A Total of 9940 words! NEW RECORD! Anyway long time since I updated my mistake. I wanted to add another part but then this chapter got longer and longer and longer and so… I had to end it. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 19

I See Fire

Riding on a horse was a hard enough task without the added obstacles. Bokoblins and a few Bulblins roamed the area we crossed. They chased after us like they thought they could catch us, but they were no match to the speed of the horses. It was easy to avoid them and if they did get in the way Hero or Epona would just run through them like an eighteen wheeler hitting paper. The horses barely acknowledged the monsters' exist. What the problem was happened to be the Kargaroc, three of them. They flew after us and with us at a consistent speed and tried hard to throw us off the horses. Hacking them with a sword was the probably the most stressful thing I could think of. The boss fight was a piece of cake compare to riding a horse and being attacked by giant birds.

The sun has just hid behind the horizon when we arrived at the gates of Kakariko Village. The ground underneath us started to move as undead creatures started to pop out of the ground. The horses' hooves left Hyrule Field leaving the undead behind. I sighed; I had enough with the dead for the day. We travelled into the Eldin Province and followed the narrow path of the ravine. The ravine opened up and the village appeared in the twilight evening. The Eldin spring started to sparkle as the twilight faded and the moon appeared behind the rocks. The village seemed like it had in the game, it was peaceful and there was someone playing some sort of instrument I couldn't guess, a wind instrument for sure. Link walked Epona ahead. Hero and I followed behind him and the hero stopped in front of the Elde Inn. We got off the horses. I looked around noticing there wasn't a Goron in sight. I looked back up to the inn and was mildly impressed. The game did well on portraying the town, but it was way better in person.

"We should stay here until the morning. Then we should talk to some of the people who live here to find out why the Gorons aren't here." Link stated in the cold light.

"So they did stay around and interact with the Kakariko Villagers?"

"Sure, they were here when I visited here before I went to Hyrule all those weeks ago."

"I see so I wonder where they went off to."

Link shrugged halfheartedly as he turned to Death Mountain. The look he gave at it was something that reminded me a bit of the boss key in the Forest Temple. I shivered, though I couldn't tell if it was from the dropping temperature or from the crows that seemed to magically appear. He turned back towards the inn as the crows cried. "Let's head in before those crows act on their thoughts."

"Shit, I forgot about those things, like the movie claws, they just want to kill you and eat you."

"Claws?"

"It's an older movie where crows get mad cow disease from sick cows that an Amish family owned. They didn't tell anyone that the crows were eating the cows. Anyway, let's see who is in the inn, I'm curious to know who runs it. I remember almost all of the villagers of this place were killed when Zant came."

"Well the population has grown, but I think you would be surprised at who runs the inn."

We walked inside and Renado was behind the desk. Renado looked up and came from around the desk. "Good evening Link, Miss. What brings you here tonight?"

"We are on a quest." Link answered. "This is Electra Ends; she's my partner this time around."

"I hope nothing dangerous has come to Hyrule again." Renado sighed.

I suddenly felt slightly guilty. The village had suffered enough. It didn't need the threat of another attack.

"It's nothing to serious yet, which is why we came here so it doesn't become serious. Are there a few beds to spare? We need to stay the night before we head up to Death Mountain."

"Of course there is. Oh, there is something I should probably tell you about. It might have to do with your quest."

"I'll just let you guys talk." I said shifting my weight back and forth before they got started. My back, butt and leg muscles were sore from the ride and I didn't really want to listen to Renado. It wasn't that he was a bad guy to listen to, but it was that he was putting me to sleep on my feet with his warm tone.

Link seemed to read me like an open book and nodded towards me. "Sure, I'll see you upstairs if you're still awake."

I turned to Renado. "Thank you for having us."

"No problem Electra, make yourself at home and if you aren't too tired I can make something in about an hour if you're hungry."

I didn't have a chance to answer as Link's stomach begged in the empty room.

He blushed slightly. "That would be great."

I smirked as I headed up the stairs to the beat of Renado scolding Link for not giving care to himself. I opened the door to the room with the four beds. I never understood why it was set up like that, have they never heard of privacy? I closed the door behind me and chose the farthest bed from the door, which happened to be next to a window. I collapsed on it after taking the officially stolen shield off my back and looked at the ceiling. The ceiling had nothing special to it and my eyes closed as I reflected on the mess that happened during the day. I opened my eyes again when a shriek of those creatures came to mind and came face to face with a red snake like creature looking down on me. "What the hell?!"

I rolled off the bed just as the snake thing dropped off the ceiling. The thing landed on the bed hard and fell off it crashing to the floor. It had two arms but no legs. It wandered towards me. I scurried away from it realizing how pathetic I probably looked. I fought undead creatures from two different time lines and yet here I was sliding across the floor away from a three foot long snake lizard thing. I pulled out my sword and grasped it with both hands when the creature continued to advance. I tried to look threatening, but my hands were shaking making the sword completely ineffective. The creature's tail flicked towards my hand and grabbed the handle of the sword. There was a small struggle, until I noticed that the skin felt the same as a snake. I shrieked throwing the sword away as I tried to back away, but ran into the dresser. The dresser fell over and unfortunately missed the snake thing. It continued forward and I continued back towards the door. I thought I heard the door downstairs shut close, but I wasn't sure over the sound of my brain telling me to get away from the snake thing. Why was it following me? Sure it had big, cute, purple eyes and a white bone face mask that had two little horns at the top of its head making it seem even more adorable, but it was still a snake. I pulled out my guns just as the door opened. I looked up to see Link walk in.

"What's going on up here?" He asked as he looked down at me. "Why are you crying?"

"That thing!" I pointed at it with my gun. The creature just stood there looking fucking cute and looked up to Link.

A large smile grew on its face. "Link!"

I blinked in confusion. "It knows your name?"

"I'm not sure how." Link stated as he walked in front of me and picked up the snake creature. He looked at it and turned to me. "You can put the guns away, it's not a snake."

I glared at the 'not a snake' snake looking thing. I stood up and followed Link's instructions putting the guns away. "Then what is it?"

"A baby dragon, its parent or parents are probably looking for it."

"And you just happen to know what the hell it is why?"

"Because dragons breathe fire, snakes don't. Not to mention, I don't think any snakes here have mutated to develop arms and claws." Link replied looking at the little dragon. "What are you doing here anyway scaring Electra like that? You could have been killed."

"Link…" The dragon replied looking a little sad.

I looked at it with less of a threatening look. It seemed familiar to my memory, but I couldn't think of what it was, obviously it wasn't that important. "I guess that's all it knows how to say, where do you think its parents could be?"

"Well they could live nearby and the dragon isn't really lost at all. It could have just wondered who was in the inn as no one comes up here to stay. It's not really a tourist site as you can see."

"Where could it live around here? The only cave is at the front of the entrance of the village and nothing like a dragon could live there."

"Well, there are several hot springs meaning there's heat, it could just live on top of the ravine wall, or even towards Death Mountain."

"Wait, there's a hot spring here? Right, I can believe I forgotten about it." I realized and opened my little pouch of everything.

"What are you doing?"

"Going to relax before going to bed."

"What about the dragon?"

"Link I'm sure you can think for yourself, I don't really know what to do with the dragon, it knows your name and it can speak at least your name. By the look in the dragon's eyes it probably likes you."

Link looked down at the dragon. "Then I guess I'll just ask Renado about any dragons around the area."

I smiled lightly as I pulled out my swim suit. "Well its cute for a dragon I'll give it that."

"And you suddenly like it?"

"It's not a snake, why wouldn't I like a dragon, first dragon I've ever seen, I'm not including the Leviathan on this list; she's a bitch."

Link nodded in agreement and started to head out the door with the dragon. "Be careful, it's dangerous around here again."

I raised an eyebrow, "What happened to the Gorons?"

"They went back up to their city and locked it up again, something's up and they are trying to keep it secured."

"Well at least we know that there is more than likely a medallion there."

"Yeah," Link whispered almost out of my hearing as he left. I listened to his footsteps as they headed down the stairs.

I looked back at the door, poor Link going through whatever he is processing in his head and I left him with a baby dragon. I changed into my bathing suit; put my pants and boots back on. I grabbed my sword, placed it in its sheath and headed out of the room. I walked down the stairs and noticed that the first floor was completely empty. I looked out a window and saw the dragon steal Link's hat and Renado and his daughter Luda laughing. Link looked a little annoyed as he grabbed it back, but it didn't stay long as the dragon jumped into his arms. I left the window and went behind the counter and into the kitchen. There was a ladder on the back wall that led up to the outside balcony up to the hot spring. I climbed up the ladder and walked across the roof.

The hot spring glowed in the moon light next to the rock wall. I took off my boots and pants, folding them neatly on top of my boots and set my guns on top for quick access. I slipped in the water and felt it take away all of the pain of my sore muscles. There wasn't any noise from where I sat next to the wall except for the soft wind and the hot water. The smell of the air wasn't fresh and crisp like it was in Ordon or at home. There was a faint smell of sulfur from the volcano. I looked up at the moon. It was very similar to the one back home: full of creators and bombardment from its young years of life about 4.6 billion years ago. I looked towards the mountain and the top was glowing red and some smoke was rising above it. I turned back to the water and watched the steam leave into the cool air. I looked up at the rock wall. The thought of the dragon appeared in my brain as I heard the sounds of footsteps that I had come to accustom of faintly behind me. "Where in the world did that dragon come from?" I asked the wall, but it didn't respond.

The familiar footsteps came to a stop behind me. "Not around here."

I turned to Link just as the dragon hopped out of his arms. It wandered up to me and rubbed its head against my face. I suppressed the shivers of the skin's touch as I reminded myself that is was a dragon not a snake.

"So Renado didn't have a clue to where it came from?"

'He knew where he came from, but it's nowhere down at the bottom of the mountain." Link sighed as he sat down beside the edge of the hot spring against the wall a couple of feet away from me. The dragon slipped onto my shoulders and I turned my eyes to the dragon looking at me. "He said the dragon more than likely came from the crater of the volcano."

"Then we'll go bring this little guy back to his parents."

"If they are still alive."

I looked up at Link. He looked gloomy up at the moon. I wasn't sure what happened to his parents, but I guessed it was similar to what happen to his ancestor's parents which were killed in the Hyrulean Civil War. I knew the feeling well. "There's a good chance, I don't see any reason why they wouldn't be."

"The Gorons though-"

"The Gorons went back up and lock down the mountain for unknown reasons. For all we know the mountain erupted and they were making sure there aren't any rock slides and repairing the damage. The key word is unknown. It could be anything like, the shadow tried to talk with them and they are keeping people away as try and lock him up."

"If the last one is true, I hoped they ran him over." Link smiled slightly as if imaging the scene.

"There we go positive thoughts. We won a match today; take a breather so you are ready for the next one. You know as well as I do that you can't fight if you are distracting yourself with depressing thoughts and wariness. The last thing Hyrule needs is another fearful, paranoid warrior."

"I'm not being paranoid, I'm being cautious."

"Whatever you say," I stretched and slumped lower into the water up to my chin as the dragon jumped off. "The water is nice though, clears the mind a bit."

"This really isn't the time to be relaxing."

"I'm relaxing to a degree, I have my guns right by my head for fast access, and nothing that threatens us will be safe from my aim."

There was silence between the two of us. Then, Link started to take off his boots. I gave him a questioning look. He didn't seem to notice as he carefully rolled up the bottom of his pains and plunked his feet into the water. His shoulder's relaxed as he leaned back against the wall.

"The water does feel nice."

I placed the back of my head on the ground and the night sky glowed in all its mysterious glory. The dragon huffed ruining my thought and lied next to my head. I smiled slightly forgiving the baby creature. It was too cute for its own good.

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The sun was barely up the next day when Link and I were saying goodbye to Renado and the horses and were on our way with the tiny dragon. The dragon walked in between us practically skipping back and forth and around us. I wasn't sure what he was so happy about, but it was putting me in a good mood. We got to the first rock wall that was covered in a metal grid. In front of it a ladder was on the ground and in many pieces.

I rolled my eyes, "How does breaking the ladder going to do anything, the grid is practically a ladder on its own?"

"You'd be surprised; most people don't like climbing the grid." Link said. "You wait here with Happy; I'm going to make sure no ramparting Gorons are blocking the way."

I went to ask him about the name he decided to give the dragon, but he was already on the move climbing the grid without effort. He went over the side and I looked down at the dragon. "Happy huh?"

The dragon just looked at me and then back up at the top of the wall.

Link appeared a second later. "There's no one blocking the path up to the mountain."

"Cool, be right up." I replied and the dragon hopped up on my shoulder.

I climbed the grid and met Link at the top. We continued down the path up to the mountain as it wavered in width size as we went. We came across another gridded rock wall that had two large stair-like structures off to the right. Happy climbed them as Link and I climbed the grid. The path above was covered in a few rumbled rocks and as we continued steam vents were littering the path way. It wasn't long before we got to the drop off platforms that led to a little clearing. I looked around in amazement. There were a few Gorons that were around and on ledges leading up towards the Goron Mines and looked way taller and broader than they had in the game.

Suddenly, Link tackled me to the ground sending the two of us a few feet from our original position just as a flaming boulder hit where we were standing. My eyes widened and Link pulled me on my feet quickly and the dragon hopped onto his shoulders.

"We have to find a place to take cover until the volcano stops spewing out rocks." He said and pointed to one of the Gorons who started to wave his hands beckoning us forward. "He should be able to get us up onto the metal walk way, there are a few good spots up there."

I didn't answer as Link pulled me down onto the drop off as another fiery rock missed us again. More flaming rocks started to fall around the platforms and the clearing. We moved around the shadows that appeared on the ground and made it to the Goron. It curled up into a ball and Link pushed me towards it forcing me onto its back.

"Get up, and get ready for the landing."

The dragon jumped on my shoulder and I was launched to the platform that was fifteen feet up. I landed and Link was right behind me as a volcanic bomb flew by where he was in the air a second before.

"It's like they are aiming for us." I retorted.

Link shook his head as he turned to the right side of the trail. I followed him and the dragon ran ahead. Another Goron was standing there completely ignoring the falling rocks beside the next platform that was even higher than the last one. We stood next to the Goron under the platform and Link waved with an awkward smile on his face.

"Brother, what brings you all the way up here with a lady?" The male Goron asked.

"This is Electra and we came because of a story and a baby dragon." Link replied as a rock landed in front of the Goron. "Why are all the Gorons back up at the mountain?"

"The Fire Temple has been setting the volcano off and this is the second day. Several Gorons have gone to go figure out the problem, but they haven't come back yet."

"Great," I muttered. "This is the same thing that happened at the Forest Temple. The beautiful thing this time there is a fire hazard."

"You want to go to the temple?"

"That was the idea if it there wasn't a problem in the mines."

The ground stopped vibrating as rocks also stopped falling to the earth.

The Goron shrugged. "Good luck, Electra, Brother, the place is a little warm for humans, so I hope you don't hurt yourself."

"We'll try not to." Link said and the Goron rolled up into a ball looking very similar to that of a boulder. After being launched several more times, we finally got to the entrance of the Gorons' home. There were several Gorons around the entrance room and two Gorons standing guard of the Goron Mines. The Gorons food source of rocks lied with all of their industrial era machinery. Darbus stood towering over the other Gorons and his strange rock hair seemed messy. He was speaking quietly with some other Gorons, but looked very frustrated. We walked in and the dragon jumped off my shoulder hitting my armor with his tail creating a loud echo. The Gorons stopped talking turning their attention to us. I suddenly felt very insignificant as a human compare to the rock humanoid creatures.

A smile appeared on Darbus's face. "Link, thank the goddesses you are here, maybe you can help us."

"Does this have to so with the old fire temple inside the volcano?" I asked the patriarch.

"And who might you be?"

"Her name is Electra," Link answered the very suspicious Goron. "We heard the problem from one of the Gorons on the way up here."

"You heard correctly, there is something ramparting a fuss down there for two days. None of my tribe members have returned from going to take a look. Not to mention, one of the look outs described a shady looking man hiding in the shadows heading up there yesterday morning. He has yet to be seen again."

"Maybe he got eaten." One of the Gorons laughed. "Shady people shouldn't be roaming around."

"What would he be eaten by?" I asked in confusion.

"A dragon lives in there. It's quite friendly if you have a good heart, but if you don't, well the smell of cooked flesh isn't something new."

I looked down at the tiny dragon that was curiously looking at the closest Goron. I turned to Link. "Guess we know what the problem is?"

"We do?" Link questioned.

"The dragon is making the mountain erupt because it's missing its kid."

Realization and a bit of relief poured over his face. He turned to Darbus. "Is there a way we can get to the dragon? It was a bit warm in the Goron mines so I can't imagine us surviving long enough to get to where the dragon lives."

Darbus placed a hand on his chin. "I know we still have the Goron Tunic, but for the young lady, I'm not sure if we have anything else."

"Perhaps the Great Fairy of Power might be able to help them." A raspy voice entered the room from behind us.

We turned and got out of the way as an elderly Goron entered with purple tribal lines instead of white, I struggled to remember his name. He turned to me and a smile appeared on his face like that of a grandfather looking down at his grandchildren.

"Gor Coron, you can't be serious, not with the volcano acting like this." Darbus stated.

"It would be a test of strength, if you can get up there and see the fairy, you should be able to handle the Fire Temple. Plus," He pulled out a gold key with a red gem it. "I'll give you the key to getting into the chest that opens the Fire Temple door, much more suitable then the way the dragon comes and goes I think."

"Right, you guys like testing people with strength for trust." I sighed, "This is a two for one deal, can't say no to that, so which way to the Great Fairy of Power?"

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I looked at the stretch of land between Gor Coron, Link, Darbus, Happy the Dragon, and I, which was being bombarded by volcanic bombs even though the mountain wasn't even erupting, and the entrance of the cave somewhere near the mountain top. I looked back at Gor Coron. "Are you sure there is no other way to get to the fairy?"

"Nope, there is just a shear wall and a river of lava on any other part of the mountain."

"I think the shear wall would be more of a test of strength then a bomb field." Link replied.

"A child went through here a little over a hundred years ago, he was fine."

"They probably used a damn shield like an umbrella." I pointed out, slightly annoyed, pointing at Link's Hylian shield. A child could easy hide under it.

"That's exactly what he did." Gor Coron beamed proudly. "Once you get to the vine covered wall there won't be any rocks falling in that area. Though now that I think about it, there are some skullwalltulas on the vines."

"What are those?" Link asked.

"They are like little spiders that are really easy to kill; they just knock you off the vines when they notice you on them. Sort of like a walltula." Darbus answered.

"Are they actually small?" I asked.

"There around this big," he answered making a circle with his hands that was about two feet in diameter. "See small, I can step on them."

"That's not small to a human." I face palmed myself.

"Afraid of spiders?"

"Her father is." Link answered and turned to me. "Ready? I'm sure we could run and just make sure we leave the shadowed areas."

I nodded, but Gor Coron grabbed our shoulders.

"Wait, I should warn you, the rocks here tend to aim where you are going." The elder Goron exclaimed.

"Is there anything else?" I asked him, the point of a test was to see if something could be done without all the boundaries, though I had to give it to him; that point was rather important.

"Nope that's all."

"Alright, so what are we going to do?" I wondered. Suddenly, the red dragon ran down the path barely being missed by rocks. "Happy!"

"Happy!" Link shouted just as I ran after the crazy dragon.

Happy kept running while Link and I chased him up hill while doing our best to dodge the hot rocks. I knew it wasn't going to be much easier going back. Maybe the Great Fairy of Power was like the Great Fairy Queen and could teleport us, speaking of which, did all the Great Fairies not wear tops? I was positive that they used to.

Happy stopped right in front of the vine covered wall and I looked back at the path we took. How the hell did we cross I truly didn't have a clue. I turned to Link who already had his sling shot out and was aiming for the spiders. One by one they died and I was glad he was just full of different arsenals. Happy hopped from shoulder to shoulder as we started to climb, when one of us was starting to slow down, he waiting for the next one to go by and he jumped on to them. Twice he almost fell and twice Link and I almost had heart attacks. When we got to the top we sat down and took a breather. There were two paths with a sign with arrows showing which way was which. I walked up to it and looked at it without any idea on how to read it. It was old Hylian script.

"Hey Link, do you know how to read this stuff?" I asked.

He wandered over and looked it over. His lips moved without sounds as he translated and then smirked proudly. He pointed to the right. "That way is towards the volcano crater." He pointed to the left. "That is the way to the Great Fairy of Power."

"Great, but I wonder how good fairies age?"

"Why are you asking that?"

"Because I pretty sure this fairy has been at this location for over a hundred years."

"Let's go and see then." Link shrugged and led the way to the cave. On the inside the floor was tiled in blue marble and in the back of the room was a fountain and a pool of glowing blue water with the Triforce symbol in front of it. The walls had water falling down them like a waterfall at a salon, but it was quiet. The only thing the place lacked was the Great Fairy. Happy looked around and started to sniff the air.

"Hello?" I called, but my voice didn't echo in the empty room, sort of like a duck's quack. It slightly disturbed me. We stood there for a few moments when Link suddenly started to hum. I turned to him standing on the Triforce and I recognized the tune. I smirked. "That's Zelda's Lullaby."

Link stopped humming and was about to say something when a laugh filled the room.

A light glowed in the center of the pool of water and a three pig tailed, pink haired woman appeared from it, sitting on nothing, and dressed in vines and leaves, barely. She had a lot of eye shadow on and if she was wearing anymore makeup; the joke you have some face on your makeup would be applicable.

"I have two people at my fountain today, this is a treat." The fairy smiled. "Can I help you with something, it's not often I get people to come here and figure out my calling."

"We were wondering if you had a way to keep my friend here from burning up in the mountain crater." Link asked. I let him go, the fairy was weird in my opinion, plus, he did figure out how to call her, even though it wasn't on purpose. At least, I didn't think it was. "I have a tunic from the Gorons, but she doesn't have anything and we need to get Happy back to his family."

"Hmm, you remind me of someone else who came here a long time again." The fairy said thoughtfully and smiled. She waved her hands, creating a light and a bracelet appeared from within it. She handed it to me. "Here, this will protect you from the heat just as well as the Goron Tunic will help you. Good luck on getting the dragon home safely, I happen to like my home."

"Thank you." I replied and put it on my left arm.

"No problem, don't get into much trouble and come visit again, I might have something else later on." The Great Fairy said.

The fairy laughed and then disappeared from sight. Link looked at me. "Not bad for a fairy that is over a hundred years old."

"Yea, now we just get to run through a mouse trap game and make it out alive." I replied and walked out of the room along with Happy. Link followed behind me and we climbed down the vines. We stopped at the bottom of the rock wall and the volcanic bomb path seemed to quiet down. There wasn't a single piece of communication between the three of us as we ran to the Gorons at the top of the path. It was like a ten mile walk going uphill both ways speech from an old person when they didn't use school buses, only it was in no man's land. We got to the end and I barely missed being crushed by a boulder when I stopped moving for a moment. The rock crashed in front of me and I moved around it as fast as I possibly could.

Gor Coron had a smile on his face while Darbus's mouth was wide open looking at me with the look of 'did that just happen?'

Darbus shook his head and smirked. "Well done brother, Electra, let's get you down to the crater of this volcano and to the Fire Temple."

The two Gorons led the three of us. On the way Happy stopped for a moment and when I turned to him he came back with a purple rock in his mouth matching his eyes. He jumped into Link's arms and Link took the stone.

"What's this for?" He asked him.

The dragon pointed with his tail towards Link, "Link."

"Thanks Happy." Link said and put it in his pouch.

Happy jumped down and then came back with a green rock. He jumped and I caught him and he gave me the rock, "Electra."

I smiled at him as he crawled up to my shoulder and I stared at the green rock before putting it away. I felt all good inside that he knew my name.

We got to the Goron Mines again and a Goron moved aside to reveal a passage way. We walked in and flash backs of Goron City from Ocarina of Time appeared matching the picture of the city exactly. There were levels that were connected by stairs and a Goron was rolling around on one of the floors below as it echoed throughout the city. I looked over to the pedestal in the center of the top floor only being held by ropes and noticed something was missing from it. I couldn't remember what it was, so I left it be. We continued down the stairs and I noticed that the path way to the lost woods was gone. I frowned and finally found ourselves at the bottom of the city. There was a room at the far end and Darbus led us in. The room wasn't all that big and the statute was already moved proving that they were still waiting for the Gorons to come back who left.

Darbus went to a drawer and opened it. He pulled out the Goron's Tunic with a red hat that was identical to Link's green tunic and hat. "Here you go, should fit you perfectly and then you will be safe from the fire and heat down there."

Link nodded his thanks and I mostly paid attention to Happy then him changing his tunic. He had to take off his outside gear and took off his green tunic and hat. His chain mail glistened in the torches light, but it was soon covered again in a red tunic. Happy zigzagged around my feet and Link cleared his throat. I looked up and he looked ready to go with his hat and gear on.

"Alright Happy; let's get you home before the volcano puts parts of Hyrule off the map." I told him.

Gor Coron pulled out the golden key with the red gem in the middle and Link grabbed it. "Thanks."

"Please get our tribe members back safely. That's includes you." Gor Coron emphasized.

Link left through the doorway and I followed quickly after him and Happy. We entered a bottom of a crater and found lava pits down below and the only thing to get from one rock to the next was wooden bridges. Who the hell throws a wooden bridge in the bottom of a god damn volcano? I sighed as we crossed them. They seemed to be safe enough. We found the box at the door of the Fire Temple and Link opened it to find the Big Key for all the lovely boss fights in this world. Link opened the door and without any problems it opened for us. We walked in and instantly the door shut and locked.

"Totally didn't see this coming." I said mockingly at the large bonfire in the middle of the room. A fire thing came out and started to dance about with yellow flames. "Hey, I actually know what this is!"

"What is it then? I personally don't like it." Link asked.

"It's a Fire Dancer, a really easy enemy to destroy, you throw a bomb at it and this black stubby thing comes out of its fire shield. The bastard is fast though. I'll stand on the far side and you stand here. When you blow it up, you might be able to hit it. It will run away from you and then I'll hit it. Arrows won't work on it when it has that fire shield. The flames will go to blue and then to green. Once it changes color, it will start to chase us until we can extinguish its flames with a bomb."

"That's not bad at all." Link smiled. "Happy, can you head up those stairs please? This will take a few minutes at the most."

The dragon went on his way on Link's orders and I ran to the other side of the bonfire. Link took out a bomb and it hit the Fire Dancer with no problem. The black blob ran away from Link just as he hit it with his sword. I came in my direction and I hit it. The hitting and the exploding lasted the same amount of rounds like I predicted and it felt a lot like the game Pong, which I my personal opinion was an excellent game. The Fire Dancer died and so did the bonfire it was born from leaving behind the Fire Medallion. I picked it up and tossed it to Link.

"Shad was right, that was easy."

"Yeah…" Link said uneasily as he put away the medallion.

We went up the stairs to the three statues were Happy was waited impatiently. He was hopping up and down and when we got to the top he rushed to the left door. He obviously knew where he was and I was happy. The last thing we needed was to navigate the damn temple. From my own readings and a really old experience, it was almost as much as a bitch as the Water Temple. Then I groaned as we went into the next room. There were several platforms where lava was playing at their bottoms.

"What is it Electra?"

"Just that, if we have to find all of these medallions, the Water Temple is going to be a fucking bitch and a half. If we don't manage to get lose let alone lose our minds, it would be a miracle."

"Well isn't that something to look forward to." Link grinned like a fool and looked at the gap separating the place were Happy wanted to go and where we were. "I guess we are going to have to jump."

"Better not miss." I told him as Happy jumped onto his shoulders and wrapped himself around Link's arms.

"I should be telling you that."

He gave a running start and jumped making the landing without a worry. I stood where he stood and jumped slightly misjudging the distance. My landing was close as I landed on the edge and sighed in relief.

"You got cocky with the jump didn't you?"

"No one died; nothing to worry about." I growled as I stomped over to the large door that Happy was dancing at.

I lifted the door partially and it opened the rest by itself. Inside the room was round and the platform was surrounded by lava except for the bridge at the door. There were six holes all filled with lava in the middle of the platform. A dragon looking similar to Happy appeared from one of the holes filled with lava and started to fly around the cavern breathing fire. It was about sixty feet in length had two arms with three heavy duty claws. The face guard had huge horns that faced towards the flaming mane. His eyes were a raging green matching my stone exactly. Suddenly, the holophone went off and Zelda appeared in front of us, for the second time in a dungeon.

"Queen Zelda?!" Someone called from a corner of the room. I turned to it and saw several Gorons standing there.

She waved at them and turned back to us. "How's it going?"

"Good, maybe." Link replied as the dragon hovered just about the ground in front of us. The dragon tilted its head to the side as it looked down at us.

Happy ran up to the dragon and instantly the flames of the dragon disappeared and the room seemed to cool down slightly. The dragon started to make sounds like it was talking to the baby dragon and Zelda's eyebrow rose. "Is that, Volvagia I'm hearing?"

"Volvagia…" I muttered to myself in thought. No one seemed to pay attention to it.

The large dragon turned to Link and nodded its head. "Thank you, Link."

"Wait a minute!" I shouted as I realized something. "This isn't right."

"What isn't right?" Link asked.

"Everything isn't right, all of this stuff, the medallions, the castle moving, Volvagia knowing your name, all of this only happened in the adult timeline, nothing was destroyed in the child timeline and none of the medallions were collected because in the child timeline, kid Link stopped Ganondorf from completing all of the mess that happened in the adult timeline. He shouldn't know who you or your ancestor is because the future changed. Even the collection of the spiritual stones except for the Kokiri's emerald should still be with their rightful owners, but going through the Goron City, the leader did not have the Goron's Ruby on its pedestal in the center of the city. I would understand why the story of Hyrule being saved is in the scriptures, but the actions of that should not be reflected on this timeline. That's why Ganondorf in this timeline already had the Triforce of Power and the princess had the Triforce of Wisdom because when kid Link came back, he already had the Triforce of Courage making the other two pieces separate. The only thing that isn't reflected in this timeline is the fact that Volvagia, according to the manga story of this, was not corrupted by Ganondorf and adult Link didn't have to kill his friend to save him."

"He what?!" Link choked.

"He cried; it wasn't the prettiest of scenes." I told him. "If he didn't, Hyrule would have been destroyed due to the volcano erupting violently."

Zelda was quiet as she was looking through scrolls and books. Volvagia was cuddling the baby dragon and almost purring. One by one the Gorons slipped by and ran out of the room. A minute went by when Zelda said something. "So, how did all these events happen, without them happening?"

"How about it was magic?" Someone echoed and Volvagia mane of flames was up and the dragon was snarling in the direction of the voice.

"Queen Zelda, we'll call you back." I told her and she nodded.

The call ended and the mysterious person laughed.

"Who's there?" Link asked drawing his sword.

"You forgot about me already?" The man whined as he appeared out of the shadows of the cave.

"Oh, it's you." I said in a deadpan tone. "What are you doing here Dean?"

"Only here to cause havoc and collect my prize."

"Well you caused the havoc the prize you get is leaving before the dragon eats you. Apparently, he can tell between a good person and a bad person and he finds the latter delicious." Link stated.

The dragon went after Dean, but he disappeared and reappeared next to Happy picking him up. Volvagia stopped in midair just as he was about to charge.

"Put Happy down!"

"I think not," Dean pulled out the Fire Medallion out of thin air.

"How did you?" I asked as Link took inventory.

"Like I said, magic Themis."

"My name isn't Themis!" I shouted, "It's Electra, now put the little one down and we can settle this outside of the room like adults."

Dean grinned as the medallion gleamed differently. My hand pulsed and I grabbed my sword.

"What are you doing? Stop!"

The medallion was absorbed into the baby dragon. Dean put the dragon down and Happy started to roll around on the floor screaming. Volvagia flew at Dean, but he disappeared just as the dragon went to eat him. Link and I put our swords away and headed towards the dragon. My hand pulsed again just as Dean's arm hooked around my neck clothes-hanging me. I gagged as his grip tightened and started to drag me out of the room. I grabbed his arms trying to loosen the grip.

Link turned just as we were at the door. "Electra!"

Happy screamed a strange scream suddenly grabbing Link's attention and the door shut in front of me and I heard bars strike the ground on the other side. The earth rumbled below our feet and around the cavern. Dean lost his grip and I got out of the lock by throwing him over my shoulder. He landed on the ground hard. I pulled out my guns and pointed them at him. It wasn't the time to be using a sword, not against whatever he was.

"What the hell did you do?" I shouted.

"You already know, don't you?" The man grinned on the floor.

I shot him in the head, but the wound disappeared. He disappeared from his spot on the floor. "Bastard! He's just a baby!" I yelled into the room.

"And this is why they didn't let women into the army for a long time; your emotions get in the way." Dean answered.

I turned to the voice and found him on the other platform. "Any person with a heart wouldn't strike so low."

"Doesn't matter who they are, if they are in my way, I destroy them."

"Is that why you are helping Leviathan and the shadow?"

"Something like that," He sang. "They, well actually only one of them, happen to have what I'm looking for and well, he can't give it to me if he isn't whole to a certain degree."

The room shook again and a loud roar that sounded suspiciously like a very large dragon came from the room behind me.

"Why did you drag me out here?"

"Well I can't have you die, as each of you fall, I collect the pieces."

I shot out of rage at him. Several bullets flew at him, but they stopped just before they reached him falling to the ground. There was still a huge problem to his equation; the Triforce of Power was chilling right now with a dead guy, or at least to my knowledge. How was he supposed to get it? Ganondorf would mop the floor with him if he was somewhere miraculously alive and I'd cheer for him all the way. Ganondorf was a human for the most part and could be reasoned with, Dean was something else.

"Most people don't go around kissing people they are hoping to die to collect their power. So why did you keep me from in there?" I asked gesturing at the door behind me. "What the hell are you?"

"I'm an incubus, or at least what I am at the bare minimum, but over the years, I've accumulated other abilities." Dean shrugged.

I thought he looked a little too good on our first meeting, though, why Link sighed back then was still a mystery. He was all in for Zelda. All she or he, who ever had the most courage, would have to ask the other. Maybe because he was a guy he knew Dean wasn't human and just didn't want an unfortunate girl to go for such a trick. "What about keeping me alive, wouldn't it be easy just to get rid of me now?"

"It would be, except…"

I waited for him to finish, but when he didn't it dawned upon me. I sighed. "Oh for the love of God, goddesses, whatever… you are going to have to talk to my father first and I think throwing two worlds together to rule them would be a very negative thing on his list."

"How about I don't and you just come with me. You're a big girl aren't you?"

"I'm not interested in a relationship." I stated harshly.

A playful grin appeared on his face and he disappeared again. My guns were knocked out of my hands and landed near the edge of the platform. I went to grab my sword when Dean's arm wrapped around my waist pressing the handle to my side. The other arm wrapped just above my chest holding my arms to their sides. I felt his breath go through my hair and his heart, that sounded and felt so much like a human's, pound against my back.

"I love woman who play hard to get, it's more fun to seduce them." He whispered in my ear.

"That's not a line I would call as a romantic line. It's a turn off for anyone who wants a relationship."

"It is a bit, but for you, I would turn all the women away except for you."

I was about to make a remark when something large hit the floor behind us in the other room. Then, the cavern stopped shaking and became still. I felt Dean move his head away from my ear.

"Seems like it didn't work, next time we meet, give me at least something other than a struggle." Dean sighed and he disappeared leaving only an echo, "Miss Ends."

I ran to my guns and placed them in their rightful place and hurried to the door. It opened as I got near it and the sight on the other side was not what I expected. The only thing that was in the room was Link looking slightly torched. His red tunic had purple splotches all over it. He stood slightly turned away from the door with the Master Sword on the ground with the same purple stuff on it. He was looking at his hands and his shoulders were trembling slightly. I started to walk over to him noticing there was the same purple stuff all over the ground with some red liquid as well. I was about half way over to him when he turned to me tears streaked his grimed and cut covered face.

"I had to do it." He choked. "Happy grew into an adult size and killed his father because Volvagia didn't fight back when he attacked. Then he turned to me and made the volcano erupt dangerously. I- I tried to talk to him, but he didn't listen. I didn't want to fight him. But he kept attacking like he didn't even know who I was. I- I had to kill him."

He fell to his knees. I was shocked beyond anything I could place it with and joined him on the floor as my legs gave out. My hands just landed on my lap. I started to cry and the tears landed on my hands.

"And when his head and body fell to the floor, he remembered who I was. He shed a single tear as he thanked me." Link continued and looked at his hands. The Fire Medallion was sitting in his right hand with some purple liquid on it. A tear drop fell on it. "I can still hear him echoing in my head!"

We sat in silence. The only thing that was heard was the magma bubbling and the tears that sizzled on the hot rock surface. I stood up after five minutes, even though I didn't want to, and grabbed the Master Sword off the ground. I brought it over to Link. "Come on," I whispered kneeling in front of him with the sword lying on my two hands. "We can't stay here and Happy and Volvagia would be mad if we don't move forward. Their deaths won't be in vain I can promise you that."

Link looked at me and determination formed on his face. He grabbed the sword as he stood up and twirled it before placing it in the sheath. He placed the medallion in his pouch and pulled out the rock that Happy had given him. He clenched it and looked back up to me. "Let's go."

We walked out of the Fire Temple and into Goron City. Darbus and Gor Coron were standing in Darbus's room happily as we exited the volcano crater.

"What happened?" Darbus asked his happy look dropping as he looked at both of us.

I personally didn't want to admit it, but tears were still streaming down my face. That was not how I wanted to end the day: it wasn't a victory no matter how someone put it. Two innocent lives were destroyed.

"Happy and his father Volvagia were killed." Link stated it out with a strain, but he didn't say how.

Darbus and Gor Coron didn't say anything but the look on their faces was enough for me to know that they knew how and didn't stop Link when he walked passed them. I followed behind him slightly until we got out of the city. When we stopped, we were in the Kakariko Graveyard behind the Renado's house. I followed Link to a tree. We stood there for a good hour and twilight was starting to approach. Suddenly, a grunt grabbed my attention. I turned to it and saw Renado carrying a rather large stone and some stone carving tools in his mouth. I looked at him in surprised as he dropped it in front of the tree.

"I noticed that you two haven't moved from that spot for a while. Darbus told me what happened." The shaman told us. "You two should go clean yourselves up. There will be food when you're done."

"What are you doing?" Link asked like he was coming out of a daze.

"I'm marking this stone in memory of your friends. That way when you're done you quest; you can come back here and tell them."

Link looked ready to break down but nodded anyway. He set Happy's rock on top of the tombstone and walked away. I pulled out my rock and placed it next to the purple one. The purple and the green seemed so unique to the two dragons. I almost burst out into tears. I went to follow him when Renado grabbed my hand. I turned to him with a questioning look.

"You should go fix him up by the hot spring; it will heal his wounds faster."

"Wounds?" I asked and looked at where he had been standing. There was quite a bit of blood on the dirt, "Fucking dumbass."

I ran after him and found him heading across the roof of the inn towards the spring. I ran into the inn, climbed up the ladder and up to the hot spring. Link had everything off except for his pants and was splashing water in his face. Everything was laid out beside him in a mess all over the ground. I walked up to him as I took out my first aid kit and a cloth. He looked over at me, still grimy and his hair soaked. When I took a closer look he had three large scratches on his chest that were bleeding. He had a few scratches on his face and a gash on his forehead that was trailing down the side of his face because of the water. I sat next to him as he stared at me. I opened the medical kit and then placed the cloth into the hot spring.

"Hold still you fool." I said softly as I wiped the blood and dirt off of his face. The minor scratches disappeared. "Well, if we had this kind of water at home, hospitals wouldn't be so full."

Link smiled slightly, but it faded almost as quickly. I put the cloth down and grabbed a bandage. I opened it and moved his hair out of the way as I placed the bandage on the gash. I grabbed the cloth again and rinsed it in the hot spring. Whatever the water was made out of, I wasn't concerned about it being dirty because it was magic. Hyrule was a wonderful place as it had a high abundance of magic, minus bringing dead corpses to life, that wasn't a nice magic. I wiped his chest and the wounds closed almost all the way and stopped the bleeding. I placed bandage and medical tape just so it didn't get infected until it was healed, most likely by morning. I pulled out another cloth and dunked it in the water. I wiped half my face and made a look at all the dirt that was on it. "That's gross, why do volcanoes have to be so dirty?"

"Because it's a giant hill of rock, dirt, and molten rock," Link replied almost in his usual tone.

I looked over at him and he was busy washing his tunic in the water a little ways away. "Are you going to be okay?"

"I'll be better in the morning; there will be other things to distract me more then. I don't handle loss very well right away."

I nodded. I handled it differently as well. It was more of an internal struggle that I can lash out on monsters later and then Dean when we would see each other again. That was if Link didn't get to him first.

"What about you?"

"Let's just say the monsters that we see over the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours won't be having a good day if they cross me." I answered.

"What happened when Dean dragged you out of the room?" Link asked suddenly after a moment of silence.

"Nothing really, he didn't do anything, just talked, a lot. I shot him, he got back up and then I tried to shoot him some more but he put up a shield." I explained leaving the other subject he did talk about out completely.

"Did you find out what he is?"

I laughed. "That I did, he's an incubus with too much time on his hands."

"How does he do all those other things that an incubus can't do?"

"He leveled up over the years."

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I woke up to the sound of someone tossing and turning. The room was still dark and there was no light outside to say it was even close to sunrise. I turned to Link and flinched. His face was scrunched in pain and there were some tears. He turned again just to bolt straight up, awake and gasping wiping away the water.

"Link…" I whispered sadly.

He turned to me and put on a reassuring smile. "It's fine, just a dream. Go back to sleep."

I didn't really have much choice as my eyes were already dropping and in a matter of seconds I was gone.

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