"Ruto's Wish"
Chapter 1, Memories and Pains Authors Notes: Hello. This is my first completed Zelda Fic, so please go easy on me. I hope you'll enjoy what I've written please read and respond accordingly, but no inherently bad responses please.
It was another beautiful day in Hyrule. The sun was shining brightly and plenty of light was coming through the entrance of Zora's Domain. Young Zora children were playing happily while the adults gambled there rupees on the Diving Game. A beautiful Zora princess came down the stairs from the thrown room, and looked forlornly out across the domain.
Just like the rest of her people, the princess had fins on her forearms and hips, with a rubbery blue colored skin on her body. She had webbing between her toes and between her fingers. She had a figure like a Hylian. She was considered very attractive by many of her people, but she only had eyes for one man. Her name was Ruto. His was Link. She was the Sage of water. He was the Hero of Time.
After watching the children play for a while, she softly turned and followed the path towards the entrance. She reached the entrance behind the waterfall and jumped through to Zora River, her wet body reflecting the light off the curves of her form. She walked over by the Zora well by the entrance, and sat down to rest, dangling her feet over the edge as the sun slowly rose into the sky. Alone. I she thought sadly. She sighed, and looked at her reflection in the water below. She thought, observing herself in the water. The last time Link truly visited Zora's Domain was the month after he returned from Termina and told all of his friends about his adventure. Since then, he has worked as a global super hero, and went wherever the princess of Hyrule, Zelda, sensed trouble. He had been so busy; he no longer had time to visit.
Princess Ruto was so caught up in her memories, she hadn't noticed the blue tektite that had slowly sneaked up on her. A blue tektite that had a special power. By now it was noon, and she stood up to return to the domain. Suddenly the tektite lunged at her, creating deep gouges in her left thigh. Crying out in pain, she turned to face her attacker. But before she could defend herself, the monster slammed itself into her, causing her to go reeling backwards towards the well. As she fell in, her head slammed into a rock, and she sank into the water she thought as she started to loose consciousness. And she continued to sink to the dark tunnel below. ********************************************************************
Ruto groaned and rolled over. There was a severe pain in her left leg, but she dismissed it and kept her eyes closed. Suddenly she jumped up, remembering the events that had occurred. Her sudden movement caused a shock wave of pain throughout her body, and she sank to her knees. Gathering her breath, she leaned back to view her surroundings. She appeared to be in some sort of cabin. The object she had fallen from was a bed in the corner. A torch sat beside the door on the opposite side. To the left were a couple of jars, with a table and chairs sitting next to them. A chart was to the right of the bed on the wall, a window over the bed. She grabbed the sheets and pulled herself up to a sitting position on the bed. She examined her thigh to see how bad the wound was. It had scabbed over, but the sudden jerk of her muscles in getting of the bed had torn it back open. Fresh blood oozed from the wound. It ached terribly. As she lay back down, she heard someone come up some sort of ladder outside. She grew tense, worried about the person coming. Would he be nice? She found out as soon as he stepped through the door.
A young blonde man dressed in green was hurrying down the road in kokiri village, carrying a roll of bandages in one hand, and some sort of putty in the other. He wondered as he headed in the direction of his house. He came upon a tree house with a balcony. He scrambled up the ladder quickly, and Link entered his home.
Link entered his house, preparing to treat his patient. "Link!'" Ruto shouted. " What are you doing here?" He gave her a friendly irritable look. " I live here! I brought you here because I saw you washed up in the Lost Woods. You were hurt pretty bad." Ruto said nothing about this, but put her hands on her hips and put a lecturing look on her face. " Why haven't you come to visit me in the Domain? You're a terrible a man to have kept me waiting so long!" " I just got back actually." He said. " There was an avalanche on Snow Top Mountain in Termina. I had to protect the Gorons." Ruto softened her look, but quickly tensed back up when another wave of pain hit her. " Let's take a look at that leg now, shall we?" Carrying some bandages over from the table, he sat them down on the floor and took her leg by the knee, examining her wound. Butterflies filled Ruto's stomach as his fingers softly ran over her skin, checking for internal bleeding. "Well, it seems you have been moving a bit while I was gone." Link said, noticing the newly broken scabs. Ruto said nothing. She was busy taking pleasure in the soft touch of his hands. He took a strip of cloth and a bit of special adhesive he found in the forest. " Now listen carefully." Link said. " I am going to wrap this cloth around your leg to prevent more bleeding and to keep the wound from being infected. When I reach the count of three, I'll pull real hard to keep it from coming loose. It may hurt. Understood?" Ruto nodded, and Link started to wrap the gauze carefully around the wound. " OK, here goes. One." Link yanked hard with all his strength " Yow!" Ruto shouted, grabbing his shoulder for support. When the pain finally stopped, she let go of his shoulder and slapped it, seeming thoroughly upset with him. "Why didn't you let me know? You were supposed to count to three!" "If I gave you till three," he said. " You would have tensed up, and that would have been bad for your muscles while you healed." She contemplated his response, realizing how correct he was. " Where did you learn all this stuff?" She asked him. " I often got injured myself during my adventures." He said as he put the extra bandages in his belt. " I had to learn to self-treat my injuries, or I wouldn't have survived." As Ruto thought about her situation, she remembered something Link had said. " Hey, you said you found me in the Lost Woods, right? Well, I wasn't anywhere near the Lost Woods when I got knocked out. How did I get there?" " I found you next to the lake in the Lost Woods. There is a tunnel in the bottom that leads to the well by the entrance of Zora's Domain." " So that's how I got here!" she said, amazed. " I fell in the well! So," She said, starting to grumble. "Guess that proves how little I know about my own home. I can't believe I was ever chosen to be the Sage of Water." " Life has its little secrets for us." Link said comfortingly. " And speaking of secrets, where did you get that gouge? Looks like something pretty serious attacked you." " I was caught off guard by a blue tektite." She recalled. "It cut my leg and then body slammed me, making me fall back into the well and I hit my head." Link nodded gravely. " If it was a blue tektite that scratched you, then we better get going." Link stood up and headed for the door. "Wait a minute! What's the hurry?" she shouted. Link stopped and turned to face her. " I've recently discovered a new breed of blue tektite that scratched as well as slams its victim. As it does this, it secrets a unique toxic venom that causes the victim to die slowly." "You're joking!" Ruto shouted, her face turning pale. "How can something as simple as a blue tektite do something as deadly as that?" " I've seen it. A blue tektite scratched a crow. An hour later, as it continued to fly, it slowly died. It's a painful process. The crow was crippled with pain as it went. As it turns out, the larger the organism, the longer it takes for it to die, since a Wolfos that was bit took a few more days to die. It seems all the monsters are evolving, and I can't find the origin of this evolution. But I promise," he said crouching down beside her comfortingly. " I won't let that happen to you. You are too important to me to lose like this. I'll keep you safe." Ruto's heart jumped into her chest. She realized. " The scientist by Lake Hylia is developing an anti-venom." Link continued. " I'll send someone to let your father know you're alright. But we must hurry. We have only a few days before the venom starts to take effect. You rest, while I go get supplies. You'll need all the strength you can get." Link left, and rested for a moment outside the door to gather his mind. He thought. And he took off in the direction of the Kokiri mart.
As link reentered his home an hour later, he saw Princess Ruto sitting on the bed, looking at the blanket she had wrapped up in with a tear in her eye. She looked up as he entered. " This is the blue blanket I made for you when you returned from Termina. To remind you of us. I can't believe you still have this." " I hold on to every gift with emotional value." He said. "Especially those from my friends. I find that the only proof of true friendship is through remembrance of fun times from the past." Ruto looked again at the blanket. " I learned how to sow just to make this for him." She whispered softly to herself. " And he has kept it all these years, he cares that much." And for the first time in her life, Ruto broke down and cried.
Chapter 1, Memories and Pains Authors Notes: Hello. This is my first completed Zelda Fic, so please go easy on me. I hope you'll enjoy what I've written please read and respond accordingly, but no inherently bad responses please.
It was another beautiful day in Hyrule. The sun was shining brightly and plenty of light was coming through the entrance of Zora's Domain. Young Zora children were playing happily while the adults gambled there rupees on the Diving Game. A beautiful Zora princess came down the stairs from the thrown room, and looked forlornly out across the domain.
Just like the rest of her people, the princess had fins on her forearms and hips, with a rubbery blue colored skin on her body. She had webbing between her toes and between her fingers. She had a figure like a Hylian. She was considered very attractive by many of her people, but she only had eyes for one man. Her name was Ruto. His was Link. She was the Sage of water. He was the Hero of Time.
After watching the children play for a while, she softly turned and followed the path towards the entrance. She reached the entrance behind the waterfall and jumped through to Zora River, her wet body reflecting the light off the curves of her form. She walked over by the Zora well by the entrance, and sat down to rest, dangling her feet over the edge as the sun slowly rose into the sky. Alone. I she thought sadly. She sighed, and looked at her reflection in the water below. She thought, observing herself in the water. The last time Link truly visited Zora's Domain was the month after he returned from Termina and told all of his friends about his adventure. Since then, he has worked as a global super hero, and went wherever the princess of Hyrule, Zelda, sensed trouble. He had been so busy; he no longer had time to visit.
Princess Ruto was so caught up in her memories, she hadn't noticed the blue tektite that had slowly sneaked up on her. A blue tektite that had a special power. By now it was noon, and she stood up to return to the domain. Suddenly the tektite lunged at her, creating deep gouges in her left thigh. Crying out in pain, she turned to face her attacker. But before she could defend herself, the monster slammed itself into her, causing her to go reeling backwards towards the well. As she fell in, her head slammed into a rock, and she sank into the water she thought as she started to loose consciousness. And she continued to sink to the dark tunnel below. ********************************************************************
Ruto groaned and rolled over. There was a severe pain in her left leg, but she dismissed it and kept her eyes closed. Suddenly she jumped up, remembering the events that had occurred. Her sudden movement caused a shock wave of pain throughout her body, and she sank to her knees. Gathering her breath, she leaned back to view her surroundings. She appeared to be in some sort of cabin. The object she had fallen from was a bed in the corner. A torch sat beside the door on the opposite side. To the left were a couple of jars, with a table and chairs sitting next to them. A chart was to the right of the bed on the wall, a window over the bed. She grabbed the sheets and pulled herself up to a sitting position on the bed. She examined her thigh to see how bad the wound was. It had scabbed over, but the sudden jerk of her muscles in getting of the bed had torn it back open. Fresh blood oozed from the wound. It ached terribly. As she lay back down, she heard someone come up some sort of ladder outside. She grew tense, worried about the person coming. Would he be nice? She found out as soon as he stepped through the door.
A young blonde man dressed in green was hurrying down the road in kokiri village, carrying a roll of bandages in one hand, and some sort of putty in the other. He wondered as he headed in the direction of his house. He came upon a tree house with a balcony. He scrambled up the ladder quickly, and Link entered his home.
Link entered his house, preparing to treat his patient. "Link!'" Ruto shouted. " What are you doing here?" He gave her a friendly irritable look. " I live here! I brought you here because I saw you washed up in the Lost Woods. You were hurt pretty bad." Ruto said nothing about this, but put her hands on her hips and put a lecturing look on her face. " Why haven't you come to visit me in the Domain? You're a terrible a man to have kept me waiting so long!" " I just got back actually." He said. " There was an avalanche on Snow Top Mountain in Termina. I had to protect the Gorons." Ruto softened her look, but quickly tensed back up when another wave of pain hit her. " Let's take a look at that leg now, shall we?" Carrying some bandages over from the table, he sat them down on the floor and took her leg by the knee, examining her wound. Butterflies filled Ruto's stomach as his fingers softly ran over her skin, checking for internal bleeding. "Well, it seems you have been moving a bit while I was gone." Link said, noticing the newly broken scabs. Ruto said nothing. She was busy taking pleasure in the soft touch of his hands. He took a strip of cloth and a bit of special adhesive he found in the forest. " Now listen carefully." Link said. " I am going to wrap this cloth around your leg to prevent more bleeding and to keep the wound from being infected. When I reach the count of three, I'll pull real hard to keep it from coming loose. It may hurt. Understood?" Ruto nodded, and Link started to wrap the gauze carefully around the wound. " OK, here goes. One." Link yanked hard with all his strength " Yow!" Ruto shouted, grabbing his shoulder for support. When the pain finally stopped, she let go of his shoulder and slapped it, seeming thoroughly upset with him. "Why didn't you let me know? You were supposed to count to three!" "If I gave you till three," he said. " You would have tensed up, and that would have been bad for your muscles while you healed." She contemplated his response, realizing how correct he was. " Where did you learn all this stuff?" She asked him. " I often got injured myself during my adventures." He said as he put the extra bandages in his belt. " I had to learn to self-treat my injuries, or I wouldn't have survived." As Ruto thought about her situation, she remembered something Link had said. " Hey, you said you found me in the Lost Woods, right? Well, I wasn't anywhere near the Lost Woods when I got knocked out. How did I get there?" " I found you next to the lake in the Lost Woods. There is a tunnel in the bottom that leads to the well by the entrance of Zora's Domain." " So that's how I got here!" she said, amazed. " I fell in the well! So," She said, starting to grumble. "Guess that proves how little I know about my own home. I can't believe I was ever chosen to be the Sage of Water." " Life has its little secrets for us." Link said comfortingly. " And speaking of secrets, where did you get that gouge? Looks like something pretty serious attacked you." " I was caught off guard by a blue tektite." She recalled. "It cut my leg and then body slammed me, making me fall back into the well and I hit my head." Link nodded gravely. " If it was a blue tektite that scratched you, then we better get going." Link stood up and headed for the door. "Wait a minute! What's the hurry?" she shouted. Link stopped and turned to face her. " I've recently discovered a new breed of blue tektite that scratched as well as slams its victim. As it does this, it secrets a unique toxic venom that causes the victim to die slowly." "You're joking!" Ruto shouted, her face turning pale. "How can something as simple as a blue tektite do something as deadly as that?" " I've seen it. A blue tektite scratched a crow. An hour later, as it continued to fly, it slowly died. It's a painful process. The crow was crippled with pain as it went. As it turns out, the larger the organism, the longer it takes for it to die, since a Wolfos that was bit took a few more days to die. It seems all the monsters are evolving, and I can't find the origin of this evolution. But I promise," he said crouching down beside her comfortingly. " I won't let that happen to you. You are too important to me to lose like this. I'll keep you safe." Ruto's heart jumped into her chest. She realized. " The scientist by Lake Hylia is developing an anti-venom." Link continued. " I'll send someone to let your father know you're alright. But we must hurry. We have only a few days before the venom starts to take effect. You rest, while I go get supplies. You'll need all the strength you can get." Link left, and rested for a moment outside the door to gather his mind. He thought. And he took off in the direction of the Kokiri mart.
As link reentered his home an hour later, he saw Princess Ruto sitting on the bed, looking at the blanket she had wrapped up in with a tear in her eye. She looked up as he entered. " This is the blue blanket I made for you when you returned from Termina. To remind you of us. I can't believe you still have this." " I hold on to every gift with emotional value." He said. "Especially those from my friends. I find that the only proof of true friendship is through remembrance of fun times from the past." Ruto looked again at the blanket. " I learned how to sow just to make this for him." She whispered softly to herself. " And he has kept it all these years, he cares that much." And for the first time in her life, Ruto broke down and cried.