Chapter 1: Fairytale

"Wake up…Wake up and listen."

Link peeled open his eyes slowly.

"Who said that?" His naïve, young tone was only heard as a whisper within the little but on top of a tree. He called it his home.

"You're too young. You don't live by yourself, do you?"

Link started to get afraid. Where was this voice coming from, he thought.

It was too dark to clearly see anything out a nightly landscape from his safe viewpoint; the carved window from his hut.

All that was really noticeable was a small bouncing light that shed a cold glow.

"Hello?" Link started to approach the fairy.

"What's your name?" The fairy asked.

Link was now certain that the voice was coming from the small hovering light. Link didn't answer the question. Instead, he slowly reached for his little sword.

"Do you think I'm some kind of bug? Put that down!"

"Then what are you?" Link asked.

The fairy saw this as her window of opportunity.

"My name is Navi. I lost my way in the forest and was looking for someone…someone older than you to help me find my way."

"Hey!" Link got offended and especially hated being considered too young, "I'm stronger than I look!"

Navi started to laugh and it gave Link an uneasy chill.

"Okay, good." Navi started hovering around his room, "So can you help me then?"

"Yeah I can." Link started to buckle on his shield on the back and his on his boots.

"Aren't you scared little boy?" You usually walk around in the forest at night?" Navi asked, her voice not clear.

"No and I'm not a little boy." Link's attention now was to prove to this fairy something about himself.

He stuck his foot out to get on the ladder and down the tree.

"Link! Hey Link!" It was Saria's voice from the window of her hut; the tree next to his, "Where are you going? I heard you talking to someone."

"It's this fairy." Link turned his head, but Navi was now out of sight.

"What fairy?" Saria giggled, "You're making this up. Okay, I'll see you in the morning.

Cold sweat.

Where had this fairy disappeared to?

"…stupid fairy…" Link turned his head.

A little light wandered off past a few trees.

"There it is." Link went off, now in a chase through the forest.

"You have to keep up." The fairy said, with Link behind, running, almost out of breath.

"Hey! I thought you're lost. Where are you going?"

The fairy eventually stopped, but it was after at least 10 minutes of running.

"Okay, now you can help me find the way." The fairy was clearly playing with him.

Link didn't see this though.

"I don't know where we are now." Link said, catching his breath and looking around.

"Are you saying you're lost?"

Link made a face, "Yeah, I guess so…where do you need to get to anyway?"

Navi told him, "Have you ever heard of the Deku tree?"

"I don't know…I don't think so."

Navi laughed, "You're such a little kid."

Link was tired of the fairy, "Okay, I'm going to find my way back. You can go find that tree yourself."

"It's not just a tree stupid boy," The bubble of light hovered to him, "It's the Deku tree."

"Link!"

A voice further ahead called for him. It was clearly a girl's.

Through those bushes and trees, something is wrong, Link thought.

Shing

The sound of his sword echoed and right after came his footsteps, running through the grass.

"Ah!" Link fell backwards after colliding with what at first was a wooden figure.

"Attack it!" The fairy sand by his ears.

The slice sounded like chopping wood but he saw nothing in the dark and shadow cast by the trees.

As the moon spat its rays, revelation was made in the light.

"Saria?" Link turned blue.

It was Saria but her body was preserved in a wooden form. Her head now separate from her body.

"What did I do?"

"Hey! Hey! Look at me!" The fairy tried getting his attention.

Link's mind was already somewhere else.

"Hey!" The fairy hit him in the face, "Do you want to save your friend?"

That got his attention.

"You can do that?" Link wiped his eyes, "Okay."

The fairy went ahead of him, deeper in the forest.

"Now." Navi stopped, "Look…the Deku tree…"

Link approached this tree but found nothing special about it.

And then the tree's eyes began to open.

The mouth opened as well.

The tree's vines pounced out of the ground and grabbed Link by the feet, bring him towards the large tree's mouth.

"You tricked me!" Link managed to get one foot out and sliced Navi in half.

The fairy's light went out like a burnt candle and its feathers divided, blowing away with the wind.

"Little forest boy." The Deku tree spoke, "I am hungry.

"Stop!" He pleaded.

"Be quiet little boy. Close your eyes." The tree's teeth shined.

Link was now suspended a dozen feet to the sky and below the wide open mouth of the Deku tree.