Inside a large forest near morning, a large tree was standing at the middle of a large plain. Said tree soon stares with his 'face' at three adult figures that approached the large tree.
"Okay, Deku Tree. Which is your answer?" Said one of them in a German accent.
"Tell to your master that my answer will always be the same. The gem and the treasure that opens will never get in your hands." Said the large tree at the figures.
"So be it." Said the man. "If our words can convince you, maybe the words of another can." He said and the three figures left the plain. "Hope you like playing with bugs."
Unknown of the tree and the three figures, a large dark cloud formed above the forest and a shout followed with a blond boy falling down from that dark cloud as it disappears. The shouting bay was frankly trying to steady himself and once he managed it, he looks down and shouts "Oh shi-" and impacts front first with the ground, catching the attention of some people in the near of his landing spot… some children in green clothes.
Later the boy groaned as he slowly opens the eyes… looking at a wooden ceiling. ANd blinking his mind restarts while trying to figure out why he got here… and where here was.
Then a face of somebody gets into his view… it took him a few seconds to recognize that face as a girl with green hair.
"Ah! You woke up. That landing you had, was quite rough. I am even surprised you're up again already. Or that you survived that."
"I had worse" admits the boy and groans "Where am I?"
"You're in Kokiri Forest." she replied "I am Saria one of the Kokori. And you are?"
"I? I am Ancelot." he said and got up and shakes his head "Kokiri Forest? NOt a place I really recall."
"Well… for that matter I am not sure if anybody outside the forest knows it even by that name, as we also are next to the Lost Woods."
"You're awake?" Said a second female voice, seeing another Kokiri girl. "You gave us a good scare. You nearly landed on Link and Mido. If they didn't separate during their argument at that moment…"
"Land? RIght… I fell… and I hit am going to hit somebody when I get home" Ancelot grunts "As it was thanks to that guy I end up here with no clue where I am." and shakes his head "And sorry for nearly landing on your friends."
Then he looks over him "Ehh… where are my clothes?" and covered his body with the blanket
To which Saria laughs weakly "Well… they got damaged so we had other ones prepared for you." and points to a chair were a set of green clothes are seen.
Ancelot looks at Saria and her companion "Oh… that… yeah… we let you alone to get clothed" and the two girls left before Ancelot got up and tried the clothes on.
As he got them on, he looks over himself and muttered: "I don't want to know how they knew my size."
"YOU GANG OF IDIOTS!" Suddenly yelled a female voice outside the hut. "IS THAT YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!"
"What's going on out there?" Asked the female Kokiri.
Ancelot rushed out as he heard the voices and looks in confusion "What is going on?"
They got out the hut. "Seems coming from the Lost Woods entrance."
Evidently, from the Lost Woods entrance, they spotted a small group of monster, who was being scolded by a young girl of dark skin, red hair, yellow eyes, wearing red armour plates, black clothes and holding a halberd with a hand. Surely she was of around 12 years, and she was scolding the monsters!
"I can't believe how idiots you can be! We had been wandering on this forest for days by your fault!" Yelled the girl at them, continuing with more scolding.
Ancelot blinked and looks at the others "Any idea what is going on? As… why are the girl is shouting at monsters?"
"We have no idea of who is she, but seems that these monsters are under her orders." Said the Kokiri girl.
After some time yelling her goons, the girl looked at the Kokiri that were looking at them. "There is an exit near this forest?" Soon the Kokiri signalled the exit to their forest, and after that, she stared angrily at the monsters, who immediately rushed out the exit as if there was a fireball chasing them.
"You're alright?" asks Ancelot a bit nervous. "You seem… to be… very angry and that isn't counting you have been lost recently."
"Shut up!" She yelled and began to walk into the town. And he simply looked after her and shrugs to that "Well… that was a thing."
Ancelot soon notes that she was looking some of the objects of the Kokiri with too much attention, and decided to follow her for a while, but when he turned a corner for following her, he was surprised that there was nothing in front of him. Until he felt the cold of steel tapping his neck.
"You know that isn't polite to follow somebody without permission." Said the girl, holding her halberd against his neck from behind.
He rose his hands "Well, it was odd that you were that interested in this place if you were looking for an exit." he admits "That got me curious."
"Well, I'm interested in the exit, but if I can get something to sell it and get some meal, that would be nice."
"Would invite you if I had money" he admits with a chuckle "Just got here myself in a way… thought in a more painful way."
"That's obvious. You're the only adult in this town of… children." She said.
"GUYS, GUYS! SOMETHING IS HAPPENING TO THE DEKU TREE!" Yelled a voice on the forest.
Ancelot didn't know what that Deku tree was but figured something important "Where is it?" he asks "It seems important for that place."
"I don't know, but if that's so important, better follow the tumult." The girl replied.
Agreeing with her, they move towards where everybody was running. And they reach one of the two exist of the village where everybody was running too and seems to be running out of the village.
As they run, Ancelot notices that all of them had something glowing floating around them. "What are these?"
"These things are fairies! Is that you never saw one?" She replied to him. "And you think that this is the moment to make these questions?"
"That one at least," he said while they run and reach a tree… a very big tree. A very big and dying tree. Looking up he whistles "Only saw two trees bigger than this one. And none of them had a face."
She suddenly shut up him with a finger on her mouth and staring at him. Then he saw the distressed looks of the Kokori "And its death is a piece of very bad news it seems."
"These kind of trees are very important. They're spirits in the form of trees, and some of them have the rank of guardians." She replied. "Surely he is the guardian of this forest. Now shut up, okay?"
Ancelot nodded and watches what is going to happen. And it seems everybody was surrounding one single Kokori. And they were all shouting, demanding some answers of why their guardian is dying.
"Calm down, my children." Suddenly the large tree spoke, making everyone shut up. "The young Link isn't responsible for what is happening to me. Is a curse that has fallen over me."
"A curse?" The Kokiri named Link asked.
"Yes." Replied the tree. "I'm sure you had these last moons nightmares of an evil falling over our world. And now, is time to show your courage."
Suddenly everyone moved away from Link after these words. The girl murmured seeing the scene. "This is getting interesting."
Then the tree opened his large mouth, leaving an entrance into the inside the tree. "Now you must enter inside me. And you Navi the fairy, you must aid him."
Ancelot had a bad feeling here and began to make his way through the crowd to get inside that tree as well, while his mind races a bit about where he heard that name Link before… and he means before Saria mentioned that he nearly landed on him. Soon saw that this Link seemed a Kokiri with blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Wait a sec!" Suddenly shouted another Kokiri with brown hair, who began to walk at Link. "You really believe that you're going to get inside the Deku Tree?! And why not me?!"
"Mido, this isn't the moment." Said Saria at him.
"That big guy choose him and he had a reason" spoke Ancelot "So let him. But if you feel better, you can come in as well. But I bet we carry your body out afterwards."
"You-" Mido turned and saw Ancelot, getting angrier. "You have no voice on this! You nearby smashed us when you landed!"
"And I could throw you on top of your guardian if I want to. So don't harass me little boy" countered Ancelot and looks at Link "Ready for that?"
"Little boy! I'm the leader of this village, and I have the Kokiri Sword for proof it!" He said, showing a small sword at his hand. "If somebody must save the Deku Tree, that's will be me!"
"Oh, this is the neverending story!" Said the girl and walked to them. "Seems I have to babysit the three of you, or nobody will get out that tree alive."
"And who are you, girl? You're not from here!" Said Mido at her face.
Without warning, she hit his legs with the halberd's pole, sending him to the ground, and aimed the axe head at his shocked face.
"The name's Ganalia." She answered. "And I'm going with you, and will not be free. Maybe I'll keep with me all the treasures that can be inside this tree. And 100 rupees per head." She said, looking at all the Kokiri around them.
All the Kokiri present yelped a large 'HEY!' after hearing her price.
"One hundred ru-" Ancelot stopped and blinked "Sometimes I wonder if you're clairvoyant dad…" and fished around in his bag before asking "Do you have a change?" and shows three orange rupees. These rupees got her attention immediately.
"Maybe we could talk about that later, right?" The fairy Navi said at them. "Now we have to get moving. Let's go, Link."
Ancelot simply grabbed the sword that Mido dropped "Wait!" he called to Link and once the boy turned around "catch!" and tossed over the blade to the young boy. Who caught it in surprise before strapping it on his back.
"What do you think are you doing? That's my sword!" Said Mido pushing the halberd to a side and standing up.
"Simple. We save some money by leaving you here." said Ancelot "My father is a weapon master and I know how to hold a sword. The way you hold it was of an ignorant brick. So I gave it to the guy supposed to go in, and give him hints on how to use it."
"I'm not leaving the sword at the hands of that moron!" He said and began to argue with Link. By the looks of the other Kokiri, this was a usual scene from them.
"This is never going to end." The girl murmured and without warning rushed to them and kicked the two Kokiri inside the tree. "Get inside and shut up!"
Shrugging while rolling his eyes, Ancelot moves into the tree as well, thinking that they could have left one idiot behind.
The group walked inside the large tree, the girl comments. "So this is the inner of a tree. Seemed smaller from the outside."
Ancelot nods and looks around, to see where they have to go to reach the curse… wherever it might be and in which form. Before looking at the ground "Hmm…" before looking up again "That's… seems very obvious."
"What's very obvious?" Asked the girl and looked down, seeing they were over a large spider web that was holding their weight. "Skulltulas…"
"Skull-what?" Mido and Link asked.
"Spiders with the form of skulls. Their shell can block many kinds of attacks, but their belly is their weak spot." Replied Navi.
"So to get down, where properly the curse lies, we have to either break or burn that web somehow. And properly beat some of the Skulltulas. The question is… which method is more proper?"
"H-Hey! Are you seriously thinking of starting a fire inside the Deku tree?" shouts MIlo in shock while holding his sword with two hands and pointed at Ancelot.
"I don't see anything for burning it here." Said the girl, and then looks closer he hole. "But seems that there is water below us." Then looked up to the highest area of the room, soon the others looking there too. "Are you thinking the same as me?"
To which Ancelot grins "Who is up for a trip into the air?" and from his back sprouts a pair of wings. Which freaked the two other boys up and jumped away from the blond haired one. "Y-Y-You you are a monster?"
"Exactly, what the heck are you?" Asked the girl surprised after seeing the wings on his back. "Some kind of Aeralfos hybrid?"
"The closest thing I could name you is Manake but that is properly unknown here… let's say I can turn between a dragon form and a human form. To different degrees." he explains with a simple shrug. "Don't worry. I don't mean harm to you. Only our enemies."
"Then if you can do that, why don't you fly up there and then fall down here against the web?" She asked at him, getting a look from the two Kokiri.
"Oh, that's right." Said Millo.
"So you don't want to have that fun as well?" Ancelot grins "Then your bad" and flaps his wings a bit to get a feel of how too much strength he has to use to get up and jumps into the air, flying as high up as possible. "Bomb away!" he shouts before rolling in and folds the wings… dropping down like a stone as he began to be covered in crystal.
"Err, I think we should get away of the web-" Began to say Link when Ancelot fell on the web and broke it, making the other three fall. "QUICKLY!"
The four ended on the lower level, falling into the water area. They got their heads out of the water and the girl looks at Ancelot frowning. He emerged and shakes his head "Better than that one time Nowi made me divebomb from a castle into the river!" he grins.
"You're completely nuts, you know?" Millo asked at him.
"Nah! Sora is the nutty one. I count as sane." grins Ancelot "Just a bit battle-happy." and shows a victory sign to Milo "So who is in the mood for some Curse busting?"
"You're right. The sooner we break this curse, the sooner I will get paid." The girl said, swimming to the nearest platform and getting out.
"Who said that you can charge us for this?" Mido asked. "Who do you think you are?"
"No you say, we don't know your name." Link replied.
Ancelot rose his hand into the air "Ancelot Yuma."
She sighed loudly and turned at them. "The name's Ganalia."
"Any other things to discuss while we swim here?" asks then Ancelot "If not, we should find that curse and deal with it."
"The sooner we end this, better," Ganalia replied.
"I bet that is for the reward," Navi said.
So they start to swim to the next dry spot and looked around to get a good measure where they have to go. Ancelot's gaze fell on a door with a heavy lock on it "Wish Dad was here… he could open that thing with ease."
"Already asking for daddy's help?"
"He can unlock any lock we could find." he simply countered "Or rather a tool he has can."
"That's funny, but I'm going to tell you a bit of advice: Nobody locks a door with a lock as this from the other side. The key must be at this side of the door." Ganalia replied.
"But who would dare to place a lock inside the Deku Tree?" Mido asked.
Link facepalmed "Isn't this obvious to you? That curse did that so we cannot reach it!"
"Maybe is obvious for you, and now we're talking about that curse, who would dare to-" Mido began and then began to think on something. "Could be?"
"Could be, what?" Link asked, getting the attention of the other two.
"The other day, I stumbled with a group of grown-up people that were coming from the Deku Tree's plain. It seemed odd that there were grown-up people in the Kokiri Forest but decide to ignore them." He said and groaned holding his head with his hand. "If I had known that they did something to the Deku Tree then!"
"Let's find a way to open that door and deal with it," said Link simply and began to move to find something, soon finding another door, this one without look but blocked by webs.
"What we do? Burn them or cut them?" Ganalia asked.
Ancelot turned one of his fingers into a claw and tried a cut but didn't get far "To thought to cut." he mused "A small fire and a bucket of water to stop it once the web is burned."
"Again with the idea of burn something?!" Shout Mido at the return of that idea.
"Will be just a controlled fire, enough to burning those webs without burning all the tree," Navi said.
Ancelot was signing and looks around and picks up a branch… "How is it possible that a branch lies around here?" Suddenly a creature similar to a round flytrap tried to bite him from a side, startling him a little.
"That's a Deku Baba, and that stick is the dry neck of one." Replied Navi.
"Deku Babas here?!" Mido asked shocked.
"What are Deku Babas?" asks Ancelot with a tilted head.
"One nearby bite you," Navi replied.
He nods and grabbed the "neck" and ripped it out "Well makes a good makeshift torch I assume."
"Just if you can take one from them when withered if their neck is stretched. If not they only leave Deku Nuts."
"I think what we got here works for now to get some fire," he said.
"You don't say you were a dragon? Why you don't breath some fire?" Ganalia asked.
"Really we have to use fire here?" Mido asked, sighing depressed.
"Because my element is crystals, not fire" was the simple reply of the boy as he shrugged "Not a single ounce of fire breathing in me. But if I get a minute, I could set up an array of crystals that works like a laser by focusing the light."
"Now are you thinking on saving the Deku Tree or kill him?!" Mido asked him.
"Let's see if we can make a fire, okay?" Link replied.
"Maybe you didn't see, but seems that there are some torches here." Ganalia signalled a torch near of them.
"Let's go" he nods and went to that torch to light up the stick he picked up before he tossed it to the webs.
"We can not play with fire here, please?" Mido asked.
"If there is no option…" Link replied.
"So stop whine and let's go" told the dragon boy and they move out to search for the key.
At the other side, they found a room with another door at the other side, but then both closed with bars, and from the centre appeared a wood-like creature with grass over the, with a rounded mouth on the face.
"Watch out, is a Deku Scrub!" Ganalia warned. "They're very simple, but they like to shoot Deku nuts from their mouth!"
As she said, the Deku Scrub shot a Deku Nut at them, nearby hitting Link and Ancelot. "And we have to send it back?" he asks while keeping an eye on the creature.
"Yes, because they hid when somebody gets closer." She replied. "Anybody has a shield?"
"Link has one on the back" points Ancelot out, tipping on the wooden shield.
He looked behind at his shield and hold it with a hand, aiming to the Deku Scrub who shoot another nut, but this time the shield bounced the nut, hitting the Deku Scrub instead, who then tried to run away.
"Catch it!" Ganalia said running at it. Ancelot jumped forward and dashes fast, capturing it with his claws and presses the body against the wall.
"Wait! Don't hurt me!" Said the Deku Scrub scared.
"And what we do now with him?" Link asked.
"The correct question is what's doing here?" Asked Mido.
"Curse thing?" Ganalia asked, and everybody nodded.
"Surely he knows something. We should interrogate it." Said Navi. "And you better drop him off or you will break him." She said to Ancelot.
"Is he made of wood?" he asks while letting go of him, and keeps ready to catch him again if he tries something.
"Yes, you meanie! All Deku Scrubs are made of wood!" Said the Deku Scrub angry.
"Talk, now!" Ganalia warned.
"Okay, okay! Even if you get the key at the other side of this room, for reach to the queen you will have to beat my brothers. And they're stubborn as for surrender unless defeated in the certain order. The order is... 2 3 1 Twenty-three is number one!"
"Twenty-three is number one?" Mido asked in confusion.
"Do you think I'm a traitor?!" Said the Deku Scrub before running into his hideout, hiding inside it.
Ancelot shrugged "Looks like that is all we could get. But it seems very clear what we have to do when we find them."
Then without warning the closed doors opened. "And now we can continue," Ganalia replied. So they are heading out and looking for the next door they could take to continue on their path. Thought They had to deal with a few monsters along the way… nothing bad but still enough to keep them caution.
Finally, they reached a room with a chest on the other side and nothing between them.
"Too quiet is this room," Ganalia said looking around.
"Better for us!" Mido said, beginning to walk forward, but Ancelot held him on the head while still 'walking' forward.
"Rule number one if something too quiet: It is especially dangerous or holds a very nasty surprise," he explains to the Kokori, who just huffer crossing his arms.
"Maybe we should start to avoid the centre of the room." Link suggested. "But the side can also have traps."
"I move to the centre of the room" offered Ancelot "And see what happens. Then we at least know what to expect" while looking up first to see if he has to expect dangers from above.
When he got to the centre, nothing happens for a while, until small bipedal creatures with a large eye similar bo insects jumped up from the cell and Ancelot got in a fighting stance, smirking.
"Gohma Larvae here?" Ganalia asked, holding her halberd with two hands.
"What they're doing those things here?!" Mido asked, holding the Kokiri sword with both hands, shaking.
"You asking me?" Link asked aiming with a slingshot.
While Ancelot was rushing to one and punches it, straight into the eye and send it flying towards the wall, disintegrating it upon impact.
The other Gohma Larvae began to move to surround them, while some jumped over Ancelot. Ganalia slashed and stabbed around against the nearby larvae that got at the range, while Link was shooting his slingshot at the far ones.
One just got near Mido, who got scared and began to wave the sword in front of him. "Got away, got away, got away!" He yelled, making the Gohma Larva jump away of him.
Ancelot rolls his eye told called him how to properly swing that weapon to kill that insect, but before that Ganalia stabbed the insect with the halberd's spear.
After a short battle, the room was clean, this time for good. Looking at Milo he put his hands on the hips "Next time you try to fight, try to wield the blade properly or keep your distance."
"Asked the one who-"
"Hey, we got the key!" Link said, holding a key near the chest, now open.
Ancelot nods "Then let's go to this door and see what we find behind it. Who wants to bet it is the three brothers we heard about earlier?"
"Who would dare to bet in this situation?!" Said Mido, turning around.
"He has a point." The fairy replied.
Ancelot rolled the eyes "Where is your sense of humour? I wasn't really going to bet something."
After undone all the way back to the room, they opened the closed door, getting inside the new room. There they found three Deku Scrubs that where shooting at them just when they got inside.
"Good reception…" Said Ganalia sarcastically.
"Is a family thing" he admits to her with a shrug "Let's recall what that last guy said regarding the order we have to beat them."
"The 'Twenty-three is number one' thing?" Mido asked, just avoiding a nut.
"No, must be the ''2 3 1' thing." Link replied.
"Bingo!" told Ancelot and got his claws ready to either stop or hit the projectiles back to ensure they don't have to spend long to beat those three.
After of some trial and error hitting the Deku Scrubs with their own nuts, they figure that the number was the order of the three Deku Scrubs from their point of view: First the one of the right, second the one of the left, and third the one of the centre. After beating the three Deku Scrubs, they hid scared on their hideouts, the door behind them open.
So they head for the door and open it… and Ancelot whispers "I fear we will face the curse here. Who is still up for that fight?" and turns to the three, expecting MIlo to back out… if he was smart.
"Let's end this for good!" Said Mido, being the first to walk inside.
"I don't know if he is brave or dumb." Ganalia sighed loudly.
"Dumb," said Ancelot simply before heading inside the room, prepared to face whatever they have to face… and properly keeping that idiot alive somehow. When inside, they didn't found anything.
"That's all? Nothing?" Mido asked. "Just a massive dark room without nothing there?"
"Shut up!" Said Ganalia, looking around, soon hearing something like steps. "You're hearing that?"
"Yes, but from where?" Link asked, looking around. Everybody was looking until Ancelot gulped "I think I found it…" and points up to the ceiling.
They looked up, finding a large bipedal insect with a large eye with an odd symbol as the pupil. The large creature detached itself from the ceiling and landed on the ground just in front of Mido, roaring loudly and sweeping aside the Kokiri with a kick, sending the Kokiri Sword flying and the Kokiri hitting the wall, seeing the stars.
To which Ancelot jumps against the large bug and tried to punch it "Link! Get the sword!"
Link runs and catches the sword, but the large insect was protected by its own skin.
"This must be a Gohma, that's sure." Commented Ganalia. "But how we stroke it down? I never met one before."
"Well… if what I heard is true" stated Ancelot "Hit the eye. Hard."
"With what?!" Link asked, but then remember he had the slingshot. He then began to aim and shot at the eye, but was pretty hard to hit the eye, because the creature didn't stop of moving and attacking them.
Ancelot picked up stones and threw them but as he wasn'T somebody specialized in long range his adepts weren't really fruitful.
Ganalia tried to get the Gohma's attention to forcing it to keep the view on her and maintain the eye at the range. And they keep running around to get the position for Link to finally hit this monster. Until one of the nuts made a lucky hit and the monster screeches in pain before falling on the ground.
In that occasion Link holds his blade and began to strike the eye repeatedly, making the monster screech in pain, but the beast stood up and began to run away, climbing the walls of the room up to the ceiling.
"Well… we have to repeat that again," muttered Ancelot while getting the next rocks to throw at the insect.
Then the Gohma began to make odd noises and after a while, some Gomha Larvae fell from the ceiling to the ground.
"It is sending its babies against us?" asks Link in surprise while taking a step back for better standing.
"That seems," Ganalia replied holding her halberd firmly. And they were moving to attack those "babies", starting to slay one after another.
After slaying some of the larvae, the large Gohma fell to the ground again, advancing to them, this time closing his eye every time they aimed to it.
"Unless we get another shot…"
Suddenly stones began to fly hitting the Gohma from a side, making the large insect turn to that side, seeing Mido there, throwing stones at it.
"Go away, you big dumb bug! Leave the Deku Tree alone!" Yelled the Kokiri at the insect.
"Are you crazy to get its attention when you cannot defend yourself?" shouts Link with wide eyes as he runs… just in time as Ghoma is jumping against the Kokori to punish him for the stones.
Ganalia was closer than Link and pushed Mido away, avoiding the insect's attack who crashed against the wall, getting stunned by the own hit. Then Ancelot jumps on its back and tried to pin it down "Kill it!"
Link rushed at them and began to slash the Gohma's eye, until after the final slash, the insect screeched loudly in pain while shaking violently, until stopped and began to disintegrate in spectral flames.
"We won" pants Link while sheathing the sword down and sighs loudly.
"That seems," Ganalia said and then punches Mido's head. "That for that foolishness."
And in pain, he holds his head and whined "Foolness? I saved us!"
"And nearly lost yours. And deads don't pay debts."
He was opening his mouth to argue… but didn't really speak. Ancelot crossed his arms "I don't pay for that idiot's head."
"Oh, don't worry. I will get paid, even if the other Kokiri must do it." She replied.
Before Mido could say nothing, a magic shining circle appeared just in the centre of the room. Ancelot points to it "I take the guess it is a quick exit way?"
"Looks that way" shrugged Link "Shall we go?"
"Yes, let's go." Replied Ganalia, pulling Mido on an arm.
They entered into the circle, and before they ever knew, they were back outside the Deku Tree. "Really good convenience" he mused loudly.
The Kokiri were looking at the group who just appeared in front of them. "Well done…" Suddenly resonated the Deku Tree's voice on the plain. "You have demonstrated true valour… and knew you would carry my wish Link…"
"Hey, and us what?" Asked Ganalia. "I'm still want to get paid."
"Still I have to tell you more, so please wait until I end." The Deku Tree said, making the young girl to shrug. "Now… listen carefully… A wicked man of the desert cast this dreadful curse upon me… This evil man ceaselessly uses his vile, sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Realm that is connected to Hyrule… For it is that Sacred Realm that one will find the divine relic, the Triforce, which contains the essence of the gods…"
"Ba-ba-ba, wait, wait, wait!" Interrupted Ganalia. "The Triforce, you mean THE Triforce? The legendary relic that put the world at war to get it?!" She asked with a large grin but saw the faces of others who wanted to hear the story. "Okay, okay, continue…"
The Deku Tree continued. "Before time began before spirits and life existed… Three golden goddesses descended upon the chaos that was Hyrule… Din, the goddess of power… Nayru, the goddess of wisdom… Farore, the goddess of courage…" The Deku Tree continued. "Din... With her strong flaming arms, she cultivated the land and created the red earth. Nayru… Poured her wisdom onto the earth and gave the spirit of the law to the world. Farore… with her rich soul, produced all life forms who would uphold the law."
"The three great goddesses, their labours completed, departed for the heavens. And golden sacred triangles remained at the point where the goddesses left the world. Since then, the sacred triangles have become the basis of our world's providence. And the resting place of the triangles has become the Sacred Realm."
"Thou must never allow the desert man in black armour to lay his hands on the sacred Triforce… Thou must never suffer that man, with his evil heart, to enter the Sacred Realm of legend…" The Deku Tree warned at them.
"That evil man who cast the death curse upon me and sapped my power… Because of that curse, my end is nigh…" That words shocked all the Kokiri who heard the story. "Though your valiant efforts to break the curse were successful, I was doomed before you started…"
"What? Everything we have done is for nothing?!" Mido asked shocked, while the Kokiri began to enter in despair.
"Yes, I will pass away soon… but do not grieve for me…" Said the Deku Tree noting their despair. "I have been able to tell you of these important matters... This is Hyrule's final hope… Link… Go now to Hyrule Castle… There thou wilt surely meet the Princess of Destiny… Take this stone with thee, the stone that man wanted so much that he cast the curse upon me…"
Suddenly in front, the Deku Tree appeared a flash of green light, and from it fell a green gem with gold ornaments, which flew to Link who got it on his hands.
"The Kokiri's Emerald?!" Mido asked seeing the object.
"Wow, that must be worth a fortune!" Exclaimed Ganalia seeing the Kokiri's Emerald.
"It's not for you to sell!" warned ANcelot while he hands over his share of her "price" while crossing his arm "So… we get to see a princess huh? Well, I could fly us close."
"Why not directly to the castle?" asks LInk.
The dragon boy looks at link "What would be your first reaction if you see a dragon flying towards your home without knowing its intentions?"
"And surely the guards could spot you at far distance and close the city just for safety," Ganalia said. "So unless we want to explain why we 'had not' seen a dragon when the city guards say they spotted one, we will have to do all the way on the ground."
"Close is relative" stated Ancelot he chuckles "And given how close it is tonight, I could get you just before the torches could reflect my light."
Ganalia wanted to retaliate his idea when the Deku Tree interrupted them. "Must be wary… the wicked man's sorcery will not be your only threat… People of dark heart as him roams around, wishing to accomplish the desert man's wish…"
They looked at the large tree. "The future depends upon thee, Link… Navi the fairy… Help Link to carry out my will… I entreat thee… Navi… Good… bye…"
After those words, the Deku Tree dried in front of their eyes, falling silent for good. Neither the Kokiri were able to speak after of see their beloved Deku Tree die in front of their eyes.
"Good-bye… Great Deku Tree…" Navi's words were the only words heard on the plain.
"Of which people he was talking about," Ganalia asked to herself.
Without the knowledge of everybody, on the top of the rocky ravine that surrounded the plain, they were being watched by the binoculars of a man clothed with a blue field uniform with a rounded steel helmet, with a straight-armed cross emblem in a side of the uniform. After seeing all that happened, the man abandoned the zone without being spotted.
An hour later, Ancelot and Ganalia were standing on the bridge of the only way out of the Kokiri Forest.
"Exactly, why you're here?" Ancelot asked the young girl.
"Just a question, you have some experience infiltrating into a castle? Because I highly doubt they will let us in through our pretty face, and you need somebody that knows how to avoid guards. Or you're thinking of entering into the castle and strike down everything until finding that princess?" Ganalia asked with a grin.
"I sneaked six times into a castle, one time into a prison and broke one time out of a prison… the last one left the prison in ruins thought" admits Ancelot. She just sighed at his answer.
"I… have no experience" admits Link on the other hand.
"Ah, you're finally here." Said Ganalia looking at the Kokiri. "You took your time."
"Had to say goodbye… and get Milo off me to make me pay for not saving the Deku Tree faster from the curse," explains Link
"Does that idiot really believe we could have gone faster with the curse breaking?" asks Ancelot in disbelieve.
"Anyway, let's leave this forest. We have things to do." Said Ganalia.
"Wait for Link..." Said Saria, suddenly appearing near of them, jolting Ancelot and Ganalia.
"In the name of… From where you came?! You nearly gave me a heart attack!" Asked the girl.
"She was all the time here" stated Ancelot and shrugs "Ok, I admit I only knew because I smelt her."
Link stared at him "How good is your nose?" Ganalia just stared at them after that question and shook her head.
"Link… I knew… that you would leave the forest… someday, Link… Because you are different from me and my friends..." Saria said at Link.
Ancelot takes Ganalia's arm "We wait at the exit for your heartfelt goodbye" and pulled her along to the forest exist.
"Hey, don't pull me!" Ganalia yelled when she was pulled by Ancelot. "Then let's just leave them alone, ok?"
The two Kokiri spoke between them until that Saria gave to Link her Ocarina. Soon he departed to the exit, while Saria kept looking at the exit where Link left.
On an unknown zone inside a room, an unknown man was sitting on an armchair while hearing music coming from a turntable. At that moment, a nearby phone began to ring, making the man rise from the armchair to go to the phone and grabbed it.
"Yes?" The unknown man asked.
"Mein Feldmarschall, the Gohma has been slain, but the Deku Tree is dead." Said a voice from the other side of the phone.
"Gut, and the Kokiri's Emerald? You got it?"
"Not, mein Feldmarschall, is at the hands of who defeated Gohma. A native Kokiri, a girl thief of the same age, and an adult boy of what we don't have much info. Actually, they're going Hyrule Castle. We intercept them?"
The man thought for a moment. "No. Just keep an eye on them."
"As you orders, Mein Feldmarschall!"
The man put the phone on its place, placing his hand on his chin while going to look outside a window.
"If they really defeated the Gohma… maybe we have to push the Goron a little more…" The man muttered to himself. "I will have to inform him about this."
