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A Kingdom Hearts FanFic

Reality Change

Chapter 1

She couldn't speak. Well, properly anyway. So she stammered. Nothing seemed to want to come out. Then she murmured, "That is not...who I think it is..."

The spiky hair boy nodded slowly, "Yes...it is."

A scream tore from her lips and Charlie's hands flew to her mouth. She shook her head vigorously as the boy stuck a finger in his ear and swiveled it around.

"Man you've got quite the lungs."

"You...aren't real," Charlie said her chuckle wavering, "I'm still asleep. I can not...be awake."

"Need I repeat myself?" The boy asked almost helpfully as if fishing for a different response from her.

But she didn't give it. Not the one he expected anyway. "No. No!" she shouted her voice going down half an octave. "I can't do this." She walked away from him, swinging her bag over her shoulder and walking up the hill to the sidewalk. The grassy hill was really the side of a big basin for run off rainwater. The boy groaned and ran after her.

"Look, I know it's a little hard to swallow," he said catching up to her.

She stopped abruptly and spun around, "Hard to swallow? You are not Sora! Even if you were, you wouldn't be, because you don't exist!"

He watched her go wondering why the King had said she was a kind and charitable friend. He hurried after her again, having now reached the sidewalk. "Maybe not here, in this world. But I promise you, I'm not part of your imagination."

She continued to walk, her legs carrying her farther than he thought was possible. "You're really fast," he said.

"I'm not listening to you,"

"Please, just try to believe me-"

"You are part of a-a video game!" she squeaked.

"Again. Here. But I am real."

"No, you're a comic-con nut and I need to get home."

"It's not like I'm asking you to marry me." he said throwing up his hands.

Charlie stopped, "Why-Why would you even use that?" she asked scolding. She shook her head and scoffed continuing to walk.

"He needs your help," the boy said.

"No, he doesn't. Because he's not real," she then spun back to him, "You're not real. I'm hallucinating and you're just a bad combo of pickles and pizza." she then stormed away from him.

He scratched his head utterly confused, "Pickles?" Shaking it away he followed after her. "Just listen to me."

"No, I will not," she said over her shoulder, "How many times will you make me say, I can't help him!"

"Why not?" The boy gave up in arguing about it, so he went right to the reason. "Why won't you help me?"

She stopped and faced him again, "Would you like the short list or the long?" she said in an English accent.

"Uh," the boy was again bewildered.

"One: I am way too old for things like this. Two: I have three weeks left of summer before I have to start college. Three: I barely know this city! I can't go gallivanting off with some crazy gamer guy who thinks he knows Mickey Mouse. Four: Again, I'm leaving for college. I grew out of all this cartoon and gaming nonsense a while back." she sighed looking like a very exasperated, "I can't help you because I've grown up. I've been forced to grow up." She muttered.

"Life isn't full of fair chances and a resting place at the end of a rainbow. I stopped dreaming...a long time ago. I've had too many disappoints that I have had to deal with over the past three years.

"I can't keep pretending to be something I'll never be." she scoffed, "I'm nobody's hero. I'm brave when it comes to helping little kids when they fall over their bikes. When there's a car accident that someone can walk away from.

"I get sick at the sight of blood. Almost two years ago, I finally got over being scared of the dark." she paused looking more tired than she had been; "I can't help someone that doesn't exist. You need to get yourself some help." she said turning back down the street.

"Nobody's perfect." he said walking along side her, "I'm not. You're not. If I were to go home and tell someone about you, they'd tell me you don't exist. But I do." he took her hand gently and pulled her to a neighborhood street. She tried to resist but felt too weak to fight back.

"I am real." he said. Putting out his hand, Charlie saw a flash of light. When she uncovered her eyes she saw a giant key. Her jaw slackened and her brows furrowed cutting worry lines under her tired eyes. It was the Kingdom Key. Not some cheap imitation from a Comic Con. It looked like the real thing.

She chuckled weakly her bag falling from her grasp. Shaking her head she said, "All my childhood I wanted something like this to happen. I wrote little stories about getting kidnapped or taken to a different world," she laughed. She shook her head at him again, "I can't do this."

The keyblade vanished and Sora looked her straight in the eyes, "He needs you."

The spell broke and confused anger broke the surface, "Why? Why me? I'm not brave. I'm not a warrior or a- a- a princess of heart," she mocked with quotations in the air. "I'm a poor, simple Mormon girl that wants to finish her summer in peace before the world starts demanding adult behavior from her. I can't just disappear. Not like you did. You didn't have a home wanting for you half the time. And the other half, you had a home and they forgot about you for a year."

"Hey," he said his dignity and famous story slightly dented.

"I can't do this," she said for the umpteenth time.

"If I didn't come for you, someone else would," Sora said trying to get her to listen.

"But why me!" she whined her strength just about gone, "Why does Mickey need me?" she shouted exasperated.

Sora shrugged simply, "You believed."

Suddenly Charlie seemed to drop into the ground.

She screamed until she landed with a thud. Biting her bottom lip to keep from crying out, she pulled a book out from under her back. Sitting up she rubbed her behind. Looking around she cocked her head at all the books surrounding her. Sora was gone. "What the heck?" Her eyes changed from questioning to anger as she spotted a boy sitting on a chair…smiling at her.

"What the heck!" she asked accusingly.

"I think what you're looking for is 'Where am I?'" his smile got bigger.

"What the heck am I doing here? Where did Sora go?" she interrupted more scared now than angry, "Where is here?"

The boy's smile softened, "You're in The Library. Not a normal public library that you're used to."

"What are you talking about?" she demanded, more angry at the riddles than the boy.

"You are a guardian." He said simply.

"Excuse me?" she quirked an eyebrow.

"There are some worlds that need your help." He said his face a little confused, "You don't remember your assignment, do you?"

"I had someone from a video game just tell me that. Where is he?" she asked, "And what's going on?"

"Maybe this will help," he said turning to a pile of books on the table, "Read the last entry."

"What is this?" she asked, skeptically but taking the book.

"Your story," he said, "The one you wrote."

Frowning at the cover she flipped through the pages. A name popped out and she stopped. Nuku? "Nukutan is my character. How did this…" she paused to read the last entry. Her eyes widened, "I wrote everything but this. Who wrote this?" she demanded.

"Someone else from your world," he told her.

Then it dawned on her. Mickey needs me because my stuff is being tampered with. Charlie laughed weakly, "This is so wrong. What's your name again?"

"I never said. My name is Daniel," he introduced.

"I'm Charlie," she said automatically. Sitting down, she stared at the last sentence. Realization clicked again and she looked up. "Hold the phone…You said worlds. As in plural? More were tampered with?"

"Now you're catching on." He said excitedly. Inviting her to sit in the chair he pointed to the pile on the table. "Several of these, if not all, were created by other people from your world."

After reading the last entries she sighed in defeat. "Most of these are my favorite stories. That Jason guy reminds me of my cousin's character. Who ever did this knows me personally," she sighed, "This is so unreal."

"To mortals who only live in one world, it can be."

"Wait," Charlie shook her head, "You're…immortal?"

"Yes," he said as if it were matter of fact. "Someone from your world found a way to control these stories. They're attacking you through them. Please, you must remember." He pleaded.

"Remember what?" she asked as if she'd done so a million times.

"Who you are. What your powers are." Daniel said.

"If you haven't noticed, I'm mortal and a little blond! I don't know what I'm doing!" she yelled. Slumping to the ground she sighed, "And that cheesy even in the movie," she muttered. "I'm not strong. I already told Sora. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do."

Daniel put a hand on her shoulder, "You will have help. All those books have people who lost loved ones. They will help you. This will too," Walking to a ladder, he climbed to the fourth shelf. Grabbing a bundle, he pulled it down, and handed it to her. "These swords will help to defend you. You may not know how to handle them now, but when the time comes you will."

"Oi," she sighed now feeling thoroughly exhausted, "Riddles,"

"It will be okay." He said.

Looking down at the swords she admired the workmanship. The swords were made of fine steel and their hilts were gold with garnet stones and purple amethysts. "I like these." She said swinging them around. "They don't even feel heavy!" she laughed. "Okay," she nodded, "How do I help them?"

"They were taken to this world," he said holding up the new book, "You have to help the others get there."

"How do I find them?" Charlie asked.

"The King, from the world you mentioned, is helping you and Sora to get there. And this," Daniel said pulling out a pouch from his pocket. "This talisman is very special. It will help you work together as a team."

He handed her the circle of stone. The stone was surrounded by wires of silver with five precious stones locked into place. "Are you ready?" he asked with a grin and raised eyebrow.

"Ready as a first time inter-dimensional traveler would be," Charlie muttered sarcastically, "Oh, one more thing. How do I carry these?"

"I saw a very interesting tidbit when I was reading one of the books called Kingdom Hearts," he smiled, "They will disappear until you need them."

"Cool," Charlie laughed feebly, "Okay. Where to start?"

"Just walk through those doors and you'll find Sora. Then it's all up hill from there." he grinned.

Charlie eyed him skeptically, "You're that optimistic?" She sighed again pulling her hair back into a pony tail, "I'm ready. Later Dan," Charlie said giving him a lazy three fingered salute.

"Return with honor and victory," Daniel said.

Charlie smiled and pushed the door open.

Author's Note: Again thank you Gryphinwyrm7 so much for beta reading and critiquing.