CHPT 13: The fiery cave
(the picture's a little weird, but the song's cool)
The three through the endless labyrinth of Dodongos and Lava as they struggled to find where the boss lurked. John, who was being chased by a Dodongo, had just reached a dead end.
“DAW!” He groaned. “This is ridiculous!!” He yelled as he jumped behind the Dodongo and ran another direction.
“Hey, bro…” James called from over a wall. “Watch out for those holes in the ground… yeah?”
“What holes?!” John spat. “I don’t see any--!” *FWOOSH!!!* a spurt of steam sent John hurtling right into some Lava. “DAAAAAH!!!” James shook his head. “Nobody ever listens…” he groaned as he went his own way. John ran out of the lava and threw himself unto a wall, charred and steamed.
“Holes in the ground…” he whimpered. “Gotcha…!” He said before collapsing.
***
Steve felt like Indiana Jones as he hopped from platform to platform over a boiling pool of Lava, being chased by Baby Dodongos. Steve took a leap of faith and landed on a considerably out-of-reach platform. After the dodongos gave up, Steve lay down and wiped his brow, when the platform began to rumble, and rise off of the Lava!
“DAAAAAAAH!!” Steve wailed as he was brought up to unknown heights. When the platform stopped rising, he was in front of a door that had the words clearly written out on it that said: DUNGEON MAP ROOM|ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!!. [/I]This might be where we need to go…![/I] Steve thought as he turned around and ran off to gather up the others, unfortunately he forgot that he was still on the platform. “…DAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!” He wailed as he plummeted to the bottom. Fortunately, however, he landed on something soft. Steve got up, and looked with shock that what landed on was a Baby Dodongo, and it was blinking. “Get outta the way!!!” Steve yelled as he ran away from it. *KABBOOM!!!* Steve noticed that the smoke might be able to make words if they were positioned properly. Steve turned around and took out his sword as more Dodongos came to attack him.
***
John and James ran for their lives from an angry Dodongo. James pulled to a stop and threw a rock into the Dodongo’s mouth that made it begin to cough, giving them the chance to get away. The two hid behind a corridor and took a breather.
“Do you hear that…?” James asked.
“Hear what?!” John asked.
“Listen!” *boom! Boom!*
“Alright, I hear that!” John answered.
“Hey, look at that!!” James pointed up at the ceiling. There was a smoke signal in the air.
“Do you think Steve sent it?” John asked.
“More than likely,” James answered. “Let’s go to where it’s coming from, it’s better than being chased all day!”
“Yeah, we can get chased there!” John said.
“Whaddya mean?” James asked. John nervously pointed behind him; there was an angry Dodongo sneaking up on them.
“AAAAAAAAAAH!” The two yelled as they ran to where the smoke was coming from. The two eventually came to a stop and saw Steve fighting off some dodongos.
“Took you long enough to come!!” Steve shouted as he shot some Dodongos away with his Sling-shot.
“Did you call us over for a Tea-party?!” John asked as he attacked some of the Dodongos.
“No, I found where the dungeon map is!” Steve shouted as he did a finishing blow on one Dodongo.
“Then take us to it!!” James shouted as he drove off a Dodongo with his sword.
“Follow me!” Steve shouted as he hopped back unto the platform, with the others following him. The platform rocketed back up to the level where the door was. The three hopped unto solid ground and approached the door.
“…Looks like a trap…” James observed. “But we don’t have much of a choice. Hey, John, throw me that Bomb-flower over there! This door’s sealed off!” John threw James the crop and James placed the bomb-flower in front of the door. After a second, the Bomb-flower exploded, crumbling the Door to dust. The group walked in and studied their surroundings; a large room with at least four platforms over a pool of lava, a door on the other side of the room, and a chest in the middle. “There it is!!” James exclaimed as he ran for the chest, with the others following. James opened up the chest… peered inside… but it was empty. James puzzled this for a second, but then metal bars slammed down in front of each door, making escape impossible. “…We’ve been ratted out here, boys!” James said as he cautiously looked around.
“What the--!” Steve said in shock. “Navi! Give me a tip!!” No answer. “… Navi…?” Still no answer. James began to look guilty.
“…James…” John said slowly. “Where’d you last see the fairies…?”
“I… lost track of the fairies ever since we entered the cavern… they could be anywhere!!” James said in dismay. A slow growling sound filled the room. “Just our luck…!” James complained. “In the middle of a fiery cavern, stuck in a monster-infested room, and no fairies to help… And it’s all my fault!” James shouted. The growling grew louder. The group began to hear footsteps. “Okay, nobody panic…” James said slowly. “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!” John walked in front of James and clenched his fist. *SMACK!!* John gave James a slug in the nose to get his attention.
“Pull it together, man!!” he shouted.
“How can I pull it together when my face is collapsing…?!” James complained as he held his nose.
“Heh…Heh…Heh… HEH!” a low cackle filled the cave.
“Look, brother…!” another voice said.
“The red-hero-boy is a cry-baby-boy!” The foot steps grew louder. Two hulking figures appeared out from behind a giant pillar in the middle of the room.
“When Ganondorf said that fighting them would be simple…” the first figure said.
“I didn’t expect them to be wimps!”
“SHOW YOURSELFS!” Steve yelled.
“Who are you?!” James called. “What are you?!” James struggled to keep the fear out of his voice. The two figures came into eye-view. They were green lizards with shoulder armor on one arm, and chain-mail on the other. They both carried two small swords, and had spikes attached to their tails.
“We are Lizalfos!!” The first one said.
“Lizalfos can’t talk…!” James cried as he backed away.
“But our mouths are moving, and words are coming out!” The second one growled.
“We’ve been sent by the G-man to execute you three personally!” The first one said as he drew his sword. His brother drew his sword, and the two began to circle the three. The boys drew their swords and shields.
“Guys…!” James whispered. “They’re Lizalfos, they’re dumb as a post! We can scare them and make the whole battle easier!”
“Hey, what are you whispering about!” the first one said. The boys were quiet for a moment.
“BWUAH!!” James shouted. The two Lizalfos looked at each other and ran away. “See?” James said as he was about to put his sword away, but then one of the Lizalfos made a U-turn and lunged at the group. The boys scattered and surrounded the Lizalfos.
“Need any help?” The lizalfos that wasn’t fighting called.
“I’m okay,” the other one said.
“I’ll take care of this!”
“Great!” James groaned. “As if they could talk wasn’t bad enough, they’re supposed to be brain-less, not strategic!!”
“The only one who’s brainless is the BOULDER-HEAD!” John replied.
“Hurtful…!” James said offended.
“Watch the fish…” John said in a ninja-like voice as he walked forward. “…Do his thing…!” John began to twirl his sword around, fling it into the air, catch it in his teeth, and spit it at the Lizalfos. The sword bounced off of the Lizalfos’ chest armor, sending him hurtling into a wall at the side of the cavern. The other Lizalfos got up and jumped into the ring.
“I’ll take care of things, from here!” it said as it ran for the boys. It sliced it’s sword at John, but he rolled out of the way and grabbed his sword from off the ground. The Lizalfos targeted Steve and did a jump-attack with his sword, but Steve held up his shield and the sword was driven into it. The Lizalfos tugged and tore the sword out. The Steve was in a daze from the whole attack, but was able to do a back-flip as the Lizalfos attacked again. The Lizalfos targeted James next. It lunged at James with his sword, but James rolled behind it and kicked it in the back, sending it stumbling.
“…I didn’t know I could do that…!” James exclaimed.
“We’re in a dream!” John exclaimed. “We’re having an adventure, we know Karate, we’re fighting Monsters, and there’s a giant floating banana.” James stared. There was indeed a giant Banana floating in the air.
“What’s that supposed to mean…?!” James cried.
“It’s a sign that you’re in a dream!” John shouted as he ran towards the banana. He jumped unto it and rode it like a surf-board and directed it over the Lizalfos.
“Banana---” John jumped off in mid-air, and readied his sword
“—SPLIT!!” Blue energy erupted John sliced his sword down on the Lizalfos, eradicating it. John came to the ground, twirled his sword in the air, and then put it back into its sheath. The others looked on with awe. But James noticed the other Lizalfos was approaching John from behind. Suddenly he broke into a mad-run and readied his sword.
“JOHN!! GET DOWN!!!” He yelled as he jumped over him and kicked the Lizalfos away. He began to slice his sword at it. But the Lizalfos knocked the sword out of James’ hand and into the air above them. The Lizalfos readied another attack, but when he brought it down, James did a powerful Z-target jump into the air. James grabbed his sword from the air, and plummeted towards the Lizalfos, with his sword held in front of him.
“Aw… no…!” the Lizalfos cried as he attempted to shield himself with he sword. But it was in vain. James landed in front of the Lizalfos, with the sword slicing through it. The lizalfos began to turn a burnt black and red cracks began to appear on him as if he was a log in the fire-place burning up.
“They don’t pay me enough for this…!” it screeched as it burst into blue flames and exploded in a cloud of ashes. James stood in a daze.
“…The goron-chop!” James exclaimed. “Only Darunia’s father did it perfectly, and I did it!!”
“What about me…?” James looked behind him and saw a Goron half-buried in the dirt. “I’m the one that flung you into the air!” it said as it pulled himself out of the ground and walked away.
“So I needed a little help,” James said. “But I executed the attack perfectly!”
“Er-Hem!” John pointed at James’ sword. James looked down and saw that his sword was wedged into the ground. James stared a moment, then struggled to tear it out. When James finally pulled his sword out, John observed the room. “Something’s supposed to happen…” John snapped his fingers, and *POOF!* a chest appeared in the middle of the room. James walked towards the chest and opened it. And this time… it was a Bomb-bag! James attached the bag unto his belt.
“…Let’s get going!” he said. “I can’t wait to find the next monster to crush!” The others watched as James opened the now-unlocked door that led into another room.
“…His confidence sure has grown!” Steve observed. “He seems to have forgotten all about losing the fairies!” John remembered the fairies were missing, after all the battling, he forgot about them.
“We’d better find them!” he exclaimed as he followed James. “Judging on how the Gorons reacted to the fairies, we’d better find the Fairies before they find something with a taste for pixy-dust!”
***
The two followed James into the next room. The next room was simply a tunnel, with torches on the wall that emitted a strange purple glow. The group carefully walked through, and noticed nothing out of the ordinary in the room.
“This room’s empty,” Steve said. “Let’s move on.” James shook his head.
“No, take a look at the ground,” James said as he pointed at a large lump on the ground.
“So it’s a clump of dirt!” Steve said as he walked towards it and drew his sword out. “There’s nothing in it!” he said as he pointed his sword downwards and was about to plunge it into the lump.
“No wait!” James shouted. “Don’t do--” too late. Steve had pierced the lump. “—That..!” The lump began to glow red and pulse. Steve stared in a daze at the strange sight, until James jerked him out of the way, just in time as the lump exploded.
“What kinda lump of dirt can explode when you poke it?” Steve cried.
“A lump that has an infant
Monitorous~Infernos under it does!” James said.
“A what…?!” John exclaimed. James groaned.
“A baby Dodongo!” He shouted. The shout rang through the tunnel. Red eyes poked out from the dirt floor…and slowly disappeared again.
“How do you know their scientific name?” John asked.
“Actually, it’s
magical name, theirs no science in this world,” James quietly.
“What’s up?” Steve asked. “You’re awful quiet!”
“Oh, I just had a run-in with a nest of them a week ago, before Ganondorf came. I took some meat that one thought was his, and after I tried to hand-feed him, he bit my whole hand just to get the chunk of meat, and after it was done tasting my hand, it decided that I was tastier and called a whole squad of them and sent them swarming after me, and barely escaped.” James said with a shudder. “After that I looked into them as much as… I… could…” For a second there was silence… “Hey, guys…?” James asked nervously as he scanned the ground. “Could you do me a favor?” He asked.
“Well, what?” John asked.
“RUN!!” James shouted as he grabbed the others and ran to the side of the room, just as more lumps appeared and nearly rammed into the group. James chuckled and brushed himself off. James noticed that he seemed to be sinking he looked down and saw that the lumps in the ground were swirling around his feet, weakening the ground and making him sink.
“It seems that the Dodongos remember that morsel from before!” John joked.
“Guys?” James said. “How about another favor? How about you… I don’t know… PULL ME OUT!?”
“I don’t know…” John said as he quite obliviously polished his sword sheath. “What does it pay…?”
“Your brother won’t be devoured by flesh-eating fire-breathing dragon babies!” James suggested as he began to sink beneath knee-level.
“Nah, I want some of your mammy’s cupcakes when we get back to the city!” John said.
“But those are made out of Dough!” James protested.
“Finally!” Steve said. “A break from rocks!”
“No, it’s actually ‘dough’,” James said. “It’s 50 rupees a cake! There’s no way I’ll let you have any!” James noticed that he began to sink waste-down into the earth. “How much are you talking?” He asked. John knelt down and looked at James at eye-level.
“A monthly supply!” he said. “Of ten a month!” James gasped.
“Four!” he restated.
“Eight!” John shot back.
“Five!”
“Seven!”
“Six!”
“Happy-Birthday!!!*” John exclaimed. The brothers stared at John. “Sorry,” John said as he scratched his head. “I’ve been watching too much Kamen rider OOO**…”
Author's note(s): *’Happy birth day’ is a phrase that is used by Mr.Kougami from the show ‘Kamen rider OOO’. Kougami often uses it as a phrase for ‘Congratulations!’ or ‘Deal!’
**Kamen rider OOO (O’s) is a 2010-2011 tokusatsu show from toei.co
“Just pull me out!!” James snapped as he sank into shoulder length. John sighed, and held out his hand in a pointing position, and pointed it upwards. James began to shake a little, and then he shot out of the ground and into the ceiling. Steve looked up and blinked.
“I must be dreamin’!” he said in disbelief.
“You’re not wrong!” John said with a chuckle.
“*Oh, ha-ha!*” James muffled as he struggled. “*Very funny!*” James said as he fell out and landed unto the ground. The lumps began to circle and rushed at the boys. “Scatter!” James shouted as the boys split up in the room. John tried to land a Z-Target slash on one of the lumps, but it moved to quickly and he missed. Steve in the meantime was being surrounded by the lumps, and they began to swirl around him, go through in-between his legs, and made him lose his balance. Steve waved his arms a little, and then fell on his back. Steve noticed that something had cushioned his fall. He got and noticed that he had landed on a lump. The lump began to glow and the Dodongo under it began to scream.
“NO-NO-NOO!” It screeched as it exploded, but Steve somersaulted out of the way, safe from the explosion.
“Guys!” Steve called. “Just jump on the Dodongos! They’ll explode easier!” The others got the message and began to pounce on the Dodongos instead of slicing them. Soon all of the lumps in the ground had exploded, except for one that trailed around as if it couldn’t see.
“I got this one!” James shouted as he jumped unto it. A moment passed, and James was about to jump away, but the lump didn’t explode. James took a closer look at it, and something began to push away the dirt.
“I know whose Backyou’re on,” A small voice groaned.
“But whose side are you on?!”
“Terry!!” James exclaimed as he pushed the dirt away. The three fairies came out of the lump of earth and flew over to their respective partners.
“Where were you guys?!” Steve exclaimed as Navi fluttered happily around him.
“Well, after we were locked out,” Gaia began.
“We had to find a way to catch up with you guys, so we had to claw our way through the floor!” The others stared in astonishment.
“And we don’t even have claws!” Terry exclaimed.
“So we had to use our *ptt! Ptt!* -- teeth!!!”
“We also found out where the boss-chamber is!!” Navi exclaimed.
“Follow me!” she called as she ran through the tunnel.
***
“Down… there…?” The group was on a long wooden bridge, hanging right over a giant skull of a Dodongo.
“We found an inscription on the wall of the door you three went in!” Navi said as she hovered above the bridge.
“It said ‘when the dead Dodongo sees red, its son shall be found inside’…”
“Its son?” John asked.
“Obviously implying that the boss of this place is a big-Dodongo,” James said as he kicked a pebble down into the abyss beneath.
“What’s a big-Dodongo?” Steve asked.
“They’re abnormally large Dodongos,” James vaguely answered. “But there’s only supposed to be one in every country.”
“And how do you know so much?’’ John asked.
“A few weeks ago, me and my Goron class-mates studied an egg of one, but we left by the cliff overlooking the cavern. But it was pushed into the cavern when the G-man kicked all those rocks in front of it.
“--OH!--’’ Every one said. “--That’s how it was blocked off!--”
“Enough of that!” James said as he reached into his bag. “ ‘When the Dodongo sees red’… I bet it means a bomb!” James said as he drew a bomb from his bag. He scraped the fuse of the Bomb which lit it, and then he threw it into the eye of the Dodongo skull. The eye began to glow a deep red. James smiled and threw another bomb into the other eye. Both eyes glowed red and the Jaw dropped open, revealing another passage. “
Ikuzo!*” James shouted as he jumped off of the bridge, and was falling towards the middle platform.
Author's note(s):*Ikuzo is Japanese for 'let's go!'
“We also discovered that the lava-level rises occasionally rises…” Navi added. *TSSSSS!*
“DAAA!” A cry broke out from below.
“James!!!” Steve cried as he looked down from the bridge.
“No need to worry!” John said as he pointed to the other edge of the bridge. There stood James, half-charred, a flame on his shoulder, and he was blinking red.
“Sometimes it kills to be able to re-spawn like this….!” James complained before he collapsed.
***
The group walked through the entrance that the skull led to. At the end of the tunnel was a large room, with a peculiarly colored floor.
“Judging by the floor and those scratches on the wall--” James said as he observed the room. “The King Dodongo should be somewhere in here.”
“Oh, so now it’s
king Dodongo!” John said obliviously. “Why don’t we just call those li’l monsters behind us ‘prince’ dodongos?”
“Actually, it says so on that part of the wall,” James said as he pointed to the wall, where it ‘clearly’ said: (King Dodongo was here!)
The group stared at the phrase.
“Are you sure that’s what it says?” John asked.
“That or it’s a recipe for Goron soup!” James said as he took out a bomb.
“Dodongos have their own language?” Steve asked.
“No,” James answered. “It’s just them scribbling on a wall, that Gorons can understand.” James walked into the middle of the room and began to stomp on the ground. “I’ll take lead for now,” James said as he grabbed two rocks from the floor and began to scrape them to form sparks that would ignite the bomb.
“Hey, I thought
I was the leader!” John said. “What makes you so privileged to be the leader right now?!”
“I know a bit more about Dodongos, so I should lead the attack on ‘his majesty’.” James replied as he lit the bomb, and threw it to the ground.
“Whoa, whoa!” Steve shouted “what are you-- [*KRA-BOOOM!!!** The bomb exploded destroying the whole floor, sending the party hurtling below]—Doing…..!!!!??” After a moment of falling, the party hit a warm, hard floor. The room was in a square-shape with a pit of lava in the middle, hence the huge amount of steam in the room. The party lay in a heap on the ground, struggling to get up with James on the bottom.
“Everyone… Alright…?” James called in a weak voice.
“Yeah! We’re right behind ‘ya, ‘fearless-leader’! Literally!” John called back in a sarcastic voice.
“It was a bad Idea to let you lead the charge in!” Steve said from the top of the heap. “We could’ve climbed down or something, instead of FALLING HEAD-FIRST!!” James tried to keep in his guilt and annoyance.
“Maybe something like ‘Hey I’m gonna bomb the floor’ could’ve been tossed out!” John said. “Speaking of ‘bombing the floor’, don’t look up.” The party quickly got off of one another and managed to dodge falling rubble. Some of the rubble landed in an area too covered by the fog to see. Red glowing eyes appeared and began to move. But the party didn’t notice. The party was about to continue complaining, until James heard something.
“SHH!!” James shushed.
“Now you have to say something to say--” Steve began. *Growwwl!!!* Silence loomed over the room for a moment, but a large booming noise appeared. *Boom! Boom! Boom!* “Ner-he…!” Steve let out a nervous chuckle. “Let me guess, King Dodongo…?” he asked.
“Yeah…” James said gravely. “Or in
thier tongue… [a huge ominous figure approached the boys] The King of Fire!!” The figure was completely seen now. It was a hulking large Triceratops-like monster with armored spikes all over his hide. The Dodongo rumbled in his throat,--
“Does he even
have a tongue?!” Steve cried. “All I see are TEETH!!” – The Dodongo let out a horrifying (both in attention and smell) roar. The blast swept against the group in one huge stinky wave.
“Nope, he has a tongue!” John said. “You just have to avoid the giant ominous teeth that are beginning to glow red… DUCK!!” The party ducked just in time as a blast of fire erupted from the creature’s mouth. The party slowly got up.
“This is Sabrina,” James said as the Dodongo began to drool. “She’s a little small, ‘cause she’s only a weeks old."
“THIS thing is small, and a SHE?!” Steve cried. The Dodongo looked down at the boys, and then turned around and lumbered away.
“Where is he going--” James said aloud, but then the ground began to rumble. A huge boulder appeared out of nowhere and began to roll towards the boys. “RUNN!!” James shouted as he and the others jumped out of the way. James couldn’t help but feel like Indiana Jones as the boulder chased the boys throughout the room. However, after a while, the boulder unfolded, revealed to be the Dodongo curled up. The Dodongo began to breathe heavily, and fell to the ground, exhausted. Steve unsheathed his sword, and after making a circle with it in the air, jumped up into the air and did a Z-target slash.
“Hissatsu… My Hissatsu attack! VS. Dodongo version!!” Steve shouted as he brought his sword down on the creature. But his sword didn’t even pierce the Dodongo’s hide. The Dodongo angrily shook, and then hit Steve off of his back with his tail as if he was a fly. Steve was falling for the lava, until John grabbed his leg and pulled him out of the way.
“Terry!” James said to his fairy. “Give us a tip about this thing!” Terry nodded and flew around the Dodongo, then came back.
“Infernal Dinosaur King Dodongo—“ Terry began.
“We KNOW THAT!!!” James snapped.
“Let me finish!” Terry said angrily.
“His fire sac inside his body is highly sensitive, so if it inhales something explosive, it should explode inside him and knock him out!!”
“Yuck!” James exclaimed. “Is that necessary?”
“If you want to get close enough to his head; his only weak point, without being barbecued!” Terry replied. James ran up to the Dodongo.
“Hey, Your royal pain!!” James called.
“James!!” Steve called. “Are you crazy?”
“Hey, fatty!!” James called again.
“He’s crazy.” Steve said in surprise. The Dodongo looked down on the little critter before him and began to bare his fangs. “I bet you couldn’t burn
me with that sad Baby-fire of yours!!” The Dodongo began to inhale, but then James threw a lit bomb into it’s mouth. “Psyche!!” James shouted. The bomb landed inside the Dodongo’s mouth. It struggled for a moment, then belched out a bunch of smoke and fell to the ground, stunned. James readied his sword and did a Z-Target slash on its head. This aroused the Dodongo, who immediately shifted into boulder-mode and began to roll. “GAIN WAY!!” James shouted as he fled from the boulder. The others were soon to follow. While they were running, James picked up a rock and after a moment of aiming, threw it at the Dodongo’s head while it was rolling. The Dodongo slowed down gradually, and finally came to a stop. It uncurled and began to inhale again. James threw another bomb into the Dodongo’s mouth. The Dodongo stood frozen for a moment, but instead of belching, it began to cough like crazy. The Dodongo shook his head, and then coughed the Bomb out. The Bomb was covered in filth, but its fuse was still lit, and in fact it was about ready to explode. The Dodongo inhaled again, but James grabbed his sword and swung it towards the Bomb. “FORE!!” James shouted as he hit the Bomb.
“Through rubble, across the rocks,” Steve said. “And right into the Dodongo’s mouth!” This time the Dodongo swallowed the bomb, but this time, it knew better and spit it out. James ran over to the Dodongo, grabbed it by the nose and opened its mouth, then shoved the Bomb in. The bomb exploded, and the Dodongo fell to the ground. “GUYS!” James called. “Let’s all do our Z-Target slash on it! That might finish it off!!” The others drew their swords and ran for the Dodongo and did their Z-Target slash on it, with James doing the same. The Dodongo stood up, struggled, wailed, and fell to the ground. It didn’t move. It didn’t breath. James walked in front of its mouth and kicked it. Nothing happened. James walked over to its eye and poked it. Nothing ha…The eye suddenly jerked open. The Dodongo rose to the ground and rolled up again. James turned tail and ran towards the others.
“Ru--”
“Yeah, yeah, ‘run!’ ” John said as he and Steve began to run. “No need to tell us twice!!” The group ran from the Dodongo again, but James wasn’t fast enough and was supposedly flattened.
“James!” John yelled. But James was simply stuck on the Dodongo’s hide, like dough on a rolling pin. The Dodongo eventually stopped and uncurled, and James found himself on the Dodongo’s back. James puffed himself into shape (literally) and drove his sword into the Dodongo’s hide. The Dodongo yelped as if it was bit by a bug and began to thrash around. James held unto the hilt of his sword, which remained stuck in the hide for dear life.
“Yee-haw!!” James yelled as he ‘rode’ the Dodongo. The Dodongo eventually tired down, and was about to breath fire again, until James jumped up and kicked it in the head. James jerked his sword out of the Dodongo’s hide and jumped down. The Dodongo stood dazed from the blow. James held up his sword, then threw it up into the air.
“What the hay are ya doing?!” Steve cried. James took a deep breath, and then did a Z-Target Jump into the air. The Jump was so powerful, that James was almost flying like a rocket. He grabbed the sword in mid-air, and in a burst of red energy, plummeted down unto the Dodongo. Smoke and fire exploded from the Dodongo. It screeched and roared. In a fit of blind pain, it hurtled itself into the pit of Lava. The lava cooled, leaving a pool of dried magma rock. James slowly rose from the smoke and put his sword away.
“Dynamic chop…!” James said in a strong, bold voice.
“You say the name of your attack
after you’re done?” Steve asked.
“Shh!” James shushed. “You’re ruining the moment!” A blue light appeared in the middle of the pool of lava, along with a heart container. The group ran over to the spoils of their victory.
“…There’s only one!” John said. “How’re we going to split it?!”
“I got this!” James said. He picked up a boulder, lifted it up into the air and
shattered the heart container.
“WHAT’D YA DO THAT FOR?!” Steve cried.
“Now there’s three pieces!” James reasoned. John picked up a piece, and took a bite out of it.
“…MM!” he said in delight. “ ‘Tastes like cherry!”
“Alright,” James said as he picked up a piece. “We’ll each take one.”
“But I don’t like cherry!” Steve complained. “I ate a heart-container after I beat Gohma, and it was Stale!”
“Eat it!” James urged. Steve reluctantly wolfed down his shard of heart (I couldn’t call it a
piece of heart!).
“..Didn’t you just kill your science experiment?” John asked.
“Nah! It’ll molt out!” James said. Just then the magma rock began to rumble, and then a little Dodongo popped out.
“It molted into THAT?!” John said in disbelief. The Dodongo looked at James and ran towards him.
“Papa! Papa!” it squeaked.
“Let’s make like a dream-Banana and
split!” James shouted as he and the others stepped into the blue light. They were warped out of that dreadful cavern, with one more Boss defeated.