Disclaimer: No I DON'T own Zelda or anything involved with it. I wish I did and will someday buy out Nintendo…

The Unfinished Tales of Link

Chapter 4- Lost Love

Link sighed heavily. He had just finished the story of his life… told by another person. He lied down onto the grass underneath him as he thought of what he had just heard. It all seemed new to him in his head, but his heart felt something strong, something he had relived just now. Something would trigger his memory. Something had to. He looked over at Zelda, ankle wading in the pond in her courtyard. Maybe she was the key. Maybe he just had to find his old love.

"Hey Link, what are you thinking about?" Zelda asked. She looked at him so sweetly.

"You. Ya wanna do something tonight, Zelda. Let's go to my old place, over in Kokiri Forest!" Link replied enthusiastically. According to Zelda, he had been left as a child there and grown up there as a forest boy. He suddenly wanted to see for himself this place that she talked about, maybe he could learn more about himself.

"I'll bring some blankets and food if we're going then." Zelda said suggestively. They packed up and soon left for the woods. Luckily for Link, he still had his ocarina to play his songs with, so reuniting with Peons was a snap. They rode to the entrance and went where most people would be scared to go, Link's motherland. All the Kokiri made Link feel anomalous, seeing as he was an adult who had supposedly grown up with them, while they were all mere children.

"The Kokiri don't age! You're being silly Link. You surely haven't forgotten us all have you?" One of the young girls exclaimed. Link looked bashfully away.

"Don't worry, he wouldn't even think of forgetting me, the Great Mido" said the ugly red haired one. Link seemed to remember this rival, but wasn't sure of anything anymore. Link walked over to the small river, the houses that he could probably barely clear, and then he saw it, the one thing coming over the tops of the trees that suddenly made him secure, made sense! He ran towards it when…

"I don't care what you've done, you aren't allowed to see the Deku Tree!" Mido protested. "You don't deserve to go there after killing the Great Deku Tree those eight long years ago. No matter what he tried, Link was unable to get past this annoying little boy.

"Mido, let him through! He's had enough troubles without your hindrance as of late." Came a familiar voice from behind him, or was it below him? Link turned around and picked up a little green haired girl.

"Do I know you?" Link inquired, his question raising a gasp from the crowd now gathering around him. All these little children he'd grown up with suddenly realizing he knew them not at all. They all ran and hid, all except for two. Mido, to make sure Link tried nothing, and that green-haired girl.

"My name is Saria, nice to meet you!" said the little girl. Her face with so much love but confusion twisted around the corners of her small compacted lips.

"I'm Link." He replied. "Have we met before?"

"I think we might have" said Saria. She was so familiar. He was sure he was on the brink of knowing her from his past that was told to him by Zelda. ZELDA! Where was she? Link spun around looking for her. In the confusion he had lost thought of her. The small blonde girl looked at him evilly.

"I think I saw her enter the lost woods. All who enter become Stalfos. Everyone" The blonde girl answered. Link raced to where he knew not, his feet just led him. He jumped the river, leaped clean over the ledges and into the woods where his companion had gone.

Link entered the Lost Woods and remembered to follow the sound of the forest. He raced into a clearing where he suddenly stopped, seeing a large Wolfos standing over Zelda, who was bleeding rather profusely. Link did not care to actually engage this creature for fear of killing Zelda, so he took out his bow. He quickly notched three arrows on the same string and let them loose. The Wolfos used its quick reflexes to batter the first two out of the way, leaving his heart unprotected. The final arrow went clean through the Wolfos' heart and pinned him to the tree in the clearing. Link strode up to it and swiftly proceeded to slice its throat. The body went limp and hung there. Link cleaned his blade on the grass, sheathed it, and hurried over to Zelda.

"Princess Zelda, are you okay?!?" Link desperately queried. He carefully picked her up as he walked out of the woods. She looked up at his face, one eye closed and bruised, the other clean and bright with tears.

"I… told you to stop calling me…Princess." She said as she smiled weakly. Link laughed and took her to his house. He seemed to remember the house, its comfort reaching out to him. He set Zelda on his bed and left as she slept. It was nighttime by then and as he stood on his balcony he saw the one who called herself Saria.

"Link, hello, Link?" she called up to him. He looked down on her and hopped down his ladder to her.

"How is she?" Saria asked politely but restraining of something. Her voice hinted at something.

"She's okay. She's really beat up, but I think that she'll pull through."

"That's good."

"Yeah." The awkward silence that followed was suppressing. Link shifted his weight and looked at the ground. Saria smiled.

"Link, you obviously love her, don't let me keep you from her" Saria suddenly said. Link gasped. He didn't know how, but she had just read his mind. He thanked her and awkwardly climbed up the ladder. Zelda was awake and spoke softly. Link kneeled by her to hear.

"Link, you saved my life today. You have always been there for me and I've never been able to repay you. I want to now…I love you. I really do and I know that you can't deny your feelings. Link, make love to me!" Link helped her up and embraced her. Their lips brushed against each others. They fell onto the bed and felt better about each other now that they were one.