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Okay so first, Wind is like "OH MY GODDESSES I WANT TO SWIM" and then hyrule is like "vro im finna drown in ts" and lucky is like "we should teach hyrule how to swim." so all 3 of them go to the swimming pool and wind picks up hyrule with his sphaghetti ahh arms and yeets him into the pool. hyrule starts screaming bloody murder. and lucky is like "yo wtf why would you do that" and it dives in and swims to where hyrule is. hyrule is like. 15 feet down though because he weighs like 50,000 tons for plot reasons. while Hyrule is floating in the water he has violent war flashbacks to that time when he wanted to learn how to swim but the mean kids pushed him into the pond and this exact situation happened. While lucky is trying her best to save rulie. wind is like. "oops" and he also dives in because he feels bad and also starts trying to save hyrule. now lucky and wind are battling for who can save hyrule the coolest.
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"Fuck off!" Lucky grumbles when it surfaces, pushing Wind away by the face. The young hero bites its hand, causing it to yelp out and almost drop Hyrule back into the water.
"No! I'm gonna save him, it's what a hero does!" Wind retorts, spitting the blood he'd drawn into the pool. Lucky recoils in disgust, dragging Hyrule's body closer to the edge.
"You're the reason he needs saving in the first place, dude!" They scoff, fending off another attempt to yoink Hyrule from their arms. "If you didn't toss him in like an anchor, he wouldn't be dying!"
"Well, excuuuuse me for being proactive!" Wind screeches, tackling Lucky and, by extension, Hyrule. The three of them struggle, Hyrule the most because he's actively drowning, until Wind catches the healer and surfaces.
Being so small, though, the sailor can't really swim with another person in hand. He barely treads water before his eyes go wide, and he resorts to doggy paddling to stay above water.
"Guys!" Hyrule coughs, wiping his face and trying to get away from Wind. "Just-- someone do something!!"
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"I AMMM" Both lucky and wind yell at the same time.
At that, they glare at each other, and both let go of Hyrule to duel off by themselves. Obviously, they needed to prove to the drowning teenager who was coolest by leaving him in the water, and water-wrestling.
Hyrule is currently flailing, fighting for his life to stay above the water, while Lucky and Wind just float, staring at each other.
*These useless mfs* Hyrule thinks and looks around him wildly for the closest wall. Wind and Lucky had SOMEHOW managed to get him within a yard of the edge of the pool. Also for some reason there are no lifeguards at this pool. for plot reasons just like how hyrule is no longer 50,000 tons. becuase. plot. yeah. anyway.
Hyrule thinks back to what he's seen the rest of the chain do while swimming. he channels the past lives off himself(the hero's spirit???) and he enters a flow state. his eyes start glowing and his arrow tattoos (That he has for plot reasons) start glowing as well. And Hyrule locks in and learns how to swim and makes it out of the water
All while this is happening. Wind and Lucky are still just staring at each other. i guess theyre locked in a very intense, violent, to-the-death, staring contest. "FFFFFFFuck you." Lucky spits. and then Wind tackles it and lucky wins the staring contest and YAYYYYYY
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Lucky thrashes against Wind in the water, trying to get out so she doesn't, you know, drown and die to death, but the sailor seems deadset on murdering her!
'Okay,' they think. "If I'm going down, then so are you!"
The warning comes as a bunch of bubbles on account of the fact that they're both underwater. Lucky chokes and regrets the taste of chlorine, headbutting Wind. They then regret that as they're dragged to the surface by Hyrule, who's using some sort of levitation spell on both them and the sailor, because now they have a headache.
Wind and Lucky spit up their mouthfuls of water, coughing and wheezing and trying to hit each other with their lungfuls of near-drowning souvenir--water, if that wasn't clear.
Hyrule puts them both down on the ground, almost finding hope that the fight was over, as the two just stare at each other.
That is, until the two of them launch themselves at each other and promptly knock themselves out cold by knocking heads.