Saria's POV:

It was a beautiful night. The stars and the fireflies merged into a dance together while my friends and I played.

"Mido has The Great Deku Tree summoned you yet?" Sozie asked. She put her green headband back into place and smiled.

"Of course not!" One of the twins laughed. "Remember it takes a very long time for the deku tree to make up its mind."

"Well it does!" Mido crossed his arms and scowled. "I, the great Mido could be summoned any day now to fulfill my destiny!"

The twins jabbed each other and laughed, mocking Mido. Rahoa, pulling at her blonde pigtails, joined in.

"Oh Mido! What do you think your destiny could be!? Oh never mind don't tell me...you ARE the king of slacking off after all."

They continued taunting Mido, while I just sat and smiled. I was thinking beautiful thoughts. It was so wonderful to be living here with my fairy.

Then I heard something. I stood up from the grass and glanced about. What WAS that sound?

One of the twins began guffawing at something.

"SHH!" I cried and held my finger to my mouth. "I hear something."

Instantly everyone went quiet.

I listened more closely and heard that the sound was coming from the Great Deku Tree's clearing. The sound was crying, more specifically...a little child's crying.

"I don't hear anything." Mido announced. "Let's go into the Lost Woods!"

Everyone else went bounding off to see who could get the furthest in the Lost Woods without getting lost.

I however, wandered over to the path that led to the Great Deku Tree. I know that I shouldn't go there without a summoning, but I wasn't able to resist the sound of crying. I would always treat injured creatures that I had found, why should a person be different?

I snuck to the clearing and poked my head out to see a small boy and a very tall girl. The tall girl was lying on the grass, with the little boy holding her hand to his face and sobbing.

Then the little boy saw me. At first he looked scared, but his lip began to quiver and with one yell he jumped up and flung himself at me. He clutched onto my shirt, sobbing.

"Saria..." The Deku Tree addressed me. "You know you should not be here without a summoning."

"I know Deku Tree, but I heard this little boy crying and I HAD to come!" I hung my head. Then I knelt down and hugged the boy. "Are you alright?"

"Mo...ma...." He wailed into my shoulder. "Mommaaaaaaaa!"

"His mother has passed on." The Deku Tree said sadly. "She has entrusted him to my care."

"Oh let me!" I cried, picking up the boy. "I can take care of him."

The boy fell asleep on my arms, still sniffling about his deceased mother.

"Very well." The Deku Tree complied. "You must make believe to the others that he is a Kokiri, for if the knew he was Hylian, they would resent him more then they will as it is. His name is Link."

"I'll bring him to the treehouse." I suggested. "He can live there!"

The Deku Tree agreed and I hurried back to the village, where my friends were waiting for me.

"What is that." Mido asked with a huff.

"He's a new Kokiri child." I replied, not looking him in the eye. This would be the first time I've ever lied to anyone, and it would be the only thing I would lie about. "The Great Deku Tree says he is to live in the tree house next to my house."

"Well let him go there then." Mido crossed his arms. Sometimes he got like this, but I was always patient with him. It was very hard to annoy me.

"He can't." I smiled.

"Let's play with him then!" Sozie beamed. "Hello there! What's you're name?"

"He's sleeping." I laughed. "But his name is Link."

"Weird name." One of the twins snickered. "Almost as weird as "Mido"!"

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Link was a sweet little boy. The Great Deku Tree gave him a blessing so he would be able to walk and talk like the rest of us so that the other Kokiri wouldn't get suspicious. He didn't like playing with the other Kokiri, and they didn't like playing with him.

Instead he would follow me around everywhere and help me pick flowers, or play with the squirrels and birds.

Whenever he was sad and would cry, the only thing that would calm him down was my song. I would take out my ocarina and play my song for him and he would always stop crying.

"I want a fairy too!" Link had one day said to one of the twins.

"Guess you'll never get one." The twin replied seriously. "Usually we get a fairy the minute we come to this forest, but you've been here over a year and still don't have one."

Mido especially didn't like him. I didn't know what I could do to make the other Kokiri like him, so instead I just made sure to give Link extra attention. I even brought him to my secret place in the lost woods, which soon became OUR secret place.

Just then I heard footsteps.

"WAAAAH!" Link yelled and threw himself at me. "Help!"

"What is it?" I asked him with a laugh.

A fairy chased after him and then stomped on his head a few times.

"Ouch!" Link cried and rubbed his head.

"Link what did you do?" I asked scornfully.

He put his hands behind his back and looked up at me with the face he usually does when he's done something wrong. "I just wanted a fairy like everyone else." He whispered tearfully.

I pulled him back into the hug. "Oh Link, just because you don't have a fairy doesn't mean you can't have friends."

"I love you Saria." He smiled childishly.

I smiled, but deep inside me I felt sad. One day Link would have to leave. I didn't want him to go, but one day he would have to.