Saria's Change
Summary
Saria knows that kokiri are children of the forest who never age, but what if there was a way for Saria to change that? With the help of her snarky and sarcastic fairy companion Loki, Saria will change the outcome of her destiny to be with Link, no matter what it takes.
Imelda And Takeru
Saria was sound asleep with a tear stained face after all the crying she had done last night. Once in a while Loki could hear a sob or a whimper coming from her. He didn't want to see her like this, in pain and despair. He knew that a Kokiri could become a regular Hylian and lose their eternal childhood. It has been done before.
In the hut that looked much like a tree house emerged a young Kokiri girl who could be no more than eight years old with a pink fairy following her. She had short brown hair that went down to her neck with crimson-brown eyes with a somewhat pale color skin. She seemed a little depressed because she awoken from a nightmare.
The nightmare was incredibly frightening to a child her age as she saw herself being brutally tortured and killed. It was the early morning and still quite dark outside. No other Kokiri was up except her. She climbed down her ladder and headed for the lost woods. She always enjoyed walking through those woods, exploring all around (a wonder that she hasn't found the Sacred Forest Meadow yet).
Though for the first time in her life, she got lost. It was too dark and she took a wrong turn somewhere leading her in an area of the forest she hasn't seen before. She panicked and broke down crying in fear.
"What's wrong?" the girl looked up and saw the figure of a child her age. But with no fairy.
The boy had almost a golden blond colored hair, with cerulean eyes. "I got lost" she sniffeled to the child her age.
"Here, I'll help you get out" the boy said, while giving his hand to the girl to get back up.
"Thanks" She said, smiling and taking his hand. They wandered out into the forest again.
"What's your name?" The boy asked her curiously.
"My name's Imelda, and yours?" She asked, looking up at him with a bright smile.
"My name's Takeru, It's nice to meet you Imelda" He said, smiling widely at her.
"Where's your fairy" she asked, still wondering why he had none. "Fairy? I don't have one" Takeru said, blinking and tilting his head to the side in confusion.
As the light from the sun got brighter, she noticed that he didn't have the usual green tunic that all the males wore, but a yellow shirt.
"You're not a Kokiri?" Imelda asked, staring at him with wide and curious eyes.
"What's a Kokiri?" Takeru blinked and stared at her confused.
"Umm... actually, I'm not sure how you describe one. All I know is that all Kokiri have fairies" Imelda said, smiling cheerfully and laughing quiatly to herself.
"Then I guess I'm not one of them" He said, smiling. For some reason, when he did that, it made her feeling like fainting right there and then.
The sun was now out completely and Imelda remembered the rest of the way. "Wait, I remember where to go from now. Follow me!" She said enthusiastically to her new friend while pulling him along.
They arrived in the Kokiri village where now, there were many Kokiri children running around outside playing. "Wow, cool!" the boy said. He was very amazed at the size of the village, and all the children running around.
"Where are all the grown-ups?" Takeru asked as he was used to seeing only adults running around outside working.
"Grown-ups? What are those?" She wondered because she's never seen an adult before, actually she hasn't ever seen a teenager either for that matter.
"There really big, strong mean people who make fun of you because you're too small or too young" He explained.
"Nope, none of those around here" Imelda replied cheerfully with a wide smile on her face.
"Neat!" Takeru said, he had left on some rather bad terms with his parents, infact, he ran away from home.
She took him back to her little tree hut. "Wow. You have this place all to yourself?" He asked, amazed with the place, which looks pretty much like a dump to an adult.
"Yup! So what were you doing in the forest anyways?" Imelda asked, staring at him curiously.
"I left my home because the people there were being really mean to me. So I somehow got into the forest" Takeru explained, rubbing the back of his head with a sheepish smile on his face.
"Hey! Why don't you live here with me!" She said happily.
"Really!? Thanks!" He replies, enthousiastically because for the past two days, he's been sleeping on the grass of the Lost Woods, which wasn't all that comfortable.
Takeru lived among the Kokiri for 5 years, he and Imelda grew, but she stopped growing at the age of 10 while he just kept growing.
"Wow, you're really tall now. You nearly hit your head on the way out" She giggled at her best friend.
"Haha. Very funny, listen. I'm going to be leaving the forest for a couple of days, alright?" He said, staring at Imelda who's face went from happy to fearful in a matter of seconds.
"You can't! Kokiri die when they leave the forest!" She exclaimed, trying to stop her friend from leaving her alone.
"But I'm not Kokiri, see ya!" She blushed slightly because of her lack of memory.
"Alright, come back soon!" She said, waving at her friend.
"Alace? Why does Takeru keep on growing?" She asked her pink fairy partner.
"Because, Takeru is a Hylian, and Hylians unlike Kokiri don't have the gift of eternal childhood and eventually grow into adults"
"But he'll still love me right?" Imelda asked her fairy with hope filling her tone.
The fairy looks ar her companion awkwardly "He loves you?" Imelda blushed a lot at that.
"Well. Uh . . . no, but I do love him" She confessed, blushing and staring down at her feet.
"Well, if your question was actually Will he ever be able to love me?" the answer is most definately no. The only way that would be possible would be if you could throw away your eternal childhood" Alace explained, trying to explain what she meant in a way that Imelda would understand.
"Oh, okay. How do you do that" Imelda asked, looking up at Alace with wide eyes.
"Imelda, I'm very sorry but you can't!" Alace said flatly, the fairy knew that her charge loved the Hylian boy with all of her heart, but she didn't want to get Imelda's hope up if she were to become a Hylian.
'Wait a minute, she eventually found a way to become Hylian! Damn my corrupted memory!' Loki thought agrilly to himself as he tried to remember the story Imelda's fairy, Alace, told him.
Then he heard another sob from Saria's sleeping body. 'Was it some sort of spell? Or maybe a prayer? If so, there's probably some information about it in a book or a tome that should be able to be found somewhere in the village!'
Loki flew right of the house in search for any hint on how to help Saria.