Quest Log,

Entry 4

Dragon Roost Cavern

Disclaimer: This is based off Legend of Zelda, the wind waker, except Link is a girl and a few things have been changed. I don't own the avatar characters. Pluse, I am using Zelda, and a few of the characters from the game for fun. DONT SUE ME IM TOO CUTE TO GET A LAW SUIT :D

Apon entering the Rito Aerie, infrount of them were three Ritos.The Cheiftian; and two others. After they began talking, Da-xia and Zuko learned that Valoo; the red dragon atop of the mountain; was very upset. But they didn't know why. They also mentioned that they couldn't assist Da-xia and Zuko untill their problem was solved, the continuing of their race depends on it.

"Why?" Zuko asked. The Cheiftian explained to him that the becoming-of-age ritual for the tribe was to get a scale from Valoo and grow their adult wings.

"I also have a more..personal problem. My son, Prince Komali, is suppost to get his adult wings. But he isn't as strong-willed as I would like. Im afraid that he does not posess the inner strength that he needs to get his wings." Da-xia and Zuko exchanged a look, they needed the Rito tribe's assistance if they were ever going to get Arylle back.

"What if we talk to him?" Da-xia asked. "Maybe we can input some of our courage into the boy." The Cheiftian's eyes widend at her request.

"Would you? Thank you very much! Could you get an item from a girl named Medlie too and give it to Komali?" Da-xia and Zuko nodded and were given a Delivery bag. Which was made out of white hide and had red paint on the bottom, and a golden button. They were told where she was, and went to that place in the Aerie. They had to go to the second floor and through the door with two guards beside it.

Medli was a Rito girl like the rest. She had red hair that was tied into a low pony tail, and had a pointed beak.She wore a blue dress with red in the middle. She is studying to become one of Valoo's attindants. When she sees them come through the door, she greets them with a smile.

"Your the ones that need to take a letter to Prince Komali?" Da-xia nodded. "Okay, here you go." She handed them a letter that had PRINCE KOMALI written in fancy script on the frount. Da-xia put it in her bag. "Prince Komali's room is way in the back. Meet me at the Dragon roost Cavern entrance when you can."

The two walked back down to the first floor, and too a door that lead them down a long hall. Apon entering the room at the end of the hall, they saw a young Rito boy holding a bright orange pearl. He had silver hair and was wearing a long, white robe with black pants.

"Who are you..?" He asked timidly. Da-xia gave him a warm smile, like that of a mother to her child.

"Im Da-xia, and this is Zuko. We have a letter for you." She reached into her bag and pulled out the letter. Komali took the letter from her and read it, the letter had not set his mind at ease, he slammed the letter down on his bed and scoffed at Da-xia.

"Are you the one that is going to calm down Valoo?" Da-xia bilinked and then nodded. "I bet you can't. Your just a little girl."

"What are you saying?" She asked him, starting to get irritated. He scoffed again.

"Girls can't take on a giant dragon. Your probably lieing." Zuko had been standing there looking stupid, but as the fight progressed, he had to step in.

"Da-xia is as strong as any girl I've ever met. Apoligize to her!"

"no!" Komali barked. "you don't know about the pressure I'm under!" Zuko crossed his arms.

"I don't? I know the pressure that is put on a crowned prince. I know that you probably think you'll never be as good at it as your father, am I right?" Komali nodded.

"How can you possably know all of that?" Zuko smirked.

"Im the crowned Prince of the Fire nation." Komali held tighter to his pearl, as if knowing that made him afraid of Zuko. "Don't be such a baby! Grow a spine will ya?" Komali didn't look either one of them in the eye. It was as if Prince Zuko's words had gotten to him somehow.

"Im sorry Da-xia. But I still don't think you can find anyone to get to Valoo."

With the challenge of proving the errogant prince wrong, Zuko and Da-xia started out on their adventure.They walked through the cavern's entrance where they said they'd meet Medli. Before them, they saw that the bridge that connected from where they stood, to the actual 'entrance' had broken.Soot fell from the sky like snowflakes, It was at this time that both of them wished that they were air benders so that they could just glide across.

"Hey!" A voice came from below, Zuko and Da-xia looked and saw Medli waving at them. "One of you come down here! I need alittle lift!" Da-xia looed at Zuko.

"You help her. Your alot stronger than me." Zuko nodded and jumped down into the hole. Medli hopped onto his shoulders and he threw her over to the other side.

"Now Da-xia! Throw a bomb into the stone!" Da-xia nodded, Zuko climbed back up with her, just in time for her to throw a bomb at the stone and had it explode. The canyon quickly filled up with water,Da-xia looked at Zuko with worry.

"Can you swim?" She asked him, he shook his head. "Here, hold onto me." Zuko's face turned as red as the fire he burnt when Da-xia grabbed his hands and put them on her waist. As if she was a floatie. She took in a deep breath and both of them jumped into the water. Zuko figured that all the time he spent on the water, he could probably swim, but he couldn't. Silly him. But Lucky for him, Da-xia could, and she helped him get to the other side. They came too a pool of lava that was too wide to jump across, and too hot to swim through. "Your a firebender. Can't you bend this?"

"I can try." That was good enough for her. Zuko took in a deep breath and attempted to bend the lava.Now, weither or not he really has the ability to bend lava, Im going to go with that he can't. So they had to throw bombs on the two stone statues; once both statues fell, they were used as a bridge.

Before they enterd, Da-xia stopped Zuko.

"It isn't too late. You don't have to help me. Just coming this far isn't dishonoring your father, I don't want you to have to do that for me." Zuko smirked and replied.

"Im helping you. Your not going to go through this alone." Da-xia smiled and the two continued the journey, but the real challenge began after they walked into the Dragon Roost Cavern. They had to move too large, blue statues in order to get to the first room. Thats what they did, bot Sweat dtrh had to help on one statue to move it; Walking in through the passage, they had to fight two Bokoblins (Pig-like monsters that stand on their hind legs and come in Pink, Blue, and green accessable for any occasion :D ). Zuko fought with his fire bending, and Da-xia fought with her sword.

Zuko had only looked away for a moment, but next thing he knew, she had a deep cut on her arm that was bleeding. After killing both Bokoblins, he set her down on the stairs and looked at her cut. First however, he had to remove her hand that she had over the bleeding cut. Her whole palm was coverd in blood.

"Are you okay?" He asked, she nodded.

"Yeah. I'll get it taken care of later." But before she could leave, he set her back down and took his hair out of its pony-tail and wrapped the cut up with his ribbon.

"This should keep the blood in untill we can get back to the ship." Da-xia nodded and both of them stood up. Zuko had seen bad wounds before, but none that deep. Esspeciallly one on such a well-meaning, and cute girl. Now, he really wanted to help her and to stop the forces which his father had no right to tamper with.

"Are you coming?" Da-xia asked him, but when he nodded and came to her, the door was locked. She looked at the tortches that had no flame, and then looked at Zuko with a smile. "This is one of those times Im glad your a fire bender. Can you set these tortches on fire?"

"Gladly." and he set them on fire. Beside the one on the left, appeared a treasure chest. Da-xia and Zuko opend it and there was the key for the locked door! After walking through the door, the temperature rose, and when they walked through a passage way, the tempature sky rocketed, lava filled the canyon below, and occasonally shot up from the floor. Sweat trickled down both of their faces from the extream heat;Da-xia wiped the sweat from her forhead, and then turned to Zuko.

"Like I said, you dont-" But he cut her off.

"I am, How many other people can say that they've enterd a fire filled canvern and have to help save the free world?" Da-xia smiled and the two continued on. When they came to another gap, they jumped to the bottom and pulled out the block from the rock wall, climbed ontop of it, and jumped. Grabbing onto the edge of the wooden pathway and have to pull eachother up. They continued walking, and when they reached a bridge that suspended over the boiling lava, the two took in a deep breath and crossed it together. Bats surrounded them, but Zuko burnt them away. Da-xia picked up a bomb and carried it over to the giant bolder at the end of the second bridge and blew it up.

Skipping past the boring part, In a nutshell: Da-xia obtained the grappling hook, they got nine joy pendants, and got the boss key from a velvit box. They got hurt alot, and burned; It was time now for them to face the boss. A gap of lava seperated them from the boss's lair; Da-xia used her grapling hook on the hanging thing...thing that hung from the celine, and with Zuko grabbing onto her waist and holding on as they swung across the gap of lava, and landing on the other side, began to fight the one moster there while Da-xia put a fairy in her bottle. A fairy is said to heal any ailments that someone might have. Da-xia unlocked the door and she looked at Zuko.

"Ready?" Zuko nodded.

"Yeah. There can't possably be anything worse behind that door than we've already faced." Da-xia nodded and they both walked in.

Big suprise, A GIANT, silver, magtail like monster called a Gohma jumped out of the lava pit Zuko was wrong and really scared of that thing. All Da-xia did was drop her jaw and say "Oh snap." She saw that Valoo's tail looked kind of like...a hook! She got out her grapling hook and told Zuko to hang on. He did so without any question, and he held on tightly mind you, untill Da-xia tugged on the hook and landed the both of them on the platform. What happend right before their very eyes dumbfounded them, it seems what she did, caused the thick layer of rock to fall from the celine right onto the Gohma and crack its shell. That would be the plan.

"Zuko, can you be the distraction?" Zuko's eyes widend at her question.

"Why me?"

"Do you want to be the one swinging on a grappling hook and nearly getting yourself killed?"

"Won't I get myself killed anyway?"

"Not as easily.Pluse, you have armor."

"Damn. Fine. Can I burn it?"

"I'd be insulted if you didn't!" Zuko sighed and hopped off the platform and became the distraction, he got hit alot, but nothing killed him. After Da-xia made the roof fall 2 more times, its shell cracked and she was able to get down with Zuko and help him.When it got its claws stuck in the ground, getting her stuck in the middle, she was able to hit him a few times in the eye, but right before the Gohma hit her with a burst of flames, Zuko bended the flames away from her, so she was left with no burns. She slashed it a few more times in the eye, and eventually, it died. The pool of lava dried up and became a solid ground, and a wind surrounded the center. Da-xia smiled. "Ready to go?"

"Were done?" Zuko asked, trying not to sound unbelevably happy about them being able to go. He tried to sound macho.

"With this place, yes." Zuko grinned and they went to the middle and were lifted out of the cavern thanks to the wind.

They ended up where the ship was, their skin dripping with blood, and crisp with burns.

"Da-xia! Zuko!" A voice called from behind them, the two turned around and saw Medli and Prince Komali. "Im so glad your okay!"

"Da-xia...Zuko..." The prince mumbled. "Im sorry I doubted you." For the first time, the two saw the Rito crowned prince smile. "Your my heros. I hope that I can be as brave as you two someday." Medli smiled.

"Im sure you will." Medli told Prince Komali, he held out his bright orange pearl to them.

"I want you to have this.It was my grandmother's, and my most prized possesion." Da-xia smiled at him and took the pearl. The Prince's smile widend as he turned to Medli. "Im going to go see Valoo now and get my wings. The next time you see me Da-xia and Zuko, I'll have my grown up wings and be as strong as you two!"

"I bet you will." Da-xia told him smiling. He and Medli left to see Valoo, while Da-xia went to the wind shrine.

"Where are you going?" Zuko asked her as she walked.

"The shrine I saw earlier, I wanna check it out." He nodded and took the pearl onto the ship, and placed it in Da-xia's room. He then left the ship to follow her, a wind from behind him blew to the north, thus pushing his hair to the frount. He walked to the shrine where she was and saw a giant blue frog riding on a lime green cloud, and Da-xia seemed to be lisoning to what it said. After the frog was gone, and Da-xia was back with Zuko, they walked back to the ship together, but halfway there, they saw a pink, green spotted lizard. It hissed at them as a cat would, and lashed its toung at Zuko, causing him to fall, and then bit Da-xia on the hand, and made her fall to her knees. Its teeth sunk in like two needles, and after Zuko burnt it to a crisp; saw that it also made her drip blood.

She tried to get up as if nothing were wrong, but just as she got on her feet, she stumbled and fell. Zuko ended up having to carry her back to the ship and into her room. Where she sat for what was left of the day. The King of Red lions sat on her bed like an obidant cat, and Zuko watched over her.

"If monsters were here..." The king of red lions mumbled. "Then Ganon...oh god. We have to get to Forest Haven and the next pearl!" But Zuko protested.

"She isn't in any shape to fight." The cat looked at him with peircing black eyes, and scolded him.

"She'll have to! But seeing as she can't even stand up, If she isn't better by the time we get to forest Haven, You'll have to fight alone Zuko. Can you do that?" He didn't know. He never fought in a battle without her before, well, considering that they had just started, he knew he couldn't. He wouldn't have gotten through the first battle without her, the second one would be harder, and more challenging.

Once the king of red lions had gone to bed, and the ship was headed tword Forest Haven, Zuko sat up with Da-xia, but she was asleep. He was whispering to mostly himself, but hoping her system heard him.

"Please...get better. Don't let me fight alone..."

omg thank you all for your Reveiws on chapter three I 3 you all :D and omg, I almost considerd postponing this one. But your reviews made me want to continue THANK YOU n.n