Feather Brained Idiots

“Why hello there Eureka~! How’s the day been for you so far?”

It’s instinctive how she adjusts the jostled goggles her map maker wears and tries to tuck a bit of her messy hair behind her ears so she can see a little better.

#featheredhero #v;before the fall #;;Eureka #that fits too well omg

“It’s all going perfectly!”

She barely even reacts to the fussing, shifting instead to keep all the maps held in her arms from falling. Many would wonder just why she has to many. Really she’s just trying to make one combining elements from all of them.

“I’m close to figuring out how to map every hot springs on the surface. That way forces will know exactly where to go when they need a healing!”

“Mun has to do some work here. We might be getting some new friends on this blog because she likes to make angels. Everything will be neatly tagged and you won’t have to deal with all of us if you don’t want to. Really, the only two in one package you have to deal with is me and Eros~”

#ie I need to get Eros a faceclaim and brush up things here

“Lady Palutena!”

Don’t mind the child flinging herself at you, miss goddess.

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#featheredhero #your choice is pre Medusa attack or TLF

Palutena didn’t normally fly. She stayed in Skyworld and watched over the angels. But lately she’s been thinking, it would be better to do more herself. It’s not hard to grant herself wings, and she’s been flying for Pit for decades now. But, she’s never actually experienced flight.

“Ahhh! So this is what flying feels like! No wonder you all love it so much!”

Of course Eureka is leading, and Palutena will follow, enjoying the wind and the sky on the way.

#featheredhero #v;true light's flight #;;Eureka

“It’s what we do best, Lady Palutena! You created us to fly and so we enjoy flying with our entire being. All of us hope that Pit will fly with us soon.”

Maybe, with the light’s power, Palutena will be able to smite Aphrodite’s curse and allow Pit to fly once more. The young angel really hopes so. All angels are like family and no one likes seeing a younger sibling suffer.

She dives lower, into a forest that’s never been touched by mortals. A few creatures long thought to be extinct scatter from their presence.

“It’s right this way!”

“We’ll have to be sure to thank her then!”

Palutena has no idea which goddess or demi god would have helped, she doesn’t see how her being stronger would benefit anyone not of the light. And if they are of the light then she can trust them. Taking her new sword, and holding her staff, she kneels and hugs the cheerful map maker.

“You did very well, it’ll be best if only us two go since it’s in Viridi’s realm. Any more would be dangerous.”

Opening the tower doors with magic, she releases the hug and stpes over to the ledge, waiting for the google loving angel to join her. They would fly together to fetch the light.

#featheredhero #v;true light's flight #;;Eureka

A private mission with her goddess? It’s officially the best day ever. She leaps off the edge, wing spreading wide and lifting her in the air. She gets to lead after all since she knows where it is.

“I will! She was really nice, though she wasn’t one for touch. Maybe we can make her a cake instead!”

Once she’s sure Palutena is following she leads the light goddess through the sky, delighting in the feeling of air on her wings. Something never allowed to her when she was a captive.

“Ah, Eureka! Thank you so much for finding it! I thought you were remapping Skyworld? How did you also have time to go looking?”

She won’t admit how relieved she is to hear this. Even if given a rewind button she would have done exactly as she had. In the end there were no regrets to how she’d used her powers. But it was nice to know she wasn’t going to need to be reborn.

“Let’s go get it. It’ll be very helpful to have surplus magic!”

#featheredhero #v;true light's flight #;;Eureka

“A really nice lady helped me! She knew about the wood in Viridi’s domain that we haven’t been able to fully map yet and I found a shrine that glows really bright!.”

She’s very proud of herself, having already armed herself with orbiters to be ready to help her goddess in claiming her light. Surely they can claim it with no problems and Palutena will be more powerful than ever, right?

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“Lady Palutena! I found it! I found that light you were talking about! Exact coordinates and everything!”

#featheredhero #v;true light's flight

“Right here…”

She bites her index finger to pierce the skin and then holds it on the map, the ink like substance that made up her being spreading from the wound and drawing in a space lacking detail. Trees of course but also a small shrine, worn with age.

“The spiritual energy of eons passed is still strong enough to mask it. Last I heard Viridi wasn’t feeling well. You won’t get a better day to go look for it.”

and the gears of fate turn. A new option would open. A new future, a new chance.

She’s a little worried when the goddess hurts herself, but she reminds herself that a goddess is more hardy than an angel. If Eris isn’t freaking out over a tiny cute then she won’t worry.

A shrine? She’s passed the area before but it looks different. Though spiritual energy... That does explain why it feels slightly off. She always assumed that it felt off because of how ancient the trees look.

“I’ll have to check as soon as possible. Thank you so much!”

“Oh… And what if I told you I knew where it was?”

She’s keeping herself calm, but is also very excited. If Eureka told Palutena about the light, it would be a lot more likely she’d go check than if Eris herself did. Her plotting had all led up to this point.

“You know where it is!? Where!? Please tell me!”

She’s excited, her wings flapping hard enough to pick her off the ground a few inches and send loose maps flying. She’s been searching for a while, but really hasn’t made any progress.

“I know of a massive computer system.. Arlon has one. And if all you need is a signal, what about taking something digital and converting it so you can give it to the angels?”

The map with red X’s draws her gaze, the Goddess hesitating before she realized where this map reflected.

“Looking for something in Viridi’s realm?”

“A-Ah! Please don’t tell Lady Palutena! I-I mean, well... My map is the reason that Aphrodite caught Pit and so that means I’m kind of to blame for Pit’s wings being truly broken now. So-So when I overheard Lady Palutena talking about some huge source of light I-I kind of thought...”

A light blush, the earlier question about signals forgotten.

“I thought I could make up for things by finding the light for Lady Palutena.”

#;;Eureka #Eros will appear eventually #probably after spring break

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That’s a pretty stone you got there.

She’s gonna steal it.

#featheredhero #;;Eureka

“Based on new calculations, the temple is now at... 36° 5′ 5″ North and 24° 2′ 57″ East. That sets That One Town’s location at 37° 28′ 29″ North and 22° 22′ 25″ East. Just need to figure out by how much the altitude changed for each location.”

“Impressive..”

Eris could use something like this- but preferably…

“Have you thought about doing this digitally? Make a program for it?”

This would make planning much more accurate. Everything accounted for, in it’s place properly. She needed this, she needed to be sure.. If she was sure she wouldn’t have to do away with the pieces that might challenge her she could dance around them.

“Not really. Lady Palutena doesn’t have a large enough computer network to support this sort of thing. And it requires a sample of the energy of what you ‘program’ it to track. Which can’t be converted to something digital.”

She folds the map up again, pausing as she spots another map covered in red X’s. She grabs a marker and adds another X, placing the enchanted map back in the drawer.

“Palutena does need to consider giving angels GPS though. It would make missions easier than having to explain that yes, being off by a minute is a very bad thing when you’re hunting down a Reaper.”

“It is always changing… but the borders stay in the same place.”

Why is she helping? She’s not sure.. but the angel isn’t touching her so she lets her body flood with power again, shuddering as it returns. She doesn’t like cutting herself off like that.

“Mapping the interior won’t have much purpose, gravity, physics, airflow, none of it makes sense in there so navigating with a map would have to be real time anyway.”

She’s choosing not to address what happened with Aphrodite. It leaves a bad taste in her mouth. Cages were too rigid for free spirits.

“Bingo. Real time.”

She was thankful for the goddess continuing her impromptu speech of sorts. Dwelling on what she had done while in Aphrodite’s hands was painful, given that the map she was pulling out of a drawer was how she’s helped capture her fellow angels.

“You’re aware of enchanted items. Boots, cloaks, things like that. This is enchanted also, imbued with Lady Palutena’s power and the power that flows through the angels aligned to her.”

She spreads the map out, smoothing it and stepping back to allow the goddess to see. While the features are now out of place what’s important in the moving angelic figures moving across the map’s surface. Eros can be seen near an area marked ‘forge’ and Eureka can be seen near a tower.

“The only one that doesn’t appear is Pit. Well at least. The angel representing him seems to not track very well since we were all brought back.”