Midna examined her right hand. She had adjusted the fabric on her sleeve ever so slightly, and it now covered the mark of the triforce. The outfit Zelda was wearing for travel didn't have gloves, so they had wrapped her hand in bandages, saying that it had been hurt in her escape from the birds.
Midna frowned. She could see the facts clearly now, but, unlike Zelda, she could neither select the ones she needed, nor put them into a plan any more than she had been able to before.
Ganondorf, considering the circumstances, was barely wounded. Of course, he still had some wounds, mostly from scraping against the stone. Zelda had been relieved to find that she could tell by simply glancing at them that none of them were even close to life threatening. If they had been, she would have to reveal her lack of triforce for Midna to heal them. The gerudo had apparently decided he wanted help for the battle with Muerte: none of them received a dagger in the back.
Link hadn't transformed from his wolf form since escaping from the birds, they had found the master sword easily, but Midna was wearing it so it wouldn't change him back. Unless Midna was misunderstanding Link (which was very unlikely) not even Link knew exactly why, but he 'said' that, literally, something smelled funny.
Link trotted up to Midna as she was thinking of him. He nodded towards the fire, Ganondorf was awake and she should come. Midna nodded and followed Link.
The other three were situated around the chest, all looking impatiently exited. They looked like if Midna didn't get over soon they'd pop. So of course, Midna purposely took her time just for the heck of it. Link walked beside her, realizing what she was doing and imitating her. If he could, he would have been grinning.
Finally Itzal faked opening the chest and Link dashed ahead, howling in protest. Midna laughed and obligingly sped up.
Ganondorf was the one to open the chest. After all, not only had he retrieved in single handedly, training Link had earned him the possession of it. He grinned, and opened the chest. Apparently whoever placed it had been to Hyrule, for it displayed a very pretty light show before revealing its contents (though this chest glowed with white light instead of yellow).
The item itself… well… Midna was the first to speak, saying what was on all their minds.
"What in heck is it?"
Ganondorf scowled "It's little."
It was a black L-shaped piece of metal with a loop of metal where the two sides of the L met. Inside the loop was a little metal lever of some sort. One end was covered with cloth, the tip of the other end had a hole in it.
Midna picked it up carefully, hoping that it wouldn't somehow activate while she was holding it.
"Well apparently you pull this lever… and I'm guessing this" she indicated the cloth covered end "is some sort of grip, so that would mean that the other end must be for aiming?"
Itzal took it from her, still handling it gently and held it the way she suggested.
He gulped "Okay, back up. I'm gonna see what happens when you pull the lever."
They all obliged quickly and Itzal pointed the end with the hole in it towards a nearby pillar.
"Here goes nothing…"
He pulled the lever and the aiming end let out a huge bang. Itzal was knocked to the ground with recoil and something whizzed up and blasted a hole in the ceiling.
He blinked in shock "Wow."
Ganondorf took the object from Itzal "I heard of these. Apparently one of the previous gerudo acquired one-"
"Three guesses what aquired means" Midna whispered to Link
"-around halfway through his reign. It's called a gun."
Link suddenly looked up at the ceiling, snarling. Midna followed his gaze and her eyes widened.
A tiny crack in a dam will make the rest of the stone blockade useless. With all the twists and turns of the cave tunnels, they had unknowingly ended up below Muerte's lake. Itzal had put a crack in the ceiling. And the same rule applied.
The ceiling exploded. And as the water rushed down, Zelda had time for one. Very serious. Thought.
"Ganondorf can't swim."
And then the water hit them.