Link hung on the edge of the pipe's lip, looking down into it. After a few feet the light failed and distance was impossible to measure. He raised himself up and swung a leg over the edge so he could sit. He rubbed his chest to ease away the pain from hanging on the pipe. Link glanced to the side to check on the kid. The deku scrub was sitting in the green grass with his legs pulled up to chest and watching Link.

He thought for a second before opening a pocket in his bandoleer and pulling out an arrowhead. A thin layer of wax covered the metal, which Link rubbed off before quickly dropping the head into the pipe. It burst into flame after a few feet and fell into the darkness. Soon it blinked out in the depths. "How deep is this thing?"

The deku jumped up and began squeaking at Link. "What is it?"

The little scrub pointed to the edge of the clearing. Link shielded his eyes from the sun and looked to where the scrub had pointed. Several of the Kokiri were trying to hide behind the trees. He swung his legs around so he faced the children. Link cupped his mouth and shouted. "It's all right. You can come over."

With that, a dozen of the children ran out from the cover of the trees and into the open space. One blonde-haired girl walked up to the green pipe and looked up at Link. "Are you going into it?"

Link glanced down into the pipe and turned back to the girl. "I really don't know yet."

"Well we brought you some things in case you decided to." The Kokiri girl pointed to a blanket spread out a little ways away. Several bottles and packs of arrows sat scattered over the blanket among deku sticks and nuts.

"Thank you."

Back in the Kokiri village, the fairy children were fighting to keep Epona under control. She kicked and reared as the Kokira tried to drag her into one of the stables on the edge of the village. The stable master cried out to them as he ran in through the gate. "What's going on?"

"We don't know. She's not letting us put her in a stall."

All three of the Kokiri boys turned as a fairy came flying in, the sound of bells announcing her arrival. "Something's happening out in the forest!"

The thing had arrived suddenly without any notice. It rose up through the pipe and knocked Link off the lip. All the Kokiri ran for the edge of the clearing to watch what happened. Link picked himself up off the grass to look at the new arrival.

It was a turtle with a large head and overly large, red shell. It waddled to edge of the pipe and fell, pulling itself into the shell before it hit the ground. Link stared at the thing as it rolled around on the grass, trying to right itself.

One of the Kokiri girls yelled out to Link. "Is it safe?"

Link turned and merely shrugged his shoulders. As he turned, the turtle had popped out of its shell and crawled over to the man's foot. Link looked down just as the turtle bit down on the leather boot. "Hey!"

Link swung his leg and the turtle flew off, slamming into the pipe and disappearing into the shell once more. Link walked over and looked down at the red shell. "How did it get up the pipe?"

A whiff of fog rose from the pipe then and up rose a small cloud. The man looked at it as it appeared. Is it just shadows or does the cloud have a smiling face? The little cloud floated over the turtle shell and stopped. Link backed up to see what was going to happen.

Up out of the cloud popped up a curious looking turtle wearing goggles. In its hands it held a fishing rod. A little hook lowered and snatched the red turtle shell, lifting it into the air. The two turtles supported by the cloud then drifted back over the pipe and began to descend. "Hey!" Link yelled and dove forward onto the pipe.

The strange things had already disappeared into the darkness of the green pipe. Link grabbed for the lip of the pipe to lift himself back up. Moisture from the strange little clouds had condensed on the metal, however, and Link's hand slipped from its hold. Link fell into the pipe and slipped into darkness.