Regarding my account: Recently my former account, under the same pen name was frozen. All my stories, reviews, information, EVERYTHING was removed. I still don't know why, but I'm figuring that they were doing random deleting (grrr) of accounts and I was a victim. Other authors have experienced this problem also at the same time, if you saw the dramatic drop in some of the categories. And this also explains why I a shortage of reviews (It's not that I didn't get them.) I had 10 reviews on this story before my account was erased. All the same, read on and enjoy.

Disclaimer (I hate these things): I DON'T OWN ZELDA. If you think I do you're just as stupid as disclaimers.

Revision: This chapter was revised… I saw how awful it was, so I decided to make it better. Don't worry, it's basically the same story, but better scripts.

Prologue

"Link! What are you doing?! You were supposed to meet me near the Kokiri shop earlier!" Saria called to Link angrily.

"Wha-? Oh, sorry, Saria! I forgot!!" Link looked up at Saria and his eyes met her sapphire eyes. "I'm just drawing!" Link motioned for Saria to come look. Link had been drawing on the tree trunk of his house in the Kokiri forest.

"Ahh… What's that?" Saria said to Link's lack of drawing ability. Link glared.

"I'm fighting a dragon!" Link announced to Saria.

"There are no dragons in the Kokiri Forest!" Saria prompted pulling some of her green hair behind her ear.

"I didn't say it had to be in the Kokiri Forest!" Link had an open smile on his face eagerly expecting a response.

"Okay, silly, but you can't leave the forest, as it is." Saria said smiling.

'As it is' Link thought. This thought struck him as being untrue, although, he knew it was exactly how it was in the Kokiri Forest.

"Well, I'm sorry you didn't like my drawing, but how about I make it up to you by going down to the river right now?" Link grinned and Saria just giggled at him.

"How's that making it up to me?" Saria asked smiling back now too. Link never answered her question, but he grabbed her wrist and started running towards the river. "Liiiiiink! Slow down!" Saria called to Link as he pulled her towards the river. Link finally let go of Saria's wrist and sat down on one of the brown blocks in the middle of the small Kokiri river. Saria caressed her wrist and sat down.

"Ouch, you hurt me, Link." Saria said trying to conceal her growing smile. Link grinned sheepishly back at her. For minutes the just talked and kicked their feet in the water.

"Hello Saria" said Mido with an evil smile on his face "Hi… whatever you might be." Mido said to Link and he turned his head towards Saria and away from Link. "Saria, would you like to take a walk with me through the Lost Woods?" Mido knew that the Lost Woods were Saria's favorite place to be, but Mido was her least favorite person to be with.

"No thanks, Mido, I'm kinda busy." Saria glanced at Link but Link was just starring down into the water.

"Because you're with that fairy-less boy?" Saria glared at Mido and again looked at Link for any reactions, but Link was just looking in the water again. Then Link finally looked up.

"Mido, get out of here!" Link said, his anger rising. Mido obeyed, but winked at Saria before he left. Saria just rolled her eyes, and then started giggling. Link looked up at her wondering why she was giggling but he just smiled anyway.

"Why didn't you scare him off sooner?" Saria said still giggling. Link smiled, feeling proud of himself.

"It was nothing." he said and then added a smile. "S-s-saria!" Link said before he slipped off the brown platform into the river. Link looked around in the water as he settled in the water's shallow depths. He looked up to see Saria starring down at him, shocked. She seemed to be panicking. Saria looked beautiful, and yet everlasting, from below the surface. He felt like he wanted to stay down there forever, looking up at her beautiful sapphire eyes.

He felt a lack of oxygen, and he woke up from his trance, and started to swim up to the surface. Saria reached her hand down to help him up onto the block again.

"You're all wet now!" Saria said through laughs and Link gave her a look.

"Well, isn't that a little obvious?" he said, embarassed.

"Aww, c'mon, you don't look that bad soaking wet!" Link showed a tiny grin. Link started to try to wring out his sleeves.

"Hey! Careful you don't get me wet too!" Saria exclaimed in horror as Link pushed the green girl into the river. "LIIIIIIIINK!" Saria yelled. It was Link's turn to laugh and help her up but Saria just pulled him in again. Link surfaced and shook his head trying to dry his hair off. Link's dark eyes met Saria's bright blue eyes and they both laughed. Saria started to get out of the river and Link did the same.

"How about we both go home and get dried off, and tomorrow I'll come over to your house, alright?" Saria said.

"Sure!" Link replied, full of enthusiasm. He'd have to remember to get up on time.

Link just starred at the beautiful green Kokiri girl for a second, as the wind started to blow. Saria just looked back at him with her warm smile that was reserved only for Link. Saria starred into his strong, dark-blue eyes. Link smiled back at her, although his smile was not nearly as warm as Saria's, and he loved the way Saria smiled at him.

Link looked back at Saria once more before he left. The words 'As it is' came to his mind again, and he didn't understand why these words were so powerful.

Something happened then, it could not be expressed with words, it was just a magnificent feeling, of that their friendship was growing, and it was not only friendship anymore, it was a feeling of love that just… happened. Though the two of them never got to express their feelings for each other as children because the next day would be their day of parting.

End of Prologue

The rest of the story will continue into the Zelda game, Ocarina of Time.