I'm sorry, but I think this chapter turned out to be a bit more stiff sounding than the last one.
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Chapter 1: The World of the Forest
"Navi, Navi, where art thou?"
An echo of this passed through the forest, through the very trees themselves. They carry the message until the words find their way to the target, a small fairy with brightly glowing blue-white wings.
"Ah! The Great Deku Tree wants me! I need to hurry!"
Navi jumped up from her favorite sleeping spot, spread her wings, and took of into the dawn.
She sped as fast as her wings could carry her until she reached the clearing where the Great Deku Tree stood.
The Tree was the patron of the forest, created to protect and guide its growth. It was also created to protect the inhabitants of the forest, the Kokori. The Kokori were a race of people, who never aged beyond ten Hylian years. In fact, if the Kokori were never killed by unnatural means, they would never die.
Since the Tree had needed a way to watch over the Kokori, it had created the fairies. The fairies were smaller versions of the Kokori, with the same basic principles. They would also never age, and had a natural resistance to all of the elements. They could survive for weeks, months even, without food or water. They inherited quite a bit of the Tree's knowledge when it created them.
Most fairies were assigned a Kokori partner that they were to stay with over the course of their unnaturally long lives.
All of the Kokori have a fairy partner…
Except one.
Since Navi was the Great Deku Tree's messenger, she had no Kokori to watch over, like all the other fairies. Even though she had no partner Kokori, she was not upset. She had been given a mission from the Great Deku Tree that was just as good as any Kokori partner. She was supposed to watch over the fairy-less Kokori, and report everything to the Great Deku Tree. The only difference between this and an actually partnership was that there was no contact. Navi never once spoke to the Kokori boy, and he had never seen Navi.
Navi had been watching the boy from afar, ever since he had entered the forest. He, although he did not know it, was not a Kokori. She knew this, and all the other fairies knew this, but none of the Kokori knew it. They though he was just a newcomer. New Kokori had once come at a very quick rate, but ever since the wars, they had stopped coming.
Navi had grown to love the boy, just like most of the others in the forest had. He had a few quirks, but those were all part of his charm. He was one of the nicest of the group of children, nicer than any except Saria. He was smarter than most of them as well, except for the Know-it-all brothers. He had the ability to pick up and learn about anything in a few Hylian Hours.
The boy was the foremost artist in the entire group, always carrying around paper, and drawing anything he found interesting. He would draw people, places, plants, trees, and anything else he could come up with.
Navi, since she was assigned to watch the boy, had seen all parts of his life, the very high points and the lowest of lows. One of the Kokori hated the boy. The Kokori's name was Mido. Mido was mostly considered to be the obnoxious brat of the group. He was always causing trouble. He picked on most of the Kokori, the boy most of all, and treated them all like dirt.
Navi had been upset that any Kokori could treat any other like that, and she still was. Mido was always picking on the boy, every day, almost every time they saw each other, it was "no-fairy boy" this, and "no-fairy boy" that. He would trip the boy into the pond, or pull him off of the ladder to his house. Whenever Navi was reporting to the Great Deku Tree, she would always mention this to him. The Great Deku Tree's response was always the same:
"He will face worse."
Navi never understood what he meant when he said this, but went along with it anyways.
Navi had reached the clearing in the forest before long, and heard the Great Deku Tree give her one last command.
"Navi, thou must go quickly and retrieve the boy. Retrieve the boy and bring him here! It has begun!"