A/N:This is MY version of the Legend of Zelda story. It's a bit of a compilation of most of the games, mostly following the storyline of Ocarina of Time with some details and events from other games mixed in. I did not follow a specific timeline when I wrote this, other than when the events take place in the game. If you're not into mixed timelines/games, don't read it. If you don't like the sound of this, don't read it. I don't want to hear how much you hate this idea, I want to hear the polite criticisms of those who WANT to READ this story and enjoy it. That is all. :)

"Big Brother!"

"Big Brother, wake up!"

A mess of dirty blonde hair groaned under a large brown blanket.

"Big Brother!" Aryll called a third time, more sharply now, as she pounced onto her half-sleeping brother's back.

"What?" Link finally spoke, voice cracked with sleep, eyes squinted near shut.

"You always sleep in! I told everyone I'd finally put an end to it." Aryll said, matter-of-factly. "It's time for you to get up."

The blonde mess rolled onto his back to face his sister, and couldn't help but pull a half-sleeping smile as her bright eyes, and perfect pink smile beamed down on him.

"Alright, alright." He sighed. "Lemme up."

She slipped off his bed and onto the floor, then headed for the open doorway, mid-morning sunlight illuminating her messy blonde braids.

"Oh, hi, Saria!" She beamed when she reached the door.

Link raised his eyebrows and turned his gaze towards the doorway as he tugged his boots on.

"Link! There you are." The green-haired girl waved from below the balcony.

"Hey, Saria." Link returned a grin before making his way down the ladder and to the ground. "What's up?"

"The Deku Tree wants to see you!"

Link's eyes widened in confusion. "What? Me? W-why?"

Saria shrugged, smile still spread across her face. "You'd better head that way."

"What? The GREAT DEKU TREE?" Aryll made her way to the ground next to her older brother. "What do you think he wants, Big Brother?"

Link laughed lightly. "I dunno, but I guess I'd better get to him. Don't get into too much trouble while I'm gone, huh, Aryll?"

"Hey!" She whined as he ruffled her hair.

And with that, he headed for the tree.

When he reached the tunnel where the Great Deku Tree resided, he stopped for a moment, to take a breath. Collect himself a little.

It wasn't like he was afraid or anything, but the Deku Tree rarely spoke to them individually, normally assembling them in a group before all of the children in the Kokiri Forest if there was an announcement to be made.

"Hey! You!"

A sharp yell interrupted his thoughts, and he turned around to see Mido storming his way.

Link sighed. If he was prideful in anything, it was that he found himself to be quite a patient person. However, it seemed that no one had patience for Mido.

"Just what do you think you're doing?" He pried, leaning closer to Link's face than he would have liked.

Link sighed, again, recomposing himself before he said anything he shouldn't.

"Hello, Mido. I'm going to see the Deku Tree-"

"Obviously, even a rock could see that, Link." He snapped before the other boy could barely finish his sentence. "I want to know why."

"Because he called for me."

Mido narrowed his eyes at Link and pressed his fists into his hips.

"Listen, Mido, I really don't have time for this." Link shrugged lightly as Mido opened his mouth to throw another jab. "I'll catch you later!"

He flashed a fake smile and headed into the tunnel, leaving Mido shouting a string of questions he really paid no mind to.

When he reached the Deku Tree he couldn't help but pause a moment to take in the surrounding area. It was always so calm and bright here, and it had a contagious lightening effect on those who entered.

"Link" the tree spoke with a calm, baritone of a voice. "Thank you for coming to see me today."

Link simply nodded once, unsure of what to say as he had never been directly addressed by the Deku Tree before, nor had he ever come to see him alone.

"There is someone I would like you to meet before I tell you what I have called you here today for."

As if on cue, a small blue fairy flitted towards Link, circling his head once before stopping right in front of his nose.

"Hello! Hey!" She chimed in a high-pitched voice.

"Link, this is Navi." The tree explained. "I have been saving her for you until it was time to tell you these things you are here for today."

My fairy? Link did not speak aloud but his eyebrows visibly raised themselves.

He had only heard stories of the Kokiri children receiving these small companions, and they only did so before they were allowed to leave the forest.

The Great Deku tree provided life to the whole forest, and it was where the children of the Kokiri lived. In the forest, time did not progress the same way it did in the rest of the world. Days were longer, and the children aged more slowly than normal humans.

Link, however, had always been bigger than the rest of the Kokiri, as he was not originally from the forest.

When Link was younger, his parents had gone missing in an accident he knew very little about. An older woman from their village on Outset Island had taken he and his sister to the forest to leave them in the care of the Deku Tree. The tree along with some other Kokiri had helped raise Link and Aryll and they had called the forest home for years now, starting and ending each day in a small treehouse home with two windows and two beds.

When the pair had first arrived, Link got picked on quite a bit growing up because he aged slightly more quickly than the other children, but he learned to get over it when he met Saria, because Saria told him that she was different, too. And she was.

No one knew who Saria's parents were, but the girl had been born with brilliant, grass green hair. No one else in the forest had ever been able to make such a claim.

Link and Saria became good friends and would often be found separated from most of the others in happy isolation, away from the occasional jabs that were thrown their way even as they matured.

"Link, Navi is here to be your guide."

"My guide?" Link gazed up at the great tree.

"Yes. Your guide," he repeated. "What I'm about to tell you has been a secret to most everyone for a long time now.

After a long while of sitting cross-legged in the warm grass, Link wasn't sure how to react.

The Great Deku tree had told him so much; of his parents, his Hylian lineage, his quest.

His fate.

The man from the desert.

The King of the Gerudo.

Everything.

It was all so much for a boy about 13 years of age to comprehend. But it was his destiny, as the tree had told him. To become a hero.

The Hero of Time.

"Do you understand, Link?"

Link snapped his head up, breaking away from his thoughts.

He looked down for a moment and then nodded at the Deku Tree.

"You must leave the forest. You must go and you must save Hyrule, save the world, from this terrible fate."