Nayru reached the banks of Lake Hylia, when her thoughts finally began to catch up with her and nag. Where was she going? What was she doing? She sat down on the grassy banks her head in her hands. She pulled out her father's note and the little fairy ocarina. She looked at the note. "find a friend in the forest"? what did that mean? She looked at the songs. There were many. The first on the list was Zelda's lullaby, she skipped over that, because she knew Zelda would have nothing to do with forests. She looked at the next song. It was short and simple and was labeled Saria's song. Saria…that name it sounded familiar…She remembered her parents saying something—something about sages? About the forest? She couldn't put her finger on it, but that name seemed to be triggering something in her memory. She put the ocarina to her lips and blew. It made a soft sweet whistle, a bit like a flute. She practiced playing it and then she decided that she might as well try playing Saria's song. She looked at the paper and played it slowly and carefully. As she blew the last note on the ocarina, she seemed to hear the song echo around her once more, and a glow of green was illuminated from the tiny instrument. All of the sudden she heard a small voice in her ear. "Link?" Said the small voice. For a moment Nayru paused and then said, "Not Link, Nayru, his daughter." "Nayru?" said the voice, "Well my name is Saria, I'm an old friend of Link's from when he lived in the forest as a boy, why did you play my song?" "Saria…" Said Nayru, "I—I woke up this morning, and I found that my house had been robbed, and wrecked, and I went into my father's room, and he was gone—there—there was blood…" Nayru choked down a sob. There was a long silence, after a moment Nayru said tentatively "Saria?" "I'm here," Said Saria suddenly, "I was afraid something like this was going to happen…" Said Saria gravely "What—what was going to happen?" "Did your father ever tell you?" Said Saria, more to herself it seemed then to Nayru, "Tell me what?" Said Nayru. "Do you know…Do you know who your father is? I mean, do you know what he did?" "What are you talking about?" Said Nayru, bewildered. "Goddesses! He never told you!" "Tell me what?" she said now sounding annoyed, but Saria began to speak again slowly and quickly. "Nayru, I must tell you something. Right now at this very instant you are in serious danger, I need you to play a song called the minuet of the forest and come and speak to me, listen, you are in grave danger and we must speak privately." "Ok…" Said Nayru slowly "Goodbye" said Saria, and then the ocarina glowed green and her voice had gone. Nayru looked at her father's note and found the minuet of the forest. She played it slowly and then without warning she was engulfed in a green flood of light and she vanished.
Nayru reappeared on a large stone in the middle of a lush forest. She looked down at the crumbling old stone she stood upon and saw strange triangular runes carved all over it. She looked up and was shocked to see a young girl seated on a stump nearby. She looked to be about ten, was wearing all green and her hair too was a bright green shade. She said slowly to the girl, "Are you Saria?" The young girl nodded. Nayru stepped off the platform of rock. "Where are we?" she asked slowly. "We are in the Kokiri forest where your father grew up, believing he was one of us, the Kokiri." Saria said calmly. I might as well start his story with the himble beginnings, Thought Saria, and then she launched into the tale of her father's life. From how he was given a fairy one early morning in the forest, to rescuing princess Zelda from the evil and terrible ruler Ganon, in his lava surrounded palace. As Saria finished her story, Nayru sat, stunned. She made a few wordless gurgling noises, but couldn't seem to get her words around the amazement that seemed lodged in her throat. "Wh—WHAT?" she finally was able to articulate. "Your father is Hyrule's Hero of Time." Said Saria softly. Nayru sat silently. "That's why they—why they took him away…" Nayru said after a moment. Saria nodded mutely. "I've sensed the spread of darkness for some amount of time now, and I suppose I just wanted to ignore it—to hope it would go away…" Saria's voice trailed off. "But I cannot deny it anymore, I must call a meeting of the sages and we must speak, for without a doubt the dark king from the desert has returned, and he is going to try to regain the triforce,"