Author's notes: Right, so this is my firstever attempt on an actually readable fanfic. Its first chapter might not be very clear right now, but it's more or less just a small introduction. Each chapter will start out with a random quote as well. ('cause I love quotes xD) Leave a review if you feel like it. n_n

Disclaimer: I don't own FFIX, or any of their characters, nor their storyline, nor..anything else. I also don't own the quotes at the beginning of each chapter. What I do own are my own two OC's, Mizuki and Rockna, but that's it.

Awakening

"I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

As Rokna opened her eyes, she groaned from the stinging headache she had. Raindrops were falling on her face, which only added to her headache because it confused her.

'Why would I have fallen asleep outside? That's nuts…'

Not too far away from her, she could hear the clashing of metal. She immediately shot up, wondering where the sound was coming from. Not too far from where she had been sleeping just now, a blonde boy was fighting against a female warrior. There were three people accompanying the blonde boy: the first was a young boy with a pointy hat, the second a woman, who, from what Rockna could see, had a rat face. The third, well, she couldn't tell for sure, aside from the part where he had an enormous tongue sticking out of his mouth the whole time. She had to stifle a small chuckle at the thought of being around someone like that all the time. Looking around where she was, realization soon struck her: the design, the people she saw, they all looked too familiar. "You've got to be kidding me…" she muttered, thinking for a moment.

~Melody~

"I must thank you again for your assistance, miss…" the knight in front of her stopped talking, realizing he didn't know the girl's name, and Mizuki stared at him. "Mizuki…it's Mizuki, but I…eh, I didn't really did that much, now did I?"

The knight quickly shook his head. "Without your magic, we surely would've had a much more difficult time fighting this…creature!"

Mizuki scratched the back of her head. "I don't even know how I did that…all I did was point my…staff…towards him, and that fireball just shot out."

"Surely miss Mizuki, you must have practiced magic before! You're definitely a great mage like Master Vivi!" 'Master Vivi?' Mizuki thought, a feeling of familiarity shooting through her.

"Captain Adelbert Steiner! Give the girl a rest!" the girl next to him demanded; Mizuki was sure she'd recognized the girl, but she'd recognized her as the princess of a game she always played.

"Yeah, Rusty. She's just been fighting to save you and you thank her by not giving her any rest!" The third person of the group that Mizuki had just been running into was a guy with a red bandana. "Either way, Dagger, we must be on our way to Treno now."

'Treno…these people…Final Fantasy IX?' That's when the realization hit Mizuki, and without any further notice, she fainted.