He was falling and fast. The blur of green and black streaked past him in an incomprehensible mass. For some reason this was not like the first time he crossed dimensions. He felt a slight tinge of motion sickness as a noticeably enlarging black dot made its way toward him. He began to speed up almost to the point he felt was going to pass out. Then with extreme speed the dot was not longer a dot but a prodigious hole in what could only be described as a swirling green vortex. He came to a dead halt and at the same time felt as though he would vomit if had eaten anything in the last twenty-four hours. He hovered there a moment and like a baseball nearing the apex of it's flight, began to very slowly move again then faster and faster till he was back at that gut wrenching speed. He blacked out.
"Please stop poking me." These words formed in Will's head. He began to be aware of himself again and had to pay heed to an excruciating pain in the back of his head and a small annoyance in his ribs. "Stop poking me." These words formed in his head again. There was a repetitive sound playing in his ears and in an attempt to silence it he began to feel around for his alarm clock.
"Ooo, it moved!"
This was an unfamiliar voice to Will and began trying to decide what it was but the pain in his head tripled at this attempt. As will moved closer to conciseness he also realized that his bed was somewhat stony and hard and that his covers and pillows must have disappeared in the night.
"Poke it again."
The same voice a new voice Will didn't know. After discovering that his bed had mutated in the night, his head began to throb horrifically.
"AHGGGGGGG" Will had screamed suddenly and without warning and truthfully without his direct help. The sounds of feet could be heard running quickly every which way. Will passed out again
Will's mind woke up again even though the pain was still but considerably lessened. Gradually his mind began to string thoughts together again. "This is real." He told himself firmly, vaguely remembering the mantra like sentence he had been heard repeating to himself the last time he had passed. Now that his mind was back at work, his consciences began to start up little by little. The little pain in his ribs was gone and the fact that bed was no longer normal surfaced. That repetitive thumping could still be heard, although faint, in the distance. Then his memories hit him full force and he dared not open his eyes for fear that it had all been a dream. He ran both hands on the ground around him and felt something that was not where he slept, not to mention the lack of feeling in center of his palms.
Will opened his eyes and even the dim light from the fading sun stung them and left small purple dots blurring his visions slightly. Even though he could not see fully he could still what were evidently trees, he was lying in a forest and for some reason though he couldn't quite place it, he recognized it.
He sat up and immediately and then he lay back down. He was experiencing lightheadedness no doubt from the pain in the back of his head. He reached up with both hands and rubbed them across his face in an effort to erase the grogginess from his being, this was accomplished and he also detected the feeling of a warm and cool spot coming from his hands that when felt in unison was very pleasing.
The sun had started to set and was lying on the ground in the middle of a forest. At this thought he began to feel a bit foolish, this would obviously seem a bit odd to anybody walking by. He decided to make another stab at standing and was more successful this time as he managed to sit upright with feeling of vertigo. He looked around and drank in his surroundings. The forest itself was very distinctive, but it wasn't in the way it looked, it was in the way it felt and sounded. The trees themselves were of a breed Will had not seen before, short and unusually large circumference wise. As far as the sound of the place went there were very few audible noises but it seemed the forest had voice all its own and was speaking though Will could not decipher it, it gave the impression a low soothing hum.
"Come on he was over here."
A voice, Will was shocked out of the forest's enchantment and looked about wildly to see who this voice belonged too.
"Are you sure there is someone over here?" A second voice female this time however Will was not worried this at the moment. He was in a forest somewhere and what was more he was in totally new universe.
"I promise he was right over here I think someone was poking him with a stick and then he screamed and we all ran and I was trying to find you and…"
"Ok I believe you, just show me where they are."
Will could hear them getting closer. His instincts were screaming at him to hide he was I a very vulnerable position right now and would hate to have his new life cut short. So with all the strength he could muster he stood, wobbled for a moment, fell and lost the power of his mind once again.
"Where did you find him?"
"He was in the forest, passed out."
"Any clue as to who he is?"
"No, all he had on him was the clothes he's wearing and thee weird things in his hands, they seem to be affixed to his hands."
Will began to stir. His mind came to him much quicker now, the pain in his head had all but vanished, and immediately sat up and his eyes slid into focus. He knew this room he had seen it countless times and now he was there. It had predominatly brown color a desk the bed he was lying in and a single large window with red curtains which were shut at the moment due to the fact it was night outside.
"Ahh your awake." It was the female voice from the forest. It sounded soft and gentle.
"What were you doing in there?" A male voice. This one was strong and powerful but kind even though he was trying to force himself to sound stern.
"Crono don't, he just woke up we don't even know what he's been through." only one word registered with Will from this statement… Crono
Will was more or less feeling normal at this point and was repeating that one word in his head as turned to look at the two people that had rescued him. Somehow, he wasn't quite sure, he didn't pass back out. The two people standing adjacent the bed he was in were none other than Crono and Nadia. He felt his mouth hanging agape but was powerless to close it.
Nadia moved toward the bed with an air of concern. "Are you all right." She said "Your not about to pass out again are you?"
Will just slowly shook his head and said "No everything is perfect, I think."
"You think?" Now it was Crono speaking. "What were you doing in the forest?"
Will was not sure how to answer this a story about being able jump through dimensions didn't seem like a very good one right now so instead he explained.
"I've come from 11,000 B.C. from the island kingdom of Zeal" Will paused to see the effect on Crono and Nadia's faces.
He then closed his eyes as if in deep thought as the most wondorous feeling of happiness and adrenaline surged through him. Raising a hanf to his temple and pressing it there he said, "Hmm but something has happened.".
Will's mind was working as fast as it could as a story wove in his mind like a brilliant tapestry.
"I was a supposed to meet someone but I can't remember their name, all I know is that they are know as the Key Maker." He paused again. "Obviously something has happened," he said this as he looked about himself "I've lost all my equipment save my pants and my necklace."
Will's hand moved to his necklace which was a silver chain adorned by a likewise silver cross wrapped in the same shiny gray bands.
There was a knock on the door downstairs and Crono moved for the stairs, Will felt a bit put off seeing as though his grand story which was going culminate in a fight with a dragon of some sort, was cut short.
Crono was gone for a moment, some voices were heard then a crash and slam. Crono returned to the room with a very worried look on his face, turned to Nadia and said, "That was Lucca, she says your father has sent gaurds to capture me on charges of kidnapping."
"Kidnapping?" Nadia's face bore a look of distress now, "Kidnapping who?" realization dawned on her face "Me?" she shook her head "But you didn't kidnap me I came of my own will, I know I'll just go back to the castle and sort this out."
As will watched this scene he began to realize what had happened. That kid had went and got Nadia to come save him and in the process he had messed up the events that were supposed to set them on their journey through time. He laughed a bit to himself those looks they gave him when he had told them where he had come from were not from the what he wanted but from them thinking he was mad. Nadia made for the stairs and Will knew he had to do something fast to get things back on track he was about to make Crono a little upset.
"I remember now, Nadia wait," Will pulled the covers down and stood up. He walked to Nadia and stared at the pendant around her neck, it was a just a plain coral pendant, but it was what he needed. He made one last look out the window too see it was getting dark, good, he thought to himself this would make things a bit easier. Nadia tapped will on his forehead, "Umm what are you looking at?" Will felt a bit embarrassed he was staring right at her chest without noticing it he promply replied. "I was admiring that pendant would you mind if I borrowed it for a day or two?" he already knew the answer to this question but he was getting desperate and if the wrong answer came. "No im sorry but this has been in my family since…" will then interjected "Its been in your family since 12000 B.C. a full one thousand years after the time I come from and I really need to borrow it for a while." Nadia had that look of sympathy on her face again. Will was starting to get irritated and said "Look I know how it sounds but I am not crazy and if you don't let me have that for a while Crono is going to end up in jail with a good chance of getting the death sentence." Will breathed an air of frustration then get a good idea, nodding his head he continued, "How about this come with me to fair, Crono too of course and I'll prove it."
Will waited for the response with bated breath. Nadia's hand had gravitated to her necklace and he could see she was in deep thought then slowly nodded and replied "Ok if you can prove it then I'll you use but if not I am going straight to the castle to sort this out."
Will could have turned a backflip but resisted. "Great ok first off can I get a shirt and some shoes maybe before we go like I said I lost all my stuff." Crono having stuck to his norm of silence just nodded and pulled out a familiar set of clothes from his closet and pointed to a blind. Will took then willingly and moved to the blind put them on and stepped back out. It was a nearly all black outfit consiting of a long sleeve shirt, a white and black vest over that, and a pair of thick black pants.
"So how do I look?" Nadia made a sound that resembled a hmm then snapped her fingers walked the cloaset and pulled out a long black duster and said. "Here put this on." Will did so and she stood back and stared for a moment then nodded. "Ok then lets go."
The tree of them moved to the stairs but Will pulled on Crono's shoulder and said in a whisper, "Grab your sword and we need to stop by and talk to Lucca." Without a word he nodded and picked up his steel blade and attached his sheath to his waist.