The Boy Without a Fairy...

"Well, why doesn't he have a fairy then?" Mido, self-proclaimed leader of the kokiri children, said, stooping over the little bundle in the basket at his feet. It was a little baby, in a whicker basket, and it had been found in front of the Deku Tree.

"What, is this a new brother?" Saria, one of the other children, bright eyed with green hair, had looked up at the Deku tree and asked. The great forest guardian smiled, or something like smiling anyhow, and said:

"Take him to your friends. Keep him safe." And then silence.\par

Saria lingered only for a moment, and then lifted the baby from the ground, and carried it away from the Deku Tree, back to the Kokiri village. She hopped gracefully across the pond, and the baby bounced in her hands. It stirred and fussed, and began to cry. "Oh no! Don't cry, little one..." Saira held the baby before her, and smiled warmly at it. "It's okay."

"Guh?" The little baby cooed, and fussed. Saria pulled it close to her chest.

"It's okay, little guy." Then she whispered something into the air, and a little ball of light came zooming from beneath her tunic. She smiled at it, and then said, "Lily, bring everyone here. I have a new brother for us."

"Ooooh! So THAT'S what happened over by the Deku Tree... okay!" And that's how they all had gotten there. Lily, Saria's fairy, had left and found the other Kokiri, and brought them to the meadow out in the center of the village. Now, they were all sitting around in Mido's house, dicussing what to do about the new boy.

"Yeah, no Fairy!" One boy said, in agreeance with Mido. It was true, all of the Kokiri were never without their fairys from the day of their birth. However, this new little boy was alone.

"So? Who cares? Maybe he doesn't need one..." Saria said.

"Doesn't need one?" One of the girls piped up, "How can you get along without one? I wouldn't be able to function at all without Tilly."

"Yes, Dabu and I don't like it." Mido said, his own fairy whispering in his ear. "I think that we should leave the kid out in the lost woods."

"No, we can't do that! Kokiri's who stay in the woods too long become lost, and turn into Skull kids." Saria cried, snatching up the boy, and holding him close. "I think he's great! He hasn't hurt anyone."

"Saria, the Deku tree didn't say where this boy came from! All us Kokiri were born in leaves from the Great Deku Tree... this boys in some sort of weird wooden thing." Mido said. "What is it? A basket? Who ever heard of putting a baby in a basket...?"

"He's only a kid! He could learn to be more Kokirish." Saria insisted. "I mustn't let him go. I promised the Deku Tree I'd keep this one safe."

"Hmm, well..." Mido tapped his foot against the floor of the hut, and paced back and forth. Dabu, the fairy, circling around his head. "Fine, I, Mido, leader of the Kokiri... have come to a decision..." Silence... "Well?" The kids clapped, half-heartily, and Mido cleared his throat.

"Thank you... now, as I was saying - I, Mido, hath decided! The boy shall stay, and be raised by you, Saria... now, what's his name?" Saria felt a jolt of joy go up her spine. She raised her head up to think hard about a name for the child.

"Deku Tree didn't give him one... maybe we could call him..." Saria thought about it for a moment. "I think I want to call him Link."

"Link? What kind of a name is Link?" Mido looked oddly at Saria, "Oh, forget it. You always say weird tings like that. Well, what's done is done, now all of you get out of my house! I want to eat."

The Kokiri children all rushed from Mido's little treehouse. Saria picked up the little Links basket, and skipped off toward her own home. "You know, Mido didn't hear me out, Link. The reason I named you that is I think your the boy Deku Tree told me about. The link between all creatures of the world. Link, that's what you are and what your name is, okay? I think you like that." The little baby in the basket cooed softly. Saria entered her own little treehouse, and set the baby on a table. "When you're old enough, we'll make you a treehouse of your own. For now, you'l stay with me, little Link."

For years, Saria raised the boy. Link, the boy without a fairy, he was called. Most of the children grew to accept him, but Saria was his true friend in the Kokiri forest. Saria tought Link all he could know about being a Kokiri child.

Time would come, however, and Saria knew this... she felt this all her life... time would come, and Link would one day have to leave the forest. That time wouldn't comefor a while yet though, and she was happy to have someone like Link... someone to care for.

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