The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 6

Into the fire

The clear blue sky was gradually replaced with a dull grey of storm clouds, as a lone figure on
horseback made its way to the next destination. A bright cloud of fire encircled
the Peak of Death Mountain, casting fear throughout the land and wreaking havoc
in the villages. The figure’s horse was slowed to a stop at the bottom of the
steps that led up to the halfway hilltop village, and the figure dismounted and
cast his eyes around uncertainly, for any signs of danger. After seeing none
the figure made its way up the steps and into the village.

Link looked up at the
cloudy sky and sighed,

Why couldn’t Ganondorf
just be happy with the power he had before? He had been the most powerful
person in the land at a normal amount of power. But noooo, he had to go getting
more power didn’t he, and make life a living hell for everybody else the little
bastard”

Link hadn’t realized that he had been walking
and actually muttering this out loud and by the time he looked up he was
standing in front of the gate leading to Death
Mountain trail. Walking up the
sloping path Link’s mind began to wander again. He began to think of the
mysterious Sheik and of Zelda. He hoped with all his heart that she was OK, he
had barely known her for a few months and then Ganon had fully invaded the
castle, scaring her into fleeing with Impa. He was rounding the corner and only
just noticed the huge boulder rolling towards him. He had been so deep in thought
thinking about Zelda that he had almost missed it. After dodging the boulder he
continued on his way, heading for the Goron
City, he was glad he had come here
as he really wanted to talk to Darunia.

Link walked into the
city and the familiar drum music pounded in his ears, however, the Goron that
sat near the entrance to greet the people that entered the city wasn’t there.
As he dropped down onto the 3rd level (second from the top) he also
noticed neither were any of the other Goron’s, even the large vase in the
centre of the room had gone. The whole city was barren there was nothing here
moving but him, as he thought that he looked up and saw a gold Skultula. He
killed it and pocketed the token.

Well, there isn’t
anymore any way”

He dropped down another
level and stared in disbelief at the rest of the place. This place had always
been warm (literally, it’s next to a volcano) and friendly and full of life. He
looked around suddenly as he heard a rumbling sound he realized that there was
a Goron rolling up to him but when it saw him it turned the other way and went
back. Knowing that it was the only way to stop the Goron and that it wouldn’t
hurt him Link stood and waited, when the Goron was a few yards away he lit a
bomb placed a floor and ran. BOOM. The bomb exploded right as the Goron rolled
next to it, the creature stopped in its tracks.

How
could you do this to me?

I am
Link, Hero of the Gorons

 Hear my name and fear”

Link walked up to the
small ball of rock and looked down at it as it shook in terror.

"My name's Link
too"

What? Your name is
Link too?" The quaking ball that was the small Goron stood up and looked
at Link.

Link nodded as the
young Gorons face took on an expression that mainly showed awe and a mixture of
relief and excitement.

"That would mean you’re
the legendary hero and Dodongo Buster, my father is Darunia, he named me after
you, it's a cool name. I really like it."

"Uh-huh" the
Hylian mumbled, wondering how long it was going to take before he could get on
with his job

“Your story has been
passed down through the Gorons"

"OK, so where is
everybody anyway? I mean I can't see anybody else except us"

"That's the thing,
you see a couple of weeks ago Ganondorf and his minions they came and took
everyone except my Dad to the Fire Temple, Ganon has revived Volvagia, the
Dragon..."

Link, the Goron
explained that Ganondorf was going to feed the Gorons to Volvagia and that his
Dad had gone to the temple to rescue everybody. He was planning to use an
ancient weapon from Legend to defeat the dragon. It seemed that an old Goron
hero had used it before for the same job, the Legend was true because, apparently,
Darunia was a descendent of the Hero.
"Oh, one more
thing, I really admire you..."the young Goron said, blushing " so I was
wondering if I could have your autograph sign it' To my friend Link, Hero of
the Gorons'"

"This really isn't
the time for giving out autographs" Link reminded the youth while silently
wondering why it was him who had to do this.

"Your right, I'm
sorry, by the way take this..." Link was presented with a Goron's tunic
which would protect him from extreme heat.

After thanking the
Goron, Link headed down to the bottom floor, into Darunia's chamber and into
Death Mountain crater.

A wave of heat pressed
against Link as he entered the volcano he was thankful that he had changed into
the Goron tunic before he came in here. At least he could defeat the evil
inside this temple, even if it was in a pool of lava.

Link walked over to the
rope bridge which had half collapsed. Using the hookshot he had obtained he
swung himself over to the part of the bridge that was still stable. He took a
couple of steps, looking around for any sign of Sheik. Right on queue he
dropped down from somewhere and walked towards him.

"It is something
that grows over time...

A True friendship

A feeling in the heart that grows even
stronger over time

The passion of friendship will soon blossom
into a righteous power and through it, you will now where to go...

This song is dedicated to the power of the
heart...

Listen to the Bolero of Fire...

 Link...

I'll see you again."

He put away the golden
harp and took a few steps back, as Link tried to approach him a wall of fire
shot from the lava below. There was a bright flash of light and then Sheik was
gone, leaving a stunned Link alone with Navi.

Link had slowly,
painfully, made his way through the inferno of the fire temple. He had managed
to obtain the Megaton Hammer and had freed all the Gorons, however, there had
been no sign of Darunia apart from a brief conversation with him at the
beginning. He was now standing outside the door which led to the boss’s room.

The room was eerily
dark, lighted only slightly by the lava which occasionally glowed. In front of
him, Link could just make out a large cylindrical platform in the centre of the
room.

"So Navi, please
tell me where this boss is or am I going to have to run around trying to find
until it suddenly appears" Link asked with a hint of sarcasm in his voice

"You got me,
you’ll probably have to run around trying to find him, it's pretty hard to miss
a dragon though"

"Hmm" Link
mused, not really paying attention

"Why don't you try
going on the platform, I can see holes in it"

"Well really Navi,
I never would have guessed" he retorted sarcastically

"Just do it
already Link"

The gap between the platform and the steps which
Link was standing on, was fairly large, but nothing Link couldn't handle. He
hopped over onto the platform. The holes in the platform were filled with
glowing lava.

A rumble
started to shake the room and a head sprung out of the hole. This was Volvagia,
it had blazing blue eyes and a long crest of intense burning flames, it's face
was protected by thick black bone which curved to make two horns. Rows of sharp
white teeth glinted in it's mouth and thick red scales, as hard as diamond
covered it's neck and body. This guy was tough.

Volvagia
reared it’s head and swung itself at Link, hoping to knock him to the floor.
What happenend instead was that a dizzying blow came down onto the side of
Volvagia’s skull, Link had hit it with the megaton hammer. It collapsed to the
floor and lay there, stunned, Link of course took this opportunity to strike
the firey creature with the Master Sword. It recovered and cast a streak of
blazing fire from it’s mouth and Link hadn’t moved away quickly enough. He fell
to the floor and screamed as embers burnt the skin on his waist, he rolled
around trying to put out the fire, while all the time keeping an eye on
Volvagia. Link repeated the process several times, without getting burnt again.
He was about to deliver another blow to the overgrown blazing snake, when it
reared and flew into the air shaking rocks from the room. Link climbed down the
side of the platform to avoid getting hit, the intense heat of the lava
tortured his skin as he grasped the loose rocks that were part of the island.
Eventually the shaking quietend and Link climbed back on top to let the battle
commence again.

The dragon
and the warrior fought, eventually however the battles end was in sight as
Volvagia began to  collapse. Link swung
the blade of his sword towards the flaming serpent, as he did so the tip of the
blade found a gap in the dragon’s tough armour and slipped through the scales
penetrating the unprotected inards of Volvagia.He rose out of the pool of
molten rock and the long lava covered body twisted in the air, in pain.
It was then that a large torrent of fire shot from between the scales, this was
followed by another, further down it’s body. The dragon was consumed by fire
and the scales now useless, burnt. Finally all that was left was a skeleton,
floating in the air, the bones dropped and pounded the platform and made the
lava rise up like a wave of the ocean. There was a large, dull thud as
something heavy hit the ground as Link opened his eyes again he saw the bone
white skull of Volvagia, it faded into a heart container. Link then noticed
something shimmering on the ground and there on the floor lay a shimmering red
scale and a long white fang. He picked them up and looked at them for a moment
before putting them into a pocket in his tunic. He then stepped into the
blinding blue light that would transport him out of there...

to be continued