I came up with the idea for this story one day at work. It was just one of those ideas that pop into your head. It will be continued, at some point.

THE DESIRE OF SARIA

Prologue

"Will you leave the forest, Saria?" Her fairy, Kai, asked her.

The question was the one that Saria was asking herself. It was a decision no one else could make for her. None of the other Kokiri would understand the reason that she wanted to leave the forest. The Deku tree sprout would give her advice, if she asked for it. Yet she didn't feel the same connection with it that she had felt with the former Deku tree.

"Saria, Are you listening to me?" Kai asked. "Are you going to leave?"

"Am I?" She whispered to herself.

Why am I even considering this? She thought. Is it worth it? He left long ago to begin a new life. Every summer he would come back to visit her here in the forest, he sometimes would pay her a surprise visit. She realized that she was a part of his past, his childhood. Every time he left, Saria felt the same pain as the first time he left, all over again.

"Well, are you?" Kai sounded impatient.

"I'm thinking." She said in a small voice.

He was now the adult that all the seers had foreseen he would be. That made her realize how the Kokiri had remained unchanged. She then realized that she was now different from her friends since that day.

"Saria, if we're going to leave," Kai said. "Let's do it now, while it's still night. You know someone will try and talk you out of this during the day."

"Am I ready to take this step?" She gazed across the bridge that led to the fields of Hyrule.

Link knew her feelings for him, but he was human, ever changing. While she was Kokiri, In many ways forever a child at heart, never changing, till now. At one time, she would never have attempted to try and bridge the gap between them. Her time as a sage had taught her things and changed her from her friends in the forest. She realized that she could never be who she had been, before everything had happened. Now, she was ready to undertake her personal quest, to become human.

"We're leaving, Kai." She said as she began walking across the bridge.

"It'll take more than just leaving the forest to become human, Saria." Kai said.

"I know." Her jaw set in determination. "I will find a way to become human, Kai."

"I hope you know what you're getting yourself into, Saria."

"I do, I think."