The Wind Waker

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THERE WAS another loud roar, so loud that Link had to cover his ears.
When it ended, Link slowly pulled his sword from its sheath.

The mountain shivered once again. As Link backed against the wall, he saw a mound form in the pool of lava. The mound became a pillar, and then limbs stretched out of the oozing lava.

It was a horrifying monster, some of it was as black as volcanic rock, but most of it was a ghostly pale stone color. As the lava dripped from its body, a great, blazing eye was revealed.

That was... not good.

Link jumped aside as a large pincer struck the ground, barely missing him.

As he ran away from the pincer, another one slammed down in front of him, halting his progress.

The monster began pulling the pincers together to trap him. Link frantically tried to get out, but he decided to brute force it instead, and hacked at one of the pincers with his sword, vaulting over the scalding hot arm.

He didn't even think of the burn on his hand as he dodged another fiery claw. He shot around, and struck his sword at a joint in front of the claw.

It distracted the monster like last time, but even with his stronger follow-through, the joint was impenetrable.

Gerudo.

He ran faster, dodging attacks, and grabbed a sizable rock.
He aimed for his enemy's eye, but it landed on its abdomen, doing nothing.

He attempted using brute force again, but it only resulted in him getting a hard strike on his shield and his hand getting singed again on the knuckles.

Link breathed heavily, his sword arm becoming weak. He was sweating more intensely as the creature oozed steaming puddles of lava onto the floor.

This was going nowhere. It was like he was trying to chop down a tree, and he hadn't even gotten through the bark.

As he hid in the shadows of the cavern, resting for a moment, he remembered Valoo's tail, hanging down through the crack in the ceiling.
Valoo had several long, thick, curved spikes sticking out from the end of his tail.

Perhaps, if he could not topple the tree, he could take it out by dropping a boulder on it... Link returned his shield to his back.

He was doing something stupid - again. But it was no more stupid than continuing to fight this monster and only risking getting scalded alive.

He jumped out from his hiding place, rolling on the stone to avoid another strike from the monster, and dashed towards where he'd entered this part of the cavern.

He chucked a rock across to the other side of the chamber to decoy it. The monster was distracted for a moment.
Meanwhile, he hid in the cleft of the rock.

He pulled the hooked rope from where he'd tightened it around his shoulder, and after spinning it around in a circle, tossed it towards Valoo's tail.

The rope became tangled on Valoo's spiked tail, and he yanked hard on it with all his might.

Sorry Valoo...

He heard a loud bellowing from above. He'd made Valoo angry. Very angry. The whole volcano shook, and even the lava creature hesitated.
Link pushed his luck and pulled harder.

He heard the noise of quaking through the confines of the cavern, and a large crack split the roof above him.

Oops.

Link whipped the rope, and yanked his hook back. The crack in the cavern's roof widened, and the creature went frantic.

Link grabbed up all the rope, and throwing it over his shoulder, pushed his way through the tight, claustrophobic path he'd come in through. He heard another loud quaking sound, which was followed by the sound of falling rock crunching against the creature's body.