Majora: How it really Happened
CHAPTER FOUR: THE BATTLE WITH SKULLBRA- I MEAN KID!
(Kelli's POV)
The mask man's last comment struck fear into all three of us... Did he say what I think he said?
"You mean..." Erik said slowly," By midnight tonight... We will be in our present forms forever?"
"I'm afraid so," the mask man said. "Of course, that's only a guess... If it speeds up, you could be rolling around, eating rocks, and squeaking up a storm in the next half hour..."
"Oh, great HEEEEEEEP job trying to HEEEEEEEEP reassure us!" I yelled.
The mask man sighed. "If only I could teach you that song!"
"DO IT!" we screamed.
"Well... No. I made a promise to that cursed child, and I won't break it even for you."
"LINK ISN'T GOING TO BE A DEKU FOREVER!" David cried.
"I know," the mask man said. "And that's why I feel so bad not being able to help you... But what would Link think?"
"Duhhh... that rhymes!" Erik said joyfully.
I take it he was in an off-moment.
"Oh HEEEEEEEEP please!" I said, with some of the last of my English I could pronounce.
"OOOOH! I cannot bear your grief any longer! Good luck, you poor cursed children... Fare thee well!" the mask man wailed. Then, as if by magic he disappeared.
We stood there for a minute, and then I lost it.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I wailed. "I'm HEEEEEEEEP going to be a HEEEEEEEEP scrub for HEEEEEEEP ever!"
Erik's brain was back on. "I... I can't believe it's going to come to this..."
David said nothing. Suddenly, he screamed and ran over to the wall of the Clock Tower, banging on it and yelling.
"THAT STUPID TERRORIST BRAT IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!" he yelled. "THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT!"
I tried to reply, but to my horror, nothing came out but squeaks.
Erik and David stared at me. "K-Kelli? Can you... understand us?"
"Yes," I said. Actually, I said EEEEEEP! -but I meant to say yes.
They raised an eyebrow.
I nodded.
"We have GOT to find Link!" Erik cried. "We need to help him get that mask back! Or else..."
"We need to find Skullkid first!" I said.
(Try to remember that for the rest of my speaking, I'm not speaking English.)
David stared at me and shook his head. "No Erik. We need some paper and a pen for Kelli!"
"Can she still write?" Erik asked.
"Hey! I still understand you! And yes, I can write!" I yelled.
"Let's go talk to Tingle!" David said.
I yelled as loud as I could. "NOOOOOOOO!"
"We have to, Kelli!" Erik said, knowing enough what that meant. "He's the only one in town we can beg for money from!"
I sighed.
"Forest Fairy can't speak English anymore?" Tingle asked me.
I shook my head.
"Oh! You must teach Tingle Forest Fairy language, so then a fairy will REALLY come to me!"
I said a few curse words in Deku.
Tingle grinned. "Ooooh! Now I know how to say EEEEPPPEEEEEP! I'll go talk to that nice Business Scrub over there!"
Tingle dropped all of his paper and ran off after the scrub.
I chuckled. David and Erik gathered up the paper and a pen and handed it to me.
I scribbled out a message and handed it to them.
"Tingle just told that Deku Scrub 'Curse your small wooden mother, I light your father on fire with a stick'?" Erik said.
I nodded and smiled.
David rolled his eyes. "Well, we have some more important stuff to do right now!"
"Where could that brat have gone?" Erik pondered.
"Ya lookin for someone?" a voice said. We spun around and saw the kid from the other day who told us about the moon crashing.
"Yes... what can you tell us?" David replied.
"'Bout who?"
"A certain 'Skullkid' character."
"Oh! Him! I let him join the Bombers a long time ago, but he was a jerk... I've seen him on top of the clock tower."
"On top of the Clock Tower?" I repeated.
Erik tried to hand me the paper, but I shook my head. "No, it wasn't important."
"STOP IT!" Erik told me.
David sighed. "On top of the Clock Tower?"
"Yea."
David nodded. "How about a little Deku scrub? You seen him?"
"Looks a lot like her?" asked the kid, pointing at me.
"Yeah."
"He just joined our club! I think he's on his way to South Clock town to catch the Carnival of Time in an hour. Hey, there he is!" the kid said.
I turned to see Link the Deku Scrub racing out of North Clock town.
"COME ON! LET'S GO!" I yelled.
I ran, but I didn't here the guys behind me. They were trying to figure out what I had said.
I stomped on David's foot and pointed to the door.
"Oh, let's go!" Erik said.
We caught up with Link in East Clock town around 6:30 PM.
"Hey, do you guys mind? I'm in a hurry!" he whined.
"Well, we have a problem that only you can help with!" David said.
"Yea? What's that?"
"We need you to get that Skullkid's mask back!" I said.
He nodded his head.
"You understand me?"
"Of course." Link said.
"Do you understand her?" Erik asked.
"I AM a scrub, ya know."
"Well anyway, we really need you to go up on that Clock Tower and get that Skullkid and take the mask he's wearing back!" David said.
"What? YOU need me to do that TOO?"
"YES!" we all screamed.
"Oh. Well, I have to wait until midnight when the door opens up." Link said innocently.
"Well, we don't have until midnight!" Erik told him frantically.
"Why? What..."
Suddenly, a fairy flew out of his hat and knocked him in the head. "Link, you moron! We don't have time to be talking with these three dorks!"
"Tatl, will you calm down?"
"NO! WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT UNTIL THAT MASK MAN LEAVES TOWN FOR GOOD!"
"But they need..."
"Do I really CARE what an overgrown fish, a walking rock and a lump of firewood want to say? NOOOOOO!"
Suddenly Erik reached out and grabbed the fairy in mid-air. "YOU! I know who YOU are! YOU are that little fairy wench who got us into this mess!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Tatl whined.
"You and that dork Skullkid are the reason we're even HERE in this town!" David yelled.
"We oughtta beat the life outta you, you witch!" I wrote on the paper.
Link grabbed Tatl out of Erik's hand and waved. "Sorry about that! I really need to go! It's 8:00 already!"
They ran down the street, Tatl whining the whole way.
"8:00? Already? Wow, time sure goes fast here in Termina!" David said.
"Let's get moving! In four stinkin' hours it'll be midnight! We have to go to the clock Tower!" I wrote.
They nodded.
"I just hope this Link guy knows what he's doing!" Erik said.
We were caught in a rush of people who were fleeing the town as we tried to leave East clock town, and to make a long story short, yada, yada, yada... It was 11:30 when we finally reached South Clock Town.
"Where did he go?" David said, trying to stop his legs from shaking.
"Duh... duh... duh hurry... duh moon... duh... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... KAPLOWIE!" Erik stuttered.
"That's right," I wrote.
We frantically looked around the town, until we saw Link standing near the Deku flower we had first seen him in on our first day in town.
"THERE!" I shouted.
We ran up to the flower, but by the time we got there, Link had already leaped inside and was flying up to the top of the Clock Tower.
"OK, same as last time!" I wrote on the paper. Erik and David nodded, but I could see Erik's eyes getting more vacant as we spoke.
I dove into the flower, and when I sprung out, Erik had grabbed onto my foot and I carried him up to the tower. Fireworks were going off around us, and the door to the top of the tower had already opened. I could see Link disappearing into the shadows by the door.
"Hurry!" David cried.
I leaped back down and carried David up, and we raced up the stairs after them.
At the top, we saw Link staring up in the sky at a scary-looking moon that was inching closer to the earth. Skullkid stood in mid-air, with the black fairy next to him.
"S-Sis!" the black fairy cried.
"There you are Tael! Skullkid, we've been looking for you!" Tatl yelled.
"Hey Link, ya got a minute?" David asked quickly, tapping him on the shoulder.
"Hmm... let me think... NO!" Link screamed.
Tael flew forward and made a ringing noise.
"Swamp. Mountain. Ocean. Canyon. The four who are there, bring them here!" Tael said.
Skullkid swung around and slapped Tael straight out of the air.
"Don't speak out of line, stupid fairy!"
"NOOO! What are you doing to my brother?" Tatl cried. "Skullkid, do you think we're going to be your friend after that?"
Skullkid crossed his arms like the four-year old he was. "Ya, whatever," he said.
Then, Skullkid turned to Link.
"If it's something that can be stopped, STOP IT! AAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!"
Then, Skullkid threw his arms up, and let out the same awful scream we had heard in our last conscious minutes as humans.
We covered our ears, and waves of dark energy spread all around the deranged Skullkid. Suddenly, the moon began to fall! Slowly, but still falling!
Link gasped and looked around frantically. Then, he leaped up in the air, and blew a large bubble out of his Deku snout, shooting it at Skullkid. It hit him, and he stumbled.
A strange blue object fell out of Skullkid's grip and tumbled to the roof.
Link raced forward and grabbed it.
"YES! I got it back!" he cried.
"Got what?" Tatl yelled. "That instrument isn't going to help us!"
All of a sudden, Link's eyes faded out and he went into a state of partial consciousness.
"Link? LINK? LINK! WAKE UP!" Tatl screamed, crashing into Link's head repeatedly.
David looked around frantically. "We need to do something!"
Skullkid laughed. "Well look who it is! The little librarians from Hyrule! OOH, have you come to get me back for turning you into freaks?"
I leaped up and down and chattered rapidly. Skullkid raised an eyebrow and scratched his head. "What did she say?"
That was it. I had had it.
I leaped at that annoying little fairy kid, and Erik held me back.
"Duh... Skull... guy... duh, kill... duh..."
Without warning, Link snapped out of his unconsciousness.
"It's about time! What are you doing daydreaming? This is no time for a trip down memory lane!" Tatl snapped.
Skullkid laughed, and Tatl looked up at the sky. "Goddess of Time! Please, help us! We need more time!"
Link snapped his fingers. "Of course! Zelda's Ocarina!"
"Who's Zelda?" Tatl asked angrily.
"Princess Zelda!" I squeaked.
Link reached behind his back and pulled out... a set of bagpipes?
"WHAT? Where did you get that?" Tatl yelled.
Link took a deep breath and played a strange song...
I recognized it as a hymn that we sing during festivals back home in Hyrule. If only I could remember the words...
"I know that song!" David said. "That's..."
"Time flows.... Everyday... there is no stopping time flowing like river deep... By night... Time goes by... O, like a golden bird flying bright time goes by..." I sang softly.
Skullkid looked at Link weirdly. "Yeah, so? You can play a... YAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!"
A bright blinding light filled the area, and I felt the floor beneath me disappear... I was falling!
I screamed, but it simply echoed against the walls of light. Then, everything went black...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... huh?"
I opened my eyes.
Erik and David were right next to me. We were in North Clock Town.
"Wha... what just happened?" I stuttered.
"I don't know..." Erik replied.
"Huh? Kelli! You're speaking English! And Erik, you said something intelligent!" David screamed. "I can walk!"
"Then that means..." I stammered.
We looked around. Tingle was drawing a map again, the kid was trying to pop a balloon with a peashooter, and...
"Everything has started over!" we cried joyfully.
We ran over to a guard. "Officer, what day is it?" Erik asked.
"Why, it's two days before the eve of the Carnival of Time, of course!"
I stifled a scream and we ran back towards the exit to East Clock Town.
"I can't believe it! That song... the Song of Time! Of course!" David yammered. "I can't believe it! We have all the time we lost back! This is great!"
I was equally pleased. "I know! This is so..."
"AAAAAAAAAGH! IT'S A FOREST FAIRY JUST LIKE MEEEEE!"
Someone grabbed me from behind and squeezed me hard.
"TINGLE!" I cried.
"Huh? How do you know Tingle's name? YOU MUST BE A MAGIC FOREST FAIRY!"
I wiggled out of his grip and we raced off for East Clock Town.
"I wonder why Tingle doesn't remember me... I suppose I should be glad!" I said.
"This is so weird!" Erik said. "Oh look! The Stock Pot Inn!"
We ran inside, and Anju threw us a weird look. Erik ran upstairs. "LOOOK! THE CEILING IS FIXED!"
"YAAAAAAAY!" we screamed, running back outside.
We danced around, screaming.
"WE ARE BACK TO DAY ONE! WE HAVE MORE TIME BEFORE WE BECOME LIKE THIS FOREVER!" we cried happily.
Suddenly, a young child with blonde hair in a green suit walked by us staring.
"What are you... huh?" Erik cried.
"Why are you screaming like that?" he said.
"You... you are Link!" I said.
"Uh huh. I thought you only spoke Deku!"
Tatl flew out of his hat and smacked him. "You idiot! Remember?"
"Oh yeah," Link said.
"How... you were a Deku Scrub! What happened?" David asked.
"The mask guy in the Clock Tower changed me back. How did you know about..."
"MOVE IT!" Erik screamed. We shoved him out of the way and raced for South Clock Town.
"He changed him back! That means... he'll change US back!" I cried in joy.
We reached the Clock Tower and threw open the doors. "YOU!" we cried, pointing at the mask man.
"Huh? Oh, it's you, poor cursed children. What can I..."
"We saw Link, bubba!" David said. "Now change us back, too!"
"Oh, that. Well... No."
"Whaddya mean, no?" Erik yelled.
"I told him I wouldn't change him back until I got my mask back!" the mask man said.
"Yeah, well you got it!" I said.
"No, I didn't."
"You didn't?" David said, surprised.
"No. That child... he got back the instrument that the imp stole from him, so I changed him back."
"SO?" I said. "He didn't steal anything from us, except our humanity. So change us back?"
The mask man scratched his chin. "That child played a cruel joke on me. He made me think he had my mask, but he didn't."
"We didn't play any joke!" Erik said. "Please change us back!"
"Fine, fine. Come stand here, by the organ."
"YES!" I cried happily.
We did so, and he sat down. "Follow along after me."
"On what?" David asked.
"You have no instrument?"
"No," Erik said.
"All right, so I'll play it."
The man cracked his knuckles, and tapped out a few notes on the organ. "This is the Song of Healing."
I was confused. "That?"
"NOOO! This!"
The man played a short song, and then looked hopefully at us.
"Uh... nothing happened." David said.
"Hmm. I'll try again."
He played it again.
"What's going on?" Erik asked. "Nothing happened!"
"That's odd..." he said. "What did I do differently with that kid? Uh oh..."
"UH OH? I don't like uh-oh!" I said.
"Well... It seems that this song will only work..."
"Yeah?" David said.
"It'll only work..."
"Will you just say it?" Erik whined.
"It'll only work if played on an Ocarina," the mask man said sheepishly.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE BATTLE WITH SKULLBRA- I MEAN KID!
(Kelli's POV)
The mask man's last comment struck fear into all three of us... Did he say what I think he said?
"You mean..." Erik said slowly," By midnight tonight... We will be in our present forms forever?"
"I'm afraid so," the mask man said. "Of course, that's only a guess... If it speeds up, you could be rolling around, eating rocks, and squeaking up a storm in the next half hour..."
"Oh, great HEEEEEEEP job trying to HEEEEEEEEP reassure us!" I yelled.
The mask man sighed. "If only I could teach you that song!"
"DO IT!" we screamed.
"Well... No. I made a promise to that cursed child, and I won't break it even for you."
"LINK ISN'T GOING TO BE A DEKU FOREVER!" David cried.
"I know," the mask man said. "And that's why I feel so bad not being able to help you... But what would Link think?"
"Duhhh... that rhymes!" Erik said joyfully.
I take it he was in an off-moment.
"Oh HEEEEEEEEP please!" I said, with some of the last of my English I could pronounce.
"OOOOH! I cannot bear your grief any longer! Good luck, you poor cursed children... Fare thee well!" the mask man wailed. Then, as if by magic he disappeared.
We stood there for a minute, and then I lost it.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I wailed. "I'm HEEEEEEEEP going to be a HEEEEEEEEP scrub for HEEEEEEEP ever!"
Erik's brain was back on. "I... I can't believe it's going to come to this..."
David said nothing. Suddenly, he screamed and ran over to the wall of the Clock Tower, banging on it and yelling.
"THAT STUPID TERRORIST BRAT IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!" he yelled. "THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT!"
I tried to reply, but to my horror, nothing came out but squeaks.
Erik and David stared at me. "K-Kelli? Can you... understand us?"
"Yes," I said. Actually, I said EEEEEEP! -but I meant to say yes.
They raised an eyebrow.
I nodded.
"We have GOT to find Link!" Erik cried. "We need to help him get that mask back! Or else..."
"We need to find Skullkid first!" I said.
(Try to remember that for the rest of my speaking, I'm not speaking English.)
David stared at me and shook his head. "No Erik. We need some paper and a pen for Kelli!"
"Can she still write?" Erik asked.
"Hey! I still understand you! And yes, I can write!" I yelled.
"Let's go talk to Tingle!" David said.
I yelled as loud as I could. "NOOOOOOOO!"
"We have to, Kelli!" Erik said, knowing enough what that meant. "He's the only one in town we can beg for money from!"
I sighed.
"Forest Fairy can't speak English anymore?" Tingle asked me.
I shook my head.
"Oh! You must teach Tingle Forest Fairy language, so then a fairy will REALLY come to me!"
I said a few curse words in Deku.
Tingle grinned. "Ooooh! Now I know how to say EEEEPPPEEEEEP! I'll go talk to that nice Business Scrub over there!"
Tingle dropped all of his paper and ran off after the scrub.
I chuckled. David and Erik gathered up the paper and a pen and handed it to me.
I scribbled out a message and handed it to them.
"Tingle just told that Deku Scrub 'Curse your small wooden mother, I light your father on fire with a stick'?" Erik said.
I nodded and smiled.
David rolled his eyes. "Well, we have some more important stuff to do right now!"
"Where could that brat have gone?" Erik pondered.
"Ya lookin for someone?" a voice said. We spun around and saw the kid from the other day who told us about the moon crashing.
"Yes... what can you tell us?" David replied.
"'Bout who?"
"A certain 'Skullkid' character."
"Oh! Him! I let him join the Bombers a long time ago, but he was a jerk... I've seen him on top of the clock tower."
"On top of the Clock Tower?" I repeated.
Erik tried to hand me the paper, but I shook my head. "No, it wasn't important."
"STOP IT!" Erik told me.
David sighed. "On top of the Clock Tower?"
"Yea."
David nodded. "How about a little Deku scrub? You seen him?"
"Looks a lot like her?" asked the kid, pointing at me.
"Yeah."
"He just joined our club! I think he's on his way to South Clock town to catch the Carnival of Time in an hour. Hey, there he is!" the kid said.
I turned to see Link the Deku Scrub racing out of North Clock town.
"COME ON! LET'S GO!" I yelled.
I ran, but I didn't here the guys behind me. They were trying to figure out what I had said.
I stomped on David's foot and pointed to the door.
"Oh, let's go!" Erik said.
We caught up with Link in East Clock town around 6:30 PM.
"Hey, do you guys mind? I'm in a hurry!" he whined.
"Well, we have a problem that only you can help with!" David said.
"Yea? What's that?"
"We need you to get that Skullkid's mask back!" I said.
He nodded his head.
"You understand me?"
"Of course." Link said.
"Do you understand her?" Erik asked.
"I AM a scrub, ya know."
"Well anyway, we really need you to go up on that Clock Tower and get that Skullkid and take the mask he's wearing back!" David said.
"What? YOU need me to do that TOO?"
"YES!" we all screamed.
"Oh. Well, I have to wait until midnight when the door opens up." Link said innocently.
"Well, we don't have until midnight!" Erik told him frantically.
"Why? What..."
Suddenly, a fairy flew out of his hat and knocked him in the head. "Link, you moron! We don't have time to be talking with these three dorks!"
"Tatl, will you calm down?"
"NO! WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT UNTIL THAT MASK MAN LEAVES TOWN FOR GOOD!"
"But they need..."
"Do I really CARE what an overgrown fish, a walking rock and a lump of firewood want to say? NOOOOOO!"
Suddenly Erik reached out and grabbed the fairy in mid-air. "YOU! I know who YOU are! YOU are that little fairy wench who got us into this mess!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Tatl whined.
"You and that dork Skullkid are the reason we're even HERE in this town!" David yelled.
"We oughtta beat the life outta you, you witch!" I wrote on the paper.
Link grabbed Tatl out of Erik's hand and waved. "Sorry about that! I really need to go! It's 8:00 already!"
They ran down the street, Tatl whining the whole way.
"8:00? Already? Wow, time sure goes fast here in Termina!" David said.
"Let's get moving! In four stinkin' hours it'll be midnight! We have to go to the clock Tower!" I wrote.
They nodded.
"I just hope this Link guy knows what he's doing!" Erik said.
We were caught in a rush of people who were fleeing the town as we tried to leave East clock town, and to make a long story short, yada, yada, yada... It was 11:30 when we finally reached South Clock Town.
"Where did he go?" David said, trying to stop his legs from shaking.
"Duh... duh... duh hurry... duh moon... duh... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... KAPLOWIE!" Erik stuttered.
"That's right," I wrote.
We frantically looked around the town, until we saw Link standing near the Deku flower we had first seen him in on our first day in town.
"THERE!" I shouted.
We ran up to the flower, but by the time we got there, Link had already leaped inside and was flying up to the top of the Clock Tower.
"OK, same as last time!" I wrote on the paper. Erik and David nodded, but I could see Erik's eyes getting more vacant as we spoke.
I dove into the flower, and when I sprung out, Erik had grabbed onto my foot and I carried him up to the tower. Fireworks were going off around us, and the door to the top of the tower had already opened. I could see Link disappearing into the shadows by the door.
"Hurry!" David cried.
I leaped back down and carried David up, and we raced up the stairs after them.
At the top, we saw Link staring up in the sky at a scary-looking moon that was inching closer to the earth. Skullkid stood in mid-air, with the black fairy next to him.
"S-Sis!" the black fairy cried.
"There you are Tael! Skullkid, we've been looking for you!" Tatl yelled.
"Hey Link, ya got a minute?" David asked quickly, tapping him on the shoulder.
"Hmm... let me think... NO!" Link screamed.
Tael flew forward and made a ringing noise.
"Swamp. Mountain. Ocean. Canyon. The four who are there, bring them here!" Tael said.
Skullkid swung around and slapped Tael straight out of the air.
"Don't speak out of line, stupid fairy!"
"NOOO! What are you doing to my brother?" Tatl cried. "Skullkid, do you think we're going to be your friend after that?"
Skullkid crossed his arms like the four-year old he was. "Ya, whatever," he said.
Then, Skullkid turned to Link.
"If it's something that can be stopped, STOP IT! AAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!"
Then, Skullkid threw his arms up, and let out the same awful scream we had heard in our last conscious minutes as humans.
We covered our ears, and waves of dark energy spread all around the deranged Skullkid. Suddenly, the moon began to fall! Slowly, but still falling!
Link gasped and looked around frantically. Then, he leaped up in the air, and blew a large bubble out of his Deku snout, shooting it at Skullkid. It hit him, and he stumbled.
A strange blue object fell out of Skullkid's grip and tumbled to the roof.
Link raced forward and grabbed it.
"YES! I got it back!" he cried.
"Got what?" Tatl yelled. "That instrument isn't going to help us!"
All of a sudden, Link's eyes faded out and he went into a state of partial consciousness.
"Link? LINK? LINK! WAKE UP!" Tatl screamed, crashing into Link's head repeatedly.
David looked around frantically. "We need to do something!"
Skullkid laughed. "Well look who it is! The little librarians from Hyrule! OOH, have you come to get me back for turning you into freaks?"
I leaped up and down and chattered rapidly. Skullkid raised an eyebrow and scratched his head. "What did she say?"
That was it. I had had it.
I leaped at that annoying little fairy kid, and Erik held me back.
"Duh... Skull... guy... duh, kill... duh..."
Without warning, Link snapped out of his unconsciousness.
"It's about time! What are you doing daydreaming? This is no time for a trip down memory lane!" Tatl snapped.
Skullkid laughed, and Tatl looked up at the sky. "Goddess of Time! Please, help us! We need more time!"
Link snapped his fingers. "Of course! Zelda's Ocarina!"
"Who's Zelda?" Tatl asked angrily.
"Princess Zelda!" I squeaked.
Link reached behind his back and pulled out... a set of bagpipes?
"WHAT? Where did you get that?" Tatl yelled.
Link took a deep breath and played a strange song...
I recognized it as a hymn that we sing during festivals back home in Hyrule. If only I could remember the words...
"I know that song!" David said. "That's..."
"Time flows.... Everyday... there is no stopping time flowing like river deep... By night... Time goes by... O, like a golden bird flying bright time goes by..." I sang softly.
Skullkid looked at Link weirdly. "Yeah, so? You can play a... YAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!"
A bright blinding light filled the area, and I felt the floor beneath me disappear... I was falling!
I screamed, but it simply echoed against the walls of light. Then, everything went black...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... huh?"
I opened my eyes.
Erik and David were right next to me. We were in North Clock Town.
"Wha... what just happened?" I stuttered.
"I don't know..." Erik replied.
"Huh? Kelli! You're speaking English! And Erik, you said something intelligent!" David screamed. "I can walk!"
"Then that means..." I stammered.
We looked around. Tingle was drawing a map again, the kid was trying to pop a balloon with a peashooter, and...
"Everything has started over!" we cried joyfully.
We ran over to a guard. "Officer, what day is it?" Erik asked.
"Why, it's two days before the eve of the Carnival of Time, of course!"
I stifled a scream and we ran back towards the exit to East Clock Town.
"I can't believe it! That song... the Song of Time! Of course!" David yammered. "I can't believe it! We have all the time we lost back! This is great!"
I was equally pleased. "I know! This is so..."
"AAAAAAAAAGH! IT'S A FOREST FAIRY JUST LIKE MEEEEE!"
Someone grabbed me from behind and squeezed me hard.
"TINGLE!" I cried.
"Huh? How do you know Tingle's name? YOU MUST BE A MAGIC FOREST FAIRY!"
I wiggled out of his grip and we raced off for East Clock Town.
"I wonder why Tingle doesn't remember me... I suppose I should be glad!" I said.
"This is so weird!" Erik said. "Oh look! The Stock Pot Inn!"
We ran inside, and Anju threw us a weird look. Erik ran upstairs. "LOOOK! THE CEILING IS FIXED!"
"YAAAAAAAY!" we screamed, running back outside.
We danced around, screaming.
"WE ARE BACK TO DAY ONE! WE HAVE MORE TIME BEFORE WE BECOME LIKE THIS FOREVER!" we cried happily.
Suddenly, a young child with blonde hair in a green suit walked by us staring.
"What are you... huh?" Erik cried.
"Why are you screaming like that?" he said.
"You... you are Link!" I said.
"Uh huh. I thought you only spoke Deku!"
Tatl flew out of his hat and smacked him. "You idiot! Remember?"
"Oh yeah," Link said.
"How... you were a Deku Scrub! What happened?" David asked.
"The mask guy in the Clock Tower changed me back. How did you know about..."
"MOVE IT!" Erik screamed. We shoved him out of the way and raced for South Clock Town.
"He changed him back! That means... he'll change US back!" I cried in joy.
We reached the Clock Tower and threw open the doors. "YOU!" we cried, pointing at the mask man.
"Huh? Oh, it's you, poor cursed children. What can I..."
"We saw Link, bubba!" David said. "Now change us back, too!"
"Oh, that. Well... No."
"Whaddya mean, no?" Erik yelled.
"I told him I wouldn't change him back until I got my mask back!" the mask man said.
"Yeah, well you got it!" I said.
"No, I didn't."
"You didn't?" David said, surprised.
"No. That child... he got back the instrument that the imp stole from him, so I changed him back."
"SO?" I said. "He didn't steal anything from us, except our humanity. So change us back?"
The mask man scratched his chin. "That child played a cruel joke on me. He made me think he had my mask, but he didn't."
"We didn't play any joke!" Erik said. "Please change us back!"
"Fine, fine. Come stand here, by the organ."
"YES!" I cried happily.
We did so, and he sat down. "Follow along after me."
"On what?" David asked.
"You have no instrument?"
"No," Erik said.
"All right, so I'll play it."
The man cracked his knuckles, and tapped out a few notes on the organ. "This is the Song of Healing."
I was confused. "That?"
"NOOO! This!"
The man played a short song, and then looked hopefully at us.
"Uh... nothing happened." David said.
"Hmm. I'll try again."
He played it again.
"What's going on?" Erik asked. "Nothing happened!"
"That's odd..." he said. "What did I do differently with that kid? Uh oh..."
"UH OH? I don't like uh-oh!" I said.
"Well... It seems that this song will only work..."
"Yeah?" David said.
"It'll only work..."
"Will you just say it?" Erik whined.
"It'll only work if played on an Ocarina," the mask man said sheepishly.