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“Well if you didn't cast lightning time would have been fine!” warriors shouted, it had been nearly fifteen minutes at this point of fighting between the group, all blaming each other for the loss at the recent battle against some Lizalfos and what they thought to be dark, the group was pissed to say the least. Wars had been yelling at hyrule for his reckless use of lightning, who argued back on the fact that he had told everyone to move. Unfortunately, time hadn't heard and got struck by lightning. Time himself was sitting off to the side, laying down in exhaustion, he had claimed to have a horrible headache earlier, and all this screaming wouldn't be doing much good for it.
“Well maybe, if you didnt keep screaming out useless commands that no one understands except wild, maybe we wouldnt have fucking lost, mr. ‘im the captain! Everyone listen to me!’” legend snarled at him, standing by hyrules side, a hand in front of him as he yelled at the captain.
“Oh cause you would listen to me if i did use normal terms? Legend go straight ahead! They'll know our attack and can easily prepare for a move.” warriors argued back, he was cradling his wrist carefully, wind stood at his side, of course he was at his side, wars was winds mentor.
“You think their smart enough to understand that?'' Twilight questioned, he had an angry look on his face as he sat by times side, he wasn't yelling, nor raising his voice, only because he didn't want to worsen times headache.
Sky had been sitting off to the side, observing the entire ordeal in annoyance, he had wanted to sleep since the battle ended, his exhaustion hitting him harshly from the battle that had taken place earlier. To be honest, he wasn't particularly on one of the sides, sure he agreed that wars commands were garbage to all but wild, but hyrule should have checked everyone heard him before he struck. The others of the group were not innocent either, legend nearly burned wind and sky himself while using his fire rod. Wild had used some bombs during the fight, narrowly avoiding hitting twilight, who had scolded him on it but nothing further. Apparently twilight was used to the narrow escapes from wilds reckless habits.
Twilight wasn’t innocent either, he hadn't been listening to the group and caused chaos when he nearly hit wild with his sword whilst he had been slashing wildly after the bombs had exploded, he claimed it was because of the after effects of the bomb, blinding him momentarily, but similarly to wilds bombing wrongs, wild quickly forgave him, the younger now sitting off to the side, the four sides all separated and yelling at one another as well.
“You took control while I was in the middle of an attack! You fucked us all up!” blue yelled, red cowered next to wild, who blankly staired at sky, one of the three who werent fighting, sure twilight wasnt doing much, but he was still arguing.
“I'm sorry! I had an idea! And you know i do it alot!” red sniffled, he buried his face in wilds shirt, who raised an eyebrow at him.
“And you!” Blue turned to vio, who had interested himself in his nails. “You wouldn't shut up! ‘Go right! No wait, go left! No no, you're doing it wrong, let me take control!’ we couldn't hear anything wars was saying with you talking!” blue seethed, wars expression flicked over to the four colors, before returning to his own argument.
“Well have you considered I was trying to translate what wars was saying? None of you understand those commands so I was making as much sense as I could of it.” vio calmly explained, taking a knife from his side and flipping it into the air, catching it easily, “unless you suddenly understand war commands?”
“And you do?!” blue screeched, sky could see wilds exhaustion from the fights around him, wild, similarly to sky, were preferential from staying away from the verbal arguments, sky since he was to tired to care, and wild since it was more difficult to argue when you were signing.
“Yes?!” vio cried out.
“See! Vio gets it!” wars called out, vio turned to wars in a confused way.
“I'm sorry, was I talking to you? This involves me and my brothers, thank you.” vio turned back away from wars, continuing to argue with the rest of the four.
Wild moved away from red, who rubbed his eyes from his tears at his siblings fighting, he sat next to sky who sighed at the fighting around them, ‘ wish they could just all agree we all fucked up today, and get over with all this.’ Wild signed, sky nodded at him.
“Wanna start dinner?” Sky yawned out, wild nodded, pulling out his portable cooking pot, placing logs under it and lighting it quickly. “Make times favorite? He’s gonna need it after today.” The rest of the chain wasn’t a fan of times favorite, being vegetable curry. Most of the chain didn’t like spice, sky included. Wild put out a second pot for sky, materials for both vegetable curry and vegetable rice balls. Similar ingredients, but it wouldn’t be as spicy.
“Wars I already apologized to time, why are you dragging this out.” Hyrule begged, practically in tears. Hyrule was also not one for argument, but seeing as he was one of the main focuses at the moment he couldn’t escape. Wild pulled out some milk and honey for the fairy, a third pot set out to boil as he made Hyrule a nice treat.
“Because none of you listen to instructions, and you nearly killed time!” Wars yelled back at him, time coughed slightly.
“I’m fine I already told you-“ time said from his spot next to twilight who was fuming at warriors at that point.
“Can everyone be quiet please? I want to sleep and your arguing is getting annoying. We all messed up, so let’s let it go-“
“Oh that’s rich coming from you sky.” Legend snorted. “You nearly killed me today with your stupid lightning trick you pulled today. Your stupid redirection of lightning nearly hit me! It nearly hit wind as well! To fucking avoid your dumbass attack I had to jump out of the way and I knocked over rulie.” He glared at sky, well, staying out of this isn’t possible anymore.
“Legend, you know I was trying to hit the enemies, I haven’t done it in years, give me a break. Besides, if I didn’t I would have hit wars with it. You and wind can move easier with no armour.” He sipped at his water. He tried to keep his voice steady and calm, to try and de-escalate the situation.
“Oh yeah sureeee.” Legend complained. “Yeah mhm, maybe you should have hit wars, teach ‘Im a lesson for calling out such nonsense.” Wild winced at the words, sky knew that wild understood what they meant, they were both in the army and high ranking individuals in said army. “Oh! Anything to say wild?” Wild froze mid chop of some carrots.
‘ I don’t speak so no nothing to say.’ Wild responded, it was hard to read sarcasm with him usually but today it seemed easier than ever.
Unfortunately it didn’t bode over well with the others, yelling filling the group as wilds sarcasm was regarded, the younger's eyes widened in fear of the yells, pulling his hood over his face and returning to cutting carrots, ignoring all the yells at him.
“Oh? suddenly you don’t want to talk? Huh?” Warriors challenges, wild cringes away from his words.
‘ Again, I can’t really speak. Plus I don’t want to get involved. I settled my mistakes already.’ Wild returned to chopping once again, sky watched as wild pulled double the amount of goron spice out then he usually would, well they were fucked tonight.
“Oh did you? Really? Blowing up the monsters? you settled that already?” Legend challenges, wild stabs the knife into the cutting board, whoops. Made the cook angry.
“Yes in fact I did, twi and I did. Now will you let me cook or are you willing to risk me getting Hyrule to cook tonight? Because I will.” Wild said calmly, the camp fell silent, now that was a real threat. Wild dumped one container of goron spice into the pot, “We good? Or should I add a second container? Because I will.”
“Whatever. Get back to whatever your making champ.” Wars grunted, wild states at him flatly, but continued to work on the carrots. Somehow, wild always managed to keep attention off him when something like this happened, using food as a threat was surprisingly good as the only chef of the group.
The camp fell to silence, minus four arguing with each other, red was still sobbing on the rock, green standing by his side as blue and vio argued.
“Well maybe if you weren’t so stupid maybe you could figure out how to make a plan before running in headfirst and trying to get us all killed.” Vio spat, blue flipped him off, walking off from the rest of four, standing next to legend with an annoyed expression.
“What, going to yell at me too? can't you see how effective it’s been so far?” Wars replied sarcastically.
“Actually I am-“
“Everyone, shut up.” Time said loudly, glaring at the chain, the marks from the strike went down his arm in a light patterning. “We all messed up ok? now can we please stop fighting? my headache is killing me and your fighting is making it worse, plus I think champ is one second away from adding two more bottles of spice.” Wild in fact was holding two more bottles in his hand, both uncapped and about to pour over the curry, wild raised an eyebrow at time, who simply motioned for him to put it down. Wild slowly poured half of one of the bottles in before corking it back up, leaving it right next to the cooking pot as a threat.
“Time, with all due respect, no one listened or even communicated with one another today and now your fucking hurt, and everyone’s pissed. Let us have this.” Wars commented, sky caught wilds eye, the slow uncap of the goron spice said it all, he was absolutely done with this.
“Wars, stand down. Everyone, take a fucking walk. Come back in fifteen when you calmed down.” Time said, he rubbed his temples slightly, exhaustion prone in his eyes. “And wild please tell me there’s a serving or two with less goron spice then you made for them.” Wild nodded and pointed at another pan he had, one made specifically for time and twilight. “Thanks.”
‘ It’s fine. Are you ok?’ Wild asked, time shrugged.
“Good enough.” Time replied, grabbing his waterskin from his pack. “Were they arguing the entire time I was out?”
“Mhm.” Wild said, sky waved off a bug that had been circling him for a while, wild threw him a look of gratitude before returning to cooking. “No fun, cook fight.” Wild said softly, the group got the gist of what He was saying, simple words yet they spoke volumes.
“I bet, how much goron spice have you added so far?” twilight asked, rubbing his eyes in exhaustion, wild considered it before motioning that he had added one and a half so far. “Add the rest of the half, wars pissed me off today, legend as well.”
“Ok.” Wild uncorked the half full one, pouring it carelessly into the pot. “Don’t like food ruined. Hope eat.” Twilight nodded.
“I’m sure they’ll eat anything after that fight. They must be hungry. And if they don’t you can have extra for yourself for a while. I know you like spicy food.” Twilight joked, wild nodded, stirring the curry carefully.
“So wild, what were wars saying with those commands? i've been wondering that for a while.” Sky asked, wild considered him for a moment before returning to stirring.
“Yellow canary, attack where we have someone make distraction, red herring but different name. No attention, no expect.” Makes sense. “Before battle strat.”
“Wars wanted to use that but no one listened, was that why you threw a bomb at the beginning?” Time asked, wild nodded. “Interesting.”
“Red night, bomb area, no survivors.” They stared at him with horror in their eyes, “blue fish, sky attack. Arrows.”
“Seems they use a lot of colors for it.” Time mused, wild nodded, stirring the curry once more before starting to add more vegetables. “Any that came up a lot in battle?”
“Purple knife,” wild said, he coughed slightly, “protect wounded.”
“So when he called that after Hyrule struck lightning, that was for time wasn’t it?” wild nodded at sky’s question. “And you had to memorize all these? how old were you when you memorized ‘em?”
“Six. Black crow, hide in shadows, sneak attack. Go in one at a time, join slowly until it’s fair fight.” Twilight jolted at the age before calming back down, all their adventures had been quite young, at least for a lot of them, four, legend started early, wind, time.
“I think he’s said it before, didn’t he say it that one time before we fought a bunch of bokoblins?” Sky mused, wild nodded at him.
“What was white bone? I remember hearing it once when we were protecting that one town.” Twilight asked, wild tilted his head to the side before speaking.
“Innocent civilians wounded. Black bone, commander or army general injured or killed.” He explained, sipping the curry thoughtfully, before adding some salt. “Green rose, impossible to win, run.”
“And what about Grey Moon.” Legend said, returning and sitting next to wild. Wild glanced over at him, as if to ask if he was all good now. “Yeah yeah. I’m all good.” Legend grumbled.
“False retreat, hide in bushes and ambush when try to get our leftover gear.” Wild explained, he gave a spoonful of the curry to legend, who took it cautiously, taking a sip before his face turned a slight red.
“It’s… Hylia. It’s spicy wild.” Wild glared at him, “but it’s good.” Wild resumes cooking after he was satisfied with legends answer.
“Explaining all my commands are you?” Warriors came back into the clearing, wind in tow. Hyrule came out of the bushes from where legend had came from, looking tired.
‘Yes. Dinners ready.’ Wild poured some curry into each dish for the eight of them of the curry, the four colors came out soon after, looking annoyed at each other but less combative then earlier. ‘No complaints.’ Wild warned, the group nodded.
He served the spicy curry to the group before handing the normal, less spicy curry to time, and twilight, along with the vegetable rice to sky, who took it gratefully. He made his own helping of the more spicy curry happily, handing over the honey milk to Hyrule who took it gratefully.
“ Ah shit this is fuckin spicy as hell. ” Wars exclaimed, fanning his face slightly, looking at wild, “any milk I could borrow-“
“No complaining.” Wild insisted. The group quickly shut up, eating the food wild had made for them. Time thanked him quickly for the meal, saying it was just as good as Malons curry, which made wild smile brightly.
Wind thanked Wild before speeding off into the Forest, probably to wash his face off with water. Legend promptly followed after, warriors grunting before following him as well. Wild shrugged at them, putting his plate down, and getting ready to make a treat for the group to wash down the curry.
“You're not going to make a spicy dessert are ya cub?” Twilight asked, wild shook his head before pulling out some apples, butter and honey. Buttered honey apples, a dessert that hyrule had been the one to come up with.
“Oooo! My favorite!” Hyrule said excitedly, wild nodded at him. “Thank you wild!”
‘ No problem.’