Lost in the Death

by Greki

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4. The Beginning of the Quest

AN: Ok…I really appreciate yer attention with this fic… so I must've to explain some things… like this fic being nihilistic, I know… you thought that 'cause my previous chap… 'cause the way the creature spoke to Link… I was almost completely sure 'bout that… 'bout you thinking this is a suicidal kind of fic… but you took me completely wrong… the message is the other way around… what I'm trying to show is that… yes… death is a kind of way of getting a final peace but even if it's a part of the life, the true art of living is not to give up and not get a precipitated rest, but instead it's, as I have said, to not give up and try to live the best way we can… even if the death is tenting us we must find a way to appreciate what life has to us…even if they are the most dreadful moments… I know this is out of my hands to say… people always suffer from different reasons… but most of them don't give up after the circumstances around them… they try all their best to don't look back and try to mind all the problems they had… they teach to us, the people that have food and many kinds of comfort, that they are strong enough to survive in this vast world…but some of them… suicide their selves 'cause they cannot support any longer the pain… they are not weak… it's just that they don't know what to do… nowadays pressure's always on the air… that's the main cause of people killing their selves… but we must take time to think of it so as to not fall in the temptation of the death, we must see that nobody's perfect, we can do all kind of mistakes and instead of mourn our lives all the time making it a pitiful one… we must try to laugh at the mistakes and try to mind them… that way maybe our lives could be lightened up a little…

Hehehe… but then again this is just my point of view… maybe other people think different from me… I respect your kind of thinking… this is just a little message I hope you find useful, please pardon my way of thinking if in some way I offend you… but this is just a message for those who'll like to take it…

I sincerely appreciate your support by reading and reviewing this fic… Thanks again for your appreciation…

Lets go on with the story, I've taken a lot of time here…Hope ya enjoy!

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The same sight could be seen from hours. Just plain and simple woods, quite woods, that easily could scary any stranger walking on them, because of its unusual way of being the same in all its corners, but to the people that knew them it was different, they always saw the magnificence behind them, yet all the mysteries that it contained were unknown even to the most old living forms from there.

All kind of creatures leaved there. All of them followed the orders of the deity that had built and protected that forest. Even the wild ones followed his orders too, The Great Deku Tree's orders. The creatures known as Gorths weren't the exception.

But the unique survivor of one of the most powerful clans of Gorths and maybe the last was walking through the immense forest known as the Lost Woods.

"W'y my lorg Tale wanzeg so bagly z'at kig's soul?" he mumbled to himself. "Iz all betan because of z'at szranter's appearance!" he quietly murmured.

He was there because he wanted some time alone. When his master ordered him to get the mythic flower known as Skyghone he had to search in a far island to the west of Hyrule, passing the sea after the dessert. That island was unknown to almost everyone, but to the ones that knew the flower Skyghone it existed.

Its name was Zeithgen. There, its people, who were just men and quite exceptional shamans; explained to Glath that that flower was made by their ancestors, the sirens, because of a problem in love or something like that. Glath didn't pay too much attention to that story because he doesn't like romance.

So Glath just asked them where he could found that flower. But Zeithgen's habitants didn't let him to take one because the world outside of theirs wasn't prepared for the power of that flower. But Glath didn't take care of the shamans' advises, so he sneak into the main temple and convinced, in a very non-politely way, one of the guardians to tell him where he could fine that flower. The guard told him, so Glath quickly went after the flower not knowing what he was going to found.

Indeed, it was a very painful experience.

He reminded silent, walking without curse, lost in his thoughts.

Until a deep and low voice spoke to him.

"Why are thou here, young Glath?"

That deep voice seemed like if it was talking directly to the Gorth's soul, so kind yet so grave, Glath simply liked the tone of that voice, and it always made him to feel like if he had a family. The Gorth recognized immediately that voice. Its owner was the oldest tree in the forest and the most powerful creature too; he was the deity and protector of the forest, The Great Deku Tree.

Yet Glath seemed surprised. He didn't expected to end up before the Great Deku Tree. It was unpredictable to get himself face to face before the leader of the forest precisely this time. He was completely sure that the old tree was going to ask him about the situation with the young hero known as Link. Glath knew that the Great Deku Tree has already felt the lack of presence of the young hero, and he too knew that the deity knew that he was part of this. Even if the tree didn't show a single bit of acknowledge, Glath knew.

Glath just limited himself to respond precautious.

"Treaz Geku Zree!" he said slowly. "I'm jusz… is jusz z'at I'm wangerint aroung, noz'int more!"

But Glath knew that it wasn't going to work, after all, the tree knew he was lying. The Great Deku Tree saw the cautious look in the Gorth's eyes, but yet he also saw the nervousness Glath was feeling.

The Great Deku Tree saw that this was his opportunity to know more about the situation going on, because he knew that Glath would be going to respond any question of his. After all Glath was a creature of the forest that precisely at this moment was on it, so the Gorth, by the magic of the law, would have to uphold the word of the goddesses by telling the whole truth to the Great Deku Tree if he asked for it.

But The Great Deku Tree didn't want one of his creatures to feel pain just because of that law. He was sure that if Glath tells him about the situation, the Gorth would end beaten up by his master once he leaved the forest, well if his master found out what he did. A lot was in play, but yet the tree really wanted to find out the truth.

The only way for Glath's master to not get entered is by the Great Deku Tree shutting up his mouth. That was the only way. The Sages would have to find that out by themselves.

So he made the move.

"Young Glath," he spoke. "For I know what are thou hiding, I must've to ask thou the question." He said with a loud voice. "Glath, tell me, what are thou hiding?" he ordered him.

The moment finally came. Glath was sure he was going to ask him that. But he, of course, was scared to hell, because his master has ordered him not to say a word about the situation, and he was failing in his mission.

It was because he has to uphold the law of the Forest. No one, mainly its habitants, could lie to the Deity that created the Forest. If the creature that has been asked by him was stepped in the territory of the Deity, it had no other option but to follow his orders. The goddesses spoke that law when the Great Deku Tree was born, well that's what it's said in the legend.

Glath, hesitantly, responded back.

"Treaz Geku Zree, as you may know z'is 'as to go wiz' z'e 'ero's gisappearance…" he told him firmly. "Iz all betan wiz' a szranter's appearance in our 'ome…"

Glath told him all, just like the strange behavior his master got after the stranger's visit.

But the Great Deku Tree was the only one that heard all of it.

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Lost in the Death

"When the Darkness within our self"
"Attempt to got out"
"We only fall into our thoughts"
"And we'll never get back into the Light"
"Just then, is when… we're really dead."

"But…is death all that bad?"

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Chapter 3:
The Beginning of the Quest.

It was early in the morning, the sun was rising at is best, but still the sensation that filled the air wasn't one of happiness at all.

In the glorious castle of Hyrule, from where the King ruled his kingdom, the atmosphere was one of silent pain. The castle would normally have been busy and full of commotion. All the people would have been doing their chores by this time in the morning, but not today.

Somehow they all felt the loss. Nobody has spoken a word ever since the Sages arrived. They saw their expressions, those expressions of determination but that, at the same time, still had sorrow and fear in their eyes. Because today... today they would have to spoke to the king.

All the servants already knew about the loss. The loss of the Hero of Time. They all cried long time; they cared a lot for the Hero. But now at this time they had hope, because of the look the Sages got on their eyes. But still they watched themselves for the King to not know until the Sages had spoken their words.

They were anxious to know what reaction would the King have, after all they knew that the King cared for the young Hero just as if he was his son. All the people were gathered silently in the halls, wishing the best of luck to the Sages.

Speaking of them, they were at the meeting hall; they haven't spoken to the King even since they arrived early that morning.

"So… we must tell the King…" the Zora princess said, while the others nodded.

They have been discussing this matter on since they arrived. They must tell what happened to the King, but even to the Sages this is not an ordinary task, to spoke to the ruler of Hyrule about someone's death, someone he cared a lot.

"We must have to tell him, we cannot leave before that." Impa said closing her eyes. "But… it's kind of difficult to think what reaction would he going to have after this… speech," the green-haired Kokiri said a worried look was in her face.

"Not an easy one, that's for sure!" Nabooru told them in a matter of fact; she put her hands on her neck and leaned back to see the ceiling, while the others nodded in agreement.

"He cared for Link a lot, we all did, and it's not a thing to take up slightly," the heir to the throne said lowering her head.

They quieted after she spoke. They, sure, had cared a lot for Link and they were still grieving for him in the nights, when no one could see them cry, because some of them were just too proud to let others see that they're crying.

Nabooru saw the eyes of the others; she saw the sadness floating in them. "Aw… come on! We can still save him, but if we don't put our asses in motion he'll not return!" She told them.

"Our asses in motion? That's just a perfect comment for the thief witch!" Ruto snapped. "Just a cretin as her can say such rash comments in this delicate situation!" she snorted.

"Hey for yer information fish, I was only trying to make things lighter!" Nabooru snapped back leaning over the table recharging in her left hand, seeing directly to the Zora's furious eyes.

"Who are ye calling fish?!" Ruto asked infuriated standing up from her seat and leaning to Nabooru.

Nabooru just yawned seeing the Zora's face just inches from her. "You, stupid fish! Does anyone else in this room has fins?" she asked with a mocking tone. Ruto bit her lip, and then she moved her head to her left seeing the Gerudo out of the corner of her eye, she smiled.

"Hah! You're just jealous that you cannot show off yer body," Ruto said in a pausing voice, smirking and now seeing her directly to her eyes, knowing perfectly that she hit the Gerudo's weak point.

Nabooru was taken aback; indeed the Gerudos were known because of their lack of shyness, they always have wanted to be a race that could show their bodies, their precious bodies, to be free to walk around naked as nature have made them up, but unfortunately they can't do that.

Yes she wanted to do that so as her blood of a Gerudo ran through her body and so the desires of her race, well must of them, but even if she wanted that, she knew that this was just a trick to make her lose this little confrontation.

"Quiet a tactful move you made, but yet, you hadn't won this round!" Nabooru though. Then she recharged on the chair.

"Me jealous of ya? Hah, you wish!" she said smirking. Ruto was going to say something but Impa intervened.

"You two calm down," she said with a serious voice, taking the attention of the two squabbling girls. When they turned to see her she continued.

"Ruto, Nabooru is right we need to keep moving if we want Link to return," she said, while Nabooru smiled and let out her tongue to an indignant Ruto who let out her tongue too.

Impa sighed. "Yet, Nabooru sometimes you must watch what you're speaking." She said looking toward the Gerudo girl.

Nabooru frowned, crossed her arms and then grunted some illegible words. Ruto smirked.

"I still can't believe those two are Sages…" Zelda though sighing and watching the glares exchanged between Nabooru and Ruto.

Saria saw all this commotion quite amusing. She remembered too well when they have met the Gerudo sage, it was funny to see that the first comment of Nabooru when they met her was: "What's this fish doin' here?" immediately after that, Ruto hated that girl. So now it wasn't weird to see those two fighting for the tiniest matter. It always amazed her how can they two keep without punches with the way they always fight.

"They must like each other…" she thought, sometimes fighting is a way of a strong friendship. And even if they always say that they hate each other, in their must deepness they surely saw each other as a sister of some sort.

Saria breathed deeply. "Just like Link… he was somehow my brother… and thought I liked him," she whispered in a very quite voice, which only Zelda heard.

Zelda looked at Saria. She knew that Saria was the one who suffered the most because of Link's death. Saria was his best friend after all.

Zelda turned her gaze to the table. Link has been too important for all the people, not only for the Sages. Link was there… "Our savior," she thought focusing her gaze on a small spot on the table.

Darunia saw around, he was inpatient and tired of this. They haven't taken a decision yet and they were just losing valuable time.

"Enough of this, we must tell my Sworn Brother everything, right now!" he said with his eyes closed. All the Sages snapped back from their thoughts, and looked at him. Then he looked back at them to continue.

But when Darunia was about to speak he saw something quite unexpected on the other's faces, he saw surprise in them.

"Wha-" he started, but soon was interrupted.

"Pardon, my Sworn Brother, for interrupting you. But what is it that you must tell me, great Sages?" a man's voice said in a politely tone.

Darunia smiled, then got up from his seat and turned to face the owner of the voice.

A somewhat old man stood in front of him. He had raven colored hair, and deep, yet kind sapphire eyes. He was wearing a simple golden crown above his head that have the Triforce printed, and in front of it's magnificent blue armor, Hyrule's shield was printed in there. It's armor was inspired of the design of one of the Samurai's armor, but still it did was completely modified so as to look a mix between both a common knight's armor and a Samurai's armor. He, too, was wearing a long whitish cape made of silk that barely touched his ankles. He wore some leather boots trimmed with some golden prints of the Triforce, and a pair of fine silver gauntlets with the sign of the Triforce in each one.

"Brother Harkinian!" Darunia said, while he embraced the King with a bone-crushing hug. "Ohh-ough… Da-daruniahh? It's getting hard to breathe…" the King choked looking a bit pale, all the politely once shown has banished between the air.

"Oh, sorry!" Darunia said releasing him and chuckling a little. The King just gasped for air and his color slowly returned to his face.

"Aw… ughh… don't worry…" The ruler of Hyrule responded while sobbing his ribs. He then turned to the Sages.

"Oh… Great Sages, I must apologize for not greeting you properly." He bowed to them, the Sages nodded in response.

Zelda just smiled and went to his father. "Hi, daddy!" she called and kissed his cheek.

The King leaned over to his 13-year-old daughter and hugged her. "Hi sweetie, did you have a nice day?" he asked her.

The princess lowered her head and turned to see Sages, they stared back at her. Zelda then nodded to them and turned to see her father directly to his eyes, then she shook her head.

"King of Hyrule," she started making the King to frown.

Zelda only has called him by his title when something big has happened. Something as the Ganondorf's incident that happened four years ago. Even since then he has learned to hear her daughter carefully when she calls him like that. And now, once more, is the time to listen to her.

"Yes, Princess of Destiny?" he responded, making Zelda to understand that she has caught his total attention she then nodded.

"As you may know, we the Sages, had been reunited to meet the Goddesses of the Triforce," she said, Harkinian nodded. "But what we discussed was something of presumably highly importance."

"What was it? If I may ask." The King asked curious, yet the seriousness hadn't leaved him.

"Your Majesty," Impa called. The King turned to the Sheikah. "What we've discussed is something you'll find quite difficult to accept… sir"

The King raised his eyebrows. "What can that be?"

The Sages turned to see each other.

Darunia sighed and was the one who spoke. "Brother… our Sworn Brother, Link has… died…" he said slowly with a grave voice as some of the Sages, particularly Saria, began sobbing and weeping away some lonely tears. Others, more specifically Nabooru, looked somewhat uninterested.

The King was shocked.

"T-that… ca-can't… b-be… p-possible…" he whispered in disbelief.

"It is Sir… our beloved friend has died…" Saria said between sobs.

The King was stunned. Link was like a son to him. He really admired the young Hero, his bravery, and his courage. He always had liked him even when he first met him; from that instant he liked the young boy. He remembered how much he visited the castle, to see his daughter, Impa and him, always every time he visited it was expected a prank to be made. Every time when the youth visited, Zelda and him always had made a lot of troubling in the castle, but it was actually funny, even to the servants. But not only because of his caring personality that the Hero was remembered and well welcomed in the castle, it was too because of the bravery he demonstrated when he protected the Triforce and Hyrule itself.

The King remembered too well when Link decided that he had to find his fairy companion, the fairy known as Navi. He said that he had to leave on a journey. The King understood, but feared that he might not come back, still he gave Link a new shield about his size, made with a finest material than the common Hylian shields, that way Link would not have to depend on the wooden like shield. When he leaved, the King just waited for his return. He waited for three long years and now the Sages had told him that Link has died.

"No way…" he though.

He glanced at Zelda. "My poor girl… how much have you suffered?" he though.

Without advise he walked over to the young Princess, who was holding back her tears because seeing her father in that state remembered her how she felt about Link, then he hug her.

"I'm so sorry… a fine young man was lost," he whispered into her ear. "And I wanted him to be your husband someday…"

The Princess blushed deeply, her sadness momentarily forgotten. "Dad!" she replied.

The others looked confused, only Impa let out a chuckle; she was the only one who had heard about what the King has said.

But the King didn't paid attention to Zelda's reply, he instead was humming a soft melody, a melody that always have relieved him form the pain but that he didn't remember where he had learned it.

Nabooru cleared her throat. "Ejem… enough with the sad mood! We need to…" but soon was interrupted by Ruto.

"Put our asses in motion! Yes we know heartless, but don't you see that there's some people in here who are suffering from a loss?" she asked irritably.

Nabooru groaned. "You don't have to repeat me that! I can see!" she snapped.

"Seems the other way around!" Ruto snapped back. Nabooru growled.

"Aw… stupid fish! Don't ya realize that there's no motive to grieve? We can get him back!" she said putting an emphasis.

All the heads jerked to her, they have forgotten about that part. The King looked at her confused. "What are you talking about? It's nonsense, you can't get a living form back from the death!" he said.

"Actually we can," Impa said. "Explain yourselves." The King ordered.

Then the Kokiri Sage nodded and explained for the Sheikah. "The goddesses have told us that Link is not entirely death."

The King looked surprised. "Then why did you say that he was dead?" he asked.

"It is because if he lose this… fight… he will become death and there would be no returning for him." This time Darunia spoke.

"So how can we help him?" Harkinian asked with some hope. "We must find a flower known as Rebiar," Zelda informed him. "But that flower can just be found in…"

"In?" the King asked anxious.

"Ightos." Ruto finalized, making that all the hopes within the King to suddenly banish. "But… but… that city… that island is just a mere rumor!" he said but the Sages shook their heads.

"The Goddesses told us to do that." Impa said. The King looked at her, then at the other Sages.

Then he sighed in defeat. "So I must guess you're living, don't you?" he asked.

The Sages nodded. "If we want to get Link back, then we must have to," Darunia said. The King then stood firmly and a serious voice escaped from his lips.

"Ok then," he started. "May the goddesses bless you in thee journey! I will assist thou with all my might, glorious Sages!" he bowed them.

All the Sages stood up and bowed back.

"Mighty King! We are thankful for thee help, may the Goddesses bless thou too!" Zelda spoke way too formally.

"Our speech has ended, so you must prepare thou selves, for a long journey thee are going to face!" The King said, and the Sages nodded.

"Salute, King of Hyrule!" They said in unison.

"Salute, Sages of the Triforce!" The King responded.

After some few minutes of silence that have filled them passed the King spoke.

"You must go and advise of your parting, I bet is better for you to leave tomorrow." He said.

The Sages looked at each other and then to the King, they all nodded.

"Yeah sure… and we can get some things too…" Nabooru said. "Yeah…" the King replied quietly.

"Umm… well… see ya then!" she said. All the others nodded and then, soon after, they parted different ways too.

The hall they've been was completely empty after some minutes.

"Until tomorrow then…" a strange figure that perked from the window said. Then he saw a portrait of the young princess Zelda and smiled. "Or maybe not…"

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It wasn't a lot of time since they have woken up, But it was a lot of time since the Great Fairy had send them at some unknown place to them… well at least for Navi.

Navi, the fairy whom Link went off to search at that strange land known as Termina, was confused about the turn of events. She wasn't quite sure if she had met her companion, which was a young mare known as Epona, that same day. And she wasn't too sure where they have landed.

But even with that, she was quite sure that her fellow mare Epona knew her way around this strange country. It had been just two hours since they… she have woken up, because her companion woke up just mere minutes ago, in a grassy area below a strange hollow fallen piece of trunk of what seemed like a huge tree that seemed more like a passage that lead to a swamp.

Of course they could see too a town in front of them, so they instead of going to the swamp decided to go to the town. But Epona was quiet hesitantly to enter there, just the goddesses knew why. But after some time of persuasion, she finally made the young mare to enter it.

"Wow!" Navi thought, she was on the back of Epona seeing with curiosity and surprise, the town's people walking past them. She was really perplexed of some of them, because they were identical as some people in Hyrule.

And she did notice too that some people began whispering when they passed through. She heard and saw how the people was surprised as some of them seemed to recognize the young mare; of course this surprised her too.

"Epona, why does this people keep staring at us?" she whispered to the young mare's ears. The fairies were well known to freely communicate with the nature surrounding them, so it wasn't strange for them to talk to animals, of course they didn't hear them speaking but instead they understand them.

Epona just nodded her head, making the fairy to understand that she'll found her answer soon. This only made the bluish fairy to suspect some about the subject.

Epona made her way through the town, which differently from the last time she was there, was infested with a lot more people. But what didn't surprise her was the fact that the crowd was composed of all kind of different races that lived in Termina. And maybe some tourists.

She quickly went to East Clocktown; there she went to the Inn.

Navi of course was completely confused as to why they were going to the town's Inn, but she didn't replay anything about that because she was sure that she'd found the answer soon.

There they entered it. But they saw with surprise that just a few people were waiting in the lobby. When the young mare and the Fairy entered, of course, they attracted the attention of the few people in there, after all it was not common to see a pony with a fairy inside a Inn's lobby.

Navi felt uncomfortable to feel all the stares upon them. "Oh um… hello!" she said with her childish like voice.

The people didn't replay anything; they just keep staring at them with surprise and confusion.

Then the Innkeeper, who was a young woman, entered the lobby with a, what seemed a new born baby in her arms, and a kind smile was in her face. She entered attending the child in her arms but when she lifted up the gaze and saw a very particular scene in front of her, she blinked.

And Navi saw with surprise that she was exactly the same as the Cucco's lady from Kakariko, well except for her dress and that this lady looked somehow two years younger.

"Perhaps she's a relative…" Navi thought examining her.

She had beautiful and short red hair and deep chocolate eyes. She was wearing a blue simple dress with some flowers printed at the end of it. And inside of her leather shoes, a pair of white shackles could be seen.

"Epona?" the young lady called surprised. This fact surprised the fairy Navi, so she instead of talking decided to keep quiet and watch the lady's movements.

Epona, in an unusual kind of way, nodded her head. Then the face of the young lady was illuminated and a big smile appeared in her lips.

The woman began walking to the mare, when she was at Epona's side, with her right hand she began to cherish her head. Most of the few people decided to not take care about the situation, but some of them kept making some quick glances of curiosity at them.

"Epona how long has it been since I last saw you, a year perhaps?" she wondered happily and quietly so as to not disturb the peaceful and sleeping baby in her left arm. Epona was confused, she remembered that it hadn't been two days since Link and her parted from Termina. "Hehe… you haven't changed at all!"

But then the young woman noticed something; she noticed that someone was missing. A confused and wondered look appeared in her eyes, but still as quietly as she said before she wondered out loud her last though.

"Epona, where's Link?" she asked somewhat expecting to understand the horse, but instead Navi decided that it was her turn to intervene.

"Fair lady," she called out politely, but with her sudden call she just startled the young woman who let out a yelp.

Searching for the course of the voice the red haired woman began to see around, and then Navi called once more while she fled in front of her.

"Lady, up here." Navi said while the woman turned to see her. At first her reaction was that she has confused the fairy with another one she have met, but she saw the little difference of color between this one and Talt.

"Oh! Excuse me for not seeing you, but who are you, if I may ask?" the woman asked Navi with the same politely.

Navi nodded accepting the apologize. "I'm Navi the fairy, a friend of the young warrior known as Link."

The woman looked surprised. "Oh, so you're the fairy that Link was searching a year ago, it seems that he finally found you," the woman said while searching for the Hero. "But what happened to Link? Where's he?"

Navi was surprised to hear that. Link has been searching for her?

"No Miss, I haven't seen Link for around four years," she said, the woman blinked confused. "But then why are you with Epona?"

"It's because I found her at a fairy fountain, she was searching for Link," Navi said, the woman was about to ask why, but Navi spoke first. "Link's missing."

The woman was totally confused. "H-how can… that be… possible?" she asked perplexed and worried.

"I don't exactly know, but when I found Epona, the Great Fairy, who I was with, send us to this place… uhh…" she explained a bit, knowing somehow that this woman was able to be trusted, but still not knowing where they were.

"Termina." The woman finished for her.

"Yes, and when woke up, I just followed Epona in here and then we found you." Navi said thoughtful. She has felt the confusedness of the young mare, and she too felt confused because it was three years ago when the presence of Link and Epona vanished but still the Triforce remained there, but it hasn't been a day or two since she has felt the presence of Link and Epona reappeared again but then, soon after, Link's presence disappeared again, this time with the Triforce. All this was completely confusing to her.

"Oh, I see…" the woman murmured.

But something snapped through Navi's mind. "Miss…"

"Call me Anju," the young lady now known as Anju replied. Navi nodded.

"Miss Anju, can I ask how did you met Link?" Navi asked her. Anju nodded. "It has been a year ago since he came. On that time we, the Terminians, were preparing all the necesities to celebrate the Carnival of Time, but something unexpected occurred…" Anju said, and Navi nodded allowing the brown haired woman to continue.

"A strange phenomena it was, who knows how, but the moon was falling…" Anju told her, Navi's eyes went wide with awe although nobody could see them.

"I can remember it well enough, a strange imp with a mask was causing mischief around…" Anju paused. Navi take advantage to ask about the imp. "A strange imp with a mask?"

Anju nodded. "Yes… I don't know too much about him, but he seemed to be accompanied at first by two fairies, but that was before Link appeared, because the imp suddenly disappeared and one of the fairies, who was named Talt, wondered around with Link."

Navi kept silent, and Anju continued.

"Well… Link appeared three days before the Carnival, more precisely the three days after my wedding…" Anju lowered her voice, but it was loud enough to Navi hear well and still she didn't want to interrupt the tale.

"On those three days, Link was helping a lot of people here and at the same time Link was helping the people that lived outside of Clocktown," the young brown haired woman said.

"That's why the people keep staring at us?" Navi said while seeing the few people that kept sending glances at them, they quickly began whistling with fake innocence. The Innkeeper laughed quietly, seeing at them.

"Let's go to my room, there we can talk privately." Anju told them, but then she remembered Epona. "I guess you can go too, Epona." Anju said while seeing the young mare make a sign of relief, at least that's what it seemed to the Innkeeper.

Navi nodded. "Thank you!"

"You're welcome." Anju nodded too, while she began walking. The few people, that were faking lack of interest, followed them by the gaze. Navi notated this, of course, but she ignored them.

Soon they went upstairs. They entered the first room in there. It was pretty nice; the sense that it radiated was a one of kindness and love. There were two beds, a wood table, and a green and small cradle.

"My mother and I used to sleep here, but since I became marriage, my husband, my new born girl and me live here alone," Anju related them. "But what happened to your mother?" Navi asked.

"Oh, she and my grandma, moved to the Ranch near the Southern Swamp, it's called Romani Ranch, but now that we reach once more the Carnival my mother came to help me take care of the Inn," Anju said.

"But then were is she sleeping?" Navi couldn't take it being curious, but Anju didn't care. "She's now at my grandma's ex-room." Anju told her, and placed the baby in her cradle, then she went and took a sit.

"Oh yeah, you've asked me why people kept staring at you," Anju said, Navi nodded. "Well you were not wrong about it being Link's fault!" Anju laughed a little.

"He must have done a lot of things to the people look at us like that!" Navi said in awe. Anju nodded and let out a small smile. "Yes indeed he did." Anju sighed.

"If I'm not wrong, he had helped the Dekus, the Gorons, the Zoras, and even he helped the people that lived in Ikana and most of them were dead." Anju said Navi was amazed of what she has heard.

"He helped people that was already dead? How can that be possible?!" the young fairy asked with awe.

"I'm not quiet sure, but the day after Link left, a man with his daughter came to the town after doing some strange researches in Ikana, they said that a young boy with green clothes had saved the land of Ikana," Anju told her and Navi nodded in understatement.

"Of course some of the men that came from the other races asked them if the boy had a fairy, and the two responded that indeed he did, then all the people began exchanging their own stories about the boy and soon they all found that it was the same boy but…" Anju stopped.

"But?" Navi asked. "Nobody knew his name or from where did he came," Anju said.

Navi blinked in confusion.

"But you did know, isn't it?" she asked and Anju nodded. "Then why didn't you tell them?" Navi asked.

"That was because…" she began explaining but suddenly the door opened and a man's voice interrupted her.

"Hey Anju look who I found!" a blue haired man exclaimed happily while entering the room, but he stopped his track when he saw Epona.

Navi examined him. He had blue hair and eyes, his skin was a bit of a pale one but he seemed quite handsome. He was wearing some blue dandy trousers and a white shirt, a pair of leather boots and gauntlets. Above his shirt he was wearing a leather belt.

He stood there shocked at the sight of the horse.

"Kafei, dear, come here and meet our guests," Anju said happily while she stood and kissed him on the cheek that made Kafei to recover form his shock. "Oh yeah, about guests… hey guys come here!" he yelled jerking his head outside the door, momentarily forgetting about Epona.

Soon a pair of fairies and a Skullkid stood at the door. One of the fairies was between white and a very pale yellow and the other was purple. They greeted Anju with a smile; well the only visible smile was the one of the Skullkid.

"Anju it's been long time since…" the white fairy began but then she saw the guests andher eyes went wide

"Epona?" she called attracting the attention of all the people in the room, Navi stood silently watching the whole scene.

The young mare nodded causing the face of the fairy to get illuminated.

"Epona!" she said while she began flying towards Epona at full speed. When she was at Epona's head, she kind of hugged her with her tiny wings and her not visible arms. "Epona! I missed you so much!!" she exclaimed happily.

Soon she noticed Link's lack of presence. "Hey but where's Link?" she asked confused, Navi then flew in front of her while the other people came closer, but before that Kafei closed the door.

"Hey who are you?" the fairy asked, Anju then introduced the people in there. "Well I'd like you to meet Navi, she's a friend of…" Anju told them but the white fairy interrupted.

"Link." The fairy finished for her, all the presents were surprised about this except of Navi. "So you must be the fairy who was with Link here in his adventures of Termina, isn't it?" she smiled causing the fairy to be surprised.

"How'd you know?" she asked amazed. "I told her a bit of what happened here Talt." Anju said.

"So her name is Talt," Navi thought. "And I must thank you for taking care of Link…" Navi said and bowed in a sing of gratitude. "Yeah sure! I must say that he was most of the time careless but still a very skilled warrior!" Talt said with a hint of sadness in her voice that just Navi noticed.

"Hey Talt!" the purple fairy cleared his throat making the two fairies to jerk their heads in the direction of the Skullkid, who was playing with Epona, and him. "Oh yeah! I think we didn't introduce ourselves properly!" Talt said with a hint annoyance in her voice because of her brother's interruption.

Anju then spoke. "Oh yeah! Well Navi I want you to meet Talt, which you may already know, her brother Tael, Skullkid and my husband Kafei."

Navi nodded. "Nice to meet you all!" she said in a politely tone. "Nice to meet you too!" the others responded in the same way… well almost everyone, Talt was still have some annoyance in her voice because of his brother's lack of respect. But even if her thoughts were that the truth was, in fact, that it was just because of the fairy's naiveté to do such an improper thing. After all one of the most important things for Talt were the manners of people, even if she didn't show them that much.

"Well Navi if I may ask… where's Link?" Kafei asked attracting the attention of the Skullkid, Talt and Tael. "Link is missing sir." Navi responded.

"What?!" Talt exclaimed in disbelief. Navi nodded. "Yes Link is missing since yesterday." Navi repeated.

All except of Anju stared in disbelief. "But how that happened? why is Link missing?" the Skullkid finally spoke with a hint of sadness in his voice, somehow he managed to feel that something was terrible wrong.

Navi kept quiet for a minute, which seemed like an eternity to the other people in the room.

"I don't… exactly know…" she said quietly.

Talt looked directly into Navi's eyes, because the only ones that could see the other fairies' expressions were other fairies, and she saw concern but yet hope in her eyes.

"I must guess that you're searching for him, isn't it?" she asked to the blue fairy. "Yes." Navi answered simple.

Talt then nodded and a firmly look crossed her face. "Then I will go with you!" she said.

The others stared at her in disbelief. "What?!" they asked in unison still perplexed, just Navi kept herself from doing so.

Talt nodded.

"I was his partner too, I… was his friend… I must find him!" she repeated then she turned to see Navi. "But only if you alloy me to search him with you."

Navi gave a genuine smile and nodded. "Of course you can go with us!" she said.

Tael and Skullkid looked at each other, and as if they read their minds they snapped at the same time. "We want to go too!"

Talt looked at them as did Navi. "Sure not problem, but I wont be watching for you two, especially you Tael!" Talt said, Teal huffed.

"But I can take care of myself!" he replied, which the Skullkid did not he just chuckled. "Yeah, yeah…"Talt responded not paying too much attention.

Anju giggled a little at the two brothers. "Well I guess you must prepare for the trip. Let us take care of that meanwhile you can go and show Navi around." She said the others nodded in acceptance.

"Well then Navi come! A Carnival is waiting for us to go!" Talt exclaimed grabbing the blue fairy and bursting at full speed towards the door, they quickly exited the room followed closely by Skullkid, Tael, and Epona.

The couple remained there looking at the door from were just minutes before had the strange group leaved.

They looked at each other. "Then we must prepare their things," Kafei said. "Yes." Anju responded.

"I hope they find Link soon…" Anju said in a whisper. "I hope that too…" Kafei responded back.

Then Kafei looked at her and with a hint of worry and fear he asked. "But you aren't going to prepare their food, isn't it?"

---

He continued to watch the scene of dread before him. The scene of a long war where, certainly, lots of people have died not just because of the wounds they had on their bodies, but because of their broken hearts. He was sure that dying that way was worse than dying because of a sword.

He was sure that the people that have survived from the battle were physically and mentally tired of living, tired of remembering those painful memories that were hidden in the back of their minds but that, at the same time, were still present in front of their eyes. He somehow felt like them.

Link has lived through so much pain that he had almost forget about happiness and love. Because he was tired of his life, seeing sorrow and pain in the hearts of the people he loved. So many deaths have altered his kind of thinking, leaving not but confusedness about his purpose of leaving.

But still as those thoughts flied in his mind, the happy faces of the people he loved flashed before those painful memories. Somehow relieving him. Their faces all bright and relieved as if they had just woke up from a nightmare. Their eyes reflecting the desire to not relive those painful times that most of them experienced, when he was in his seven-years- slumber.

He was relieved too because the war against the Gerudo King was over and his friends were safe. But when Navi leaved him, he was confused of what to do, so he waited one year hoping that Navi would return to him. But now that was impossible.

He tried to find a way of getting her back, alive and well, but he got stocked in some parallel world to his. He saw that in Termina were people that were suffering just as his friends once did. So he helped them. But he loosed three years of searching for Navi.

And now he won't be able to see her again, because he was dead now. And no matter how he tried, or what he'd do, it was useless, because it was impossible to him to get back to dear life. Sometimes he felt so useless against destiny, that he felt as if he was living a nightmare, but unfortunately this wasn't. This was reality, this was a part of life, and so it was impossible to him to return back, if he had reality and even time against him. Life was so miserable sometimes…

Yes life is so cruel, because it always makes mortals suffer.

Link then remembered the creature. He began to wonder if it was saying the truth, if life was so miserable. Then for what has he been fighting?

It does always tie the mortals to do things they do not want to, it does always make them slaves for nothing, for no purpose at all.

Link shacked his head. "No! that's not true!!" he yelled in his mind.

Why would I be lying? Life has tied you to fight and kill some creatures that were just attacking you because they wanted to live. Life has crushed into them and it turned them apart.

Yes, he had to fight and kill to many monsters that were threatening the piece. But still they were just fallowing orders.

They were useless to reality itself so they did not have a purpose of their existence. So death hugs them and they were greeted with relief and now they are not suffering.

The death is the key to feel not the pain of the life? "It can be true…" Link thought.

Yes it is true, for death is the must wonderful creation that can fill the void that was created in the heart of the mortals. It can bring happiness and rest to the soul, come and see.

"No… I can't…" Link said hesitantly. The creature frowned slightly.

So then why don't you see what is on death and what was on life…

---

Finding information of a supposed imaginary city was not an easy task to anyone, not even for the bearer of the Triforce of Wisdom. Speaking of her, she was at the huge library of her castle. She was searching for the now-possible-existent Ightos, of which she hadn't found but non-helpful comments.

She was nearly at collapsing in defeat. She had been searching for around three hours even since the other Sages parted from their meeting. She was of course tired and now with some little hope because they didn't have too much of a clue to find the supposed existent city.

They needed more information than just: It is at the other side of the world.

That type of information wasn't exactly right, because if she wasn't wrong, she had heard that Ightos isn't at the other side of the world but to the far east of Hyrule. If she wasn't wrong, the fact that they lived in Hyrule was somewhat of a help to them because according to ancient legends Hyrule was the point of where the Goddesses created the world, and Hyrule was the point of where the Sacred Realm could contact this world, so in some terms Hyrule was the center of the superficial earth.

But what she didn't understand was… why did Ightos is supposedly at the east far side of the world if the world is round? How is that possible? Then if it was at the east far side of Hyrule then it is as well at the west far side of Hyrule.

"And that means…" she thought with a sigh. "At the other side of the world…"

Not exactly.

Someone spoke in her mind, it sounded like an old and low voice.

But it startled her. "Uhh? Who are you?!" she asked to the air, without waiting a response she asked something more. "Where are you?!"

Aw… young princess, do not trouble yourself for I am not going to harm you…

It spoke again with a soft voice. Zelda calmed herself a little, she had felt no evil in his voice. "Oh… I'm sorry I didn't meant to react like that." She bowed a little.

I understand why did you react as you have… but this is not the time to talk about trivial things, Princess I am the one who is going to help you…

As suddenly as it came as suddenly as it disappeared, well not completely.

Zelda watched in awe as something, more precisely a book, glowed with a soft blue tone. She, cautiously, approached it.

It was a rough and old book, but still it seemed well maintained. It was huge about two feet long and one and half wide, it was voluminous too. It was almost brown but it was trimmed with gold, it did make a great combination. In its front it had two flowers, two turquoises, one was blue trimmed with a golden color that was at the left and the other one was red trimmed with a silver color that was at the right, behind them it could be seen the figures of what seemed like a woman that was at the right part a huge man that was at the left part and a boy that was in the middle, although they were much like shadows than draws.

"Could those turquoises be the flowers Skyghone and Rebiar?" she wondered still seeing the book, amazed of it. "They are beautiful…"

Neilai, Octus De Gen.

It was the name of the book, Zelda didn't know why but she felt something unknown, she felt something foreign to her. As she held the book in her hands seeing it with her wide eyes, barely noticing the world besides the book, she muttered quietly.

"Neilai, Octus De Gen."

Suddenly it glowed with a lot more force than before. Her hair was lifted precipitately as the wind ran around her as if it was a whirlwind, she even needed to close half her eyes as she continued to see intently the book. As soon as this all happened it stopped and a click could be heard.

Zelda amazed slowly moved her sight to the lock, which at first was closed, and now it was open.

Zelda blinked in awe and slowly opened it. It was written in a somewhat ancient language, which thankfully to Impa, she did know, except of some parts that she recognized to be written in mother language, that was the language the first creatures in earth as well as the goddesses spoke. Even if she was a Sage and the bearer of the Triforce of Wisdom, somehow something repelled her to be able to understand that.

She felt that that book was written with magic and a very powerful indeed so as to repel the magic of the leader of the Sages. The man that has written it must have had knowledge of all kinds of magic so as to create a spell as powerful as this. Or maybe he did something else so as to guard this strange and mysterious book. Zelda was sure that she would find a lot of information in there.

It said at the beginning: A new life after the flower came.

Then she got her gaze down and saw: The history of my pain.

She didn't exactly understood about its meaning. But she turned the page and began reading what seemed the prologue.

"It is now after one hundred years of writing and waiting, that I finally managed to…" she read out loud until a loud sound startled her. She turned to see what caused it and saw a cloaked man behind her.

"Who are you?!" she asked with fear.

---

It was outside of the castle; it was more precisely in the gardens, that lots of men, soldiers and servants, were preparing all the stuff for the travel of the Sages. Impa and the General of the knights were watching that all was being prepared correctly for the long travel, at the same time they were discussing the entire situation.

The General was a young man with blonde hair and blue piercing eyes and his name was Kun. He was quiet a noble man, loyal to the kingdom of Hyrule, well known of his bravery and wisdom. Quiet skilled with the bow and the sword, he was ambidextrous too. He was wearing a silver armor and a white tunic behind it, silver colored boots as well as gauntlets, and finally he wasn't wearing a helmet instead he had it tied in his white belt.

And also he was staring in disbelief at Impa.

"I must say that you Sages are the most crazy people I have ever met…" he said to her blinkingly and with a funny look making Impa to let out a chuckle. Kun was one of the few people that could make Impa throw her scary looking appearance and even make her laugh, just the Princess, the King and the fallen Queen could do that. "Why for?"

"To search for a flower in a island that is supposed to be a myth!" he stated simple. He and Impa have been quite good friends since he entered the army. He remembered too well, when he entered, he was clumsy with any type of weapons and he was somewhat weak. All the other knights laughed at him because of this. But Impa was the only one who saw the potential of him.

Impa took him as her apprentice and it took him just three weeks to be a very skilled knight. All the knights have watched with awe as the skinny and weak boy have became a very muscled and powerful knight, he quickly advanced in ranks and in a year he became the General of them all. "All thanks to Impa," he had said.

He entered the army because he needed to help his mother with his family; it was when he was 20 years old that his father died because of some bandits. Since then he swore that he would punish all the thieves and murderers in the country, he wanted to protect the people. And he followed his father's path, to be a knight. Although everybody believed that he was an adopted kid of his father John, because of his skinny appearance. Sir John was a very good knight and a hero of the war that happened three years before Sir Kun entered the army.

But now it has passed 10 years after he entered.

"Maybe but the goddesses had told us that it does exist." Impa said. "But then… where is it?"

"I'm not quite sure about that, but right now the Princess is searching for some information about it," she told him and then looked to the wagon. "Hopefully she'll find something."

"Yeah maybe but still…" Kun started. "But still?" Impa asked making the General to see at her. "But still as you have said the Goddesses told that somewhat hesitant, isn't it?"

"Yes." Impa responded raising an eyebrow. "Then that island must be way too dangerous…" Kun said lowering his voice.

Impa nodded. "Yes… we are aware of that… but we are capable to defend ourselves," she said. "We need to help Link…"

Link… that name ringed in Kun's mind. When he met Link after what the Sages have told them about the Ocarina of Time incident. He was amazed at the young boy and he quickly made good friends with him. And when Link had parted to search for Navi, he was the one who forged the shield that the King gave Link, he had a little knowledge about how to forge things and he made a quiet fine work with it.

And when he heard about the Hero's death he began to forge a little dagger so as to honor him. But now that he have heard that there's a way to save Link he decided to finish that dagger as a present of welcome to Link.

"We're after all seven skilled warriors…" Impa said making Kun to snap out of his thoughts and to interrupt her.

"Yeah… a Kokiri is one of them…" Kun said mockingly. "Even if you don't believe it, she is a very good warrior, you should not take lightly something by appearances, you could regret it."

"You think so?" Kun asked, Impa nodded. "Yes I do… experience told me so,"

Kay remained silent for some minutes. "Then next time an homicide occur I'll watch the children in the town…"

When he said that Impa snapped her head to him. She blinked and then she let out a chuckle. "I didn't mean it that way!"

But Kun just stared at her. "But maybe a child had commit assassination because maybe… revenge or something like that!" he said at her making Impa to think a little.

"That… could be… possible…" she said quietly. "Uh huh…"

As they kept silent for a while thinking in the now possible answer of some homicides, a soldier got to them and hailed them. Impa and Kun looked at him seriously not paying too much attention and still thinking about the earlier comment.

"Sir Kun and umm… Sir… Impa?" he said making both of them to snap out of their thoughts and to look at each other, then they laughed at the way the new knight had called Impa, the knight was obviously surprised because it was the first time he had seen the General and the Sheikah warrior laugh.

"Hey newcomer, you must call her Mistress not Sir!" Kun laughed but Impa shook her head. "Aww… Don't worry! Just call me Impa!" Impa said still chuckling.

"Um… okay… Impa," he said quite hesitantly and blushing for his mistake. "Sorry for interrupting you… but… Impa… are you Sages going to need milk?" he asked.

Impa nodded. "Yes of course," she responded, the soldier nodded and turned around to shout. "Okay guys she said yes! Get the cow up!"

Impa and Kun both turned to see each other confused and then they saw how the soldiers tried to lift up a cow to the wagon, but they didn't succeed. Impa and Kun laughed so hard that they were almost going to cry.

"H-hey! You don't need to get a cow in there!" Impa laughed her dignity as a serious Sheikah completely forgotten.

"Y-yeah! You just need to bring some boxes with bottles of milk!" Kun said laughing.

But it was already too late because the soldiers already have uploaded the cow.

The new one then shouted to them. "Hey guys they just need boxes, get the cow down!" the soldiers looked at each other and with the same difficulty they got the cow down, then Kun looked over to Impa.

"Hey but it wasn't a bad idea… if you take the cow you'll always have fresh milk," he said to her Impa looked quite thoughtful. "Yeah maybe you're right…"

The soldier then turned to see them, and then he turned to shout the other soldiers that have already the cow in the floor.

"Hey guys they changed their opinion get the cow up!" the soldiers looked at him and glared, they grunted and lifted the cow.

The poor cow was just mooing all the way. Impa and the General blinked. "He's the must weird soldier I've ever met… what a weird scene…" they thought at the same time.

"Well… um… what we were talking?" Kun asked the Sheikah blinking trying to not pay attention to the scene before them.

"Um… I don't rememb-…" she stopped abruptly as her head snapped in the direction of the castle, feeling something strange but not evil.

Kun looked worried at her. "Something wrong?" he asked. Impa shook her head. "I… no, nothing's wrong…"

But Kun did know that Impa had felt something.

---

She had been quiet almost all the time since she had encountered with the other Sages. All because she still felt the pain of the loss… the loss of his friend. But even if she knew that he was going to be back she still has felt his presence banish from the world. It hurt her… it hurt her so much.

Just to think that she felt as if she wasn't going to see him again deepened her in the pain. Even if she did know that there was a salvation to him, she would not forget how she felt when she heard about his loss. The pain she felt at that moment was sure to be unreal, she didn't know how she woke up after she passed away when she talked to the Great Deku Tree about… Link.

But fortunately she was there to reflex about that. There was a solution, yeah, but still somehow she felt that something was going to turn wrong. She was positively sure that this wasn't a simple task, because she saw the hesitantly of the Goddesses and somehow she did know that something was going to turn wrong. But she could tell the others about it.

Saria was walking through the woods, the woods that have been her home since who knows. She was tired of the day, it had been a long one after all, but it did help that the King didn't have an extreme reaction because she was sure that she could have thought that something worse could have happened to Link if she had seen the King in a state of pure melancholy.

"Its not that his reaction was way too different from the one he could have had…" Saria thought looking up to the barely visible sky that was almost covered by the sight of the trees. "But still it was pain…"

Soon she reached the limits of the almost unknown Kokiri Village. She enjoyed the sight of the peaceful village that belonged to the forest folk, the eternal children known as Kokiris. That sight gave her peace and every time she stepped on it she turned into the lovely and innocent yet wise and playful girl she was after she was awakened as a Sage. All her worries as a Sage always disappeared at that village as she turned once more into a child in mind.

She was happy that she lived here.

Saria smiled entering the village, her mind momentarily relaxed as she let it to have a rest. With joyful jumps she turned once more into the little wise and caring child known by the Kokiri. She entered the village wearing a big smile, but that deep inside of it hold a hint of sadness.

But she stopped in her track as she remembered something. How was she supposed to explain the Kokiris that she was going to part on a trip so as to save Link?

"Oh my…" Saria muttered worried. She wasn't a person that liked very much the idea about lying to someone, but she didn't know how to explain some things to a bunch of children that ignore almost everything about the outside world, sure it was a big problem.

She, surely, will need to talk to the Great Deku Tree about that. "That'll be the most wise choice…" Saria thought nodding her head.

As soon as she reached the closest path a girl spotted her, waving to her the girl ran up to her. "Hi Saria!" the orange haired girl called as Saria waved back. "Hi Tia!" Saria responded the greeting.

Tia was her lifelong friend apart of Link. Yeah sure Link was his best friend but he was younger than her, she simply did know Tia almost even when they both were created. Since their first meeting they have become best friends.

As soon as the orange haired girl reached Saria they both fell into a hug. When they got separated Tia looked at her with a smile. "Hey just where were you?" she inquired.

A barely visible frown was formed in the lips of the green haired Sage as she forged the words to come out. "I was attending to some… Sage business…" she answered with a hint of sadness that didn't pass unnoticed by Tia who chose to speak carefully so as to not apply pressure to her friend.

"Oh I see… Sage business…" Tia said slowly so to make Saria to understand that she wasn't going to apply pressure which Saria did understand and gave her a thankful gaze. "Yeah… Sage business…"

They both kept silent for a moment, Saria thinking about the whole situation and Tia thinking of what had happened to Saria so she that have acted like that.

Saria looked around and saw that the village was… empty, wondering while looking for everyone she asked Tia about it.

"Tia? Just where are the others?" Saria asked her. Tia suddenly clapped her hands startling Saria. "Oh my! I forgot! Saria please come with me!" Tia exclaimed as she grabbed the hand of the green haired Kokiri.

"H-hey! What is it?!" Saria asked her friend while she was following her, well… while she was being dragged. Tia just kept quite as she accelerated. Soon they reached the entrance to the path that lead to the Great Deku Tree, there it was infested with all the Kokiris that tried to pass but were stopped by a exasperated Mido.

Saria, seeing the tremendous chaos that was happening, decided to intervene. "Stop!" she said loud but not yelling, the Kokiris stopped trying to enter the path and their heads jerked to the direction of her voice and Mido sighed in relief.

The Kokiris knew Saria as the most kind and wise Kokiri around, all the Kokiris liked her a lot, and it was a fact that she had gained a great respect among the forest folk, and so she didn't need to yell when she wanted attention.

"Saria!" all the Kokiris happy greeted her making her to smile. "Hey guys!" she greeted them back but as soon as she greeted them as soon as a scowl appeared in her face. "But I can't say I'm happy to see you in this situation."

All the Kokiris turned to see the floor in a regret mood, then one of the Kokiris spoke first. "We are sorry for being so rude to Mido but it was because…" the boy began and Saria arched and eyebrow.

"Because?" Saria asked crossing her arms. "Because… there's a Gorth here!" the Kokiri finished making Saria to uncross her arms with surprise. "What?!"

Then Mido spoke. "Yes, that's right. A Gorth came here a few hours ago and went to talk to the Great Deku Tree although he didn't pass through the village…" He said but soon was interrupted by her, it was must unlikely to her to do things like that but this time she was really perplexed so as to care for such minimum things.

"But then how did you saw… him?" Saria asked even if she was not sure if the Gorth was male or female. "That's because I saw it in the woods, he went to the Great Deku Tree by the other side of the forest." One of the Kokiris said.

Saria frowned, the Gorths were well known by the Kokiris as mystic creatures supposedly extinct, but the fact that now one of those creatures was talking to the Great Deku Tree did got her a bad feeling. Why was the Gorth here talking to the Great Deku Tree was something she was going to found soon.

She steeped quickly in front of all the Kokiris and then turned to see the Kokiri that have said he saw the Gorth. "Are you positively sure that it was a Gorth?"

The Kokiri nodded. "His body was just as it is pictures in the book of life, although the strange part is that this one have clothes on." He informed her. Saria nodded in understatement. The book of life was a book the Great Deku Tree made for the Kokiris so as they could have knowledge about the creatures of the forest, there the Great Deku Tree have putted too the creatures that were supposedly extinct although he didn't mention what creatures were already extinct and what creatures were about to extinct, so in other terms, the Gorth were from the about-to-extinct section.

Then it occurred to her. If the forest was supposedly being protected by the Great Deku Tree then why were some species being extinct? Surely that question made her get confused.

Shocking her head she made that question to a side. "Well… I'll see what's happening," she said while she turned to face Mido. "Mido don't let anybody to go through." She said while he nodded, then she turned to the Kokiris. "And for you…" Saria began. "You wont pass through here, I'll fix things here and I want you all to go and do all the business I'm sure you have left because of this little… problem, if I say so…" Saria said seeing the faces of those Kokiri who suddenly have made a faked innocent smile.

She turned to Tia. "Would you mind helping Mido?" she asked her. Tia at first looked hesitant, it was already a fact that Mido and Tia were not too much of a likening to each other, in fact they hated each other. As Tia looked to Mido, who held the same face of disgust as her, then she looked to Saria, who held that damned face of pleading that she couldn't resist, she responded. "Ok…"

Saria smiled happily, although Mido frowned but didn't say anything. "Thank you!" she said to the orange haired girl. Tia just signed in defeat. "Don't worry… but please leave before I change my opinion."

Saria nodded and entered the tunnel. Once she passed through it and stood in front of the Great Deku Tree, she looked to a figure that stood in front of the enormous Tree, indeed it was exactly as the book of life had described and pictured, except, of course, of the clothes.

She saw that it was talking to the Great Deku Tree but she was too far to hear what he was saying, and it seemed that he haven't sensed her presence there but it seemed that the Great Deku Tree, in fact, did knew she was there because he was seeing to her direction.

When she was about to approach them the Gorth jerked his head in her direction and saw her making Saria to stood immobile. She saw how the Gorth frowned the turned to see the Great Deku Tree, he bowed and quickly ran to the opposite side of her. Saria did not made an effort to fallow him except of her gaze.

Then when the Gorth was out of sight, Saria approached the Tree. "Great Deku Tree?" she called.

"Saria… welcome… but what have thou, the Sages, decided? If thy may ask?" he asked and Saria nodded. "We found that there is a way to save Link." She responded but then she asked her own question before the Tree spoke.

"Who was He? Great Deku Tree." Saria asked which made the Great Deku Tree to smile mysteriously. "A friend" he simply responded.

But before Saria could say anything else the Tree asked. "And what is that way?"

Saria sighed as she knew that the Tree was not going to say anything about the Gorth, so she decided to inform the Tree about all what happened in the Sacred Realm and in the Castle.

"Well the Goddesses told us…" So she began retelling all what occurred.

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Two strong and powerful men among their respective species, sat in the King's personal bar. They were two friends that have known each other since the war that happened 13 years ago, and that now were sworn brothers. Just hence, faithful friends that have shared and oath, so many years before, about sharing together good and bad fortunes and so they are more than close friends.

They were talking about their lost friend. They were sharing together the memories of the moments they lived with the young boy they had once known. The memories of their lost sworn brother who was a pretty powerful and brave warrior.

"Oh indeed he was…" the King laughed a little. "Just to think that when Zelda told me about Ganon's incident… I acted so wrong… I really believe I was a fool…"

Darunia nodded in understatement. "It was not your fault, brother, it is hard to believe that such thing have happened in the future… But then how did you came to believe her?" Darunia asked curious.

The King sighed. "That was when Link came by and both of them showed to me the Triforce marks… heh, I was really perplexed to see that the legend of the Triforce was true! " He laughed a little. Darunia nodded. "Oh I remember when our little brother came to Goron city… I was really mad back then because of the Dodongos!"

Harkinian looked at his friend. "That reminds me… sorry for not sending you troops back then… somehow I believed Ganondorf about what he'd said to me, that he was going to take care of that… heh, he said it was a token of a new friendship, although it was the entire opposite!"

Darunia smiled. "Don't worry Brother! At least your daughter send a pretty good messenger!" He laughed a little. "Of course at first I was offended, I though I had lost status with you! Because I though it was a messenger of yours!"

"But it was better that Link had gone there instead of a knight, if not, we cannot tell what could have happened!" The King said to his friend who nodded in agreement. "When he played that song… Saria's Song, I danced like crazy! I was sure with much more good mood than when I first met him!"

"Sure Link was a noble person!" The King said with a hint of sadness. "No! Link is a noble person!" Darunia corrected him with a huge smile, The King looked at him and smiled.

"Yeah! You're right!" He said nodding his head. "Oh and that reminds me… aren't you going to tell the Gorons about the trip?"

"No, they already know that I may took weeks in some events…" Darunia informed him.

"I see…" The King said.

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It was nearly nightfall.

It was fresh, it was surrounded by water, and it was a splendid sight that could easily get peace to anyone in there. The pure water that was almost in every corner of that cave, served to the King of Hyrule, but of course served to the Sage of Water, which speaking of her, she was directing herself to the throne room where her father was.

That was the unique part of Zora Domain that was almost forgiven by the mayor of its habitants, because the King of the Zora race occupied it. But the Sage of Water known as Ruto, the Princess of the Zoras, was freely able to go there.

And that was exactly was she was doing now.

"Greeting Princess! Did you have a nice meeting?" one of the Zora guards of the throne room asked the young princess Ruto. "If you could say…" Ruto answered lowly.

"Sir Zole, is my father at the throne room?" Ruto asked him politely. "Yes, Princess, he'd been waiting for you."

Ruto nodded. "I see…"

"Princess? You want to see your father?" the guard asked. "Yes Sir Zole, please."

Then the guard went up to the end of the staircases and announced her to the King. "Your Majesty! Princess Ruto has came back! She wants to talk to you sir!" he said loud.

"Very well… let her in." King Zora said. The guard went back to the princess. "Your highness, your father will receive you."

Ruto nodded. "Thank you. You may return to your post." She said.

The guard bowed. Ruto then went up and entered the throne room. "Dad!" she said smiling. "Come here dear!" The King said smiling too, Ruto ran to hug her father, but her father didn't hug her back because of an… obvious explanation.

When they… Ruto finishing hugging his father the King saw her eyes. Her eyes, which reflected a strange determination and desire to search for something, those eyes that he have saw once in Ruto's mother a long time ago. He missed the fallen queen, he missed her too much and he feared what would those eyes bring to the Princess… his princess and daughter. "Dear… what have you Sages planned?" he asked unsure.

Ruto at first hesitated. "The goddesses told us that, if we want to help Link, we need a mythical flower known as Rebiar…" she explained to her father, which was sure he wasn't going to like something about that. "But it is said that that flower could only be found in… Ightos…"

The King nodded and a frown appeared in his lips. "But that island is not real. Are you aware of that?" he asked to his now serious daughter. "I know, yes. But the goddesses told us to do that… I must go with the other Sages!" she said raising her voice making the King to raise his voice too.

"Princess Ruto! Don't raise your voice at me, Miss!" He said with a scowl. "I… am… sorry…" The Sage of Water whispered while lowering her head. "Apology accepted." The Zora King said still with the scowl.

"But that does not mean I am going to let you go." The King said making Ruto to stare in disbelief at him. "What?!"

"As you have hear! You Ruto, Princess of the Zoras, are not going to go with the Sages!" The King said firmly. "But father I'm a Sage!"

"I have said, Princess. Now you may leave!" The King told her sternly, Ruto was about to say something but decided to keep quite. "As you wish, your Majesty."

Ruto bowed and then leaved. The King kept quite and saw her leave. "You have the same stare that had your mother after she… died."

Ruto was now at her room. She was writing on a note:

Dear father…

I'm sure you didn't allowed me to go because you just want to protect me… but I must go… it is not because of my duty as a Sage, but it is because I love… Link. I saw your look… you don't believe there is a chance to get him back… but it is… and I'm going to do all my might to help him… I think this is our only chance to help him, and if we don't took it he will not come back… I don't want it to happen… I don't want to lose Link… forever…

Please father… please understand my feelings… please understand that I do really love him… just as the same as you loved my mother…

It happened four years ago… when I was rescued by him I choose him to be my husband… father I gave him the Spiritual Stone of Water.

Forever yours…

Ruto.

Ruto finished her note and then she saved it one her desk. "I'm sure you'll find it after I have leaved…" she whispered and waited until midnight in her room.

When it was already midnight she prepared all her stuff for the travel and sneaking through the domain she made it outside.

She jumped by the waterfall and leaved Zora's Domain behind, with a King that saw her leave. "May the goddesses bless your journey… I have realized that you have grown and that you know how to fallow your ideals…" as the King said whispered this he saw the distorted image of the moon in the waterfall and he took his hand to his lips and kissed it. "Sage of Water, take the proud of the Zora tribe with you!"

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The sandy dessert, which could drive crazy anyone with a weak mind, stood there waiting for the sun to say good-bye to the land and to receive the moon and with it the night. But in the sand, footsteps could been seen printed in there. They were obviously footsteps of the Gerudos, the woman thieves.

But it was not in the dessert where they lived, almost. The Gerudos lived at the entrance of the dessert, in a fortress. It was there where they were waiting for its leader.

The crowd that was completely made by women, were making a circle in front of the enormous fortress to see what was happening. They were wondering why had the Gerudo Leader, Nabooru, invoke all the Gerudos.

The crowd was getting impatient and they were talking and some of them even fighting to kill the time. But when the Sage of Spirit approached they all instantly get quite.

Nabooru stood in the middle of the crowd and looked around to see her people. "Some of ya know what happened to Link right?" She asked load. "Yes!" a few Gerudos responded in unison.

As she heard them she arched and eyebrow and smirked. "And how is that ya know? I haven't told anythin' to anyone! Did ya lied to me or did ya heard me conversation with that pest of knight?" She asked while she saw the faces of the women that had responded yes and how the other Gerudos were laughing for their mistake.

She laughed. "But of course! Ye're thieves! Ya stole the conversation right?" she responded closing her right eye at them, they all laughed. "Don't worry! Ya sure did yer job hell enough!" she told them and the Gerudos sighed in relief while the others laughed at them.

"Oh well that's not the case!" Nabooru said crossing her arms. "The case is… that I have to go for a short damn while!" She told them. "Of course I ain't telling ya where!"

"But meanwhile I'm doing me business I'll leave someone in charge!" she said as she looked to see around, when she finally spotted the woman she wanted. She called her. "Hey Mina! Come here ya girl!"

The Gerudo, which responded to the name Mina, approached her. "Ok, Mina's goin' to take the charge around here! Any pest that oppose her is goin' to be so damn punished! Did I make me self clear enough?" she asked and the Gerudos hailed her. "Yes Sir!"

"Okay! That's all! Leave and return to yer posts!" Nabooru said and all the Gerudos leaved except of three, which included Mina.

The three held smirks. "This is our chance." One of them spoke. "That's right! We can finally get our revenge on Nabooru and those damn Sages!" the second one spoke.

Mina nodded and laughed quietly. "Ganondorf will surely appreciate this… little… war against Hyrule!" she told them and they laughed.

Meanwhile Nabooru was on her room preparing all the stuff for the travel until someone knocked the door. "Come in!" she replied not even taking care of who was at the door. "Ah! Mistress Nabooru!" one young, very young Gerudo called with a hint of shy in her voice, which Nabooru caught and turned to see who she was. "Mm… ya're the newcomer ain't it?"

The girl nodded. "Yeah that's right!"

Nabooru smirked. "Hey ye're quite shy to be a Gerudo! But I can see that ya have potential to be a good thief!" she said to her. "I… t-think so…" The girl said lowering her head.

"I… t-think so…? Hey mini! If ya want to be the best, ya need to show ye're the best!" Nabooru told her with a smile.

"O-ok… I mean yeah that's right!" The puny little girl said with enthusiasm, Nabooru nodded at her. "That's the spirit!"

Then she blinked. "Hey mini? But what did ya want?" she asked her. "I wanted to meet ya!"

"Ok then!" Nabooru nodded her head and smiled at her. "Tell me about yer self mini!" Then girl nodded and approached her.

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It hadn't been to long since the Sages left the Sacred Realm. That was, of course, because in the Sacred Realm didn't exist time. One of the Sages, known as Rauru the Sage of Light, did happen to live there, to watch eternally the seal of the Master Sword and the Triforce. For that, Rauru wasn't allowed to leave the Sacred Realm. For that he was talking to the Goddesses about this, because of the… Quest.

"Holy Goddesses!" Rauru began not being able to hold his curiosity. "Am I not supposed to watch this Sacred Realm?"

Farore, the Goddesses of Courage responded for her sisters. "Sage of Light!" Farore called. "We do know that thou must watch for the seal, for that is what we, my sisters and I, wanted to talk!"

Rauru nodded but interrupted her. "I must presume that I did though that was the reason! But I must say that I am completely unaware of thee intentions, Great Goddesses!" Rauru said with all the formality he could muster.

This time Din was the one to speak. "We do know, Sage! But let us speak! Hear what we have to tell you!" Din said with a loud voice but without any sign of scowling behind it.

Rauru just nodded this time quietly. "Sage! We have decided that thou will keep here to watch over the seal, even if thy fellow Sages need thou, thee are more needed in the Sacred Realm!" Nayru spoke this time.

"But who is going to go in my place, Holy Ones?!" he asked them.

Farore smiled to Rauru and to her sisters. "Oh that is something the Sages and thee are going to find soon…"

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The death was something Link wasn't sure about, because he was experiencing so many emotions right now that he wasn't even sure that he was death, but soon he would find that he was indeed death.

He was seeing what the creature was telling him.

The war.

The fire was everywhere, people was getting much and much frustrated as they saw the terrible scene in front of them. The war, where a lot of people were killing for them to survive. People were screaming in agony because of the loss of their beloved ones and even their own selves. And the warriors were just killing their opponents in the worst possible way just for what? To be able to win.

To win the freedom they were denied to because of the terrible circumstances they were living. Just as one single family was…

A man, and woman were riding on a horse, with their child, trying to escape of their destinies because they did knew what was for the future of this destined kid, their kid, which they were completely sure they were going to lose. They were approaching the entrance of the woods until a blast was shoot by the horizon and it hit the three.

They fell of the horse as this fell dead because of the tremendous, unknown force. The man quickly stood up while helping his wife and son, grabbing his sword and shield as he saw a Gerudo man approaching them. He turned to his wife and begged for her to leave. The wife did as was told but another blast was shot and the two fell. The man, which has protected her wife and son before the impact, was dead lying on the floor. The woman, heavenly injured got into the forest, where she found a Giant Tree.

"Please save my child!" the woman begged the tree. The Tree which was the deity of the forest took the child and the woman with her thankful gaze leaved the forest fearing that the Gerudo man found his son.

The Gerudo man found her soon and asked for the child but she responded that he was dead. Soon the man knowing that it wasn't true killed her and leaved.

Meanwhile the Tree called for a Kokiri.

"You are going to took him and raise him as a Kokiri." He said to the Kokiri, which had blue eyes and green hair. "I will do Great Deku Tree!" the girl smiled while she took the baby in her arms not knowing of the future that that baby was going to bring to them all.

"His name is going to be… Link"

To be continued…

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AN: Well that is for chapter 4! Hehehe I know it was long after I had updated but I really was busy… so to compensate that I did this chap the longest possible… but the lasts scenes were too short… but I don't think it does matter anyway! Well but I'm sure I need to explain some things…

4 years ago was all the Ocarina Stuff.

3 years ago Link leaved and got to Termina.

2 days before Link leaved Termina and Fierce Deity killed him.

Well that's the "info" hope you got my point…

Uhh right now I'm really busy… my vacations didn't last too much… 'cause my graduation and such…

Well… I need to go! Thanks for yer appreciation! Please tell me if there is anything wrong, as a way to say.

Awww... i nearly forgot! I passed the admission exam for highschool!!!