(Rom/Act/ZGen) Nayru's Book [T]
Nayru's Book - Prologue...
There couldn't be a greater feeling in the world. The galloping beneath you as you bounced on the back of your courageous steed. The wind whipped through your hair, and this wonderful experience is one Troy has know since he was young. He was raised, after all, at Lon Lon Ranch. He learned how to care for horses and cows and coocoos. He always believed that living at the ranch was better then the busy life of the other hylians at hyrule castle. Troy carefully slowed his horse down to a stop. He had reached his destination, and Lake Hylia was shimmering more beautifully then ever before. He turned to the dock, and there was the familiar young woman singing a soft Zora folksong.
"Reira! You've become deaf from the sound of your own singing, did you not hear me gallop here?" Reira briskly swung her head around, her hair flying. Her expression swiftly changed from surprise to delight. "Troy, you could've sent me notice of your arrival!" Troy walked to join her but she ran towards him, eager to parade him with questions. "How've you been? Are the horses well? Oh! Is that Farore, last time I saw him he was but a foal!" Troy gave a kind smile. "Yes, that's Farore. Nayru has matured and can now be riden aswell." Reira chimed with delight. "They're the children of Din, right? The three horses you named in honour of the goddesses!" Troy guided Reira to her house by her shoulders. "Before we talk we should eat." Reira laughed, "You just came because you were hungry, didn't you?" Troy nodded and laughed with Reira.
Reira finished preparing warm drinks and sat beside Troy. "Anything new?" she asked politely. Troy nodded as he took a few big gulps. He set the cup down and wiped his mouth. "Hyrule has a new princess." chimed Troy. Reira's reaction was unusual. "What's her name?" her tone was sober and stern. Troy frowned in confusion, "Zelda, why?" Reira quickly got up and rammaged through her stuff. "You know my father, right?" she called back. "Yeah," he finished another sip, "the Zora?" Reira sat back down with a sack and emptied one-by-one its contents onto the table. And few precious shells, a compass, old dusty pages and a few other items. "Remember how I told you, the day we met that I was raised by the Zoras?" she said distractedly. "Yeah." replied Troy casually and calm. "It was the rarest thing ever, rarer then raw meat. Hylians aren't usually adopted by Zoras." Reira finally found what she was looking for and placed in on the table with an undefined thud of importance. Carefully. she placed the other items back into the bag. "My father was known as the Historical Expert of the Zoras. He knew all the tales, myths and wisdom of the goddesses and Hyrule." A sad look came over Reira, and Troy knew why. "He was highly respected until he adopted me. Zoras are a proud tribe, they have nothing against Hylians. But adopting one was insanity." Reira took a sip out of her cup. "I did make a few friends, but the Zoras never really accepted me. I heard them telling my father once 'if you cared so much about her then you should of atleast took her to Hyrule Castle and get someone there to adopt her'. My dad loved me, and only smiled at them. I loved him so much..." Troy understood her pain a little bit. His mom died in an accident with an out-of-control horse. His father fell ill and he had to attend to Lon Lon Ranch with a few employees himself. But Reira never knew her parents, and they could be dead for all she knew. She was raised without acceptance and her guardian died. Now she lives here all alone. "My father told me before he died of the plague, that I was deliver this book when the princess Zelda was born."
Confusion gripped Troy. "How did he predict something like that?" Until now, Reira's eye contact was stuck to the table. She lifted her sad eyes to face Troy. "It was part of the Legend of the Neverending Battle between those Blessed by the Goddesses. The Hero of Time was of the incarnations." The sun finally disappeared behind the mountains and the faint red faded away to reveal the stars. "There has been more then one Princess Zelda through history. At this time, there must have been another one to be born, one who lives in the forest. Link's new legend will begin within the next few decades." Reira wiped the dust off the book's cover, her eyes still on Troy. The book read, Nayru's Book. "Its a book filled with wisdom and tales, my father said it could shift the entire future of Hyrule. For this book is what will deliver the wisdom to thee blessed by Nayru: Zelda. How much she knows if how much she can help Link."
A solemn look came over her. "My father told me to deliver this Zelda when she was born, I now need to go to Hyrule Castle. Will you help me?" Troy sat there, stunned. "This is all insane!" said Troy panic struken. "Y-y-you can't believe all this, can you!!?" Reira's eyes grew wet. Troy let out a mighty sigh. Troy was Reira's first Hylian friend, they met when Troy was on a holiday at the lake. He was little, he saw Reira pull herself out of the water onto the dock and chat with Zoras. He came over to her, and asked if she was a mermaid, a hylian-zora cross. They had been real close since, and even though he couldn't get his head around it all he trusted Reira. "Alright, I'll take you to Hyrule Castle."