Wind
We found Windblight outside, by the second Gatehouse, where it had been terrorizing those stationed there.
By the time we arrived, the place had been ripped up with a series of laser blasts and tornados (Wild explained tornados to me the other day, and they are as scary as sea storms!). Malice burned through the wood and stone.
The wind howled around us, similar to a storm at sea, and I wouldn't be surprised if the ground beneath me started to buck and heave as the ocean waged a war with itself.
The wind screamed in our ears, making it nearly impossible to hear anything else. Of course, the wind was sourced from Windblight, buffeting us back and getting harder and harder as we approached, until it threatened to throw us high into the air with nothing but each other to catch us.
Teba and Revali seemed to have a slightly better time, most likely accustomed to flying through storms, but only slightly and then they were on the ground with us.
What made matters worse was the fact that the fiend wasn't doing anything. It was just sitting there, magic runes swirling and flickering around its body, giving it control over the wind.
"Is it too much to hope the Malice will burn through the magic?" I shouted. No one responded, my voice had likely been whipped away and added to the rainless typhoon that we were now fighting.
I was the lightest of the bunch, while Twilight was the heaviest, meaning I couldn't get as far without being blown away whereas Twilight could get pretty far, but he fell harder than I would.
One attempt even knocked him out cold, a narrow trickle of blood tracing down his face as he laid in the ruins of the Gatehouse. The bodies all either blown away, buried, or melted to mush by Malice.
I didn't want Twilight to suffer the same fate.
As a last resort, I got out an instrument I haven't held in years, ever since my first adventure, but haven't let get far out of sight.
The Wind Waker fitted into my hand perfectly, feeling like a natural extension of my arm, like the Master Sword of the Phantom Sword.
Magic flickered around its end before getting blown away as I raised the baton. The curly decoration and the delicate silver at the end made it look like it would fly away in the wind, but I knew from experience that it would always come back to me.
Revali's beak opened and closed, but I couldn't hear him. All I could hear was the phantom notes that were still imprinted in my mind. Albeit rusty, I knew them by heart.
It took me a couple tries, partly because the C note and the D note sounded so similar, partly because the wind kept ripping my Wind Waker this way or that, screwing up the spell.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Revali yelled, close enough that I could just barely hear him.
"TRUST ME!" I shouted back. "I HAVE AN IDEA!"
Revali didn't seem to trust me, but was distracted by some debris being thrown toward him, either caught in the wind by chance, or because Windblight picked it up.
Speaking of, it was still sitting there, in the eye of the storm. Only now it was watching me. With something akin to curiosity gleaming in its eye that followed the Wind Waker as I picked it up again and pulled it through the air.
It almost made me think that it had a mortal mind.
I mean, Wild's Lynels were harmless as long as we didn't make any threatening movements, pull out our weapons, and as long as we skirted around the edge of their territory.
But I shoved that thought away as quickly as it had come. Windblight was a part of Calamity Ganon for Hylia's sake! And he was more Demise (being made of pure hatred and evil) than Ganondorf (mortal man with feelings, and who has proven to care for his people).
I knew the second when I finally got the song right.
The wind wasn't as harsh as before, as if I was now in the eye, as it waited for directions.
I simply pointed the Wind Waker at Windblight.
Not even a second later, the wind rushed at Windblight, with the same ferocity it had had when it had been against us.
"How did you do that?" Teba asked, no longer needing to shout.
I couldn't answer as Windblight shrieked, that little bit of humanity gone with the wind as it tried to regain control of the wind.
The wind was cold, but sweat broke out along my brow as I struggled to maintain the spell.
I heard someone (or two) run up to us, with the wet sound of fins hitting the stone floor, making me think that it was Sidon and Mipha.
My wind ripped and tore at Windblight's magic and the Malice holding him together.
Revali and Teba found perches on a still-standing wall and flapped their wings to push air toward Windblight which didn't seem like it would help much, especially beside me, but I wouldn't underestimate the power of a Rito's wings.
Twilight appeared beside me, looking frazzled but altogether whole. Mipha must've brought him back.
With one hand, Twilight used the cloth usually reserved for cleaning his sword to wipe the blood off his face while the other held an ivory boomerang.
When he threw it, it flew in a tornado of its own making, buffeting back Windblight even more before returning to the Rancher's hand.
"When this is over, wanna trade?" I asked.
Sadly, Twilight shook his head no.
We blew Windblight's magic away, and chunks of Sheikah tech began to fall as the Malice holding it together was blown away.
A zora spear flew through the air, speeding up with the wind around it as it flew toward Windblight.
Mipha's trident hit Windblight in the chest, coming out the other end with a giant ancient core tangled on its tines as it hit the wall behind and fell to the ground, covered in Malice.
Without the core holding it together, Windblight blew away in the calming breeze, Sheikah tech that played the role of its eyes, arm, and more fell to the ground.
The wind stopped and I lowered the Wind Waker, my arm aching from how long I'd held it.
I blew on the end dramatically, causing the sparks of magic to flicker like a lit candle before putting it away.
"When'd you get that?" Twilight asked, referring to the Wind Waker.
"From a talking boat." I stated simply.
"A talking–never mind." Twilight said, exasperated.
"Who was also the King of Hyrule."
Twilight pretended not to hear me.
"So, what's next?"