Chapter 14: Quick Trip into Dondongo's Cavern
He put the crimson colored Goron Tunic that he had "borrowed" from the shop in Goron City. Okay, he thought to himself, I should be able to survive better with this on, even if it is uncomfortable. He had gotten used to walking around with nothing on, as a human he never thought like this before. He stood on the edge of a cliff overlooking the mouth of the cavern and saw the area above the cavern mouth where he could stand. He pulled a bomb out of his satchel and leapt toward the platform and tossed it down onto the boulders blocking the entrance.
He landed on the place where he intended but was sent backwards by the bomb blast. The blast seemed to sear through his body, which would kill someone normal; he landed on his back. He coughed and got up off of the ground, the ground beneath him gave away, causing him to fall into the darkness below.
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He landed flat on his back in a room with a large lava pit in the center. With a groan, he rolled over onto his stomach. This Hero crap is a bitch…he thought glumly to himself as he lifted himself off of the ground …I'd better get something good out of this. Of course I'll get something; I'll get the Spiritual Stone of Fire. His spirits lifted. He looked around, and his breathing deepened. "This heat…." He said to himself and noticed something across the lava pool and in a far corner of the room, "What the…?"
The thing approached him, causing the ground beneath his feet to be inadvertently moved upwards from the small tremors of each footfall. He gasped out loud when he realized what it was. "K-King Dondongo!!" he stuttered in surprised, surprised that the real Kind Dondongo was nothing like the game back home had envisioned it to be. It looked like an oversized and more muscular chameleon with a single horn protruding from its head, its eyes burned green with a cold primal glee, its mouth was filled with three rows of razor sharp teeth about six inches long except for the pair of teeth about twice that size, hard diamond-like rock was growing out of its upper forelegs like they were supposed to be some kind of protection, three two foot long spines protruded from out of its back, its forearms were large and muscular while the hind legs were smaller, its veins were bulging from all parts of the lizard. It towered over him about thirty feet.
It roared and swiped at him; he jumped back and leapt onto its back. He drew his sword, it shined blue and casted a water-like shine onto his face. He stared at the sword momentarily the blade was a good four feet long, six inches wide and one centimeter in thickness. Inside of the blade was what seemed to be a water-like substance which gave the blade its cerulean glow. The sword looked familiar but it was the wrong coloration than what he had remembered, but he just couldn't remember where he had seen the blade before. Perhaps it was something he drew one time…? He shook his head, eliminating the thought which was starting to dwell; this wasn't the time to think, one moment of thought and he would surely die. He plunged the blade into the lizard's back.
It roared in pain and anger, shaking and flailing its body to fling him off; it succeeded to fling him off, sending him flying across the room in a far corner on his stomach. His sword landed blade first beside him, nearly driving itself into his back. He got up and spat out some blood, noticing that his blood was black. He swallowed hard; this sight disturbed him as he felt a chill rip through his back. What…? He thought to himself in horror, I… I have only been in Hyrule for what… a day? But my blood has changed color. This can't be Zoran blood or Hylian blood, or even human blood. My blood had changed in such a short amount of time. Is it because of my transformation? No, it can't be. Is it… the other mask? I had murdered those two shop keepers in the Town Market without a second's thought; it was intentional yet unintentional at the same time. It was like... something was calling me to the mask, and demanded that I kill those people. He instantly felt deep regret for his actions but noticed that King Dondongo was directly behind him. He turned around to face it, he smiled coldly at it.
"Heh, so you are sure you can kill me, eh?" he said to it, not really expecting an answer, "Go ahead, give me your best shot!"
It seemed to acknowledge his invitation and swung a clawed foot at him; he dodged but was hit when it swung its head. He was sent flying across the room once again, his body made contact with the wall; when he started to fall; he drove his sword into the rock wall.
He laughed coldly, "Is that the best you can do?" he said with a growl in his voice. He made his feet make contact with the wall and he pushed off, leaping at the massive lizard, "My turn…"
He reared his arm back and shut his eyes, the sword became enveloped in a black aura, "Die!" he yelled out and tossed the blade at the Dondongo king's heart. The sword made contact with the target and released the energy into it. It roared it pain, he landed in front of it, gripped the sword, and pushed down; slicing its stomach open, releasing green blood and internal organs. It convulsed and flailed as it died, toppling over to its side and into the lava pool. It gave out one last dying roar, and trapped him on his back under its forefoot.
Its body became a charcoal black color and stiffened. He kicked upwards four times and managed to break off its clawed toes, he got up. He picked his sword up off of the ground and placed it in its sheath. A pillar of light formed next to him, he walked into it, closed his eyes and was transported out of the room.
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He appeared in front of the cavern, it was still night outside, he removed the Goron Tunic and threw it onto the ground. He began to walk towards Goron City, but four boulder-like things fell from the sky, surrounding him. It turned out that the "boulders" were just three regular Gorons and Darunia.
"Oh it's just you…" he said to Darunia and his fellow Gorons, "Ready to give me the Fire Ruby?"
"It's amazing that a Zora managed to save an entire race and in just one night." Darunia said, seemingly to himself, "I cannot thank you enough for what you have done for us. I am eternally grateful for your help."
"Yeah, yeah… enough with the thanks already." He replied impatiently
"I understand your impatience; you are basically in a race against time to save this land. If there's anything else I can do for you, I'll do it."
"You can start by giving me the Spiritual Stone of Fire…"
"Done." He punched into the wall and took out a ruby with three golden decorations on it that looked like the pieces of the Triforce.
He took it without saying a word and headed towards Kakariko Village, away from the Gorons and Death Mountain.