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Hail: So... tired....
Sleet: Can't... move....
OH HAPPY DAY!
Sleet: Why... you....
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Chapter Nine: Pure Heart
Zelda and Link had been walking for hours, and they still didn't seem to be anywhere close to an exit. Zelda had given Link the light, because her arm had gotten sore from keeping her arm up. She was still connected to it though, and it was sapping her energy up. Zelda felt weighed down, her eyes had lowered themselves without her notice.
"Zelda, can you use some of your magic to teleport us out of here?" Link asked her suddenly.
"No, I can teleport through trees and things like that, but not solid rock. And besides, my magic's running low." She replied to him, neither of them stopping.
"What? Then why did you keep on using it?"
"Because we need light." She told him simply.
Link paused for a moment before continuing on. "How can your magic run out so fast? I thought you would have a ton if you had been able to use since you were five!"
"Magic," She told him, her eyes lowering even more, "is odd, when you use it for light, it burns up at least five times faster then oil would in a lamp. But when you use it for other things, it doesn't get sucked up as badly. And it also differs on if the wielder is tired or not, so it basically deepens on how much you use it and what your health is. Interesting huh?" She finished her sentence by yawning, and Link grabbed her shoulder to make her stop.
"What?" she asked him sleepily.
"You need to rest."
"I don't-"She stopped herself, she was acting rude to him again. "It's OK, I don't need to rest."
She saw Link blink a couple of times for a moment for her not acting as he thought she would. He recollected himself and acted like himself again.
"Now that I can see your eyes, I KNOW that you're sleepy. And you're the one with the light here, so I don't want you to waste all of your magic all at once."
Zelda looked at him without showing emotion, because she didn't know what to think. Then, she heard something, she looked away from him and then closed her eyes, perking up her ears to try and listen better. 'It sounds like... an instrument. And that tune it's playing, I can sense spirits listening to it.... Wait, maybe there's someone down here that can help us!'
Her eyes flew back open, and she turned around and faced Link with a large smile on her face.
"What are you so happy about?"
"Can't you hear it?" She exclaimed happily.
"Hear what?"
"That tune! It's an instrument, I can hear it playing! And I can sense spirits listening to it; it makes them feel full of life!"
"You can since- hey wait, did you say that it makes them feel full of life? Then it must be...."
Link walked up next to Zelda and closed his eyes to try and hear the tune too. He opened his eyes, looking shocked.
"Link? Are you OK?"
"Yeah.... I know that tune; it's a song that my best friend taught me! She said that whenever I can hear this song out of the forest that the forest is connected somehow!"
"Forest? What forest?"
"I don't think that you've ever heard of this place, but the forest I'm talking about is called Korkori Forest."
"What? I thought that I heard you say Korkori Forest."
Link looked at her with and meet her eyes.
"Yeah, that's what I said."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I'm sure! Why wouldn't I be?"
"But that place is...."
Zelda's head swam with thoughts, she had always dreamed of seeing this forest, but it was a dream. If she did go there, then she and Link would be killed! And no matter how much she wanted to go there, she didn't have enough magic to defend herself, and Link couldn't defeat them when he only had a sword!
"That place is what?" Link asked her, she snapped back into reality and replied back to him instantly.
"Cursed."
"Cursed?" Link asked her.
"Cursed, haven't you ever heard of the Korkori demons that lurk there? Or the tree that has such a strong curse on it, it can talk? I've always wanted to see this place with my own eyes, but we'll be killed in our condition!"
Link stared at Zelda, unable to believe what he was hearing. Right when he thought that she might ACTUALLY be a better person then he thought she was, she went off and called the children of the forest demons. And the Great Deku Tree, who was the guardian of the forest, CURSED! How dare she insult them like that?
"Cursed? Why the hell do you think that they're cursed?"
"It's in the stories!"
"What stories?"
"Hylian stories! Tales, tall tales, fables! That place is cursed!"
"Stories don't tell you anything! They are not cursed, and if you're going to insult them like that, then I think that you can handle yourself better then I can! After all, you didn't even want me to follow you, so this is better!"
"Fine, beat it for all I care!"
Link turned around and left, leaving the fuming Zelda by herself.
'Stupid little...! Goddess that, that bitch!'
Link kept on walking, but felt a little shocked at himself for thinking that. He immediately brushed it off, it was the truth! He walked on for about ten minutes, still ticked off; he stopped when he realized that the tune was closer. 'The forest is the only way out of here as far as I can tell, and it's farther away from her!' He walked of, lifting up the light to see where he was going.
Zelda had been standing in the same spot as when Link had left. She felt sad, drab, stupid, but also angry. She wasn't angry at Link, she had no reason to be, she was angry at herself.
How could she blow her top off like that? She had told him to leave, and now he was gone. He had also taken the light with him, and because he was getting so far away it was straining her magic, making it draining faster way.
"This is stupid. He has the light, and I don't have enough magic to create another one. Why doesn't he just have the rest? It's the least I can do for messing up like that...."
She gathered up the rest of her magic and then sent into the light, storing so they weren't connected connected anymore. It wasn't enough to last long, but it should be enough to let him get to the forest. The forest. How could she argue back at him when he said it wasn't cursed? It sounded as if he had been there before, so why did she miss that?
She went in a random direction, it didn't matter which way, she would just get lost anyway. She tripped on her first step, landing on her broken arm, she lightly yelped in pain, then felt at it.
'Great, now the arrows that hold my bone in place are broken! What kind of luck do I have today?'
She slowly got up, and continued on, tripping over and over again. She just went on like this, not caring how much she got hurt. She would always get like this when she was down, and Impa would always tell her to stop and that she shouldn't be upset, and then would tell her why she shouldn't be upset. But Impa wasn't there, and that was the fact right that moment. She tripped farther, and then realized that it was getting hotter each step that she took. She was either getting closer to the Death Mountain Crater or a lava pit, and either one wasn't good in anyway she could try and look at it.
She got up, took a step and then tripped, but this time she went tumbling down a slope. Farther and farther she went, rocks hitting her everywhere, and was surprised that she didn't black-out.
Then, she felt herself drop, dropping farther and farther down until eventually she blacked out.
Link looked at a small tunnel where the tune seemed to be coming from, and then walked into it.
He blinked when came out into the sun, it was so bright! Once his eyes were adjusted he looked at the small light located in his palm, then, it flickered, and disappeared. He put his hand down and looked around at the green that surrounded him, it looked odd since all that he had been seeing for hours was dust, rock, and Zelda. He turned back at the waterfall, thinking. What had happened to her? Now that he thought about it, he had taken the light and had left her in the darkness. But then again, she could just make another light for herself, so she would be OK.
He thought about how he had gotten here, after all, Death Mountain was miles away from Korkori Forest, so how did he get here? It must have been the magic of the forest; the Great Deku Tree had always told all of the Korkori that the forest had many tricks and magic within it. So why couldn't this be just some magic?
He turned around and walked, listening to the song that Saria was playing to try and find her. He barely turned a corner when he saw her, eyes closed and sitting on an old stump playing her ocarina. He quietly walked foreword, then, when he was close enough he tapped her shoulder, and she stopped and looked up him. Her eyes shinned with delight when she realized that it was him, and leapt up and gave him a hug.
"Link! You're back so soon! I missed you!"
"I missed you too Saria." He told her happily as he returned her hug; even though he had to lean down to give it.
"Tell me what you've done!" She told him when she finally let him go. "I want to know what you did when you were gone!"
"OK, well, nothing special happened until I meet this girl...."
They continued talking on, Saria stopping him every once in a while to ask questions, and Link didn't mind, he was just glad be rid of the annoying girl back at Death Mountain.
Zelda woke up; she tried to move but stopped when horrible sensations of pain screeched across her body. Then memory came back to her, she was in an underground river because she gotten mad at Link and it was her fault that she was here floating down a stupid river. But there was one thing different about where she was, she wasn't floating down a river.
She opened her eyes, and saw that she was surrounded by lush greenery. She was a little shocked when she saw three little girls around the ages of ten pop up over her.
"She's awake! Hey are you OK? You're all burned up and bruised and scratched and...."
"Kasi, would you stop bothering her! She already knows that she's hurt!"
"Fine! But I'm the one who found her in the river Subia!"
"Would you two stop fighting? This adult needs help! We need to get her to the Great Deku Tree; he'll know what to do!"
Zelda looked at the one who was Kasi, she had her blue curly hair cut to her shoulders and had it in a hair band, and she had a blue tunic to match her eyes. Subia had bund dark-purple hair with a purple tunic and green eyes. The third child who she didn't know the name of had strait waist-long hot-pink hair, with a blue tunic and light-pink eyes.
"You're right," confessed Kasi, leaning down over Zelda, "she needs help real bad. And the only thing that can help her is the Deku Tree, but she's too big for us to carry. How are we supposed to get her there?"
Zelda felt confused when Kasi had said that Deku Tree would be the only one that could her, she must be in the forest! And were these young children Korkori? 'Link, he was right. The forest isn't cursed! I should of listened and not of talked back to him, then I wouldn't be like this....'
"If only," said Subia, "we weren't so small. Then we could carry her, huh Leelia?"
Zelda looked at the young girl who she hadn't known the name of and registered it in her mind. "Yeah...." Leelia replied back sadly. "If only Link were here. He could carry her. He's all grown up now, he'd be strong enough." 'Link?' Zelda thought, 'could it be a different Link that I know of? No, it couldn't be, he was talking about this place. And besides, how many these days have the name Link?'
"L...." All the girls looked at Zelda when she made that noise.
"What? What is it?" Kasi asked her, "she needs water to talk, her throats all dried up!"
Leelia ran off, and then came back with a huge leaf the size of bucket, holding it up to Zelda's lips she slowly poured it in so Zelda wouldn't choke. After it was gone, Zelda felt her dried mouth refreshed, her mind cleared.
"So," asked Kasi gently, "what were you going to say?"
"L... Li...." The words in Zelda's mouth just wouldn't come out, but she won't let that stop her! "I.... kno.... Know him...."
"Link?" asked Subia, "You know him? Are you one of his adult friends like that other person he talks about, Malon?"
"Not... a friend... just... know... got lost... in... caves together... got in... a fight... then fell down into... a hole."
"Both of you fell down?" asked Leelia.
"No... he... went... with light... I couldn't... see... and then fell."
"Link took the light?" Kasi said with confusion, "why would he do that if you don't have any light? He wouldn't do that!"
"Forgot... to give me... some light... it's all... my fault.... For making him... angry...."
All of the girls gave each other confused looks, and then Leelia went off and got more water. "Here," she said as she put another leaf to Zelda's lips. "You're probably talking so slow because you need more water. Drink up!"
After Zelda finished the water Leelia went off and got her more, and then more until Zelda refused to have anymore.
"OK," Kasi began, "What did you do to make him so angry?"
"We both heard... a weird tune, and he said it was... about a forest.... In outside tales, the forest he was talking... about, was cursed, and full of demons... but, now that I'm actually in the forest... I don't believe stories of Korkori demons anymore... or the cursed tree.... When I told him about my stories... he got angry about insulting this place... and then I told him to get... lost.... So he left me, while taking light by accident... I'm sorry for insulting your kind, it's just stories I heard.... Now I know there just fake and stupid lies...."
"That sounds like Link," said Kasi, "If someone insults something about him, he gets angry and then doesn't even really think after. This is kind of like the case with Mido, I can remember, I was the second Korkori to try and stop him from leaving the forest. We know that you know Link, but we still don't know how to get you to the Great Deku Tree!"
"Pink fairies!" cried out Leelia, "Pink fairies can heal! There's a Pink Fairy fountain close by, I go there all the time! Wait right here, I'm gonna go get some for her! I'll be right back!"
And with that said and done she ran off as all of the others watched, after she was out sight Kasi looked back at Zelda and touched Zelda's hair with careful fingers.
"Your hair's all dirty and tangly; we need to get that cleaned up after your all better!"
Zelda made kind of a mumbling noise to agree, and Kasi smiled sweetly at her in a childish way. Then, Leelia popped out the bushes, being followed by ten pink and red fairies. Right when all of the fairies were closer they darted over to Zelda and then swirled around her. Zelda sighed in relief as she felt all of her aches and sours melt away and all her magic restored the instant the fairies magic touched her skin. When they all stopped and flew back to their fountain, Zelda had more enough strength to get up. She sat up, and then stood, looking down at the children that surrounded her.
"Thank you!" Zelda stuttered out happily, all the girls blushed and giggled at their appraise. "I mean really, I probably would of drowned if you hadn't me!"
They giggled a little more and then Kasi took Zelda's hand and pulled at her.
"Come play with us! Besides, we still need to fix your hair, it's all messed up!"
"Yeah, please!" begged the other two at the time.
"Well, of course, you saved my life! Just lead the way!"
"Let's go back to the Korkori Village so we can find some other girls to help us! No boys allowed!" Cried out Kasi happily, the other girls nodded their heads and then they all took off, Zelda held on to Kasi's hand as they traveled through tree's and bushes and overgrown grass, not mention flowers of all different sizes.
'This place is beautiful!' Zelda remarked in her mind as she looked at the scenery around her. 'I can't believe people actually think that this place is cursed and full of demons. What are they thinking, what was I thinking!'
They led Zelda through more and more green, and Zelda felt even more entranced with its life and beauty. They finally stopped, and Zelda almost knocked into Kasi. When she recovered herself, she looked out to see trees the size of building around her, with ladders going up to them.
'They live in the trees!' thought Zelda with enthusiasm.
She saw a cleared path where the grass wasn't too long going around the trees, and then heard the sound of a waterfall off in the distance.
"Welcome to the place where Korkori live um, what's your name?" asked Leelia.
"Zelda, that's my name."
"Oh, what a pretty name!" they all said together.
"Let's go see all of the other Korkori girls! Come on!" said Kasi, still holding Zelda's hand as she started down a hill. The other two girls followed with energy, happy to have someone new to play with.
"So Link," asked Saria as they walked together through the Lost Woods headed for home, "Zelda's still in the caves?"
"Beats me, but like I told you, she has magic, and so she can just make herself another light."
"Link, maybe you should go check on her though, didn't she tell you that she was low on magic? Maybe she didn't have enough left to another light. And she might of ran out since when you came out of the tunnel it disappeared, did you even think about that?"
"Well, actually no.:
"Link you don't take things seriously! She could be hurt!"
"Saria, please don't make me feel guilty about leaving her in there, besides, I don't have another light to use even if I wanted to find her."
"I do."
"Saria....!"
Saria would always make Link feel guilty over mistakes that he would do, and right now she was doing one heck of a great job doing it.
"Well, you shouldn't of just left her there!"
"OK, OK, I get your point, hey, why don't we have a race, whoever gets home first wins!"
"You're on Link!"
"OK, ready set go!"
They started off running, Link already had the lead but Saria somehow tripped him, making her have the lead far away from him.
"Hey!"
Link got back up and gave a sprint, back then tripped on a root that had seemingly popped out of no-where. He got back up, determined to beat Saria. He raced faster and faster, until finally he came to a cleared area. Panting he walked to Saria, who was patiently sitting on the ground.
"What took you so long Link? I thought you got lost there!"
"Very funny.... Saria."
"Come on; let's go say hi to the others!"
"OK, but I can't stay long; I need to get back to Death Mountain to solve its problem!"
They walked together around the forest to find that all of the girls had ran off somewhere and hadn't let any of the boys go with them.
"Why would they do that?" Link asked himself more then Saria or another Korkori boy with flaming orange hair and eyes.
"Don't ask me! I think they went to the flower trees. I think that they wanted you to join them Saria. Well, I gotta be going, see ya!"
He walked off, leaving Link and Saria to think.
"Link, should we go see what their up too?"
"Sure, besides, it'll be nice to them!"
They walked towards the place where the forest had the most flowers; it was a cleared area with only flowers in it. It didn't take that long to get there, but when they got there, both of them were surprised, but mostly Link.
There was Zelda, sitting with all of the Korkori girls, making flower necklaces, bracelets, and circlets for them all with her magic. She and the girls were all smiling, talking to each other, most of the time they were handing Zelda more flowers to make things with. All of them were covered with flowers, even Zelda was decorated, although not as much as the others.
"I don't believe it!" Link whispered under his breath, Saria ran foreword to join the girls, letting Link get a little time to absorb what he was seeing. All of the girls laughed and smiled even more when Saria joined them, and Zelda handed her multi colored bracelets, necklaces and circles so Saria wouldn't be the only one not wearing flowers among them. Saria smiled happily and accepted them with a smile, putting them on as she began talking to Zelda.
Link swallowed and then walked forward, still feeling a little shocked at seeing Zelda at the forest. It wasn't JUST the fact that she was there, it was also because he had never seen another adult besides himself in the forest.
"Zelda is that you?"
All the girls stopped talking and then looked up at Link, then ran up to greet him as they always did when he would come back. Zelda froze her weaving and then stood up; waiting for all of the girls to stop hugging him so she could give him something too.
Zelda looked at Link, hiding something behind her back. After all of the girls had cleared away from him, she walked foreword and looked Link strait in the eyes.
"Link, I'm uh..." she felt a little nervous, she had absoluty no idea why she was though. "I'm sorry for making you angry like that. It my fault, if I hadn't told you that this wonderful place was cursed then you wouldn't have gotten angry at me. Erm, please take this as a token of my apology!"
Bowing her head she handed Link a wooden beaded bracelet. She felt stupid, she felt like a little girl, but it was the only thing that she had that she could give to him!
"OK, I accept!" Zelda looked up at Link with shock as he took the bracelet and put it around his wrist.
"You do?"
"I not really one to hold grudge, and well... you... said that you were sorry... and uh...."
Zelda smiled at him, and then put her hand on his mouth so he wouldn't say anything else.
"Thank you!" she told him as if he were her best friend after they had had a huge fight. "That bracelet has a spell on it, it can sense an evil presence nearby, it's not much, but it will let know when foes are nearby."
Link smiled back at Zelda, feeling happier then he ever had before for some reason he didn't know. Then suddenly, words from his past echoed through his head.
'Only those of a pure heart can hear this song.'
I know, I know, that chapter was kind of corny, but still! I didn't know what else to put at the end! And by the way, did any of you remember Kasi from one of my earlier chapters? It was the chapter when Link was having that flashback of when he was leaving the forest, Chapter Five. Do any of you remember now? And at the end, he's remembering what Saria was telling him when she had taught him Saria's Song if any of you are confused!
Sleet: That chapter was dumb! Where's the action?
Eek! You're awake! Please don't hurt me, one of my reviewers are already threatening to hurt me!
Gust: I'm not in the mood, but if you don't update quickly, we will!
Hail: Count me in!
o.O OK OK! Please review, I won't blame if you thought this chapter was odd, because I thought so too!
Hail/Sleet/Gust: TYPE!
ACK! Until next time if my muses or Commander Link doesn't kill me, CrypticElf....
Hail: So... tired....
Sleet: Can't... move....
OH HAPPY DAY!
Sleet: Why... you....
Hahahahahah! Cackle! Cough Cough Cough. Voice is now hoarse and raspy Sorry, can't do the evil laugh.... Ok, anyway, here's the next chapter.
(Black looking goo comes from hands and turns into the chapter.)
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Chapter Nine: Pure Heart
Zelda and Link had been walking for hours, and they still didn't seem to be anywhere close to an exit. Zelda had given Link the light, because her arm had gotten sore from keeping her arm up. She was still connected to it though, and it was sapping her energy up. Zelda felt weighed down, her eyes had lowered themselves without her notice.
"Zelda, can you use some of your magic to teleport us out of here?" Link asked her suddenly.
"No, I can teleport through trees and things like that, but not solid rock. And besides, my magic's running low." She replied to him, neither of them stopping.
"What? Then why did you keep on using it?"
"Because we need light." She told him simply.
Link paused for a moment before continuing on. "How can your magic run out so fast? I thought you would have a ton if you had been able to use since you were five!"
"Magic," She told him, her eyes lowering even more, "is odd, when you use it for light, it burns up at least five times faster then oil would in a lamp. But when you use it for other things, it doesn't get sucked up as badly. And it also differs on if the wielder is tired or not, so it basically deepens on how much you use it and what your health is. Interesting huh?" She finished her sentence by yawning, and Link grabbed her shoulder to make her stop.
"What?" she asked him sleepily.
"You need to rest."
"I don't-"She stopped herself, she was acting rude to him again. "It's OK, I don't need to rest."
She saw Link blink a couple of times for a moment for her not acting as he thought she would. He recollected himself and acted like himself again.
"Now that I can see your eyes, I KNOW that you're sleepy. And you're the one with the light here, so I don't want you to waste all of your magic all at once."
Zelda looked at him without showing emotion, because she didn't know what to think. Then, she heard something, she looked away from him and then closed her eyes, perking up her ears to try and listen better. 'It sounds like... an instrument. And that tune it's playing, I can sense spirits listening to it.... Wait, maybe there's someone down here that can help us!'
Her eyes flew back open, and she turned around and faced Link with a large smile on her face.
"What are you so happy about?"
"Can't you hear it?" She exclaimed happily.
"Hear what?"
"That tune! It's an instrument, I can hear it playing! And I can sense spirits listening to it; it makes them feel full of life!"
"You can since- hey wait, did you say that it makes them feel full of life? Then it must be...."
Link walked up next to Zelda and closed his eyes to try and hear the tune too. He opened his eyes, looking shocked.
"Link? Are you OK?"
"Yeah.... I know that tune; it's a song that my best friend taught me! She said that whenever I can hear this song out of the forest that the forest is connected somehow!"
"Forest? What forest?"
"I don't think that you've ever heard of this place, but the forest I'm talking about is called Korkori Forest."
"What? I thought that I heard you say Korkori Forest."
Link looked at her with and meet her eyes.
"Yeah, that's what I said."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I'm sure! Why wouldn't I be?"
"But that place is...."
Zelda's head swam with thoughts, she had always dreamed of seeing this forest, but it was a dream. If she did go there, then she and Link would be killed! And no matter how much she wanted to go there, she didn't have enough magic to defend herself, and Link couldn't defeat them when he only had a sword!
"That place is what?" Link asked her, she snapped back into reality and replied back to him instantly.
"Cursed."
"Cursed?" Link asked her.
"Cursed, haven't you ever heard of the Korkori demons that lurk there? Or the tree that has such a strong curse on it, it can talk? I've always wanted to see this place with my own eyes, but we'll be killed in our condition!"
Link stared at Zelda, unable to believe what he was hearing. Right when he thought that she might ACTUALLY be a better person then he thought she was, she went off and called the children of the forest demons. And the Great Deku Tree, who was the guardian of the forest, CURSED! How dare she insult them like that?
"Cursed? Why the hell do you think that they're cursed?"
"It's in the stories!"
"What stories?"
"Hylian stories! Tales, tall tales, fables! That place is cursed!"
"Stories don't tell you anything! They are not cursed, and if you're going to insult them like that, then I think that you can handle yourself better then I can! After all, you didn't even want me to follow you, so this is better!"
"Fine, beat it for all I care!"
Link turned around and left, leaving the fuming Zelda by herself.
'Stupid little...! Goddess that, that bitch!'
Link kept on walking, but felt a little shocked at himself for thinking that. He immediately brushed it off, it was the truth! He walked on for about ten minutes, still ticked off; he stopped when he realized that the tune was closer. 'The forest is the only way out of here as far as I can tell, and it's farther away from her!' He walked of, lifting up the light to see where he was going.
Zelda had been standing in the same spot as when Link had left. She felt sad, drab, stupid, but also angry. She wasn't angry at Link, she had no reason to be, she was angry at herself.
How could she blow her top off like that? She had told him to leave, and now he was gone. He had also taken the light with him, and because he was getting so far away it was straining her magic, making it draining faster way.
"This is stupid. He has the light, and I don't have enough magic to create another one. Why doesn't he just have the rest? It's the least I can do for messing up like that...."
She gathered up the rest of her magic and then sent into the light, storing so they weren't connected connected anymore. It wasn't enough to last long, but it should be enough to let him get to the forest. The forest. How could she argue back at him when he said it wasn't cursed? It sounded as if he had been there before, so why did she miss that?
She went in a random direction, it didn't matter which way, she would just get lost anyway. She tripped on her first step, landing on her broken arm, she lightly yelped in pain, then felt at it.
'Great, now the arrows that hold my bone in place are broken! What kind of luck do I have today?'
She slowly got up, and continued on, tripping over and over again. She just went on like this, not caring how much she got hurt. She would always get like this when she was down, and Impa would always tell her to stop and that she shouldn't be upset, and then would tell her why she shouldn't be upset. But Impa wasn't there, and that was the fact right that moment. She tripped farther, and then realized that it was getting hotter each step that she took. She was either getting closer to the Death Mountain Crater or a lava pit, and either one wasn't good in anyway she could try and look at it.
She got up, took a step and then tripped, but this time she went tumbling down a slope. Farther and farther she went, rocks hitting her everywhere, and was surprised that she didn't black-out.
Then, she felt herself drop, dropping farther and farther down until eventually she blacked out.
Link looked at a small tunnel where the tune seemed to be coming from, and then walked into it.
He blinked when came out into the sun, it was so bright! Once his eyes were adjusted he looked at the small light located in his palm, then, it flickered, and disappeared. He put his hand down and looked around at the green that surrounded him, it looked odd since all that he had been seeing for hours was dust, rock, and Zelda. He turned back at the waterfall, thinking. What had happened to her? Now that he thought about it, he had taken the light and had left her in the darkness. But then again, she could just make another light for herself, so she would be OK.
He thought about how he had gotten here, after all, Death Mountain was miles away from Korkori Forest, so how did he get here? It must have been the magic of the forest; the Great Deku Tree had always told all of the Korkori that the forest had many tricks and magic within it. So why couldn't this be just some magic?
He turned around and walked, listening to the song that Saria was playing to try and find her. He barely turned a corner when he saw her, eyes closed and sitting on an old stump playing her ocarina. He quietly walked foreword, then, when he was close enough he tapped her shoulder, and she stopped and looked up him. Her eyes shinned with delight when she realized that it was him, and leapt up and gave him a hug.
"Link! You're back so soon! I missed you!"
"I missed you too Saria." He told her happily as he returned her hug; even though he had to lean down to give it.
"Tell me what you've done!" She told him when she finally let him go. "I want to know what you did when you were gone!"
"OK, well, nothing special happened until I meet this girl...."
They continued talking on, Saria stopping him every once in a while to ask questions, and Link didn't mind, he was just glad be rid of the annoying girl back at Death Mountain.
Zelda woke up; she tried to move but stopped when horrible sensations of pain screeched across her body. Then memory came back to her, she was in an underground river because she gotten mad at Link and it was her fault that she was here floating down a stupid river. But there was one thing different about where she was, she wasn't floating down a river.
She opened her eyes, and saw that she was surrounded by lush greenery. She was a little shocked when she saw three little girls around the ages of ten pop up over her.
"She's awake! Hey are you OK? You're all burned up and bruised and scratched and...."
"Kasi, would you stop bothering her! She already knows that she's hurt!"
"Fine! But I'm the one who found her in the river Subia!"
"Would you two stop fighting? This adult needs help! We need to get her to the Great Deku Tree; he'll know what to do!"
Zelda looked at the one who was Kasi, she had her blue curly hair cut to her shoulders and had it in a hair band, and she had a blue tunic to match her eyes. Subia had bund dark-purple hair with a purple tunic and green eyes. The third child who she didn't know the name of had strait waist-long hot-pink hair, with a blue tunic and light-pink eyes.
"You're right," confessed Kasi, leaning down over Zelda, "she needs help real bad. And the only thing that can help her is the Deku Tree, but she's too big for us to carry. How are we supposed to get her there?"
Zelda felt confused when Kasi had said that Deku Tree would be the only one that could her, she must be in the forest! And were these young children Korkori? 'Link, he was right. The forest isn't cursed! I should of listened and not of talked back to him, then I wouldn't be like this....'
"If only," said Subia, "we weren't so small. Then we could carry her, huh Leelia?"
Zelda looked at the young girl who she hadn't known the name of and registered it in her mind. "Yeah...." Leelia replied back sadly. "If only Link were here. He could carry her. He's all grown up now, he'd be strong enough." 'Link?' Zelda thought, 'could it be a different Link that I know of? No, it couldn't be, he was talking about this place. And besides, how many these days have the name Link?'
"L...." All the girls looked at Zelda when she made that noise.
"What? What is it?" Kasi asked her, "she needs water to talk, her throats all dried up!"
Leelia ran off, and then came back with a huge leaf the size of bucket, holding it up to Zelda's lips she slowly poured it in so Zelda wouldn't choke. After it was gone, Zelda felt her dried mouth refreshed, her mind cleared.
"So," asked Kasi gently, "what were you going to say?"
"L... Li...." The words in Zelda's mouth just wouldn't come out, but she won't let that stop her! "I.... kno.... Know him...."
"Link?" asked Subia, "You know him? Are you one of his adult friends like that other person he talks about, Malon?"
"Not... a friend... just... know... got lost... in... caves together... got in... a fight... then fell down into... a hole."
"Both of you fell down?" asked Leelia.
"No... he... went... with light... I couldn't... see... and then fell."
"Link took the light?" Kasi said with confusion, "why would he do that if you don't have any light? He wouldn't do that!"
"Forgot... to give me... some light... it's all... my fault.... For making him... angry...."
All of the girls gave each other confused looks, and then Leelia went off and got more water. "Here," she said as she put another leaf to Zelda's lips. "You're probably talking so slow because you need more water. Drink up!"
After Zelda finished the water Leelia went off and got her more, and then more until Zelda refused to have anymore.
"OK," Kasi began, "What did you do to make him so angry?"
"We both heard... a weird tune, and he said it was... about a forest.... In outside tales, the forest he was talking... about, was cursed, and full of demons... but, now that I'm actually in the forest... I don't believe stories of Korkori demons anymore... or the cursed tree.... When I told him about my stories... he got angry about insulting this place... and then I told him to get... lost.... So he left me, while taking light by accident... I'm sorry for insulting your kind, it's just stories I heard.... Now I know there just fake and stupid lies...."
"That sounds like Link," said Kasi, "If someone insults something about him, he gets angry and then doesn't even really think after. This is kind of like the case with Mido, I can remember, I was the second Korkori to try and stop him from leaving the forest. We know that you know Link, but we still don't know how to get you to the Great Deku Tree!"
"Pink fairies!" cried out Leelia, "Pink fairies can heal! There's a Pink Fairy fountain close by, I go there all the time! Wait right here, I'm gonna go get some for her! I'll be right back!"
And with that said and done she ran off as all of the others watched, after she was out sight Kasi looked back at Zelda and touched Zelda's hair with careful fingers.
"Your hair's all dirty and tangly; we need to get that cleaned up after your all better!"
Zelda made kind of a mumbling noise to agree, and Kasi smiled sweetly at her in a childish way. Then, Leelia popped out the bushes, being followed by ten pink and red fairies. Right when all of the fairies were closer they darted over to Zelda and then swirled around her. Zelda sighed in relief as she felt all of her aches and sours melt away and all her magic restored the instant the fairies magic touched her skin. When they all stopped and flew back to their fountain, Zelda had more enough strength to get up. She sat up, and then stood, looking down at the children that surrounded her.
"Thank you!" Zelda stuttered out happily, all the girls blushed and giggled at their appraise. "I mean really, I probably would of drowned if you hadn't me!"
They giggled a little more and then Kasi took Zelda's hand and pulled at her.
"Come play with us! Besides, we still need to fix your hair, it's all messed up!"
"Yeah, please!" begged the other two at the time.
"Well, of course, you saved my life! Just lead the way!"
"Let's go back to the Korkori Village so we can find some other girls to help us! No boys allowed!" Cried out Kasi happily, the other girls nodded their heads and then they all took off, Zelda held on to Kasi's hand as they traveled through tree's and bushes and overgrown grass, not mention flowers of all different sizes.
'This place is beautiful!' Zelda remarked in her mind as she looked at the scenery around her. 'I can't believe people actually think that this place is cursed and full of demons. What are they thinking, what was I thinking!'
They led Zelda through more and more green, and Zelda felt even more entranced with its life and beauty. They finally stopped, and Zelda almost knocked into Kasi. When she recovered herself, she looked out to see trees the size of building around her, with ladders going up to them.
'They live in the trees!' thought Zelda with enthusiasm.
She saw a cleared path where the grass wasn't too long going around the trees, and then heard the sound of a waterfall off in the distance.
"Welcome to the place where Korkori live um, what's your name?" asked Leelia.
"Zelda, that's my name."
"Oh, what a pretty name!" they all said together.
"Let's go see all of the other Korkori girls! Come on!" said Kasi, still holding Zelda's hand as she started down a hill. The other two girls followed with energy, happy to have someone new to play with.
"So Link," asked Saria as they walked together through the Lost Woods headed for home, "Zelda's still in the caves?"
"Beats me, but like I told you, she has magic, and so she can just make herself another light."
"Link, maybe you should go check on her though, didn't she tell you that she was low on magic? Maybe she didn't have enough left to another light. And she might of ran out since when you came out of the tunnel it disappeared, did you even think about that?"
"Well, actually no.:
"Link you don't take things seriously! She could be hurt!"
"Saria, please don't make me feel guilty about leaving her in there, besides, I don't have another light to use even if I wanted to find her."
"I do."
"Saria....!"
Saria would always make Link feel guilty over mistakes that he would do, and right now she was doing one heck of a great job doing it.
"Well, you shouldn't of just left her there!"
"OK, OK, I get your point, hey, why don't we have a race, whoever gets home first wins!"
"You're on Link!"
"OK, ready set go!"
They started off running, Link already had the lead but Saria somehow tripped him, making her have the lead far away from him.
"Hey!"
Link got back up and gave a sprint, back then tripped on a root that had seemingly popped out of no-where. He got back up, determined to beat Saria. He raced faster and faster, until finally he came to a cleared area. Panting he walked to Saria, who was patiently sitting on the ground.
"What took you so long Link? I thought you got lost there!"
"Very funny.... Saria."
"Come on; let's go say hi to the others!"
"OK, but I can't stay long; I need to get back to Death Mountain to solve its problem!"
They walked together around the forest to find that all of the girls had ran off somewhere and hadn't let any of the boys go with them.
"Why would they do that?" Link asked himself more then Saria or another Korkori boy with flaming orange hair and eyes.
"Don't ask me! I think they went to the flower trees. I think that they wanted you to join them Saria. Well, I gotta be going, see ya!"
He walked off, leaving Link and Saria to think.
"Link, should we go see what their up too?"
"Sure, besides, it'll be nice to them!"
They walked towards the place where the forest had the most flowers; it was a cleared area with only flowers in it. It didn't take that long to get there, but when they got there, both of them were surprised, but mostly Link.
There was Zelda, sitting with all of the Korkori girls, making flower necklaces, bracelets, and circlets for them all with her magic. She and the girls were all smiling, talking to each other, most of the time they were handing Zelda more flowers to make things with. All of them were covered with flowers, even Zelda was decorated, although not as much as the others.
"I don't believe it!" Link whispered under his breath, Saria ran foreword to join the girls, letting Link get a little time to absorb what he was seeing. All of the girls laughed and smiled even more when Saria joined them, and Zelda handed her multi colored bracelets, necklaces and circles so Saria wouldn't be the only one not wearing flowers among them. Saria smiled happily and accepted them with a smile, putting them on as she began talking to Zelda.
Link swallowed and then walked forward, still feeling a little shocked at seeing Zelda at the forest. It wasn't JUST the fact that she was there, it was also because he had never seen another adult besides himself in the forest.
"Zelda is that you?"
All the girls stopped talking and then looked up at Link, then ran up to greet him as they always did when he would come back. Zelda froze her weaving and then stood up; waiting for all of the girls to stop hugging him so she could give him something too.
Zelda looked at Link, hiding something behind her back. After all of the girls had cleared away from him, she walked foreword and looked Link strait in the eyes.
"Link, I'm uh..." she felt a little nervous, she had absoluty no idea why she was though. "I'm sorry for making you angry like that. It my fault, if I hadn't told you that this wonderful place was cursed then you wouldn't have gotten angry at me. Erm, please take this as a token of my apology!"
Bowing her head she handed Link a wooden beaded bracelet. She felt stupid, she felt like a little girl, but it was the only thing that she had that she could give to him!
"OK, I accept!" Zelda looked up at Link with shock as he took the bracelet and put it around his wrist.
"You do?"
"I not really one to hold grudge, and well... you... said that you were sorry... and uh...."
Zelda smiled at him, and then put her hand on his mouth so he wouldn't say anything else.
"Thank you!" she told him as if he were her best friend after they had had a huge fight. "That bracelet has a spell on it, it can sense an evil presence nearby, it's not much, but it will let know when foes are nearby."
Link smiled back at Zelda, feeling happier then he ever had before for some reason he didn't know. Then suddenly, words from his past echoed through his head.
'Only those of a pure heart can hear this song.'
I know, I know, that chapter was kind of corny, but still! I didn't know what else to put at the end! And by the way, did any of you remember Kasi from one of my earlier chapters? It was the chapter when Link was having that flashback of when he was leaving the forest, Chapter Five. Do any of you remember now? And at the end, he's remembering what Saria was telling him when she had taught him Saria's Song if any of you are confused!
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