Rosalinde moved along at a brisk pace, quickly crossing a stream or two as she followed a less-than-straight path to Zora's domain, blocking the odd Octorok projectile with a scimitar as she went.
The place hadn't changed much, water still ran everywhere and as she came to a small area at the end of the path, the waterfall still flowed freely.
With a bit of a run up and a powerful leap, she broke through the curtain of water and managed to catch the edge, climbing up through the harsh downpour and heading inside. The Zora rarely expected visitors, so for the most part Rosalinde could walk about freely without being seen, with only a minor feat of stealth to get passed the King into the small lake beyond where their deity rested.
Now that she was here again it didn't take her long to quickly scan the area, a wall at the far corner where there was some land, had been blown open since last time, perhaps from this 'Link' since he seemed to be so popular.
She swam over to the shore and walked into the cave entrance cautiously, not really knowing what to expect.
Richard kept following the music, back and forth, almost catching the child several times, untill he found himself back in the Kokiri forest. "I have led you from the forest, you shall not be stalfos. Not Stalfos." The child said from inside the woods. "If you get lost again I shall not be help, and you shall be a stalfos. Forever stalfos. Always Stalfos." The woods became silent again.
"Wait!" Richard screamed into the woods. "What about the boy in Green?" Richard turned and spotted the Kokiri who told him about the Tree.
"Did you find what you were looking for?" She asked.
"Yes, thank you. Have you seen my Zora Friend and the Gerudo anywhere?"
"I saw the Gerudo running out from where the Great Deku Tree used to live, but... I have not seen your other frient."
Richard sighed. "Well I guess I can wait here for him." He replied, sitting down next to the enterance to the forest, where he could see the entire Kokiri Forest.
The Girl sat cross-legged next to him. "So," She asked casually... "Why are you here in our forest?"
((I'm waiting for both Anon and Exile.))
Jon pulled himself onto the bridge, breathing hard he collapsed on his back. After a few minutes he sat up, trying to decide his next plan of action. Two entrances lay on opposite sides of the bridge, a breeze being felt through one of them, and an eerie faint tune being heard through the other.
"Well, mother always told me to follow the music." Smiling he headed to the source of the sound...
After telling the girl his story, the girl looked at Richard. "A Skull Kid." she said.
"What?"
"That is what the child was, A Skull kid... It is what Kokiri become if we get lost in the Lost Woods."
Richard noticed another person walking into the Kokiri forest. He looked at the girl, who was eying the new guy suspiciously. "This isn't common around here is it?" Richard asked
"No." The girl responded.
"Well, I'd beter check it out." Richard said standing up, and striding in the direction of the new-comer.
Obviously someone else had been here before, Rosalinde thought as she looked around the strange fountain. Clearly not anyone normal otherwise there would be rumours flying around about this place and it wouldn't be so abandoned.
"Great Fairy...?" Rosalinde said inquiringly as she approached the water's surface, looking into the fountain in search.
Quite suddenly the Great Fairy launched from the fountain's waters and twirled about in the air before coming to a rest before Rosalinde.
"A Gerudo seeks out my home?" the Great Fairy said.
"A dear friend of mine has been captured by a pair of witches, I'm afraid I may not have the power to defeat the witches as I am," Rosalinde said, bowing respectfully, "Please help me..."
The Great Fairy seemed to examine Rosalinde for awhile, casually floating in air still, until she seemed to come to a conclusion.
"You speak the truth, and while there is a part of you unworthy of trust, there is another side to you I can respect as much as the Hero of Time. It is that side of you that I shall grant this boon," the Great Fairy said, extending her arms toward Rosalinde and showering her in magical energy, it twisted around her tightly and infused into her skin.
"Another side...? Wait who's the Hero of Time?" Rosalinde asked, but the Great Fairy lunged back into the air and spiralled back inside the fountain, Rosalinde leaped forth and leaned on the edge of the fountain gazing directly into its waters.
The Fountain seemed far too shallow to hide anything, clearly Rosalinde wasn't meant to know the answers. With a sigh of resignation, she left the fountain curiously looking at herself for any changes.
She didn't feel all that different, maybe lighter but that could be a side effect, so she really had no idea what it was the Great Fairy had given her. Rosalinde made her way back through Zora's Domain, easily sneaking past semi-attentive guards and going back through the waterfall, being propelled into the water below by the force.
It was only then she realised just how fast she had moved, crossing an entire Domain in under a minute. She let herself float downstream, the current would eventually carry her back to the Fields.
((Interesting how you managed to go from the bridge from Hyrule Field to Kokiri Forest, all the way to the lost woods, Exile... Let me make sure I am not confused... Click here And here
Anyway, due to this confusion I am just going to pretend that my previous post didn't happen.))
Rosalinde drifted into a small pool south of the entrance to the path to Zora's Domain, idly staring at the sky in wonder.
The Great Fairy had given her something, but what exactly? How was she supposed to fight the witches with a weapon she couldn't see?
She was left back where she began, returning to the desert without something significant to fight the witches would be folly, it seemed she needed yet another advantage.
Who was this 'Hero of Time' the Great Fairy spoke of? She had too many unanswered questions and she was getting tired of them, although she hadn't a clue where to begin to look for answers.
Perhaps she should just continue following Nabooru's words, and look for this boy in green, someone who managed to get out to the Spirit Temple and retrieve the Silver Gauntlets must be somewhat formidable, someone like that doesn't mark a quiet mark in history.
"Who are you... Link?" Rosalinde questioned the skies, "I can't seem to continue my path until I know... Either I look for a Hero that I have no idea about, or I look for a boy. Perhaps he knows more about the Hero..."
Rosalinde righted herself in the water and travelled over to the edge to climb out, kicking some water out of her boots and checking on her scimitars once more.
She decided on returning to the forest, Link must have lived there so she may be able to learn more from his house. So she headed off once more for the forest.
((Im going to back track and add one move before the one I made))
Jon stepped through the entrance into what appeared to be, a large village. It was like something he had never seen before, small huts with even smaller people in them. All wearing green. There was one exception though, a regular sized man was running right for him, yelling. Looking for a way out he spotted vines leading up to another type of hollowed out log entrance. Using what speed he could he climbed up the vines as fast as possible and ran through the entrance. The man derectly behind him.
((Ok))
"Hey! Wait! Who are you?" Richard chased the man into the lost woods, but once he had entered the woods, the man was gone. Richard looked down the four paths, and heard the same melody that the child played while leading him from the forest. "WAIT!" Richard shouted. He knew the child was around here, playing that song, and though the child had helped him, he still didn't trust it.
Rosalinde walked back into the Kokiri forest, looking around at all the children idly. She was too impatient to search each house, so she instead went after the closest Kokiri.
"Excuse me," Rosalinde called to the child, whom seemed to freeze and looked at her nervously, "You must know of someone named Link, do you know where he is or where he lived?"
"He hasn't returned yet, he used to live in that house," the Kokiri replied, pointing at a house at the top of a tree, a ladder leading up to it.
"Thanks," Rosalinde said, moving over to Link's house and climbing the ladder before heading inside.
It was a simplistic house, a bed, a table, the basics of a home, but nothing there to hint at anything.
"Who are you Link...?" Rosalinde sighed again, sitting down on the Kokiri sized bed to think. Why couldn't she find anything that led to Link? All traces of him seemed to be lost except for a few stray rumours that didn't seem to have any connection, like Link was some strange saint that glided back and forth Hyrule randomly.
He had to have had a purpose, once Rosalinde knew this purpose she would be able to find him, the Deku Tree, the Spirit Temple, the Great Fairy in Zora's Domain, how did they connect?
Jon had followed the tune out into, what seemed to be a larger area, a black fence not allowing him to go any farther. As he approached the fence something began to shift through the bushes, followed by an eerie howl. A large wolf type creature had appeared out of the bushes, its mouth salivating and its gaze fixed on Jon jugular.
"Blast, no weapon!"
Richard flung himself from the forest at the wolf that had attacked the other man, tackling it as he removed his sword from it's scabbard. The wolf creature threw Richard off, and richard rolled, coming to his feet. The wolf lunged at Richard, and he turned to the side, swinging his sword with a swooping arc at the beast. The beast fell to the ground, it's movement ceased for ever.
Rosalinde sighed and stood up from Link's bed, wandering back out the door and gliding down the ladder.
"Hey! Are you Link's friend?" A Kokiri said as he ran over to Rosalinde.
Rosalinde stepped from the ladder and turned to regard the Kokiri.
"I don't suppose you've seen him?" the Kokiri asked hopefully.
"I'm looking for him actually, I'm as lost as you," Rosalinde replied, kneeling down to the Kokiri's level, "Link left the forest didn't he?"
"Saria might know where he went, she was the last one to see him," the Kokiri said.
"Oh? Where's Saria?" Rosalinde asked, her eyes regaining the former energy that she might finally be onto something.
"She usually goes into the Lost Woods, there's a strange meadow there, it's pretty hard to find unless you can hear the music," the Kokiri said.
"Music?" Rosalinde inquired.
"Yeah, the music of the Lost Woods, it's a nice tune, I'd love to learn it someday," the Kokiri said, "Just climb up some vines over there and enter the tunnel at the top, you should be able to hear the music from the entrance."
"Thank you, hopefully Saria can tell me where Link is," Rosalinde said, standing back up.
"Oh and lady, when you find him, could you tell him to come back soon? We all miss him," the Kokiri said.
"Sure thing," Rosalinde said, weaving around the Kokiri and jogging off to the vines, scaling them with ease and running inside the Lost Woods.
She could hear the music, just like the Kokiri said, it was a very catchy tune and she'd love to master it before she left here.
"Lost Woods huh... This could be interesting..." Rosalinde said, looking around for anything significant that could be her marker to remember where the exit was. No such luck in that department, so she'd have to rely on her sense of direction.
Fortunately traversing the desert often within a sandstorm improved one's sense of direction if they wanted to survive.
She headed off, following the music.
Rosalinde wandered through various tunnels through the forest, feeling a little lost already even though she was sure she hadn't gone far yet.
"What a creepy place," Rosalinde mused to herself as she walked up to an entrance but paused, turning and moving off to another entrance. She wondered how the music could carry so well through a forest, the notes sounded like they could reach anywhere in the world if they needed to.
After following the tune for awhile, Rosalinde grew a little tired, not knowing where the end was took the energy from her, so she untied a sash to pull out a silver lute, intending to occupy herself by finding the notes of the song.
She figured out most of the tune before she came to an entrance where the music no longer sounded muffled from passing through the thick forest.
"About time," Rosalinde said, playing the tune on her lute as she walked through, ready to reach for her scimitar.