Dont own nuthin of zelda! except Rani! Rani is our fairy!

Chapter 5: A New Reality

Five Years Past since that dreadful day, after he had been forefully taken from his home, they had traveled several miles to a place where land covered everywhere, there was no sea, and there were no islands. The prince had spoken to a man with blond hair and a bandana wrapped around his forehead, then to a large man who was completely bald and had a tusk looking things under his nose, he nodded several times and glance at Lief multiple times throughout the conversation.

By the end of the day Lief was given a small treehouse just outside of town, another man agreed to train Lief as a goat herder. The first man the bird prince had spoken to promised to help Lief along and train him in fishing, swordsmanship and taking care of his home.

For several days he had spent most of his time in the tallest part of his home looking out the window at the sky knowing that Outset island was under the same sky. Rani did stay with him and usually played jokes on the goat herder or even on the great eagle that visited Lief and brought him different findings it discovered. She also kept Lief in line when he couldn't do something right, or fast enough. She made sure he got plenty to eat and told him about her brothers and sisters that she grew up with.

Eventually he got used tot he area and learned how to hunt wild boars or wolves. As he grew older he kept the mask that had saved his life in a chest in his basement with other boxes, he didn't want to remember anything. But no matter how much he tried he ended up going down there and bringing it out of the chest and spending hours down there telling Rani about his childhood before that time.

He did however always end up thinking about Aryll his little sister when he was at work in the fields, he would lay there staring up at the sky goats coming up to him and grazing near his feet. For some reason something told him she was alive, and his heart desperately told him to go looking for her. But he always told himself. Not yet, I must be patient and wait.

He woke up one morning and got dressed in his everyday clothes, he had put away the green hero clothes along time ago when he didn't fit in them anymore, he was given Ordon clothes that the village women made for him. He was comfortable in them so he didn't complain, Rani woke up in her window spot, she had made a small room for herself in the window sill that was plenty big enough for her, she stretched and flew over to him sitting on his head.

"Ready to start the day my dear friend?" She giggled and Lief got a questionable look on his face.

"Rani, what did you do?" After he finished he heard a shout loud enough to be heard from the village. He ran out his door not bothering to climb down the ladder instead he jumped and ran through the open fence leading to the village, when he came in sight of the first house he could see the shop lady at the bottom of the watch pillar, a large pile of fish was on top of it and her cat was sleeping ontop of them, the cat wouldn't come down no matter who called for her, not to mention the platform was ligned with catnip grass.

"Come here kitty kitty, come to mommy!" She called, the cat didn't even acknowledge her, she saw Lief come and she ran up to him frantically. "My poor little kitty won't come down, Lief could you help me? please" She then spotted Rani calmly smiling while laying on her stomach on Lief's golden hair. "I'm sure that little pest did this, as one of her little pranks!" Rani raised an eyebrow still smiling then made an inocent face.

"Muah? why would you think it was me, i was asleep in my cozy bed last night." Puts her hands under her chin giving the lady a grin.

"See Lief! did you see that!"

"See what?" He asked laughing.

"Stop protecting her from this guilty act!"

"No i'm not, i didn't see anything, shes on top of my head so how can i see whatever she did." He put an arm around his friend patting her shoulder and laughing at her flustered expression. "I'll help get your cat down, don't worry" He climbed the vines that held fast to the wall and up to the purring cat, he took a fish from the pile and waved it in front of the sensative nose, the yellow eyes snapped open staring at the fish. Lief then climbed down quickly and ran for his life, the cat jumped down and chased after him for her prize fish angrily.

A young girl dressed in pink came out of the shop watching her mother's cat chase Lief around the village. She laughed and came to her mother's side. "Kyotan finally catch a fish?"

Her mother just watched anxiously. All she did was point up at the stack of juicy fish. "That silly fairy caused my poor baby to stay up on that tall platform, she wouldn't come back to me!" The girl just stared at her mother, she had blonde hair and large blue eyes, she put a hand on her hip then walked off bored and went to find her other friends.

Lief ran into the goat field causing alot of them to get skittish and dart off to another side of the open field. Lief suddenly stopped and turned jumping onto the cat, it hissed angrily and clawed at his face, he finally got a good hold of the feline and held her up, she had a ticked off expression as he carried her back to her owner.

Rani clapped and flew next to him then standing on his shoulder. "Grand job Lief! I knew you could catch that menacing fairy catcher." She grinned evilly.

"So it was you, you only wanted to get back at the cat for catching you last month?"

Rani looked hurt. "You think that's the reason?"

"Rani, I know that was the reason."

Rani smiled. "I know you know" Lief roled his eyes at her comment.

Lief went back the way he had come. "Here you are Mrs. Tayo" Lief handed the cat back to the relieved woman.

"Thank you so much Lief, you're such a good young man to help me." she smiled and walked back to her shop.

When she was in her home he turned and walked back towards his home. "Rani...can you tell Mr. Shayne I don't fell well and I won't be able to take care of the goats today,"

Rani looked over at him then nodded as she understood and flew off. Lief didn't go into his home, or stayed in his little training area in front of his house, he went to the spring deeper into the forest. Those words Mrs. Tayo said to him hit him hard, he couldn't stand being around anyone else for a moment. Those words 'young man' brought back the painful memories of his island. He sat at the edge of the bank of the small spring and stared at the sparkling water.

"Why am I here." He threw a rock into the water angrily. "I SHOULD BE DEAD!" He shouted so loud birds in the surrounding trees took to the sky. "so why aren't I..." He leaned his head against the tree trunk behind him. "Who would attack an inocent island...we did nothing to them." The sun rose to it's highest peak and shadows spread across the area.

He closed his eyes, he hated his memories, he wanted them to disappear forever. The wind whistled making the water ripple, a small mouse came out of hole taking a drink from the water then scurrying off. He heard the sweet sound of music after a moment, it wasn't very loud, only feint, but he could still hear it. He opened his eyes looking around, he couldn't hear it anymore. It must have been my imagination...He stood up running his fingers through his hair and headed out of the spring.

There it was again, the sound of music. He looked the opposite way of the village and realized it was coming from there, some one was playing some kind of instrument. He followed the sound across a long ropped bridge, and came to another part of the forest, but he realized that the music wasn't coming from there, but where he was now. He listened to the stone walls, his eyes caught a glimpse of a tiny crack not possible to see at a longer distance, he put his hand to it and tried prying it open. Sadly nothing happened, he knew the music was coming from behind this wall and he wouldn't leave until he found it.

He found a large stick at jammed it into the crack then pushed on it and then pulled at it form an angle, the wall began to move and the sound becoming louder. He sounded happy and filled with excitement. Who's making this music! It was driving him up a wall, he wanted to know so badly, it was so close and yet so far.

Suddenly he heard the crack getting bigger and the large rock door began to move. It was much thinner than he expected it to be, he pryed his fingers in the crack and pulled while his foot pushed the stick. Finally the door unlatched itself from the wall after years of being connected to the rock. Lief jumped out of the way as it fell flat and smashing to pieces, he looked into the dark tunnel that he had discovered, he noticed there was a light at the end of it; the music was much louder now and it seemed that it ended at the back of this hidden cave.

He hesitated only for a minute before deciding to enter, the walls were cold when he touched them, but when he walked alittle farther he could feel a nice breeze and warmth. He walked out into a small field, there was a tall wall with an opening in front of him and something large walk past. Lief jumped at the noise of the large footsteps. He carefully walked forward looking around the corners, the thing that had walked past was gone, he noticed a ladder off to the left and quickly to the handles climbing up and onto a landing, what he saw took his breath away. It was a maze, the large creatures he saw had spears that could be seen from where he was standing, and there were multiple landings leading to narrow path at the end. He jumped to the next landing catching sight of a leafy creature it's body looked to be made from bark.

He made it to the last landing and hopped down into another small garden looking place, the narrow path opened up into another garden like place, when he entered he could see an ancient stone doorway higher up on the wall, and a tree next to it. He looked to his right and a girl dressed in green sat there playing an ocarina on a large rock. She looked up and smiled.

"Hello, how did you get here?" She questioned confused.

"I heard your music..." He said watching her.

She stood up and walked over to him. "But you wouldn't have been let into this part of the forest."

"I heard it near my village." She looked at him surprised. "You could hear my music from across the land?" Lief looked confused, but nodded anyway.

She smiled, "I'm Saria, i'm from Kokiri Forest." She held out her hand to him, he shook it and smiled, she wasn't that old, he wasn't expecting such an excellent ocarina player to be so good at her age. "Something tells me we're going to be grand friends." She reached into her pocket and held out a small bag.

"What's this?" He asked taking it from her hand.

"An ocarina of course."

"I couldn't take this, I don't even know how to play it." He tried giving it back to her, she shook her head though and looked him in the eye. "My dear Link, good luck."

"Link? no, it's Lief."

She didn't hear him, she smiled and her image seemed to blur, the surrounding area around him blured into blackness.

"I remember all the great times we had, i'm so glad you were able to find a fairy."

"What?" He was suddenly not looking at her face to face, but watching from a distance, the same boy from the vision he had had years ago was standing in front of her isntead. They were smiling at eachother, she hugged him wishing him good luck on his quest and then the image faded to nothing.

His eyes shot open, it was dark, the only sound he heard was from the trickling water of the spring. It had all been a dream. Or perhaps a vision, Rani was fast asleep on his knee, she must have come looking for him. He thought over what had just happened, the girl had told him her name and seemed to be talking directly to him...but then it all changed and she was talking to a boy link.

He looked down and Rani and touched her at the slightest, her small eyes opened and looked up at him.

"You were gone along time, dummy. Come on lets go home i'm tired, and we should eat something." she said, she was too tired to actually scold him, he scooped her into his hand and stood up. Perhaps his life would get alittle more interesting from now on...

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