Chapter 3- Where is everyone?

"Wha-what happened?"

Link slowly raised his head up to look for Saria. He let out a yell as he rolled over onto his back. He lied there, panting for a couple minutes, and then tried to get up. He managed to get to his feet before he heard a bone-shattering CRACK! and fell to the ground again.

"AAAaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!"

His legs had given way beneath him; they were broken. He reached slowly into his tunic and conjured a bottle full of some red liquid.

"Heh…good thing I have this life potion."

He pulled the cork out with his teeth and slowly emptied the contents of the bottle, making sure to drink every last drop. He immediately began to feel the effects of the drink, and was back on his feet once more.

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Link sprinted back and forth from house to house. He had to find someone; get some help. But it seemed as though everyone in the Kokiri Forest had disappeared.

"HELLO?! I NEED SOME HELP! ANYONE? IS ANYONE THERE?!?"

Link ran all around the forest, but everyone had disappeared.

"Where could they have gone? They can't leave the forest!" Link panted as he double-checked all of the houses.

He even went to the Lost Woods to Saria's favorite spot hoping to find her there and learn that this was all a bad dream. But she wasn't there. In fact, all of the Lost Woods seemed dark and sinister without Saria's music resonating throughout it. Even the Skull Kids were gone. Link ventured back to the forest, and sat down and decided what to do next. Then all of a sudden, something began to nag at him from the back of his mind.

"It's quiet," thought Link, "really quiet. There's something…missing. What is it?"

"Hey Navi," said Link aloud, "why's it so quiet? I mean usually you're talking or…Navi? Navi?"

Link looked all around him, above and below, but Navi was nowhere to be found.

"Naaavvviiiii!!!"

Link pounded the ground in anger and frustration. Even though Navi was extremely annoying, she was his friend, and always knew what to do at a time like this. But she was gone; probably to the same place the creatures took Saria. And to think only a minute ago she was reminding him of Princess…

"Zelda! I've got to find Zelda!"

Link ran toward the exit and came out at Hyrule field, and for the second time that day he was thunderstruck at what he saw.