Family
Chapter 242 Mountain Temple
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
On the planet Hyrule, Finn and Link's group were making their way to the next temple, the Mountain Temple, which served as the home for a group of big rock like creatures called Gorons. There were a bunch of clouds out providing a bunch of shade allowing Midna to float out and about. Midna was hanging with Phoebe, while Finn hung with Link up ahead talking about past adventures.
"So I saw the way you and Link were looking at each other, after that rescue." Said Phoebe.
"You...saw that?" Asked Midna looking a little embarrassed.
"I did and you shouldn't be embarrassed about it. I'm happy for you two." Said Phoebe.
"Alright, so I have feelings for Link and I think he has feelings for me. Now what exactly am I supposed to say and do?" Said Midna.
"Just confess how you feel, when your ready and see where that leads." Said Phoebe.
"Ok." Said Midna.
The group were making their way up the mountain, when they heard a strange voice up ahead.
"Goht!"
The ground began to rumble and shake and the heroes turned to see a large strange creature, that must have been Goht racing towards them. Goht was a large mechanical creature that resembled a goat with blue, green, and red armor. Finn and the others quickly dove to the sides to avoid being trampled as Goht raced by. Phoebe flew into the air to blast fire at the monstrosity, but Goht fired a blast of lightning at her forcing the fiery princess to fly back to avoid the attack. Goht continued on up the path.
"That creature is incredibly fast." Said Ling.
"We need to be like a beast to catch that thing." Said Finn.
This gave Midna an idea and she pulled out the shadow crystal from her mask. Midna floated over to Link with the crystal.
"What are you doing with that?" Asked Link.
"Well I'm going to turn you into a wolf, so we can catch that oversized goat. Don't worry I can turn you back." Said Midna.
"Alright do it." Said Link.
Midna pressed the crystal into Link's body and he transformed into Wolf Link. The transformed hero let out a howl and Midna hopped onto his back. The two took off after Goht. After a couple of minutes they caught up with the monster. Goht was still ahead of them, when he launched a blast of lightning from his horns at the heroes pursuing him. Wolf Link nimbly dodged the attack and continued forward, until he came across a large rock up ahead. He leaped onto the rock and then into the air above Goht. Midna changed her hair into a giant arm and smashed it down hard in the center of Goht's back! Goht shudder and sparked as Wolf Link and Midna landed to the side. The two heroes watched as Goht charged full speed into a large rock and exploded!
"Victory!" Cheered Midna as she scratched Wolf Link behind the ears.
"Nice job guys." Said Finn as he and the others caught up.
Midna got off of Wolf Link and put a hand on his back. There was a flash of shadows and Wolf Link changed back into Link. Midna placed the shadow crystal back in the dimensional storage place in her mask.
"Well that happened. Nice work Midna." Said Link.
"Thanks." Said Midna.
"You lot killed Goht." Said a voice from some rocks.
The heroes turned to see a large round humanoid creature with skin that resembled rocks. It was a Goron.
"I am Link and these are my traveling companions. We are on a mission to find something in your mountain." Said Link.
"Link the legendary hero! Well that explains how you got rid of that monster Goht. He just showed up a few weeks ago and started causing havoc by charging up and down the mountain and attacking my people for no reason. We tried stopping Goht ourselves, but he was just too fast for us." Said the Goron.
"Well I'm glad we could help." Said Link.
"There is something else you can help with. Let me take you to the others inside and they can explain the situation better." Said the Goron.
"Lead the way." Said Ling.
The Goron lead the heroes up to a large cave entrance and into the mountain. The group soon came across something that appeared to be part village and part mine. Gorons walked about pushing carts full of rocks and other minerals into buildings made of metal and stone. The Gorons cast curious glances at the newcomers. They seemed slightly mystified by Phoebe and her fiery body. The guide left the group for a little bit and returned with a trio of elder Gorons. The heroes introduced themselves and explained why they were there. The elders exchanged looks and then one of them faced the heroes and began speaking.
"You and your companions have arrived in our time of need Link. I believe we have found what you seek a few months ago, however there is a problem. While we were expanding our mine, a team of diggers came across an unusual object like none, we've never seen before. Our chieftain Darbus touched the object and it transformed his mind and body into that of a feral beast and he attacked his people. We managed to subdue the creature and chained and locked him in a chamber faraway from our village. We were unable to kill our former leader. What we ask is that you either cure Darbus of whatever has a hold of him or kill him."
"Will see what we can do. I promise will try to cure your leader, but if we...can't do that, will kill him." Said Link.
"Thank you Link." Said the elder as he handed Link some keys.
"We took to calling the creature Fyrus. It...kind of helps to not think of him as Darbus." Said one of the other elders.
The heroes were lead towards a pathway and told to follow it, until they reached they reached the massive doors that lead to the chamber Fyrus was kept in. The group began walking down the path and soon they came upon a narrow pathway several feet above a bubbling river of lava. The heroes glanced down at it and continued moving on.
"Greed, can your shield protect us from the lava if we fell in?" Asked Ling.
"It can, but I recommend avoiding any lava baths." Said Greed.
"This place kind of reminds me of the Fire Kingdom." Said Phoebe.
"Is that the name of the place you live?" Asked Midna.
"It is. I was born in the Fire Kingdom, though I spent my first years living in the Ice Kingdom. I have a home and room in both kingdoms." Said Phoebe.
"That must have been weird growing in a place of ice instead of fire." Said Midna.
"Actually no, I never thought of it as weird. I think living in a place of my polar opposite element allowed me to see that the world was much larger and had many different parts that kept everything balanced. A world needs both heat and cold to help maintain life." Said Phoebe.
"Just like light and dark." Said Link.
"Exactly." Said Phoebe.
The heroes soon came across a pair of massive iron doors. Link inserted the key, he got from the elders into a keyhole and the doors swung inwards. The heroes pulled out their weapons and entered the chamber. They found themselves in a large circular room with a few columns and in the center of the room was the creature know as Fyrus. Fyrus was a massive black beat with claws and fangs that stood about twenty feet tall. In the center of his forehead was a jewel that glowed with a faint fiery light. Fyrus had shackles and chains on his wrists and legs. The heroes approached the beast, who appeared to be sleeping. Suddenly Fyrus woke up with a roar, as he broke free from his chains.
"Looks like someone is cranky." Said Ling.
"Any ideas how to beat this guy?" Asked Phoebe as Fyrus stomped towards them.
"I say aim for that jewel." Said Midna.
Fyrus reached the heroes and swung a massive arm at them, which swung the broken chain that was still attached to his arms at the heroes. Everyone dodged out of the way and Link pulled out his bow and arrows. Link notched an arrow to his bow, took careful aim, and fired. The arrow struck the jewel on Fyrus's forehead. Fyrus roared in pain as he clutched his forehead and stumbled around the chamber. Finn and Ling saw the chains being dragged around by Fyrus legs and decided to grab them. Both heroes yanked back on the chains with all their might and this caused Fyrus to lose his balance and collapse to the ground with a crash. Fyrus laid on the ground stunned as the flames on his body went out. Phoebe and Midna decided to get involved and they attacked the jewel on Fyrus's forehand with a flaming sword and a giant arm. After a minute Fyrus regained his senses and stood up with flames igniting over his body.
"Again." Said Link as he readied his bow.
"Rinses and repeat." Said Finn.
Link hit the jewel with an arrow making Fyrus stumble around, Finn and Ling grabbed the chains making the monster lose his balance and fall to the ground, and Phoebe and Midna attacked the beast's jewel while he was down. Fyrus let out a scream as body exploded into shards of darkness and revealing a smaller form underneath that collapsed to the ground. The jewel floated in the air, shimmered, and changed shape, until it became a piece of the Fused Shadow.
"The final piece." Said Midna as she took the object and stored it in her mask.
The group then turned their attention to the figure on the ground. It was an old looking Goron with white hair, who must have been Darbus.
"Ug...where am...I?" Groaned Darbus as he stood up rubbing his head.
Link went over to Darbus and filled him in on what happened. After that was done Midna floated up to the Goron.
"I want to apologize for the trouble the artifact of my ancestors caused."
"There is no need for you to apologize young one. You did not create that artifact nor are you the one who buried it in the mountain. It was just bad luck that I found and touched it. I'm lucky that my people were able to subdue me and lock me away, until your group arrived and undid the curse that was on me. You have my thanks and gratitude." Said Darbus.
"Thank you sir." Said Midna.
"Oh isn't this sweet. You collected all the pieces." Said a voice from behind.
Everyone turned to see Ghirahim standing a few yards away from them.
"Ghirahim!" Said Link.
"The one and only. Congratulations on collecting all those Fused Shadow pieces. I'm impressed, but I can't just let you march on to the portal to the Twilight Realm, without offering some kind of challenge." Said Ghirahim before he snapped his fingers.
There was a loud cracking noise as the entire floor seemed to fall straight down a long shaft and splashed into a lake of lava. The heroes and Darbus were confused and disoriented by the fall. Ghirahim suddenly teleported over to the heroes and swatted Link and Midna to the other side of the platform with a couple of punches. Finn and the others tried to come to their aid, but Ghirahim pulled out a sword and sliced it at the ground cutting the platform in half! The two halves floated apart and Ghirahim called out.
"Oh don't worry I have a little playmate for you."
Some lava began to bubble and out bust a large red serpent like dragon, with black horns, green eyes, and a mane of fiery hair. Finn and his friends stared at the creature in wonder, while Darbus stared at it in horror.
"Its Volvagia!" He cried.
Volvagia let out a roar as he flew at the heroes and unleashed a blast of fire at them.
Over on the other half of the platform, Link was charging at Ghirahim swinging his sword at him. Ghirahim easily blocked Link's attacks with his own blade and grinned. Link doubled his efforts and at one point, he broke through Ghirahim's defenses and tried to stab the villain in the face, but Ghirahim's free arm turned solid black and he caught the blade between his fingers with some quick reflexes. Link gasped as Ghirahim shoved him back with a great deal of force that nearly knocked him onto his back. Ghirahim began to advance towards Link, but Midna charged at with a giant fist forcing him to leap back.
"Why not unleashed your ancestors powers?" Taunted Ghirahim as Midna flew at him with her giant fist.
Midna did consider using the Fused Shadow, but she unsure of it's and she thought it was unwise to use something like that in a place full of lava. The little princess continued her attack, until Ghirahim teleported behind her, yanked the mask off, and then swatted Midna over to the edge of the platform. Midna laid on the ground dazed as Ghirahim dropped the mask to the ground to continue fighting Link.
On the other half of the platform, Finn and the others were fighting Volvagia. The dragon flew around breathing fire forcing everyone except Phoebe to dodge. Phoebe flew through the flames and slammed her fist into the monster's face. Volvagia snarled in pain as he whipped his flaming hair at Phoebe and swatted her away towards the ground below.
"Phoebe!" Cried Finn as he leaped into the air and caught Phoebe in his arms before landing on the ground.
"Nice catch." Said Phoebe with a smile as Finn set her on the ground.
Ling let Greed takeover and he summoned up his full shield as Volvagia charged breathing flames at him. Greed leaped through the flames and punched the dragon in the mouth knocking several of his teeth out. Volvagia roared in pain as Finn called upon his Olympic Powers to leap into the air, and sliced the monster's face with his sword cutting off one of the horns in the process. Phoebe called upon her elemental powers and blue flames appeared on her body. She flew into the air and unleashed a powerful blast of blue flames at Volvagia. Volvagia screamed as he was hit and overwhelmed by the flames. He then exploded into dark bits!
"Incredible!" Exclaimed Darbus with amazement.
Finn, Phoebe, and Greed whooped and slapped hands.
Over on the other half of the platform Ghirahim was starting to overwhelm Link. Midna came to her senses and saw what was happening. She had to help Link! Midna had no powers without her mask. Her mask laid on the ground several yards away from the fighting. Midna considered going after it, but she didn't know if Link could hold out much longer. The princess made a decision and raced towards Link and Ghirahim. Without thinking Midna bit Ghirahim's leg.
"Aaaa! Filthy insect!" Screamed Ghirahim in pain and rage as he swatted Midna away.
Midna hit the ground with a cry and the sight sent a surge of anger through Link. His Triforce glowed brightly as he let out an angry yell and flung himself at Ghirahim with renewed energy. Ghirahim found himself being forced backwards by Link's attacks, until one powerful blow shattered his sword. Link swung his sword at Ghirahim, but he jumped away.
"Nicely done Link. I'll see you around." Said Ghirahim as he teleported away.
Link put his sword away and ran over to Midna picking her up.
"You ok?" Asked Link.
"I am." Said Midna.
The two stared at one another for a few seconds. Finally Midna spoke.
"I love you Link."
With that said Midna leaned up and kissed Link right on the lips. Link was at first surprised by this, but he returned the kiss. After a few seconds they stopped kissing and stared at one another.
"I love you too." Said Link.
"We're an odd pair. Your a handsome hero and...I'm this little ugly imp." Said Midna.
"I don't think your ugly. Outer beauty isn't everything and I can tell your beautiful on the inside. I made you a promise that I would defeat Zant and return you to your throne and original form. That promise is still true. We have all the Fused Shadow pieces, so we're another step closer in defeating Zant. Then we can spend some time together and see where this takes us." Said Link.
"You certainly know how to charm a woman." Said Midna with a smile.
Link put Midna down and she retrieved her mask. The two halves of the platform drifted close to one another and the group got back together. They eventually drifted towards some cliffs and scaled them. The group then made it back to the Goron village, where the Gorons were happy to see their leader returned and they threw a celebration praising the heroes for their heroic deeds.
To be continued.
