Chapter 7: The Great Parasite     Chapter 9: When is a Hero?

Chapter 8: The Door of Time

The Kokiri dove in opposite directions as the space they had been standing in was charged and sizzled.
“Now to deal with this thing,” Link said, looking grimly along his boomerang at the large purple blob. All the jellyfish were gone. “This seems to neutralize electric objects. I wonder what it will do here.” He flung it at a bulbous shape on the top of the monster. The barymede turned a dark purple-green colour.
Rana shouted, smacking it with her sword edge. It quivered and shook violently. Then it began to bounce around. Link grabbed Rana and Naeri grabbed Navi, pulling them to a safer place. The thing began to tire out and rolled to a stop. Then it pulled itself upright and swivelled its turrets. Link threw his boomerang and dodged, but it didn’t shoot. It was stuck again, paralysed by the shock of the boomerang.
Link and Rana slashed at it, tearing large wet chunks out of it. Rana was starting to look pale, and Link waved her back. It trembled and began to bounce, and after only a few bounces, swelled with red lumps and exploded, covering everyone in green and purple goo and blue blood. Rana had turned green.
“Blechhhhh. I want a bath.”
A portal appeared behind them.
“Hey!” Ruto’s voice called. Navi flew up abruptly, startled. The Zora princess was frowning at them, and Link resignedly wondered what she would be squeaking about this time.
“Come on! You’re just a pair of kids! You’re awful at being heroes! Let’s get out of here!” Ruto scolded. Link stalked to the warp and faced the angry-looking princess. Rana tiptoed in behind him. Continue reading →

Chapter 6: The Realm of Music      Chapter 8: The Door of Time

Chapter 7: The Great Parasite

The beautiful lake behind the Zora’s realm was worth coming to see. A big steel gate prevented anyone from jumping over the waterfall and breaking their necks on the rocks below, where the entrance was. There were a few islands dotted about, pleasant and peaceful.
And a giant whale floated bang in the middle of it. It was huge! It was the biggest living creature Link had ever seen, counting the Dodongo. It had an ornate headdress, as befitting the sacred pet – or something – of the Zoras.
Link popped his bottle’s cork out and dumped out the fish in it.
“You got a fish?”
“Down at the lake. I was saving it for later, to show Saria, but this is better.”
Jabu-Jabu opened his enormous mouth. Link was poised to dart in, but it wasn’t really necessary, because the whale inhaled the fish, Link, Rana, and the fairies.

In the mouth of the whale, there were many large bubbles. Rana poked one.
“Ow,” she said, pulling her hand back sharply. “What are these made of?”
“Octorok drool,” Naeri said. “Squid things. I think that means there are some of those in here.”
Link ran forward, holding his sword for a great forward sweep, and it began to glow blue, and then red. Rana ducked.
He released it in a spinning whirling flash of power, and all the bubbles popped. Link smiled at his successfully and carefully perfected new technique.
They walked carefully down Jabu-Jabu’s gullet, passing into the next chamber.
“I must say, this is the weirdest dungeon I’ve ever heard of,” Navi said, lighting up the whole room. Continue reading →

Chapter 5: The Great Lizard     Chapter 7: The Great Parasite

Chapter 6: The Realm of Music

When Link and Rana and their fairies had woken, they met with Saria near the playground.
“We need to talk to the Zoras next,” Rana said.
“Well, I don’t think you will be able to use their pool in the Lost Woods.”
“Why not?”
“It’s too deep,” Link said. “I tried once, a couple of months ago. I could get to the bottom, but I had no air left by the time I got down there.”
“Why don’t you take a short break? You’re frantically trying to complete this mission, that the princess gave you, and it is for the good of the world, but if you run yourselves ragged, you won’t do anyone any good.” Saria looked at him pointedly.
“Eh?” Link thought for a bit. His arms and legs had been aching for the past couple of days… but he hadn’t wanted to mention it to anyone.
“Go on,” Saria encouraged him. “You’ll feel better after a day of rest. I know what it feels like.”
“You do?” Rana chirped. “How? When?”
“Never you mind,” said their green-haired playmate. “What about that Malon girl you told me about? Are you going to visit her like you said? She’s probably wondering what happened to you.”
Rana turned a deep shade of pink and looked suddenly on the verge of tears. Saria patted her shoulder apologetically.
“Yes, let’s go see Malon,” Link said cheerfully. “We can wait a day before we see the Zoras.”
“What if they’re in trouble?” Rana asked.
“The Deku Tree was poisoned, and the Gorons were starving…” Naeri agreed.
“No, we’re going to see Malon. We have an obligation to!” Link said firmly, gesturing broadly. “Don’t worry about it. Saria’s right. If we rest, we can do much better tomorrow.” Continue reading →

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 →