Disclaimer: I don't own The Legend of Zelda… I really hope you didn't think so… I don't own all the lines in this story, some were taken from the game in this chapter so that the story would continue into the story that you know it as.

This chapter of Fairy's Fountain is dedicated to a fan of the story, catzoid. Thank you for sending me an IM about what you thought of the story. I appreciate the feedback and the suggestions.

Fairy's Fountain

//Something gone wrong…//

//Very wrong…//

//I am the fairy that was unlike the rest…//

//I am not a minion pink fairy…//

//I am an individual…//

//I am free…//

//But yet I am different, as I was destined to be…//

//My purpose was not to be a minion…//

//My purpose was to help another individual, unlike the rest…//

//Combining my skills with his…//

Fresh air. I was finally free, yes free, from that Fountain that had held me prisoner for many years gone by. That prison that still held other's lives captive.

That mutant Great Fairy. Someday she shall pay. Not for stealing my life away, I didn't really have a life then, but others did. Like Tael. He had a life. He was magnificent. I was another case. I probably deserved to have what people call life taken away from me.

I am trying not to look back on what was and what could have been. Tael.

I am free. I have a mission. A strange mission, indeed.

A strange thought… Maybe the goddesses did have some purpose for me… Whatever I am getting myself into may be the purpose of my futile existence. The goddesses must have created me for some meek purpose.

I must stop thinking… I have to get out of… Respigem… where the girl named Navi, my past host, lived. I am leaving this protected village, hidden away from all other Hylians. I am to find another village called the Kokiri Forest. It, too, is also a hidden village.

I am to find a child. A boy in fact. This child… I don't know what to expect of this child, but that maybe he'll have some part in my faint purpose.

But first I am to report to the Great Deku Tree. I don't know how this great tree can be great, if it in fact, is a friend of the prison guard, the Great Fairy. Great is part of her name, and she is not great in the least.

It feels strange to be flying outside, outside, a beautiful place with no limits. It is strangely bright outside, which is understandable, after being trapped in a Fairy's Fountain for many years. Sure, yes, they do seem beautiful. Only to the tricked eye. In reality, it is a cruel and awful place.

A thought. Maybe Tael and Tatl never went anywhere. Maybe, they too, turned into mindless pink fairies, following the Great Fairy's every word. I don't want this to ever be a reality. Tael and Tatl is highly above me in status in the world, so why would I be spared an individual mind. Oh yes, that's right, my purpose, my imaginary purpose, that I have yet to wait for. I don't want to ever really think about my past anymore. I don't want to think about Tael and Tatl.

The exit. The exit has come into my view. The exit to Respigem. I turned myself to take a last glance at the place I'd grown up in. The place I'd also been harassed most of my life. But there was a few good aspects to this hidden village. It was weird to be leaving it. It was hidden, so would I ever see it again? I had to leave soon, and stop thinking quite so much, it was drastically slowing me down. I wish I could've seen the only person that cared for me one last time, Tea, but I decided not to, and to just continue. I needed to forget the life that was behind me now. I must leave this hidden village. Maybe, someday, I'll see it again, but what good would that do me?

//I never did see that hidden village called Respigem again, or any of its contents… not even Tea…//

I flew at my full speed, the full speed of a fairy. Surpassingly, fairies fly quite fast, faster than human life. The exit, the exit, the outside world. I flew through the opening towards stairs leading down. I saw and felt light surround me as I left Respigem for the last time ever.

I felt myself being warped… banished from the village… I flew around once I was out of the warp. I was in a field. I had never seen this place before. And yet I knew where it was, it was Hyrule Field. I had never left Respigem, but yet I knew all I needed to know about it. It was strange.

Maybe my purpose was to become an educator? Or maybe a psychic? Neither possible. I was a fairy. Bound to the life of a fairy.

I had to find this other hidden village. How hidden was the village going to be? I was going to be able to find it, right?

The Kokiri Forest.

It's past Lon Lon ranch, hidden under some trees. It's towards the left of Hyrule Field. I pass through a tunnel to enter.

I don't know how I knew these things, but I decided to follow my unknown consciousness' lead. It was worth a shot.

My knowledge of the world… Is it part of my fairy self? Do all fairies know these things? Was I born this way, and just never got the chance to use it? Or maybe, this was yet part of my unknown purpose.

I felt white light. White light, surrounding me. As the Great Deku Tree spoke his instructions to me.

"Navi…

Navi, where art thou?

Come hither…"

A tree could talk and yet fairies can't? We can't communicate verbally, only mentally, but the Great Deku Tree and the Great Fairy could? Then again, there wasn't much of a purpose for the pink fairies to be able to speak verbally.

The white light shined away. I adjusted to the new light as I listened to the Great Deku Tree's words.

"Oh Navi the fairy. Listen to my words. The words of the Great Deku Tree."

The Great Deku Tree. I couldn't really tell if he was like the Great Fairy or not. There was little children in the forest, that I knew must never leave, but they didn't seem unhappy or being possessed. And the old tree didn't seem that full of itself.

"Dost thou sense it? The climate of evil is descending upon this realm…"

What was he talking about? Was some evil going to take over Hyrule? I had always felt evil within… I didn't really know when not to sense evil, after being with the Great Fairy. It was quite a shock if there was evil planning to destroy Hyrule… but I hoped that I had nothing to do with saving Hyrule. I hope that's not my purpose.

"Malevolent forces even now are mustering to attack our land of Hyrule…"

I was still speechless… I had never really been anywhere in Hyrule other than Respigem, so why was I suddenly feeling compassion for this land?

"For so long, the Kokiri Forest, the source of life, has stood as a barrier, deterring outsiders and maintaining the order of the world…"

So the Kokiri Forest was like Respigem. But unlike the Forest, Respigem didn't play much of a purpose in Hyrule. It didn't even make contact with outside villages.

"But… before this tremendous evil power, even my power is as nothing."

Maybe the Great Deku Tree wasn't like the Great Fairy, and actually wanted to help something other than itself.

What is this compassion coming over me in concern for Hyrule? I'd never felt this feeling before, but yet I knew what it was.

"It seems the time has come for the boy without a fairy to begin his journey."

What did he mean? How was I supposed to play a part in this?

"The youth whose destiny it is to lead Hyrule to the path of justice and truth…"

"Navi! Go now! Find our young friend and guide him to me!"

I was still hazy on the whole mission. I had to ask a few questions before I left, except this tree was getting very impatient and wanted me to leave now.

'Excuse me, Great Deku Tree. I don't really understand what's going on here. I was never informed of my exact mission, I was just sent because the Great Fairy hated me.'

The Great Deku Tree made a loud grumble.

"I told that Great Fairy to send thy a fairy well-suited for the mission, and to fill that chosen one in one on their destiny."

'Sorry, sir. I know she's your friend and all, but I don't think you should have asked her for aid. She's quite a cruel fairy indeed.'

I didn't really want to upset this tree. I didn't know much about him, but being attacked by it wasn't first on my list.

"In fact, I don't like Great Fairies in the least bit, but I must keep peace with other kinds to keep Hyrule settled. Would you like to be filled in on what she should have told thou?"

Finally, I'd found an ally against the mutant Great Fairy. I felt a bit more trusting towards the old talking tree now.

'That makes two of us, and I'd appreciate if you told me what's going on. I might not be quite suited for the job, as you see, I'm sort of a fairy-gone-wrong. I'm different than the others. I wasn't under the influence of the Great Fairy.'

"Then she did manage to pick thy a great chosen one indeed. Evil is beginning to sweep over Hyrule. The only Hylian who can stop this evil is the boy without a fairy. Does thou understand?"

'Y-yes…'

"Good. Navi, in this Kokiri Forest each child has a fairy. The boy without a fairy does not. He will need a fairy to guide him on this mission, the chosen fairy. Thy is growing tired. Go now!"

I still didn't completely understand yet. But the tree was getting impatient with me so I turned around and began to leave the Great Deku Tree.

"Fly, Navi, fly! The fate of the forest, nay, the fate of the world depends upon thee!"

As I entered the Kokiri Forest again, I looked around. I saw little green children running around with fairies following them. I remembered that the child I was looking for had no fairy. I just had to look for a child without a fairy. I flew up to a little Kokiri girl sitting on a ledge above a hut.

"Hello" the smiling little Kokiri girl said to me. I look around her and caught sight of a fairy above her shoulder. This wasn't the child. Besides, the child was supposed to be a boy.

I flew around some more. I was trying to look in all directions for a child without a fairy when I flew into a blonde Kokiri child, with a fairy, smiling at me.

"Ah!" I shrieked. I couldn't believe I had actually said something! Fairies weren't supposed to be able to speak a word verbally, only mentally, which other people could understand mentally. I don't know what caused me to talk, but I wish I could've pulled off that again.

I began to fly again. I caught sight of some more houses in the distance. I flew towards a fence. The holes in the fence were big enough for me to fit through, so I flew at one, but I smashed into the fence. I think I need some more flying practice. I flew through the hole again, and this time made it through. I past a hut, but there was no child inside. I saw another hut in the distance. I flew towards it. I peered inside and I saw a little Kokiri boy asleep. I checked for a fairy. There was no fairy! This child was the boy without a fairy! Ecstatic, I flew over to the boy. He looked so innocent. Was he really going to have to protect Hyrule? And how would he react to me?

'Hello, Link! Wakeup!'

I don't know how I knew his name. Maybe it was also like knowing the names and details of things, like Hyrule Field.

'The Great Deku Tree wants to talk to you! Link, get up!'

I was hoping he knew who the Great Deku Tree was. Otherwise, I was in for something. And was this child really supposed to talk to the tree? Or was it something else?

Then a thought struck me. How was I going to wake him up? I couldn't speak verbally, and mentally sure wasn't going to go through to the sleeping boy.

I had spoken a tiny word verbally before, so maybe I could pull it off again. It was my only hope, or I'd be stuck flying around a sleeping boy for who knows how long.

I concentrated real hard on what it was like to talk before, verbally. I didn't talk that much before, so how was it going to work now?

Dear Goddesses, please help me speak to awake the boy that Hyrule depends on!

I was praying with all my might. It wasn't like me, but something had to work now.

And then it came.

"Hey!"

"Hey! C'mon!"

I was speaking. It was strange. It was all I could get out. If I could just get his attention I would speak mentally, which didn't require any amount of will power.

Another thought struck me. What if this boy was expecting a normal, possessed, pink fairy? Maybe I should act like one of them, if I can remember what they were like. No one ever liked me, so it might be easier to be someone else.

The boy was still sleeping. If even rare verbal talking couldn't get him up, what was going to? Maybe violence.

I heard a yawn from behind me and I turned around to the boy named Link. He sat up and looked up at me. I couldn't tell his reaction.

Remember, I thought, be possessed, be a pink fairy. Not your unlikable self.

'You finally woke up! I'm Navi the fairy.' Was he buying it? That I was just a normal fairy?

'The Great Deku Tree has asked me to be your partner from now on! Nice to meet you!'

Maybe a little of myself was showing. It couldn't hurt to be partly me.

The boy just kept looking at me.

'Are you all right? Aren't you going to say something?'

The boy shook his head. What was going on here? Maybe he was like I used to be. Never talking to anyone.

'Can't you talk? I mean at least mentally?'

The boy shook his head sadly. I suddenly felt sort of guilty. This poor child here could never talk, but I used to be able to, and abused the gift. That was just the way I was and am.

'I-I'm sorry to hear that… I didn't used to like talking very much a long time ago.'

Why was I telling him about myself? Was it because I felt comfortable around him?

Link looked up at me, slightly interested in what I had to say.

Wasn't there anything I could do for this child? I used to be silent, just like him. I wasn't made silent, but I adapted the silence.

'Listen, I'm really sorry to hear that. And I can relate also. I want to be able to help you. That's what I'm going to do for you as your partner.'

It suddenly came to me what I must do. Strangely, another thing that I learned I could do.

I began to fly around Link. Just like the pink fairies did to me before I was… changed… I was going to help this boy from every day on. That was a promise. I was never like this before… What was happening to me?

I continued to fly around him. He watched me in awe, curious to what I was doing. It was almost like I was binding our souls together. Becoming eternal partners… Never to leave his side. I don't know for sure, but for a boy that couldn't speak, it was almost like he knew my thoughts and feelings, and shared them too…

After I was finished performing my magic I flew away from him to look him in the eyes. His blue eyes were curious, and hungry for adventure.

'Our souls are bound. I am your partner Link. I'm here to help you with your mission. I'm giving you a gift. A gift of being able to partially speak. You can speak through me. I can only speak mentally, so you will only be able to speak mentally, but we are as one now.'

What was I saying? No one would ever want to be bound to me. It was like a curse, probably. But I wasn't going to reverse it.

This must have some connection with my purpose, which I am still trying to find.

'The Great Deku Tree has summoned you! So lets get going, right now!'

Link looked at me and nodded.

'Sure Navi.' After he said it mentally, he smiled. It must've been exciting for him to break the silence.

Silence.

Is it a terrible thing?

Or is it unrecognizably wonderful?

Link stood up and followed me out his door. I saw the sunlight of the outside as I left Link's hut.

Once again, it was that sunlight that was showing me a new era in my life.

Just like when I finally left the Fairy Fountain.

Just like when I left Respigem.

All leading up to… what?

This all is leading to my purpose, and the unraveling of the mysteries I have yet to complete.

I am not an individual anymore. I am free, and yet not alone.

To be continued…

Notes from Nayru:

So, after constant demand, the long awaited fourth chapter of Fairy's Fountain is up! Was it long enough? Hee hee. I hope everyone liked it and still likes this strange story. Please review this chapter, tell me what you think, and what you'd like to see next or in the later future of the story. And also tell me who you'd like to see an appearance made by. Like Tael, Tatl, or anyone else in the Zelda story that could intertwine with the story. Ok I'll shut up now. Well, that's all for now, NOW GO REVIEW! ^_^