DISCLAIMER: I don't own neither of Nier: Automata nor The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time characters, because both Nintendo and Square Enix own them respectfully.

CHAPTER 6 – MEETING THE GORONS AND A FRIEND.

DEATH MOUNTAIN TRAIL

In order to reach the upper part of the mountain, Link and Andrea traveled through the trail, encountering some spider-like crab creatures called Tekitites along the way.

They took them down and resumed their way up avoiding every rolling individuals, the gorons, until they saw a mysterious entrance filled with some Triforce-drawn flags.

GORON CITY

The city was settled inside the Death Mountain, given that the temperature was warm, but also moderately hot as well.

The whole area was itself rocky and in that moment, the elves found that those creatures were in sort of predicament, those people were yellow-skinned humanoid, they had blue eyes and were friendly wearing a sort of rocks on their backs.

"Who are you guys?" Andrea asked after watching the creature stand up.

"Oh. I am a Goron, you see." The said creature answered her in a friendly tone.

"A Goron?" Link lifted an eyebrow out of curiosity.

"Yes, we the Gorons live here in our city." The Goron chuckled nicely. "Although you guys don't believe it, we can handle the heat and eat rocks. Well, did you come here for something?"

"Yeah, they told us that somebody here has the Fire Spiritual Stone, and we need it." Link told the goron about their motive coming-in.

"The Spiritual Stone? Our great patriarch Darunia has it, you guys can borrow it from him, although I have to warm you that he's in a very bad mood because of what's happening right now." The Goron explained to the elves.

"Is there something wrong?" the silver-haired girl asked him.

"You see, the Dodongo's Cavern is sealed and we cannot enter in to eat rocks, which is our main source of nutrition." The goron declared bowing his head down, frustrated.

"Do you guys eat rocks? No human being would ever eat something like that." Link was giving his opinion.

"I know that no human would eat such thing, but that is our main diet for all of us the gorons."

"I see… So, can you tell us where the patriarch is?" Andrea asked the goron for the leader's whereabouts.

"You can go down to the first floor, you will find a door with an insignia that we all have on our shoulders, you will need something to open the door because the great Darunia doesn't want to talk to anyone." The goron indicated them by glancing the door.

"Thank you, Goron." Both elves thanked him for receiving the said indications.

Link and Andrea didn't need to climb down as they simply fell off floor by floor until reaching the first one, then they walked straight to the door with the said insignia that the Gorons were holding, suddenly, they both saw a song note that it turned out to be familiar for them.

"That melody, it's the same one as Impa taught you." Andrea acknowledged the said music note from the carpet.

"I'll play it." Declared Link putting his ocarina out to perform the said song.

The child played Zelda's Lullaby and the door opened surprising them and they entered to the goron's patriarch's room.

DARUNIA'S ROOM

The two entered the Goron race's leader's room, there were few torches lighting the area and then they found one who turned out to be no more nor less than the city's patriarch, he really looked severely pissed off, something that intimidated the elves.

It was a bad idea to get where they shouldn't have to.

"What the heck! Who are you two?!" blurted the leader staring the elves with annoyance. "When I heard the song of the Royal Family, I expected their messenger had arrived, but… you're just a little kid! And a woman is going along with you!"

"Excuse me, why are you in a bad mood?" inquired Andrea trying to calm him down, without success.

"Are you asking why I'm in a such bad mood right now?" The leader spoke with anger on his face. "Ancient creatures have infested Dodongo's Cavern! We've a poor harvest of our special crop, Bomb Flowers! Starvation and hunger because of the rock shortage!"

"I see, a Goron told us about this matter." Andrea mentioned about that latter.

"So you know it already, but I want you to know this is a Goron problem! We don't need any help from strangers!"

The patriarch didn't want any help from anyone, the goron the elves had talked with was right, the leader was really pissed off and he was not easy to talk with.

"If you excuse us…" said the two leaving the room.

GORON CITY

After leaving the room, both elves climbed up to the second floor having a conversation about the patriarch's behavior.

"I didn't think he would be so angry." Started Link.

"The Goron was right, the cave's entrance is sealed and they can't eat rocks, I think we have to find a way to get in and finish that monster." Andrea argued about figuring a way to help the Gorons.

"But how?" the child inquired her when they found an entrance filled with rocks, and the flower bombs.

"We have figured this way out." Declared Andrea.

Link tried to lift a bomb, but, for some reason he could not grab it, it was like it was getting stuck or something like that.

"Dang, I can't lift the bomb…" Link said this getting frustrated.

"Let's see, let me help you out." Andrea decided to try it.

The woman lifted the bomb without problem but as soon as she grabbed it, the wick sparked making her drop the bomb and run away before it made explosion, grating them the way out.

"How can you lift a bomb flower like this?" asked Link astonished.

"I have more strength, that bomb I just grabbed was very heavy, don't worry, you will be able to soon." Andrea explained the reason she was able to grab the bomb.

After that, they got passed the way they cleared and little they knew, that cave was a portal…

LOST WOODS

After they crossed the portal, Link and Andrea realized that they were back in Kokiri Forest.

"Did we just… come back home?" Link expressed surprised.

"It seems so, Link…" Andrea nodded while turning around only to see the said portal with a few white ceramics. "I never thought we would come back this quickly." She was commenting when they suddenly heard weak afar song. "What is that noise?"

"It appears someone is playing a song, something tells me to follow it." Indicated Navi.

"We do have to follow the song, right?" asked Andrea upon hearing the statement.

"Yes, we just have to follow the correct path and the song will become more stronger." Explained the fairy.

"So we have to follow the correct path… No problem, we can do this." Link nodded accepting the task.

They set out the labyrinth road for the forest, little by little the song were getting stronger, it said that they had to follow the correct flow or they would get lost and consequently, go back to Kokiri Forest.

After they walked a lot of steps, they finally got to the place where the music was resounding.

That place was the Sacred Forest Meadow.

SACRED FOREST MEADOW

As soon as they reached the meadow, Link and Andrea found a labyrinth they had go to through but before they stepped in, they were encountered by a Wolfos, a wolf-looking creature that showed his claws intending to hurt them.

"Damn! He's too agile!" Link muttered barely avoiding the hit with his deku shield he wore moments before.

"And too fast!" Andrea seconded. "We have to be careful!"

The elves kept fighting the wolf with their swords resulting slightly injured, until after a while, they succeeded in defeating the monster and the fence opened the gate, giving them free access to step in the labyrinth.

Inside there, they encountered a few Deku scrubs along the way, but those were red-themed ones with crazy personalities, thus when they were hit by their own projectile, they soon ran away like crazy.

After going through the labyrinth, both elves went upstairs encountering the same scrubs and this time they slashed them as soon as the dekus tried to run away fighting their way to the song's origin place.

They soon found somebody whom did not expect to see again…

"I've been waiting for you, Link, Andrea!" said Saria seeing them back sitting over a trunk, playing her ocarina.

"Saria?" Link greeted running towards her along her protectress.

"What are you doing here?" asked Andrea greeting her as well.

"This is the Sacred Forest Meadow. It's my secret place! I feel… This place will be very important for three of us someday. That's what I feel." Saria explained them the reason of staying in that place. "If you play the ocarina with me, Link, I can teach you to talk with the spirits in the forest."

"Okay, I will." Link nodded yes putting out his ocarina.

"All right, try to follow along with the melody I will play. Are you ready?"

It was at this moment that Saria played the same song that Link and Andrea were following around the labyrinth. Now all this made sense, the green-haired girl was the one who played the melody all along.

"Great! Great!" Saria praised him for playing the melody efficiently along with her. "Please don't forget this song! Do you promise?"

Link nodded yes and they needed to head back to the city of the gorons.

"We have leave, Saria. See you later." The child was bidding farewell.

"We will pay you a visit sometime." Seconded Andrea while leaving with him.

"Take care guys! May the goddesses be with you!" ended Saria while watching them go away. "Link… I know Andrea will be your best partner than I was…"

END OF CHAPTER 6