Disclaimer: EVERY character in this "English Manga" belongs to Nintendo.
This is not mine at all.
All right, like I said in Chapter 14 of "An Evil That Did Not Die", here is "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the Child Chapters." Not much to say, just please give me your comments.
Please note that Annie of www.zeldanodensetsu.com translated this from Japanese to English. Credit goes to her, too.
Okay, I'm done. Enjoy!
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Chapter One:
The Great Deku Tree's Crisis
This is the dense forest, which spreads in the east of the kingdom of Hyrule. Among the Kokiri tribe, who inhabit this area, each and every one has his or her own guardian fairy. However, for some reason, there is one boy who does not have a guardian fairy. His name is Link.
"Once upon a time, Hyrule hadn't yet had any clear shape," the Great Deku Tree, the guardian of the forest, told this old adage. "It is said that three goddesses descended upon this earth. One was Din, who created the red earth with her fiery arms..."
Oh no, Link thought as he ran through the woods. I'm missing the story!
"...Another was Nayru, whose wisdom gave law to the world..."
"Wee!" Link cried happily as he slid down the steep valley. When he landed, he crashed right into another Kokiri by accident! "Oops, sorry!" the boy apologized as he kept running. "I'm hurrying because the Deku Tree's story is ending!"
"Whoa, hold on," came a tough voice. "You can't go beyond here!"
Link stopped and looked up. It was Mido, the Boss of the Kokiri. He, like Link, wore a green tunic with a leather belt about his waist. A green hat, similar to Link's, covered his red hair. Mido was mean towards everybody, but especially to Link because Link didn't have a guardian fairy.
Link looked into Mido's cold, blue eyes and said, "Whatever, Mido. I can go wherever I want."
"No, you can't!" Mido's bullying friends had appeared at the Kokiri's shoulder.
"Look, I'm the Boss of the Kokiri, okay?" Mido smirked. "A half-person like you is way too childish to hear the Deku Tree's story."
Link was starting to get vexed; he hated it when Mido made fun of his not having a fairy friend. Link felt hurt, but he didn't show it. "That has nothing to do with it!"
"Out of the way!" Mido yelled in Link's face. "If you want to pass, then get your own fairy first!"
Mido had done it. Link charged at Mido, plowing into him, knocking him to the ground. There, Link lay on top of Mido, about ready to punch the living daylights out of the redheaded freak. But before Link could knock Mido senseless, something hit Link in the face, sending him tumbling off Mido. The 'something' was Mido's fairy guardian.
When Mido stood up, his face wore an expression of pure satisfaction; his fairy had shoved Link right into a small pond. Link was soaking wet as he sat there in the lake, looking utterly embarrassed and angry.
"Halfling!" one of Mido's friends jeered.
"That's not fair!" Link gasped for breath as his face came out of the water.
"What's unfair about it" Mido argued. "Fairies are a part of the Kokiri!"
"What's going on here?" boomed a mighty voice.
"The Deku Tree!" Mido and his cronies panicked and started running away. But before he was totally out of earshot, Mido hollered back at Link, "Fairyless!"
Link heaved a sigh. Now he was really hurt. The boy blinked back tears as he climbed up one of the Deku Tree's massive roots and sat down.
The Tree looked down at Link and said gently, "Cheer up, Link. Never mind what Mido says."
Link looked up at the Deku Tree and said desperately, "great Deku Tree, why is it that I'm the only one different? Everyone else has a fairy, but I don't..."
"When the time comes," the Tree said sagely. "I will tell you."
"I know," Link sighed as he rested his chin in his left hand.
"Link!" a cheerful female voice rang out.
"Saria!"
Link looked down and saw his one and only best friend, a Kokiri girl named Saria. She wore a green long-sleeved tunic with knee-high green boots. Her green eyes looked brilliant with her auburn hair.
"Boy, do you have great timing!" Link continued. "I've something I want to show you."
Link hopped down from the root he was sitting on.
"What is it?" Saria inquired.
Link reached behind his back and pulled out a grandly made slingshot. "Ta- dah! I made it myself!" Link looked very pleased at his handiwork.
"It's neat," Saria said, scratching her head in thought. "But, why'd you make it?"
"Well, that's so I can knock down the fruit from trees I can't reach."
Link pulled out a Deku Seed from his side-pouch and fit it in the slingshot. He looked up at a nearby tree and took careful aim. Then he let the nut fly, knocking a healthy-looking apple to the ground.
"Whoa!" Saria yelled happily. She was thoroughly impressed with Link's new skill. "Let me try!"
At the same time, Mido, being the little snipe he was, snickered behind a bush. He was spying on Link and Saria.
"That little punk! Being all lovey-dovey with Saria!"
Whack! Something hard and round hit the little bully squarely on his forehead: the seed from Saria's slingshot. Mido was out like a light and crashed to the forest floor.
"You're really wonderful to think of such things, Link." Saria said, sitting down next to Link on the grass.
"Maybe that's why no fairy will come to me," Link said somberly as he looked down, fingering his handmade slingshot. "I guess it's because I'm just strange."
"That's not true," Saria said earnestly. She smiled at Link, using her finger to lift the boy's chin up. "Even if you don't have a fairy, you're still my best friend, Link."
Link smiled the first genuine smile he'd smiled in days. "Yeah! I think I should tell you this... I've been having the same dream lately, over and over," he told Saria. "The sky becomes pitch black... I'm standing in front of a huge house with a peaked roof... Could that be a 'castle'?"
"'Castle'?" Saria questioned. "What's that? Is it something deep inside the forest?"
The Kokiri children have lived in the Forest all of their lives. They are forbidden to leave it; they never have and never will for it said that they would die...
Why do things I don't know about appear in my dreams? Link thought. He continued, as he gazed at the setting sun, "Well, as the Deku Tree told us, they exist far away from the forest and beyond the plains."
Saria's emerald eyes grew large. "It is said that the world is very big...and there are many different lands in it."
"The world...?" Link wondered aloud. There is surely something outside of the forest I just don't know of yet...
At this time, eerie black clouds have begun to eat away at the beautiful Kokiri Forest...unbeknownst to Link.
* * *
That night, Link lay in his bed, gazing at the ceiling, thinking. Link was as curious as a newborn baby about the world out side of the forest. He had heard the Deku refer to this land as the "kingdom of Hyrule" before, and the Tree had also told of its inhabitants, "the Hylians." Now Link was greatly interested in this realm.
"I wonder if the Great Deku Tree would forgive me if I told him I wanted to leave the Forest..." Link yawned. "I guess I better..." he yawned again, "...not..."
Link rolled over on his side and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, in the Deku Tree's Meadow, an evil monster was casting a curse on the Deku Tree, turning him to stone! The Tree couldn't see the tyrant clearly, but could tell that it was an arachnid of some kind.
Just then a tiny fairy fluttered past the Deku Tree, for she had heard his cries of pain and anguish.
"Great Deku Tree!" she cried out. "Hold on!"
The Tree looked at her, so tiny and small, her white aura covering her body, and said weakly, "Navi...isn't it?"
Navi the fairy nodded.
"Just now, an evil creature has entered inside me... I'm losing my freedom..."
Navi's face lit up in panic. "What should I do?"
"The forest is in danger... Go to the fairyless child..." the Tree said wearily, "...and invite him here. Go, Navi!"
"Heh heh," Mido sniggered. He had in his hand a finely crafted saw. "I'm going to use this saw to make a hole beside Link's bed. And, then, when he gets up, he'll fall right through floor! What a great trick!"
Mido then ran off in the direction of Link tree house to do his dirty deed.
"Link! Link!" Navi prodded the sleeping boy to wake, but he wouldn't even budge. "Wake up. Link! Get up right now!" Navi yelled right in his long, pointy ears.
Link was so surprised he sat bolt upright in bed, scared half to death. He rubbed his sleepy, now relaxed, eyes and said thickly, "Wassamatter?"
I'm Navi!" the fairy said with a great amount of perkiness; way too much for this early in the morning. "The Great Deku Tree sent me."
Again, Link rubbed his eyes, then gazed at the tiny fairy, who had just sat down on his knee. He looked at her fragile wings; she really was a fairy! He couldn't believe it! After all this time, a fairy has finally come to Link!
"A...a fairy?" Link stammered. "Finally, a fairy has come to me!"
Navi fluttered off Link's knee, as he stood out of bed, blissfully unaware that Mido was under Link house, excavating his trick.
"All right!" Link said proudly. "I'm going to go boast to Mido!"
As he made for the door, Navi stopped him saying, "There's no time for that!"
Just then, Link felt the floor gave way under his brown leather boots. Link fell through the sawed hole that Mido had just finished making and crashed right on top of the Kokiri!
Link looked down curiously at Mido, who he was sitting upon, and said, "What are you doing here?"
Link was unscathed while Mido had a few cuts and bruises on his arms and legs.
"Very important business..." he groaned from Link weight. "Now, get off!"
But then Mido and Link looked around. The grass was no longer lush and green; it was dry and brown.
"The grass," Link observed closely as he stood up, relieving Mido with his weight. "It's dying..."
"The trees are too!" Mido exclaimed. "This sort of thing hasn't happened before."
"It's because something evil has entered the forest!" Navi piped in. "The Great Deku Tree is in trouble and needs help! Link, hurry up and go!"
Link flashed a worried look towards the Deku Tree's meadow, unknowing of the danger ahead.
All right, like I said in Chapter 14 of "An Evil That Did Not Die", here is "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the Child Chapters." Not much to say, just please give me your comments.
Please note that Annie of www.zeldanodensetsu.com translated this from Japanese to English. Credit goes to her, too.
Okay, I'm done. Enjoy!
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter One:
The Great Deku Tree's Crisis
This is the dense forest, which spreads in the east of the kingdom of Hyrule. Among the Kokiri tribe, who inhabit this area, each and every one has his or her own guardian fairy. However, for some reason, there is one boy who does not have a guardian fairy. His name is Link.
"Once upon a time, Hyrule hadn't yet had any clear shape," the Great Deku Tree, the guardian of the forest, told this old adage. "It is said that three goddesses descended upon this earth. One was Din, who created the red earth with her fiery arms..."
Oh no, Link thought as he ran through the woods. I'm missing the story!
"...Another was Nayru, whose wisdom gave law to the world..."
"Wee!" Link cried happily as he slid down the steep valley. When he landed, he crashed right into another Kokiri by accident! "Oops, sorry!" the boy apologized as he kept running. "I'm hurrying because the Deku Tree's story is ending!"
"Whoa, hold on," came a tough voice. "You can't go beyond here!"
Link stopped and looked up. It was Mido, the Boss of the Kokiri. He, like Link, wore a green tunic with a leather belt about his waist. A green hat, similar to Link's, covered his red hair. Mido was mean towards everybody, but especially to Link because Link didn't have a guardian fairy.
Link looked into Mido's cold, blue eyes and said, "Whatever, Mido. I can go wherever I want."
"No, you can't!" Mido's bullying friends had appeared at the Kokiri's shoulder.
"Look, I'm the Boss of the Kokiri, okay?" Mido smirked. "A half-person like you is way too childish to hear the Deku Tree's story."
Link was starting to get vexed; he hated it when Mido made fun of his not having a fairy friend. Link felt hurt, but he didn't show it. "That has nothing to do with it!"
"Out of the way!" Mido yelled in Link's face. "If you want to pass, then get your own fairy first!"
Mido had done it. Link charged at Mido, plowing into him, knocking him to the ground. There, Link lay on top of Mido, about ready to punch the living daylights out of the redheaded freak. But before Link could knock Mido senseless, something hit Link in the face, sending him tumbling off Mido. The 'something' was Mido's fairy guardian.
When Mido stood up, his face wore an expression of pure satisfaction; his fairy had shoved Link right into a small pond. Link was soaking wet as he sat there in the lake, looking utterly embarrassed and angry.
"Halfling!" one of Mido's friends jeered.
"That's not fair!" Link gasped for breath as his face came out of the water.
"What's unfair about it" Mido argued. "Fairies are a part of the Kokiri!"
"What's going on here?" boomed a mighty voice.
"The Deku Tree!" Mido and his cronies panicked and started running away. But before he was totally out of earshot, Mido hollered back at Link, "Fairyless!"
Link heaved a sigh. Now he was really hurt. The boy blinked back tears as he climbed up one of the Deku Tree's massive roots and sat down.
The Tree looked down at Link and said gently, "Cheer up, Link. Never mind what Mido says."
Link looked up at the Deku Tree and said desperately, "great Deku Tree, why is it that I'm the only one different? Everyone else has a fairy, but I don't..."
"When the time comes," the Tree said sagely. "I will tell you."
"I know," Link sighed as he rested his chin in his left hand.
"Link!" a cheerful female voice rang out.
"Saria!"
Link looked down and saw his one and only best friend, a Kokiri girl named Saria. She wore a green long-sleeved tunic with knee-high green boots. Her green eyes looked brilliant with her auburn hair.
"Boy, do you have great timing!" Link continued. "I've something I want to show you."
Link hopped down from the root he was sitting on.
"What is it?" Saria inquired.
Link reached behind his back and pulled out a grandly made slingshot. "Ta- dah! I made it myself!" Link looked very pleased at his handiwork.
"It's neat," Saria said, scratching her head in thought. "But, why'd you make it?"
"Well, that's so I can knock down the fruit from trees I can't reach."
Link pulled out a Deku Seed from his side-pouch and fit it in the slingshot. He looked up at a nearby tree and took careful aim. Then he let the nut fly, knocking a healthy-looking apple to the ground.
"Whoa!" Saria yelled happily. She was thoroughly impressed with Link's new skill. "Let me try!"
At the same time, Mido, being the little snipe he was, snickered behind a bush. He was spying on Link and Saria.
"That little punk! Being all lovey-dovey with Saria!"
Whack! Something hard and round hit the little bully squarely on his forehead: the seed from Saria's slingshot. Mido was out like a light and crashed to the forest floor.
"You're really wonderful to think of such things, Link." Saria said, sitting down next to Link on the grass.
"Maybe that's why no fairy will come to me," Link said somberly as he looked down, fingering his handmade slingshot. "I guess it's because I'm just strange."
"That's not true," Saria said earnestly. She smiled at Link, using her finger to lift the boy's chin up. "Even if you don't have a fairy, you're still my best friend, Link."
Link smiled the first genuine smile he'd smiled in days. "Yeah! I think I should tell you this... I've been having the same dream lately, over and over," he told Saria. "The sky becomes pitch black... I'm standing in front of a huge house with a peaked roof... Could that be a 'castle'?"
"'Castle'?" Saria questioned. "What's that? Is it something deep inside the forest?"
The Kokiri children have lived in the Forest all of their lives. They are forbidden to leave it; they never have and never will for it said that they would die...
Why do things I don't know about appear in my dreams? Link thought. He continued, as he gazed at the setting sun, "Well, as the Deku Tree told us, they exist far away from the forest and beyond the plains."
Saria's emerald eyes grew large. "It is said that the world is very big...and there are many different lands in it."
"The world...?" Link wondered aloud. There is surely something outside of the forest I just don't know of yet...
At this time, eerie black clouds have begun to eat away at the beautiful Kokiri Forest...unbeknownst to Link.
* * *
That night, Link lay in his bed, gazing at the ceiling, thinking. Link was as curious as a newborn baby about the world out side of the forest. He had heard the Deku refer to this land as the "kingdom of Hyrule" before, and the Tree had also told of its inhabitants, "the Hylians." Now Link was greatly interested in this realm.
"I wonder if the Great Deku Tree would forgive me if I told him I wanted to leave the Forest..." Link yawned. "I guess I better..." he yawned again, "...not..."
Link rolled over on his side and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, in the Deku Tree's Meadow, an evil monster was casting a curse on the Deku Tree, turning him to stone! The Tree couldn't see the tyrant clearly, but could tell that it was an arachnid of some kind.
Just then a tiny fairy fluttered past the Deku Tree, for she had heard his cries of pain and anguish.
"Great Deku Tree!" she cried out. "Hold on!"
The Tree looked at her, so tiny and small, her white aura covering her body, and said weakly, "Navi...isn't it?"
Navi the fairy nodded.
"Just now, an evil creature has entered inside me... I'm losing my freedom..."
Navi's face lit up in panic. "What should I do?"
"The forest is in danger... Go to the fairyless child..." the Tree said wearily, "...and invite him here. Go, Navi!"
"Heh heh," Mido sniggered. He had in his hand a finely crafted saw. "I'm going to use this saw to make a hole beside Link's bed. And, then, when he gets up, he'll fall right through floor! What a great trick!"
Mido then ran off in the direction of Link tree house to do his dirty deed.
"Link! Link!" Navi prodded the sleeping boy to wake, but he wouldn't even budge. "Wake up. Link! Get up right now!" Navi yelled right in his long, pointy ears.
Link was so surprised he sat bolt upright in bed, scared half to death. He rubbed his sleepy, now relaxed, eyes and said thickly, "Wassamatter?"
I'm Navi!" the fairy said with a great amount of perkiness; way too much for this early in the morning. "The Great Deku Tree sent me."
Again, Link rubbed his eyes, then gazed at the tiny fairy, who had just sat down on his knee. He looked at her fragile wings; she really was a fairy! He couldn't believe it! After all this time, a fairy has finally come to Link!
"A...a fairy?" Link stammered. "Finally, a fairy has come to me!"
Navi fluttered off Link's knee, as he stood out of bed, blissfully unaware that Mido was under Link house, excavating his trick.
"All right!" Link said proudly. "I'm going to go boast to Mido!"
As he made for the door, Navi stopped him saying, "There's no time for that!"
Just then, Link felt the floor gave way under his brown leather boots. Link fell through the sawed hole that Mido had just finished making and crashed right on top of the Kokiri!
Link looked down curiously at Mido, who he was sitting upon, and said, "What are you doing here?"
Link was unscathed while Mido had a few cuts and bruises on his arms and legs.
"Very important business..." he groaned from Link weight. "Now, get off!"
But then Mido and Link looked around. The grass was no longer lush and green; it was dry and brown.
"The grass," Link observed closely as he stood up, relieving Mido with his weight. "It's dying..."
"The trees are too!" Mido exclaimed. "This sort of thing hasn't happened before."
"It's because something evil has entered the forest!" Navi piped in. "The Great Deku Tree is in trouble and needs help! Link, hurry up and go!"
Link flashed a worried look towards the Deku Tree's meadow, unknowing of the danger ahead.
