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I'm as likely to own Zelda as I am to spontaneously begin speaking Mondoshawan. And I only speak two languages, English and bad English. (I don't own The Fifth Element either.)

The next morning, everyone met outside the Kakariko Inn. Everyone, especially Wind, looked a lot better since we'd slept. Come to think of it, guess it had been a couple of days...

As I stretched, Time rubbed his hands together. "So, ready to get moving? We've got a journey of ages to start!"

Twi, Zelda, Impa, and myself nodded.

Wind looked at him suspiciously. "You're way too happy for this time of morning," he grumbled.

"What can I say? I'm a morning person," Time shrugged, still smiling. "Let's go!"

Impa led us to a tree near the entrance to the town. At the base sat the mysterious purple crystal. There was a slightly creepy eye symbol carved into it.

"This is it," announced Impa. "It matches the description of the stones of the primeval Lanayru Desert perfectly. However, my predecessor left no indication of how to use it."

"Maybe it involves the Master Sword," Twi theorized. "That's how the dimension-hopping worked."

"Maybe. But then again, traveling through time is not necessarily the same as traveling through dimensions," retorted Time.

"I vote we whack it with our swords," stated Wind.

Everyone looked at him.

"What? It works in most cases."

I rubbed my chin. "True..." I trailed off as I glanced at Zelda. She had this really weird look on her face.

I walked over and touched her arm. "Hey, you okay?"

Zelda jumped at my touch. "Um... Maybe."

Twi quirked his eyebrow. "Maybe?"

"What's up, Zelda?" Time quirked the opposite eyebrow than Twi had.

Zelda furrowed her brow in thought. "I... I feel like I... remember this."

All of us looked at her in surprise. Except Impa. She never seems surprised about anything. Maybe she's psychic? Nah, she probably just covers it well.

"It's... called a Timeshift Stone, I think," Zelda continued, "Like Impa said yesterday, it can throw the surrounding area into the past. Which really isn't time travel."

"Aw man," complained Wind. "How're we gonna stop Ghira-creep now?"

"However," Zelda went on, "Time travel might be possible if the Master Sword is used in conjunction with the Ocarina of Time."

Wind jumped into the air and pumped his fist. "SWEET!"

Impa stared at the Queen of Hyrule. "Your Highness... How do you know that?"

Zelda bit her lip. "I... am not really sure. I merely seem to know. I can't explain it beyond that."

"Best not to push it then," said Time. He walked to Zelda and took her hand. "You shouldn't push yourself to remember things you can't. If it's really important, it'll come to you eventually." He smiled at her gently.

Zelda smiled back. "Thanks Link. I'll take your advice."

They kept smiling at each other.

Twi, Wind, and I pretended we weren't there. Impa got rid of the awkwardness with a discreet cough.

Time and Zelda jumped. Time released her hand and tried to play it cool while Zelda smoothed her hair and didn't look at us.

"So," Time said quickly, "If we need both the Ocarina and the Master Sword for this, maybe we should test this out with each individually. Make sure we aren't vaporized instantly and... stuff."

"Okay!" said Wind. He drew his sword and ran at the stone with a yell.

"No wait!" Time yelled. "I didn't mean like that!"

His warning fell on deaf ears. Wind launched himself ten feet into the air and struck the stone as he returned to the ground.

The stone made a chiming sound and glowed. An instant later, a blue circle extended around it.

We ran away screaming as fast as we could.

Apparently, in the distant past Kakariko Village had been a lava pit.

"Well," I asked once we were a safe distance away, "How do we fix this one?"

Twi looked at the now lava-surrounded stone speculatively. "You know, Zelda only said the Master Sword was required for the traveling. I bet we could turn off the stone with any kind of impact."

"Sounds good," replied Time. He yanked out his bow and quickly fitted an arrow to the string. He fired, hitting the stone dead on. It glowed again and the lava was replaced with grass.

I let out a sigh of relief. Impa and Zelda stood stoically while Twi and Time chewed Wind out for not thinking before he acted. Again.

"Well, at least we know that the stone works," I said.

Impa looked at me with that unreadable face of hers. "I believe that is the understatement of the year."

I gaped at her. "Wait, did you just make a JOKE?!" Or try to, at least...

She stared at me. And grinned.

And then she was back to normal in the blink of an eye. My jaw hit the ground. I was completely lost for words.

Impa turned away and looked at me out of the corner of her eye. "You saw nothing. Understand?"

I saluted. "Yes ma'am!"

Zelda looked at us. "Did something just happen?"

"No!" I answered quickly.

She looked doubtful, but replied, "Alright then." Zelda turned to face the group as a whole. "Now that that's over, ready for Ocarina testing?"

Time grinned. "Absolutely!" he exclaimed as he whipped out the Ocarina.

Wind just about died from fanboying.

Time glanced at Zelda. "Your lullaby or the Song of Time, do you think?"

She gave him a quizzical look. "Song of Time. Why would it be my lullaby?"

"Well, if it's important it usually is keyed to the song of the royal family," he replied with a shrug.

"Fair enough. But this time I think it's the Song of Time."

"Okay." Time put the ocarina to his lips and played the song from the Temple of Time.

The stone chimed again. This time however, it hummed and pulsed with light.

"I think you turned on the time travel setting," said Zelda.

Time grunted in agreement.

Zelda fidgeted. "Guess that means you're going again."

Time nodded without looking at her.

"Well... Good luck. To all of you."

"Thanks," Twi, Wind, and I replied simultaneously.

"Hey, Link? My Link I mean..." Zelda walked closer to Time. "Link... promise you'll come back this time."

Time finally turned and looked at her. "I promise."

She nodded as he turned and walked towards the stone.

"Links." We all turned to look at Impa. "Watch yourselves."

"We will!" yelled Wind. The rest of us nodded.

We finally got to the stone. We drew our Master Swords and struck the stone.

Everything went white.

"Hey, do you think they're okay?"

"Who cares?! They look like spies to me! KILL THEM!"

"Chill, Red. That's too much effort."

"Will you guys just GET A GRIP?! Or better yet, ACT LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE?!"

"Who - Who's talking?" I tried to open my eyes.

"Hey! We got a live one!"

"No kidding, genius."

I finally managed to pry my eyes open. I was lying in a field with the others next to a Timeshift Stone. And there were four me's standing over me.

"Oh great. Four me's in one era. This should get interesting." I blacked out.

Hey guys! I am soooo sorry about how long it took to get this chapter up here. In the past couple of weeks I've been from New Mexico to Mississippi and everywhere in between. So I've been out of wifi for a while. So here's this chap! Enjoy :D

Also, before you ask, yes New Mexico is a state in the US and NOT part of Mexico. Amazing how many Americans don't know that.