Chapter 3 - The First Time Gear
Around a few hours later, Link and Zelda found themselves in the region of Kalos.
There was so much to take in all at once - this was an entirely new world and region, after all. But sightseeing would have to wait, finding the Time Gears and ultimately Ganondorf were far more important.
The two had spent the day wandering the village, which was named Rikokako, in which they had ended up, asking the locals if they had heard of a Time Gear being here, to which they had directed the two to the nearby forest, called by the locals as 'The Missing Woods'.
The two fought various Pokémon and learned how to use their Moves, to sometimes great effects. Link used Ice Fang on a Caterpie and it was frozen, but thawed out a few seconds later and ran away. Zelda used a Move called Hidden Power. It seemed to be quiet powerful, as the name suggested, but Link wasn't exactly sure what the effect was.
After what seemed like many hours of wandering and fighting, there was a bright light up ahead. Curious, Link pushed aside various shrubs and low branches, Zelda close behind him, until they reached a clearing.
A marble pedestal was at the far end, whatever was on it was the source of the bright light.
"Link, I think this must be one of those Time Gears."
Zelda began to walk towards the bright light, but then tripped over something. Link caught her before she fell, but then was suddenly struck with a headache.
Ow...Why...Why do I feel like this? My head…So….off balance….
Then his vision went white
- It was somewhere else. Zelda and him were being attacked by something, some sort of huge creature -
"Link?"
Link opened his eyes and shook his head to clear it, then glanced up at Zelda.
"I...It's nothing."
Was it really nothing though?
The two approached the pedestal and discovered that the source of the light was in fact a Time Gear.
"...Wow...i can feel the magical energy from here!"
Link reached out and laid a hand on the Time Gear, the headache returned, and his vision once again went white.
- He was in the clearing, but yet, he was bigger, stronger, older, and that wasn't the only thing. He was also holding the Master Sword and Hylian Shield. And a Time Gear was resting on a golden chain that was around his neck -
He was sitting on the ground, the Time Gear still on its pedestal, Zelda looking down at him with worry and concern.
The Totodile shook his head, then got up and looked at the Time Gear.
These visions...Why do they keep happening? And what are they?...And why do I feel so drawn to this object?
"What's wrong, Link?"
Link gazed at the Time Gear for a little too long, then moved his gaze to Zelda.
"...I...I've had two visions within the past five minutes."
"Visions?" Of what sort?"
"There was a strange creature attacking you, in the first vision, then, in the second, I was here, that Time Gear around my neck, I think I was older for some reason, and I had the Master Sword and Hylian Shield,"
Zelda stared at him for so long that Link began to feel uncomfortable and then the Kirlia shook her head.
"I think you haven't fully recovered from what those Arcanine did to you."
Link gave her a look of dismay, even though she didn't see it, as she had turned around and was looking up at the sky.
I know my visions were real! If only I knew exactly when they would happen.
Zelda was walking away and Link had to run across the clearing to catch up.
"Where are we going now?"
"Well, we still need to see if Ganondorf is here. If he's not, then I suppose we could move on."
"To what region though?"
"...Hmm...How about Galar?"
"Sure."
The two left the clearing, after mentally marking where it was in their heads, and started to look for Ganondorf. Any traveling Pokémon they came across, they asked them if they had seen Ganondorf, or had heard of him, and the response was always "no".
Eventually, Link and Zelda decided to stop for the night. Zelda fell asleep quickly, but Link stayed up for a bit, staring up at the night sky, mulling over the visions he had seen.
Were those visions real? They had to be. They felt real to me. If only I could prove somehow that they were real, before they even occur...It's late. I should get some sleep, maybe I'll be able to think about them more clearly in the morning.
Link, too, fell asleep soon after and the next morning arrived quickly.
Zelda was gone when Link woke up and he decided to go off and do 'morning things', in order to wake up more. He discovered that he enjoyed raw fish, and decided to take some back to Zelda. When he returned to the makeshift camp site, Zelda was there, and told him that there was indeed a Time Gear on Galar. Link asked her how she knew this, and she informed him that a Physic Pokemon had camped nearby the clearing, someone called Dusclops, and that the Dark Pokemon had told her everything she had wanted to know about Time Gears and then some.
The two decided to head for Galar and look for the Time Gear there, Link wondered how this Dusclops found them, and why he appeared to be so interested in the Time Gears.
The Totodile was suspicious of this Dusclops character, but Zelda seemed to trust him enough. So why did he feel so wary?
The two Pokémon cleaned up their campsite as best they could and set out for the village of Rikokako, all the while, Link couldn't get the visions out his head. What did they mean? Why had they appeared to him? And, most importantly, were they real?