Chapter Thirteen
"How's he doing?" Isuke asked as Zara came back from the room Link was in.
"Fine, He's just sleeping," Zara answered, seating herself near the table with Rittowa and the zora.
They were staying at an Inn free of charge for saving the village. Many of the villagers wished to kill Link for what he had done, and it took a while to explain the situation to them.
The three sat there in silence for a while, until Isuke decided to break the silence with a question he had been meaning to ask.
"Rittowa," He started, "you said that you had been traveling with two of your sisters, sent out here to Hyrule to see what exactly was going on out here, with the Sheikah and all. What happened out there? How is it that you survived but your two sisters didn't?"
Rittowa sighed slightly. What was the point in avoiding the question? "As you said, I was traveling with my sisters. My elder sister, Vittowa, and my younger, Nittowa...."
...and Rittowa, were walking away from the dusty road that led away from Gerudo Valley.
It had been a long journey out of the desert, but they were rewarded with a nice cool breeze and the feel of wet grass under their bare feet. It was near Lake Hylia that the three Gerudo sisters decided to stop and take a brake. They sat and unpacked the food, and drank from one of the many clear streams that ran in and out of the great lake.
They had only been there for thirty minutes before three people walked up them, cloaked and hooded, and had wraps covering the bottom half of their face.
"Well, well," one of them grinned from behind his mask. "Three wandering Gerudos, in broad daylight. And in Hyrule of all places."
"Who are you?" Vittowa asked, already clutching the hilt of her curved blades in her hands.
"Why must you know? You're going to be dead soon enough, therefore the knowledge won't be of much use."
Nittowa, swinging out her sword, jumped up, but didn't have a chance to even get close to the three cloaked beings. The one to left stuck his hand from his dark brown cloak, throwing a single dart at the young Gerudo's neck. In two seconds she was laying face-down in the grass, never to get up.
"NO!!! Nittowa!!" Both girls yelled, tears coming to their eyes. They knew better than to run to her side though. She was dead, and they were going to avenge her no matter what.
The two speechless beings on either side of the one that spoke threw darts at the two remaining Gerudos, who both, having more experience than their sister, knocked them away with ease and then ran up to their attackers, hatred in their eyes. The three dark beings produced short katanas from their cloaks and the two at the sides jumped in front of who seemed to be the leader, and parried the blades of the two sisters. Vittowa slashed at the neck of the person she was fighting, but he just raised his sword then kicked her in the stomach, and slashed her across the stomach. Putting her arm over the wound, she jumped forward and started slashing at him again. The guy she was fighting, however, blocked each of her swift attacks, then as soon as he found an opening he slashed her up her torso, the slash leading all the way up to her neck. She gasped for air, before dropping to the ground, a pool of blood forming around her.
Rittowa, having to see the death of another sister in less than five minutes, dropped her sword and fell to her knees, staring at the body of her elder sister. She slowly looked up at her sister's killer, and then the one who hadn't raised a finger said, "Tell the rest of your tribe, this is what will happen if you try to resist us."
And they turned and walked away.
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"They just left you?" Isuke said.
"Yeah..." sighed Rittowa. "I buried my sisters and went after them, but I couldn't catch up with them."
"I'm so sorry Rittowa," Zara said.
"Wasn't your fault...But now I will track down and kill every one of those Sheikah. I will avenge my two fallen sisters."
A groaning noise came from the next room.
"Well, looks like Link is up."