Prologue

I had the idea for this story after watching Avatar. The dream aspect really appealed to me, and it combined with some other scenarios I'd written down for a future Phantom story. Don't worry, I'm not going to abandon Alone in the Shadows. Also, don't be expecting me to always be working on two stories at once; I'm only able to do it in this case because the plot lines are so vastly different. I hope you enjoy this as much as I'm enjoying writing it! :)

Have you ever had a dream that made you not want to wake? Sometimes, dreams can be so lovely that you forget reality; you are perfectly content to stay in the world inside your mind. And, occasionally when you do wake, it's momentarily difficult to discern what is real and what is a part of the world that exists in your dreams.

But, what if the events that happened in your dreams could change what happened in reality? What if you truly belonged to another world while you were asleep? What if the real world and the dream world became so intertwined that you eventually could not separate them?

It almost killed me. Everyone told me I was insane, and before long, I believed them.

Still… when I was sleeping, I belonged to him. In dreams, he came, and no matter what I did or where I went, that never changed. My dreams always reminded me of the chilling truth: The Phantom of the Opera is there inside my mind.