"So tell me, how did you find it."
"You mean that tiara."
"Yeah."
"I'd love to tell you, but a good magician never reveals his secrets."
"Come on, just this once."
"Sorry Nabooru."
"Fine then" she said crossing her arms, Vaati chuckled.
"I don't think I could remember anyway."
"With that thick skull of yours I wouldn't doubt it."
"Anyway Nabooru I have something more important to tell you."
"What… your not proposing are you?"
"Ha no no, I… I'm… leaving" he managed to choke out.
Nabooru was lost for words, "W-w-what…"
"I'm leaving." He said again
"When" she replied tears welling in her eyes.
"Tomorrow."
"Why… do you not like it here?"
"No, I love it here with you, your kind has been the only one to accept me, no longer did I have to hide my face in a hood, I just think… it would be better for both of us."
"But I like it here with you."
"So do I but you are a Gerudo you have a life here in the desert, I live for hundreds of years, I could not bear to see you die, it would kill me."
After that, no more was said Vaati retrieved a blanket from his horses' saddlebags and put it over the two of them, then let his head fall back against the mat on which they were sitting. It wasn't long before sleep reached the two of them.
The next day Vaati and Nabooru trotted back to the Gerudo fortress in silence. When they reached the gates all was quiet, it was like time itself had froze. As they got to the entrance of the fort the two dismounted, they made there way to Vaati's room where he began packing up all his things. There wasn't much, he had never really kept much for nothing really mattered to him although his cap would forever lie upon his head. The youth pulled his sack of meagre belongings over his shoulder and accompanied his only friend to there horses. Neither said a word as they rode to the bridge separating Hyrule from the desert.
"I guess this is it" he said sounding rather squeaky.
Nabooru smiled weakly as tears came freely down her cheeks "Don't go all soft on me now you've made it this far."
Vaati laughed.
"Will I ever see you again" she asked.
"Maybe… maybe not" he said.
"Wait" she said withdrawing a small package from within her cloak. "When come a situation where magic is not an option this will aid you."
Vaati took the object and tucked it into his cloak, tears now welling in his eyes.
"Nabooru" he said "My time with you has been precious, but we a not destined to be together."
Nabooru smiled, "Goodbye Vaati" she said then leant across to his horse and kissed him passionately on the lips.
"Goodbye" he whispered.
Vaati turned his horse and sent it trotting to the end of the valley and into Hyrule field a place he hadn't been in years.
Vaati trotted around, trying just to get the memories back into him. He came to the ranch and dismounted. Inside it was a lot different, the grass was brown, the house was beaten and rundown, wooden boards covered the door and window's, even the fences were in need of dire repair.
"Odd" thought Vaati.
Vaati returned to his horse and started galloping towards Hyrule castle town. When he arrived his muscles tensed, no guards patrolled the battlements, Vaati wandered into town and looked around. It was the same as the ranch most of the houses were boarded up only a few weren't. He continued his search until he spotted a man walking down a street a sack filled almost to the brim on his back.
"Excuse me" Vaati called out against the wind.
The old man rushed over to him.
"Are you mad" he said "Your face will be a black dot in the morning.
As the man said this, Vaati realised he was covered up in clothing completely from head to toe covering up any skin.
"I don't care just tell me what is going on… were is every one."
"Where've you been for the past four years, the plague that's what it is that's were nearly everyone is, dead!"
"What about the royal family?"
"What about em, soon as it hit, they locked em'selves in the castle, enough food in there to last a century."
Vaati gasped. "Does anyone know were it came from?"
"No one would ave guessed it but I'll give you a sack of flour if you can."
Vaati knew immediately, guessing from the mans reason for being so heavily garbed.
"The wind."
"How d…"
"Darkness is here, I can feel it, an enemy from ages past, using a power only… someone like me… could harness. A wind mage is here, but what for why would he come to Hyrule when there are bigger better lands…" Vaati sprinted towards the gate as fast as he could but long before he even made sight with it he heard the grinding of chains and eventually the crunch as it reached the top.
Only one other option of escape was left. The wind started to pick becoming stronger with each passing moment, the howling becoming louder until a cyclone was under his feet lifting him into the air, but as he reached no more than five metres from the ground it seemed as though the twister had run out of will to even move and slowly but steadily he descended. Some one wanted him stuck inside castle town.
(This part is an alternate ending done really quick so probly has a ton of mistakes, anyway this is not the end of the story I just got bored so I wrote an ending for this fic, so think of it as an added bonus)
Realizing she loved him Nabooru went searching for Vaati, but after three years of looking, it seemed that the mysterious Wind Mage had disappeared. Eventually she started believing Vaati to be dead and gave up her fruitless search of him. In fact it was eighty years until he did reappear.
The sorcerer walked up the rocky slope leading to the valley, across the bridge he went the clear water still running from Zora's domain yet it was not as strong and large since the last time he was here. The wanderer continued his iron march until he reached the ruins of the once mighty Gerudo fortress. Walking up to the entrance steps he could hear voices from inside, as he reached the source he found a Gerudo nursing her two children. After watching for a few moments they finally noticed him but instead of screaming like he had expected they just stared at him. The mother recovered her senses but instead of asking questions she just got up took his hand and lead him out of the building, they walked for a few minutes before coming to a large boulder. The woman motioned for him to move it aside, he did as he was told and leant up against the rock and pushed with all his strength, after moments of struggle he finally managed to push the enormous stone out of the way. In its wake was a narrow spiral staircase leading underground, he walked down thee steps gaining speed with each one determined to see what lay at the end of the tunnel. When finally he reached the bottom he could not see a thing so he lit a torch that was hanging next to him, and as soon as it caught alight so did every other that was surrounding the now visible chamber. In it's centre was a huge coffin chiselled on the top was a model of a beautiful Gerudo girl. Inscribed on the plaque at her feet were the words "My sole lies not at peace but in sorrow the man I now realize I love has left me with the knowledge that he too loves me yet how can he if every time I call out to him he ignores me and so I die a death not of physical but internal pain and forever shall I weep.