(The volcano in this chapter is not based off any previous volcanoes from Zelda games)
Chapter 6
Link stared at the volcano in amazement. He had never planed to come within miles of a volcano. He looked at Zelda.
"How are we supposed to get in?" He asked. Zelda pointed to an entrance to a cave in the volcano. Link gulped, and entered with Zelda.
"From what my father told me, the necklace is in the center of the volcano…not that far from here." Zelda said. Soon they saw a bridge suspended over a pool of hot boiling lava. Link looked at the pool of lava bubbling, and every now and then some lava would burst upwards. Link and Zelda both knew that the bridge was the only way to get closer to the center and the necklace. Link and Zelda slowly began to walk across the bridge, rocking unsteadily from side to side. Zelda's foot got stuck between boards.
"Ehg! Link? A little help, please?" Zelda said Link turned and bent down to help her with her foot, when he saw that the lava beneath was beginning to bubble, apparently Zelda saw it to because she began to pull desperately at her foot. Link too was pulling her foot, trying to get it lose. "Hurry Link!" Zelda shouted. Link's heart pounded quicker and quicker by the second, finally before it was too late Link grabbed her by the waist and yanked her out, and with that force they were thrown out of the way just as the lava shot up. Link looked at Zelda, who was still terrified.
"Th-thank you." Zelda said still shaky. After that they got up and entered the next room. There were some bokoblins walking around. The bokoblins saw them move and attacked. Link and Zelda both took out their swords and began to slash at the bokoblins. After the bokoblins were gone they went through the next door.
In the middle of the room there was a large pool of lava. Link and Zelda stood there staring, when suddenly the room began to shake, sloshing the lava around. The lava was bubbling, and suddenly something shot out of the lava. Link looked at the dragon in front of him, Its red eyes filled with anger and its black scales up in the air, like an angry cat. Its body long and slender, with no wings.
The dragon threatened them with a warning shot of fire, but link stood his ground, the dragon took this as a challenge.
The dragon dived into the lava. Confused, Link looked down in the lava suddenly the dragon shot back up in the air. Links eyes widened.
"Zelda, stay out of this one!" Link shouted at Zelda. The dragon landed in front of Link, he hit the dragon on the nose. The dragon was upset now and lifted his head about to blow fire when a stick hit him hard; the dragon looked at forward.
Zelda was standing behind Link, her sword out and ready. "You! I will not let you roast my friend! Come and get me!" Zelda said.
"Can't you never do as you're told!" Link groaned as Zelda took a stand next to him.
"Of course not. I'm a princess, remember?" Zelda bantered, her hand tightening on her sword.
As the dragon drew back its head to shoot what the girl knew would be a fatal blast of fire on the two helpless humans, Zelda hit the dragon on the leg. It didn't effect him much.
"That got him mad!" Link said as the dragon's eyes narrowed and his nostrils filled with smoke.
Link quickly put all his force into a stab at the dragon's heart. Link did cause a wound, but the dragon, still blinded with anger, did not seem to notice the bleeding aria on his chest. The dragon thrashed trying to defend its self.
Link looked back behind to find Zelda was not there. Link quickly turned to find Zelda was in front of the dragon, Link's eyes grew wide as he ran towards her.
Zelda remembered her reading from the library in the castle about dragons, "their week spots…" Zelda whispered.
"NO! ZELDA GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Link shouted, it was no use. Zelda was attacking him as though teasingly, the dragon stood on its hind legs, trying to threaten her. Just the moment Zelda was waiting for, she took her sword and stabbed it into the creature's soft under belly; the dragon cried in pain, collapsing on the floor. As it did so Zelda stabbed the weak skin under its chin, and quickly took it out.
The massive creature's body fell to the floor. Its body soon turned in to embers, and drifted off in the wind.
Very unexpectedly another dragon came out of the lava, Link and Zelda both scrambled for their weapons, but then in a loud and booming voice the dragon spoke, "Do not worry! I am not your enemy." The dragon looked at them. Link saw this dragon did look different from the other one; this one had amber red scales, and soft gentle dark eyes. The dragon continued, "I am the dragon Vagia, the guardian of Din's necklace. I had been given orders by the gods to give it to the hero when he appears, who I can see is you." Vagia eyed Link, "But my brother, the one you just fought, thought I should never give it to anyone. The power it contained had driven him power crazy…But I can bore you some other time…Take this." Vagia bent down low and handed Link the necklace. Then a bright light consumed the room, when it faded they were no longer in the volcano. They were in a town near the volcano.
Zelda walked up to the desk in the hotel, "Excuse me! We would like two rooms, please?" Zelda said the person at the desk looked at her.
"Okay! That'll be ten rubies!" The person at the desk said, Zelda dug into her bag and took out two blue rubies, and the person handed them the keys to their rooms.
"Link I suggest you get a good nights sleep," Zelda said to link in front of his room "because tomorrow we're heading down to Lake Hylia!"