Chapter 11
Temple of Earth
When Link and Zelda got to the mountain they saw it, the Temple of Earth. It was carved into the side of the mountain itself. There was a great staircase leading to the entrance. It was lined with statues of fierce dragons that had fire coming out their noses. The castle had tall spires and was sharp and jagged.
"Well it's not what I consider homey, but it's definitely the place." said Link. So the two of them ventured in. The first room was a great chamber with very high ceiling. There were doorways leading in every direction.
"Oh no, which one do we pick?" asked Zelda in frustration. Link just started walking toward one of the openings.
"What are you doing? How do you know that's the way?"
"I don't, but we'll never get anywhere if we just sit here." replied Link. So Zelda reluctantly followed him. They'd taken about 10 steps down one hall, but suddenly they just wound up at the entrance to the temple.
"Well that was weird." Link said. They tried a couple more doors, but got the same result. After a while they came to a doorway that didn't bring them to the beginning, but out one of the other doors.
"I think I know what to do." said Zelda, "I think we have to walk through the right sequence of doors to get out." After a couple more failures they realized that the door five doors away was the next one they needed to go through. Finally after they had done that to all the doors wind began blowing through one.
As they entered they could smell something like rotting meat. They continued to follow the narrow tunnel until it finally lead to a chamber that had a man made pit dug into the ground. The source of the bad smell was behind a certain black gate.
As they entered they heard a voice. "Who dares to brave the mountains to disturb me!" asked the voice. Someone entered the room through a doorway on the other side of the pit. He was wearing a dark purple cape and on his head was a helmet made from a baby dragon's skull, but he was definitely human.
"You may call me Lord of the Dragons. Why have you come to this sacred temple?" he asked.
"I've come for the Pendent of Power! I'll stop at nothing to get it!" Link told him.
"Well you and I have something in common, we'll stop at nothing to win, HA HA HA HA!" he said calmly. "Now brave one, face my ultimate beast and learn why I am Lord of all dragons!"
With that the gate that the smell was coming through started to open. Slowly a black dragon began to emerge. It was at least 80 feet tall, 40 feet wide, and wings that stretched from one wall to the opposite wall, which was at least 200 feet apart. One claw was as big as Link himself. Its massive body was half covered with an exoskeleton of black hard bone. Its head was at least 6 feet long and was armored with a bone skull with two horns that spiraled sideways. When it opened it mouth it let out a deafening shriek.
"I like you're style so I'll make you a deal. If you can defeat my pet I will give you a chance to face me for the pendent!" he declared
"I accept, but I promise that if you don't keep your word I'll kill you!" Link yelled. So Link jumped into the arena. The tremendous dragon barely took a step. Link started the assault by trying to cut the dragons leg off. The bones cracked a little, but it didn't harm the beast at all. It reacted by building up a huge fireball in its mouth and firing it at Link. Link dodged it, but purposely let his sword get burned. He realized that it becomes more powerful when exposed to flames.
Link then ran underneath the dragon's legs and sliced its underside as he did. The dragon used its mighty tail to knock Link against the wall of the deep pit. Link blacked out, but was awakened by the dragon's horrible shriek followed by an icy blast that froze Link to the floor, but he used his sword to cut away the ice and rolled to the side to dodge the dragon's sharp claw. An icy blast from the dragon's mouth froze half the arena and froze Link's sword to the ground.
Then suddenly it began to glow a bright orange and the ice around it melted. Now the sword looked like it was on fire.
"Yeah, I'm liking this!" Link said excitedly.
"No! What's going on with that sword!" Lord of Dragon asked.
"I know, it takes on the opposite element that it's exposed to." Zelda figured.
Link ran toward the dragon, which shot another blast of ice. Now there was only a small part of the arena that wasn't frozen. Link had an idea. He sliced at the dragon to try to get him to step back. Link hit one of its legs making it wobble. The giant beast tumbled to the floor. Link then used his fiery blade slice the dragon to pieces.