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Chapter Nine: Horrible incident/Leaving the forest

I'm sorry for all of the typos that have been present before. Now, I am determined to make sure that others do not happen. Sorry again for random typos. I honestly try to find them.

Link slowly awoke and found that he had trouble waking up this morning. He looked around before he noticed that something was off. It did not feel like he was in the realm of nightmares again, though he knew that something was dreadfully wrong. "Ugh...why the heck..." he started before realizing what was wrong. There was a figure looming by the doorway to his house. The figure held a sword in his hand.

"You won't steal the girls from me ever again, Link!" he shouted. It was Mido! Link shifted and stood up, eying the sword that was in the fox's hand. This was bearing an eerie resemblance to the nightmare that he had been given.

"Steal?! I never stole them. They came to me," he said, and Mido just scowled at him. The girls were waking up and now they saw the blade in the lupine's hand. They gasped and hugged themselves up against Link, seeking protection against him.

Mido said, "You girls don't want to be with him. You're just there against him because he has helped you out before...that, and you are mortally afraid that he'll kill you if you leave him!"

This angered Link. Never before had he heard such a filthy lie be told to someone he loved, right in front of him. "That is not true! You shut up!" the bobcat called, stepping forward. The girls stepped away, sensing his anger and knowing not to intervene. Saria was remembering the nightmare that Link had mentioned before. Perhaps that was a vision of things to come, a warning of a happening that would change things forever?

She whispered, "Link, please, don't kill him!"

The golden furred bobcat shook his head and he said, "I do not intend to. Not unless I have to."

"You have no sword, Link. Better just to give up and let me cleanly lop off your head, you fool!" Mido snapped before charging in and lunging at Link. The girls screamed and covered their eyes, not thinking that Link would be able to act in time.

The girls heard Mido thud onto the table with a heavy grunt of pain. Link had also lunged forward, quicker than Mido had intended, and had jabbed his fist right into the boy's gut. Mido began to get up when Link came over and pressed his foot onto the fox's chest, glaring into his eyes. "Having seconds thoughts now, Mido?! Maybe you should give up!" the cat spat, anger flaming in his eyes.

The fox made a swing at Link's leg with his sword, but the cat swiftly moved and grabbed Mido by his arms before throwing him out of the house. Mido landed on his feet on the ground below. Link came up to the ladder and then he called down, "Give up, Mido! You can't defeat me!"

"Or so you think!" the fox called towards him and then he threw the sword at Link's head! He just barely ducked underneath the deadly projectile, and heard it thud into the wood above him. Then, Mido pulled out a dagger. Link turned and yanked the sword out of the wood before leaping down to face Mido.

Then, Mido said, "You now hold the forbidden blade, the sacred Kokiri sword! Any outsider who touches that is bound to be killed by the forest! Perhaps, if that is true, I won't even need to worry about having to take you out!"

"I'm not an outsider, Mido! Why do you resort to calling me that? Why are we even fighting?! We can talk this out!" he shouted, not wanting the fight to continue.

The fox stomped his foot onto the ground and shouted, "No, we cannot talk this out! If we tried, you would never listen! You would stamp out my opinions and shove yours down my gullet, just like everyone else has done to me in the past. Some mayor I am...no one respects me! Well, from this day forward, I decree that I shall be respected, or those who do not respect me shall pay a hefty price...their life!"

This reaction stunned Link and ignited a great fear in his heart. "You fool! You crazy fool! What has gotten into you! Has that shadow not left you!?"

Navi was now hovering by Link's head, watching the vulpine carefully. Mido's fairy was gone, probably hiding because of how insane Mido had become. Navi whispered into Link's ear, "I don't think that we have a choice. He'll terrorize the village if left alive."

Link looked at Navi and asked, "Are you crazy too?! I don't want to kill someone innocent here. He isn't necessarily innocent, but he certainly does not deserve death!"

Mido took the chance that he had while Link was distracted. The cat turned only just in time to see the vulpine coming at him and moved the Kokir's sword to parry Mido's knife. Handling the blade felt natural to him and he easily knocked Mido's aside before kicking him in the gut and knocking him up against a wall of the small canyon at the base of his house. Mido groaned as he held his gut and looked at the bobcat that he was fighting. "Fuck you...you slime...you think that you can kill me?!"

Link said, "I don't want to kill you, Mido. If you're going to keep attacking me, the only time that I would kill you is if it were accident or I had no choice."

The fox laughed at him and he said, "Oh really, Link?! Well what if I rammed myself onto your sword to make sure that you killed me? People would label you the murderer, not myself."

Link scowled in disgust. "You're an insane bastard, Mido! You think that people are just going to go with you, going to sympathize with you, without any sort of reason to?! That's not the way that life works! Trying to kill someone over it isn't going to solve anything!"

By now, the girls were nowhere to be found. Lina had went to the Sacred Forest Meadow. Saria was waiting at the exit to the forest. She knew how this was going to turn out. Even as she stood at the wooden bridge and listened to the yelling that she heard, tears ran down her face. She was not prepared for this. She was not prepared for any of it. She just had to hope that, perhaps, she would be wrong.

Mido charged at Link and jabbed his dagger at him. He was an amateur with sword fighting and was fighting Link, a natural expert. Link knocked the knife aside again and grabbed his wrist, twisting it hard. Mido gasped in surprise and pain and dropped the knife. Link shoved him up against the small canyon wall. "You will stop, Mido! Or else!" he shouted.

"Oh? I will? What makes you think that I am going to listen to a second rate asshole like yourself?!" the fox demanded of the bobcat, whom he deemed lesser than himself.

Link said, "I will knock you out and throw you into your house. Maybe get Saria to wipe your memory and make you whole again."

The fox laughed at his latter remark. "Make me whole again?! Wipe my memories?! Wouldn't that be the same as killing me, eh? Would you really put your conscience to that test?!"

Mido was right. To wipe his memories and make him a whole new person again was killing him, in a sense. After some mental debate, he decided that he was not going to do that to the vulpine boy. He gently let go of Mido and said, "Fine. But, you had best just not do this. I was not going to stay another day, Mido. I have other things to do before I return."

"You will never be allowed to return, you ass! Not after...I DO THIS!" the fox said before grabbing Link's sword arm and then driving himself onto the blade.

"NO!" Link shouted and tried to remove the blade. However, Mido struggled with Link using his full body weight, driving himself to the hilt of the blade. "You really think that you are something, don't you, Mido!" Link shouted in fear and frustration, not wanting the fox to die.

Mido looked up into his eyes and said in a choked voice, "Consider this a revenge on my part...a revenge for stealing my women!"

"What?! No! Mido!" Link said, finally pulling the now limp vulpine off of his sword. Blood coated his hands and the sword. As Mido collapsed on the ground, blood now began to pool around the fox. "No..." Link said, collapsing onto his knees and staring at the fox with great sorrow. The fairy came around the corner and looked on in horror at this turn of events. Navi flew over and explained what Mido had done, and the fairy nodded and seemed to understand before flying away to exlain the incident to the rest of the Kokiri

Saria heard the shouting stop. She assumed that Mido had done the deed that he was saying he would if ever someone were to best him in a real fight. She did not know what he thought that he might accomplish through doing that, though now he had successfully managed to make sure that Link was going to be exiled from the forest. It was a rule that was set in place that, anyone with blood on them or their weapon was to be punished. The punishment for murdering and having the blood of another Kokiri was permanent exile from the forest. That went for even if the killing or hurting was completely unintended.

Link knew that rule all too well, as he had spent all his time studying all of the various rules, particularly that one. He looked at the blade and sniffled in despair. "I...I'm sorry, Saria. I'm sorry Lina." His voice came out broken, almost choked sounding. He looked up, his lips shuddering, his eyes going wet with tears. His whole body trembled as he lifted the sword up and then went over to a stream that ran through the middle of the village to wash his sword off as well as his arms. The other Kokiri watched him, knowing the sacred rule in their hearts and wanting to beg with the others to let Link loose on this rule. They felt his despair and did not want this to happen to the poor boy, who had done nothing except try to save Mido.

Link felt a deep pain in his chest. It felt heavy, broken, weighed down by an invisible force. He sniffled. His nose was running. He felt tears dripping off of his chin, but he did not care. He could barely see the shape of two males talking to one another across the other side of the pool. Talking about how they were going to break the news that he now had to go, he was sure. He stood up and he said, "I know that I need to go...so go, I shall. Tell Lina, the mongoose girl, and Saria that I...I am sorry for this."

One of the males strode forward and said, "Link...you are given exile, but," he said, giving a pause. Link stopped, rather surprised. Something changed in his heart, a flicker of hope igniting. "Only for one day," the Kokiri wolf boy said.

Link was surprised, his ears flicking up again. "Only one day?" Are you serious? You had better not be joking around with me!"

The wolf nodded and said, "It was under extraordinary circumstances that Mido flung himself onto your sword and killed himself. You had not anticipated it, struggled to get him off, to save his life. Because of that, you are not at all guilty or deserving of permanent exile. However, one day must suffice to let you see where you might be if you were thrown out. Normally, that is all that Kokiri can survive when outside of the forest. After that, they MUST come back in, or die. However, there is something odd about you. I am sure that you can survive more than that. However, if you decide to remain outside of this forest, that is up to you."

Link felt joy overflowing him. He was highly relieved. He started to laugh after being told all of this. "Yes! This actually means that I don't have to be separated from them forever!" he called out before he then turned and he said, "I'll be back, but...not until quite a while later, I'm guessing. There is stuff that I have to do."

"Of course," the wolf said. "I am Marku, Link. I will be ready to greet you, should you ever come back after the day, with a warm welcome. I hate to do this, as does every Kokiri out in the forest village. But...tradition is tradition, and we uphold it anyways, thanks to the rules set by the Great Deku Tree that we have followed for...well, ever since time began. I am one of the first Kokiri, so I know how this all shall work."

Link took the wolf's hand and shook it, saying, "Thank you. You do not know how grateful I am."

"Of course. Now, please...go and do your duty for now. We will wait for your return," the wolf said to the bobcat, who turned around and then he stopped. Where were Lina and Saria now? He sighed as he just waited before moving on. Navi reported to him that she had seen no sign of the girls anywhere.

As he was leaving the forest, happy again that he was going to be able to live with the girls again, he first heard sobbing. He knew it was Saria, her sobbing voice coming through the wooden, hollow tunnel that led out. Then, he saw her, on the bridge, weeping. She was saying his name over and over again, tears flowing down onto the wooden planks.

He saw her and then he said, "Saria...d-don't cry..."

The tabby cat looked up at him and she asked, "How can I not? Mido has succeeded. I'm never going to see you again, Link. You're exiled forever...aren't you?"

Link touched her cheek and said, "Saria, not forever. Not forever. They said one day and that was it."

"No, that...that can't be true," Saria said, too far into sorrow to really think straight. However, she ran that phrase through her head and then asked, "D-Did they really say that, though?"

The bobcat asked, "Would I lie?"

She shook her head and she said, "I...I have to ask them to be sure of myself. I'm sorry, Link...I'm just...I have to hear from all of them that it is only one day before you will be allowed to come back and see me and Lina..."

Link nodded and held her close. "I understand, Saria. Don't worry. Go to her and let her know after you are satisfied," he whispered before moving her back. She pressed her lips to his and held hers there, just holding the kiss. Link was alright with that, putting his arms around her and holding her for at least five minutes, just doing nothing but kissing her and letting the love flow through him.

Finally, she let go and she said, "Alright...I, I'm alright. But, I did want to give you this." She reached to a small pouch that she had around her waist and now she gave it over to Link. "This is for carrying some supplies. Also, my fairy will give you a scabbard for the sword."

Link took it and put it around his waist before being handed a scabbard that wrapped around his torso, with the actual sheath in the back. He put the sword in and then clasped it I so that it would not accidentally come out unless loosened. Then, Saria licked his cheek and said, "You have an ocarina in there. It is one of my own, perhaps the best one. I have another one, so do not worry. Please, take it. And, when you play it, I hope that you will remember me, and Lina."

The gold furred bobcat could only slowly nod before he said, "Don't you worry, Saria. I'll be there for you." he then turned and said, "Later, hon." He broke into a run, leaving the forest behind for now. Now, it was his big quest...the time to start his journey. Saria stood there, watching where he had been, before she turned and went to the village.

You are welcome for the double whammy of chapters, btw. XD or, in lite speak. 815 (I think that would be close to "BTW" in lite speak) I dunno. X3