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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated

Chapter Seventeen: Link-Goro and the Red Tunics

"Aw, he looks frightened…is that a he?" Tessa asked, kneeling down to the trembling Goron. Link shrugged, and Navi didn't answer, so she just assumed that the small Goron was a he. "Well…actually…he looks like a frightened rock…" Tessa murmured as an afterthought, and she put her hand on the small Goron's back.

"Servant of Ganondorf!" The small Goron shouted suddenly, and Tessa jumped back a bit. "If you're here to feed me to Volvogia, then hear my name and tremble!" There was a slight pause, and the three waited for the Goron to continue. "My name is…Link-Goro!"

At first the three were stupefied, and then Navi and Tessa dropped to the ground laughing hysterically. "You're joking!" Tessa said in between squeaks of laughter.

"I am not!" Unfortunately for the poor Goron, this only caused Tessa and Navi to laugh harder, while Link simply looked a bit irritated.

"Well…these two idiots are Navi, my fairy, and Tessa, the girl who follows me around." Link grumbled, and got shouts of protest from the two girls, stopping their laughter.

"That's not nice!" They shouted at the same time.

"As for me, my name is Link." Link glared at the two, who both sat on the ground cross-legged and pouted for being called idiots.

"Jerk." They grumbled. The Goron remained silent for a moment, before unfolding from his round rock form slightly.

"Link? The hero of the Gorons?" Link-Goro murmured. "The Link from seven years ago? The Link I was named after?"

"Yeah…" Link nodded, and then grew confused. "Wait, they named you after me?"

Link-Goro unfolded completely, and stood up, to show that he was about a foot shorter than Tessa, who was pretty short for a human already. "My father did. Darunia. You two are sworn brothers, remember?" Link-Goro looked sad. "Why haven't you visited Goron City for the past seven years?"

"Eh…it's a long story…" Link waved it off. The Goron looked unsure, but didn't press on the subject. Link frowned, and looked at the Goron closely. "Where are the others?"

This turned out to be a mistake, Link quickly found out, as suddenly Link-Goro started to bawl uncontrollably. Tessa ran to the Goron child and hugged him, trying to calm him down. She patted him on the head a few times, and shushed quietly a few times, and it seemed to work. Link was wide-eyed at the display.

'Since when is Tessa…so…motherly?'

"Th…Th…" The Goron child sniffed a few times, and finally able to choke out some words. "They…They…" Tessa started to hum a bit, a tune that Link was unfamiliar with, and suddenly the Goron was calm. Tessa let go of the Goron after one last final squeeze, and backed away a bit, still sitting on the ground in front of him. "Ganondorf and his army took them into the Fire Temple, to be devoured by Volvogia!" The Goron went into hysterics again.

Tessa turned to Link, an eyebrow raised. "Volvogia?"

"Don't ask me…I had to deal with King Dodongo seven years ago, not anything, or anybody known as Volvogia." Tessa twitched a small bit, and turned to the small Goron. She hugged him again, and began to hum the tune again. Link-Goro calmed down after a minute, and wiped his eyes.

"Volvogia is a great fire dragon, who was sealed away by my ancestors…" The Goron sniffed again. "Unfortunately, when King Ganondorf came into power, he revived the dragon to make us obey him by using fear. But…my father couldn't take it anymore, and the Goron race rebelled against Ganondorf's army." There was a small sniff that came from Link-Goro, and he wiped his eyes, before continuing on with his explanation. "The army was too powerful for us to handle, but Ganondorf couldn't handle us either. So, he set a trap, and imprisoned the Goron army, and sent them to the fire temple, to be eaten by Volvogia one by one." Tessa sighed when Link-Goro started to bawl again.

"Oh dear…" Navi murmured, and fluttered around the Goron rapidly, trying to calm him down. Tessa stood up, and looked at Link.

"What should we do?" Tessa frowned. Link sighed, and this time went down to the Goron. He put his hand on Link-Goro's shoulder, and spoke to him.

"Link-Goro, if you want me to save your friends and family, you'll have to calm down, and answer a few of my questions." For some reason, this seemed to calm down the Goron more rapidly than Tessa's coddling, and he looked determined as he looked into Link's eyes. "First of all, was Darunia taken with the rest of the Goron army?"

The Goron grinned somewhat sadly, and shook his head. "No, he went to battle Volvogia and kill the dragon! My father would die for his people!" This seemed to trouble the young Goron, but he didn't cry this time.

"My second question, where is the fire temple?"

"It's on the top of Death Mountain, but I can show you a shortcut!" The Goron said excitedly. Then, a thoughtful look dawned on his features. "Of course, you're a Hylian, and won't be able to stand the heat of the volcano…"

"And I'm human, and I can't do so either." Tessa grumbled to herself.

"I'll give you a special tunic, made for your kind!" The Goron grinned, and started to roll of in a direction only he was sure of. Link took off after him, Navi following closely, while Tessa stared.

"How come that worked better than my lullaby?" Tessa grumbled, standing up and trudging off after them, grumbling about stupid boys. "My method would have worked if that Goron was a girl…"

"It's just a red version of my green tunic…" Link said in doubt, inspecting the tunic. Tessa grabbed the tunic from Link's hands, and felt the fabric. The material felt weird to her fingers, and she sighed.

"Is it made from a special cloth?" She asked, fiddling with the sleeves. Link-Goro nodded.

"It doesn't burn, but that's not what helps…there's a special magic that's been put into it, to protect the wearer from the heat. That doesn't mean that you won't get burned if you come in direct contact with fire or magma, but you won't be affected from the heat otherwise." Tessa frowned, and gave the tunic back to Link.

"Do you have one for girls?" She asked, and the Goron nodded, and rolled off for a brief moment, returning with another red tunic. This time, it was cut with no sleeves, and it went down to her knees. Tessa guessed that the tunic was made for somebody taller. The goron also provided Tessa with a special bracelet, with a crown symbol on it.

"It doesn't look like you're very strong, this will help you pick up heavier objects…" The Goron murmured. Navi gave a brief cackle, and Tessa was annoyed at first, but then realized that it was a kind gesture. She slipped the bracelet on over her wrist, and hugged the Goron.

"Thank you for taking everything into full consideration. Your father must be proud of you." Tessa murmured, and the Goron felt tears well up in his eyes, before wiping them away. Tessa released him, and gave him a pat on the head, before spinning around to face Link. "All right, I'm going off to find a private place to change. Navi, make sure he doesn't come after me like a peeping tom." Then, she walked away to do as she said. Navi laughed at the sudden red face that Link acquired.

It didn't take them long to change, and when Tessa came back, she looked quite funny in the large tunic, but Link's tunic seemed to fit him just fine. "So, where is this temple?" Tessa asked. She adjusted the bow and quiver on her back, since she had to adjust it so that it wouldn't interfere with the extra fabric.

"This way!" Link-Goro suddenly rolled off, and the three had to quickly chase after him to keep up. It didn't take them long to reach Darunia's room, and the statue that the Goron had begun to push in order to open the pathway for the fighters. It was a large passageway, meant for a large Goron.

"Please…save my father!" Link-Goro exclaimed, tears pouring out of his eyes. Link and Tessa nodded, Tessa giving the Goron a quick hug, before they darted into the tunnel, Navi being their only light.

"Please…"

End of Chappie

Another short chapter. Oh well…review please!