Hey. Alright, this is it, the LEGIT version of my LoZ fiction. I've tried countless times and now, finally, I'm happy with this one. Hope you all like it! Thanks for reading!

Enter Hyrule

There's nothing much one remembers at the beginning of a dream, mainly the end, but when one is dreaming they usually come to smack dab in the middle of everything. It depends on what your dreaming about, but, regardless of the scenario, you never pay much attention to the who/what/when/whys. You simply know what's going on and what you have to do; not much background information is needed.

To Tally Littlefield, however, none of this was true in this particular dream. If it was a dream at all.

The adolescent girl was roused by a light hum and soft wings tickling her face. Her hazel eyes creaked open to find a white ball of light with translucent wings hovering impatiently above her. It swayed to and fro as if to shake her awake before it muttered to itself, "Stupid thing won't wake up." Tally groaned and swatted at the peculiar creature, her hand nearly missing it as she mistook it for a bug. Propping herself up on her elbows, she examined her surroundings dumbly, not sure of what to make of it all. She was laying in a bedding of decomposing leaves and ferns in the middle of some ancient forest, surrounded by enormous redwoods.

The annoying bug had returned and was bobbing up and down, inches from her face, as if it was deeply irritated by her incompetence. "What do you think you're doing here?" It asked, making no attempt to hide it's rudeness. "Uh, where's here?" Tally replied, oblivious to the bug's snobby attitude towards her. The bug sighed in exasperation. "Here, you stupid girl, is the Lost Woods, which is rather fitting to your idiocy. You are rather daft if I do say so myself." Tally glared at the bug. "Who are you, anyways? And what are you? Besides rude, of course."

"Me? Well I am Noc, and I am a fairy, mind you. And who might you be, besides an incompetent child, of course." Noc replied snidely. Tally sat up and crossed her legs, cocking her head curiously to the side. "A fairy? And you're a boy?" Having struck a sensitive nerve (boy fairies were rather rare and were called "sissy"), Noc began to quiver angrily, so much, in fact, that in a burst of blinding light, his form stretched into an adolescent teen around Tally's age. As the glare of the light faded, Tally gasped as she saw a ghostly blue boy standing in front of her, glaring at her furiously. "See? I'm a boy, ok? Just like you're a girl and those trees are trees."

"What the...how'd you do that? That's an incredible trick!" Confused by her lack of fear or anger or whatever Noc had expected, Noc simply rubbed the back of his neck in bewilderment. He thought she would've run away in fear of the sudden blinding light. That's what usually happened when a fairy changed forms. "Er, um, thanks I guess. It's something every fairy can do, it's no big deal." Actually, the fact that Tally could see him in his insubstantial state was quite remarkable; to most, Noc would be invisible right now. A fairy in it's "true" form was invisible to everyone except for their destined partner. If this meant that this girl could see Noc, then they were destined partners. Noc realized this with a wave of annoyance and dread as he glanced at the bright-eyed girl who couldn't stop staring at him.

He face palmed his forehead and groaned dreadfully. He was stuck with this idiot probably forever. "What's wrong?" Tally asked innocently, pushing her brown, chin-length hair behind her ear. "Nothing. Well, since you don't know where you are, you're presumably lost, no?" She nodded. Noc sighed again and looked at a patch of sky through the trees with his hands on his hips. "Then come on, I'll take you to a village or something." Tally stood up and stretched before looking Noc in the eyes. "Thank you. I'm sorry I'm such a pain." With puppy dog eyes like those, Noc could barely help himself from blushing and rubbing his neck as he quickly averted his eyes.

"Just, let's go already. The nearest village is miles away." On that note, Noc glowed a bright white and shrunk back to his regular form, leading the way into the forest.

"Fairies are created from what?" Tally exclaimed in dismay as they made their way through the wood. "Magic springs." Noc said, making no attempt to hide his annoyance. "And you're made from water...?"

"No! I mean, yes, well, more or less that's right."

"So then why'd you say no in the first place?" She asked, smiling a clever, crooked smile. "Because the way you said it. You said it like we were made out of plain old water."

"Oh, so it's spring water that makes it special."

"No you moron! I was created from MAGIC WATER, ok? Yes, it was a SPRING, but it was a MAGIC SPRING." Tally laughed hysterically at his rant and put her hands up in surrender. "Ok, ok. So who made you then? Unless, of course, you just happened to pop out of the magic water one day." Noc sighed in exasperation. "A Great Fairy."

"What-"

"That's a fairy that's more like a goddess, she's somewhere in between." He snapped, clearly getting more and more annoyed the longer time he spent with this girl. "Alright," Tally said slowly, thinking over everything, "if she made you and all the other fairies, then who made her? A goddess?" Noc had to stop to think for a second before he replied, "Well, yes, I suppose. Why do you-"

"Then who made the goddess?" She interrupted, determined to find out who created whom in this new world. "Jeez, I don't know! How would I? I'm just a simple fairy."

"But even that in itself is really cool. You're not 'plain', you're a really smart fairy that knows a whole lot more than I do. You're an extraordinary person, Noc." That fairy would've blushed if he'd been in his true form. "Uh, well, you're just daft in the head, that's why I probably know more than you. But, um, thanks."

The two continued to have similar conversations as they traveled through the Lost Woods until they finally made it to the Kokiri Village. By the time they had reached the tiny village, the day had faded into night. They entered the cathedral-like cave that sheltered the village from the world through a rather discreet entrance hidden amongst a cluster of boulders. Noc explained that the Great Deku Tree had created the cave in order to protect the child-like Kokiri from the dangers of the world since they would never grow enough to live on their own. They would forever remain children, living the sheltered life that the caring Deku Tree had made for them.

It was sad, but once Tally saw how cheerful and lively these children seemed, she almost envied them and their sheltered lives.

All blonde, the Kokiri wore green garbs and hats, usually going about their day barefoot. The cave had a wide opening in the top that was hardly visible from the outside so that the miniature forest that thrived in the lush cavern could get enough sun to sustain themselves. Because of the abundance of trees, the Kokiri had made tree houses that were carved into the trees themselves in which nearly all of them lived in (there were a few huts strewn across the village here and there). But the most prominent thing in the cavernous forest was the huge tree planted at the far end of the village, and this tree had a face.

Squinty eyes, big nose, and fat lips. The face of a chubby man.

"Holy cow! What's that?" Tally exclaimed, wonderstruck, as she pointed at the Great Deku Tree. Noc buzzed in her face, peeved by her lack of manners and respect for the great tree. "Hasn't anyone ever told you it's rude to point?" He hissed. "That's the Great Deku Tree. He made this island and this cave. He controls the growth of all plants in Hyrule." Tally cocked her head to the side, as if staring at the tree at a different angle could help her understand. "We're on an island?"

"Yes." Noc snapped.

"How? We didn't need a boat or anything to get here..."

"It's the power of the Lost Woods. They're an enchanted forest that keeps humans away. The only reason you could make it was because you had me; if you didn't have me to lead the way, then you would've ended up by the cliffs outside of the forest."

"Wait," she started, sifting through what Noc told her, "why aren't humans allowed?" Noc was about to rant about how stupid she was when he was interrupted by a deep, rumbling, voice.

"Salutations, Noc. Who's this?"

Tally froze, but the fairy flitted over to the giant tree and replied peppily, "Tally, sir. It turns out she's my," he paused, dreading the word, "partner." The tree shook itself, as if it were nodding (a rather awkward motion, if you can imagine) and twisted a little towards Tally, who was still shocked at what she was witnessing. "Come here, dear. Let me get a good look at you." She gulped uneasily and stumbled towards the powerful tree.