Onward To Wisdom

After getting infused with the flame, Vexalia went back to the Sealed Grounds, taking the long way though to test out hjer new power on some unfortunate monster, and was greatly satisfied when the first moblin she met ran away without her needing to do a thing.

"It's amazing! Absolutely amazing!" Vexalia cheered, accidentally letting out a white pulse from her body that made the trees shake, "Mistress I suggest not letting this get to your head." Fi warned, "Relax! Just cause I feel great doesn't mean I'm just gonna change the way I fight!" Vexalia reassured, "But I do feel like it's gonna make things easier..." She added thoughtfully.

When entering the temple she was met with a weirded out look, "What the hell happened to you?" Groose questioned in sheer confusion, "Apparently I'm unfinished?" Vexalia replied, unsure of how else to put it, "And that's my limit, I'll go back to work." Groose responded, making his way outside.

"So you got the first flame?" The old woman asked with a smile, "Yeah it was an interesting experience." Vexalia confirmed, running a hand through her now clear hair, "Now you should just keep doing what you're doing." The old woman instructed, giving a look at the harp strapped to Vexalia's back.

This made Vexalia roll her eyes as she made her way back to the sky, where she proceeded to go to 'music island' to get another message from a new statue, "Mistress, this melody unlocked a new message from the Goddess in my memory, it goes as such." Fi started.

"You came back, that must mean you claimed the Flame of Courage, now you're ready to claim the Flame of Wisdom, head to the once flourishing plains and complete the trial." Fi retold, before beginning to sing the key top the trial, and once memorized, Vexalia went out to get to Lanayru.

On the flight to the opening in the clouds, something began to happen, as Vexalia started glowing, "The hell...?" She muttered, before the glow trasferred to her loftwing, and the bird suddenly got propulsed forward without warning, making Vexalia fall forwad near the opening in the clouds.

Quickly falling to the sandy plains, Vexalia pulled out the veil and parachuted down, "That was... Something..." She commented, looking up in confusion, "It appears that you transfered your power into your loftwing temporarily, resulting in a powerful burst of speed, I expect it might cause significant damage if it hit something." Fi explained.

"That might come in handy." Vexalia pondered outloud before looking around to find the trial gate, and actually managed to find it pretty quickly thanks to the butterflys flying around it, "Alright now to open it, Fi!" She called out to start the process.

Once the gate was opened Vexalia stabbed the sword into it and accessed the realm of the trial, where once again she saw the tears of the Goddess scattered around her. "Let's go." She muttered, dashing out of the safe circle and grabbed the closest tear, but to her surprise, it didn't stop the guardians from moving.

"Mistress, in this trial you have to be smart and plan way ahead." Fi informed right as Vexalia got slashed in half, making her reappear in the safe circle, "Could have used that a little sooner..." The heroine commented, looking around to plan the best route, "fifteen... With the whips I should be able to grab stray ones." She thought outloud, having finished the route.

Stepping on one edge of the circle to get a running start, Vexalia took off, grabbing the same tear as before and used the whips to grab the two other nearest tears, while sending off a beetle to grab tears that were in the opposite direction, while focusing on climbing the outer structure of the mining facility, grabbing the tears she spotted and one with a whip.

Getting down on the other side of the facility, the beetle she sent out returned with two tears, but in the midst of retrieving them, Vexalia once again got struck by a guardian and the trial restarted, "Dammit! Now I gotta start-" She paused her lament when she realized what she was doing, "WHY AM I DOING IT THE HARD WAY!?" She yelled out, sending fifteen beetles out.

A minute later, all the beetles returned, bringing the tears with them, "Wisdom is the way to describe this, my Goddess..." She lamented as the flower bud materialized in her hand, opening to reveal... Something... Kinda like the auras that contained pieces of her, but this one looked weird.

Before any more thoughts could be given, the gate spat Vexalia out, leaving her confused, "What in the world was that?" She asked Fi, but of course, got no response, "Why are you so useless sometimes?" She sarcastically asked, but then proceeded to check the map, to see if there was a location she didn't see the last time.

"There!" Vexalia concluded, seeing a spot in the down right corner of the map and began running to the location.