-Anger and Past Revealed-
The next morning Saira awoke to the smell of breakfast sizzling downstairs. Liz was already gone so Saira headed down where everyone was eating.
"Morning saira" Vienne said "would you mind waking Dmitri up?"
"Sure"
"Let Link sleep. He had a hard day," she instructed
Saira nodded and trudged up the stairs to Dmitri's room. He was hanging off the bed with the sheets wrapped around him. Saira sat on the bed next to him and whistled like a bird beside his ear. He didn't stir. Next she blew in his ear making him move. Saira got up at just the right moment because he rolled right off the bed and woke himself up.
"Ugh" he said
"Good morning beautiful." She said "Time for breakfast"
Despite it being winter, Dmitri was only sleeping in pants.
"Get dressed"
"I'll be down in a minute. She grabbed a piece of toast and gave Legolas a kiss before sitting down. Dmitri came staggering down a second later with Link close behind. Link did not seem tired and was putting his sword in his belt
"Saira and I are leaving in one hour. Be ready by then Saira"
Saira had a mouthful of toast and couldn't respond before he turned to leave. She swallowed her food and ran after him. She burst into his room
"Is it so hard to look or talk to me?!" she yelled
"What?"
"You're avoiding me. I can tell. When you first returned you wanted to spend every second with me but now you never do. I may not have Liz's power but I am your sister so it's basically the same!"
"We'll have this discussion in Kokiri but not here. Not now!" Link said with the utmost finality in his voice
Saira left angrily and slammed her door shut causing a picture to fall and break. She grabbed a bag and stuffed some clothes inside trying to take out her anger on something that can't be hurt.
She changed her clothes magically then stormed out of the house not caring if Ganondorf himself were standing outside. She wrapped her cloak tightly around her and trudged though the snow. Absentmindedly she went to the graveyard where she used to talk to Dampe'.
"Hello saira" she whipped around and stared into Dampe's translucent eyes.
"You startled me," Saira said
"Sorry. Been awhile since I've above ground. When I finally do I find you. How ironic"
"Just a bit"
"What brings thee here? Last I heard you'd gone off to a school for magic"
"Christmas break"
"That explains why yer in Hyrule but why of all places did you come to the graveyard?" he asked
"I was out walking and just found myself here."
"You shouldn't be here with an old ghost like me. Link is here and I'm sure he wants to see you"
"I thought so too but he's actually the reason I went out walking" Saira said sadly
"Oh I'm sorry. I might know something that would cheer you up"
"Really? I could use that right about now"
"Follow me"
He led her to a part of the enclosed cemetery where the walls were covered in ivy. In the corned Dampe' floated through. Saira pushed aside the ivy where she emerged in a beautiful garden-like area where there was no snow and wasn't cold. There were all sorts of flowers but also many weeds
Saira noticed two large mounds uncovered in ivy and moss. She looked at Dampe but he said nothing. She pulled off the green until two marble stones were uncovered.
" 'Inola Trinity' and 'Artanis Trinity.' My mum and dad's gravestones. Dampe why is this hidden?" Saira demanded with tears forming.
"Link, Vienne and Stu told me too. Truth is Saira I knew your mum and dad very well. Even before they were well known but everyone said not to tell you anythin' because you have powerful magic when your emotions are high. I've been keeping this part hidden and beautiful so that when I could finally show you it'd be lovely but these ghost hands cant do it anymore.
"What were they like?"
"Oh your mum was the kindest lass I ever knew. Even working for the princess didn't faze her-"
"Princess? Do you mean Serenity?" Saira asked
"Yeah. Besides the Princess' best from in the other world, Inola was her favorite. Both were Seers and shared much in common. They both had the same eyes too which is considered a blessin' from the goddesses."
"Did my mum live in the castle?"
"Yeah but there wasn't a week where she didn't come back. She loved it in Kakariko"
"When did she meet my dad?"
"Years ago. Your dad was a Hylian but he lived most his life wandering the worlds. Before he came back to Hyrule you never woulda found him. Not many know him because he never looked the same twice. He was a mighty good shifter"
"So that's where I get it form?" Saira chuckled
"It's nice to hear you laugh, my dear"
"It's good to laugh."
Saira heard Legolas calling for her in the distance. She met him just outside the graveyard
"There you are. Your brother is ready to leave"
"Okay" Saira said
Most of her anger had lifted at the sight of Legolas but Saira was now angry about more than just Link avoiding her. Everything she'd been holding back over the years was starting to come out and Saira suspected it was being home that did it.
When Saira and Legolas were back at the house and saw no horses she wondered how they were going to get to Kokiri because it would take too long to walk.
"Ready?" Link asked
"Yeah" Saira acted as normal as possible
"Take my hand"
She did and her anger sparked again. Link played a tune on his ocarina. Green beads of light began encircling them going faster and faster until they abruptly ceased leaving Link and saira in the Sacred Meadow Forest in front of the Forest Temple. Saira pulled her hand away and carried her bag down a flight of steps but was knocked off her feet by a giant Moblin.
Saira was too angry to let this stop her. She pulled out her bow and arrows faster than Link and shot the Moblin enough to kill it. Link stood dumbfounded by his little sister. Saira picked up her bag again and continued down a smaller flight of stairs. She looked both ways down the halls of the maze she reached before climbing a ladder that puts you on top of the maze. She jumped her way though.
Link followed close behind still shocked by her behavior. Once Saira passed the maze she went though the Lost Woods knowing the exact way to go finally arriving in Kokiri Forest, which was no longer as she remember before Ganondorf had taken over.
Saira waited for Link to catch up before going on. Everyone she passed waved and bid her a good morning. She crossed the village until she reached a small tree house with a broken sign in front and ivy growing out of control on the walls. The grass around needed to be cut and the balcony rail was barely hanging on.
Saira climbed the ladder and went inside her old home. Everything was just as she'd left it only covered in layers of dust. Nothing had been taken and the beds were still made.
"I haven't set foot in here for eight years" Link said
"Well whose fault was that?" Saira said angrily no longer holding back what she wanted to say. She started cleaning up.
"Can this not wait?" he asked calmly
"Wait?! Wait?! I've been waiting for nine and a half years to even see your face without fear I might not see it again! I think I've waited long enough" Saira said bitterly.
"You think I haven't waited?!" he yelled "You think I never regretted leaving?"
"It was your choice to leave! Nobody else's! You left me remember?"
"And there hasn't been a day-"
"-That you haven't felt guilty? If that were true you would have apologized a hundred times and then some"
"Saira-"
"No! Do you remember how old I was?"
"Of course I do. You were six"
"That's right. SIX! Not long after, Vienne and Stu left too. You never wrote, you never answered back when Saria tried to contact you. You never did anything but leave you six year old sister behind!"
"I know," he said quietly
"No one knew where you'd gone. Shiek wouldn't tell me and you didn't leave any sort of message. I searched for four years!"
"What do you want me to do? I can't change anything"
"You lie! You could have come back at any time. The Master Sword enables you to travel though the river of time. I've read hundreds of books about the legends and translated the Hylian Scrolls that told me so you had no excuse not to come back if not once. I would have been happy if you'd at least come back once to let me know you were okay and not let me fear each day your body was lying six feet under"
"I should have. For each day I hold the sword I think about why I never did"
"And why's that?'
"If I saw the look on my sisters face, I wouldn't have been able to go again. It was the hardest when I came back that one time. I almost couldn't go again. Here's the beginning of my hundred apologies and then some. I'm sorry Saira. I'm so sorry"
"They better continue!" she said but her anger about his leaving had subsided a bit, "But that's only half of why I'm angry"
Saira wiped her watering eyes. She sat down on her bed and began using magic to rid herself of dust. Link sat down next to her
"What else are you mad about?"
Saira sniffed and reached in her pocket and pulled out the picture of their parents. She handed it to Link but he didn't understand what he was looking at. He turned over the picture but nothing had been written. Saira pulled out a handkerchief and blew he nose before she took the picture back.
"Far left, Lily Potter. Next to her James Potter both of which were famous wizards in Earth. Look real close at the others. Every detail" Saira instructed
Link took the picture back and stared at the woman with the long wavy brown hair
"Her eyes. Is this who I think it is?" he asked
"I thought you knew her"
"No. She left me in Kokiri for my protection but promised to come back after the war"
"But you knew about where she was buried"
"What?" Link asked innocently
"Why didn't you tell me about their stones?"
"How do you know?"
"Dampe' showed me the gravestones of our mother and father which you Vienne and Stu failed to tell me about"
"Damn. Why did he show you?"
"Because of you. Tell me once and for all what happened. You know and Dampe' knows-"
"I don't know!" he interrupted "But Vienne does. Dampe told her and she thought you shouldn't know"
"But why couldn't I know about their graves?" she asked getting up
"Saira what happened the last time you got so angry?" Link asked knowing that every time Saira got really, truly angry, powerful things would happen and someone got hurt.
"That's anger"
"But if you knew everything about their graves, you might do something rash"
"I need to go" Saira said
"Where are you going?" Link said chasing after her
"I want to see the being who taught me the first magic I ever learned" Saira said as she made her way towards where the Deku Tree was "Please Link don't follow me. For once I don't want you with me"
Link immediately stopped and let Saira go alone since wherever she stepped ice crystals were forming on the grass. However, a boy with red hair who didn't look older than ten was blocking the entrance to the path that usually led to the Deku Tree
"Mido, its so nice to see the horrible little kid that used to bully me again" Saira said
"Saira?" he asked
"None other. Now am I going to have to move you myself or are you going to let me pass like the gentleman you should be?"
Mido didn't move. He was staring at saira with wishful eyes.
"You can't be Saira"
She rolled her eyes and went around Mido. She followed the path until she reached the dead Deku Tree. The leaves stayed on the tree but were nearly black and the trunk was gray and a faint smell of decomposition was in the air. Saira had loved this tree more than any other but her rage had not ceased with her talk with Link. She sat in front of him for such a long time before finally saying what she wanted.
"Why didn't you tell us?!" Saira yelled, "We need to know! I need to know. You didn't even have the decency to tell me I had parents when I was a child! You let me believe a lie! You, of all beings should have been the one to tell me and not anyone else! You took us in but you didn't tell us anything! I live in ignorance from everything I should know! I don't even know how my parents lived and died!"
Saria listened to her echoing voice and dropped to her knees in sadness and anger
"I want to know," she whispered
"It was to protect you," A small voice said
Saira looked around and noticed a small tree she didn't see on the way in
"What the--? Who're you?" she said to the tree that now had a face
"I'm the Deku Sprout"
"Protection? If I knew everything from the beginning I would have been able to deal with it"
"Anger is not going to help you find the truth," said the Sprout
"Oh really? I doubt that. You haven't seen me angry" she spat leaving a path of ice behind her.
She stormed off tired of people saying it was for her protection. None of them believed she could do things on her own and didn't need so much protection. She headed back to the tree house. To her surprise, Liz and Dmitri were there.
"How'd you get here?" Saira asked
"Your brother used his ocarina" Liz explained, "This place is amazing"
"This is Kokiri Forest. My first home"
"You doing better love?"
"A little"
"There. All done." Liz said when she finished fixing the ladder and rail.
"Are we spending Christmas here?" Saira asked
"No, but I thought we should return home" Link said
Dmitri came up beside Saira. "Which should I consider my home?" he asked
"Huh?" Link said
"Dmitri lived with me in your absence."
Saira and Dmitri took Liz on a tour of Kokiri. They went and visited many old friends such as the triplets, Mido, for Dmitri, and to Saria's even though she wasn't there. They even took her into the Lost Woods and introduced her to the Skull Kids. As they sat on the bridge where Dmitri and Saira used to play, Liz said what Link told her.
"Link spoke of the Great Deku Tree. He said that is was the being that protected the forest," she said
"The Deku Tree watched over all the Kokiri children and taught them everything they needed to know but when Ganondorf came many years ago, he was cursed and died. See over that wall in the distance?" Saira asked
"Black leaves?"
'That is what remains of him"
"It's late. We better head back"
The next morning Saira awoke to the smell of breakfast sizzling downstairs. Liz was already gone so Saira headed down where everyone was eating.
"Morning saira" Vienne said "would you mind waking Dmitri up?"
"Sure"
"Let Link sleep. He had a hard day," she instructed
Saira nodded and trudged up the stairs to Dmitri's room. He was hanging off the bed with the sheets wrapped around him. Saira sat on the bed next to him and whistled like a bird beside his ear. He didn't stir. Next she blew in his ear making him move. Saira got up at just the right moment because he rolled right off the bed and woke himself up.
"Ugh" he said
"Good morning beautiful." She said "Time for breakfast"
Despite it being winter, Dmitri was only sleeping in pants.
"Get dressed"
"I'll be down in a minute. She grabbed a piece of toast and gave Legolas a kiss before sitting down. Dmitri came staggering down a second later with Link close behind. Link did not seem tired and was putting his sword in his belt
"Saira and I are leaving in one hour. Be ready by then Saira"
Saira had a mouthful of toast and couldn't respond before he turned to leave. She swallowed her food and ran after him. She burst into his room
"Is it so hard to look or talk to me?!" she yelled
"What?"
"You're avoiding me. I can tell. When you first returned you wanted to spend every second with me but now you never do. I may not have Liz's power but I am your sister so it's basically the same!"
"We'll have this discussion in Kokiri but not here. Not now!" Link said with the utmost finality in his voice
Saira left angrily and slammed her door shut causing a picture to fall and break. She grabbed a bag and stuffed some clothes inside trying to take out her anger on something that can't be hurt.
She changed her clothes magically then stormed out of the house not caring if Ganondorf himself were standing outside. She wrapped her cloak tightly around her and trudged though the snow. Absentmindedly she went to the graveyard where she used to talk to Dampe'.
"Hello saira" she whipped around and stared into Dampe's translucent eyes.
"You startled me," Saira said
"Sorry. Been awhile since I've above ground. When I finally do I find you. How ironic"
"Just a bit"
"What brings thee here? Last I heard you'd gone off to a school for magic"
"Christmas break"
"That explains why yer in Hyrule but why of all places did you come to the graveyard?" he asked
"I was out walking and just found myself here."
"You shouldn't be here with an old ghost like me. Link is here and I'm sure he wants to see you"
"I thought so too but he's actually the reason I went out walking" Saira said sadly
"Oh I'm sorry. I might know something that would cheer you up"
"Really? I could use that right about now"
"Follow me"
He led her to a part of the enclosed cemetery where the walls were covered in ivy. In the corned Dampe' floated through. Saira pushed aside the ivy where she emerged in a beautiful garden-like area where there was no snow and wasn't cold. There were all sorts of flowers but also many weeds
Saira noticed two large mounds uncovered in ivy and moss. She looked at Dampe but he said nothing. She pulled off the green until two marble stones were uncovered.
" 'Inola Trinity' and 'Artanis Trinity.' My mum and dad's gravestones. Dampe why is this hidden?" Saira demanded with tears forming.
"Link, Vienne and Stu told me too. Truth is Saira I knew your mum and dad very well. Even before they were well known but everyone said not to tell you anythin' because you have powerful magic when your emotions are high. I've been keeping this part hidden and beautiful so that when I could finally show you it'd be lovely but these ghost hands cant do it anymore.
"What were they like?"
"Oh your mum was the kindest lass I ever knew. Even working for the princess didn't faze her-"
"Princess? Do you mean Serenity?" Saira asked
"Yeah. Besides the Princess' best from in the other world, Inola was her favorite. Both were Seers and shared much in common. They both had the same eyes too which is considered a blessin' from the goddesses."
"Did my mum live in the castle?"
"Yeah but there wasn't a week where she didn't come back. She loved it in Kakariko"
"When did she meet my dad?"
"Years ago. Your dad was a Hylian but he lived most his life wandering the worlds. Before he came back to Hyrule you never woulda found him. Not many know him because he never looked the same twice. He was a mighty good shifter"
"So that's where I get it form?" Saira chuckled
"It's nice to hear you laugh, my dear"
"It's good to laugh."
Saira heard Legolas calling for her in the distance. She met him just outside the graveyard
"There you are. Your brother is ready to leave"
"Okay" Saira said
Most of her anger had lifted at the sight of Legolas but Saira was now angry about more than just Link avoiding her. Everything she'd been holding back over the years was starting to come out and Saira suspected it was being home that did it.
When Saira and Legolas were back at the house and saw no horses she wondered how they were going to get to Kokiri because it would take too long to walk.
"Ready?" Link asked
"Yeah" Saira acted as normal as possible
"Take my hand"
She did and her anger sparked again. Link played a tune on his ocarina. Green beads of light began encircling them going faster and faster until they abruptly ceased leaving Link and saira in the Sacred Meadow Forest in front of the Forest Temple. Saira pulled her hand away and carried her bag down a flight of steps but was knocked off her feet by a giant Moblin.
Saira was too angry to let this stop her. She pulled out her bow and arrows faster than Link and shot the Moblin enough to kill it. Link stood dumbfounded by his little sister. Saira picked up her bag again and continued down a smaller flight of stairs. She looked both ways down the halls of the maze she reached before climbing a ladder that puts you on top of the maze. She jumped her way though.
Link followed close behind still shocked by her behavior. Once Saira passed the maze she went though the Lost Woods knowing the exact way to go finally arriving in Kokiri Forest, which was no longer as she remember before Ganondorf had taken over.
Saira waited for Link to catch up before going on. Everyone she passed waved and bid her a good morning. She crossed the village until she reached a small tree house with a broken sign in front and ivy growing out of control on the walls. The grass around needed to be cut and the balcony rail was barely hanging on.
Saira climbed the ladder and went inside her old home. Everything was just as she'd left it only covered in layers of dust. Nothing had been taken and the beds were still made.
"I haven't set foot in here for eight years" Link said
"Well whose fault was that?" Saira said angrily no longer holding back what she wanted to say. She started cleaning up.
"Can this not wait?" he asked calmly
"Wait?! Wait?! I've been waiting for nine and a half years to even see your face without fear I might not see it again! I think I've waited long enough" Saira said bitterly.
"You think I haven't waited?!" he yelled "You think I never regretted leaving?"
"It was your choice to leave! Nobody else's! You left me remember?"
"And there hasn't been a day-"
"-That you haven't felt guilty? If that were true you would have apologized a hundred times and then some"
"Saira-"
"No! Do you remember how old I was?"
"Of course I do. You were six"
"That's right. SIX! Not long after, Vienne and Stu left too. You never wrote, you never answered back when Saria tried to contact you. You never did anything but leave you six year old sister behind!"
"I know," he said quietly
"No one knew where you'd gone. Shiek wouldn't tell me and you didn't leave any sort of message. I searched for four years!"
"What do you want me to do? I can't change anything"
"You lie! You could have come back at any time. The Master Sword enables you to travel though the river of time. I've read hundreds of books about the legends and translated the Hylian Scrolls that told me so you had no excuse not to come back if not once. I would have been happy if you'd at least come back once to let me know you were okay and not let me fear each day your body was lying six feet under"
"I should have. For each day I hold the sword I think about why I never did"
"And why's that?'
"If I saw the look on my sisters face, I wouldn't have been able to go again. It was the hardest when I came back that one time. I almost couldn't go again. Here's the beginning of my hundred apologies and then some. I'm sorry Saira. I'm so sorry"
"They better continue!" she said but her anger about his leaving had subsided a bit, "But that's only half of why I'm angry"
Saira wiped her watering eyes. She sat down on her bed and began using magic to rid herself of dust. Link sat down next to her
"What else are you mad about?"
Saira sniffed and reached in her pocket and pulled out the picture of their parents. She handed it to Link but he didn't understand what he was looking at. He turned over the picture but nothing had been written. Saira pulled out a handkerchief and blew he nose before she took the picture back.
"Far left, Lily Potter. Next to her James Potter both of which were famous wizards in Earth. Look real close at the others. Every detail" Saira instructed
Link took the picture back and stared at the woman with the long wavy brown hair
"Her eyes. Is this who I think it is?" he asked
"I thought you knew her"
"No. She left me in Kokiri for my protection but promised to come back after the war"
"But you knew about where she was buried"
"What?" Link asked innocently
"Why didn't you tell me about their stones?"
"How do you know?"
"Dampe' showed me the gravestones of our mother and father which you Vienne and Stu failed to tell me about"
"Damn. Why did he show you?"
"Because of you. Tell me once and for all what happened. You know and Dampe' knows-"
"I don't know!" he interrupted "But Vienne does. Dampe told her and she thought you shouldn't know"
"But why couldn't I know about their graves?" she asked getting up
"Saira what happened the last time you got so angry?" Link asked knowing that every time Saira got really, truly angry, powerful things would happen and someone got hurt.
"That's anger"
"But if you knew everything about their graves, you might do something rash"
"I need to go" Saira said
"Where are you going?" Link said chasing after her
"I want to see the being who taught me the first magic I ever learned" Saira said as she made her way towards where the Deku Tree was "Please Link don't follow me. For once I don't want you with me"
Link immediately stopped and let Saira go alone since wherever she stepped ice crystals were forming on the grass. However, a boy with red hair who didn't look older than ten was blocking the entrance to the path that usually led to the Deku Tree
"Mido, its so nice to see the horrible little kid that used to bully me again" Saira said
"Saira?" he asked
"None other. Now am I going to have to move you myself or are you going to let me pass like the gentleman you should be?"
Mido didn't move. He was staring at saira with wishful eyes.
"You can't be Saira"
She rolled her eyes and went around Mido. She followed the path until she reached the dead Deku Tree. The leaves stayed on the tree but were nearly black and the trunk was gray and a faint smell of decomposition was in the air. Saira had loved this tree more than any other but her rage had not ceased with her talk with Link. She sat in front of him for such a long time before finally saying what she wanted.
"Why didn't you tell us?!" Saira yelled, "We need to know! I need to know. You didn't even have the decency to tell me I had parents when I was a child! You let me believe a lie! You, of all beings should have been the one to tell me and not anyone else! You took us in but you didn't tell us anything! I live in ignorance from everything I should know! I don't even know how my parents lived and died!"
Saria listened to her echoing voice and dropped to her knees in sadness and anger
"I want to know," she whispered
"It was to protect you," A small voice said
Saira looked around and noticed a small tree she didn't see on the way in
"What the--? Who're you?" she said to the tree that now had a face
"I'm the Deku Sprout"
"Protection? If I knew everything from the beginning I would have been able to deal with it"
"Anger is not going to help you find the truth," said the Sprout
"Oh really? I doubt that. You haven't seen me angry" she spat leaving a path of ice behind her.
She stormed off tired of people saying it was for her protection. None of them believed she could do things on her own and didn't need so much protection. She headed back to the tree house. To her surprise, Liz and Dmitri were there.
"How'd you get here?" Saira asked
"Your brother used his ocarina" Liz explained, "This place is amazing"
"This is Kokiri Forest. My first home"
"You doing better love?"
"A little"
"There. All done." Liz said when she finished fixing the ladder and rail.
"Are we spending Christmas here?" Saira asked
"No, but I thought we should return home" Link said
Dmitri came up beside Saira. "Which should I consider my home?" he asked
"Huh?" Link said
"Dmitri lived with me in your absence."
Saira and Dmitri took Liz on a tour of Kokiri. They went and visited many old friends such as the triplets, Mido, for Dmitri, and to Saria's even though she wasn't there. They even took her into the Lost Woods and introduced her to the Skull Kids. As they sat on the bridge where Dmitri and Saira used to play, Liz said what Link told her.
"Link spoke of the Great Deku Tree. He said that is was the being that protected the forest," she said
"The Deku Tree watched over all the Kokiri children and taught them everything they needed to know but when Ganondorf came many years ago, he was cursed and died. See over that wall in the distance?" Saira asked
"Black leaves?"
'That is what remains of him"
"It's late. We better head back"