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// Chapter 4: Death mountain 
// Story: Legend of Twilight, Ocarina of Friendship 
// by remsaman 
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Legend of Twilight, Ocarina of Friendship. Chapter 4: Death Mountain



Fluttershy heads towards Kakariko village. Not knowing what to expect, having not being outside the forest in her life, she does not know what kind of things she could expect from a place that seems so hostile from the ground.  After entering Kakariko village, she immediently notices a large windmill looming over the back half of the town.
After wandering around the town, and investigating the graveyard, she finds a small coop with a lady with her hooves up to her face in frustration and worry. 

"Oh deary me what will i do, i cant go get them myself because I'm allergic to cucoos.. Little filly! Could you do me a very big favor? I need to get all the cucoos back in the pen. I'll reward you for helping!"

Realising that she had already done this, she just felt the need to ask

"Is the reward a bottle?"

"yes"

"Oh ok then, I guess I can help."

Although it is the same task, Fluttershy finds finding the cucoos in the maze of a town a lot more challenging then on the flat surface of the ranch.
The cucoos are everywhere! behind walls, up ladders, in places she didn't even think they could get.
Once again she returns the cucoos, taking longer then at the ranch because of the maze of buildings.
She thanks the woman, places the bottle in one of the straps on her saddlebags, and walks to the back entrance of the town.

A guard pony stands at the gate, reading the latest issue of "Playcolt". Almost instinctively, without even looking up from the magazine, he responds

"Sorry, Death Mountain is closed, can't help ya, it has been ordered by the king blah blah blah." He sounds like he's said the same thing almost a thousand times.

"Umm, I have a signature from the princess.. Would this let me through? Fluttershy produces the signatured paper from her saddlebags.

"Oh hahahaha this is hilarious!" The guardpony laughs heartily at the paper
"Hey filly, I'll let you through but don't come crying to me if you lose a leg!" Fluttershy's heart sank at this statement

The guardpony pulls open the gate

"Hey filly, that wooden shield wouldn't be much help up there, but hey don't let me stop you. wahahahahah!"

Once Kakariko is out of sight, Fluttershy sees numerous things that look like red spiders, but with only four legs, Several are hopping her way.
Remembering the guards insult, she pulls out her sword and dismembers them, gruesome as it sounds, no blood comes out. She reaches an area with an overhanging rock, and a circle of small stones in the middle, she looks up at the edge of the overhead rock, Spying a strange object, she stands still for a moment, transfixed by its white glare.
She picks up a rock and throws it at the object, it moves for a moment, and starts sliding off.
It barely misses Fluttershys head, she faints for a few hours, wakes up, and faints again.
It was a skeleton.

The skeleton is not like a regular skeleton, it has two legs with feet, not hooves, and hands, and a dome shaped head. But what creeps Fluttershy out even more is that it's wearing an almost identical outfit to her, minus the sword, and only wearing 2 boots.
She notices it had a large metal shield on its back. She takes the shield off and straps it onto her back, it's too large to hold, and the handle is too small to fit her hooves.

After burying the skeleton (she cant just leave somethings remains out in the open can she?), she ventures on inside the mountain, and into Goron Village. What she saw will haunt her for the rest of her life. Gorons, everywhere, all starving and skin and bones. She heard that Gorons ate rocks, so why aren't these gorons eating anything?

As she wanders the twisting and turning halls of Goron's village, she becomes more aware of the situation of the world around her, Wandering up to what was marked the house of the tribe leader, "Darunia"
Seeing a message on the doormat saying "Only messengers of the royal family may enter.", Fluttershy takes off her cap, jabs Jay and gives him stern look saying "stop sleeping all the time"
As Fluttershy takes the ocarina out from her saddlebags, Jay takes his position operating the holes. After playing Twilight's Lullaby, the pair hear a grunt and the large stone door lift up.
Jay perches himself on Fluttershys shoulder. As the pair enter the room, they're greeted quite rudly by a very unhappy goron.

"WHAT!? When i heard that song I expected a member of the royal family to come, hopefully to help with our food problems! Not some wimpy filly! My people are starving to death! Ive had to hide the spiritual stone, the symbol of our people, from hungry gorons! If someone doesnt help us soon, then well all die!" Apparently this goron was not in a good mood.

"Mr.Goron sir, I might be of some assistance if you'd like..."

"What? You!? Bahaha, You're just a filly, Tell you what, ill give you a go! If you can cheer me up and get rid of the boulder in front of the Dodongo caverns, I'll let you put your own flank on the line! bahaha!"

Fluttershy trots out of the room, and wanders around Goron's village, hoping to find some way of cheering Darunia up. After asking the shop owner, Biggoron(who apparently was working on 'something special'), and several other gorons, she was stumped. There seems to be no way of cheering the guy up.
Suddenly, almost from nowhere, she hears a familiar tune.

As they walk through the exit to Kokiri village(which is large hollow log), Fluttershy feels a presence near her, Turning around, she finds it was her secret crush, Big Macintosh.
“Oh.. so your leaving then?” with a solemn look at Fluttershy.
“I guess I have to, but I can come back if you really want me to...”
“Please, take this.” Big Mac hands Fluttershy a wooden ocarina.

“Umm.. Big Mac?”
“What is it Fluttershy?”
“dont ever forget me.. please.”
“Eeyup.” And with a wink, Big Mac walks back into Kokiri village.]

"Hey! What are you doing? We have no time to dwell in the past! come on! Lets go, SOMEONE around here must know how to cheer that goron up!"

As the two walk away, Fluttershy sees out of the corner of her eyes a small imprint, which seems to be a flank marked in the dirt , one of which can only fit a certain goron.

"I think.. I know how....." Fluttershy flashes a small look of regret before continuing towards Darunia's room.

Fluttershy approaches Darunia with a solemn face. As soon as she pulls out her ocarina, Darunia raises an eyebrow, which only adds to Fluttershy's idea. 
She shakes Jay off her shoulder, and motions him to play. Big Mac's song wafts through the room, 
Darunia stops, stares for a moment, then suddenly breaks into dance.

The dance lasts for a few minutes before he finally stops, with a gigantic grin plastered on his face.

"Ah! I feel so much better! Whats that? You want to help with our problem? Hahah, I see you eyeing the spiritual stone. Tell you what, Take this bracelet, It'll give even a tiny filly like you enough strength to harvest the Bomb flowers! And maybe even give you a little more punch, eh?
If you succeed in ridding Dodongos cavern, our main food source of the cursed dodongos, I'll give you the spiritual stone! As a token of my appreciation."

"Of course, but umm"

"Darunia"

"Darunia sir, If you gorons eat rocks, why don't you just eat regular rocks?" the question still plagued Fluttershy's mind.

"The rocks of Dodongos cavern are delicious, in fact, my people pretty much refuse to eat anything else! Even with their own lives on the line! Gah, if that bloody Nightmare Moon didnt block off the cavern, none of this would be happening!"

"Nightmare moon, sir?"

"Some wicked sorceress, She asked for the spiritual stone and blocked off our food, hoping to siege us in hopes of getting the stone. Luckily we have some kind people like you around!"

Fluttershy gives a nervous laugh and backs away from the room.
Wandering out from the village, she sees a goron standing over a bomb flower.

"Uhh. What are you doing"

"Sheltering this bomb flower from the sun! They usually only grow in dark damp areas so one in a place like this is extremely lucky!"

"could i use it for a sec? I have a couple of rupees if-"

"Of course! For no charge! These plants grow back quickly so its not a problem!"

Fluttershy picks up the bomb flow and throws it infront of the cavern, it explodes, destroying the rock.

She ventures down the mountain and reaches the entrance to the cavern, which is just below where she just was. A Roar can be heard from the cavern.

"Looks like my adventure hasn't even started yet."


End of chapter 4