The Legend of Zelda

Return of Evil

Link, betrothed to Princess Ruto of the Zora's, came back to Hyrule seven years later accompanied by his friend and fairy, Navi. He met up with Ruto and apologized many, many times about his not being around. He told her that he could not marry her, for he loved another. Link left Ruto and visited Lon Lon Ranch, where he met Malon again and Epona made herself at home. When he left Malon came with him and Epona was pregnant. He went to the Kokiri Village where he found Saria, sage of the forest. He stayed for a year, Epona had her baby and Malon left. Link left the forest in search of Zelda, now Queen of Hyrule. He married her and Malon came back to the forest. Link and Zelda had a child about the same time when Malon left her baby girl in the Deku Tree's care. She rode Epona back to the ranch, where she took over as manager. Seven years later, another evil befalls the land of Hyrule.

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Sare, go now, to Kiri. Her time has come, and yours too. Ye shall go one many an adventure with her. Leave, and tell Kiri to come to me. Go now, Sare. Sare bobbed and took off, toward Kiri's home.

Hey! Hey! Get up! The Deku Tree wants you! Sare cried, bobbing madly up and down in front of Kiri, who was still asleep.

"Alright, alright! I'm up now!" Kiri said, yawning. "A fairy?" she gasped.

I'm Sare, the Deku Tree wants me to be your partner. She also wants you to come!

"Wow, a fairy and the Deku Tree wants me! I must be really lucky!" Kiri cried and leaped out of bed and rushed to pull on her Kokiri boots and tunic. She ran a brush through her hair a couple of times and yanked on her hat, shoving her long red hair into it. Kiri ran out the door and jumped off her porch. "Hey Mido!" she yelled as she passed him. He waved back and ran up to her.

"Congratulations! You got a fairy!" he said, excitedly. Seven years ago, Kiri's mother told him to keep take care of Kiri, but not mention the fact that she was her mother. Mido promised, and kept to it as best he could.

"I know! And the Great Deku Tree wants me! Isn't it great?" Kiri said and slowed down.

"Not to be rude or anything, but the last time the Deku Tree called someone to him right after they received their fairy, they needed a sword and a shield. And you don't have either." Mido pointed out.

"I can always but a Deku shield at the store and grab a Deku stick." Kiri said.

"He needed a proper sword, not a stick."

"Ooh! You and your weirdo ideas! Fine, I'll get a sword. Will that make you happy?" Kiri snapped.

Mido laughed, "Actually, yes it would."

Kiri ran off into the grass in search of rupees.

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Sarie yawned widely and sat up. I wonder what I'm to do today, she thought. Then it hit her. Today was a free day! A day to herself, all about what she wanted to do. Sarie leaped out of her bed and ran to her wash basin and dipped her hands into the cool water and brought it up to her face. She relaxed as she washed up and hurriedly brushed her long blonde hair and pulled on her favorite dress. It was blue decorated with golden flames on the long sleeves and at the bottom for the trim. Her blue eyes wide, Sarie ran out of her room and down the hall.

Link was padding slowly up the stairs to wake up his daughter when she very nearly barreled into him. "I was wondering when you'd wake up Princess." He laughed.

"Daddy! I want to go out to the market today! I can, can't I?" Sarie said excitedly.

"Sure you can. C'mon, I'll go get you a guard." Link said and they walked down stairs together.

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Kiri ran up the hill where she had seen a hole that Mido had told her not to go into. She climbed over the fences that she could've gone around and crawled into the hole. When she stood, a very large boulder rolled past her and she gulped. It'd be very nasty if she was hit. Kiri ran out and down the passage way up to a small pot. She broke it and inside was a blue rupee, she now had forty rupees; the price of a Deku shield. Kiri waited for the boulder to pass before she ran out again. Seeing a large wooden box, she climbed onto that and looked around. Behind her was the passage way where the boulder rolled around and in front of her was a small cliff she could climb. On top of the cliff, she noticed a large chest. She opened it and nearly fell inside trying to bring out a very large knife. "This must be a sword!" Kiri mumbled and leaped back onto the box and off that, back through the small maze to the hole she had come in through.

"Mido! Mido! Is this a sword?" Kiri asked, running up to the Kokiri that raised her.

"Not just any sword, Kiri. This happens to be the Kokiri sword." Mido said.

Come on Kiri! The Great Deku Tree wants you! Sare said, taking Kiri's attention from the sword she just acquired.

"Right, Sare. See ya Mido!" Kiri said and ran off toward the store. She padded in and asked the shop keeper for a Deku shield. Kiri left, fully equipped with a sword and a shield, and ran off to the Deku Tree.

After slicing a Deku Plant's bud off and stabbing another, Kiri padded up to the Deku Tree, barely out of his sprout years.

Sare, thou hast come back to me. And Kiri, thou hast come also. Thee must listen well to my words. This concerns you, as much as Hyrule and thy forest. Kiri, has Mido mentioned anything about thy birth?

"No, nothing. I never even asked." Kiri replied.

As he promised. Kiri, thou is not a Kokiri. Thou is Hyrulian, from outside thy forest.

"What? How can that be true?" Kiri interrupted.

Thou was placed in my care when thou was born, and I entrusted thou to Mido. Your mother also left a horse in my care. The Deku Tree said, and a small horse padded out from behind the great tree. She wanted thy to name her.

"Wow, a horse, a fairy, and I'm not a Kokiri!" Kiri mumbled, "I'll name her . . . Nayru."

Then take Nayru from thy forest, young Kiri. And Sare shall come with thee. Sare, help Kiri in her quest. Teach her the ways of the forest, how to use her sword, and anything else she must know. Kiri, listen well to Sare's words and obey thy heart. Good-bye Kiri, Nayru, Sare . . .

Kiri, c'mon. Let's go! To Hyrule, like the Deku Tree wanted us to go. Sare said.

Kiri nodded and backed away slowly, then turned around and ran. "Mido! Mido where are you?" Kiri yelled.

"Right here, why do you want me so soon?" Mido yelled from inside his house.

"Because, I want to ask you something." Kiri said and sat down beside her friend. "Did you know that I was a Hyrulian?"

Mido sighed and faced the young, red-hair girl. "Yes, I knew. The Deku Tree and your mother made me promise to keep it a secret."

"The Deku Tree also said I had to leave the forest. I won't die, will I?"

"No. Only Kokiri die if they leave the forest." Mido muttered. "I hoped you would be able to stay in the forest longer, but that won't happen. I knew it wouldn't when I promised I'd care for you." Mido whispered, trailing off. "Saria, where are you when I need you?"

"Who's Saria?" Kiri asked softly.

"Someone I thought I knew. And you should go now. The Deku Tree meant what he said."

"Yes Mido, I promise I'll try to visit you." Kiri whispered, getting up.

"Wait. Saria wanted me to give this to another who wasn't from the forest." Mido said, pulling out a small ocarina.

"Wow, really? I don't even know her." Kiri whispered and took the gold ocarina Mido offered her. "It's so pretty."

"You'd best be on your way Kiri, don't let me keep you waiting." Mido said.

Kiri nodded and pocketed the ocarina before running out the door. She ran to the person who normally guarded the door. "I need to leave, Tomi, the Deku Tree wanted me to." Kiri said.

Tomi nodded and moved aside, letting Kiri pass. "Wait, Saria wanted me to teach you this song." Tomi took the ocarina from Kiri and began to play a song. "It was named Saria's Song by the Kokiri before you were born. Do you understand it?"

Kiri nodded and took one last look at the forest she called home and ran out. An owl hooted at her as she was about to run through the field. "Hoo! Kiri, look up here!" it said. "Up ahead is Hyrule castle! The bridge lowers at dawn and is pulled up at night!"

"Not that cursed owl again." Kiri muttered and ran past him, ignoring his words.

Shouldn't we have listen to him? Sare asked.

"Nope, he never shuts up." Kiri replied and ran on, Nayru running up behind her.

Well he was about to tell you that you should ride Nayru, the path to Hyrule castle is mush faster that way. Sare giggled and Kiri tried to punch her from the air. Kiri patted her horses head and climbed onto her. "Good Nayru, we've got to go faster if we're to make it to Hyrule castle by dark." she mumbled.

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Sarie, accompanied by her father and a guard, walked into the market. Breathing into the scent of fresh bread, she ran to the bakery and asked the baker for three small hot buns. She gave one to her guard, one to her father, and kept one for herself.

Link remembered the first time he had been here. Just from the Kokiri forest, after breaking the curse on the Great Deku Tree, he was in search of Princess Zelda, now his wife and queen of Hyrule. He sighed, remembering the forest and his friends there. Link missed Saria, the forest sage and one of his good friends. He noticed a small child wearing a green tunic pulling as horse after her and followed by a fairy. It can't be . . . what could a Kokiri be doing here? You were a Kokiri in the forest once, why can't another Kokiri come here? He thought. Because a Kokiri would die if they left the forest, He argued. What if it isn't a Kokiri? Link shook his head to clear his thoughts.

Sarie spotted a strangely dress kid about her age. "Hey!" she yelled and ran over to her. "Who're you? Are you from the forest my dad told me about?"

"I'm Kiri. I am from a forest, but it might not be the forest you are talking about." Kiri replied and yanked hard on the rope she wound and knotted around Nayru's neck.

"Silly, there's only one forest around here. It's the Kokiri Forest." Sarie stated, giggling.

"Then I am from the forest you father told you about. Do you know the way to Hyrule Castle?" Kiri said smoothly.

"Of course I do. I am the princess, after all." Sarie replied when her father and her guard came up.

"Sarie! What on earth are you doing, talking to a strangely dress commoner with a horse?" Urine said. Sarie's guards were always so over protective.

"Urine that is a Kokiri child. She can't or won't harm us." Link whispered to Urine.

"That's what Zelda said about you, and look who we end up with as a leader!" Urine said. He was one of the few people who remembered the harsh times when Gannondorf was the ruler of Hyrule, despite the sage's efforts to make the people forget.

Link laughed, "Hey kiddo, what's you name?" he asked Kiri.

"Dad, her name is Kiri. She's a Kokiri!" Sarie said.

"I can speak for myself you know, Princess." Kiri said.

Link laughed again. "I noticed that, honey. You know I was from the forest too?"

"Really?" Sarie said, "You, king of Hyrule, used to be a forest boy?"

"It shouldn't be that much of a shock." Kiri retorted, "And I still want to know where Hyrule castle is! The Great Deku Tree told me to go there! As did that cursed annoying owl!"

"The Great Deku Tree, huh? I was the one who rid him of the curse that some evil man put on him. I also opened the Door of Time, and got rid of the curses on the temples too." Link said, "You wouldn't happen to know a Saria, would you?"

"Not personally, but she had Mido give me this ocarina!" Kiri said, pulling out her golden ocarina. "And Tomi taught me a song too! Would you like to hear it?"

"Wow, I never knew Saria had another ocarina!" Link said. "And why would mean old Mido give anything to anyone?"

"Hey! Watch what you say about Mido mister!" Kiri yelled, shaking her finger at Link, "He raised me and is very nice you know!"

Link raised his eyebrows, "Mido, be nice to anyone? That isn't the Mido I know." Link said.

"Dad, who's Mido?" Sarie cut in, "And who is Saria?"

"Mido is a Kokiri, my best friend, and a good person!" Kiri said.

"Saria is the forest sage and one of my good friends, she also happens to be a Kokiri." Link explained, "The Mido I knew was mean and made other people do his work. The only person he was nice to was Saria."

"Aren't we going to the castle?" Urine cut in.

Kiri! The Deku Tree must have wanted you to meet these people! Sare said, Go to the castle with them, they might tell you something important!

"Okay, Sare." Kiri whispered to her fairy, "Yes, I thought we were too."

"May I ride your horse, Kiri? If my dad says it's alright." Sarie asked.

"Sure, you can ride Nayru. You just have to sit behind me." Kiri said and climbed onto Nayru's back. Link nodded and Sarie climbed on behind her.

A.N.- Next chapter is about Kiri's quest! YAY! And some shocking news from Kiri's mother. Review please!