A/N: This is my first Fanfic and I really hope it goes well. Please review it if you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Legend of Zelda or anything else really.
My boots made a crunching sound as I slowly stepped up to the massive tree, which towered above me a hundred feet. Everyday this tree has watched over me and my people, the Kokiri. He was our teacher and mentor, our peer and our best friend. He comforted us in our lonely hours and made us smile when he spoke. He was our father, or the closest thing to it. I smiled as I stepped up to him, wondering why he called me. Then I noticed the dark feeling in the air and the discoloration in his branches. The Great Deku Tree was not well.
"Saria, do you understand why I have called you here?" the Great Deku Tree rumbled.
"You are not well, Great Deku Tree. What has happened here? This place has a dark feeling around it! I have never sensed this anywhere except the temple."
"Indeed. Explain this feeling you have."
"Well...I...the air just...feels unnatural. Like the very place is filled with hatred and despair."
"You said this feeling is similar to what you feel when you near the temple?"
"Only when I enter it, Great Deku Tree."
"You are doing your job well, Saria."
"Great Deku Tree, what do you mean 'my job'? All I've done is camp around the temple for three days straight. You refuse tell me why I must go there every single day."
"It is critical for you to be there, for the safety of all the Kokiri."
"But why? Why is it so important?"
"Because your presence contains a growing evil inside the temple."
"Wh-what!?"
"This evil has been locked inside the temple for centuries, before you were born. There was a time when I could suppress it with my power from here, but somehow it is growing stronger than my powers can handle."
"But why send me there? What could I do?"
"Your presence -don't ask how- restrains this evil inside the temple. As long as you are there, we can restrain it. Now I wish to address the reason I summoned you here."
"Do you need me to go back to the temple again?"
"No. This time, I need your presence here. Yours and a fellow Kokiri. Navi, Navi, where art thou? Come hither..."A blue fairy came flying from between the branches of the Great Deku Tree and presented herself in front of massive tree. "Oh, Navi the fairy...Listen to my words, the words of the Great 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. For so long, the Kokiri Forest, the source of life, has stood as a barrier, deterring outsiders and maintaining the order of the world...but before this tremendous evil power, even my power is as nothing. 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 and guide him to me. I do not have my time left. Fly, Navi, fly! The fate of the forest, nay the world, depends upon thee!"
I stared wide-eyed at the words of the Great Deku Tree. Sometimes he spoke a little archaic, but for him to mention the boy without a fairy meant only one person. Link! I turned and ran off, the white fairy flying over my head.
