Author's Note: This is a collaborative work between myself and my friend Endriel Scarburst, who also has a FanFiction account. Events will not proceed exactly as they did in the original "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", primarily because Link does not appear in this piece. However, the overall procession of the game will not be changed, for the most part.

The Legend of Zelda belongs to Nintendo, but our OCs, Willen and Nicky, belong to Endriel and myself respectively. Please enjoy our feature presentation.


"Ow! Ow! Ow! This hurts a lot! Ow! Willen, let go!"

"I'm not going to, it's too dark in here and I can't see worth two weasels."

It was a dark, foggy night in the forest. Our heroes, two boys around the age of ten, were currently hustling through the woods as fast as they could, searching for something.

"Why didn't you bring a lantern with you? You knew this travel was going to take more than a day!" one of the boys, a short, pale boy with long, shaggy, blonde and pink hair and a blue coat, complained.

"Shut your yap, Nicky," Willen, who had flyaway brown hair and a dark coat, scolded. "For now, we need to find out where that masked freak went!"

At that moment, they were just wandering around in the darkness, and the only thing they had managed to find was a cave that looked even darker inside.

"Maybe he's hiding in here?" Nicky theorized, peering through the fog into the mouth of the cave.

"Do you wanna risk it?" Willen asked "I'm pretty sure we'll be completely blind in there."

Nicky shrugged. "Better than seeing that mask again."

Willen shuddered upon remembering what Nicky was talking about. "Yeah, that's definitely a plus." Both of them took a deep breath before heading inside the cave.

They took a few steps into the cave, and then- they were falling.

Falling,
falling,
falling,
falling,
falling,
THUMP. For all their talk, neither of them had been expecting the cave to have a very deep hole in it, which both boys had just tumbled right down before landing in a bed of leaves in a tangle. For a minute, they lay there, groaning and trying to right themselves. Then, they heard a horrible, high-pitched, cackling laughter, and both Willen and Nicky's heads turned towards the other end of the little cavern they had fallen into, to see a terrifying sight.

They saw someone -a kid- standing, no, floating over there, wearing a raggedy green tunic, pants, and gloves, along with an equally tattered orange poncho and a big straw hat. He was floating, reclining in midair. This didn't seem so bad, at first. What was terrifying, though, was the mask he was wearing: a heart-shaped mask painted in many bright colors, with ten sharp spines and a pair of huge, orange eyes that seemed to glow in the light of two torches at his sides. Just glancing at it was enough to send shivers down someone's spine. Nicky very nearly screamed at the sight of the mask, but the wearer just laughed.

"That was a good one, Skull Kid!" a voice laughed. It seemed to be coming from the white ball of light that was hovering near the mask's wearer, next to a dark purple orb of the same size.

"Hey, aren't those the two guys we just stole that thingy from?" another voice asked, this time coming from the purple orb.

The "Skull Kid" let out his awful giggle again and procured a blue clay instrument from a pocket of his tunic. It was an ocarina, a little clay flute of sorts, emblazoned with a symbol on the mouthpiece- a symbol made up of three golden triangles. Willen's eyes widened as he saw it.

"Hey!" Willen shouted. "That's ours!"

The Skull Kid tilted his head to an alarming angle, the kind that would snap most people's necks if they tried. "Yours? Is it broken or something? It doesn't make any proper music." He lifted the ocarina to the mask, which didn't seem to have any mouth opening, and somehow blew into the ocarina, making a flat, screeching noise. "See? It's just junk. You should be glad I took it off your hands."

"You're not even playing it right!" Willen argued, stepping foward. "Give it back right now!" Nicky just cowered behind him.

"Give it back?" The Skull Kid tilted his head again in the opposite direction. "Nah... instead, how about I give you something else? This should fix you! Eee hee hee hee!"

All of a sudden, the Skull Kid started shaking his head, making an odd, unnerving rustling sound, all the while intently staring at Willen. The sound got louder and, at that moment, Willen fell down to his knees, putting his hands over his ears.


When he looked up again, everything was dark.

"What the... where am I?" Willen wondered, looking around. It was like he was illuminated by a spotlight, with nothing at all around him but blackness. Quietly at first, but then louder and louder, he heard something coming from the darkness- the steps of a giant creature. And then, the whole place was alive with red- the red leaves of innumerable small creatures that looked like they were made of living wood.

All of them were trying to get near Willen, some of them even running over the others. The dark place was so full of those things, Willen was having a hard time breathing. He felt claustrophobic surrounded by all the wooden monsters. He wanted to get away from them, but there was nowhere to run. He was surrounded.

At that moment, all that Willen could do was to wait until that nightmare was over. He did exactly that, closing his eyes and praying for this to end. His body tumbled through a gap in the wood creatures, and he was falling, falling, falling, falling...


...Willen opened his eyes again, to find himself back in the cavern with Nicky and the Skull Kid. The Skull Kid was laughing.

"Eee hee hee hee! That's a good look for you!" he snickered.

It took him a minute to realize that the cave, as well as who was in it, looked... bigger. Willen looked down at himself... and he did not like what he saw.

His body seemed to be made of wood, like a puppet's. Instead of a regular nose and mouth, he had a long, open snout. His ears were gone, and his hair had transformed into brown, crackly grass. His eyes, judging by their reflection in the puddle he was standing in, were large, glowing orange, and sad-looking. In short, he seemed to have become the same kind of creature that he had faced in the dark place.

"H- Wha-" Willen kept stuttering. His voice sounded all squeaky and wobbly, like the voice of a cartoon character. "...What the heck did you do to me?!"

The Skull Kid turned somersaults in the air, giggling uncontrollably. "I turned you into a Deku Scrub, genius! What's it look like? Now, you'll stay in that pitiful form forever! Hee hee hee hee!"

Then, Skull Kid looked at Nicky, who was still cowering in the corner. "As for you, I tried to think of something to turn you into, but you're pathetic enough already. Bye!" Still in midair, the Skull Kid began to float backwards into the caves beyond, the purple ball of light following him. The white ball stayed behind to bother Willen and Nicky and prevent them from giving chase, but just as Skull Kid and the purple light vanished into the cavern, a door began to slide closed, sealing Nicky, Willen, and the white light in the room. The light sphere tried to follow them, but the door was already closed, and there was no way it could open it by itself.

"Hey, Skull Kid! C'mon don't leave me behind!" the light sphere started screaming, looking for a way to open the door. It pushed against the door once, twice, three times, before seeming to slump over in defeat.

Then, it turned around, to see Willen and Nicky. Before either human nor Deku knew what hit them, it flew right for them.

"You two! You can help me get out, right?" it raved, and now that Willen and Nicky could see it clearly, they found that it was not a light ball at all, but a tiny creature that looked like a teenage girl, wearing modest clothing that looked to be made of plant matter. On her back were a pair of large wings like an insect's.

"Why would we do that?" Nicky asked. He sounded angry. "You were together with that masked menace."

"I know, but... but..." the little creature argued. "You wanna get out of here, right? Just open the door! I'm not letting Skull Kid and my brother run off like that!"

"Well, we can't let that freak run away either," Willen said. "He stole our ocarina and, now, he turned me into a... a Deku, whatever that is. He's not getting away that easily."

"So you'll do it?" The creature asked.

Willen nodded. "No way around it."

"Yes! Awesome! I knew I could count on you!" The winged girl did a victory dance in midair. "Oh, and my name is Tatl. I'm a faerie. C'mon, let's go!"

Nicky staggered to his feet, and walked across the room, the low-burning torches at the end casting eerie shadows over his face. He pushed at the door, which creaked open surprisingly easily for its size and the stone it was made of.

Heading forward through a dark tunnel, this odd little crew found themselves on a wooden platform with a big pink flower spouting up from the center of it. There was a gap between the platform they were on and the other side of the cave, where the door to the next tunnel was located.

"How are we going to get past this?" asked the Deku Scrub.

Tatl made a ringing noise. "See this plant here?" she asked, pointing down at the flower. "This is a Deku Flower. You Deku Scrubs use it to fly."

Both of them looked at the faerie in confusion. "... How?"

"Ya kinda... burrow into it," Tatl said. "You, Deku guy, stand on the flower."

"My name's Willen," Willen replied sourly, but he did as told.

"Okay... what now?" he asked. "How am I supposed to burrow myself in it?"

"Just... focus. You'll see."

Willen arched a wooden eyebrow, but did as told. He stood on the flower, and focused, and then...

POP!

"Aah! Willen!" Nicky shouted.

Without even realizing, Willen had somehow drilled himself inside the flower. "Don't worry, I'm okay... just a bit dizzy..." he answered back. "What do I do now?"

"You jump!" Tatl laughed. "Oh, and Blondie? Be prepared to grab onto your Deku friend's leg when he goes rocketing out."

"I'm jumping out in 3... 2... 1... Now!" And Willen just rocketed out of the flower, holding two big, spinning flowers of the same color as the one he'd fallen into, keeping him in midair.

Nicky gaped. "Holy..."

"Yeah..." Tatl viewed the sight with awe. "Well, you two better get going. Grab on to Deku kid and hope you don't fall, Blondie."

Nicky obeyed, jumping up to grab Willen by the legs.

"Better hold on tight, I'm not responsible if you fall," Willen warned. He leaned foward, which made him glide to the other side of the cave. Just as they reached the other side, the petals of the flowers fell off, making making Willen and Nicky land.

"That was a bit weird."

"More like terrifying..." Nicky was shaking head to toe, his eye twitching.

"... You're a wimp, Nicky," Willen said, groaning at his friend's cowardice. "Anyway, we should get going."

"Agreed." The boy, Deku, and faerie hustled off into the next cavern, but their faces fell at the sight of what lay ahead. This new cavern was many times larger than the first, and within it were suspended a series of eerily floating chunks of earth, each with a Deku Flower growing on it.

"This is going to be great..." Willen said sarcastically. "Are you ready for this, Nicky?"

Nicky gulped.


One blood-curdling flower ride later, Willen and Nicky touched down at the other side of the cavern, Tatl hovering behind.

"Nice flying, Scrub," she complimented.

"I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. Uh... are you alright, Nicky?"

Nicky was still shaking, and looked rather green around the gills. "I'll be f-f-f-fine," he stuttered.

"C'mon, it couldn't be that bad," Willen argued. He looked around the platform, and spotted what looked like a small dead tree. The weird thing was that the tree actually had a face. This face was twisted in an agonized scream, and the Deku felt deeply unnerved at the sight.

Tatl bit her lip. "This tree... it looks so sad..."

"Yeah... it's better if we keep going. Just looking at it is making me feel nervous." Willen shuddered and turned away from the tree, to face the next tunnel.

Heading forward, they found themselves traversing through a huge, empty tunnel with colorful moss and grass growing on the earthy walls, before arriving at a dim, dingy room with a big mechanism in the center of it, and a spiral staircase winding around it. As soon as the unlikely crew entered, the door closed behind them, locking itself.

"Where. .. are we?" Nicky asked, taking in the sight. The room was dark and dusty, and all three occupants could smell the scent of water. Willen tentatively stepped forward, towards the staircase.

Going upstairs, they arrived in a big, dusty room. The mechanism from down below went up to, and presumably through, the ceiling of the room. The place was dimly lit so, although it wasn't as bad as the forest, it was still hard to see. There was a door at the other end of the room, and the turning of the mechanism's gears was the only significant sound in the room.

"I think I recognize this place," Tatl said.

"Well then, where are we?" Nicky asked.

"I'm... I'm not sure," the faerie answered.

They explored the room a bit to see if they found something like another door and just as they were about to leave the place, a low, creepy voice echoed around the room.

"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"

The unlikely trio jumped and whirled around, to see a man standing right behind them. He had long, pointed ears like an elf's, and was thin as a stick. He had short, neatly combed hair in an astonishing shade of red, and wore long clothes of royal purple. He wore an enormous backpack with masks of many kinds hanging off it, but he didn't seem to have any difficulty carrying it. His face seemed to be a permanent, toothy grin, and his eyes were closed.

"Wh- Who are you?" Nicky stuttered, his voice was still shaky from the scare.

"Oh, me?" The man laughed, not a high-pitched, frantic cackle like the Skull Kid's, but a more easy-going, pleasant laugh. "I'm known by many names, but you may call me the Happy Mask Salesman."

"Ookay... could you tell us where are we?" Willen asked.

"Where are you? Why, you're in Clock Town, in the land of Termina." The, uh, Happy Mask Salesman clasped his hands together. "And it seems you're in a dreadful predicament, too."

"Yeah, kinda," Willen agreed. "This masked freak who goes by the name of Skull Kid turned me into... this, whatever this is."

"Deku Scrub," Tatl supplied helpfully.

"Yeah, a Deku Scrub. He also stole mine and Nicky's ocarina."

"A... Mask, you said?" the Salesman asked. "Could you tell me how that mask looked?"

Nicky hastily reconstructed a picture of the mask from his memory. "It was... heart-shaped, I think. It was painted purple and magenta and orange, and it had two huge, orange eyes... and it had ten horns on it: two on the top, and four on each side."

When Nicky described the mask's appearance, the Salesman's smile faded away. Everything went silent for a moment. Then, without even a warning, he grabbed Nicky by his shoulders amd started shaking him back and forth like a ragdoll.

"You- You need to get that mask back for me!" the no-longer-Happy Mask Salesman shouted. His smile had reappeared, but now it seemed frozen to his face, practically painted on, and his eyes were bulging with rage. "That mask must never fall into the wrong hands!"

"Aieeeeeee!" Nicky wailed as he was shaken. "Willen! Tatl! Heeeeelp!"

"Hey! Calm down, you creepy pencil pusher!" Willen shouted. "What's so important about that mask anyway?!"

The Angry Mask Salesman dropped the blond boy and rounded on the Deku Scrub. "That is none of your concern!" he snarled. "I need that mask back as soon as possible!"

After a few more seconds, the Salesman finally calmed down. After one, two, three deep breaths, he finally said something. "How about this? I'll tell you how to get your friend out of his... current state and, in turn, you will bring the mask back to me. How does that sound?"

Willen and Nicky looked at one another, then tentatively nodded.

"Good!" The Salesman was all smiles again, and he clapped his hands together satisfiedly. "Oh, but you'll need the ocarina that was stolen from you first. If you find that, get the mask, and return to me, I'll teach you how to remove the curse that has transformed you into a Deku Scrub."

"Alright then," Willen said.

"There is one little problem, though," the Salesman pointed out. "I will have to leave this town in three days. As such, that is your time limit."

"Doesn't sound so bad. We accept your offer," Tatl said confidently.

"Wonderful! I'll be waiting here. Remember, you only have three days!"

With that, the trio headed towards the only door in the room, going outside.

The place looked nice. The sun was only beginning to rise, casting the soft, golden light of dawn over the town. Children were playing in the plaza under the shadow of the clock tower Willen, Nicky, and Tatl had come out from. Adults talked cheerily amongst themselves, discussing recent events and things to come There were four large, muscular men working on some kind of wooden construction in the middle of the plaza, preparing for something. It would have been normal, like any other town... if it weren't for one glaring difference.

Nicky looked into the sky, and what he saw nearly made him faint dead away. "G-g-guys?" he stuttered, pointing upwards.

Tatl arched an eyebrow. "What's got you all uppity, Blondie?"

"Up... up there..." Nicky's eyes rolled back into his head, and he fell unconscious, collapsing to the ground out of sheer terror.

Willen and Tatl looked up.

They almost fainted as well when they saw it.

What they saw... was the moon: a gigantic moon with an angry expression on its face. Yes, it had a face. Almost like they had been carved into the crater-studded, dusty grey surface of the celestial satellite, two sunken, lurid orange eyes glared down at the world. A huge mouth with monstrous teeth clenched in fury and a hooked, aquiline nose accentuated said eyes. Defying the laws of physics, it was hovering in the early morning sky like a gargantuan wraith... and as Deku and faerie stared, a low tremor shook the ground beneath them, and the moon seemed to inch infinitesimally closer to the earth.

Willen looked from the moon, to Tatl, who was staring with wide eyes and a dropped jaw, to Nicky, out cold from sheer terror, back to the moon. He stared into those huge, flame-colored eyes, stared at those grinding, gnashing teeth, stared at the moon in all its terrible glory.

And he screamed.