Hi. Okay this is my first NiGHTS fic. The first chapter is going to be pretty boring because it's mostly just introducing chracters but it gets more interesting in the next one. This story might have a few spoilers for NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams but none of them are this or the next chapter. And I'm going to ask now and get it out of the way. Please review but please no flames. Critism is okay. Here's the disclaimer. On with the story!

Disclaimer-I do not own NiGHTS, Reala, or Nightopia and Nightmare. They belong to Sega. I do own Julie, Sara, their school and town, Julie's mom, and Cupcake.

Darkness. But she had feeling this time. She could feel something coming to her. It was going to happen. She knew it. So close... A bright light...She reached out and-! BRIIIIIIIIING

"YAH!" Julie nearly jumped a foot in the air. Once she had regained her composure, she groaned and slammed a hand onto her alarm clock. Julie Nown was a tall thin 12 year old girl with waist length brown hair and soft green eyes. She was a tomboy most of the time but she was also pretty laidback and friendly. She sighed as she slowly got out of bed and got ready for school. Her outfit consisted of camo print jeans, white tennis shoes, a blue tee-shirt, and a green sruchncy holding her brunette hair in a ponytail. Normally, she would have rushed out the door, being late again. But today was different. The one thing that made Julie different in her eyes was that she had never had a dream. Ever. Just black emptiness when she sleapt. This time had almost been different. She could have sworn that she was going to have one this time.

"Julia Olivia Nown! You are late again!" A voice called from down the stairs.

"Yeah. Okay, mom." She called half heartedly. She flung her backpack which was dark purple with yellow dots, made to look like the night sky, over her shoulder and set off down the hall of the second floor of her house. She strode down the stairs still a little dazed from her thoughts and nearly tripped over a step. When she got to the kitchen, a brown streak shot around her legs.

"Hi Cupcake." She said quietly to her chocolate brown cat who had a small white tuff of fur on her chest as she scatched her ears. Cupcake mewed happily in response.

"Julie! Don't forget your lunch, dear." Julie's mom said with her back turned to her daughter.

"Yeah, okay." The brunette mumbled as she grabbed a brown bag with her name written on it off the counter. She got as far as the doorway and stopped. She heard something drop and hit the floor. Julie turned back to her mom but she hadn't dropped anything. Upon hearing her mom call out the time again, she shrugged it off and quickly dashed out the door in the direction of the school, instantly seeing the small shops and houses of the town of Pureheart. Down on the floor in the basement of the house she was quickly leaving behind was a small black box with a white star and a yellow moon on it.

Julie got to school just as the bell rang. As she put her things in her locker another girl surrounded by a crowd of other kids walked up. She had short blonde hair, a designer red and silver shirt, and a black skirt with matching black boots.

"Well, hello Julie!" She said in a singsong voice. Julie glanced up.

"...Hi Sara." She muttered. Sara Perkins was the one reason Julie didn't have any friends. If you were marked uncool at Light Heart Junior High by Sara you were doomed to live a life of solitude until High School. This was exactly what she had done to Julie.

'Gee, I wish my dad was rich. Then I could be a rich little brat too.' Said brunette thought bitterly.

"Isn't it about time you came to your senses and either transfer schools or start acting normal?" The blonde girl asked with a sneer.

"I like this school and if parading around in 'designer' clothes and worring about dates 24-7 is 'normal' then I prefer to be werid." Julie answered, slamming her locker and turning her back on Sara.

"Uh! Who do you think you are?!" The 'Queen' of the school screeched.

"I think I'm who I believe I can be." The brunette snapped before quickly walking off to her class, leaving Sara looking stunned. 'But...Who exactly do I believe I am?'

Julie sat in the back of her last class of the day, Science. The day had gone smoothly but, although she was normally a good student, she just couldn't keep he mind on her work. She instead doodled in her note book. She stopped and looked at what she had drawn. It looked like some kind of medival circus costume. 'Um...what do they call those people? ...Oh, yeah! Jesters!'

"Miss Nown!" The teacher, Miss Rodger, shouted. Julie's head snapped up and she watched sadly as the plump woman in front of her grabbed her note book. "Will you please get your mind in class and out of these childish daydreams!" And with that she ripped the page with the jester costume out of Julie's note book, crumpled it up, and threw it in the garbage before throwing her note book back to her. Julie looked down sadly at the now blank page as several of the popular kids that were Sara's cronies laughed.

'But...it's the only place I can dream...'

An hour later, Julie walked slowly home sighing quietly. She was naturally sad from Sara and Miss Rodger but she had more important things to think about. Why had she been thinking about dreams so much lately? And why did she just randomly draw a jester outfit? It didn't make any sense. The brunette sighed again as she walked up the steps and into her house. She found a small note on the kitchen table saying that her mom had gone out and would be back soon. Julie dropped her backpack on a chair and went up stairs to her room. She plopped down on her bed and stared upside down at the window. A few birds flew past through the tree outside her window.

'I wonder...what it's like to fly...'

NiGHTS soared through the air of Nightopia. He seemed to be enjoying himself a lot. He dove down through a valley and over a river, letting his hand skim the water's surface. He shot forward, spinning around in a corkscrew and going straight into a forest. The jester nightmaren touched a huge blue flower as he flew by and it opened, glowing brightly. NiGHTS shot above the trees and tumbled through the now open air in acrobatic flips and cartwheels before shooting back down through the branches. As he exited the forest, he came to a beach and slowed his flight down, deceiding to take a quick look around. He sailed across the sand and circled the beach once. It was then that NiGHTS saw something in the sand. He flew down and levitated a few inches off the ground picking the item out of the sand and dusting it off. It was a small crumpled up piece of paper. NiGHTS gave it a curious look as he unfolded the paper to reveal a picture.

"A jesture costume?" He asked in confusion. He was even more confused when he heard a small female voice speak in his mind but it was too quiet to hear. He was used to mind reading from his ability to dualize with dreamers but it was just him at the moment. No Dreamer shared his body. How was this possible? He tried to think but instantly stopped and tried to concentrate when he heard the voice get louder and clearer.

'I wonder...what it's like to fly...' At this, NiGHTS smiled and levitated a little higher.

'So she, who ever she is, wants to know what it's like to fly, huh? Hmm...I wonder if this Dreamer will be here soon? I think I'd like to meet her.'

Julie sighed quietly as she wrote out the super long essay about the 'form of simbolism', or something like that, in the book they were reading that her reading teacher had assigned her. It was after dinner but there was no one to really come in and 'bug' her because her mom was the only one she lived with. Her father had died when she was very young and she was an only child. It bugged her sometimes, to be almost alone in this big house. She didn't have to turn to realize the door had opened but she faced her mom anyway.

"Yeah, mom?" She asked the tall, short brown-haired woman who was standing in the doorway.

"Julie, hun, would you like some desert?" Julie didn't think her mom understood her at times and yet sometimes she knew exactly what to do. Julie was in real need of a break. The brunette beamed and nodded.

"Yeah. Thanks mom!" Mrs. Nown brightened. It was rare when she saw her daughter smile. She always seemed gloomy, even in her sleep.

"Blueberry pie okay?"

"Absolutely!" Julie saw her mom's face light up when she smiled. She didn't mind. She knew her mom thought she was 'gloomy', although she never truely mentioned it, she hinted enough to make it known. Julie didn't think of herself as gloomy but as thoughtful and shy. A few minutes later, her mom came in with a a slice of pie and a fork.

"Here dear." Mrs. Nown said putting the pie down on Julie's writing table next to her essay. "What happened to your 'no homework on Friday' rule?" Julie blinked in surprise. It was Friday?

"I...kinda forgot." Julie said, blushing in mild embarresment.

"Oh, Julie..." Her mom sighed, sitting in the chair next to her daughter.

"Sorry..." The brunette preteen chuckled nervously. Mrs. Nown sighed again but smiled and looked around Julie's room. It was painted a soft, calm blue but her bed and computer were dark blue with small yellow dots, made to look like the night sky. Her daughter took a bite of her pie and continued to write the essay. "I'm almost done anyway so I guess it doesn't matter." Julie sighed. Her mom smiled and nodded but remained in her daughter's room. After about ten minutes, Mrs. Nown got up and picked up the now empty pie plate and fork.

"Goodnight Honey." She said before kissing her daughter's forehead and ruffling her messy hair.

"Night mom." Julie said quietly. She was almost done with her essay.

"Don't stay up too late, Julie. Oh, and I'm going into work early tomarrow so I most likely won't be here when you get up."

"Mm-hm." She continued to scribble out her essay while her mom backed out of the door, closing it in the process. She was slightly worried about her daughter and the fact she never had any friends over. She rarely smiled and was extremely shy and quiet.

"Cheer up soon, Julie." She said quietly before walking down the stairs.

In her room, said brunette was starting to write the last paragraph of her essay but, for some reason she was getting more and more tired with each word she wrote. Her hand moved slower and slower and she heard a male voice say something unclearly in her mind. She stopped writing to concentrate on the voice with what little focus she had.

'So she, who ever she is, wants to know what it's like to fly, huh? Hmm...I wonder if this Dreamer will be here soon? I think I'd like to meet her.' The second after Julie heard this, her head gently hit her desk and she was asleep.

Poor Julie. She's lonely. And yeah, they heard each others thoughts. You'll find out more about that later. Anyway, what do you think? Is it good is it bad? Reveiw please!