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Warning: Minor amounts of blood and gore
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The Legend of Zelda: Interloper of Time
-Chapter 6-
-Entrance to Dodongo's Cavern-
"So you're here to help clear out the cavern as well? Great, we managed to clear out a small hole that you might fit through." The same goron as before said as he laid tiredly on the ground. Pointing to said hole, Naruto and Saria thanked him before heading inside.
-Dodongo's Cavern-
(Play Dodongo's Cavern Theme)
"Ugh, this is disgusting," Naruto murmured, a shiver running up his spine at the sight of various bones and charred flesh of what he hoped were monster lying on the ground. Saria nodded in agreement, gagging slightly when as she stepped over some of the burnt viscera lying around while Navi and Elia floated cautiously next to Naruto's and Saria's heads respectively while lighting the way with their natural glow.
"Be very carry when facing a dodongo, they tend to explode shortly after… dying… Wow." Navi informed them as they entered a large cavernous room. The majority of the floor was several feet below them with dark red light filtering in through the cracks. Small platforms somehow moved up and down at a set pace while there sat a large one sat between them with a weird spinning statue. Navi's wow was directed towards the absolutely massive skull set on the other side of the room directly across from them.
Quickly hopping onto the moving platform then the larger platform in the middle, Naruto and Saria headed to the one moving one to the left. *DeDeDe* *Vrwee* Hearing the odd noise coming from behind, Saria looked back, only for her eyes to widen at the sight of the odd statue staring back at them with a mechanical eye and start to glow. "Look out!" She screamed, tackling Naruto onto the descending platform as a concentrated stream of heat shot over them, grazing her arm slightly on the way down.
Dazed slightly, Naruto quickly regained awareness to see the platform rising again. Carefully grabbing Saria, he jumped back onto stable land and behind a boulder just as a second beam zipped past them and into the wall. When no more shots followed, Naruto carefully peaked out to see the statue had returned to spinning in circles. Moving back behind cover, Naruto turned to Saria and flinched at seeing the sizable burn Elia and Navi were treating on her upper arm.
Saria whimpered loudly as the two fairies' hands moved over the sensitive flesh and slowly returned it to normal. "I'm sorry," He muttered, upset he hadn't noticed the danger. "It's not-ow, It wasn't your fau-ow, fault." Saria said between clenched teeth as the last bit of burn faded away and she sighed in relief. "Look, all better now. We just need to be more careful in here." She told him, getting him to nod but still frowning.
Following this advice turned out to be for the best as they wandered around the cavern as they were attacked by baby dodongos that were underground, which like Navi warned exploded a few seconds after they died, attacked by bats that were On Fire! or Fire Keese Navi called them that destroyed Naruto's shield, and learned not to touch the large round plants because they exploded when jostled to much. "I'm picking up a bit of a recurring them here." Elia said as Saria and Naruto fought against an 'adult' Dodongo.
"I know what you mean, everything here either attacks with fire or blows up. See!" Navi agreed before pointing to the large lizard as it exhaled flames towards the two kids as the hid behind a pillar. Once the fire dimmed down, Saria popped out and struck the creature with a flash seed only for it to have no effect what-so-ever. Focusing on her, it didn't notice until too late that Naruto had snuck behind it and impaled it through the back of the neck. Quickly pulling his sword free, Naruto and Saria ducked behind cover as the body violently exploded, spraying monster guts everywhere.
"We are so going to need a bath after this." Naruto groaned as he wiped off the small amounts of blood and guts that had gotten on him, Saria nodding in agreement. Wandering around a bit more, the four paused as the room they entered had large metal boxes covered in blades moving steadily across the ground between short pillars, an old looking chest sitting atop the middle pillar. Looking to each-other and nodding, Naruto boosted Saria up the nearest pillar and then had her pull him up.
Carefully hopping pillar to pillar, Saria shooting down a few keese with her slingshot along the way, they made their way over to the chest. Finding it locked, Naruto slid his sword into the sword into the space between the lid and the bottom, pushing down with Saria's help to pry it open. "Huh, what the heck are these?" Naruto asked as he pulled out a large pouch stuffed with large black spheres, each about the size of an apple with a thin piece of rope sticking out of them.
"Those are bombs, you catch the fuse on fire and they'll explode once it runs out." Navi informed causing Naruto to freeze before a wicked grin spread across his face.
-few minutes later-
Beamos's head spun with a silent humming as it looked for intruders. It hadn't spotted anything since those two flesh bags earlier but that was fine as Beamos felt no emotion. It simply followed it's programing and looked for anything that intruded into ITS space. "Hey ugly!" Whirling around to located the source of the noise, Beamos saw those one of the two flesh bags from earlier. Charging up to destroy the intruder, Beamos was stopped as something collided with its head. Looking down, it saw a smoking black sphere, and then everything turned to white.
"Paybacks a bitch, I'm her cousin!" Naruto called, repeating a phrase he had heard from his old home in Konoha, as he looked at the now wrecked machine. "Hahaha- OW!" "Language!" Both Navi and Elia said yelled pulling on his ears, meanwhile Saria tilted her head in confusion before shrugging and decided she didn't want to know what it meant.
Once Navi and Elia finished scolding Naruto, the four of them continued to clear out the remaining dodongos they could find. A task made much easier as they discovered that the dodongos would willingly eat the lit bombs thrown at them and thus blow up.
*Boom* "I think that's the last of them." Elia said as they watched the dozen or so dodongo that day blow itself up. "Great, cause this just gross." Navi groaned as she shook off a few bits of gunk that had landed on her with a grimace. "The smell isn't helping at all either." Saria commented, the fairies agreeing as both them and the cavern now stank of dodongo guts.
"Alright! Take that you over-grown geckos! That wasn't so hard!" Naruto cheered, seemingly unaffected by the fact he was practically covered in the blueish blood and bits of the dodongos they killed, and still full of energy as they headed back towards the entrance that was slightly more open now than before.
*CRAAAAAACK* All four froze as the ground in front of them fractured while rising up. Backing away slowly, Naruto drew his sword while Saria loaded her slingshot. *CRACK* *CRASH* "GRRRAAAAAAAHHH!" "I-i-is that w-w-w-what i-i-I t-t-think it is?" Naruto asked, terror clear in his voice as an utterly MASSIVE and familiar looking reptile crawled out of the ground and roared. "K-k-king dod-do-don-go!" Navi screamed as the four ran as fast as they could.
Getting a fair distance away, they turned around to see the beast guarding the exit to the cavern, red glowing eyes staring at them angrily before it started inhaling deeply. Knowing what that meant from the smaller ones, the quartet ducked behind cover as it spat out a huge ball of fire that scorched the area.
Peeking out cautiously, Navi whimpered quietly before saying, "It's blocking the exit, and I'm pretty sure its mad at us killing its kids." The deadpan looks she got from the others just screamed 'No kidding!' "Oh goddesses, what are we going to do? What do we do?" Saria muttered in terror as she looked from the creature's rocky hide to its massive set of jaws. She knew that all their weapons would be useless against it other than…
"Naruto, how many bombs are left?" She asked while thinking up a plan, a crazy plan but still a plan. "Eight," He said pulling out the pouch and counting. "Give them to me. Now, I need you to.."
"Hey! Garlic breath! Over here!" Naruto yelled as he ran out from cover towards the exit and into the beast line of sight. Growling loudly, the beast slowly turned towards him and snapped at him. Naruto jumped back while still staying visible as the King Dodongo kept trying to bite him. Finally getting fed up with its prey dodging, the mighty lizard opened its jaws wide while inhaling deeply.
"Hey Saria! Any time now!" Naruto called over his shoulder. Saria ran out, holding the now smoking bomb bag in hand while spinning it rapidly. Once about halfway to them, she planted her feet and hurled the bag with all her strength. The bag zipped through the air and straight down the beast's gullet getting it to choke. "Go! Go! Go!" She yelled as She, Naruto, and the two fairies moved as quickly as they could past the choking beast.
It swiped at them haphazardly, but missed by a wide margin as they shot out exit. None of them had long to enjoy their freedom as a colossal explosion rocked the area and sent rocks flying. Stumbling from the explosion, Saria had no time to react as a small rock struck her in the back of the head. "Saria?!"
Naruto skidded to a halt as his best friend fell to the ground. Hurrying back to her, he was about to pick her up when he noticed a shadow falling over them. Looking up, his eyes widened in horror as a large boulder fell straight towards them.
Saria's eyes slowly flickered open as a soft groan escaped her lips. Sitting up, she winced as a sharp throbbing pain shot through the back of her head and her vision blurred slightly. "Hehe..*Ha* It's about *Huff* time you *wheeze* woke up." She heard Naruto say in a tired voice next to her. "Well sorry for…" Saria trailed off her sarcastic reply as she turned to where his voice came from.
Sweat dripped from Naruto's body and his face locked in a determined and pained look as he held a large boulder above them. His whole body shook violently as gold and blue light slowly oozed from his body while Navi and Elia swirled around him. "Saria… I don't k-k-know how much *huff* long-ger I can hold this. You n-need to *Cough* go… … … NOW!" He said, yelling the last bit when she just laid there frozen.
Jumping at his raised voice, Saria scrambled backwards a little before standing up. "H-hold on, I'll g-g-g-get help!" She stuttered while scrambling from under the rock with the fairies following her. Running as fast as her shaky legs could carry her, Saria rushed past the unconscious workers and towards goron city. 'Can't stop! Naruto needs me!' She thought while her legs burned from exhaustion and she stumbled over debris from the blast.
Seeing something ahead of her, her heart soared as she saw Darunia with a handful of other gorons coming their way. Seeing her haggard form and the lack of a certain blonde, Darunia frowned further as he rolled down to where she was. "What's happened child, where's the pipsqueak?"
"Big dodongo… explosion… trapped... boulder…" Her injuries and exhaustion finally caught up to Saria as her vision blacked out and she passed out again as the fairies tried to heal her.
Naruto grunted as he collapsed to his knee. The odd rush of strength he felt when he first caught the rock was all but spent as the odd light he'd was giving off fluttered in and out of existence. He could feel his bones starting to crack from the pressure while his muscles screamed for him to give them relief.
Despite all that though, a smile spread across his face. He made sure that Saria, Navi, and Elia made it out okay and that was all that mattered to him. Falling to his other knee, Naruto winced as he felt several fingers snap as his grip faltered slightly.
Doing his best to ignore the pain, Naruto was about to readjust his grip on the boulder only to stop when he heard sound of heavy footsteps. Moments later, relief shot through him as the boulder seemed to get many times lighter before being lifted off him altogether. Looking up, the last thing he saw was Darunia with Saria in one arm and the boulder held by the other as Elia and Navi flew towards him before everything turned black.
-Chapter End-
AN: Yes, this was a bit of a brutal chapter, but honestly, they were going up against large, exploding, fire-breathing lizards while badly underprepared. As such, serious injury or accidents were bound to happen and force them to learn from such mistakes. On the more positive side, Naruto has tapped into his and the purified nine-tail chakra for the first time and will soon be learning how to use it at will. However, to those wondering, just cause the Kyuubi's influence on its chakra is gone doesn't mean Naruto will have super OP levels of power at his disposal. Reasons being is A. his body is nowhere near developed enough to handle that kind of power, despite it being sealed in him said seal only lets a small amount of it actually into his system at a time, and B. the kyuubi is no longer there to force feed it through the seal and I highly doubt a nine year old would have the willpower to pull it out himself. Thank you for reading and please review.
