Dreams in Reality

Summary: Sora finds himself trapped in his own dream and ironically finds Donald there. Dreams, familiar worlds, and flashbacks of themselves. They find that they're not the only ones shut in their own heads. Will they get out? Or will they forever stay in motionless pictures of the past?

A/N: My first fanfic. Please don't flame me, but concrit is always welcome. Enjoy!

Standard disclaimers apply.

Chapter one - An old friend

Sora ran into the secret place where he and Kairi used to scribble on the walls. Riku and Kairi waited for him as he stumbled into the cave soaking wet.

"Whew! That storm's worse than the one when darkness took over Destiny Islands!" Sora said, clumsily tripping over a stone. Riku jumped back to avoid his landing.

Kairi laughed amusedly as she handed Sora a towel. "Here you go, Sora."

"Thanks," Sora replied. He wiped the towel all over his face.

"I think we'd better stay here for the night," Riku said, taking out some blankets from a giant traveller's bag. "There's no way we can make it back to our homes in this weather."

"Stay in this creepy place?" Kairi shuddered.

"It's okay Kairi. What'll harm us here?" Sora said optimistically.

"Still, I'd feel more comfortable if we stayed with Selphie and the others in the cove." Kairi admitted. She yawned tiredly.

"You two can go to sleep if you want. I'll keep watch." Riku said.

"Keep watch? I thought Sora said 'What would harm us here?'" Kairi said, shivering in the cold.

"You know, just in case the place floods in or something," Riku replied.

"Oh… okay then, if you're okay with it."

"Sure I am. Why? Don't you think – "

"Okay, okay, less talk, more nap," Sora interrupted.

Riku shrugged and ambled over to the mouth of the cave. He sat down and watched the water fall from the sky. Inside the cave, Kairi sat down and leaned against the cave wall. Sora did the same beside her.

"Why do you always do that, Sora?" she asked.

"Do what?"

"You know, interrupt me and Riku's conversations."

"Oh, I do that?" asked Sora, sounding genuinely surprised. "Whoops, sorry then."

"Sora," Kairi snapped irritably.

"What? What do you want me to do about it?"

"Stop doing it, that's what!"

Kairi stood up and walked to the other side of the cave.

Sora sighed. Why did he interrupt their conversations? Was he doing it on purpose? Or was it something he just did. Whatever it was, it was annoying Kairi. A lot. He'll talk to Kairi about it soon. But first, sleep. Just thinking about it made his eyelids feel heavy. He closed his eyes slowly, and soon, he was asleep.

Kairi looked at the drawings on the walls. Then she looked at Sora. She caught site of the drawing behind him. It was the drawing that they both made together. She drew Sora, and Sora drew her. Paupu fruit drawings were in front of the drawings. Kairi smiled to herself. She could feel her eyelids closing, and soon she was drifting off to sleep.

Sora awoke, and realised that he was no longer in Destiny Islands.

"Oh, what a dream…" He said, lazily falling asleep again.

Suddenly, Sora felt something push him hard in the chest. He opened his eyes, more aware of what was around him. He looked around, and saw a dog, with a green collar on. "Pluto, is that you?" Sora said, peering at the dog.

Pluto gave him a lick on his cheek.

"Whoa, wait- this has to be a dream." Sora looked around him. "Yup this has got to be a dream." The boy rubbed his eyes. He saw an Accessory shop, an Item shop, and a moogle. "Is this place Traverse town?"

Pluto nodded his head up and down continuously.

Sora slapped his hand on his forehead several times. "Wake up, wake up!" But as much as he hit himself on the head, he felt very much awake.

He stood up. Pluto tried to pull him to the Accessory shop. "Alright, alright, I'm coming." Sora said. He followed the dog into the accessory shop and found himself looking at what seemed to be….himself.

"What the?" Sora said confusedly. "Is that me?"

Pluto nodded.

"Can he- or I see me or hear me?"

Pluto shook his head.

"Well I guess that mean he- or I can't feel me either." Sora said. He noticed something strange the way his other self was doing things. He felt like he'd done them before. Then he realised.

"Is this the past?" He looked down at Pluto.

Pluto seemed to look like he gave him a shrug. "

"Okay…" Sora felt very puzzled. He walked out of the Accessory shop. "Well, if this is the past, then right now, I must still be looking for Kairi and Riku. But judging by the way Donald and Goofy aren't with me right now, I guess I haven't met up with them yet." Sora rubbed his head. "Oh, all this past stuff is giving me a headache."

Pluto made a dog pouting noise as if to say, me too.

"Come on, where did I first meet Donald and Goofy again? The Third District?" Pluto nodded. "Okay, so let's go to the-" Sora stopped. Everything around him was changing. The accessory shop had turned into the vacant house. The stairs in front of him had grown longer. Shortly Sora saw that he was now in the third district.

He saw his past self run through two giant doors, and down the long flight of steps. "The Key!" He heard two familiar voices call.

"Donald, Goofy!" Sora said, but he found himself turning his smile upside down as the voices were coming from the past selves of Goofy and Donald.

Two heartless formed around Donald and Goofy's past selves, and soon they were hurtling down towards Sora's past self. They landed with a crash. Sora laughed.

"So that's how they ended up landing on me." He said.

"Sora! Sora!" He heard a voice say. Sora spun around briskly.

"Donald! It's really you this time right?" Sora asked,

"Sure is! And this is really you right?" Donald said in reply.

"Of course." Sora had so many questions, hoping Donald knew the answers. But he got distracted by a shake in the ground. Sora looked behind him to see what was happening. He saw a Guard Armour standing in front of his past self. He was glad the Guard Armour couldn't see him and Donald. He didn't want to fight it all over again. But instead of the Guard Armour battling Sora's past self, it turned it's head around and faced Donald and Sora. Sora gulped.

"You think it can see us?" Donald asked,

The Guard Armour threw it's hand towards Sora and knocked him to the ground. "Ow," He said painfully. "Yeah, well, after that, I'm pretty sure it can see us."

They both said nothing at first, but then the Guard Amour thrust it's head towards them like a bullet. "RUN!" They both yelled.