The warrior is chosen, by the village of Luna Nova, it was precisely the girl who was the joke of the village the clumsyAtsuko Kagari who is better known as Akko, she managed to get a sword and a shield to start her great adventure, which would consist of something decisive in her life, that every warrior needs to do every 10 years to prove herself as such, the coming in the dungeon of Arcturus.
Akko wakes up in the morning after having another nightmare, in it she was imagining the same scenario of two girls running away on horseback while she stops a dark haired, green eyed man from getting to them on horseback where he ended up appearing next in a cell, waking up after a while still confused, when her two friends appeared in the room snapping their fingers.
"Akko!" Sucy said, waking her up.
"If you keep sleeping like this, we'll end up missing the time for everything" said Lotte.
"Wow, just give me five more minutes" said Kagari, still very sleepy.
"Ah, five minutes might be enough time for me to slip a potion into Akko's mouth and test it on her" The Manbavaran says, causing the crimson-eyed one to jump out of bed.
"Get out, I'm not a potion guinea pig, I've woken up, you see" Atsuko said, getting out of her bed and still wearing a somewhat tired expression.
The brown-haired girl is starting to do the basic morning needs, then she is having breakfast and is already looking at the entrance to the dungeon from the top of her house already thinking about how it will be a very complicated path ahead, but then she looked at the picture of Chariot that was in the room motivating herself to continue, then she was getting dressed putting on a green tunic tying it with a rope around her waist and then putting on brown boots and a green cap over everything.
She picked up her sword and shield already showing she was ready.
"Now I'm more ready than ever to go out to the dungeon, come on girls, let's get the dungeon pendant and be considered heroines" said the excited Kagari.
"I really just want it to end soon, by the wayAkko, do you really want to go with your legs showing like that, it's a dungeon" Said Lotte.
"I don't have trousers and I'd rather not wait for the tailor to make me one, I'm agile enough in a tunic without trousers, it doesn't interrupt my movements" said Akko.
The three girls are leaving Akko's house, they are going down the stairs and looking at the village that was looking crooked at the trio, especially Kagari who is still indignant that she ended up being chosen, they are following the path until they reach the entrance to the dungeon passage and there the elder Nelson was watching the entrance so that no one would pass.
"Very well, you got the necklace so you can pass, until you came quickly to the dungeon, although Chariot did everything in a single day, I wish you three good luck, from now on the path will not be easy at all" Said Nelson.
"We know that and we won't be long, we'll get through the dungeon" said the motivated Atsuko.
"Enjoy it while you have someone to accompany you, if you survive the dungeon, you know you will leave Hyrule alone on a great journey" The elder woman warns the warrior who shrugs her shoulders and then passes by opening the way.
And there goes the trio passing by the elder who opens the way, the three pass by the huge tree trunk that opens the way to a corridor, in this corridor was full of tall trees that practically blocked the view, but they were continuing to follow straight, with Kagari attacking some carnivorous plants that suddenly appeared and with that she took the Rupees that appeared after she died.
Until they arrive at a place where the whole corridor opens, precisely the dungeon of Arcturus, which seemed to be an abandoned building, a huge place, as big as the castle, but the vegetation was taking over everything.
"Woah, this is huge, it doesn't look like a dungeon so much as a place that's been abandoned" said the crimson-eyed one.
"It's because it was, this was once a great school of witchcraft, the most famous in all of Hyrule, but many generations ago, after that the witches were abandoned and some wars made the place be abandoned completely, especially when the creatures came back to take the place, there was no turning back, you studied about it in the classes of the elder Finnelan" Said Sucy.
"I was asleep in most of them" said the brown-haired one.
"Now that we're really lost, Akko doesn't know anything" Manbavaran said.
"We can do it, it's not like we learnt anything about the Arcturus dungeon from the elders" Akko shrugged and then headed towards the entrance of the building.
They together walk to arrive at the entrance of the place, still admiring the vegetation having completely taken over that huge building, which was very green, full of vines, full of leaves and mosses scattered everywhere, nature there was already taking over practically the place, but suddenly a spirit appears in front of them, emanating a greenish light, a woman with green hair, with leaves on the tip of her hair, with a horn made of branches and leaves also in a long dress, she stands with her arms open to talk to the trio.
"The girl who turned up yesterday?" Akko said in surprise.
"Yes, she is Woodward, the protector of Luna Nova and Arcturus" Sucy said.
"You are the chosen one, but you must still be very confused why I chose you, but I will be explanatory, my predictions point to something horrible that could happen in Hyrule and you will be our great heroine, but for that you will still have to prove yourself, you need the warrior pendant that you get here in this dungeon, going back to history, my prediction pointed out that a future war will happen and the kingdom of Wedinburgh may end up losing to the kingdom of Appleton, which will lead to real chaos, you are the great heroine who can change that, with the power of the Triforce and opening the seal of the nine witches that made the land of Hyrule be prosperous 1500 years ago I trust you Atsuko, I know you will be the heroine that will change our future" Said Woodward.
"What do you mean nine witches? What do you mean Triforce? "I even know that the Triforce is the three goddesses" The crimson-eyed one asked, still confused.
"1500 years ago when this place was built, nine witches made it a reality, it was a golden age, where magic circulated throughout Hyrule and it was a prosperous land full of life, but with the coming of the threat of Ganondorf, the nine witches had to seal themselves away in order to give the power into the hands of a warrior named Link, he helped save Hyrule many centuries ago, today they are still sealed, if the seal is broken it may be what is needed to stop the evil of Ganondorf from continuing to spread generation after generation and today it is present in just one boy from the kingdom of Appleton" Said Woodward.
"Ah so it's easy, I just need to go to the kingdom of Appleton and defeat the boy with the evil of Ganondorf" said Kagari shrugging.
"You would die on the spot, the kingdom of Appleton is guarded and the guards are very ruthless, just like the leaders there, that boy is now king of those lands and holds one of the pieces of the Triforce in his hands, which makes him practically invincible, unless you can break the seal of the nine witches and with the power of Claiomh Solais with the other parts of the Triforce you will be able to defeat him" Woodward said in a very explained way and Atsuko just shakes her head.
"Akko you barely got the sword and shield and already want to go after the highest level, it's better to go gradually" Lotte said to her friend.
"I'm going now, follow your journeyAkko, I'll always keep an eye on you when you're stronger and after you talk to the queens and fulfil the mission, come back here for the first seal of the nine witches to be broken" Said Woodward who then disappeared into the skies.
"What a strange woman, but I'll be glad to see you back here Akko, don't invent disappearing forever" Sucy said.
"I'm going back, I can't let Hyrule be destroyed" Akko said.
The three then enter the dungeon, and are faced with a huge corridor, where it is full of plants, at the same time there is a statue in the middle that is kind of spinning, she soon looks right in front of the girls and starts
to go shooting several nuts, which Kagari defends them all using the shield that repels the nuts and then the statue goes back to spinning normally.
"Where are we going?" Atsuko asks.
"Wherever there's no statue, preferably" Sucy said.
So the three were walking practically circling the statue, where they took cover in the middle of some pillars and that way they were not hit, in the most observing each one on one side of the paths that had to follow, not having many, besides a passage forward and two that are closed by a door on the left and right, the trio separates to check the side passages.
Both are locked, which was the sign that the only way is forward and so they were doing, following further ahead they came across a Deku appearing and spitting nuts, which Akko is already going forward with the shield and then hits the creature.
"Not bad Akko, it looks like the way is right here" Sucy said.
They go straight and until then the path is very quiet, coming across a ladder on the left and going up while some goblins are running to attack the trio, in this Akko comes into action, as well as Lotte and Sucy. Yanson uses spirits and with a book levitates them opening the way for Kagari to hit the creatures, just as Sucy creates potions on the branches that make them grow and hit the little monsters that stopped coming as soon as everyone was killed by the trio
They climb the stairs to the next level and when they reach the top they are faced with a corridor full of passages on the side and with that they separate, the brown-haired one follows in the middle of the corridor, while the other two go on the sides.
"Rupees!" Sucy said excitedly as she found a bag full of money, which she happily picked up and stuffed into her handbag.
In the next rooms there was not much besides some chests and Rupees thrown, in the corridor there was nothing, but soon it shows that not when growing in the middle of the floor a large of a mandragora that Kagari even jumps back and is almost caught by the tentacles of the plant that shows the intimidating teeth.
"Damn! Look at the size of that thing" Akko said.
The plant spits a liquid that the crimson-eyed one dodges and soon realises that it was a smarter decision to see that the liquid dissolved some branches that were thrown on the floor and so she was thrown into a room next door, where she is locked inside when four Dekus appear from the floor surrounding her.
"Shit, it was all a trap" said the puzzled brown-haired girl.
The Dekus are firing nuts towards the girl who dodges by jumping since she didn't have time to pick up the shield to repel the attacks that came from everywhere and then the creatures guard themselves in this way Akko thinks very quickly and throws the shield when one appears and throws himself to the others, causing him to be stunned by the nut thrown and so she runs towards the first Deku who ends up dying, she takes the shield and protects herself in a corner and manages to stun another one.
"It worked" Kagari said excitedly.
She runs to the next stunned deku and throws herself giving a single cut that ends up slaughtering the creature and at the time the other two shoot at her that repels with the shield the nuts and repeats the process with the rest of the dekus until the door is opened and she even receives a blue Rupee for all this, going outside and seeing that the huge Mandragora is still there and almost takes the brown-haired one by surprise.
"Damn you!" Atsuko said.
"So this is the trouble you're in now Akko? Let's defeat this thing and get out of here" Sucy said.
"Lotte gives me a boost with her spirits" Kagari said.
Yanson uses a spell of spirits that triples Akko and she also takes a potion of Sucy throwing towards the creature's mouth that swallows and then goes up giving a cut and almost being hit, since the mandragora focused on attacking the copies of Akko that when hitting the cut only gave a superficial cut and then the potion only gave a cancellation in the poison.
Atsuko is pushed back by a spirit that Lotte invoked and so she took a break from breathing and dodging the monster's tentacles, but not so well since she was grabbed on the leg falling backwards and seeing the monster's huge mouth up close.
"Damn it, I knew this would happen one day!" Said the crimson-eyed one who then slashes with her sword and then hides in the shield what the monster was going to attack her with a bite, but Sucy appeared throwing a potion in front of Mandragora that swallows with everything, causing a small explosion.
Kagari gets up noticing that she was not hit and the monster is stunned, Sucy drenches her sword with a potion of poison and thus signals her friend to go with everything, she puts the sword in the same cut that opened and this time a lunge and this causes the creature to keep moving from side to side throwing Akko to one of the walls and removing the sword from the wound, which she then watches the mandragora crumbling and dying in front of her until hitting a huge relief, which cleared the way to the next staircase.
"Whew, that hurt, that kid threw me into the wall" said the tired crimson-haired girl, getting up and putting her hands on her ribs with a little pain.
"Take this Akko, take the opportunity to heal the wounds" said Sucy giving a potion to her friend who ends up taking it feeling the pain in her ribs decrease.
The trio goes up to another of the floors, this time it is a corridor with several vines and branches, to the point that the doors on the side did not even have access, the three are walking carefully in the corridor, but when placing the foot where the plants were soon some vines begin to pull Akko down who manages to cut them and leave the other side.
"That was a close one" said the relieved Kagari.
"You're stupid Akko, you can't just leave the place at once like this, look at the vegetation, we'd need a lot of potion to make our way here unless..." Sucy said, taking her friend's shield.
"Hey! What are you thinking of doing, Sucy?" Said the crimson-eyed one.
"Lotte uses her impulse spirits, the shield can be big enough for the three of us to have room to pass, I'll climb on Akko's back and Lotte on mine at my signal you use the spell and we slide to the other side" The two were getting confused, until Sucy is soaking the shield with a potion.
"Why is that?" Atsuko asks.
"We're going to slide down to the other side, remember when we were kids and we used to take wooden planks down the hills? So it's almost like that, but we're going to do it with Lotte's help and also with an extra risk" Manbavaran said and the girls nodded in agreement.
After wetting the shield Sucy puts it on the ground and so Akko is the first to climb, then comes Sucy who climbs on her friend's back and Lotte who is higher up she reaches out and uses a spirit that causes a huge impulse forward, which they slide through the plants and due to the potion they were not affected and even made way sliding more.
The potion was kind of a poison that repelled the vines from coming to get the girls or consume the shield and this was going on all the way, Sucy was taking the potion bottle out of the bag wetting the way they followed, but soon it would end, the impulse was even quite considerable, the liquid was not the most fragrant, but soon the group manages to reach a curve and after the curve they are half trying to brake but they delised a lot and ended up hitting everything with the wall of plants ahead which were almost being consumed, but Lotte throws Akko with the shield to the side before she is caught.
"Lotte, Sucy!" said the desperate Kagari.
"Keep going Akko, keep sliding, we'll see you, we'll make it out" Yanson said.
Akko was pushed by a spirit to the other side and she even picked up more speed where the shield was barely catching and being consumed, she was getting more worried about her friends, but the two are kind of using the potions that Sucy had in hand and even escape, Lotte is using the spirits as a kind of platform, where the duo is jumping one by one until they reach where the worried Atsuko was, to the point that she desperately hugs her two friends with the concern a thousand, thinking that they could have been killed.
"Whew, you escaped, you didn't have to help me, I was already going to use my shield and throw it back at you" Kagari said.
"Now it's all my magic, I don't think I can help you with that Akko, unless I find a fairy or some magic restorer there's nothing I can do, now let's go this huge door must have something important" Yanson said.
"Would you really save us?" Sucy asks.
"For sure, you are my best friends, I would feel bad if I couldn't save you," Akko said.
The trio opens the huge double door, when passing through it they are faced with a hall in this hall has a chest in the middle, in this the door locks and the floor starts to move, flying a piece of it and going towards the trio that jumps to dodge, being taken by surprise, three pieces of the floor are rising and going towards the three that are jumping and dodging.
"What? I didn't expect that until the floor wants to kill us?" Said Akko who was hit, but used the shield, only that the floor flew so hard that it knocked her down making her fall sitting on the floor.
"Akko!" The girls say.
"Strong floor" Atsuko said getting up and then almost getting hit by another piece of the floor, but she went to use the sword that ended up breaking the floor, but it's so strong that it made her fall backwards.
"Guys we better break the floors, they are diverting the route so they don't break into the wall" Sucy said.
The three were trying to somehow get the floors to the walls, running from them or dodging, the various floors are accumulating, but due to a stumble of Akko hit a pillar and others do not stop appearing, but Sucy with Lotte hold together the shield to protect themselves from the floors that flew in droves towards the girls who did everything to protect their friend.
"Are you all right Akko?" The girls ask and she gets up.
"I hate it, I fell to the ground like an idiot" she said, getting up and holding the shield with her friends.
The floors soon stopped falling after making even a little death of so much dust and rest of the floor, which to the relief of the trio since even together holding the shield was still very strong the impact, with that they breathe relieved and even strange that it was not all the floor that ended up detaching still leaving some flaws.
The relieved trio goes to a ladder where it leads to a boat and in it when they open it has a very strange staff, which has blue balls and a very peculiar appearance, all in wood and with a tip made with a gold ornament, Akko takes that staff and feels a strange energy flowing from it.
"Woah, Akko this thing must be worth hundreds of Rupees, why don't you take it to sell, we can get rich" Sucy said.
"I'm not going to sell this, it looks like something important" said the surprised crimson-eyed girl, who was even glowing at the sight of it.
"Girls..." Lotte said.
When they look back they see that the various disassembled blocks were coming together in the middle of the floor and also realise that it formed something in the shape of a skull with some crossed bones, the two girls hide and Akko still admires the staff she didn't realise what was behind her, until she takes a look and sees something written on the staff.
"Noctu OrfeiAude Freator" How strange.
When she least realises the staff has turned into a bow which she is very surprised, but another surprise nothing pleasant would come next to her almost hitting her, those several remains of floor joined in a huge Golem that almost hits a punch in the brown-haired who throws himself to the side and stands with the bow in her hand running around a little, still surprised, she tries to distance herself from the slow creature that was walking towards her.
"Damn, I'm terrible as an archer" Kagari said.
"HeyAkko keep calm, aim right" Sucy said trying to help her friend.
She tries to keep calm, concentrates her aim, shoots the first arrow that appears as if it were magic, when shooting the arrow she ends up missing the first shot and in that she runs away with fear the Golem almost hits her, which she gets scared and runs hiding in a pillar, but the golem arrives next to her and almost hits the crimson-eyed one.
"Akko!" Said the two worried girls.
"What the hell, I hate archery, I had to have been a failure in class, I bet Chariot was a far superior archer" Said Akko who was running away, staying close to her friends.
"Akko focus, try to find a place to shoot, we will distract the golem" Said Lotte.
The three then go running trying to distract, but the golem followed onlyAkko, it seemed that she had a magnet attracting him, but it was precisely because of the peculiar staff that ended up catching, she even tries to throw for her friends to catch, but they end up getting a shock and the staff even ceases to be a bow, which the golem is practically guarded and standing in a corner, seeing that the staff has been deactivated.
"We can't hold him Akko" Manbavaran said.
"Even I can't, it feels like a lightning spell comes into my hands, it's like he's only yours" Yanson said.
"The golem at least guarded itself, I'll get the staff later, let's get out of here and follow the path, this staff is a trap" Kagari said.
The trio goes towards the door, but they notice that it was locked and it was no use for them to try to get out, which they were later seeing that the only alternative would be to shoot the golem with the arrow, which was Akko's biggest fear, she knew she wouldn't make it, but she walks breathing heavily near the staff, looking at the collected golem.
"Akko, it's just up to you now, we can't distract the golem, I have no more potions besides healing ones, Lotte's magic is over, it's up to you to finish the job" said Sucy.
"Okay, I'll try, but I'm horrible, I'll never hit an arrow" said the crimson-eyed one.
"Focus and calm, that's what you need, try to find a point where you're going to hit it" Lotte said.
"Try to focus when there's a huge monster coming to crush you" said the nervous Kagari.
"We'll wait for you, you can do it Akko" said Sucy who went with Lotte to a safer hiding place.
"What great friends" said the furious brown-haired girl.
Atsuko takes the staff in hand the golem at the time is moving, she says the words again, making the bow appear, runs to a corner where the Golem only walks in front, takes a deep breath and watches well, concentrating, at the same time having a little tremor to aim, but was noticing that a light appeared with a green colour that was pointing just where the golem was going to be hit.
(That's just keep calm I'll manage, there's even a way to aim with that bow).
Akko shoots the arrow where he aimed right where the Golem's head is giving a nice boost the arrow catches in full and the Golem takes a few steps back, which Kagari aims another arrow this time in the chest and the golem falls backwards on the floor, What hit a relief after he was dismantling all turning into dust, to the relief of the girl who also notices that the arrows were bright and light, to the point that they go out a while later, the staff returns to normal and there goes the trio taking the three red Rupees that appear with the remains of the Golem dividing between them.
"It's not hanging yet, we haven't reached the end of this dungeon" Said Akko frustrated.
"So there's still a lot missing, well at least you've got a powerful bow and it seems to help with aiming" Sucy said.
"It helps, but how long will it serve, apart from that I don't even know how many arrows I can shoot, I think we're going to go - Said the one with crimson eyes as a passage appeared opening in a trapdoor above them with a ladder.
"A ladder" Lotte said pointing to the ladder that appeared bellow the trapdoor.
It's that way, we've already got a good few Rupees, now we just have to climb to the top, we still have a long way to go, I wonder how Chariot realised all this?" The brown haired one asks.
"I don't know, but let's go soon, this thing will try to kill us again, by the way it's strange that the mysterious staff only works with you, we tried to get it, but it seems to have a shock" Sucy said a little surprised.
"I think it must be some attachment to the warrior, I don't remember seeing Chariot with a staff like that and strange that it changes to a bow when I speak the words Noctu Orfei Aude Fraetor" Said Atsuko making the staff turn into a bow but then she makes it return to normal.
"It could be a sign that you have a bit of magic lying dormant there Akko, you were always so left out in the magic classes we had, now it seems it's finally awakening in you," said Lotte impressed.
"I thought a warrior could never awaken magic like you witches, this is really strange, come on, I could barely use magic myself only little fireballs" Akko said.
The trio is going up the stairs, to the next floor of that building which would be the last floor of the four it has, they are already preparing for the various monsters that will come, when they arrived there was not much there besides a quiet shield corridor lit by torches like any other, even had less vegetation than the other corridors of the place.
Only some cobwebs scattered what Akko was already hiding among her friends with a little fear.
"ReallyAkko?Are you going to be scared of some spiders?" Said Sucy and the crimson-eyed one is scared and huddles behind her friends.
"You wouldn't understand me" said the terrified Kagari.
"Our warrior is afraid of some tiny eight-legged creatures that are comical, spiders don't do anything, or you'll see we're close to the giant spiders of Arcturus boo" said Mnabavaran scaring and provoking her friend.
"Stop!" shouts the furious Akko.
They were getting more still and apprehensive especially the fearful Akko who had arachnophobia, she was protecting herself with her friends, who didn't even have magic and had to hold Akko's sword, Sucy was the one who chose to stay in place and she was already taking the first steps, laughing at her friend.
Akko, Lotte and Sucy were advancing in the dungeon of Arcturus, which seemed to be a very abandoned building, destroying the creatures on the way and obtaining rupees on this journey, Akko already got a very efficient weapon for herself, what seemed to be a mysterious staff that becomes a bow when uttering the words Noctu Orfei Aude Fraetor. There is still a lot of ground to cover on the huge journey through the dungeon before she gets the pendant that shows Akko is a great warrior.
See you, dungeon witches...