Link and his avian companion emerged into the large core of Vah Medoh, Revali walking with a swagger while Link still held his side. Fair enough really, what with being impaled by an arrow and everything.

"Okay Link, if you're wanting to control the beast you'll need to grab the map and put it on your slate."

"Why didn't you just put it on yours?"

"Where would be the fun in that? Plus-" Revali turned back to him, a wing on his hip. "I left mine at home. Didn't want to be distracting by your texting with Mipha."

"I… what?"

Revali grinned and turned back to the chamber. "So, see those blocks? They'll move when you tilt the bird. Don't ask me why. But they're magnetic as well so you should probably be able to move them." Revali frowned. "I still don't understand why you were allowed the upgrades, bombs and magnesis and whatever, and all I got was a lousy camera. It's really not fair."

Link wasn't really listening, instead focusing on moving the platforms to create a bridge across the open centre. Once done he jogged across, Revali swaggering after him, staying behind. Link was about to tell him to hurry up when he heard the sound of something metal grating up ahead. Instinctively he moved to the side, just in time to see a guardian scout pounce, narrowly missing him with its energy spear. Link grabbed out a Moblin club and smacked the thing until all that was left was a mess of cogs and gears. When he was done, Revali clapped. "Good job. Of course I would have done much better myself but for a Hylian… you're really bordering on adequate." He moved on as Link stared after him. "Well, maybe next time you can kill one."

"With pleasure." Revali grinned as he casually withdrew his bow, aiming to the side. There was nothing there. Link was about to question him when the bid let an arrow loose and it flew, smacking another scout just as it emerged from a small doorway. As much as Link hated him, the adventurer had to admit that Revali was good with a bow. Though… how did he know the machine was there? Intuition? No, that couldn't be it, Revali's ego was much too big.

"Now Link, don't lag behind."

The boy growled as he jogged forward, grabbing out his slate and connecting it to the pedestal. A few seconds later he had a map.

"Yes, fine work. We… got there eventually. Now there are these things called terminals. Basically, we have to activate them and-"

"I know how they work, Revali."

"I'm sure you do. But you're bound to get it wrong at some point so-"

Link snarled at him. "Yeah? Right, you stay here, sit around like you normally do, and-"

"Wow, I'm so offended." Revali drawled. Link just threw up his arms and stormed off. Did he really want to activate the beast? He could just leave…

No. Mipha trusted him to do this. He wouldn't fail her.

Oh, and Hyrule needed saving and whatever.

Heading right, he tilted the bird's wings to one side, hopping onto a platform. As it began to slide he jumped, grabbing a ladder, and climbed up onto a ledge. After retrieving an ancient core from a chest, and wondering why on earth the chest was there in the first place, he hopped through a hole and shot one of the goopy eye things. Tilting the bird's wings the other way, he climbed up a small platform and jumped, paragliding across the room and onto another platform, upon which sat a terminal…

And Revali.

"Hello, Link. I see you made it here… oh, let's see… four minutes after me. That's alright, I suppose."

Link shoved the smirking bird aside and activated the terminal.

"Need help with the next one?" The bird called out as he jumped back down to the main floor.

"Shut up Revali."

"No need to be rude! Look, I'll just give you a hint. You'll need to put a bomb in that little chamber and blow up the-"

"I said shut it!"

Revali raised his wings. "Alright, alright. But if it all goes wrong, don't say I didn't warn you."

Link clenched his fists and took in a few deep breaths. "Right Link. Don't listen to that idiot."

"I can hear-"

Link ignored him, heading over to the small pipe that connected this room to the next. Looking through the window, he could see a small little set of rocks. Blowing it up would let him release that ball, which he presumed was meant to hit that button. Why an earth this contraption existed, Link had no idea, but he wasn't about to question it. Getting out a bomb, he placed it into the tube and watched it begin to roll-

And then something clicked. Or more, glinted.

Why was something glinting in the pipe?

Moving quickly, Link activated magnesis. Sure enough, something metal was in there, something long and sharp and-

With a bomb milliseconds away from hitting it.

Link let out a yell and dived backwards as the bomb hit it, the spike puncturing the electric skin and detonating the bomb. The blast waved over him, slightly scorching some of the feathers of his outfit, and Link slammed into the stone floor, panting.

"Link? Link, I heard a blast, is everything- oh." Revali stopped, looking down at the boy. His cocky grin returned. "Oh good, you're okay. I can't imagine what would have happened had you died. I suppose I would have just had to… well, take over. So really, the kingdom would have been saved and Mipha would have a real husb-" The bird stopped as Link stumbled up.

"Careful there Link. Nearly killing yourself in a stupid act of attempted independence would make anyone-"

Link went to slug him but Revali moved deftly out of the way. The boy closed his eyes, breathed deeply, then headed over to the chamber again. Moving the arrow-head-shaped spike out of the way, he tried again, this time succeeding in rolling the bomb down the hall and blowing up the rocks. Using the tilt action of the bird to roll the metal ball toward himself, Link turned it and flung the ball toward the button, hitting it dead on. As expected, this released the door, and Link walked through and activated the next terminal.

"Good job. You're still alive, too, so I suppose you're doing better than I thought you would. Though I suppose I should apologise. I think that was partly my fault."

"What?"

"The arrowhead. It must have been left over from my diligent fight with Ganon. You know, wouldn't that be hilarious? Link, slain by Revali! Hah!" The bird guffawed as Link gritted his teeth. He had nothing against killing his friends, but he needed Revali to control the beast.

There was nothing wrong with critically injuring him though, right?

Yes. Maybe later.

Link grinned.

The third terminal was a simple task of making a hammer slide across a wing and hit another button. All he had to do was hold a turbine in place and move another. A switch to the side would open a window and make wind blast in, activating the turbines.

As Link stood by the button, getting out his magnesis rune, he saw Revali hanging out in the main room. At least he'd be out of the way.

Focusing on the first turbine, he moved it upwards and then to the left, setting it in place. Then he activated the other, moving it upwards. Now all he had to do was hit the switch and-

A grating sound rang out and Link looked up to see the hammer thundering towards him.

"Link, look out!"

Of course Revali's warning was too late, and it was only Link's quick thinking that saved him. Changing deftly to stasis, he froze the gate just before the wind caused it to open, jumping to the side. The hammer was moving too fast to freeze, but when it hit the gate the tremendous force caused the gate to, seconds later, spilt apart and smash into the button. The door opened as the hammer slid slowly back into place, and Link leant against a wall, breathing hard. What an earth had just happened?

He heard the sound of talons tapping the ground. The Rito version of an applause. He frowned and looked up at the bird.

"Well, that was close. Did you seriously let one of your arrows fall out of your quiver and hit the button?"

"What?"

"Look." Revali pointed to the switch. Beside it lay one of Link's arrows.

"When you tilted the wings a few fell out. Most went out the window but that one hit the switch dead on. My word, you are clumsy."

Link's face flushed a little as he turned away from the Rito. "Yeah, well, it worked didn't it?"

"In a near-death kind of way. You know, most of the time we've been together has just been you nearly killing yourself."

Link strode away, pulling his quiver tighter across his back.

Link didn't fare any better for the fourth terminal. It began fine, with Link jogging down into the base of the bird so that he could get under its wings. There, at the far end, lay the penultimate terminal. Tilting the bird so that that wing was at its lowest, he jumped up and then paraglided across.

But then something strange happened.

Link felt something whiz past his ear, and turned his head to see a buckle smack into his hand. One of the two buckles that held is glider together. The entire left holding rope and snapped cleanly, and Link felt the glider shake against the wind before it folded in on itself and Link began to plummet.

With a yell he reached out and grabbed a section of railing that thankfully had bent down, and he hauled himself up onto a small, weak platform. As the entire thing began to slide down, matching the wing, he jumped, reaching out to grab the main section of the underwing. His left hand missed completely, dropping the glider, but the fingers of his right hand curled around and held. Grunting against the pain, he grabbed onto the platform with his other hand and pulled himself up, looking back to see the now useless paraglider floating away, far away, back to the solid land of Hyrule far below.

Now in the terminal room, he activated it and climbed up the ladder. A door, thankfully, had opened, leading back into the main room.

"Oh, there you are. How did you go? Another terminal down?"

Link ignore him and continued past, pulling out a spear and throwing it with as much force as he could muster at another eye. The eye screamed – or more, kind of just blinked really loudly – and he ran through the now open doorway. There was the final terminal. Nice and easy, thankfully.

"Good job, good job!" Laughed Revali. "And you're still alive. I say, that is bordering on impressive. Well, maybe not impressive… I mean it's your job to do things like this. Generally without nearly dying from bombs or hammers or snapped paragliders or the like."

"Let's just get this done." Link growled as he grabbed at the railings of a staircase angrily and climbed up to the main room, and then up further to the top of the wings. A broad expanse of mossy stone, where the chill, cold air bit at his face and-

Hold on, how did Revali know his paraglider had broken?

So here's a really short chapter for ya'll.
I'm not going to apologise for the length (but sorry please forgive me), this is just something I whipped up since I'm pretty low on time at the moment. Just think of it as a 'part 1.'
In fact, that's what I'll call this. Part 1.

Because part 2 is going to be HECTIC

Edit: I hate putting writing at the start of a chapter so I'll put it here:
Without spoiling anything, the next chapter is a little... dark. And messy. Everywhere.
So yeah, if you enjoy seeing everyone with all their bits and pieces still attached then... maybe just skip it. Or something.
Except we all know you'll read it anyway. Hehe. Do enjoy.