Inside the mine was incredibly hot. Ciel felt like he would melt into a puddle where he stood. There was a path leading down to a lava pit that had rocks rising out of it, and a small platform on the other side.

"Which way?" Ciel demanded.

"I don't know, your the hero, not me." Midna snapped. "And I don't appreciate being ordered around!" she dove back into Ciel's shadow.

Looking around, Ciel noticed that the rocks jutting out of the lava pit in front of him formed something similar to a path, only with large gaps every few feet.

Seeing no other options, Ciel nervously jumped across the first gap.

Eight nerve-wracking minutes later, Ciel was on the other side of the pool of lava.

Ciel leaned against a wall, panting.

I hate this place. he thought.

After a few minutes he stood straight again and approached the wooden planks covering what appeared to be a doorway into another room.

Drawing the sword that he was supposed to deliver to the king, he cut hit the planks with it. It took a few swings, but sure enough, they eventually splintered into little pieces and clattered to the floor.

He stepped through the door and had taken only a few steps before he found his way blocked by a wall of fire. To his left he saw a large metal button, which he decided to press.

He stepped on it, but he wasn't heavy enough to press it. Midna laughed and materialized the Iron Boots around his feet, this added enough weight to push the button. The button caused the fire to disappear, and Midna removed the boots so that he could run through before the fire torched him.

On the other side, was more fire and some fence boxes.

It took him a while to figure out what to do, he was reluctant to run across the thin plank that would take him across the lava, but Midna nagged him and finally he ran across.

He continued on throughout the rest of the mine, using the Iron Boots in multiple places.

He had a bit of trouble running past the mini Dodongos (not sure if that's what they really are) in one of the rooms, but thought the magnetic stone they used was very interesting.

Along the way Ciel encountered another Elder.

"You must be the Hero." the Elder said. "Our Patriarch has been turned into a hideous monster by Zant's evil power. We used our strength to lock him deep within the mine. Here is one of the three pieces of the key that will allow you access to his room. The other two Elders have the remaining two pieces. Please, save our Patriarch!"

Ciel took the key and proceeded to find the other two Elders.

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Finally he reached the last Elder and collected the third piece of the key. By this time he was tired, had been repeatedly soaked and then steam-dried, and had had his fill of fiery monsters, he was also sure he could now list at least twenty different ways to die a fiery death.

And the Elder just had to say,

"There is a powerful weapon that our people have kept for a long time that will aid you on your quest, it belonged to the first hero. Please take it, it is in the room through that door."

Grumpily, Ciel opened the heavy door, grunting with the effort.

Inside he found a circular room with a lava pit in the middle and a stone platform suspended above it with four chains. As Ciel got closer he realized that the platform was covered in glowing blue stones, which were magnetic, and on the side farthest from him, standing on a ledge above the platform, there was a massive goron.

The goron looked at him for a moment, then bellowed,

"Get out, you pathetic little human!" Ciel stepped back and clamped his hands over his ears to stop the noise. The goron waited, but when he didn't respond he yelled at him again.

"Oh for the lords sake!" Ciel screamed, "Would you shut up!" The goron looked taken aback.

"I will have to fight you then." the goron said. Ciel was beginning to think that his responses were scripted. He didn't have much time to test this theory though, because the ledge he was standing on began to crumble and he was forced to jump onto the suspended platform.

The goron interpreted this as a challenge and jumped off his ledge and landed on the platform with a deafening clang. Their combined weight proved to be too much for the old chains, and they snapped, dropping the circular platform into the lava below.

The goron let out a loud battle cry, rolled himself into a ball and rocketed toward Ciel.

Ciel yelped and dove out of the way.

The goron reached the edge, turned around and came back toward Ciel.

He dodged again.

"What are you doing?" Midna demanded. "You won't get anywhere like that!" She attached the Iron Boots to Ciel's feet and told him to man up and stand his ground.

The massive goron smashed into him, and by some miracle, he manged to stop the goron without breaking his arms.

He threw the goron off the edge of the platform, displaying just how much strength he had gained since he had become a demon and started working in the farm.

The goron landed in the lava with a pained screech and quickly leapt back out, and ran around screaming.

Ciel clutched his arms in pain. It felt like he had just stopped a giant bolder. Which he sort of did.

"Get up you big baby! He's coming back!" Midna yelled. Ciel looked up and saw the goron rolling toward him again.

He did not want to catch the goron again, but Midna wasn't removing the boots no matter how much he yelled.

"Stop!" Ciel commanded the goron. He was panicking, and this was his way of dealing with it, giving orders.

"I was sent by your Elders to retrieve the Hero's weapon. So stop. I am sure my arms will ache for weeks now, and I have no intention of receiving any more injury!" Ciel said in an irritated tone.

The goron stopped in surprise at the authority in his voice. Even Midna stopped yelling.

"Oh... I'm sorry." said the goron.

"As you should be. Now show me this weapon." Ciel demanded. The goron nodded and pointed to a doorway.

"It's through there. I will throw you up there, if you'd like." he offered. Ciel nodded and climbed clumsily onto his back, where he was catapulted up to the ledge the goron had been standing on earlier. He landed painfully on his face and stood up, brushing himself off.

Midna laughed.

Ciel pushed open the door and entered the circular room beyond.

Opening the chest in the middle, he lifted out a beautifully made wooden bow. It had intricate Triforce designs along it's limbs, and a red leather grip. Also in the chest was a quiver of twenty arrows, all fletched with gold and green feathers.

Midna whistled.

"Fancy..." she said. Ciel put the quiver on his back and strung the bow. Finally, a weapon he had grown up using. As a child he had done hunting with his aunt and Elizabeth's mother.

"Can you actually use that thing?" Midna said skeptically. Ciel scowled and nodded.

"Hm... Well, I guess we'll find out of that's true or not soon enough." She said, diving back into his shadow.

Ciel left the room through a door on the opposite side of the room and entered the room outside of the Elder's chamber.

He crossed it, doing his best not to get soaked, and exited the room via a previously locked door.

As soon as the door was closed behind him, he was mobbed by bokoblins.

"Alright hero, time to show off your skills!" Midna giggled and dove back into his shadow.

Ciel glanced around. He had about three minutes before the mob of bokoblins reached him, there were bokoblin archers on top of pillars on the other side of the room. He decided to shoot them down before they shot him, that would be his first move. Ciel knocked an arrow, and the fight began.

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A/N

Thank you for reading!

I want to thank PhantomGirl17 for reviewing, it made me really want to get the next chapter written, so I tried, and this is the result. I hope it's okay.

Also, sorry for any bits of the dungeon I got wrong, or any names, facts, ect.

I hope this was acceptable!