Author's Note
This is intended to be an alternate story for Majora's Mask. So, I'm bound to change some story elements. Also, this is my first fanfic, so, please understand that it won't be perfect.
~Mister Magus
Slowly, I walked Epona through the muck, feeling the ground swish and chug beneath my feet. I scoffed at my horse "You big idiot! If you hadn't bolted through the woods like that, we wouldn't be slshing through mud, like pigs!" I giggled to myself. "Well, actually, now that we have an excuse, we can go deeper into the Lost Woods! Come, on girl!"
I picked up my pace a little and trudged through the rest of the mud. Epona sretched out when we reaced solid ground, and whinnied in my ear. "Yeah, Epona, we're gonna check out that weird tunnel we saw the other day." I paused a moment. "I wonder... if it's a warp like the one to Death Mountain, where does it go?"
I scraped the mud off my hands and saddled Epona. Now that we were on solid ground I could ride Epona and relax. I kicked her side and got comfortable in the saddle for the quick jaunt to the tunnel.
As we neared the tunnel, the woods got thicker, and a little dark. Epona started to slow down as we trudged between the great trees. We were in a part of the Lost Woods called the Timeless Thicket. The Great Deku Tree told us that the thicket ran until the End of the world.
I stroked Epona's mane as she trudged on. I knew that we were getting close the the tunnel, so I looked around to look for some landmark. "Epona! It's ove-"
Ti-ti-ti-ti-ting Two fairies flew into my face. I screamed and fell off of Epona.
I stayed down, my head aching from the impact. Suddenly I felt a thud nearby and a skull kid with a purple mask started feeling around on me. He reached into my shirt and pulled my fairy ocarina right off of the string that I had put it on to wear it around my neck.
He began blowing into it, and giggling at the whistle that it made.
A light voice, from a dark purple fairy said "Heeyyy... Skullkid. Can I try it? Please?"
"No, Tael! You're so clumsy that you'll probably end up dropping it like you did with my crystal!" screamed the other fairy, this one being a cream color.
"No! You lost it!"
"No! You broke it!"
With the three paying more attention to the argument, I got up and put my hand on the skull kid's shoulder. "Give me back my ocarina." He quickly jumped forward and turned around.
"Oh, this is your ocarina? Oh, you should be more careful with your things. But this will probably be safer in my hands." He hopped up on Epona and she started running away.
I darted forward and grabbed on to Epona's leg. I tried to hold on as hard as I could, but she turned quickly around a stump and I was thrown back, into a tree. I hit my head and was out for, I suppose, a while.
When I came back around, I had to take a minute to remember what happened. I sat dumbfounded for atleast ten minutes before it hit me what was going on. I looked around frantically for where Epona might have gone. I followed some hoof-prints that I had found and was lead to the tunnel that I was headed for in the first place.
I took a deep breath and ran in to the maw of the tunnel. I could hear the clatter of Epona's hooves much deeper in the cave and ran even faster. Suddenly the tunnel opened into a massive chasm with no other possible paths that Epona could have followed. I quickly said a prayer to Farore and asked for a little bit of courage and jumped in to the gaping darkness below.
I could have sworn that I fell for hours. As I slowly fell through the darkness, I was assailed by strange images of zoras and dekus, clocks and faces, and many other, unrelated things. I finally landed with a loud thud onto a massive, soft flower. I hopped up and looked around.
The room looked practically empty. The only notable feature was a pool of water around the flower. Suddenly a loud crash and a beam of light shone into the room. When I looked up to see where it had come from, I saw that skull kid standing on the lip of an opening high above. He shook his head and started floating down.
He and the two fairies levitated in the light. He looked at me and started to speak in a raspy voice. "Stupid horse. Doesn't listen to a word that is said to it. I figured that it must have been troublesome for you, so I took care of it." He laughed a piercing laugh "Now what should I do with you. Hmm... Ahh, yes, that should suit you quite nicely."
I could feel the mask's eyes burn into my soul. The skull kid shook the mask and I could feel something coming over me.
Suddenly I was being chased by a horde of deku scrubs. No matter how fast I went, I never could get away from them. Eventually I ran out of breath and slowed down. They swarmed me so quickly that I couldn't react.
One giant scrub appeared and trudged toward me. As it reached me, I felt my entire make up change.
I closed my eyes. When I opened them again, that skull kid was right in my face.
"That form suits you pretty well,' He nodded, "You're welcome, kid." And, with that, he started to leave.
The cream-ish fairy turned around and laughed at me. "Ha! You look ridiculous!"
Ti-ti-ti-ting. "Sis! Come on!" The skull kid and the other fairy passed through a door that loudly shut before the fairy could join her companions. She banged on the door, but it wouldn't budge.
The fairy turned back to me and started screaming, "This is all your fault! If you hadn't been so dumb, I wouldn't have been left behind!" She started slamming into my face, knocking me back a little bit, and making me trip backward.
I started to yell at the fairy "MMMMpppppffff! Ppppprrrrrrr!" For some reason, I couldn't form any words.
"Ha! You don't know what happened to you, do you?" she choked out between her giggles, "Why don't you look at yourself! Hee hee hee."
I looked into the pool at my feet and a sad looking deku scrub, that same one from my vision, looked back at me. I stood looking at the reflection, not quite grasping the gravity of the situation.
"So, are you gonna open the door for me?" The fairy flew into my face. "Come on! Just open it!"
I shrugged and walked over to the door. I lifted the door with my awkward, stubby arms. The fairy zipped by and flew down the passage, so I decided to follow her.
Suddenly the fairy stopped. She flew back to me and apologized, "Umm, about back there, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been mean to you. So... I'm Tatl." She put forward her little hand, and we shook.
'You probably wanna get your ocarina back, huh? Well, I just so happen to know where the Skull Kid is going. It's across that gap up there, so you're gonna have to use that deku flower. You know how to do that, right? No? Well, I guess you're gonna have to figure it out!"
Farore! This fairy talks way too much... I thought as I walked over to the big pink flower. I climbed up on to it and padded around on the soft fleshy surface. How do I use it? Back in the forest I'd seen the dekus dive into these, so I figured that I'd try. I found an opening and slipped right in.
With a huge blast, I was launched out of the flower and up into the air. I managed to grab a petal on my way out and used that to glide across the huge split in the floor.
Tatl floated over to me. "See, that wasn't so hard, was it?" I shrugged, unable to really speak. "Anyways, we're almost there! It's maybe fifteen minutes from here."
I nodded and followed Tatl until we came to a corridor that was twisted and curved, and seemed to collapse and expand at the same time.
"It's just through here." Tatl and I charged through the hall. Little did I know how massive of an event this was.
We came into a mossy room, with big wooden gears and a large stream of water turning a massive wheel. I climbed up a set of stairs and looked around. A huge rod turned, going up to hundreds of gears. I understood what this was. It was a clock tower.
"Come on! Let's go outside!" Tatl ran over to a set of huge double doors and looked at me as if to say Could you open this door for me? . I felt bad for her. She was pretty helpless by herself. I trudged over to open the door when I sensed someone behind me.
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"