I had grown tired of receiving no straight answers from Ganon nor any of his men so I simply stopped talking and began thinking of how to escape with Epona.
The ride to Gerudo would be a couple more days, but I could easily survive off of the land and what I had with me. The only problem would be Ganon's men, they were stronger than I thought and for the most part, seemed to be doing just fine despite our fight earlier. There were also more men that had been trailing behind and ahead of us, and now they were all here. It was a group of about twenty five men, not including Ganon.
There was no way I could take them all on at once.
There were two large carts of supplies, and one cart of my belongings I had wished to take to my family and friends. There was no way I could take my things with me. My family would understand.
The first night of traveling had been me in a small tent with guards taking watch outside. If I was being realistic, I knew Ganon would not let me be by myself again tonight.
As the night drew close and we continued on, I noticed we were not headed for Gerudo, but instead towards the great Zoran rivers and lakes. That could be my way out if I lose then among the waters.
"We will make camp here, set up quickly, and do not let Princess Nabooru out of your sight." Ganon barked out to the men.
There was a big cliff beside us that curved so we would have a mountain to our backs and a the plains in front. I knew it would be impossible to escape with Epona here.
As I thought about my current situation, Ganon came over beside my horse and lifted his hand to me. I raised an eyebrow. "What do you expect me to do with that? Tip you?"
He sneered, "very funny, get of your horse or I shall take you off." I didn't doubt that he could.
Disregarding his hand, I swung my leg off and hopped down gracefully. I then began taking out my tent from my side bag.
Ganon had wandered off to his own horse and called over his shoulder. "you won't be needing that. You will sleep in my tent from now on."
I said nothing and quickly looked around. There were two guards watching me, and Ganon was maybe ten yards away. His back was to me, and the guards would not be able to catch me if I ran right now. I was much lighten than them without armor.
Saying a quick sorry in my head to Epona, I slowly turned towards the cliff beside me. The next thing I did was explode into the fastest sprint of my life and jumped onto the rocky cliff-side and began climbing.
The guards immediately yelled and started after me. I knew they and Ganon would be close behind so I didn't look back as I climbed for my life.
The rock side was tough on my hands, but they were already used to training and climbing.
Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my side, and glanced down to see a dagger lodged right above my hip. I yelled out in surprise and hurt.
Bellow Ganon yelled. "You idiot! Don't try to kill her!" He sounded furious, but I bit my lip so hard I tasted blood and kept going.
The pain was beginning to spread because of my reaching movements. I came to a small landing and yanked myself up. I wanted to stop and take care of the wound, but instead I ripped the dagger out, took off my top and ripped it to quickly wrap the wound.
Men were shouting below me, Ganon yelling to find a way to beat me to the top, and to stop throwing things at me. Hearing his voice so close to scared me out of my rest and I continued to climb.
I was about forty yards up the cliff when the pain turned into a numb feeling in my side that made me concerned.
"Nabooru come down!" Ganon yelled.
I knew it was stupid to keep going, but the cliff was just above me and I was sure I could get away. My hands gripped the edge and I pulled myself us, yelping in pain from my burning side.
Not giving myself a second to rest, I held my side and began running for the small forest of trees beyond. I felt slow because of the injury so I put one last burst of speed into my steps. It was almost dark, so if I could just reach the trees before I was caught...
A grunt behind me and suddenly I was falling face first onto the ground. I threw one hand out to catch my fall, but there was a hand around my ankle that prevented me from stopping my head from crashing to the earth.
"Got you, goddess be damned." Ganon huffed.
My vision spun as did my head, my whole body going numb. Ganon turned over my body and ripped off my makeshift bandage, I couldn't tell what his face was doing but his sudden intake of air told me he wasn't too happy.
"Bring my horse and bandages, fast!" He barked.
"Ugh, got off of me you lard." I choked out and tried to push myself up onto my elbows and roll away. My vision was coming back and I was not interested in being around this man right now.
"You dumb girl! What were you thinking? Thought you could out-climb me, you're not as smart as I thought." He was angry and yanked me back to him and onto the ground.
My breathing was shallow, but I was not down for the fight. "I would have been fine if your men had not tried to cut me in half!"
Taking a deep breath I slipped the thrown dagger from my shoe and thrust it at him while twisting towards his dodging movements. I just managed to slice below his armpit where there was no armor.
Despite my stabbing at him, he twisted him body forward and grabbed my arm before I could do any damage and yanked my arm so hard I heard a pop. There was a sharp and hot pain in my shoulder and I yelled out in pain for the second time that day.
"Ahh! Oh goddess, please punish this man as he does me!" I called, releasing the dagger and cradling my shoulder.
I glared up at Ganon and saw that his face was not angry or proud, but instead regretful. I did not let myself think it was for my pain, but for damaging the goods.
"Nabooru, we're going to have to pop your shoulder back into place." He calmly told me.
"Forget you, you're not touching me again!" "If we don't you will be in more pain, I will forget your running away if you let me do this."
I knew he was right, and it would kill me if I said it out loud, so instead I lifted my arm as high as I could. He grabbed on, and before I could tell him what to do, he jerked my shoulder into place.
I blacked out.