Navi flew from the Deku Tree's side as quickly as she could weaving through the long path that separated his grove from the homes of the Kokiri. She flew over the heads of the forest children checking each one of them for the tell tale sign of an absent fairy. In her distraction she managed to run into the gate between one tree house and the maze of the Kokiri's treasure. She took a moment to right herself before looking toward the tree house, there were people in it she could tell, maybe the boy without a fairy was in there. So she entered the tree to find a small single-roomed home, upon the bed two children lay, a boy and a girl, neither in ownership of a fairy.

"Hello, Link!" Navi said, his name coming to mind in an instant. It was a special ability of the fairies to be able to know the name of their child upon first sight. "Wake up!"

The girl looked up at the fairy glaring at her slightly for waking them up.

"The Great Deku Tree wants to talk to you!" Navi continued, "Link, get up!"

Navi began jumping up and down upon Link in an attempt to rouse him, "Hey! C'mon! Can Hyrule's destiny really depend on such a lazy boy?"

The girl jumped up grabbing Navi fiercely, "Hey! Link is not lazy! He was suffering from nightmares all night!" Her right eye was covered by her long blonde hair but the left one sparkled furiously with a beautiful sapphire light flecked with emerald green.

Link yawned as he sat up on the bed, "Zena leave her be. She didn't know."

The girl, Zena, did as her best friend requested.

Navi turned to Link, "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! The Great Deku Tree has summoned you! So let's get going, right now!"

Link nodded running out the room as Zena followed them growling at the fairy. The two children walked onto their front porch looking over their hometown with Navi as another young girl with green hair ran up to their home, a fairy at her side.

"Yahoo! Hi, Link! Hi, Zena!" The girl called out to them from the ground below.

Link jumped from the top of the ladder on their porch as Zena swung down by the vines.

"Hey Saria." Zena greeted the girl cooly.

"Hi Saria..." said Link.

"Wow! A fairy! Finally, a fairy came to you, Link! Wow! That's great news! I'm so happy for you! Now you're a true Kokiri, Link!"

"Apparently the Great Deku Tree wants to see Link about something." said Zena.

"Is that right? The Great Deku Tree has summoned you. It's quite an honor to talk to the Great Deku Tree! I'll wait for you here. Get going! Go see the Great Deku tree!"

Link and Zena ran to the entrance to the sacred grove of the Great Deku Tree only to find Mido in their way.

"Hey, you! "Mr. No-Fairy"! What's your business with the Great Deku Tree? Without a fairy, you're not even a real man!"

"Joke's on you! Link does have a fairy now." Zena said smugly to the annoying red head.

Link smiled at him, "Yeah, this is Navi!" he said gesturing to the winged girl in the ball of light.

"What?! You've got a fairy?!"

"Yep and the Great Deku Tree summoned me, something about needing my help." Link continued to smile innocently.

"Say what? The Great Deku Tree actually summoned you?"

"That's what he said ya moron." Zena said crossing her arms.

"Whaaaaaaat?! Why would he summon you and not the Great Mido?"

Navi looked over to Zena, "Who's the Great Mido? I've never heard of this hero in the forest before?"

Zena sighed, "He's Mido, he refers to himself in the third person sometimes, the narcissistic prick." she said gesturing to the red head.

"This isn't funny..." Mido said crossing his arms pouting, "I don't believe it! You aren't even fully equipped yet! How do you think you're going to help the Great Deku Tree without both a sword and shield ready?"

"What?" Link looked to him surprised and confused, he hadn't thought about needing a sword, the forest had never been dangerous in any way before, "You're right- I don't have my equipment ready, but..."

"If you want to pass through here, you should at least equip a sword and a shield! Sheesh!"

Zena huffed, "Come on, Link! The ass probably won't let us through. But I bet Saria can get him to help us." she said dragging him back to their tree house.

Back they ran to their home, Saria still waiting for them at the base of the ladder.

"Saria!" Zena growled, "Mido won't let us see the Great Deku Tree, says we need a sword and a shield."

"What?!" said Saria startled, "Mido won't let you go to see the Great Deku Tree?"

"That's what I said." Zena said annoyed at her reiteration of the recent events.

"Ohh... that bum!" Saria exclaimed irritably, "I don't know why he's always so mean to everyone!What he said is true, though. The forest... Strange things have been happening here lately... You need to be ready for anything. You'd better find a weapon! You can buy a shield at the shop, but there is only one sword hidden somewhere in the forest."

Zena sighed, "Well, lets go buy that shield Link." she said heading over to the shop Link close on her heels.

As they walked in, Zena greeted the shop keeper, "Hey shortie, ya got any shields in stock?"
He hopped to see over the counter, "Yeah, a couple why?"

"We need one how much?"
"40 Rupees."

Zena dug into her purse, "Here."

"Thanks, have a nice day." he said handing over the shield.

"Aren't you gonna need one?" Link asked as Zena assisted him in equipping the shield.

"Nah I'm lighter on my feet than you are."

"Well what about the sword? Saria said there was only one? What about you? And how are we even gonna find it?"

Zena smiled, "Well I'm just gonna use my Deku Nuts, they do pack a punch and I've got a pretty good arm." she said playing with the hard shelled nuts in one hand. Link shuttered as he thought of all the Skulltulas that had lost their lives to Zena's perfect pitch and nodded in agreement that that would probably be adequate for her protection as she continued, "As for where to find the sword. We'll just ask the know it all brothers."

They walked over to the house on the top of the hill. Announcing their presence as they walked through the empty doorway, "Hey guys, I got a question for you?"

Three of the four brothers who were standing around the one room home turned to her, "Shoot! What can we tell you today?"

"Do you know where we can find the sword hidden within the forest?"

The brothers looked at each other troubled, "Well I'm afraid we can't tell you anything for sure but... well there is the Forest Training Center next door. Through the tunnel at the very back there's a maze with a rolling boulder. The signs outside talk about how to use a sword and not to cut the signs and such. Maybe you'll find it in there."

Zena smiled at them, "Thanks boys." she said tossing them a small bag.

As they left Link asked her, "What was in that bag?"

"Oh, there's some magic mushrooms that grow in the Lost Woods. I pick them for the boys from time to time for their research. Turns out there are a lot of good uses for them."

"Oh." He said softly as they weaved through the fenced area.

They found out that the maze was simple, but not something to scoff at. You had to get the timing perfect otherwise the boulder could do a lot of damage to a person. At the end of the maze they found a chest and within it lay the Kokiri Sword, the hidden treasure of the forest.

"Are you sure it's okay for us to use this?" Link asked Navi.

"Sure, as long as we return it. It should be fine." Both he and Zena nodded as they left the maze. Link equipped the sword as they went back to the entrance of the grove.

"I told you!" Mido snapped as they returned, "If you want to see the Great Deku Tree, you should at least equip a sword and a shield!"

"We have them asshole." Zena snapped.

"Eh, what's that?! Oh, you have a Deku Shield... And what's THAT?!"

Zena rolled her eyes as he continued to ignore her sighing at Mido's redundancy

"Is that the Kokiri Sword?! GOOD GRIEF!(A/N geez someone watches a bit too much Peanuts.) Well, even with all that stuff, a wimp is still a wimp, huh? I, the Great Mido, will never accept you as one of us! Shoot! How did you get to be the favorite of Saria and the Great Deku Tree? Huh?!" He said storming away grumbling.