"Hey, Link! What did you do?!" Mido Stood in front of Link and Navi, in the exit of the path. Navi and Link stood quietly looking down at the ground. "T-The Great Deku Tree...did he...did he die?!" Link turned away, holding back his anger and pain. Mido looked at him angrily and stamped his foot. His eyes almost as if they were about to tear up. "How could you do a thing like that?! It's all your fault!!" Link looked up quickly, shocked and hurt, as Mido quickly ran off.
Link, though filled with slight anger at Mido, tried to shake it off. The Kokiri girl in front of the hill, who stopped him before looked at him. "Hey Link," she smiled. He smiled back, to hide what he was feeling.
"I can't really talk; I'm in a small hurry." He said quickly. She looked at him, almost shocked.
"What? Where are you going?" She smiled again.
"To the castle - The Great Deku Tree is sending me." He was almost proud of his own private mission, but when the name slipped his tongue, it all slipped away.
"Where's the castle?" She tilted her head slightly, her smile unwavering. "I bet its nice." She sighed quietly. He could tell she was thinking to herself again.
"Bye." He smiled at her as she mumbled quietly, in her own little world. He looked around. His friends running back and forth between tree homes. His eyes tried to find Saria, but she wasn't there. He sighed. He had to talk to her, he couldn't just leave. He had to tell her of his secret quest from the Great Deku Tree. She was nowhere to be seen.
"Link!" Navi shouted interrupting his thoughts. "We have to go to the castle!" He sighed. Where was she? He began to walk slowly towards a path in the woods that led to the field. To him, it was all unknown.
The woods seemed to be quiet as he passed through the path. There was no one around. The Kokiri believed leaving the woods, would kill you. He stood on the edge of a small bridge. He was so small, the hand rail, rope was as high up as the top of his long, leaf green hat. He looked down to the other end of the bridge to the path leaving the woods. Just a few feet away, he'd be the farthest from home, he'd ever been. He began to walk sensing Navi's slight irritation.
"Oh, you're leaving…" He turned around. Saria clung to a rope near the middle of the small bridge.
"Saria!" He smiled, hurrying over to her. Navi fluttered quickly over to Saria's light green fairy. She didn't really look at him. Her blue eyes peered over the edge of the bridge to the tree stumps and shrub like grass on the ground.
"I knew… that you would leave the forest...someday, Link" She paused and Link's smile began to fade. "...Because you are different from me and my friends..." The word different stung his mind. She looked at him with tear filled eyes and a trying, small, gentle smile. "But that's OK," she sat for a second, trying to make things right in her own mind. "B-because we'll be friends forever...won't we?" Link's eyes began to sting slightly.
"Yeah!" He said quickly. He could feel hot tears beginning to burn at the back of his eyes. "A-always.." He was beginning to stammer on, when Saria pulled something from behind her back. It was oval shaped and round with a small piece on the end that stuck out with four holes carved into the center of its wood. It was light tan with small colored designs on it. He looked down at it quietly. Tears began to slide down Saria's reddening cheeks.
"I want you to have this ocarina…" She stepped closer to him and closed it in his hand. "Please take good care of it." He looked down at his hand, trying to hold back tears as well, but within a moment, Saria hugged him quickly. She took a step back smiling slightly, but tears still rushed down her face. "When you play my ocarina, I hope you think of me and come back to the forest to visit." Link looked down at his hand. There was a long pause of silence. Saria only looked down at the ground. Tears were about to burst from his eyes. He turned quickly and ran from the forest, wiping his eyes as he ran, with Saria's ocarina in his hand.
