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Mido and I just stood there and stared at the spot where Gohma had been. Both of us were breathing heavily and shaking. There was an awkward silence. I finally decided to break it. "That was fun," I said, trying to sound cheery. Mido looked at me like I was crazy. It was difficult for me to remember that he wasn't actually real. The graphics were so amazing that everything looked like it could exist outside of the game and no one would know the difference.
"Let's get out of here," Navi suggested. Mido and I nodded. We followed her back along the tunnel. Once we were back outside, all of the Kokiri that had been waiting there cheered. Saria ran over to us and hugged me.
"Link! I thought you would never come out!" Alive, I added mentally. I fought hard to repress a shudder. I was getting hugged by a girl. I was a girl. Not in the game, but in reality. In the game I was a guy: Link. . . .Whatever. Forget that I said anything.
"Yeah," I managed to say. I wiggled out of her embrace and looked up at the Great Deku Tree. The face in the trunk was moving, now.
"Link," the Great Deku Tree said. His voice was the same, deep voice that I had heard at the very start of the game. "You have done well to destroy Gohma. And you, Mido."
"Booyah," I said with a smile. "Better believe it!" I got weird looks from everyone, and I laughed nervously and shut up so the Deku Tree could continue speaking.
"Unfortunately, my life shall not return to normal," he continued. I feigned being shocked at this news.
"Great Deku Tree, you can't die!" Mido cried. There were murmurs of assent from the other Kokiri.
"Listen," he continued. "As I was being eaten by Gohma, I understood her intentions. She was under a spell, herself. The one using this evil power is a black king of the desert. His desire is to conquer Hyrule and make the Triforce his." I knew what the Triforce was, but my character didn't.
"The Triforce?" I asked.
"The sacred triangles left by the three Goddesses after they created Hyrule," the Deku Tree explained. "The Triforce contains the power to create the world reflected in the heart of those who touch it. If a person with a pure heart touches it, it will be a just world, but if a person with a devilish heart touches it, it will be a world conquered by evil.
"A horrible crisis is drawing near for Hyrule. That evil king must not touch it. However, with your courage, Link, surely you can kill his ambition."
"Lovely," I said, more to myself than to anyone else.
"Go to the Kingdom of Hyrule and find the princess who has been chosen by the Goddesses. Give this stone to her. Take this Kokiri Emerald that that man wanted to the point that he would curse me for it." The Kokiri Emerald appeared in front of me and I took it. Its beautiful green surface reflected the light in a way that made it seem like it was glowing. I pocketed it and looked back up at the Deku Tree.
"I…I believe in you," the Great Deku Tree continued. "Please, Link."
"I will. You can count on me," I replied with a cocky grin.
"Make a shield out of my remains…It should protect you from the evil in your path…Goodbye…." With that last word, the Great Deku Tree's face ceased to move and his leaves turned brown and began to fall.
"Sword, please," I said to Mido, holding out my hand. He didn't move. "Whatever." I snatched it out of his hands and used it to cut a strip off bark off the Deku Tree's trunk. I shaped it into a shield and, for the sake of randomness, carved the symbol of the Kokiri Emerald into the front. I wanted to carve a smiley face, but I didn't want everyone to think that I was nuts. A bit too late for that, though.
"C'mon, Navi. Let's get out of here." I began walking toward the path back to the Kokiri Village, but Mido stepped in my way.
"Keep the sword," he said. "I think you'll be needing it."
"Thanks," I said. I would have taken it anyway. What a moron.
"Just get out of here!" he said, moving out of my way. I grinned and began running down the path. "Come back some day!" he called after me. I knew that I would. The first temple when I'm adult Link will be here. He didn't know that, of course.
I kept running after I reached the Kokiri Village. Navi flew in front of me and led the way to the path that would lead out into Hyrule Field. I found myself at the bridge between the Village and Hyrule Field, and I turned around to see Saria standing there.
"I knew that you would have to leave the forest some day," she said sadly. "I want you to have this." She gave me a hand-carved ocarina. "Play it sometime and think of the forest."
"I will," I replied, taking the ocarina and putting it in my pocket. She smiled.
"Please come back some day."
"Don't worry. I'll be back before you know it." She smiled and I noticed tears building in her eyes. Puh-leeze. I smiled back at her before running the rest of the way out of the forest.
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