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 →

Chapter 2: The Great Arachnid      Chapter 4: To the Mountain

Chapter 3: The Princess’s Premonition

Link and Rana made Hyrule Castle Town in about eight hours, which was dusk, by rushing. They were both completely exhausted. It was nine in the evening, and they entered just before the bridge was raised. Link looked around for a healer’s place. The wound in Rana’s shoulder had turned black. She was very pale and wanted very much to stop and rest.
“There!” cried Link, hurrying Rana towards a two story building on the edge of the town square.
“Hello there,” said the fairly young woman inside, smiling at the two children. Link did not waste time.
“My friend is hurt, badly,” he said quickly.
“I’m not that bad,” Rana objected weakly. The woman’s expression changed to concern. As she examined Rana’s shoulder, she began looking quite shocked.
“What have you been doing to get such a poisonous injury? And why didn’t you come earlier?”
“We couldn’t,” said Rana, rather indignantly. “We live in the forest. We were fighting a giant spider-thing–“
“Rana,” said Link. “Do you think anyone will believe that?”
“Actually, I do,” said the woman. “This is serious. If you live in the forest, you made here in good time if you started at lunchtime; that is how old this bite is. Come upstairs, dear, and we’ll have another look.” Rana followed the woman upstairs. Link sat down in a chair and fidgeted with his slingshot.
The woman came downstairs in a few minutes.
“Your friend will be completely fine by morning. It is quite a virulent poison in her, but I have some fairy magic on hand that can deal with spider poison as bad as this. She will stay upstairs tonight; you may see her tomorrow.”
“Thank you,” said Link gratefully. “Good night.” Continue reading →

Chapter 1: Darkness in the Morn      Chapter 3: The Princess’s Premonition

Chapter 2: The Great Arachnid

The inside of the Great Deku Tree was horrifying for the forest-raised children. He was as hollow as a drum, and they stood within a great hollow cavity of rotting wood that reached up into darkness. Ragged spiderwebs stretched across huge spaces like decaying shrouds. Link was very glad he had a small glowing fairy following him.
After staring upwards for a while, the boy took a deep breath and squared his shoulders, his small sword and shield at the ready, and walked forward to a depression in the floor. Before he came to the centre of the chamber, he stopped short. The centre of the ground was actually a deep well, but covered over with a thick gooey spiderweb.
Rana came up behind him and saw it too. “Gosh, this place is freaky.”
An enormous spider, as long, with its legs extended, as Link, scurried across the bottom of the web, making it tremble violently. The spider glared at them with its eight black eyes.
Link shivered. “I agree.”
“Are the spiders poisoning the tree?” asked Rana.
“I think so,” Navi answered. “They’ve poisoned it, and then part dies, and then the ordinary bugs come in and eat. It’s horrible. Let’s get fighting.”
“Good idea,” Link said, adjusting his grip on his sword grimly and setting off in search of something evil he could hit with it. Continue reading →