Chapter 9:
Volvagia's Story
Link was having trouble sleeping, as anyone would after seeing something as gruesome as the dead body two floors below. An image of a re-dead came to mind and he shuddered at the thought.
...Creeeeeeaaaaakkk…
He silently prayed that he hadn't just heard the sound of the door opening. He really didn't need to hear spooky noises after thinking about re-deads.
"Ohhhhh..." groaned a sad voice.
Link opened his eyes anxiously and turned over to face the door.
He saw a long serpentine figure silently slinking into the room.
"V-Volvagia?" whispered Link.
"Mm-hm?" confirmed the dragon.
He hovered over to beside Link's bed.
"Why are you still up?" Link asked sympathetically.
"...I had a bad dream..." Volvagia answered in a choked whisper, "I was hoping that I could tell someone about it."
"Go ahead."
"Well… It was about the night that I was kidnapped"
"I'm listening..."
"That night", Volvagia started, "I had been—"
"Mmmmmm…Link… Who are you talking to...?" a voice asked sleepily.
Link and Volvagia turned to find that they had woken up Saria. She was still lying down, but as his eyes were already adjusted to the dark, Link could see that her eyes were half open and blinking sleepily.
"Sorry for waking you up Saria", whispered Volvagia.
"Oh… It's you, Volvagia..." she answered, "But don't worry, you didn't wake me up. I've been having trouble sleeping. Would you mind if I listened too?"
"No, not at all", whispered Volvagia, "I'll start from the beginning of the previous day before I was kidnapped…Wait, you don't know where my home is do you?"
"It's the crater at the top of Death Mountain right?" said Link,
"…How did you know that? I never told you."
"You're better off not knowing", Link said in shame, the memories of the events in the Fire Temple came back to him. I… I can't tell him that I killed him. He was my pet dragon back then too. I had no idea that I would have him as a pet again. I can't tell him.
"So I can tell you two about the day before I got kidnapped and about that dream?"
"Go ahead", said Link, sitting up in his bed.
"Mm-hm", agreed Saria, climbing sleepily onto Link's bed, sitting next to Link with her head resting on her knees.
"Okay then. I had just left the mountain crater to go to my family's former home…
"I had just left the mountain crater to go to my family's former home. It was converted into a dungeon for extremely evil convicts about fifty years ago by the Hylian army — I know this because my mom told me stories about Hyrule, our family, zoras, gorons, even the border temples, every day… She—sniff—She died… Last year… She saved me from a big pack of dodongos. They were hunting and they came across our cave. I couldn't escape without them noticing me so she did everything she could too make sure I got away safely. I think that they were more intelligent than most other dodongos though. It was almost as if they came to kill me specifically, because mom seemed to act even more protectively than she usually did. I had slithered away to a cave that was too narrow for them to get into. I went outside to give her a signal that would let her know I was all right, but it looked almost as if the dodongos were questioning her about something. I'm guessing it was where I was. When she didn't tell them—choke— Th-They killed her—Sob…""I'm so sorry about how your mother died", Saria whispered sympathetically.
"Oh, t-thanks", Volvagia choked, "I-I'm okay. She was a really important person to me, but I think I've gotten over her death. I-It was hard, but if I let something like this keep me from living my life, then I'm defeating the purpose of being alive in the first place. She taught me that. By the way, what were your mothers like?
"Oh, my mother was the Forest itself", said Saria, resting her head on Link's shoulder, "But Kokiri Forest is still a nice place to live anyway isn't it Link?"
"Yeah, it is", agreed Link, "But I never knew my mother. She died the day after I was born, during a Gerudo attack. She barely kept herself alive long enough to get me safely to Kokiri Forest."
"That's horrible", whispered Volvagia, "By the way, Can I keep talking? I don't want to bore you if you're already tired.
"It's fine", answered Link.
"Thanks", whispered Volvagia, "So as I was saying… "So as I was saying I was going to my family's former home which is now a dungeon. I was going there because when I was looking through my mom's treasures I found a tablet that had something carved into it about how my great great uncle who was half-dragon and half-demon had his ghost sealed in a huge sword that was hidden in our family's lair. I wanted to see the sword for myself and also to explore a bit to see if I could find any leftover or forgotten family heirlooms. I found it and that is where my dream took place:
The sword was black with carvings in it that were painted with blood that I can only guess was probably my great great uncle's. I don't think that my uncle was properly sealed in the sword though. There were ancient Goron holy symbols hanging on wires that were attached to the hilt of the sword, which was struck upright into the floor of the room. I also noticed slightly more recent, though still very old inscriptions written on a tablet at the back of the room. Apparently my great great uncle was also named Volvagia and he wasn't always a demon. He was originally a dragon who looked very much like myself, but he was actually quite evil. He lived in Death Mountain and ate gorons for some reason he liked the taste of goron 'meat'. I don't understand why he liked it. It tastes something like dragon phlegm. But then again my great great uncle was insane. At some point in his life, he made a contract with a demon, who said that he could get him all the gorons he could eat if he just shared his body with him. He agreed and the last shreds of sanity in his mind were destroyed immediately. The last part of the tablet was damaged, and I couldn't read it except for a few parts, which I could only piece together to be something saying that over the course of his 'life', he began to lose his dragon form and began to look more and more like the demon. I took this as meaning that the soon after the 'deal' the demon pretty much took over my great great uncle's body also. Also, while my uncle still was technically alive, a goron warrior took a sacred goron weapon and fought my uncle. He killed my uncle but in doing so freed the demon, who hid in my family's home. A group of fairies however tracked him down and used a spell to create a sword, they trapped him inside it. But it only worked a moment, so they did it again except that time they attached the wires and goron holy symbols to the sword. When they sealed him in the sword again, he couldn't get out because of the holy aura. I had just finished reading the tablet when I heard the door to the room open. I hid in a hole in the wall. That man, Ganondorf, right, walked into the room and read the inscription on the sword and cut one of the wires and I expected my great great uncle to come out of the sword so I tried to fly away. Then he saw me and re-attached the wire. Ganondorf was scary so I tried to fly back into the hole in the wall, but he caught me and stuffed me in a bag. I woke up when I had been in the bag for a while and he attacked me with his fist".
"That was interesting", whispered Link, yawning from lack of sleep.
"It feels good to get that dream off of my chest, wherever that is on my body", whispered Volvagia in relief, "I think I can go back to bed."
"Goodnight", Link and Saria said together.
Volvagia closed the door. Moments later Link felt Saria fall asleep on his shoulder.
Link gently lay her down on his bed and tucked her in. He could sleep on the fourth bed in the room. He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. If he had been awake he lay have been startled to hear Saria's whispering to herself:
"Damn it Saria, why didn't you just tell him! You had a perfect set-up for it and instead you pretended to fall asleep on his shoulder!" at this Saria almost started crying.
"I hate these stupid hormones…" she whispered to herself miserably.