Fragments of time

Chapter 15 : In the hands of fate

(Spark's POV)

I opened my eyes when sunlight shined through the window, Dad, Mom, and Icy were still asleep by my side. "Wow, Icy looks so cute when she's sleeping..." I thought to myself, then I felt my face heat up after realizing what I was thinking and slapped myself, "Dammit Spark, why do you have to act like a perv all the time?" I thought to myself as I shook away the feeling.

"Zane's words yesterday...what did they mean?" I thought. "Well the four of us are here, I guess I'll ask sis about what Zane told her yesterday" I thought to myself. "Wait...the four of us...where's sis?" I suddenly realized. "Everymon wake up! Sis is missing!" I exclaimed.

"Hey what's this on her bed?" Icy said, and picked up a piece of paper with some words on it, and I read the words out. "Hey, if you see this, it means that I'm off on a field trip with Zane...what the...dad, mom, did you agree with this?" I asked. "I'm going to kill him if he's the one that came up with this idea" mom said. "Come on big sis Leafy, knowing Blossom she probably would have snuck out and followed him anyway" said Icy.

"Hey Chatot, I haven't done the footprint job in a while, can I do it today?" I asked the bird after the guild gathering in the morning. "Sure, you're really good at the job, plus most mons hate that job, it's really rare for a mon that likes it to be good at it at the same time" he said, and I left for the sentry duty.

"Footprint detected, this footprint belongs to...town elder Torkoal? I exclaimed, then we got called by Chatot to do another gathering.

"Sorry it took me so long, I recalled what it was about yesterday, but I was kind of too slow so it took me a day to get here, climbing up to this guild is hard on these old bones" he said.

"No problem Mr.Torkoal, did you remember something about yesterday?" Owen asked. "Yes...I did recall one small thing..but it's something small" he replied. "That's brilliant friend! Please share it with us!" said guildmaster.

"When I told you about the hidden land yesterday, I said that you needed proof, I remembered something else about it...the proof...has an inscription of a certain pattern" said Torkoal. "What kind of pattern?" Icy asked.

"Um...how do I describe it? It's quite intricate and odd, it's in a peculiar pattern, the kind of pattern you rarely see" he said, and my guildmates began to discuss about weird patterns.

"Hey Mr.Torkoal, could you draw it out?" I asked. "Sure, why didn't I think of that?" he replied, and the he told everymon to back up, then made a pattern on the floor with his fire, then I saw my parents exchange looks, then dad took something out of his backpack. "Does it look anything like this?" dad asked. "It looks exactly the same, you are qualified" Torkoal replied.

"We've seen that somewhere, right Chatot?" asked the guildmaster. "Wait, that place is only a spoken legend, you aren't seriously trying to find it right?" Torkoal asked. "No, because we already know where it is" said Chatot. "What?" everymon exclaimed.

"The sea inlet towards the northwest...inside Brine Cave...but guildmaster...that place..." Chatot's voice trailed off as he said. "Yeah, that vicious friend was there" said guildmaster. "Vicious friend?" I asked. "Let's not talk about that now, we can discover more by taking the relic fragment there" said guildmaster.

"Torkoal, thank you for your help, everymon get your own stuff ready, we'll be leaving for the hidden land tomorrow" said Wigglytuff. "No problem guildmaster, it's a pleasure that I could've helped, it reminds of when I still dreamed about romance" said Torkoal, and he left the guild.

We were about to leave and do our own business, but then I saw guildmaster talking to Chatot. "Chatot, you stay at the guild tomorrow" said Wigglytuff. "Guildmaster, please forgive me if I'm out of line, but I want to go to Brine Cave" Chatot said.