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Chapter Four
Cheeky Little Monkey

Two lives... Takitra thought silently as she absentmindedly walked through the field outside the walls of her titanic town, the mask slowly giving her back control of her body and mind. I wonder where I'm going?

This was Takitra's first time outside of Clock Town. Most of the residents of Clock Town never left their sheltered city, tales past down from generation to generation of the dangers that lurked outside convinced most not to venture out. Even Takitra's own parents had never seen the outside world, but they had told her stories. About a murky ocean. About an icy mountain. About a poisonous swamp. About a valley where ghosts and demons gathered. About all the strange creatures that supposedly lived in these places. And about four god-like beings that kept everything peaceful despite of it all.

"Those must be the icy mountains," Takitra said aloud, staring in front of her at the jagged, white peaks that towered above in the distance.

"That they are," a voice said from her left. Takitra turned suddenly to see who was there. The voice came from a green, blob-like creature about four feet tall. Takitra could barely make out the thing's face. "You must not be from around here," the blob added.

"Actually," Takitra replied warily. "I'm from this town right here," she gestured to the gigantic brick wall surrounding Clock Town.

"Oh," the blob answered in realization. "You're one of the shelties." He almost sounded disgusted.

"The what?"

"Never mind..." The thing smiled in a large, disfigured grin. "I feel a power emanating from you...Give it to me!" He demanded.

"I would gladly give it to you and get the wretched thing out of my hands...or more like off of my face!" She yanked at the mask slightly just to check if it was still stuck. "But it seems to like me."

"Then I'll have to persuade it, won't I?" The blob said fiercely as it leapt at her.

"I don't know what you think you can do..." A deep, hellish, but still feminine voice rang from Takitra's lips. With the mask's eyes glowing yellow, Takitra held her left hand out in front of her and the blob stopped mid-leap.

"Wh...what did you do?!" he confusedly yelled. He now found himself levitated above the ground, unable to move a muscle...well, if he has any.

"What will I ever do?" the evil Takitra mockingly continued. "I'm so terrified of Jell-O..." With her outstretched hand, she reached inside the creature's transparent, green body and grabbed his heart. And with one quick yank, she tore it from his body as he let out a loud pain-filled scream. His body then fell to the grass, dead.

Takitra chuckled. "Sleep well." She turned to keep walking, but found another creature standing behind her.

This one however was much less hideous and actually looked timid and scared.

"Oh...um...hello," the yellow, four-legged creature said. "I was about to take care of that demon for you, but it seems like you didn't need my help at all."

"..."

"Sooo...I...guess I'll be going now." The creature started walking away.

"Wait!" Takitra said suddenly, the eyes of the mask dimming back down and losing their color once again. "Y-you said you were gonna help me?"

The little vulpine creature stopped to speak again. "Why yes, I was," she answered. "But I misjudged your abilities."

"N-no you didn't!" Takitra replied in a voice that sounded almost panicked. "Trust me, I have no fighting abilities at all! I-I don't know what I'm doing, I'll be killed out here,"

The yellow vixen turned back around to face the girl. "The fight that I just witnessed says otherwise," she cautiously responded.

"You don't understand," Takitra said in frustration. "It's this...this mask! It keeps doing these weird things and then next thing I know somebody's dead! And..." she yanked at the mask, "It won't come off, damn it!!!"

"Dead you say...?" The little fox thought about this a moment. "So it possesses you? And it causes you to attack and kill at random." She smiled, "Well, aren't you a cheeky little monkey."

Takitra decided to ignore the odd comment for now. "Not really at random, I guess. Just when I feel threatened or frustrated...or angry," she thought about Kina and the boy who raped her.

"You've felt pained..." She said taking Takitra by surprise.

"Y-yes...I have,"

"I won't ask questions. You're past is none of my business. But still, is there anyway I can be of assistance to you?"

Takitra glanced up at her, somewhat shocked. "You mean, you would want to help me even after you heard that I've killed people?"

"I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself," replied the yellow fox. "Besides, I don't plan on threatening you or frustrating you or angering you anytime soon. I'm pretty easy to get along with. What's your name?"

"Takitra."

"Well, it's nice to meet your acquaintance, Takitra. I'm Vashti."

"May I ask...what exactly are you?"

"Oh," the little fox smiled, "I forgot, you're a sheltie, aren't you?"

Takitra threw her arms in the air, "Would somebody please tell me what that means already?"

"It means you're one of the humans from inside the town with the big light tower."

"You mean the clock?"

"Um...sure...you humans live your whole lives never leaving that town. You're lives are sheltered, and you never really get to live at all...Therefore, we from the outside call you shelties."

"...oh..."

"And to answer your previous question, I'm a keaton. A fox-like beauty with magical powers."

"Well, you're modest..." Takitra joked.

Vashti playfully glared at the girl. "Anyway...you never answered my question. Is there anything I could help you with?"

"Yes actually. I have no idea where I'm going! And, like I said, I don't know how to fight off all these weird things out here..."

"Oh, so now I'm a weird thing with no modesty...Maybe I won't help you," Vashti glared.

Takitra just laughed. Wow... she thought. That's the first time I've laughed since all of this started. She then smiled at Vashti. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"Was there anywhere in particular you were trying to get to?" Vashti asked.

"...no," Takitra replied. "The only reason I left my home was because of this...curse. I just wanna find a way to fix it."

Vashti stepped closer to Takitra, examining the mask from all angles. "Where did you get it?"

"A little imp thingy gave it to me."

"Hmm...a little imp thingy, you say?" Vashti repeated, half making fun of the girl's technicality. "Well, I'm sorry, sweetie...I've never seen anything like it before. Did the little imp thingy say anything about the mask? Or even maybe about himself?"

"No," Takitra said grimly. "He didn't say anything at all about it. Just that it would help me solve my problems."

"And did it?"

"Of course not!" I wanted to get revenge, but...I just ended up hurting my family..."

Vashti stayed silent for a moment, sensing the girl was almost in tears. She used this time to think rather than speak.

"He did say one thing..." Takitra continued. "He told me his name was Majora."

Vashti's eyes widened, but luckily Takitra didn't seem to notice. "M-Majora you say."

"Ever heard it?"

"It sounds vaguely familiar," the keaton lied. She knew very well where she had heard that name before. "Did you try confronting the imp?"

"No, I never got the chance..."

"Then shall we?" Vashti got up and gestured toward the Town Gate.

"N-no!" Takitra quickly replied. "I can't go back in there...not like this...It'll be all over the news soon...'Psychopathic preteen kills her mother and is now missing and on the loose. Keep your children indoors! Board your windows shut! Armageddon is at hand!'"

"...I think you're exaggerating a bit..." Vashti blatantly pointed out. "Besides, you said it'll be all over the news soon...that means it's not yet. Do you wanna be freed or no?"

Takitra thought. She does have a point...if I wait, I'll never get the chance to go back and look for the bastard that did this to me. On the other hand though, if I happen to run into Daddy... Takitra began to wipe away a couple tears from her eyes when she suddenly heard Vashti call to her.

"You coming?" the yellow fox yelled as she trotted through the town's North Gate.