were her worst nightmares, nightmares she had never gotten used to, even with all of her explorations through her dream world.

[mugenginga]

NiGHTS had opened her mouth to object. Madotsuki hadn't stolen anything from Uboa. He still didn't quite understand what the Visitor meant by murder. It was a case of culture shock, perhaps, but NiGHTS wasn't grasping it. Still, NiGHTS wasn't stupid. From what Madotsuki had said, Uboa was taking the form of someone she knew in the Day Dimension and using regrets against her. But Uboa wasn't the one she should regret.

NiGHTS flew forward just in time to have the black sludge-like substance wrap around her lower leg. Her already wide eyes got even further as she felt herself being yanked down. He tried to grab Madotsuki, but he found he couldn't put any reverse pressure on the tug. Nightmare, and against a 'Maren Madotsuki had indescribable levels of fear about. The Nightmaren passed through an area of dark ocean-like "air" before realizing he had full control of his movements again.

Madotsuki was standing shin deep in blood. NiGHTS didn't have any herself, but it was one of the more common substances to have nightmares about. NiGHTS' own feet had managed to dip into it before she flew up. Poniko-Uboa was standing in front of them and she looked pissed. Actually, NiGHTS was returning the glare at the construct. Madotsuki was behind the jester-like 'Maren as Poniko continued to screech.

"You're the monster, Uboa! You're just a puppet, as bad as Reala!" NiGHTS pointed her finger towards Uboa, not showing anything in the way of fear over it. She was almost screeching now too, "If you're Madotsuki's friend, then why did you yank her here too!? Why did you tell her to jump off her balcony!? Give her back her Ideya and stop terrorizing her!"

Fact was that Uboa was bordering getting on the dream demon's nerves as much as Reala constantly did. Accusing her of trying to take her Ideya? That was probably what had pissed NiGHTS off the most. RIght now, even without the drastic power level difference, Poniko-Uboa had the upper hand. NiGHTS was acting like a little child, and had she been standing she would have likely been throwing a temper tantrum. She was about ready to Paraloop the jerk 'Maren, not even possessing the little voice that would have told her that would be a rather bad idea.

...Worst of all, she wasn't denying any of the accusations towards her Uboa had made.

[Firebreath Fishslap]

The problem for NiGHTS was that Madotsuki had noticed that NiGHTS wasn't denying any of Poniko-Uboa's accusations. As it was, Madotsuki was rather well freaked out. This part of her dream world terrified her the worst. The blood was keeping her from running away like she wanted to, and the most she could do was cower behind NiGHTS. But as Uboa had screeched, Madotsuki's confidence in NiGHTS had dropped quite a bit.

"She deserves to die too... Then she can be with me again. We can be together in death, can't we, Mado-chan?" Uboa called. It was cruelly grinning. It wasn't even looking at NiGHTS. It was looking right at the cowering Madotsuki.

At that moment, Madotsuki made her decision. She clenched her fists together, and yelled, "Smash her face in, NiGHTS-san!"

Uboa looked startled as Madotsuki yelled. It was like she wasn't afraid. But that wasn't possible. She didn't have the Ideya of Courage anymore. Uboa had taken that away long ago. So how...?

"Tch!" Poniko-Uboa held out a pointing hand. Suddenly, a large, multi-armed creature rose up out of the sea of blood. It gave a roar, causing blood to waterfall from its mouth.

(OOC: Jesus, it took me too long to post here.
Also, I didn't forget some coding on Madotsuki's speech; it's supposed to be like that.)

[mugenginga]

NiGHTS hadn't missed the loss in confidence. To a distant observer, NiGHTS wasn't sparkling at all. She was, as usual, but it was so damn faint. However, he didn't seem to really be noticing. He was to busy glaring at Uboa as it continued to taunt Madotsuki. In all honesty, NiGHTS was at the moment acting on personal vendetta more than Madotsuki's interests. The dream demon was, after all, a Nightmaren. Her interest in humanity tended to be fickle distraction as much as anything else.

And then Madotsuki yelled, and NiGHTS' power level rather well shot upwards. In the permutations of this specific Nightmare, NiGHTS had gone from high 3rd level/low 2nd level to high 2nd level/low 1st level. Still not as strong as Uboa within the confines of the Nightmare, but the playing field had been evened quite a bit. NiGHTS had stopped to look at his hands, and a cocky grin had spread on his face. Things had just gotten a whole lot better.

NiGHTS was flying forward, her hands fully extended to either side, just as the summoned Nightmaren rose out of the blood, the liquid cascading down from either side of its body and creating a less than pleasant splash in the sea Madotsuki was standing in. The blood continued to flow from its mouth, but NiGHTS was far more concerned with Uboa and the odd physics of this area of Madotsuki's nightmare. Fact was, it took far more effort than it should have to fly in two directions. Left and right in relation to facing Uboa were easier to navigate than forwards and backwards.

The dream demon performed his well known screwdriver move to push past the barrier with better ease, and a few more twists managed to get her past the most of it. It was rather interesting, it seemed to stop just in front of Poniko-Uboa. NiGHTS banked a bit and came behind the horrific fusion. The sparkles from her fingertips and her angle made it pretty clear she was getting ready to do a horizontal paraloop. SHe'd have to corkscrew once she got to the barrier, and it would slow her down. If he could pull it off, however, the resulting blast should make the other Nightmaren a bit dizzy. Then again, this was Uboa's domain...