Tulip-Jin: (running around in circles)AAAAGGGGHHHH! AAAAGGGGHHHH! AHHH! AHHH! AHHH! AHHH! AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
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Yami Tulip-Jin: (at TJ) WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR DAMN PROBLEM AIBOU!
Chibi Red Eyes Black Dragon: Rawwwrr rawr, rawr rawr rawrrrr...rawr rawr rraaawwrr? (Don't look at me, I just got back here...maybe it has to do with this update thing?)
Yami TJ: (glances over fic) Oh yeah...ooh, twenty three days since last update. I have trained you well in the ways of laziness, grasshopper...even if you ARE ruining it with the running-like-a-headless-chicken-thing now...
Chibi Red Eyes: (sighs) Rawwr rawr rawwwwwr rawrrrr. (This is why I should never leave town.)
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Disclaimer: Yugioh and Zelda not owned here (duh)
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The crater of Death Mountain was HOT.
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Perhaps the heat had something to do with the lava that bubbled and hissed just twenty feet below Yami's feet. With the Goron Jacket (plus hat) on, Yami was able to walk around okay, but it was still much hotter in the crater than it had ever been in Dodongo's Cavern. Yuugi, meanwhile, had discovered another advantage of possessing a fairy body - it was wonderfully heat-resistant AND the wings were like a natural air-conditioning fan.
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The short ledge the tunnel had opened to ended at the foot of a bridge. It was a little wooden bridge that lead to the entrance of the Fire Temple on the far side of the crater. It was also broken in one section, leaving a gap too wide to jump.
"Okay…now what?" Yami wondered, eyeing the broken spot warily.
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"I bet you can use the Hookshot on this beam and get over easily," Yuugi piped up, hovering by the beam in question.
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"…Maybe there's another way to get across," Yami said, not exactly interested in testing the limits of fireproofing the Goron Jacket provided for him should he miss and land in the lava.
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"Oh no you don't," Yuugi retorted, "If you get to give me crackpot lava-crossing ideas when you're stuck in a fairy body, then I get to do the same! Now get that Hookshot out, or else!"
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"Or else what?" Yami challenged his hikari.
"Or else…" Yuugi hesitated.
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After a moment's thought, Yuugi gave his other half a fiendish fairy grin.
"Or else I'll be forced to distribute certain pictures I have of you…"
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"Pictures?" Yami said, looking only slightly nervous, "And what pictures would those be?"
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"Nothing special," Yuugi drawled, "Just…the ones from that party…and I just so happen to have a dozen or so that show you -""WHOA! Alright, alright! I get it!" Yami exclaimed, "Damn blackmailing hikari with a camera…"
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With only a few more complaining mutters about which of them was supposed to be the evil half of their partnership, Yami pulled out his Hookshot, aimed for the beam Yuugi was highlighting, and fired.
It got him safely across the gap, of course, and with only a few swats at Yuugi's laughter of how 'terrified' Yami had been, they made their way to the entrance of the Fire Temple.
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The entrance, weirdly enough, was a carefully constructed hole inside of a carefully constructed tunnel in the side of the volcano which was made accessible by the stone platform the bridge connected to. There was a ladder, which Yami climbed down.
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And down. And down. And down some more.
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"This ladder goes on forever!" Yuugi sighed.
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"You only get to complain when you're the one doing the climbing, kiddo," Yami said, continuing to climb down the ladder.
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"Just because I'm short doesn't mean you get to call me a kid!" Yuugi yelled.
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"No, but the little fact that I was born several thousand years before you does," Yami snidely pointed out.
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Yuugi grumbled under his breath, while Yami climbed down. And down. And down…
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(We cut several hours ahead)
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"Okay," Yami wheezed, "As soon as…my arms regain feeling…we go through this door."
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Yes, they had finally reached the bottom of the ladder, and were now standing in front of their next obstacle: a nice, basic door. With a doorknob and everything. Pulling the door open and walking inside, Yami and Yuugi found themselves inside of a pretty impressive entrance hall. There were flaming torches everywhere, and there was a huge staircase, and it was still really HOT.
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Yami and Yuugi walked up the stairs, wondering where to go next. While they were wondering, Yuugi noticed something a little odd.
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"Hey, Yami?" Yuugi asked.
"Yes, what is it?" Yami answered.
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"You remember those little floating torch-things we spotting on our way in?"
"What about them?"
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"Um…they're heading this way."
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"…Are they?" Yami said, not certain why he needed to care.
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"And they're not torches, per say," Yuugi continued, "They're more like giant bats that are on fire."
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"…They are?" Yami blinked.
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"Yep," Yuugi said, "Oh, and they've got really huge fangs and all…"
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Yami turned, looked, and blanched. Sure enough, fiery mega-bats with huge teeth were diving right at them. Well, they were actually ignoring Yuugi and diving right at him, Yami, instead.
"I think we'll go through this door," Yami said, pointing to a door, "In fact, we're going to through it right now. At a run."
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This was how a lot of the temple went. A lot (see: all but four or so) of the rooms of the Fire Temple had flaming molten lava for a floor, forcing Yami to creep along ledges and cling to pillars like his life depended on it. There were more flaming bats, as well as more of those flaming skulls from the Forest Temple, except this time they were red and living in the lava.
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Where there was no ambient lava, there were even weirder things to deal with: walls of fire that appeared out of nowhere and seemed to take delight in chasing Yami and Yuugi across rooms, giant mazes filled with boulders which also seemed to take delight in chasing Yami and Yuugi across rooms, things that pretended to be doors until Yami tried to use them, at which point they fell over and attempted to crush the hapless spirit, and freakish slug-monsters that moved way too fast. Oh, and were also covered in flames, just to make it interesting.
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On the plus side, they were finding and freeing Gorons left and right. There was still no sign of Jou, but they decided to be optimistic about that. Better to be lucky than good, right? And Yami and Yuugi both agreed that Jou had luck up the wazoo.
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But then Yami had to Hookshot and slash to death some sort of living bomb with legs that covered itself in - what a surprise - fire and in the next room collapsed for a breather.
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"We're switching for the next one," he panted, leaning back against something on the ground, "If it's the last thing we do -"
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"Oh come on," Yuugi sighed, "We're probably almost there!"
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Yami sweat-dropped.
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"Only probably?" Yami groaned, "I think this volcano hates us…but it hates me more than it hates you, of course."
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"Overly-competitive yami," Yuugi muttered, then blinked.
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"Is it just me, or does this conversation seem awfully familiar?"
"…That depends," Yami hesitated, "What am I leaning on?"
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Yami turned, and Yuugi floated over to provide extra light. The thing Yami had been leaning against turned out to be a big wooden chest."Whoa, déjà vu," Yuugi said.
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Opening it up, Yami reached down and lifted out a hammer. And this was a HUGE hammer. If they would have gotten a chance to measure it, they would have discovered that it was just-over-Yuugi's-height tall. Luckily for Yuugi's self-esteem, they didn't have any chance to measure it, but they did know it was a really massive hammer.
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"This is the Legendary Megaton Hammer," Yuugi read off the plaque inside of the chest, "Caution, this weapon is extremely dangerous. Keep out of reach of small children and the elderly. We are not responsible for any eruptions, earthquakes, or other massive amounts of property damage that you might cause by using this ancient and most gloriously powerful weapon - especially if you use it to hammer in nails or crack nuts or do other stupid things with it."
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"Who writes these things?" Yuugi wondered as Yami hefted the Megaton Hammer.
"I think I feel better already," Yami grinned, swinging it back and forth.
"Good grief," Yuugi sighed.