Nayru wakes up at around four and gets dressed quickly. She pushes a brick in on her wall and an opening appears, showing a winding staircase. She runs down it and goes out the other side, ending up just outside of the castle's town. She whistles and Cujori comes running away from the city walls over to where she is.

"Good boy. Hurry, we don't have much time. It'll take a little while to get there." She mounts her faithful steed and they gallop over the horizon, running towards the lake.

-*-

"You've made it, and without your gaurdian. I fear I have underestimated you, your highness." Rucco says with a slight bow. Nayru rolls her eyes.

"Go ahead and call me Nayru. I hate all this formal stuff." Rucco just nods.

"Alright, Nayru. Your father, was killed by the evil king himself." Nayru opens her mouth to say something but Rucco stops her with a wave of her hand. "No, Ganondorf hasn't broken free from the Evil Realm, but he's close to doing so today. He killed Link with his mind, somehow, he found a way to become mentally strong in the realm. Your mother died the same way. The evil king killed them both, and set it up to look like something else, but he couldn't kill you. Oh believe me, he tried, but he couldn't. There's something about you Nayru, something significant." Nayru is staring at the floor, wondering how all of this could've happened to her parents, both of which were more powerful then her, and not her.

"I don't understand. I was just an infant. How could he not kill me, but kill two of the most powerful adults alive?" Rucco shrugs a little. "I only interpert the dreams, my dear. I don't know everything. One thing I can tell you to do though, and this may even kill the evil king himself. What you need to do, is--" Nayru never found out, because right then, there was a loud explosion, and the earth rumbled for the last time. Nayru ducked under a desk that had a lot of test tubes on top of it, and emerged as soon as the rumbling subsided.

"Wow, luckily that desk was there, right Rucco?" There was no answer. Nayru looked around, and saw Rucco under a pile of debris from the massive explosion. Nayru runs over to the unconcious Rucco and tries to shake her awake. "Rucco! I must know what I must do! What was that rumbling, and that explosion! Rucco, please, don't leave." It was too late, with one last shuddering breath, Rucco died. Nayru stood up, not knowing what to do. Suddenly, she hears a familiar evil laugh.

"Heh heh heh. You shall suffer just as your parents had." And with that, Nayru runs out of the lab, or what's left of it, and mounts her horse, galloping away from the lake.

~*~*~*~

"So Rucco is dead?" Gondru asks, handing Nayru some green tea. Nayru just nods, sipping at her cup, not knowing what to say, still shocked from the events that took place just hours ago. "Nayru, I know you're wanting to find out what that rumbling came from." Nayru looks up and nods.

"Do you know?" Gondru sighs and nods.

"Yes, m'lady, and it's nothing good. That rumbling was Ganondorf, trying to break through the gate to the evil realm. I suspect Rucco told you about your parents, what really happened." Nayru nods yet again. "The prophecy was true. Ganondorf is free. We don't know where he is, or even when he is, he could be in another time for all we know, but he's back." Nayru looks down again, feeling a tear run down her cheek.

"I will find him, and kill him for what he's done to my parents. I should kill myself for what I've brought upon Hyrule." Gondru gasps.

"M'lady! You should never even think of such a thing. Promise me you'll never say anything like that again." Nayru sighs and promises.

"Alright, I won't. What are we going to do though? I know the gaurds won't be much help, they weren't the last time." Gondru shrugs.

"We shall do nothing. Ganondorf will make his first move soon, and it might be really small, so we'll barely notice, or as huge as just taking over the castle. Whatever it may be, we'll just have to sit, and wait." Nayru sighs and lays back in her bed.

"Sit and wait, what we must always do."