A/N: This takes place some time after the game ends. So spoilers...

I do not own any of the Legend of Zelda characters! I do own my OCS

It had been a long day of traveling for the young Zora named Reith, her feet were sore, her legs were sore. Pretty much everything was sore. Not everywhere was accessible by water. But the good thing was that she was close. But the rumbling in her stomach and the being out of rations meant for this one would have to go fishing. Reith pulled out a map that she'd inherited from her Hylian father. According to it there were a bunch of small lakes around as well as the larger Lake Hylia.

Any one of them would be a good place to rehydrate. She was feeling it and her water was running low anyway. Carrying so much water was a bother but it was necessary. She was missing home but she knew she had to move on. She couldn't stay there forever. A single Zora living in a Hylian village there wasn't really a place for her there. She thought back to when she left the small house. It was one of the hardest thing she ever had to do. But the excitement of adventure drove her forward and she said her final goodbye to her childhood home. Though she made a stop at her parents graves before she left leaving flowers and her favorite seashells by them. Reith shook her head trying to stop thinking about it or she might start to cry again. Losing her Hylian parents was very hard on her and she missed them dearly. But it was time to look to the future and she'd never forget them. And right now she was hungry.

She approached a small body of water and pulled off her bag and set it down with a sigh. She pulled off the blue tunic and bandana laying them over the bag just leaving her in a black suit. Her pearly white scales shining in the sun. And she looked around shyly, her purple eyes scanning the tree line before she dipped a toe into the water with a smile she walked in and waded into the deeper water before diving in.

Whilst swimming around scoping out the prey she loved how large this lake was. There was so much room to move around then in the small pond in her home town. She was nervous but excited, to finally meet her people. Course with the mix of emotions it made it harder to catch fish. She knew this and decided to settle in a thick bed of seaweed to calm her thoughts when she heard a loud splash and realized she was no longer alone.

She got that predatory feeling in her gut which made her very nervous and scared. She took a peek out of the seaweed but didn't see anything and decided to make a break for it. So she muscled up all her courage and sprung out of the seaweed only to be stopped when she knocked heads with whomever it was she'd been trying to run from. She immediately grabbed her her forehead talking into the water something that sounded like curses.

After hitting what felt like a rock it was hard to focus on anything else but the pain in her head. The red Zora before her although the female had hit him hard enough to make him see stars for a moment looked at her with concern. She had burst out of that thick seaweed rather fast while his curiosity had gotten the better of him to take a peek when he'd spotted her looking out. He'd felt rather guilty taking her gently by the arms and pulling her to the surface. "Are you alright?" He asked once they'd broke the surface.

Reith still had her eyes shut tight with her hands over her forehead. He sounded nice enough and she didn't have that predatory feeling anymore. But then again she'd just rammed her head into someone else why wasn't he reeling in pain? She opened an eye to look upon the one she ran into and then both.

"I…I'm uh…" she was looking at another Zora. A handsome one at that…. She wondered if that feeling was just him hunting for fish. She'd never been around another hunting Zora. Her blank expression gave him a look of concern.

"You must have hit your head harder than I thought. My name Sidon, Prince of the Zora. I should take you back to the domain so you can be looked over and be sure you are alright. What is your name?" He asked as he was trying to usher her gently towards the shore.

"It's Reith …" but as her mind was trying to process everything he was saying she stopped. "Wait Prince!?" She turned now facing his chest since they were in shallower water. "I'm so sorry, I-I didn't mean to run into you…." he waved his hands to stop her with a chuckle.

"It alright Reith. No need to be sorry. It was merely an accident." He watched with interest. He'd never seen her in or around the domain. She was even wearing Hylian garments which was a little bit unheard of for a Zora, except for Mipha of course but that was not really clothing as it was a symbol of being a champion. Reith walked up on shore and sat near her things which included a lot of Hylian gear. Sidon wondered if perhaps she was a wandering Zora. But she seemed to know so little about Zora ways. Even wanders knew the royal family by name at least.

"My apologies your highness but you have quite the hard head…" this gained another chuckle from Sidon.

"I have been informed of this a few times before. But please, just call me Sidon. And we really should get you to the infirmary." her stomach decided to rumble and she blushed and Sidon only smiled. "And perhaps something to eat while we're at it." Reith raised her hands in protest.

"I can't ask you to do that I mean I..." she began but Sidon cut in.

"I might have given you a concussion the least I can do is escort you to the domain and make sure you are well fed young one." He said with a smile and Reith could only blush. "Now can you walk? Or shall I carry you?" Reith opened her mouth with a blush on her cheeks.

"I can walk..." She said in a small voice. She gathered up her things and followed him to a nearby river.

"We can get to the Domain from here." He said jumping in without a thought. Reith on the other hand went about putting her things on her bag so they wouldn't get wet and replaced her bandana. "If you're worried about your things they're definitely going to get wet. Save yourself the trouble." She only frowned at that. Just how wild was this river? She replaced the pack and walked in and Sidon watched her. It kinda made her uncomfortable and she blushed and hide her face in the water. "Alright are you ready?" She nodded letting a few bubbles escape her mouth and Sidon smiled. He couldn't understand why she was so nervous, most girls were unbearable around him.

"How long does it usually take this way?" Reith asked.

"A lot less time then walking there. I wanted to ask is that a tattoo he asked looking at the black symbol on her forehead." He asked swimming backwards.

"I.. no..." she pulled her bandana down making sure the mark was covered. Sidon could tell she didn't want to talk about it right now so he let it go. They continued until they reached the waterfall and Sidon thinking nothing of it swam right on up it. Reith watched with an awestruck look on her face. He could swim up a freaking waterfall!? She'd never swam up one before and just looking up at it made her dizzy. That might have been from cracking her head. Sidon peaked over the edge. "Are you coming?"

"I can't…!" she yelled back up but she wasn't sure he'd heard her. Since he jumped back down and splash landed in the pool just a few feet from her splashing water on her. He surfaced next to her.

"What the problem?" He asked looking at her with concern.

"I can't swim up waterfalls…. There were none where I grew up." Reith said. Sidon sighed. "I'm sorry."

"It's fine. Come on." Sidon smiled and swam for shore. Reith followed watching him as he sat on a rock to dry off a bit. "Come rest we'll have to dry for a bit before we continue." Reith smile a little, a rest did sound nice.

A/N: I hope you liked the first chapter so please R&R