If walking into the fire temple alone didn't give them a bad feeling about the place, the bridge over lava did a good job of it. The first place with a bridge over lava turned out to have a lava dwelling creature that they had to fight in a room filled with lava itself and a fire breathing lizard. Case being, seeing lava was apparently not a good sign for them.
"Over here, princess..." a quiet voice called. It was familiar and yet she didn't know it well.
"Link...did you...hear that?" she mumbled back. It was bad enough that alone made her paranoid but it was worse because whatever that was was addressing her directly. He looked at her, as if she wasn't serious. Judging by her expression afterward, he simply shook his head. That did it. She officially wanted out of this cave...now...
"Zelda...please...come this way..." it called again. She turned towards the direction of the voice, seeing nothing but a huge boulder.
"...what?" he followed her line of sight, taking out a bomb and tossing it at the rock structure. As expected, it broke apart, her turning to him quickly as if he were insane. He simply tipped his head in that direction, telling her to go on with whatever was bothering her. She sighed. She didn't need any distractions. Cautiously walking over to the recently demolished site, she noticed that there was now a cave. Due to him knowing about things like these, he figured out what it was and frowned as the girl took a few steps towards the opening. "What is it?"
He just shook his head while pulling his cap over his ears on the way through the darkness. He knew what was in there and it always left his ears ringing... Now in decent lighting, she recognized the place to be the fairy fountain but that also confused her. She then shrugged it off. There didn't only have of be one of them... After stepping into the wading pool, she pulled out the ocarina and played the few keys just to be met by that shrill laughter she'd first heard in the forest. Both hylians winced at that noise.
"Hello Silent Swordsman. Princess of Hyrule. I see you have heard my call to you..." she smiled, directing her gaze towards the other female in the room. She stepped forward, like the last time and the large fairy floated down to her. This spell is one of protection...may it keep you safe. This spell is called Naryu's Love..." with another small kiss to her forehead, the information of the ancient magic flowed into her and granting her a new ability. This time since he expected it, he caught onto the girl before she fell over of her own accord. "If you grow weary, please don't hesitate to come here and let the fairies replenish you." she smiled before leaving with the outrageous laughter.
"Ugh...can they start with my ears?" she grumbled, adjusting to the dizziness better this time than the last. He shook his head, again shifting her to his back as he left the cave and went to the actual entrance of the fire temple. He stepped upon a small alter, similar to the one in the church at Hyrule Castle, and now that he thought about it also the Forest Temple, he continued walking ahead through a hall to a small room with nothing more than a downward opening and a ladder. She stared down it warily as he stood atop the opening looking at it blankly. "Please don't..."
Before she could even take into account the new found smile on his face, they were plummeting down the narrow area at high speed. As well as being dropped down goddess knows how many feet they were also plunged in darkness. Her, out of control of any of it was about to grip onto him tightly but for some reason it didn't bother her as much as falling normally would. She pondered if that was the actual reason he like jumping from high places. Without freaking out, it actually wasn't that scary and it made you feel airy as the wind rushed past. Knocked out of her thoughts by the jolt of him grabbing one of the ladder rungs, she caught onto him to steady herself as he lowered down down the last few steps. He himself was surprised to see that she was smiling when he took a look back at her.
"Don't look so surprised." she laughed, "I think I'm starting to get used to you." A partial chuckle from him along with the shake of his head as he started forward, holding her up with one hand and having his shield up with the other. As a precaution, she now had the bow and arrow ready as they looked around a new room. A staircase that led to three statues of sorts with flames in the mouth of them. Though at first he was walking casually, he instantly turned, facing a fire bat and not a second later it was shot through. "Come on, lets keep going..." she goaded playfully. Having a reaction similar to earlier on, he opened a door to the left finding someone extremely familiar on the other side.
"Who's there?" the voice bellowed from the other side. After a second or so he answered his own question. "Is that you Link?"
"Darunia?" Zelda called back over the room, leaning a bit over Link to make sure she was correct.
"And Zelda? It really is you two! As much as I'd like to talk right now I can't. There is trouble on Death Mountain again. Volvagia has returned! It demands my people as sacrifices!"
"So we've heard...but what are you doing?"
"I have to stop it! It wants to make examples out of us before moving on to the rest of Hyrule and I cannot let that happen. It would be demolished to nothing but a fiery wasteland if it gets what it wants! I will go ahead to try and seal up the evil dragon..."
"...wait, what?" she shouted back, watching his expression falter a bit. That wasn't a good sign if even he was being doubtful.
"I am a bit concerned because I don't have the legendary hammer but Link...and Zelda...I'm asking you to do this as my sworn family... While I'm trying to deal with the dragon, please save my people! The prisoners cells are in the other direction from where I'm going, I'm counting on you two..."
"Wha-wait! We can help you first then get them out!" he glanced back to her before continuing through the door. "Darunia!" and that was the last they saw of him as the door slammed shut and locked behind him. "That idiot! We're here to help him! Why's he going off on his own like that? It's extremely reckless..." he rolled his eyes and headed for the platform the rock king was forwarding to. With a running start, he barely managed to latch on to the end of the ledge, realizing he forgot to take into account her weight this time. "Speaking of reckless! Goddesses!"
She herself had also grabbed the ledge when she noticed them plummeting. All of a sudden he braced his legs against the wall and positioned himself in a slight crouch. He signaled her to climb up and instead of being stupid and asking while they hung over (yet another) pit of lava, she managed to place each foot against his shoulder and hoisted herself up, quickly going to help him up from that.
"You ok?" he looked to her, nodded and then pointed back to her. "Uh...I guess I'm fine. Let's keep going. I'm sure you can handle if I slip..." she laughed at the blank face he gave her after that. Once they got across the other two, they opened the cell that held one of the kidnapped gorons.
"Are you releasing me? Am I free to go?" it asked a bit slowly. Zelda smiled lightly with a nod. After a glance around, he leaned a bit closer. "I'll tell you a secret for saving me!"
"Really now?" she inquired. Considering it was a goron that wasn't Darunia, she slightly doubted it was actually useful information...
"In order to get to the room that Darunia went in, you have to do something about the pillar in the ceiling. Find a room that leads above the ceiling right away, ok?" and with that, he hobbled off. She blinked in actual awe that it actually told them something that they didn't know. Turning towards the blond one, she smirked.
"Shall we go?"
.-+Z.e.L.d.A+-.
"Link...do you...know how stupid...this is?" she huffed as they pushed the oversized rock over towards the ledge. Although he was slightly struggling himself, he couldn't help a small grin at her being irritated. "Ugh! Are we done yet!" she yelled, shoving the shaped rock as hard as she could. Not knowing that it was already at the end, she found herself flailing to catch herself. She was about to teeter over, she was snatched by the hood of her tunic and yanked backwards. The only thing she saw of that was the other source of red going over instead. Before she even had the chance to look down, a crimson and tan blur passed her and went up through the roof. When the block came down, he was nowhere to be seen. "Link!"
The block shot up again, fitting into the top of the room once more but this time on the way back down, her recent travel companion hopped off it casually. The girl not only freaked out at the fact she was sure he'd gotten smashed against the ceiling but also at the fact that he was so nonchalantly looking at her as if it hadn't even happened.
"Don't scare me like that!" she ordered, stomping her foot against platform the were standing on. "What the hell were you doing?" he grabbed her hand suddenly and ran for the edge that the square was pushed off of not that long ago. She looked mortified as she fell over with him while the block was coming at them at high speed. Of course they smacked into it. As they got up to the new room (that was extremely new to Zelda) he quickly got her off it since she was more than discombobulated. "What...have I told you about jumping off things? Liiiiiink..." she whined, more so at the pain from back-planting into a slab of something along the lines of marble than actually at him. He shrugged at her, pulling out one of the keys he got from saving one of those gorons. If he was correct, they saved at least three by now, which also made him wonder exactly how many was in this place to begin with...
Looking around, he began to put little pieces of the puzzle together. He climbed up the large stacks that slightly resembled stairs and killed a couple enemies along the way. As for her, she just stood there in the middle of the room, watching his movements, not exactly sure if she should follow him yet. Besides, so far, he'd usually give a signal if he wanted her to come with him but there wasn't any this time so there she'd stay. Even with her wielding the bow and arrow, that didn't exactly work against all things. Especially things like the Stalfos and the Lizalfos. They had shields to block things like that. She sighed, watching him hop over a gap and begin to push a slab down. He hopped down behind it, pushing it down into a mold in the ground that was clearly made for said brick. She stepped towards him, climbing atop it as he continued to push it. He ended up staring at her, at first in surprise then in slight amusement as she was lounged across it. It was good she didn't feel like she was in danger but really...
He climbed up with her, stepping around her and looking for where he was supposed to be going. That was quickly figured out when he saw grating for him to climb unto. With a quick start, he was able to get across easily, looking back to her just to see if she'd do the same. From her frown, he doubted she would but with a hesitant step back, she did the same not soon after. Even though she didn't fully grasp the fencing, he was able to latch onto her wrist to give her enough time to do so. He scaled his way to the top, finding more to do the same. Problem was, this one was surrounded by fire. He looked at it a bit irritated until she cut in.
"There's a switch right there. Maybe we need to hit it? It's worked so far, can't lie about that..." she mumbled, a small lining of humor in her voice. Were these places really all that simple as she put it? Digging through his bag, he thought of the few things he could hit that switch with. An arrow or a bomb or even the hookshot would work for this. He leaned over the edge and shot the switch active, taking into account the ticking of a timer. He quickly sent her a signal to go on. She was most of the way up when the fire suddenly turned back on. "Link!"
He looked even more irritated at it now than ever. Well, seeing as this was timed, new knowledge that would've been quite handy earlier, he figured that either a bomb or and arrow would be the simplest. Seeing as they needed time, a bomb was their best bet. He pulled one out, and dropped it down, heading over to the ring of fire. Zelda stared down at him from her current position. She didn't quite move on yet. Partly because he was always the one to go in a new room first because of his battle skills and the other half was her actually wondering what happened back there. The bomb soon exploded and just as fast he was up the wall and to her height in no time flat. They both stepped through the door ahead to be in a room and immediately face a...wall...
"...wow..." she looked to the left and to the right, a joint decision of the latter direction should be taken. They were taking the path against the wall until they heard a rumbling sound. " Link, run! It's behind us!" glancing back, he noted the giant heap of rock magically following them so grabbed her wrist and took off but froze after a moment of running. The one behind them was closing in but there was also one ahead. Right as he was about to consider blowing up one of them with a bomb, a sudden blue force-field was in front of him. The heaps clashed into them, a sudden yell before the girl behind him collapsed to her knees in a result of her magic fluctuating to compensate for the amount of pressure being forced on them. Suddenly, both rocks retreated in their separate directions, the barrier going down almost immediately afterward. Zelda panted heavily. That is definitely not the way to test out a new spell... Not wanting that to happen again, Link scooped up the princess and continued against the wall until he saw something like a room. Checking further at a glance, he noted it to be one of the goron prison cells. Good enough, that proved nothing would happen there. He ran over the switch, placing Zelda against the wall as the bars clambered open.
"Are you releasing me? I'll tell you a secret for saving me!" it started like all the rest. By this time, Link was staring at it blankly as it waited for a response. Was it like...a rule for all of them to say the exact same thing whenever he found one? Had they agreed on that just to work the nerves of the one going to save them? He didn't know but it seemed like it. He wondered why he was no good with most people... "In this temple, there are doors that fall down when you try to open them. When one of these doors starts to fall, move!" a mental eyeroll. Well duh... "If you use a sample of the 'goron special crop', you can break it..." and with that, the rock creature went on his merry way. The hylian half wondered if any of them truly knew where they were going because if they got locked up again, it wasn't his problem... another thing...if there was in key in the cell with the goron, why did they never try it out? That also confused him to no end but now wasn't the time to worry about that. He leaned down next to the girl, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Sorry..." she murmured, her head finally clear from the little incident. He shook his head before reaching into his bag and pulling out a little green bottle. She looked at it strangely. "What is that?" After he placed the item in her head, she quickly found what it was. "...why is it that you have a potion for everything? And this isn't even in a jar...where'd you get it?" A smile played on his face as he ushered her to drink it without knowing the answer to that. Truthfully, knowing the answer would make her never touch one of those again... Deciding to trust him, she drank down the bottle, glad that it had close to no taste, unlike the red potion. Quickly rejuvenated, she hopped up, stretching slightly then turning to him. "As long as you have more of those, I'll be fine. We can go now. Sorry for the hold up." An amused sigh from him as they continued on. Traversing the boulders, now that they knew that were there, it was relatively easy. Traversing the maze while dodging the rocks...now that...that was what was difficult. Get away from the rock, take a turn, look back, they were lost. Going the right way, boulder comes bounding out of the hall, they run away, turn around, they were lost. It was finally when they got into a roomed off area that that the rocks couldn't get through, they finally got out to there. Through a door and down a mined hall. Upon getting in there, they found...
"Are you releasing me? Let me tell you a secret as a reward for saving me!" they both cursed in their heads that time. Just say the damn secret already... "When you are on fire, you can put it out by swinging your sword, or by rolling around... Did you know that?" all he got was an irritated stare from the both of them.
"Why would we even be on fire?" she countered. The stone creature simply shrugged and left out the way they came in. That's when something came to her attention. "There's no exit here so...we have to go out there...again..." he simply pinched the bridge of his nose after collecting the small key and began walking back towards their current hell... Thankfully for them, the door they needed was only a small walk away, they got inside quickly just to find themselves over a narrow path that dropped to hell... meaning the first floor of the place. The path itself wasn't a problem, it was the height that scared the bejesus out of the princess. He noted a locked door across the way and pulled her along so even if she did trip of sheer paranoia, nothing would happen. One locked door and one small key equals the obvious way to go, right?
Not really, since something would scare the girl just as much on the other side. It was fine...ish...at first. They had to walk over a narrow path surrounded by lava. That fact, she was getting used to. Jumping across said lava, she was getting used to. Being chased by a flame wall with monsters popping out at you, she was not used to. And to get across half of the room she had to either grab onto the swordsman or be thrown by him. At that point, she didn't care. She might yell at him later but for now, she didn't care. As soon as they got to the room after that, she groaned. It was the hell room, one floor up. If they fell, guess whaaaaat...
"I hate this freaking temple!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. Although he was in the same boat, he couldn't help but be amused. That girl had a short fuse of patience and it was already dead and gone. Shooting the torch slug then hopping over to finish off the now flameless creature, he beckoned her over. This sort of thing was starting to become a usual with them because of her desire to do things herself. She followed fine at first as he continued his 'shoot-jump-kill' method on the torch slugs. It was when he stepped on a switch that a rumbling sound went off behind her and she lost her balance.
She landed at the bottom, hissing at the pain of impact. She felt as if she couldn't move at the moment, even her head hurt to lift. Suddenly, something flashed right in front of her eyes. Realizing it was metal, she grabbed onto it, hearing a click as soon as she did it. She was yanked up and backwards, to her surprise right out of the way of a potential death boulder as she crashed into the holder of the hookshot yet again. She stayed like that for a moment, she still felt as if she was recovering from the first fall in the first place. She looked up after getting her breath back to see him staring dead at her. With a heavy exhale, she simply answered:
"Sorry." A questioning glance from him. "For causing you trouble. For being a pain to look after...for not getting up right away. I'm just kinda tired right now..." she murmured, scooting off him and leaning against the wall. He nodded, again pulling out something from his bag and placing it next to her before hopping off to talk to the goron he just set free from its cage. She sighed. Her stamina really needed to be worked on. She then frowned and pointed out to herself that the magic is what was throwing her off, she had to be sure to work on that. She still hadn't fully recovered from that earlier accident and her falling off the ledge didn't exactly help either. Now she was tired in both departments. As she watch the man run and jump from platform to platform, she frowned. "Showoff..."
Link on the other hand, actually not hearing that comment kept on what he was doing. He'd be sure to signal her to come along if they needed to head for the next room. Getting to a specific area, he saw an area with a long strip of grating going down the wall. Of course, being him, he didn't climb. Jumping down and grabbing onto the last area of wall, he found another goron down there, again telling him a half useful, half useless hint about the place they were in.
"Link..." the princess called after he hadn't come up for a while. Sure, he could handle himself if he were actually in danger but even if he wasn't, she wouldn't know if there was a chance to help him or not. She blinked. "What did he leave anyway..." glancing beside her she saw two bottles. One of a green liquid and one of a red. Should she really be taking these together crossed her mind for a moment before she ignored it and drank some of the red potion down, instantly wincing. That taste would never grow on her. She then gulped down the small green bottle, satisfied that it took the other flavor away and she began to head towards the other hylian's last known location. Right as she got there and looked down, she saw him climbing up, slightly surprised to see her there. "Hi! Those potions really do do the trick." after getting back up there completely, he just shook his head with a small smile on his face as they continued onwards.
.-+Z.e.L.d.A+-.
After going back through the 'flame chase room they ended up in a room that looked relatively empty, but was it? Nooo...it had flame walls that led to Zelda making a joke on Link saying "Well, now we know why he'd think we'd catch on fire, huh?" after the male hylian had hit quite the couple of flamed walls. Then they had to fight a fire dancer. That wasn't too hard until they figured out to have her use bombs and him to swing at it next. Then they got to a room like before. Hit the switch and climb the wall while the fire was down, uh-huh, ok. The next room though...
"I'm not doing this..." he scratched the back of his head at her. Sighing, he pointed at a switch and started up the path. When he was halfway up it, she stepped on it out of idle curiousity, figuring it did what the majority of them did in this temple. Well apparently not because when she did it, a ring of fire disappeared from around one of those rather heafty treasure chests. And he actually was heading for it. "Go faster!"
He looked at her, saw where she was pointing and ran for it. Quickly killing the bat, he flung the chest open to find...a rather odd hammer. It had a bit of weight and it seemed a bit odd. Maybe he'd have to see if it was all that different. She couldn't tell what it was until he got back down there and her face changed to something unreadable.
"I've been wondering...who exactly leaves these things here? Keys, items...fairies and how do all these monsters just live with no food?" his answer to all that was nothing but a shrug. It wasn't his business to know these things, just to get whatever was needed done. He tossed the weapon up and down before looking for something to try it out on. Things always tend to work out that way so he decided to actually seek it out this time. Noticing a piece of the floor out of place, he figured 'why not' and went over to it. She just watched him, wondering what he was up to. She was smart but weapons weren't her thing so she'd just sit this one out.
He raised the hammer over his head and slammed it down. Now, the normal person would think 'Little hammer + regular man + stone flooring = Not happening'. Well, this turned out to be the complete opposite. He barely put any strength into it, even Zelda could see that. Even with that, it went plummeting to the next floor. Even being the one that did it, Link was surprised. Now ever more curious on how the hammer worked, he hopped down to see if there was anything else to knock around. Funnily enough, it was. A statue blocking the door. As he whacked it sideways the first time he heard her land behind him.
"Stop that!" even with her fussing, again, he had that amused smile on his face. He handed her the hammer and pointed at the head of the statue. "And why should I do this?" He pointed at himself then held up his hand. "...I know I told you to stop but I thought you were just whacking things." a playful scoff from him as she stepped up to bat. Swinging, she sent the head flying, the doorway now accessible to them. "Huh...that is kinda fun..." Taking that as a clue of 'you're not getting this back so soon, he went through the door, finding a rather empty room. A couple boxes, a stump of some sort and an area of the floor that was lower than others. Grabbing one of the boxes, since there was two he'd probably get her to get the other one, he walked in the depressed area of the floor. There might be a switch to put the box in or something...
She on the other hand, looked around in her own manner of thinking. From what all they hit so far, all of them seemed to have some sort of face on it. So that is what she decided to look for. Nothing on the walls, nothing on the floor but it seemed that there was a face on the random stack in the middle of the room. She hauled back and slammed it, the floor dropping suddenly afterwards, taking the male for a surprise ride.
"Oh dear goddesses, are you ok?" she shouted down. Oddly enough, the floor fell into what looked like giant steps. He was at the end of them, groaning before glaring at her. "Sorry..." he sighed to himself as she came down to join him. He placed the box on a switch and the bars rose from the door, giving them access. "You've encountered something like this before?" Not wanting to remember the situation the answer to that came with, he just went into the next area with her tagging along. The first thing that was noticed was another block in the floor. He put her on it and stood next to her. With a small giggle, she hit that and everything went to the next lower level.
Once they got there, a switch they couldn't weigh down earlier on was hit with it and a couple more things in the next room. She seemed to be having fun with it so he just left her alone. Then they went through a door to be faced with a...gap and a blue stone. He blinked, heading over to Zelda and going into her waistbag.
"W-what are you doing?" she know he didn't mean anything by it. Of course he didn't, he just wanted something from her- rephrasing that. He wanted something out of her bag. But with him kneeling in front of her and the hand placed on her hip to keep her still, her mind was drifting just a tad and a tad too much for her. Her inquiry was answered when he held up the ocarina though and before she could even ask why he was across the gap and standing in front of the odd block. Taking in a small breath, he played a few notes that caused the strange rock to glow and all but suddenly it teleported to the floor underneath. "W-What? What did you do?"
Ignoring her for a moment, he noted that this switch obviously needed that bit of umph to get it down so with a quick round trip he got the Megaton Hammer from her and was back again to smash it. Of course it freed a goron...
"Are you-"
"Yes. Just tell us." the princess cut off, knowing what was coming. The creature looked at her oddly and then just went to continue on with his statement.
"A door is hidden inside the statue at the entrance to this temple. But the Goron 'special crop' won't work on it... Don't you have anything stronger?" both hylians glanced to the hammer across Link's shoulder as a knowing smirk crossed their faces. Looks like more smashing to do. As the goron walked out they looked at the expected chest behind him.
"Get the key and let's go." she laughed, following the path back out. He was soon to join her, although, kicking the chests were really starting to hurt his foot... Anyway, they took the new path the sun stone gave them to get back up to the previous room. That was when she noticed something. "Hey Link...we missed one..." she pointed to faced block inside of a square platform. "Come on, you have the hammer. Get on and let's hit it!"
That last statement was the worst thing she could've asked for at the moment. The instant it left the holding they dropped. A long, antagonizing drop that seemed almost to never end. By the time the block floated in the lava at the end of it Link was subjugated to the longest string of curses from a female that he'd ever received. But again, it was too amusing to take seriously and he ended up chuckling to himself as they got off. She asked for it anyway. After calming down...
"Hey...weren't we in here before? If I remember correctly..." she climbed up the small feat and opened the door just to turn around. "We're back at the beginning...the dead beginning...dear Nayru...my mind is just withering in here... and we are never taking that shortcut again." she enforced the last part as they began to walk down unto the original entrance. "So...there was something about a statue, right?"
After a quick look, he noticed it and headed over to it. It took three hits to get this one from blocking the path. He took out the key and unlocked the next door leading to a room of four torch slugs and a fire keese. He tossed the hammer to her but she failed to catch it leading to a shockwave through the floor. To their surprise, the slugs flipped over, putting out the flames and rendering them helpless. After shooting down the bat she simply laughed.
"The more you know..." a small scoff accompanied by a smirk and the warrior was already going to begin finishing them off and with that, the door opened. Walking through a new door, all they saw was a Likelike in the distance, shaking and girating as it usually does. "...what is that?" she was about to take a step towards the door when he suddenly jumped in front of her, blocking something that shattered against the Hylian shield. Looking again she saw that...the floor tiles were flying at them...what? A total of five and it was finally done.
Ignoring the gel like creature they headed to the next room to find...a fire dancer. Having enough of this, Link resorted to an unorthodox method. He pulled out the hookshot and fired, taking the little core creature out and after it was in range he just full out pummeled it. What happened before was enough to keep him pissed off at the thing, whether it was a different one or not. Anywho, they proceeded into another room to find yet another goron.
"How many of you are there here? I mean, it feels like over twenty!" she yelled at it before Link went to step on the switch. The creature simply tilted its head, just as confused as he was. He was about to speak but she cut him off. "If you dare ask if we're freeing you, I'll let you stay in there." he shook his head so Zelda turned to tell Link it could be opened but she was met with a highly amused expression. "I. Am. Freaking. Annoyed." she huffed, throwing up her hands and walking away, stomping on the switch as she did so. The warrior instead listened to the goron.
"Just...please help big brother!" and with that, he left. If he said that then they could probably finally get in the room that Darunia blocked them off from. Hopefully he was still fine in there. As they got back to the door, they looked to each other, sword and shield in battling position and the princess holding on the Megaton Hammer, they headed inside.
When they got in there, nothing seemed so out of the ordinary. A single path leading to a hardened lava coked platform with holes where it wouldn't cool. When they got on the said area though, it began to float into the air, the two backing to the middle because of it. A sudden screech rang out, catching their attention as a fiery dragon came out, flying in the air around them before diving with a stream of fire breath at them and returning into the hole he flew out of. Well, he certainly wasn't happy.
Catching onto his movement, Zelda circled around in the opposite direction Link did, both on different sides of the specific hole it had just gone into. Flames instead began to come out of a different one, the swordsman heading to it quickly to try and fend it off. No matter how much he swung, the sword didn't make a difference on the armor it had on its head. Just as he drew back to attempt again, the hammering blow came out of nowhere, dizzying the creature. Since the plating was cracked he could strike at it with a sword, doing so continuously. The dragon flailed furiously, knocking the warrior into the princess before retreating into the magma.
Standing her up quickly, he gave her an appreciative nod before trying to spot the new location of Volvogia. It was a quick find as the flames danced upon the new location. Instead of just peeking out, he took to the skies once more. Noting by now that the weakpoint was the underside of his head, they both pulled out bows and arrows to shoot at him until he returned back the its underground lair. Again, the flames appeared and right as he stuck his head out, she swung, the other swinging not too soon after. It flailed once again, slinking down into to place he'd come out of. Not soon after, he flew out again, screaming as if in pain. They both watched as the dragon tried to put the flames off itself but instead burning to a crisp.
"Must've taken too much damage..." she murmured as they watched the last toils of its life pass and it came to the ground with a thud, nothing but a spine and crusted skull. That ever familiar blue light soon came up as well. "The way out. Well, come on..." she took one last look at it before stepping into the azure shine...
"Thank you, Brother and Sister! I really appreciate what you did. I thank you on behalf of the entire Goron race!" she opened her eyes to find herself in the blue room again, this time facing the red pedestal and Darunia was standing upon this one. "You turned out to be a real man brother, and you a class warrior yourself Sister, just as I thought you would! By the way, I, the wild Darunia, turned out to be the great Sage of Fire... Isn't that funny?"
"A surprise, believe me but I am starting to see a pattern..." she mumbled, putting her hand up to her chin in a thought process.
"Well, this must be what they call destiny. Nothing has made me happier than helping you seal the evil here! Hey, Sister, take this! This is a Medallion the contains the power of the fire spirits—and my friendship."
"Uh...Darunia was it?" a sudden voice came. They both turned to see Saria standing upon the green medallion. "Can I see that real quick?"
"...what for? I have not yet presented it to Sister."
"That's kinda the thing. Zelda, if you wouldn't mind. The bracelet?"
"Oh!" she held out her arm, the accented jewelery showing from underneath the long shirt underneath her tunic. He looked at it for a moment before allowing the green haired girl to influence it into a charm with magic that was a second later added unto the bracelet as well.
"There you go! Sorry about that. And with that, I'll see you sometime later ok?"
"Yeah. See ya Saria." and with that, she was gone just as quick as she appeared. The princess then looked to the goron king, who simply smiled at her cheekily and with a small wave, the room began to fade as she heard the last few words from him.
"Don't forget... Now you and I are true family!" something in her sighed at that but she just accepted it. Now the Hyrule and Gorons had an even closer tie with each other and that was never a bad thing. When the white faded out she found that she was sent to the Death Mountain Crater.
"The closest thing I can think of is...the fairy fountain! Right!" she looked to the asleep hylian at her feet and then huffed. "This might take a minute..."
A/N: OHMIGOD lol sorry for taking so long. It seems like my writer's block is heavy and doesn't want to leave. But I'm pushing it away slowly. I have so many sonadow story ideas in my head its ridiculous. Well hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and look forward to the next!
~Ruru out