The Legend of Zelda: Link's Story

Chapter 3*~* The Lost Years

"And they lived happily ever after," Saria finished, closing the book quietly. She crept quietly over to where Link was. He looked so cute and innocent, asleep on his bed. She tucked the blanket up under him and left the tree house. She was walking slowly back to her own little house, lost deep in thought, when Mido tapped her on the shoulder. She started and spun around. Spotting Mido, she relaxed and glared at him.

"You scared me! What are you doing out so late?" she asked suspiciously. His smile grew annoyingly wider.

"Looking for you. Where have you been?" he asked.

"I was. . . reading Link a bedtime story," she said casually. Mido's happy expression changed into one of confusion.

"Who's Link? What are you talking about?" he inquired. Saria sighed. She motioned for him to follow her, and they walked back to her house. They settled in at a small table pushed up against one of the walls.

Saria told him everything that had happened. How she had been headed for the Lost Woods when she saw a woman lying on the ground. How she brought the woman to the Deku Tree, and the woman's baby. How the woman died. And then she told him that Link was going to live in the forest with the Kokiri. He freaked out, yelling incoherent strings of words at the wall. He finally calmed down.

"Saria, are you sure it is safe? Because he is a Hylian, so what if he tells people about us, and where the forest is?" he asked. Saria gave him a look.

"Do you really think he would do that? Mido, he's a baby! And the Deku Tree said he was destined for greatness. I don't know, but I know that I will raise him as I was asked to by the Deku Tree," she said confidently, flashing Mido a brilliant smile.

"Anyway, I am tired, and it's very late, so let me go to sleep, okay? Okay. Good night, Mido," she said, sleepily pushing him out the door. She fell asleep thinking about that woman and her baby.

For the next ten years, Link was raised by Saria in the Kokiri Forest. He learned about their customs, he learned the basics of battle, and he learned a lot about nature. But he still didn't know who he was, or why he kept growing when the Kokiri didn't. He also was very different from the rest of the forest children that he didn't have a guardian faerie. He had always hoped that he would get one someday, but by his ninth birthday, he had given up that hope. He enjoyed his Kokiri friends, but Mido hated him. He teased him relentlessly about not having a faerie, and about anything else he could think of.

Link felt that he was very different from everyone else with whom he lived. But he just didn't know how different he was. Until one morning, when the Deku Tree decided he had a story to tell, and it went like this. . .

A/N~ The story will be in chapter 4, if I get enough reviews. K? AND REVIEW MY OTHER FICS, PLEEEEZ!! ::gets watery anime bambi eyes:: pweez?