1: Ilex Forest

"Me?! Take a train?!" Lyra was clearly shocked that Anjean had told her to take the Spirit Train. "Johto hardly has any rails at all, and they're for the Magnet Train!"

Anjean sighed. "The Spirit Train is magical and capable of making its own rails. With its sturdy cannon and invincible armor, I'm sure you'll be fine." Anjean lifted up one of her arms and a greatly polished, gleaming train appeared along with a fine set of cars: A cannon, a passenger car, and a freight car.

Lyra hopped into the driver's seat and lifted a lever. The train slowly rolled toward the portal out of the crack in time. Lyra suddenly stopped the train. "Anjean, where am I supposed to go?"

Anjean said, "You must travel to the Sand Temple and give this to a boy named Link." Anjean raised both of her arms and a sword appeared out of the blue. "Lyra, take good care of the Special Treasure of the Lokomos."

Lyra smiled. "I will!" she said. She climbed aboard the Spirit Train. "Off to the Sand Temple!"

Gold stared at the Ilex Forest Shrine. What happened to Lyra? he thought. They were exploring in Ilex Forest and Lyra had touched the shrine and then she just vanished. Gold wondered if there was some evil spell on the shrine or something.

Suddenly, the doors of the shrine flew open and a huge multicolor train burst out of the tiny doors and started racing straight towards Gold. Gold looked around for a place to run, and there was none. Suddenly, sparks flew from the wheels of the train and it slowed down. It was then when Gold noticed that the train wasn't on rails.

Gold ducked as the train screeched to a halt right in front of him. Gold looked up, and to his surprise, Lyra hopped out and ran to Gold.

"Are you okay?" Lyra asked him.

Gold blinked. Is this really Lyra? he thought. "What happened?" Gold questioned Lyra.

Lyra tried hard to remember what had happened. "Let me think…there was an old lady named Anjean…who gave me the train and…something to give to a boy named…Link."

Gold was too puzzled to speak. This doesn't make any sense, he thought.

"Oh yeah!" Lyra thought out loud. "It was a sword!"

Now Gold was completely shocked. He would have never thought that Lyra, out of all of his friends, would have a sword. Gold asked, "What about a sword?"

Lyra answered, "I was supposed to give a sword to Link!"

Now Gold's head was filled with numerous questions (and absolutely no answers to them). He decided on one to ask Lyra.

Gold stepped forward and cleared his throat. "Who is Link?" he asked Lyra.

She shrugged. "Dunno."

Gold's head was again overflowing with thoughts and questions. Who is Anjean? What's in the shrine? How did the train go without rails?

Lyra turned around. "No time for questions. Let's go together, Gold!" She grabbed Gold by his jacket and headed for the magnificent train. Gold sighed. Lyra pulled the lever.

"All aboard!" Lyra yelled as the train chugged away from Ilex Forest on magically invisible rails.