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"Okay, I get that this is bad," Claude said. "But how bad is it exactly?"
"Anything we could potentially try would be a long shot," Revali admitted. "The Divine Dragons aren't goddesses like their mothers, but they're still far more powerful than anyone else in Hyrule save for Calamity Ganon."
"Well, we're not going to just give up," Ingrid said. "What can we do?"
"You did take out some of Medoh's weapon systems, but there are still some that are usable," Revali said. "I can try blasting that Malice off of her. It's worth a shot, at least."
"Okay, we have a Plan A," Claude said. "What's Plan B?"
"I can take Link close to Naydra," Teba said. "If we can find the source point if the Malice infecting her, he can shoot it with the remaining Ancient Arrow." He turned to Link. "You'll only have one shot."
"It doesn't matter. We have to try," Link said.
"Good luck," Revali said. For once, there was no sarcasm in his voice.
With that, Link opened his paraglider and he and Teba began flying toward Naydra.
As they got closer, Link could see several orange eyes in the Malice, but none of them seemed big enough to be the one where the main source was.
"Shoot the orange eyes!" Link told Teba, and they both shot as many as they could.
Naydra wasn't ignoring them though, and she launched blasts of ice at them, which they only barely managed to dodge. When they had recovered, they saw that the eyes had not been affected, even after being hit directly.
Medoh's weapons started blasting at the Malice, and they seemed to be clearing away some of it, but not nearly enough.
Switching to fire arrows, Link and Teba resumed their attack on the Malice. The fire arrows were slightly more effective, but only just.
Worse, a blast of arctic wind knocked Link's paraglider out of his hands. It looked like he was about to fall to his death...
Until his paraglider suddenly changed direction, flying back into his reach. Grasping it and holding on for dear life, he saw something flying away from it. He turned his head to see an enormous red dragon flying up beside Naydra. Clearly this was Dinraal, using her own power to counter Naydra's. Even the ice blasts had stopped.
And was that a person on Dinraal's back?
Medoh sent out a weapon it hadn't tried to use yet: a fleet of flechette-like missiles that targeted the Malice on Naydra. And with Dinraal keeping Naydra from countering them, they hit their marks, destroying much of the Malice.
Much of it, but not all. Link sighted an orange eye in what Malice remained, far bigger than the others. He nocked his remaining Ancient Arrow and let it fly.
His aim was true. He hit the eye dead center, and it exploded, just as the Blight Ganon in Medoh had. The remaining Malice on Naydra dissolved, and Naydra began to descend to the ground, with Dinraal following.
Link and Teba followed after them, unsure if they were going to crash. But once they got close to the ground, they slowed their descent to a stop. Once they were just above the ground, they transformed from dragons into women.
"What in— how did..." Teba sputtered.
Landing nearby, Link and Teba ran up to the two Divine Dragons. Dinraal seemed to be all right. Naydra, however, was on her hands and knees, retching profusely while Dinraal held her long, blue hair back.
"Hey!" a third woman ran up to the two of them. She was much younger-looking than the two Divine Dragons, and her skin was an inhuman pale. "Be more careful transforming with passengers! I nearly broke my ankles when I hit the ground!" Her eyes shifted from Dinraal to Naydra. "Are you okay?"
Naydra unsteadily stood back up, allowing Link a better look at her. She was tall, taller than Dinraal, with wavy aquamarine hair that reached her waist. Her eyes were the same color. Her skin was pale, but that might have been from her ordeal rather than natural. Link would have guessed she was in her mid-thirties if he didn't know she was far, far older than that. "I...I think I will be." She smiled warmly at the four of them. "Thank you. I would not have been able to fight off the corruption on my own."
"How did you get corrupted in the first place?" Link asked.
"I remember the seer," Naydra said uncertainly. "It was just as the Calamity was beginning. He told me he had seen the Hero and the Princess fail to stop the Calamity. I was about to try to aid them...turned my back to him...he did something, not sure what...then the voices. It took all my strength to get to Lanayru peak instead of helping the Calamity...encased myself in ice, trying to hold myself there. Yiga thawed me out...Calamity wanted me to destroy Vah Medoh, then Rito Village...tried to resist. Couldn't."
"It's all right, Naydra. You're free now," Dinraal assured her.
"I think I need food," Naydra said.
As Dinraal helped Naydra in the direction of Rito Stable, Link looked at the third woman. He didn't know her face, but he knew who she was. "Kronya, thank you. For saving my life back there."
"It was the least I could do," Kronya said. "Truth is, I haven't been using this Gale Boomerang for very long. I got lucky with that throw."
"Maybe it wasn't luck," Link suggested.
"You're saying my hand was divinely guided? If Flayn has told you anything, you'd know my people don't get on well with gods," Kronya shook her head.
"I don't know. If I was a god, I'd be glad to have you as a follower," Link said.
"You must not know me very well, then," Kronya didn't meet his eyes. "I've been arrogant, bloodthirsty, ignorant..."
"But is that who you still are?" Link asked. "Just that you're admitting it proves you're not. The Kronya you're describing? She doesn't sound like the kind of person who would have saved my life. Or who would have showed concern for Naydra."
"The others might not see it that way," Kronya said.
"You won't know unless you ask them," Link told her. "And I'll vouch for you."
Kronya smiled. "Thanks."
"Come on," Link jabbed his thumb in the direction that Dinraal and Naydra had gone. "Let's get out of this cold."