In a distant land, deep in the depths of Hyrule, there is a forest, the forest of Arcturus, which hides a small village called Luna Nova, every 10 years a warrior ends up trying to venture outside after winning the approval of Woodward and passing the very complicated dungeon of Arcturus, going on an adventure outside the village to learn more about the land of Hyrule. Or even become the legendary hero who will change the fate of that place forever and bring prosperity to the various kingdoms.
It was a day like any other in the village of Luna Nova, people were working, walking from one side to the other, when one of the girls, the clumsy 14-year-old Atsuko Kagari, better known as Akko, a girl with brown hair, crimson eyes, wakes up, she has a bad reputation in her village for being a clumsy girl who tends to be a disaster in everything.
It was the day that was 10 years since the last warrior had left the village, which signalled that another brave warrior might appear. Akko wakes up from her deep sleep after dreaming so much, she watches the outside through the window.
The whole village was gathered in the centre, to see what would happen in the ritual of who would become the chosen warrior, Akko puts on her clothes and goes down from the tree where she lived, she walks all excited, hoping to find none other than the one of Chariot Du Nord.
(I hope she comes back here, it's been 10 years, I remember I was just a kid, she put her hand on my head, said I have to believe in myself that this is my magic)
Akko remembers on the way when Chariot left the village with a sword and a shield practically alone after a great journey, she was really impressed how great she was and the whole village loved Du Nord's presence. Arriving in the middle of everyone, she kind of gets squeezed, arriving where her two best friends are, Lotte Yanson, a blonde with short hair, wears glasses, has blue eyes and freckles, Sucy Manbavaran, a pale, with very long mauve pink hair, red eyes, and always leaves a fringe covering her left eye with both the same age as Akko, they are watching that whole ritual.
"Who will Woodward choose?" Said the crimson-eyed one eagerly, after all, she really wanted to see the ritual once more.
"It certainly won't be you" Sucy said with a mean tone that made Kagari puff out her cheeks.
"Silence you, don't you see that the ritual is important" Said one of the village elders.
The leader of the village, Miranda Holbrook appears, she walks with the help of her cane, arriving in the centre of a circle that had a Triskellion drawn, there she raises her arms pointing to the sky, which begins to make light effects, wonderful enchanting all the inhabitants around her, to witness the rare ritual.
The Triskellion below Holbrook begins to light up, everyone is amazed, Akko tries to see, but the crowd with larger inhabitants ends up being too high, but she soon finds a way when Sucy helps her and holds her over her shoulder so that Kagari can see more closely.
"You will owe me 15 rupees for this Akko" Manbavaran said.
A silhouette of a woman appears, she was wearing a dress with some leaf ornaments, such as the crown she was wearing on top, which looked like tree branches, in addition to the immense size in relation to the entire village.
Three lights appear in the middle of the ritual that descend to Holbrook, where she stands with her eyes closed and everything dissipates in a very bizarre way, the ritual seemed to be finished, when everyone looks at the old woman and she smiles.
"And so Miranda, who will be the warrior of our village?" Elder Finnelan asks.
"She" Holbrook points the stick atAkko who was still sitting on top of Sucy's back.
The whole village looks back at who Holbrook was pointing at and it was precisely Kagari, which was all discredited, already starting to murmur about that decision speaking ill of her being the warrior, which were already leaving there, many speaking as if they were lost precisely because the crimson-eyed one had been chosen after all that.
Akko was also confused, she even gets off Sucy's back and goes pointing to herself confused that she was the chosen one, but in the end the village leader determines that Akko is the chosen warrior.
"You've got to be kidding Miranda, this girl can barely do a job properly, she can barely use a bow and arrow, let alone wield a sword, she just gets into trouble all the time, tell me this is just a bad joke" said the elder Finnelan.
"No, that's what Woodward told me, the chosen one is Atsuko Kagari, she who will explore the dungeon of Arcturus, but of course without first going through the ordeal of taking the sword and shield of Luna Nova, come with me girl, I will explain the situation better - Said the village leader.
Akko is all surprised, she is excited, she did not imagine that she would become the heroine, the people of the whole village are kind of getting angry with Miranda's decision, they thought that someone else would be chosen much more strongly, so much so that they did not even put faith in Atsuko.
The crimson-eyed girl arrives at the leader's hut, which she always visits, since it is where she ends up being taken by the elders when she is caught doing something against the rules of the place, but she never went to another part of the hut that was the leader's room.
She sits on a cushion and makes herself at home at the request of Miranda Holbrooke, even starting to drink a little tea, while the leader puts her cane next to her and also sits on a cushion, where she will discuss the importance of the mission with the crimson-eyed one
"Very well, you should already know that you are the chosen one, but I'm not doing this just to test you or anything, your mission is really the most important of all, not even Chariot Du Nord has been given something so grand to do" Akko's eyes even sparkle with imagination.
"So does that mean I'm really important? What are the chances that I will meet Chariot again?" She's already asking bouncy, excited questions.
"Wait a minute girl, first I have to explain the most important thing, you are on an important journey that is to save Hyrule, Woodward chose you not only to protect, but to get the triforce, you may have heard about the legend of the triforce before, but I will recap it for you, many, many years ago, three goddesses existed here in Hyrule, Din the goddess of power, Naryu the goddess of wisdom, the three goddesses of creation who made this land we call Hyrule, they are important and very much so to our lives and it is your mission to obtain what they created, before someone dangerous gets their hands on it, what Woodward told me that he will come from the kingdom of Appleton to attack the kingdom of Wedinburgh, conquer Hyrule in a while and you need to be agile, save Hyrule and stop him from getting the power of the Triforce, you will be the heroine that will save the queens from the worst, you will save Hyrule, I trust you will, I know your potential and how you never give up Atsuko Kagari, now get your sword and your shield, both are scattered in some parts of the village that have their challenges and come back when you get them, so I open the way for you to go to the dungeon of Arcturus" Said Mrs Holbrook what Akko was getting impressed, at the same time almost slept when listening to the story of the goddesses.
(That dream I had earlier, fire was coming to a castle and I saw two girls running away on horseback somewhere, it's weird, it felt like they were special, because a black haired guy came at me and then I woke up when he was going to hit me).
The crimson-eyed one even remembers the dream, looks at the map of the village and already identifies where each of the parts where she needs to go is, already having an idea that it is in a place she used to go, she leaves the leader's hut and there she sees that Sucy has her hand outstretched to her, which Akko even scratches her head without having any idea what it was about.
"My 15 Rupees Akko" she said.
"Do I need to pay now?" Kagari said, playing dumb.
"Come on, pay me that and I won't bother you, you have, haven't you?" Manbavaran said.
"So... I don't think I have any now, I just spent all my rupees yesterday on a Shiny Chariot artwork that I wanted to leave in my room to remember her by" Akko said which made Sucy a little angry to the point of shaking her.
"What? You'd better turn up with my 15 Rupees by the end of the day, or I'll scribble all over the artwork you bought" The painting cost 50 Rupees, but Sucy still made a point of threatening.
"I'll bring the Rupees, calm down, I just need to prioritise getting Luna Nova's sword now" Said the crimson-eyed one.
She already identifies the place with a map in her hand and sees that there are some fences in front, as well as tall grass, which she even finds a little strange, but shrugs, already preparing for what is to come.
She points to where she wants to go and then walks alone to the bush, where she already finds some Rupees thrown in the middle of the grass, keeping them in her pocket and then seeing that there is a small hole in the walls, she soon enters that hole by the same impulse and goes through the tiny space that she
had, which is listening to some sounds of things hitting and rolling, kind of never had passed through that hole.
(That's strange, I've never actually been here, how come I never knew this place existed? Well anyway there's no map to guide me, I guess I'll have to manage here)
Akko was walking further and soon comes across a huge stone rolling which she was almost hit, but dodges and then walks through the small maze seeing that there are also some water fountains and in them were full of Rupees, with her eyes shining she picks up and puts them in her pockets, not only did they have green rupees, but they also had blue and even a red one.
Only she is soon surprised and frightened by a creature that jumps out of the water, it was just a frog, but it was enough for her to jump back scared.
"Damn! Even a frog scares me" Kagari said.
The crimson-eyed one picks up the rest of the Rupees that fell and takes it in the bag she was holding then walks backwards, since that was not the place she needed to go, with that she sees that there was a path, but the problem is that there were always stones falling and rolling and they went to a hole next to it that seemed to be very deep.
(If these stones hit me I turn into a sheet of paper or get pushed into a huge hole)
Akko does not give up, she finds some gaps to be hidden on the sides and when one of the stones falls into the hole she already runs to one of the sides seeing that the stone ended up falling into the hole and passing well by her who runs to the other side, already being very shocked that she managed to pass to a level above.
Little by little she advanced until she reached the top of that climb seeing that there are no more stones, but then there would be another challenge ahead, she walked following the path and saw that on the other side there was already a trunk, but in front they had platforms and they had a deep hole which could not have errors in that part
(I think they must think I'm a nutter to become a warrior in these conditions, I'm sure someone has already died trying to jump here).
She takes a deep breath, jumps the first platform, leaning on it and getting a little scared to see below since it looked like a very deep hole, just thinking about following the path, Akko goes to the next platform jumping carefully and leaning well, she is afraid, but the motivation is greater, the chest seemed to be close but he still had something else that would prevent Akko's path more.
Kagari was jumping from one platform to another, until she managed to get to the other side, almost falling in many of those times, but until she was going further and further, she didn't hesitate a bit, she walked until she reached a wooden pole.
(The chest is up there, how am I going to get up there like this? I think I'll have to turn round, I know what to do).
Clever, the crimson-eyed takes the bag off her waist, wraps it like a belt around the wooden post and tries to lift it up, only it ends up falling before reaching the middle when she realises that the handles of that bag strap, which Akko takes a deep breath and holds on to that wood practically hugging her.
With that she started to rub as if it were a trunk and slowly climb, already with some pain in her hand just to climb every centimetre on the thick trunk that was still 5 metres high for climbing, she was motivating herself with every climb she could make.
(My hand is already hurting and it's horrible I've never climbed a tree trunk like this, luckily I managed to get the support I needed).
She got to the top, relieved, jumped to where the boat was and finally relieved to open the boat, where she finds the sword inside with a scabbard that Akko quickly puts on her waist and as descending from the trunk is easy she just slides, but is already looking the other way a little breathless and tired.
(Seriously, am I really going to have to go all the way back to the other side yet?)
Kagari sits down to rest, where she marvels at the small sword, it was not the most legendary of all, but that was the first sword of the crimson-eyed girl, having a double blade and measuring about 55 centimetres in length, having the symbol of the village of Luna Nova in yellow drawn on the bottom of the blade right in the centre of it, with a purple handle.
She takes a light rest and jumps from each platform, with due care already proud of herself that she managed to get her first sword, she reached the other side and breathed calmly, but at the time of the stones she is seeing the pattern with which they fall and the right time.
(I think I can run it all the way downstairs in one go)
And so she goes trying, when one of the stones falls she follows it and notices that her run is a little slower than the stone and one was coming after her with everything she tries to tighten the pace being followed by the huge rolling stone until she gets right below where the exit was.
Akko throws herself to the side and was almost crushed by the huge stone, but managed to save herself, falling relieved on the ground next to her, breathing relieved she gets up dusting off her clothes and even laughs.
(I wish Lotte and Sucy were here, they would help a lot).
She walks normally along the path until she reaches the small hole she passed at the beginning to get the sword, she returns to where the village was, on the other side she already tests the blade by cutting the high grass which reveals some Rupees that were hidden, with that she trims all that grass around until it is low, getting a considerable amount of Rupees.
When she left there she saw that her friends were sitting on a bench in the village looking at the people passing by and soon Akko throws some Rupees to the friend who was owed and she is already all strange those three blue Rupees being given.
"Woah, you even managed to pay me Akko, you were quick on that one" Sucy said.
"I managed to get the sword, look at this" Kagari said as she showed the sword to her friends.
The two are impressed that Akko made it out alive and even congratulate their friend, which they then go on to look closely at the sword and are quite impressed by how she made it this far, surviving the first challenge where they swore she was going to have a huge challenge to get through.
"Now the delay is explained" Manbavaran said.
"I told you I would make it, now all that's missing is the shield and trust that I will return here with the shield in hand" said the confident Kagari.
"Good luck with that Akko, we'll stay here and wait, the old woman said we can't go with you in these two, a shame" said Lotte.
"True, I could charge another 15 Rupees for this one, I would win, the way you are clumsy I find it difficult to get it alone, but good luck" said Sucy and the crimson-eyed one even makes the biggest face when she sees that her friend would only help with money involved.
Then Akko walks towards where the map pointed her to go, the place of the shield that was marked with an X on the map, she comes across an entrance to a cave, being that she has passed there a few times, having memories of childhood, but soon notices that there is nothing much except a crack.
(I remember trying to stick something in this crack, I remember it very well, I used to come in here to play hide and seek with the girls when I was a child)
Akko puts the sword inside the crack, which ends up opening some doors, which she even finds strange because she had never seen that door opening in all her years, already trying to break in many times, but never realising that the sword opened the way.
When passing through the door she comes across an open hall and had a chest right on the other side, bouncing she goes there already arriving in the curiosity of opening the chest and taking the shield, which was a piece of wood with the symbol of Luna Nova, she even gets a little frustrated because it doesn't look as cool as the sword.
"Well that's it, but still yay, I got it all the same..." Just as she was about to finish speaking, some creatures fell.
Four Dekus fall to the ground and appear in front of Kagari, plant creatures that have mouths that shoot nuts, which the Japanese woman is already using the shield to protect herself from the various shots that would hit her and soon realises that she ends up even making the nuts bounce off the walls.
(Ohhhhhh, I've had nightmares about Dekus when I was a kid, I'll never forget the scar I got on my knee when I tried to venture into the Arcturus forest when I was very young, lucky Chariot showed up to save me, it was a little after she left, I had followed her thinking I would find her, she just told me that one day in the future I could leave Hyrule and find her, who knew that day would soon come)
"You guys really don't give up, do you?" Said Kagari, who was bouncing the nuts against the Dekus.
They were firing at different times, but the crimson-eyed one, all tucked behind the shield, advanced forward and was ricocheting the nuts closer to the nearest group where she soon hit one of the Dekus with her sword, which ends up being destroyed and leaving a blue Rupee, then she goes up to the one next to her and with only two left it became easier.
The ricocheted nuts also hurt the little monsters that ended up guarding themselves every time Akko got close, these smarter ones, but soon she goes running without the protection of the shield to draw attention to the two that come out of their hiding places.
(Come on do it anyway, I'll get through that one).
Akko manages to dodge one nut and the other catches on her back, but at least one of the Dekus was shot down and so she bounces right back to the next nut fired that comes back with everything in the last Deku that stuns and turns the perfect opportunity where Akko hits the last of them and leaves with 8 Rupees, already feeling all rewarded she leaves that place that opened up as soon as the four Dekus were defeated.
(I'm actually a lot stronger than before, a nut like that was supposed to hurt a lot, but it only hurt a little, well less bad, now just walk on to the next part of this)
She leaves the cave and heads towards the leader's hut, but first she is approached by the elder Finnelan who ends up staring at her with a very crooked look, preventing Kagari from entering the place, since she doubts the girl's abilities very much.
"Where do you think you are going?" The old woman said.
"To speak to Mrs Holbrook?" Akko answers her without mincing his words.
"And what is so important that you want to talk to her? It's not enough that you were a mistake to be chosen ... It is not because you were chosen that I will give you unlimited access to the leader's hut, if you want to pass you will have to pay me 50 Rupees" The crimson eyed woman is surprised by everything and already looks in her bag she only had 31 Rupees so far she was even close to getting more if it weren't for the debt with Sucy.
"Wait a minute can you really charge me for that?" The crimson-eyed one asks.
"It was Mrs Holbrook herself who told me to do this, if you want to prove yourself good enough you will have to get 50 Rupees by killing creatures that are out there in the forest of Arcturus so who knows, maybe you can get through here" Said the elder Finnelan.
"If you're lying about it I'll want my 50 Rupees back, I'll do it, but only because I want to test my skills" Kagari said.
[...]
Akko returns after a good few minutes trained her skill in the most killing some carnivorous plants and Dekus getting even more than was needed if they came to charge even more than it was enough for her to pass Finnelan, the day was even beginning to dusk there which was a sign that it was also close to the time to rest.
Akko arrives at the door where Finnelan was escorting tooth and nail, hands her the 50 Rupees and finally gains access to the inside, when she arrives in the leader's room she already sits on the cushion and makes a point of being direct with the questions.
"Is it true about the 50 Rupees?" Atsuko asks.
"Yes, I wanted to see if you could not only get the sword, but also know how to use it and as you know the best way to get Rupees is to kill the creatures that live here in the forest of Arcturus, I'm proud that you did it on your first day" Miranda said.
"I just wanted to show that I am worthy of being the chosen one, even with the sword and shield people still look at me wrong, they think I can't do anything, as if I were just some child, they didn't look at Chariot like that, she was adored by everyone" Kagari said.
"You are still very young, but I know you have enormous potential, now here is your necklace, with it the passage to the path of the dungeon of Arcturus is released, but be careful, you have to face many dangers, you may not return, so I will allow you to take your friends Lotte and Sucy to go with you to this dungeon" Said Mrs Hobrook.
"Oh how nice, I'm not going alone, I'm sure I'll do very well, I'll show that I'm no small thing Mrs Holbrook, the people here will swallow what they say about me and I Akko will... Ouch!" Akko was about to finish speaking, but just as she was about to get up, she hit her head with one of the pratellers.
"The future of Hyrule is in your hands, never forget that, now go, rest assured that tomorrow you will have the adventure that could define your future" Said Miranda Holbrook and the lively crimson-eyed girl goes bouncing out of the hut.
With the necklace in hand she was one step closer to being consecrated as a warrior of Luna Nova and soon departing from that place for a great adventure in the middle of the extensive lands of Hyrule, but she would still have to go through the complicated dungeon of Arcturus and she was already excited to tell her friends. While in the leader's hut the various elders met with the leader to discuss her decision to let the chosen one be Kagari.
"She got the shield and the sword, they are easy things to get, but what about the dungeon? There the level of challenge is completely different Miranda, that place is huge and besides it is dangerous, not even we venture there besides the warriors" Said the elder Badcock.
"I think the worst thing is that you have the weight of this life in your hands Miranda, this girl can die and you will be to blame, as much as the village has reasons to dislike her presence, she is still a person like anyone else" said the elder Finnelan.
"Unfortunately I am not the one who made the choice, Woodward herself communicated with me about it, it is a pity that the great witch of our lands came to speak that we will go through such a thing, but we can only have faith in her choice, a very terrible fate still awaits us" Said leader Holbrook.
"And what are the chances of getting out of this?" Elder Nelson asks.
"None, we are lost to be honest, I want to believe in the girl's potential, but Woodward has shown that the future will be darker than it seems, the years of peace that we lived in the reign of Bernadette and Laura will come to an end, it seems that those from Appleton want revenge for everything that happened in the past" Said the leader and all are even shocked by what they hear.
"I knew it, this Woodward never chooses a good warrior, Chariot just disappeared from here and no one knows her whereabouts today in Hyrule, Laura became queen, but that is at the cost of a war that could destroy Hyrule if she loses, now this clumsy Miss Kagari" Said the elder Finnelan.
"What we have left is to believe in ourselves, I trust that we can get out of this, this girl can still surprise us" Said the leader putting all faith in Kagari.
[...]
It was already evening in the village of Luna Nova, Akko had already talked to her friends about the adventure in the Arcturus dungeon that she would have the next morning, the trio was sitting in the middle of the edge of Kagari's tree house looking at the stars in the sky and the fireflies walking and lighting up the grass of the beautiful forest around the village.
"So are you really going with me?" Kagari asks.
"Absolutely, I don't miss the loot from that dungeon for anything, if I collect at least a thousand Rupees I will have the card to be able to leave here at once and be able to explore the world outside, I really want to be able to go out and visit more places in Hyrule to know the poisons and mysteries that are out there, who knows how to make the best potions" Said Sucy.
"I just want to be very supportive of my friend, if we can get out of this I'm happy that you are a warrior of Luna Nova" Lotte said being all sweet.
"It's strange, I suddenly became the chosen warrior, even I can't imagine how I got here, but at least I'm happy that I could get this far, I think I'll be able to see Chariot again one day and I'll hug her a lot, I'll tell her that I made it, that I'm no longer the helpless little child of before" Akko said and the two friends giggle.
"I guess we'll find out tomorrow, by the wayAkko be careful not to be a clumsy girl, if you survive this the queens will think you're just some crazy girl" Sucy teases her friend who gets all cheeky.
They continued to observe the landscape, talking about the future, about what lies ahead in this journey that could be very challenging right from the start, Akko can only think of everything that happened in the space of a single day, where until then she was just anyone, one of the most hated people in the whole village of Luna Nova.
Akko the girl who was chosen by Woodward to be this great warrior who has a very important mission which she has no idea of the weight of the mission that awaits her nor what may still lie ahead, but that confidently she is happy that she was chosen,
See you, lesbian witches...
