In all her naivety, the young kokiri girl had mistaken her shallow breathing and slow pulse as signs of her demise. Lying on the cold floor, she was forced to hear the girl's rapid footsteps carry away the one thing that had kept her going.
And then she heard her. She knew that it was her who had followed her, and she knew exactly why, in fact, she understood why. Barely mustering up the strength to raise her head, she looking in the face of the intruder, who was cleaning down beside her, knife drawn.
She didn't struggle when the cold blade entered her chest. She embraced the nothingness that would soon enter her, as she embraced her attacker. Warm tears left her intruders eyes, who didn't have the strength to look away from her dying form.
The last thing she heard was "I'm so sorry, but in the end, he was supposed to be mine"
She understood, she couldn't find it in her heart to blame her, her attacker, her best friend.
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People starting questioning the goddesses decision the moment Nabooru awakened as the Spirit sage. After all, why on earth would they make her the spirit sage? She wasn't qualified in any way, hadn't experienced any form of loss.
If only they knew…..
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The moment she met him, she was spent. He was so different from everything she had ever seen before. Sure, she had seen her fair share of man, but not one of them looked like him, could compare to him, that is, before he participated in the rituals…
The first time she met him, she had been 4. He had snuck out at night, leaving the protecting, suffocating, safety of his home. If she remembered correctly, he had been 8 at that time.
His life had already been planned for him. They decided who he got to meet, who he got to call his friends, who taught him and such. They decided when he would be doing what exactly, even his bathroom breaks were planned.
She just assumed it was normal at the time, after all, this was the first male Gerudo born into their tribe after 100 years. So when she met him, she was surprised to see that he looked like a male version of herself, not the mythical creature she imagined him to be.
Yes sure, she had seen males before, Gerudo females tend to get boyfriends in Hyrule Castle town, only to ditch them once they were pregnant of them. Her father had been one of them. They looked different from Gannondorf though. They weren't as broad, as slim, as roughly handsome, no they looked more like woman compared to him.
By change they met each other.
Her mother wasn't important enough in their society to have her daughter meet the Gerudo king (well future one at the time). And she had snuck out as well, not being able to sleep because the heat kept her awake.
They talked for hours that night, and when it ended, they promised each other to keep visiting each other.
For him, she was refreshing, so different from all the other people he had been forced to meet. She still was free, and his only source to the outside world, his only change of a real, genuine friendship.
For her, he was her only change to get a glimpse of the life not laid out for her, that of royalty.
She could still remember her innocent dreams in which he came to sweep her from her feet and married her, despite of what everybody thought.
It could have happened, she was sure of it
And then, Ming came to Gerudo Valley.
Gannondorf had abandoned her, he had to finish his training in Termina, with the Gerudo tribe that lived there. She hadn't seen him in two months, and she was really missing her best friend.
Loneliness was what brought them together. Ripped away from her friends, her relatives, Ming felt isolated from the world she had known since her birth. Everything was weird and exotic to her, and she had never felt so alone.
Nabooru, who was equally lonely, took pity on her when she saw a bunch of kids pester the newly arrived Hyrulian girl. She knew from Gannondorf that a Hylian family was going to settle down here, to spy on them for their king, as he had put it. Knowing that, she handled Ming with caution at first.
But her appearance and character quickly unfroze Naboorus hard. Blond hair, long and straight, lined a heart shaped face, in which two of the bluest eyes she had ever seen, shone.
So different from her own, she was mesmerised by it.
Her character was exactly as fierce as Nabooru's , that was probably the reason why Nabooru liked Ming as much as she did. Finally, she had found someone who understood her.
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The two had been best friends for over 4 years when Gannondorf came back. Finally both Gannondorf and Nabooru had reached an age suitable for marriage, and she was sure Gannon was going to ask her in a few days.
But he met Ming as well, and when she saw the two of them together, Nabooru knew she didn't have a single change.
No matter how much she cared for both of them, it still hurt so much. So much that it would ultimately decide their tragic fate…..
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The day before Nabooru turned 17, Ming and Gannondorf wed each other. Nabooru hadn't wanted to go to the wedding, but something made her feel obligated to Ming. She saw her best friend marry the man SHE loved, the man that never would be hers.
That day, she saw her dreams shatter. And she started planning her revenge.
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Even though she had wanted her revenge for so long, she couldn't help but cry as she held Ming's lifeless body close to her. Everything was her fault……
After crying for what felt like hours, Nabooru dried her tears. She was going to find link, the child of the two people she loved the most in the entire world, even if it was the last thing she was going to do.
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Looking outside, from the temple onto the desert, Nabooru heard the chiming sound of a lantern being moved.
At least Ming was still watching over her and her son.
A/N
And now you know a bit more about their past.
Review if I fooled you the other chapter, review if you thought that the Hylians had killed Ming ;)
Of course, if you feel the need to review even if I didn't fool you, I'm not stopping you
~~destiny's charm~~
