The moment Belle joined her hand with NiGHTS, the two beings merged, and it only appeared that NiGHTS was floating there alone. However, those who could see beyond that would be able to notice that Belle had, in fact, not disappeared, but an image of her was floating behind the Maren.

"Alright," NiGHTS chuckled, floating into the room where Hades was. It was time.

[ooc: I'm going to do a NiGHTS-tag to the Hades thread, so we can move our characters go over there now.]