The Lost Link

As the bright sun shone through the window, the dappled light reflected upon the young Kokiri child’s face.

He was a very handsome child; he had a small button nose, and bright, ocean blue eyes although his eyelids currently covered them, as he dosed on his bed. A curtain of light blonde hair fell across his face, the rest of which was covered by a green hat that fell down to his shoulders. He was wearing the typical clothes of the Kokiri- a forest green tunic, and dirt-brown leather boots.

He was taller than the other Kokiri, as was frequently reminded by the air-headed Mido, who seemed to think that he was some kind of leader to them all and had the right to boss them all around. He was nothing special.
"Link!!" called a high voice from outside.
He didn’t stir from his slumber.
"Link!!" it called again.

Link awoke suddenly, sat bolt upright, and blinked a few times.
"LINK!!"

He slid off the bed, onto the wooden floor, and began to look around wildly for the source of all of the noise.

A green haired head popped up at his balcony, accompanied by the beaming face of his best friend, Saria.
"Goddesses! Link, what took you so long to wake up, it’s already time for the picnic." She said, climbing up the rest of the ladder and getting to her feet.
"I… uh… overslept." Said Link sheepishly.
"You seem to be doing a lot of that lately… anyway, hurry up, or we’ll be late and all the good food will be gone!"

Link fumbled about in his house for a few minutes, having a quick wash to wake him up, and making his bed hurriedly. Saria stood impatiently at the door, tapping her foot, although she was only doing it as she knew that it made Link feel pressured, and he’d get ready quicker.

When they were finally ready, they made their way down the ladders, and made towards the Great Deku Tree, the guardian spirit who watched over them.

They walked past the hut-like houses of the Kokiri, and past the gently falling waterfall as it made a soft trickling noise, the noise that often soothed Link as he tried to sleep at night.

They finally reached the Great Deku Tree’s clearing in the middle of tall trees, where the other Kokiri had lain out several cloths, each with a basket of food on top of it. Honestly, Link was ravenous; he hadn’t eaten since the night before.

Link and Saria picked the basket nearest to the Deku tree, and sat down, looking up at him- The magnificent tree stood easily up to 50ft tall, and was covered in beautiful bright green leaves, and bubblegum pink blossom as it was spring. He had obvious facial features carved into his trunk- large, glistening eyes, a huge, round nose, and a huge, curved slit for a mouth. Looking up at the Deku Tree brought a strong feeling of safety to Link. It made him feel that, as long as the Deku tree was there, nothing could harm him. Except maybe-
"Saria, what are you sitting with that dork for? He’s got no fairy, you don’t wanna hang around with losers like him!"
"Fairy or not, Links still my friend, Mido-…"
"Don’t even bother talking to him. Wait till his head deflates a bit… maybe it’ll happen when he realises that he’s egocentric maggot that’ll never get a girlfriend. When he gets his head around that he’ll be fine-…" Link was cut off.

Mido had jumped on top of Link, and was attempting to strangle him with his own hat. Link kicked out hard, and made contact with something fleshy- he had managed to kick Mido in the chest.

Winded, Mido rolled off Link, cursing violently, then after a second to regain his breath, clambered to his feet, and held up his fists.
"If it’s a fight you want Mido, your not going to get one, Link won’t sink to your level-."
"I’ll fight him any day. Been waiting for an excuse to let out some anger."
"No one will be fighting today, or ANY day." Boomed the Great Deku tree. "Mido, I’ve told you many times, this petty rivalry between you and Link must stop."
"This isn’t rivalry… He’s not worthy to be my rival; he’s not even one of us! He has no fairy!!"
"Yeah, you traded your brain for a fairy, Mido, that’s the only reason you’ve got one!" Snapped Link.
"ENOUGH!" Barked the Great Deku tree.

Despite how angry both Mido and Link were, neither would dare disobey a direct order from the Deku Tree. Link had only just realised that every Kokiri in the area was staring at both him and Mido. All of the attention seemed to have brought him to his senses. He stubbornly sat down and glared at Mido, who still had his fists raised.
"We came here to enjoy time together as friends- yes Mido, friends... You too Link… Now if you two can’t get on together, don’t BE together."

Saria looked highly annoyed. Link knew that she liked both himself, and Mido. He knew, however, that Mido had always put up a friendly front when Saria was around, and wished to himself that she’d see through it, so she wouldn’t mind him giving Mido a good punch.
"I came here with Link, Mido… go over to your other friends for now, I’ll talk to you later."

Thanks to Mido, Saria was in a bad mood for the rest of the picnic and didn’t speak much. This however, suited Link fine. He was too annoyed to talk, and enjoyed thinking of different ways to humiliate or hurt Mido.
"I’ll catch a giant skulltula and put it in his bed…" He thought to himself, as he helped himself to a large, green apple.

He looked around. If Mido was still around, he was likely to be shooting scathing looks at Link. This didn’t bother him. Fortunately, Mido seemed to have left early, much to the relief of the other Kokiri he was sitting with; they couldn’t touch any of the food in the basket while Mido was there, or he’d whine.

Saria not talking to him, Link decided that he might as well leave early too and go back to his tree-house to do a bit of drawing, or maybe plot revenge on Mido.

Distracted by blissful thoughts of what he could do, he didn’t realise that the very person he was thinking of was leaning against a tree trunk right in front of him.
"No Deku tree to stop me from beating the crap out of you now." Snarled Mido.
"What?" Said Link, looking around in surprise.
"Oh." He said coldly. "It’s you."
"I don’t see what Saria sees in an idiot like you."
"She’ll see through your mask soon enough Mido, and then she’ll know what a complete ass you are."
"Aha. But she won’t have chance… you’ll be gone soon enough."
"What’re you on about?" Asked Link, puzzled.
"Read my lips. You. Are. Not. A. Kokiri."
"Maybe not in your eyes Mido, now piss off."

He tried to push past, but found that Mido did not want to move.
"I’ve had enough of you, hogging all of the attention, and stealing all of MY friends. I used to be the favourite. I used to be popular... until you came here" He forced Link back, until he hit a tree trunk. Link could feel Mido’s warm, rushed breath upon his face, specks of spit hitting him in the face whenever he spoke.
"But not for long. I'll get rid of you, make you see that you don't belong here-"
"Get off!" Yelled Link.

Link pushed hard at Mido’s chest, until finally he was no longer being crushed. Mido stepped back a few paces, and raised his fists as he had done earlier, but Link was ready- He ducked quick, and flung his fist as hard as he could into Mido’s stomach.

He heard Mido gasp in pain, and watched as he fell to the ground. Mido smirked (he wasn’t hurt badly), grabbed Links foot, and began to pull him down to the ground. Link began to stumble, until he finally fell forwards- flat onto his face.

He could feel the blood leaking from his nose, and before he could scramble to his feet, Mido began wildly thumping at any part of Link’s body he could get to. Link raised his fist again, and punched hard at Mido- repeatedly. He hit him in the nose, and then in the chin, and then in the eye.
"LINK, GET OFF MIDO!!"

They both stopped suddenly- It was Saria.

Mido definitely looked worse off from the fight than Link- he had a bloody nose, a rapidly swelling eye, and one of his teeth was missing. Link, however, only had a bloody nose.
"He attacked me Saria!" Spluttered Mido thickly.
"What? YOU ATTACKED ME!"
"Link, how could you? I always thought you were a peaceful person!’ Saria said sounding upset. "You poor thing Mido…"
"That’s it. I’ve had enough of this. I’m leaving." Snapped Link.

He span around, and walked away from Saria, who was looking at him with utmost disgust. The blood was still trickling from his nose, but he was so angry, that he didn’t care.

He stormed past the small Kokiri huts, past the trickling waterfall, and climbed up some hanging roots behind his tree-house. He pulled himself up onto the ledge, and looked around at the village. He span around, facing the cavern that was the entrance to the Lost Woods.
No one could whine at him if he wasn't there anymore.
"Never go in there…many people have found themselves lost in the woods and never returned. It is no place for small Kokiri like you…" The Deku Tree had told them.

But according to Mido, he was no Kokiri. He was not one of them.

He took one last look back at the small village, remembering how his only friend had believed the horrible Mido over himself, and passed though the cavernous entrance into the misty darkness of the Lost Woods, where many people had ventured in, but nobody had ever returned.

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