CHAPTER TWO: A NEW LIFE BEGINS


I don’t know how, but we survived the fall. My mother was able to swim, too! She kept us both above the surface so that we could breathe. By then, I was crying hysterically.

I really don’t know how long it was that we drifted down the river, but it was morning when someone finally found us on the riverbank. It was a young girl who had been fetching water from the river.

“Oh, Goddesses!” she exclaimed as she saw my mother’s battered body. “What happened here?” The girl bent down over my mother and flipped her onto her back. Then, using all of her might, she picked up my mother and myself and walked off into a lucious green forest.

The girl carried us for a while until we came to a clearing with a huge tree in it.

“Great Deku Tree! Look!” the girl called.

The tree furrowed its woody eyebrows, not that it seemed to have any eyes, and probably stared at us. “Where did you find theis one?”

“Down by the riverbank.” The girl answered.

My mother started coughing. “Please... I am... Kari...” The girl, Saria, and, I’m guessing, the tree looked at my mother. “Please... My baby... My son... Take care of him... Protect him... Please... Plea...” Mother fell silent.

“Son?” the girl asked to nobody in particular. I started crying almost directly after she said that. The girl ran over and bent over my mother. She moved part of the cloak to reveal me, wrapped in my blue blanket. She picked me up and started rocking me back and forth. “Shh, it’s okay. You don’t have to worry now.” I calmed down after a few minutes, and she looked at my blanket.

My blanket had my name sewn into it. “Link?” the girl said aloud. She hugged me and smiled. “Well then, Link. Welcome to the Kokiri Forest!”

“You’ll be taking care of him, then?” the Great Deku Tree inquired.

“Yes, that’s right. I just wish that we could have helped her more.”

“We did all we could. You know as well as I do that she lost far too much blood for us to do anything.” The tree furrowed its eyebrows again, “Those wounds aren’t fresh, who knows how long she could have been bleeding.”

“You’re right. I’ll send some people to bury her and make a memorial when I get back to the village.” Saria left the tree and headed int othe Kokiri Village with me in her arms.

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a/n: I am so sorry that these first couple of chapters are so long, but I promise that later chapters will be longer. You have my word.

Oh, and here’s a few books that I recommend reading.

1. Dealing With Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede
2. Searching For Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede
3. Calling on Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede
4. Talking to Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede

That’s a lot from one author, huh? Anyway, I haven’t found the “Book of Enchantments” yet, but when I do I will let you know how it is.