#Hyrule and Sky slaughter Big Octos

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"The Storm and a Siren"

Wind was elated to be back on Outset. The problem? The last portal separated the group and he had to search the whole Great Sea to find them.

When he finds all of them but their veteran, he's questioning why he even worried and got into an argument with Tetra over finding them as soon as possible.

When they finally find Legend, Wind remembers that even heroes are not exempt from the cruelty of the sea and its inhabitants.

Febuwhump 2024 | Prompt 5: Rope Burns

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Warnings: mentions of rape (mentioned but did not/will not take place, nor come close to), Wind curses a lot

Wind wasn't sure what to do. To start with, he was back home, but that wasn't the problem.

His problem was that the portal that brought them here was one of those damned separation portals. He didn't know where any of his brothers were and that was his problem.

Tetra, thank the Ocean King, was on Outset when he showed up. After he explained to her the situation and figured out none of the other heroes ended up on Outset, they set out to find them.

It wasn't too hard, just time consuming even with his control of the winds. Tetra hated magic near her ship, but after a rather heated argument that had him cashing in one of his only favors as well as snapping at her in a way he'd never done before because "his brothers might be dying!" She let him use the Windwaker, but refused to let him fly them.

That was good enough. He blew storms away from their path, gave them a strong wind to keep them going.

They found Twilight on Horseshoe Island, and comically Hyrule on Fairy Island where the Great Fairy was rather reluctant to let him leave despite Hyrule hightailing it to their ship the moment he mentioned it.

They came up on Diamond Steppe by day seven and, no storm in sight, saw a huge blast of lightning take out a Big Octo. ONE HIT! It turned out to be Sky and Wild, the latter having made a raft that they'd tried to sail off to find them. They were both grinning like idiots and waving when they realized it was Wind, Twilight, and Hyrule. Wind wondered how Sky was considered a responsible adult when hE FUCKING SMITED A BIG OCTO!

Day eleven they reached Tingle Island where Time was, and not unlike Hyrule, their leader had sped to the ship the moment he was made aware of its existence, going far away from the main resident who gave the island its name.

Sky wanted to smite another Big Octo, saying he'd never summoned lightning before and he wanted to try again. Tetra was the one who vehemently denied him, causing everyone else to sigh in relief, except for Wild and Hyrule who egged him on.

Though, it weren't for the fact they were on a ship, Wind probably would've been doing the same.

Day twenty one, they found Warriors on Dragon Roost Island with three Big Octos smite... smitten... smote? STRUCK BY MAGIC LIGHTNING by both Sky and Hyrule.

Wind wondered why he had been so worried about his brothers. Ocean or not, they could handle themselves.

They made landfall at a market isle, Wind staying on ship while the others went to gather supplies. He scoured over the map, the searched islands, and wondered where in the ocean the scholar was. Legend was still nowhere to be found, though the Forsaken Fortress was still un-searched...

He really didn't want to go back to the Forsaken Fortress. But that and the reefs hadn't yet been searched. He supposed they'd do that next, he hoped--

Shit! He didn't tell them he was out of potions too!

Wind quickly left the ship, he hadn't been the only person on it so it wasn't unguarded, and went toward the market.

He found the potion stall easily, having memorized where it was a long time ago. As he was waiting for his potions to be filled, he overheard some chatter.

"Hey, did ya hear? Ol' Cap'n Jones caught a gen-u-ine selkie."

Wind's interest was immediately piqued, he had traveled across the entire Great Sea and hadn't met a single selkie, the Red Lion had said they were myths.

"No," was the response. "I don’t believe that fer a moment."

"Yeah? Well listen closely, brother." Wind spotted the two people talking and saw them lean toward one another. They were dumb to talk about this in public, but... "He's gonna do a whole display t'nite. An' he ain't known f'r bein' a lovin' lover. I 'eard he's gonna--"

"Here ya go, Link. Three reds, greens, and coupl'a blue. I didn' know ya used magic."

Wind heard a bark of laughter from the men as they walked off, but he gave the potioneer a smile. "I don’t, but some of my crew does and you know it's good to be prepared."

She laughed. "Ain't that the truth. And lose that fancy accent 'round here, kid. It's only gonna get ya in trouble."

Wind snorted but he waved and left.

A selkie... Wind was no stranger to the darker sides of the world, thirteen though he may be, he was also a pirate and had seen plenty of gruesome things even outside of his adventures. It was nice to act otherwise around the other heroes, but he had grown up around sailors who loved to talk about their conquests, especially when they thought he wasn't listening. And in their defense... he was supposed to be asleep, in his bed, on the other side of Outset, but that's not the point.

The point was, there was a Captain Jones somewhere on this isle and he was gonna rape someone. Selkie or not, Wind was not letting that happen.

Now if she said she was doing it willingly, then he was hightailing it out of there. But as the legends go, selkies never did anything willingly except run.

Lightning-happy older brothers in tow, Wind snuck through the docks. There was only so many ships on or by the shore, and even less that were active enough to have a public show ongoing.

Finding it was easy.

Seeing it was awful.

The selkie, and Wind realized it was more of a siren than a selkie, probably a mistake of communication, was hanging by their arms above the deck like a giant fish on display for the whole marina to see.

They were huge too, a regular sized human torso covered in scars, long blonde hair coming down just beneath their shoulder blades, but the tail was probably seven feet alone and was a iridescent deep to pastel pink that glittered in the warm lantern light.

If it weren't for the ropes tied tightly around their arms, hanging them over the deck as they thrashed and probably burned their arms with the ropes, Wind would've called the siren a thing of pure oceanic beauty. They were something some sailors spent their whole lives in pursuit of.

Their tail hit someone who came far too close.

"I thought you said they'd be trying to bed the prisoner," Hyrule whispered, the four of them hidden behind barrels. "Nobody could bed a fish."

Wind shrugged. "I told you exactly what I heard, wording and all. They also thought it was a selkie but that's a siren, or a mer. Selkies are seals in water, or out, and can shed their coat to take on a human-like form. There's some myths of an in-between version, but those are scales, not blubber or fur. It's probably just a show off of his catch and maybe some torture."

"Doesn't matter," Wild interrupted. "That's a sentient creature, maybe even a descendant of your Zora who adapted to living in the water unlike their Rito descendants."

"We'll get them free," Sky assured. "We're not even close enough to see their face. Let's get closer first."

Wind nodded. He led the way and they slipped closer, hearing laughter and jeering and admittedly lewd taunts but also a lot of violent ones echo across the docks.

They drew closer and Wind chanced a look.

He could see the siren's face.

"Oh fuck," Wind breathed.

"What?"

"It's the vet!"

It was Legend. Hung with rope by his arms, with huge tail from the waist down, that streak of pink in his hair was much more prominent and it plastered against a soaked face. He snarled, amethyst eyes crazed and he looked feral.

Wind had never seen their composed scholar like that, and based off the wounded noise from Hyrule, the sharp inhale from Wild, and the snarl from Sky, they hadn't either.

Legend swung himself and his huge tail smacked someone else and sent them off the ship and into the water. He bared sharp fangs.

"Alright! Time for the main event!" Someone declared, walking down from the stern. If Wind had to wager a guess, that was Jones.

Legend visibly faltered, Wind never expected to see fear flash in his brother's eyes. Not that one's. "Legend" and "scared" should never be in the same sentence, unless it was that he scared someone else, and yet...

"He looks scared of him," Hyrule whispered, and he was absolutely right.

Legend looked downright terrified of Captain Jones.

"Oh hell no," Sky snarled. "Not my kid."

Wind couldn't warn him that storming up on a boat of rowdy pirates here for entertainment was not a good idea before Sky was boarding the ship.

"Ohhh, that's not good," Wild said and Wind wholly agreed. "Those guys are not surviving."

...What?

"HEY!"

Sky shoved his way, new lightning powers crackling off him, through the crowd and onto the deck.

Legend had twisted to look at him and Wind saw his eyes light up, heard his melodic thrill that must've meant happiness or something.

Sky stood right between Legend and Captain Jones. "I'll give you ten seconds to cut him down before I do it myself and sink your whole ship while I'm at it."

The laughter was insulting but Wind nudged the others.

"Come on. We have to get the scholar down and get him clear before the sky knight actually smites the place."

Both their eyes widened and came to the same conclusion he did that a siren--a Hylian transformed into a siren or not--would not handle an electrical attack well.

"I'll cut, you catch, wait for Chosen's signal."

They moved quickly.

"Now look 'ere, we captured that siren fair an' square, you ain't got a lick ov'a right to 'im. Get your ass off mah ship before I throw ya off."

Legend snarled, twisting.

"You want rights?" Sky demanded. "You want to throw around threats?! Fine."

Sky moved forward.

"My right? First, he is not something you can have a right to, secondly, he is mine. I have equal claim over him as a parent does their child." He drew his sword, pointing it to the clouded sky. "As for threats? How about a promise. I'll strike this boat with lightning and drown every single spirit but my own on it."

If it weren't for the electricity crackling off Sky, Wind knew the crowd would've laughed. But the Chosen Hero radiated danger and the air smelt of ozone.

Jones did laugh. "That's a neat trick there, brat," his voice turned sharp and harsh. "But everyone knows magic died in hylians centuries ago. Back when the flood took this world."

Sky snarled. "Then it's a damn good thing I'm from centuries ago."

Wind swung his sword and sliced through the rope that held Legend up. Something yellow exploded and Hyrule and Wild flew past on a barrel, snatching Legend before he finished falling.

Wind leapt over the side just in time as lightning crackled through the sky and ripped apart the ship.

He swam to shore and found Legend back to Hylian and clothed (did the transformation steal his clothes too?) but shaking.

Hyrule was hugging him, Wild putting some kind of paste on reddened arms.

"'M sorry, 'm'sorry--"

Wind hated this. Legend was one of the strong ones, he had told very few stories but each one had Wind feeling sick because Legend had been younger than Aryll when he started.

Now he looked like the kid he probably was never able to be, and that was coming from Wind, who had gone on half as many adventures at a young age.

"Shh, it's okay, it's alright," Hyrule insisted.

"Goddess, this is bad," Wild groaned. Legend flinched and jerked his arm, Wild let go easily. "No, it'll heal, I promise. It's just--I've never seen rope burns this bad."

Wind drew closer. "Vet?"

Legend looked up sharply. "S-Sailor--No, no, I can't--"

"It's okay," Hyrule insisted. "You're allowed to be weak, Veteran. You’re allowed to hurt."

"No, no--I'm sorry, I can't--Please, it hurts--" Legend choked on a sob.

Wild gave Hyrule the bottle of gel and gestured Wind away, as they moved Wind spotted someone running along the beach toward them.

Sky.

"The salt water irritated the burns bad, and you said your water's toxic, so we're waiting to clean them before Hyrule heals them," Wild explained. "Fastest way to somewhere safe?"

"Just straight back to the market town," Wind said as Sky ran up. He turned to him. "He's over there but--"

Wild grabbed Sky's arm before he passed him. "Be careful. It... It would probably be better if you switched with Rulie. The Scholar isn't taking this well, and between the burns and... he seems to think he can't be vulnerable in front of us, that doesn't help."

Sky nodded firmly. Wild let go of him and he crossed the last ten feet in an instant.

Wind didn't know they were ancestor and descendant, but Sky had claimed Legend as his on that ship and Oceans, whoever said the ocean was dangerous and violent clearly had never seen Sky get protective of those he cares about.

Sky dropped to his knees in front of Legend, and soon Hyrule was shifting backward and Sky was wrapping Legend up in his sailcloth, promising safety and assuring him that he was right here.

"Can you carry him, Skyloftian?" Wind asked. "We should get back to the ship, get our Scholar fixed up."

Sky hummed softly. He murmured something to the veteran hidden in his sailcloth and whatever his response was had to be something of an affirmative. Sky stood up carefully, arranging Legend in his arms in a way still that the sailcloth blocked him from view.

Wind couldn't see Legend anymore, but if he was honest?

He really didn't want to.

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