User:From Beyond The Stars/The Last Kokiri series

The Last Kokiri
I write fanfiction. If any of you ever pay attention to my userpage, this is a fact you should be well aware of.

Just recently, I actually finished up a story.The Last Kokiri I started writing it back in October and it has spawned a prequel and a sequel. It is a sequel to OoT, but it runs on what I call a 'cross timeline', a Hyrule where Link is never sent back, but it gets rebuilt, Ganondorf doesn't return and it doesn't get flooded. Navi still leaves Link, however, when he goes back to the Temple of Time with the intent to put the sword back (he ends up not doing so. I may have to write a one shot explaining all this)

There are other differences, too. As explained in the prequel, Link does not rescue Ruto. Instead, a Zora named Halcyone (hah, and I said I wasn't fond of OC's...) rescues her, gets given the Sapphire, and is betrothed to her.

The story goes as such. A year after the events of Ocarina of Time, a eighteen year old Link goes back to visit the Kokiri. However, during that year, Mido pursuaded the Kokiri to leave, jealous of Link, and they've all upped and gone. Only two stayed in the village, Fado and Fare. Fado was killed by Deku Baba's in the Lost Woods, thus leaving Fare all alone. Link finds her in the deserted village, and they go on a journey to find the Kokiri.

Before they leave, The Deku Sprout (now a Deku Sapling) gives Fare a necklace. This necklace is the Tear of Farore, a magical 'sister stone' to the Kokiri Emerald, gifted to the Kokiri when they were given the Emerald. After a run-in with some Wolfos at Lake Hylia, the necklace's true power comes to light; when Fare is attacked, she is engulfed in a magical green shield and can pick up the heavy Master Sword with ease. After the attack, they are met by two Zora, King Halcyone and his daughter, Princess Rutela. She gives Link and Fare some red potion before being sent off by her father, her mother coming over to them, none other than Queen Ruto herself. Link and Fare are invited to the Domain, and they enter via the Lake Hylia warp after a tunic is adjusted for Fare.

Link's tunic rips, however, disabling its magical properties. He makes it inside the Domain and onto shore, but has breathed in too much water and is taken to the Zora Infirmary. When Fare and Ruto visit him there, Ruto tells them troubling news; a Kokiri was found dead in Zora's River some months ago, his Fairy drowned trying to pull him from the rapids. This badly shakes up Fare and taints her perspective on the world. She develops a intense dislike for the Domain, calling it a "lonely, skyless world of shadows on the water" and longs to leave it. She makes a wish upon her necklace, saying that "I wish I wasn't a Kokiri. I want to be me, and not a little kid". The moment Link recovers, they leave the Domain and head into Hylia Forest, the forest around Lake Hylia, where Kokiri were spotted.

There, they make a terrible discovery. A forest meadow filled with ruined huts, Kokiri corpses and dying fairies. In the only unscathed hut they find Mido, badly wounded and holding his dead fairy, covered in his own blood. Fare hates him, not only did he tease her because of her bi-coloured eyes, he lead the Kokiri from the forest and caused the massacre. She loses it, hitting and punching him. Mido takes it all, telling Fare to 'finish him off' because he is a coward and hid while his people died, and that he shouldn't have lived. Link stops her, and Mido tells them that they were attacked by 'men in black armour' who Link recognizes as followers of Ganondorf, taking revenge upon the Forest Children, saying that Ganondorf might've succeded had they given him the Kokiri Emerald, though the attack was cruel and pointless. Mido coughs up blood and realizes his wounds are fatal; he is going to die. He tells Link and Fare to go far away from the forest meadow and to never look back, before curling up and spending his last moments apologizing to Saria over and over again.

Link takes Fare back to the Kokiri Forest. On the way, while she is sleeping, he touches her necklace with his left hand. The necklace responded to the Triforce of Courage, relaying back Fare's wish. Link is shocked and alarmed. Later, at the Kokiri Forest, Fare reveals to the Deku Sprout why she doesn't want to be a Kokiri; she is in love with Link.

In the (horribly cliche) epilogue, it has been a year since the events of the story. Farore visits Fare on the day Link is due to visit. The Goddess grants Fare's wish, and she is turned into a Hylian. Link and Fare fall in love, thus changing Hyrule's history forever and setting up the events of...