Author's note: I'm not sure if any of you noticed already, but Jump Festa revealed the trailers of KH 2.8 and KH3 from D23 and were both posted online (including Youtube) yesterday.

Not what I had in mind, but at least I was able to see the trailers I thought were another one of those trailers that were very off-line and for "public events" only kind of thing.

Also, questions which I would like you readers to answer in your reviews, if that's okay. If not, then I'm okay with it: Should I change the category to a "Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy VII" crossover?

Let's continue, and remember the important notes here:

The Bold is the Author's Notes.

The Italic is both memories and dreams.

The Bold & Italic are the names of the worlds.

The Brackets (-and Bold-) are the BGM(which will never happen, but one can dream, right?).

I do not own anything.

CHAPTER 3: People from Dreams?

(~Force Your Way-Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy~)

Seeing he had no choice but to fight this man, Zack also stood in a fighting position, holding tight grip on the hilt of his sword, glaring at Leon. "This is getting more and more crazy!" he exclaimed.

Leon sped forward in incredible speed that Zack had to quickly dodge out of the way, before he found an opening, and tried his luck with the down-slash. But the older man saw this coming and blocked Zack's attempt with the gunblade, both men struggling to overpower each other, until they both leaped back with skillful cart-wheel back-flip, before landing on their feet again, focusing on each other, and holding tight grip of their weapons in their hands.

Leon then again leaped into the air and tried to attack Zack with an air-strike, but the latter dodge-rolled out of the way with a somersault, and then when he stood up, Zack saw an opening, and preformed a tornado-slicer once again, hitting Leon twice and causing him to cry out in pain and stumble backwards. But then again, Zack inadvertedly left an opening of himself as well, because he didn't see a fire spell casted by the other man and he was hit square into the chest, thrown a few feet away and landed hard onto his back on the ground.

However, Zack quickly drew his legs up in the air and leaped himself back onto his feet to continue the fight, and clashed his sword against Leon's gunblade, neither of them hitting each other nor cutting any serious wounds, but blocked each other's blows, as their weapons clinged and clanged which echoed through out the night air of Traverse Town.

For a split second, Leon manged to find an opening and slashed again at Zack's just, but the latter flinched away, the tip of the blade just missing by an inch, and Zack stumbled backwards, but still kept a firm grip on his sword, not willing to give up just yet. Leon then came at him again, but this time, Zack's eyes narrowed. By unknown strange feeling inside him, Zack drew his left hand to his chest, which glowed in green light and swinged it, and then suddenly, a large chunk of ice appeared above Leon who noticed too late as it came crashing down at him, as it shattered into pieces, but it did cause him to lose focus for a moment or two.

Zack's eyes widened as he realised what just happened, and asked in disbelief, "Holy! Did I just do that?" though the feeling was somehow and strangely familiar, but he couldn't pin point on what it could be or how it actually happened.

Not wanting to waste time and seeing his change to possibly win this fight and then demand answers on what is going on, Zack drew his sword back, bend on his knees, and then jumped skillfully high in the air, yelling out as he fell and parrelled the sword down at Leon with a slash, knocking the latter to the ground once more, and that Leon dropped his gunblade while still holding it's hilt and knelt on one knee, exhausted and defeated, while Zack landed safely back onto the ground.(~End Force Your Way~)

Zack, seeing that he won, but it wasn't a good kind of victory like back at the Coliseum, sheathed his sword away and was about to calmly approach the other man, but then suddenly, he felt a powerful and painful jolt in his head, like he was just electricuded in his mind. Crying out suddenly, Zack clutched his head, as his vision was becoming blurry and he was starting to black out.

"What?...my...head..." Zack muttered, as his balance was faltering, and before he knew it, his world went black, and collasped forward onto the ground.

Seeing this happen and thinking it was just exhaustion that got to Zack, Leon healed himself with a cure magic, and slowly stood up, looking down at the fallen man on the ground. Who was he? Where did he come from?

"Aw, lost to a fight, didn't we, Leon?" A young female voice teasingly said behind him.

Leon turned around to see a fourteen year old girl with short black hair, dark brown-black eyes, wearing a green short tank top, a yellow scarf, a black head band around her forehead, blue shorts, white long socks with orange shoes, and orange long fingerless gloves. She was also wearing a netting kind of top underneath her green tank top. It was Yuffie who approached the older man.

"I went easy on him." Leon admitted. Yes, he went easy on Zack who didn't know it yet. He then wondered to himself outloud, "A soldier...where did this man come from?"

Things are getting a lot worse than they thought.

(~Theme of Crisis Core "Dreams and Pride"-Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII~)

(Fragments from Zack's dream)

Fragment 5: Zack managed to catch up to Angeal on the path, on their way to the Tamblin Fortress of Wutai. "So Angeal, what's the deal with "dumbapples"?" Zack asked.

Angeal paused in his steps, and explained, "The official name is Banora White. The trees bear fruit at random times during the year." he shrugged at the last part of that sentence, then contineud, "Because of that, the townspeople affectionately call them dumbapples."

Zack also stopped, and listened. He found it pretty weird for he has never heard of any kind of trees bearing fruit at random times during the year. Normally, certain fruits grow in either Winter, Autumn, Summer and/or Spring every year, but not at random times. He could now see why people of Banora called the fruit Dumbapples more often then Banora White.

"The local farms had plenty of them to spare." Angeal continued, smirking a bit at the memory.

"Oh really?" Zack asked, seeing where this is coming from. "So you stole them."

"We were poor, Zack." Angeal pointed out.

Zack bit back a laugh, while saying, "Nice excuse!"

"But even then, I had my honor." Angeal continued, thinking back of his own childhood memories. "The largest Banora White tree grew on a wealthy man's estate. It was rumored that those apples tasted the best."

The older man smiled at the thoughts, concluding, "But I never stole from that tree, because the wealthy man's son was my friend."

Zack had his hands behind his head, as he walked about his friend, pointing out, "If he was a friend, you should have just asked for some!"

Seeing how the teen didn't quite get it, Angeal stated, "Honor can be quite a burden at times."

The two had a moment of silence, while Zack now placed his hands on his hips, trying to understand the meaning of the story, but that didn't make any kind of sense on how it was related to the goal of becoming SOLDIER 1st Class. Turning back to his mentor, Zack asked, "...And what exactly does this have to do with me?"

"No story is not worth hearing." was Angeal's reply, before he walked away, and bursted into laughter, much to Zack's disblief.

"What? That's it?" Zack asked, shocked. He then rushed to catch up, exclaiming, "Yeah, well, thanks a lot!" (~End Theme of Crisis Core "Dreams and Pride"~)

(~Treasured Memories; KH1~)

Fragment 6: "B Unit will set off an explosion. That's our cue." said Angeal.

"The diversion will allow us to infiltrate." Zack understood too well.

"Right. I'll set the bomb inside the fortress. You'll charge the front gate, and..."

"Uh-huh, and? And? And? And?" Zack was getting excited.

"Indulge yourself."

Fragment 7: When Zack noticed Angeal holding his very large sword and pressed his forehead onto the blade like a prayer, before shething away, the younger man couldn't help but ask, "You know, I've never actually seen you use that. Don't you think it's sort of a waste?"

"Use brings about wear...tear...and rust. And that's a real waste."

"You're serious, aren't you?"

Angeal smirked, "Yeah. I can be pretty cheap."

Zack chuckled, "Yeah, no kidding..."

Fragment 8: Zack reaches the Fortress and was about to go up the stairs when a voice caused him to stop.

"One, avoid unnecessary training! Two, protect Wutai at all costs! Three, ugly Shinra SOLDIER dudes...must be PUNISHED!"

'Ugly Shinra SOLDIER dudes?' Zack thought. He looked up and saw a figure standing on the top of the steps. He asked, "Who're you?"

"I'm Wutai's greatest warrior!" said...a young girl with short hair, and wearing blue and yellow. She seemed tough, but..."If you wanna go further, you have to go through me!"

"A kid...?" Zack muttered, in mental disbelief at the girl who he didn't know that it was Yuffie. She looked no older than nine years old. He didn't want to fight her, and that this was a war happening. So, he told her in his best adult tone, "You shouldn't be playing here, it's dangerous! Go home to your parents."

Surprisingly, Yuffie leaped over him she landed behind him, saying, "You're the one who's going home! If you insist on going any further, you'll have a fight on your hands!"

As the young girl approached him, Zack was stuck. He really shouldn't fight a child, but at the same time, he had work to do. What was he supposed to do now? Luckly, Yuffie stood in front of him and punched...or, more like air-punched and neither one hit him, and were three inches away.

"Whap! Pow! Bam! Take that, bad guy!" Yuffie exclaimed, and she looked like she was breaking a sweat.

Zack stared for a few moments, then decided to play along and 'fell' onto his knees, holding onto his stomach painfully, exclaiming, "AHHH! Nooo! You got me!"

Yuffie stood up straight, feeling rather proud, not realising she was being tricked. "There! That'll teach you to mess with me! Once again, I've brought peace to Wutai!" and with that, she ran off.

Once the girl was out of sight, Zack stood up, and sighed. "Boy oh boy..." wondering if he was this bad of an child when he was her age. "You gotta admire that energy." he admitted.

Fragment 9: Zack defeated two large monsters and was about to leave when he was attacked by a third and larger monster, and was hit against the piller, about to be finished off, when the monster was finished off by Angeal who stood there, his Buster Sword in hand.

"That's one more you owe me." Angeal said.

Zack tried to smile, but in doing so made him dizzy and he tried to clear out the dizzy spells from his head. "You lost your focus." said Angeal who approached him.

"Uh, yeah." Zack agreed. Wasn't his fault that a third monster appeared out of nowhere. He then noticed the sword, and muttered, "Oh, sorry if your sword got any wear, tear, or rust on it."

"You're a little more important than my sword." Angeal said, sheathing away his sword onto his back, then added as he made a small gesture with his finger and thumb, "But just a little." chuckling and held out his hand to help his student up.

Finally, Zack smiled, replying, "Thanks." and took Angeal's hand with his own.

(~End Treasured Memories~)

Everything was black...Zack had no idea if he was still dreaming or not. But the dreams...were getting more and more complicated. No longer was he seeing the same vision of Sephiroth attempting to kill him...but instead...it was like he was seeing a very long aftermaths and more...he had no idea what they mean, but at the same time...they felt familiar. But why?

"Are you alright?" A female, gentle and somewhat angel-like, echoed through out the darkness.

"Mom?" Zack asked. He couldn't see anything...not even his body. "I...I want to find out about these dreams. But, I don't know how I can do it..." and this was true...he didn't know anything right now.

"Hell-llooo!" The voice called again.

"Mom?"

Just then...everything was filled with Light and...

"Hell-llooo!"

Zack opened his eyes, finding himself looking up at a young girl, with brown hair that was tied up into a plat which reached at half of her back, wearing a long pink sleeveless dress, brown boots, her skin was half pale half tan, and her eyes were a beautiful emerald.

Seeing the young man waking up, the girl cheered.

Groaning while waking up, Zack asked, half expectingly, "...Heaven?"

"Not quite." The girl smiled with a gentle smile, holding her hands behind her back. "A hotel room in the alley." She added.

Zack sat up, still gazing at the girl, who looked around a year younger than himself. Still, she looked so young and so...beautiful. "An Angel...?" he asked. Once again, his thing over beautiful girls was kicking in. Sure, he was aware he was lying on a bed in a hotel room, which, again, didn't seem like he was in Greece at all.

The girl shook her head and replied, "No, I'm Aerith."

Aerith...even her name was beautiful.

"Sorry about my friend beating you up." Aerith continued, looking a little apologetic.

Suddenly remembering the guy he fought earlier, and, somehow sensing a connection, Zack asked, "You mean that guy I fought earlier?" suddenly realising he did look supicious, and rubbing the back of his neck, sheepishly, "Sorry about that."

"It's okay." Aerith shook her head. "It was a misunderstanding."

That made sense. "So you saved me, huh?" Zack asked.

"Not really." Aerith answered, ""Hell-llooo!" That's all I did."

The black-haired man laughed, then sat up on the edge of the bed, and Aerith giggled.

"Thank you so much, Aerith." Zack said, then introduced himself, "I'm Zack."

"Looks like sleeping beauty is awake." a new voice joined them. Zack and Aerith both looked at the door closer to the bed, with Yuffie stand there, and Leon leaning against the door, arms crossed and not looking at anyone. It was Yuffie who spoke, and, suddenly seeing a younger version of her in teenaged Yuffie's place for a split second, Zack was surprised. So the girl he'd seen in his dreams is real?

First himself, then Angeal, then Sephiroth, and now this young girl? Zack couldn't figure out what was going on. "Uh...who're you?" he asked, knowing that calling her a kid would probably offend her.

"Me?" Yuffie asked, then introduced herself, a little too overconfidentily, "I'm the great Ninja Yuffie!"

'Even her introducing herself is similiar to that other kid in my dreams. This is seriously weird.' Zack thought to himself.

"I think you might've overdone it, Squall." Yuffie stated to the older man in the room.

Leon rolled his eyes, correcting the youngest person in the room, "It's Leon, not Squall.", and hating the fact that she always called him "Squall" once and a while. That name was dead to him.

Seeing how the group seem to know each other, Zack couldn't help but mutter, "Uh...you guys live together?"

"Kind of." Aerith answered.

Yuffie shrugged, and she continued for her older friend, "Yeah, that's the thing. You were lucky that you can fight, otherwise those creatures would've gotten you. Thankfully, you only had some minor injuries due to the fight you and Leon had."

That Zack knew. The only reason he passed out was the strange headache that caused him to pass out, and that never happened to him before.

"I had to make sure that you weren't causing trouble." Leon added, bringing Zack back to reality. "Considering that you're a soldier. Still, hard to believe, that you came here."

"Huh?" Now Zack was definately confused. "Can someone please explain to me what's going on here?"

Seeing how confused Zack was, Aerith, Yuffie and Leon looked at each other, and all nodded. Apparently, they came to a concludsion that he had no idea where he was or how he even got here. "Okay." Aerith began, "Did you know about other worlds beside your own?"

"Other worlds!?" Zack exclaimed, surprised. He has been briefly to Mount Olympus with Mickey to help Hercules to save Zeus and the other Gods from Hades and the Titans, and to the Underworld with Hercules to rescue Meg's soul, but never to other worlds. He then realised that it made somewhat more sense; how he ended up in a town after nearly drowning, and was no where near the ocean, how the town itself was nowhere near Greece. "...wait, I'm in another world? No wonder I'm lost. I never knew about other worlds before."

"It's been secret, because it's never been connected, and everything was in peace, until seven years ago and now." Aerith continued as she sat in a nearby chair, while Yuffie sat next to Zack on the bed. The oldest girl continued, "When the Heartless came, everything changed."

"Heartless?" Zack asked.

"The ones who attacked you, you remember?" Yuffie supplied.

Remembering the monsters he encountered earlier, Zack asked, "The weird black looking things?" and the others in the room nodded.

"Those without hearts." Leon answered.

"The darkness in people's hearts-that's what attracts them." Yuffie explained, while trying not to shiver.

"And there is darkness within every heart." Leon concluded.

Zack cringed a little, "Ouch." but then he remembered-eight years ago...when he first arrived in Thebes...how Hades controlled him with Darkness to lure Terra into the darkness during their match, and how Terra and Grovyle saved his life and helped him break free from the power of darkness.

(Flash-Back: During the events of "Sailor Moon: Birth By Sleep")

"Are you alright?" Asked Grovyle with the necklace with a blue gem.

"You gonna make it?" Terra added.

Fourteen year old Zack looked up and nodded, "Yeah. I'm finally free." then he looked around, but noticed that Hades isn't around. "Where is-"

"He's gone." Terra answered.

Frustrated by his own weakness and how Hades controlled him, Zack pounded at the ground angrily, "Man, how could I let a guy like him control me? I'll never live it down."

Terra then held out a hand, and helped Zack up to his feet. "Thanks," the latter said, then muttered, "Um..." for he realised he didn't know the older man's name.

"Terra." Terra answered.

(End Flash-Back)

Now it made perfect sense. Zack was suddenly more grateful than ever that Terra and Grovyle had saved his life. "That explains something, I guess...good thing Terra saved my life." he muttered outloud.

"Who?" Yuffie asked, curiously.

Zack shrugged, "A friend of mine I met eight years ago, in my world." then muttered, suddenly realising that with Heartless around, that meant possibly even his world was at risk. He remembered Herc' mentioning about a black shooting star. Was it the Heartless? "I hope everyone's okay." thinking about all of his friends and his parents. He wondered if he would ever return home.

He then asked to the others, "What about you guys? Do you live in this world?"

"Only for the past seven years." Aerith shook her head in sadness. "It's so sad."

Yuffie nodded, in a hint of getting upset, but she was trying to hold it in, while she explained, "We were forced to escape our world when it was invaded by someone named Maleficent seven years ago. Traverse Town is really a world were those who lost their worlds end up."

Those who lost their worlds end up...Zack suddenly felt a twinge of fear about his world and hoped that it didn't...ended up disappeared or anything.

"I doubt your world disappeared, but don't hold your breath." Leon stated, seeing the grim look on Zack's face.

"I see...I guess that giant squid did a lot of damage." Zack muttered, thinking back of the giant octopus. "Not to mention, I've changed too, I mean, at least my body did." he added, gazing at his arms and hands again.

Seeing the confused looks on the others, Zack realised the weirdness, and shrugged, embarrassed, "Sorry. I know it sounds crazy, but I've been having strange dreams about a guy who looks like me, sounds like me, acts like me, and even worse, has the same name as me."

He then went into details of his strange dreams and how he woke up in the body of his dreamself, even Zack himself had no clue on how it even happened. He finished up by explaining to Yuffie on how his dreamself met a younger version of her, which confused the young ninja.

"A younger me?" Yuffie asked, puzzled. "That's something new."

"That's very strange." Aerith admitted, and Zack shrugged in agreement.

Leon on other hand, seemed to have come to a conclusion, "I hate to say this, but you'll probably gonna end up having more of those dreams."

"Hey, I didn't ask for them." Zack said to the slightly older man.

Yuffie giggled, and added, "Nobody asked Maleficent to come and take over our home either, or a giant squid to attack you."

"So, tough luck." Leon said.

Sighing and falling onto his back on the bed, Zack placed his hands behind his head as he stared up at the ceiling, grumbling, "Everything's so complicated...I wonder if Angeal is okay too." worrying about his mentor he hasn't seen in eight years either.

"You know what? I really don't know." Leon replied.

Sighing again, Zack sits up, and then stands up, and said, "Well, standing around here isn't gonna solve anything. I've gotta find out what's going on, and fast." and at the trio's stares, he continued, determinated, "I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life not knowing what's going on." before asking, "Isn't there a way for me to get to other worlds and for me to get back to my own world?"

"You sure you want to do this?" Leon asked, puzzled.

"I've faced dangers before. This'll be no different..." Zack trailled off, and rubbed the back of his neck, correcting himself, "Well, at least not as different as I think." as he had faced Titans made of moving rocks, volcanic lava, massive tornados, freezing ice blocks, and a giant cyclops with Hercules and Mickey a year ago. Not to mention the Hydra which had several heads each time heads are cut off of that thing.

"You know..." Aerith began, "It can be possible." she agreed. She wanted to help Zack, and even Yuffie nodded in agreement.

Leon sighed, expecting as much. "I guess."

(~Ninja Girl From Wutai-Dirge of Cerberus Final Fantasy VII~)

Yuffie then had an idea, and pipped up, "Hey, maybe Merlin can help."

"Merlin?" Zack asked, looking at Yuffie who also stands up, maybe a little to excitedly for a girl of her age.

"Yup!" Yuffie began, "He's a sorcerer! I bet he can help ya out, and I know exactly where he lives, and I can take you there."

Zack blinked. "Uh...isn't that too dangerous? I mean, with the Heartless and all..."

"If you go by yourself, you'll end up getting lost. Besides, Aerith can't fight(no offence), and I don't think you and Leon get on so well, so that leaves the Great Ninja Yuffie to lead up!" Yuffie explained.

In the end, everyone knew that she was right, even if Aerith has been training a bit on her magic skills. Leon sighed, then looked at Zack and Yuffie, cautioning, "Be careful out there. The Heartless are running around, slowly increasing their numbers." before looking sternly at Zack, "Don't let anything happen to Yuffie."

"No problem." Zack nodded in agreement.

Hearing this made Yuffie quite annoyed as she glared at Leon and exclaimed, "I can look after myself, you know. I happen to be the greatest ninja out!"

Aerith giggled and pointed out to her youngest friend, "Yuffie, you know that Leon is only looking out for us. Especially since you're the youngest."

Yuffie pouted, while Zack looked uncomfortable, and blinked nervously. This was going to be a long day. (~End Ninja Girl From Wutai~)

A/N: I know this is probably slow, and some confusion in the flash-back of eight years ago, but I can give you a hint, though it will contain spoilers if neither of you have read either of my "Sailor Moon Continuum" parts one and two stories.

In "Sailor Moon: Birth By Sleep", Terra is teamed up with a Grovyle, Ventus travels alone, Aqua travels with a "Sailor Moon" though it isn't the same as the main protagonist of the series, and finally, King Mickey is teamed up with a young boy who is Grovyle's partner.

In the meantime, while we wait for the next chapter(and I know I'm being slow again, and I'm very sorry), please review and/or continue your reviews, fellow readers, and I'll see you again soon.

Merry Christmas!