A.N.- I dun own Zelda, but the made up stuff is MINE! Notice how I am possessive of my crap. I love characters, so no TAKEY! -^^- Tankies

A Matter Of Destiny

"What are you thinking about?" Ringed a small voice near a girl's ear.

The girl kept her emerald green-eyed gaze on a mirror, in which she watched a boy riding on the back of a beautiful brown horse. A clock chimed from a distant town, the ding dong's sounding the hour of midnight. The light that shone from the mirror dimmed and eventually faded out until she saw her own reflection.

"Every time I want to look at something that deals with time, this boy shows up. I don't understand it at all. What does he have to do with time?" She questioned, looking up at the night sky where stars shone brightly, "I just don't get it. And the surroundings he's in.seems more like this land.is he here to help Danu.?"

"The stars seem more elegant than before. Don't you agree, Midori.? Midori?"

A fairy buzzed around the girl that had fallen down onto the grass. Obviously she was asleep, because there was no reply. Her light brown hair was sprawled out and the features on her face were that of a baby when deep in a dream. The fairy flapped its wings a few times before resting on the ground beside her.

"It feels like old times, doesn't it Link?" Navi questioned to the half asleep boy riding on his trustworthy horse, Epona.

Link nodded in response and yawned as he entered a clearing. He looked around the field taking in the surroundings. It was going to be a new place and perhaps a new adventure. Just like with Hyrule and Termina. Jumping from off of Epona, he led her around in search for a stream that was luckily only a few minutes walk away.

"Link, there's someone over here!" Navi exclaimed, buzzing around something nearby on the ground.

"Like what?" He questioned, too busy to look as he adjusted the saddle on Epona.

"A girl.and she's with a fairy. Boy, they must be sound sleepers."

"A girl with a fairy?"

Link jumped back, startled at the cry from Epona as she raised her head and looked around in fear. He rested a hand on her flank to calm her down, but she kept looking around in anticipation. After a moment there was the sound of people sounding almost like a wild banshee. "It doesn't sound good. I think they're heading our way."

Running over to where Navi was, he looked down at the girl who hugged a mirror to her chest as she slept. She was dressed in a ragged, beige colored dress and the fairy next to her woke in a startle. Not caring what the fairy was yelling at him about, he scooped the girl up in his arms and set her on Epona, and he climbed on himself.



"Midori, wake up." The girl's fairy demanded, "Strangers brought us from danger."

Midori opened her eyes hesitantly and blinked against the bright sun. She jumped back startled when a horse nudged her and whinnied slightly. The horse seemingly looked familiar and she stood when the same boy she saw in the mirror came over and petted his horse, while handing her some bread. She ignored the bread and circled him, then stopped when another fairy circled around her head and started talking in a language she didn't understand. She put out her finger and poked it, which made the fairy ring madly in front of her face. She backed away, bumping into the boy, who caught her before she could fall.

"Tin." She said quietly over to her fairy, "Do you understand it?"

"Yes. She says your rude and a very odd person." Tin said, "She said you should be grateful that Link took you with him to here; a safe place before those wild monkey people saw you." He paused and continued, "She says eat the bread."

Midori turned back to the boy, holding out her hand for the bread, before his fairy said anything else unwanted. She blinked when he zoomed close to her face and then handed her the bread, and folded his arms.

"You are sort of strange. How did a Kokiri like you get here?" He inquired.

"K-Kokiri?" She questioned, surprised she could understand him and not his fairy, "What's a Kokiri? And what do you mean strange? Nobody around here dresses like that." Midori pointed out angrily, referring to his green attire.

"Huh, well at least I don't dress as poorly as you." Link retorted, figuring that was all the thanks he'd get for the day.

Midori opened her mouth to say something and then closed it, knowing he was right. But it wasn't her fault. She tossed the bread onto the ground and stormed off into shallow woods, Tin tagging along behind her.

"Hm.why would she hold this thing so close to her?" Link asked himself, holding up the silver mirror, ivy painted a light green around the rim, "Humph, if she hadn't run off I could have given it back to her. Oh well."

"Link, I think you should give it back." Navi said, hovering above the mirror, "I don't think it's right to keep it."

"Who made you the boss, Navi?" He retorted, "Of course I'll give it back."

All three of them, including Epona, looked over to the sound of a scream. On instinct, Link jumped up onto Epona and rode off into the direction he had heard the cry.

"Where is it?" Demanded a cold voice, "Where?"

"I-I don't know what you're talking about! Leave-leave me."

Midori winced when the dark creature wrapped an ice-cold hand around her neck and looked down at her struggling body.

"I could make a better offer to King. He would like you better than the mirror itself."

"Pervert! Get off! If your King is as ugly as you."

"Do not talk of King that way! I should take you myself!" He exclaimed angrily and then ran a long, bony finger down her chest.

Midori cried out once more and hearing the gallop of hooves, the creature's head swiveled around, the rest of his body still in the same position. There was a whizzing sound and the next minute the monster was dead on the dirt covered ground.

"Are you alright?" Link asked, sliding down from his horse and walking over to the girl whose hand was wrapped around her throat, still feeling the monster's ice-cold fingers.

"My mirror.where is my mirror?" She reiterated.

"It's safe. I have it, because you left it. Let's.get you to that town nearby and have you washed up and in clean clothes."

"But I."

"If you object, I'll leave you here alone with these things lurking about." He said, raising an eyebrow and then nodded slightly when she acknowledged she would do as he insisted, "You can ride Epona if you want."

Midori gave a surprised look when she found his horse nudging her when Link had said she could ride him. Tin rang in objection. She frowned at the fairy and then looked at the horse. "I don't know how to ride." She said, petting her muzzle.

"Here, swing your leg over on the count of three." Link instructed and she did so after he put his hands under one of her feet and counted to three.

The ride wasn't very long and the boy talked to her along the way, holding to the reins of Epona as he walked. The sun was beginning to set and she watched with interest as the two of their fairies talked to each other with rings and tinkles.

There was a small crowd when they entered the town, not the usual big party crowds and Link noticed Midori keep getting unusually close to him. Knocking on an inn door, a middle-aged woman opened the rectangular wood and ushered them inside, complaining how the chilly season would be coming soon and they had nothing warmer to wear.

"He's the Hero of Time.that's why I kept seeing him.and that's why when the Lady found he was the hero of Hyrule, she let him in for free. She didn't want to let me in, because I couldn't pay for anything, but Link paid for me and for some clothes." Midori said to herself, when she slipped on a green, thin nightgown.

She shivered, grateful for a warm bed and a fire in the room. She didn't know how she would be able to pay him back, but she would try her best to either way. Lying out a pair of clothes on the nightstand for the next day, she slipped under the covers of the bed and stared at the fire until her eyes had shut, because the lack of sleep she hadn't had, had seemed like forever.