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Chapter three

Link entered the sacred forest meadow and hookshot onto the limb above the sone ledge on the far end of the meadow and rode up to the entrance to the forest temple. He was pleased to see that all the doors he opened from the last time he was there where still open. He walked casually right through most of the temple, but he needed to stop from time to time to remember where he was going.

"This is going to be easier than i thought." Link said to himself. Tatl buzzed out of his hat and looked around.

"What an odd place. It seems so much smaller than the temples we went through."She said.

"I bet it isnt. You wouldnt last five minutes if you where here the first time." Navi snapped. Tatl buzzed a circle around her.

"You wouldnt last in the temples ive faced with Link! You would probably either be eaten by a giant snapping plant, frozed solid, or drowend, or something like that." Taunted Tatl.

Navi looked as if she where about to ram Tatl right out of the air, but Link put his hand in between the two fairys

"Cut it out, both of you." Link said calmly. Tatl hovered for a few seconds.

"Another thing, whats happened to you Link?" Asked Tatl. "You've gotten really big! It was only a few months since you left Termania, and now it looks like you gone from ten to seventeen!"

"I have." Link mumbled. Navi buzzed around Tatl.

"At the Temple of Time, there is the pedistal of time, where Link's Master sword normally rests." Begain Navi." When Link first pulled the master sword from the pedistal of time, he was too young to go and find the rest of the sages. So Rauru cared for him for seven years while he slept. Now, he can travel between youth and adulthood as he wishes."

"That makes no sence what so ever." Tatl said.

Link paused in front of a large decorated door.

"We are here." He said. He was about to enter, when Navi and Tatl both rang like bells.

"Link! There is something here!" They cried. Link scanned the room for movement, but saw nothing.

"You two are going crazy." Link mumbled as the door opened. "Lets go."

Link walked slowly into the curcular room and up onto the platform. Bars dropped over the door, and a phantom appeared a few yards away. Phantom Gannon disappeared into one of the six portraits of himself on horseback, and moments later appeared in two of them. Both images trotted toward Link, but one of them turned before he reached the frame, while the other jumped out of the picture and ran right through him. Link was knocked backwards by the phantom's blow.

"Damn, i forgot how to fight this one." Link said to him self as phantom Ganon disappeared into another portrait. Ganon appeared in two more portraits, and once again begun charging at Link.

"Draw your bow! " Came a voice. Link didnt know what to do, so he drew his bow as the Phantom came near the surface. Ganon was just about to break the surface through a portal of purpleish darkness.

"Shoot it! Now!" Came the voice again. Link released his arrow and it shot through the darkness striking Phantom Ganon.

Phantom Ganon shrieked and ran to another portrait.

"Twice more!" Shouted the voice. Link repeated the process of watching and shooting two more times as the voice instructed, and after the third time, Phantom Ganon stopped running from portrait to portrait and appeared in physical form as Ganon.

Ganon charged a magic beam and realeased it towards Link.

"Repel it with your sword." Instructed the voice. Link swung his sword at the beam and it was sent flying back at Ganon.

When the beam hit, Ganon fell to the ground allowing Link to run up and slash away. After several more rounds repeating this, Ganon finnaly fell and desolved into nothing.

Link sighed and let himself fall to the temple floor.

"Hm hm hm." Came a different voice. "well, i guess the great Link cant take down a phantom with out some help from an unknown sorce."

Link turned to see the Skull kid emerge from the shadows."What are you doing here?" He asked.

"Oh, nothing." Replyed the Skull kid. "Just destroying your help sorce."

The Skull kid turned to another shadowy corner of the room and several blocks of stone rose fron the floor and threw them selfs into the shadows, forcing a cucco out of the dark.

"A Cucco!" Cried Navi. "It was a Cucco all this time!"

The Skull kid turned to face the fairys.

"No, it isnt a Cucco you moronic speck of light!" Shouted the Skull kid." It is a very usefull abillity though."

"You've got that right." Said the cucco as its feathers disappeared and its body grew to the form of a human. "Very usefull indeed."

"Namara?" shouted Link.

The Skull kid kept its small eyes fixed on Namara. "Yes, very usefull, and very annoying!"

"What are you going to do about it?" Asked Namara mockingly.

"Im going to take care of this once and for all!" Shouted the skull kid. Namara was lifted by an invisible force and thrown against the wall, while the same invisilbe force pulled a silver looking mist from her body. Once the mist was all collected, it disappeared.

"Now you will never morph into any trouble again!" The skull kid said as he disappeared into thin air.

Namara stared into space. "This cant happen..." She mumbled to herself.

"What happened?" Link asked.

The stunned Namara turned to Link." The Skull kid just stole my power. I cant morph any more, I wont be able to hide myself. But more importantly, the Skull kid has my power, which means that now he can shapeshift, he could be anywhere. Or anyone."

Link stared at the floor, she was right, now it was going to be harder than ever to find the Skull kid.

"It will be dificult from here on." Link said. "But you neednt worry about hiding, as long as you are with me I promise no harm will come to you."

Namara was silent.

"What about the fairy? Do you know how to find it?" Asked Link.

Namara nodded and stood. She shouted into thin air. " Call upon Nova and bring him forth to us!"

Light erupted in the center of the chamber, then faded to reveil a small clear jar, inside a green fairy buzzed around franticly.

Link stepped forward and opened the jar. The fairy flew out of the jar as fast as he could and circled the room looking like a streak of green light.

"SWEET FREEDOM!" Cried Nova.

Link gave the fairy a look of confusion.

"Nova, i asume you know why we called on you?" Namara asked.

"Yes, in fact i do. I even know why the Skull kid is acting the way he is." Replied Nova as he paused in front of Link and Namara.

Namara looked taken aback. "Please enlighten us."

"well, where to begin. Lets see. Majora's mask was destroied, but its evil wasnt. It was looking for a host, so it setteled for its last one. The Skull kid is an inocent victim to the evil of Majora's mask." Nova told the story as if he was telling a story about how someone fell on their face.

"Then you know that you must accompany us to find the other anchent fairys." Namara asumed.

"That i do Princess." Nova said.

"Princess?" Link was now more confused than he was before.

Namara gave the fairy a look of horror. "Princess? You must have me confused with Zelda. I am not a ruler of this land."

Nova gave a wing twitch of under standing."Oh, yes i see."

Namara started for the door and Link and the three fairys followed.

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Oh yes, thats right, its a chapter.

Nova-IM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Tatl- Shut up nova.

Navi- Yeah, shut up.

Tatl- shut up Navi, no body likes you.

Link- Cut it out! All of you! I cant belive that by the end of this story im going to be wrangling ten fairys!

Namara- Haha. I guess being the hero of time has its down sides.

Link- Thats right, Princess.

Namara- stop it!

Nova- I called her that for a reason.

Link- What was it?

Nova- gets threatning look from Namara Cant say.