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The Legend of Zelda: Interloper of Time
Chapter 18
-Death Mountain Crater-
"This is… actually not that bad, guess that means these things actually work." Naruto said as he and Saria exited the tunnel. Both were now wearing the Goron Tunics they were given and had their masks back on, with Elia and Navi hiding in them again. His comment was towards the fact that despite it clearly being blazing hot inside the crater, he himself only felt mildly over warm instead of roasting.
Speaking of which, the area they were in was a wide-open space with a large hole leading down to a pool of lava. There were four rocky platforms, where they were currently, a platform to their left leading outside, one several feet above the exit and further left, and the last sitting on the near the middle of the crater between two spires of rock with a small path leading to a plain metal door that likely lead to the temple.
"Yeah, bigger question, how have those bridges not burned to ash?" Saria asked as she gestured to the clearly wooden bridges connecting each of the platforms. "Most likely made of some kind of retardant wood that is specifically grown that way or coated with a non-flammable protective coating." Navi poked her head out to say before pointing to the destroyed bridge that used to connect the high platform to the center platform. "Though you should be more concerned on how we're getting over there instead."
Saria quickly solve this problem by shooting an arrow with one of the fire proof ropes from the bridge into the post on the other side that the two zipped down. Landing on the center platform, the hurried towards the door and entered the temple.
-Temple of Fire-
The room they entered was... plain to put nicely, with dull stone walls, a set of crudely carved stone steps, and two more metal doors at the top to the left and right. The only real decoration was a trio of stone faces with gaping mouths full of flames and a tiki statue sitting to the bottom right of the staircase. Climbing the staircase, they picked the left door randomly.
"Darunia!" Naruto yelled as they saw the goron chief who was standing on the opposite side of a lava pit and before the biggest freaking door either of them had ever seen covered with an equally big ass lock. "Brother Naruto! Sister Saria! It is good to see that you two are well!" The muscular yet still potbellied goron called back as a small smile crossed his face before returning to a frown. "But our reunion must be cut short, Volvagia lies before this door and I must stop it."
As he spoke, the goron inserted a large key into the lock. "I wish I had found the megaton hammer before I did, but it is well hidden in this temple." "Wait for us first, we can help you fight!" Saria yelled as they looked for a way across but found none. The platforms around them were just too far to reach Darunia and Naruto wasn't good enough at wall walking to risk carrying them across.
"No sister Saria, I need to do this myself. You two must find our other brothers and sisters that are trapped here and free them. Ganondorf intends to have them sacrificed to Volvagia tonight before unleashing it against our people again." The goron stated, the door rising open behind him. "If I fail, then it is up to you two to save them. I wish you both luck."
With his piece said, the goron tossed the key at them and walked away ignoring the calls to stop and come back, the door closing and relocking itself once he was through. Naruto growled as he stuck the large key into his pouch and marched out of the room with Saria following behind him. "Stupid stubborn old rock head…" Naruto grumbled as they rushed across the tiki room and to the door on the other side.
When the door was revealed to be locked, Naruto blasted it open with a bomb and marched past the wreckage. Looking around the new room, Naruto felt his eyebrow start twitching rapidly. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me."
The room itself was massive, easily two or three hundred yards around, and once again almost the entire floor was covered in lava, only now most of the floor was shooting across the room at high speed from with jets of fire shooting out of them or rocky outcroppings that were extremely narrow, and a single door at the opposite side. And to top off this 'lovely' image, slug like creature that were on fire crawled along on every exposed surface and dozens of fire keese could be seen perched on the ceiling of the room or flapping lazily through the air.
"I'll take out the keese, you focus on the slugs." Saria told him while drawing her bow and firing a flurry of arrows at the hanging ones. "Got it," Drawing the master sword, Naruto focused his chakra into the blade until it glowed brightly and swung, releasing an arc of energy that flew out and sliced several slugs in half before dissipating.
Repeating this several times, Naruto cleared off the nearest moving platforms while Saria managed to take out half the keese before they started swarming down at them. "Duck!" Saria didn't hesitate to drop to the ground as Naruto tripled the amount of chakra he pumped into the sword, getting it to glow almost blindingly.
"YAAHH!" He yelled while spinning rapidly just as the swarm descended on them, forming a vortex of light that rapidly spread outwards and sliced the keese to ribbons. Once the light show died down, Naruto shook his head clear of the slight dizziness while Saria got back up. "I told you that would work." Naruto said with a smirk while holding out his hand. Saria just grumbled incoherently as she fished a red rupee out of her pouch and tossed it at him.
Before Naruto could further gloat about his win, Navi poked her head out of the mask and vomited. "Never… do that again… with me in here." She managed to groan out while glaring at him before vomiting again. Naruto rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish smile as the fairy finished emptying her stomach before squirming back into the mask.
Focusing back on their surroundings, the duo hopped onto the closest platform and held on tightly as it flew across the lava at high speed. When it slowed to a halt, they hopped to a small outcropping and then to a different platform as it shot past. Slicing through the fire slug that sat on it, Naruto and Saria stayed on for only a few seconds before leaping to a different platform as it went sideways.
They continued hopping to and from platforms and odd outcroppings for several minutes until they reached the other side with only a single mishap where Naruto almost fell into the lava when the ground caved under his foot… though he now had a new hairstyle to show off.
"Sheesh, why does burnt hair have to smell so badly?" Saria asked with a scrunched-up nose as she cut off the last section of torched hair with a knife. "Probably to remind us that having your hair on fire is a bad thing." Elia quipped, getting laughs from the others… until they went through the door and saw what was next.
"Oh, come on! This is getting goddesses damn ridiculous!"
Naruto, Saria, and Elia didn't show any reaction to Navi's swearing as they stared at a large tunnel going straight up. It had a destroyed stone staircase with rubble littering the intact parts, metal fencing that whole sections torn out, mangled, or outright melted, and surprise surprise more lava, this time oozing down the sides like mini waterfalls. That's not even counting the dozens more keese, magma slugs, and bipedal lizard things with swords stuffed into the area.
While the other three recovered from their stunned/annoyed states, Saria took in the surroundings with a keen eye and quickly formed a plan. "I have an idea. Naruto, give me a bomb." After being handed said explosive, Saria tied it to the tip of her arrow and lit the fuse. Aiming at the largest cluster of enemies, a swarm of keese flapping around two of those lizard things and let it fly.
Artluff was bored. He and lkiidjjf had been stuck on guard duty for three whole days now. A total waste of time in his opinion as nobody would be dumb enough to come through this deathtrap of a passage way (or so he thought). All he wanted to do right now is go kill a few innocent animals and feast on their entrails. Mmmm… entrails.
So caught up in his day dreaming, poor Artluff never noticed the smoking arrow flying towards him and his partner until it was too late.
*Boom* "Screeee!"
Monster guts went flying as the group of monsters were blown to pieces. Not giving the other baddies a moment to think, Saria set and fired another bomb arrow. This time she hit a pile of loose rubble near the top, causing a rockslide that crushed several more monsters. The last one was fired straight into the last grouping of keese, which just happened to be flying directly above them, causing it to rain bloody chunks on them.
"""…ew,""" Naruto, Navi, and Elia said dully as the former wiped a keese wing off his shoulder while Saria smiled sheepishly and unconsciously mimicking Naruto by rubbing the back of her head. Several more minutes passed as they carefully climbed up the treacherous pathway, having to constantly switch from scaling the fencing, clambering over the rubble, and taking out the handful of remaining monsters that tried to cause them trouble as they ascended.
Finally reaching the top, the duo climbed up a wall covered in more fencing that lead into a small, dark room with two doors side by side. When they started to approach them though, a soft scraping noise caused them to pause. Several tiles rose from the floor while slowly spinning, before rapidly speeding up and launching towards them.
"Naruto!" "On it!" Naruto raised his shield as Saria took cover behind him. Naruto grit his teeth as each tile crashed into his shield at a rapid pace, inching him backwards until he stuck himself down with chakra. Once the last one hit, Naruto dropped his arm with a sigh and looked at the doors with a tilted head. "Is it just me or is that door shaking?" He asked while pointing to the left door, which was indeed quivering slightly.
Also curious of this, Saria carefully approached it, only to jump back at the last second as the door fell onto where she was standing, revealing the solid wall behind it for a few seconds before it rose back up. "Okay then, how about door number two."
Being just as cautious, Naruto walked over to and opened the right door, revealing yet another large room. This one had towering walls that created a maze with large boulders rolling around in set patterns. This proved to be the easiest room by far as Saria simply had them circumvent the puzzle entirely by having Naruto wall climb up to the top with her on his back and go over the whole thing.
After running into another fake door and a couple of magma slugs, they reached the actual door, and crossed a very thin stone bridge over a chasm that lead into the room with moving platforms. Entering a room similar to the one that shot tiles at them except with only one door this time, they held up their guard and cautiously walked through the room only for nothing to happen.
Just when they were about to relax, something large, grey, and squishy landed in front of them and swallowed Naruto. "Naruto! Navi!" Saria and Elia screamed as the former shot dozens of arrows into the creature only for them to bounce off with no affect, even her super shots.
Just as they were really starting to panic, the blade of the Master Sword suddenly burst through the creature's side and sliced upwards. Releasing a gurgling groan, the monster split open, revealing a pissed Naruto and Navi… who were naked. Saria and Naruto's faces turned bright crimson as the latter stepped out of the dead monster while Elia and Navi glowed blindingly.
"How the hell did this thing take my clothes off and why do I have on odd feeling of déjà vu?" Naruto asked, making sure he was covering his crotch while fishing out his clothes from the pile of guts. "No one knows how a Like-Like removes someone's clothes, just that they do and like eating them and shields for some reason." Navi said with a grimace as Naruto handed her her slime covered dress. "And the déjà vu is probably from dealing with Lord Jabu-Jabu."
Naruto thought about that for a second before shrugging and focusing on the task at hand. Once both were dressed back up and Saria had reclaimed her arrows, Navi reluctantly dived back into Naruto's mask and they headed through the door. "Help us!" "Somebody save me!" "I'm too pretty to die!" "I want my mommy!"
The kidnapped gorons were trapped inside of a large metal cage with bars as thick as a Hylian torso. Said cage sat in the middle of a perfectly circular room with tall skinny posts littering the area and a multitude of boulders rolling all over the place. Right in front of them was a platform with four pillars and a large stone block sat in the middle, and another door was situated on the opposite side of the room.
Naruto and Saria tried to run over to them, but were cut off by flames that arose between the posts when they got close. Annoyed, Naruto tried to cut the posts down but only managed to break a few chips off. "Well, guess we have to take the long way around." Saria said as Naruto whined.
The next several minutes were filled with screaming, yelling, and no small amount of cussing as the duo navigated their way to the cage while trying not to get roasted alive. When they finally did reach the cage, Naruto and Saria were covered in minor burns and scorch marks with sweat pouring off them.
"Hey guys, we're here to bust you out!" Naruto called into the cell getting the gorons inside, two men, three women, and two children, to perk up. Seeing the large lock on the door, Naruto pulled out the last of his bombs and was about to light them when one of the female gorons spoke out. "That will not work, these bars are strong enough to withstand us gorons mighty strength and the burn of molten rock. It will be impossible to free us without the key."
*Sigh* "And let me guess, it's in there?" Saria asked with a dull look as she pointed to the unused door from earlier, then drooping as she got a nod in response. "Yes, but be warned. The leader of those wicked beasts that took us is also in there and he has committed sacrilege by wielding our greatest treasure, the Megaton Hammer." The female goron bashed her fist against the cage when she finished, getting extremely pissed as she finished speaking. "Thanks, we'll be careful." Naruto said as he and Saria went back into the fire maze.
Several more minutes of tedious navigating later, and the duo finally reached the door and found themselves in a much smaller and cooler room set like a basic arena. Standing in the middle of it was a lizard man similar to the ones they saw earlier only much more muscular and a few feet taller. It had dark black leather armor with several spikes jutting out, a pitch-black helmet with crooked horns sticking out the top, and a large hammer slung over its shoulder (for better description search General Scales from Starfox).
"Navi, Elia, get somewhere safe." Naruto said as the monster spotted them, and dangled a large key mockingly for them to see before swallowing it and giving off a hiss like laughter.
-End chapter-
AN: Hope you all like the modified version of the fire temple, I wanted to be more original with my writing instead of just going with the cannon versions of things like with the other dungeons. Thank you for reading and please review.
