CHAPTER FOUR: SWORD AND SHIELD


Okay, when Navi told me that the Great Deku Tree wanted to see me, I didn’t know what to say. I knew what to do, though, so I got up and went to the door. Before I left, I grabbed my boots and put them on.

Once outside, I heard a familiar voice. “Hey, Link! What’s up?”

I saw that it was Saria and waved. I then climbed down the ladder to my house to meet her. “Hi, Saria!”

“Huh?” Saria was looking over my left shoulder. Then she smiled. “You’ve got a fairy now! How cool!”

“Yeah! Her name’s Navi. She says the Great Deku Tree wants to talk to me!”

Saria’s eyes grew wide. “Well what are you still doing here? Go! Hurry up and go! If he wants to talk to you then it must be important!” Saria started pushing me up the path.

“Okay, okay! I’m going!” Saria stopped pushing me. I turned around and faced her. “Bye!” I bolted off for the Great Deku Tree’s Meadow.

Now, just walking into the meadow would have been too easy. So, of course, Mido was blocking the path to get there!

“Hey, wimp! What do you think you’re doing over here?”

“The Great Deku Tree wants to see me, now move!”

“The Great Deku Tree wants to see YOU? HA! Why would he call you? You don’t even have a fairy!”

Navi growled and flew right at Mido. She crashed into his forehead purposely, knocking him on his butt.

“Ow! Hey!”

Navi hovered right in front of Mido’s face and glared at him. “I am Link’s guardian fairy! And the Great Deku Tree told me to bring Link to see him! Now let us through before I get really mad!”

“Oh, and what’s a fairy going to do?” Mido turned to me, “Even if I was to let you pass, you’d need a sword and shield! Get those and I’ll let you through!”

I shot off in search of a sword and shield. I knew that I could buy a shield, but I had no idea where to find a sword. So, naturally, I went to ask Saria. I knew she’d understand...

“That BUM!!” Saria yelled to nobody in particular after I told her. “Ooh! He makes me so mad!”

I put my hand on Saria’s shoulder to calm her down. “Saria, he was right! Navi tells me that monsters have been lurking around there lately! It’s dangerous!”

Saria stopped and looked at me. “I still think he’s a bum.” She then smiled, “But if you’re looking for a sword, I hid one through the hole that is up in the training grounds.”

“Cool!” I started off for the training area, “Thanks Saria!”

I ran to the training grounds, only stopping to pick up a few stray rupees. When I arrived, I wove through the fence and spotted the hole. Just big enough for me to crawl through. So that’s exactly what I did.

When I got to the other side of the hole, I discovered that I was covered in spider webs, so I batted them all off. Then, I looked around for someplace that Saria might have hidden the sword. I had to go to the other side of the area to look, that meant getting chased by boulders!

I got to the other side perfectly fine. I had to run, but who cares! That’s when I spotted it! A chest! I figured that Saria would have hid the sword in there. So I went over and opened it up. Sure enough, there was a sword. The Kokiri Sword, no less!

After about two minutes of admiring the blade, I placed it in the sheath that was laying at the bottom of the chest. Then, I strapped it around my back.

“Come on, Link,” Navi called to me, “Let’s go get a shield now!”

“Right!” We got out of the area the same way we got in. Of course, to get to the hole, we had to get chased again. “I know that they sell Deku Shields at the shop...” I thought aloud.

“How much to they cost?” Navi asked, interrupting my thoughts.

“Forty rupees.”

Navi looked at me, “Well, how many do you have?” She flew down to my belt and took my wallet off of it. She dumped the rupees out on the ground and started counting. “Fifty-three rupees! That’s perfect!” Navi put them all back in the pouch and handed it back to me. “let’s go!”

We went to the shop and walked inside. As always, they had Deku Nuts and Sticks. They also had arrows! But I only needed the shield.

“Hiya. What can I get for ya?” the shop owner asked us.

“I’d like to have the shield, please.”

He went over and got it off of the shelf. “That’ll be forty rupees.” I paid him, and he gave me the shield. I hooked the handles onto some bent iron that was on the sheath for my sword.

“Alright, Navi, let’s go see the Great Deku Tree!”