You walk with Link up the path in Goron City on the search for the leader. In your luck, you spy a Goron elder outside of a structure with what only could be a giant sized throne on the inside. You walk up to the stranger and you can hear him growling under his breath. "Drat!" He bursts out of nowhere, "that blasted Rudania!"

"What's wrong?" you speak up. The elder turned, not expecting to be overheard. He looked around before directing his eyes straight down at you. The height difference was incredible.

"With Rudania runnin' wild recently, " he began with a voice of gravel, "Death Mountain's eruptions have gotten real bad. Do you see Rudania stompin' around there on the mountain?" He gestured to the salamander machine crawling on the distant cliffs. "They say that 100 years ago, it actually used to protect our people from harm... but that was then and this is now! Now all it does is mess up our mining operations! We're all suffering because it's stoppin' us from doin' business! I can't tell ya how many times we've used that cannon to chase off that fiend." The elder threw his fists in the air. "But it always comes back!!-- Arrrgh..." He stiffened as a horrible cracking sound came from his back.

"Are you okay?" you ask with wide eyes.

"Hmph, it's just some back pain..." he assures. "Wait, who are you?"

"Travelers," you reply

"I see... So, then, you came all this way to pay your respects to me? I like you already, brother!" He grinned with a slight grimace still from the pain. "Well, my name's Bludo," he boomed. "I'm the great Goron boss. I was plannin' to drive off Rudania like I always do, but then this blasted pain in my back flared up outta nowhere... That blasted Yunobo... When will he return?" he muttered.

"Who's Yunobo?" you ask, hoping that you're not prying into personal territory.

"Yunobo is a young Goron that helps me drive off Rudania. He went to go grab some painkillers from the North Mine, but he hasn't come back yet. Hey--" he tightens his fist that makes a sound of leather-- "If you happen to see Yunobo, will you tell him that I'm lookin' for him?"

"Sure thing," you nod and walk back the boss. A while away, you turn to Link expectedly. He was already a step ahead of you, looking at the Sheikah Slate's map for the North Mine.

"Right here," he says and points to the screen. "It's not too far. It's surrounded by lava, that sucks."

"Yeah, I'm already tired of this place. These clothes are so heavy and add resistance to our movement. I really hope they don't become an inconvenience," you mutter, then wish you had some wood to knock on.

"Then we better not stand around. Here, follow me," Link says and takes you up the path. It doesn't take long before you arrive in the North Mine. You come across a strange structure caked in rust. "Is this one of Bludo's cannons?" Link asks.

"My guess is as good as yours. But I'm assuming so," you say. You inspect the metal tubing leading to the bore of the cannon. You suddenly jolt and nearly lose your footing as Link swings his sword and hits the lever, causing the cannon to rotate. He ended up falling over, making you almost laugh.

"So that's what that does," he narrates, awkwardly rubbing his neck. You crack a smile and turn back to the metalwork. Link hums in thought next to you. "This looks like it's big enough for..."

He grabs the Sheikah Slate and selects the Remote Bombs rune. With a flash of blue light, a perfectly spherical, remote bomb materialized in front of him. He hooked the slate back on his belt and cupped his hands around the floating device. As soon as he touched it, gravity returned to normal and nearly caused Link to drop it.

You watch as he carefully crouched down and rolled the bomb into the mechanical tubing. "Fits perfectly," he mused. "Stand back."

The both of you back up a few steps and watch as the bomb detonated on Link's command. The cannon emitted a deafening bang and rocketed a flaming ball of fire straight forward, landing on a pile of loose rocks, and completely demolishing them.

Both you and Link stared wide-eyed at the force.

The rocks surfaced a blowhole underground pushing out air and steam. Link's eyes traced a potential path before he nodded surely. "If we paraglide there--" he points to the steam-- "and sail to that platform, we could make it to that building in the back of the mine. That must be what we're looking for."

"Woah woah woah," you wave your hands. "You're asking us to paraglide over lava?! Not a chance."

"Do you have a better--?"

"And how can you be so sure that's what we're looking for? What if we make it over there, find out we were wrong, and then find out we're stuck?"

"Hey, calm down!" he panicked and frantically looked around. His gaze landed on a goron miner, hardhat and pickaxe in hand. "Let's just ask."

Link jumps off the cannon's platform and hastily walks towards the goron. You follow hesitantly with a nervous feeling looming above you. "Hey, excuse me?" Link calls to the stranger.

The goron notices the approaching hylian and sighs with rolling eyes. "Yeesh," he groans rudely, "What's goin' on today? So many people out and about! You should know it gets much hotter past here, and there are also loooots of monsters. It's reeeeeally dangerous."

"Do you know Yunobo?" Link asks, which wasn't the question the worker was expecting.

"Why is a stranger like yoooou asking about Yunobo?"

"Boss wants to know."

The goron gasps with a dropping jaw. "Huh?! Boss does?! Well... then I guess I better tell you wheeeeere Yunobo is!" He turns and points to the same building Link suggested moments ago. "Yunobo went to the vault to fetch some painkillers. But now that you mention it, I suppooooose he never came back."

Link turned around with a soft, fixed expression. You break eye contact and stare at the stone ground, seriously wishing he didn't turn out to be right. "This place is daaaaangerous, so ya probably shouldn't go lookin' for him," he goron concludes.

Link turned so he completely faced you. "We don't have to go that way if you really don't want to. We can find another route."

You looked anywhere else so you wouldn't have to make eye contact. Your eyes raked over the obstacles behind him, scanning for any other options. There wasn't any, and Link probably already knew that as well. "It's fine," you shake your head. "I'll just suck it up and tough it out."

He nods with a determined smile and leads you past the goron and back to the cannon, completely ignoring the worker's advice. You both position yourselves on the edge, ready to glide. "On three," he says. "One, two--"

"Wait!" You blurt, gripping the wooden handles of your paraglider you were about to unfold. Link turns in worry. "The gliders, won't they catch on fire again?"

Link curses under his breath. "You're right," he murmured with his eyes casting to the corner of his vision, recalling the way the both of you horribly found out the fact. "Didn't the fire vanish once we drank the elixirs? Maybe the heat resistance properties also affect the things we have on us, like our clothes and possibly our gliders."

"But our elixirs wore off," you remind and think for a second. "Do you think the heat resistance in the Flamebreaker armor?"

"It's not impossible," he shrugs.

You nod and stare at the ground, making a serious decision. "Okay," you speak, "let's do this."

After Link's count of three, the both of you jump from the platform, aiming for the next. Your grip on the handles tighten as you brace for a rising heat, but it didn't come. You both land safely on your feet, completely unharmed by unwanted flames.

"I have..." you give yourself a moment to calm your racing heart... "never been so relieved that... you were right."

"Are you implying something?"

"No," you wave him off. "Not at all." You straighten up and roll your shoulders, readying yourself for another go at gliding. "After you," you nod towards the gale.

"'Kay," he runs and jumps into the steam, unfolding his glider with a flourish. "Follow me!" He calls over the howling wind.

You jump into the breeze after him. The wind pushes against the cloth glider, pulling you higher and higher, away from the lava that burned your eyes to look at. You lean forward and glide after Link towards the next mound of rock holding a metal piece bridge straight towards the final destination.

With a metal thunk, you land on the stone entrance of the vault, which was covered in searing hot rock. "Please..." a voice whimpers from inside. "Someone please help me."

"Yunobo?" You call towards the vault. "Is that you? Yunobo?"

The unfamiliar voice stops crying. "Hello?" he calls back with a clearer voice resulting form turning towards the exit. "Is someone there?"

"Yes! Hello! My friend and I are here to get you out!" you announce. Behind you, Link spots another cannon on another island of rock.

"I'll go use the cannon," Link says. "Get away from the entrance."

"The cannons?" Yunobo gasps from inside. "But you won't know how! Those are Boss' cannons!"

"Don't worry," you assure him, but go unheard since you retreated to the other side of the bridge, out of the way. Link paraglides to the cannon and climbs atop of the platform. You watch as he inserts a remote bomb into the system and strikes the lever with his sword.

The cannon, however, rotates way past the ideal point of trajectory, past the targeted vault. He frowns, realizing he was going to have to time things just right, and strikes the lever again. Just as the cannon passes over the rock blocked entrance, he detonates the bomb and hits the rock blocking entrance with a bull's eye.

The stone smashes and rolls away from the doorway, revealing Yunobo inside. He faced away from the door with his ears covered, shaking from head to toe with a geometrical, orange glow around him.

The magic vanishes on his command and he chances a glance behind him to find you and Link peering inside. He gasps and turns around fully. "Gah!" he exclaims, "I thought you were monsters!"

You instantly notice his champion blue garb tied around his shoulders, similar to yours, but without the hood and different white designs.

"You were the ones who rescued me right?" he says animatedly with a youthful voice. "Thank you so much, brothers! But what brought you all the way out here to begin with?"

"Boss told us to come and find you," Link explains.

"Oh! I should've guessed," Yunobo gasps. "Thank goodness. I'm so glad you saved me, goro! The name's Yunobo. Though you knew that... Everyone calls me Yunobo. Makes sense..." he trails off as he realizes his redundancy. "Uh.. anyway... I've never seen-- uh, you before! Who are-- what's your names, goro?"

"I'm (Y/N), this is Link," you say and point to each of you.

"(Y/N) and Link! Great pair of names! Familiar... pair of names..." he mutters. "Uh, well, I came to get some painkillers for Boss, but a magma bomb caused a rockslide and sealed the entrance, goro. Ack, I just remembered! Sorry, gotta run! But do come by and see the Boss later, okay? He may be gruff, but he always returns a favor. I'm sure there's a reward. Okay, good bye for now, goro!"

Yunobo runs out the entrance with a wave and tucks himself into a ball, rolling down the hills of the back of the island.