A/N: First of all, thank you for the positive feedback on Chapter 10. I think Ganondorf is going to do the worst thing you've ever seen him do to Nabooru in Chapter 11. This chapter also explains how I believe Nabooru ended up in the Spirit Temple on that fateful day Link met her and agreed to get the Silver Gauntlets for her, but that won't be too looked into until Chapter 12, which I may post today depending on how long Chapter 11 is.
And here is Chapter 11:
Chapter 11
Nabooru slowly opened her eyes. Everything was bright. Was she dead? Nabooru blinked and grasped her head, which still hurt. So she wasn't dead, or she would be out of pain…or would she?
Nabooru looked forward. Ganondorf was sitting in a chair, reading a book. His facial features were twisted into a scowl. He certainly didn't look happy.
Taking things in more clearly, Nabooru realized she was in the medical building of the fortress. That most likely meant that when Kali went for help, the doctors found Nabooru unconscious and brought her to the medical area of the hideout. And judging by the look on Ganondorf's face, he knew what had happened, and he knew what the fight had been about. Otherwise he would look concerned.
Remembering Kali, Nabooru sat up quickly. She stared in confusion as something fell off her head and onto the floor. It was an ice pack, most likely for the swelling of her head.
"You're awake." Ganondorf said, still into his book. He said it with no concern at all.
"Where is she?" Nabooru demanded.
"Who?" Ganondorf asked, not looking up from his book.
"You know exactly who I mean." She snapped. Ganondorf smirked, still refusing to look at her.
"She's alive. You narrowly missed one of her organs. But you stabbed her well enough to nearly kill her. You also broke her nose. I'm personally surprised you didn't stab her well enough to actually kill her. You must have really been losing focus."
"How did you know I was losing focus?"
"Kali told me. They patched her up and I went to see her after I visited your room and you were still unconscious."
"Of course she told you. She tells you everything, and apparently you do the same." Ganondorf finally looked at her, still smirking.
"What do you mean?"
"You know EXACTLY what I mean." She said, glaring. Ganondorf snapped his book shut and stood up.
"Why did you attack her? Why didn't you tell me you knew?"
"Well one, the main reason she wants you is because you're mine, and two, I didn't tell you because I knew you'd try to play it off like an idiot. I knew since Nalissa's birthday, Ganon. You said you were going to get her present, and when you took a long time, I went to check on you and I caught you two in bed…in our bed. And I didn't mean to attack her. I made some comments to her, and she provoked me. She was strangling me and I would have died. I stabbed her out of self defense. And you should have heard some of the things she was saying. Whether I love you or not, Nalissa is OUR daughter. Kali said once she killed me, she was going to raise her and when she got older she would tell her she was HER child." Ganondorf sighed.
"Well…she's right." Nabooru blinked.
"What?"
"She's going to raise her." Nabooru stared in shock. "I don't want you anymore, Nabooru. Kali's my new infatuation. You and I used to have something special, but in the end, I need some…spice in my relationship, and that's what Kali gives me. You're constantly bitching and complaining, you never want to make love, you always nag, you're unsupportive of my goals…and as a king, I think I deserve a better queen than that, don't I?" Ganondorf smirked as Nabooru glared.
"No. The only thing you deserve is the honor to be on the edge of my sword." Ganondorf's smile slightly faded at this. "But regardless, Nalissa is my daughter, and you can't keep her from me."
"You wanna bet?" Ganondorf asked, still with a smirk.
"She's mine! I carried her for nine months! I gave birth to her! I'm always the one raising her, teaching her things…Ganon, when are you ever there for her? She needs me! I'm her mother for Din's Sake!"
"I don't want my daughter to be raised by you. If she grows up like you, she'll never succeed as a properly trained Gerudo. If you love her, you'll allow Kali and me to raise her. Hey, I heard Kali also told you that I was already planning on leaving you for her…well she was telling the truth. Kali will train her properly. You are a bad example. You don't exhibit the discipline of a properly trained Gerudo. I was going to tell you all this sooner, but I guess Kali sped things up a little bit." Nabooru's eyes widened upon a certain realization.
"You astonishing bastard…" she said, causing Ganondorf to raise his eyebrow. "Why, you don't care about our daughter at all, do you? You just want to raise her to be evil like you…to be one of your minions and help you win wars against the Hylians…and you're getting rid of me so I don't stand in your way." Nabooru couldn't believe what was happening. Ganondorf laughed.
"You're very clever, Nabooru…but when did you ever think I cared about either one of you? No, Nalissa will be ultra-powerful. As soon as she turns eight, I'm going to teach her how to kill, and the witches are going to teach her black magic. She will be a great addition to my army. We will conquer many lands together. I knew you'd never allow her to go down the path of evil, so I've been making plans to get rid of you. Kali is all for my plan. She will help raise Nalissa to be a fierce, merciless Gerudo Warrior." Nabooru shook her head.
"No! She won't listen to you! She has a good heart…she's not like you!" Ganondorf threw his head back and laughed.
"Nabooru, what makes you think she won't do as I say? I'm her father, and if I fool the stupid girl into thinking I actually love and care about her, just like I fooled you, she'll do anything I tell her just to gain my approval. Like her first word being dada…pathetic. She actually thinks I love her. She'll listen to me, for sure. She'll want me to be proud of her." Tears poured down Nabooru's face.
"How can you not love and care for her? She's your daughter…your own flesh and blood."
"Nabooru, I am a dark lord. I don't love about anybody. The only thing that matters to me is getting the Triforce and ruling all of Hyrule, and I won't let anyone, especially YOU, stand in the way." Nabooru shook her head in disbelief.
"No. You can't do this! She's mine! I…I'll run off with her if I have to!" Nabooru declared.
"Yeah, I figured you might try to do something like that. So I've decided to banish you to the wasteland. The witches are going to dump you off in the wasteland in two days, and they're going to put the river of sand back so you can never come back. I really don't care what happens to you out there. I just want you away from me and my new family."
"What? No!" Nabooru stood up at this. "You can't!" Ganondorf laughed.
"Yes I can. I'm the king."
"She's mine! You can't keep her from me! She'll wonder where I am!" Ganondorf shook his head.
"Don't worry, she's young still. She'll forget all about you, eventually." Nabooru advanced toward the evil king.
"No, I won't let you do this! You're not keeping my baby from me and turning her into one of your…minions!"
"Lay down, Nabooru. You need to rest." He said with a slight smirk.
"NO! I will not lay down! You're taking my baby –"
"Nurse!" Ganondorf called. Three nurses walked in. "She needs to calm down. She's been through a lot." He told them.
"Please lay down, Miss. You need to rest." One of the nurses said, grabbing her arm.
"No!" Nabooru said, slapping her hand away. "He's trying to keep me from my baby!"
"Nabooru, please rest." Ganondorf told her again. He was trying to make it look like Nabooru had gone delusional in front of the nurses. Nabooru knew this.
"You son of a –"
"She got punched in the head, so she's delusional." Ganondorf told the nurses. "Please restrain her. It's for her own good."
"Yes sire!" the nurses said simultaneously. Nabooru glared at Ganondorf, who was smirking again.
"Come on, Miss." Said one nurse, grabbing her.
"No! I am not delusional! He's lying! Stop it! Get your hands off of me!" she screamed, pushing them all away. They kept trying to grab her. Looking into the next room over, she saw Kali. Her torso was all bandaged up, as well as her nose. She was balancing against the wall. She had gotten up to see what all the commotion was about! "YOU!" Nabooru shouted, dashing toward the door. "You unimaginable…" Ganondorf roughly grabbed her and pushed her towards the nurses.
"Restrain her NOW!" he ordered. All three nurses grabbed her and led her towards the hospital bed.
"No, stop it!" Nabooru screamed, trying her best to fight them off of her. She was still in pain from the blow to her head, so normally she'd have no trouble at all fighting them off, but she did manage to punch one in the face. All three nurses gasped and stared in shock. Ganondorf walked briskly over to her and backhanded her hard, hitting her close to where Kali had punched her, causing her to momentarily see stars. Next thing she knew, all three of the nurses and Ganondorf were strapping her to the bed. Tears began to pour down Nabooru's face as she struggled against all four of them, but it was no use. "Please…" she whispered.
Once they had successfully strapped her to the bed, Ganondorf asked the nurses to leave. He smiled evilly down at Nabooru, who was still crying.
"Ganon, please. She is my child. I love her." She whispered. Her head hurt so bad that she couldn't have screamed even if she wanted to. Ganondorf shook his head.
"Nabooru, I will not allow you to stand in my way. Maybe things would have went differently if you had been more supportive for a wife. This is all your fault, and you have no one to blame for it but yourself."
"Ganon, please…"
"The witches will pick you up first thing the morning after tomorrow, to give you time to recover. Goodbye, Nabooru." He said, exiting and shutting the door, leaving Nabooru all alone to cry.
***
"I'm so sorry. There is really nothing I can do." Katara had went to visit Nabooru the next day, who had naturally told her everything. "If it is the will of the scum bag king…"
"I'm going to die out there in the desert." Nabooru whispered.
"Hunt Leevers and such. Try to find the oasis. I'm sure that one day you might be able to return…" Katara's voice cracked as she choked up with tears.
"No, I can grasp the reality that I'm going to die. What I can't grasp is the fact that Ganon is going to let Kali raise my daughter and they're going to raise her as an evil, merciless…well, a female Ganondorf, basically." Nabooru had finally realized Ganondorf was evil. She felt like she had known all along he was slowly taking a turn for the worse, but now it was too late to do anything about it. "Listen, don't let them mistreat her!"
"Nabooru, I will make sure she's alright. Actually, I'm not going to let Ganondorf and Kali keep her. Even if it gets me killed, I will find the perfect day to sneak off with her to Hyrule and make sure she is raised properly." Katara said.
"Do you honestly think that a rich Hylian family might be willing to take in a young Gerudo girl? They hate us, Katara. You should see the way they stare at me when I go to the market." Nabooru got choked up again when she thought about what Ganondorf had been doing behind her back all those times he sent her to the market.
Katara bit her lip in thought.
"I've heard of Gerudos living in Termina. It's adjacent to Hyrule, so it's not very far…they're pirates." Nabooru blinked.
"Gerudo…pirates?" she asked, not able to totally comprehend the concept. She could not picture her race on boats. Over half the Gerudos from the desert didn't even know how to swim let alone become pirates!
"Yes. Maybe they would take Nalissa in." Katara told her.
"Are you really willing to risk your life to take Nalissa from them?" Nabooru asked.
"Nabooru, I know you'd do the same for me if I had any children. We're sisters, remember?" Nabooru smiled at this. "Besides, I promised you when you first got pregnant with baby Nalissa that I'd be like her second mom…well here I am. I will get her away from Ganondorf and Kali in any way I can. If I die because of it, then so be it. I'm not going to let them turn that beautiful little girl into a monster. She will live a long, happy, and healthy life away from Ganondorf…even if it means as a pirate in Termina, okay?" the two women began to cry. Katara hugged Nabooru.
"Okay." Nabooru responded. She did not want to face tomorrow.
***
The next morning, Ganondorf came for Nabooru. He undid her straps and forced her to walk, secretly holding a small dagger behind her back. He explained to her briefly that this was because he wanted all the Gerudos to think she left willingly. Nabooru didn't care what they all thought since she was going to die soon, anyway.
The witches were waiting at the gate leading to the wasteland, smiling sinisterly. Kali was there, and she was holding baby Nalissa, who was asleep. Nalissa opened her eyes suddenly and stared at Nabooru, causing tears to build up in her eyes. She turned to Ganondorf.
"At least let me say goodbye." She whispered. Ganondorf looked over at Kali who shrugged and walked forward. He then gave a quick nod to Nabooru but said nothing. He kept the knife against her back in case she were to try and run off with the baby. Nabooru kissed the baby girl's red head.
"Mama." Nalissa said quietly, wrapping her little arms around Nabooru in a hug. A few tears escaped from Nabooru's eyes.
"No, I'm Mama now." Kali told Nalissa, causing the poor baby to stare at her in confusion. Nabooru frowned. This was how they were going to pass Nalissa off as Kali's. They were going to confuse the poor girl and make it stuck in her head that Kali was her new mama.
"Be good, sweetheart. I love you Nalissa." She whispered. She kissed her forehead for the last time. Nabooru tried to pull away, but the toddler had her arms wrapped around Nabooru tightly, like she knew Nabooru was going to leave. Kali tried to pull Nalissa off , but Nalissa leaned forward and held on tight. Ganondorf frowned, walked forward, and roughly yanked the girl's hands off of Nabooru, and roughly pushed Nabooru towards the witches. Nalissa began to cry loudly, causing Nabooru to cover her face with her hands and sob. The witches led her out of the fortress, and then they were off.
A/N: Okay, Ganondorf is officially EVIL.
So in the next chapter, Nabooru is going to meet young Link in the Spirit Temple.
So what does everyone think? I bet you weren't expecting the story to take this turn, huh? It's sad now, but I can tell you I have a good ending planned for the story. Remember to review and thank you so so so so SO SO SO SO much for all the reviews that I already have! They mean a lot to me! =]
~Green Eyed Gerudo