I decided that I'm just going to wrap up the main quest for now and write side quests in later. (Basically how I play almost any game. XD) Canonically, of course, Link has already finished them. Though it's funny because I just listened to a song called "Fly me to the Moon."

Chapter 19: Children on the Moon

Link climbed a great ladder leading up the side of the Santa Hylia. The young hero was still in awe over the size of this structure, especially knowing it was a boat; a boat designed to fly no less! Even the other voice in his head was amazed: even though he had seen a much more gigantic ship, it was still incredible to see something like this built thousands of years ago.

Link was finally aboard the deck of the Hylia, where a large crew of Sheikah had already made preparations under Impa's orders. Link marched up to the helm, which was decorated with orange lines and made of the same bizarre technology. With an eager smile, Link put his hands to the helm's handles. "Ayri" leapt out of the slate and perched her snow-glittered self on the wheel's post. "Master Link, the crew has made all preparations to set sail. Once you give the command, the vessel will leave this dock beneath the sea floor and make the journey to the moon. However, bear in mind that you can return to Termina and vice-versa any time using the Sheikah Warp. Are you prepared, Master?"

"Darn right I am! Let's knock Majora right off the moon!"

"My sentiments are shared with you. May the Sword of Four Seasons grant you the utmost strength."

There was a terrific rumbling as the ship's engines ignited. Link gazed skyward as the tremendous ceiling of the vast cavern began to open. The Hylia slowly elevated. Once it was above the hatch's rim, the ceiling sealed. "Activate deck barrier!" one of the crewmen yelled. A blue bubble covered the deck as a higher hatch began to open, pouring in thousands of gallons of seawater.

If Link had gone swimming under a certain part of the ocean, he would have noticed an area on the seafloor that was completely flat, rectangular, and made of a perfectly smooth, refined surface, and orange lines along the edge and middle. Only now would he have realized it was directly above the Hylia's deck. That terrific field would spread wide open as the ship's sails emerged from the seafloor.

The citizens of Clockwork and nearby sailors were in awe as the titanic vessel rose from the sea. There was mass confusion as to what it was. Even when it fully revealed itself to be an oversized ship, it was too incredible to behold as it detached from the surface. The ship curved in a diagonal fashion and sailed directly to the moon in the heavens beyond.

"Look, Avis! Look at that boat!" Gork pointed with excitement.

"Wow…" Avis gasped. "Is this what the Frosolites made? Or was it…"

Sipha and Madim gazed at the rising structure. "I bet you anything Link is on that boat." the Zora said.

"The World of Light is so amazing…" Madim whispered.

Dr. Purah was drooling as the ship rose beyond the White Sea. "Hylia… sweet Hylia… Why couldn't it have been me? Wah ha ha ha…" She began to sob.

"Snooooore…" Nighlo had fallen asleep again. Purah glared at the oblivious owl.

Evan smiled with pride at the great ship. "Man, recruiting that kid had to be my greatest decision ever."

"You should be the one on that boat, Evan!" Meen whined.

"Meh, I don't really mind, so long as I'm with my little Meeny." He prodded his little friend with his finger.

"Hee hee hee! You're better than any boat, Evan!"

The blue sky began to fade black, glittered with stars as Link was leaving the atmosphere. Luckily, the ship also projected an Oxygen Bubble for this immensely high altitude. When he first began this adventure, he never thought he would be sailing in the sky, never thought he would climb a mountain higher than the sky, and he never thought he would go even higher than that. The Sea of Termina and its entire world kept getting smaller and smaller. To think that all those people lived on that little planet. All the places he's been, from Picori, the Highlands, the Snowcap, and the people he's met, from the Bombers, Louie, Bethana, Milani, or Gabriel… he could reach up and hold them all in his own two hands.

"Link, I know the view is amazing, but don't forget the one in front of us."

Link had almost forgotten they were flying to the moon. When he turned, he gasped at how gargantuan the moon had become. The moon had always looked big, but from such a far distance, Link still felt like he could hold it in his hands. Yet, as Termina's world shrunk, the moon grew to be the size of a whole world itself. Well, perhaps it was somewhat smaller, but there was still an extremely vast land to explore.

The Hylia traced an energy signature believed to be originating from Majora. The ship parked beside the cliff over a very vast, dark chasm. A bridge stretched to allow Link onto the great, white cliff. The ground beneath him felt like sand. It was an endless desert of white sand. Still, outside the Oxygen Bubble, Link seemed to be breathing just fine. Perhaps the moon possessed its own oxygen. "So… who are they?" Link asked. (Play "Moon Kingdom" from Mario Odyssey.)

There were children running around the moon. They all wore a white shirt and shorts, had orange hair, and left their bare footprints all around the sand. They were completely identical… except for the various masks over their faces. What's more, it even seemed like there were houses around this valley, white as the moon around them.

"This needs no further clarity, but this location is identified as the Moon. This celestial body has orbited Termina for eons. These children are the native inhabitants, the Lunar Children. Further information is unavailable to me."

"So, even you can't tell me everything. Well, I guess knowing would just hurt the mystery. Man, this is incredible… It's way cooler than the moon I know."

"You've been on the moon from your world, Link?"

"What? Uh, no, I don't know why I said that."

"I sense no hostility from these children, but be on guard. Majora's monsters may be lying in wait."

"Let's finish this, Araea. Once and for all… until a few thousand years later." Link wasn't sure why he said that either.

Final stage: The Moon

Mission: Destroy "Majora."

Link paced forward… slowly. He quickly found his movements hindered on this surface. He paced forward regardless, wondering if he should talk to the children. He saw a kid wearing a Keaton Mask standing in a tall patch of white grass. "I guess I'm gonna need all my masks." Link assumed as he placed on the Keaton Mask. Link approached the boy.

"Oh. It's a new boy. …Hey, you. Wanna try my quiz?"

"Oh dear, this already? Sure."

"What was the first monster you encountered on your journey?"

"If you're specifically talking about this journey, then…" Link thought back to the day the sea was frozen, "Ice Chuchus."

"What is the name of the mayor of Dusk Town?"

"Dour."

"Which of these masks appeared in neither of your Terminan adventures? Odolwa's Mask, Rain Mask, Thunder Helm, Bokoblin Mask?"

"Um…Bokoblin Mask."

"Which of these games had no music featured in this one? The Legend of Zelda, Wind Waker, Breath of the Wild, Sticker Star?"

"Legend of Zelda."

"How much HP did the Mothuking have?"

"Er…200?"

"Correct. You're pretty smart. You can have a Heart Brace." He handed Link a heart-shaped ring, which looked like the rim of a Heart Container. "Hey… do you think smart people are always right? Should we just let smart people make the rules?"

Link couldn't answer this before he disappeared. "…That was weird."

There was a boy in an oversized Postman's Hat staring at a letter. Link approached him. "Huh? Is someone there? Hey… can you deliver this for me?" He handed Link the letter. "I can't read who it's for."

Link read that it was for Moon Kid. "Well, that's distinctive." He stashed it away for now and kept going. The exit of this trench area was blocked by a dark barrier, and a boy wearing the Minish Cap was in front of it.

"Hey… do you have this mask, too? Let's play Hide-and-Seek. Close your eyes." Link did so… and after a moment, he opened. The barrier disappeared, and Link was viewing some sort of swamp area, the trees composed of the same whiteness of the moon. The river was purple and poison, and a house was set up on a platform. Link climbed the ladder to the house and entered. A boy wearing the Picto Mask was inside. There were maps posted around the walls, and Link took pictures of each of them with his slate. All of them together created…

You completed a Map of the Moon! It's undeveloped, so we can't quite add the "base" suffix. You'd better have gotten all the masks, or you'll miss out on the best reward of all~

"Hey, you know what I'd like to see? A big, red marble." The masked boy said. Link walked outside. The only solution he could think of was to use the Picto Mask's camera filter to make the scenery red, which in turn changed the distant planet of Termina red. He snapped a picture of the red planet and returned to show it to the kid. "Wow, that's pretty. Thanks for showing me this. Here's a reward."

You got a Mask Piece! Collect 20 of these pieces to create something powerful. But what could it be?

The only other way to go was up the poison river. Link could use Ice Arrows to freeze platforms, but a Lunactorok was floating over the area as it blasted a fireball to melt the ice. Link couldn't shoot the creature down due to its protective glass helmet.

Link put on the Minish Cap and miniaturized. He was now too small for the giant space octo to notice, so he was able to freeze an ice trail without disturbance. He made his way to a platform where he could resize. He was now behind the Octorok and could shoot a weak point on its back, slaying the beast. Link could either keep going up the river or he could follow an alternate, narrow path. Link followed this path and found a large, pot-shaped house situated on a platform (all of which were white). There was a cauldron on Link's ground covered by wood, but he could burn the wood off with a Fire Arrow. Steam emitted from the cauldron, and Link was able to climb on and float up the steamy draft as a Rito.

He could then land on the platform's rim and find a Lunar Child wearing the Melon Helmet. Link put the helmet on himself, and the child curled in their helmet and rolled into a tunnel. Link curled up and rolled in as well, going down a hole. Link landed in a vast chamber with several thin, curved paths suspended over a chasm. Link would have to roll down and up a U-shaped ramp. He did so and flung across the chasm, but the low gravity allowed him to reach the next path. This path curved around in a spiral several times before it let Link launch to the next one.

He went up a vertical path, but soon lost momentum and went down. Luckily, there was a spring at the beginning, pushing him back up with more momentum. He still didn't make it, but he rolled down faster, bounced the spring, and returned up faster. He repeated the process again, and enough speed was able to roll him all the way up the path, letting him land above it. The road was now straight, but divided in segments, with the end of each segment rising up and down. Link would have to roll over the platforms just as they were rising, so his momentum and low gravity could help him float to the following segments. He passed the trial and reached the kid's platform.

"That was pretty cool. You can have this." He gave Link a Mask Piece. "Hey, can I ask something? Why do grown-ups let kids have 'fun'? If they're just going to make kids work one day, why don't they just start early? Then they won't whine about not having fun."

He disappeared. "You don't know the half of it, kid." Link said. A barred door unlocked, bringing Link back outside. He returned to the poison river and resumed freezing a path for himself. He reached an area of large white flowers, and there was a small saucer with an antenna parked on one of the further flowers. However, when Link jumped on the first flower, they all shook, and the saucer flew away. It would only return when Link jumped to a white log at the start. He had to shrink and go across the flowers as a Minish, using Ice Arrows to make paths in-between. Minish Link leapt on the saucer and rode it over a spiked blockade.

The saucer landed on a platform, where Link resized. He froze more platforms across the water, but spiked pillars were spinning along the water, threatening to break the ice. Link progressed quickly before the spikes could hurt him. He landed on a ledge with a dark barrier, so he suspected the Minish Cap boy may be around. There was a large, white boulder island with a boy wearing the Mask of Truth. Link made his way to him as the boy said, "One of the pups knows where the seed is." Behind him was a small hole leading into the boulder.

Link found a room full of Space Pups. He used the Mask of Truth to detect that one of them had an "!" above its head. He used his Minish form to tame the puppy and make him dig up a buried seed. Link took the seed and placed it in a soil patch outside. In a nearby shore, there was a pond of clear water. Link scooped that water in his bottle and poured it over the seed: it grew into a Magic Plant. Link rode the plant up to a high ledge, where he collected a Heart Brace. The hero returned to the island and froze platforms to cross the river around it. Link discovered a secret hole in the cliff, where the Minish Cap was hiding.

"Oh, you found me. I guess I'll open the way now." As he spoke, the dark barrier disappeared. "Hey, I got a question. Um…do you think animals are people, too? Do they just speak their own language? Do people treat them as slaves?" Again, the child disappeared.

Link returned to where the barrier was and could bypass it. He had to jump a row of far-apart platforms, which was easy due to low gravity. He crossed to a field of giant mushrooms, where more children were freely running around. To his right, a Bunny-Masked kid ran toward the cliff at full speed and performed a terrific leap, flying over the chasm and landing on a platform. Keeping his momentum, the kid did a U-turn and leapt straight back. Link donned the Bunny Hood himself, ran toward the edge with increased speed, and leapt for the platform. Upon landing, Link collected a Heart Brace. He leapt back in the same fashion.

There was a kid sniffing around the giant shrooms with the Mask of Scents. "I'm looking for a rare Moldy Milk Shroom." Link put on the same mask and could smell several scents emitting from different patches. He used his bottle to scoop the mushrooms from those patches, having to try each one until he found a yellowish-white mushroom. He showed it to the kid. "There's the Moldy Milk Shroom! I'll trade it for this." He gave a Heart Brace to Link. "Hey… plants are living things too, right? Do you think they have feelings? How do they feel being cut and eaten?" He disappeared.

There was a hill past the mushroom forest, leading up into a cliff. A Rito Mask boy was standing before a barrier. "You're a new boy, aren't you? You wanna have a race? I'll wait for you up here." Link closed his eyes, and when he opened, the barrier dispelled. Link ventured up a hill where boulders rolled down, the hero using Earth Arrows to shatter them. Link made it atop the hill and found a lone moon-house in the middle of an area enclosed in the cliffs.

There was a boy wearing Don Gero's Mask beside a pond of Space Frogs. When Link wore the mask, the colorful frogs sang a song. By replicating it with his Wind Waker, the frogs hopped gleefully. "Thanks for making the frogs happy. Have this." The kid gave Link a Heart Brace. "Hey… if a person really wants to be something, do they have to be born with the talent? You can't be a good singer without a good voice, can you?"

There was a kid in front of the house wearing the Star Chef's Hat. "I really want some Gold Snow Ice Cream. Can you teach me how to make it?"

"Sure. You got a kitchen?" Link replied.

The kid led him inside. There was a kitchen and several ingredients on the shelves. Link instructed him to get the bottle of milk, the Sky Cream, a Cucco egg, and Gold Sugar. Link also became a Minish, asking the boy to lift him onto the bowl's rim as he fired an Ice Arrow inside. Afterwards, the Lunar Child mixed the ingredients together, making a vanilla ice cream mountain with a cloud that dropped gold snow. The kid stuck his spoon in the sweet and ate. "This is delicious. You deserve this for being so nice." He gave Link a Mask Piece. "Hey… your friends… what kind of people are they? Do those people… think of you as a friend?" He disappeared.

One of the paths was blocked by a locked door. Link ventured to the east, finding a chasm area with three platforms. There were fans in the chasm that Link could activate with Wind Arrows, enabling his Rito form to fly across. However, the exit was blocked by a dark barrier, guarded by a Goron Mask kid. "I'm thirsty. Can you find me some hot spring water? I think there's some on the cliff by the house."

Link returned to the house's area, viewing up the cliff in question. He used the Lens of Truth to find a way… and noticed a secret tunnel in the wall. Link entered that tunnel, terrified by the stairway of spikes that ascended upward. Yiga Link could leap to the Sheikah Spots along the sides. Boes descended from above and tried to push Link into them, so he jumped the targets quickly. The targets brought him to an exit, letting out above the cliff. There was a relaxing hot spring up here, so Link scooped some up and quickly made his way back to the Goron kid. "Mmm, that was refreshing!" the kid said after relishing the warm drink. "Hey… is it wrong to make people do things for you? Should people just do everything their selves? If people did that, would everyone be happy? Or no one?" He disappeared along with the barrier.

The exit led Link to a wide area with two pointed hills and walkways between. There was a deactivated Giant Mask on a wall, and a cliff on the other side. Far across that cliff was a platform with a switch. Link used the Lens of Truth to see some floating platforms leading to it. He leapt the platforms and pressed the switch, activating the Giant Mask. Link returned and put the mask on himself. After gigantifying, Link could pick up a large boulder and put it aside. Underneath that boulder was a Small Key. He collected it and returned to the starting area to unlock the door.

This led him to a cliff where the Rito kid was waiting. Link became a Rito himself. "Hey, we're gonna race, okay? Fly through all the hoops to win." Link nodded, readying his wings for takeoff. When the first ring appeared, they flew. When Link passed the ring, a gust blew him up, and he had to turn right tightly to enter the next ring. He had to curve left to go through three rings, then suddenly curve right. He went straight for a bit, but had to halt and glide backwards to pass a ring behind him. Link had to lean forward and back to repeatedly go through rings, then five rings lined up underneath him. Link dropped through all those rings, then a gust blew him up diagonally, followed by a down one, sideways, and one last up-diagonal to blow Link to the exit ledge.

"Huh…I guess you beat me." the kid said. "I figured you would. You can go on now." The barrier disabled. "You know, you have a lot of masks. One time, I wanted to be a Mask Salesman. But then I lost interest. How do some people not lose interest in their dreams?" He disappeared. Link proceeded to another town where masked children roamed. There was a moon-colored building that resembled a giant treasure chest. Link entered the chest and found a boy wearing the Rich Man's Mask, along with several fancy jars up on pedestals.

"I heard these are Lucky Jars." the kid said. "But one is the luckiest of all. I bet you can't get 1,000 Rupees from it though." Link accepted this challenge and put on the Rich Mask. He shot the top-left jar and shattered it, finding five Orange Rupees, which only totaled 500. The other jars sank into the ground. Link had to leave and reenter, retrying the challenge until a jar would finally drop five Silver Rupees. "Wow, you really did find 1,000 Rupees. I don't really want them, but I'll give you this, anyway." He gave Link a Mask Piece. "Hey… how do people determine how much money something costs? Who made the money rules? Do they put a price on people, too? Do only the best people make the most money?" He disappeared.

Link exited the chest and walked up some stairs. The town would exit to open ground, but there was another staircase behind Link. They would lead to an upper ground, where he could use the Boomerang to link ropes between some pegs in the wall. Link crossed the rope to a platform with a large chest. Inside was just as he expected:

You got the Compass! This will help you track all the Lunar Children. By the way, wouldn't a Zelda sci-fi adventure be cool? It would look super weird, but it'd be cool. Imagine Ganon or somebody looking like an evil scientist.

There was a narrow alley that led to a set of stairs over a vast chasm, leading to the top of a pillar. The pillar had nothing save for some Moon Pebblits and a boy lying on his back, gazing at the stars. Link first destroyed the Pebblits and went to speak to the boy wearing oversized Star Glasses. "I like stars. I wish I had a Black Star. Those are cool." Link put on the Star Glasses and viewed up at the heavens. He scanned them for any sign of a Black Star, which seemed difficult since most of the sky was black. However, he noticed a black hole in one space. After studying it for a while… something fell from it, gracing the sky with a purple, glittery trail.

It crashed onto a platform across the chasm. Rito Link glided to the platform and collected the Ztar. He could then activate a fan via the Wind Arrow to return him to the Star Kid. "Wow, this is pretty. Thanks for granting my wish. I bet you want this." Link was awarded a Mask Piece. "…Why do we have to rely on other people to accomplish our dreams? What if they don't care about our dreams?" He disappeared.

Link returned to town and proceeded across the open ground, heading to another barrier. Lunar Leevers emerged and orbited around Link before closing in, but a spin attack extinguished them. Five blue, Mega Leevers emerged next, and Link could only destroy them after three spins. The kid waiting at the barrier wore a Giant's Mask. "You look like a strong kid. You wanna wrestle? There's a lot of space where we can wrestle. We gotta do something about the ocean though." When Link blinked, the kid and barrier vanished.

When Link proceeded forward, he was welcomed by the sight of a beautiful ocean on the moon. With no wind, it was perfectly still, like a flat field of blue. There was a kid sitting with legs spread on the shore, swaying his feet. He was wearing the Cupid Cloud. "I sure love the beach. I wish I had someone to enjoy the beach with." Link wore the Cupid Cloud and could sense he had a crush on the Kafei Mask kid. Link recalled seeing such a mask at the start of town, so he took a picture of the kid and warped back to the beginning. He found the Kafei boy and showed him the picture.

"Huh? Does that kid wanna look at the ocean with me? Okay, I'll go meet him." The boy raced off. Link made his way back to the ocean and found the two sitting beside each other, holding hands. He was awed by how cute they looked.

"Thanks for bringing him here." the Cupid boy said. "I like having someone to enjoy the beach with. You want these?" They handed Link both a Mask Piece and Heart Brace. "Being with someone is cool… but don't people get tired of each other? Married couples break up, too. Why do they bother with expensive weddings when they're just gonna break up?" They both disappeared. Link was almost disheartened to see them go.

Link put on the Mask Enguarde and swam across the calm sea. There was a small island nearby with a hook-shaped top. Link climbed on that island and found a boy with the Zora Mask. "You wanna drain the ocean? This place can do it. But I'm hungry. Find me a Star Fish and I'll drain the water." Link dove back in the sea and began to search. There was a region of whirlpools that were being made by Like-Likes on the seafloor. It felt like too much of a hassle to slay all of them, so Link swam along the floor and maneuvered around the Likes. Link made it to a zone where a boy was swimming around, wearing the Seahorse Hood.

"I hope I get to ride a Space Squid someday." the kid said. Link looked a short distance away and saw a large, grayish-blue squid swimming around. Link swam toward the squid and wore his Seahorse Hood as he grabbed the creature's head. He hung on for a while and managed to tame the squid, steering it toward the kid. He allowed the boy to get on and ride with him. "Haha. So, this is what riding a Space Squid feels like. Well, that's all I wanted to do with my life. Have this." He gave Link a Mask Piece. "Hey, is it wrong to want too many things? If you wanted more things, wouldn't you have more reasons to live?" He disappeared.

Link swam to explore the right side of the ocean, finding many schools of fish. Among these fish, one was indigo with white, glowy dots. Link caught the Star Fish in his bottle and swam back to the island. He gave the fish to the Zora Mask kid, watching him casually eat it. "Star Fish help me go to sleep. Thanks for feeding me. I'll drain the ocean." The kid clapped his hands, and the sea drained away within seconds, taking all the creatures with it. "It's weird how the planet has more ocean than land. Why do people cut trees and make so many houses when there isn't much land?"

Link dropped down to the white desert where the sea used to be. The Giant Mask kid was standing in the middle of the vacant land. "Now that the ocean isn't gonna bother us, let's wrestle." The boy channeled power into his mask and grew giant. This allowed Link's own mask to resonate, the hero growing to the same size. He charged toward the Lunar Child and met his arms, their feet scraping the sand. The boy kicked Link's stomach and shoved him off, then attempted to grab him, but Link side-dodged and grabbed him instead. He pinned the boy to the ground, counting "One, two, three, four, fi-" but the boy shoved Link off and recovered.

The two side-stepped for a moment before the boy lunged and tackled Link. He tried to keep the hero pinned, but Link flipped them over and pinned him in turn. The Giant struggled, but Link kept him down for a total of 10 seconds. "Awww…I guess you win." Link got off and got up. "I guess you can go on then." He disabled the barrier to the left of the beach. "I'll also give you this, too." Link got a Mask Piece. "You must feel happy to win. Do you still feel happy… knowing someone else feels terrible?" He disappeared. Link shrank back to normal.

That blocked path would lead Link to another side of the sea, adjacent to a canyon with Spinner tracks going up it. The tracks began over a river, so Link froze a path to get to it. He zoomed up the track, but it would end as he would have to jump to a parallel one, but it was too far on the other cliff. He had to draw his bow and shoot an Eye Switch to make the track stretch out, allowing Link to jump to it. He sniped another switch to make the track retract, reconnecting it with the rest of it. The track had a gap, but Link could jump and hit a spring to bounce to the next part. He had to shoot an Eye Switch to make a spring rotate for him to bounce to the next part. He saw a Sheikah Spot above a parallel track and switched to Yiga form to jump to it, attaching the Spinner to that track.

The track carried Link behind a slow-pouring waterfall, and he felt like a camera rotating around an edited scene. The track curved up and set Link on a foothold above the cliff separating both sides of the bay. There was a kid wearing the Hawkeye, gazing over the horizon. "Those High Pythons are really far away, but I don't have anything to shoot them." Link put on the Hawk Eyes himself, zooming his vision to see the distant pythons; they looked rather small, but were far bigger up close. With expert sniping skills, Link shot the pythons in their soft necks. He had trouble finding them all at different positions in space, but he succeeded in shooting all eight.

"I was really afraid of those pythons, but now I don't have to be scared. You can have this." Another Mask Piece. "…How do people face their fears, anyway? If your biggest fear dies, would you become happy?" He disappeared.

Link returned to the ground and headed for the coast, using the Mask Enguarde to swim across the sea. This part of the ocean was actually surrounded by cliffs and segmented from the other half. There was a pillar island in the center and a complex path of vertical water going up it. Link found the beginning and swam up the vertical water. He used his boomerang to defeat the Biris along the path, and he had to Torpedo Spin to bypass the jetstreams trying to push him off the side. Considering the water didn't just pour out when the side was uncovered, Link assumed it was due to a bizarre gravity effect.

At the top of the pillar, Link found a boy wearing the Mask Enguarde. He was staring at a path of floating water bubbles and strips. "I bet you can't swim this course in 1:30." Accepting the challenge, Link dove in the first bubble and Torpedo Spun to jump to other bubbles. He splashed in one of the strips, which was a "C" shape, performing a perfect up-curve as it sent Link to more bubbles that ascended left and right in diagonal fashions. He landed on a flat, thin river, having to maintain a steady depth as he swam across. He dodged around gaps in that river and crossed the Finish Line at the end, where the Enguarde boy waited to greet him. "Your time was 1:13. Cool. Here." A Mask Piece. "When people try hard, do they only try to impress others? If others aren't impressed, did they try for nothing?" Disappeared.

Link entered a small canyon area. Lunar Bubbles floated around, but would gravitate toward Link. When they hit him, Link would grow heavier each time, but by slicing the skulls down, his gravity would return to normal. Link found a garden of small rocks; he felt like there was something hidden under some, but he didn't want to waste time with the tedious task. Link used the Lens of Truth to find a possible clue… and discovered an invisible boy wearing the Stone Mask. "Can that boy see me?" the kid asked. "No… I should wait until he leaves." Link put on the Stone Mask himself, becoming invisible. "Good, he's gone. …I wonder why some adults say you shouldn't talk to strangers. Don't all friends start off as strangers? Or can we not trust our friends?" This question pondered him as he left. Link was free to take the Heart Brace he was guarding.

Link saw a boy wearing the Yiga Mask, sitting on a cliff and swinging his legs. There was another path to the left, so Link explored that way first. He found a graveyard with moon lanterns hanging from some graves and trees. A Lunar Child sat before a grave, wearing the Skull Captain's Hat. "I sure wish I could see my friend again." Link put on the same mask and walked around the grave for a moment before a skeletal child emerged. He was wearing the Skull Mask. "Oh, hi. It's nice to see you again. Thanks for calling him here. Take this." Link got a Heart Brace. "…When we die, do we really get to see our friends again?" Both disappeared.

Further up the graveyard, Link saw a Stalnox, the skeleton of a giant cyclops. Its bones blended in well with the surroundings, so Link was surprised and frightened when it appeared. When the Stalnox spotted Link, it turned and ran up a path. Link's map read that this road forked, with either path looping to cross a bridge above him, leading to the other path. Link pursued the Stalnox, but his arrows were ineffective, and the beast outpaced Link too quickly. However, he realized the bridge was cracked and crumbly. Link jumped down, waiting for the Stalnox to cross it, and shot an Earth Arrow to destroy the bridge as the cyclops fell and came apart. Link quickly performed a Fatal Blow on the fallen eye, destroying the Stalnox. It dropped a Moon Key.

Still, Link wasn't sure how to get up to the Yiga boy's cliff. He transformed himself… then he realized, he could just Ninja Leap to the boy due to his mask's symbol. However, the boy leapt backward in evasion. "Hey, you wanna play Tag? I know a cool place we can play." He leapt up the path. As Link followed, Nejirons emerged and tried to explode against him, Link blocking the white rocks with his shield.

Link saw a cave to the right and entered it… finding a garden of Bomb Flowers and a Bomb Mask kid in the center. "I really wanna see all these bombs explode… but I'm gonna get hurt." he said. Link sighed, already knowing the answer to this puzzle: he put on the Blast Mask, raised his shield, and exploded: though it didn't really make sense, Link was unhurt by his own explosion with the shield up, and he survived the grand destruction of the bomb garden, along with his guest. "Wow… that was incredible. Here." A Heart Brace. "…Why do armies make weapons? Is it because the other army makes weapons? What if they both didn't make weapons? Why do they work so hard just to hurt each other?"

Link exited the cave and continued up the canyon, seeing a boy wearing the Garo Mask. Link put on said mask—four Garo leapt out at the same time. Link raised his shield to block their swords and stabbed one's stomach, then rolled behind to stab its back. He became a Yiga to shoot Shadow Arrows at one, then reverted to normal to dice it up with his sacred sword. Link dizzied one with a Wind Arrow and sliced it up, then disarmed one with a Shield Bash before finishing it.

"Wow, you really killed them good." the Garo boy said, giving Link a Heart Brace. "If you kill in self-defense, that's not bad, right? But is there a way to avoid killing?" Rather than disappear like the others, the boy walked a few feet away. He stood in the perfect spot for a meteor to crash down and completely smash him. That was the way of the Garo.

Link found himself before a tall cliff. A trench separated him from the first platform of the cliff. Link dropped to the short trench's ground and headed right. There was a statue with a flat top, which Ayri could possess. She brought it over to stand between the ledge and the platform.

However, Link saw a cave up the opposite way and ran to it. The cave was dark and tall, except for a ray of light shining in the middle. There was a kid sitting on an upper ledge, wearing the Reflective Face. "I heard there was a sun in here. But it's too dark." Link put on his own Reflective Face and stood in the light. His mask smiled and reflected the light up to the kid, whose mask smiled as he faced up. The light touched a kid wearing the Sun Mask, filling the dark cave with light. "So, there really is a sun on the moon. Beautiful." He tossed Link a Mask Piece. "The sun's like a big candle, huh? Do you think it'll ever go out?"

Link returned and climbed out of the trench, crossing the statue to the platform. From here, he could link a rope between a peg on this platform and a taller one. Rito Link would have to bounce on this rope to gain enough height to glide into an updraft, blowing him up onto the cliff. Fortunately, there was a Sheikah Warp. "Yawn-yawwwn-yaaaawwwwn…" The eerie moans of Redeads filled the air. This valley was filled with the undead. However, Link remembered his earlier encounters with the zombies and put on the Gibdo Mask.

The zombies immediately burst into dance. Groovy music played as they all expressed their own styles. The serenity of the moon was replaced by lively excitement. Link could freely explore the valley without fear of being attacked, and he found another boy wearing the Gibdo Mask. "I wanna dance, too, but I feel too stuffy." Link thought for a moment, and a clever solution popped in mind: he used a Fire Arrow to burn the child, burning the wrapping of his mask and turning it into a brown mask like a Redead. "Ah! Now I feel great!" The Spook Mask boy danced happily. "But why do people like to dance? Does it really help forget their problems?" Link got a Heart Brace.

Afterwards, the hero bypassed the area, going up the hill to the next level. He took off his mask to return the serenity. He saw a boy perched on a dead tree, wearing a pink bunny mask with a purple bandanna with teeth, which Link recognized as the Bandit Bandanna. He rolled against the tree to bring the kid down. "Hey, I'm trying to keep an eye on that Gerudo Mask, so I can steal from him. Don't mess me up." Link saw another kid running around the valley, wearing a Gerudo Mask. The hero simply donned his own Bandit Bandanna and paced up to the Gerudo. Approaching from behind, Link performed a quick motion and swiped a Mask Piece.

"Man, he stole it first." the Bandit kid whined. "But maybe people only steal because they don't have anything. So, maybe no one should have anything."

There was a hill in the upper-left corner of the valley, leading to a narrow path. As Link followed it, the sky became darker: pink lightning was flashing in interstellar clouds. Link wore the Thunder Helm to become immune to the Space Lightning. He bravely traversed the storm, but stopped before a cliff. There was a boy sitting across the chasm, wearing the same helm. Remembering other puzzles, Link held his bow ready and awaited a lightning strike. When it struck, the arrow became imbued with the Space Chi. Link shot the arrow toward the boy, and he suddenly warped over to Link. "Wow, thanks for helping me. This is for you." A Mask Piece. "…When it storms over an area, do you think the gods are angry at someone?"

Link exited the storm, and according to his map, there was a boy in another cave. The boy in question wore the Hero's Charm and was surrounded by four Poes, orange, green, blue, and purple. "I wonder which one has the strongest soul?" According to Link's Hero Charm, the green Poe had the most HP, 1,200. Link attacked it, using his shield to block its torch attacks, and once the ghost was defeated, its soul remained. He caught the soul in his bottle and gave it to the kid to drink like liquid. "Mmm…that was a tasty soul. …Do you think people really have 'souls'?" Link got a Mask Piece.

In the upper-right of the valley, there was a great Stone Tower, and the entrance was locked. "Good thing I got that key." Link said. "But I don't think I should go, yet. I wanna make sure I get all these Mask Pieces."

Link decided to warp back to the beginning town. There was a school building, but there was only one room in its small interior, and a kid wearing a brown owl mask called the Mask of Gaebora. He was staring at a chalkboard, confused by the ancient script. "I wish I had a teacher to tell me what this means."

"I can help." Link said, donning the Gaebora Mask. Using his keen intellect, he mentally rearranged the ancient letters to shape like his own language. "It says, 'Let us give blessing to the creation of this world. This world serves as the example of how the kind heart of one courageous boy can give birth to so many miracles.'"

"That's what it says? But what does it mean?"

"I…I wonder…" Somehow, Link felt like he knew, and yet…

"I guess I'll have to keep researching. But you can have this for helping me." A Mask Piece. "Knowledge is pretty cool, isn't it? But people have all kinds of different forms of knowledge. Is some knowledge more important than others?" He disappeared.

Link entered a tall building that resembled a miniature inn. Going up some short stairs, he found a kid lying on a bed, wearing the Bubble Dreamer's Beard (a white beard with shades and a pale-blue, pointed cap). Link already suspected this was an insomnia problem, but when he put on the Bubble Beard himself, the bubbles merely floated out a window. However, the floor was simply a grate, so Link returned to the lower floor as the bubbles floated up the grate. From this level, the bubbles could pop against the Lunar Child and put him into slumber. "Finally… I can sleep. But when I sleep, will I wake up again?" Link collected a Mask Piece from his slumbering form.

Link returned to the mushroom forest. There was a large platform statue on the left side, and Ayri possessed and brought it to the hill leading into the cliff. From atop that hill, Link could jump on the statue. Ayri could carry him around the mushrooms, allowing him to jump onto whichever one. A boy wearing Kamaro's Mask was dancing on one, facing a boy on another mushroom wearing the Moon Mask. Link joined Kamaro in a dance. Matching his exotic rhythm, their posture majestic as the moon, Link was awarded a Heart Brace. Afterwards, Link remembered the letter he was supposed to deliver to the Moon kid, so he went to him to fulfill his goal.

"Oh, it's from the Postman. Thanks. …Postmen must be pretty reliable to carry other people's messages. But what if they don't make it?" Link earned a Heart Brace for his work.

Link rode the statue to the right side of the mushrooms and could enter a cave. The cave had glowing blue gems and a kid trying to dig, wearing the Mogma Mitts (which also included a mask). Link put on the mole-themed mask and gloves and asked what he was doing. "I'm looking for a Peach Tear. I heard it's in this cave somewhere." Link used the Mogma Mitts to crawl on the ground, smelling and sensing what was underground. He caught a whiff of peach and dug up that spot. He found a pink, tear-shaped gem. "Oh, you found it. I'll trade you for this." A Mask Piece. "But now that I have it… what now? Do I keep it or sell it? Will someone else appreciate it like I do?"

Link returned to the dried beach. There was an inlet within the coast's cliff, leading to a dead-end with a large, Silver Chuchu. There was a kid fittingly wearing the Chu Gel Wig (a blobbish green headpiece and mask resembling a Chu). "That Chu is really cute, but I'm too nervous to kiss her."

"Watch and learn, kid." Link slapped on the Chu Wig and approached the silver blob. When the Chuchu leapt at him, Link impacted its lips with his own. They shared a suckling kiss before they popped free, and Link earned a Silver Chu Heart. He gave the heart to the Lunar Child.

"You stole that Chu's heart. I don't deserve this." He gave Link a Mask Piece. "Do people really only have one true love? Does true love really exist?"

Link warped back to the valley area. He noticed another path on the lower part of the trench, to the right. Link followed that path and found a patch of white pumpkins, and a kid wearing the King's Jack (a jack-o-lantern mask with a black top-hat). "I heard that people can swallow their fear to be brave. I wish I knew what fear tastes like…" Link decided to grant his wish by wearing the King's Jack. He unleashed a loud, eerie scream that caused the kid to jump and fall on his rear. Fear Chi seeped out, and Link could catch it in a bottle.

He gave the bottled fear to the boy to drink. "Mmm…so, that's what fear tastes like." He gave Link a Mask Piece. "Now that I've swallowed my fear… will I be brave from now on?"

"I dunno, kid." Link replied. "But I think I've found almost all the pieces. It seems like the last one is up that tower. Let's go, Ayri."

Link headed for the Stone Tower and unlocked the door. "AAH!" As soon as it opened, the Yiga boy shoved him. "Tag! You're it!" The Yiga raced into the tower. Link got up and quickly dashed in. (Play "Honeylune Caves" from Mario Odyssey!)

Link suddenly felt heavy as gravity seemed to be "normal" in the Stone Tower. The hero had to ride the Spinner up some tracks, but Beamos spotted and shot lasers at the hero. Link was quick to shoot their eyes and thwart them. He landed on a platform and was surrounded by Boko Babas, but a swift spin attack beheaded the plants. Link used the boomerang to link ropes between some pegs and balance along them. From the last rope, Link could jump and Rito Glide into a tunnel, then had to quickly whip out his bow and use a Wind Arrow on a fan. The fan blew him up a diagonal shaft, but with spider-webs blocking his way, he swapped to Fire Arrows and burned them down as he flew.

The wind ended above a lava floor, so Link swapped to Ice Arrows to freeze a platform. Link landed and kept freezing a path over the lava, shooting the Toadpolis that spat fire at him. As the lava river curved, the ledge was too high for Link to reach. Link returned backward and found a hidden statue with a ladder. Ayri possessed the statue and bounced it across the platforms Link froze. She parked the statue under the ledge, allowing her master to climb it and continue. Link was on a ledge overlooking the tower's interior, and another tiny saucer was parked near him.

Link became a Minish to ride the saucer. It flew by another saucer, so Link jumped to it. Ice Keese were coming to freeze him, but Link sniped them down, then jumped to another saucer. That saucer carried him above a platform, on which Link jumped and resized. The platform threatened to fall, but he switched to Yiga form to leap to a target. A small meteor was homing on him, so Link quickly leapt to the next target, then one more, dodging the meteors and landing on a safe ground.

Link had to cross a narrow bridge, but an Eyegore was stomping across. Yiga Link dodged its laser blasts and shot a Shadow Arrow to blind the beast. The Eyegore stopped in place, so Link quickly rushed past and stabbed the weak spot on its rear. When the monster was defeated, a Giant Mask activated. Link wore said mask, but wondered what good being giant would do. It was then he realized the wall was grabbable with this size, and he was able to climb it. He first climbed up-left, his gigantism enduring the arrows that Bokoblin were shooting. The path would go up-right, and cannons began to shoot him. The giant hero grunted from the bullet-size cannonballs, but endured with sheer willpower and made it to an opening.

Link climbed in and shrank down to normal. He followed some stairs that turned right… but he looked on his map and saw there was a hidden room to the left of the corner. His Lens of Truth revealed that room. Link walked in and discovered the last Lunar Child, wearing the Mal Mask (a two-faced mask with a big smile and creepy eyes, along with blue-and-green fire). To Link's terror, a Silver Lynel was guarding the room.

"It would be soooo cool if someone could kill this guy in one hit." Mal Mask said. Link glared and donned his own Mal Mask. He approached the Lynel and, after a small charge, unleashed a great burst of chi that utterly reduced the demon's 7,000 HP down to 50. One final jump attack from the Sword of Four Seasons slayed the Lynel. "Kukukuku. You're pretty strong, kid. I bet you're strong enough for this." The child handed Link the 20th Mask Piece. "I wonder… they say no power is greater than friendship, but is that a lie people tell their selves?" And he disappeared.

Link continued up the stairs, but they led to an abyss. He kept the Lens of Truth raised and saw the moving, invisible platforms, jumping them carefully. The platforms raised him ever higher until he could jump to a ledge near the top of the tower. Link gaped at the sight of a great, stone gate that was shaped like the dark mask, its eyes brimming with white flames. It was sealed with the lock of a Boss Key. "Link, up there!" Araea yelled. Link faced skyward at a cluster of meteors floating and rotating in place, and the Yiga boy was on one.

Each of those meteors had Sheikah Spots, so Link leapt up to them. The boy began leaping between the meteors, with Link struggling to chase due to their rotation. He managed to catch up and strike the boy with a Tag. However, the Lunar Child quickly tagged him back. "You gotta last a whole minute!" Link growled in anger and tried to catch up again, successfully tagging the Yiga. Afterwards, he began outrunning the boy as fast as possible, rampantly jumping around the meteors to lose his pursuer. When 30 seconds passed, the Yiga created a Shadow Clone, so Link resorted to shooting either of them with arrows. Finally, a full minute passed, and Link won the game.

"Man, you really got me. I guess you can have this cool chest." On the Boss Door's ledge, a gate opened, revealing the Boss Chest. "That'll take you up to Majora's Elysium. …They say Good and Evil isn't black and white. Does that mean we're evil, too? Or is everyone good?"

Link dropped down to the ledge and went to open the final Boss Chest. He collected the key with conviction.

You got the Boss Key! Now go and give Majora what-for! But ask yourself, do you really want the adventure to end? Will your life still have meaning?

Link shared one final look with Ayri and nodded. The two held the key together and inserted it into the giant gate. There was a great rumbling as the stone gate opened… revealing the road to a hill and a lone tree. (Play "Honeylune Ridge with Bell.")

Link journeyed up the great hill. He felt as if this were the highest part of the moon, and also the most peaceful. …Halfway up the hill, Link turned around. There was Termina. Still as blue and beautiful as it was on the surface. He and Araea took a moment to savor the spectacle. "You know… whenever I'm sailing, the islands look so small from far away." Link said. "But when I reach them… they're so much bigger. And now, Termina… looks just like one of those little islands. …" He gazed up at the stars with a smile. "Is it true, Ayri? Are all those stars… just really big islands like Termina? Will I… get to explore them?"

Araea smiled at his wondrous curiosity. "There are too many 'islands' to explore in one lifetime. It's great to go and see them… but don't stray too far from home."

Link frowned, thinking of his home island. "…Your people come from space, don't they? Why did you leave your home?"

"We were explorers. We had tracked a supernatural signature from this planet and flew to investigate it. Then, before we knew it… we became involved in a really big project. A couple, really. But Termina… really has begun to feel like a second home to me. I've become highly attached to this world."

"Yeah… I have, too. That's why I'm going to save it. And maybe… I'll bring Aryll to see this world, too."

"…Let's finish this, Link." Araea said with a warm smile.

Determination radiating in his pupils, Link resumed the journey up the hill. The lone tree was wide with white leaves and still. There were Lunar Children frolicking peacefully under it. The Mothuking boy was having a sword fight with Odolwa. Solrun Mask was racing Goht Mask. Cant Mask was wrestling with Gyorg Mask. Twinmold Mask was brushing the hair of a boy wearing Araea's Mask.

There was a boy lain at the base of the tree. When Link approached and studied him… the voice inside recognized Majora's Mask. Link shook the boy as he stirred awake. "MMmmm…" he moaned, looking at the two. "Well, well… it's… you…"

"Have we… met?" Link asked.

"…" The boy faced up the tree. Another boy, wearing the dark, snowflake mask was sitting in it. "That one knocked MMe out of the tree. We were playing on it… and he pushed MMe off. Do you want to play, too?"

"Uh…sure…"

"Hmmm…your MMask is broken. I'll fix it." Majora took the 20 Mask Pieces. He knelt down and turned around, gluing the pieces together. "Okay. It's fixed." He returned the white-haired mask to Link.

You got the Fierce Deity's Mask! Can the dark powers of this mask defeat the one who felled Majora?

"Okay. You're going to play Bad Guys vs. Good Guys. You're the bad guy. And when you're bad, you just run. That's fine, right?"

Majora stood and faced the tree, raising his arms to it. "Okay… you can come down." The world seemed to fade to white before the boy in the tree could act.

If you hadn't noticed, the moon's setting resembled the four regions of Majora's Mask. Except everything is white and made of moon. :3