Chapter 1: Various Shades of Green
A vast, deep, forest…
Navi, the blue fairy girl, up in the trees, at her favourite spot, sunken in one of her treasured books, relishing the peaceful morning…
And a sudden gust of wind, carrying a deep, wooden voice.
Navi…
She looked up, confused. Did the Great Deku Tree just call for her? She shook her head in disbelief. What would he want from her, a failure of a fairy that she was?
Navi, where are thou? Come hither…
Abruptly she closed her book and swung herself in the air. Better not let the Deku Tree wait.
What did I do wrong this time? She couldn't imagine another reason for the unexpected summoning.
Breathless she arrived at the guardian's meadow.
"Great Deku Tree, why is it that you have called for me?" she asked carefully, unable to hide her anxiety.
Oh, Navi the fairy… Listen to my words, the words of the 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…
Hyrule.
Right. That was what these lands were called. Although she could even see the plains when the weather allowed it, for her, who never had left this forest, it sounded so distant…
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, even my power is as nothing…
The fairy stopped dead in her increasingly agitated flight, shocked. What was that evil that not even the great Deku Tree could stand against it? And what could she, a small, useless fairy girl, possibly do?
"Is there no way to counter it?" She hated how weak her voice sounded.
The Tree let out a deep sigh.
It seems, the time has come for the boy without a fairy to begin his journey…
The youth whose destiny it is to lend Hyrule to the path of justice and truth…
At this Navi pricked her ears. She had heard about the boy without a fairy from Saria before, but every time she offered to become his guardian fairy, she had been… well, not exactly outright rejected, but been told it was not the time yet. Did that mean…
Navi… go now! Find our young friend and guide him to me… I do not have much time left.
It happens, she thought in awe. It really happens… or does it? She still couldn't fully believe it, being entrusted with a forest child, one with such highly important fate, at that.
Fly, Navi, fly! The fate of the forest, nay, the world, depends on thee!
She snapped out of her thoughts.
"In an instant, oh Great Tree!"
To be granted with such responsibility was frightening, but she would definitely not disappoint the Great Tree or any of her friends. The forest was her home, after all.
With these thoughts in mind she quickly took off towards the village, where she would meet the boy without a fairy.
)O(
Link. That was his name. She remembered it now, from the times when Saria (and Estra of course) fruitlessly tried to cheer her up. They would talk about events in the village, but that always resulted in her mood sinking further down, since she couldn't be part of it. Saria would often tell something about Link, but Navi wouldn't listen and instead dig her way back into her current volume. On rare occasions she would think about the boy without a fairy, but only as shallow as why Saria talked about him so much. She really seemed to like him.
Now she wondered whether –
"Hey, Navi! What brings you to the village?"
"Hello, Tisk." she said to the fairy boy who belonged to a Kokiri named Mido.
"The Great Deku Tree called for me, and now I am suddenly to be the guide of a Kokiri named Link!"
"For real?"
She nodded happily.
"Congrats! Now you finally get away from those tomes of yours!"
Navi simply stuck out her tongue and continued her way into the village. She needed to concentrate on finding the boy –Link, she reminded herself – and quickly.
She marvelled at the amount of forest children, everything was so lively. Not that there wasn't life inside the woods, but this was… different. These were actual people.
She just now noticed how lonely she had been, how she had secluded herself.
Now she spotted many familiar faces with surprised, but actually friendly looks on them.
But where was Link?
"Hey! He's in the house over there!" Of course, Estra already knew exactly what was going on. Nonetheless this was a helpful tip.
"Thanks!" she shouted back, and flew towards the house Estra had pointed at, a tree trunk with its back against a wall, a little aloof of the other wooden buildings in the village.
She wondered if Link felt the same as her, being different from the others, somewhat isolated. How would he deal with it? Somehow she already felt sympathy for the unknown boy, some kind of connection. She felt like they belonged together, were made to belong together, kindred spirits.
She was so sunken in her thoughts that she didn't notice the fence until she flew right into it.
She really, really needed to concentrate in the future to fulfil the given task properly. Shaking of her bafflement and Estra's laughing in her ears, she flew into the building.
And there he
Finally.
Link.
The boy without a fairy, her kindred spirit and the Deku Tree's only hope.
Asleep.
Author's Note: Hi, Shades here.
Writing the first chapter ever is hard, I learned. What I also learned is that writing the second chapter ever is way harder, because of the pressure that is upon you.
Anyways, next chapter. Yay for me!
While I wrote the Great Deku Tree part I noticed: Loads of dots. Also, Shakespearean language. Lucky for me I already read Shakespeare... (said the poor, second-languaged (that's not even a word, right?) English student...)
And Tisk. His name is somewhat stolen from an OC of mine, from a story-to-be called Creatures of Night, who is, by the way, a squirrel, whose name is derived from Ratatöskr, just so you know.
Also I got Estra's colour in the prologue wrong (could've sworn she was green), but I fixed that. There was another thing I wanted to fix, but since it's been two weeks already, I forgot what it was... Oh well, maybe next time I make a list.
Oh, and here's a disclaimer for you: "ShadesAndDemons does still not own The Legend of Zelda or any of it's characters. All she does is continue a fanfiction to please her conscience."
Well then, I really would like somebody to review (since pleading worked so well last time), until then, Shades out.