Okay…super sorry that I haven't updated in awhile. I was drafted into a play. Yes your read that right drafted. Things like that happen all the time at my school; I just didn't realize that they could get you even in summer. I was Hannah in the Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. God I hated that play. But as soon as it was over I had to help make up for all the work I've been missing with my mom. (We work together cleaning my school) But now everything's better!

blondie91: Aww thanks!

Greki: Yeah, I wanted something original and it worked.

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Now…Onward!

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Dawn had long since come and gone but Lyf was still sitting on the same stump. Saria's spiteful words echoed inside of her head. She had always felt that it was her job to protect Saria and thought that she had been doing a good job. Saria's complaints about lectures and nagging were something that every Kokiri had done at some point. In fact, Mido told his fairy that he was a bossy know-it-all at least twice a week but he never hated having him around. He simply said those things to look cool, and his fairy knew it.

But the words that the forest sage had spoken last night, they were real. There was feeling and truth behind her words. She really didn't need someone telling her what to do anymore. She never really did. Lyf's hand curled into a tiny fist. She had spent all night weeping over Saria's true feelings but now her sorrow was changing into rage towards her friend. Why hadn't she told her that she felt that way about having a fairy? And why did she have to embarrass her by telling Link how much of a pain she was?

"Saria…" she whispered. One last tear streamed down the side of her face. It left a wet trail of sorrow on her cheek and then fell, glittering in the dim sunlight before adding to her damp skirt. A sound emitting from the entrance of the meadow caught Lyf's attention. A figure stood at the entrance, looking from side to side, emerald hair shimmering in the glow of morning.

"Lyf, are you here?" Saria called. Lyf had ducked down around the side of the stump. She couldn't bear to look at Saria, not now. Saria began to walk towards the stump, her footsteps brushing the few remaining droplets of dew from the grass. Panic began to creep into Lyf's chest. If Saria found her, she didn't know what she would say. Should I shout, cry? What? I don't know if I should be angry or sad.

Saria was no more than a few steps away when Lyf knew she was going to be discovered. Acting on an impulse, Lyf beat her sore wings against her body and took of towards the temple. Saria's surprised cry was drowned out by the rush of air that Lyf felt as she plummeted into the doorway.

Flying into the large center room Lyf collapsed on the top of the elevator. It was all she could do to get her wings to work. Fairies weren't meant to fly for long extended periods as she had done last night. Even Navi would take refuge from her long flights in Link's hat after a mere few hundred feet. But Lyf had gone most of last night without resting. However, the sound of an opening door pushed her to put her wings in motion again and fly into the twisting hallways of the Forest Temple.

By the time she had reached the outdoor room her wings were screaming for her to stop. She gave in to their protests and practically fell out of the air and hit the edge of the dark well. The water had been refilled once Ganondorph had been sealed away. All of the evil inhabitants had left the temple as well, except for the occasional deku baba. The Poe Sister had remained also. They were as much part of the temple as the twisted hall and elevator.

Lyf looked into the water. It was clear, but dark and reflected everything like a mirror. Like some dark sheet, it was unmoving and seemed like it would swallow anything that broke its unnaturally smooth surface. She sat there, her throbbing wings hanging loosely at her sides. Hugging her knees top her chest, Lyf gazed forward at the stone walls, wishing with all of her might that she could become part of them. Walls didn't feel, and right now she felt that not feeling anything at all was better than the sorrow and rage that was swelling inside of her.

Suddenly, the door opened and Saria walked in. her hair was messed up and small beads of sweat had begun to form on her face. Breathing heavily, Saria walked into the outdoor room, the hot summer sun beating down on her. She spotted Lyf almost as soon as she had walked out of the doorway. Looking relieved and irritated, she strode forward and stopped directly in front of Lyf, arms akimbo.

"Well?" she asked, her voice irritated and unsteady.

"Well what?"

"Why did you run from me and where were you last night?" Saria nearly shouted, "I came home late and you weren't there. Why?"

Lyf stood up from her sitting position and glared at Saria. "I…I was out looking for you," the fairy said in a low voice, "I was out looking for you."

Saria looked shocked and then angry. "Why! It's not like I need you to watch over me wherever I go. I had an emergency meeting with the others, that's why I couldn't tell you where I was leaving. You need to learn to leave me alone once in awhile Lyf!"

Lyf's wings felt numb as she shot up to Saria's eye level, eyes blazing. All her sorrows were gone; fury was all that she could feel right now. "You couldn't wake me up to tell me where you were going!" she shouted, "Was it too much to ask for five seconds of your time? It must have taken you all day to do whatever you were doing, right? That's why you were gone all day. Or did you stop to have tea?"

Saria gasped at Lyf. Some how Lyf had found out what she had done that day. "How did you-"

Before she could finish Lyf cut her off. "I bet it was a lot of fun! But you were too busy to call me, to tell me where you were and what you were doing. Or was it that you didn't want me there? I must be a really big embarrassment to you Saria why else would you want me to stay at home anytime you have to go somewhere!"

"Can you blame me!" Saria shouted back. Her face was red and tears had begun to well up in her eyes. She looked very much as Lyf did right now. "You treat me like I'm still a little girl!"

"You Are Saria! You-"

"No! I'm not Lyf. I may look like a child and I may be a Kokiri but I'm a sage. I have a grown up spirit and mind. And just because you still believe that I'm a child doesn't mean I am one!"

Lyf's wings grew weak for a moment but she ignored it. The heated argument had grown into a fierce battle between the two. But more was at stake than either of them knew. Anger bubbled in her throat as Lyf shouted at the Forest Sage once more. "You are still a child! You think that you're all grown up but you still act like a small, inconsiderate child!" Saria turned on her heels and began walking towards the exiting door. "Don't you leave yet, Saria! Come back here!"

Tears fell from Saria's eyes as she turned to face her guardian fairy. With every ounce of seriousness in her voice she half spoke, half whispered to Lyf, "I don't need you to watch over me anymore. Just go away and don't come back." Then the Kokiri girl turned and left the temple.

Lyf watched the door that Saria had slammed only moments before. Her chest felt tight and pained as feeling began to return to her body after the numbing shock of Saria's words had left. She tried to move from her hovering spot to go after her friend, but something stopped her. Her wings felt pained and heavy again, but not the way that they had felt before. There was something wrong.

She attempted to force her wings to beat faster but she continued her dreadful descent. Lyf threw all of her might into several strong wing beats and for one second, one glorious second she felt herself lift higher into the air. But as soon as that relieving moment ended she was pulled down faster than before. As her tiny feet touched the stone ledge of the well a sudden weakness came over her.

Her legs buckled beneath her and sent her knees almost crashing into the stones. Her scraped knees ached terribly. Looking over at the well Lyf could see her bent wings. Her reflection seemed the same as it had before. And yet her wings didn't seem quite the same. They had always been transparent but now they were…too transparent. There was no other way too put it. They had lost their color, their vibrancy, even their shape seemed dull.

Lyf doubled over as an immense pain flowed over her body. Clutching her stomach she bent her head downward and shut her eyes tight against the stabbing jolts that racked her body. A silent prayer escaped her lips, begging for a release from the pain, from all of her pain. The horrible feeling began to ebb away. Opening her eyes, Lyf saw her knees. She had come crashing down onto them so hard that the skin had torn. Crimson liquid leaked from beneath her and rolled along the stony surface and into the cracks of the rocks.

Fear rose inside of Lyf. The poor fairy felt her insides churn at the sight of the blood. Her knees were not supposed to be bleeding. Fairies could hurt themselves like any other person. They could bruise themselves and break wings. Some had even managed to be killed. But they were not supposed to bleed. It was the gift that Nayru had given them. Like half angles, the sacred red liquid of life that coursed through their veins could not be spilled. The great fairies had given them a gift as well. Their wings gave them their eternal youth. But why were her wings failing her now? Why had Nayru's gift left her?

A sudden scream filled her sensitive ears. Lyf slapped her hands over them trying to block out the deafening cries only to find that they grew with each second. The horrid noise overcame her and Lyf found herself spiraling into darkness. She hadn't passed out but found that she was being pulled through something shadowy and thick. It was like being smothered in a sheet of darkness. Something was pushing on her from all sides. It was like a madman had her in his strangling grip, refusing to let precious air into her lungs.

When she thought she could no longer stand it, she was released from the death grip. Lyf felt a rush of cold air enter her lungs and then something cold and hard came up from beneath her. Opening one green eye, Lyf found herself standing on what looked like a sheet of glass. Once her head had stopped spinning she was able to take in her surroundings. For the second time that day Lyf felt her legs buckle, but this time in shock. All around her were what looked like waterfalls of black silky water. They fell past the glassy floor as if it did not exist and continued into nothingness. She had never felt so claustrophobic and exposed at the same time.

Lyf's large eyes scanned everything around her, looking for some way in which she could have shown up her but found only the black waterfalls and see through floor. In her mind she began calming her panic stricken self by assuring her that it was all a dream. That she had dreamed everything, the fall, the blood, her fight, even the harsh words Saria had said to Link the night before. It was all just some bad nightmare. Soon the poor fairy found herself repeating her name over and over in her head. She ceased all thought in an attempt to try again, but her name came again, slow and soft. Then it dawned on Lyf that it was not her racing and confused mind calling her name, but some other voice.

"Saria?" she whispered as she turned around. But what stood in front of her was not the kind smiling face of her friend but the regretful face of another fairy. Lyf had never seen anything like it before. She was tall, with the palest skin Lyf had ever been witness to. Her long black dress flowed over her bare feet, as if made of the silk like water behind her. Long tendrils of hair fell down her back. Her dark bangs fell into her sad grey eyes which gave off the most remorseful feeling. But the truly odd thing about her was her wings. They appeared to be made of spider webs that clung to five long ebony bones. How she could fly was far beyond Lyf. She even had a notion that this fairy couldn't fly unless by means of magic.

Lyf suddenly felt small and ugly. This sad but beautiful fairy was both frightening and powerful. To be honest Lyf had never spied someone so beautiful. And here she stood, her dress covered in dirt, her knees bloodied and her face streaked with tears.

The silence hung over them like a dark veil until at last it was broken by the dark fairy's voice. Like a glass shattering the silence, Lyf was yanked back from her criticizing thoughts and into this world of shadows.

"Lyf…" came her soft remorseful voice, "Lyf…what have you done?"

Lyf couldn't seem to find her voice for the next few moments and when she finally did it was impossible to raise it above a whisper. "N-nothing."

"Your Kokiri…she has asked you to leave."

It was then that Lyf knew who this fairy and what this place was. This was the Fountain of the Wingless. And this fairy was the Fairy of Sorrows. A creature that was created to pass judgment on the fairies that had failed their children and to carry out the sentence that she gave them. Lyf had always heard the story of this poor fairy and in her heart she had reserved a place of pity for her. According to the legends she had been created by the other great fairies to do carry the immense burden. She had never seen the sunlight or heard the whispers of the tree. The Fairy of Sorrows had spent her entire life in a world of shadows.

But now that Lyf was before her she did not feel pity but fear. What had she done? Her mind raced back to the fight to try and find what Saria might have said to put her here but her thoughts were interrupted once more.

"You failed your child. She doesn't need you any more. She wants you to leave…and never come back."

These words hit Lyf like a steel wall. The old rhyme, why had Saria gone against the words of the Great Deku Tree and betrayed her like this? "Sh-she didn't mean it! Saria was just angry, that's all. She doesn't really want me to go away…"

The Fairy of Sorrows bowed her head as if to say she was sorry. "Saria meant what she said. The Kokiri girl does not wish to see you or to have you watch over her any longer. I am sorry for her…and for you."

With a shuddering gasp Lyf felt some force take over her body, freezing her where she stood. And then something forced her to drop onto all fours. She tried to call out but her voice had left her too. The Fairy of Sorrows walked forward and spoke to Lyf. "For failing Saria you loose Nayru's gift to the fairies. And you will loose your greatest gift of all and be as an abandoned child in the world outside of the forest. She raised her long, pale hands and griped Lyf's delicate wings in her hands. With one fierce tug her wings ripped from her body. Gasping in pain and shock, Lyf watched as her wings were dropped in front of her, bent and broken. Where her wings had once been there were now deep jagged tears in her flesh. Blood poured fourth from the wounds, dripping down her shoulders and onto her shaking hands. She felt enough control come back to her to look up at the fairy standing before her.

"Now go, and may the goddesses have mercy upon you." With those final words Lyf felt her self sinking beneath the glassy floor and falling into oblivion, the old rhyme echoing in her head.

The Elder told the children

That they should never

Mean for their guardians to leave

Else their wings be torn

And they'd be lost…forever.

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Okay then. Once again I'm sorry for the long update. What did you think of this chapter? Here are some small things I'd like to say:

I don't want any flames about me being a Saria hater. Saria is in fact my favorite character in the game. She's usually kind and caring and she likes green. Who wouldn't like her? But I only needed her to do this for the plot development. Trust me, she'll regret it later.

Like I said before, Gunslinger girl thing is coming in later, then things get really interesting.

Wow…00 I don't have a third thing to say…weird…

Jaderill