Author's Note: After a long time of not writing, this is my newest project, and probably my biggest one yet!

Disclaimer: I own nothing in Final Fantasy.

A young brown haired girl looked around, confusion filling her brown eyes. The area around her did not look familiar at all to her. She was in a small clearing with trees surrounding her. The sound of chirping birds and some water filled her ears.

"Where am I?" she whispered to herself. She had no idea why she asked herself this. It was not like she knew the answer, and there was no one else around her to hear her question.

That was when she looked over her shoulder. What she saw caused her to gasp slightly, and she turned around. There was a pond in the middle of the clearing, and floating right above it was a large, glowing crystal.

A large crystal floating in the middle of what seemed to be nowhere was not what she expected to see. And yet, something about the crystal seemed very familiar to her. Had she seen this crystal before? She wasn't sure how that could be, because she couldn't really remember seeing a crystal so big before.

Taking in a small breath, she moved forward, holding out her hand. She stopped at the edge of the pond, trying to reach out to the crystal. She let out a gasp of surprise when the crystal seemed to glow much more brightly than it did before, and she quickly shielded her eyes.

That was when she heard the voices. They spoke mostly in whispers, so she couldn't tell what was being said. She called out to them, but they didn't answer. As the voices continued around her, her surroundings began to fade. All that remained was the huge crystal.

She wanted to know more about what was going on, but before she could even ask her questions, she found herself waking up. It was a dream, she quickly realized. Then she discovered something else that she was less than happy about.