Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly
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- For the dungeon in Oracle of Ages, see Jabu-Jabu's Belly.
| Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly | |
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| Location(s) | Zora's Fountain |
| Game(s) | Ocarina of Time (1998) |
| Main Item | Boomerang |
| Mini-boss(es) | Bigocto |
| Boss(es) | Barinade |
- "Our guardian god, Lord Jabu-Jabu, would never eat my dear Princess Ruto! But since that stranger, Ganondorf, came here, Lord Jabu-Jabu has been a little green around the gills..."
- — King Zora XVI
Inside Jabu Jabu's Belly is the third dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time which is set inside the belly of Lord Jabu-Jabu. To get inside the first time, you have to catch a fish in a bottle, and then drop it in front of him. Lord Jabu-Jabu will then open his mouth, and inhale Link along with the fish.
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[edit] Story
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Upon claiming the Goron's Ruby from Death Mountain and returning to Kakariko Village, Link learns from Saria that she heard of a ruler in the watery areas in the northeast corner of Hyrule, a leader among the aquatic race, the Zoras. She was told by the Great Deku Tree in times of peace that it was this King Zora XVI who possessed the Spiritual Stone of Water. Encouraged by his friend's words, Link travels to Zora's River, traversing the steep banks and rough currents, and receiving advice from the ever-present owl, Kaepora Gaebora.
Upon arrival in Zora's Domain, Link learned from the people that their leader had fallen into a deep depression at the disappearance of his daughter, Princess Ruto, and the violent turn their patron deity Lord Jabu-Jabu had taken. After participating in the Diving Game at the top of the waterfall, Link was gifted with a Silver Scale, and dove into the bottom entrance of Lake Hylia.
There, he found a message in a bottle hidden at the bottom of the lakebed. Upon reading the note, Link was shocked to learn that the author was none other than Princess Ruto, claiming that she had been swallowed by Lord Jabu-Jabu. Taking the note back to King Zora XVI, the ruler, somewhat shocked by the news, permitted Link entrance to Lord Jabu-Jabu's grotto, pleading with the young boy to save his daughter. With the backing of the Zora race, and a new resolve, Link journeyed into the massive maw of Lord Jabu-Jabu to save Princess Ruto, and claim the final Spiritual Stone.
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[edit] Dungeon
Inside Lord Jabu-Jabu's Belly, Link found the water deity's insides infested with monsters, guessing that Ganondorf had cursed Lord Jabu-Jabu in retribution for King Zora XVI's refusal to give him the Zora's Sapphire. Link eradicated the monsters that were infesting Jabu-Jabu's mouth and proceeded deeper into the great fish's belly. Inside the main chamber of Jabu-Jabu's belly, Link found a small Zora girl who introduced herself as Ruto, Princess of the Zoras. Acting as though she did not know anything about a message in a bottle, Ruto coldly dismissed Link and ordered him to go away and leave her there after inadvertently revealing that she had lost a "precious stone" and was searching for it. Turning on her heels, Ruto walked away, but accidentally stepped through a weak spot in the floor and fell through to a lower level of Jabu-Jabu's belly. Link, knowing that Ruto did not fully understand all the danger she was now in, followed after her. Ruto again tried to get Link to leave her, saying that she'd been going inside Lord Jabu-Jabu's belly since she was a small child. However, she also revealed that she'd discovered Lord Jabu-Jabu's insides were now infested with monsters that had just suddenly appeared recently. After Link refused to leave Ruto one final time, the Zora Princess gave Link the "honor" of carrying her as she searched for her lost possession, but warned him that she would not leave until she found it.
Eventually, Link and Ruto came upon a chamber containing only a single central platform. There, in the middle of the platform, was an object that made both of them jump: the Zora's Sapphire. Ruto was overjoyed to see the stone and asked Link to throw her up onto the platform so she could get to the stone, to which he complied. Ruto rushed over to the stone and reclaimed it before going on to tell Link that the stone had belonged to her mother before her and that the stone was her most prized possession. She told Link that as she had been feeding Lord Jabu-Jabu one day recently (a sacred duty given to her by her father), he'd accidentally swallowed her, causing her to lose the stone inside his belly. Now, with the stone back in her possession, Ruto asked Link to take her home to her father now. However, before either of them could move, it was at that moment that the platform Ruto was standing on gave a small jolt and began to rise upward through a large hole in the ceiling, taking Ruto and the Zora's Sapphire with it, revealing the entire chamber to have been a trap. Link heard Ruto scream about an "octopus" as the door to the chamber was sealed off. The platform descended once again, showing Ruto to have vanished and a Bigocto in her place. The Bigocto jumped off the platform and began to circle the chamber, trying to crush Link. However, Link discovered a weak spot on the monster's back and positioned himself to strike it several times until the beast fell dead. Jumping onto the platform after the beast's defeat, Link rose into the room above, where Ruto had disappeared into, but there was no sign of the Zora Princess at all. Resolving to find Ruto and save both she and the stone, Link proceeded on through Jabu-Jabu's Belly until he came to the chamber that was the largest and most important in vitality to the water deity. The young hero entered to do battle with Barinade.
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[edit] Trivia
- Cows may have been sacrifices to Lord Jabu Jabu, because there are cows sticking their heads out of the sides of his belly and mouth in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest. Strangely enough, if you play "Epona's Song" near one of the whole cows protruding from the walls or roof, they will give you Lon Lon Milk, just like a normal cow. This does not work if the cow is in water, however.
- The music played inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly was reused for the music inside Jabun's cave in Outset Island in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
- Jabu-Jabu appears to be bigger on the inside than the outside. This was likely done in order to have a full-sized dungeon.
