(Cue- Room For One More- Dynasty Warriors Gundam)

On the way to Death Mountain, the three groups discuss the Azran Legacy.

"A great threat to all worlds, and 15 groups our their only hope." David said. "And you guys are certain that our group is one of them?"

"Well, you guys wouldn't have appeared on it if that wasn't the case." Mahiru said.

"It's not that I doubt it, but I don't see why it chose us." David said. "Sure, we all have accomplishments under our belts, but as a team, we haven't exactly done anything noteworthy before meeting you guys."

"Tell that to the Ginova Family." Franky said. "You guys seem to have a fair share of them breathing down your necks."

"Besides, you guys went to the Land of Canaan and restored the soul-purification process." Lucy said. "Even for a first outing, that's quite the accomplishment."

"The hard part will be gathering the others." Sectonia said. "And if we do find them, how are we going to convince them to ally with us?"

"Well, it shouldn't be that hard. We already are allied with a few of them like Spectra Force and the Universal Police." Jexi said.

"Then there's Zexi's group as well as those Freedom Seeker girls. I'm sure they would be happy to lend a hand." Rainbow said.

"I dunno, I might have got on the wrong foot with Skyler. But never mind that." Hope said.

"But this is a major thing. And there are still five other groups just waiting to be discovered." Ruby said.

But as they walked the path up the mountain, they soon saw large magma boulders drop out from Death Mountain before they exploded on the path as they dodged. "What the hell?" Soul said.

They looked upon Death Mountain as they saw a large lizard like creature machine walking along side it with flaming feet as it moved across Death Mountain.

"Vah Rudania…" Cabbage said watching it walk by.

"That thing is intense. No surprise from a salamander, but how are we supposed to get inside something that is using fire as defenses?" Hope asked.

"We'll have to figure it out later when that bridge comes." Levy said.

As they traveled across the bridge, they soon came to the Goron City where some Gorons hard at work with many of them lied out in the streets with sad looks and holding mining gear.

"Wow. Things are looking pretty poor." Weiss said.

"Yeah. Of course we're looking poor. We're laid off." a goron said. "Thanks to that Vah Rudania thing, we can't mine near Death Mountain. Boss had to lay off a good number of us."

"Boss?" Link asked.

"Boss is...the boss. He's the one who runs the mining operation and is also our city chieftain. He's kinda a big deal. He's so big, he lives in a house with a huge sign. You should introduce yourselves." the goron said.

"Thanks." Natsu said as they approached an old goron with a beard and eyepatch as he growled.

"Blasted Rudania!" he shouted.

"Is something the matter?" Link asked.

"Darn right there is. You see that thing walking across Death Mountain, thanks to it, the eruptions from Death Mountain have gotten really bad. They say 100 years ago that thing used to protect us. That was then. This is now. Now its messin up our mining operations. We're all suffering cause of that thing. I can't tell you how many times we've used the cannon to chase that thing off. BUT IT ALWAYS COMES BACK!" he shouted before his back cracked as he hunched over in pain.

"Oh no, you hurt YOUR back!" Mikan said.

"Its fine. Just a little back pain. You guys must be travelers who've come to pay respects. Like you already brothers and sister. My name is Bludo. I'm the Goron Chieftain whose name makes a crying child go silent...or make a silent child cry. Either way works. I was plannin to drive of Rudania like I always do. But this blasted pain in my back flared out of nowhere. That blasted Yunobo, when is he gonna return?" Bludo said.

"Yunobo?" Inga asked.

"Yeah. I sent that kid to get my back painkillers from the Abandoned North Mine. He's a Goron youth that normally helps me drive off Rudania. But he hasn't come back yet. Slacker, I bet he's off wasting some time." Bludo said. "You see him, let him know I'm looking for him." he said before his back cracked again.

"We'll uh… go look for him right how. Abandoned North Mine, right?" Indigo asked.

"Yeah. Its in the north. Just follow the railcars and you'll be there." Bludo said.

By following the mine cars, on the way they soon noticed a strange metallic cannon. "What is this thing?" Usopp asked.

"A Magma Cannon. It launches Magma Bombs to blow away rubble and enemies. Its so far the only weapon effective against Rudania." Cabbage said.

"Bludo said he used a cannon to drive Rudania away. Maybe this was the one he was talking about." Hope said.

"Nah, this one's too far away. He probably means the one on the Death Mountain trail." Cabbage said.

"This things pretty cool, but it doesnt seem effective." Rainbow said messing with the firing controls. "I bet it doesnt even have a decent shot."

"Of course it doesn't. You need to load a bomb in the chamber and detonate it to fire a magma bomb." Cabbage said.

"We dont have any bombs right now. Its a shame really." Soul said.

"I have remote bombs." Link said using the Sheikah Slate to make a round bomb appear as it rolled into the chamber. He then hit the lever making the cannon move before detonating the bomb, firing a magma bomb along with Rainbow as they hit a bunch of rocks blocking an entrance.

"Whoa! Now thats a blast!" Rainbow said.

"Literally." Indigo said before they saw a young goron inside with a blue scarf and a bit of blond hair.

"Huh? What's that?" he coward before seeing them. "Monsters! They found me!" he panicked as he ran around the cave before stopping as he realized they weren't monsters.

Yunobo

Goron Youth

"Now that I've gotten a good look at you...you're humans! Were you the ones who broke the crag to rescue me, goro? Thanks, sisters! But what brought you all the way out here?" he asked.

"Looking for a goron names Yunobo." Indigo said.

"Oh. So thats it. Boss sent you to come find me. Whew. Thank goodness. In any case, I'm sure glad you saved me, goro." Yunobo said. "The names Yunobo. But everyone calls me...Yunobo. Makes sense, goro."

"Yeah, we were coming to look for you cause you had back pain medicine for your boss and you werent back in a while." Rainbow said.

"Well, I came out here for some painkillers but a magma bomb caused a rockslide and sealed me inside. How did you get me out?" Yunobo asked.

"With the cannon." they both said.

"Huh? You used boss's cannon? That thing is difficult to use. I thought only boss knew how to use it. Look, I gotta go. But feel free to stop by the boss's place. He's always willing to repay a favor." Yunobo said running past them.

"He has no idea we already met him." Hope said.

They made their way back to Buldo's place to see only Bludo there.

"Hey. Yunobo told me how you helped him, tiny travelers. Thanks to those painkillers, so I guess its time to meet up with Yunobo. I mean no disrespect to Daruk's legacy but if I'm not up there to give Rudania a good walloping…" Bludo said.

"Well, the thing is…" David said. "Hold on, Daruk?"

"Daruk was the Goron Champion. See that statue up there? That's Daruk." Bludo said pointing to a carved mountain statue of a powerful looking goron with several children.

Link stared at the statue before he opened his eyes wide as something played in his mind.

Flashback…

In the flashback, on Death Mountain was Vah Rudania with Link and another Goron riding it.

"Yeah. I think I'm getting the hang of controlling this Divine Beast. I'll tell you what, sure is a blast piloting this toy around. Let those other champions know that they better eat their gravel if they wanna keep up with Daruk. Speaking of which, can you believe this view? Just look at all those delectable rocks sprinkled on the mountain.

"Uh...sure, Daruk." Link said.

"I may not know a lot about this Calamity Ganon, but mark my words, I will protect this land to the death. Right, little guy?" Daruk said slapping Link's back.

"Yeah." Link said.

"By the way, congrats on becoming the princess's appointed knight. That's a big deal. Seriously though. The princess has strong personality, so strong she can't see the range for the peaks. Remember that and you'll be fine."

Just then, the mountain began to shake as boulders were coming down on them. Daruk raised his fists as a protective shield deflected the rocks. "All right. So what was I saying? That was a little strange. As far as I know, Death Mountain hasn't erupted for decades. But if the mountain is shivering enough to send down boulders this size...nevermind. Forget I said anything…"

End flashback

"Link!" Hope said running to him. "Another flash back, so that means you were friends with Daruk too."

"You people sure are strange. Anyway, Yunobo is actually a descendant of Daruk. Thats why the slacker can even use Daruk's Protection. He uses it to protect himself when we fire him at Rudania. Now its time to...Ah!" Bludo said as his back cracked again.

Raine and Leia started using their healing artes. "please! You mustn't strain yourself!" Raine said.

"You know what...I'm callin off the attack on Rudania." Bludo said.

"And give up trying to defend your homes and your prosperity?" Hope asked.

"Not much I can do right now. But go and tell Yunobo the attack is off. He should be by Eldin Bridge." Bludo said going back into his home.

They went to Eldin Bridge and Saw Yunobo.

"Hey uh, bad news. your boss called the attack on Rudania off." Indigo said.

"He's...not coming? Even after I got those painkillers. But, if boss can't help, there's nothing else we can do. I suppose we may as well head down." Yunobo said.

"Wait." Gemini said. "We wanna board Rudania."

"What? You're going to try and board the divine beast?" Yunobo said in shock.

"That's right." David said. "We want to help the people of this world however we can."

"Leave it to us. We'll get the Divine Beast back for you." Jude said.

"Who do you people think you are? Lord Daruk? That's...just crazy." Yunobo said.

"Crazy from someone who is his ancestor." Hope said.

"But…" Yunobo said looking cowardly as tears were welling up.

"Yunobo...what is it you want to do?" Jexi asked.

"I...I wanna drive back Rudania." Yunobo said with tears falling.

"Then please… Let us help." Lloyd said. "We may be just a bunch of outsiders to you guys, but we never back down from adversity."

Yunobo then put a shield around himself as he got into the firing part of the cannon. "I'm the cannonball! I'll be the one that chases off Vah Rudania!" Yunobo said.

"But first we need the bridge down." Link said dropping a bomb before hitting the lever, firing Yunobo at the bridge as it fell. "It's time…"

They marched across the bridge to the Death Mountain Trail where Rudania let out a roar as small drones exited from its body.

"Drones! These guys will be a mess!" Scott said.

"Lloyd, get to Rudania! We'll handle the drones!" David said. "I'm counting on you!"

"Were going too, cover us!" Hope said.

As most of David's group provided cover, they reached the first cannon as Lloyd took the controls as Yunobo got in the firing part.

"Fire!" Lloyd said as Link detonated the bomb as Lloyd hit the switch, hitting Vah Rudania's foot. It roared as it started climbing higher on the mountain.

"It's getting away!" David said. "Pick up the pace, guys! If it makes it to the top of the cliff, we'll lose it!"

"We're on it!" Rainbow said as they hurried up the mountain to the next cannon, firing again at Rudania as it climbed higher. As they reached the last cannon and fired, Rudania was releasing steam from its body as it climbed into Death Mountain as it stopped inside the crater.

"Nows our chance, lets board that sucker!" Hope said.

"Got it! Come on!" Lloyd said.

"That was so cool! You put a licking on that thing! But now its time for you guys to finish the job!" Yunobo said fistbumping Lloyd.

"Don't worry, Yunobo. The Gorons won't have to worry for much longer." Lloyd rubs his hand at that. "Man… You guys hit like a tank…"

They jumped off the edge and floated down to Rudania's back as Link activated Rudania's terminal.

"Hey, little guy. Long time no see." a voice echoed.

"Daruk." Link said.

"And you brought pals. More little guys." Daruk said laughing.

"Well, at least we know that Daruk's spirit is okay." David said. "But where is…"

"You know, I always knew you'd come back. I never stopped believing in you. You're here to take back control of Rudania back from Ganon, eh? You're gonna need to activate the terminals scattered across this place." Daruk said.

"Well, guys. You know the drill." Sectonia said.

They moved all across Rudania activating the terminals scattered all across its body.

"That should be all of the terminals. Now go ahead and start up the main control unit." Daruk said.

As soon as they made it to the main control unit, Link put his Sheikah Slate on it before Malice flooded out of it, taking form of a strange looking creature with a large sword.

Scourge of Divine Beast Rah Rudania

Fireblight Ganon

"It's the same thing as before." David said.

"Watch yourselves. That ugly pain in the crag is one of Ganon's handiwork. Thing got the best of me 100 years ago. Good luck little guys. Go get em." Daruk said.

"Understood." David said.

But as they were about to fight, the heat suddenly intensified as they looked up on Rudania's scaly back to see a large bird with long tail feathers and large wings that seemed to radiant immense body heat from its feathers.

"And there you are." Hope said. "I've been looking for you."

It cawed at them as it descended with talons out, ready to fight.

"Guess you're not much of a first time talker." Hope said. "Alright… Im gonna get you to be my friend!"

"Are you crazy?! You can't take on a Phoenix!" Vashyron said. "That thing is literally a bird made of fire!"

"I know that, but I also know someone else who has the use of Phoenix arts, Blazer!" Hope said. "I've always admired Jexis brothers so… maybe having The Phoenix as my friend will be like having a part of his bro. In some way, of course…"

It cawed as it swooped down with talons out at them only for Lloyd to quickly guard and deflect it.

"Seriously, Hope. Common sense would dictate not to underestimate her." Lloyd said.

"I didn't think Lloyd would be the type to know about common sense." Maka said.

"Hey, I was raised by a dwarf, after all." Lloyd said.

Fireblight then screeched at it tossed fireballs at them.

"'Watch out for those fireballs!" Jude warned.

Hope rolled out of the way. "Ugh, im trying to befriend someone, youre in the way!" Hope said. "David, freeze him for me!"

"What am I, some kind of servant?" David asked, using his Freeze Lancer arte. But it quickly melted into water.

"Its too hot down here. Ice doesn't last long in this heat." Jexi said.

"Genis! It's up to you!" David said.

"Got it!" Genis takes out his kadama and bounces the ball on it, channeling magical energy. "O mother praised for her indigo life, break apart and raise thy clear new voice! Aqua Laser!" Genis fires a blast of water at the enemies as he finished the incantation.

The Phoenix was struggling to keep flight as it started to fall in the lava before Hope grabbed its feathers and pulled it onto Rudania. "There. Stay dry for awhile."

But Fireblight was annoyed as it soon created a fire sphere around its body as it started to gather power in its hand as a large fire ball was starting to grow in its hand.

"This is bad. If we don't do something about that, we're gonna get fried!" Sheena said as she pulls out a blue card. "I call upon the maiden of the mist. I summon thee. Come, Undine!" A mermaid like creature appears and shoots blasts of water from under Fireblight, but they seem to evaporate as they hit the shield.

"Damn… There's no end to this!" David said.

The phoenix watched as these events went on before it took flight and flew right at Fireblight Ganon, making the fireball explode. The phoenix was set ablaze as it soon fell into the lava below.

"No!" Hope said as Fireblight ganon staggered. "Time to end this. Flynn, Im borrowing another one of your moves!"

Hope drew his spear and ginitiget with flames, as they turned into a fire bird and he launched at Fireblight Ganon. "Rising Phoenix!" Hope shouted as they hit Fireblight Ganon multiple times. It groaned as Malice began leaking out of its body before letting out a screech before exploding into nothing.

"Fireblight Ganon...is gone." Hope growled.

Link then activated the main control unit.

"Great work, little guys!" a voice said as they now saw a large Goron with a beard and wild hair with chains on his arms and ghostly fireballs around him.

Daruk

Goron Champion

"I owe you big for this! Because of you, my spirit is now free. Can't thank you enough! I feel like I should apologize. I was doing all I could to protect Hyrule when that thing got the better of me." Daruk said.

"It was nothing, Daruk." Leanne said.

Daruk then saw the saddened Hope before approaching him. "Don't worry about the bird. Look." Daruk said pointing down. They both saw a small chick flying into the air and out of the volcano. "Now matter how many times those things die, they always get reborn."

"So that was a regular Phoenix? No beastman?" Hope asked.

"No, that was definitely Suzaku." Cabbage said. "Every time she dies, she restarts her life over and over again."

"Will she even remember me?" Hope asked.

"I can't tell you that. That's something you gotta ask her yourself." Daruk said.

"And how do i do that, shes already…" Hope said before seeing it sitting on the ledge of Rudania looking at him with curiosity. "...gone."

"Lifes a pretty funny thing. It always works in mysterious ways." Daruk said. "Right, Little guy?" he said slapping Hope on the back.

"Ow! Yeah, i get it." Hope said walking up to Suzaku. "Hey there."

It bowed its head before flying to Hope's head as it nested on top.

"Well… this is awkward…" Hope said.

"But...now back to the main thing. With Rudania back under our control, we can finally put our Ganon crushing plan back into action. I'm gonna take this down the mountain. Gonna have a better shot of Ganon there. Then once you make it into Hyrule castle, we'll light that thing up. Hope, Link, Lloyd, Genis. I wanna give you guys something. Its a special power of mine called Daruk's Protection. Its no good to me now that I'm a spirit. But maybe you'll have a use for it. Here it comes!" Daruk said firing red orbs into the four. For a moment, red shields appeared around them before vanishing. "From this moment forth, the power of protection from the depths of my soul now lives inside the four of you."

"Daruk...thanks." Lloyd said as they started to vanish.

"Good luck, little guys. And...give my regards to the princess." Daruk said.

As soon as they had left, Rudania began climbing upward to the top of Death Mountain where its head opened as a laser began focusing as it fired it at Hyrule Castle.

"Well, that oughta do it. Now we just wait here for the perfect shot." Daruk said as he observed the range. Hyrule looks pretty good from up here. Even after 100 years. The old rolling grounds sure are a sight for sore eyes. I wonder how the Gorons fared after the Great Calamity. I hope everyone is...huh?" Daruk said as he saw Yunobo with Yunobo seeing Daruk. "Hey, look at that! Still goin strong indeed!" he said raising a fist in triumph as Yunobo did the same.

The others were soon whisked back to the Goron City.

"Good news! Vah Rudania is back under our control!" Hope said.

"Yes. I can see that." Bludo said with his back not hurting.

"Your back...its better." Mikan said.

"Truth be told...I never broke it in the first place." Bludo said. "I made it up to get a fire going with Yunobo. Looks like he did it. If Lord Daruk were here, he'd be proud of his descendant."

"Whoohoo! Two down!" Pit said.

"You people still are strange. But, you deserve a reward all the same. Here." Bludo said handing over a large two handed sword. "This is the Boulder Breaker, a sword formerly belonging to Lord Daruk..but I think it might have better use with all of you."

"Thank you." David said, taking the blade.

"And as a reward...I allow you all to partake in the Goron Hot Springs." Bludo said.

"Hot Springs?" David asked. "Are you sure?"

"Yes. This is big stuff. Please, use them all you want tonight and feel rested when you leave tomorrow!" Bludo said.

"I-it's not that I'm not happy about them! It's just…" David said. "It would mean we'd have to do something about these three." David said motioning to Zelos, Ichiro, and Vashyron.

"Ignore him!" the three said as they marched to the hot springs down the mountain.

"Weird, figured those three would use the one up here." Bludo said.

"Huh? Then… What's down there?" Sectonia asked.

"So ladies...shall we…" Vashyron said as the three arrived before they saw monsters in the springs as they grabbed their clubs and spears.

"Um… Vashyron, I don't think they're here for the baths." Zelos said.

The three screamed as the others rested up the mountain.

"Sounds like they met the monsters in the springs down there." Jexi said.

"Pervs." Hope said scratching Suzaku. "You should keep trying to grow back up too. I wanna see what you really look like."

Suzaku chirped a bit.

"Ah...this is great." Yunobo said beside them. "You know, when I was up there, I thought I saw my ancestor's spirit up there. I bet it's a sign that he's proud of me."

"Not just you, Yunobo. Everyone." David said with a smile.

"And it was with my power and the cannons. Guess that scientist guy was right." Yunobo said.

"Scientist?" Titanica asked.

"Yes. Mr. Cretaceous Flux." Yunobo said.

"So he created the cannons? Man, Cretaceous is behind everything.." Hope said looking at Zinia and Fiora. "Hey Zinia, Fiora, cmon!"

"What're you two doing, get in here!" Yunobo said.

"Huh? No way! I'd rust!" Fiora said.

"And my limbs aren't waterproof. But…" Zinia said as Damien passed them both and approach Yunobo.

"How long...did he stay in the village?" Damien said.

"He was here last week before travelling. He was heading for Hateno Village to visit the lab there." Yunobo said.

"In that case, we should send a letter to Vanessa in Kakariko Village." David said. "She said she was looking for him."

"No." Damien said turning away.

"Where are you going?" Lacy asked.

"Hateno Village." Damien said.

"All by yourself?" Sectonia asked. "It's too dangerous."

"I DON'T CARE!" he shouted. "I won't believe its him...until I see his own face with my own eyes."

"I understand the denial, Damien." David said. "But that doesn't give you the right to show at her! She's just worried about you."

"You can either come with me or not. I'm going regardless." Damien said marching down the path.

"Hope, are you seriously just going to stand there and take this?" Genis asked.

Hope slowly got up as he approached Damien.

"Hope?" Jexi asked.

"Don't try and talk me down. I've made up my mind." Damien said.

"Damien… why are you so obsessed with your dad right now? I mean, I get it. You haven't seen him. But that isn't any reason to go off on your own. Besides, i'm getting curious about this guy myself." Hope said.

"I just wanna know...why he left his own family...all of his families...behind." Damien said.

"Yeah, I wanna know too." Hope said. "Hey, Hatento Village is down the mountain near Kakariko Village. So...we'll make a little side trip."

"Very well." David said before turning to Cabbage. "Cabbage, there's something I want to ask you."

"And what's that?" Cabbage asked.

"You said that one of the Zodiac members resembles a dragon." David said. "His name...wouldn't happen to be Ryuji, would it?"

"Ryuji...yeah. He is our stand in dragon, but there was another on this world who challenged him for his spot and took one of his eyes and an arm. It wasn't a beastman. It was definitely a dragon man." Cabbage said.

David looked down. "I knew it…"

"David?" Scott asked.

"Back in my world, Hifumi and I had a close friend, one who would protect us from bullies, the two of us being nerds and all." David said.

"He's still alive you know. The dragonman got defeated by Ryuji. Guy won't go down so easy." Cabbage said.

"This dragonman...his name." David said.

"He proclaimed himself as one thing...Drake the Dragon King." Cabbage said.

David smiled. "I figured that he wouldn't go down easy. Even able to defeat Drake of the Dragon Style of Color Fighting. I heard that some time ago...Ryuji actually joined the Ginova Family. I didn't want to believe it, since dragons are said to be honorable creatures." A tear starts to fall from his eye. "But...I guess the rumors are true…"

"I cant believe one of your buds beat Drake in seconds, whereas it took me and Jexi all our power just to beat him." Hope said.

"Ryuji is a very strong fighter. With the strength of a dragon, he's much stronger than any normal human." David said.

"Drake...we might have to look around this land for more." Jexi said. "There's a lot going on than just Calamity Ganon."

"David…" Jude started. "If we run into Ryuji, you don't think...we'll have to kill him, do you?"

"I refuse to believe that Ryuji would work for them willingly." David said. "But...if it comes down to it, I...don't think I'll have a choice."

"We'll just have to find him and ask him." Luffy said.

"We can ask about it when we start visiting Hateno Village." Lucy said.

"If he's your friend, you should hear his side." Ming said.

"According to Daisy, Vincent is the head of the Adventure branch, who we're fighting now." David said. "If, by chance, Vincent has him under some sort of spell, how can we be sure he'll speak the truth?"

"Vincent isn't really a spellcasting guy. He might be strong but he's got honor. As for the Zodiac's, we joined willingly, no force at all." Cabbage said.

David looked down at this.

"David, before we decide what to do to him, we need to find him first." Sectonia said.

David slowly nodded. "Yeah… I guess you're right."

"Then its all settled and done! We're off to Hateno Village!" Toma said.