Blight or Flight Response
It involves a sales pitch.
Ravio didn't particularly like being so high up. He did enough tree and mast climbing that it wasn't that big of a deal. Compared to everything else that was going to kill him horribly, this was pretty low ranking. He also had a paraglider. Even if Hazel decided to push him off this ledge, he had a paraglider. It was amazing how quickly perspectives changed. He'd gone from making sure he was on the other side of the ocean from his mother to actively hunting her down.
If only his hands would stop shaking.
Having the Master Sword helped. She didn't talk much and it was like having a friend following him around that only he could hear. Unlike the Koroks, she wasn't visible to him and wasn't going to dump peppers in his stew when he wasn't looking. The chainmail was a welcome addition to their wardrobes. The knight armor was swiped from the guards; Ancient Armor owned by Link's descendants was already in use by other parties. The plate hidden under Gustaf's clothes was covered in blood and they didn't want to remove the bandages to get to it. A lot of other armor pieces were given to the protectors onboard Divine Beasts.
Well, strategy discussion couldn't hurt in Ravio's opinion. "Hey, Hilda."
"Hm?" She still had the disguise on. She'd forgotten about it.
"Remember what I told you. Veran likes to hurt people, she will probably toy with me and ignore you until I'm dead. I'll try and distract her." He checked the Cane of Pacci, the thunder rod, and the ice rod. He'd left the fire rod back in the castle with Ana. "You'll keep the slate, I guess. I'll keep blasting her with magic and use the sword to keep her from getting too close to me." Maybe the disguise would keep fooling people a little while longer. Eyes that could see the truth were a rare trait in the Sheikah tribes and it was unlikely Veran would have that ability now.
"Do you think she'll have henchmen too, or just monsters with her?"
"Dunno. I figure both, but I'm pretty sure that most of the clan was in the castle."
"Are-are you going to be all right?"
"Probably? Maybe?" He hated to broach this subject but had to ask. "Have you, um, have you used the Triforce of Wisdom at all yet?" Hazel grimaced.
"... No. I mean, I think I can get the light arrow spell to work, at least..." Hazel said. She didn't look sure of it. Ravio mentally added yet another thing to the list of Reasons He Was Going to Die.
"Well... Let's go?" He and Hazel both sensed the cause of the Blood Moon and definitely didn't want to go over there. They kept jogging that direction anyway. They found the ranch, but Veran simply wasn't there anymore. They looked around the field and avoided things left behind by livestock. The lack of Like-Likes was worrying. Hilda glanced at the slate and saw something about spiders.
As she was about to tell Ravio about this development, a couple of Yiga Soldiers appeared nearby. They spoke in the Sheikah language. "Kishgal! Hey! Weren't you at the Castle?," the one said then did a quick double-take as Ravio yelped. "You're not Kishgal!" Hazel caught just enough of the words to get a good idea of what they meant. She responded in the Hylian language.
"NO! Out of our way!" Hazel snarled. "We are here for Veran!" An ambusher seemed surprised that this stranger knew some Sheikahn and switched to Hylian. It probably helped that the light of the Blood Moon made her eyes look red.
"Yeah... We're gonna just kill this traitor real quick. You too, unless you pledge allegiance to our clan. It's a great gig! You get plenty of bananas!"
"That's stupid! Why would I want to worship a creature that wants to eat everyone?!" Hazel snapped back.
Ravio got ready to fight. "If she cared that little about common sense," Wait, this was a sales pitch, "There's places with multiple varieties of banana out there," Ravio said as he prepared to use the thunder rod if it didn't work. This was a sales pitch. He was selling freedom and a better set of future life plans in exchange for them going away and leaving him alone. At the very least this was a good stalling tactic while they came up with a better plan.
He was more surprised than he should have been at how well and quickly it worked.
"...multiple varieties?" A taller Yiga asked. Ravio had forgotten about how little the clan cared for thinking skills and how much for appealing fruit. He got the calculating look which he normally did before engaging in capitalism.
"Yep. Sail off to the south for a while. You can have people drop you off on the way to Holodrum." He kept the sales pitch going. "You can sign on with a crew to pay your way or maybe even get a good group of buddies and a boat of your own?" He prayed they didn't ask too many details about the hardships of sailing. Hazel gaped at him incredulously.
"Is that where you've been?"
"I did go sailing for a while?" This was working. It was actually working. "I recommend maybe checking at Lurelin Port. You might, uh, tell some other people." He and Hazel prepared to bolt in the direction of the horrible feeling of doom rather than waste more time here. "Ya know, instead of wasting your lives on a revenge mission against people whose bones crumbled to dust centuries ago, you could be out there. Discovering new bananas." Now to keep talking; there was a larger amount of Yiga visible now. He realized he recognized some of the voices. Hazel was still ready to stab with her elemental swords. "Plus, Veran will want to see me. I'm challenging her! She'll want to crush the life out of me herself, and if I win, then I'll remember you, Shu! You too Akane! And Kairi, I see you over there!"
The Yiga clan was always unsettled by Veran recognizing them in disguise. Ravio remembering them after seven years took them off guard a little. "Soooo while I was away I acquired enough power to annihilate Veran!" He couldn't think of anything to say next. He just kept talking and didn't let his, or anyone else's brain catch up. "Why, I drained the Great Deku Tree dry!"
"WHAT!," said everybody present. Hazel openly gaped at her hero's ridiculously blatant lies.
"Why else do you think Veran was able to burn the woods at all? Took a few years to get the magic out of the tree, you see. Sailing was great for finding prime lands to conquer after I finish up here." He hid his nervousness and put on his best customer service smile.
"But you-" started a ninja.
"Heck, I followed the reincarnated Hero right to the pedestal and slit her throat!" Ravio drew his index finger horizontally across his throat as he looked right into the eye of a mask. "I used Linkle's blood to seal a nasty curse on those woods. That'll keep her from coming back." He banked heavily on them not having Gossip network access and being a bit behind on the news.
"W-wha-you-you can't possibly-"
"What, you didn't see Veran turn tail and run? She was running from me. This is my future spymaster by the way. Hilda's got all sorts of dirt on the Royal Family."
"Huh? OH, yes. You wouldn't believe the Gibdos they have in their closets." She mouthed, What in Hylia's name Ravio what are you even doing, angrily at him and the aura of wanting to strangle him helped the lie along.
"What about-" Ravio verbally cut off another ninja.
"This is Kishgal's sword. The idiot wasn't expecting payback." He put his hands behind his head and prayed it kept them steady. The shaking would betray the lies. "Why while I was meeting Kishgal at the Castle, I took the liberty of gutting the King; I've got the Triforce of Wisdom now." Ravio peeled off the glove on his left hand and held the mark up for inspection. "So are you going to let me pass and challenge Veran for leadership, or am I gonna have to vaporize you?"
There's no way this is working, he and Hilda thought. Ravio hoped the time bought was used to formulate a good battle plan.
They were both shocked when the Yiga Clan uncertainly parted to let them through.
The head of the Yiga Clan took her sweet time strolling towards Hyrule Castle while letting her spiders spread a bit of chaos. She wasn't sensing as much death as she would have liked. There didn't seem to be enough laser machines in the field. She pressed a purplish hand to her forehead and reached out mentally to spy through a Skulltula; she then let out an angry yell that caused people miles away to tremble. The Guardians were utterly useless. When she checked with the Blights, they were not done killing their targets. There should not be so much resistance to her being able to crush the land under her heel.
She sensed something else. Veran turned back the way she had come to see two figures approaching. One had an all too familiar sword lighting his way. Judging from the magic aura, it wasn't the fake prop. An arrow zipped past her from the other figure with the faintest trail of white. The second figure seemed agitated. Veran teleported closer and-
"RAVIO!?" Veran was suitably shocked. He'd survived the overchanneling and furthermore, was rather a good distance from the last known location. Ravio was wielding the Master Sword which was not congruent with what she thought of her son. She wasn't the only one startled by the sight of a family member in an unexpected state of existence.
Ravio did a double-take at the sight of Veran. "THATBETTERNOTBEHEREDITARY." The least terrifying change was that Veran's white Sheikah hair was now crimson. Her skin was mostly Malice now and the glowing orange eyes were rather striking. Her robes fluttered among the flowing darkness which was the same now as a Blight's aura. It was difficult to see in the light of the Blood Moon and the darkness everywhere, but her arms seemed clawed now. The normally silent sword in Ravio's hand decided to speak up while Ravio and Hazel ran out of the way of a fireball. Had Ravio been less preoccupied, his affinity for magic might have allowed him to hear. (By my calculations there is less than a 0.002% chance that such mutations are genetic. If you are concerned, avoid dark magic rituals or ingesting cursed matter.)
Yiga Sorceress of Shadows
Mistress Veran
In some aspects, Veran was a staunch traditionalist. Her attacks were straight out of the evil boss magic handbook. Ravio stifled the urge to run the other direction and spun to face the sorceress. He swung wildly in the direction of a magic orb and it reflected with a slash. Ravio was reminded of a weird dream he had about a bug net. Hazel was more proficient with bladed weapons than arrows but was gamely working on trying to aim and run at the same time.
Note: How do you overturn a law in Clock Town? With a Majora-ty vote. Minor editing 9/6/19