Authors Note: Here's your next chapter.

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Disclaimer: I would have no problem taking ownership of Zelda...however...I don't have ownership of Zelda...

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Chapter 11

Link felt a sharp pain in his chest as he caught onto the cave mouth. He held on tightly as he tried to recover from hitting the face of the rock as hard as he did. Apparently, even as numb as his skin was, his bones still felt pain.

Pulling himself up the best he could, Link slowly entered the top of the cave. He didn't want to let go, since the cave was vertical and he didn't know how far down it went. Slowly, link used his hands and feet to carefully lower himself down by pressing them against the walls, which were strange, because they were in a perfect circle all around.

Link slowly decended down the cave the best he could without slipping. Rainwater was trickling down the walls, making it even worse. He didn't know how much longer he would have the strength to keep himself from falling.

A few minutes after he started moving downward, Link's leg slipped. Surprised, Link pushed more force onto his hand, which then slipped upwards. Link's head was forced to smack into the wall. Link felt no pain from this, because he was soon rendered unconscious.

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Seeing things in his dreams was by no means new to Link. Having been through revalations back in Hyrule while he slept, and recently ones of Navi, Link wasn't at all surprised to experience yet another.

This one, though, had absolutely nothing to do with Navi. In fact, this one didn't even feel like a past ones, but instead, it felt like it was happening as of that moment. There were no jumbled pictures, just clear thoughts. That's all it was, just thoughts. No images whatsoever.

"I wonder if Link will ever make it down... I'm so stupid.. why did I leave him up there?? It wasn't his fault he got stuck in this land. He's trying to do a good deed by finding his friend, and what do I do? I leave him with nothing! ...Father... what would you do if you were me...." Link recognized this as Tifa's thoughts. Link was relieved to see that she at least thought of him as a good guy. The next set of thoughts were different.

"Maybe I should go back and help Link... The storm seems to be picking up even more than before. Well... I have no doubt that he can do it on his own....but still....what if he gets lost? Would it be my fault....or Tifa's? I thought Tifa had some feelings for Link... Perhaps it is really me that has feelings for him..." thought Shia. Link hadn't thought of Shia liking him, just because she wasn't at all outgoing like Tifa was.

The next set of thoughts that Link saw, wasn't understandable in any form of words, but more of feelings. Feelings of love and care flooded into Link's mind. This was unlike anything Link had ever experienced. All his worries and doubts were soon smothered and lost in the flood.

Consciousness came back to him.

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"Link, wake up," commanded a powerful, yet kind voice.

Link opened his eyes just a little, only to be blinded by an impossibly bright light. He snapped his eyes shut again, and muttered, "So I was a sleep after all."

The voice that had spoken to him before chuckled, then said, "In a sense, yes... physically speaking. Mentally, however, you couldn't have been more awake."

Link didn't understand. "What do you mean?" he asked.

"Well...your body was...ah...'asleep' and unable to move. A better way to describe it, would be to say that means that you couldn't ahve moved even if you mentally commanded it. It was 'asleep', therefore you couldn't have control your body. At least, not in the state you were in after that fall."

"what do you mean by that?" Asked Link.

There came a great sigh, then the voice continued. "You were dead, Link."

Link snapped his eyes open, ignoring the blinding pain. "I was what?!" he shouted to whoever was talking. "I was dead?!?"

"Oh yes, you were extremely lucky," replied the voice.

Link couldn't have been more confused. "How is that lucky???" he demanded. Very slowly his eyes started to become more clear. "And how did I die??"

"Well, the information that you failed to recieve, was that the tunnel you feel down takes about an hour for humanoids to travel down the way you were with your hands and feet. When you fell, you made it to the bottom in record time...which is unfortunate, because you also died on impact," said the voice.

Trying to think this through, Link was still doubting the fact that he died. It was too hard to believe, and didn't make any sense. Looking at the huge being that was slowly coming into view, he asked, "So how was I lucky? I don't recall anyone being lucky for dying."

"Well, you were lucky, because you happened to die in my domain, which is the only place my healing is effective," responded the voice.

"And what domain is this?" asked Link, his vision finally becoming clear.

"Well, I call it home, but you refer to it as the Fairy Shrine."

At that moment, Link's vision cleared, and before Link, floating over what appeared to be a lake, was the largest, most beautiful fairy he had ever seen.

Link was speechless.

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"Well don't just stand there. You have more questions for me, I don't have all day. I'm a very busy fairy you know. Probably the busiest you'll ever come by," said the Fairy.

This particular fairy happened to look different than any fairy he had ever seen. She had the overall fairy look, but was wearing a white robe and a golden crown. She appeared to be sitting down on the air above the lake, and was eyeing Link, who was wondering how a fairy as great as this one could possibly be busy. He only had one thought.

"Are you the Queen of Fairies?" he managed to say.

"Wha? Of course not! There is no Queen of Fairies. If there was, I'd tell the Goddesses to give HER my job. I'm more of a savior." She replied.

"Savior?"

"Yes. A good analogy would be that I am to fairies as you are to Hyrule. Except I don't fight bad guys."

"I see....so what is it you do then?" wondered Link.

The Fairy thought of this for a moment, then said, "Tell me link, did you know that there are precisely 2,535,015 in our world?"

"Wow, that many?" Link said. Suddenly Link's eyes widened as he remembered why he had even come here. "Can you tell me where my friend Navi is?!" he asked excitedly.

"We'll get to that in a moment. What I am telling you takes part in where she is. Anyway, there are 2,535,015 fairies in the world right now, and it's been around that many ever since the God's placed us here," Link didn't understand what she was saying, but remained silent.

"You've seen fairies die, I'm sure. Every time you call on one to heal you, their body dies and cease to exist. However, like you, they also exist mentally and spiritually as a spirit. The fairy spirits are then instantly transported back to me. And can you guess what I do with them?"

"Um....what?" asked Link.

The Fairy smiled and said, "I create new bodies for them and send them on their way!"

"Wait...so...is that what happened to me? I had a new body created?" questioned Link. He was finally beginning to understand what was going on.

"Well, no...see, it doesn't work the same way with you. I can only create a new body for fairies. For you, I simply healed your old one. Like I said, I can only heal within my domain. So if you had died anywhere outside the Fairy Shrine, I could do nothing."

Link was amazed. "So I really did die..." he said out loud.

"Yes, I've already told you that. The greatest stroke of luck, however, was the fact that your spirit ended up back with your body where I could heal it. It ran off blindly at first. That's how spirits are you know...blind. The only connection they even have with the physical world is thoughts, so they don't exactly see," responded the Fairy, floating calmly in the air on her back.

"Yes...I remember that now. Tifa, Shia, and then something else. Something that made me feel at peace," said Link quietly.

"That was me healing your spirit," commented the Fairy. She turned around to look at Link again. "Something made you come back to your body. I'm not sure what, but whatever the reason, you owe that reason your life."

Link nodded slowly, as if in a trance. He was in deep thought about something.

"I suppose you'll want to know how you remember what happened while you were dead."

Breaking out of his trance, Link looked directly at the Fairy and said, "Yeah, I guess."

The Fairy spun around to a reclining position, then said, "Well, you'll notice that you only remember the thoughts, and that the actual traveling never seemed to happen. Well, that's because, since you were listening to people's thoughts, you were using their brain. Since you were using a brain, you were capable of having memories. These memories then become a part of you...your spirit...even though they weren't actually your memories."

"Is that why I was able to remember Tifa and Shia's name while I was...'dead'?" questioned Link.

"Yes. Now that you know what happened with you...back to Navi."

Link made sure he was giving her his full attention.

"I'm not sure how to explain this Link... but Navi the Fairy no longer exists."

Link's expression of hope fell, and he said, "You mean her body...right?" asked Link hopefully.

"I'm afraid not Link. I really mean it. Navi the Fairy no longer exists."

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JokersSpecter: I was skimming over a few previous chapters, just to get my story straight after being gone for so long, when I realized...I had a LOT of grammar and spelling errors in previous chapters. I don't know what do to...laugh and let it go, or complain and go back and fix it.

I guess one day when I have nothing better to do than to be a perfectionist, I'll go back and fix it all.

Oh yeah...how'd you like this chapter? I took an good amount of time writing it.

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