Hey, thank you to everyone for reading and thanks to my followers for this story! Here is chapter two. It's not super super good because i sorta had writers block but i hope you like and i hope you review. Even if it's a bad review, i like those two :)

The Great Redwood Tree is a bit away from our permanent campsite so it takes about ten minutes to get there. It's a beautiful day today so walking there isn't the problem. It's the people I meet while walking.

"Hey, you! Non-Cokeyri dude!"

I turn around and am staring the the face of one of the Know-It-All brothers. Actually, it isn't his face because you can't even see his face through his brown hair. If I could see his face, I'm sure it'd be ugly anyway so maybe that's why he keeps it hidden.

"Listen when I'm talking to you!" he says.

"I am," I point out sarcastically.

"Humph." He sticks his nose in the air. "Whatever. Where do you think you're going?"

"The Great Redwood Tree summoned me. Got a problem with that?"

"HE SUMMONED YOU?!" he exclaims in anger.

"Uh, yeah. I have to go now," I say and turn back around and start walking away.

"Mido isn't going to like that!" he calls after me.

I give him a wave of my hand in response and keep walking. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Which actually happens to be now.

I get to the part of the forest where the Great Redwood Tree is held and come smack right into great Mido himself. Terrific.

"Whoa, where are YOU headed?" he sneers, his deformed face frowning at me.

"None of your business," I murmur trying to pass him.

He stops me with a push of his hand. "Well, you aren't going to the Redwood Tree for sure. Sorry, phone-less boy."

"Phone-less boy?!" Siri pipes up from in my pocket. I pull her out. Instead of a microphone picture there's an angry smiley face printed on the screen.

"Phone-less boy?" she repeats. "Then I guess I'm just some stupid walkie-talkie then, huh?"

Mido backs up staring in surprise at Siri. "I-is that...?"

"Yeah, I am! Do you have any issues?! Because I'd sure love to hear them!" shouts Siri.

Mido looks to her and then me, and I can't lie, I have a huge smug grin on my face. "I-I'm s-sorry –– " He begins to say.

"Sorry doesn't cut it! Let Link through! We have places to be!" demands Siri.

Mido obediently sidesteps and gulps. "Yes, ma'am,"he stutters.

"Ma'am is right! Thank you for your time, Mido," she snaps and then a smiley face appears on the screen and it goes back to the microphone once again.

I nod curtly at Mido and step past him. He seems to be in shock and that makes me happy inside. He's the biggest bully in this place, he deserved to be knocked down a few pegs. Or maybe a thousand pegs.

I continue my way through the forest till I get to the Great Redwood Tree. It stands tall and thick and huge in front of me in a clearing. Light shines down through the canopy of trees lighting up it's huge mustached face. He's sorta scary looking. But I would never say that out loud.

"Oh, Siri, thou hast returned," he says in his deep echoing voice.

"Yes, I'm here," replies Siri, her screen brightening.

"Link..." he booms. "Welcome."

I don't really know what to say so I nod and give a smile instead.

"You summoned Link," reminds Siri. "What is it you need, sir?"

If it's possible for trees to sigh, he just did. "Listen, youths, to what I, the Great Redwood Tree, am about to tell thee."

I glance down at Siri who shows a bored face. I silently laugh.

"Thy slumber these past moons must have been restless and full of nightmares, no?" asks the tree.

I stop smiling down at Siri and look up to the tree. Nightmares? How'd he know? It's true, I have been having these trippy dreams. I dreamed myself in some sort of parking lot, and this white convertible races by with some silver haired lady and a young girl in the backseat. The girl stares at me, like she's asking for help and then vanishes. Then out comes this other car, a big black Lamborghini with a very ugly man who laughs at me. And then I wake up. I don't know if TGRT means that as my nightmares, but that dream has happened quite a few times.

"I- Uh, yeah, have been having some weird dreams," I admit to the tree.

"Yes. Verily thou hast felt it, too," he says. "I hath been set under curse by a strong force greater than even I. It resides inside me alas I cannot destroy it. Link," he says.

I look up at him questioningly.

"The time has come to test thy courage. You must venture inside me and destroy the source of the power withering me. Will you do this for me?"

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Hold up. Pause. Rewind. Did he just say I have to go inside him and test my courage? To destroy what ever is eating up the guy? No, no, no. Sorry, I don't do pesticide.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"You have to go inside me and kill what is trying to ruin me," he informs me.

"Maybe it's depression," I mutter.

"Link!" snaps Siri. "Do as the tree says and save him! The tree is the life force of the forest! The Cokeyri won't know what to do if he's dead! They might all die!"

"You said they," I notice. "Not you. I'm Cokeyri, aren't I?"

Siri stays quiet a moment and then says, "Well, actually..."

"I knew it!" I shout. "I knew I wasn't Cokeyri!"

"Link, be quiet," hushes Siri. "We'll talk about this later."

I mutter something but inside I'm nearly shouting. I knew I was never an actual Cokeyri. I dress like one with all the green, I look like one, but I'm not one. I could always tell there's something different about me. The Cokeyri never grow up but somehow I knew someday I would. I don't know how, but I just feel it. I just knew I wouldn't stay some pudgy midget forever!

"Will you help me?" asks the Redwood again.

Through conflicting emotions I look up and him and nod yes.

"Very well. You may enter."

Then there's a creaking groan and the bottom of the tree suddenly starts sinking into the ground revealing dark empty musty space. I cough and look deeper inside. All I can see is nothing. Great.

"You ready, Link?" asks Siri.

I grip her tighter and reluctantly say, "Yes, I am. Even though I don't understand why ME of all people."

"Because you have a fate deeper than the rest of us," Siri mutters. "Anyway, bye Redwood Tree! See you later! We'll save you, don't worry!"

"Unless I die trying," I whisper.

"Thank you. Stay alert. And may you be guided ever so forth by my dependence."

I take a deep breath realizing that's the end of that conversation and venture inside...