Death of the Vile
Queue up some boss music on your headphones. It might make reading this approach some level of drama.
"Is that Ganon or Veran?!" yelped Groose while he gripped his claymore. It was hard to tell what this thing was that was screaming.
"Don't know! Doesn't matter!" Hazel yelled and regretted it. Post-possession migraine made for a nasty distraction. She was already suffering the monster's stupidly loud battle cry and her own yelling added a little to the headache.
"We need to stop this monster either way!" Aryll added after she began firing. The Spiderblight Veran crawled towards them.
Everyone scattered with weapons drawn, Hazel was reeling and somewhat unsteady on her feet; Ana and Ravio had to drag her upright. Veran jumped upwards as long-range weapons were being pointed at her. She crashed down onto the ground with fangs clacking and left bubbling puddles of malice where she landed. Some of them dissolved quickly into the air to feed power back to Veran, others stayed where they were with large orange eyes watching the world.
As things stood, the team was out of elemental arrows. Aryll had used half of her bolts in the castle yet had more ammunition than Strich and Ana who were down to twelve and twenty-one arrows respectively. Although good on bolts, Aryll was down to one roasted endura shroom skewer and a truffle. Groose had a truffle left and Strich a single heart elixir.
Hazel yelled for people to target the puddles' eyes. She planned to hand off the Hero's Slate to Groose, Ana, or Strich when she was close enough: Ravio would have his cane, thunder rod, and Master Sword. Hazel was channeling the Sealing power so did not need the runes.
A jump's shockwave caused Aryll to stumble. She recovered quickly and snapped. The bolt stunned Veran mid-charge for about half of a second. Groose and Ravio targeted a couple of legs but were not having much success; the bits of ancient tech material were pretty tough and Veran was keeping her body away from easy stab distance. She targeted Strich. Tactically speaking, she'd armored herself against people of short to normal height who were stuck on the ground. Strich seemed to have worn himself out already, but she wanted to make sure that weakness was not exploited.
Veran ignored the damage she was taking and went for the easy kill on a grounded Rito. Orange eyes illuminated Strich's face as Veran spat a web at him. The web was temporarily frozen by stasis. Veran lunged and bit...
On board the Divine Beast Vah Medoh it was they had what may have been the easiest matchup. Many fire and ancient arrows were used to quickly bring down the Blight. Teba was glad he wore the armor despite concerns it might weigh him down and dragged himself to the frozen terminal. Everyone was quickly shooed off the machine and it perched near the castle. Teba aimed.
A laser descended from the North and sent her flying sideways. Strich limped out of the way of the web. In the moments she was recovering, Veran was slashed in the back and face by various bladed weapons. She righted herself and formed some basic shadow simulacrums to distract her prey. She didn't have time to summon proper shadow clones to taunt or torment people psychologically. They were annoying shadow skulltulas. Aryll had to use precious time slicing them apart before she could reach Strich. Hazel passed the Slate to Ana and she began tossing bombs in various places to clear malice pools. If one ended up near Veran and not near an ally, that was a bonus.
Aryll was kicked aside by Veran and thought it was pure luck, Veran decided to get rid of the girl with Urbosa's Fury.
Sidon triumphantly impaled the soggy Thunderblight. When it was soaked, it was only left with the swift movement, non-electrocuted metal pillars, and its Blood-Moon-amplified strength to fight with. When not being electrocuted, the helpers Sidon had with him were able to wear it down. Everyone ran to the Castle to help fight spiders while Sidon activated the controls. He wished he was good at healing like Mipha but there were altogether too many things he wished for and stopping to list them was pointless.
Aryll's last lightning bolt staggered Veran after the Sorceress found her bearings. Veran spat a web of malice at Aryll and caught the girl's leg. She frantically struggled to free the now very burned leg. Ravio rushed to cut Aryll free and before Veran could do the same to Ravio, a red beam from the northeast hit. Veran screamed in several different octaves at once while arrows and bolts hit their mark. In between the Spiderblight's screaming, everyone else was yelling warnings, tips, and trying to coordinate as best they could.
Groose was grabbed and thrown into Ravio. The hideous Spiderblight jumped into the air again and all three were thrown by the shockwave when Veran returned to the ground. Hazel and Ana fired two light arrows at the same time. Both the stronger and the weaker light arrow penetrated deep into the insectoid carapace.
Ravio scrambled up and frantically looked for the Master Sword. He'd dropped it when thrown and getting it back was of the utmost importance. He felt that without the Master Sword, Veran would have successfully targeted him for possession or dropped a nasty curse on him. He tried not to move his left wrist, it was most likely sprained from the way it felt. Unfortunately, Veran noticed the sword was meters away from Ravio and happily positioned herself between him and the sword. Spider legs ending in hands reached for and grasped Ravio. Aryll fired bolt after bolt at the horrible grinning face in a futile attempt to distract Veran. Veran spit a web at the royalty, then tried to bite off Ravio's head.
The Fireblight was finally dead. Melted swords, spears, and greatswords clattered to the ground as the thing dissolved with Chief Nabora's ice sword shredding through the neck. She helped the wounded out of the way and piloted Vah Naboris to a vantage point. She grinned and directed the charge.
The laser from the southwest struck home and Ravio was dropped out of the decapitation zone. He was still being chased, of course, and getting to the sword was an issue. Projectiles did not distract Veran in her mad fury directed at her son. He was darting back and forth between stomping claws and unable to get past. The ice rod wasn't doing anything to slow the fiend down. Groose saw the Master Sword on the ground, realized Ravio's predicament, and scooped up the divine blade with a disregard for the inevitable damage to his hands. He ran and without thinking, stabbed upwards under the monstrous fiend. Veran screeched and jumped away. Ravio pulled out the Cane of Pacci and channeled. The surge of power flipped Veran over midair and she writhed on her back when she crashlanded. Ravio gratefully yelled an inaudible 'thank you.' Veran's screeching made yelling as loud as possible insufficient. Groose was happy the sword hadn't rendered his fingers immobile. Ravio leaped up onto the Spiderblight's stomach to grab the sword. He slid off due to a slippery foothold on a writhing monster while clutching the sword and trying to keep it point down.
Veran rolled and Ravio narrowly avoided being crushed. Aryll cleared more of the eyes from the ground after Veran came back down. Aryll's supply of bolts was out now. Ana and Strich both ran out of arrows long ago. Hazel called out "Ravio! Do you have an extra rod for them?" Ravio tossed the ice rod to Ana as Hazel ordered Strich and Ana back.
The grand crossbow/longbow debate which divided the ranged weapon fanatics of Hyrule was not settled to their satisfaction. A shoulder cannon blast from the Goron Randallson finished off the Windblight and left Vah Rudania free to perch and aim. The Goron champion Darmani shrugged off his cannon harness and prepared to use the ultimate long-range weapon.
He kind of felt the bow controversy was pointless when there were lasers and cannons.
Veran's movements were much more erratic and unpredictable now that she was getting more desperate. Hazel kept blasting her with sealing power and wondered how much longer until the creature was sufficiently weakened. Ravio took a deep breath, he was sure he had only a little bit more time until he could channel enough power to flip Veran over again and maybe finish her off. A laser from the north drove Veran into a grove of trees. Ravio swung the cane as Veran spat more webs out. The webs were disintegrated by light from Hazel's hand. Veran ended up on her back and the heroes made their move.
Ravio plunged the Master Sword in between Veran's eyes.
"You aren't going to kill anyone else. Begone."
The sealing power Hazelda wielded utterly crushed the screaming Veran into nothingness.
A blessed quiet descended as the red light faded in the sky.
"...is it dead? Did we win?" Aryll asked Ravio. She did not put away the scimitar.
"...Hilda?" asked Ravio. She would probably know. Ravio felt like it was probably all over but no one would relax until he checked that Hazel didn't sense anything either. The Master Sword's glow had faded from brilliant moonlight to more of a starlight sort of level.
Hazel nodded.
The pun title for this chapter took way too much time to come up with. Minor edits 9/6