CHAPTER TEN: Saving Private Goron

Link and Inuyasha both pushed on the big pillars, causing the walls to circulate. Then they walked over to the gate, which opened. Inuyasha and Link both walked through the corridor, and into a big room with the same painting on every side. A laugh was heard, then the door behind them slammed shut, and bars appeared over it.

"You won't defeat me, Link!" The voice echoed, then a man on a horse appeared in one of the paintings, riding along. Then Phantom Ganon came through the picture, and shot at both Inuyasha and Link. Link took out his arrows, and got eight good shots into the phantom. Inuyasha growled, then leaped up and slashed the phantom, causing him to dissipate. The room darkened, then a circle of blue light appeared in the middle of the room.

Link stepped into the light, and motioned for Inuyasha to do the same. Inuyasha stood next to Link as the two shot up, and disappeared into the light. They appeared in a white and blue room. A man enveloped in yellow light stood above a yellow circle, and a little girl wearing green shorts, boots, holding an orcarina stood above a green circle. She had pointy ears, and green eyes.

"Hello… you two have freed me as a Sage…now I can stay here and help the Light Sage, Rauru…" The girl said, smiling. A green medallion floated down and floated in front of Link. He took it, and then looked to Inuyasha, who was looking at the little girl. "Where is Kagome?" Inuyasha asked her. "Oh Kagome is outside…I'll transport you there." The girl said as a blue light enveloped Link and Inuyasha. "Kagome!" Inuyasha said, running over towards a huge stump, which Kagome lay on.

He picked her up, and then looked towards Link. "Where to next, Link?" Inuyasha asked. Then a little blue light shot out from behind Link, and flew around for a while. "Navi! I wondered where you went." Link said, looking at the little fairy. "Hey! All I did was hide!" The fairy said, giggling. "Well, like Inuyasha said to me, where to next, Navi?" Link asked. "To the Gorons' homeland!" Navi said, flying back into Link's pack.

"Oh man…well… let's go." Link said, walking over towards the steps. He pulled out his bow and arrows, and then shot it out into the mist. A yelp was heard, then silence. "Killed it." Link said, walking down the steps. Inuyasha walked down the steps after Link, holding Kagome who was sound asleep.

Inuyasha blinked as he looked at a HUGE creature, which was holding a club. The good thing was that it was dead. "If you meet up with any of those, you have to hit them in the back to kill them." Link said as he hopped down another set of stairs. Inuyasha put Kagome on his back, and then leaped into the air, and on top of the maze walls. Link was already up there, walking along. "See? There are ten more of those big things." Link said, pointing out that in the maze there were, in fact, a lot of the big things holding spears.

"Oi, wouldn't want to meet them." Inuyasha said, leaping over a few holes. Then Inuyasha and Link both saw a hollowed out tree, only it was huge and it lead into a forest. "The Lost Woods. It's easy to navigate, if you know how." Link said, walking into the entrance. Inuyasha followed him, and then saw three more hollowed out places.

"There's a shortcut to the Gorons' home about three places away…" Link mumbled to himself, walking to the left. Inuyasha followed him then once they passed through a few more, they saw a stone doorway. "Yep, here it is." Link said, going into the doorway. Inuyasha followed him, and then past some weird looking flowers. "Um, don't let Kagome pick those if she likes flowers, those are Bomb Flowers. If you pick them, they'll explode in a matter of seconds." Link said, pointing them out. Then Navi flew out and buzzed around, then flew downwards, and to a doorway. Inuyasha and Link both went through it, and outside.

~A Half Hour Later~

"I'll go face Volvagia," Darunia said, walking into another room. "You go rescue the Gorons, and thank you brother Link." He added, as the door shut soundly. "I seriously hope that he isn't insane, or did he say a dragon?" Kagome said, looking at the door. "Nope…he said dragon…" Link said, sighing. "Now… I'll go find the Megaton Hammer… you guys rescue the Gorons." Link said, disappearing into another room.

Kagome looked over towards the right, and saw a door. She opened it, and saw a creature shivering violently next to a big blue and gold chest. "NO! Please don't eat me! I-I-I taste bad!!" The thing shouted, shivering more. "I won't eat you…" Kagome said softly, putting her hand through the bars, and putting her hand on the thing's back. "We came to save you.." Kagome whispered, smiling. The thing unballed itself, and stood up straight. It was a Goron.

"Now, we'll unlock the cage so you can go home." Kagome said, looking to Inuyasha. "Could you um, break the bars? I'm still not that strong…" She said. Inuyasha nodded, and sliced the bars, watching them fall into shreds. "Wow! Thank you so much!" The Goron cried, running out and disappearing up the ladder. "Well he seemed happy." Inuyasha said, kicking the chest. He opened it up, and took out a rather large key.

"Heh, whatever door uses this must be HUGE." Inuyasha said, holding the key over his shoulder like a sword. He patted the sheath of his actual sword, and then walked over to the door. "Well, let's go save some more Gorons, Kagome." Inuyasha said, walking out. Kagome nodded and followed him. They walked up a few steps, and then walked to the right, through a door.

"Sheesh it's hot in here." Inuyasha said, wiping off his forehead. "We're surrounded by lava, that's why!" Kagome cried, pointing down to the side of them. "WOO!" Inuyasha shouted, nearly tripping and losing the key. He stood straight, then sighed. "Whew…" Kagome said, walking forward a few steps. The sound of flapping wings broke the sound of the churning lava. The sound was headed for Kagome, although she paid no heed and kept walking.

Inuyasha walked up behind her, then handed her the key. "Yeah, I might lose it…" He said, watching her put it to her side like a sword. A screech sounded, then a bat enveloped in fire swooped down towards the two. Kagome slashed it in two with her claws and wiped off her forehead.

They were halfway down the walkway when another fire-bat thing swooped down. Kagome hit it with her claws, and then began running towards the door on the other side. Inuyasha ran after her, and then saw why she had ran the whole way. A BIG bunch of bats were heading after them. Kagome opened the door, and ran in as Inuyasha shut the door.

They turned around and saw a cage thing around them. Inuyasha cut it down with his claws, and then walked onto a small squared out block. The block shot up into the air, and Inuyasha disappeared, along with the block. "Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted, running over to where the block went. A yell occurred above her, and then Inuyasha came back down with five Gorons.

The Gorons ran to the door and ran out yelling happily. Inuyasha had taken off the top part of his kimono because it had obviously gotten too hot for him. Kagome wiped off her forehead, and then looked to another door. "Well let's go ahead." Inuyasha said, walking to the door and opening it.

A huge blast of heat hit the both of them, and then it stopped. Inuyasha looked around and saw that it was a wall of fire blocking their way. Kagome and Inuyasha were both panting hard because the firewall had just added more heat. It was now like an oven… Then the firewall subsided, and the room became clearer. "WHOA…" Inuyasha said, looking at all the cages. Five Gorons to a cage, and twenty-three cages. "HOLY…" Kagome said, at a loss for words. Kagome readied her claws, and struck some of the cages. The bars broke, and then the Gorons stood up and ran for it.

About ten more cages were left, so Kagome struck them with her claws. The Gorons thanked her and Inuyasha, and then ran. Kagome panted hard, and then fell to the floor. "Kagome!" Inuyasha said, kneeling down beside her. "Take off your clothes." He said, taking his kimono top and folding it up. "Heck no you pervert!" Kagome said growling softly.

"I meant as in the first layer, so then you won't be so hot." Inuyasha said. Kagome nodded, and then took off her kimono's first layer, leaving her wearing the white first layer only. She folded up her kimono, and stuffed it in her pack, that was connected to her back. "There, now that's all the Gorons. He said only three places would have them." Kagome said, wiping off her forehead.

Inuyasha nodded, then picked Kagome up and ran out the door, out of the smaller room, and out into the huge room with the lava on either side. Inuyasha zipped past the fire-bat things, then into the main room. He saw the last Goron go up, then smiled. "Ok then. We did our part. Let's wait outside for Link and the other Goron to come up." Inuyasha said. Kagome nodded then Inuyasha leapt up the ladder, and set her down. She pulled on her outer kimono part, and tied it up. She ran out of the tiny room with the ladder, and out onto Death Mountain Crater. "Thank god it's allot cooler out here…" Kagome said, smiling.

A/n: thank you me reviewers...especially Seraph... ^-^ now I dont got writer's block, and I'm working on chapter...uh...*checks her notepad* ...chapter 22 of this story...ah, and you'll like it ^^; Hopefully x_x;! Well, until I update again, this is me signing off......