Ruto was in labor. She was lying in bed, her swollen stomach contracting in pain. She groaned and looked out of the window of her newly built house at the glittering waters of Lake Hylia, they always calmed her. Link held her hand tightly. Ruto breathed deeply. "Push!" cried the doctor. "I'm trying!" she moaned. Drops of sweat trickled down her face and she squeezed Link's hand tightly and screamed, pushing as hard as she could. "Here it comes!" cried the doctor exuberantly, receiving the baby. He took her away for a moment to get her cleaned up, and Ruto and Link kissed triumphantly. The doctor came back in holding the softly wailing baby. "Here's your little girl," said the doctor placing the precious child in her arms. And she was a sweet baby. Her eyes were the same color as Ruto's, a soft brown with a purple-ish glow, and her skin while human tone, was pale and rough, like Ruto's. She had a thick head of silky hair but it was—"Blue," laughed Ruto softly, stroking her child's short locks tenderly. But the strangest thing of all that they discovered while caressing her little pointed Hyrulian ears, was the little blue flaps of skin on the backs. "Gills," Said Link when they had a closer look, "Hey, now I know she didn't get those from me," And because of her love of the water and sky and her uncannily blue hair, they named her for the goddess, Nayru.
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Nayru grew up happy, her love of the water only increased by the use of her gills. She would swim and play with her mother, and discover and explore with her father. "Nayru," Her father said one day. "Come here." "Alright," said the smiling girl of ten, leaping into her father's still-strong arms. "I want to give you some things," said Link. He took her to his and Ruto's room and set her on the bed. "Now when I was your age, I had no parents, and I was allowed to go into Hyrule field all by myself." Link smiled wistfully, remembering the old days. "Now you're about the same age and I want you to have some things so that just in case some day, when you're allowed on Hyrule field, you can protect yourself."
He opened a chest at the foot of the bed and pulled out some objects wrapped in white linen. He unwrapped first a small slingshot. "My fairy slingshot," said Link, handing it to her, he unwrapped the next item, "This is my shot bag for the slingshot, it's still fully-loaded, and usable, you can use deku seeds as shot." He pulled out the next package, and unwrapped a beautiful mahogany boomerang, with a huge glowing ruby in the center, set in gold. "This," said Link, "You can throw, and if your aim is true, than any enemy can be vanquished, and it will always fly back to you. And lastly," said Link, taking a large package from his trunk. "Now you must promise me, that you won't use this last one, until you absolutely must," said Link. "Because it is very dangerous, and deadly, and I'm only giving it to you if you promise to use it only in emergencies." "Of course," said Nayru, "I promise," Link smiled at her, and then slowly unwrapped it. There, lay a blue sheath, with intricate yellow patterns on it. From out of the sheath, showed a gold hilt, with a small polished red stone set in the center. "The Kokiri sword," said Link, drawing the shining blade from its covering. He held it up to the light to admire it and Nayru looked at it eagerly. "Just like yours daddy." She said, pointing to the Master Sword, now set on a stand on the mantle, "Yes," said her father, re-sheathing the sword. "Now Nayru," said Link, "I want you to swear to me that you will keep all of these things safe and protected and will not use them unless you absolutely must." "I swear it," said Nayru solemnly and her father placed the sheathed sword into her outstretched hands.
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