Chapter 2 – Princess Ruto's Chamber
The next day, Ruto awoke in her chamber with her head aching from all of the smashing it had taken the day before. She wailed as she felt her head. There were few bandages on her cuts. Her nurse had aided to them while she slept and a large breakfast had been prepared by her servants. Ruto walked to her mirror and looked at herself as she ran her hands over her head. The shape of the Zoran head looked strange to many Hylians. She felt around the tips of her head and thought; "this is not where my pee comes out." It reminded her of yesterday's incident and caused her to grow angry at the four of them.
"Here here little princess. I have your breakfast, specially prepared for a poor little Zora who had a rough day. This is a small feast, prepared just for you, my princess." It was her servant bringing her a grand breakfast.
Ruto said nothing, but continued to look at her head and ears in the mirror wondering if her friends really thought that about her.
"Princess ... Come and get your delicious meal." She took Ruto under her arm and walked her over to the table to sit her down for the meal.
"I don't want this! Get it out of my room!" Ruto cried.
"But Ruto, myself and the others spent all morning preparing this for you. You looked so tired when you arrived back from yesterday. What happened yesterday, Ruto?"
"Get this out of here!" Ruto motioned for the servants to remove the feast from her chamber.
They looked at each other puzzled. One of them began to lift Ruto onto the chair so that she could spoon-feed her.
"You love our meals Ruto." She said as she moved the spoon towards Ruto's mouth. "Here it is comes ... open wide ... just take small little bites–"
Ruto knocked the spoon out of her hand. "I said take it away!"
She threw her plate was thrown across the chamber. Then she got up on the table and began ruining the food, squashing the fruits, tearing the fish and throwing all of it into the shallow pool below. Soon the table was overturned and she continued to throw food at the servants. They watched in horror as Ruto ruined the feast they had prepared for her.
A few hours later another servant arrived at her chamber. "Good day, my princess."
Ruto ignored him.
"You've made quite a mess. The King is not impressed and he would like you to clean it up. All of it. It is an insult to all who have lived in this chamber before you to desecrate it as you have done. It is also an insult your attendants who prepared–"
"You clean it!" Ruto interrupted.
"The King has asked that you clean it, my princess. I will not disrespect his wishes, and I know that you won't either. Now get to work."
Ruto stuck her tongue out at the servant as she approached the soggy mess in the water now polluted with the foods from her breakfast. She picked up a cantaloupe and threw it at him.
"That's quite enough. I will report your disobedience to the King. Since you're unwilling to follow his orders, I will send a group of my staff to your chamber to have it cleaned for you. They will not be happy with you and nor will your father. You will now resume your regular duties for the day. Lord Jabu-Jabu is patiently awaiting his meal. Now go to the Fountain and prepare it at once!"
"Stupid servants!" Ruto yelled as she stuck her tongue out again.
He departed angrily.
Ruto had recently begun refusing to do her duty of preparing the daily meals for Lord Jabu-Jabu. It seemed that as she got older, she began to think more of the importance of her position. She began to wonder why, she, a princess, should take orders from anyone, and why she should have to show respect to those of lesser titles. The same rules didn't seem to apply at Hyrule Castle as great walls separated the Royal Family from the commoners at the marketplace.
A few days ago, Ruto had forgotten to arrive at Zora's Fountain to feed Lord Jabu-Jabu. When she came the next day, one of the Zora servants said to her,
"Now, Ruto, you forgot to feed Lord Jabu-Jabu yesterday, and he was very hungry. I had to feed him for you and his meal was three hours late! Try to arrive timely everyday to feed the great lord. You owe your Zora heritage to him and forgetting to feed him is a clear sign of disrespect and directly against orders from your father, the King."
Ruto responded, "I don't care! Nobody gives me orders, I'll do whatever I want, because I'm a princess and you're a stupid servant!"
"That's not polite, Ruto. Respect is something all Zoras have for each other regardless of their position or title. You should be honored to have this as your duty, my princess. The other children are quite envious of you for it and their duties are of a much more mundane nature."
Ruto stuck her tongue out at the servant and went to prepare the meal. She swam around to catch two large fish from the water and placed them on a large tray in front of Jabu-Jabu. She looked at him with a stuck-up look and said, "Take it already! I shouldn't even be feeding you. I'm a pretty little princess and you're a...you're just a... big...old, and ugly whale!" She spat at him in disgust and walked away.