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Lee followed Kari outside to find her with Sheik; Sheik was leading his fire-red horse Comet. He handed Comet's reins to Lee.
"Here, you two take Comet, I don't need a horse, and Comet likes you two, especially Kakari." He glanced at Kari; she was petting Comet and smiling weakly.
"Lee, you take care of Kari now, I know this was difficult for you, but it's even harder for Kari, so keep an eye on her, Ok?" Sheik said. Lee nodded.
"Don't worry, she'll be fine," he said, Sheik nodded and threw a Duku nut on the ground, disappearing. Lee just shook his head, wondering how he did that.
"Let's go Kar," said Lee, Kari nodded and stopped petting Comet, Lee mounted Comet and reached his hand down to help Kari swing up behind him. Kari wrapped her arms around his waist and they were off.
"Uh Lee, where exactly are we going?" asked Kari, "well we gotta find some place to stay tonight right?" he replied without turning around.
"Well where are we gonna camp then?" she asked, they both sat for a minute.
"We could camp near the stream by Hyrule castle?" she suggested. Lee nodded.
"I like that idea, we'll camp there tonight." they were both silent for a moment before Kari broke the silence.
"Um Lee, which way is the Hyrule castle?"
"I have no idea, but I think the horse knows the way." he replied, Kari leaned over and patted Comet's neck.
"Comet, can you take us to the stream near Hyrule castle?" she asked, Comet snorted and then bobbed his head as if saying 'yes'. Suddenly he charged off and soon Lee and Kari saw Hyrule castle approaching.
Once they approached the stream, Kari hopped off and hugged Comet, "thank you so much Comet!" she said as she stroked his neck and hugged him. Lee rolled his eyes and noticed that the horse actually looked as if he was blushing.
Kari soon stopped hugging Comet and started petting Mae, she and Zina had been following Comet, though when they stopped, Zina had slept in Lee's hat and on Kari's shoulder.
It grew dark all to quickly, Lee and Kari sat under a tree back-to-back. Mae had her head on Kari's lap, and Comet was wondering between Kari and Lee.
Kari sighed as she petted Mae, "It's beautiful, isn't it?" she said, looking up at the stars.
"Yeah," said Lee, looking at the stars, "Lee?" she said suddenly.
"What?" he replied. "Where are we gonna live? We can't just camp out for the rest of our lives, we have to find a permanent home." she said slowly.
"Well, we could, um. Well..." Lee stammered. Kari smiled, "you have no idea. Do you?" Lee blushed,
"Not really, we could live in Hyrule castle, but..."
"But what?" asked Kari, confused.
"The castle just gives me the creeps," he admitted,
"Me too." Kari said. Both sat in silence, thinking. Suddenly they both perked up.
"Kakariko!" they both shouted, turning around to face each other. "That would be perfect!" said Kari happily.
"We could build a house and work around the village!" said Lee.
Both Lee and Kari were happy; they both spread out under the tree and fell asleep.
Kari woke up the next morning to Mae licking her on their face, "Mae! Stop it!" Kari said happily, she pushed Mae off and Mae proceeded to wake up Lee.
Kari grinned and went over to join Mae.
"Lee, Lee! Wake Up!" she said, shaking him, he just rolled over and continued sleeping, Kari stood up, slightly annoyed and tried gently kicking him.
No results, Kari leaned down next to him and tried shaking him, he just flung his arm out. Whacking Kari and sending her tumbling down a hole that had accidentally appeared.
Naturally, her scream woke him up and he looked around.
"Kari? Kar? Where'd ya go?" he said, looking around.
"I'm down here!" said a voice; Lee looked down the hole near him and saw Kari about ten feet down.
"How'd ya get down there?" he asked. Kari snorted, "You pushed me mister smarty-pants! Now just get me out of here! I think there's something down here!" she said, in a slightly worried voice.
Lee nodded and rummaged around Comet's saddle, looking for a rope, when he found one, he pulled it over a tree branch and tied it to Comet's saddle before lowering himself down.
"Hey! Look what I found!" said Kari as Lee dropped to the ground, she came out of the shadows with a bottle, inside the bottle was a fairy.
"Wow." muttered Lee. Kari smiled,
"I'm gonna set her free once we get out of this hole." she said happily. Lee nodded and Kari slipped the bottle in her belt before wrapping her arms around Lee's waist, Lee put one arm around her waist and grabbed the rope with the other.
He whistled, and Comet started walking forward, pulling Lee and Kari out of the hole.
"Thanks for saving me." said Kari as Lee let go of the rope. Lee blushed and turned away without replying.
Kari pulled out the bottle containing the fairy and opened it. The fairy flew out and hovered right in front of Kari.
"Thank you for saving me! Will you please take me to the great fairy fountain?" she asked.
"Uh, sure." said Kari, she held out her finger for the fairy to sit on.
Kari turned around. "Lee! Look, this fairy wants to go to a great fairy fountain, any idea where that is?" she asked.
Lee shook his head. "Nope, no idea." Kari looked slightly disappointed; she went up to Comet.
"Comet, do you have any idea where to find a great fairy field?" she asked, petting his neck. Comet bobbed his head, making Kari smile. She easily climbed on and offered her hand to Lee.
He took it and swung up behind her, the minute he sat down, Comet was off, and he took them to Kakariko village.
"Why did he bring us here?" Kari wondered out loud as she and Lee slid off Comet, Kari patted his neck and went up to the nearest villager.
"Excuse me, do you know if there is a great fairy fountain anywhere around here?" she asked.
"I heard a rumor that a fairy fountain is hidden in the graveyard, not a great one thought," replied the villager before he wondered away. Kari turned to the fairy, which was sitting on her shoulder.
"Did you hear that? There's a regular fairy fountain, but not a great fairy fountain. Will that work?" she asked the fairy.
"That'll work just as well, let's go there." replied the fairy. Kari turned back to Lee. "Looks like we're heading to the graveyard!" she said. Suddenly she frowned.
"Wait a minute. Where's the graveyard?"
Ten minutes later they had found the graveyard, Kari had found an old man who had pointed them in the right direction, since Lee had refused to ask for directions.
"Where would a fairy fountain be in a graveyard?" wondered Kari out loud.
"Maybe under one of the graves?" Zina suggested. Kari smiled.
"Great idea! Lee! We're gonna need your help with moving some of these graves!"
Lee was a few feet away, studying one of the graves.
"Hey Kari, this grave looks a little different from the others, do ya think the fountain could be here?" Kari examined it.
"Yeah, your right, it does look different, let's pull it out and see." Kari and Lee grabbed the back of the grave and pulled. Soon a large hole came into view.
"ya! We did it!" said Kari, hugging Lee. Lee jumped into the hole; followed by Kari, Zina and the fairy, Mae had stayed with Comet.
Inside the hole was a beautiful fountain with several fairies flying around. The fairy on Kakari's shoulder flew over to them.
"Hi everybody! I'm home!" the other fairies gathered around her and welcomed her with.
"Welcome home great fairy!"
Lee and Kari exchanged a shocked glance, "s-she's a great fairy?" muttered Kari. The great fairy flew up to Kari.
"Yes I am Kari, and I thank you for bringing me home." A bright light suddenly surrounded the fairy. When it was gone, the great fairy was in her place.
"Kari, please take this as my thank-you to you." the great fairy gave Kari a beautiful silver fairy bow and a silver quiver; the quiver had four sections, three small ones and a large one.
Kari stood there with her mouth hanging open, "wow! A fairy bow! Thank you very much!" said Kari. She examined it and noticed the three small sections and a spot for the bow.
"Um excuse me. But what are the small sections for?" asked Kari
The great fairy smiled, "Should you visit the other great fairies they will give you the abilities to shoot different types of arrows, and a magic meter."
"Oh I see, so the other sections are for different types of arrows," said Kari. The great fairy nodded. Kari examined the quiver and bow more closely, suddenly she gasped. Kakari was carved on the quiver! She looked at the bow; her name was carved in silver on the bow too!
"I see you have discovered your name on the bow and quiver," said the great fairy. Kari could only stare at her name written in beautiful cursive letters on the bow and quiver.
"Thank you so much great fairy!" she said, slinging the quiver on her back and the bow in the quiver.
Kari followed Lee outside the fairy fountain.
"Wow I can't believe she gave me a bow just for saving her!" Kari couldn't stop chattering in her excitement. Lee just smiled at how happy she was.
"Hey, look over there Lee," said Kari, she was pointing to a shop. "Maybe they know a place where we can live."
"Yeah, you just might be right, let's go inside," said Lee, Lee led the way inside the small shop.
"Excuse me sir," said Lee, a man behind the counter saw them. "Ah, what can I do for you lad?"" he asked, Lee and Kari both noticed that the shop sold things like healing potions and weapons. Lee especially noticed the Hylian shields for sale, someday he might need a bigger one than the Duku shield he currently had.
"We're looking for a place to stay sir," said Lee, "my friend and I just came here, and we want to buy or build a house. We just don't know anything about this town yet."
The man studied them for a minute, "where are you two kids from?" he asked.
"We're from Kokiri forest," said Kari, she stood next to Lee. "You mean you two are Kokirians?" he said, looking a little surprised.
"Yeah, sort-of." replied Lee. "Well I'll be darn," muttered the man, "two Kokirians right here in Kakariko village."
The man sat there for a minute.
"Why don't you two stay here for a while? We have some room in our house, then maybe we can see about finding you two a place to live." The man closed his store and led Lee and Kari across the street to his house.
A woman and a little girl greeted him. The man picked the little girl up and hugged her.
"Oh sorry you two." he said noticing them just standing there.
He turned to the woman, "this is my wife Valentina." he said, Valentina smiled sweetly at Lee but frowned when she turned to Kari.
"This is our ten-year-old daughter Iza," the man said next, gesturing to the little girl. The little girl smiled at Kari and blushed at Lee.
"Oh and I'm Sloan. What are your names?" he asked.
"I'm Lee and this is my best friend Kakari," said Lee.
"Well it's very nice to meet you Lee and Karri," said Valentina,
"Um, my name is Kakari, but everyone just calls me Kari," Kari said, smiling. Valentina just sniffed and walked back to the kitchen.
"Lee, you can sleep upstairs, we have an extra bed, and Kari can sleep on the couch," Valentina said with a glare at Kari. Iza took Lee by the hand and led him upstairs to show him his bed. Sloan fetched a blanket for Kari.
Kari placed the blanket on the couch and headed for the door. "I'll be right back Sloan, I need to go take care of our horse and our pet wolf. Can you tell Lee where I've gone if he asks please?"
"Sure Kari, I'll make sure he knows," replied Sloan with a smile. Kari smiled back and headed over to where Comet and Mae were waiting.
"Nnnnnnnnnnnooooooo!"
Kari sat up quickly, breathing hard. She quickly grabbed her bow and quiver before slipping out the door. Seconds later, Lee poked his head out of one of the doors and followed Kari, a worried look on his face.
Kari quickly headed to the corral where Comet and Mae where sleeping, Valentina had insisted that they sleep inside a corral, although Kari knew they wouldn't have caused any damage.
Kari hopped the fence with ease and raced over to Comet and Mae, she sat down next to Mae, Mae opened her eyes and wagged her tail. Comet nuzzled her head, begging her to pet him.
"I had a really bad nightmare." Kari explained to them, "and I don't think Iza's mom likes me, she was kind of mean to me." Kari sniffled a bit.
"Sloan's really nice and so is Iza, but I still miss the forest." Kari sighed and leaned against Mae and Comet.
Suddenly, a stick cracked.
Kari quickly turned around, but rolled her eyes when she saw it was Lee.
"What's the matter?" Lee asked, Kari looked down, "It's nothing really, I just had a bad dream," she said.
"Well if it was only bad dream then... why did you come out here?" He asked. Kari looked up.
"Caus' I needed to be comforted." she simply replied.
"Oh." said Lee, he felt a little guilty. "Tell you what, why don't we sleep out here tonight?" he said. Kari's eyes widened.
"You would sleep out here with me instead of a bed?" she sounded touched.
"Sure." he replied, "your my best friend, I like being with you." Kari blushed, and then flopped back in the grass, Lee lay opposite. Kari lying with her feet facing one-way and Lee's feet facing the opposite.
"Lee?" said Kari.
"Yeah?" he replied, "do you think our real parents are still alive?" Kari said; Lee stiffened a bit.
"I don't know Kar, they might be."
Kari didn't press the matter anymore; instead she stretched her arms and rolled over.
"Good night Lee." she said after a minute.
"Good night." Lee replied slowly.
The next morning, Lee opened his eyes and looked around, he was leaning against Mae, and Kari was asleep with her head on his shoulder. Lee blushed slightly before shaking her arm.
"Kari, Kar, wake up, its morning." Kari slowly lifted her head and blinked. Blushing once she realized she'd had her head on Lee's shoulder. Lee stood up and helped Kari to her feet.
"Lets go get some breakfast," said Lee, he headed off towards Sloan's house. Kari followed him, rubbing her cheek.
"Here you go Lee, Kari," said Valentina; she placed a plate of freshly cooked eggs in front of them. She, Sloan, Iza, Kari and Lee were all seated around the table.
"So where were you two this morning? Kari, I didn't see you on the couch when I got up this morning." said Sloan.
"We slept outside," said Kari, " I couldn't sleep on the couch, so I went out with Mae and Comet."
"Who's Mae and Comet?" asked Iza, Kari smiled. "Comet is our horse and Mae is our wolf puppy." she replied.
Valentina stiffened at the mention of 'wolf puppy'.
"Oh no!" said Kari suddenly. "I must have left my bow outside! I don't lose that! The great fairy gave that to me!" Kari jumped up and raced outside.
"She has a great fairy bow!" muttered Iza, "yeah, she rescued a great fairy and the fairy gave it to her." said Lee. Sloan, Valentina and Iza just stared at him.
Minutes later, Kari returned with her bow and quiver, "sorry about that everyone, I just didn't want to lose this." Kari said as she placed her quiver and bow on the floor, Iza's jaw dropped when she saw Kari's name carved in cursive on the beautiful bow and quiver.
"Oh yes, Kari, Lee there is a place near here where you two can live, there's a woman living in a house next door, well the woman decided to move to Hyrule castle, she said that you two can move into her old house if you want. The house had two bedrooms, a bathroom and one room downstairs. So whadda' ya think?"
Kari and Lee just sat in silence for a moment, " I suppose we could check it out," said Lee.
"-And I know you two will be able to find work around here, in fact, if you want Kari, you can work in my shop whenever I need a hand, I could use a strong young woman to help me out, so whadda ya think?"
"That sound great." said Kari; she smiled at Sloan before turning back to her eggs.
"And Lee, I know a lot of people will need some one to help them fix there houses and things, maybe you could do that?" Sloan said; Lee nodded.
"Then it's settled! We'll go look at that house after breakfast, the woman already moved out, and it's right next to the corral too, so you horse has a place to stay too." said Sloan. And everyone went back to finishing breakfast.
After breakfast, Sloan took Kari, Lee and Iza to see the house, it was quite nice, the bottom floor was all one room, there was a staircase leading to a hallway on the left, and Iza had fun leaning over the rail to look down below.
Upstairs was two bedrooms, one at the beginning of the hallway and one on the right of that one. At the end of the hallway was a bathroom.
Kari and Lee decided to pick rooms, Kari wanted the one at the beginning of the hallway, and Lee wanted the one next to it.
Kari's room was already painted pink, their was a bed, a closet and a small dresser with a mirror, Kari's room also had a big window that opened, right outside her window happened to be a huge Cherry tree. Big beautiful leaves were on the tree, and a bird was singing on the branches.
Lee's room was a grayish-blue; it had a bed, closet and a shelf. Lee's room was the exact opposite of Kari's, meaning he too had a big window with a tree next to it.
"So what do you two think?" asked Sloan as he led them back to his house. Kari and Lee followed.
"I think its nice, an it's certainly big enough for us." said Kari.
"Yeah, I agree, I think it works fine," said Lee; "now all we need is furniture," said Kari happily.
"The old woman who used to live there says that there's a small table and some chairs somewhere in the house. Perhaps you can find them?" said Sloan, he had stopped by the corral, and was petting Comet while he said this.
Kari stood next to him and also began stroking Comet; soon Mae came up and begged Kari and Lee to pet her.
"Hey." said Kari, noticing how big Mae was. "Do you think we could actually ride her?" she asked Lee; he shrugged.
"Go ahead and try it." he said, he watched as Kari gently lowered herself on Mae's back, Mae stood up and walked around, being careful not to hurt her rider. Kari turned and smiled at Lee.
"Come on Lee! "She called; "I bet she could carry both of us!" she smiled again.
"I don't think she can carry both of us yet. But I have an idea, let's have a race, me and Comet against you and Mae." he said, mounting Comet.
Kari smiled. "Bring it on Lee." she said as she steered Mae towards Hyrule field. Sloan followed them, and may of the other villagers followed, happy to have some excitement.
"You can do it Lee!" shouted Iza, she and Valentina were standing nearby in Hyrule field. "Uh, thanks Iza." Lee replied, making Iza squeal with delight.
"Now here are the rules," said Sloan, he was refereeing. "You race to Lon Lon ranch and back, no trying to stop the other's rider, just race. Oh and have fun." he said. Kari leaned over to Mae.
"Come on Mae, let's show those boys what we can do." she whispered into Mae's ear, Mae growled and Kari could feel her body tense up.
"On your mark, get set, GO!" shouted Sloan, Mae and Comet took off like a bullet, both Lee and Kari leaned flat on their mounts as the race went on. Comet was the first to reach the ranch, but Comet had a harder time turning around, so Comet and Mae were tied as they raced back towards the cheering villager.
Everyone watched in excitement as the two races crossed at the same time, and it was impossible to tell who had won.
"Looks like it was a tie!" said Sloan, Kari smiled happily and threw her arms around Mae's neck, hugging her and stroking her head. Kari turned around when she felt something nudge her shoulder.
It was Comet, Kari, laughed and stroked him too, then Mae got jealous and nudged Kari, so Kari stroked them both at the same time.
Kari saw Lee across the clearing, when suddenly Iza raced up to him and hugged him. Kari's face fell.
Am I feeling jealous? She wondered, no, that's crazy, why would I be jealous of Lee? Kari shook her head and pulled herself up onto Comet.
Taking the reins, she turned Comet away from the village and flicked the reins, he immediately began cantering and soon he was galloping. Kari sighed; she had seen Valentina looking smug as she rode off.
"Probably because now Iza's alone with Lee." she muttered aloud, soon she and Comet came to the entrance of lake Hylia, smirking, Kari flicked the reins and Comet picked up speed, leaping over the gate with a single bound. Kari rewarded him by stroking his neck as they sat by the lake.
Comet grazed while Kari stared into the lake, playing her ocarina. When all of the sudden, a blue creature popped out of the lake.
"aaaahhhhhh!" screamed Kari, jumping back to hide behind Comet, who flicked his ears and went back to his grazing. The blue creature climbed out of the water.
"Hi! Sorry I scared you, I didn't mean to, I heard you playing your ocarina and came to talk to you."
Kari poked her head out from behind Comet.
The creature cocked his head, "my name's Zino, I'm a Zora, what's your name?" Zino asked.
Kari slowly came out. "My name's Kakari, but you can call me Kari, and I'm a human."
"I could tell that right away," said Zino, he looked at her ocarina, "will you play that again? I love the sounds it makes." He dived into the water while Kari sat on the bank and played her favorite song.
Zino dived in and out of the water and did tricks, making her laugh.
"What is that song called?" he asked her, leaning on the bank.
"It's my favorite song, it's called Zelda's lullaby, I don't know why, no one ever taught it to me, I just know it. Once, I met a woman who told me to play it every time I see the mark of the triforce." Kari replied. Staring at the ocarina.
"I think it's my favorite song too." Zino said, swimming around, "will you come back here and play it for me sometimes?" he asked her.
"Sure, if you want me to." replied Kari. Kari noticed the sun was setting.
"Sorry Zino, I've got to go," she said.
"Well ok, if you ever want to find me, just play that song or ask another Zora for Prince Zino." He dived into the lake. (note Zino is Ruto's son.)
He's a prince? Kari thought. Wow! He seems nice for a prince. Kari thought, smiling, she mounted Comet and they galloped back towards Kakariko village.
She put Comet in the corral and went inside Sloan's house; Lee was sitting at the table, waiting for her.
"Where did you go?" he asked, "I was worried that something had happened to you."
Kari smiled, "I'm ok, Comet and I went to lake Hylia. And I just lost track of the time."
Lee nodded and headed up the stairs. " Goodnight Kar." he said, Kari smiled, "goodnight Lee." she replied before falling asleep on the couch.
"Lee, I think we should move into our new house soon," said Kari, she and Lee were sitting on the corral fence,
"Yeah, I think so to. We just need to get some more furniture," said Lee.
"Maybe we should move in now and get the furniture later." Kari stretched her back. "My back is starting to hurt from sleeping on that couch."
"I'm sorry Kari, I didn't even notice." said Lee, "you're right anyway, we should be moving in soon, how about me move in today? We don't have much stuff, just my Shield, your bow, Quiver and ocarina. Oh and a few other things."
"We could move in today, we have been staying in their house for a few days now, I think we should let them have their house back," said Kari.
"Then it's settled, we'll move in today, c'mon! Let's go get our stuff," said Lee, he hopped down and Kari followed him to Sloan's house, where they explained their idea. He agreed and helped them move their stuff to their house, he even helped them find the table and three chairs which turned out to be in the cellar.
"Well that's everything, I'll leave you two to figure out where you want everything to go. Good Luck!" said Sloan before he left, Kari and Lee moved stuff around for an hour until they were satisfied.
Then Kari grabbed her bow, quiver and ocarina and went up to her room, where she hung up her Kokiri tunics and placed her ocarina on the dresser.
She sighed, and jumped on the bed, happy to be home at last.
Lee also went to put his stuff away, after hanging up his Kokiri tunics he placed his sword and shield on the shelf by the door. Looking out the window, he too, was glad to be home.
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