A/N: I know this is really short. I will update the next before July though… thank you, everyone :)
If anyone asks me if I regret making such a decision, I will proudly answer them "no."
I guess being the youngest of sages pay off sometimes. In the area where I am the most foolish among them. Too wise to be human… Too foolish of a sage… Wisdom driven, yet weak at heart…
But at least I have a little bit of heart, unlike the rest of them…
No matter what they say, no matter what they do, no matter what price I have to pay, I am proud of my decision.
Yes, I have done a selfish thing.
But to save a man I love the most, no price is too great.
I can suffer anything including the shame and the humiliation of escaping my fate. My duty.
A sage is my duty no more.
My duty now is to make our eternity last.
No matter how short that will be.
If no one will forgive us, our bond will only grow stronger.
Death may attack but beauty can never be destroyed during the time it lasted.
Eternity does not forever.
It is the time span of a an immortal beauty.
She looks quite different than she had three hours ago.
I hesitated to touch her face for the past three hours since she was asleep. It looked so soft, that I was afraid that my calloused hands would leave a scratch on her flawless face.
Her hair grew long enough to reach her waist. Her arms and legs grew longer, and her upper body abandoned the square-ness of a child's and filled in the spaces in between with gentle curves that much represented a woman's. Her childish tunic dissolved away and was replaced by a soft dress that looked as light as a feather and as soft as silk, baring her pale arms, delicate ankles, and her gracefully arched neck. Her pretty childish face matured into a flawless face of a woman's, boasting the same pearl-like texture and ivory fairness. Her full, and crescent moon-shaped lashes were gently overlapped between the top and the bottom lid as she slept.
The changes I was seeing , she had not noticed yet.
After the Life Fairy took the effect, she collapsed into this deep sleep as a child.
She will awake into a womanhood.
At first, I was mesmerized as I witnessed the birth of this sleeping beauty in front of me. Bur now after three hours of breathless-ness, I am able to be at peace listening to her sleeping breaths.
The air was getting colder so I wrapped my cloak around her.
I brought her here on the bridge of Lost Woods where she had given me an ocarina so long ago. This was where we had said our good byes to the beloved past and headed out to the bleak future. That future however, is the past now and the new future will begin.
My heart is filled with excitement and joy.
I can barely wait until she opens her eyes and speaks to me in the voice I knew and loved. I want to speak to her like a best friend again. I've missed that too much. But watching her sleep like this was hardly boring and in fact, I probably wouldn't be bored at all if I was to watch her sleep all night.
She was so beautiful to me.
The night was deep, but I could not fall asleep as I gazed upon the wondrous gift that fate had finally bestowed upon me. That night, when she was entranced in her deepest sleep, I was awake than I had ever been in the longest time.
In the morning, she stirred a little in my cloak, before her eyes fluttered open.
I was too exhilarated to even breathe.
Her eyes searched around the forest frantically, and when her gaze met my astonished ones, it was at rest.
A moment lasted that way, with both of us looking at one another, exchanging a silent bliss.
"Saria…" I finally called.
"Did you stay up all night?" She asked, a rather disappointing first thing to say after mesmerizing the hell out of me.
"I… you… you're…"
"Different… I know. I feel different," She said, smiling. She stared at the ground then and her eyes sparkled with tears.
I reached out and took her in my arms for the first time since childhood and wondered how I could let go of her. It felt too nice and it was too real. We were no longer united within our dreams. We were real.
Her soft hands brushed against my arm and touched my face. "I'm not dreaming…" She gasped out, laughing and crying at the same time.
I shook my head to assure her.
Her laughter of joy made me feel as if warm spring showers were sprinkling on my skin.
She was so beautiful to me.
I can't stop looking at him.
When I couldn't, I didn't; but now that he was mine, I could not tear my gaze away from his perfect face. The face I had secretly yearned for, for so long. However, after all the time longing to speak to him, I could not utter a word. But I was savoring this moment.
Hand in hand with him… walking in the tunnel into a new beginning…
Then we saw a ray of light ahead.
"There's the exit," He said.
I said nothing but I had a knot in my stomach that had been growing since we left for this trail. It was getting tighter.
His hand squeezed mine. "You look so worried," He said.
"I am… a little… I never… I mean, I was always in the forest…" I said.
"So was I. It's okay… I think you'll like it enough… or you can always go back and be a sage," He joked.
I violently shook my head and clung to his arm like a child to his father. "No."
He laughed a little.
And I began to follow him.
What used to eat away at our hearts is now an acceptable light-hearted joke between us. I was too overjoyed to stop at a simple smile. I laughed along with him, in sheer happiness.
I don't think I've done that with him in ages.
But now this is the start.
He and I will be "we" from now on.
As I neared the exit, I stayed closer to him, and the knot in my stomach finally loosened as I stepped into the world beyond me. The tunnel ended as two curving walls created a short path to the world outside.
The sun still shined brightly, however, I felt no hatred towards it. It was a sparkling bright yellow sphere in the center of the infinite blue sky with tiny whips of clouds dancing to the winds. The expansive field of grass knew no end as it extended beyond the horizon with a few trees to disturb the flatness.
I lived in a forest my entire life, and then a temple, deep in the woods. I was never exposed to this kind of enormous open space. I felt liberated both physically and spiritually.
This was how mortals view the sun.
The world was so new, so fresh and so beautiful.
The air felt warm on my skin and the new blood pumping inside of me.
"Welcome to Hyrule," He said, smiling.
I looked at him, showered by the sunlight.
"I have so many things to show you and tell you. Come with me," He said and tug me along.
Did I have a choice? I was completely dependent on him now. No matter where he went, no matter what he was doing, no matter what he wanted, I will always be with him. That is the pledge I swore upon gaining my mortality. No longer do I have the power to protect him, and now the only thing I can do for him is to believe, to love, and to follow.
Like the mortal wives to their husbands.
We held each other's hand like we did what seemed like ages ago. His hands were always warm. I remember a time when this hand used to be smaller than mine. I had held his hand firmly inside of mine then.
But now, his hand folded over mine and it was his hand that held me dear.