Chapter one:
A fateful encounter
Somewhere in the middle of Termina a young imp was wandering the Termina fields.
It has only been one year since he had been possessed by a being called Majora.
"Hey! Listen! Sis!" A dark purple colored fairy said.
"What is it Tael?" A smaller yellow colored fairy came flying towards the darker fairy.
"Tatl did you find Skull kid yet?" He finally answered.
"Nope I don't see him anywhere." Tatl said with a sad expression.
The two fairy's continued looking for their friend, the imp.
Meanwhile their friend found himself in a rather strange situation.
Just a view minutes ago Skull kid was running through the forest when, he tripped over a branch and fell down.
When he got up, he was standing in the clouds, it was almost as if he was floating.
"Well met, Skull kid." A lady in all blue said. "My name is Nayru, this is Din and finally Farore on the right."
Skull kid immediately knew it were the goddesses talking to him.
Nayru the goddess of wisdom, Din the goddess of power and Farore the goddess of courage.
"Listen closely, we shall grant you the Majora's mask." The Din continued.
"O no! I'm sorry but I don't want it." Skull kid looked spooked.
Just the thought of being possessed by Majora again made his skin crawl.
"Do not worry. Majora was destroyed by Link, only his immense amount of power still roamed the lands of Termina." Farore said.
"We have collected that power and revived the mask. Majora is no more so we need someone who can control the power." Nayru said.
"Yes and we believe you are the only one who can control it and use it's power to do good things.
For you are the only one that also knows the dark side of it." Din continued.
Skull kid remained silent.
He didn't know what to think, on one hand it made sense but on the other hand it didn't seem right.
He once had the mask and almost destroyed Termina with it.
But then again it wasn't his fault was it?
He was being controlled like a puppet after all.
"Not to worry, we know that you won't go evil. Now that Majora itself is gone. But the people of Termina will not think the same. We suggest that you go to Hyrule." Nayru said.
Then a bright light appears and the goddesses vanished, then behind where Nayru stood appeared Majora's mask.
It still had an evil feeling if you looked into it's eyes but somehow it seemed different…. Empty.
It seemed as if Skull kid had no choice in the matter so he slowly got closer to the mask.
Once he was in front of it he slowly reached out and grabbed the mask.
It felt lighter than before and didn't call to him as it used to do.
He carefully put the mask on and as soon as he did he was standing in the forest again.
"Skull kid!" Tael yelled as he and Tatl were flying towards him.
Skull kid slowly turned around reveling the mask he was now wearing.
The two fairies stopped in shock.
"O no." Tatl whispered.
There was an awkward moment of silence, until Tael broke the silence.
"Hey,…..are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine…." Skull kid answered. "Don't worry! It's not like Majora is controlling me again!" He continued, realizing that it wasn't a dream and that they were scared of him.
"Alright…." The fairies looked at one another worried.
The three friends went back to their little hideout and there Skull kid explained everything.
This made the fairies feel a little more at ease but still they kept a close eye on Skull kid just in case.
That night Skull kid had weird dream that explains a little more about the masks power.
It was Nayru who came back to him providing him with more details.
"The mask shall make you close to immortal, you won't age as long as you have it with you. And it will make you heal faster. Be aware though if the mask gets damage you will be as well. The mask is now linked to you, you are pretty much the new Majora. Keep the mask close at all cost!" And with that she left Skull kid.
The next morning he woke up and noticed that his fairy friends were already awake as well.
The three friends had a lot of fun that day, while traveling to Hyrule.
About five hours later Skull kid got separated from his friends once again.
He was so caught up in his imagination and thoughts that he went the wrong way.
Then he stumbled across a weird looking mountain, where no live grew at all.
He noticed a small opening close to the top and decided to check it out.
There was someone inside way below the hollow mountain.
Not just one person there also seemed to be a lot of dark magic coming from a portal.
Then the man started talking.
"Master, when will you be capable of escaping this prison?" The weird man said.
"About 100 years...But this time I won't fail…."There was a deep yet weak voice coming from the portal.
"I see, I shall await your return master….. But what about that kid!" The man seemed to hesitate to speak up his mind.
"Zant!" The voice from the portal yelled angry.
"…..Yes….ma..master..Ganon?" Zant answered, he sounded scared out of his mind.
"Zant, Zant, Zant, you did something wrong again?" Another person walked in shaking his head, again very weird looking and he has a spastic tongue.
"Ghirahim! Stop doing that tongue thingy!" Zant suddenly seemed to be less scared.
Maybe he was just trying to play it cool in front of that other weird guy.
"About that boy, Link. I'll take care of him this time for good." The voice from the portal continued.
"But sir, how are you planning to do that? When every single time he banishes you to that realm?" Ghirahim asked, after a moment he realized what he said and quickly backed off.
"WHAT?!" The voice yelled out. "I know how to dispose of him before he is even born! This time I'll finally succeed and take all the power of the Triforce!"
The two weird guy's looked at one another.
"Sir… could it even be possible? I mean killing someone before they're even born?" Zant asked.
"It is, but only if one knows where to look." The voice said in a chillingly happy manor.
"Thanks to this realm I have found an ancient type of magic, that will allow me to trace even the tiniest bit of Triforce magic."
"I see, I assume you would use it to find Link's parents and kill them for good." Ghirahim added.
"That is correct, I shall take Link's Triforce when he's still inside his mother.
"I have only one objection sir, isn't Link going to be reborn in exactly 100 years?" Zant asked.
"That is also correct, luckily I had found a way to leave part of my magic behind right before Zelda and that twerp sealed me away. So I figured out how to control that tiny bit of power from within this realm. That should be enough to finish off one child don't you think?" The voice answered.
"Simply genius sir!" Ghirahim said with an evil smile on his face.
"Sir, if I may assist in the murder just say the word." Zant added with Ghirahim nodding in the background.
"Very well you two, I shall need you're assist when the blood moon finally shall rise again. When the time comes, you'll know where to go and what to do. Now begone!"
And with that the two weirdos turned around towards the exit.
"Hold on!" The voice suddenly said. "There is someone else here.."
The dark powers around the portal started to move around the whole mountain.
Until part of it stopped in front of Skull kid.
"Up there!" The voice then yelled.
Skull kid knew he was in trouble so he immediately made a run for it.
He noticed that the two weirdos where right behind him the entire time that he ran off the mountain.
Hearing their footsteps follow right behind his.
Eventually he reached the forest sight again and hid in one of the huge hollow trees.
The two weirdos came running in right after he hid.
"O no, I hope they didn't see where I hid." Skull kid thought to himself.
"Dammit where did he go!" Zant said while looking around.
"Yeah know what, he was just a kid. I won't tell the boss that we lost him if you don't kay?" Ghirahim said.
"Lying to the boss?! No way!" Zant seemed angered by his comment.
"Well if you have any better idea's I'd like to hear it! He'll have our head if he'd find out that we failed to kill even one little kid!"
That had Zant thinking for a while.
"Alright, but only this once!" He made clear.
The two agreed and finally went back.
Skull kid was too afraid to move, when suddenly he started thinking.
Now that he has Majora's mask those two weirdos surely wouldn't be capable of laying a finger on him.
With that new found courage Skull kid climbed out of the tree and indeed the two were gone.
Skull kid took his chance and ran further away, just in case they would come back.
After a while he found the road again where he was supposed to go.
Not much later the two fairy's came flying towards him.
"Skull kid where were you?" Tatl asked.
"I was caught up in my imagination again hehe. Sorry I'll try not to wander off this time." Skull kid answered, he was afraid that his friends would find out that he actually got into trouble again.
He doesn't want to make them worry, also he lost those fools so what could go wrong?
The three friends continued their journey to Hyrule.
And finally after many day's past by they made it.
Skull kid wanted to make his new home in the lost woods because no one comes there.
That means no grown ups, also he knew those woods once.
He finally got to show his friends where he came from.
Then a Tael had a question. "So Skull kid…?"
Skull kid nodded while still being distracted by his surrounding.
"Do you have any family living here?" Tael continued.
Skull kid got quit and looked down for a second. "No, I don't have a family. But that doesn't bother me, I got the two of you!" He said trying to lighten the mood.
"Right! We won't leave you behind." Tatl added.
That's not exactly what Teal meant, he knew Skull kid was alone. He just wandered how his family was like before they somehow ended up separated. He'd also like to know what happened.
But it was a heavy subject so he just let it pass.
And with that the three friends made it to their new home.
Where they would spend many years, 118 in fact.
Skull kid and the fairy's were close to immortal.
In fact they had barely even noticed that 118 years past by.