Chapter 33: Goron

I could've sworn that I had the biggest headache that i had ever had in my life. Even moving was a chore, but I managed to stand up after a while. When I did stand up, though, I found that I was off balance for some reason. I started to look around and I discovered that I was on the semi-familiar territory of Death Mountain! I began wondering why I was there of all places; I needed to head to the Gerudo Desert with the other two Links.

When I looked around, though, I couldn't find either of the other two Links. So, I started trying to walk around in order to find them, but I actually fell when I tried to do that. Fed up with being off balance, I stood up again in order to take a good look at myself. What I saw was absolutely incredible, yet impossible. My body had not only become very big and fat, but it was made purely out of rock!

I was in denial as I found out a way to walk with all of this added weight. I made my way around until I found a crystal that I could use as a mirror. When I was finally able to register what I saw, I proceeded to completely freak out! Why the heck had I been turned into a goron?! It made absolutely no sense whatsoever... except for that mask.

I sat down in order to think. The Happy Mask Salesman, the mask that he gave me, and told me to put on, the other Links. I had never seen magic used like this before, but there was a lot about the world that I still didn't know about, so I just figured that he had used some sort of foreign magic. Also, if he did this to me, then what would've happened to slave Link and future Link, who put on a deku mask and a zora mask respectively? It made me shudder to think that they might not be anywhere near me either.

I had been dropped on Death Mountain, home of the gorons, and transformed into one. It only made me wonder where the other two could have been if the both of them had been transformed like this as well. If so, then they must've been extremely lost and confused. I had to get to them!

The problem was that I didn't know where either of them were. My best guesses would've been Faron Woods (home of ALL of the forest-dwelling races) and Zora's Domain, even though they were still just guesses. After a while longer of thinking about what they would do in their respective situations, I came to the conclusion that they would at least try to get back to Hyrule Castle Town. So, I got up and started in that direction... or at least I did as soon as I had gotten my bearings.

I tried going by foot, but it felt just so abnormally slow and awkward. However, I soon remembered seeing that gorons could roll up into a ball and move pretty quickly via rolling along, so I figured that if I had really been turned into a goron, then I should've been able to do everything that a goron could. Therefore, I tried rolling... and it actually worked! It took me at LEAST twenty-four hours to get the hang of it all, but I eventually managed. However, I stopped when I came close to Kakariko Village.

I knew that I had to pass through, but I didn't want to have to face people until Hyrule Castle Town. I also knew that rolling through the village was just plain rude, so I bucked up and went to walk through the village. However, as I did so, I realized that absolutely nobody was there! I knew that that wasn't right, so I walked around for a while more, trying to figure out what happened. Unfortunately, my efforts were in vain.

Feeling the need to talk to the princess about this, I rolled up and headed out with new vigor to Hyrule Castle Town. I still didn't have the best control over this whole rolling thing, though, so it took me a couple more days (three, in an absolute total) to reach the town. I was honestly very surprised to find that, when I got there, there was absolutely no one there, either. It was getting just far too weird for me to even comprehend!

As I randomly made my way through the town, I noticed some things were getting very distorted... and not in a good way. I eventually got the sinking feeling that I needed to find the Happy Mask Salesman's booth and fast. Thankfully, I remembered exactly where it was, so I made a beeline straight for it! On my way, I figured that that would probably be where I would find the other Links and get an explanation as to exactly what was going on.

Finally, I found just the booth that I had been looking for. However, like everything else, nobody was there! I eventually found a doorway on the booth that was blocked by a curtain. This doorway no doubt lead into the back of the booth that was blocked from public view (every booth had one in this town). So, I headed inside, hoping to find at least SOMETHING.

What I found, after wandering in complete darkness for a while, was the sudden sound of some very soft drums and the appearance of three other gorons. One of them looked like an elder and another looked like a toddler, or something. However, it was the third one that was playing the drums. The toddler looked like he was sleeping and the elder looked very pleased at the sight before him as he just disappeared. I began to wonder why that had happened, but the toddler disappeared before long too.

So, it was just the other goron and me. I didn't want to interrupt his beat, though, so I just stayed quiet until he was done. As he played, the name of the song flashed in my mind as the 'Goron Lullaby'. It didn't make me sleepy, but I did feel a massive amount of calm while he played. Although, he did eventually stop.

When he did, I was about to say something, but my vision went white and I couldn't see a thing anymore. I got extremely confused before I heard a low, booming voice, presumably that of the drummer-goron, say something to me.

"If you seek my help, then I will lend you my strength... simply remove your mask." Cautiously, I did as I was told and I was very surprised to find that it came off and I soon found myself holding the goron mask that I had put on all of that time ago. After seeing that my hands were that of a hylian's again, I looked up to see the Happy Mask Salesman's booth directly in front of me, but the Happy Mask Salesman, himself, was gone. I then looked to my left and I saw slave Link holding the deku mask and looking like he was very mentally traumatized. Looking to my right, I saw future Link holding the zora mask and breathing quite heavily.

It took us a few minutes (thank the gods that there was no one else around) to recover before we all silently agreed to go straight back to Princess Zelda. After all, we had to figure out what the hell just happened and she was probably the only person who could've possibly figured it out...

Whew, that was long. In reality, they were just going through some visions, but they didn't know that. It's like when you get a tutorial level. Also, I wrote these just after playing Twilight Princess, so the layout for Zora's domain was based off of that... bear in mind that I played the gamecube version, so yeah... Please review and below is the link to the video (youtube video) of me playing a five minute long Zelda medley as a solo (yes, I was the one who arranged it) in the middle of a concert because my band teacher let me! ^o^ Enjoy!

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