"One, two, three, four..." I heard my brother behind me as I ran into our garden; there were a few bushes and trees, but mainly just grass. Our trampoline would be a useless place to hide, due to the fact it was basically transparent. I looked up at one of the trees, and began to climb it.
"Five, six, seven..." Luckily, we were playing up to twenty seconds, so I had enough time to climb it right to the top. I gripped the nearest branch as tightly as possible and clung onto it to try and wing myself forward. For a seven year old, I was doing pretty well at climbing this tree. I didn't want my older brother to find me that quickly!
"Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve..." He drawled on tiredly from inside the house. I'd left the door open, now he'd now I was outside for sure. I slapped my forehead angrily as I climbed higher and tried to get a better grip on another branch. I couldn't reach it though, and almost fell, but I caught myself and hugged the trunk tightly. With nothing to lose, I jumped for the branch. While I was on it, it miraculously held my weight, but began to creak.
"Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen..." My brother grumbled and began to look around the house as I could hear his elephant feet across the floor, with a small bang, I heard him collide into a table. I winced, and that's what did me in.
The branch snapped when I made a sudden movement, and I fell. My arms clawed at the branch in front of me, but could not reach it in time as I fell fast. I braced myself and tried to call my brother as panicky and loud as I could.
"Jack! Jack, help me!" But he didn't come; instead I heard the rest of his counting. I closed my eyes, and had no choice but to accept it. But I didn't want to die, I was too young. I wanted to live and thrive alongside my family and have children of my own and everything else I could have if I grew up! This wasn't what I wanted.
I opened my eyes, and saw the tree above me, and I saw Jack with a horrified expression on his face. The ground swallowed me up with a bursting blue light, and I choked. I heard my brother's voice, and then nothing. I was falling through time and space, and then I passed out of my consciousness.
When I awoke, there was nothing but the colours green and brown. My head was pounding angrily and my whole body was tired. I curled up in ball and began to cry, I was only seven years old! Why had this happened to me? Maybe I should've stayed inside my house when playing with Jack, I bet this was his fault; he always plays tricks on me. But he had a face that looked like he had seen a ghost, so perhaps it went wrong? No, otherwise he would've apologized.
I was in a forest, and not in my own home, so I did not know where I was. Tears began to form again and poured down my cheeks without stopping. When I stood, I almost fell over. I could only hear the tweeting of birds and the rustles of leaves as the wind blew through.
"Hello?" I called out hopefully, but no reply came at all, just the wind blowing past mournfully. But then, it finally happened. A voice called out to me alongside the wind.
Fear not young hero, I am here, a feminine voice whispered around me. It was almost nostalgic and I began to run towards it as it wisped away. Soon enough, I found myself at a glowing spring. I poked the water gently, and it slithered around my arm like string. I shivered.
Young hero, I will give you my gifts, but you must make sure to help us, the woman called out to me again. I looked up and saw her. A woman with brightly coloured clothing that glittered with some sort of dust and the skirt seemed to be part of the spring. Her mouth did not move, but I heard her.
I am Keine, the leader of the three nature spirits, all of us will give you our gifts if you agree, and then you may choose to go back to your land after helping us. As the woman spoke, two other women appeared. One floated down from the sky, and one swung out of the trees. Did they mean that they could help me get back to my brother?
"But how can I help you, I'm only a child!" I frowned, my tears coming back from their temporary stop. Keine smiled at me with a faint glow of motherly warmth, I looked at her and she beckoned me closer. I took off my shoes and put my feet in the shallow spring. The small tendrils of water began to slither up my leg, and I tried to them off.
Do not fight it, my young hero, Kheine warned with her smile collapsing into a frown. The two other women landed in the water with small splashes. Do you agree to help us? She asked me again.
"Yes, but how?" I said desperately, my body shivering in the cold spring. The small waterfall behind Kheine began to glisten as the three women held hands, surrounding me. The spring began to shine, and I felt something powerful shoot up my spine. Pain was the first thing that hit me, and then I felt strength. The woman, who came down from the air, shrank down till she became the size of my hand and little wings grew out of her back.
With our power, now, this is my sister, Navi, she will help find the other hero, Kheine smiled at me as Navi flew around my head excitedly. Power flowed into my body, and the last of the shining water died out and was replaced with the normal water. I heard footsteps behind me and Kheine told us to leave as she vanished with a small sigh.
For a seven year old, I felt like I'd just had the best adventure ever, but that wasn't correct. This was only the beginning of something grander and something greater. I looked at Navi, and she smiled at me.
"So, I'll help you out, but you've got to remember to keep calm and listen to me when we come colliding into trouble, now let's go before the people of Ordon try to catch us!" She grinned and flew high up into the air and did a few air-cartwheels. I stopped and crouched into one of the bushes by the spring.
A girl and boy around my own age walked into the spring with a horse. The horse looked directly at me and neighed, but the two children didn't look at me. I tried to get out of the bush to stop them and say hi, but then I heard a loud 'Hey!' behind me.
"...Fine." I groaned and skulked behind Navi as the spring began to get further and further away as we walked. "I wanted to make some friends..." I complained to the fairy above me.
"We do not have time and you cannot be seen until the time is correct." Navi compromised with a falsely happy tone. I pouted and rolled my eyes and crossed my arms as we walked. In a small clearing, there was the biggest tree I've ever seen. It was huge and had multiple little windows inside it. On the outside, was a little sign that read; The Seer.
"The Seer?" I asked Navi curiously.
"He was also known as the forest watcher, but he died long years ago, but the villagers keep visiting and knocking on the door to ask for advice." Navi frowned and continued "He gave us his house to keep heroes inside it, but no other hero apart from you has ever risen before, although Kheine thinks there is one in Ordon village. Pfft, as if! Those entire people do is chopping down our trees and throwing boomerangs at the animals, especially that rascal Link!" Navi ranted harshly as she flew through one of the open windows and unlocked the door in front of me so I could enter.
"Why am I here?" I asked her, not being able to shut the door due to the fact Navi was fluttering around it. She looked at me like I was an idiot.
"Because you are our hero, well, technically, you are our heroine, but we need our hero before you can help us entirely. So until then, I've been given the task of raising you to the best of your ability." She put her thumbs up and finally flew away from the door so I could shut it. I turned to look at her.
"What exactly are you?" I bit my lip as I waited for a reply.
"Well, I am one of the three nature spirits- we govern the elements you see." She landed on my hand as I held it out. Her white hair glistened against her bluish skin.
"Which element are you?" I asked because this was one of the most interesting conversations I've ever held.
"I'm air and fire of course." She laughed delightfully and swung herself from my finger, just like how I'd swung myself from that branch before I...
"How long will I be here for?"
"As long as it takes for me to find the other hero, here, let me see your right hand." She ordered me with another wide grin. I held it out to her, and she pointed at my triangular shaped birthmark. "That is the mark of the Triforce, also known as the mark of a hero, or the mark of courage. Your partner should have one on his left hand." She explained knowledgably, as if she was a queen of info.
"So what are you waiting for, why are you not searching?" I interrogated her with an irritated voice. "I want to go home, so hurry up and find him."
"It's not that simple, oh and I forgot what your name was." She said, smoothly changed the subject.
"I didn't tell you." I told her.
"Oh, well, what is it?" She asked me, whilst sitting on a lantern. I stared at her with a shocked expression as we entered what seemed to be the lounge.
"It's Lytie, and why is there no TV? Or phone?" I asked with my eyes widened.
"What's that?" she asked, "Oh, you came from another world, I forgot, it's just that you look so much like a Hylian..."
"What is a Hylian?" I asked, confused.
"The residents of those born in Hyrule are of the Hylian race." She explained, "And you look just like one, except for the hair."
"What do you mean?" I questioned her further.
"Follow me, please." She danced away and left a glowing trail of dust that died away in less than a second. I ran after her and the floorboards creaked beneath me. I had a feeling I'd be here for years, and always waiting for Navi to find this person. When I found her, she was staring at a large mirror, I sighed.
"There you are!" I exclaimed as she stuck her tongue out at me.
"So, take a look at yourself in our world." She chuckled and pointed at the mirror. As I approached it, time slowed to a stop and feet stopped moving. I was still my height and age, that was obvious, but everything else was different. My previous brown hair was now... Purple and my eyes were simply just a darker shade. My skin was pale and all the bruises I had from playing with jack, were now healed, and I was thinner. I frowned at my face- even that was different as I looked just like one of those fairy tale princesses. Surely I wasn't stuck in this form forever? Even Jack wouldn't be able to recognize me!
"I-I look..." I stuttered, unable to find the words.
"Beautiful?" She asked me, but I shook my head and my eyes burst into their now normal waterfall state. "Don't cry Lytie, you're prettier than Keine, and perhaps even more than the princess Zelda herself- and she is supposed to be the fairest of them all!" Navi winked at me, but being a pretty little girl wasn't something I actually cared about.
"How am I supposed to go home if I look like this?" I exclaimed loudly with a big frown.
"Don't worry, once you help us out, we will take our power away from you and you will return to normal!" She smiled hopefully, but she didn't have to as I was already happy with that reply.
"I will? Then let's go to that village you keep mentioning and find this Hero!" I said, determined with an unbreakable willpower.
"Hey, come back! I told you it's not that simple!" Navi wailed from behind me as I sped down the wooden hallway.