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Chapter 6: Dodongo's Cavern

The Goron child, whose name was Honro, led Zelda and Navi out of the city and to a nearby ledge that overlooked the entrance to Dodongo's Cavern. Zelda looked over the edge and was confused; "I don't see any caves from here."

Honro rolled his eyes and groaned, "That's because Dodongo's Cavern is blocked by a bolder!"

Zelda let out an 'oooh' and looked down again, "So how do we unblock it?"

Honro shrugged, not knowing himself. Zelda looked around and saw a strange looking plant. She tilted her head in confusion before she asked Navi what it was. Navi looked over the plant and said her next words deviously, "Something we could use."

Honro looked over and gasped, "That's a bomb flower! The fairy is right, we can use it to blow up the boulder!"

Zelda was about to pick it before Navi slapped her hand, "You have to be ready to throw it to the boulder when you toss it, or else we're gonna explode!"

Zelda never heard the term before; in fact she heard nothing of explosives before. Going along with her innocence she asked, "Explode?"

Navi sighed, "Injured,"

Zelda let out another 'ooh' then moved away from the bomb flower, trying to picture what it could do. Navi then hit Zelda, "It won't explode if you don't pick it."

Zelda rubbed where she was hit and let out a tiny tear before she looked back at the unpicked plant. She then turned to Honro and asked, "You wanna do it?"

Honro narrowed his eyes, "What's the matter, you scared?"

Zelda was caught off guard by this insult, "N-No I'm not!"

Honro crossed his arms, "Then do it!"

Zelda was furious and desired to prove him wrong, so she groaned and picked the bomb flower and threw it over the edge. Navi was shocked that Zelda was able to pick the plant so easily; the flower is usually a few pounds or so and is only able to be picked by strong Hylians or Gorons. Honro and Zelda looked over the edge to see that the bomb landed right in front of the boulder and watched as it exploded and broke the boulder into smaller rocks.

"Whoa! Nice throw!" Honro said in awe, then looked over at Zelda's smiling face and narrowed his eyes, "er- for a non-Goron!"

Zelda's smile descended into a frown as she groaned at Honro's last part of his comment, "Let's just go."

It took them a while but they finally made it to the entrance to the cavern. Zelda looked into the darkness and felt the soft, heated air come from the cavern. Navi sat atop her head, eyes focused on the cavern alone, "Be careful Zelda. You never know what can lie in a dark cave."

Honro let out a small chuckle of success, "Nothing a non-scaredy cat can't handle!"

Zelda narrowed her eyes and smiled wickedly, suddenly finding a way to finally return the favor to Honro, "Then you go first."

Honro became stiff then turned to Zelda, "N-no, l-lady's first!"

Zelda tipped her head, "What's a lady?"

Honro then sighed and dead panned, "Never mind,"

He then slowly proceeded into the cave with Zelda and Navi following close behind him. Navi's glow slightly illuminated the cave, but not enough to truly see something without being a foot or so from it. The group saw nothing but rock until they could barely see the entrance of the cavern. Zelda was the first to notice it in Navi's light, "Hey, what's this?"

Honro stopped walking and turned back to the hylian girl, "what'd you find?"

Zelda crouched over the object in question, "It looks like a bag."

Zelda opened the back as Navi and Honro came closer to her in order to observe what Zelda found. When the bag opened Zelda pulled out a round object nearly the size of Zelda's head with a small string sticking out of it, "What is it?"

Honro stated nonchalantly, "Just a sack of bombs."

Zelda looked towards Honro, "Bombs?"

Honro rolled his eyes and the clueless girl, "Kinda like bomb flowers but they need fire to explode, light the string and once the string is gone it explodes."

Navi turned to Zelda, "Empty the bag into the backpack, we never know when we'll need bombs."

Zelda nodded and did as told as Honro laughed, "you'll never fit all of them in there!"
Once Zelda was done with he task Honro blinked, "How'd you fit them all?"
Zelda extended the open backpack forward, "See for yourself."

Honro reluctantly leaned towards the open backpack to gaze within; what he saw was nothing like he'd seen before, objects floating in the seemingly endless sack. He leaned in more to see if it was a trick but was stopped by Zelda, "Don't fall in, we don't know what happens to living things."

Navi huffed, "I still think the person would be stuck until someone got them out; it'd be a prison."

Honro immediately backed away from the backpack and glared at Zelda, "Let's continue,"

Zelda blinked in confusion, looked at Navi for a second, then closed the backpack so she could carry it as they journeyed deeper into the caverns.

The group soon found themselves in complete darkness, so much so that Zelda wanted Navi to sit on her head so she could still see. Navi complied, giving the excuse that her wings were tired anyway. Honro also remained closer to Zelda, trying to pierce the darkness, "It's strange,"

Zelda spoke with curiosity, "What is?"

Honro stopped walking, "This place is suppose to be filled with dodongos, but we haven't seen one."

Navi narrowed her eyes, "That is strange,"

The three of them immediately stopped and looked at each other, trying to figure this out. They were silent in thought until they heard a low growl from up ahead. Zelda jumped and fell down with a start at the sound of the growl, causing Navi to fall off her head and flutter above her. Unknown to Zelda, Honro also jumped at the sound and was very slightly shaking during the time she was on the ground. Honro gulped and turned to Zelda, "They… they must all be up ahead."

Zelda, though scared, saw this as another opportunity, "You scared?"

Honro was angered so he accidently shouted, "This isn't the time for that!"

Navi was about to hit Zelda when she realized Honro yelled, "Oh no."

Honro realized what he did and covered his mouth as they heard the echo of his last sentence bounce deeper into the cave. After his words could no longer be heard, they heard the same low growl and the sounds of heavy footsteps come towards them. Honro looked around his feet franticly as if he was looking for something. Zelda was frozen, looking towards the darkness ahead of them in order to see what was coming. Honro finally turned to Zelda and spoke, "Get those bombs out!"
Zelda looked confused, "Why?"

Honro groaned, "Just do it!"

Zelda complied and with groan and pulled out two bombs which were swiped from her by Honro as soon as she stood up with them in her arms. As soon as Honro turned around they saw a giant green lizard coming straight for them at a fast rate. Honro then spoke, "Fairy! Touch the string!"

Navi wasn't amused, "I have a name! It's Navi!"

However she complied and as soon as she touched it, the string had a spark, as if the string had been touched by fire. The dodongo roared when it was near the group, but as soon as it started to roar Honro threw the bomb into it's mouth and the group heard the dodongo swallow the bomb. They then heard a noise from inside the dodongo and it started to emit smoke from its mouth and was in a slight daze. Honro then readied the other bomb, "Quick! Do it again!"

Navi, though still confused, complied and watched as the same actions repeated only this time after the explosion took place they saw the dodongo collapse and cease to move. Honro slowly fell to the ground, landing on his backside, "I can't believe that worked."

Navi was stunned, "You tried to do something that you didn't know would work?"

Honro sighed, "I heard this rumor that when a fairy touches the string of a bomb with some kind of emotion, the touch is like fire and the string ignites."

Zelda blinked, "Navi, can you create fire in your hands?"

Navi laughed, "Zelda, it's a little thing called magic, and if your thinking of having me help you in battle don't bother, my fire isn't strong enough to damage enemies. I've tried."

Zelda accepted this explanation and was glad that now she had a way to light the bombs she had on a whim, with Navi's help that is, "So are we going to find more of these… things?"

Honro was not amused, "it's a dodongo, and yes this is what our leader wanted you to get rid of."

Zelda stiffened up, realizing what she was up against, and gulped; she was scared again. Honro seemed to be scared but was hiding it better than Zelda, "L-let's get going! The sooner we do this, the sooner we get out of this cave and the sooner my people won't starve!"

Being reminded of why she needed to clear the caverns, she felt revitalized and raring to press on, for the sake of the Goron people. Navi noticed this determination and expressed a small smile of pride; she knew this courage was from all she's done so far.

Zelda and Honro fought many more dodongos as they traveled deeper into the cave. Zelda noticed it was getting hotter and hotter, getting to the point where she couldn't bear the heat. This caused her to slowly trek behind Honro and sweat bullets. This confused Honro so he decided to stop and investigate, "Are you tired or something?"

Zelda panted before she stopped in front of Honro, "No, it's just really hot."

Honro then remembered something important, "Oh! Your people can't stand the heat we gorons can!"

Zelda nodded, trying to bear the current heat. Navi then spoke, "If Zelda and I go much farther, we might die from this heat!"

Honro then sighed, "There's still more dodongos! We haven't even seen the king dodongo!"

Zelda blinked, "King dodongo?"

Honro nodded, "It's just a giant dodongo."

Zelda stepped back, "H-how big?"

Honro shrugged, slightly shaking "n-never seen one."

Zelda then fell to the ground behind her in shock, hoping to calm herself down. Unfortunately the rocks behind her were weak and crumbled bellow her causing her to fall. Honro and Navi called out her name as she screamed and fell to the cavern bellow. She landed on something green and scaly and slid down towards the front of it, a giant dodongo that could most likely devour Zelda in a single gulp. As she slid down she heard an irritated growl and felt the beast move before she fell of and hit the heated ground. The heat from above was a soft wind compared to the heat she felt in the cavern bellow due to the fact that the majority of the room was lava, surrounded by a ring of land she and the giant dodongo could easily walk on. She got up and wiped the sweat off her brow before she heard another low growl from behind her. She turned towards the growl to see the giant dodongo glaring at her and as if on instinct she drew her sword and the Deku shield as Navi comes to her side, "We found the king dodongo."

Zelda nods before they feel the dodongo's roar trying to blow them back, "and he's mad!"

The king dodongo then charged Zelda in rage, to which Zelda ran away as she was unsure what to do. Navi flew beside her as she ran, "Why are you running! You know how to beat this thing! It's just a big dodongo!"

Zelda realized Navi was right and quickly took out a bomb, "Then light them up as they come out!"

Navi nodded before Zelda stopped, turned around and put the bomb over her head as if she was about to throw it. Navi touched the string of the bomb and the string ignited. As Navi was lighting the string, the king dodongo stopped and inhaled, preparing to use it's fire breath. Zelda saw this as the opportunity to throw the bomb and did so. The king dodongo swallow the bomb and felt it explode in it's stomach causing it shock and fell down in a daze, not sure how much it had been damaged. Zelda used this opportunity to run up to the king dodongo and slash it, not doing much damage as she had hoped; after a couple of slashes the king dodongo stood up and curled itself into a ball and started to roll towards Zelda. Zelda saw this and moved to the side, out of the way of the rolling dodongo, which then rolled into a wall, now aware that it missed it's target. It turned around after it hit the wall, taking no damage, and charged towards her. Zelda then ran away again and got out a bomb, "Here we go again!"

Navi lit the string and Zelda stood firmly in place, waiting for its mouth to open. The same thing as before happened until after the dodongo turned back to Zelda after it's rolling stopped. It roared and then charged at her, to which Zelda ran away again until she took out a bomb, only this time she tripped on a rock and the bomb she was going to use rolled away from her. Navi noticed this and gasped, "Zelda! Get up now!"

Zelda heard the rumbling stop behind her and felt a shadow over her. She turned over to see the king dodongo looking down on her, licking it's lips; Zelda now feared the worst. She saw the king dodongo's jaw closing in on her so she got out the deku shield and attempted to use it as a pry, but all it did was give the king dodongo something other than Zelda to latch onto; the king dodongo closed it's teeth past the deku shield onto Zelda's hands, tearing off skin from the sides as they were luckily not pierced. Zelda screamed in pain before she let go when the dodongo opened it's mouth again to toss the shield up and swallow it, which was intended for it's owner. Zelda landed on the ground, trying not to think of the pain in her hands. Navi then tried to get her to move, "Zelda! WATCH OUT!"

Zelda looked up to see the king dodongo attempting the same thing again, but Zelda took out a bomb instead of her sword before the jaws drew in and covered her. Navi cried her companion's name in fright before she saw Zelda hanging onto the king dodongo's teeth with one arm and the bomb in the other. Zelda was looked straight at Navi, frightened. Navi quickly realized what Zelda wanted her to do and quickly flew into the king dodongo's mouth and lit the bomb. Zelda let go of the bomb and watched as it went down the king dodongo's throat, as she soon would if she didn't hang on. Zelda noticed the jaws of the king dodongo closing in dismay, was it the end? The bomb disrupted her thoughts, the force of it throwing Zelda out of the king dodongo's mouth and into a nearby stonewall. Her back, head, and hands were bleeding and her eyesight was fading, her last sight was the dodongo falling to the ground with eyes closed and Navi flying up to her crying out her name in extreme worry.