CHAPTER 1 After the last battle the CFs went their seperate ways for a bit of a vacation, though most of the Crystal Fighters stayed in Crystalia in Eme's castle. Zelda thought about returning to her home, but decided against it. The time is late at night in Crystalia... The dreamworld, a place where wildest fantasies and worst nightmares are as good as real. Zelda seemed to wake into the dream, all was dark and there was a distant sound of dripping water that echoed eerily. There was a sound of falling rocks behind her, she reached into her bag for her Crystal, but it wasnt there +Wait, I would never loose that Crystal this ~has~ to be a dream!+ as soon as she made that realization the cave disapeared. Zelda thought back to what her grandmother had told her of the dreamworld, it was or could be whatever you wanted as long as you kept in mind that it was a dream and you could control it, but that was undernormal circumstances, something about this dream worried her, she knew it was definatly ~not~ normal, almost as if she had something that needed to be done here. She imagined her home on Majiska and suddenly was walking along a trail in the north mountians away from her hometown, it wasnt ~exactly~ what she had imagined but at least it was close, she was still on the same planet. She looked forward, there was someone, or something up ahead and from the sound of it he or she was battling something large, +A Vile?+ Zelda thought as she started to run toward it, as she neared the sounds and she saw UA battling a Vile and from the look of UA she guessed he must still believe this dreamworld was real. Zelda called out to UA. Coda awakes on top of a mountain. "T.I.M. were are we?" Coda ask. "Well We're On top of a Mountain, Two thousand feet aobve sea level, in the southern hem. of what apears to be Zeldas Home world." T.I.M. remarks. "Thanks....? Life scan for any thing at 96.6 body temp Please T.I.M." Coda says standing. "If we're here why isn't BOCT?" Coda ask? "More than likey he's not sleeping This is the dreamworld Coda Duh." T.I.M. Laughs "O-O-OH" Coda says. UA puts the Vile down. He looks towards Zelda. "What are YOU doing here?" She asks him. "You tell me. This is your dream. I'm floating around in another dimension, remember?" +Must be a reason he's here.+ Zelda thinks +Maybe it's my subconscious mixed with my telepathy that's called him here? There's so much I still don't know about that power--+ "This is the--" "Dreamworld. I know, Zel. How you know I know for me to say that is probably your crystal's doing, providing protection for something." +Sounds a lot like UA to be a dream.+ "Question is, how long are we gonna be here before the Vile stage another attack?" he asks. "As long as we have to be, I guess." "Well, come on, then. We have to go recruit Coda." "He's here too?" "I imagine all the CFs will be soon enough." He starts to walk to the mountain range. Zelda follows. THREE DAYS EARLIER The other Crystal Fighters were all takeing a rest from the fighting bussiness. Nity had thought of going back to his homeworld Tenlion to see his parents that he hadnt seen in about 37 years but he quickly thought differently. But he had mistakenly discussed this with Zelda and when she found out he wasnt going she was quick to turn around and convince him to go. So it was settled he would be going back to Tenlion. There was only one problem he had no way of getting there now that the teams two teleporters were gone. Zelda reminded him of Sentinei and he was soon calling upon Sentinei who agreed to teleport him and he was soon in Tenlion. But somehow the demigod hadnt set him down in the correct spot and he was now travling for his parents house. PRESENT DAY It was growing well into the night and the dark gloom of sleep bathed over Nity like a dark woven blanket. Nity found a suitable spot and set up camp and was soon off to sleep. DREAMWORLD Nity soon awakes to find himself on grassy hills with lush flowers sprouting all around him. Nity quickly jumps to his feet "Where the hell am I" he says to himself wanting an answer. Nity knew this was nothing like where he had set up camp and his tent was no where to be seen. "Have the Vile captured me and taken me to this strange world" Nity wonders. Suddenly the ground changes from bright soft green grass into the brown stone like skin of a Vile. Then a gtiant arm forms in the ground around him and it grabs him and holds him tightly squeezing the life out of him. Nity tries to struggle free of the Vile arm's grasp but to no evail. Zealen wakes up and notices that he is surrounded by fallen Protoss Warriors yelling at him telling him he is worthless... He Brings out his PSI Blades and starts slashing at them, finally, with his mind focusing on "Attacking" the Protoss dissapear. "This could only mean one thing," He said... Somewhere else in the DreamWorld, the being of living crystal known as Ganthet woke. ~Odd,~ he thought, ~this is not where I slumbered.~ He reaches for his blade, a combination of rock crystal and metalix alloy, and drew himself up. He was out in a field, and he looked around. He was confused, he had been for days. It was way too much to ammass. Beings other than the Crystalix, the Crystal Fighters being real, spaceships, evil counterparts....way too much. A warrior, he was intune with his body and the outside world. Something just wasn't right. And where were the others? Were they here at all? Coda Levitates and T.I.M. floats under him. Flying away he spots UA and Zelda Below. "Whats Up" Coda says from above "Your here to great" UA says "Love you to bro" Coda says doing a flip from T.I.M.'s back and landing in front of them. "Whats going on Zelda." Coda Wonders "We're in the dream world." UA answers. "Cool. You're here too?" Coda asks. "Actually, I believe I'm a psychic ghost from Zelda's mind." "Cool'!" "But why we're here is a mystery. Zelda? Any thoughts?" Zelda looked around, then turned to U.A. and shrugged, "Your guess is as good as mine...all I know is that this is a dream, but there's something...something we need to do here in the Dreamworld, I haven't the first idea what though." "Hmm..I guess if we're here, then the rest of the Crystal Fighters are probably here somehow too..." Zelda said, she started walking forward, a hill had appeared, as she came to the top she saw a cabin, "Look! +I wonder what that could be...could it be what we're here for?+ she thought as she directed the other CFs to the cabin... CHAPTER 2 Still somewhere out in Dreamworld, Ganthet had begane a search. It was odd, the crystal, his, was no longer in his chest. Yet, everything about this place seemed wrong. Up in the sky, a Dactal, a flying beast from his world, approached. As it swoops down on him, Ganthet flips over it, landing on its back. The creature was mildly empathic, and Ganthet took advantage of it. He thought very dark thoughts, and strong ones, and took some control over the Dactal. "Fly towards where you sense life," he commands it. It starts to fly in the general dirrecton of the others.. Nity transforms into Razis and starts shooting fireballs into the giant Vile hand soon it released its hold and Razis fell to the ground. Then Razis heard something behind he looked back to see the giant hands shooting up all over the place. Razis went to fly but for some reason he couldnt. "Oy" he said out loud then he started to run. The hands kept shooting up behind him as he ran. Suddenly the ground swirled around under his feet and turned into a thick brown liquid and it was pulling him down into it. Razis struggle to get out but kept getting pulled under and he was now just barraly keeping his head out of the liquid. Then he saw something flying his way, a giant bird or something and on top of it was something shiney "Ganthet" he realized. "Hey Ganthet help!!!" yelled Razis. Zelda half-turns around and scans the horizon with her eyes, "There...something..." she said vaguely, then shook her head and started moving towards the cabin again. Then a women appears from the door of the cabin. She looks in the direction of the others, yet her eyes seem distant ''Come in, come in and welcome to my world'' she invites them into her cabin. Coda and Zelda head for the cabin. ~Hold it, Zel.~ UA says in his head for her to pick up. ~I got me a bad feeling about this.~ ~You can't feel. You're a ghost.~ she says. ~Yeah, but--~ ~Look, what can be the harm? It's only one lady.~ She runs to catch up with Coda. "I get no respect." UA mutters. He runs after them, ready for the worst. UA makes his way to the castle. He looks around. "Hmmm, awfully quiet today. And my telepathy ain't picking up a psychic presence except for the animals." He 'ports past the sensors and into the outside field. He sees a couple of CFs lying in the grass and against a tree. UA heads over to Zelda's form and forces open her eyelid. Her pupil is dialated. "Dreamworld. That brings back some very unpleasant memories. For someone else, that is." He morphs his hand into a huge spike and lifts it up above her head. "Time to make it completely unpleasant!" Suddenly, a teleportal opens beneath him and he falls in. He lands right in front of the Vile lair, hard on his kiester. "OUCH! What the--?" He sees a piece of paper in his belt and opens it up to find it was a note. "Don't even think about it." it read. UA smirked, knowing who it was from. "Getting better, I see. Good. That means I can kill you in one of your fair fights and REALLY get my kicks!" Zelda smiled at the woman, "Hello." then she looked around the cabin, "Nice.." Ganthet hears the cries for help, and orders the dactal down. It swoops down, and he grabs Razis, slicing away the things keeping his fellow crystal fighter down. He plops Razis behind him on the dactals back. "I'm glad I found someone else. There is something....not right, not real, about this place." says Ganthet. ''Make yourself at home. Can I get you anything?'' the cabin women asks politely standing by a chair. Razis flew across the sky with Ganthet. But Ganthets words didnt seem to have any meaning they were simply there they were not cycleing through his mind they seemed to be simply brushed aside along with the strange world around him. Because even though the world was so strange and wrong Razis didnt realize it for this was Dreamworld and Razis was falling deapper into its grasps. Ganthet was worried. He knew this place was wrong, he didn't know what it was, but it wasn't reality. So he used his warrior training to keep his mind focused. It seemed, however, that Razis was growing more and more out of it. He needed to shock him back to his senses. He announces simply, "I am going to pick you up and drop you." Then he dumps the other Crystal Fighter over the edge of the bird-like creature. He sends it into a tight dive, and catches Razis seconds before he would've gone splat. Then, he sdirrects the dactal back into the high sky. "Have you come back to your senses yet?" Ganthet asks Razis. Razis's still with his clouded mind doesnt even think twice about Ganthets little stunt he doesnt even really notice it. Razis sees the purple and black clouds of smoke swirling through the air. Then a face appears in the clouds a menaceing face. Then the face grows enormous and flys at Razis with its mouth open wide as if to eat Razis. "AHHHHHHHHH!!!" Razis screams and puts his hands over his head to protect him. Ganthet looks at Razis strangely for he sees nothing, then Razis is gone someone has pulled him out of the dreamworld. Nity wakes to see the creature standing over him. CHAPTER 3 "No thanks..." Zelda said, trying to remember if her grandmother had said anything about needing nourishment while in the dreamworld, +Well, but if it's a dream time has no meaning and we can't really eat dream-food, it wouldn't be real.+ the thought aroused her couriosity and she started calculations over corolating dreamtime to realtime, but in the end it seemed usless, she seemed to remember something about normal dreams, no matter what they seemed, only took up a few realtime minutes..but was it really a normal dream? After all, she was aware, that brought up another question, was the woman of the cabin aware it was a dream? Zealen looks around and starts walking towards a Small Cave in the mountain he saw when he came consius. He climbed in and noticed it was covered with a golden material that interfiered with his shield. "Odd, my shield is down." Zealen said to himself. He kept walking and when to the top, he saw a small kydianite crystal floating in the air. He went to grab for it but he fell out the cave, falling into the water below, but then his fall stopped and he felt sharp pain. He looked to his leg and noticed a Spike had pierced his power suit and leg and he was bleeding badly. He let out a long, loud shriek which is the Protoss call for help. Two minutes later he turns on the Psi Blade on his right hand and slices the spike, and he falls into the water below with the spike still in him. He stumbles on shore, and notices the large Carnivorus bird and turns on his PSI shield wich all of the sudden works again. The spike melts and he pulls out some cloth that Nity had given him called bandages and wrapped his leg and set his suit to repair. Then, he turned and shrieked again, hoping to be heard. ''Alright'' the women sits in a chair and crosses her legs ''So how do you like my world? Dreamworld?'' TENLION Nity brushed away the last traces of sleep as he saw the Giant Vile towering over him and somehow he knew this was Dolomite. Nity flipped backwards and readyed to transformed when the perplexing speed of Dolomite caught him off guard and Dolomite's fist connected with Nity's face and he went flying into the distant shubery knocked unconcious. DREAMWORLD Nity once again found himself wakeing up in the strange place of the dream. Nity heard a cry of help in the distance and transformed into Razis and took off in the direction of the cry. Razis soon found the badly bleeding Zealen. "Come on" said Razis, he lifted Zealen up in his arms and flew off in the direction of a faint pshychic reading created by the pchychic link between him and Zelda. Razis moved as fast as possible for he wanted to be there before he lost his control over this place again. "Nice world" Coda says to the dream women. "It's wonderful, well, most of the time...where are you from? You're not really from the dreamworld are you?" Zelda asked in amazement. Then she quickly looked towards the door, "Razis....? Someone's hurt..I can't tell who..Zelean, maybe? Hurt in the dreamworld..somethings wrong, that shouldn't happen..or should it? Ack, all this double possiblity real-dream stuff is confusing me!" Zelda said annoyed. UA 'ports out, then 'ports back with Zealen. "Your hunch was right, Zel. Fortunately, me as a psionic form ain't as affected as you carbon-based life forms." After Zealen is tended to, UA re-establishes a psychic link with Zelda. ~I still have my bad feeling about this place. I'm gonna take Coda out to explore. You stay here and watch Zealen.~ ~Hey, who says you're in charge here?! I'm the one who knows about the dreamworld!~ ~Have you actually been here before?~ ~Uhhh, sort of--~ ~I thought so.~ "Coda, lets take a walk." UA leaves. Coda shrugs and follows, leaving the Zelda and Zealen in the cabin. OUTSIDE "What's up?" Coda asks. "I got a bad feeling." "You too? Good. Here I thought I was going bonkers." "Not yet. But you might." Suddenly, they're caught in a spinning cyclone of colors, falling endlessly. CHAPTER 4 Ganthet, rather unnerved by Razis's dissappearance, continues to look for the others. After what could be minutes, or hours, or maybe days...he had no way of measuring time here; he comes to a...cabin? He sets down his dactal, gets off it, and then raps slightly on the door, feelig very confused. Something told him, that this was where the others were. Razis is now slightly angry that UA didnt port him to where ever the Crystal Fighters are. His anger takes away from his concentration and suddenly everything is topsy turvy again. Now thinking up is down and down is up. He goes to fly upwards (actually flying down) and ends up smashing through the cabin roof. Zelda jumps back in surprise as Razis crashes through the roof, "Whoa!" Then she stepped forward, "Razis you ok?" ''He is fine, and so is our friend. They just have to imagine themselves completly healed and they will be at that moment''says the dream women. Just then, thr roof is fixed. She looks back to Zelda ''I'm from Dreamworld. I live in peoples minds and dreams. Your friends UA and Coda are out on a goose hunt. No harm will come to them unless they themselves imagine it'' says the women. Ganthet, still standing outside, and having recieved no responce, does the only logical thing. He breaks the door down! Then, he calmly walks in and says, "Anyone mind explaining what's going on?" Razis suddenly detransforms. "Ohhhh" Nity moans loudly. Nity looks around his mind is sending out destrorted pictures that he cant focus on. Then he sees a fimiliar face its Zelda's. Overjoyed Nity jumps to his feet then suddenly collapses on the floor. "Nity!" Zelda called and scanned him psionically. She looked up again, her face clouded, "Oy! I can't seem to get through..." Zelda looked at the woman and asked suddenly, "I will help him get well" said the women. Nity's eyes opend back up and Zelda sat him at a chair then she looked back to the women. "You have a name?....living in the Dreamworld...everywhere and nowhere at the same time...wow, it's possible then!" The vortex disappears, and UA is standing on solid ground again. The vortex was all Coda's thought. UA is a psychic ghost and not capable of thought. "Coda?" Then, tenticles reach out and grab him. He morphs his hand into--a tree limb? "Boy, Zelda has a LIMITED imagination." Then, they drag him under, and he's gone. Ganthet, now insdie the cabin, having just knocked the door down, is still going unnoticed. He shouts, "WHERE ARE WE? WHAT'S GOING ON?" ''My name is Rupay DeSapany'' the women smiles and then looks to Ganthet ''Come in and maybe I can help you" she then fixs the door with a thought. Zelda turned to Ganthet, "You're in the Dreamworld, I'm not sure why we're all here, or why we've met up with Rupey, but there ~is~ a reason...untill we can figure out what, though, we've just got to make due." then she looked over at Zealen, "Are you ok?" "Yes my wound has healed" said Zealen. Nity still sat in the chair stareing blankly at nothing paticular. "Interesting," mutters Ganthet. He was on edge, but the others seemed real. "I do not like this place. A warrior's dreams are his undoing, a place where his emotions, fears, and other aspects appear. Things like that, must be banished from one's mind." Kisutsu looked at the book shelf in his room. He yawned. "I wonder where everyone went" he wonders, falling into a deep sleep..... DREAMWORLD Kisutsu woke up on a cloud. He mumbled, opened his eyes, and yawned. "Hmmmm.... someone must've reorganized my room while I was asleep...." He steps off the cloud, and starts falling. "I didn't know there was an elevator in here. It sure is fast..." He mumbles. He lands inside the cabin, mysteriously going through the roof without breaking it. "Hi, everyone. Who put in the elevator and redecorated my room? Oh, sorry, I didn't know we had a guest. Hi, I'm Kisutsu." ''Well, I'm not the guest, you are. I'm rupay'' she said holding out her hand to the new guest "Hi Kisutsu, this is Rupays cabin." Zelda said, forgetting they were in the Dreamworld and that Kisutsu might not know it yet. ''And Zelda, I know why you are here'' said Rupay. Zelda turned to Rupay happily, "You do? Great! What is it?" "Yes," says Ganthet in his monotone voice, "please do tell." He had one hand on his sword, just in case something happened. He still didn't trust this place. CHAPTER 5 "UA? There's something wrong with UA!" Zelda exclaimed, then a hazy figure appeared and put a hand on Zeldas shoulder. "All will be fine." Zelda spun around and looked in amazement at the figure, she faintly resembled Rydia, but looked around 26 and her raven black hair was wavey. The woman was wearing a cape as white as a dove that shone softly in the light with a silver clasp. She had a teardrop shaped necklace the color of amethyst and flowing white robes. "Zaria!" Zelda exclaimed, she hurriedly called all the other Crystal Fighters. A magenta colored hand shoots through the bottom of the cabin, and a battle ravaged UA climbs out. "We better find what were supposed to do here--fast. This place ain't getting much more friendly." UA says. Ganthet nods in agreement with UA. The large Crystalix, moves swiftly towards the others gatherd around this new women, Zaria. Zaria nodded towartds Rupay, "Yes, among other things." Zelda looked at Zaria, then at Rupay, "You mean--?" "Ask her yourself." Zelda turned toward Rupay, "Are you a Crystal Fighter too? But..how? ..wait, that does make sense, there would be at least one Crystal.." ''Yes I am'' Rupay said then dropped her white robe that covered her whole body to show her wearing a pale lavender dress, her hair white and her eyes looking like opals, no pupil ''Deena Power'' she held out her crystal from around her neck and transformed wearing a now black dress, her hair has purple streaks in it and her eyes like normal, but purple. Zelda looked happily at Rupay, "Great! But...how can we posbbily fight together..so far as I know the Vile haven't the means to invade the Dreamworld..at least, not yet...and we can't stay forever here, we have so wake up at some point..." Zaria answered Zelda, "If it is her will, she may ride back with one of you into your reality, but you cannot go yet. There is one thing more." They all looked expectantly at Zaria. Zaria turned to the Crystal Fighters one by one and to each revealed a power from their Crystals. "Razis, yours is Razis Hail Shards. Rydia, Searing Water Vapor." Zelda moved as if to interupt and say something, but then she thought better of it and stepped back to watch the other Crystal Fighters recieve the words that would unlock a power of their Crystal. To Kisutsu she said a few words in Japanese having to do with a seasonal monsoon. She wispered one to Rupay. Next Zaria turned to Ganthet and said one Then Zaria looked at Zealen and said a few words. Zaria turned to UA. She pondered it a moment and then said, "Your thought is enough for your Crystal as you've never used words before, and it seems your Crystal has a different way of realeasing its power...so, if you think towards your Crystal in a certian way, a laser will eminate from it and you shall be able to power whatever mechanical object you wish, from wherever you are. Now, I leave you to test these powers a bit, imagine Vile, but be careful not to imagine any stronger than yourselves...." and with those last words Zaria shimmered and faded. CHAPTER 6 ''I've been waiting for you guys to come here, your my key to reality. When you, Zelda, wake up, I will come through you. We have a link between us.'' Rupay said, her eyes still distant, gaze into hers ''My powers are obviously with the mind.'' "That's great, I'm sure you'll be able to stay in Crystalia with us, Eme's very nice about letting us all umm..what is it? Break there." said Zelda. "Uh..that's crash, Zelda, she lets us crash there." UA says. "Isn't that the same thing?" Zelda asked, UA shook his head. ''Ah, Queen Emerald Lightdale, wonderfull women. I like her visits to me'' says Rupay. "She visits here? Neat, I wonder why she never said...well, I don't think I've mentioned Zaria at all, so...Well, anyway. I think all we came here for is anwsered, let's go uhh..wake up." Zelda said.
Then she looked over the Crystal Fighters trying to decide if they were missing anyone, and if they had been in the Dreamworld at all. Simultanoiusly the Crystal Fighters woke up, right where they had fallen asleep, and only ten hours Real Time had passed. Rupay appeared in a shimmering light next to Zeldas bed. Zelda sat up slowly, still a bit groggy, then she sat bolt upright in her bed, "Rupay, we need to gather the others!" Kisutsu sat up, and rubbed his head. "What happened? Was that a... a dream? Slowly, the mamoth Crystalix called Ganthet, wakes up. "Very...odd," he rumbles in his deep voice. Zelda smiled as the Crystal Fighters assembled, minus UA who was still recuperating and Nity she wasnt sure where he was. She would go find him later, maybe he didnt wake up. She then explained that she had a feeling there was danger, and that somthing or someone was coming towards Crystalia. CHAPTER 7 Ganthet draws his sword, "New ememies? New monsters to vanquish! I am ready to meet them!" he says. "Oy! More enemies..just what we need.." Zelda exclaimed as she looked out the window. She transformed to Rydia and sent out a mind-probe to try to determine how many there were, and what they wanted. Rupay changes into Deena and walks over to Rydia. Her hands reach out to the unfamiliar surrounding till she lays a hand on Rydia's shoulder ''Nice to know someone else has my powers'' Deena smirks. Then suddenly the world goes into chaos. The world turns as black as night the grass dies the trees fall and dark creatures reach from the darkness. The CFs look through the window as the world changes arounded and monsters rise from the ground. TENLION Suddenly Nity awoke only to see Dolomite standing over him. "Ut Oh" said Nity and he dove to the side as a massive beam of energy shot the tree behind him makeing it explode. The tree fragments splinterd and sevarel stabbed him on his skin and he moved to cover his eyes. "Celestial Razis Crystal Power" yelled Nity and the transformation took place. Razis did a back flip as a sizzling purple sphere exploded into the ground beneath him. "Razis Fire Bomb" suddenly the ground underneath Dolomite exploded into fire. Dolomite jumped into the air and hoverd there. +Since when to Vile do that?+ thought Razis. Razis moved as fast as possible to avoid the lightning but one caught his leg and he felt the jolt through his body. Razis sent out a fireball but somehow Dolomite knocked it right back at him and Razis was suddenly engulfed in flames. The pain was excrusheateing and he didnt have any of those nifty water powers like Zelda. Razis had to think quickly and then he acted quickly. "Razis Crystal Hail Storm" then the giant crystal shaped hail came flying at Razis. Razis sent out another fireball but this time at the hail and quickly melted them and Razis was drenched extinguishing the flames. +Wheres Dolomite+ he quickly surveyed the area around him. Then the explosion from behind sent Razis into the air and then slaming into the ground. +Ah the pain+ Razis could feel the broken bones and the warm blood on his body. Dolomite towerd over Razis. "How are you so strong, why havent you already destroyed us with your power and why do you need Phyllite to do your dirty work" asked Razis "Im still dreaming arnt I" then his eyes flutterd open to see Sentinei. CRYSTILIA As the world goes dark two heroes enter Crystillia. There is a feeling about this darkness and chaos its unnatural. Someone is createing it. One of the heroes is surronded by tons of dark slimey creatures that had risen from the ground. This hero has named himself PyroMaster and he is a Crystal Fighter. When he found his Crystal he had been lucky enough to have a Crystal that gave him all the knoledge about the Crystal Fighters. He had soon made it to Crystillia only to now be surronded by these strange creatures. PyroMaster was a little on the sicotic side and he risked his life constntly. Suddenly a succesion of explosions went off destroying the asvanceing creatures. PyroMaster was skilled with bombs and they always had come in handy like now. The other hero reached Crystillia as the world plunged into darkness his name is Entropy. Entropy was born half beast half man. He can change into bird beast at will. As this beast he calls himself Ankhell. He also learned all about being a crystal fighter from his crystal. Entropy watches the world turn dark and then he spots some kind of winged man bat creatures flying at him. Entropy changes to Ankhell and takes to the sky. He is quickly able to take care of the creatures with his impressive flying and fighting skills. The Crystal Fighters watched through the window as chaos engulfed the land. Then they saw some of the creatures that were nearing the castle turned into Vile. Rydia mentally scanned them, to see if they were real, or just holograms. These Vile were real, though there weren't many of them. The Crystal Fighters came out of there trance and ran outside. Rydia decided to try out her new power, "Rydia Searing Water Vapor" an intensely hot cloud of water vapor swirled around the Vile, its skin started to boil with the heat and it screamed in pain, Rydia took a step back, then forward, and screamed herself, not only because she hadn't fully closed the psionic link to the Vile, but also because seeing anything, even one of the VIle, in so much pain was too much for her. After a few more agonizing seconds she detransformed and fell to the ground, unconsious. PyroMaster spots the Vile. He rushes into the Castle grounds and use his fire mace on the Vile. After picking off the last remaining Vile, PyroMaster turns to see if the fallen girl is okay. PyroMaster comes to Zelda's side "You okay?, you okay?" Getting no response he turns to the others that are running towards him. "I hope you guys are the Crystal Fighters" says PyroMaster. They nod. "Good anybody know any first aid?" he asks. CHAPTER 8 JUSTAR "Whats going on" Nity asked looking to Sentinei. "Your in a dream lapse" replied Sentinei "I cant belive I was finnally able to wake you". "A dream lapse" confusion over coming Nity "What the hell is that". "Well you keeping going through dream after dream without being able to wake" said Sentinei. "Then how am I awake now" asked Nity. "Your not truely awake" answered Sentinei "I was able to tape into your brain so this is more or less actually a dream of reality". "So I am stuck in dreams while my body lays out in the middle of the forest" asked Nity. "Actually no, your body is still in Crystillia, in bed, you actually drempt of going to your homeworld and you didnt wake in the morning" said Sentinei. "So this whole thing has been all my dream" asked Nity. "No everyone has been dreaming of the world with the cabin but you have also had your own dreams beacause of the dream lapse" said Sentinei. "How did I get into this dang dream lapse" asked the angry Nity. "Its seems to be a side affect of the time when Wizzrobe took your powers, it seems that your mind becomes distorted when your exposed to high levels of magic" said Sentinei. "Oh thats just great and dandy" said Nity. "Well now that I have finnally broke into your mind I might be able to cure you if you can stay awake for a few minutes" said Sentinei. Then Nity was wakeing from his bed in the Crystal Castle. Ankhell is exhausted from fighting off the creature and drops not having enough energy yo keep flapping his wings. Ankhell just missed the castle as he fell. Kisutsu spotted Ankhell flying and made a snow storm around him. By the time Ankhell hit the ground there was five feet of snow on the small area of the ground where he fell. Kisutsu grabbed him and took him back over with everyone else. "Who are you" asked Ankhell as he turned back into Entropy. "We are the Crystal Fighters" answerd Zealen. "Oh finnally I have found you, I am a Crystal Fighter to" said Entropy. "Yeah me to" PyroMaster chimed in. Nity rose from the bed feeling refreshed when suddenly he heard crashes downstairs. Nity quickly ran down to find Vile tottally demolishing the castle. Before Nity could make an attack a Vile punched a supporter beam and the roof came crashing down. Nity covered his head to protect himself as much as possible. As the dust cleared Nity could see the Vile starting to run and UA and Eme standing about 20 yards away. "Im going to kick Vile butt" said UA and started to run after them when suddenly Eme yelled to him "Becareful dont get hurt" she yelled. UA ran back to her "I'll be back darlin" UA said in a southern accent and then there lips locked in a kiss. "Oh god I hope I'm still dreamin" said Nity and once again he found himself waking up in Justar. For a moment the shadow left Zeldas face and she looked with concern at Rupay, "Are you all right?" but before Rupay could answer, the shadow returned, "Free at long last, revenge is mine!" SOMEWHERE Zelda 'woke' to see Nity and Sentinei, along with Zaria. "We're still in the dreamworld?" Sentinei nodded slightly, "In a sense." Zaria walked over to Zelda and sang softly > "I walk the maze of moments but everywhere I turn to.." Zelda finished with her, "Begins a new begining but never finds a finish." "Why did you give us those powers? They were so..destructive..so violent.." Zaria sighed and said as if explaining something that she had said many times before, "For one thing, that wasn't me. Zelda, how many times do I have to tell you? You can't judge ANYTHING or anyone by that kind of appearence, that can be forged, and was in this case. I taught you to look to the heart, and soul of a person, don't forget." Zelda looked confused, "But..if it wasn't you who gave us the powers...who was it?" Zaria shook her head, "There's the second thing, no one gave you anything, the Crystals already had those. The Forbidden Powers, which were never meant to be awakened. Phyllite has somehow found a way to tap into the Dreamworld, she was the one that told you to awaken those powers." Zelda was still puzzled, "But then why are they in the Crystals in the first place?" "Zelda, haven't you been listening to UA? The Crystals can't be pure good, there had to be at least ~some~ evil in them, but that power was supposed to be locked away and never used." Zelda sank to her knees, "Oh, Zaria..I'm sorry...I didn't know.." Zaria put her hand on Zelda's shoulder, "They would have been revealed at some point anyway...but for now, you've learned a lesson haven't you?" Zelda nodded and looked up at Sentinei and Zaria, "But what now? The powers are awakened and the dreamworld has turned into a nightmare, and...I feel really strange.." Seninei then spoke, "With the Forbidden Powers, your..other..self has also awakened." "What do you mean? What other self?" Zaria explained, "She is you, but the opposite of everything you are. She has also always been there, only now she has taken over your body and pushed your consiousness back." "Oy!" Zelda exclaimed, "So that means..she knows about the Forbidden Powers...and has the Crystal?!" Nity came over, "Sounds like it." he said, "Sentinei explained it to me, somehow we've got to push Her consiousness back and also cut Phyllite's connection to the Dreamworld. Simple enough, right?" Zelda rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "Simple." CHAPTER 9 "Well, well, well. I gave you this little speech, but did you listen to "me"? No. You just disregarded it and went on believing you were all powerful. That's the problem with evil," UA says, looking at them as him and the rest of the Cfs come along side them. "It's too natural for anyone's good. You wouldn't even notice it if it completely consumed you. And I believe someone owes me an apology for doubting my borrowed instincts." UA looks over at Zelda. "You're right. I'm sorry." replies Zelda. UA turned to Sentinei "so can you tell us why strange creatures are rising from the ground causeing mayham in Crystillia" Sentinei nodded "Phyllite has tapped into the Dreamworld to cause physical nightmares in the realworld in order to release a total chaos effect to feed the Vile, if this keeps up the Vile will be imposible to stop with there strength gained by total chaos you must hurry and stop Phyllite". Sentinei and Zaria dissapear and the group of heroes stand alone in the decilate land of the Dreamworld. "First we have to find Phyllite she is the key to everything once she is destroyed the world turns back to normal correct?" asked Nity. And then the world went black and Phyllites words were heard "Forget it you will never get me I have tottal control over this world I am its new leader, here I am a Goddess I can take anyone who falls asleep as my prisoner and from here I can send the real world into chaos I am supreme" yelled Phyllite. "This can't be good." Pyro says as he gasses up his flamethrower in preperation for anything. "So how do we possibly kill Phyllite" asked Coda. "Or atleast disconnect her link with the dreamworld" said Zelda who could feel the evil seeping into her she fought to hold it back. "In theroy, if she is nothing more then a projection of her mind, if we could destroy the projection, we would, in effect destroy her? And if she is a projection, then she is pure energy. If we can neutralize the energy, boom! She's dead. The easiest way if neutralization is finding an oppisite force." A strange intellignet streak came through Pyro, then he snapped out of it "So how are we gonna do that?" "I thought I was the scientist around here." UA says. "How dumb was I that I completely forgot that thesis! I wrote a paper on that in '94 published through my friend and fellow scientist Chris Gardener." UA opens a teleportal and reaches in. He pulls out a small radar dish mounted on a small, square box. "Zelda! You have a real flair for technology!" Coda says. "Ummmmm, guys? I'm not in control anymore." "What?!" "This is a psychic jammer. It should in theory be able to tap into the frequency of any telepathic force in range and block out their powers." says UA "Well, that's good!" Nity says. "Unfortunately, the power of telepathy has never been able to be studied by scientists farther than ESP and inside the halls of the FBI, so a targeting system couldn't be developed so every telepath in range gets blocked out, friend or foe." "That's bad." Coda says. "Also unfortunately it has never been tested, so I can't be certain that the jammer will function for more than a few minutes without my crystal." "That's really bad." Pyro says. "Another thing, I can't be certain that it will only jam psionic abilities, or leave the people affected with a HUGE migrane or even kill them." "Okay, now that's EXTREMELY bad." Nity says. "I know. Given the telepaths present, assuming there's more than Zelda with psionic abilities, minor or otherwise, I don't even want to use it. Unless, of course, the present company is willing to risk it?" He looks at them all. "Just to be logical, but what if you tuned it into the targets's brainwave level, they should be very pronounced. By doing that, you are in effect, targeting the weapon" says Pyro. "Oh, sure! I'll just pull Phyllite's brainwave patter info out of thin air!" UA says. "We don't have a record of her brainwave, otherwise I would use that. But, we don't, so I can't. It's not like we could get her to stay still long enough. I don't even have the technology on hand to get it. Besides, we can't get it from here. Only the psionic pattern. But I don't have the technology, so that idea was good, but utterly fuitle." Rupay sees the other figure in Zelda's mind with her. A dark figure. Obviously its Zelda's evil side. "This isnt good" Rupay thinks to herself. Thinking for a moment Pyro suddenly relizes a critical error. "If by some means she is psionicly conected or any one of us are connected to this "world" using that device would in effect, disrupt and possibly destroy this world, with us inside!!!" CHAPTER 10 "Pyro, the Dreamworld is not just Phyllite's private domaine. It's the land where dreams and nightmares come from or take form. This is the cross roads of all dimensions. The only thing that will get hurt or destroyed are whatever Phyllite dreamed up. Nothing more, nothing less. The Dreamworld is a dimension in a dimension, so it's completely stable." UA thinks for a moment, then nods, satisfied with his calculations and knowledge of dimensions. "So, the real question is, do we use this thing, or try to fight an entire world ourselves." "Those are our only options?" Nity asks. "So far. But I think we're only allowed two options per life threatening plot twist, so they may be the ONLY options. Then again, stranger things have happened "Yeah, sounds pretty dangerous," Kisutsu spoke up for the first time. My only problem, is that if anyone of us have latent psychic powers, they'd get fried too. Personaly, I do, what ever I have to but I just worry that that thing won't work, Bah, who really cares! Just use the freakin' thing!" Pyro finally snaps out of the scientist thing. Nity looked at Zelda who was fighting to keep the evil back. "Well we cant let Zelda get her brain fried. Maybe the reaction will just bury the evil once again and she would turn back to normal" suggested Nity. "Personally our only logical choice is to just fight, that device could leave the target with nothing more then a head ache. The only way to hurt her would be to set the device to a level none of us could survive, we have to fight!" And with that, Pyro set his flamethrower pack on his back, pulls out his heavy rifle and arms it, ready for the worst. Suddenly, Vile started to raid in their area. "Keep them busy!" UA says as he 'ports away. "Let's heat things up!" Pyro yells as he let's loose a burst of energy pulses taking out a few Vile, grabing his flame thrower with his other hand he swings it off his back and fires it. A stream of fire leaps from it into the faces of a few Vile. Zelda was loosing contorl again."Uh guys I dont think Zel is gonna be able to contain her self much longer" said Nity. Zelda took a deep breath before talking, "I can't keep Her back much longer.." and with that she gasped and the shadow again fell, she looked more in control now. Zeldas 'good' consiousness was again thrust back to the dreamworld, where she tried to regain enough strength to take back control of her body, but after all the years with her good side dominating, enough to seperate into good and evil consiousnesses, her evil side was stronger, and was fuled with the fire of revenge. CHAPTER 11 A dangerous glint flashed in Adlez's (evil Zelda) eyes as she looked at each of the Crystal Fighters, deciding which to attack first and cursing her other half for not learning more destructive spells. Adlez transformed into Aidyr (evil Rydia) finnaly, she turned to Nity, Nity saw as Rydia looked at him strangely. There might be trouble he thought then changed to Razis. In a deadly wisper Adlez said one of her spells. The spell created an ice barrier around Razis, incapacitating him. On top of a mountain, UA fumbles with his device. "Come on, come on. I should really lable these buttons." ~Forget it. You can never stop me. The Vile will overpower your baffled friends, and you'll be next.~ "Blah, blah, blah. BINGO!" He flicks a switch. ~Hey, what--!?~ A rip hole opens up in the horizon. He cups his mouth and calls down. "Hey, if your done turning on each other, all non telepaths and latent telepaths, proceede through and knock out Phyllite, but you only got seven minutes, so make 'em count!" Attempting to deal with all the action at once Pyro quickly tosses a vial at the now frozen Razis, the vial bursts into flame. It only begins to defrost him. Pyro then turns his attention to the hole and fires his rifle. Noticing little effect he yells back to UA "Great, but how are we supposed to knock her out?!" Entropy looks confused, trying to make sense of all of this as Pyromaster fights Vile and the others squabble amongst themselves. "Well, I've no clue what is going on, but I may as well join the fun!" With that, he pulls out a sword from his belt sheath, his kind's crystal of decay fused into the hilt. "Blasdean Necronomicas Mortuum!" He says, activating the crystal and turning the sword's blade a pitch-black, the edges of it glowing silver. Shifting to his beast form, he leaps at the nearest Vile with a cry of battle. Looking confused and quite stressed, Pyro does the one thing he can think of, he takes off his back pack, sets on of the bombs inside to a minuet and pitches it at the hole leading to Phyllite, it dissipears for a moment, then a viloent burst of explosions fire and light burst out of the hole. "If that don't kill her nothin' will!!!!" yells Pyro. "I'll hold Rydia! Go!" UA 'ports the Vile away, and is obviously NO LONGER a figment of Zelda's imagination. "Move your butts!" UA yells to the CFs. He begins to fight Aidyr, as the others run to the hole. Phyllite drew back, and lost some of her grip on the dreamworld through all the attacks. She materialized fully in front of them, well as fully as she could when they were still partially in the dreamworld. She sent waves of steam at them. Before the steam even reached them she held her hands out as if holding an invisable basketball, slowly a sphere of swirling color formed, it swirled faster and faster until the colors were all a blur, then she raised her hands and hurled it at the Crystal Fighters. Aidyr looked at Rupay, and was about to attack her, but something held her back...she tried releasing the power she had built up, her other self held onto the power and they were thrown back with the force of it. For a moment Zelda, the good part of Zelda, won over and sent out a soft mental message, that almost didn't make it to the Crystal Fighters, but it made it, barely, +Phyllite is loosing control..my other self isn't, keep at Phyllite...fight her, push her out of the dreamworld, be careful of me..she..me..she hates everything I love..be careful and--+ but the rest of her message didn't make it, again her evil self took over. CHAPTER 12 "Are regular attacks arnt workin" said the defrosted Razis after sending a couple more fireballs through the vortex. "We gotta keep on tryin" said Pyromaster. "No there is only one way we can stop Phyllite now, and I am going to pay for this later" said Razis then took a deep breath while nodding his head. "Razis flame, lightning, hail, thunder, shatter STRIKE" Razis yelled to the heavens while focusing most of his power into all the attacks at once. The powers flowed out of him and took a direct path to Phyllite. They heard a horriffic scream as the powers passed through the hole. It was to much at once for Phyllite. Then the Dreamworld began to waver as Phyllite began to lose control. And Razis detransformed and collapsed to the ground tottally draind. "I can't believe it was that easy." Pyro looked at Phyllite, who seemed unmoving. "It bothers me, after all that, after as powerful as she seemed to be, she's already down. Something about this feels wrong. Real wrong." "That's because it is!" UA shouts, 'porting through the hole, leaving Zelda and Adlez to duke it out in the mind. UA grabs Phyllite's head and yanks it off. It was a mask. Underneath was a Vile like no other. "Another one of my "BROTHER's" genetic constructs, no doubt." "So, where's Phyllite?" Coda asks. "Right here!" She phases out of UA's body, making him fade. "I hitched a ride on your friend after I lost my psi powers. But now, I'll destroy you all!" yells Phyllite. Pyro looks at his gun, relizing it has no power left, then looks to his flamethrower it's out of gas too. "Aw crud, I've got nothing left. Except..." Looks to his wristband and belt, all still filled with his chemical vials. "If that doesn't work, I've still got one last option left." From a pouch on his belt he pulls out a full hood and face mask. And slides it on. "I'll take it out my self." He opens his beltbuckle, pressing a button and prepares to charge the beast. The fire of revenge burned in Aidyr's eyes as she surveyed the Crystal Fighters, then she saw Nity fall and moved to attack him, but her water was only half the power it normally would be... Zelda looked around, she recognized where she was..somewhere deep inside her mind. She sensed her other self somewhere ahead, so she moved forward. Just before she got there, she gasped in pain, somewhere outside they were being attacked, she tried to draw back, but couldn't and had to keep going forward, closer and closer to her evil consiousness. Soon she was there, the 'battlefield' was broken in half, on her side it was completly light, not all white, but all light, it was the complete opposite on the other side. Her other self drew back into their mind, they both brought an image of themselves into their mind. Adlez looked at her other self and glared, "That I'm part of you repluses me." Zelda shrugged, "The feeling's mutual." Adlez advanced on her. Zelda thougt to herself, +Oy..what am I getting myself into? I can't do this alone..I'm gonna need some help..but..how?+ Pyro's flames burn Phyllite. Coda also gives her a blast, then Zealen manages one more attack. Phyllite explodes and her psionic link with them is now completely broken. "Is that it?" Pyro asks. "Isn't that enough?" Coda asks. "Groan. If our psi forms hurt, our real bodies are going to too." Nity states. "Zelda, you okay?" Ganthet asks.
"I think so. With my telepathic powers back in place, I can keep evil me in check. I hope." "Okay, this is all well and good, but how do we get home?" Coda asks. "Simple. Just-- wake up.........." The Crystal Fighters awake and find themselves in the garden. They squint in the sunlight. "Ohh, I got such a headache!" Nity says. "Ditto." Coda agrees. "Guys, no more surprises, all right?" Kisutsu says. Suddenly, they hear a voice from behind. "What is this? I go recharge for a few hours and you go and change the whole team roster on me?" They turn to see UA standing back in his old form. "I think maybe now's a good day to start training, don't you?" --THE END Check out "Journey Into Fear" for the Crystal Fighters next adventure.