Author's NoteHey everyone! And welcome back to Sacred Forest Meadow! This chapter is Saria's point-of-view after Link leaves the Kokiri Forest. /Author's Note
'He's leaving…I wish it wasn't so… but he needs to save Hyrule...' Saria thought. It had been a day since Link left and she was missing him horribly. 'I wonder if he'll ever come back… because…' she couldn't finish her thoughts as she broke down into sobs. Saria laid down on her bed and just starred at the ceiling crying. Saria's fairy, Miki, flew down near her head to comfort her.
"Saria--? Are you alright?" Miki whispered to Saria. Saria shook her head. "Why?" the fairy questioned, "Is it because Link left?"
"Y-yes" Saria said and she stopped crying.
"You loved him, didn't you" Saria looked up in shock at the fairy. "Well didn't you?"
"Yes, I've loved him for awhile" she softly mumbled. 'Was it that obvious?' she thought. 'Maybe Link realized it too… Maybe that's why he was in such a rush to leave me on the bridge today.'
As if reading Saria's mind, Miki said "I noticed it… awhile ago… I don't think Link noticed though." Saria looked down at her feet and slowly kicked them back and forth.
"It was that obvious to you?" Saria smiled a little.
"Yes, maybe. Just the way that you looked at him." Saria turned her head away and looked out her door.
"The way I looked at him?" Saria said in semi-alarm.
"No," Miki said, "The way you looked at each other." Saria just starred at the fairy in shock for a second.
"What are you saying?" Saria tried to clear up what she'd just heard.
"Saria! What was even more obvious, is that he liked you back!" Miki said with a bit of happiness and frustration in her voice.
"H-he did?" Saria fumbled "I-I mean, you mean, he liked me back all that time?" Miki made a nodding motion to Saria. Saria's face brightened and a smile spread upon her face.
"I wished I noticed it before!" Saria said gleefully. Then her faced clouded. "I-it doesn't matter anymore. Link's gone for good. I-I'll never get to tell him how I feel about him." Saria ran out her door and Miki tried to fly after her. Saria ran towards Mido's house, not to see Mido, of course.
"S-Saria!" Mido called to Saria as she ran past him, "Where are you going?" Mido would have kept talking but he saw her climbing up towards the Lost Woods. Mido just sighed.
Saria continued to run into the Lost Woods. She had her way memorized, because it was always where she went when she wanted to be alone. She ran past the skull kids, past the strange rocks, past the water, past everything until she reached the Sacred Forest Meadow. Saria looked around at the maze of grass, green walls, and water. She ran up a set of stairs and didn't stop until she reached a strange gray block in the ground with the symbol of the forest. She looked around at her settings again. It was by fair the most peaceful, beautiful place in the forest. There was a tree hanging over a high up platform, which only she could get up. There were many vines on the tree that had grown over it over many years. She walked over to sit on her rock to get in control with her emotions.
'Link' was the only word she thought right away, so she pulled out her Ocarina to play her song, the song of the forest. Saria laid down on the rock and played with her hair and tried to recall yesterday's events…
Yesterday… a day that she didn't want to remember, but in a way she felt like she should.
It had been just yesterday… She'd gone over to Link's house, liked she'd promised the day before… the day before… that had definitely been a special day. That day her and Link went down to sit by the river… Yesterday… When Saria had gone over she'd found out the startling and yet wonderful news that Link had actually gotten a fairy! Link had always been the only Kokiri in the forest without a fairy, and therefore Mido was always picking on Link whenever he could. Link had said that he needed to go shortly after. Saria was confused, but let him go anyway. She hadn't seen Link the rest of the day until late at night when she had found out about what he was about to do…Leave the Kokiri Forest… The Deku Tree was dead so it didn't matter if the Kokiri's left now, but most stayed. Saria had gotten to the bridge that connected Kokiri Forest to the rest of the world before Link had so she waited until he arrived there. When he had gotten there, she talked to him shortly and gave him an Ocarina to remember her by… Link seemed to be in a hurry to leave, but his eyes showed that he was sad to be leaving…
"Sariiiiiiia!" Miki called to Saria as she flew next to Saria. "Wait up for me next time! It's not easy for a fairy to make her way around the Lost Woods when you don't know the way!" Saria giggled.
"Sorry, Miki. I didn't mean to. Well, I didn't mean to make you lost." Saria smiled lightly at the fairy.
"It's okay… Why'd you come here?" Miki questioned Saria.
"Um… I just wanted to be alone I guess." Saria said softly. "Only you and Link know I like to come here, so no one can find me…"
"Okay. You mean like Mido? I saw him beginning to chase you after you ran by him. Luckily he stopped. But it would be amusing to see him getting lost trying to find you. Now that's a funny thought." Saria giggled at Miki's lack of seriousness.
"Do you think Link will ever come back to the Kokiri Forest?" Saria looked up at the fairy with an innocent look to her eyes.
"I don't know if he'll ever come back to the Kokiri Forest… but he might come back to you." Miki said reassuringly.
"Hah. Hah. Yeah right." Saria said, although she was enjoying the thought. "Even if he doesn't really love me, we're best friends, so maybe in that mind-set he'd come back."
"Yeah! That's the spirit Saria! Now that we have hope do you want to back to the Forest? We'll find a way to get around Mido." Miki waited for a laugh from Saria, like she would've usually done, but Saria just looked straight ahead with such a look of seriousness on her face. Her eyes seemed to cloud as she spoke.
"No… I don't want to go back…" Saria mumbled, but kept looking forward. The cloud in her eyes was thickening. Miki was in shock.
"W-why not?" Miki questioned. "It's alright we can wait a few hours or so." Miki hoped this was what Saria meant.
"No… I'm never going back…there…I'm going to stay here…forever…and wait for Link. Then I'll be right where Link would look for me if he returns."
"S-saria! Are you serious?" Miki knew she was. "S—" Miki stopped because she realized that she wasn't going to change Saria's mind. "Okay…I'll stay with you until he comes, like I always have."
Saria made a vow to herself, not out loud, for she did not want her fairy to hear it. She made a promise to herself and Link that they would see each other again.
Author's Note How'd everyone like it? I think I might continue the story in later years. Please review and tell me what you thought of it and what you'd like to see later on! Ja ne! ^_^ /Author's Note
