BoV- Ok, I just had sugar, has LoZ stuck in my head, listening to Spamalot soundrack, and I'm wearing sunglasses. I think I'm ready to update.
Link- OH GODDESSES, NOT SUGAR!
BoV- (laughs like a maniac)
Link- Birth of Venus does not own OOT or any of the Zelda games.
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Chapter 7: Scaling Death Mountain
I woke up with the sun shining bright in my face and the smell of eggs and sausage. I slowly opened my eyes and saw a huge orb of light right in my face. Wait, that was Twinkle. "AAAAAAAAAHHH!" I yelled bolting upright sending Twinkle flying. Wait. She could already fly. I yawned and rubbed my eyes. "What time is it?" Link was already up looking frustrated. "its 10:30 according to the gossip stone over there," he said pointing to the stone in the corner of the room.
"I guess that's what you people use to tell time," I said to myself. Link glared at me. "What do you mean, you people?" Oops. He heard me! "Uh…Oh, look, breakfast!" I said nervously trying to change the subject. I took my plate and wolfed down my breakfast. I grabbed our pack and lifted it up on my shoulders. "Anyway, let's get going!" I said and raced out of the room. Link and the fairies followed not long afterward. We stopped to thank the innkeeper and left for the gate that would lead up to Death Mountain.
I walked up to the guard and puffed out my chest in an important manner. "Hello, we would like to climb Death Mountain. Please lower the gate! The guard took one look at me and burst out laughing. "Yeah right, you're just a stupid kid who can't even read yet!" I glared up at him. "Listen bub, I've been reading since I first entered kindergarten! I've read classic literature! I CAN EVEN READ JAPANESE! No, wait, no I can't. But that's beside the point! So I can read a stupid sign!"
"Besides, we have a note from Princess Zelda," Link said handing the note to the guard. The guard took the note and read it out loud: "This is Link and Catherine. They are going to save Hyrule." The guard burst out laughing. "Wahahaha! What kind of game has our princess come up with this time? Fine, then "Mr. and Mrs. Hero, I'll let you two pass!" I glared. "Dude, that's sick. I am NOT Link's "Mrs." Got that!"
"Aw, how cute," the guard said patting me on the head. I grinned. "Hey, they say that if your hand is bigger than your head, you have a plague."
"Really?" The guard said and brought his hand in front of his face. I quickly whipped out my slingshot and shot it right into the back of his hand which not only brought his hand crashing into his nose out of the sheer force of the deku seed, but it also left a nasty bruise that was beginning to form at the back of his hand. "Run Link!" I yelled running up the trail. Link stared after me. The guard looked as angry as hell, about to bear down on Link. "Uh, wait for me, Catherine!" Link yelled sprinting up the trail after me.
Link quickly caught up with me and we started our trek up Death Mountain trail. After about a half hour, we reached a cave with a huge boulder blocking it. Next to it, we saw a goron sleeping next to it. I took a tiny rock and tapped the goron on the back with it. The goron yawned and unrolled and got up. "Hey, I'm a goron!" I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, I kinda figured that out. Link walked up to the goron. "What's this cave for?"
"That's the Dodongo's Cavern. It's where we gorons eat our rocks." Link looked weirded out. "Uh… Rocks?" The goron nodded. "Unfortunately, the entrance to the cavern is blocked by this boulder. If you want to hear more goron gossip, head up to my village. You should be able to reach it by nightfall if you continue up this path." We said are goodbyes and continued our trek.
Link seemed to be thinking. "I wonder how that cavern got blocked off." I scowled. "I think that GanonDORK poked his big green nose into the goron's business." Link nodded. "Sounds like something he would do. A tektite suddenly jumped in front of us. "EEEK!" I yelled. "EVIL SPIDER THINGY!" I jump attacked it and slashed it to pieces. Link sighed. "Another one? This place is crawling with Tektites!" He slashed another one coming from behind. "Lets just get to Goron City as fast as we can!" We killed a few more tektites and continued up the mountain.
Suddenly a goron suddenly came rolling down at high speeds. Link ran out of the way. "Catherine, move it!" I looked up from looking at the ground. (as you can tell, I have attention issues) "Huh?" But it was too late. The goron knocked me over and I flew off the edge. Luckily, I managed to grab on to the edge before I could fall into the endless abyss of doom! But there was the problem that I wasn't very good at holding on to things, so I was about to fall! OO
"WAAAAAHHHH!" I screamed trying to get back up. Link ran up to me. "Give me your hand!" he said reaching his own hand out. I glared up at him. "Are you insane! If I let go with even one of my hands, I'll fall!"
"Well, your gonna fall anyway if you keep hanging on like that!" I looked at my hands. He was right! My hands were quickly slipping. "Okay okay!" I let go with one hand and quickly grabbed Link's. He grunted with a bit of effort trying to pull me up, but eventually, I managed to make it up safely. We were both leaning against a rocky wall panting. I decided to break the silence. "Uh, thanks for saving me," I said a blush quietly creeping across my face. Link rubbed the back of his head with a blush of his own. "Ah, it was nothing."
"But it was something! If you hadn't pulled up, I would have been a pancake!" Link laughed. "I guess your right." I suddenly got up. "Well then, shall we continue?" Link nodded. We hiked up the mountain until we came to the entrance of Goron City. By the time we got there, the sun had already set. Link headed toward the entrance. "Well, you coming?" I flopped down. "I'd rather go night-night." Link rolled his eyes. "You can go night-night after we get that spiritual stone." I crossed my arms. "NOOOOOOOOO! I DON'T WANNA!" I whined. Link sighed and grabbed me by my braid and dragged me inside.
Man, if I thought Goron City was big in the game, I got a whole new perspective of bigness when we entered it. "Helloooooo…" I called to no one in particular just to hear the echo. I heard it sound again and again waking many gorons from their sleep. Link gave me a glare. The nearest goron came up to us rubbing his eyes. "Hello, may I help you?" Link nodded. "Yeah, we're looking for the spiritual stone of fire. The goron looked puzzled. "Spiritual… Stone? What's that?" I went up to him. "The big shiny red stone."
A look of realization came across the goron's face. "Oh… Well, it would be found over there." He said pointing to the small pedestal hanging in midair because it was tied to ropes "But Big Brother Darunia took it away into his room." Link raised an eyebrow. "Why would he do that?" To answer his question, a large rumbling slightly shook the city. Navi flew out of Link's hat angrily. "Hey, what's going on out here! I was sleeping!" The goron slightly blushed. "Sorry, our whole race is starving because of our rock shortage from the Dodongo's Cavern. It has the greatest gourmet rocks." I raised one eyebrow. "Why not eat the rocks around you? You're surrounded by them!" The goron sighed. "We would, but we gorons are such picky eaters, we won't eat rocks anywhere else!" He sighed again. "I want to eat sirloin rocks from the Dodongo's Cavern.
As we were walking away Navi grumbled. "If they're starving, then wouldn't they eat the rocks here just to feed themselves? I looked up at her. "Be quiet so we can do a good deed." Navi grumbled and flew back into Link's hat.
Eventually, we reached the bottom floor. "So, where do you think Darunia's room is?" I asked playing dumb. Link pointed to the big stone door with the goron symbol painted on it. "I think that's it." I rolled my eyes. "Wow, what a brain buster." Link glared at me and walked over to the door and knocked. "You're not going to get in like that," a voice said behind us. We turned around and saw another goron standing behind us. Link raised an eyebrow. "Oh, really? Then how are we going to get in?" I shook my head. How dense can you get? But then a little voice in my head reminded me that it took me forever to figure out how to get through the first time I played.
The goron scratched his head. "Well, big brother only lets in messengers of the royal family, so unless you're them, you're out of luck." Link nodded. "Well, I think I know what we have to then."
"One more thing," the goron said stopping us. "Big Brother Daruina also like anything to do with the forest." We both nodded and headed over to the door. Link pulled out his ocarina and started playing Zelda's Lullaby. Soon, the door started to shake violently and slowly opened. "Well, let's go!" I said and went through the door with Link following close behind me.
We went through the dark passage and came through into a brightly lit room with a bunch of tapestry and cloth. It almost looked homely. In the middle of the room stood a goron more muscular then the rest, had large white spiky hair, and a stern look that would make a professional wrestler run home crying to his mommy. This was Darunia. (duh!)
Darunia glared down at us. "What is this! When I heard the song of the Royal Family, I thought that it would be their messengers! But, you two are just kids! Is this is how Darunia, leader of the gorons, is treated by his sworn brother the king!" I raised my hands in self defense. "Hey, what's your problem?" Darunia seemed to explode. "What's my problem? WHAT'S MY PROBLEM! EVIL DODONGOS HAVE INVADED THE DODONGO'S CAVERN,"
"Well, it is the DODONGO'S Cavern," I whispered to Link. He just glared at me and turned to continue to listen to Darunia's wrath. "GORONS ARE FACING STARVATION, AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF, YOU BRATS ARE ANNOYING THE HECK OUT OF ME!" We both backed away in fear. "But… THIS IS A GORON PROBLEM! WE DON'T NEED BRATS LIKE YOU!"
I whispered into Link's ear. "Hey, play Saria's song." Link looked at me puzzled. "How's that gonna help us?" I glared. "Just do it!" Link rolled his eyes. "Fine, fine." He got out his ocarina and started playing. Almost instantly, Darunia's look of anger melted into a look of wild contempt. Suddenly he started to dance like a rabid baboon. We both backed away farther. Twinkle shivered. "I think I liked him better when he was angry." We both nodded in agreement.
Darunia eventually stopped dancing and looked at us with a huge smile on his face. "Ah, what a great song. When I heard it, it seemed all my troubles went away. Anyway, what did you two come for?" Link stepped forward a little nervously. "Um, well, we came here for the spiritual stone of fire." Darunia's eyes widened. "The spiritual stone? It's the ancient treasure passed down from generation to generation in the goron race."
"Great, so can we have it?" I asked. Darunia shook his head. "I'm not going to give the spiritual stone to you two that easily! If you want the stone so badly, why not destroy the creatures in the Dodongo's Cavern. I groaned inwardly. I knew that was coming but I was hoping maybe this time, Darunia would just hand the stone over. But alas, if he did that, the game would be too easy. Link looked at me. "Well? You up for a trip to Dodongo's Cavern?" I sighed and nodded. "I guess we don't have a choice." Darunia clapped his hands together. (which shook the whole room) "Great! I also want to give you two a gift for helping us out! With these, even little kids like you can pick up our special crop, the bomb flower!" With that, he handed both of us a pair of golden power bracelets.
Darunia frowned. "Although, it is pretty late. Would you two like to spend the night? We've got the most comfortable rock beds! We both shook our heads nervously. "Uh, we'll just sleep outside." Darunia shrugged. "Suit yourselves."
Outside the entrance to goron city, we unrolled the mats that Link got in Kakariko and ate a dinner of bread and potatoes. A very strange meal indeed, but I have very strange tastes. After we finished eating, we put the fire out and climbed onto our mats. I yawned. "Man, this adventuring is hard work! When I get home, I am so gonna break out the potato chips and the computer!" Link looked at me funny. "What are you talking about?" I sighed. "Never mind," I slowly closed my eyes and went to sleep dreaming about scary dinosaurs tap-dancing. Unfortunately, my dream was about to come true in the morning. Cut out the tap-dancing.
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BoV-So what did you think? Sorry for the long update, but I'm on vacation at the moment, so I don't have much time to write.
Link- I hope you get less and less time, so you can't update at all.
BoV- Shut up Link. Anyway, please review!