I did not mean to leave the forest.

I had found the entrance to the Lost Woods. It was a rather large log in a cliffside, which I soon entered lest I forgot it's position and was unable to do so later.

I was soon, of course, lost.

My only weapon was a stick. I had got it from a fight with a Deku Baba that oddly popped up on one of the platforms in the lake. Using notes from an old book from the shop, I was able to put a few runes on it to make it many times more durable, as it would otherwise break very easily. I soon needed it to fight off some insane kid I met in the woods who threw flutes at me for some reason. When I exited I found myself in a vast field with much more to explore.

I could go everywhere except where I wanted to go. And that was back. No matter how many times I went back into the Lost Woods, the pathways always seemed to lead right back to that field.

There was a farm at the center of the field, and a nice girl there. Her name was Malon. We talked, but some weird guy with a long, ugly face kicked me out and I was never able to go back there again.

"Oh cheer up!" a small ball of red light with wings flew out of my pack and into my face. I could just vaguely make out a female figure inside the orb if I squinted, but otherwise it was just a ball of red light, and it would stay that way until she decided to let down the light and show me what she looked like.

Sneaking around a giant helicopter flower, I replied "Why don't you try being kicked out of every place you ever try to go?"

"I've been with you the whole time."

"Doing what exactly? Sleeping under my hat?"

"Hey! Being 'a little ball of light' is harder than it looks. What would you know, human?"

"Don't make me step on you."

"You wouldn't do that."

"If you piss me off enough I just might!"

It was then she made the biggest mistake ever. Flying figure 8s in front of my face she began to do what was forbidden. The Evil Act.

"HEY! LISTEN! HEY! HEY! HELLO! LISTEN! HEY! LISTEN! HELLO! LISTEN! LISTEN! HEY! LISTEN! LI-"

Before I realized it, I had hit her.

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Night had fallen by the time she woke up.

The camp was scattered with the remains of a few small skeletons, but I was used to it now. The initial wave seemed to be done, and it seemed tonight was going to be one of the easier nights.

I could tell when she remembered what happened when the small campfire I had hastily made suddenly sprang up to about 8 times its size.

The second wave of skeleton children began to start, but before I could get up, they burst into flames one by one. Whether she was just venting her anger or protecting me, it was nice to know she wasn't going to throw me into a mass of undead soldiers.

By the time the sun rose, she had slain 372 of them without physically moving a muscle. I could tell her mind was taxed, however. Without saying a word to each other, we both succumbed to the sandman.

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Another giant flower spinned above us. It seemed to be ignoring us, and I silently wondered whether it could see under itself.

"Look, I'm so-"

"Shut it."

"It was an accid-"

"SHUT IT!"

We came into a forest, The trees were different here, though. Instead of large and thick, these were small, and the leaves were spiky. But they were just as durable.

I saw a spring. And that was the beginning of the chaos.

"A spring! I haven't washed up in days!" I began hanging my clothes on a nearby tree and ran towards it.

"I think I'll pass."

"Oh come on!"

"Me. Fire. That. Water. Probably cold water."

I laughed and grabbed her wing with my index finger and my thumb and pulled her with me. Water engulfed us.

I immediately realized something was wrong. There was something on my back weighing me down. Through the heavy weight that had been suddenly tied to my back, I furiously swam through the small spring that had suddenly become a vast ocean. I almost didn't reach it to the surface. And when I did I wished I hadn't. Everything had a greenish tint. And it wasn't from the trees. Even the sky was oddly greenish-blue.

Then I realized that my guardian had once seen the same way in red.

She was there. But she no longer had wings, and she was no longer small.

She was human, and I was the fairy.

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"What…happened?"

My wings were wet, and heavy. It was hard to stand up. It felt weird, being grounded because of wings. It didn't make much sense to me.

"I think…this spring…switched us."

"How?"

"I don't know…"

"What are we going to do?"

"We should be thinking about the present, not the future." I said, "Specifically your current state of dress."

She sunk back into the water. "Perv!"

I sighed.

"What am I supposed to wear like this? I can't just walk around without clothes…"

I turned to my own clothes, still hung on a tree.

She stared. "No way! Those are boys clothes!"

"You don't have much of a choice."

She sighed.

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"Your clothes are too small."

"Better than nothing."

She sat down. "What do we do?"

"Well…the spring did this…maybe it can undo it?"

It was then the rotary flower spotted us. It's razor-sharp petals spun as it slowly dropped from the sky. I instinctively reached to my staff and tried to get it out, but instead I nearly ripped out a wing. Turned over, I laid on my stomach as my entire back was in tremendous pain.

My guardian (Well, I guess right now I was the guardian, but…), in turn, tried to take off but stumbled, having gained size at the cost of her wings. Regaining her footing, she grabbed my staff and threw it, luckily having it bounce off the small button on the center of its underside. Wounded, the flower shook in the air and fell onto the spring.

The spring was destroyed.