NOTES: Great bay...

In Great Bay, Like Like's like Link. But does Link like Like Like?

...Try saying that really fast.

Great Bay happened to be where I discovered a glitch by myself, which happened to be the very first glitch I've done that I didn't need knowledge from some other source from. Using a Like Like to spit me out in a certain direction to launch myself out of grounds. It probably spawned the likeness of glitch hunting. Which I proceeded to find many more and more glitches in Majora's Mask, which probably created my interest in game glitches.

Before that, I was interested flicking my cartridges of my SNES being 5 or so to make the games go all squiffy. You'd argue that is dangerous since it can delete my saves. But my poor "Super Mario World" was already broken so badly that when you shook the cartridge even a little, you can hear the pieces of the cartridge on the inside rattle around; I believe this is to be the function that lets it save. You'll be lucky if you make a save file on that thing that lasts for more then an hour; let alone turn on (Still turns on with persistence, though).

There was also the incident when I was playing Link to the Past on the SNES, and then my cat swatted the SNES while I was fighting Ganon. Game froze for a second, and then I turned into Bunny Link.

Needless to say, the pink rabbit died a horrible death more then once due to the bottle of fairy's I had.

Oops.

- TLDR; I like glitches and making game universes implode.

Chapter 14 Mikau: A Final Performance... A Request for Aid!

"Alright, Epona, wait for me at the Ranch, okay?" Link asked the brown horse. She neighed in confirmation. Link smiled, giving her a pat on the head, before the brown horse turned around, and sprinted off back from where they came from.

"That horse is way too smart for it's own good." Tatl chimed.

"She's far more obedient then you are..." Link sarcastically retorted.

"Well, good!" She retorted back.

Link smiled a little bit. They had made good time getting to Great Bay thanks to the aid of Epona. It was still early in the night. If Link's luck was good, he could hopefully be done with this place quickly. That was an if, unfortunately. However, even as it was night time, there seemed to be very good lighting all over everywhere. The sky was crystal clear, only now. Stars would begin peeking out within the hour.

As Link continued to walk, going though a small valley pathway, he soon let out a gasp. "By Farore's wind! It's the Ocean!" He soon exclaimed. Picking up his pace to a full sprint. He ran along the beach of Great Bay looking out at the extreme vast waters that seemed to have been endless. He out stretched his arms as a comfortable warm breeze blew into him, making him close his eyes in comfort.

"This is the first time ever that I've been to the ocean! It's so huu-"

"DAMMIT-!"

Link nearly lost balance and fell on flat on his face, at the sudden change of mood that had just interrupted his good mood. Both he and the fairy turned around. A fairly obese man with a fishing net looking out at the ocean near Link apparently, although he was standing in a fishing boat. Obviously this man was a fisherman.

"Uhh...What would be the problem, sir?" Link asked him.

"I cannot catch ANY damn fish out here lately! This is just so bad for business! Ever since that weird thing appeared out in Great Bay, everything has gone just wrong! Fish don't bite, the water is way too warm, it looks like someone took a piss in it, and going out to sea means you somehow end up back here!"

"...Well maybe if you didn't fish so late at night...?" Link couldn't help himself from pondering to himself dully. This guy was just negative all around...

Link's gaze was soon drifted as the man pointed out in the ocean. It was hard to see in the darkness of the night, however, he did make out some strange mist was out on the horizon of the sky and sea. It looked almost like a storm far away.

The man soon snorted. "I swear, I'll think of a way to get rid of that stupid white foam if it's the last thing I do to save my career!" Turning away, seemingly walking back into what appeared to be his hut. He dragged his tiny fishing boat with him as well.

"...He's just upset." Tatl informed. Link As she hovered near the surface of the water. She touched it a little. "...Although, he is right. It is rather warm and does look disgusting. I wouldn't say it looks like pee thoug- HEY-!"

Tatl had turned around to catch the boy's back to her, with his shorts lifted down slightly against as water was splashing into water. Link soon finished, shuffling a little before blinking at Tatl.

"Y...Y..." Tatl stuttered.

"...What? Why are you looking at me like that for? Do you know how long it's be-"

Tatl soon rang out loudly, interrupting the boy's claim. Causing Link to raise his eyebrows at her. "What?" He let out once again.

"Just LOOK!" She let out. Link soon turned to where she looked, letting out a gasp himself too.

A large ship was sailing across the water's surface. Link felt himself move to cover to hide himself against some rocks near the water.

"That's a pirate ship!" Link let out

"H-Hey! Look towards the front of it!" Tatl whispered into his ear.

Link's gazed peered to the front of the ship. A blue Zora up against the mast of the ship, a pirate had him pinned against the plank. Link watched as the pirate dived at the Zora, her scimitars digging into his body.

"Oh no!" Link yelled out. As the Zora soon plummeted into the water. Link soon moved, climbing out from his cover towards the water.

"W-Wait a minute! That water is dangerous, you need to grab a boat!" Tatl ringed at the boy.

Link gazed back at her with a stern look. "By the time I get a boat, it will be too late! I can handle it!" He argued. Before he jumped into the water, paddling hard against the water to move as quick as he could. The pirate ship fortunately sailing off. Link soon took in a deep breath, diving under the water. Tatl had been correct. The water was murky. Making is somewhat difficult to see clearly. However, the fallen Zora still stood out. Link swam over to him, grabbing him by the arm before pulling him up above the water.

Link emerged from the surface, letting out a gasp for breath, before beginning to slowly kick his way back to the beach shore. Several minutes passed by before Link hauled the injured Zora onto the beach. Collapsing himself in deep pants as water dripped off of him.

"Ugh... That's one terrible wound he received..." Tatl informed, shuddering a little, as she was observing the deep gash in the Zora's side. Link took note that the Zora was holding some sort of dead fish, shaped very much like a guitar.

"Hey! Hang in there!" Link spoke into the Zora, who looked completely unwell.

"Uh... ...Ugh... D-Dammit... That ship..." The Zora grunted out. Soon pushing himself up slowly. "Please... go after those pirates! The egg..."

He soon began to collapse, but fortunately Link caught him before he fell down. "If I don't hurry and get it back that egg... It will surely die!"

"Knock if off! If you keep it up, the one who's going to wind up dead is gonna be you! Now calm! Just tell me what the happened!" Link ordered.

"...I'm Mikau of the Zoras. I'm the guitarist of Zora band Dal Blue."

"Dal Blue?" Link asked.

"Dal Blue is a super popular band of Zora's." Tatl informed him. "There was a poster for their concert in Clock Town, which was supposed to happen on the night of the carnival." She then sighed. "I can't believe you don't know them..."

Link shot her a slightly irritated glance. "You do remember, don't you, that I'm quite literally not from around here?"

"We were just rehearsing for our performance for the concert for the carnival..." Mikau soon interrupted the two's bickering. "Soon after the ocean began to become strange, our vocalist, Lulu laid a strange egg, and she soon lost her voice... As if that wasn't bad enough, her egg was suddenly stolen by pirates!"

The Zora soon growled out in frustration. "Damn it. Look at me... I'm supposed to be a descendant of a Zoran heroes... but what a sight I am... I can't move anymore. Please... get that egg back for me!" Mikau pleaded to Link.

"...Okay, I'll help get the egg back, and even return the ocean to normal. Now, you need to stop talking." Link ordered.

"Th-Thank you... I can't really repay you, but... I'll play a song for you... It's the least I can do..."

"What-!" Link began. "You can't do that! You will over exert yourself!"

Despite Link's words, the Zora picked up his guitar, beginning to play the strings on it. Link only gave a worried look on his face. But he soon realized that the Zora probably wanted to play one last song before he died. Link soon dug inside his shirt to pull out the 'Ocarina of Time.' He soon began to blow notes into the instrument, playing along with Mikau.

"Hah... Kid, you have an excellent taste in music... You should become a member in my place..."

"Hey!" Link let out, as the Zora seemed to have been slipping away, his body glowing as orbs of energy began to float off of him.

"It's too bad... I wanted to preform... just one last time... ...with Lulu and everyone..."

Link could only watch as Mikau's body disappeared out into the sea. The only thing that remained of him was his face that lay in the sand.

"Mikau..." Link mumbled quietly. He resisted tears that wanted to run down his eyes. Link bent down, picking up the mask, before looking over the guitar that lay in the send next to where Mikau had just been.

Link patted sand down as he was on his knees. "...There. That should do it..." He said quietly. Standing back, he examined his work. The guitar resting against the wooden stake. Link soon closed his eyes, bending forwards slightly with his arms at his sides, and his eyes closed. Tatl as well fluttered on his shoulder.

Both were silent for a whole minute, the only sound was the water lapping against the shore. When Link moved, Tatl fluttered off of the boy's shoulder, whom looked at the Zora's mask, before he put the mask on his face.

"As expected." Tatl said, unsurprised. "You turned into a Zora... And I think this is the best getup so far... Even better then your normal fo- Ah to hell with it, go after that ship-!" She ordered. Link nodded. Running off into the water, before diving in, moving like a missile through the murky waters towards where the ship had sailed off to.

Climbing his way on the ship, Link climbed up onto the deck,before quickly hiding behind some barrels. He darted off from barrels and boxes as guards roamed around. He pulled off the mask as well to make himself smaller. When the time was right, Link slipped his way down the stairs to the insides of the ship.

"Mistress Aveil, what's so important about that egg, is it worth a lot? It sure looks like so."

"Heh. This is the only key for getting into that stupid ugly spinning cloud off shore. So I guess you could say it's worth a lot! More then we could have ever dreamed of!

Link peered through a small gate window, seeing some pirate sitting in a large throne, as many female pirates were watching her. She was tossing the Zora egg held in a bottle full with water up and down a little, rather carelessly. Link examined her face, it was full of greed and lust.

"If what the tiny little demon wearing that cute looking mask is true, then there's treasure sleeping inside of that giant storm cloud that we could yank and for ourselves, and live in paradise for the rest of our lives!"

She and her crew began laughing, joking of all the things they could do with this treasure that would apparently lead them to having a life full of paradise.

"Skullkid..." Link growled under his breath. "He's hurting everyone, or bringing the darkness into evil people's hearts to do the dirty work for him! I gotta get that egg back." As he peered around the room, he became a little hopeless.. "...But there's no way I can take that egg from her with that many guards even by force. I can't afford to wait! There must be something I'm able to do...!" He muttered quietly to himself.

Tatl floated out the gate moving up to the roof to get a better look, while out of view from the occupied and overly gleeful pirates.. She soon flew back down to the Hylian child. "I spotted something that will do wonderfully. Take a look over there." She whispered. Looking over in the corner above the throne was a bee hive's nest.

"All right, good job Tatl! That's perfect!" Link whispered in delight. He dug into his pocket, pulling out a small rock, he soon chucked it as hard as he could at the bee hive. The rock hitting right on target. The hive rumbled a little, before falling down. Soon, the bee's emerged from their hive, rushing at all the pirates in anger.

"KYAA~! BEES-!"

"EEEKK-!"

Link watched, smirking, as all the pirates ran out of the room screaming. Even the Pirate Mistress dropping the Zora egg on the floor to escape the horde of yellow and black stringers. Link reached his arm through the window, fiddling with the lock. A small click was heard, before he was able to push it open. "Yes!" He said happily. Climbing himself through the window, before running over to the egg, holding it up.

"Ah, so this must be the Zora egg." He said, as he examined it. It seemed to glow marvelously in the little light there was in the room. "They sure are quite pretty glowing like that in the water."

"Yeah. It looks like a jewel. Kind of like a pearl." Tatl said as she examined it too.

"Alright, let's get out of here before they come back." Link said, soon beginning to walk back to the window.

"Hey, brat! Hold it, you-!"

Link stopped in his tracks, peering back over his shoulder.

"Boldly messing with the pirates like it's a little game... How'd you get in here-? You've come to steal MY treasure from PIRATES-!"

Link could tell by the voice that it was the Pirate Mistress, Aveil. Link soon smirked, as he slipped on the Zora's mask. Transforming into Mikau's form again, he turned around. Aveil gasped.

"! Y-YOU-? I thought I threw you off the ship and defeated you earlier!" She exclaimed in surprise

"Hah. I cannot be done in that easily, mistress. I have the blood of Zoran heroes flowing through me, after all!" Link retorted back with confidence.

"You'll pay for your ignorance and not dying like you should! Now give me back that egg, and I just might spare your life!"

She drew her two scimitars, lunging at Link, who back flipped out of the way. "Damn. I only got one arm because I have to hold the egg..." He thought out. Before he widened his eyes in surprise, as she lunged at him again. Link jumped upwards, using his powerful Zora blades, he cut through the roof, jumping his way up on to the deck of the boat. Aveil followed him after. She continued to chase Link constantly, swinging madly at him. Link was soon forced on to the plank very much like Mikau. However, soon the water and ship began to rumble. Both Link and Aveil stopped fighting.

"...Huh? This can't be an earthquake... We're on the water!" Aveil let out. Before a giant eruption of water to the right of the ship was released, knocking the ship on its side. Everyone yelled and screamed, the ship being turned on to its side as everyone had been plunged into the water.

Link lost his transformation in all of the mess. However, the Zora's mask was floating nearby, and he still had the egg in hand inside the bottle. Paddling, Link swam to the mask, before looking up.

"Y-YIKES!"

Link looked up, seeing the biggest turtle he had ever laid his eyes on. In fact, trees were growing on his shell!

"Fear me not, child who disguises thou self as a Zora... That egg was calling out to me, and I awoke from my long slumber in place as an island... The egg has told me all of the sea's crisis..." The turtle seemed to have spoken to Link, through a connection inside of his head.

"...Now then, young warrior... We haven't much time... Child of another realm... Your power is needed now desperately offshore, at the temple of Great Bay."

The turtle soon turned himself to his side, near Link. Link grabbed the Zora's mask, about to climb himself up onto the back of the giant island-like turtle.

"Hey! Wait!"

Link turned around, blinking. "What the? L-Lake Professor?" He thought out in his head a bit astonished.

"Oh, phew... I have caught up to you in time..." He said, as he rowed a fishing boat towards Link. "You have the egg, don't you?" He asked the boy.

"Oh, right. The egg." Link said, holding it up in the bottle.

"My lab has fresh water before the ocean became strange. Let me take care of the egg before it dies, the water there should be more then healthy enough for it." The professor urged him lightly.

Link nodded, reaching out, he handed the bottle to the professor. Link soon continued ascending the turtle until he was on his back.

"I'll take extreme care of the egg! Do not worry!" The professor waved off to Link, who rode on the back of the giant turtle.

"Well. This keeps getting stranger and stranger, doesn't it?" Tatl asked.

Link only sighed slightly. As the Turtle swam towards the spinning whirlwind that seemed to surround the temple off in the distance.

"Child, you may want to put Mikau's heart on in the shape of the mask. We will be going under the water momentarily."

"All right then." Link said. Lifting up the Zora's mask, he placed it once again on his face. Before long, fog began to set in. And a strong wind soon began to blow after that. Link had to grip onto the tree of the turtle to not be blown off.

"I see... This fog and wind hinders proceeding by ship... Winds like this would flip a ship apart, if not tear it to pieces... All right, here we go!"

The turtle soon dived his form under the ocean. With the Zora's mask on, Link did not need to hold his breath under the water. And he felt as if Mikau was giving him the strength he needed not to be thrown off by the force of this strange storm, which could be felt even below the water.

Back on the beach of Great Bay, as the crickets chirped off into the distance. A figure began to form. This figure wasn't large, but the eyes resembled those of the moon that was crawling closer. The rattling the mask made on this figure's face was rather loud and unsettling. The figure did not touch the ground, but his preference was to levitate in the air, arms crossed.

"Heeheehee. That fool is more fun then I thought he would be. Watching him try to stop me like this is entertaining... But he has become annoying enough. Tonight, a certain fish is going to have a meal..."

The eyes of Majora's mask glowed a bright orange yellow. Pupils in the mask seemingly shrinking. The mask rattled. As he saw the turtle sink under the ocean near the temple to get past the giant storm. And he saw Link on that turtle's back, in the shape of that trouble-some Mikau who had tried to impede his plans. He wondered what had become of him...

Skullkid soon unfolded his arms, before looking behind him.

"What? What is this stupid looking thing...?"

He saw a bone-fished guitar leaning against a stake dug into the ground. Inscribed in paper was a piece of paper. The mask-wearing Skullkid looked down to read what it said.

"A legendary Guitarist lies here"

Skullkid gripped his head with both hands, shaking a little...

"Hahah...AHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHH-!"

Skullkid kicked in the air with laughter, no longer holding his head, but holding onto his stomach that was in pain from laughing so hard.

"That stupid Zora actually died trying to save an egg! What a JOKE! How useless! can you be-! This grave is MEANINGLESS-!"

With one quick motion with his hand, the guitar and stake broke to pieces laying sprawled on the ground.

"Let's have some more fun with him-! What game should I play? What game should I play with him next? That is, if he wins this round~" The Skullkid rang out into the night, as his Hyena laugh echoed the air. The devilish moon looming big over the night sky seemed to... grin... It too, like Skullkid, was enjoying Link's struggles...