The cave was a lot bigger than it looked. But there was no time to look around. A gigantic black horse in a corner dragged his foot menacingly, nostrils flaring furiously. (He was about ten feet tall, if you catch my drift.) If you've ever seem any movies with the bull and the red cape, you'll know what I mean.
The horse rolled its livid eyes. And charged.
"Link, throw a bomb!" Sarah was running all over the cave, fear plain in her eyes. She pointed. "Right over-there!"
Link quickly pulled a bomb out of his bag and tossed at the spot. The horse saw the strange thing and galloped over to it. Link and Sarah huddled together.
The bomb exploded in rising orange smoke that reached only to the horse's thick knee. It horse shook its head, snorting. It charged back for Sarah and Link. Link cleverly threw a bomb onto its back.
So on it went. Sarah would point out a spot, and Link would throw the bomb. This would distract it while Link readied another bomb. When the horse turned back to them, Link would toss the bomb onto its back. Then it would try and bite at the bomb like a dog chasing its tail, and the bomb would explode.
Sarah was digging as close as she could against the wall, whimpering with fear. Link hadn't been quick enough, and the horse was now charging toward her, tongue flicking greedily.
Tongue flicking greedily? Does that sound right? But then Sarah felt a warm, hot body flung against her, and she knew it was Link in one of his transformations. She huddled behind the big Goron until she felt the heat of the bomb rise up around her.
Link doubled over, panting. Sarah reached over and pulled a bomb out of his sack, moving him out of the way before plastering him against the wall, pushing her weight against him. She readied, aimed, fired.
The bomb was actually a powder keg, the kind Link couldn't use if he were human. Only Gorons could use it, and the big barrel-like bomb was powerful enough to stun the horse for half a minute.
Link stirred, then before she knew it was up like a shot, pulling off the Goron mask. He tried to aim with a bomb, but it didn't work. "Sarah, I need you to hold up the horse!" Link called. Fire and fumes were rising all around them, no thanks to the powder keg.
"But I can't!" she called back desperately.
"Sarah!"
Sarah took a few seconds summoning her courage, then took a deep breath and darted into the flames. Leaning to the left, she scurried away from the fire and under the horse's belly. He snapped at her, but she bravely held her position and reached up thick Goron arms.
The horse tried to gallop away, but she held his belly tight, preventing all movement.
While the horse was struggling to free itself, Link shot three Light Arrows in succession into the horse's back. It loosed itself from Sarah's grip, gave a deep full-throated whinny, and burst into a million shatters of light.
Sarah was doubled over, panting. When she saw the horse shatter into light, she looked up. You know what that looks like. In the horse's place was a Deku scrub, a tiny little thing covered with leaves and big sad eyes.
But now a man hopped out from behind where he and the horse had been hiding. Sarah and Link quickly turned around. He was a short little man with glowing yellow eyes and a devious expression, almost like a mix between the Happy Mask salesman and a Deku scrub. Now he stepped forward from the shadows.
"Hah! That's my creation," he said mischievously, his eyes glowing more than ever. "A thing to make eternal snow on Mount Goron."
"And now we got rid of it," said Link bravely.
"Look out there. It's still snowing," said the little man.
When they turned to look, he quickly shot an arrow into Link's neck!
Link collapsed on the snow, semiconsciously seeing the world through slitted, dying eyes.
"Hah!" spat the evil one. "Not so brave anymore, is he?"
But then the minuscule Deku scrub, who was no more than two inches tall, hopped over to Link and stuck out a long tongue, which he used to suck around the wound. In a few seconds, it disappeared and that was that.
"What the? That wasn't supposed to happen!" roared out the little man in agony, tearing at his hair.
"Look, you nut," said Link, jumping up on his feet, "There's this lit-tle problem of yours. And I'm gonna put a stop to it." He pulled out his ocarina in a twentieth of a second and played the Healing Song.
Writhing in pain, the little man was thrown to the floor. The brightness coming from his eyes weakened and his body lengthened out. In a few seconds, a normal brown-haired man was standing in front of them.
"Thank you," he said. His voice was hoarse, but he really did seem thankful. "When I found an evil mask on the ground, I tried it on for fun. And then it took over me."
"Don't mention it," said Link. "It's happened before."
