AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello hello! I stumbled across this older story whilst cleaning out one of my many thumb drives and I was pleasantly surprised! This has been my only Kingdom Hearts story to date and I remember vividly how enthralling it was to write. Hopefully, you, the readers, feel the same way about reading it!

It's a little "dark" I suppose…You'll see what I mean after the first chapter! Well, without further ado, here it is!!! Please read, review, and be constructive!!!!

Thanks!

~SA~

Awakening Reality

Prologue

The haze of sleep can do very strange things to one's mind as they totter on the edge of waking. Dreams linger, tugging on the consciousness of the person, beckoning them back into the land of slumber.

The real world claws at the senses, demanding the alert attention of the yet-sleeping mind. Even long-lost memories float to the surface of cognition, bringing dead emotions and half-spoken apologies with them.

What happens when those worlds of memory and reality begin the melt into one another? What happens when it becomes impossible to distinguish between them? What really is real?

Are memories of people, of friends and loved ones, not just as real to the person remembering them as they were when they were "real"? If that is true, than how can anyone call anything truly real? Does it feel different?

Reality…