I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to continue this one but I do really like it, just an inspiration that came to me randomly a few days ago! Just trying it out ^^; If anyone thinks it's worth it though, please do tell; I'm completely at a loss.

Majora's Folly: Messengers of the Goddess
A Naruto and Legend of Zelda Crossover

Rumbling continued to shake the clock tower, as if it would collapse at any moment. A merciless glowering from above; the bloodthirsty moon with soulless eyes and bared teeth. Dread and malice incarnate. Link still wasn't sure how he came to be in such a strange, surreal place...

Clock Town was about to perish...

He was in the body of a deku scrub...

Navi was still gone...

He'd never felt so alone, so far away from home...not even when he'd left Kokiri Forest for the first time to begin his journeys... The masked imp danced above, cackling as the moon descended at an ever-increasing speed. How was Link supposed to stop it..? Could he? Was this the end?

"Link! Are you daydreaming? Come on, snap out of it!" Tatl's voice cut through the despair that had almost overcome the hero's mind. He still felt heavy, helpless as his gaze returned to the sky, Skull Kid's arms spread wide to welcome the moon. Tatl, the fairy that was so like Navi, and yet so different, fluttered in panic, giving up on the dazed deku scrub and turning skyward. "Please! Someone! Anyone! Goddess of Time! We need more time!" Her wings stood on end as she cried out.

"Tatl—Wait-!" Link's eyes widened in sudden revelation at her words. Time... If there were two things the Hero of Time could be counted on to understand; it would be time, of course...and one other thing.

-POP!-

Never giving up.

A green bubble whizzed in an irregular path, striking the Skull Kid's outstretched arm that held the one thing, the only thing that could help them now...If anything could help them now. Link scrambled forward with all of the speed he could summon from his tiny deku legs to snatch the blue instrument as it clattered to the ground below. As he raised it to his "lips" to play...he realized he wasn't playing an ocarina at all? Large pipes jutted out like curved brass appendages, turning the little scrub into a living instrument with a single tube entering his hole of a mouth.

"What are those!? Deku pipes?" Tatl exclaimed nearby.

Link didn't know what to make of it either but the notes came to him just as easily as if he were playing the Ocarina of Time. Now to play the song that haunted every corner of his mind...along with the memories it always brought. Zelda's soft face and the gentle plucking of her harp were as real as the looming death above them now as he played, the bold sounds of the horns cutting through the despair all around.

Skull Kid shrieked angrily at he and Tatl...but everything was suddenly enveloped in white light. The desperate plea to the Goddess of Time...could it really have done this? Link let himself fall back, into the welcoming light. Maybe this all really was just a dream. Maybe he'd wake up from an afternoon nap in the forest any moment now, Epona waiting patiently for the young hero to wake so they could continue on. The idea was certainly comforting...

"Forgive your friends..." A soundless voice. An imprint against Link's drifting thoughts.

"Friends..."

Many faces suddenly flashed across his mind. All of them he knew well... Faces that had accompanied him on his quest to save Hyrule from Ganondorf's evil. Some were missing...Saria, Zelda, Mido...a few others...but all the rest were there. It really was strange...how so many of Clock Town's residents bore a likeness to these faces. Smiling or scowling.

"What do you mean? I don't have anyone to forgive." Link replied to the faceless voice, maybe not a voice at all.

"Time and Healing..."

Were these words even for him? He suddenly considered this.

Two more faces, ones he definitely didn't recognize.

The blinding whiteness faded slowly, sound rushing back into the hero's awareness. Tock, tock, tock...the sound of the clock tower. Hammering of nails. He opened his hollowed eyes wide to look upon Clock Town...just where it had been when he and Tatl started... He could still feel his meek deku scrub body but he was just happy to be ali-

"Look out below!"

Everything went black this time...

"Link! Liiiiink! Come on, please wake up!" Tatl called worriedly, tugging at Link's oversized hat. He could hear her but boy, did his head hurt! Another voice was there too, a voice that also pounded in Link's poor ears, at a similar octave to Tatl's, but...male?

"I'm so sorry! The Masky guy said to wait on top of the tower and I uh...Well nevermind! You guys are here now, right? Hero of Time and the nagging fairy?"

"Nagging what!?" Tatl was outraged, voice leaping another painful octave.

"It's what he said!"

A small sigh followed, a third voice it seemed. Link opened his eyes in several blinks, holding his head painfully as he rose to look at the source of all the noise. Two stark blue eyes looked down at him, along with a spiky mess of blond hair barely contained in a pointed green cap. Pointed ears had him wondering a moment if he were looking into a warped mirror. It wasn't him though...and those strange lines on his face...Who could this be? He looked like a kokiri!

Tatl was right there too, looking the deku scrub over in worry. "Are you okay? I'll bet there's a nasty bump under that hat somewhere." She fretted, looking angrily again at the stranger.

"You'd better have a good explanation for this!"

The kokiri boy rubbed the back of his head, smiling nervously. It took Link a few moments to realize the fairy hovering just above the boy, silent all of this time. A blue fairy! Navi?! Link almost cried out.

"We're just as clueless about all this as you are..."

Link's heart sank at the unfamiliar voice from the blue fairy. Not only unfamiliar, but male. Another boy fairy like Tael?

"I might be able to shed a little more light on this situation, children..." The mask salesman's unmistakable tone. Link squinted a little as he turned to look at the large wooden doors to the clock tower. The grinning salesman was there, peeking from the darkness inside. "Do come in...Now that you've recovered what you've lost little deku scrub?"

Link nodded, a little cautious. "Yeah." His warbled deku voice was still so unfamiliar to him. He remembered the Happy Mask salesman from Hyrule, but this time around he seemed...odd. It rubbed him the wrong way but he wasn't sure quite how.

"There you are, Masky guy! These are the two we needed to find, right?" The kokiri boy asked, not nearly as cautious as Link it seemed. His fairy was silent.

The salesman chuckled in his unsettling manner, seeming happy for them all though. "Ho ho ho, of course, now come inside, and bring your blue instrument. I have a promise to keep."

"Right! You're going to return Link to normal?" Tatl asked eagerly.

"Indeed...As for your new friend and his fairy, perhaps introductions are in order."

"Alright!" The kokiri boy cheered, jogging inside the clock tower. His fairy stayed behind a moment, glancing back at Link and Tatl.

"He said the moon is falling...We don't know how we got here and—Nevermind." The blue fairy, perhaps a little darker blue than Navi, continued after his kokiri boy, leaving them with those quiet words. He seemed a lot different than other fairies Link had seen. Most were...exuberant? At the very least. This fairy seemed calm and collected, if not distant. He supposed it made sense that there were at least a few exceptions.

"Wait-!" Tatl hesitated a moment as she called out. The blue fairy didn't respond and she sighed, looking down at Link.

"Alright. Things just got weirder but let's go get you back to normal first. Unless you're starting to like being a deku scrub?" She tried a joke for Link, looking down at him as he got up.

"I don't think so, Tatl." He said with a small laugh. He brushed himself off a bit before pattering inside the colorful clock tower, Tatl right behind him.