Hyrule

He woke up coughing, smoke fumes billowing around him. Lucas did not remember how, but he had crashed the car into a tree. It was a miracle he was not injured considering the car was almost ripped in two. But how broken really was he? It was the whisper inside his head growing louder that had awoken him. Now, he thought he could decipher what they were whispering. "Lucas… Lucas…" He looked around, expecting to find the source of the voice inside the forest.

"Lucas!" He jumped and held his hands up to attack. "Calm down," Ness said. "It's only me. What happened?"

Lucas scratched his head, climbing out of the car. "Did you see that man at the gas station? The one on the motorbike?"

"I saw the motorbike. I did not see the man driving it. Why do you ask?"

"Argh, it doesn't matter. Wait…" Images flashed inside Lucas' mind. "You've seen him before. Yes. He turned you into a trophy and laughed in your face."

"What are you talking about?"

"You must remember. You've seen him before!"

"I don't even know who he is. I told you, I didn't see the man driving the motorbike."

Lucas looked at the tyre marks spreading across the grass. "We've got to find him." He ran after the trail.

Ness dashed after him, shouting as he dodged through the trees. "Why is it so important that you find this man?"

"I can't explain," Lucas said. "There's just something in my gut that warns me about him. We should have never seen him in Onett." They burst out of the trees to a great, wide open field. There were no tyre marks to be seen. "This doesn't make sense. It's like he drove out of the forest and suddenly disappeared."

Ness gazed at the horizon, looking at huge hills, great mountains and giant volcanoes. "Which direction do you suggest we go?"

"You don't want to go back to Onett?"

Ness shrugged. "We've come so far. We might as well find the man we came to look for." They set off in a random direction, trekking across the field.

The heavens soon opened, and the rain lashed down. Lucas huddled himself whilst Ness fought the wind to keep his hat on his head. Lucas whimpered as a fork of lightning pierced the ground mere yards from them. "We've got to find shelter from this storm," Ness said.

A noise bleeped in Lucas' head. There was something out there, something beckoning him towards it. "This way." Ness tried to ask questions as he followed, but Lucas only focused on the bleep in his head growing louder and quicker. He ran over a ridge, coming to the shrine lit by orange light. "In here." The shrine light turned blue and the door opened for them as they approached. Lucas jumped once more as the ground lowered beneath them, taking them into the pit of the shrine.

They entered an area that was like the underground of a lost temple that had been crafted by beings of another world. Lucas could not help but be transfixed by the blue torchlight radiating through the shine.

A thin voice echoed through the room. "To you who sets foot in this shrine… I am…"

Violent blue lights flashed before Lucas' eyes. Brief flashes of the body of some fearful blue deity throwing bodies through the air. The blue flashed across so quickly it was like some blur he could not truly comprehend was attacking creatures he could also note make out. "Lucas… Lucas…"

"Lucas!" Ness put his hand on his friend's shoulder. "A little help?" He gestured to the deep water in front of them, whilst the magnet forcefield he had created around himself kept a leaver pulled open. What the lever kept open Lucas did not know, since he had briefly been taken somewhere else by the flashes of blue light.

"PK Freeze!" He shot crystallised snowflakes at the water, freezing it into a road of ice. Ness kept the magnetic forcefield around himself as they walked across the ice. As they moved off the frozen road, his magnetic power on the leaver failed, and a door slammed down behind them. They were stuck in a room at the bottom of a set of steps that led up to an ancient being sat cross-legged and closed eyed surrounded by a holographic square of blue light. The blue light transfixed Lucas once more as they walked forward. So familiar. So eerily familiar. He reached out and touched the hieroglyph in the centre of the holographic square.

A blue face with hollow eyes stared back at him. "I see you. I found you before all the others. Thanks to you, I remembered who I am. Soon, you will all be mine."

"Lucas! Lucas! Lucas!" Ness shook his unconscious friend whose eyes had glazed over with blue light. Had that weird spirit mummy of the shrine affected him when they had given him an orb? Or was it when it had transported them out of the shrine and back at onto the field? The rain had stopped as the sky grew darker. Ness placed Lucas on his shoulders, struggling as he carried him across the unknown landscape.

The ground bounced as two riders on horses rode towards him. "You were right, Link," the woman of the two said. "There are lost wanderers amongst Hyrule."

Link studied Lucas. "Yes," he said. "As I suspected."

"Who are you? Have you been watching us?" Ness asked.

"I am Princess Zelda, and this Link. These fields are not places for boys to be wandering, especially at this time of night."

"I'm not like most boys."

"We already know that," Link said. "I can see that from your friend."

"You know what is wrong with him?"

"Link has the same curse as your friend," Zelda said. "I know because I have seen the same blue lights in his eyes. Terrifying visions have corrupted his Sheikah Slate."

"Your friend must have succumbed to the deity responsible for these nightmares," Link said. "So far, I have been able to resist him, but I fear he will be back stronger, especially since he now has the soul of your friend. That is why he is not yet a trophy. He needs him alive, so he may harness his energy."

"Who do you speak of?" Ness asked. "And why does he need to harness energy?"

"My memories are not complete. I cannot say for sure who the deity is. Come to think of it, I am not completely convinced the images I see ever really happen. I see the blue being slaughtering many of us. Your presence here cannot be a coincidence. Perhaps you both were once slaughtered by him."

"If that were true, why do I not remember it?"

"I too remember none of it," Zelda said. "But I trust the mind of Link. Seems like for some reason our memories were wiped."

"If only I could find a location where we encountered the blue deity," Link said. "That would jog my memory for good. You and your friend should come with us. It is his best hope of revival." Link looked out on the distance. "It is our best hope of finding him."

Link rode with Ness on his horse, while Zelda took Lucas with her.