Chapter Seven – Scaling the mountain

I was informed today that the child I seem to be playing with had finally made it to the goron village and heard about the message I sent there. They are such pitiful creatures, but their time will come soon enough. As for right now that boy should be destroying the only creatures capable of maintaining peace on Death Mountain. Once all those creatures are dead the Spiritual Stone of Fire will be obtained and by removing the stone from its resting place it will reawaken the volcano and revive Volvagia from its dormant slumber. My plan is coming together nicely. The stone taken from the forest has also begun to prove useful. Evil creatures have slowly begun to move closer to the village, and it seems the poison gas is returning as well. Once all three Spiritual Stones have been collected the destruction of Hyrule will be at hand and I will have the chance to free myself from this prison and recreate this land as my own!

The mouth drew open very wide then with a sudden movement the creature sneezed all over Link and completely covered him in snot then returned to grazing. With complete disgust he felt the snot all over his body as it slowly dripped off of him.

Looking around the meadow he noticed a pool of water and began making his way towards it. The creatures seemed to move away from him as he approached the pool and it was probably because of the snot he was covered in that they couldn't tell what he was.

Link cleaned himself off in the water in the center of the meadow. As he finished one of the giant dodongo's appeared next to him and began to drink from the spring. Freaked out by the sudden appearance of such a large creature next to him he took off as far away from the spring as possible and found an alter to the spiritual stone of fire. As he began to step onto the alter to get up to take the stone a burst of fire came from behind him and covered the stone preventing him from taking it.

Looking back he noticed all the dodongo's were looking his way and breathing fire. The creatures looked angry and began moving closer. Frightened by this hostel movement he took off running to a very large rock that was close by and hid behind it. The area was very dangerous here and he felt as if any of the creatures could attack at any moment.

Suddenly what Link thought was a giant rock began to move and revealed itself to be the king dodongo. The sudden shock from this sent Link into a frenzy and he quickly grabbed a bomb flower that was close by and threw it at the creature. The dodongo wasn't paying attention to him as the bomb hit its side and easily bounced off and hit a large pillar next to the alter where the creature had been sleeping. The bomb exploded with great force and as the pillar fell to the ground the walls surrounding the meadow began to crumble inward. The ground began to rip apart and lava shot up and began to set the grass on fire.

As the area began to be destroyed Link dashed to grab the spiritual stone then continued towards cave he came through. The creatures were running around frantic as the lava soon caught them. By the time he reached the cave most of the meadow had been covered in lava and all the screams from creatures had stopped.

The lava began to follow into the cave, but the cool air hardened the lava and prevented it from reaching the other end. Once Link emerged from the cave all the goron's were standing there waiting for his return.

"You brother now." Darunia said as he patted Link hard on the head and knocked him to the ground hard. "Creatures dead. Day saved. You go see fairy on top mountain."

Link pulled himself off the ground and tried to clean himself off, but Darunia began to push him up a path along the side of the mountain that looked like it was hardly ever used. The area he was expected to climb looked to be very steep and dangerous, but with no other choice, seeing as the goron's wouldn't let him go back down, he had to keep going. Once he reached the ledge of the path he was forced to be on he pulled himself up only to see the goron's were already up there.

"Very good." Darunia said. "You good climber. Now real climb. Avoid falling rocks and climb big mountain."

Link looked further up the path and noticed thousands of falling rocks from the volcano that had suddenly become active; and at the end of the path was a very large vertical wall that looked as if it went straight up into the sky for miles.

Wanting to shout in anger he knew he had to keep his vow to the princess and continue his journey to save Hyrule from Ganondorf. With the fate of the land in his hands he had to continue. Looking over the area the rocks were landing he figured it might be possible to make it through, but as he began moving through the area he noticed the flaming boulders seemed to be attracted to him. Before they could hit him he raised his shield to protect himself as the rocks crashed down on him, but the shield instantly burst into flames and fell to the ground in a pile of ashes. The sudden realization he no longer had any protection from these falling rocks made him panic and race around the area in a frenzy as more and more rocks came crashing down.

By the time he made it to the vertical wall his clothes were badly burned and his health was really low. He took a moment to breath then looked up at the wall to see what he was up against and the moment he did he wished he hadn't; the wall seemed to go on forever.

Beginning the long climb he noticed old spider webs were covering the walls. The wall seemed to be good for climbing, but the sticky web was making it hard to move as it got stuck to his hands and feet and began to make it harder each step to unstick his hands and feet from the wall as he made his way higher and higher.

Once he was a good ways up the wall he felt very confident he was able to make it to the top, but the web was really starting to build on his hands and feet to the point it was really slowing him down.

Suddenly a skullchula appeared and began attacking him. The attack made him lose his grip and he fell all the way back to the ground and crash hard into the rock floor. If it wasn't for the web covering his hands and feet to cushion the fall he would have been killed. Once he pulled himself together again he looked back up and realized he was going to have to start all over again. He scrapped the webs off his hands and feet and once again started his long climb up the wall.

When he reached the point on the mountain where the skullchula appeared before he looked around, but didn't see anything so he continued, then suddenly one of the creatures appeared and began running towards him. Link stopped and braced himself to be knocked off again, but the skullchula stopped and turned around and returned to where it came from. Confused by this he continued, then suddenly another appeared, and he stopped and braced to be knocked off by this one, but it also stopped and turned around. Link was confused by this, but figured it had to do with movement so each time he spotted one coming towards him he stopped moving, and they stopped attacking. Doing this allowed him to reach the top of the mountain without anymore issues.

Looking back down Link became queasy by the sight of how high he was. The clouds covered most of the ground, but the part of the path he could see was so small it looked like a line on a piece of paper. Turning away from the ledge as fast as possible he noticed two small caves. One of the caves had a red glow coming from it that looked to lead to the center of the volcano, while the other had a sign next to it that had a giant owl perched upon it asleep.

You have found the Great Fairy Fountain. To speak to the Great Fairy you must know the royal song. If you wish to leave take the foot of the owl and it will return you to Kakariko village below.