Lily walked up the stairs and looked into the crackling fire. The flames seemed so silent and mysterious that they reflect a moment of time. For a second, Lily thought she saw a face in the fire, a woman, with flowing red hair and amber eyes.
"Lily, you coming?" Link asked.
"Yeah." Lily said, shaking her head and turning to the door.
'I must have imagined it...' Lily said to herself.
They walked through the door and entered into a small cavern. Stone pillars grew up from the floor and boiling lava bubbled far below.
A figure stood on the platform across from them. Lily could tell that the figure was a Goron, but not who it was.
"Durania?" Lily called. "Is that you?"
"What? Who's there?" the Goron asked. "Link? Lily?"
"Yes, it's us!"
"Oh, it's really you! You've both grown since I last saw you!"
"What are you doing here?"
"Ganondorf is causing trouble on Death Mountain. He revived the evil dragon, Volvagia!"
"We heard from your son." Link said.
"The Gorons' were all brought here to feed the dragon as a warning to the other races of Hyrule who might resist Ganondorf. If the dragon escapes from the mountain, all of Hyrule will become a burning wasteland!"
"We'll help you defeat the dragon!"
"No! I'll go on ahead and try to seal up the dragon. I'm concered because I don't have the hammer, but I have no choice. But, I need you to save my people! I am asking you do to this as my Sworn Brother and Sister."
"We'll save them. Where are they?" Lily asked.
"In the opposite direction. I'm counting on you two!"
Without another word, the Goron Chief turned and entered the room beyond. It locked behind him and a gold lock stretched across the door.
"Durania, wait!" Link yelled, running towards the door.
"Link! Stop!" Lily called.
Link couldn't stop soon enough and he slipped over the egde of the stone platform. Link gripped the legde with one hand.
"Hold on!" Lily exclaimed, grabbing his hand.
Lily tried to pull Link up, but only ended up hurting him.
"Ow!" Link yelled, "That hurt!"
"Navi, Yara, push his feet up while I pull!"
The two fairies flew down and began to push Link up, while Lily continued to pull. Eventually, Link sat on the top of the platform.
"Are you okay?" Lily asked. "I didn't hurt you too badly, did I?"
"No." Link panted, "You seem alot stronger then you used to be."
"Well, I am seventeen now."
"Hey, look!"
Lily turned and saw an iron bar door. A small Goron sat in the back corner and appeared to be shaking.
Lily leaped from platform to platform until she reached the door.
"Hey, are you okay?" Lily asked.
"Don't eat me!" the Goron moaned. "If you do you'll get sick!"
Lily looked around and found a yellow switch. She pushed it and the door opened. The Goron looked up and gasped at the sight of Lily.
"Lily!" the Goron exclaimed. "I thought you and Link had gone away!"
"We did and we came back." Lily replied.
"For rescuing me I'll tell you a secret. All my friends are being held prisoner in the other room. Please help them."
The Goron leaped into the lava and walked through it as if it were shallow water. Lily found a chest in the back of the cage and inside she found a silver key.
She put the key in her pocket and made her way back to Link.
"Come on!" she exclaimed. "I got the key!"
They went into the main room and unlocked the second door. In the next room, an old wooden brigde stretched across a lake of lava. A wooden sign that stood next to the brigde said:
'Warning! Lava may cause exsesive pain shortly followed by death!'
"Are there really people dumb enough to walk into lava?" Link asked.
"I think it's for the village idiots of Hyrule." Navi coughed.
Lily rolled her eyes at the blue fairy. She slowly made her way across the bridge. She came half way to find that she had to jump to continue. She looked dwon between the gap in the bridge to find a rope dangerously close to the lava.
She leaped just as the red goo began to bubble up.
"Oh don't..." Lily gasped, looking down at the rope. The cord caught fire and began to run up the rope. "Oh crap!"
Lily didn't have time to run to the platform, so she leaped onto a flatrock just below the brigde.
"Lily!" Link shouted.
"I'm fine!" Lily yelled back.
A platform sped past her as fire flew out of one side. A platform with a ramp that led up to the door, stood just a little farther away. It didn't look too far for Lily to jump over to.
She leaped and landed on the rock. Lily looked over at the brigde to find that the rope had fallen off into the lava. The brigde remained intacted, and Link was jumping over the gap.
Just a little farther away, Lily saw three fairies. One was red, one was blue and the last was green. As she watched them, they vanished.
"Lily?" Link asked.
"I'm coming!" Lily exclaimed.
She turned and walked up the ramp and stood infront of the door.
"It's locked..." Link moaned, "Better split up."
"Okay, we'll meet back here when we can't go any farther." Lily said. "I'll take the left you take the right."
"Okay."
Lily jumped from rock to rock, until she came to the stone platform on the left side of the lake. She found a blue block in her path, with the design from the door of time on each side.
She took out her black ocarina and played the song of time. The block moved to the legde above, and adoor stood in the wall where the block had been.
Lily went through the door and walked down a small corriodor. At the other end stood a cage with a Goron inside. She steped on the switch and the Goron looked up.
"Have you come to rescue me?" he asked. "Thank you! I'll tell you a secret! A wall that you can destroy with the Goron's 'special crop' will sound different then a regular wall if you hit it with your sword."
The Goron walked down the hall and went through the door. Lily looked in the cell and found another treasure chest. She opened it and inside was a silver key. Yara flew into the chest and pulled out the key.