Chapter 2
There was nothing out of the ordinary on the other side of the lost woods. The trees were as tall as in the days of old, the canopy let little or no light through, and the forest floor was littered with small shrubs and mushrooms. All in all, it was a normal day in the lost woods of Hyrule, except for one voice that broke the silence of the forest for the twentieth time.
"Are we there yet?" Link closed his eyes in frustration at the fairy's constant chatter. The barrages of 'are we there yet' and 'how much longer is it' was going to drive Link insane.
"How many times am I going to have to tell you that I don't know?" Link growled up to the fairy in his hat. Cera sighed and patted the top of his head.
"You are beginning to sound like Makuki." Cera grumbled at Link. Link looked up in the direction of Cera.
"Makuki?" Link asked confused. Cera's glow became less light and she sighed. Cera flew out of Links hat and sat on the folds of his shoulder.
"Makuki is-was my first partner. I've had two Kokiri as partners. I'm actually almost as old as the great fairies." Link stopped for a moment digesting the news. "In all the time I've been alive, I've never been outside the forest. That's why I came with you."
"You wanted adventure." Link said bluntly.
"I wanted adventure." Cera repeated. "But I never knew adventure was soooo boring! What are we going to do for fun? I'm so bored!" Link sighed at the fairy's enthusiasm.
"Be thankful that you're bored. The minute things get exciting on an adventure is the same minute things get dangerous." Link said wincing at all the exciting adventure he had been on. Link involuntarily shivered at the thought.
"Cold?" Cera asked. Link started to shake his head.
"No, I'm-" Link started to say. Cera suddenly jumped from her perch on Link's shoulder to float in his face.
"I can fix that." Link let out a startled gasp when Cera wove the fairy magic around his body. Within seconds of the casting, Link felt pleasantly warm. Link looked down to see Epona and himself encased in a red dim glow.
"What did you do?" Link asked confused at the new discovery of magic. Cera landed on his shoulder again.
"Fairy magic. What? Navi never did that for you?" Link shook his head. "I don't see why she didn't…Oh! Silly me. She probably wasn't even born when the winter frost gave way to the blizzard. The Kokiri were almost frozen to death a long time ago in an abnormal blizzard. Their partners had to keep them warm a long time and exhausted themselves as well. Makuki and I went through that storm together." Cera stopped a moment.
"What happened to Makuki?" Link asked knowing it was a painful subject to touch upon.
"A Stalfos go him. The very next summer." Cera said quietly. Link nodded and rode on in silence for a while. "Link! Look there!" Link looked to where the fairy was flying around and was barely able to read the writing.
"Deku forest ahead. All yellows keep out!" Link read out loud. Link and Cera shared a startled glance. "Yellows?"
"Don't look at me. I'm just the fairy around here." Cera said landing in Link's hat again. Link let out a sigh of frustration.
"I thought all fairy's knew about these types of things. Isn't yellow some sort of monster?" Link asked urging Epona forward. Cera shrugged her small fairy shoulders. By now the fairy magic had disappeared leaving Link and Epona back to normal.
"How should I know? I've never been here. This is as new to me as it is to you." Link nodded in agreement. This was going to be a long trip. As they neared the forest town, Link could see that it was early noon through the trees. That would mean that a lot of deku shrubs or whatever inhabited the town would be up and about. It could mean trouble.
"Stay on guard. I've only been in places where humans are acceptable and usually that doesn't include any sort of Deku gatherings." Link whispered to Cera. Cera nodded in understanding and waited atop of his hat. The village looked surprisingly like the Kokiri village. Their homes were made out of the trees; there were small ponds and shrubs all around the area. These things were noticed secondary though. What Link noticed first was the different spectrum of people that were around. There were deku shrubs everywhere and Link expected that; he didn't expect that there were as many deku shrubs as there was gorons and humans. Link blinked in surprise and delight, they weren't going to find a fight here!
"Well, seems to me that we're safe." Cera said floating in Link's face. That's when all the people on the street noticed Link and Cera for the first time. Link shifted uncomfortably on Epona as the people of the deku village stared at them in awe.
"Nice going Cera." Link murmured so only the fairy could hear. Link got down off of Epona and walked her through the village unnerved at all the attention they were getting. Link then tied Epona to a tree near one of the ponds that surrounded the village. When Link walked about, he received stares and inaudible whispers from deku, goron and even humans.
'Why are they staring at me like that?' Link spotted what he was looking for and walked into the town's shop. It was made from the old remains of a huge deku stump. The tree might have rivaled that of the deku tree once. '"The Deku Stop and Split" Nice title.' Link thought as he entered the inn. As soon as Link stepped into the place it went dead silent. All eyes were on Link as he entered the bar and he swiftly found a place to sit and wait for the stores owner to show up.
'Why is it so quiet in here?' Kororo thought perplexed when he reentered from the back storeroom. Kororo was the owner of the Stop and Split. It had been in his deku family for just about three and an half centuries. They housed the soldiers from the war when they came this way. It wasn't often enough for Kororo though as his entire business solely depended on the patrols that went about the edge of the lost woods. Waiting to see if the seal had been broken yet. Kororo never understood why the highness of blue set up those patrols. It wasn't for him to ask or to even complain since that decree had saved his business. Kororo had his hands full on nights like these keeping the drunks stable and his inn in check. It had worried the shrub when the silence suddenly came from out of nowhere; it usually meant that there was a fight or an attack. The patrols had thinned lately and the increased Wolfos attack…Kororo shook his head. Now was the time to deal with the silence, not the rumors of a giant Wolfos attacking the patrols. Kororo made his way to see what the silence was about when he heard the tiny voice.
"What are all of you staring at!?!" Gruffed the small voice. For a moment, Kororo stopped dead in shock. That couldn't be what he thought it was, was it? Kororo made his way to the door and saw in mild shock and awe a fairy. An honest to goodness, live fairy! Then he saw who owned the fairy and nearly fell over in astonishment. It was a boy, that wouldn't have shocked Kororo nearly as bad if he hadn't been wearing green. Green! Not a scrap of blue or yellow on him! Not that a yellow would actual come to the bar without getting his head lopped off at the gates but still! The boy seemed no more than ten years of age; he carried a strange shield and sword the likes of which he had never seen. The fairy sat on his matching green hat that left his bangs out in view. Wait a minute!
'Are those blue eyes?' Indeed, the boy had deep cerulean blue eyes and blonde almost brown bangs. It was if the world had turned upside down for the shrub. Here, in his bar, sat a person that looked a mix of both blue and yellow heritage. Shaking himself out of shock, Kororo made his way over to the mysterious youth.
"Can I help you?" Link turned to the smaller deku shrub and sighed in relief. The shrub was the only one that had spoken since he had entered the inn.
'At last, a friendly face.' The deku shrub looked like any normal deku business shrub from Termina field with the exception of his clothes. Link in fact noticed that all the people in the small town had been wearing blue tunics. 'Must be important.' Once the deku shrub had spoken, whispered echoed throughout the small inn again.
"Yes. I think you can help me. I'm looking for a small fairy named Navi. Have you heard of her?" Link asked the shrubkeeper. The deku shrub shook his head.
"Sorry. Haven't seen a fairy in years! Yours is the first I've seen since that accursed seal was put on the lost forest trading route." Link blinked in surprise. They knew about the deku tree's seal?
"That so? Well, you can tell everyone here that I'm not for sale or anything ridiculous like that!" Cera sniped shooting looks at the people in the bar. Link sighed at the fairy's obvious hint. A few chairs shifted at Cera's glare.
"Do you know anyone who might have a fairy or could obtain one? This is really important." Link pleaded with the deku shrub. Kororo though in silent reflection for a moment.
"They Wizard Soaran of Neutral City might have a fairy. Came past here not to long ago with an alien light in his saddlebag he did. I watched him ride past as if the fires of din were after him. That be all I know of fairies."
'The fires of din might be after him.' Link thought sourly as he absentmindedly nodded his head. 'That and Nayru's love and light arrows and…' Link let the threatening thoughts hang a bit.
"Thank you." Cera said for Link before cuffing him upside the head. "And cut that out! I almost fell off!" Link rolled his eyes. The shrub laughed at Link and the fairy's exchange. Then the shrub reminded itself of something and became serious.
"What manner of loyalty do you have?" The shrub asked in a gruff tone. Link looked confused for a moment.
"Pardon me?" Link asked the shrub. By now the whole inn had heard of the conversation between the shrub and the 'green' boy. The whole room was silent as death again.
"You don't express your loyalties outwardly by wearing you patrons color. Who are you loyal to? The Lady Harvester Blue or that cur and scoundrel Lord Hunter Yellow?" Link looked to Cera who was on his shoulder.
"Ummm…Sorry. I don't think that question relates to me. My names Link and I'm from-" Before Link could say another word, a soldier ran into the Stop and Split screaming.
"Wolfos! It's the large one! He got the thicket patrol! He's made his way through the gates! Get every available man out to fight!" Link jumped up from his perch on the stool and was lost in the crowd going outside. Kororo forgot all about the strange lad and simply waited for the inn to clear out before he turned back to the boy.
"Just you and me then boy. Boy?" Kororo looked around to see the boy missing. "JUTA!" swore the deku shrub in his own language. Link was almost crushed by the men rushing out to defend the town. Link jumped to the side and let all the adults pass him with ease.
"Why aren't we following them?" Cera demanded when they had all passed. Link brushed himself off and went down the alley he had walked in to escape the crowd.
"They're running in head first into things they don't understand. Most of them will see the Wolfos and turn the other way. Half of them even forgot to bring their weapons!" Link growled to Cera. Cera floated above Link's head for a few moments.
"Since when are you so observant?" Cera said in her amused voice. Link shrugged and walked on. Link made his way over to where he thought he had left Epona and found her dozing by the tree. "We aren't just going to leave them like this!" Cera shrieked in a tiny voice.
"Of course not! We're going to go and get that Wolfos back outside so no innocent people are hurt." Link growled back at Cera. Cera's wings drooped and her glow dimmed.
"Oh." She said sheepishly. Link mounted Epona and rode in the general direction of where the mob had disappeared. Link heard the commotion first before he saw it. There were terrified shouts and screams of terror. Link followed the trail of blood down what looked like a main street and stopped before the town's square. It was a war zone.
"That is one big Wolfos." Link commented. The white wolfos was huge! It was easily three or four times as big as Link, it had a pure white coat of fur and deep red eyes. Link saw the ring of men trying to kill the beast and shook his head at their idiocy. There weren't enough weapons among them to take Gohma down let alone this wolfos!
"Link!" Link looked around the square. No one had died yet but there were a lot of casualties. Then Link noticed that the Wolfos was actually after one person that was being protected by a lot of deku warriors.
'Must be someone important.' Link didn't hesitate because the Wolfos had swept the entire clan of deku warrior away in one swipe. 'Much like a cat does a ball of yarn.' Link noted grimly. Link thought fast and barely made it in time to save the now lone and venerable deku shrub from being tossed in a salad. Link rode Epona full speed and grabbed the Deku shrub by the roots and pulled him up on Epona. The Wolfos let out a battle scream and charged after Link.
"Which way?" Link shouted with adrenaline pumping through his veins. The stunned Deku could only squeak in reply.
"Keep going straight. The gates are at the end of this road." The deku then promptly fainted. Link nodded and stared ahead of Epona.
"Keep going girl!" Link urged Epona. Link turned around in his seat and drew his bow. "Cera!" Link called out as he knocked and arrow.
"On it!" Cera flew out and z-targeted the wolfos eye for Link. Link let the arrow fly and it was magically deflected. The Wolfos grinned.
"Magic?" Link said startled. Link cursed his luck and knocked another arrow. "I have just the thing for you!" Link shouted at the rampaging Wolfos. Link chanted the ancient words for an ice arrow and let the arrow lose. This time, Link was rewarded with a solid thump and a long howl of pain. Seeing his opportunity, Link jumped off of Epona and ran to do battle with the still enraged Wolfos.
"How dare you do this to me!" The Wolfos said in an eerie and deadly voice. Link swallowed hard. It was the first time a Wolfos had actually talked to Link. "You die first." Link saw what the ice arrow had done and smirked; the eye had been completely blinded by the arrow and froze a fair size of the side of his face.
"Why did you attack these people?" Link demanded. The Wolfos blinked his one good eye at Link. Hissing loudly in return.
"You wear not yellow or blue. Who is your master? Tell me before I tear you to shreds so I can send your master some remains." Link knocked another arrow in his bow.
"I have no master." Link growled triumphantly. "I am Link! I am a Hylain of Hyrule fields beyond the lost woods. I live with the Kokiri in the Kokiri village at the edge of the woods. I have come seeking a friend." To Link's small speech, the Wolfos chuckled at first and then laughed loudly.
"Hahaha. HAHAHA! You expect me to believe that? A Kokiri-Hylain. There is no possible way that you could be whom you claim to be! The seal set up by the deku tree because of the royals would not break under a child's power. Preposterous!" The large beast scoffed at Link.
"Oh? Then how can it be that I'm here? With a fairy and my horse? Tell me, why haven't you heard of a boy in green before now? I came through the seal seeking my friend! I will not rest until I find Navi!" The wolfos growled in response to Link's defense of his heritage. Such an impertinent child!
"No matter. My master will be pleased with your death. Yes, It's time to die boy!" The wolfos leapt at Link in a familiar way. Link back flipped out of the way of the double strike making the Wolfos turn because of his momentum.
"No! It's your time to die! Hyaaaa!" Link lunged forward in a vertical strike. It was a vicious downward slash attack that Link had used on many occasions to bring down the toughest of adversary's. Link however, felt strange when he did it this time. When Link pulled back after slashing deep into the large Wolfos, his sword didn't have a drop of blood on it. Not a drop, not a smear or even a streak of blood and the sword seemed to pulse in his hands.
"Raaaaargh!" Link didn't have time to ponder the strange occurrence. The large wolfos was mortally wounded but still had the energy to try and strike back. Link held up his mirror shield to block the frenzied slash attack again and was nearly sent flying at the strength of it. Then, the wolfos tried to circle around Link but found the youth too nimble to get behind for the attack. Weakened, the Wolfos charged Link quickly and tried the same slash attack again. Just like the time before, Link back flipped out of the way and did the same ferocious attack that sunk deep into the wolfos back.
"You got him Link!" Cera said excited. Link dodged another desperate attack to kill him and moved in to finish the kill. By now the Wolfos was too weak to fight back with it's spine severed in two.
"Blast you!" Huffed the white beast as it died with one last attack from Link. Link stood over the corpse of the Wolfos panting to catch his breath, not really tired but relieved.
'That wasn't as tough as some mini bosses I've faced.' Link thought cocky. 'But I don't like that he mentioned a master. That means that there could be more of these guys. I hope Navi's alright.' Link was brought out of his daze by the voices and shouts around him. Slightly startled, Link looked up to see the wide eyes of the soldiers around him. Deku shrubs were the closest to Link as they packed a tight semi circle around Link, the humans and gorons were behind the deku shrubs looking at each other and back to Link.
"Where is Mr. Juba? Where is our Mayor?" Demanded one of the Deku shrubs at Links feet. Cera, annoyed at the lack of gratitude shown, flew down in the shrubs face.
"He's just fine no thanks to you! Don't use that tone of voice with Link either! He just saved this entire town from that Wolfos so he deserves some respect!" The deku shrub backed off and Link was instantly backed away from. How could a mere child defeat such a creature? Link moved out of the circle and was let by with space to spare. Link walked in the direction of where he had jumped off Epona and stopped. Link took out his ocarina and played Epona's song on it.
'I just hope that Mr. Juba is still on her.' When the song faded, Epona came out of the misty with a wide-awake rider on her back. Link walked up to Epona and stopped her so she could let her rider jump off. Mr. Juba was very relieved.
"Thank you so much for your help young one!" Said the plump deku shrub. Now that Link had a good view of the mayor, he decided that he looked a lot like the Deku King from his adventure in Termina.
"It wasn't a problem." Link said a little uncomfortable at the thanks. Link added in his thoughts that it wasn't anything out of the ordinary, for him anyway.
"I am impressed with you abilities! You saved my life and many of the others here!" Suddenly, the mayor turned to the humans wearing blue in the crowd. "This boy has done what men of the blue cloth could not!" Juba sneered at the humans. "I am not impressed with this display of-of lack of skill! Tell the Lady of the Blue that I Juba of the deku's am not pleased that she did not send better men to protect my home! This mere child has seen to my towns welfare and that I wish to have words with her soon!" There was a collective silence from the crowd. "GO!"
"Yes sir!" With that said, many of the people there backed off and ran the opposite direction to anywhere but in front of the Mayor's angered eyes.
"Weak willed fools!" Juba grumped. Link and Cera backed away from the short-tempered shrub and tried to make a hasty exit of their own. "Well boy, it seems that you have made a real enemy of the Wolfos this day. That was their esteemed leader that you vanquished; Toora." Link closed his eyes and moaned softly.
'I knew I wasn't going to get off easily.' Link turned to the mayor of Deku Town and saw the shrub walking toward him and Epona. Instead of walking up to Link, Mr. Juba walked up to Epona. 'What's he doing?'
"I've never seen such a rarity as this horse. Such a flaming mane and the hair! White as the snow in Lavos Mountain. Tell me, who are you and why did you help us?" Link and Cera exchanged nervous glances. "Oh my! I am such a squabble! Come! We need not talk in this dismal sight of a wretch." Mr. Juba looked down at the Wolfos. Or what was left of the Wolfos anyway. "Come to my home! We can get you settled for the night and have some tea. Yes! Come with me green boy."
"He has a name you know and it's Link!" Cera huffed at the Deku shrub. The tiny voice made the mayor look up. Link saw the eyes of the Deku shrub grow large and wide.
"Will wonders never cease? A green boy and a fairy companion." Mr. Juba then turned his gaze back to Link again. "Wonders indeed." Link couldn't help but feel like a small, helpless child right then under the Deku's gaze. Just what in Nayru's name had he just gotten himself into?
Disclaimer: I don't own Link *sob*
There was nothing out of the ordinary on the other side of the lost woods. The trees were as tall as in the days of old, the canopy let little or no light through, and the forest floor was littered with small shrubs and mushrooms. All in all, it was a normal day in the lost woods of Hyrule, except for one voice that broke the silence of the forest for the twentieth time.
"Are we there yet?" Link closed his eyes in frustration at the fairy's constant chatter. The barrages of 'are we there yet' and 'how much longer is it' was going to drive Link insane.
"How many times am I going to have to tell you that I don't know?" Link growled up to the fairy in his hat. Cera sighed and patted the top of his head.
"You are beginning to sound like Makuki." Cera grumbled at Link. Link looked up in the direction of Cera.
"Makuki?" Link asked confused. Cera's glow became less light and she sighed. Cera flew out of Links hat and sat on the folds of his shoulder.
"Makuki is-was my first partner. I've had two Kokiri as partners. I'm actually almost as old as the great fairies." Link stopped for a moment digesting the news. "In all the time I've been alive, I've never been outside the forest. That's why I came with you."
"You wanted adventure." Link said bluntly.
"I wanted adventure." Cera repeated. "But I never knew adventure was soooo boring! What are we going to do for fun? I'm so bored!" Link sighed at the fairy's enthusiasm.
"Be thankful that you're bored. The minute things get exciting on an adventure is the same minute things get dangerous." Link said wincing at all the exciting adventure he had been on. Link involuntarily shivered at the thought.
"Cold?" Cera asked. Link started to shake his head.
"No, I'm-" Link started to say. Cera suddenly jumped from her perch on Link's shoulder to float in his face.
"I can fix that." Link let out a startled gasp when Cera wove the fairy magic around his body. Within seconds of the casting, Link felt pleasantly warm. Link looked down to see Epona and himself encased in a red dim glow.
"What did you do?" Link asked confused at the new discovery of magic. Cera landed on his shoulder again.
"Fairy magic. What? Navi never did that for you?" Link shook his head. "I don't see why she didn't…Oh! Silly me. She probably wasn't even born when the winter frost gave way to the blizzard. The Kokiri were almost frozen to death a long time ago in an abnormal blizzard. Their partners had to keep them warm a long time and exhausted themselves as well. Makuki and I went through that storm together." Cera stopped a moment.
"What happened to Makuki?" Link asked knowing it was a painful subject to touch upon.
"A Stalfos go him. The very next summer." Cera said quietly. Link nodded and rode on in silence for a while. "Link! Look there!" Link looked to where the fairy was flying around and was barely able to read the writing.
"Deku forest ahead. All yellows keep out!" Link read out loud. Link and Cera shared a startled glance. "Yellows?"
"Don't look at me. I'm just the fairy around here." Cera said landing in Link's hat again. Link let out a sigh of frustration.
"I thought all fairy's knew about these types of things. Isn't yellow some sort of monster?" Link asked urging Epona forward. Cera shrugged her small fairy shoulders. By now the fairy magic had disappeared leaving Link and Epona back to normal.
"How should I know? I've never been here. This is as new to me as it is to you." Link nodded in agreement. This was going to be a long trip. As they neared the forest town, Link could see that it was early noon through the trees. That would mean that a lot of deku shrubs or whatever inhabited the town would be up and about. It could mean trouble.
"Stay on guard. I've only been in places where humans are acceptable and usually that doesn't include any sort of Deku gatherings." Link whispered to Cera. Cera nodded in understanding and waited atop of his hat. The village looked surprisingly like the Kokiri village. Their homes were made out of the trees; there were small ponds and shrubs all around the area. These things were noticed secondary though. What Link noticed first was the different spectrum of people that were around. There were deku shrubs everywhere and Link expected that; he didn't expect that there were as many deku shrubs as there was gorons and humans. Link blinked in surprise and delight, they weren't going to find a fight here!
"Well, seems to me that we're safe." Cera said floating in Link's face. That's when all the people on the street noticed Link and Cera for the first time. Link shifted uncomfortably on Epona as the people of the deku village stared at them in awe.
"Nice going Cera." Link murmured so only the fairy could hear. Link got down off of Epona and walked her through the village unnerved at all the attention they were getting. Link then tied Epona to a tree near one of the ponds that surrounded the village. When Link walked about, he received stares and inaudible whispers from deku, goron and even humans.
'Why are they staring at me like that?' Link spotted what he was looking for and walked into the town's shop. It was made from the old remains of a huge deku stump. The tree might have rivaled that of the deku tree once. '"The Deku Stop and Split" Nice title.' Link thought as he entered the inn. As soon as Link stepped into the place it went dead silent. All eyes were on Link as he entered the bar and he swiftly found a place to sit and wait for the stores owner to show up.
'Why is it so quiet in here?' Kororo thought perplexed when he reentered from the back storeroom. Kororo was the owner of the Stop and Split. It had been in his deku family for just about three and an half centuries. They housed the soldiers from the war when they came this way. It wasn't often enough for Kororo though as his entire business solely depended on the patrols that went about the edge of the lost woods. Waiting to see if the seal had been broken yet. Kororo never understood why the highness of blue set up those patrols. It wasn't for him to ask or to even complain since that decree had saved his business. Kororo had his hands full on nights like these keeping the drunks stable and his inn in check. It had worried the shrub when the silence suddenly came from out of nowhere; it usually meant that there was a fight or an attack. The patrols had thinned lately and the increased Wolfos attack…Kororo shook his head. Now was the time to deal with the silence, not the rumors of a giant Wolfos attacking the patrols. Kororo made his way to see what the silence was about when he heard the tiny voice.
"What are all of you staring at!?!" Gruffed the small voice. For a moment, Kororo stopped dead in shock. That couldn't be what he thought it was, was it? Kororo made his way to the door and saw in mild shock and awe a fairy. An honest to goodness, live fairy! Then he saw who owned the fairy and nearly fell over in astonishment. It was a boy, that wouldn't have shocked Kororo nearly as bad if he hadn't been wearing green. Green! Not a scrap of blue or yellow on him! Not that a yellow would actual come to the bar without getting his head lopped off at the gates but still! The boy seemed no more than ten years of age; he carried a strange shield and sword the likes of which he had never seen. The fairy sat on his matching green hat that left his bangs out in view. Wait a minute!
'Are those blue eyes?' Indeed, the boy had deep cerulean blue eyes and blonde almost brown bangs. It was if the world had turned upside down for the shrub. Here, in his bar, sat a person that looked a mix of both blue and yellow heritage. Shaking himself out of shock, Kororo made his way over to the mysterious youth.
"Can I help you?" Link turned to the smaller deku shrub and sighed in relief. The shrub was the only one that had spoken since he had entered the inn.
'At last, a friendly face.' The deku shrub looked like any normal deku business shrub from Termina field with the exception of his clothes. Link in fact noticed that all the people in the small town had been wearing blue tunics. 'Must be important.' Once the deku shrub had spoken, whispered echoed throughout the small inn again.
"Yes. I think you can help me. I'm looking for a small fairy named Navi. Have you heard of her?" Link asked the shrubkeeper. The deku shrub shook his head.
"Sorry. Haven't seen a fairy in years! Yours is the first I've seen since that accursed seal was put on the lost forest trading route." Link blinked in surprise. They knew about the deku tree's seal?
"That so? Well, you can tell everyone here that I'm not for sale or anything ridiculous like that!" Cera sniped shooting looks at the people in the bar. Link sighed at the fairy's obvious hint. A few chairs shifted at Cera's glare.
"Do you know anyone who might have a fairy or could obtain one? This is really important." Link pleaded with the deku shrub. Kororo though in silent reflection for a moment.
"They Wizard Soaran of Neutral City might have a fairy. Came past here not to long ago with an alien light in his saddlebag he did. I watched him ride past as if the fires of din were after him. That be all I know of fairies."
'The fires of din might be after him.' Link thought sourly as he absentmindedly nodded his head. 'That and Nayru's love and light arrows and…' Link let the threatening thoughts hang a bit.
"Thank you." Cera said for Link before cuffing him upside the head. "And cut that out! I almost fell off!" Link rolled his eyes. The shrub laughed at Link and the fairy's exchange. Then the shrub reminded itself of something and became serious.
"What manner of loyalty do you have?" The shrub asked in a gruff tone. Link looked confused for a moment.
"Pardon me?" Link asked the shrub. By now the whole inn had heard of the conversation between the shrub and the 'green' boy. The whole room was silent as death again.
"You don't express your loyalties outwardly by wearing you patrons color. Who are you loyal to? The Lady Harvester Blue or that cur and scoundrel Lord Hunter Yellow?" Link looked to Cera who was on his shoulder.
"Ummm…Sorry. I don't think that question relates to me. My names Link and I'm from-" Before Link could say another word, a soldier ran into the Stop and Split screaming.
"Wolfos! It's the large one! He got the thicket patrol! He's made his way through the gates! Get every available man out to fight!" Link jumped up from his perch on the stool and was lost in the crowd going outside. Kororo forgot all about the strange lad and simply waited for the inn to clear out before he turned back to the boy.
"Just you and me then boy. Boy?" Kororo looked around to see the boy missing. "JUTA!" swore the deku shrub in his own language. Link was almost crushed by the men rushing out to defend the town. Link jumped to the side and let all the adults pass him with ease.
"Why aren't we following them?" Cera demanded when they had all passed. Link brushed himself off and went down the alley he had walked in to escape the crowd.
"They're running in head first into things they don't understand. Most of them will see the Wolfos and turn the other way. Half of them even forgot to bring their weapons!" Link growled to Cera. Cera floated above Link's head for a few moments.
"Since when are you so observant?" Cera said in her amused voice. Link shrugged and walked on. Link made his way over to where he thought he had left Epona and found her dozing by the tree. "We aren't just going to leave them like this!" Cera shrieked in a tiny voice.
"Of course not! We're going to go and get that Wolfos back outside so no innocent people are hurt." Link growled back at Cera. Cera's wings drooped and her glow dimmed.
"Oh." She said sheepishly. Link mounted Epona and rode in the general direction of where the mob had disappeared. Link heard the commotion first before he saw it. There were terrified shouts and screams of terror. Link followed the trail of blood down what looked like a main street and stopped before the town's square. It was a war zone.
"That is one big Wolfos." Link commented. The white wolfos was huge! It was easily three or four times as big as Link, it had a pure white coat of fur and deep red eyes. Link saw the ring of men trying to kill the beast and shook his head at their idiocy. There weren't enough weapons among them to take Gohma down let alone this wolfos!
"Link!" Link looked around the square. No one had died yet but there were a lot of casualties. Then Link noticed that the Wolfos was actually after one person that was being protected by a lot of deku warriors.
'Must be someone important.' Link didn't hesitate because the Wolfos had swept the entire clan of deku warrior away in one swipe. 'Much like a cat does a ball of yarn.' Link noted grimly. Link thought fast and barely made it in time to save the now lone and venerable deku shrub from being tossed in a salad. Link rode Epona full speed and grabbed the Deku shrub by the roots and pulled him up on Epona. The Wolfos let out a battle scream and charged after Link.
"Which way?" Link shouted with adrenaline pumping through his veins. The stunned Deku could only squeak in reply.
"Keep going straight. The gates are at the end of this road." The deku then promptly fainted. Link nodded and stared ahead of Epona.
"Keep going girl!" Link urged Epona. Link turned around in his seat and drew his bow. "Cera!" Link called out as he knocked and arrow.
"On it!" Cera flew out and z-targeted the wolfos eye for Link. Link let the arrow fly and it was magically deflected. The Wolfos grinned.
"Magic?" Link said startled. Link cursed his luck and knocked another arrow. "I have just the thing for you!" Link shouted at the rampaging Wolfos. Link chanted the ancient words for an ice arrow and let the arrow lose. This time, Link was rewarded with a solid thump and a long howl of pain. Seeing his opportunity, Link jumped off of Epona and ran to do battle with the still enraged Wolfos.
"How dare you do this to me!" The Wolfos said in an eerie and deadly voice. Link swallowed hard. It was the first time a Wolfos had actually talked to Link. "You die first." Link saw what the ice arrow had done and smirked; the eye had been completely blinded by the arrow and froze a fair size of the side of his face.
"Why did you attack these people?" Link demanded. The Wolfos blinked his one good eye at Link. Hissing loudly in return.
"You wear not yellow or blue. Who is your master? Tell me before I tear you to shreds so I can send your master some remains." Link knocked another arrow in his bow.
"I have no master." Link growled triumphantly. "I am Link! I am a Hylain of Hyrule fields beyond the lost woods. I live with the Kokiri in the Kokiri village at the edge of the woods. I have come seeking a friend." To Link's small speech, the Wolfos chuckled at first and then laughed loudly.
"Hahaha. HAHAHA! You expect me to believe that? A Kokiri-Hylain. There is no possible way that you could be whom you claim to be! The seal set up by the deku tree because of the royals would not break under a child's power. Preposterous!" The large beast scoffed at Link.
"Oh? Then how can it be that I'm here? With a fairy and my horse? Tell me, why haven't you heard of a boy in green before now? I came through the seal seeking my friend! I will not rest until I find Navi!" The wolfos growled in response to Link's defense of his heritage. Such an impertinent child!
"No matter. My master will be pleased with your death. Yes, It's time to die boy!" The wolfos leapt at Link in a familiar way. Link back flipped out of the way of the double strike making the Wolfos turn because of his momentum.
"No! It's your time to die! Hyaaaa!" Link lunged forward in a vertical strike. It was a vicious downward slash attack that Link had used on many occasions to bring down the toughest of adversary's. Link however, felt strange when he did it this time. When Link pulled back after slashing deep into the large Wolfos, his sword didn't have a drop of blood on it. Not a drop, not a smear or even a streak of blood and the sword seemed to pulse in his hands.
"Raaaaargh!" Link didn't have time to ponder the strange occurrence. The large wolfos was mortally wounded but still had the energy to try and strike back. Link held up his mirror shield to block the frenzied slash attack again and was nearly sent flying at the strength of it. Then, the wolfos tried to circle around Link but found the youth too nimble to get behind for the attack. Weakened, the Wolfos charged Link quickly and tried the same slash attack again. Just like the time before, Link back flipped out of the way and did the same ferocious attack that sunk deep into the wolfos back.
"You got him Link!" Cera said excited. Link dodged another desperate attack to kill him and moved in to finish the kill. By now the Wolfos was too weak to fight back with it's spine severed in two.
"Blast you!" Huffed the white beast as it died with one last attack from Link. Link stood over the corpse of the Wolfos panting to catch his breath, not really tired but relieved.
'That wasn't as tough as some mini bosses I've faced.' Link thought cocky. 'But I don't like that he mentioned a master. That means that there could be more of these guys. I hope Navi's alright.' Link was brought out of his daze by the voices and shouts around him. Slightly startled, Link looked up to see the wide eyes of the soldiers around him. Deku shrubs were the closest to Link as they packed a tight semi circle around Link, the humans and gorons were behind the deku shrubs looking at each other and back to Link.
"Where is Mr. Juba? Where is our Mayor?" Demanded one of the Deku shrubs at Links feet. Cera, annoyed at the lack of gratitude shown, flew down in the shrubs face.
"He's just fine no thanks to you! Don't use that tone of voice with Link either! He just saved this entire town from that Wolfos so he deserves some respect!" The deku shrub backed off and Link was instantly backed away from. How could a mere child defeat such a creature? Link moved out of the circle and was let by with space to spare. Link walked in the direction of where he had jumped off Epona and stopped. Link took out his ocarina and played Epona's song on it.
'I just hope that Mr. Juba is still on her.' When the song faded, Epona came out of the misty with a wide-awake rider on her back. Link walked up to Epona and stopped her so she could let her rider jump off. Mr. Juba was very relieved.
"Thank you so much for your help young one!" Said the plump deku shrub. Now that Link had a good view of the mayor, he decided that he looked a lot like the Deku King from his adventure in Termina.
"It wasn't a problem." Link said a little uncomfortable at the thanks. Link added in his thoughts that it wasn't anything out of the ordinary, for him anyway.
"I am impressed with you abilities! You saved my life and many of the others here!" Suddenly, the mayor turned to the humans wearing blue in the crowd. "This boy has done what men of the blue cloth could not!" Juba sneered at the humans. "I am not impressed with this display of-of lack of skill! Tell the Lady of the Blue that I Juba of the deku's am not pleased that she did not send better men to protect my home! This mere child has seen to my towns welfare and that I wish to have words with her soon!" There was a collective silence from the crowd. "GO!"
"Yes sir!" With that said, many of the people there backed off and ran the opposite direction to anywhere but in front of the Mayor's angered eyes.
"Weak willed fools!" Juba grumped. Link and Cera backed away from the short-tempered shrub and tried to make a hasty exit of their own. "Well boy, it seems that you have made a real enemy of the Wolfos this day. That was their esteemed leader that you vanquished; Toora." Link closed his eyes and moaned softly.
'I knew I wasn't going to get off easily.' Link turned to the mayor of Deku Town and saw the shrub walking toward him and Epona. Instead of walking up to Link, Mr. Juba walked up to Epona. 'What's he doing?'
"I've never seen such a rarity as this horse. Such a flaming mane and the hair! White as the snow in Lavos Mountain. Tell me, who are you and why did you help us?" Link and Cera exchanged nervous glances. "Oh my! I am such a squabble! Come! We need not talk in this dismal sight of a wretch." Mr. Juba looked down at the Wolfos. Or what was left of the Wolfos anyway. "Come to my home! We can get you settled for the night and have some tea. Yes! Come with me green boy."
"He has a name you know and it's Link!" Cera huffed at the Deku shrub. The tiny voice made the mayor look up. Link saw the eyes of the Deku shrub grow large and wide.
"Will wonders never cease? A green boy and a fairy companion." Mr. Juba then turned his gaze back to Link again. "Wonders indeed." Link couldn't help but feel like a small, helpless child right then under the Deku's gaze. Just what in Nayru's name had he just gotten himself into?
Disclaimer: I don't own Link *sob*