Hello again faithful readers. Here is the second chapter to "Wind of Time." This time, please do not be shy about reviewing.
Chapter 2
The Kingdom of Hyrule
When I came to, I noticed that I was no longer in Eggman's base. I was in some strange castle, with dim light flowing in from the stained glass windows. I heard footsteps and looked up to see a dark-skinned figure clad in dark armor. I recognized him as the evil man I saw in that vision. He stared down at me like I was some insignificant bug on the window of his life.
"Who are you?" I asked him, but cringed when I saw that I was still using that ridiculous language. He seemed to understand me, however, as he replied in the same tounge I had used. I didn't get any of it, by whatever cosmic prank was going on, but I was able to understand that he was giving his name as "Ganondorf". I chuckled at the ridiculous sounding name, which clearly agravated him. He grabbed me by the chest and lifted me so that I was at the same eye level as him. While he was doing this I noticed a strange mark on the back of his right hand, consisting of three small yellow triangles arranged to form a larger one, with the triangle on top being of a deeper color. I felt a strange sort of mystic power in his grip, like the guy was near invincible, and even the Chaos Emeralds would be dwarfed by his full strength.
I was positive that Ganondorf was telling me off for laughing at him, as the enraged look on his face was unmistakable. I still found it odd that was speaking this language but could not understand it, and had to read a person's facial expression to get a general idea of what they were saying. I kept eye contact with him as he ranted on about, from what I figured, how he would be able to crush me like a bug and how he had easily taken over some place called Hyrule. I peiced together that that was probably where I was, and that it was the Hyrulean language that I was speaking. (A/N: I'm using the term "Hyrulean" because every race/ethnicity in the kingdom uses it, and not just Hylians)
I simply told the man that I barely understood, and he just looked at me disbelievingly. He dropped me and I literally hit the ground running. I ran off at top speed, and the interior of the castle went by in a blur. I'll admit, I got lost a coulpe of times, but I was eventually able to find the exit. I instinctivley lept at the edge of the doorway and glided across and bottomless hole I did not notice earlier. If I didn't jump when I did, I would be hurtling around in nothing for the remainder of my life.
I looked back at the castle and saw that it was floating above that pit of death. I wanted to get away from this place and ran towards a nearby town.
I reached the town and found it overrun with these horrid looking, zombie-like monsters huddling in fetal positions on the ground. One of them screamed, and the sound completely paralized me. I could not move at all, like the shriek had injected some immense fear I had never known.
"Come on, Sonic, MOVE!" I mentally screamed at myself, releived that my thoughts were still in English. I tied to move my legs and had immense trouble doing so. I was moveing a little, but it felt like I was going slower than Knuckles' mind. I think the only reason I was beginning to be able to move at all was because I was the fastest thing alive, and as such, had slightly more resistance to immobleizing techniques. I was soon able to completely move and ran for a small temple I noticed standing nearby.
As I entered the temple, I noticed a large mountain in the background behind it with these sinister looking clouds circling the peak. If that Ganondorf guy was really the big cheese around here, the populace must be miserable. I swear, that guy makes Dr. Eggman look like a saint. As I went inside the temple, I saw a bight red carpet leading up to an alter with three stones rotating above slots in the alter. Past that, there was an opening directly below a diagram that was almost exactly like the mark I saw on the back of Ganondorf's hand. The main difference aside from scale was that all three triangles were darkened in instead of just one. In the room past that, there was the platform I saw in my vision, but the sword dug into the pedistal was gone, as that boy most likely had it right now.
I noticed a raised platform near the entrance of the temple with the three triangles of some weird mark I didn't recognize. I quickly left the temple and ran as fast as possible from the ruined town to the nearest exit, so as to avoid those undead creatures. I ran across I wrecked drawbridge to a lush feild that went on fro acres. I stopped there and felt the beauty of the place wash over my mind. But I could not figure out what I should do now. I felt completely isolated, unable to hold up my end of a conversation. I wondered what my friends were doing right then. I somehow knew they weren't dragged here like carry-on bags, so I was preety much alone here. They're probably worried about me.
I felt the wind rush through my quills, and remembered how I would always let it decide where I should go next. Being as fast as it, the wind felt like a distant relative to me, so I never felt completely abandoned when I felt its soft touch on my fur. I followed the breeze in the direction of the mountain I saw earlier, walking so I could savor the rich beauty of the land. It angered me that Ganondorf would ruin such a picturesque land with his vile heart. I wondered if someone, anyone was standing up to the beastly tyrant. I vowed that if I met anyone who had the courage to fight the evil man... I would fight alongside him. I don't care if his power exceeds the Chaos Emeralds, that dosen't mean I can't use them to exploit his weakness, whatever it may be.
I was told of this after Link and I restored the peace of Hyrule and I returned home, but shortly after I was puloled into Hyrule and left Team Dark, Tails, and Silver to fend for themselves against an army of Egg Pawns, Shadow utilized his Chaos Blast to obliterate the pack, and most of the base. He spared all his allies, Eggman, and his two robotic servents. The five of them were barely able to escape before the base exploded. Rouge filed the report to the GUN commander, and including the whole "Sonic-started-speaking-what-I-initialy-thought-was-Latin-before-Omega-was-unable-to-translate-then-suddenly-disappeared" thing, and before anyone knew it, half the populace began searching for me.
Tails had told Knuckles and Amy about my disappearence, they were amoung the first to start searching. Soon, every mobian alive was included in the trackdown. During one of the meetings between Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Shadow, Rouge, and Silver, someone mentioned that they thought the odd language I was using at the time had some importance. "It might be possible that Sonic was dragged to where that toungle is the official language, so if we find a country where everyone speaks that, we might find him." Tails supplied after the initial idea was presented. Silver, however, just shook his head in disappointment at the idea. "If that is the case, then the blue blur is no longer in this world." was his only reply.
"What do you mean 'no longer in this world'?" Rouge asked him.
"No one on this Earth speaks that language." the blank-canvas hedgehog responded. "It is only in another world that the natives use that tounge."
"How would you know that?" Tails had asked. "Have you been to that world before?"
Silver responded positively to the kitsune's question, and proceeded to describe Hyrule to them. He stated that it was possible that I was summoned there by some mystic force. "I can take you guys there, but there are two main drawbacks."
"What exactly would these drawbacks be?" Amy immediately asked.
"First, setting up the gateway is an extremely time-consuming labor, and the fastest I can finish is in 2-3 days."
"And second?" Knuckles had chipped in.
"Once I get the gate set up, only our spirits can enter Hyrule. We have to leave our bodies behind."
Everyone was variably disturbed by the idea of only entering the kingdom in spirit forms, but they agreed to go anyway, concern for me overruleing all else. Silver then proceede to begin setting up for the transportation ceremony. By the time they would arrive in Hyrule, Link and I would have only two things left to do on our list of tasks to accomplish. Three if you count the final showdown with Ganondorf.
And there you have it. Review this time or I will kill all of you. By the way, I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog ot The Legend of Zelda. If I did, this wouldn't be a fanfic, now would it?