Disclaimer: I don't own The Legend of Zelda: OOT (Ocarina of Time) or any of it's characters. If I did I would be veddy veddy rich. But N E wayz, Shigeru Miyamoto iz the creator of Zelda and Nintendo owns... well you get the idea. Oh yeah, and I don't own Dave Matthew's song "The Dreaming Tree". Dave Matthew's does. Only in dis fic it's da Deku Tree instead of The Dreaming Tree... Enjoy!

Link's Sorrow
(A twist on Dave Matthew's "The Dreaming Tree")
Standing here, spirits softly
Whispering to me
'Long before your time,
Here stood the Deku Tree.'
Below Him I sat
For hours at a time
Now time takes away
What forever took to find.


Forever to find refuge under the Great Deku Tree's forever protecting wing. Without Him, I am nothing. Only a poor, lost, lonely soul. Without a purpose. Why was I born? Why was I chosen for this quest? I am so different from the others and if I died it wouldn't matter. That's why I was chosen.

Now I'm falling hard
I feel the fall of dark.
How I long to be,
Beneath the Deku Tree.


Of course, I do have one friend. "Saria...." I whispered.

A moment froze in time
When the girl who first I kissed
Promised she'd be mine.

But now everything is changing. I may never see her again. It was hard enough to part with my mother. I was only an infant, but I'll always remember...
Remembered Mother's words
There beneath the tree
"No matter what the world,
You'll always be my baby.
Mother come quick
The Deku Tree has died.

I can't stop them from coming, these things they call tears. They slide down my cheeks, and no shame do I feel.

The air is growing thick
A fear I cannot hide
The Deku Tree has died.


Then Saria was at my side. I looked into her eyes. Those beautiful blue, crystaline eyes. Just like mine, I thought. But her eyes were always happy and filled with pure joy. Mine were... empty. "Link what are you doing? What's happening to you?" Her voice shook with fear.

Oh, have you no pity?
This thing I do.
I do not deny that
I knew I would leave you now.


Then I realized that for her to be strong, I had to be strong. I dried my eyes with a sleeve, scratching the side of my face on my wooden Deku Shield. I really would have to get used to this.

If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
to your own devices.
Will you not talk?
Can you take pity?
I don't ask much,
But won't you speak?
Please...


"Saria, the Deku Tree told me that I must leave, on a journey. I don't know when I'll be back... or if... I'll be back." Our roads were splitting... Our worlds crashing down..

A smile of sweetest flowers
Wilted so and soured.
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired.

I embraced her. My best friend. My only friend. Please don't cry.

I think of when I was small
There on my Mother's knee
How she had promised me
"You'll always be my baby."
Mother come quick
The Deku Tree has died.
I can't find my way home.
And there's no place to hide
The Deku Tree has died.

She wept on my shoulder and we both grieved, in our own ways. This was good-bye. She slipped something into my hand. "I'm going to miss you Link," she said. Oh how I would miss her too... but there were no words to express this in. Instead I fled from the forest, the wind drying my eyes, her ocarina in my hand...
Now, seven long years after that fateful day, I stood in the Sacred Forest Meadow, Saria's words ringing in my head, her cries for help.

"Take me back...
Save me... please."

The End


What did you think? I hope you liked it. I hope I didn't make Link, The Mighty Hero of Time, look too much like a whimp. But let's just put it this way... His adventure is only just beginning and the scars of battle has not yet callused his soul.. HA! How's that for poetic. (Yuck). R/R I'd like to see if I should change my style a bit for future fics. Love ya's.
WaterPixie