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Chapter Two
"No, it can't be me! It was to be a hero. Heroes are men, not women. I am disgraced, it cannot be." a panicking Ruto finally managed to gasp out.
"That is where you are wrong. It said that the hero was to be the only one in its family, which describes you. It is also said it must be a Water Guardian, that is you also. It all matches up." said Newkoe
"No you have to be wrong. It can't be me! It can't." she cried in exasperation.
"Yes it can, and it is. Don't you see you have been chosen? Ruto, you are the one." Ruto was standing up now, the whole time shaking her head saying "No, no it can't be." Newkoe went to her but she backed away from him.
"You're lying, you're lying, you have to be lying" screamed Ruto.
"Calm down Ruto, I am not lying. I do not lie. Listen to me." he said in a soothing voice.
"Please leave, I need to think." said a wavering Ruto.
"Think on it then, I will come back later." Newkoe said as he was walking down the narrow path that led away from her cliff-house.
This is too much. How can this happen to me? she thought. As Ruto was saying this to herself she ran and jumped off the edge of her cliff into the ocean. She swam for hours thinking about what Newkoe said to her. What if it is really true? The facts add up and do match. But will I do it? Ruto said to herself. She swam back to her cave on the cliff and dwelled on these thoughts as she went inside to her kitchen. She cooked the crab that had she caught while swimming.
As she made dinner Newkoe crept up behind her.
"Must you always come so silently Newkoe?" asked Ruto calmly.
"No, I guess I must not have been walking that quiet if you heard me." said Newkoe.
She responded, "I can hear lots of things other people can't. I suppose that I was just born with it."
She saw Newkoe hesitate, then he asked, "Have you decided to help me, well, help our land." asked Newkoe.
She took a deep breath, then made her final decision. "Yes, I have decided to help you and our land. What do I do now Newkoe?" She asked.
"Have you suspected a disturbance on your waters in the north?" She gave him a quizzical look that plainly said she didn't know what he meant. But he didn't notice the look or he chose to ignore it.
"There is no trouble in my northern waters." Just then a dolphin came up and talked in a hurry. "You must hurry Mistress! There is some thing killing all the fish on the northern side of the ocean please come quick, we need you!" pleaded the desperate dolphin.
"Slow down Aira, what do you mean killing all the fish? Is it the oil people again? Is that what's killing the fish?" asked Ruto.
"No, it is something else. It's him, I dare not utter his name here on the holy ground of our Guardian Mistress. Now do you see you must come or we will die without fish!" cried Aira.
"Yes, I see, take me with you Aira and be quick about it!" hastened Ruto, "Pardon me Newkoe I must do my job, I will be back." She said this as she ran to the shore where Aira was waiting. Ruto grabbed Aira's fin and was towed to the spot were the trouble was. "Hurry Aira you must hurry." hastened Ruto.
"I know that I need to hurry I will be there as soon as I can." panted Aira. Just as she said this to Aira she realized Newkoe had been holding her bow and arrows behind his back. Why did he do that now all I have is my dagger what shall I do? I cannot go back, there is no time to go back. I will have to deal with it. Just then Aira stopped so suddenly that she all most fell of the dolphin's back. Not that it would matter she was underwater the whole time.
"Aira why did you stop? What's wrong with you? Are you all right?" asked a scared Ruto.
"We're too late, it's over...there is nothing we can do now." sobbed Aira.
"What do you mean we're too late, I can't see! Move over let me see... what happened?" When Ruto saw what that horrific scene of seahorses and all kinds of fish cut in to pieces all over the ocean floor. She knew that she must do something "What happened here Aira? Who did this?" Ruto asked angrily.
"You mean what did this. A creature three dolphin lengths long with huge teeth, almost all of him was teeth. It came and said that if we did not give him the ocean crystals that he would kill every living thing in sight till he got them for his master. There was a herd of your seahorses and they were questioned about the crystals and they attacked this creature but they did not win. What are the Ocean Crystals Mistress?" asked Aira in a demanding tone.
"They are stones that give my water bow the power of the water, it may help me defeat this new evil Aira." stated Ruto in a sure tone but she was not so sure what would happen if they didn't. "They also keep the water life in balance with all the rest of the world. Come on lets go back. I am hungry and we left Newkoe there all by himself." Ruto commented trying not to think about what they just saw.