Chapter 3: The Fire Temple
Scene: Death Mountain Crater, Link and Rini are trying to cross the bridge when Shiek pops up and scares the crap out of them.
Rini: WHOA! watch your step man! (Shiek looks at her confusedly, then steps forward.)
Shiek: So, we meet yet again Link. (He advances further and then cocks his head, as if he only just noticed Rini.) I see you have a masked one like myself at your side...(glances at Rini.) You and I seem to have much in common as far as looks. Mysterious, as if we wished to hide our identity, but is that really the reason, Rini?
Rini: how did you know my name?
Shiek: You, mysterious as you are, came to me in a dream I believe will prove something in the future, but I cannot tell you that now. It will be glorious though, that I can say. Anyway, I foresaw we would meet again Link. I have another melody to teach you, one that brings back the bond of brotherhood, one not easily broken. I do not think Darunia has forgotten you my friend.
Link: I miss him.
Shiek: I'm sure, but you have a new companion, so do not be troubled. But wait! She doesn't have an instrument to play! Looks like this'll come in handy after all. (Shiek tosses Rini an old clarinet, it's broken and dirty, but still shines mysteriously. Rini turns it over in her hands. It feels comfortable there, like it belonged, a peace the young Gerudo has never known.) This will be your instrument, call it the clarinet of time. I don't know if it still works, I got it from Impa a few years back, I have no idea where she got it, but it wasn't new when I recieved it. Enjoy. Oh, and here's a few reeds.
(Rini takes the sugar cane reeds and tucks most away, but wets one in her mouth, puts it to the mouthpiece and shines the clarinet up a bit. She then lifts the black mouthpiece to her lips in the mouthhole of her mask and a sudden wind seems to blow through her. Her fingers begin to dance along the keys as if she was a clarintetist in her youth. She closes her eyes and puts air through it. Out comes a beautiful sound, like trees singing. She pulls it away slowly, like it was now a part of her she did not wish to let go of.)
Link: hey, not bad for a first try.
Shiek: I guess. (Rini doesn't reply, she feels as if something about this instrument told her that it was meant to be played by her, and only her. She smiled to herself, yet at the same time felt a bit overwhelmed. Shiek stares.) riiight... anyway, (clears throat) the Bolero of Fire.
(Shiek whips out his harp and plays the tune to warp back to the fire temple. Link can feel the magic in the notes as Shiek played, like some kind of spell. He instinctively takes out his ocarina and plays along for the second verse, then Rini joins in on the last one. The volcano crater is filled with the echoes of the beautiful melody.)
Shiek: (backing away.) ...Link, I'll see you again. (disappears in a flash, leaving Link and Rini, once again, alone.)
Link: He was never a stable person. We'll see him a lot more, so better get used to him. (He looks over at Rini, who is deep in thought. She doesn't respond, but stands on the bridge looking absentmindedly into the lava. Link decides not to disturb her for a while, he has other things on his mind as well. For the first time it occured to him that Rini may just be a spy of Ganon's out to kill him, or worse. He stood there thinking for a few minutes, until Rini snapped out of her trance and started the descent into the fire temple.) Hey! Wait for me! Haven't you ever heard of giving a man notice?
Rini: What man? You're probably not even twenty!
Link: (exasperated.) Yeah I am! I'm exactly twenty as a matter of fact. How old are you? If you're so advanced?
Rini: Er, heh, you don't look twenty...More like sixteen...
Link: You didn't answer my question. How old are you?
Rini: um... Look out! Fire keese! (Link turns and no fire keese.)
Link: Rini... (Rini laughs nervously and backs away.)
Rini: I guess it didn't like you. hehe.
Link: Just tell me already!
Rini: ok! fine! I'm 19... I'll be twenty in May.
Link: So you're younger! ha!
Rini: yeah, learn something new every day don't you? (Link laughs and they enter the room Darunia is in. Only this time, Darunia has out a ruby red lightsaber and is fighting a girl with jet black hair wearing a cloak. He is wearing a black cape and outfit. The girl has a green lightsaber.)
Link: Uh...ooook...He sits down and decides to watch the fight. (The sabers clash against each other, the girl shows no strain against Darunia's goron strength.)
Darunia: Give in Sasami! You cannot win! (The girl, Sami, laughs a hollow laugh, it seems empty, not like the laughter of Darunia, loud and strong, or Rini, like a stream in a mountain meadow, just empty.)
Sami: Give in? I am not even trying!
Darunia: Sami, Ruto never told you what happened to your brother...
Sami: She told me King Zora ate him!
Darunia: No, I am your brother!
Sami: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (she screams and trips over a rock and falls into the lava.) OUCH!!!!
Darunia: (leaning over the side.) Sami? Sami you ok?
Sami: ...help me... Darunia... (Darunia lifts her up and into his arms dramatically. She looks very weak.)
Darunia: Sami... no, I couldn't save you...Everything's gonna be ok Sami, just hold on!
Sami: (Touches his face.) I... I love...(her head falls back quickly and she dies.)
Darunia: No...Sami no! (He grabs his lightsaber and starts destroying things with it. Link intervenes.)
Link: Darunia! (The goron king looks up from his rampage.)
Darunia: Link! how are ya ol' buddy? Long time no see! Sorry 'bout the mess, but I had a problem.
Rini: Tell me about it...
Darunia: And who's this brother? A masked girl? Mysterious...
Link: Not really, Darunia, this is Rini. Rini, meet the king of the gorons.
Rini: Nice to meet you.
Darunia: (nudges Link.) She your Padme Link? hehe! Or how about a Leia? hmm? (Link punches Darunia.)
Link: shut up! (whispers.) I don't even know what she really looks like, and she may be a spy, who knows?
Darunia: Quit trying to hide it! You guys would look so cute together! (Link punches Darunia again, and Rini pretends she didn't hear that.)
Rini: Who died?
Darunia: oh my gosh! I forgot! Hey Sami! You ok? (Sami gets up and trudges over.)
Sami: yeah! word my brother, best performance yet! Go D-dog!(high fives D- dog.)
Rini: riiight, anyway, we're supposed to go through the fire temple?
Darunia: Oh, right. ahem, oh no Link! My gorons have been trapped in this temple by the evil Ganondorf, will you help them while I fight Volvagia? (whispers to Sami: those acting lessons really paid off!.)
Link: Don't worry Darunia, I'll help them, you go fight the dragon.
Darunia: Thank you Link...goodbye... (Goes inside the boss chamber, Sami follows.)
Link: Alright, lets go free everyone. (Frees the first Goron.)
Goron: You have saved my life, I am eternally grateful! Doors in this dungeon can be fake, better use Goro-crop! (runs off.)
Rini: One down, who knows how many to go. (Frees two gorons.)
Gorons: You have saved our lives, we are eternally grateful!
Rini: Do all of you say that?
Goron: Use Goron's special crop to blow down weird sounding walls! (leaves. Link frees a few more gorons.)
Gorons: You have saved our lives, we are eternally grateful! (Rini frees another.)
Goron: You have saved my life, I am eternally grateful! (Frees last one.)
Goron: You have saved my life, I am eternally- POW! (Rini hits him in the back of the head with the hilt of her sword.)
Rini: damn that gets annoying! (Link gets the boss key and they head back to the beginning.) So, who gets to use the big hammer?
Link: me, I'm the hero of time, so I get the hammer. You stick with the sword, and I carry all the special equipment.
Rini: hmph. Ok fine whatever, as long as I don't have to listen to any more grateful gorons... (they enter the Boss chamber and Volvagia sprouts up like a plant on fire.)
Link: Now, distract it and jump away, I'll hit it with the hammer! (Rini nods, suddenly solemn, and dances like a moron in front of Volvagia. The monster surges towards her, interested. It opens its mouth and roars delightedly at the sight of fresh meat. Rini looks worried, Link is on the other side of the platform, his boot has just gotten stuck in the lava.)
Link: Argh! (tries to wrench free foot.) Rini, run! (and so she does, the lava dragon in hot pursuit. She tries to hit it with her sword, but that gets tossed aside by Volvagia whipping its tail. Link's foot is still stuck, Volvagia looms ever closer to the masked Gerudo...)
Rini: A little help would be nice!
Link: My foot's stuck! Try to hold it off! (Rini loses a foot lead on the dragon.)
Rini: hold it off?! I'm having enough trouble trying to keep alive as it is! (She trips over the edge of one of the pits and hits the ground hard. Volvagia opens its mouth wide, its fiery jaws gleam in the dim, its less than a foot away from her. Link cannot free his foot. The lower half of Rini's body is now in the monster's mouth. Its jaws begin to close, it seems so slowly for the two adventurers, Rini screams. But then Link hears a loud noise, and the lava dragon crumples to the ground harmless. Rini looks up, half dazed, to see another masked figure like herself, flying out out a hole in the ceiling with a jet pack. It must have shot Volvagia somehow. As for Volvagia, the rocket the person shot explodes inside of it. Bits and pieces of the monster fly everywhere, and hot blood like boiling water sprays all over. Pools of it encircle the area, and a snakelike skeleton falls in the lava, it is a sickening sight for Rini, who really has never seen so much blood.
Link: (finally gets his foot free and runs over to Rini, but slips in a blood puddle and instead lands right on top of her.) Whoa! Yaaaaaa-WHUMP- oof! ow...
Rini: gack! (coughs up dragon blood she must've swallowed onto Link. The two after catching their breath, stare for a moment. Rini has never really paid much attention, but for the first time notices the intensity of Link's eyes, so very enchanting they are, that she forgets completely where she is and what she is doing. Link is out of it as well, he thought he may have just seen a flash of the eyes of the mysterious Rini, and he is so entranced by their gaze that he doesn't even realize that the position they are in is most unfavorable and that if anyone saw them, he'd never hear the end of it. But the moment in real time passed quickly, and they were back on their feet again. In a few minutes, they thought nothing of it and began to clean off the dark red stains on their tunics. The blue light appears, and a heart container for Link. He takes it, and they go to the chamber of sages.)
Darunia: Well done brother! You and your friend have saved my gorons. I owe you big man! Ah, I guess I can repay the girl though. Rini, from now on, you and I are sworn siblings! hahaha!
Rini: Gee, um, thanks Darunia!
Darunia: I present you with this medallion as proof of our friendship! (He gives Rini the fire medallion.)
Rini: Whoa... cool, thanks. (Darunia fades away, with his lasting message of: "We will always be bonded by brotherhood.". Link and Rini now find themselves in Kakariko village.)
Link: Cool, he got a new lasting quote! Great, now the water temple is next...damn I hate that one...
Scene: Death Mountain Crater, Link and Rini are trying to cross the bridge when Shiek pops up and scares the crap out of them.
Rini: WHOA! watch your step man! (Shiek looks at her confusedly, then steps forward.)
Shiek: So, we meet yet again Link. (He advances further and then cocks his head, as if he only just noticed Rini.) I see you have a masked one like myself at your side...(glances at Rini.) You and I seem to have much in common as far as looks. Mysterious, as if we wished to hide our identity, but is that really the reason, Rini?
Rini: how did you know my name?
Shiek: You, mysterious as you are, came to me in a dream I believe will prove something in the future, but I cannot tell you that now. It will be glorious though, that I can say. Anyway, I foresaw we would meet again Link. I have another melody to teach you, one that brings back the bond of brotherhood, one not easily broken. I do not think Darunia has forgotten you my friend.
Link: I miss him.
Shiek: I'm sure, but you have a new companion, so do not be troubled. But wait! She doesn't have an instrument to play! Looks like this'll come in handy after all. (Shiek tosses Rini an old clarinet, it's broken and dirty, but still shines mysteriously. Rini turns it over in her hands. It feels comfortable there, like it belonged, a peace the young Gerudo has never known.) This will be your instrument, call it the clarinet of time. I don't know if it still works, I got it from Impa a few years back, I have no idea where she got it, but it wasn't new when I recieved it. Enjoy. Oh, and here's a few reeds.
(Rini takes the sugar cane reeds and tucks most away, but wets one in her mouth, puts it to the mouthpiece and shines the clarinet up a bit. She then lifts the black mouthpiece to her lips in the mouthhole of her mask and a sudden wind seems to blow through her. Her fingers begin to dance along the keys as if she was a clarintetist in her youth. She closes her eyes and puts air through it. Out comes a beautiful sound, like trees singing. She pulls it away slowly, like it was now a part of her she did not wish to let go of.)
Link: hey, not bad for a first try.
Shiek: I guess. (Rini doesn't reply, she feels as if something about this instrument told her that it was meant to be played by her, and only her. She smiled to herself, yet at the same time felt a bit overwhelmed. Shiek stares.) riiight... anyway, (clears throat) the Bolero of Fire.
(Shiek whips out his harp and plays the tune to warp back to the fire temple. Link can feel the magic in the notes as Shiek played, like some kind of spell. He instinctively takes out his ocarina and plays along for the second verse, then Rini joins in on the last one. The volcano crater is filled with the echoes of the beautiful melody.)
Shiek: (backing away.) ...Link, I'll see you again. (disappears in a flash, leaving Link and Rini, once again, alone.)
Link: He was never a stable person. We'll see him a lot more, so better get used to him. (He looks over at Rini, who is deep in thought. She doesn't respond, but stands on the bridge looking absentmindedly into the lava. Link decides not to disturb her for a while, he has other things on his mind as well. For the first time it occured to him that Rini may just be a spy of Ganon's out to kill him, or worse. He stood there thinking for a few minutes, until Rini snapped out of her trance and started the descent into the fire temple.) Hey! Wait for me! Haven't you ever heard of giving a man notice?
Rini: What man? You're probably not even twenty!
Link: (exasperated.) Yeah I am! I'm exactly twenty as a matter of fact. How old are you? If you're so advanced?
Rini: Er, heh, you don't look twenty...More like sixteen...
Link: You didn't answer my question. How old are you?
Rini: um... Look out! Fire keese! (Link turns and no fire keese.)
Link: Rini... (Rini laughs nervously and backs away.)
Rini: I guess it didn't like you. hehe.
Link: Just tell me already!
Rini: ok! fine! I'm 19... I'll be twenty in May.
Link: So you're younger! ha!
Rini: yeah, learn something new every day don't you? (Link laughs and they enter the room Darunia is in. Only this time, Darunia has out a ruby red lightsaber and is fighting a girl with jet black hair wearing a cloak. He is wearing a black cape and outfit. The girl has a green lightsaber.)
Link: Uh...ooook...He sits down and decides to watch the fight. (The sabers clash against each other, the girl shows no strain against Darunia's goron strength.)
Darunia: Give in Sasami! You cannot win! (The girl, Sami, laughs a hollow laugh, it seems empty, not like the laughter of Darunia, loud and strong, or Rini, like a stream in a mountain meadow, just empty.)
Sami: Give in? I am not even trying!
Darunia: Sami, Ruto never told you what happened to your brother...
Sami: She told me King Zora ate him!
Darunia: No, I am your brother!
Sami: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (she screams and trips over a rock and falls into the lava.) OUCH!!!!
Darunia: (leaning over the side.) Sami? Sami you ok?
Sami: ...help me... Darunia... (Darunia lifts her up and into his arms dramatically. She looks very weak.)
Darunia: Sami... no, I couldn't save you...Everything's gonna be ok Sami, just hold on!
Sami: (Touches his face.) I... I love...(her head falls back quickly and she dies.)
Darunia: No...Sami no! (He grabs his lightsaber and starts destroying things with it. Link intervenes.)
Link: Darunia! (The goron king looks up from his rampage.)
Darunia: Link! how are ya ol' buddy? Long time no see! Sorry 'bout the mess, but I had a problem.
Rini: Tell me about it...
Darunia: And who's this brother? A masked girl? Mysterious...
Link: Not really, Darunia, this is Rini. Rini, meet the king of the gorons.
Rini: Nice to meet you.
Darunia: (nudges Link.) She your Padme Link? hehe! Or how about a Leia? hmm? (Link punches Darunia.)
Link: shut up! (whispers.) I don't even know what she really looks like, and she may be a spy, who knows?
Darunia: Quit trying to hide it! You guys would look so cute together! (Link punches Darunia again, and Rini pretends she didn't hear that.)
Rini: Who died?
Darunia: oh my gosh! I forgot! Hey Sami! You ok? (Sami gets up and trudges over.)
Sami: yeah! word my brother, best performance yet! Go D-dog!(high fives D- dog.)
Rini: riiight, anyway, we're supposed to go through the fire temple?
Darunia: Oh, right. ahem, oh no Link! My gorons have been trapped in this temple by the evil Ganondorf, will you help them while I fight Volvagia? (whispers to Sami: those acting lessons really paid off!.)
Link: Don't worry Darunia, I'll help them, you go fight the dragon.
Darunia: Thank you Link...goodbye... (Goes inside the boss chamber, Sami follows.)
Link: Alright, lets go free everyone. (Frees the first Goron.)
Goron: You have saved my life, I am eternally grateful! Doors in this dungeon can be fake, better use Goro-crop! (runs off.)
Rini: One down, who knows how many to go. (Frees two gorons.)
Gorons: You have saved our lives, we are eternally grateful!
Rini: Do all of you say that?
Goron: Use Goron's special crop to blow down weird sounding walls! (leaves. Link frees a few more gorons.)
Gorons: You have saved our lives, we are eternally grateful! (Rini frees another.)
Goron: You have saved my life, I am eternally grateful! (Frees last one.)
Goron: You have saved my life, I am eternally- POW! (Rini hits him in the back of the head with the hilt of her sword.)
Rini: damn that gets annoying! (Link gets the boss key and they head back to the beginning.) So, who gets to use the big hammer?
Link: me, I'm the hero of time, so I get the hammer. You stick with the sword, and I carry all the special equipment.
Rini: hmph. Ok fine whatever, as long as I don't have to listen to any more grateful gorons... (they enter the Boss chamber and Volvagia sprouts up like a plant on fire.)
Link: Now, distract it and jump away, I'll hit it with the hammer! (Rini nods, suddenly solemn, and dances like a moron in front of Volvagia. The monster surges towards her, interested. It opens its mouth and roars delightedly at the sight of fresh meat. Rini looks worried, Link is on the other side of the platform, his boot has just gotten stuck in the lava.)
Link: Argh! (tries to wrench free foot.) Rini, run! (and so she does, the lava dragon in hot pursuit. She tries to hit it with her sword, but that gets tossed aside by Volvagia whipping its tail. Link's foot is still stuck, Volvagia looms ever closer to the masked Gerudo...)
Rini: A little help would be nice!
Link: My foot's stuck! Try to hold it off! (Rini loses a foot lead on the dragon.)
Rini: hold it off?! I'm having enough trouble trying to keep alive as it is! (She trips over the edge of one of the pits and hits the ground hard. Volvagia opens its mouth wide, its fiery jaws gleam in the dim, its less than a foot away from her. Link cannot free his foot. The lower half of Rini's body is now in the monster's mouth. Its jaws begin to close, it seems so slowly for the two adventurers, Rini screams. But then Link hears a loud noise, and the lava dragon crumples to the ground harmless. Rini looks up, half dazed, to see another masked figure like herself, flying out out a hole in the ceiling with a jet pack. It must have shot Volvagia somehow. As for Volvagia, the rocket the person shot explodes inside of it. Bits and pieces of the monster fly everywhere, and hot blood like boiling water sprays all over. Pools of it encircle the area, and a snakelike skeleton falls in the lava, it is a sickening sight for Rini, who really has never seen so much blood.
Link: (finally gets his foot free and runs over to Rini, but slips in a blood puddle and instead lands right on top of her.) Whoa! Yaaaaaa-WHUMP- oof! ow...
Rini: gack! (coughs up dragon blood she must've swallowed onto Link. The two after catching their breath, stare for a moment. Rini has never really paid much attention, but for the first time notices the intensity of Link's eyes, so very enchanting they are, that she forgets completely where she is and what she is doing. Link is out of it as well, he thought he may have just seen a flash of the eyes of the mysterious Rini, and he is so entranced by their gaze that he doesn't even realize that the position they are in is most unfavorable and that if anyone saw them, he'd never hear the end of it. But the moment in real time passed quickly, and they were back on their feet again. In a few minutes, they thought nothing of it and began to clean off the dark red stains on their tunics. The blue light appears, and a heart container for Link. He takes it, and they go to the chamber of sages.)
Darunia: Well done brother! You and your friend have saved my gorons. I owe you big man! Ah, I guess I can repay the girl though. Rini, from now on, you and I are sworn siblings! hahaha!
Rini: Gee, um, thanks Darunia!
Darunia: I present you with this medallion as proof of our friendship! (He gives Rini the fire medallion.)
Rini: Whoa... cool, thanks. (Darunia fades away, with his lasting message of: "We will always be bonded by brotherhood.". Link and Rini now find themselves in Kakariko village.)
Link: Cool, he got a new lasting quote! Great, now the water temple is next...damn I hate that one...