Hylia's instrument of time
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Zelda: Ocarina of time novelization
Chapter one: Deku decline
(POV-Deku tree)
In the vast, deep forest of Hyrule... Long have I served as the guardian spirit I am known as the Deku Tree...
The children of the forest live here, the Kokiri, live here with me.
Each Kokiri has his or her own guardian fairy.
However, there are is boy who do not have a fairy...
The second would like to remain alone... but in time every one must find they need help.
One of these boys have a power beyond my own. His name is Link, with the other boy they prefer to be called the hero pair.
Link and Joseph, they help protect the Kokiri and the forest animals.
-Link's vision-
There is a drawbridge surrounded by a pair of walls with torches, the night sky flashes with lightning as the bridge lowers the light from the torches cast a shadow on a fleeing horse. Link shivers and his eyes widen as the royal horse rushes past him nearly trampling the boy. A robed girl stares at him with a scared expression and the horse rider glances his way before urging the horse faster. But even as the girl stares a presence makes itself known behind him. Turning his body halfway the image that burns into his mind is bright as ever to this day. As if on a time schedule both the horse and lightning jump, its fiery orange hair glistening in the rain. Its rider with the same red orange hair smiles coldly at the vanishing frame of the mare in the distance. His dark armor smoking from a dark purple aura shifts as the rider directs his gaze at Link. With a malicious grin he thrusts his palm at the garbed in green, who in turn opens his mouth to scream but not a sound other that the lightning can be heard.
-Deku tree-
"Navi... Navi, where art thou? Come hither..."
A winged orb of light blue flies to my nose, it floats back and forth bobbing in the lightest breeze. "Oh, Navi the fairy... Listen to my words, the words of the Deku tree... Dost thou sense it? The climate of evil descending upon this realm... Malevolent forces even now are mustering to attack our land of Hyrule..."
Navi nods her light moving and brightening at the movement. "For so long, the Kokiri forest the source of life, has stood as a barrier, deterring the outsiders and maintaining the order of the world, but...before this tremendous evil, even my power is as nothing..."
I stopped for a few second to let her soak in the details, "It seems the time has come for the boy without a fairy to begin his journey... The youth whose destiny it is to lead Hyrule to the path of justice and truth... Navi...go now! Find our young friend along with his companion guide them to me... I do not have much time left." The fairy almost left but I managed to get these last words to her. "Fly, Navi, fly! The fate of the forest, nay, the world depends upon thee!" Flying up the hill and through the passage she hurried to Link.
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Under Mido's legs Navi went coming out to a tree with split tops and a small stream leading to another part of the village. On her right was a large tree stump hollowed out and decorated with red paint, white designs and a girl sitting on the platform serving as a shade. Three columns in the water stuck over this surface with another girl standing at its edge, a boy struggling to pick up a rock paid no attention to the fairy as she greeted him. Looking around she spotted the elevated house with two stories going faster than before she collided with a crisscross wall after flying through a fence, Navi shook herself and squeezed through a gap. Hovering in
Navi crossed the room to the bed where a boy was sleeping, "Hello, Link! Wake up! The great Deku tree wants to talk to you Link, get up!" Link whined and turned over facing the wall, "Hey c'mon!" Navi bounced in a circle rapidly landing on Link's back once in the cycle, "Can Hyrule's destiny really depend on such a lazy boy?" Said Navi continuing to hit Link's back in an attempt to wake him. Before long Link sat up and yawned upon seeing the fairy he sat on his bed with his legs dangling over the edge. "You finally woke up! I'm Navi the fairy! The great Deku tree asked me to be your partner from now on! Nice to meet you!" Then Navi brightened a little slowing her movements, "The great Deku tree has summoned you and your friend! So let's get going... right now!" Link nodded and jumped off the bed tightening his belt before walking out.
At the base of the two story tree-house two girls stood there talking to Link's comrade. Navi made a jingling sound and they looked up, Joseph was wearing the same tunic as everyone else with a color change... black. The girl with the green hair smiled and waved at Link, "Yahoo! Hi, Link!" Link went down the ladder to be hugged tightly by Saria, she looked up in surprise at the light following Link. "Wow! A Fairy! A fairy came to you, Link! That's great news! I'm so happy for you!" Her face beamed a little before a concerning expression took over. Setsuko, wearing an orange tunic that complimented her more orange hair, smiled at Link. "Now you're a true Kokiri, Link!" Suko said that a bit artificially, as if trying to hide something. Joseph shook his head, and took Link behind the tree to talk in private.
"Alright," he began finding the only person he could trust to talk to was awake and alert, "I'm sure the great Deku tree has summoned you right?" Link nodded, pointing at Navi who was chatting to the dark blue and pink fairies. "Quite an honor if you ask me but, that jerk Mido isn't going to let you in-actually I think he might be protecting us." Link gasped quietly not believing his friend's words, but then again Mido's words were making sense now, "Sword, shield and fairy. If you ain't got 'em you can't get in."
Joseph crossed his arms putting up four fingers then all ten and looked over to the tall grasses with a wink at Link he distracted the girls by adding in some irrelevant topic on their discussion. Now free to roam unnoticed Link got on his stomach and found the mysterious rupee stash in the grass venturing further from his house he went across the path and began throwing the rocks placed in a circle around Mido's brother struggling to heave the rock. Watching Link effortlessly chunk rocks like that made him grunt in frustration and mutter, "Show off." It fell on deaf pointed ears as Link had left behind the tree-house grabbing a blue fiver that he hid the day before.
Now on the other side with the waterfall he passed the girl and jumped across the platforms earning an invisible fiver on the second jump. Reading the first sign Link jumped when the girl atop the shop laughed and waved at him, "Hi Link! Look this way! Look over here with your fairy, and talk to me." Link found that he couldn't focus on the girl without the immense concentration of a fairy's lock ability. Joseph having stalled as much as possible, wiped his brow and watched the fairy fly back to Link. Navi flew to the girl and Link could easily listen without a distraction of any kind. Joseph tested the lock ability by shouting, waving his arms in a silly fashion and even throwing a pebble into the water which didn't splash at all.
"Yes, yes! That's how you use a fairy's lock targeting ability! It's so great that you have a fairy partner!" Link sat down on the edge of the pond his boots getting soaked slightly as he counted the rupees, currently he had nineteen in total. Eyeing the house across from the shop he wandered over and looked at the sign: Saria's house, he'd rather not invade personal space so Link traveled up the winding boards that led to a bridge connected to a pillar and another bridge and pillar. Calmly without thinking of the drop he crossed to the end and was out of a daze when someone giggled. "Hee, hee, hee! You came all the way up here? You're a real man! Look isn't the view pretty? Gaze around the forest!"
Link did and found another fiver at his feet he scooped it up and jumped off surprising the girl and Joseph who he landed on. After a little bit more rupee montage he came to a total of twenty eight, finding out that the landscape replenishes each time he goes inside the rest of the money he collected was an easy find. With forty plus rupees Link bought a shield and took it out. After finding Mido's house he snuck in and found four chests three had rupees and a heart shaped stone that tasted like cherries, a cliff next to his house served as a new part of the village previously crowded with trees. A new house with a sign that said: House of the know-it-all brothers' actually housed triplets that knew stuff that no one heard of like icons and a map with an items bar, overall Link found the information useful. Back at the fence Navi huffed when Link accidentally rolled into the crossed pole wall. There were signs all over talking about swordplay, at the end of the zig-zag fence there was a hole and a boy punching the air in front of him. Having read the sign already he crawled into the hole dubbed, the hole of L and was met with a strange sight.