Author's Note: sorry about all of the crazy chapter releases everyone. I realized that chapter seven really wasn't much of a chapter and, well, neither was chapter eight. In light of this, I am releasing both of them today.
I hope you can forgive all the weird releases. I will still be releasing 9 on wednesday and 10 on friday. I hope you will continue reading!
Chapter 8
A Bitter Return
Link's trek back through Kokiri Forest was not something that he was looking forward too. It had been quite some time since he had been tossed out of the one place he called home.
He walked toward the bridge that lead toward the entrance to the forest. His mind began to sway back and forth, falling over the tumult of emotions that had come rushing back. He knew he shouldn't be angry at the Kokiri, they just didn't understand him. What had really surprised Link, though, was that the Great Deku Tree had not tried to stop them. This was something that he could not understand, could not forget.
His mind was still swirling around in the sea of his emotions, so much so that he hadn't realized that he had just entered the woods. He was immediately stopped by the entrance guard, a small, blonde boy dressed in a familiar green tunic and hat with a fairy floating around his head.
"Halt…who goes there?" He said as Link stepped through the entrance to the forest. "Oh, it's you…the False One."
The False One, the name the Kokiri had given him before he was forced out. It basically meant that he was a fake, a Hylian masquerading as a Kokiri, something the Kokiri didn't seem to have a taste for.
"What're you doin here?" he asked in a very curt manner.
Link looked at him with utter disgust. It had been years since they had thrown him out and yet they still held this unnecessary grudge against him. It made him sick beyond compare. To think that these forest creatures used to be his friends, to think of Saria…
"Hey, listen! I asked you what you were doin here. You can either tell me and then leave or just skip the middle man and leave right now. It's your choice, False One."
"I'm here to get into the Lost Woods. I have business with a member of a group of skull people. Its business of the royal family and it's kind of important so…"
Link tried to slip by, but the boy forced him back out.
"I don't care who it's for! You're not welcome in this forest anymore! You never really were, ya non-fairy! Leave right now…"
"I can't do that…I need to get into the Lost Woods, but if you won't let me in then I guess…"
Link ran back onto the bridge, followed closely by the small blonde haired boy. He looked over the side, saluted the boy and jumped to the forest below.
"Hey! You can't go in there! You're…you're not allowed to go in there! Hey, I told you to stop! STOP!"
The boy tried to halt Link, but it was too late. He had already jumped onto the grass below and disappeared within the dark wood.
