Link leapt aside, Ganondorf's sword swinging so close that it sliced a chunk of his hair off. The sword swooped toward him again before Link could even counterattack, and Link dropped to the ground and rolled around Gannondorf, bringing his sword into position for a back-slice as he did. He leapt up and swung his sword with a shout.
Only to hear the clang of metal as his sword met Ganondorf's sword and his face met the most gloating expression in existence.
"Do you really think I'll still fall for that?! You've used it a thousand times by now! Try to be a little less predictable."
Link didn't respond. Instead he pushed at the blade with all his strength, hoping to overpower Ganondorf. Ganondorf gave a bark of laughter, but didn't retaliate with his own strength. Instead, he stomped one very heavy foot onto Link's toes. Link leapt back with a yelp of pain and surprise, realizing with shock that his toes were now broken. He scowled and held up his hand for a break, plopping down on the stone of the mountain and easing off his boot with a grimace.
Ganondorf sneered "Ever heard the expression 'all's fair in love and war'?"
Link ignored him, inspecting his now bloody toes and scowling even harder. Ganondorf might not have a code of honor, but couldn't he at least see that breaking Link's foot would hinder them later on?!
As if reading his mind, Ganondorf's sneer grew larger "Only you're toes are broken, not you're whole foot. You can walk just fine."
Zelda glanced across the mountain for anything that might betray an entrance. The mountain was amazingly uneven, and anyone of the thousands of jagged peaks protruding from miles of rock could be hiding an entrance to the cave.
She sighed and began clamoring across the mountain. Even with the triforce's help, she couldn't think of a better plan than simply searching the mountain. And that was far from a good plan. For all they knew, the temple could be all the way on the other side of the mountain ring.
Zelda brushed aside a few stones absentmindedly. She glanced over the mountain again; hoping repetition would show something she missed before.
And then she froze.
Zelda turned her head back to the pile of stones. In the center was a piece of jet black obsidian about the size of her fist. Zelda ran a few calculations through her head, confirming what she already knew. The mountains she was currently on separated her from Snowpeak, and obsidian was made from cooled lava. In other words, finding obsidian here was like finding a kokiri at Hyrule Castle.
Zelda examined the stone carefully. It almost looked as if there was a symbol on it, one of a three spiked flame. Zelda's eyes widened, it was the symbol of the fire sage. Her hand flew to the stone and she tried to pick it up. But it was apparently part of the mountain itself. Zelda's eyes shone with delight, the only way it could actually be fused into the mountain in this area was if someone had melted the rocks into lava. She brushed aside the pebbles around the stone, revealing a stripe of the black stone running off to her left.
The sage of fire had given her a path.
Zelda scrambled over the mountain, brushing away stones as she did.
And then it was in front of her, a simple cave by first appearance, but Zelda knew what it led to. She shouted for the other three.
Midna was the first to appear, flying (literally) from where she had been searching. Ganondorf came next, and Link was only a few steps behind him (he was delayed by injury or else Ganondorf would have been left in the dust).
Zelda smiled and gave a dramatic bow "I present to you, the temple under the mountains!"