The Legend of Zelda and the Boy Who Lived
Prologue: The Reunion
"Link!" said Navi happily. The little fairy zoomed towards the green-clad hero of a time that no longer was.
Link had travelled back from Termina to the mysterious forest he was in before the encounter with the skull kid. While on the back of his young horse, Epona, Link had spotted the fairy hovering between the trees.
"You followed me here." Said Navi. "You shouldn't have done that. Now there is no way to get back to Hyrule."
Link looked glum at that declaration, he had feared that it was impossible to get back to Hyrule after he had left. This forest was an area between the realms. Where access points to the different realms was possible. But the routes to each of them changed all the time, and with countless different realms to choose from there was no way to know if a route you took would lead back home, or, more likely, to a reality you had never seen before.
"I suggest we go back to that realm." Navi indicated the route behind Link where he and Epona had just emerged from. "That way, at least we'll be somewhere that's vaguely familiar to one of us."
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Link filled his old friend in on everything that had happened in Termina. With the moon, Tatl, the four giants and Majora's Mask.
Between the two of them, they decided to try and settle in Termina. It was like Hyrule in a lot of ways: both had Zoras, Gorons and Deku people and there were many faces that were familiar.
The old friends were settling themselves in the centre of the Clock Town alongside Epona and were catching up amidst the annual carnival. Navi had been pulled into the forest between the worlds by some excess time energy after the end of the quest back in Hyrule. She had essentially spent that time looking for a way back to Hyrule but instead found countless different realms, none of them home.
"I guess we're homeless huh Link?" said the fairy.
Link merely nodded in reply.
"Well." Said Navi "How about you show me this world?"
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Link and Navi did not spend that long away from Clock Town. Only a few days, it was largely difficult. Though Termina was different from the land they both originated from, aspects similar to Hyrule were still there.
The two of them and Epona returned to Clock Town, expecting a nice relaxing evening at the Inn. But before they could get that far they heard a voice call out. The source and contents of that voice naturally made Link cringe and smack his head.
"Stop him. He's stolen my mask. Majora's Mask! He's stolen my mask!"