Link sat there, staring at the pixie. She stared straight back into his blue eyes.

His brow suspiciously curled, yet again.

"You're telling me that there is another civilization - of ... none other then ... Pixies?" His head lurched forward a bit as he said that last word.

The pixies braids and bunches of twirled hair bounced as she nodded her head up and down. "And that one was, literally, frozen in time. We pixies are smarter then you'd think, huh?"

"Yes, indeed you are..." Link replied. He had just noticed that, out his window, the moon shown high in the sky and that the stars were showing white in front of the black night. In other words, it was getting close to bed-time.

"It's best we all get to sleep. Let's continue this conversation in the morning, alright?"

That night, Link was restless. He tossed and turned for hours in his creaking old bed. The pixie didn't sleep. No pixie quite "sleeps", but rather just sits and rests - with their eyes open and their mind conscious.

Navi's glow dimmed to almost nothing as she slept.

The pixie sat on the window-sill, and took the green gem up with her.

She quietly whispered, "We'll free you tomorrow, it's okay..." to the lifeless creature. She stroked the gem's smooth surface as she spoke, and lied down next to her for the rest of the night.
The next morning rolled around with a grumpy, sleep-deprived Link, a peppy-as-ever Navi, one conscious pixie, and one pixie trapped in time. You can only imagine what a day they had ahead of them.

Navi awoke first, and hovered above Link's face. "Get up, you sleepy head!" she spoke, softly at first. She waited a few moments. "GET UP!" she repeated, louder.

Link groaned and turned his head.

Navi smiled. The pixie watched in amusement from a few feet away, and within a split second, Navi was bouncing up and down on Link's head, repeatedly hitting it in order to wake him up.

"I'm up!" Link shrieked at Navi. She didn't hear him. "I'M UP!!"

Now, Link was really up. He sat straight up in his bed and grabbed Navi. "You are getting on my nerves so badly, lately..." He shook his head as he spoke. Navi chuckled a bit under her breath.

Well, looks like we've got one heck of a day ahead... Link thought to himself, stretching his arms. He stood up and realized he had gone to bed in his clothes. He had a lot on his mind the night before, with all of that new information from the pixie.

"...Did I ever tell you my name?" The pixie asked, "I don't believe I have..."

"No, you haven't told me your name."

"It's Akiko..."

"Really?" Link asked, his left eye slightly twitching, "It sounds familiar."

"You know, you do look a bit familiar, yourself." She added. "But anyhow, we are off subject. Last night, I began to tell you about how that pixie is hiding. We need to free them. They were all suppost to be found, by now, but many hid so well that even we couldn't find them. It looks like this gem is a hiding pla -"

"But what are they hiding from? I know they are hiding, and that pixie is hiding... But from what?!" Link rudely interrupted.

"I was getting to that," Akiko snapped, with a deep sigh, "They are hiding from Vlassix."

"Wha -"

"I was getting to that, too, you know." Akiko stammered.

"Sor-ree!" Link softly spoke, wide-eyed. The pixie rolled her eyes at him, just like Navi had done the day before.

"Well." she paused and took a deep breath, "The Vlassix are... Sort of like, a hybrid of a Pixie. They have a whole different mind-set. They are like rabid animals, bred to kill... Full of hate. And their hatred is directed to us, and it's because they think we stole their land thousands of years ago. But the truth is, we were the first to claim it. Our race has been around for hundreds of years longer then theirs. They are just too dumb to figure it all out. Anyway, about 10 years ago, they started to multiply quicker then any of us could have ever imagined. And they did what they were destined to do - Hunt. Hunt and kill. So many pixies were victims to their brutality... So most of the royalty decided to hide. Not even the commoners knew where, in fear that it would somehow be widely known and ... That the Vlassix would find out. Now, that we have won the war, there are only about 100 of us pixie's left. The others are hiding, and it's up to us to find them, and release them."Akiko's delicate hand rested on the gem. "And we are going to start with her. She will tell us where the others are." She looked down at the lifeless body.

Link nodded, deep in thought.