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Ocarina of Time: The Three Goddesses Reincarnated
Chapter Twenty: Volvogia
"This is your last chance, before I send you two to your inevitable deaths." The figure growled at Tessa, who simply glared in defiance. It looked as if Tessa was ready and confident to face her death, and the figure knew that the cause was hopeless. "Oh, all right then."
The guards pushed open the door, and threw Werdon and Tessa in. Before the guards shut the doors, the figure threw something that landed on the ground between Werdon and Tessa. Tessa's tough exterior dropped as soon as she heard the slam of the doors.
"Oh god…" Tessa murmured, looking at the weird area she was in. Her voice echoed around the whole room. Werdon burst into tears. In front of them was a pool of lava, with a platform on top of it. Covering the platform were uniformly placed holes, each about two feet in diameter. Tessa then looked down at what the figure had thrown towards Tessa and Werdon.
Rhea smirked as the doors slammed shut. "That's one nuisance dealt with." The guards simply looked at her quizzically.
"Lady Rhea…" One of the guards murmured. Rhea rolled her eyes at being called 'Lady' but didn't protest. "What did you throw to them?"
"That is none of your concern." Rhea snapped at the guard, who simply bowed, and both of the guards went back to their posts, leaving Rhea to stand there. 'Good luck.' Rhea thought towards the door, to Werdon and Tessa. 'It would be very interesting to meet you again.'
Tessa attempted to grab the hammer, but realized the chain around their necks didn't allow for such a maneuver. Instead, Tessa tested the object's weight with her foot, but growled when it didn't budge. She glanced over at Werdon, and much to her dismay, he seemed to be pretty out of it with fear. "Werdon?" Tessa murmured. There was no response. "Werdon?" Tessa said, a little bit louder. "WERDON!" She shouted this time. Her volume was so loud, that Werdon jumped, before turned to her.
"Could you help me pick that up?" Tessa sighed, pointing to the ground. Werdon nodded, and both of them bent down. Werdon picked it up with ease, and they both stood straight.
Then, the ground underneath them started to shake. The platform ahead of them began to spew lava violently, one of the holes spurted lava much higher than the others. Werdon gasped, and dropped the hammer that he had picked up.
"Oh shit…" Tessa gasped, realizing that the dragon, Volvogia, was just about to reveal himself. "What do we do? What do we do?!" Tessa panicked, looking at the chain that kept them together. Werdon suddenly turned to face Tessa.
"I have an idea to break this chain!" Werdon smiled, but the fear was still evident in his eyes. Tessa nodded.
"What's your idea?" Tessa asked, eyeing the spewing lava in front of them. The Goron pointed at the door. Tessa looked, and saw what looked like a weird sort of handle sticking out. Tessa knew that she couldn't push open the door, and the way Werdon was, she doubted he could either.
"Grab onto that handle with both hands, and don't let go." Werdon ordered. Tessa raised her eyebrow, but complied, as they both ran towards the handle. The spewing behind them grew to be more violent. Tessa gripped onto the handle, and waited for whatever Werdon was going to do. He jumped, not very high into the air, and rolled into a ball. Then, while still in the air, he began to roll forward. When he touched ground, Tessa felt a tug of her chain. She couldn't turn her neck, but realized that the rolling in place twisted the chain violently, and put a lot of strain on its links.
Then, a roar went through the air. Volvogia was about to surface. Tessa tightened her grip, which was harder to do by the second, and prayed that everything would be okay. The chain snapped, and Werdon went rolling forward, onto the platform. Tessa was pulled from the door, and landed on her back. She got up quickly, and looked at the hammer. She attempted to pick it up, but then had to go with two hands. Frantically, she was able to lift it, and she hung it around her waist, where the weight was bearable. Tessa then ran back to the door, and looked as a dragonhead emerged from the spewing lava.
With one last gulp on nervousness, Tessa ran forward, and jumped onto the platform to join Werdon. They watched the dragon rise into the air as high as it possibly could go, and twist into a tight circle. The dragon was obviously eyeing them.
"So…it's an Asian dragon." Tessa sighed. "That makes everything better." She said sarcastically, her body quivering with fear. Volvogia was bright red, with a bright red jewel in the center of his forehead. Flames seemed to emit from his body, and his body moved through the air in a snake-like manner.
"We're going to die here, aren't we?" Werdon asked weakly as tears poured from his cheek.
Link clung onto the platform as it went flying through the air. It had taken a lot of jumping forcefully on top of it to dislodge it from its place in the ceiling, and now he just prayed that he was right about the platform.
The fall seemed to last several hours, although it had only taken a few seconds in reality. When it finally stopped, Link had almost rolled off due to the intensity of the slam. Lava went everywhere. He realized that the platform was going to fall over at the same time he saw the door. It would be easy for him to jump onto the area with the door, if he did it immediately.
Without thinking twice, he jumped and made it to the door. The platform behind him toppled over, and began to melt into the lava. He shuddered, and faced the door. He realized that the door was rattling slightly, even though it was made of pure stone. Navi flew out of his shirt, and looked into it.
"You don't suppose…Darunia's still fighting?" Navi squeaked excitedly. Link frowned in worry, and grabbed his hat from his shirt. He had realized that he would lose that hat, and any other semi-loose items if he didn't store them securely. Link placed the hat on his head, and rammed himself into the door. He kept onto the door, pushing into it with all of his strength. The door inched open, ever slowly, and he was able to slip into the room with Volvogia. With an unseen force, the door slammed shut behind him.
Tessa and Werdon had been dodging the dragons fire for as long as they could. Werdon's rolling gave him a much easier way to dodge, and because of his protective covering from his back, the lava pools hardly affected him. Tessa, however, could already feel her stamina start to dim, and she had already burned her foot severely when she accidentally stumbled into a lava pool.
Their attempts to escape only annoyed Volvogia more and more.
Volvogia turned to face Tessa, who had tripped over a protruding rock on the platform. His eyes burned into hers, and he moved in. 'Oh god, I am going to die here…' Tessa thought, tears poured from her eyes as Volvogia circled around her. Tessa tried to stand, but her foot had had enough, and she simply stumbled back down onto the ground. She lay there on her stomach, tears poured even faster from her eyes. 'Werdon, please find a way to live…'
Then, a shout pierced through the air, and Tessa was startled into turning her head towards the noise. Her cheek lay against the hot rock as she saw a sword drive itself into Volvogia's side. Volvogia reared up in pain, and turned to Link in rage.
Tessa smiled weakly in relief, as she brought herself to a sitting position. Werdon rolled over to Tessa, and then brought himself out of his rolled position. He grabbed Tessa's arm, and brought her over to a corner where they would be out of Link's way.
"Isn't that Link?" Werdon asked, when they finally stopped. Tessa nodded, the pain fully registering into her mind. The tunic had saved her from most of the burn, but it still felt like her foot would never stop bleeding. "He's the one who saved us from King Dodongo! He can defeat Volvogia!" Werdon said, admiration for the hero showed in his eyes. Tessa smiled, and hugged the Goron.
"I hope so." Tessa murmured, so quietly that he couldn't hear her.
Link stared Volvogia in the eyes. The dragon was seething with anger towards him, but Link wasn't sure what to think. Those eyes were so familiar…
Link shook himself out of it as quickly as he could, and dodged the fire-breath coming from Volvogia. Navi flew towards Volvogia's head, trying to determine any weakness, until she noticed the jewel on Volvogia's head. She circled it.
"Link!" She cried as she circled it frantically. "Try to break this jewel!" Navi ordered this time. She looked at the jewel, and saw a dark and sinister power work inside of it. Something definitely was not right with Volvogia.
Link waited for the fire-breath to stop, before he jumped on top of Volvogia's head. He climbed towards the jewel, and held onto Volvogia's horns as the dragon swung around. Finally, Volvogia stopped as he thought that Link had been thrown off. Link took the opportunity to strike the jewel with his sword. It only rebounded with a heavy vibration. Volvogia felt this, and swung his head violently again. Link went flying, and ended up in front of Werdon and Tessa.
"Ah…" Tessa murmured, as she had been watching the fight as closely as she could. "Try this…" Tessa took the hammer from her belt with two hands, and handed it to him, her arms shook heavily from the weight of the hammer. Link nodded, and grabbed it. He didn't have much trouble holding it with two hands, and placed it around his belt. He then ran to Volvogia, and jumped on top of the dragon's back.
"How do you know that will work?" Werdon asked. He watched as Link slowly made his way to Volvogia's head, spike by spike.
"I don't…but it's heavy enough with enough gravitational force, along with Link's own strength…it could hopefully break the jewel." Tessa murmured, her vision began to have black spots to it, and she felt lightheaded, the pain from her foot roared in her ears.
Link was close to Volvogia's head when the dragon suddenly took off into flight, high into the air. Navi stayed with the jewel, so that Link could have an easier time finding it. Link held onto the spike in front of him, and clung as tightly as he could while Volvogia twisted and turned violently in the air. Link had almost been thrown off multiple times.
"He has to win…" Werdon cried, and noticed that Tessa had passed out, and was lying on her side. He frowned, and placed Tessa on her back, safely away from the edge of the platform. Werdon then stood up, and realized what he had to do.
"I won't let my race be killed out by a dragon, at any cost." The Goron murmured, and moved towards the center of the platform. Volvogia noticed this, and stopped his attempts to shake Link off, before he dove and dropped to the ground mere feet in front of the Goron. "Well, what's stopping you from eating me?" Volvogia reared his head back, similar to the way a snake would before striking its pray. "Miss Tessa, and Link, the Hero of Time, please save Hyrule, and my kind." Werdon said, clearly enough for Link to hear it. Link's eyes widened.
"NO!" Link shouted, before Volvogia dove forward, and gripped onto Werdon with his jaw. Link dove forward in Volvogia's distraction, and was at the jewel when a sickening crunch resounded through the air. Link closed his eyes, as chewing sounds went through the air. His stomach twisted at the joyful sounds that came from Volvogia.
"Link!" Navi shouted, although shakily. Link shook his head, and brought the hammer over his head. He then forced it down onto the jewel, and heard it shatter under the sheer force of the hammer. The darkness spread like a cloud, then split in half, one side going into Volvogia's head, and the other half darted itself into Link's own mind. Without knowing, he dropped the hammer, and collapsed from Volvogia's head, and onto the rock ground below him, unconscious. Volvogia dropped to the ground as well.
"Look Navi, an egg!" Link shouted, mostly from excitement. He was young then, and was on his way to Goron City for the first time. Navi looked at the odd nest, it was hug, and the egg was easily the size of Link's head. Link took hold of the egg, and sat down next to it, eager to figure out what kind of egg it could be.
"Are you sure you want to be caught here when the egg's mother comes back?" Navi said nervously, fluttering around looking for anything that could have an egg that size. Link shrugged, and poked it. "It's so big! I wonder what it is…" Link murmured, eyeing the egg closely. The egg was a very light shade of red, and seemed to have darker red shades that made out flames towards the bottom of the egg.
"What kind of egg is it?" Link asked himself as he stared at the egg even more. Navi sighed, and looked at the cliff surroundings around them.
"Kids…" Navi murmured, as she watched the sun set slowly, the area around them grew darker with each passing moment.
The egg then cracked slightly. Link jumped, and then his excitement grew. "I'm going to find out what it is now!" Link exclaimed. Navi sighed, and flew over to Link's shoulder, as she knew that his curiosity wouldn't simmer until he knew the answer. She would never admit that she was just as curious as he was.
A piece of shell went flying into the air, and then the whole egg just burst. The soft eggshell barely scraped Link's cheek, he didn't even bleed. In front of Link stood a dragon, a bright red baby dragon.
"Aww, he's so cute! What is he?" Link turned to Navi, who sighed.
"Have you never heard of dragons before?" Navi asked, after which Link just shook his head. "Well, he's a dragon."
"Awesome!" Link cried, and held out his hand for the baby to sniff. The dragon did, and let out a little croak of delight, before tackling Link and licking his face. Link just laughed, as he tried to remove the overexcited dragon off him. Finally, Link won, and sat the dragon in front of him. "Well, I'll stay here until your mother comes." Link grinned, much to Navi's dismay.
"Don't we have to get to Goron City?" Navi asked hurriedly. Link shrugged, and poked the baby dragon's nose.
So, the two spent half the night with the dragon. They played with him, and grew more attached with each moment that passed. Link didn't pay attention to the tired feeling that seemed to engulf him very steadily.
Then, a giant roar went through the air. Navi and Link stiffened up, while the dragon just chirped in happiness at the sound. Suddenly, a giant dragon flew over them, and turned, before she stopped right next to the nest.
"Hi! Your son hatched!" Link shouted, somewhat nervously as the dragon looked down at her son, and the two intruders.
"What have you been doing to my son?" The mother dragon asked suspiciously. Her jaw didn't move, but the words seemed to vibrate off her being.
"I've been playing with him. He's really fun to be around. I told him I'd stay until you arrived." Link said, more sure of himself. He even grinned up at the mother dragon. The mother dragon just nuzzled her son.
"Thank you for staying with him. Now, I advise you leave to wherever your journey should take you." The mother advised softly. Link and Navi nodded, and trudged on their way, after one last hug from the baby dragon.
Both Volvogia and Link had tears in their eyes, although they were both still unconscious. Navi had been observing the two, when suddenly she realized just who this dragon was the same one from seven years ago…
Link and Navi were on their way back to Kakariko Village, after they had defeated King Dodongo. Link had a small bandage wrapped around his arm, from a burn he had received. It was minor, nothing a little bit of potion could heal, but they had a long way down the mountain. It didn't take them very long to reach the dragon's nest. The mother dragon acknowledged them as they went by, but the baby dragon jumped into Link's arms. The baby dragon chirped in happiness.
"He seems to be fond of you." The mother dragon's voice showed evidence that she was smiling. Link nodded, and patted the baby dragon on the head. "His name is Okhip, if you wanted to know."
Okhip chirped in response to this, and grabbed onto Link's hat with his teeth. Then, Okhip ran off, and a game of chase began. Although Link and Okhip only played for a little while, they had a great time. When it was time to go, they said their farewells, and were on their way.
Link abruptly woke up, when the cloud of darkness left his mind, and entered Volvogia's mind fully. Volvogia rose into the air, and looked at Link, a glossy look overcame Volvogia's eyes.
"Okhip?" Link asked. Volvogia nodded, but then his eyes were taken over by a red color, and he dove for Link, ready to engulf him. Link jumped out of the way, and looked over at Volvogia, about ready to burst into tears.
"Kill me Link…" Volvogia cried. "It's the only way to free me from Ganondorf's spell." Link shook his head, but had to dodge once again, as the spell overtook Volvogia again.
It took Link nearly five minutes of dodging to realize that Volvogia was right, killing him would be the only way, and one death could save millions…but that never made anything easier for Link. The image of Okhip being born ran through his head again. With one final shake of his head, he wiped the tears from his eyes, and drew his sword.
"I'm sorry, Okhip." Link murmured, and brought his sword into a defense mode. Volvogia dove for him, and Link ducked underneath Volvogia's head. He then drove the Master Sword through Volvogia's skull. An ear-splitting screech went through the air.
"Thank you, Link…" Volvogia's voice sounded, and he collapsed onto the platform, dead. The sword had gone straight through his brain. Link's eyes poured with tears as he wrenched the sword from Volvogia's skull.
"Okhip…" Link murmured, as he patted Volvogia's head. "Please have a good rest…" Navi swirled to him, and ducked inside of Link's hat, tears coming from her small form. Link gave one last look to Okhip, and trudged over to Tessa. He grabbed her hand as the familiar blue light engulfed him, and thus it engulfed her as well.
"Link…" Darunia's voice sounded, and Link finally looked up to see that time had passed quickly during the journey to the Chamber of Sages. "Brother, you did a good job. What you did was hard to do, and I'm sorry for that." Little blue light flecks went up to Link, and went to his wounds. They also went around to Tessa's own wounds, and she stirred.
"So, you're the Sage of Fire, aren't you?" Link said, his voice sounded rather defeated. Darunia nodded, and for a second turned to Tessa.
"I thought I should let the girl know, that my people broke free after her and Werdon were taken from the cage. They fought against the guards, and are now back in Goron City. Before Werdon continued on, I was able to speak to him."
Tessa listened intently, as tears sprang to her eyes. She had not known that Werdon had died, but from Darunia's grave tone, it was obvious that he did.
"He told me that he hoped you could help the Hero of Time in his quest, and that he wanted to say a final goodbye to you. He said that you should not grieve over him, for he did what he knew would bring out the best outcome."
Tessa nodded, and wiped her eyes. "Thank you…"
Darunia turned his attention to Link. "Your job now is to find the water sage. I shall give this medallion to you, to help you in your quest." Darunia then tossed Link the red medallion. "Please tell my son that I love him."
End of Chappie
Well, I listened to sad music at the end to try and help me. I listened to "Mad World" by Garry Jules during the memory parts and I listened to the Choral Version of "Lilium" from Elfen Lied during the sage part. They are very good songs, and kind of fit the settings to me.
Review please! Oh, and Rhea (the shadowy figure) belongs to SouChan. I am simply borrowing her for the use of this fic. She gave me permission!