Chapter One – Meeting the hero

Today was my birthday and all of my father's friends showed up to see me. I don't care much for them, but this birthday I got a diary.

Father never makes time for me and thinks a diary will help me share my feelings. I tried to tell him about a strange dream I had the other night, but he wouldn't listen. I believe it was very important and has to do with a boy from the Kokiri forest.

In the dream I saw a beam of green light shoot out of the forest and a small boy dressed in green traveling with an annoying fairy appeared. This boy seemed to push away the dark clouds that I think is an evil that's going to appear.

I feel this dream is a sign of things to come and so I have decided to send my servant Impa to the Kokiri forest to speak to the Great Deku Tree and make one of the boys come to the castle once they obtain the green jewel from within the tree.

Link awoke to the noise of a loud crash that jolted him out of bed. Looking around his room he noticed a fairy was flying around his room and knocking all his stuff to the floor.

"Wake up already! The Great Deku Tree has summoned you. I'm Navi; I'll be bringing you to him. Now hurry up!"

The fairy seemed to be trying to get his attention about something, but all Link was able to hear was an annoying ringing sound that was coming from her as she continued to move in a hurry.

Link climbed out of bed and followed the fairy out of his home high in a tree. As he walked out onto the balcony Saria, a girl from that village that was completely obsessed with Link, was standing below waiting for him.

"Hi link, I was just waiting here for a few hours for you to wake up so I could let you know I'll be waiting for you once you return from the Great Deku Tree."

"Well that's not creepy," Navi said. "But how did she find out you were going to see the Great Deku Tree? I just got the news a moment ago."

As Navi talked Link continued to only hear annoying ringing from her so he tried to swat at her to get her to shut up, but it proved to be unsuccessful since she just flew higher and continued ringing.

As they approached the path to reach the Great Deku Tree, Mido was blocking the path. He was the bully in the Kokiri forest and really enjoyed teasing Link the most.

"Hey Link," Mido said with an evil grin. "Where do you think you're going?"

Link was about to answer when Mido cut him off, "Well, if you think you're going to see the Great Deku Tree you better think again. Only a warrior can pass through here and I took your sword and hid it somewhere in the village and I also burned your shield so you'll need to buy a new one if you ever want to get by me."

Link gave a deep sigh and turned to go look for his lost sword and enough money to buy a new shield. He knew this would be easier than trying to fight Mido. He decided to look in everyone's house to see if his sword might be there. Walking right into the closest house he went up to a pot in the corner and threw it against the wall making it shatter all over the floor and revealing a single rupee that was hidden inside.

"What are you doing Link?" one of the Kokiri kids asked. "That beautiful pot was a gift from my mom. Why would you break that when you could have just reached in and taken the rupee out? If you just asked I would have been more than happy to share some rupees with you if you were in need. I don't think I want to be friends with you anymore."

Link didn't answer, and was too focused on gathering money for his new shield as well as looking for his sword to care about anyone around him.

"You probably should apologize, Link." Navi said. "Would you like me to show you how to apologize?"

Ignoring Navi's annoying ringing seemed to only make her want Link's attention more. "Hey, Hey, Hey!" Navi's chimes continued to the point it made Link stop his search and look at her.

"Why don't we try looking for your sword?" Navi said, but all Link heard was more ringing.

Link was now annoyed that he stopped his search to focus on a fairy that was unable to communicate with him. He finished collecting rupees within that house and there was no sign of his sword so he continued through the village walking in, breaking their stuff looking for rupees, and going through their stuff trying to find his sword, then continuing on to the next home.

After looking all over the village he finally noticed a small hole in a cliff side that he didn't notice before. It was just big enough to crawl through and he found himself in a small open area on the opposite side of the cliff where a giant bolder was rolling around due to some sort of magic Mido must have cast upon it to keep anyone away from that area.

Link quickly ran through as the bolder chased after him. Each turn he made the bolder was right on his tail. With each step the bolder gained on him and soon it was right behind him. Up ahead he suddenly spotted a cliff edge that he might be able to climb and jumped for it, but as he leapt into the air his foot was snagged by a tree root that was protruding from the ground and he crashed down hard as the bolder crashed down on top of him.

Link was dead, he knew he was dead. There was nothing else that could have happened, yet he felt fine. Opening his eyes he noticed the bolder was gone, so he brushed himself off and moved started to move when he noticed the bolder suddenly appear around him. Looking closely at the situation he realized Mido had used magic to create an illusion to scare him away from that area.

Moving the rest of the way through the area Link found his sword hidden in a wooden box that was placed on a tree stump. As he picked it up he felt power surge through his veins as he lifted his sword high in the air. He knew he could stand against any foe, as long as they were small and weak, but he still felt powerful. Now with his sword in his possession again he could focus on buying a shield and heading to see the Great Deku Tree.

Heading into the village shop he went to the shopkeeper and looked at the pictures painted on the wall of the items that were for sale. There was only one selection for a shield there, but it was a beautiful handcrafted metal shield with the triforce and Hyrulian symbol on it and painted with such skill that it didn't matter it was the only option on the board.

"Oh, you want a number 6? Very good choice, but we're all out so I'll make you something special." the shopkeeper said as he ripped a piece of bark from the tree he had built his shop inside of and painted a strange circular symbol on it and handed it to Link and took the 40 rupees he stole from the other towns people.

Looking over the shield it looked nothing like what he was hoping to get, and calling it "Special" only made Link angry that he got ripped off. Link was about to argue about the bait-and-switch, but at that moment the shopkeeper yelled, "YOU HAVE NO MONEY NOW GET OUT!" and threw Link out of the shop.

Taking his new shield he walked back outside and continued back towards where Mido was blocking the path to the Great Deku Tree. Now that he finished playing Mido's game he would let him through.

As Link walked up to Mido he pulled out his sword and shield to prove to him that he obtained his weapons again, but Mido looked unimpressed by what he was able to accomplish and shrugged Link off as he walked away saying, "I didn't really care if you got your weapons again or not. I just wanted to waste your time and keep you from whatever you're doing."

Upon reaching the area of the Great Deku Tree he noticed how open the area was and how tall the Deku Tree stood. There was a face on the trunk and his eyes watched Link as he drew closer.

"Child, it is good that you are finally here. Though I have not called upon you even once in these many years that you lived here I feel it is time for you to fulfill your destiny. You are the only child I feel I can sacrif- I mean, trust for such a task. For your path is far too dangerous for any of my other children.

"A day ago I was visited by a creature that spoke to me from the darkness. It told me I would need to send one of my children to the castle and that they must take our spiritual stone that protects our forest. I told the voice I couldn't sacrifice my children, so the voice said disaster will befall our forest if I didn't follow orders. I need you to journey deep inside me to see what evil lurks in the darkness and destroy it. I have a feeling the protector of the stone is in great danger. If you survive I will tell you more."

With that the Great Deku Tree opened his mouth wide to allow Link and Navi to venture in to defeat the evil lurking within.