Saria sat on the roof of her house, watching the Kokiri running to and fro in a frantic game of tag. Her fairy was darting around her head and bugging her about visiting the skull children, whom the fairy thought Saria hadn't visited recently.
"Saria, come on! The Skull Children are bound to be lonely! Let's go visit them!" The fairy yelled, landing on Saria's shoulder and tugging on Saria's green hair in order to get the girl's attention.
"I visited them yesterday, remember? Oh, wait a minute, I just remembered that you spent the whole afternoon sleeping," Saria said in response. The fairy huffed in annoyance and sat on her shoulder.
"It's not my fault that you labeled the bottle wrong. You really need to fix those labels so it won't happen ever again," The fairy snarled. Saria giggled at the fairy's response, her giggles made the fairy more annoyed. The fairy grumbled to herself, angry words that Saria couldn't hear or care about.
"Saria?" A familiar voice suddenly called from the pouch. Saria jumped and almost fell off the roof in surprise.
"Nabooru?" She said as she opened her pouch and pulled out a green medallion.
"Why did that talk? Who is Nabooru? What are you doing?" Her fairy frantically asked, jumping up adn fluttering around Saria's head in search for the source of the voice. Saria rolled her eyes and she snatched the fairy out of the air. The fairy squacked in surprise as Saria shoved the fairy into the pouch she just had pulled the medallion from and closed it.
"Saria? I almost thought I contacted Impa again. Who was that?" The medallion asked again.
"That was my fairy, sorry. It's been a while, how are you?" Saria asked, turning away so that the kokiri don't see her talking to a medallion. The last time they saw her talking to it, Mido asked the Deku tree and Saria got a lecture about being lax about her duties.
"Nothing good, Saria. I really need to find Link. Something has come up and it's urgent that I find him. Have you seen him?" Nabooru asked.
"No, I haven't seen him. He hasn't been by for a while," Saria said thoughtfully. Nabooru sighed through the medallion.
"He hasn't? Interesting. Do you know where he usually is?" Nabooru asked.
"He talks about Lon Lon Ranch a lot, maybe he is there. What is this about? Can I help?" Saria asked curiously.
"Don't worry about it, Saria. I'll go see if he is at Lon Lon Ranch. I need him for..."
Nabooru broke off the link that had corresponded between her Spirit Medallion and Saria's Forest Medallion. She blushed as she suddenly realized what she had said to Saria when she started rambling. She had forgotten that Saria was still a child, with a child's innocence. However, she pushed that out of her mind and thought about the location Saria had mentioned. She had hoped, almost expected, Saria to know where Link was and give her a definite location. They were childhood friends, after all. However, Saria's mention about the ranch at least gave her a hint to where her prey was located. She grinned, it was time for her to start the hunt.
"Viento, come!" Nabooru called. After a few minutes, she heard soft hoof-beats from the general direction of the stables, the soft heavy steps becoming louder with each stomp. She smiled as her horse stormed across the barren fortress to greet his master with a nuzzle against her cheek. She gently shoved the horse's face away from her own, gently scratching the horse's mane as her own greeting to him.
"Let's go to the Ranch, boy!" She said as she clambered onto his back. The horse snorted happily before he raced down the sandy road and out of the abandoned fortress.
"All right, Epona. You can return to Malon, if you so want." Link said at the entrance to the Kokiri Forest. The horse snorted into his face before turning around and trotting in the general direction of Lon Lon Ranch. He laughed and walked through the wooden opening until he reached the Kokiri village. All the children stared at him before returning to their own business, they rarely see anyone tall and seeing anyone who is taller astonishes them.
"Link!" Link heard Saria's voice before he hugged him from behind. He jumped in surprise, to Saria's delight.
"I was hoping you would come. Nabooru has been looking for you," Saria said as she let go and skipped around Link to face him.
"Saria, when was she here?" Link asked worriedly, already looking around for the Gerudo that happened to be on the top of the list of people to avoid.
"Oh, she wasn't here. She contacted me through the Medallions and…why? Why are you so worried?" Saria asked as she noticed how white Link had become.
"Saria, what did you say to Nabooru?" Link asked.
"I said I haven't seen you in a while. Is something wrong?" Saria asked.
"Uh, its nothing. Don't tell Nabooru I am here, okay?" Link asked. Saria nodded, and then she gave a puzzled expression.
"Link, what does 'sex' mean?" Link dropped his bag when he heard Saria say sex.
"Where did you hear that, Saria?" Link asked hoarsely as he picked up the bag and headed up to enter Lost Woods.
"From Nabooru. What does it mean?" She asked persistently
"Its means…a bad word in another language. Don't ever say it again…" Link said, wondering what else Nabooru might of accidentally mentioned.
"Oh…" Saria said, looking down at the grass as she thought about what Link said. They walked in silence all the way to the temple before she spoke again.
"Link?"
"Yes, what is it?"
"What does 'ravish' mean?"
Nabooru clung to her horse, ignoring the cold wind that was racing across Hyrule Field biting at her face as she noticed the small black dot known as Lon Lon Ranch get bigger the longer Viento galloped.
"The hunt has begun!" She crowed giddily to the moon above her. Viento returned her yell with a crowing neigh of his own as he continued galloping across the field.