Chapter 5: The Great Lizard     Chapter 6: The Realm of Music

Dodongo’s Cavern is boring gameplay, but the description actually isn’t as bad as some I did.

“There’s the boss, I think,” she whispered. Link came to stand beside her. He saw a vast cavern with fresh lava flows running through it to expire in heaps of dust. Across from him was a huge skull, rather wolf-like in appearance. The height of the great cavern was held up by pillars of rock that seemed like ribs. Link brightened as he looked around. This was adventure; this was what he had been born for.
Rana, on the other hand, seemed a bit freaked for being in a cave with a giant skull in it.
“That’s not the boss, silly kitten,” Link said tolerantly. “That’s just decoration.”
“Oh,” she said doubtfully.
They walked slowly through the hot cave, but were inspired to dash by some Beamos.
“Stupid things!” cried Navi as an azure beam shot past her wings.
“Hey,” said Naeri.
“What is it, Naeri?” asked Rana affectionately.
“This wall right here looks like the wall that we blew up in the antechamber.”
“You’re right! Link?”
Link ran with a bomb flower’s fruit past a Beamos to plant it beside the door. It blew in. Rana giggled, and ran back and forth past the Beamos with more bombs, planting them all down the wall, and several more doorways appeared. One simply led to an alcove with a map of the cavern in it. Rana also tried setting a bomb by the Beamos. Its head exploded.
“Okay, map memorized,” said the fairies together. Link could make no sense out of the carving in the alcove, but Navi projected a cleaned up colour-coded version into his mind. He nodded. Continue reading →

Chapter 4: To the Mountain      Bonus Chapter: Dodongo’s Cavern      Chapter 6: The Realm of Music

Chapter 5: The Great Lizard

In the morning, they ran back through the tunnel in the Lost Woods, studiously ignoring Mido who was studiously ignoring them.
Back in Goron City, and down long flights of stairs, they came to the bottom of the city. Link looked around and saw a closed door with the Triforce surrounded by strange, Goronish symbols. He knocked, and wrung his hand.
“Stone door,” he explained. No one opened the door, so Link pulled out his Ocarina and played Zelda’s Lullaby on it.
All the Gorons nearby stopped what they were doing and looked at the children. They stared even more when the door opened and they ran inside.
A strong, old Goron with a white beard stood in a barely furnished chamber with a statue in the back of it. When he saw Link and Rana, he looked as shocked as an impervious Goran face can get.
“What the heck? Who are you?! When I heard the song of the Royal Family, I expected some messenger had arrived, but… You? You’re just kids!” Rana looked indignant, but Link stood calmly. However, as soon as he opened his mouth, the Goron shook his head and continued. “Has Darunia, the big boss of the Gorons, really lost so much status to be treated like this by his Sworn Brother, the King? Yes, that’s it! That makes me REALLY angry! Go away now!” Continue reading →

Chapter 3: The Princess’s Premonition      Chapter 5: The Great Lizard

Chapter 4: To the Mountain

Link jumped back as if the gaze had scalded him, and indeed he felt it had pierced his mind. He glanced at the man again, and saw that he had turned away from the window, his stance politely apologetic.
“What happened?” Rana asked.
“I don’t know,” Link replied. “He is evil, I can tell that much from his eyes, but what does it all mean? The Great Deku Tree said that a man named Ganondorf wanted the stone, and that was why it died. Is Ganondorf one of this man’s servants?”
“No, that is Ganondorf. He is the hidden root that is bringing the evil back to Hyrule. I can feel it. Wait, th-the Deku Tree is dead?”
“Yes… there was a poisonous spider eating at the roots.”
“That is serious. We’ll need to move quickly to counter him. I wish my father would believe me when I tell him he’s up to no good. Peace treaty indeed!”
“But what is he after?” Rana asked impatiently.
“I’m so sorry. I keep forgetting… Um… Rana, wasn’t it? I believe Ganondorf is after the Triforce.”
“Really?” Rana gasped. “But it’s impossible to find it, because it’s in the Golden World.”
“That’s true, but Ganondorf is after it all the same.”
“How annoying. What do we do?” Navi asked.
Zelda laughed at the fairy. “We need to try and warn the other holders of the Spiritual Stones. One is the Goron Elder and the other is someone in the Zoran Royal Family. Have you ever met a Goron or a Zora?” Continue reading →