Link and Navi didn't stop running when they were out of the Lon Lon Ranch-no, instead, they kept running back to the entrance to the forest. At the state they were in, it didn't take too long for them to get to the tunnel. Link and Navi panted as they crossed the bridge.

"I hope that teaches you a lesson, too!" Navi panted, too tired to yell.

"Yeah," Link agreed, "-stay away from girls."

Navi glared at Link. "Saria's a girl, too, you know!"

Link shrugged. "She's ok because she gives me junk. You should see my closet someday," Link added, looking as if that thought was clearly very satisfying.

"I don't want to," Navi said in disgust. "Din knows what's in there..."

Link smiled happily. "I love that type of reaction."

They walked towards Saria's house, but nobody was there.

"Saria?" Navi called out, checking the higher floor.

"Give it up, Navi, she isn't here." a voice said. It was Mido! "I don't understand why a no-good slob wants to see Saria."

"Excuse me?" Navi asked, insulted.

"I was talking about Link," Mido said, jumping out of the shadows in front of Link.

"Say, what are you doing here, Mido?" Link accused suspicously.

"I'm supposed to be guarding Saria's house so nobody would steal her rupees." Mido's gaze sharpened on Link's bulging rupee bag. Link's hand moved quickly to hide it from view.

"Where is Saria, Mido?" Navi demanded. "We really need to know! It's urgent!"

Mido's gaze shifted to the blue fairy. He hesitated. "Well...if you really need to know, she's in-"

Link quickly took his attention towards Navi in advantage and sprinkled some rupees on the floor.

"-the Lost Woods. You should go...hmm...left, right, left, right again, straight, then left, right, left, and then right."

Link quickly bent down to the carpet and snuck a few rupees.

"That should lead you straight to Saria." Mido finished. There was a sneaky look in his eyes. He grinned.

Link took his last few moments and threw the red rupee the farthest he could towards the open drawer. Just in time, Mido turned towards Link.

"Link, put back the rupees."

"Who, me? I didn't take any," Link said cheerfully. A rupee plunked to the floor. Link swiped it and threw it over his back.

Mido rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Just get outta here, all right?"

Link and Navi got out of the house quickly.

"I'm slightly suspicous, Navi. That isn't like Mido. Usually he'd throw us a few insults before we leave."

Navi frowned. "What d'you mean, "we"?"

"Ok, ok, maybe just me, but still..."

Navi floated up towards the Lost Woods entrance. "Oh, stop being so paranoid. Mido is nice around nice people."

Link's thoughtful face didn't waver as they went through. Fortunately, Navi remembered Mido's directions, and they ended up at a small meadow with a maze.

"What the heck?" Navi exclaimed. "Mido told us that Saria would be right here!"

"I told you Mido's a liar," Link grumped. They started to head towards the maze, but a gate sprung up, and Link heard a growl behind him. Navi turned pale.

"That's a Wolfos, Link!"

"Oh, that's very useful," Link snapped. "Do I just slash it with my sword?"

Navi nodded. "Use your shield, too. A Wolfo's claws can hurt realllll bad."

Link unhooked his shield and his sword. The Wolfos howled again and slashed at Link, barely touching his shield.

"Get closer, Link! If he can't hit you, then obviously you can't hit him!"

Link got closer and the next hit the Wolfos made created a clean mark on Link's shield. Link gulped, but almost magically the cut seemed to disappear, replaced with fresh wood.

"How did-"

"It's made from magic Deku Tree bark! Kill the Wolfos, Link!"

Link made a straight lunge and missed, landed hard on the ground. The Wolfos took the opportunity and clawed-hard, on Link's leg. There was a thin scar. Link howled in pain.

"OWIIIEEEE! Why you little-"

Link got up, eyes rolling around madly, his mouth foaming. Even the Wolfos looked a little taken aback. Link started doing incredible moves, rolling and slashing the Wolfos in the back, and then finally managed to make a stab at the Wolfos tail, pinning it to the ground. Navi watched in fascinated horror. The Wolfos howled in pain and scratched Link on the arm. Link growled, took out a Deku Nut, stunned it, stepped on the Wolfos tail, and pulled the Kokiri Sword out. The Wolfos let out one more cry of pain and vanished in blue flames. Link fell to the ground. Navi flew over to Link urgently.

"Are you all right, Link?"

Link got up, looking amazed. "Tell me that that was a dream,"

"No! That was...that wasn't you, Link. What happened? How did you just..." Navi trailed off.

"I think I was really tired," Link offered as an explanation.

"No...I don't think..." Navi faltered again. She was thinking of what CFN, Central Fairy Network, had said.

"Children of Destiny are extremely hard to find. Usually, there's a couple round in Kokiri Forest. Hahaha, Bob, isn't an honour to be partner to one?"

The green fairy chuckled. "Yup! Anyways, moving onto their personality...Children of Destiny are extremely stupid and absent-minded, and most fairies, if a Kokiri, desert them quicker than they would a Hylian. But the Children of Destiny grow more and more smarter and more skilled in combat as they age. Well, for a Kokiri, they wouldn't age, so you get what I'm sayin', but if a Hylian...back to you, Ed."

"Thanks, Bob. There are also extremely rare cases when Children of Destiny are stupid and absent-minded for quite a time, but then at random points in their life, they can grow more skilled and smart than any other Child of Destiny. This random period of time don't last too long, hehe. Then they go back to being stupid and absent-minded."

"Hey, Navi?" Link's voice broke through her thoughts.

"Yeah?" Navi mumbled. Could it be that Link was a Child of Destiny? Well, he could be a little dim-witted and as for absent-mindness...well, Link covered that a little bit too. The Wolfos, as well. Link could've never done that before. It all added up. Link was a Child of Destiny, and was a rare case too.

"Shouldn't we get moving? You've been um, staring at the particular piece of grass for like, five minutes."

Navi felt numbed as she followed Link though the maze. A newfound feeling was growing. Was it perhaps respect? Navi was silent, thoughts whirling through her mind.

"Hey, Nav, I think we're here."

There was a huge triforce telepad with a strange sign on it. Farther than that was Saria, sitting on a tree stump.

"You're here, Link! Finally...I wanted to teach you a song."

Link stared disbelievingly at Saria. "I got lost in the woods, fought a Wolfos, found my way out of a maze just to learn a stinkin' song!!!"

Saria glared at him. "Fine, then, turn around and leave, and all your work will be a waste."

"Sure," Link said cheerfully, turning around.

"Wait!" Saria called. "Ok, I'll give you some broken Deku Sticks."

Link stopped in his tracks and looked thoughtfully towards Saria. "Give me a dozen Deku Seeds, and you got a deal."

Saria grumbled but slapped the Deku Seeds on Link's hand and pushed some Deku Sticks into Link's other hand. Link , satisfied, stuck them in his pouch and took out his ocarina.

"The song I'm going to teach you is called Saria's Song," Saria explained.

Link tried hard to suppress a snigger.

"Ok, go on." he managed to say.

"You see, when you play this song, you can talk with me with the ocarina."

Link nodded.

"The ocarina is..." Saria leaned closer. "...magic..."

Link stared, dumbfounded. "Wha? Magic?"

Saria looked like she was going to explode.

"Magic, you dolt!" Saria snapped. "Don't tell me you don't know the definiton of "magic"!"

Link grinned. "Of course I do...it's um...like....uh...."

Saria started to turn a bright red. "Ok, I'm just going to teach you the song, ok?"

Link nodded, putting the ocarina to his mouth.

Dumdumdumdumdumdum

Link followed along perfectly, leaving Saria stupefied.

"How do you learn that so well?" she demanded. "I thought I'd have to spend all day trying to teach you. Well, anyways, now that you've learned the song, do get out of here."

Link slowly absorbed the information. After five minutes, he finally spoke.

"I dunno." Link slowly took in the rest. "Oh, you want me to...to leave...ah...ok...bye.."

Link and Navi left, leaving Saria looking huffy.