Princess of the Zoras

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--Ruto: 16, Link: about one month from awakening–

"To the Evil Realm with him!" Ruto shouts. King Zora just sits on his throne watching Ruto get very angry with a guard. Ruto is now a full-grown Zora, and considered very attractive by her race. Right now though, she is pissed. "The Field isn't included with that, so it should be possible!"

"Your Highness..." the guard says shaking, "We don't know where they are! How can we enter another Temple without knowing where it is?!" Ruto seethes.

"That's why I sent you to find them!" she shouts. King Zora decides it is time to step in.

"We know the general locations. Why didn't you look there first?" he asks.

"Even if there is one in the forest, we would never make it through the Lost Woods. Death Mountain will kill us, even without Gannondorf!" The guard groans. "And I'm not going to a graveyard." Ruto takes a deep breath, trying to calm down.

[Coward] Ruto thinks. "What about the other one?" she asks out loud.

The guard visibly pales. "In the desert!?" he says. "Definitely not going there." King Zora nods.

"Then we must reclaim the Water Temple. The temperature here has dropped too quickly. We don't have much time." He says.

"If we go there, the Gerudo will kill us!" The guard says. Ruto glares at him.

"If we stay here, we'll freeze to death!" she shouts back. "Coloa says it is only a matter of days before the entire realm freezes over!" The guard doesn't look convinced.

"Ruto, why don't you go calm down a bit." King Zora whispers to her. Ruto takes a deep breath, bows, and heads off to the Shrine.

On the far wall of the Shrine the names of Zoran Heroes are inscribed. Ruto goes straight to it. Tracing her hand over Noran's name, she sighs. Ever since the temperature has dropped, so has her tolerance. She seems to flare up at almost everything. The other Zoras don't seem to mind, or are they just putting up with her because she is the Princess? Ruto sighs, then dives down to the bottom. The place where they found Noran's body that day is marked off. Most of the Zoran Heros whose names are on the wall fought in the Great War. Noran is the first in over five hundred years to have died on 'home soil'. Sighing, she notices how cold the water here has gotten as well. She starts to go back up, but stops dead in her tracks at the surface. A Gerudo female is standing there smirking at her. She gets out of the water and confronts her.

"THIS IS A SACRED PLACE. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE!" Ruto shouts. The Gerudo doesn't flinch.

"I have a present from King Gannondorf." She says. Ruto is confused, until The Gerudo produces a red candle and flame, and blows on it in her direction.

"NO!" Ruto shouts. She knows what magic ice is. She tries to get away, but is soon covered in the red ice. The Gerudo leaves, calling to her fellow Gerudo that the last Zora has been dealt with. On Jabu-Jabu's feeding shrine, an adult female Zora is on her knees in the red ice, tears of frustration and anger on her face.