Chapter 1: Athena and Sheikhan Wolf

The Miraculous Stones, objects of great power… forged from materials of unknown origin, but the effects granted live up to their name.

What keeps these artifacts in balance are three: the Miraculous Stones of Power, Wisdom and Courage. But, as with every legend, the balance is tipped towards one or the other…

"With these stones, I can finally attain my wish!" A dark, foreboding voice boomed into the shadows of his domain, the only source of light seeming to be a sunroof from above.
A red spirit sat beside him, cackling with a trail of ashes following him. "Indeed they can, my dear friend. As it is the least I can do for saving me from my prison." This creature was odd-looking, as it had the face of a pig, the tusks its wild cousin the boar and a build similar to a human-bear hybrid sans fur.
The figure let out a short and blunt chuckle, "Such ambition for one so small, Boore, which is exactly what I need to bring my wish to life," the figure stepped towards the light enough to make out that the figure was tall with dark skin that had a twinge of sickly green to it, eyes burning like fire and hair of the same nature. On top of his head gleamed a gem of dark crimson red with the etchings of a wild boar placed over what appeared to be a grisly scar.
"LET THE FIRES OF POWER BURN ALL THOSE WHO STAND IN MY WAY! LET US RECREATE THIS EARTH TO ITS TRUE GLORY!" The figure's form was surrounded by winged spherical creatures that then devolved into a fire-like appearance to give this man a new look. A trident skewered the floor as an armored hand grasped it as twirled it about. He was now donned in garb that would fit a barbarian noble, though a red, skin-tight mask now covered his face. The mask seemed to mimic the gemstone that still stayed present on his being, tusks near his mouth like scarring and the etching of wild boar eyes surrounding his own. His hair sprung out wildly into a fearsome mane that burned through the night, which was no longer such a peaceful time thanks to his manic cackling. "Boarova shall rule!"

"Snore-hooooot… snore-hooooot… snore-hoooSNNNNK!" a brownish-yellow, Fairy-like creature with long forelimbs tipped in feathers was rustled out of his slumber by a dreaded foreboding. Its golden eyes tight with worry as he floated out of a hollowed out trunk in a high garden.
"Master!" It twittered, flying out to an elderly man in a reddish robe with stern eyebrows. "Master! We've got a problem!"
The elderly man glanced at the creature. "Ho? What's wrong, Huut?"
The small creature had a strong anxious air around it, "I sensed the Miraculous of Power, it has fallen into the hands of one with a dark heart!"
The older one let out a melancholic hum of thought. "So the cycle still continues..."
"We must find the other two! Surely they can still fight like you?" Huut pleaded, flapping his arms about. Were the feathers like a real bird's, some would have dislodged in the panic by now.
"Huut, my dear friend," the master chided, "You know that I am too old to face these demons as you so claim, and you yourself relinquished your title years ago."
"BAH!" the owl-like Fairy squaked. "Then we must contact my old apprentice and that hooligan she was so fond of then. Bleddyn, ugh...who decided it was a good idea to give him the control over wind?"
"Indeed. The pup has… an air about him in that regard, but that is beside the point."
Huut gave his life-long companion a deadpan stare, "Leave the jokes to Bleddyn, Rauru. He at least had that working for him."
Rauru sighed as he stood, he was tall, and a tad stocky, other than that, his reddish orange/gold robes left much to the imagination…
"Where have their charges gone to in these years? There's been so many, the details of each blend," Huut questioned as Raura stood.
Rauru glanced out of the giant tower on the Labrynna Bay, "If I recall correctly, they may still be in Hyrule."
Huut groaned as his memories collected. "Ugh, right. Malladus. By Farore that guy was a pain."
Rauru only let out a small hum of thought that agreed to that statement, "The threats unfolding will be most grim…"

The soft chime of a phone's flute-like tune went off on the white smartphone atop the camo comforter… and has been for the past 15 minutes.
"Link! You're going to be late for your first day!" A female voice chided in a way that wasn't harsh but urgent.
In response to that a young male's voice let out a sleepy groan before reaching out from the cocoon of warmth that was his bedsheets, feeling around for the phone to finally shut off the wake up alarm and then shedding said sheets to get up. His appearance put him at 16 at the earliest, dirty blond hair sticking out about everywhere while his cornflower blue eyes were still a bit glazed over from sleep. After rubbing the sleep from his eyes he got up and dressed in a simple blue T-shirt, forest green hoodie jacket and semi-faded blue jeans before exiting his bedroom loft and into the kitchen. "Mornin' Mom," the teen yawned while taking a seat at the kitchen counter/table. He mentally thanks his mother for already setting out such things as milk, a bowl, a couple different cereals and a spoon already within reach.
"Good morning dear." The mother in question held very little resemblance to her son due to him taking more after Germanic husband than her Japanese heritage; the only noticeable things that son and mother shared were stature and the ability to have their thick hair maintain some sort of hairstyle without much use of hair products. "Did you sleep well?" She asked after giving him a kiss on the side of his forehead.
"Kinda, I had a weird dream," he answered while preparing his cereal, "First I was riding across the sea in this one-person boat that looked like a lion, but apparently once I hit land I became a wolf, but then I grabbed this really big pearl then I didn't have to worry about that anymore. Then there was a bunch of glowing lights following me around trying to tell me things. I don't really remember what they all said except that one really liked to alert me of monsters."
"Sounds like a very fun video game," she chuckled, "Perhaps when you've completed college for graphics design, you could turn your dream into one?"
Link let out a soft chuckle, "Maybe later. Right now I actually have to keep my grades up for that. How many more years left?" He asked with a soft groan.
"Just a few more." She petted his head in comfort.
"Then you have the REAL fun starting." came a cackle from the hallway. Rolling through the doorway on a wheelchair was someone who could pass as Link's brother in appearance, if it wasn't for a few wrinkles, the stubble, and a good chunk of his left leg missing.
Link groaned. "Daaad, you're not helping!"
"Good morning, Boris dear~!" She came over and hugged him around the shoulders, also giving a quick kiss.
"Oh, my dear Yuki, my precious snow bunny~!" Boris nuzzled her cheek with his.
Link groaned again, but this one in more amusement than annoyance like before. His parents had been together for longer than he's been alive yet they still acted like newlyweds. It gave him a mixed feeling of warmth and some gagging at the sappiness of it all. He grabbed his backpack and tried to slip out while his folks were having their moment.
"Link!" Boris called, pulling away from his wife for a moment, "Remember, you said you'd work with Impa after school today."
"Gotcha, dad!" he called back as he stepped out of the house with a smile. Impa was his dad's oldest friend, he thinks Impa was the one who set his parents up together (or he imagined that detail) when they were younger. She always kept an eye on him when his parents couldn't, and through her, he met the most beautiful girl he's ever known…

'Almost there, almost there…!' A female teen of at least 16 years was running towards a school building, her golden ponytail flying behind her as her sapphire blue eyes stayed focused on the end goal: the chance to go to a real school! Though such activities as rock climbing, archery and some horseback kept her busy physically and mentally (for the most part), they couldn't fill the emotional emptiness that came from a lack of friends. Well, friends who aren't apart of the more richer elite. She had known one girl since they could walk since their parents ran mutually beneficial companies, but too much of her was also a health hazard (as she has found out in more recent years).
"Zelda Moira Callaghan, get back here!" called the voice of an older slender woman, white hair in a bun looking a bit frazzled as her crimson eyes kept a laser-focus on her charge. Goddesses, how she regretted the day Gustaf installed that rock-climbing wall in Zelda's bedroom, it proved just how swift she could be when she put her mind to it. "You are not to attend public school and that is final!"
Zelda skidded just as she reached the middle of the stairway to the school, glad that she was dextrous enough to not go face-first into the concrete of them. "Why not? Simply because he worries I will make a 'mockery' of the family name?" She crossed her arms and stared at her custodian/father's secretary, "I know better than to do that."
"This is merely your father's wish, Zelda. As his right hand and your caregiver, I must abide to what he says," Impa explained as she also stood with her arms crossed, though she gave off a much more defined air of power to her stance compared to the teen's. Behind her she was joined by the walking wall that is Byrne, his silent intimidation added to Impa's enough to release a sigh from Zelda's lips and to sulk over to them. They soon headed back to their not-quite-mansion to begin her homeschooling.
'There's gotta be some way to get out of here...' She thought wistfully as the school started to leave her view. 'I just wish I knew how.'

Meanwhile, back in Harkinian Academy, everything seemed pretty normal right down to the typical haughty girl, Cia, going on one of her usual 'Pay attention to my opinion because I think I'm better than you all' rants while long-suffering Lana was close behind trying not to show how much she wanted Cia to stop for the sake of her own health/reputation.
Cia was part of high society, and she reveled in the prestige. Also being 'friends' with Zelda Callaghan didn't hurt either, but only half the class really believed her claims of such. Zelda always seemed so… uncomfortable in whatever selfies Cia had her in when showing them off. Hilda of course did her best to help her friend, but… well, Cia's reach was long and unnerving. Emphasis on unnerving. It seemed to become twice as bad if Link was present in the room, which speaking of guess who was getting his first hello from one of his classmates.
"BROTHER!" Darunia bellowed as he pulled Link in a one-armed hug that had been known to take the wind out of many not used to it. He was something comparable to a sumo wrestler in terms of build, tanned - almost bronze - skin with dusty blond roots under earthy black hair.
"Heya!" Link managed to choke out from the grasp before returning it with his gentler-by-comparison hug. He glanced over in Darunia's other arm to see his non-blood twin, wearing his signature violet bunny hood. "See you got Rav..."
Ravio was the closest thing to a best friend Link had. Almost a brother really, given how both were only children. It kind of helped that they shared some of the same physical features, though by comparison, Ravio's raven locks and brilliant green eyes made it clear they weren't actually related.
Said eyes were in spirals at the moment, no doubt from Darunia's happiness that both of his sworn brothers were in the same class.
"Who else is in class this year?" Link managed to ask after finally getting released and also keeping Ravio steady on his feet.
"Oh I'm so glad you asked, darling~."
Link heard the horrifically, obviously faked bubbly voice and it put a great chill down his spine, 'Oh no, not this year too!' He thought as he turned his neck to look in the violet eyes of evil herself, complete with dark skin and a shallow bleached pixie cut. He really, really hoped that her too-deep-for-school V-neck would get her out early so that he wouldn't have to deal with this… as much as he hated how the dress code for girls is being policed to no ends in this day and age, he just wanted an excuse - ANY excuse - to not be in the room with Cia Ihejirika for even one class! Ravio and Darunia shared the sentiment, though kept it mental for their safety.
"Oh… hello, talking rock and rodent," Cia grimaced at the Darunia and Ravio while they just glared back in response to the 'nicknames' she's given the two.
"Come on Cia, not again," Link muttered as he stood in front of the two of them. Now he wouldn't be one to hit a girl, but he wasn't going to let Cia walk over his bros like that.
"Alright, Alright. Settle down everyone." Came the voice of the teacher as he entered. Mister Horwell was an interesting person - kind, understanding (even with Cia somehow) and loved to speak of his pets. The strange this is, though, despite his brunet locks, he also held an eerie similarity to Mister Owlan despite the two confirming that they aren't related. People just chalked it up to them being like Link and Ravio, brothers literally from other mothers, but couldn't help but be slightly erred by such…
A quick glance around the room saw many familiar faces, Sitting near the back door of the classroom was Nabooru, she was nice enough, if a bit persistent when searching for something. The redhead looked like she was holding back a headache, and another boisterous yell made Link groan once more… "Oh man, not Groose again..."
Across the room, he saw a burly man with similar bright red hair to Nabooru, styled in a ridiculous pointed pompadour that would remind one more of the comb on a rooster's head… just all in one direction, which is up and he was very proud of it.
While Groose Darzi was a bully to Link and Ravio in their youth, he mellowed out a bit, but Link was still cautious around him; once bitten twice shy, after all. Uncomfortable with him, not as much as with Cia, but still.
Next to Nabooru was a small boy with a hood on, no one could tell who he was at first glance, but the vibrant earthy colors of his patchwork coat made it obvious that Stalworth was in the class. He was painfully shy and usually carried two keychain figurines on his person, usually in his pockets or on his (very large) canvas bag.
Below them sat a dark skinned girl dressed in a pale rose color, which contrasted with her vibrant light blue hair. Whether this was her natural color or not was very ambiguous. She wore sapphire earrings that curved around her ear and pointed out in three places, similar to frilled fins, that ended with little teardrops that were amethysts. She looked at Link and gave an eager smile with a finger wave. Link politely waved back. 'Seems Ruto hasn't changed...' She stopped suddenly and Link saw Cia glaring daggers and other pointy implements at her. Link used that to his advantage to slip away from the witch's grabby hands.
Trying to get a seat, Link saw the diminutive girl Saria Vaughan standing on her desk to meet Groose at eye level. Saria was another close friend, and usually stood up to Groose's antics. Her bright green hair stood out and clashed with Groose's red a lot. Like right now with the two of them glaring into each other's eyes in a heated staring contest.
Next to Groose was Shad, a studious type of guy wearing glasses. He was taking notes already, from what it looked like, as he was clearly not interested in his classmates' rivalry. Definite dedication to academics… yeesh. His picture's right there next to the definition.
Finally, sitting together were two of the class… oddballs, if you wanted to be bold about it. Agitha Lepidout was a small blonde girl with a cheerful smile on her dazed face, her clothing consisting mostly of butterfly-related patterns and twin tail holders that were ladybug-themed. Beside her was Hilda Driscoll, the second richest heiress in the country, right under Zelda Callaghan. Like with him and Ravio, Hilda could have been mistaken for Zelda's twin, were it not for her black hair and ruby red irises. The two of them got along swimmingly, despite being in different status levels and their contrasting personalities.
Link sighed. At least this year couldn't get worse…

Impa closed the door to Zelda's room, hearing her hit the pillow before Zelda groaned in her bed. The matron sighed before walking down the tall halls of the residence. Impa saw a kindred spirit in Zelda, but did not want her to endanger herself, or worse… have her father find out and tighten the leash to quite the metaphorical choking. As she departed from Zelda's door, she took a moment to stare at the painting that adorned the main hall as its sole decoration: Gustaf Callaghan, ever the silver-haired businessman, in a nice suit and tie while dear daughter Zelda in a flowing but modest powder blue dress, both looking with stern, focused faces. She knows there was once a time when both would smile, but that was only because of - her mind wandered to a memory of the girl's mother, her smiling face as the two of them spoke in camaraderie. How she missed those days, the two of them causing a stir around town with their friends. She turned her gaze out the window, to better recall those times, when she saw something very familiar fluttering across the yard.

'No, it can't be… can it?' Curiosity got the better of her and she went to investigate what was outside. "Do my eyes play tricks on me? Huut?"
The brown sprite was facing away from her, but at her voice twisted his head to look being him. "Well, well, well. Brawynn's charge. I've been looking for you."
"Whatever for? I had thought after the defeat of Malladus, all would be at peace." Impa stated, her grip tightened slightly as memories creeped into her mind.
Huut fluttered onto Impa's shoulder to relax. "I'll tell you after you get me some fish… the little ones. Cross-country flight kills ya!"
Impa laughed lightly at that. "Alright, but be quick about it, I'm expecting someone later today."

Zelda had grown weary of her room and decided that a change of scenery, though the house was more lackthereof most days, was needed in addition to a quick snack break. Sneaking around the house was nothing new for her. She knew every creak of the floorboards and how to slip past Byrne when he did patrols. The one thing that threw her off during her little secret trip to the kitchen was that Impa was talking to… someone who was not Byrne or her father. In fact, that voice didn't seem quite human, it was rather high-pitched, and stuffing itself? 'What in Hyrule?'
 "You never did learn manners, Huut." she heard Impa chide.
"Well excuuuse me for nearly collapsing from starvation." the now-named… Hoot(?) said. There was more stuffing, and then a small belch. "Ah~ sardines and anchovies, pungent and satisfying~."
Zelda had to keep herself from heaving at the mere thought of someone actually managing to eat such slimy, salty fish and say they enjoyed it. On pizza was bad enough, but straight?! YEEEUCK!
"Anyway," Huut now said again, getting her attention. "The reason why I came to you is because of one thing: Athena and Sheikhan Wolf are needed again."
'Athena? Sheikhan Wolf?' Zelda had thought to leave so as to not become an eavesdropper, a nasty habit that can be once you start, but on hearing such strange titles she found herself drawn into the conversation. She made sure to stay hidden in order to let this talk go on uninterrupted, however, as she had a feeling if someone were to show up that it would mean never finding out more about these two… people?
"Huut, you know I can't. You know he can't," one of Impa's hands started to become a fist, "we made sure Malladus would never come back again after…"
Silence.
'Impa's only ever this… heavily silent if something grave has happened.' Zelda started to have quite the sensation of guilt developing in the pit of her stomach. She started to slink away due to finding herself no longer hungry from hearing the exchange when she heard the one called Huut say something else.
"Then we'll just find another Athena and Sheikhan Wolf! Shouldn't be too hard, you still have Brawynn's necklace with you, right? We just gotta find a new owner!"
"Huut, we both know it's much more simple when it's just words." Impa now crossed her arms in irritation at the owl-like Fairy, "The one who owns Brawynn's Miraculous has to show themselves to be worthy of the title in some aspect. She isn't a goddess of wisdom and patron goddess of heroic endeavors for nothing!"
'Okay, I should really be going now…' At least that's what Zelda mentally told herself, her feet and legs weren't cooperating and kept her in place.
"Oh sure, Brawynn's a bit prude," Huut said with a snark, "but she opens up to anyone with enough seeds."
Impa had to resist having her hands make contact with her forehead from that comment, "Assuming they can even find her… I made sure she was hidden in a secret place from everyone."
'Okay, really need to get away now…' Zelda thought and started to do so now due to the panic that was settling in. At this point she knew she was risking getting caught, she's seen enough TV to know that!
She heard the sound of gargling and then a heavy spit. "You humans always over complicate things." Huut said. "Move some mirrors, press a switch, pull a bookshelf, flip the doohickey." The statement was then followed by a groan, "I still remember that one mishap with that obstacle course mayhem JUST TO GET A FISH."
"It was his idea," Impa muttered, "Wolfie thought you were getting a bit pudgy."
That had Zelda covering her mouth and forcing her laughing down to stay mental. Though she was rather curious, did Huut's statement have truth to it? Just some repositioning of mirrors, some switches and other 'doohickies' reveal a secret of Impa's?

...There was only one way to find out. Boy was she going to regret this on being caught.

The boy's locker room, a place of rumors, dirty clothes and even dirtier jokes/comments/etc. Link had never been fond of such places even before puberty set in, but this (and the boy's bathroom) was one of the few places Cia couldn't get into. He originally opted for one of the boy's bathrooms on the ground level, but at the same time it would mean that Cia could have been standing not even 3 feet away waiting for him to come out. He needed to be stealthy about this. Chances are she would have given up stalking the outside of the locker room soon enough because there was no way to tell that he was even there without getting in trouble. But how to get out without getting caught, that was the question at hand.
Link tried opening the door just a crack to see if she was out there. Sadly, the vision did not offer much so he had to poke his head out to see. Still no Cia. He was home free!
He opened the door fully and stepped out proudly, his patience earned him safety, but that was soon replaced by a feeling of dread at a low giggle. Looking up to the ceiling nearly had him bolting.
"Oh Link~!" Cia called as she had her hands firmly on the walls above the locker room door, her feet planted above the frame and her knees closed in to her chest. She had a wild smile on her face as she licked her lips.
"FARORE!" Link found himself in the locker room again and hiding in one of the empty shower stalls.
"You can't hide forever, darling~." he heard Cia call. He shuddered at the sickly sweetness.
He looked around the lockers to see if there was anything to be used to deter the witch.
Sadly, he could not use a locker as a throwable weapon due to them being attached to the wall and the legal issues that would abound from such an action.
A towel? Good shielding to the eyes, but easily removable.
Deodorant? Probably as a projectile, but he'd need a clear shot, something Cia wouldn't give.
A jock strap? ...no… just no. That would get her prompted to think certain things instead of scaring her away.
Looking around, he saw a sheen of bright purple he just knew to be from Ravio's locker. Luckily, his friend kept it unlocked, and he forgot his duffel bag. Unzipping it, he smiled at what he saw inside: a gauntlet of some sort with three tipped claws and what looked like a chain. It also had a purple rabbit tag on it, showing ownership. How his friend ever came across this stuff, he will never know, and even if he asks his bro's response is usually 'I have my ways/connections'.
"Ravio, I'll give this back to you when I'm safe." he muttered as he zipped the bag back up and tossed it over his shoulder. He aimed the gauntlet to a large open window and pulled the trigger. The chain unraveled as the claws shot forth to a nearby lamp post, the embedded and clasped against the support as Link pressed a trigger to retract it.
The feeling of weightlessness had him hold his breath as he flew out the room and unceremoniously smashed his face into the pole. Once he opened his eyes he found himself on solid ground again, on his back and staring up into the afternoon sky… which somehow had stars in it? Oh wait, that was just his vision. "Oh goddesses," he groaned with a crack in his voice, "Mom's gonna kill me if Dad doesn't for this stunt… because this is SO gonna bruise."
He shook it off as best he could while making his way to the Callaghan estate, for two very important reasons…

'Either I have the dumbest luck in the world or the fates have conspired to make this happen. Nobody breaking into the room of their bodyguard should be able to do so with very little resistance.' Zelda thought as she found herself in Impa's minimalistically-themed bedroom trying to figure out which reflective surface was suppose to be turned first. '...Then again, not many teens have bodyguards to begin with.' Ignoring that she has a radically different lifestyle than the majority of other people, she carefully started to reposition anything that could reflect light to see what would happen if it hit a certain spot.
"Let's see… move the mirrors, flip the switch, should the light direct to the bookcase? Is it even the right order of things?" She let out a small sigh of annoyance as she tried to remember what the one called Huut explained, "Maybe he was just being sarcastic and I completely fell for it…" she muttered to herself dishearteningly while leaning on a plain vanity desk, though she had managed to put enough weight on it to cause a shift, which got it to bounce some reflections of light and hit a thick, green cover-bound book with what looked to be reflective gold writing on it. "That seriously can't be it, can it?" Only one way to find out… she pulled the book out slowly until she heard a click. In the corner of her eye, she saw a smaller red book with similar, if more simplistic writing on it pop out slightly. Tentatively, she set her hand on the spine and pressed it in, hearing the click again and now accompanied by the shifting of gears. She stepped away from the shelf as it creaked and turned open.
"Dear Nayru, now I'm sure that the fates made this happen." With a deep breath and clenched firsts of anxiety she stepped through the now open shelving unit, "Goddesses it's dusty!" She coughed after finding that going into a new location should require some airing out time. It wasn't a long walk, but what she found nearly tore her apart. After finding that Impa had an additional secret (involving some kind of ninja-like outfit and other LARP-ing equipment) she spotted a picture behind it. With a gentle hold and a breaking heart she saw it was a younger-looking Impa, about Zelda's own age, with bleach blonde hair, a woman with red hair in dreadlocks, and… her mother, Hylia. Though she didn't get to know her mom for very long it was very clear that this young, blonde beauty with eyes the color of the setting sun sky wasn't just some stranger, as Zelda saw that face frequently in the mirror. 'Dad was right, I do look so much like her…' She wiped at her tears with her forearm, the action forcing her gaze up and now noticing something rather odd: a small, blue treasure box-shaped object with intricate swirls going up and down it in some unknown shiny, blue-purple metal that looked like stylized clouds of some sort. "What in Hyrule…?" Without thinking about it she reached out for the box and pried it, finding that it was unlocked and not at all difficult to open up. Taking a quick look around, she warily opened the box the rest of the way and looked inside. That's when she found that a bright blue light bubbled out of the chest, causing her to block it with her hands and the picture due to how bright it was. The light started to rise up and move around the room quickly, and Zelda, in some panic tried to catch the light. She almost had it once or twice, but after putting down the picture, she cupped her hands above her head and with luck had the light between her fingers.
Opening her fingers, she saw the light fade and in its place was a small bird-like creature with a large head that reminded her of a Bird of Paradise and a Shoebill with a cute little curly tail like a Shiba's, the coloring ranging from different sky blues with a white belly and white-tipped wings.
'Aww, it's like a fluffy Articuno baby~!' she thought with an internal squee. Said squee almost leaked out when the small creature opened their eyes and looked up at her with midnight blue eyes.

The small blue being stared at her as though they were piecing something together in their mind, before a voice that was very much not so squeaky and bird-like but feminine came forth from their beak, "Hylia?"
Zelda tensed, giving the other a rehearsed smile before responding, "No, that's my mother. I'm her daughter, Zelda." Years of having to quell her emotions for the public kept her tone even and without any clearly noticeable traits of sadness.
"Forgive me," said the blue one as she took to the air, somehow managing to float in place despite no use of her wings, "Had I known, I wouldn't have made such an immediate remark that would upset you so."
'She could tell?' Zelda was both impressed and a bit worried.
"Allow me to introduce myself, I am the Kwami of Wisdom, Brawynn." she did a bowing motion that pulled her into a somersault.
Zelda giggled. "It's nice to meet you, Brawynn. I heard Impa talking to someone called Huut, does that name mean anything to you?"
"They both do, actually," Brawynn remarked with a nod, "Lady Impa was once my partner in her youth and Huut was my teacher of the Kwami ways."
"Partner? Teacher?" Zelda blinked a few times in surprise, 'Impa was… and Huut is like Brawynn?'
 "Speaking of, where are they? I know this is Lady Impa's room, but I don't see her here." she puffed up her body in a huff. "Huut better not be gorging himself again..."
"On sardines, you mean?"
Just the mentioning ruffled Brawynn's feathers. "Please don't speak of those tasteless creatures… and you're dodging the question."
Zelda did another rehearsed smile, though this one showed some strain, "Oh, um… I sort of came in here without her… permission…"
An awkward silence fell around them. Then Brawynn quickly flew away, this time actually flapping her wings.
"No, no, no!" Zelda ran after her in great alarm, "Oh goddesses don't tell her, I'll completely fess up, just stop!"
Brawynn turned around and landed on the rim of the chest she was in. "Due to the desperation in your voice, you feel as though you have been caged by family. You desire freedom, and you want to live as yourself."
Color Zelda shocked beyond all belief. She had only known this small creature for all of a few minutes and somehow Brawynn managed to know her very mind and heart within that time. Is she a herald of the goddesses? A telepath? Just very, very lucky? "H-How did you…?"
"Your eyes speak it as clear as the morning sky, perhaps this is why you were given such blue eyes." Brawynn paused before bringing her wing below her beak, "No, no, no, that's a poor comparison, Impa's were red and filled with willpower… you have something different, a uniqueness about such eyes."
Zelda just stood there, kerfluffled, by the words of the blue one.
"Ah, now I see what reflects in your eyes… justice." Brawynn nodded a bit as she announced this result, "You wish to do what is right despite your own limitations due to your lifestyle. Such a reflection of such is rare."

Zelda was still pretty shell shocked by all of this and any words she tried to think of fell flat in her mind. How could she respond to such statements? And then there's the little issue of if Impa finds out… speaking of, she swore she started hearing footsteps coming to the room. "Oh no, oh no!" She gasped softly as she tried to figure out what to do in this pinch. Brawynn had to be hidden away now, also needed to somehow undo the hidden passage and the reflections that caused it. All in the matter of a few seconds. Chances are her luck was finally running out now.
"We must work quickly!" Brawynn zipped around trying to make the room look like it had before Zelda messed around, the perpetrator helping with the process, and the two soon found themselves hiding in Impa's rather spacious closet after Brawynn grabbed something from her treasure chest and perched herself upon Zelda's golden locks.
Zelda willed her breath and heart to be steady as the footsteps became louder and louder, her thoughts going from 'Please don't enter, there is no way I could explain why this blue bird on my head is nor as to why I'm in my bodyguard's room without sounding like a crazy person' to rapid-fire prayers to the Golden Goddesses to not be caught. She was also a bit confused as to why she heard a knock, but that only made the worry worse since it meant someone else might discover her!
What she didn't know was that the footsteps and knocking was done by Link, since he had come for his semi-daily training with Impa. She wasn't at the front to meet and greet him and Byrne was… uncomfortably silent but cooperative in letting him in. He had figured to check her room first (after getting instructions from Byrne) to see if she was there, only to find his knock pushed the already ajar door slightly more open to an empty room. 'Not one for extensive decorating.' He thought as he took a few seconds to look around in hopes that Impa would be in there.
He heard his phone go off with a distinctive tune, and as he looked at the ID, he saw his dad calling. Answering it, he could hear his dad on the other end.
["Sorry to pull you away from Impa, son, but some idiot decided to mess around with the storage room at the University's Loft Wing, I was hoping you could come down and help."]

Link walked away from Impa's room before answering his dad, "It seems she's not in anyway, Dad, so I guess I'm free this afternoon. I'll be over as soon as I can."
["See ya soon!"]
"Okay Dad!"

Zelda heard the footsteps falling away, and once she was sure she could no longer hear them she left her hiding place, made a beeline for her own room then promptly slid to the floor after closing her door, Brawynn mimicking the gesture, "Nayru's Love, that was close!"
"Verily," the blue Kwami sighed then floated to Zelda's eye level, a strange object hanging from her talons, "and I'm afraid I must ask something of you… put this on."
"What is it?" Zelda reached out for the object only to find her new companion more or less shoving it into her palm. On inspection she found that it was a choker with the bluest of royal blue silk she had ever seen in her life, the charm hanging from it a brilliant gold and shaped like the wings of Hyrule's Crest with three, circular gemstones grouped to look like a triangle in the center of it, the gems themselves lightest of blues she has ever witnessed.
Da Da Da DAAAAAHH!
The ringing in her ears jolted her from her inspection and almost dropped the choker, "What in Hyrule!?"
"Side effect," was Brawynn's only comment. "With this, you can become the Legendary Hero Athena!"
"Legendary Hero? I thought the Legendary Hero was a male."
Brawynn chirped in indignation. "Those were the ones that were cemented in the beginnings. While they did Hyrule's threats, Athena and Sheikhan Wolf handled the much bigger matters."
Zelda took a few moments to ponder the Kwami's words before slipping the jewelry around her neck, "Very well… what do I do now?"
"Simply ask me to spread my wings." Brawynn stated.
"Anything else I should know before we jump into this adventure?" Zelda asked with some excitement shining in her eyes.
Brawynn chuckled softly at her enthusiasm and caution, "Clever girl, making sure to get all the details beforehand." The Kwami floated about in front of her. "You will have the ability to fly for certain periods, but if you use it too quickly it will be wasted. You also have a magical spell called the Light Arrow, which is used to cleanse what enemies we come across in battle. To summon that, you need complete focus and let your magic flow through you, releasing it in a dazzling display of light. When that happens, the power of the Navii will continue the cleansing."
"It all sounds like a dream…" Zelda muttered as she gently placed her hands on the choker's charm to remind herself that it's not.
The Kwami nuzzled her upper body against the hand Zelda had on the charm, "I assure you, it's not. This is very much real," her tone was soft but affirming, "as are the dangers that come with it. I don't doubt you, my new lady, but you must do the same. Believe in yourself."
Zelda closed her eyes and took in a deep breath, "Very well," she stated on exhaling and opening her eyes, "Let's begin! Brawynn, spread your wings!"
The Kwami did a barrel roll into the choker's charm, which made the gems within take a hue akin to sapphires, which also resulted in a bright energy traveling across her body, replacing her clothing with a completely new and foreign outfit.
It was a sleek yet simple strong sapphire blue dress that went down to mid-thigh, a pair of white leggings underneath for modesty's sake. The shoulders were bare except for a layer of stiff feathers flowing out; under the feathers were sleeves that appeared on her bicep that went down to her wrists and fanned out like the petals of a lotus flower. Her feet now had on a brass scale patterned shoes that went halfway up her calf with the toes and heels having a something akin to retractile talons.
Once the transformation was complete, Zelda walked over and looked into her mirror to see a blue mask ornamented in the the same stiff feathers as her shoulders that covered her nose to make it look like she had a beak. Her eyes went wide and she observed that the magic had also changed her hair from simple a simple ponytail to a four-strand braid that was tied at the end with a white bow. She felt a slight chill and shook her back, revealing a pair of sleek feathered wings that resembled Brawynn's in coloring.
"Woah… this is… unreal!" Zelda exclaimed, the wings flapping in her excitement. That got her to let out a surprised yelp as she didn't expect them to move so suddenly with her emotions, but once the initial shock wore off she started to laugh, "This is amazing!" She ran over to the large window and opened it, feeling the breeze on her face. She had the sudden urge to test it out… to spread her wings! Acting on impulse, she planted her feet on the window sill, and jumped.

Now being on the 4th floor of a manor may seem crazy and stupid to do this sort of thing, but that thought didn't come to mind as she started falling. As she neared the ground, she opened her wings and wind collected beneath them, and she was off into the air.
"WOOOOOOHOOOOO~!"

In the dark cavern of the Unknown, fires were lit as a ring of deep red glowed. A scaled boot stepped into the lighted circle and a figure glared into the light. Boarova let the light shine down on him from above.
"Athena has come out once more." His deep voice rumbled. The gemstone on his head glowed in resonance.
He turned his attention to a depiction on the wall, giant wings above the head of a creature. The man's gauntlet moved to point at the image. With a snap of his metal covered fingers, the picture melted into a black ball, floating aimlessly until it rested in the man's hand.
"Gufuu," the ball opened its bright red eye, enameled in gold and pupiled in black. "It is time to bring out one's darkness, and claim what is mine."
The Gufuu sprouted tiny wings out of its sides and started to fly towards the skylight, its pattern unsteady like a newborn.
"Go, my Gufuu!" Boarova called, brandishing his trident. "And claim another for the bleakness of this world!" His roaring cackle echoed throughout the cavern.

Link sped up the steps to Nohansen University with great haste. He had ended up distracted on the way there due to this kid's cat stuck up a tree and couldn't just ignore the crying and said cat looking kind of pitiful while it was stuck up there. 'Really hope Dad understands the delay,' he thought with a sigh as he pushed the doors open. He ended up coming in at an awkward time, as he came across one of the university teachers carrying something in their hands away while a student only a few years his senior was trailing after, begging and pleading to not take the object away.
"Please, I promise I'll stop daydreaming in class, just give my locket back!" The girl pleaded, her red eyes brimmed with tears while pulling back her auburn red locks.
"I gave you your final warning already, Miss Medli! You've proven to me that you cannot be trusted to listen, and so you cannot be trusted with your so-called precious locket!"
Their back and forth of pleas and denial faded as the two walked on, the teacher locking the precious piece of jewelry in the Loft Wing and locked it up from further access.
"That was… pretty harsh," Link muttered as he made his way to his father's classroom with some reluctance. One half of him was nagging to try and help that Medli girl out and get the locket back while the other reminded that his father needed his help. The internal conflict caused Link to put his hood up so that nobody could see how distraught he was from such, but pulled it back due to two reasons:

His dad wanted him in the Loft Wing, where the locket is being kept.

He was at Boris' classroom door.

'As they say, two birds, one stone.' He thought as he knocked on the door before opening it. "Hey Dad."

Boris spun around in his wheelchair at the desk in the front. "Hey, son. How was Impa treating you?"
"Apparently something came up and she couldn't train today," Link explained as he walked over to the desk, "but other than that she treats me pretty fairly."
"And what of your secret princess?" Boris smirked in a playful manner as his son's cheeks became a bright red.
"Uh, sh-she wasn't around today either!" Link spat out quickly.
"Aww, a pity… still, the world goes on. How was school?" Boris asked as they embraced in a hug.
"Alright, for the most part. Darunia and Ravio are in my class." Link smiled before a grimace took its place. "But so is Cia..."
"Yikes," Boris cringed a bit at the mention, "I know that feeling. I had someone like her chasing after me too... She only cooled off once I started dating your mom and moved to Labrynna. I think she found someone there, I'm not all that sure. She hasn't tried to find me online... I think, so maybe she did?"
"Is your side of the family cursed or something?"
"With good looks and gentlemanly charms," Boris chuckled with a smile.
Link rolled his eyes in mild amusement, "Anyway, what did you need me to do in the Loft Wing again?"
Boris chuckled a bit. "Um… well, you see… your mother's birthday is coming up, and I've been keeping her gift here so that she doesn't find it. I also had the then-brilliant idea to put it in a high place with the help of a co-worker, which… you can imagine how well trying to get it has been going over."
Resisting the urge to laugh at his father's lack of hindsight (even though said reason is still pretty touching due to it being a birthday gift), Link nodded with a grin, "I'll see what I can do for ya, Dad. What's it look like?"
"It's in a blue box around the foliage display from last year's drama production. It's in the shape of a rabbit on the moon" The man spun his chair to look out the window and sighed dreamily. "Oh, my love, could you ever forgive me for being such a fool~."
Link barely managed to cover his mouth from both laughing and gagging at his father's star-struck statement. It's moments like that where he wondered if his father ever realized they've been married for 20 years and not last month. "I'll get right on it, Dad," Link gave his father another hug before departing.

"See you soon, son! And good luck!"
"You too, and thanks!"

Medli was sitting in the stall of the bathroom, eyes even redder due to crying, "Oh dear… I'm so sorry!" She muttered while hiding her face in her hands, another sob wracking her body.

Up above fluttering about, the Gufuu peered around to find someone to use for its Master's plan. It saw Medli's crying and fell to the ground in front of her. The sudden drop startled Medli and she stared at the creature. They were locked into something of a staring match for what felt like a lifetime (it had only been roughly a minute or two tops) when the Gufuu suddenly launched itself at Medli's face like a cat trying to get their prey above. Medli screamed and tried to cover her face, but the thing was too quick. It dissolved as it entered her and her body went limp, as though she were a puppet waiting to be moved by their owner.
"Greetings, my child. I am Boarova." The eerie echo in Medli's mind said. "It would seem as though you had something taken that was yours alone. I can help you get it back, but you must get something for me in exchange. Do we have a deal?"
"...Yes, Boarova..." The girl uttered before her body tense as black scales bubbled across her body.
"Very well, Helmaroc Queen. Now Go! And bring me the Miraculous of Athena!"
A shadow loomed across the ground as it grew, and a screeching call resounded around the area.

"Blue box, blue box…" Link muttered to himself as he looked around the Loft Wing among the drama class's production, "Moon rabbit… blue box…why couldn't it be a T.A.R.D.I.S. instead? That would be way easier to spot in all of this." He looked up and caught a glimpse of something blue shining in the green bushes upon the higher shelves. "Huh, that was easier than I thought… now how to get it down? Well one way comes to mind!" He began climbing up the nearby ladder, trying to keep it steady. In hindsight, a one-legged step-ladder is not the best thing to use... "C'mon… almost got i-"
BOOM!
 Something shook the entire room and threw him off balance with his fingers on the box. He fell down to the floor and unfortunately, the box stayed where it was. 'I think I get my hindsight, or lackthereof, from Dad…' He thought while his body ached with dull pain all over. Another crashing sound was heard, and part of the wall crumbled to see the outside. 'That's not good!' Link forced himself to his feet to try and see what could be seen from outside. The only thing he could see, though, was a large yellow eye staring back at him.

"WhErE iS iT?!" A distorted voice screeched.
Link couldn't say anything, he was too engrossed in fear, so he did the only thing that he could do: he ran.
'Man oh man, what is with this day?!' He yelled in his head. The building shook again as an ear-piercing screech rang through the air.
"WhErE iS wHaT iS mInE?!"

Zelda didn't know she could feel this free, skimming the clouds with her fingertips, laughing in amusement and surprise at finding that her fingers were now wet from touching them, "That was interesting!" Unfortunately, her attention was cut short as she heard something cry out. Looking down below, she saw what could only be assumed as a giant bird. Its navy feathers stood out against the pale concrete and rusted orange brick of a building at the university that it was trying to smash into.
...Wait a minute.
"Why is a giant bird trying to destroy a school? I could be going there! Maybe! In a few years!"
Putting any questions away for the moment, she flew down straight at the beast. No school would be condemned if she had anything to say about it… though the irony is obviously lost.

Link was between a Helmaroc and a hard place. Why is it that whatever he puts his mind to suddenly becomes so complicated? Another crashing cause a gold pendant to fall in front of him. Looking over it, he recognized it as the one from earlier. 'Oh great, I find something I saw that I intended to look for, and I still can't get Mom's necklace.' His musings were interrupted as something clonked him on the head. "Ow! What the -" looking down, he saw - 'Blue box? No way it's that easy...'
 It was a glass-like blue metal box designed to look like a treasure chest, some intricate gold designs embedded within the material.
"Well, Dad, let it not be said you don't pull out the stops for Mom." Just to make sure that nothing happened to the necklace itself, he picked it up and looked the box over. 'No damage on the outside, let's check on the inside…' He thought as he opened it up. What he found was not a necklace but instead a bracer-like bracelet with a wolf's paw in the top/center of it made out of the brightest green gems he had ever seen. "This is not Mom's box." Also, a bright green light shot out and started flying around. "Goddesses above!" The ball of light started bouncing across the shelves until the building shook again, the light stopping in front of Link, dissipating into an evergreen furred wolf cub with a big head and little legs.
"BOBO!" The small creature squealed with glee, licking Link's face nearly a dozen times (but no saliva left behind, strange) in greeting, "I've missed you, I've missed you, I've missed you! Come on, put on your bracelet and let's go defeat Gufuus!"
Link only gazed at the little thing, "What."
Any response was cut short as someone else's voice was heard.
"Hey Kakariko Fried Cucco! Don't you think it's rude to trash a school?"
Link looked up to see some sort of humanoid figure with wings in the sky, "Wait, is that Pit?"

A heavy gasp was heard from the small pup, and Link saw stars in its eyes. "It's Athena! Athy's back, Athy's back!" The spirit grabbed the bracelet and slapped it on Link's left wrist. "Howl Time! Howl Time!"
"What?" Link gaped at the little thing. "We don't have time to howl or whatever -"
"Close enough!" The pup said as it dove into the bracelet.
Link could only freak out as bright lights surrounded his body and gave him a sudden outfit change into what he could only think as being as some sort of anime fantasy medieval cosplay. He was now in a tight, dark green tunic that went just to his thighs; his shoulders and forearms were adorned with armor plates covered in short fur, though it was more shaggy on the shoulders. He now had earthy brown boots and tighter cream colored pants instead of jeans and sneaker. Link could feel a hat and something attached to them form on his head and a mask slip over his eyes, making his vision sharper than it already was. He also found that a belt soon adorned his waist that matched his boots in terms of color, along with a weapon's halter across his chest. He tried twisting around and felt something on his back, and when he reached for it, he found the hilt of a… A SWORD?! 'My Final Fantasy dream has been realized! Thank you, years of cosplaying Cloud, for paying off!' He internally squeed.
His self observation was cut short as the screeching of the giant bird.
"AtHeNa! yOuR mIrAcUlOuS!"

'Uh-oh, that doesn't sound good.' He thought as he noticed that the person apparently named Athena (not Pit) was now trying to avoid being pecked and/or taloned to death in the air. 'Doesn't look good either. I'd better help!' He grasped on a shelf that wasn't damaged and started to climb through the building's cracked walls and ceiling to get to the roof. He came up just in time, as Athena has gotten enough wind blown at her by the large fowl to be sent flying down and crashing right into Link's body. Both parties groaned in pain a bit before looking at each other.
"Nice ears," she giggled a bit.
"Thanks?" Link reached up to find that, attached to his new hat, were some sort of animal ears. 'Cat? Dog? Wolf?'
"So, I'm guessing you're Sheikhan Wolf?" Athena teased.
"Yes?" He honestly had no idea and just decided to roll with it, "I-I mean, yes! I am!"
"You're as new to this as I am, I guess?"
"Heh, ya caught me." Sheikhan shrugged his shoulders. "But since this bird's in a fowl mood, might as well let a carnivore show it the food chain."
Athena rolled her eyes as she got to her feet, "That was horrible."

'I don't even know where that came from,' Sheikhan thought as he did the same.
The Helmaroc Queen glared down at the two, as she felt Boarova's voice in her skull.
"Athena and Sheikhan Wolf together again. Seems I didn't need to wait for one or the other. Go, Helmaroc Queen! Tear them apart for their Miraculous!"
 The Helmaroc Queen screamed in fury and dove at them, talons at the ready to grab and/or maim.
Sheikhan saw this and grabbed Athena in his arms as he leaped out of the way and off the building. The two of them screamed as they fell, but as Sheikhan landed, there was no pain and he quickly sprinted off.
"Mind filling me in on exactly what's going on?!" Sheikhan yelled at Athena's face, their masks almost touching.
'Wow, he has really blue eyes… and… sclera?' Athena wasn't sure how to feel about that bit, but for now pushed it aside and worked on his question, "We've been chosen to stop an evil force from taking over the world. Usual superhero fare and all."
"You're oddly calm about the whole thing!"
"I've had some time to adjust."
"Well lucky you, I just found out only a few minutes ago!"
"Your Kwami should have told you."
"That's what the thing is called? He was starstruck when you showed up. Next thing I know, I'm carrying a goddess like a princess!"
Athena blushed at that comment and hoped her mask covered that up, "You can probably put me down at this point if you're so against this?" She huffed a little bit.
"...Oh yeah." He skidded to a stop and set her on her feet, "You also crash-landed into me earlier too, you hurt?"
"I'm fine," she gave a nod, "and you?"

"All good."
"NoT fOr LoNg!" The giant bird screeched as it landed in front of the pair, wings flapping in anger that was coupled with a cry of rage. "GiVe Me YoUr MiRaCuLoUs NoW!"
 "No way!" They both stated in unison as Sheikhan Wolf drew his sword.
That was when Athena realized that she had no weapon on her person, "You've gotta me kidding me! Where's my sword? Or staff? Sai blades? I'll even settle with nunchucks!"
"You keep thinking about it, I'll fend this big bird off!" Sheikhan charged forward with a battle cry as he worked on their opponent's demise.

'Note to self: speak with Brawynn about where my weapon location is!' Athena patted herself down a bit trying to see that, maybe, her weapon was just concealed on her body instead of being out in the open like her partner's sword, only to find that wasn't the situation. "Din's Fire, where's my weapon!?" She groaned in great frustration, her wings reacting by flaring out a bit, then covered her masked face with her hands and moaned more softly in disappointment now. As her wings relaxed from her anger, they brushed against her arms a little, which caused them to glow a bit, "The day is just all surprises, isn't it?" She muttered to herself as she touched one wing with her hand, which resulted in her wings transforming into an archery bow! The upper and lower limbs feathered out like the wings once on her back, though now they possessed a swirling pattern carved into them. The riser looked like a pointed bird beak, with the beak settling where the mounting would be. Oddly enough, there was no bowstring attached where it should be, which caused a great amount of worry in her.
The sound of Helmaroc Queen's shrieks and Sheikhan Wolf's body sliding to Athena's feet snapped the magical maiden out of her worry as she assisted in getting him back up to his feet.
"I can't get even a scratch in!" He growled, in half a literal manner, as he then grabbed Athena by her waist and jumped to the side with her to avoid being pecked. "Where'd the bow come from? It's pretty cool."
"My wings turned into it, that's a thing with me apparently." Athena explained as she glared at the monstrous fowl that tried to attack. That's when something strange happened, she saw a shining arrow pointing at the Helmaroc Queen's mask. 'So's that!' She added mentally, "We have to get that mask off of her somehow!"
"How in Hyrule do you know that?" He raised a masked brow at her.
"It's another one of those things that I do, apparently!"
The Helmaroc Queen flapped her wings and started stirring up building twisters. The cyclones were growing and closing in on the two of them.
"We need to get to higher ground!" Sheikhan roared over the winds.
"How?!"
"Put your wings back on!"
"How?"
"Do the reverse of what you did!?" Sheikhan growled as a familiar purple bag slammed into his face. 'You gotta be kidding me.' he thought as he rummaged through the bag to pull out the item from earlier. Fastening it to his wrist, he grabbed Athena's waist again and shot the claws to the rooftop, both of them screaming all the way up. They landed in a heap again and groaned as they got up.
"Ugh… I think you need to work on your landings." Athena whined before looking at her hands, noticing something off. "Hey, where's my bow?!"
"Ow… they're on your back, poking my ribs." Sheikhan grumbled as he got off of her and on all fours, causing Athena to giggle. "What now?"
"You have a tail!"
Sheikhan found his face heating up and also trying to look, "Oh my Farore," he mumbled, "I do."
"That's so precious!" Athena squealed while covering her mouth with her wings giving a few flaps.
Sheikhan covered his face with his hands, "Oh smite me now, Din, please." He then found himself in Athena's arms as he narrowly avoided being pecked. "Th-Thanks."
Athena sighed in relief at making sure her buddy was okay, "Welcome… so, uh… where'd you get the clawshot thingy?"

"I-..." Sheikhan paused, looking at the gadget's marking, thinking it might reveal himself too early. "...know a guy?" 'Oh Nayru, what kind of lame excuse have you ingrained in me, Ravio?!' He decided to scold his 'brother' at a later date for that. "Right now, we need to get that mask off."
"Any ideas?" Athena asked with a raised masked brow and crossed her arms.
Sheikhan glanced at the Helmaroc, when his vision went dark. He panicked for a moment until he saw pale outlines forming shapes, and glowing brightly was a human sized form behind a glowing red eye. Glaring further saw some kind of target on the center of the mask that he felt significant about. He turned back to Athena, almost shielding his eyes from her brightness in this sight. "I have one, but it's risky and we'll probably only have one shot."
"Do explain?" Athena questioned as she started to reach for her wings. She still wasn't sure how she was going to do anything without a bowstring, but she just had to trust in Brawynn, in her partner… in herself.
"Grab me and take to the sky." Sheikhan stated. "Let's get this overgrown cucco to play chicken."
Athena let out a groan at that joke, "That was even more horrible than the previous one you did."
He would have retorted, but the Helmaroc was closing in. "Groan later, fly now!"
Athena grabbed him by the shoulders as the Queen smashed her head on the roof, crumbling the roof below their feet as though it was a cookie left in milk for too long. They tried to hold steady, but lack of experience with teamwork almost had Athena drop him.
"Gyaa!"

"Sorry!"
The Helmaroc Queen shook off the rubble and set her gaze on the awkward duo. She screeched again and took flight after them.
Sheikhan saw this and readied the clawshot. "Get ready to dive at it!"
"Are you crazy?!" Athena panicked.
"You're asking that NOW? REALLY? Just do it!"
With a sharp inhale of breath and tightly closing her eyes for a few seconds, Athena let their forms start to drop on their own for a few seconds while she adjusted so that the duo were now facing the bedeviled bird. Athena felt the wind around her get stronger as the barreled down, her grip tightening at her partner's waist.
Sheikhan focused his sight on the target and fired the claw, the chains rattling until it latched onto the mask.
"Hey, where did that appear from?!" Athena yelled as she noticed the now visible target.
"Just keep going!" Sheikhan yelled as they passed the Helmaroc Queen's head towards the ground. The chain growing taut and the bird's body followed after them forcefully. In a matter of moments, the duo hit the ground and the chain still pulled the bird down.
Athena bounced away, but Sheikhan stayed down, his feet planted as he still pulled the bird closer. The Helmaroc Queen was coming in too fast, he never would escape in time.

"Sheikhan! Get out of the way!" Athena screamed. If he heard her, he didn't acknowledge it, and the bird smashed down, the ground exploding in a cloud of dust that blocked any view. "WOLF!" She screamed again, dread and fear rising inside of her. She flapped her wings to clear the debris to see that happened, and she gasped.
Sheikhan stood, clawshot in one hand, holding the bird down, the other, had his sword drawn, a silver glinting blade that sparkled in the sun, piercing through the mask of the queen.
Athena had a couple different reactions bubbling up in her now. Due to the realization that Sheikhan Wolf is alive the panicking was slowing to a stop, but it was quickly being replaced with anger, joy at him being alive and the need to cry the stress out all at the same time. For now she forced herself into a state of neutrality to focus on the fact that the job seemed done. She would just have her emotional reactions in the privacy as she does in her daily life. "It's done…" she sighed in relief as she gazed at the broken mask and her partner's form.

Sheikhan pulled his sword from the mask and steadied his gait as he walked over to her, hand outstretched, the sun was behind him, and Athena could only gaze at his serious expression in awe.
"Are you hurt, my goddess?"
She stared at him for a few seconds longer in silence before snapping back to reality and realized he was talking to her, "Oh, yes! I'm fine, just some scrapes. I think." She gave herself a quick inspection, "Wow, this is some tough material… must be part of the magic." she muttered.

Any more words between them were silenced as they heard crackling of metal, their attention was now back to the fallen foe, the mask cracking as the Helmaroc Queen flailed once more, finally shattering as she glared at the two heroes, her wide golden-brown, bloodshot eyes scowling at them, and in the middle of her forehead, a golden rimmed red eye glared down at them.
"Stage two of the boss," Athena stated as she gave a nod to her partner, who returned the gesture.
"I'll get it to hold still." Sheikhan replied as he aimed the clawshot at the Helmaroc's neck, as he fired, he turned his gaze to Athena. "Get your bow ready."
Athena reached for her wings and, on feeling the bow in her grip once more, took her stance and readied her shot. Despite no physical bowstring attached, the motions of lining up and preparing to launch created it out of her magic, along with the arrow to launch.
Sheikhan landed on the bird's head, having to grab onto some of its feathers, which did not help his situation. He was able to grasp the comb above the red eye, and without hesitation embedded his sword into it. The Helmaroc Queen screamed and flailed, trying to throw the wolf off, but he held firm, and soon, the bird collapsed back onto the ground.
"Athena! Do it now!"
Athena inhaled slowly as she pulled the string back, the world around her slowing down as the carvings and nocked arrow glowed an illuminating light gold. The talons of her shoes dug into the ground to steady her form as the power of her Kwami blazed through her like an electric-like fire. "I absolve the darkness in your heart!" As she spoke and released the arrow, time did seem to stop for all but her weapon as it flew straight into the third eye of the monster. On contact, the world sped up to normal time for her and the talons retracted like cat claws.
The Helmaroc Queen let out one final screech as her body dispersed like ice melting from her body, leaving Medli standing there (until she collapsed to her knees at least) and the black substance on the ground gathered up and reformed into the Gufuu from before. The dark spirit went unnoticed as the two went to the young woman's aid.
"Are you severely injured?" Athena asked as she helped Medli to her feet and assisted in keeping her steady. She had figured the fight would have resulted in nasty bruises as minimum, but it seemed that all the damage went away with the previous form.
"No, I-I'm fine," Medli's head still felt a bit light, but other than that she wasn't in any sort of physical pain.
"Aside from that, I think this belongs to you." Sheikhan held out the gold item.

"My locket!" Medli gasped as she took it from his hand and held it too her chest. "Thank you! You don't know how much this means to me." She gingerly opened it up and looked inside, her gaze softening as she stared at the picture inside. It was of her and her boyfriend of a few years, Komali, snuggled together in their coats as the snow powered their heads. "He bought this for me recently for our anniversary… I was so happy when he gave it to me and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I guess my small honeymoon phase ended up…" she shrunk in on herself a little, "destructive."
"Well, I'm no expert," Sheikhan chuckled, "but maybe you can ask Professor Jäger how to keep the two separate. He's good at that."
Athena gave her partner a questioning look but only for a while, 'How would he have known that this professor worked here? Is this his school?' She thought before giving her attention back to Medli, who was speaking again.
"Yeah," the auburn haired one nodded, "that should be something to do sooner rather than later. Especially given how this afternoon went. I-I'm sorry that I did all of this too, I swear I didn't mean it at all."
"Fury can blind, but thought and learning from your mistakes can keep such from happening again." Athena added. She paused and blinked as she repeated the words in her head. 'Oh what did I say?!' The other two looked at her before Sheikhan chuckled.
"What my dear friend means is that we all get angry, but as long as you can think before you react, things will turn out okay."
Medli nodded in understanding now, as did Athena as thanks for his translation.
"I better get back now, mostly to apologize to the school staff and then some," Medli put her locket on and held it in her hands a little with a squeeze, "wish me luck!" And then she departed from the two.
"Good luck!" They chorused as the college student ran. That's when Athena heard a strange beeping noise.
"Huh?" She couldn't pin where it was, it was in front of her but also below at the same time?

"Athena… did you always have one bright blue gem on your choker?" Sheikhan Wolf pondered as he noticed that one was a bit of an oddball compared to the sapphires.
"No…" Color her worried now, "I should go and speak to my Kwami about this, with haste." She took a few steps forward then looked back at him, "Thank you, Wolfie." With a smile, her wings gave a few hard flaps and she was flying like the free spirit she is (for now).
Sheikhan found himself blushing a bit at the nickname, 'That kind of sounds like when… oh man! Dad!' Guess who remembered that he had to do something and ended up the most sidetracked as possible. Due to the magic of his own Kwami, he made it back to the grounds in record time, quickly going to the Loft Wing and finding his mom's birthday gift. His transformation had also worn off by the time he had achieved his quest and, though shaken from the sudden monster bird on school grounds, Boris was still his normal self. "Dad! You alright?"
"I'm fine, son. What about you?" Boris replied. "I saw that giant bird attacking the Loft Wing and feared the worst!"
"I managed to hide before it could spot me and get away from whatever was falling," well he was sort of telling the truth, "told you video games helped my reflexes."
"Sure, sure, son. Keep telling yourself that." Boris grinned at his son, looking him over.
In some instinct, Link hid the bracelet with his sleeve. "So… uh, I'll see you at home?"

"Yup!" Boris smiled broadly as he nodded and Link gave him the moon rabbit box, "Can't wait to see Yuki's reaction with her gift too. Chances are she'll be thrilled!"
'Then again you could give her glitter and she'd still be happy since it came from you.'He had another one of those 'oh how sweet/oh gag me' moments in his head. He quickly left the campus, intent on figuring out what was going on!

Boarova growled at the sight of defeat. "So it seems these wielders learn fast. As am I." he tightened his grip in the trident and balled his other hand into a fist. "But the potential of these Gufuus is limitless, and these so-called 'Heroes' are clumsy." He peered through the sight of the Gufuu, looking down at the destruction of the campus from the clock tower it took as a perch. "It won't be long now until they make that mistake again."
The Gufuu cast its gaze on Medli once again, its eye growing wide.

"Soon, Athena, you and Sheikhan Wolf will beg for mercy!" Boarova swung the trident in an arc, smashing the pommel into the ground, snarling in a grisly smile. "AND I WILL TEAR YOUR SOULS FROM THE MIRACULOUS THAT ARE MINE ALONE! HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA!"

The sun had begun to touch the horizon as Athena flew to the manor, peering quietly into her chambers and ended up de-transforming mid-air over her bed. At least the sudden landing was soft-ish, though how she would explain how her bedsheets suddenly became askew without sleeping in them would be a tad difficult to explain. Getting to her feet she looked at Brawynn with a blank expression before going on an emotional rollercoaster that could be summed up 3 ways:
The happy parts: "I flew in the air, Brawynn! I flew! It was amazing, goddesses how soon can we do that again!?"

The angry parts: "I can't believe he almost killed himself trying to take down that bird! At least a heads-up would have been nice instead of watching him nearly die!"
The 'well my life's completely altered now' parts: "Oh goddesses, how in the world will I explain any and all absences from my activities when one of those… things shows up again? Especially to Impa and my father!"
Brawynn simply perched nearby and watched her new ward paced and gesticulated her thoughts and emotions of the day out to relieve herself from the anxieties of battle. 'Even after all these years, the reaction is about the same…but she's adapted faster than some, even Lady Impa. Perhaps it was fate we were to meet.'
Eventually Zelda grew quiet and sat on her windowsill, looking out to the blazing sun in the distance, soon finding her Kwami joining her. "Brawynn?"
"Yes, my lady?"
"Have the Sheikhan Wolves of the past ever… how to put this… been reckless but still endearing somehow?"
The blue bird chirped a light laugh. "Yes they have. I chalk it up to his Kwami's… impulsive tenacity."
The new Heroine of Hyrule let out a hum in thought before absentmindedly stroking Brawynn's head, a far-off look in her eyes, "It was… strange, when he asked if I was okay. There was… a genuine sense to the question, like he's cared for me for a lifetime. His gaze didn't show worry, but…" she trailed off, her thoughts lost in the process of explaining.
"It was a gaze unfamiliar to you?"
"Yes!" She exclaimed a bit louder than she expected, then softly apologized and continued on, "It was like he… trusted me? No, that doesn't sound right. I just can't put words to it. When he looked at me and asked, it was just… soft and hard, but also warm and comforting. I…I haven't felt that in a long time…" she whispered the last part to herself.
Brawynn said nothing, only placed a wing on her charge's face. Zelda leaned into it as they both watched the sun set.