Darkness made room for dawn, landscapes changed from Sandy deserts to the lush green fields of her motherland. She didn't take the time to admire any of those changes, she didn't have the time to. She just kept running as fast as her feet would carry her. Occasionally, she dared to look past her shoulder to see if they were chasing her still, and to her dismay, they were. Cradling her baby a bit closer, she focused on the road in front of her, and tripped….

She managed to get up fast enough but they had already caught up with her. There was no way she could get away from them unharmed, from those who shared the same blood as her, but didn't share her opinion, and she knew that she could, would die by those hands, and partially she embraced that, but she could not let them get to her baby first." How ironic" She thought, "to be ended by the very people you tried to help. Please let the goddesses forgive you your foolishness." Without any doubts left in her she turned and, mustering all the strength left in her frail form, she dashed away again, but she didn't get far. Just three seconds after she resumed her flight, she was hit by an arrow, blood was staining her Gerudo outfit dark red…

Her sight began to blur and she was losing speed rapidly. They would catch up with her eventually, she was bleeding too much to escape death, and she was leaving a trial, but she might manage to reach someone else before any of that would happen. Her hope was the only thing that kept her going, the hope for a better world , her hope for the small child in her arms, the reason she was there in the first place, the only reason.

"No, not the only reason" she corrected herself." You're in this position because of him as well……If he wasn't the" She willed herself to stop at that, she didn't have the time for thoughts like that.

She refused let them take away the Gerudo tribes only hope. The Hylians only hope.

She refused to let her people take away the light of the world, the hope for a united Hyrule.

Looking around her, she noticed that she was completely lost. Her sight was already darkening and she crawled toward the only thing she could still see, a wooden bridge.

And then darkness overwhelmed her….

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It felt as if someone was shaking her, saying things to her that she couldn't comprehend. Fearing that beasts had come to feast on her and her son, she screamed and tried to move away from the unknown offender, only to find that she could not. Her limbs refused to obey her and she had already started to panic when the creature finally said something she could understand.

"You're dying……..Yet something is keeping you here………The trees tell me that it has something to do with the bundle you're holding…..Here, let the trees give you strength"

She felt something glow and then, some of her strength returned to her. It wasn't enough to save her though; both knew that, the strange creature and her. She opened her eyes to see a green haired child with a fairy in front of her, and suddenly everything became clear her.

Taking some of the cloths away from the bundle, she revealed her son to the strange girl. "Please take him….I…..I'm no longer able to protect him……the…the fate of the world…….depends on…….him……

The girl took her baby from her when her arms started to shake. She didn't have much time left.

……his name……is Link……He'll……He'll be…… the Link to…..a

Her strength lasted her just long enough to say what was needed, and when it left her, she just felt strangely content, safe in the embrace of an unknown stranger who was going to take care of her son. Her only regret was not being there for him, Link, when he grew up. But her last thoughts weren't just for him. No, her last thought in this world was for Gannondorf, her beloved, no matter how tainted he had become by the rituals forced on him by Twin rova.

In her last prayer to the goddesses of this broken world, she prayed that what she had seen wouldn't become reality. That, by doing what she did, it all could be avoided. That the two persons she held most dear in the world wouldn't have to face each other.

Her consciousness left her for the final time when she was lying on the floor of an unknown forest, cold, alone, and having done what made that thing possible that she tried to prevent all along.

The goddesses have a cruel sense of humour sometimes…..

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Saria looked at the small child lying in her arms. The boy had blond hair, and the bluest eyes she had ever seen. Feeling sorry for the young child, she hugged him closer before walking back to the forest.

The Deku tree was calling her, but in her heart, the girl had already made up her mind. She wasn't going to abandon this child in any way.

The moment that the now dead women had touched her, she saw his future, his pain, his loneliness and everything he had to do. He needed her; he needed the one thing most would refuse him.

He needed love, for being loved was the one thing that didn't come naturally to him like anything else.

In her mind, he was the link between her and the forest, the only thing keeping her there.

The only thing needing her there. And for him, she would ignore the calling of the trees a bit longer.

He was hope, and prove that the goddesses had been listening to her. TO her, he was the prelude of her new day.

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A/n A bit of a confusing chapter, I know.

First of all, the trees are calling Saria, they want her to awaken as the new forest sage. This chapter also explains why she goes to the lost woods once Link leaves, he no longer needs her.

Secondly, the she in this chapter, is Link's mother. She's on the run for Hylian soldiers.

A civil war is raging on the once peaceful lands of Hyrule (it's the same one as in the original story, just with my take on it)

Anyway, I hope I didn't disappoint the people who have read this story so far. I've been too busy to update, so this chapter is a bit scatterbrained as the ideas didn't stop coming, but I didn't have time to work them out properly

Hope you liked it though

~~ Destiny's charm ~~