After saying goodbye to a concerned Saria I went straight to my room. June and Pita weren't there yet; I thought I saw them talking with some other girls in the common room when I walked past. I climbed to my bunk, and pulling Navi out of my pocket, I placed her on my mattress by the wall. She was still sleeping deeply.
I removed my cloak. Making a little tent out of it, I put her under my hood. It wouldn't be good for my roommates to see her light when they walked in. I jumped down and wrote a quick note to them, telling them I had a crazy day and was sleeping, so please don't wake me. Then I went to bed, exhausted from worry and the day's events.
In the morning I woke many times. I heard my roommates slowly get out of bed in intervals, each leaving after a short time. I stayed in bed, not wanting to talk to them. I also heard the call down in town for everyone to gather for Worship. Still I stayed in bed.
"Hey!" A call suddenly broke me from drifting off again. "Hey, is anybody there?"
I opened my eyes. My hood was bobbing up and down. I sat up and lifted it, and Navi flew out from under it in a tizzy.
She was flying strong today. "H-hey," I said as she glanced around, "You look like you're feeling better." She flew up before my face again.
"Oh, hello. You're from before, right? Umm…it's a bit fuzzy…Sarah, was it?"
"Yeah, that's me." I nodded as I shifted into a more comfortable sitting position against the wall. "Though I must admit I'm surprised you recall anything from yesterday. You were in pretty bad shape."
"I only remember a bit of it…" she trailed off, wings dropping slightly as a dog's ears might when sad. She made a low, single-toned sound similar to a slide whistle when she sank down.
"Did you happen to remember anything else from your past yet?" I didn't know what else to ask.
"Hey, I just woke up, gimmie a sec, will you?" She scolded, bouncing in the air.
"S-sorry. Umm…did you want something to eat first?" Realizing, I added, "Err, what do you even eat?"
"I don't have to eat, you should know that." Navi was swooping about the room to have a better look. "I can't be the first fairy you've met; we're in a forest, right? My kind have to be everywhere!"
"A-actually, you are." I grimaced. I guess she wouldn't know… I'd have to be the one to tell her. "Fairies, they a-aren't supposed to exist anymore. For a long time they've been, or thought of have been, umm, extinct."
Navi came back and stared hard at me. "You're joking." My serious, sad look remained the same. "You're…not joking, are you?" She finally asked in a small voice.
"I'm not. I'm really sorry."
She landed on my bent knee, wings drooping again. "But…how? Why? Where am I; when am I?"
"They were hunted centuries ago. Then they were…gone. But, uhh, why ask when you are?"
"I…I think, before, I traveled through time. I remember a feeling, then being fast-forwarded through. Arg, but I can't remember why! It was important, too… Why can't I remember anything!"
"C-calm down now." I flinched back as the fairy knocked herself against my knee in anger. It didn't hurt; I was more surprised at the change of her glow from a light blue to mad red. "The Elder thinks you'll get your memories back over time. Maybe it's…cuz of that time travel stuff you forgot? I dunno, I've never heard of travelling through time as more then just a fantasy-"
"I'm not lying!" Navi yelled, growing a deeper red. Then she slowly faded back to her previous blue and landed again on my knee. "At least, I don't think I am… I really don't know. I just know for sure I'm Navi, and I was helping a friend with a task…"
"It's okay, don't push yourself too hard yet, alright? Knowing for certain your Navi is a step up from yesterday." I tried to keep my voice soothing as I pat her body with my thumb carefully. She'd been touching me all over and seemed fine, so I figured it was okay. "I believe you, it could be true, time travel. Just because I don't know about it doesn't make it impossible. But this friend you keep talking about…is that the thing you said when you first woke up? Was your friend's name Link?"
Navi pondered for a while. "I think so, maybe?" The uncertainty just seemed to upset her more.
"Well, we can figure it out as we go. Um, I guess I'll give you the low down." I cleared my throat. "I'm Sarah, as you know, and I'm a new Earth Mage student in Kokiri Village. The year is 1,062 AHU, which stands for after the Hyrulean Unification War. I have classes and stuff most days sooo…your welcome to come with me to them, if you feel like it. Or stay here, or, I guess wander the Village too. You're your own self, so you don't really have to stay here at all if you don't want to. But I'm the one who found you in that flower in the woods, and I don't really remember that well myself. I want to help you out if I can. 'Cause maybe then we can both find out what's up? But no obligation, I promise."
Navi flew up again and drifted back and forth, looking as if she was pacing. "1,062 AHU. That sounds…far."
"That's sorta good, right? That you recall that sounds far off?" I added hopefully. Navi just kept pacing. "I mean, it's not great. But if this time stuff is what happened, maybe we can send you back when we figure it out. I…well, apparently I can hear through time, so that could help, maybe?"
"Hear through time?" Navi stopped and turned to me, sounding as baffled about it as I did yesterday.
"Yeah. I-it's weird, right? But I guess…the Elder said it was like, you can hear echoes of what people said around you long ago, in another lifetime. It happened again yesterday right before I found you." I thought hard on what I heard during that episode. "In fact, the voice… I can't be sure, but it might have been you."
"You heard me through time? What did I say?" She swooped down excitedly, I think hoping whatever it was might help her memory.
"Like I said, I'm not totally sure." I tried to rein her in a bit. "And what I heard was really choppy. But the voice sounded like they were trying to wake someone up from sleeping. They mentioned something about Hyrule, and introduced themselves to someone?"
Navi sighed. That same sad tone from before accompanied it. "That doesn't sound familiar at all."
"Sorry… I didn't mean to get your hopes up…" I looked away, towards the window. The day looked rather grey out.
"No, Sarah, it's okay. You've helped me out a bunch just telling me all this!" Navi dinged, darting in front of me. "I've been such a mess, but I do appreciate it. I'd like to take you up on that offer, and stay with you, if it's okay. I mean, it's not like I really know anyone else. And…we can help each other out with this as much as possible. Deal?"
I smiled and nodded. "Deal."
With a loud bang the door to my dorm room swung open. June and Pita rushed inside. Navi gave a jingle like an alarm and darted behind my hair.
"Oh Farore, it's true! That really is a fairy you found, isn't it Sarah?" June exclaimed as Navi poked herself out cautiously.
"Err…yeah."
"Man, why's all this awesome stuff happen to ya? The Ball and now a fairy?" Pita grumbled, "Share some of your luck with the rest of us, won'tcha?"
None of this seemed like luck to me. More like a curse of weird things to happen to me.
"Trust me, if I knew how, I would."
Is this a Fast Fast? I guess it could be considered one
Gotta say, introducing Navi was something I was looking forward too...never got all the hate she gets. I personally never found her all that annoying. Beside, people forget game-wise that without Navi you wouldn't have any Z-targeting. That would suck! Also, kinda went with my kid-logic of the fairy's actual body just being the light you see. OoT was my first Zelda, so I didn't have any of the other games to go off of, and it kinda stuck in my mind. Just an interesting tid-bit!