Chapter 4
She had her arms around his waist as Epona galloped around Hyrule Field. She was going at a nice speed, not too fast, but certainly not slow. They were enjoying the ride. Epona crossed the bridge to Kakiriko village, and he slowed her down, easing her up the stairs. He got up the first flight and turned for the second, and rubbed under Epona's chin, forcing her to buck up, scaring the hell out of Saria.
"LINK!" She squealed at him as she almost slid off the back. Link simply laughed, and pushed her up the stairs. They rode quietly all the way to the stables, where he put her up. He helped Saria down., and they walked to his house, only a few yards away.
Saria stood in the doorway, admiring the place before she walked in. "This is great..." She said, and walked through the living room. "...You have a fire place!"
Link laughed. "I AM the Hero of Time, give me a little credit..." He looked at the fire place himself, and saw his sword. He knew as long as it was there, he would have to continue his quest. He smiled, there was really no need too. Mayson was with Rauru, Ganon was still imprisoned...
"Make yourself at home" He told her. She collapsed on the queen size bed and stretched out. She put her hand in the air and shot a green orb into the fire place. The logs started sparking and soon turned into a roaring fire. She smiled.
Link walked into the kitchen and Saria heard a Cuccu squeal. She was kind of hungry. She admired the house, it was pretty big. It was a lot more cozy than her old one room tree house. She could of stayed, but she would rather be with someone her own size, she lied to herself. She had liked Link for a long time...now she got her chance.
"Dinner will be ready in an hour..." He said as he tightened the Cucco on the rotisserie and threw some more wood on the fire. He walked out wiping his hands on a towel and threw it in a woven bucket with a dirty tunic. "I haven't cooked anything in a while, so bear with me..."
She smiled and got up off the bed. "Whoops...I forgot to go get my daily pay..." He said as he rushed out the door. She waited there for a minuet, smelling the Cucco roasting. She had never had it before...Cucco's where very rare in the forest. She had only had meat once, when Link cooked his cow before he moved to Kakaroki.
Her thoughts where interrupted when Link burst through the door, brandishing a bag of rupees. "I got a bonus for clearing out the fire temple!" He said as he dumped the fifty rupees in his bank.
"Good job...." She said "But...Something is burning..." Link ran into the kitchen and laughed. "It's just the cooking fire..." He walked out, and as soon as he did his cuccu caught fire. He ran back in, wildly fanning it with his hand. He grabbed some water and threw it on the Hyrulian chicken, putting it out.
"Dinners ready, I guess...." Saria laughed at him, as he grabbed the cuccu and dropped it on a plate. It had the crest of the royal family on the center of it, probably given to him by Zelda. He cut off a good sized piece for himself, and Saria took the legs.
It was actually pretty good, despite being burnt, soaked, and cooked by Link. Link insured her it was probably his worst work in the kitchen.
"So, how does that spinney thing you put the cuccu on work?" She asked between mouthfuls of food.
"Its a metal bar that has a handle you turn to spin it around, so it cooks all sides of the food. I fooled with it a while, so that I could wind it up to spin for a certain amount of time."
"You must be really smart to do something like that!"
"Not really, just bored enough."
After dinner, they talked a while and fell asleep. They lived like that for a good week, Link never thinking twice about his decision to not continue his quest. Until that day.
The stable shook, but Saria didn't think about it. Probably another one of those racing fools running his horse into a tree. It happened again, making Epona buck and almost knocking a hole in the stable wall.
"...Link! Did you leave the Cuccu on too long again?" She laughed
"I didn't put anything on...I was going to take you to this fancy place in castle town..."
"Well, something is burning..." She said while she patted Epona on the head, trying to calm her down.
"I'll go look then...I bet Anju is trying to cook again...It wasn't pretty last time!" He laughed as he walked out of the stable, Saria behind him. Another flaming boulder hit the town, this time square in the middle of Anju's house.
Link ran over to her house, jumping over fences and small fires without thinking. Saria ran to Links house for shelter. Link pulled her out into her cuccu yard. She was knocked out and had a pretty big bump on her head. "She's fine!" Link called out to Saria, but did not see her. "SARIA!"
He was scared as hell, running as fast as he could back to the stables. "SARIA!" He called out again, sticking his head in the stables. He turned back around and started for the gate to the mountain when he was thrown off his feet. A flaming boulder had hit his house! He leapt up and ran to his house.
"SARIA!" He yelled, running into the house.
"LINK!" She called back. She was in the bedroom, laying on the floor. She tried to get up, but fell back down. "Its my leg! I think its broken!"
Link ran over to her, stepping over flaming wood and sidestepping away from burning walls. He picked her up, and jumped out the window, shielding her from the glass with his own head. He rolled onto the grass, and sat her down.
"You doing all right?"
"I'll make it...but my leg..."
It looked awful. It was burned pretty bad and there was a big lump. Her leg was broken.
"It'll be ok..." He assured her, and carried her the stables. He turned to face the volcanoe, smoke poured out of the crater. A few more volcanic rocks where shooting out, but at very low range. The monster that awoke when Mayson sealed Daruain did it. The monster had just made a death wish.
Link started to get up, but looked back at Saria. "You'll be ok...I'd die before I let something happen to you..."
"Go...It could happen again..." She said, sensing what he was after.
Link nodded, and ran out the door into his burning house. He got to the fireplace, and took his sword and shield, both wrapped in the finest lavender silk in Hyrule, and both untouched by the flame. He took them and went out the window again, and ran back to the stables.
"You sure?" He asked her while unwrapping his prized possessions.
"Yes! Go!" She said, wincing at the pain in her leg.
Link hesitated, then took out a bottle filled with blue liquid.
"I was saving it for when I needed it..." He said as he took out the cork and raised it to her lips. She drank all of it quickly, feeling her strength return.
"I'll be fine! Now go!" She said, moving her self by her elbows to the wall as he left. "I hope he'll be ok..." She said under her breath.
Link shoved his sword in the scabbard and then covered it with his mirror sheild. He took his bow out, and counted the arrows in his quiver. 80. He wouldn't run out this time. He readied his bow as he ran up the path to the mountain, picking off the few living spiders. He got to the path leading up to the entrance...It was covered in burning lava.
Links tunic protected him from the heat, but only that. The lava would burn him alive in less than a few minuets.
"SHIT!" He screamed. He could not reach it...No possible way. "Shit..." He said again, thinking of what all he could do. Nothing. Absolutely nothing to get in.
He looked around. He could walk on the ledges...If he could reach them. He reached for his hookshot, ready to fire at a wooden post, when he felt it. His ocarina! He quickly pulled it out, and played the Bolero of Fire. He felt himself go weightless, orbs of red light orbiting around him. He felt his body condense into a blinking light as he was hurled through the air to a triforce crest in the middle of a volcano. He was on a knee, and quickly stood up and rolled into the pit that led to the entrance of the temple.
He hit the ground hard, quickly picking off a bat when he landed. He ran up the stairs, taking a quick right into a door. He ran over a bridge, picking off burning creatures and letting flying pillars of lava hit his shield. His feet carried him the rest of the way, while he worked his magic with the bow and shield. Eventually he reached Volvagia's lair.
He looked in the floor, holes of lava. He walked around, looking for a way down. Saria said the entrance was here. Then he saw it. One of the holes was dried over, leaving a tunnel downward. He eagerly jumped in and slid down, into a giant room. He was on an island surrounded by lava.
He looked around, until he realized he was in the heart of the volcano. Nothing but lava and the platform he was on. No way out. The platform shook violently, as it flew up from the molten rock. It was a huge pillar of lava, hitting the ceiling and firing burning liquid in every direction. Link hid under his shield for protection. Link looked to where it came from, and his gaze was met by a giant dragon's head. Its head was plated with thick scales. The head was semi-flat, a horn sticking out the back of the scales at a low angle.
The monsters eyes where plated all the way around, and a thick covering protected them from lava. The mouth was also plated inside, save the tongue, which was too thick to assault anyway. The only hope Link had was a hole in its forehead, from which it threw out the lava pillars. It probably also gave birth to Volvagia, from the looks of the ridges in it.
The monster lowered its head and shot a pillar of burning rocks at Link, who quickly rolled to the side and used his shield to absorb shrapnel. He countered with a light arrow to the hole, which only illuminated it. He could see the tube went down into the monsters neck.
The monster jumped into the air, flying over Links head. He could see it was a huge Dondonagon, like the one he fought in the cave, except five times bigger....and with wings. It spread them, fully plated, and flew around the room, harassing Link with balls of lava. One of them barley missed him, taking his hat with it.
"Dammit!" Link swore at it, firing another light arrow at the tail. It was not the regular Dondonagon tail, instead, on the end was a gigantic spiked ball. He could also see giant spines everywhere on his body, except for the face. It had no arms, instead it had axe-like scales that where as long as the platform. It swung its tail at Link, turning the platform up. Link grabbed at the ledge and hung on for dear life, but it was in vain. The monster fired a flaming ball at him, forcing him to let go.
Link slid down as the platform started to fall back into the lava. His hands franticly searched for grooves the could grab at, but it was smooth. Everything moved in slow motion. Link rolled over, hoping for some salvation to fall from the sky and lift him up into safty. Link saw it. A jagged peice of rock with a groove in it in the celing. He took out his hook shot and fired it, just as the soles of his boots where singed off. He stayed there, only a very thing layer of leather covering his feet.
The monster flew back into the lava, sending a giant wave of lava at him. He quickly tied the chain around his waist and took up his sheild, almost being burnt alive again. He enchanted an arrow with ice and fired it again into the hole in the monsters forhead, and readied another. The monster screamed as its breathing was cut off, as it chocked and rolled around, sinking into the lava and melting it. It rose again, and link dropped a jar of water directly into the hole. It was melted water from Zora's domain, garunteed to never melt if it was frozen. The monster shivered, and as Link shot the arrow, it scooted away.
Link swore and readied another, but he dropped his quiver. He enchanted it and let it fly, as he watched his lucky quiver subcum to the fire. The arrow hit square in the water, and froze immidiatly. The hole was completely blocked, and the monster tried to scream, but failed. Blood red lava poured from its nose as it tried in vain to breath, but it couldnt. It opened its mouth to scream again, but the lava burnt it to a crisp in seconds. Steam from the lava meating salavia filled the air, and the dragon rolled over dead.
Link looked around for the stone, but he did not see it. He dropped down, landing in a roll and searched the celing. Nothing. He spun around, his feet burning, and stopped to look at his handy work. The Dondonagon's stomach had a strange rune carved in it. The stone! Link quickly pulled out his ocarina and rattled off the song of sages, promptly causing a bright light to cover the monster, and a large Goron to apear standing on its stomach.
" -- Bastard! You will never get me! Who the hell do you think you are? I sure as hell ain't goin in there bitch! You can kiss my ass y--" The Goron screamed at no one in particular, until he noticed that Mayson was no longer brandishing a stone at him. "Oh, hey big brother!"
Daruain ran out him with his arms outstreached, and gripped him in a giant bear hug. "Damn, man...And I thought that monster would kill me!" Link laughed at him, in between winces. The goron lowered him back to the ground and laughed as well, and slaped him on the back. Link somehow managed to hold his ground.
"Wish I could of seen you kill that..." He said "...And, thanks..." Link could tell gorons were not good at showing emotions. "Now, lets get out of here! I'm burning up!" The goron laughed again, and looked around for a way out.
"I came in from the celing...last time I had to find a switch to get out..." He said, searching the celing for another jagged rock or something.
"Last time?"
"Saria..."
"That little shit got Saria?! The low-down little rat ba--"
"Calm down. She's safe. She's staying at my place..."
The goron started to make a rude comment, but simply nodded. Link was always touchy about these things. "So, he get anyone else?"
"All of them. Except for Impa, Rauru, and Zelda."
"How the hell could a coward like that get --"
"Calm down...Rauru has got him and doing god knows what to him."
"Good."
"What possessed Zelda's boy friend to do something like that, anyway?"
"Ganondorf. Some of his spirit got to him."
"I swear, if I ever find him I'd tear off his arm and beat him with the bloody end of it!"
The Goron had a fiesty temper. Link simply laughed at him. He would like to let him loose on Mayson or Ganondorf...Infact, he would sell his house to pay to see that. He laughed again.
"So, Daruain, I miss anything in goron village?"
"Nope....You found anything yet?"
"Nope..."
"Want some music? I think I got my drums with me."
"Music....Come over here and hold on." The goron did as he was told, and grabbed the Hylians shoulders. Link again brought the ocarina to his lips, and played the Nocturne of Shadow. Their bodies slowly floated up as balls of purple light, and reapeared at the entrance to the Kakaroki graveyard. Link jumped over the fence and waited for the large goron, who was still recovering from the warp.
"Thats some wild stuff there, big brother!" He said as he jumped over the fence.
Link laughed, and ran into the village, with the goron close behind. His jovial attitude fell when he once again saw his village in ruin.
"Whoa...What happened?" The goron inquired.
"Eruption..."
"Well, I got nothing better to do, so I'll help clean it up!"
"Thanks..."
"Anything for my brother!"
Link suddenly rememberd Saria. He ran as fast as he could to the stables, the pounding of the gorons feet not far behind. He skidded on the hay, searching frantically for her. "SARIA!" He called out as he scanned the ruins of his town.
"I'm right here!" She giggled at him. She was brushing Epona, her leg in a crude splint. "I'm fine, by the way."
"Thank the goddess..." He said as he ran over to her and kissed her passionatly. "I was worried..."
"You gave me a potion. And it was only my leg, anyway..." She said and kissed him back. "So...How was your trip?"
"I had to kill a giant dragon, was almost burnt alive twice in five minuets, and then almost got every bone in my body broken in a bear hug..."
"So, your normal day?"
"Plus a bear hug..." He laughed. "How's she doing?"
Saria patted Epona on the head. "Good. Wasn't scared at all."
Suddenly Daruains eyes sank into the back of his head. "Ruto. Water Catacombs. Under Zora's domain." He shook his head, wondering what the hell had just happened. Then Link realised he had to leave Saria again.
"Saria..." He said tenderly, taking her hand in his. "I must leave. I think Daruain can tell you why, I don't know if I have the heart too..." He turned around and walked down the stairs. "Take good care of her, Daruain, or I'll have to kick your ass!" He gave a weak smile to him, and called his horse down. He first rode to the ruined bazaar and took a large quiver full of arrows, and then he and his horse floated away in blue light.
Note: Finally! After I got back from the ski trip, I had so many Ideas I had to skip school to get it all down! Shame on me...Anyway, I'll get chapter 5 up soon for you guys...I know this isn't spell checked, I'll fix all 4 chapters Friday afternoon. I just wanted to get it up first. Anyway, I'm tired as hell, so g'night!
She had her arms around his waist as Epona galloped around Hyrule Field. She was going at a nice speed, not too fast, but certainly not slow. They were enjoying the ride. Epona crossed the bridge to Kakiriko village, and he slowed her down, easing her up the stairs. He got up the first flight and turned for the second, and rubbed under Epona's chin, forcing her to buck up, scaring the hell out of Saria.
"LINK!" She squealed at him as she almost slid off the back. Link simply laughed, and pushed her up the stairs. They rode quietly all the way to the stables, where he put her up. He helped Saria down., and they walked to his house, only a few yards away.
Saria stood in the doorway, admiring the place before she walked in. "This is great..." She said, and walked through the living room. "...You have a fire place!"
Link laughed. "I AM the Hero of Time, give me a little credit..." He looked at the fire place himself, and saw his sword. He knew as long as it was there, he would have to continue his quest. He smiled, there was really no need too. Mayson was with Rauru, Ganon was still imprisoned...
"Make yourself at home" He told her. She collapsed on the queen size bed and stretched out. She put her hand in the air and shot a green orb into the fire place. The logs started sparking and soon turned into a roaring fire. She smiled.
Link walked into the kitchen and Saria heard a Cuccu squeal. She was kind of hungry. She admired the house, it was pretty big. It was a lot more cozy than her old one room tree house. She could of stayed, but she would rather be with someone her own size, she lied to herself. She had liked Link for a long time...now she got her chance.
"Dinner will be ready in an hour..." He said as he tightened the Cucco on the rotisserie and threw some more wood on the fire. He walked out wiping his hands on a towel and threw it in a woven bucket with a dirty tunic. "I haven't cooked anything in a while, so bear with me..."
She smiled and got up off the bed. "Whoops...I forgot to go get my daily pay..." He said as he rushed out the door. She waited there for a minuet, smelling the Cucco roasting. She had never had it before...Cucco's where very rare in the forest. She had only had meat once, when Link cooked his cow before he moved to Kakaroki.
Her thoughts where interrupted when Link burst through the door, brandishing a bag of rupees. "I got a bonus for clearing out the fire temple!" He said as he dumped the fifty rupees in his bank.
"Good job...." She said "But...Something is burning..." Link ran into the kitchen and laughed. "It's just the cooking fire..." He walked out, and as soon as he did his cuccu caught fire. He ran back in, wildly fanning it with his hand. He grabbed some water and threw it on the Hyrulian chicken, putting it out.
"Dinners ready, I guess...." Saria laughed at him, as he grabbed the cuccu and dropped it on a plate. It had the crest of the royal family on the center of it, probably given to him by Zelda. He cut off a good sized piece for himself, and Saria took the legs.
It was actually pretty good, despite being burnt, soaked, and cooked by Link. Link insured her it was probably his worst work in the kitchen.
"So, how does that spinney thing you put the cuccu on work?" She asked between mouthfuls of food.
"Its a metal bar that has a handle you turn to spin it around, so it cooks all sides of the food. I fooled with it a while, so that I could wind it up to spin for a certain amount of time."
"You must be really smart to do something like that!"
"Not really, just bored enough."
After dinner, they talked a while and fell asleep. They lived like that for a good week, Link never thinking twice about his decision to not continue his quest. Until that day.
The stable shook, but Saria didn't think about it. Probably another one of those racing fools running his horse into a tree. It happened again, making Epona buck and almost knocking a hole in the stable wall.
"...Link! Did you leave the Cuccu on too long again?" She laughed
"I didn't put anything on...I was going to take you to this fancy place in castle town..."
"Well, something is burning..." She said while she patted Epona on the head, trying to calm her down.
"I'll go look then...I bet Anju is trying to cook again...It wasn't pretty last time!" He laughed as he walked out of the stable, Saria behind him. Another flaming boulder hit the town, this time square in the middle of Anju's house.
Link ran over to her house, jumping over fences and small fires without thinking. Saria ran to Links house for shelter. Link pulled her out into her cuccu yard. She was knocked out and had a pretty big bump on her head. "She's fine!" Link called out to Saria, but did not see her. "SARIA!"
He was scared as hell, running as fast as he could back to the stables. "SARIA!" He called out again, sticking his head in the stables. He turned back around and started for the gate to the mountain when he was thrown off his feet. A flaming boulder had hit his house! He leapt up and ran to his house.
"SARIA!" He yelled, running into the house.
"LINK!" She called back. She was in the bedroom, laying on the floor. She tried to get up, but fell back down. "Its my leg! I think its broken!"
Link ran over to her, stepping over flaming wood and sidestepping away from burning walls. He picked her up, and jumped out the window, shielding her from the glass with his own head. He rolled onto the grass, and sat her down.
"You doing all right?"
"I'll make it...but my leg..."
It looked awful. It was burned pretty bad and there was a big lump. Her leg was broken.
"It'll be ok..." He assured her, and carried her the stables. He turned to face the volcanoe, smoke poured out of the crater. A few more volcanic rocks where shooting out, but at very low range. The monster that awoke when Mayson sealed Daruain did it. The monster had just made a death wish.
Link started to get up, but looked back at Saria. "You'll be ok...I'd die before I let something happen to you..."
"Go...It could happen again..." She said, sensing what he was after.
Link nodded, and ran out the door into his burning house. He got to the fireplace, and took his sword and shield, both wrapped in the finest lavender silk in Hyrule, and both untouched by the flame. He took them and went out the window again, and ran back to the stables.
"You sure?" He asked her while unwrapping his prized possessions.
"Yes! Go!" She said, wincing at the pain in her leg.
Link hesitated, then took out a bottle filled with blue liquid.
"I was saving it for when I needed it..." He said as he took out the cork and raised it to her lips. She drank all of it quickly, feeling her strength return.
"I'll be fine! Now go!" She said, moving her self by her elbows to the wall as he left. "I hope he'll be ok..." She said under her breath.
Link shoved his sword in the scabbard and then covered it with his mirror sheild. He took his bow out, and counted the arrows in his quiver. 80. He wouldn't run out this time. He readied his bow as he ran up the path to the mountain, picking off the few living spiders. He got to the path leading up to the entrance...It was covered in burning lava.
Links tunic protected him from the heat, but only that. The lava would burn him alive in less than a few minuets.
"SHIT!" He screamed. He could not reach it...No possible way. "Shit..." He said again, thinking of what all he could do. Nothing. Absolutely nothing to get in.
He looked around. He could walk on the ledges...If he could reach them. He reached for his hookshot, ready to fire at a wooden post, when he felt it. His ocarina! He quickly pulled it out, and played the Bolero of Fire. He felt himself go weightless, orbs of red light orbiting around him. He felt his body condense into a blinking light as he was hurled through the air to a triforce crest in the middle of a volcano. He was on a knee, and quickly stood up and rolled into the pit that led to the entrance of the temple.
He hit the ground hard, quickly picking off a bat when he landed. He ran up the stairs, taking a quick right into a door. He ran over a bridge, picking off burning creatures and letting flying pillars of lava hit his shield. His feet carried him the rest of the way, while he worked his magic with the bow and shield. Eventually he reached Volvagia's lair.
He looked in the floor, holes of lava. He walked around, looking for a way down. Saria said the entrance was here. Then he saw it. One of the holes was dried over, leaving a tunnel downward. He eagerly jumped in and slid down, into a giant room. He was on an island surrounded by lava.
He looked around, until he realized he was in the heart of the volcano. Nothing but lava and the platform he was on. No way out. The platform shook violently, as it flew up from the molten rock. It was a huge pillar of lava, hitting the ceiling and firing burning liquid in every direction. Link hid under his shield for protection. Link looked to where it came from, and his gaze was met by a giant dragon's head. Its head was plated with thick scales. The head was semi-flat, a horn sticking out the back of the scales at a low angle.
The monsters eyes where plated all the way around, and a thick covering protected them from lava. The mouth was also plated inside, save the tongue, which was too thick to assault anyway. The only hope Link had was a hole in its forehead, from which it threw out the lava pillars. It probably also gave birth to Volvagia, from the looks of the ridges in it.
The monster lowered its head and shot a pillar of burning rocks at Link, who quickly rolled to the side and used his shield to absorb shrapnel. He countered with a light arrow to the hole, which only illuminated it. He could see the tube went down into the monsters neck.
The monster jumped into the air, flying over Links head. He could see it was a huge Dondonagon, like the one he fought in the cave, except five times bigger....and with wings. It spread them, fully plated, and flew around the room, harassing Link with balls of lava. One of them barley missed him, taking his hat with it.
"Dammit!" Link swore at it, firing another light arrow at the tail. It was not the regular Dondonagon tail, instead, on the end was a gigantic spiked ball. He could also see giant spines everywhere on his body, except for the face. It had no arms, instead it had axe-like scales that where as long as the platform. It swung its tail at Link, turning the platform up. Link grabbed at the ledge and hung on for dear life, but it was in vain. The monster fired a flaming ball at him, forcing him to let go.
Link slid down as the platform started to fall back into the lava. His hands franticly searched for grooves the could grab at, but it was smooth. Everything moved in slow motion. Link rolled over, hoping for some salvation to fall from the sky and lift him up into safty. Link saw it. A jagged peice of rock with a groove in it in the celing. He took out his hook shot and fired it, just as the soles of his boots where singed off. He stayed there, only a very thing layer of leather covering his feet.
The monster flew back into the lava, sending a giant wave of lava at him. He quickly tied the chain around his waist and took up his sheild, almost being burnt alive again. He enchanted an arrow with ice and fired it again into the hole in the monsters forhead, and readied another. The monster screamed as its breathing was cut off, as it chocked and rolled around, sinking into the lava and melting it. It rose again, and link dropped a jar of water directly into the hole. It was melted water from Zora's domain, garunteed to never melt if it was frozen. The monster shivered, and as Link shot the arrow, it scooted away.
Link swore and readied another, but he dropped his quiver. He enchanted it and let it fly, as he watched his lucky quiver subcum to the fire. The arrow hit square in the water, and froze immidiatly. The hole was completely blocked, and the monster tried to scream, but failed. Blood red lava poured from its nose as it tried in vain to breath, but it couldnt. It opened its mouth to scream again, but the lava burnt it to a crisp in seconds. Steam from the lava meating salavia filled the air, and the dragon rolled over dead.
Link looked around for the stone, but he did not see it. He dropped down, landing in a roll and searched the celing. Nothing. He spun around, his feet burning, and stopped to look at his handy work. The Dondonagon's stomach had a strange rune carved in it. The stone! Link quickly pulled out his ocarina and rattled off the song of sages, promptly causing a bright light to cover the monster, and a large Goron to apear standing on its stomach.
" -- Bastard! You will never get me! Who the hell do you think you are? I sure as hell ain't goin in there bitch! You can kiss my ass y--" The Goron screamed at no one in particular, until he noticed that Mayson was no longer brandishing a stone at him. "Oh, hey big brother!"
Daruain ran out him with his arms outstreached, and gripped him in a giant bear hug. "Damn, man...And I thought that monster would kill me!" Link laughed at him, in between winces. The goron lowered him back to the ground and laughed as well, and slaped him on the back. Link somehow managed to hold his ground.
"Wish I could of seen you kill that..." He said "...And, thanks..." Link could tell gorons were not good at showing emotions. "Now, lets get out of here! I'm burning up!" The goron laughed again, and looked around for a way out.
"I came in from the celing...last time I had to find a switch to get out..." He said, searching the celing for another jagged rock or something.
"Last time?"
"Saria..."
"That little shit got Saria?! The low-down little rat ba--"
"Calm down. She's safe. She's staying at my place..."
The goron started to make a rude comment, but simply nodded. Link was always touchy about these things. "So, he get anyone else?"
"All of them. Except for Impa, Rauru, and Zelda."
"How the hell could a coward like that get --"
"Calm down...Rauru has got him and doing god knows what to him."
"Good."
"What possessed Zelda's boy friend to do something like that, anyway?"
"Ganondorf. Some of his spirit got to him."
"I swear, if I ever find him I'd tear off his arm and beat him with the bloody end of it!"
The Goron had a fiesty temper. Link simply laughed at him. He would like to let him loose on Mayson or Ganondorf...Infact, he would sell his house to pay to see that. He laughed again.
"So, Daruain, I miss anything in goron village?"
"Nope....You found anything yet?"
"Nope..."
"Want some music? I think I got my drums with me."
"Music....Come over here and hold on." The goron did as he was told, and grabbed the Hylians shoulders. Link again brought the ocarina to his lips, and played the Nocturne of Shadow. Their bodies slowly floated up as balls of purple light, and reapeared at the entrance to the Kakaroki graveyard. Link jumped over the fence and waited for the large goron, who was still recovering from the warp.
"Thats some wild stuff there, big brother!" He said as he jumped over the fence.
Link laughed, and ran into the village, with the goron close behind. His jovial attitude fell when he once again saw his village in ruin.
"Whoa...What happened?" The goron inquired.
"Eruption..."
"Well, I got nothing better to do, so I'll help clean it up!"
"Thanks..."
"Anything for my brother!"
Link suddenly rememberd Saria. He ran as fast as he could to the stables, the pounding of the gorons feet not far behind. He skidded on the hay, searching frantically for her. "SARIA!" He called out as he scanned the ruins of his town.
"I'm right here!" She giggled at him. She was brushing Epona, her leg in a crude splint. "I'm fine, by the way."
"Thank the goddess..." He said as he ran over to her and kissed her passionatly. "I was worried..."
"You gave me a potion. And it was only my leg, anyway..." She said and kissed him back. "So...How was your trip?"
"I had to kill a giant dragon, was almost burnt alive twice in five minuets, and then almost got every bone in my body broken in a bear hug..."
"So, your normal day?"
"Plus a bear hug..." He laughed. "How's she doing?"
Saria patted Epona on the head. "Good. Wasn't scared at all."
Suddenly Daruains eyes sank into the back of his head. "Ruto. Water Catacombs. Under Zora's domain." He shook his head, wondering what the hell had just happened. Then Link realised he had to leave Saria again.
"Saria..." He said tenderly, taking her hand in his. "I must leave. I think Daruain can tell you why, I don't know if I have the heart too..." He turned around and walked down the stairs. "Take good care of her, Daruain, or I'll have to kick your ass!" He gave a weak smile to him, and called his horse down. He first rode to the ruined bazaar and took a large quiver full of arrows, and then he and his horse floated away in blue light.
Note: Finally! After I got back from the ski trip, I had so many Ideas I had to skip school to get it all down! Shame on me...Anyway, I'll get chapter 5 up soon for you guys...I know this isn't spell checked, I'll fix all 4 chapters Friday afternoon. I just wanted to get it up first. Anyway, I'm tired as hell, so g'night!
