A few days later, Ruto woke up from a nightmare. She woke up gasping and
cold all over. Her dream, it had been horrible, she dreamt that an evil
power deep in Lake Hylia had been woken. The very thought sent shivers up
and down her spine, until she realized that it was genuinely cold. The
temperature of Zora's domain had dropped dramatically. Ruto shivered again,
not entirely from the cold. All of a sudden, she stiffened. Underneath the
quiet, incessant sound of trickling water was an ominous rumbling.
Ruto, now completely wide awake and alarmed, got up to investigate. The entire population of Zora's Domain was still asleep, and moonlight showed from the tunnel leading to the Zora's Fountain. Seeing nothing wrong in Zora's Domain, Ruto wondered if she had just imagined everything, and decided to go outside for some air.
"Din, Farore & Nayru!" Ruto swore. The full moon shone on a huge chunk of ice that had not been there a day before. As she looked at it, she _felt_ a malevolent force, identical to the one in her dream, stir.
*Greetings Zoran Princess-* a voice full of the sound of crushing and freezing said,*It is an honor to visit your lovely Domain.*
"Who-who are you?" Ruto stammered, her heart freezing in terror. *I am no one of substance, merely the one who will turn your world into a prison of Ice!* The arrogance in that hellish voice reminded Ruto that there was insanity in her family. "I hope you don't mind waiting several years then! For an area the size of Zora's Domain it'd take ages to freeze entirely!!" A low rumble from the depth of the iceberg sounded like laughing. Suddenly, Ruto felt a strange concentration of energy from the iceberg. With a noise that sounded like ice screaming, the berg glowed, and began to grow, fanning out across the surface of Zora's Fountain.
Ruto turned and ran, but even as she did so, she felt the water she stood freeze. Ruto screamed as she felt ice encase her feet, but was cut off as a strange figure wrapped its arms around her waist and jump. Ruto screamed and fought as she and her captor fell down the immense waterfall that created the river that flowed through Hyrule. They hit water. But the other person didn't let go. Ruto struggled in his arms until she was facing him. She saw what appeared to be a young man, wrapped in a head cloth. "Let me go! Release me!" she demanded as she twisted like an eel. "Shh, shh," the young man shushed in a calm measured voice, although they were being pulled through the course of the river. "Let me go! Let me go back! I have to go back and-" "-and be frozen like everyone else. I'm afraid I can't let you go Princess," the young man said.
Ruto said nothing, then winced as she saw Zora's Domain freeze solid in her mind. She could almost hear her dear friend Mili shrieking as the water around her froze, trapping her. Ruto's eyes closed, and she started sobbing.
Ruto, now completely wide awake and alarmed, got up to investigate. The entire population of Zora's Domain was still asleep, and moonlight showed from the tunnel leading to the Zora's Fountain. Seeing nothing wrong in Zora's Domain, Ruto wondered if she had just imagined everything, and decided to go outside for some air.
"Din, Farore & Nayru!" Ruto swore. The full moon shone on a huge chunk of ice that had not been there a day before. As she looked at it, she _felt_ a malevolent force, identical to the one in her dream, stir.
*Greetings Zoran Princess-* a voice full of the sound of crushing and freezing said,*It is an honor to visit your lovely Domain.*
"Who-who are you?" Ruto stammered, her heart freezing in terror. *I am no one of substance, merely the one who will turn your world into a prison of Ice!* The arrogance in that hellish voice reminded Ruto that there was insanity in her family. "I hope you don't mind waiting several years then! For an area the size of Zora's Domain it'd take ages to freeze entirely!!" A low rumble from the depth of the iceberg sounded like laughing. Suddenly, Ruto felt a strange concentration of energy from the iceberg. With a noise that sounded like ice screaming, the berg glowed, and began to grow, fanning out across the surface of Zora's Fountain.
Ruto turned and ran, but even as she did so, she felt the water she stood freeze. Ruto screamed as she felt ice encase her feet, but was cut off as a strange figure wrapped its arms around her waist and jump. Ruto screamed and fought as she and her captor fell down the immense waterfall that created the river that flowed through Hyrule. They hit water. But the other person didn't let go. Ruto struggled in his arms until she was facing him. She saw what appeared to be a young man, wrapped in a head cloth. "Let me go! Release me!" she demanded as she twisted like an eel. "Shh, shh," the young man shushed in a calm measured voice, although they were being pulled through the course of the river. "Let me go! Let me go back! I have to go back and-" "-and be frozen like everyone else. I'm afraid I can't let you go Princess," the young man said.
Ruto said nothing, then winced as she saw Zora's Domain freeze solid in her mind. She could almost hear her dear friend Mili shrieking as the water around her froze, trapping her. Ruto's eyes closed, and she started sobbing.