I do not own Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It belongs to Nintendo. I own, everything else in here though... XD;;
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Matt grumbled to himself as he trudged up a rocky path, the stone smooth and rough alike. He seemed to be inside of a chasm of some sort, with gysers blowing hot steam that lightly sprinkled his battered, aching body.
"Jeez... Of all places to drop me off, WHY did it have to be in a place that was full of ROCKS?" Matt grit his teeth, gripping his side. It was from when the doll had dropped him. It's poor aim caused him to grab onto a ledge when he was dropped off, causing him to almost belly flop against it and that caused him to slide off.
Matt leaned against a nearby boulder and sighed.
'At least it was 10 feet instead of something crazy like 50...' he mused to himself. He ran his hand over his hair and decided to take a rest, slouching down against the boulder and closing his eyes for a moment. Yes... Rest sounded good... A kind of rhythem was playing through his head and he felt something moving behind him. Quickly doing a double check, he only saw the boulder he was leaning against and frowned, leaning back again.
In all honesty, he didn't mind the slight vibrations the boulder was making. In fact, it felt almost relaxing like a massage of some sort against his sore back. Matt winced a bit then lifted his head.
"Where's that bouncing sound coming from...?" Sure enough, a rhythemic beat was now rocking through the stone and Matt slowly stood up. His first thought was to hide behind the boulder maybe for protection, but decided to not follow up with that thought, in case the boulder rolled on top of him.
Leaning to the side a bit to see around the corner, the rumbling got louder and the vibrations stronger. Matt had to steady himself before slowly backing away.
It was a boulder. A giant, rolling boulder, gaining speed as it bounced along the rocky path towards Matt..
"Holy Shi-!" before Matt could finish his sentence he took off back downhill, down the trail and through the chasm as the giant boulder rolled after him, bouncing off the walls occasionally but still staying on course, "What the hell is this, Indiana Jones?!"
He skidded to a stop seeing a ledge. He groaned seeing it was the ledge he had climbed up earlier. Hearing the boulder approaching, Matt cussed as he swung himself over the edge and proceeded to climb down. He didn't plan on going down all the way, that would be stupid... So he clung to the wall just so the boulder would roll off the edge, hopefully miss him and he'd be able to climb back up.
There was a sudden silence, which was followed with a hollow BOOM! and Matt shook his head a bit as pebbles gently pelted him in the head.
"Uh?"
Matt looked up at the sound of a grunt and his eyes widened. An 8 foot tall stone golem was hovering above him, looking down. It seemed to ask him a question but Matt stayed silent, first off not understanding the golem and second, was worried it would try and knock him off the cliff. He quickly corrected himself.
It wasn't a golem.
It was a Goron.
Then again there wasn't much of a difference since both ingested rocks as a daily diet.
"Hey... You're a funny looking human..." Matt was stunned into shocked silence when the Goron lifted him up by the backpack and set him down on solid earth, "I guess I found the right one then."
"Huh? The RIGHT one? What's that supposed to mean...?!" Matt cringed and gripped his ribs, "Oh snap..."
"I was told to find a human than had 'round ears' by the Elder." the Goron said, "You're hurt right? A good soak in the hot springs will make things better." The thought of a hot bath enlightened Matt for a moment.
For a moment, until he remembered in the game how it was a public bath. He shuddered at the thought of the goron's with no loin cloths.
"S-Sure thing then..." he replied with a smile of gratitude.
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Shuffling a bit, Matt tightened the string of the robe around his waist and swallowed as he made his way to the hot springs. The Goron earlier told him that he would meet with the Elder there to speak so he could heal at the same time.
Still...
"Oh, you must be the human!" Matt nearly jumped when a wrinkly Goron with white hair beckoned over to him. Matt stiffly walked towards the Goron and after being gestured to, slipped into the hot water. Matt also decided to keep his towel on, just in case, and folded the robe setting it beside him.
"Um, hi. You wanted to speak with me?" Matt asked and felt his voice sound monotonous. The Goron elder lounged back as if it wasn't a formal meeting, but two buddies batheing together.
"Yes, I expected you to come."
"You, expected me...?"
The goron let out a hearty laugh, "Yes! I said so already didn't I? Now, let me ask you something. Have you ever heard of the legend of the great Goron hero, Darmani?"
Matt rubbed his chin. Darmani... Darmani... Thye name rung a bell...
"Can I ask if he had puffy white hair, and um... A large scar over his chest?" he inquired, "And possibly a floppy big breen hat at some point?"
Now it was the Elder's turn to rub his chin, "Hm, I suppose so... Do you remember it being so?" Matt opened his mouth to reply in confusion until a smaller, higher pitched voice spoke up.
"Yup, I do. Good thing this guy does too, now I know for sure you guys didn't just pick up some random human from the Kakariko village."
Slowly, Matt tilted his head and pointed to the top of the Elder's head.
"Um, sorry but you've got some kinda glowing red bug on your head... Here, lemme brush it off for yo-" Before he could even move the tiny red bug suddenly zoomed out at him and struck him in the forehead, knocking him over, "OW!"
"Watch your manners! You never seen my kind before? Are you a bug hater maybe? Or do you just not like the color RED!" The glowing red bug had now sprouted off tiny wings and tiny jingles could be heard as it flew around furiously, "ANSWER NOW OR FACE MY HEAVENLY WRATH!"
"I'm sorry! I didn't know you could talk and I-!" Matt paused and looked at the bug closer, "And I didn't know you were, a fairy..."
The fairy bounced angrily again, "Yeah so? Never seen one before?!"
"No, I actually have NEVER seen a fairy before." Matt almost snapped back. The Elder just watched the two of them bicker and sighed sinking into the spring.
"So, is this the human you wanted to see?" he asked. The fairy slowly calmed down and settled down from the bright red glow into a more mellow pink one as it perched itself on top of the Elder's head.
"Yeah, I guess he'll do." it grumbled, "Alright kid, tell us your name, age, and anything else you know about Mani."
"What is this, an interview...? My name's Matthew, Matt, I'm almost 17 and about "Mani"... He was goron hero right?" The Elder and Fairy nodded in unison, "Ok so... I know he died, and um... He suddenly turned up alive during the long winter way back when everything on Death Mountain froze. As far as I know, he was turned into a mask by a kid that wore green."
"He did...?" The elder tilted his head to the side in confusion, "That's not what I heard..."
"W-Well it happened in my version!" Matt said defensively. Hm, maybe going off of Majora's Mask wasn't that great of an idea...
"Good enough, alright Matt, you've proven enough to me. Finish your bath and get some sleep, we're going to be doing ALOT of work tomorrow!" The Fairy said and went aglow again with red as it fluttered away after taiking a short dunk into the water.
'What've I gotten myself into...?' he looked up at the slowly darkening sky, 'Mina... I miss you, please be safe...!'
"Hey, the fairy liked you enough to not insult you too much!" The Elder slapped his hands onto Matt's back, making him choke on some of the water he was using the wash his face with, "You're a brother now! Eh brother?"
"Um, yeah, cool. Brothers! Yeah!" Matt chuckled nervously.
'Shit! They better not try and make me sumo wrestle with them...!'
A/N: Yay! Finally an update!! XD;; So yeah, I'm tying in some thuings from Majora's Mask into this, expect some OoT too... So, how'd I do this time?
