Two days after Ruto and Zelda
parted ways in the Water Temple, Zelda met with Link in the frozen cave
just beyond Zora’s Domain.
Their conversation was brief,
but it managed to throw Zelda further into a state of confusion. Her
feelings for Link felt as though they were amplified: “Time passes,
people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will
turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear
water’s surface reflects growth.” It was a saying that Impa had
often repeated to her during happier times. Impa’s intentions were
to instruct the younger Zelda, but Zelda spoke to Link with more meaning
behind those words.
She felt split between her
attraction to Ruto and her tenderness for Link. Her encounters with
Link were always very brief – what could come of them? But her encounter
with Ruto had alerted her to odd sensations she had not imagined feeling
and she was not completely convinced she had time to feel. She needed
to rejoin Ganondorf’s court or else he might become suspicious of
Sheik’s character.
As she turned her face towards
her old childhood home, she found herself longing to immerse herself
in the cool water once more, to be lost in a world in which she could
not breathe, but in which she could lose her burdens. Zelda wished she
could set her worries to the side for even a little while. In her day
dreams, she talked with Ruto about things that did not revolve around
Hyrule and its fate:
Where do you see yourself
living the longest? Zelda asked Ruto in her mind.
Well, I know that there
are Zoras who live outside Hyrule,
Ruto answered. Zoras who live in oceans, long rivers, and waterfalls
– I want to see them, see what they are like. But I don’t know if
I’ll live among them, or if I’ll travel about. But I do know
that I want to travel beyond this country’s limits. What about you,
Zelda?
I don’t…I don’t know
if I’ll ever be able to go beyond Hyrule. Especially not as Zelda,
she replied. My people don’t know I’m alive, but I wouldn’t
be able to forgive myself if I just abandoned them. There isn’t anyone
else to take the throne besides me.
And it’ll be a very lonely
throne? Ruto asked.
Maybe not forever, Zelda
said. Maybe I’ll marry. Maybe I won’t.
Or maybe I’ll be too busy to be lonely. But I’ll try to find a trust
worthy friend amongst the sycophants and courtiers begging for my favors.
But don’t you think that
traveling beyond Hyrule would benefit your reign? Ruto said.
You would have the chance to see other cultures and gain new worldviews.
Traveling is a necessity,
regardless of who you are or the distance you need to go, Ruto.
Zelda said. But to stay away, to never have the responsibility of
making decisions for the whole kingdom
– that I long for. It’s not that I don’t want responsibilities,
I want a different set of responsibilities. And yet, I want to see my
kingdom restored to its former glory. I want to see it free, freer than
I can ever be…
Zelda shook her head. Thoughts
of defeating Ganondorf permeated her essence of being: she was little
more than the desire to bring him down. Her identity was found in her
intrinsic nature first, her status as regent princess second and her
role as Sheik third, but she hadn’t counted on years of fighting a
war that slowly chipped her into a new identity that constituted only
leftovers from her previous identities. Her mission had become her singularity.
Zelda did not believe in looking
back – that is where regret is formed, she said to herself
– but the feeling of loss continued to permeate many of her thoughts.
She wanted to grieve the loss of the little girl she had been when Ganondorf
first took over the nation’s rule, but there was no time. She must
fulfill her mission before it was too late.
After several hours, Zelda
reached the walls of Castle Town. Out of pure habit formed from years
of wariness, she tightened her mask and set her right foot firmly forward
to the broken drawbridge.
~~~
Zelda, under the guise of Sheik,
entered the open door to Ganondorf’s council chamber and saw the warlord
alone in the room, sitting in his wooden chair with one elbow propped
up on the table and his head resting upon his fist. At first, Zelda
thought he was sleeping, but a change in angle proved that he was not
sleeping, rather, deep in contemplation.
“My liege?” Sheik said
very quietly, almost under his breath.
Ganondorf looked up from his
intense gaze upon the floor. “Sheik,” he said. Zelda bowed and he
returned his gaze to the floor. Zelda stood in her place for several
moments before Ganondorf spoke again.
“Sheik, why do you serve
me?” Ganondorf asked, bringing his gaze back up to look deep into
Zelda’s eyes.
Zelda’s insides quailed.
This is no time to fear, Zelda!
“My lord, my people and are
only made of shadows,” Zelda said. “If we do not have a form to
fill, then we are of no substance or service at all.”
“And whose form do you fill?”
Ganondorf asked.
Zelda was already quite uncomfortable
with this line of questioning but there wasn’t a way out. Any unusual
response she could give opened herself to exposure and arousing Ganondorf’s
suspicions. That is…unless…Ganondorf’s suspicions
are already aroused, Zelda thought. Her heart clenched at the brief
thought.
“Only the form you require
of me, my lord,” Zelda said, hoping he only heard firm, decisive tones
in Sheik’s voice. “Before you found me, I had nothing to hold onto,
but you gave me that which I needed.”
Ganondorf watched Sheik’s
face carefully, scanning his eyes and facial movements for hints.
There’s more than just a mask on his face, Ganondorf thought.
He’s been trained to demonstrate little to no emotion
– that much is clear. He doesn’t give that much away, but there’s
something decidedly off here.
Ganondorf broke the long silence.
“Have you found the whereabouts of Princess Zelda?” He asked, not
breaking his stare at Sheik’s face.
“I have news. It may be old,
but I know it is authentic,” Sheik said.
“Indeed?” Ganondorf said,
straightening in his chair.
“I remember seeing this on
the Princess myself before your lordship took control of Hyrule,”
Zelda said, producing the cloth head covering that she had once worn
as a child.
Ganondorf took it from Sheik
and examined it carefully, turning it over.
“I also saw her wear it as
a child,” Ganondorf said. Zelda feigned surprise. “Where did you
find it?”
“There was an old house in
Kakariko Village that seems to have been abandoned for several years,”
Zelda said. “I found it there, as well as other items that did not
seem to have a correlation between them and the Princess.”
“Hmmm,” Ganondorf said
and said nothing more. He fingered the fabric of the head covering and
gazed absentmindedly at a corner.
Zelda had felt it safe to reveal
the old hiding place for her and her nursemaid, Impa. Impa had gone
on to protect the Temple of Shadow and Zelda was no longer there often
enough to make an impression in the place. Even if Ganondorf sent his
lackeys over to the house to search it for missing clues, they wouldn’t
find any. Zelda had removed all the things she and Impa had considered
precious to another location and left only uninteresting items behind.
“Obviously, I’m going to
ask you to continue to search for the Princess,” Ganondorf said. Sheik
bowed. “But I’m glad to see some progress. It seems you broke into
the Princess’s nursemaid’s stronghold, even if it had been abandoned.”
“Then, if I may continue
my search…” Zelda said, allowing the implication to hang. Ganondorf
inclined his head and dismissed Sheik. Zelda slipped out of the chamber
as quickly as she could.
Ganondorf waited until Sheik
cleared the doorway before he spoke. “Sheik may not be Sheik at all,”
Ganondorf said to the two witches floating silently out of the shadows
to hover above behind his chair. “There was too much tentativeness
in his voice this time. My questions seemed to have unnerved him.”
Koume and Kotake did not say
anything.
“Have you been successful
in discovering his true identity?” Ganondorf asked.
Kotake smiled and floated down
to come directly before the evil ruler. “We may have an idea,” she
said.
~~~
Zelda immediately set course
for the Water Temple and did not deviate from her path. The conversation
with Ganondorf had unnerved her. Not even the brisk walk to Lake Hylia
completely cleared her mind. She had no idea what her course of action
would be: she couldn’t refuse Ganondorf’s summons to his councils
and yet with each meeting, the feeling in her heart increased that Ganondorf
did not believe in the disguise of Sheik.
I can’t return to his
stronghold, Zelda thought. I’ve never felt so exposed. The
sooner Link awakens the Sages, the better. Ganondorf may already think…
She didn’t want to finish the thought.
Zelda ran through the dark
of night to fulfill her promise to Ruto – Zelda would return to her
and take her to El Dominio to see if it had unfrozen. If it hadn’t,
perhaps there was anything they could do. Perhaps Ruto and Link could
collaborate on an idea about unfreezing the place.
Zelda leaped over the fences
enclosing the entrance to the Lake and continued running as hard as
she could force her legs to pump. When she reached the edge of the water,
she thought hard but briefly about the possibility of repeating her
experience with the crazed barracuda. She was looking about for a safe
way in when the Lake suddenly began to rise in volume – Ruto and Link
had their victory!
Quickly, Zelda dashed to an
island adjacent to Lake Hylia’s center in which there was a solitary
tree. A better view, I need a better view!
Zelda thought.
Just then, she heard a terrific
amount of splashing, several deep breaths and the rustling of the tree.
Zelda turned to see the source of the noises and saw that it was Link,
climbing up onto the embankment and using the tree for help. Zelda quickly
went to his side and pulled him onto the island. Link rolled over onto
his back and flopped his arms to the side, breathing loudly.
“Thank you, Sheik,” Link
said. Zelda nodded in his direction and continued to watch the Lake
rise. Link stood up noisily and adjusted his tunic and equipment strapped
to his back.
“I’m glad to see this Lake
back to its former glory,” Link said, coming to stand behind Zelda.
Zelda nodded again.
“Oh! By the way,” he said,
“Ruto wanted me to give you her thanks and a reminder.”
Zelda looked at Link and was
surprised to see the younger man appearing to be quite embarrassed.
Instantly, Zelda suspected that Link and Ruto had formed an attachment
in regards to their “engagement” as children – a light spring
of jealousy spewed forth in Zelda’s heart.
“And what was her reminder?”
Zelda asked in Sheik’s voice.
Link hesitated and took a step
forward but seemed to regret it. He took a deep breath and two steps
forward, grabbed Zelda’s face and kissed her on the mouth through
Sheik’s mask. Zelda was flabbergasted. Link wrinkled his noise and
scrubbed his lips with the back of his gauntlet, quite embarrassed.
“Obviously, it’s not the
same giving it to me as it is her giving it to you,” Zelda said, nonplussed.
“Yes, that’s one way to
put it,” Link responded.
“Rest your heart,” she
said. “I accept Ruto’s thanks and remember our promise.”
“What was your promise?”
Link asked.
“That is for her and me to
know,” Zelda replied lightly, sidestepping the question.
~~~
When Zelda walked across the
Water Temple’s threshold, Ruto was already there waiting for her.
For the first time since she left Ruto, she dropped Sheik’s mask and
became Zelda.
“Congratulations on your
new status as Sage of Water,” Zelda said. She then detected a hint
of sadness and a wisdom that she had not seen before in Ruto’s eyes.
“Thank you,” Ruto said
and bowed her head.
Zelda began to doubt her previous
assumption that something intimate had taken place between Ruto and
Link. Ruto did not have the look of someone “well-loved,” and Link
had been far too cheerful and genuinely energetic to make Zelda believe
the two had quarreled.
“Are you all right?” Zelda
asked.
“Yes, I just…got a glimpse
of…I can’t really explain it,” Ruto said. “I don’t know how
to. There really aren’t mortal words for those sights.”
Zelda had no idea what she
was talking about but was interested in hearing Ruto at least try to
describe what she saw.
“Do you mean in terms of
the creature ruling the Water Temple before you and Link cleansed it?”
Zelda asked. At the mention of Link’s name, Ruto’s eyes took a strange
glisten.
“Goodness, no. This particular
revelation took place just before I became the Water’s Sage,” Ruto
said.
Now Zelda was truly intrigued.
Ruto sighed. “Did you find anything to help you with Ganondorf?”
she asked.
“Nothing important, but I
don’t believe I’m safe being in his councils or anywhere within
his physical reach until Link’s ready to face him,” Zelda replied.
Ruto frowned. “Truly?”
She said.
Zelda nodded. “He asked me
strange questions today – very out of character for him.”
Ruto rolled her eyes to the
sky. “As if we weren’t trying to be careful before,” she said.
“We will have to be even more careful now. Who knows? Some of Ganondorf’s
henchmen might be watching us even now. You are already implicated at
least as a double agent if not actually Zelda.”
“I agree, but I feel as though
I’ve painted myself into a corner,” Zelda said. “I don’t know
what to do now. Do I continue to attend Ganondorf’s councils or do
I stay away entirely?”
Ruto’s face took on a thoughtful
expression but she shook her head. “I don’t know how to advise you,”
she said.
Zelda sighed. “I need to
stop thinking about it – it will drive me crazy if I continue. I came
to take you back to El Dominio,” she said.
Ruto looked at Zelda with a
wary face. “It may be unfrozen,” Zelda said. “But I’m
not certain – I could be wrong. I hope that since Link was there earlier
that he may have been able to do something.”
“But please, let’s go before
we increase the chances of our being caught together,” Zelda said.
“I want to see El Dominio and I want to see it with you.”
Ruto smiled through the sadness in her eyes.
~~~
Once again, Zelda hung onto
Ruto’s back, riding upstream back to Zora’s Domain, with Ruto leaping
up every few seconds to allow Zelda to take a breath. When they arrived
at Zora’s Domain, Zelda’s heart dropped to see the thick layer of
ice still in place. Ruto and Zelda entered the Domain – Zelda watched
Ruto’s mouth press into a thin line, her eyes widening with pain and
anger.
“I’m so sorry, Ruto,”
Zelda said. “I had hoped for better.” Ruto didn’t answer immediately,
her eyes quickly filled with tears.
“I didn’t think it would
be this way,” she said tremulously. “I didn’t see all the damage
when you took me out…and after all we’ve done, we still have all
this. Is evil going to be victorious, no matter what we do?”
Zelda felt her frustration
as if it were her own. Many times, she wondered if her mission to free
Hyrule from Ganondorf’s reign was worth fighting for. Certainly, she
had no doubts that it was the right thing to do, but all her efforts
seemed to be like throwing drops of water down into a dry canyon.
“It just feels like…”
Ruto sniffed inelegantly and wiped her eyes with her hand. “It feels
as though one problem goes away and another comes into its place. One
war ends and another comes in behind it. One superpower nation rises
and falls while another nation becomes a superpower after it. It’s
just an endless cycle of entropy that will never completely end.”
“No, it will not end,”
Zelda said, wrapping her arms around Ruto’s shoulders. “But that
doesn’t mean we should stop trying to lighten the burden of those
who must bear these problems.”
“My problems end when Zora’s
Domain is unfrozen – you must fight on without me soon. Who is lightening
the burden for you?” Ruto asked, turning to Zelda.
“Well,” Zelda said, hesitating.
“You have done much to lighten my burden.”
“I’m glad to hear of it,”
Ruto said. Zelda felt satisfaction to hear that there was no bitterness
in Ruto’s voice, but she wondered at the amount of feeling with which
Ruto spoke.
Zelda saw Ruto staring down
into a corner of the first level of the Domain. “What’s over there?”
Ruto asked. Zelda looked and there appeared to be a dark cave behind
the frozen waterfall.
“Let’s go and see,” Zelda
said and tenderly took Ruto’s hand. She led Ruto down to the first
level and carefully stepped over the ice. They entered the small cave
and found it to be a rather snug area, but easily kept warm against
the open air in the giant chamber of Zora’s Domain that fostered the
icy temperature.
“I need to rest here,”
Ruto said, sighing and sinking down upon the floor against the wall.
“This has been a long day.” Zelda heartily agreed.
Zelda saw some old, thick sticks
of wood in the short cave and struck sparks from flint upon them, setting
them ablaze. Ruto scooted closer to the fire and crossed her legs, giving
Zelda a very clear view of her light pink genitals. Zelda was thoroughly
embarrassed that she had noticed – after all, Ruto was still quite
distressed and this was not the time to be thinking like that.
Nonetheless, she couldn’t help but stare. It does not appear to
be much different from a regular Hylian woman’s, Zelda thought.
In fact, I can’t tell any difference at all. At least, from what mine
appears to be.
Just as Zelda suspected might
happen, Ruto caught her looking. Zelda expected a harsh verbal attack
and she felt she deserved it. Instead, she opened her arms to Zelda
and smiled her invitation. Zelda’s heart flipped in her ribcage at
the profound implication.
She accepted Ruto’s invitation
and sat down between her legs, closing Ruto’s arms around her body.
She felt Ruto kiss the top of her head, bite the scarf off Zelda and
tossed it aside. Zelda felt Ruto’s warm breath curling across her
scalp, sending cool shivers down her back and into her groin.
“Please,” Ruto whispered
in Zelda’s ear. “Please let me return the favor you gave me those
few days ago.”
“Your life back – is that
a favor nowadays?” Zelda asked, trying for levity.
“No,” she said. She buried
her nose in Zelda’s hair, fragranced by the sun and plains of Hyrule.
Ruto kissed her ear and felt Zelda shift closer to her. “I want to
be warmed up by a princess,” Ruto replied.
“Ah,” Zelda said. “Well…I…I’ve
secretly hoped you would do more with me than I did with you – at
first, that is.”
“At first? I believe I’m
the one who’s made all the advances up until now. You’ve been watching
me?” Ruto asked. “Like I watched you so many years ago?”
“I’ve just watched you
with the eyes of an adult,” Zelda said. “In my heart, I’ve treasured
a dormant love for you, Ruto. And I’m so happy to find it alive and
well.”
Ruto’s eyes filled with happy
tears. “Where there is life, there is love,” she whispered.
Zelda pulled Ruto’s face
down to hers and kissed Ruto with all her might. Ruto returned the kiss
with as much passion and took the kiss a step further, sliding her tongue
into Zelda’s mouth. Zelda welcomed the invasion and her body grew
slack in Ruto’s lap.
Zelda trailed her kisses from
Ruto’s mouth to her cheek and down her neck. Ruto moaned her pleasure
and tightened her grip around Zelda’s body – not for the last time.
“If you take off your clothes,
I shall keep you warm,” Ruto said teasingly. Zelda blushed and seemed
to balk.
“Oh, now that isn’t fair
– I can’t be the only one here to go with out clothing,” Ruto
nudged. “You can spare a few moments without your wrappings, can’t
you?”
Zelda squeezed her eyes shut
in delighted embarrassment, but she stood up before Ruto and untied
the strings around her shirt. She loosed the wrappings upon her breasts
to keep them from hurting when she ran and her torso was free. Zelda
unbound the string attached to her tight pants and stepped out of them.
At last, completely unencumbered, she stood before Ruto shyly.
Ruto gazed upon her lover,
admiring the way the firelight brought out the rosiness of Zelda’s
skin. The light shone prominently on Zelda’s hips, inner and outer
thighs. In the midst of her silent worship, Ruto realized something.
“You wear no underwear?”
Ruto practically shouted in surprise. “If I had known that you do
not, I would not have waited so long to take you!”
There was no one anywhere in
the vicinity, but Zelda was desperate for quiet. “Shhhh…. yes, I
know,” she said. “It’s less troublesome that way, there’s not
as much to get in the way if I need to fight.”
Ruto laughed and opened her
arms to Zelda. “Now, let me hold you,” she said.
Zelda smiled. “So demanding,
my Ruto is,” she said.
“But you know you like it,”
Ruto replied with a sly smile.
Zelda slid back into Ruto’s
lap and she reveled in the shared warmth between their bodies. She loved
the feeling of Ruto’s stomach against her side and the feel of Ruto’s
arms around her shoulders. Best of all, she loved Ruto’s eyes looking
into her own. It gave her the strength to press into the natural conclusion
she knew approached. Ruto kissed her lips lightly as Zelda regarded
her and combed her fingers through her hair.
“I love it – don’t ever
cut it,” Ruto said, kissing the tips of Zelda’s hair.
“If you don’t want it cut,
it shall not be cut,” Zelda replied.
Ruto grinned and hoisted Zelda
up onto her knees. Zelda didn’t have much time to wonder what Ruto
was up to – she felt the sensation of Ruto’s gentle tongue upon
her breast, not just kisses this time. Zelda leaned her head back and
sighed deeply – it was rapidly becoming too much.
“I’ve never done this before,”
Zelda said in a low voice.
“Neither have I,” Ruto
replied. “I’m making this up as I go along, but you don’t see
me stopping, do you?”
Ruto gave one good suck upon
the bottom part of Zelda’s breast before she dragged her tongue to
Zelda’s areola and traced a slow, spiraling pattern around the edge
and into the center towards Zelda’s nipple. Ruto’s tongue touched
upon its main target and pushed upwards on the nipple. Zelda arched
her back in response, amazed at the amount of sensation concentrated
in one tiny area of her body.
While Ruto continued to suck
upon the one breast, she reached up to the other with her free hand
and began to squeeze it rhythmically. The two sensations combined were
already bringing Zelda to a state of arousal she had not yet dreamed
of encountering. She felt her vulva begin to heat and moisten in response
to Ruto’s stimulation.
I wonder what Link would
think if he saw us like this. Does he have any idea what his
“fiancée” is doing with me? Zelda couldn’t help but feel
a small amount of glee: she had the princess Ruto – Link did not.
The aching in her vagina increased
– hotter and hotter, like a growing fire in her groin. She longed
to rub the tension out with her fingers, but dared not take her hands
off Ruto’s shoulders for fear of truly losing control long before
she wanted to.
At last, Ruto finished working
her mouth upon Zelda’s right breast and switched over to the left
one, beginning that arousing spiral upon Zelda’s areola. Ruto also
began working on the right breast with her other hand. Ruto rolled Zelda’s
nipple very, very gently upon her teeth with her tongue. “Stop! I
can’t take any more!” Zelda cried out, breathing hard and deeply.
Ruto appeared amused. “Do
you really think that we can stop now?” She said playfully. “We’ve
started this wagon rolling – why would we stop?”
“I didn’t mean stop completely,”
Zelda said, trying to catch her breath. “I meant, let me try doing
it on you.”
Ruto grinned widely. “I apologize,
my dear Princess,” she said grandly. “I shall not dare oppose your
will again!”
“And I’ll hold you to that,”
Zelda replied as she laid Ruto flat on the ground and straddled Ruto’s
sides between her legs. Zelda’s vulva was already quite wet and she
was secretly delighted that it left its shiny mark on Ruto’s leg as
she slid upwards to have her first encounter with Ruto’s breasts.
At first, Zelda thought only
to imitate Ruto’s loving actions with her own breasts. But Zelda decided
to take it a step further. Instead of starting the tongue spiral on
the edge of Ruto’s areola, Zelda started at the bottom of her breast
and made a much longer circle around before she began to work her way
to the center. However, before she began the circles, she licked the
thumb of her left hand and began to gently rocked Ruto’s left nipple
back and forth, taking care not to bend it too far. Between the circles
upon Ruto’s right breast and the manipulation of her left nipple,
Ruto moaned with vigor.
To Zelda’s delight, she felt
Ruto’s hand slip between their bodies and down to her vulva. When
Ruto first touched Zelda’s front, her body started and quivered in
anticipation. The teasing foreplay had done much to prepare her and
she found herself quite responsive to Ruto’s simple touch.
Zelda broke her concentration
on Ruto’s breasts and could only breathe through her mouth, stunned
at the sensations she could not begin to describe. The wild flicker
of the firelight seemed to imitate Zelda’s rhythmic breaths.
Suddenly, Ruto’s odd tone
of voice and distant appearance when Zelda first greeted her that day
came back to her mind. Despite their advanced stage of lovemaking, Zelda’s
curiosity consumed her and she asked, “Do you think you could explain
what you saw in the Chamber of Sages at the moment you were made the
Water’s Sage?”
Ruto paused, apparently at
a loss for words and mildly annoyed at the interruption to their love-making.
“Can we not save it for later,
dear?” She asked.
“We could,” Zelda said.
“But I am dreadfully curious. It’s been nagging at my mind all day.”
Ruto sighed and brought Zelda
closer to her.
“I saw…the creation of
our country,” Ruto said. “I saw the fiery destruction at the end
of the ages and I saw everything in between. I cannot really
describe it past that.”
“You watched the day the
Goddesses forged the lands, created the people, created the plants and
animals?” Zelda asked.
“That seems to be a part
of the big picture,” Ruto said. “Rather I saw the minute creations
of all living things, the lifetimes of every single person who was ever
to walk the earth. It was too much to take in all at once. Everything
that ever was or ever will exist came into being in that one moment,
that one spoken word, that one breath.”
Zelda couldn’t begin to visualize
what Ruto saw. “I wish I could have been there to see,” she said.
Ruto turned to her with sadness
in her eyes. “What’s wrong?” Zelda asked.
Ruto hesitated. “In that
mad whirl of creation, I saw you,” Ruto said. “I saw you in the
history of Hyrule.”
Zelda bated her breath.
“Suffice it to say,” Ruto
said, “that you will also be able to experience what I experienced…but
at a later time.”
Zelda’s mind spun at the
implication behind Ruto’s words. “You can’t…possibly mean…”
she stammered.
Ruto opened and closed her
mouth and closed her eyes. “My Princess,” she said, “my Queen…my
Sage of Sealing.”
Zelda’s eyes spilled over
with tears.
“You have had a longer journey
than mine, Zelda,” Ruto said quietly. “And it is not finished yet
– without a doubt, you have one last task before Ganondorf is gone,
but I have every confidence that you will do it.”
“Do you see,” Ruto said,
lifting Zelda’s chin to meet her eyes, “you see will be needed just
as much as Link is needed – just as much as the rest of us will be
needed? A single person cannot win a war or battle.”
Zelda could not say anything.
Ruto continued. “You have
never,” she whispered, “and will never walk alone.”
Zelda smiled her gratefulness.
There is nothing to replace love and the support that goes with it,
she thought.
They began their ministrations
to one another again and Zelda finally summoned enough courage to touch
Ruto’s own vulva, wondering if it would feel the same as hers did.
With the tips of her fingers spreading a bit of Ruto’s slickness,
Zelda decided that Ruto’s nether lips were a little tougher than hers,
simply because Ruto was exposed to the elements more frequently than
Zelda herself was. And yet, Ruto was still quite soft to the touch.
The firelight illuminated the
shining moisture running down between the rosy clefts of Ruto’s vulva,
casting an orange glow upon her pink skin framed by blue. The more Zelda
gazed at Ruto’s genitals, the more she marveled at their perfection.
Zelda had the sudden urge to
try something new and a little daunting. She stopped her kisses on Ruto’s
lips, moved down past her belly and brought her mouth close to Ruto’s
vulva. She looked to Ruto for assurance and only saw her stunned face.
“Hold still,” Zelda said
tremulously and ran the tip of her tongue on the outside of Ruto’s
nether lips. Ruto groaned and shuddered, assuring her Queen that she
was doing the right thing.
Part of Zelda imagined Ruto
would taste “fishy,” but this was not the case. To be sure, Ruto
had her own light musk, but it was tolerable if not pleasant. This consideration
gave Zelda the courage to press ahead – she quickly slid her tongue
into the inside of Ruto’s nether lips, taking care to be very gentle.
Ruto begged for more with wordless sighs, carrying Zelda’s face with
one hand to the top of her sex, the center of her sensuality.
Zelda did as she was told,
trying to be even more gentle because as soon as she touched her lips
to Ruto’s clitoris, the other woman practically screamed. Obviously,
this was more of a sensitive spot than Zelda had first wagered – she
would need to tread carefully or else she could hurt Ruto.
Curious as to what Ruto’s
vagina would feel like, she touched her entrance with the tip of her
finger and entered slowly, all the while barely managing to keep her
sucking rhythm constant upon Ruto. Ruto arched her back.
“Enough!” Ruto cried. “Allow
me to reach my peak at the time that you will.”
Overcome with epicurean heat,
Zelda simply nodded and lifted herself off the ground. Ruto helped her
into a kneeling position with her legs widely spread and Ruto imitated
her position. Zelda suspected what she would do – at the same moment,
each brought their hands to their lover’s cores and began an equal
rhythm to which they rocked against each other. Covering one another’s
faces with kisses, they became helpless with their arousal and passion.
“Try it faster?” Zelda
asked and both she and Ruto sped up their timing. The reward was fantastic
– Zelda felt as though she could have exploded.
“Just a little faster,”
came Ruto’s hoarse voice and Zelda put all her strength into making
the motion of her hands quicker. Rubbing down the front of the vulva
and into the vagina, all the while keeping the clitoris of their lover
in constant action – their climax was by no means simultaneous, but
they came close enough together that Zelda felt that it was only further
confirmation of their love.
Zelda and Ruto clung to each
other, shivering in post-coital delight and continuing to keep one another
warm.
~~~
“So…” Zelda said while
they lay in one another’s arms. “Link seemed to think fondly of
you.”
Ruto did not look at Zelda
immediately. “Did he now?” She said ambiguously.
“Apparently, he believes
your engagement to be serious, regardless of your belief that it is
not,” Zelda replied.
“And how does that make you
feel?” Ruto said with a small smile.
“He’s a good friend of
mine, but…you may not have him!” Zelda said, trying to keep a tone
of playfulness in her voice. She lightly punched Ruto’s arm to punctuate
her point.
“But you said yourself that
he seemed to think our engagement serious,” Ruto replied. “I am
not one to taint my honor with broken promises – I most assuredly
won’t renege on such a powerful commitment.”
“I say he is mine and has
been from the moment I laid eyes upon him as a child!” Zelda raised
her voice.
“You simply laid eyes upon
him – I gave him an engagement ring, the Zora’s Sapphire!” Ruto
replied gleefully. “He’s mine.”
“No, he’s mine,” Zelda
shot back with more playfulness.
“I think he’s mine,”
Ruto said, matching Zelda’s tone and leaning her forehead against
Zelda’s so their eyes could meet.
“He’s mine!” Zelda exclaimed.
“He’s mine!” Ruto
shouted back.
Both women dissolved into fits
of laughter, Zelda fully relaxing and stretching out onto Ruto’s belly,
but she quickly arched backwards when Ruto resumed her gentle stroking.
Zelda openly pushed herself against Ruto’s fingers and kissed Ruto’s
mouth repeatedly, demanding as much attention from both her mouth and
her fingers as possible.
“But think of this, Zelda,”
Ruto said when their lips parted. “We were one another’s before
either one of us knew Link existed.”
“It’s the truth and I delight
in it,” Zelda replied and kissed Ruto with as much ardor as she could
summon.
In their drowsy state, neither
one of them saw at that moment a tiny trickle of water snaking
its way down the waterfall’s frozen arch. El Dominio
began to thaw from the top down.
~~~
Zelda forced herself to leave
Ruto and El Dominio soon after their love was sated. It was the
last thing she wanted but her consolation was that it would keep Ruto
and their secret safe.
When Zelda left in the disguise
of Sheik, she would have done well to look high above the entrance to
Zora’s Domain. If she had, she might have seen two witches on floating
brooms silently watching her.
Zelda’s true trials had just begun.
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