Woohoo, I just got Tekken 6! Among that, Disgaea and Resident Evil I've got a lot of things that can keep me occupied. However, very little can keep me away from Majora's Mask.

Published August 10, 2010

Odolwa takes Command

"Hello visitors," the young beaver happily greeted the monsters. "Welcome to the Beaver Bros' Dam, the greatestly constructed wooden barricade in all of Termina. There are generations of histories in this wood. Make yourself at home. Guests are allowed to stay for as long as they likely. Should you ever need anything simply ask me or my older brother. If you get bored, you can race against us and if you win we'll give you a nice treasure we found the other day."

Gohma, King Dodongo, Odolwa and Goht looked down at the beaver which stood before them, eagerly bouncing up and down. "I want that treasure," King Dodongo growled. "You will give it to me or I will give you a purple nurple with my giant, fanged mouth."

-Zora Hall-

Link cautiously entered a random room, desperately hoping that this one was Evan's room. The occupants of the last four had all scared him by going into fanboy mode at what seemed like Mikau being interested in their petty personal lives.

"Mikau! Did you get the eggs back?" the strange Zora inside asked him. His head was extremely thin and jutted out like he had a snout making this one the oddest Zora Link had ever seen.

"All of 'em," Link answered. "Those pirates weren't much trouble. I could do it all over again if I had to! …Which I won't."

"Good good good! Bring them to the Marine Research Lab so they can be hatched."

Link chuckled nervously. "Could you remind me where that is? I forget these things sometimes, you know me. Silly old Mikau, heh heh heh."

Evan confusedly looked at Link, tilting his head ninety degrees to the left. "How could you forget the place you were born at? What happened to your great Zora sense of direction, Mikau?"

"I took a nasty hit to the head," Link quickly told him. "Can't remember my last name actually. It's a shame."

Evan sighed, shaking his head. "Don't worry about it. We'll just lobotomize you later. The research lab is just offshore from the north beach. Now bring the eggs there so Lulu can get her voice back!"

"Science at its finest," Tatl heroically proclaimed.

Almost immediately after Link and Tatl left the room Bongo Bongo materialized in front of them. "You sure are good at 'acting' like an idiot, Link."

"Yeah, well… You're good at… being an… ugly!"

The phantom shadow beast began to slowly clap. "Bravo. You really told me off."

The group went outside and swam/flew back to the mainland. As they arrived at the beach the other part of their group dropped from the cliffs to their right. "Hey bitches, take a look at this!" King Dodongo held up an empty bottle! "We beat the crap out of some grammatically incorrect beavers and took it from them. Cool, eh?"

Everyone was unimpressed by his new acquisition, everyone except Link. "It's so shiny," he whispered as he stared at it in awe. "Can I have it?"

King Dodongo's face contorted into rage. "I- What- NO! Why would I give this to anyone?" Link gazed up at him, a grotesque pout on his Zora face. It was the kind of look that would make the hunchback of Notre Dame cringe in disgust, the look that would drive a monk to punching a bag of kittens. "I can't say 'no' to that face…" The dinosaur tossed Link the item, bringing his collection up to five bottles.

-The Marine Research Lab-

They made it to the lab with relative ease, the only issue being when Morpha's Leever friend came back. It was the general consensus to leave Morpha there while they dropped off the eggs. He swears could still be heard from within the research lab.

They were greeted by the anorexic old man who ran the lab. "You must be the Zora who's supposed to come with the eggs. And who are all of these unholy abominations?" he questioned.

Odolwa cheered out, "ODOOOLWA!"

"I am known to those that desire names as Goht."

"Gohma."

"Name's King Dodongo."

"I AM BARINADE!"

"She's Koume."

"And she's Kotake."

"I'm Bongo Bongo, nice to meet ya."

The old man nodded. "Welcome to the Marine Research Lab. Please put the eggs in the tank and then come back down here for the hatching. They need to all be in there before they'll hatch."

Link pulled himself on top of the tank and took out his first bottle. The sole egg in it easily slid out when he tilted it, falling into the water with a soft plop. However, due to the lack of bottles, the next three had two eggs in them. The second bottle's two eggs didn't want to come out when he tilted it, forcing him to smack the bottle as hard as he could until they were jostled out. The third bottle's two also came out easily, but the final challenge came in the form of the two eggs that occupied his fourth bottle. Link punched the bottle, he smashed it against the wall, he kicked it; nothing could dislodge the eggs. "I give up," he gasped, tossing it to the grate on top of the cage. It bounced once, and both eggs came out and fell into the cage. "That was intentional!"

"I have a question," Goht said as Link jumped off of the tank. "Why is he allowed to lead us? Both his intelligence and physical capabilities are far below our own. Almost any of us would prove to be a far superior leader."

"She's got a point!" Odolwa exclaimed. "From here on out, I'm the leader!"

"Go for it," Gohma grunted. "Have fun."

The old man eagerly approached the tank. "Good, they're all together. Come closer everyone, it's going to start soon."

As if on cue, the eggshells began to expand and dissolve. The Zora babies, which looked like blue tadpoles, began to swim around inside the massive tank. Speaking of which…

"Why's the tank so big if they're so small?" Tatl asked him.

The old man laughed like this was a stupid question. "They'll be in here for the next eight years, until they reach full maturity. If it were any smaller they'd all die of course."

"Oh. Sucks for them I guess. What are they doing?"

The babies had formed a line in the water and posed like musical notes. "Look at that!" the old man exclaimed. "What in the world could this mean? Wait, I've got it! Don't you get it?"

"Affirmative," Goht said. "They-"

Odolwa jumped in front of her, looking intently at the tank. "Hold it! I'm the leader now." He leaned in, stroking his masked chin as though he had a goatee. Actually, he might… "From what I can tell, the Zoras have arranged themselves into the crest of one of the oldest families in Termina, the crest of the Meldinas. We must find their descendant and throw this person into the tank so they can rip them apart and feast on this person's insides, growing to full maturity within moments. The Zoras will then be able to stop the moon from coming down! It all makes perfect sense, right guys?"

He turned to the rest of them only to see Link playing his fishbone guitar, using the Zoras' positions like notes. His shoulders drooped as Link finished the song. "Oh. You learned the New Wave Bossa Nova. Yippee."

The old man seemed so excited by this point that they were surprised his fragile heart hadn't exploded. "If these Zoras were born to teach this song, then hurry, play it to whoever laid these eggs!"

"Was the song coded into their DNA or something?" Tatl wondered aloud. "What would have happened if someone that could play the song wasn't here?"

"No need to nitpick the details," the old man said.

-Zora Hall-

"Link, play the song in front of her," Odolwa ordered, pointing at the Zora in front of him.

"That's not her either," Tatl sighed as the frightened Zora ran away. "You're not very good at this, are you?"

"Shut up or I'll court marshal you!"

Tatl subtly led them to the area where Lulu was and, just as expected, Odolwa ordered Link to play the song in front of her. He did so, but what no one expected was for Lulu to start singing halfway through the song.

They continued for about thirty seconds. Once it ended, Link put his guitar away and opened his mouth to say something to Lulu but was immediately interrupted by an explosion of water behind them. Link screamed and dove behind Lulu as a turtle twice as big as King Dodongo rose from the water. Two trees were on its back meaning that this behemoth had been the small isle beside them the whole time.

"What the hell just happened?" Tatl yelled, floating away from the giant turtle.

The turtle yawned, stretching its neck. "I slept quite well," it announced in a deep, booming voice. "I just realized when I opened my eyes. The passing of days it quite quick, isn't it Lulu?"

Lulu looked just as confused as the rest of them.

"It's nothing to be surprised at Lulu. Although my eyes were closed, I still see everything that occurs in this ocean."

"Eh?"

"It seems Lulu's confused."

"We all are!" Tatl yelled. "Who are you? Why were you sleeping? Why did that song wake you up?"

"I would like to explain everything, but there is no time for idle conversation," the turtle said. He turned slightly to face Link. "Now then proud Zora warrior… The open seas of great Bay have need of your might."

"Hold it!" Odolwa jumped in front of the smaller Zora, bashing him aside with his shield. "I'm the one in charge of all this, you talk to me."

"In such dire times, it does not matter who is the leader. You must work together as equals should you wish to overcome the obstacles you face."

"Bullshit," the jungle warrior snapped, glaring at the turtle. "Every notable force in history has had a leader. That's why I'm here. I'm going to make us part of history! We'll go down in the books as the Odolwa Army, the small group that managed to save the world! I, being the leader, will be the most well known."

"You will not be able to fill the world when filled with greed and negative desires."

"Bullshit number two," Odolwa declared. "That guy over there's the greediest bastard you'll ever meet and they saved the world before." King Dodongo sent a small wave to the turtle.

The turtle sighed, shaking its head. "We don't have time for idle chatter. Climb upon my back and I will bring you to the Great Bay temple."

Odolwa, Link, Tatl, Goht, Gohma, King Dodongo, Barinade, Morpha, Bongo Bongo, Koume and Kotake plopped down on the turtle's back. "You okay down there?" Bongo Bongo asked.

The turtle was being pushed down by the water and was using a noticeable amount of force to stay afloat. "I've… had… much… worse…" it groaned. The turtle began to swim out, slowly progressing through the water.

Forty minutes later, they were almost at the temple. "How are we getting through that thing?" Bongo Bongo asked in reference to the water tornado that spun around the temple. "Last time we kinda failed and lost Ganondorf."

"I will go underneath the storm and through the underwater entrance. When I tell you to hold on, hold on," the turtle explained. "Hold on!"

Everyone quickly grabbed on to something although Link screamed for a few seconds before doing so. "I have no arms!" Morpha screamed. "Before I die know that I hate you all and that if I ever got the chance I would have found the slowest most painful way to kill each one of you and done it!"

They all held on for about ten seconds before realizing that nothing was happening. "That was a test," the turtle said. "You all passed."

Gohma punched the turtle's shell with enough force to put a crack in the exterior. "Don't do that!"

"One of you needs to grab me next time!" Morpha shouted. "Someone grab me!" Barinade picked him up.

"Hold on!"

They latched on again, but this time Bongo Bongo grabbed where Link was last time. Link wasn't able to find a spot to grab and began to panic. "I can't take it anymore!" He jumped into the bay.

The turtle chuckled. "That was just another test to see if you were truly ready." Gohma further broke the shell while Link was pulled back up.

"Hold on!" King Dodongo roared. Everyone except Link grabbed onto something. Link was accidentally hit into the water by Goht as she moved toward the palm tree. "This is fun."

Everyone was so busy looking at the temple in front of them that they didn't notice the boat to their rear. "Still on course," a pirate said from the small vessel's crow's nest. She was up there making sure they were still behind the turtle as their sight was obscured by the fog.

Aveil turned to the pirate that was steering the ship. "It's a good thing that we just let them collect all seven eggs and find a way to the temple. Now all we have to do is follow them and see how they get inside so we can go the same way. After that we'll kill them and take the treasure for ourselves!"

The pirate sighed. "Yes, it was an excellent plan ma'am."

"Uh, girls?" the pirate above them yelled. "The turtle dove. I think they're going under it."

"Can this dive?" Aveil asked the wheelwoman.

"No it can't."

"I think we're getting pulled in!"

Aveil didn't seem to hear the cries from above. "Well we need to find a way to get in too. Do we have diving equipment?"

"No we do not."

The ship suddenly began to pick up speed, heading right into the storm. "What's going on?"

"I kept telling you that we're getting sucked in!" the pirate who was above snapped as she climbed down to them. "We'll be capsized any second!"

"Oh."

-Inside the Great Bay Temple-

The turtle surfaced in a dark, metal room lit only by two torches. "We're here."

King Dodongo rolled off of the turtle, smashing his back on the edge of the metal floor as he fell. It turned out that the pool the turtle was in wasn't very big.

Odolwa was much more graceful in his disembarking. He prepared to jump off but ended up slipping on the shell and falling into the water. It was still more graceful than Kingy's fall. "Thank you for delivering us," Odolwa said to the reptile. "As for the rest of you, is everyone still here?"

"Kotake isn't," Koume said. "Not a big loss."

Right after she said this Kotake burst from the water beside the turtle. "I thought I had grabbed a tree but it was just my own broom."

Everyone began to regroup near one of the torches, using its heat to dry off. It was in the glow of the fire that Tatl noticed a brief reflection from the dark floor. "There's a puddle near the door. None of us have been over there yet."

"So someone was here," Odolwa loudly said. "This is an interesting revelation. Could it be that someone else has breached the storm outside? Perhaps it is another seeking to free the giants. However, it may be a foe that has entered the temple to impair our own quest. Keep on your guard; I think that the worst has yet to come."

Goht looked at the puddles. "Footprint scans show me that it was Gerudo King Ganondorf."

"…Or it was just Ganondorf."