Chapter 2 - Saved By the Guild

Ow. My head. What happened? …I was fighting Ganondorf atop that tower, I was wounded, these creatures came through a portal, fought him, gave enough time for the deer creature to heal me, then I was sent through a portal, and now...I'm in another world altogether? And I'm not a Hylian anymore. I'm so confused.

Maybe I should wake up. Then again, do I want to? Whatever that creature hit me with...it certainly hurt, I remember that much. ...Hah, listen to me, I've overcome worse than this!

Link found himself lying on a cool stone floor, two Arcanines standing a few feet away, their backs to him. He judged that he had been unconscious for a good few hours, but for exactly how long, he had no idea. The Totodile slowly climbed to his feet and -
- a wave of dizziness struck him and he was sitting on the floor.

Right...I've still not recovered, obviously. Ithink now would be a good time to familiarize myself with my new body. I need to do it sooner or later anyway. I just hope those two don't come over here and ask what I'm doing.
So, the young Totodile began to "experiment"; figuring out what he could and couldn't do in his new form, eventually, the two Arcanine took notice and stood there, watching Link in silence, until he looked up at some point and saw them.

"Do you mind?"
He snapped, glaring up at the two dogs, more angry than embarrassed; how long had they been standing there for?
The two Arcanines growled and gnashed their fangs, Link stood up and bared his teeth at them.
"Don't you have anything better to do than guard me?"

Fire shot out of the two manes, the first Arcanine stepped forwards and merely said
"Quiet. You know your place, now I suggest you sit back down and wait for the Alpha to come speak to you."
In response, Link started to say words that his grandmother would have slapped him for and, somehow, it seemed the dogs understood, for the on fire manes grew brighter and they snarled. A few seconds later, the alpha showed up, and Link decided to make a run for it.

He didn't get very far, in fact, he didn't even get past the Alpha Arcanine.
The Alpha Arcanine roared and slammed Link up against the nearest wall, and pinned him there, then moved his fiery face close to the Totodile's.
"I could kill you. But I wouldn't, only because you are so young. However, things like this cannot go unpunished."
The Arcanine then began to injure Link, ignoring the Totodile's cries for mercy, and eventually threw him to the back of the cave.

He didn't know how long he laid there for before he heard voices. Yells, roars, shouting.
Eventually he heard what sounded like footsteps (pawsteps?) and then he was picked up by someone or something.
An audible gasp, then a voice.
"...Link...What did they do to you?"
That voice. It could only be one person.

Link somehow opened his eyes and found himself looking up at a strange creature, one that resembled a human, almost, and

appeared to be wearing a tutu. Most of her body was white, and there were three ruffles on each hip. Beneath the ruffles, she had skinny green legs with long, pointed feet. Her arms were also thin with two digits each. She had blonde hair that covered most of her face and reached her shoulders on either side, resembling two ponytails. Large, cerulean eyes were visible on either side of the hair that covered her face. On each side of her head was a flat, red horn that resembled a hairpin. - A Kirlia.
Zelda - it washer, wasn't it? - lifted her gaze from Link to something or someone out of view.
"He'll be alright, won't he?""Yes, my dear, I think that with some healing, he'll be as good as new. You have nothing to worry about."
Link looked at the creature that had just spoke and saw a yellow, bipedal Pokémon with a white belly. It had conical ears with black stripes and a red orb on its forehead. Its long neck had several black rings around it near the base. Its stubby arms resembled flippers and each foot had a single white nail. It had a long, black-striped tail with a red orb at the wanted to know what the heck was going on.

The strange yellow creature smiled.

"You must be Link. Zelda has told us so much about you. I'm Ampharos, the second leader of "The Try Force" Guild."

"The Triforce Guild?" Link thought to himself.

"Zelda informed us that the name has some significance where you two are from, but we honestly had no idea, we simply thought the name was interesting and inspiring to other Pokémon."

Another creature that was pink and round with little triangular ears appeared and smiled. Her head was her entire body.
"I'm Jigglypuff. I know that you're confused; rest, sleep, we'll explain more when you awaken."
And then the strange creature started to sing.

Link found himself in a bed inside some building, the creatures from earlier surrounding him, and some others. Zelda was the one closest to him, but before he could even speak, the Princess started to speak instead.

"Ganondorf is here in this world."
The other Pokémon echoed the name in confusion, but Zelda continued.
"He seeks powerful items known as the Time Gears. Artifacts that have the power to stop and restart time. In fact...He has already found them and scattered them across this world, causing regions of it to freeze completely. We must find him and stop him before he causes any more trouble."

Jigglypuff spoke up.

"This 'Ganondorf' character seems to be a bad sport, but you two should sleep on it, maybe leave in the morning?"

The next morning, Link and Zelda left the Guild and walked down to the water, where they were surprised to see a familiar boat roped up to a dock.
"...Red?"
The boat's head turned, but yet it was different - if Link didn't know any better, he would say that the magical boat was actually alive, well, of course he was alive, he was, in reality, the last King of Hyrule.
"Greetings, Link, Zelda. I am glad to see that you are well. The Demon King has indeed been spotted in this world. You are seeking...Time Gears, is that correct?"
The two Pokemon clambered aboard the boat and Link quickly fell into the regular routine of getting the ship ready to sail, while Zelda explained what she had learned.

The King of Red Lions nodded grimly.
"If what you say is true, then we must be off. There is a region nearby by the name of 'Kalos'. I sense something powerful there, some sort of magic, it will take us no more than two hours to reach this region."
Link had finished hooking up the Fast Sail and a few moments later, they were off.