Chapter 5

Green energy sparked and danced from Saria's hands, and shot Mia upon her arm. To her surprise, vines snaked out from its core and bound her arm tightly. Yelling, she dropped Mido from her grasp, and hacked through with her dagger just in time.

She glared angrily at her opponent, who glared back twice as hard. For a small girl she was unbelievably tough.

"You've got some guts, kid. With a fighter of my calibre, a kid would have run by now, or passed out in fear."

"Don't patronise yourself" Saria smirked, her hand on her hip, eyes sparkling in defiance.

Mia growled.

She lunged at Saria, dagger drawn. Saria sidestepped, but timed it a microsecond wrong, letting the dagger cut through her shoulder. She almost yelled in pain, but bit her lip till blood flowed, trying not to show Mia.

A green ball held suspended in mid-air, which Saria then grasped. The lights elongated into what looked like a whip, which thorns embedded in it.

As Mia recovered from her charge, Saria knew this was the right opportunity to attack.

She lashed out with the whip, trying to catch Mia's dagger arm. She smiled in satisfaction as it thudded into her arm, Mia yelled as the thorns were slowly cutting off her circulation.

In desperation she lashed out, the vines wrapping tighter as Saria increased the light's intensity. Unfortunately, Saria was extremely lightweight, and was thrown the floor by its momentum, like a game of Tug of War.

She fell heavily onto the floor, Mido gazing on in horror.

"You will never find Link! He's the smartest, most intelligent man I know, and he won't be fooled by you!" She cried, her tunic torn. The whip's energy was fading fast.

These words stung him. Saria, lying on the floor like that. He knew that Saria had slim chances now, and she believed in Link, even if she would be killed. Mido, a man, just stood there and ready to accept that his love would die with that foolish boy in her heart? It would never leave him. He would be haunted with the vision.

Creeping up behind her, he grabbed out for the dagger, as Mia whirled round, angrily.

"Oh, so Mr Forest Boy wants some attention now. Why, is that your love there, rotting away on the ground?"

Mido saw fire in his eyes. With a new burst of strength, he wrestled the dagger off of her. The two pulled with all their strength, although Mia was weakened in that arm.

Saria gasped. Mido was known to be the weakest man in the forest, yet here he was, probably fighting off a Gerudo Elite. She smiled. Mido was a true friend.

Not wasting any more time, Saria concentrated her energy, which would be enough to restrain Mia. However, she heard a yell. Mido was thrown against a tree, his head hitting the trunk.

It was now or never.

She wrapped the whip round Mia, as it tightened. She fell heavily onto the floor, snarling.

"I only want to help you! Ganondorf is planning to kill him, you know!"

"Oh, like I didn't know that the grass is green? Tell me something new." Saria said.

"Look, I think I know a bit more about Ganondorf than you, forest girl! I'm his wife!" she yelled.

Saria gasped, astonished.