Chapter Four
Professor: Last chapter folks. Hope you enjoyed this! This chapter has some of my favorite parts! Anyway, please read, review, and remember, I don't own the Legend of Zelda!
When you enter someone's mind, you see them for who they are. All the inner-workings of their mind and personality. It's how you see their greatest weaknesses...and see them at their greatest strength. By all rights the hero should have died. It was a miracle that he lived. The Goddess of Time really was watching out for him.
When he entered Majora's mind (and this is the part that I don't know for certain, because I couldn't enter his mind. All of this next part is based off of speculation and what the hero told me), the hero somehow got ahold of my mask, the Fierce Deity Mask. Thinking that he had to use it (much like he used previous masks in leading up to this battle) the hero put on my mask and fought Majora. The power of my mask, no matter who wore it or whether they were in Majora's mind or not, the power of my mask was easily more than enough to defeat Majora. But then, the hero did what I wasn't able to do.
He killed Majora.
Now, let me pause for one moment here. When I started writing this down, I told you how a god could not be killed. They could die, but couldn't be killed. They had to fulfill their goal to become the energy to fuel the realm.
So how could Majora be killed? Easy. He was no longer a god. When he got tied to a human's body, he was corrupted and when he was sealed into a mask, he was changed again. Now he was so changed that he was no longer considered a god of the Sacred Realm. He might of had the power of a god, but he had been disowned by the Realm. He could be killed.
Which is how the hero was able to do just that. He did what I couldn't.
The battle was over and Majora was dead. The hero, his fairies, and the Skull Kid all appeared in the field by Clock Town. After a heart breaking reunion between the Skull Kid and the fairies, I stepped in. Here, I was told the whole story of what happened between them. And what happened in the battle. After learning that the hero (whose name I really should've learned) used my mask in the battle, and hadn't been taken over by the power of it, I was shocked. How had this happened? I spent some time thinking about it and have come up on the only possible explanation.
The hero was too good for the mask. He had no hint of rage, anger, no part of him longed for power. The mask longed for one of those and he lacked them. So, my mask had no control over him. He was able to remove it without any problems.
I said my goodbyes to the small group of them. What they did afterwards, I know not. I think the Skull Kid stayed in Termina with the fairies. After all, since it was now a real world I had no reason to destroy it. The hero, I don't know what became of him. I think that he went back into the forest to look for whatever brought him there in the first place, but I don't know for sure.
I went back to Hyrule. It was the closest thing I had to a home.
I went back to my old mask shop and it is there that I sit writing this record right now. I shall use the last of my power to protect these pages so that they can't be destroyed and then I shall put them in the Kakariko library, for anyone to read if they so wish. I just have a few more things to say. To wrap up those loose ends I talked about. If you wish to stop reading now, go right ahead. The important part has been said. This next bit is only what I felt should be said, for historical reasons.
I was able to return to Hyrule because Majora had been destroyed. I first left because of the evil (whose name I finally learned was Ganondorf) and how the masks' power would be sensed by him. Now that Majora was dead and my power was diminishing, I didn't have to worry about being found.
Since I am writing about Hyrule and Ganondorf at the moment, allow me to discuss that next.
The hero who helped me against Majora had been the same hero who fought against Ganondorf. He had finished his work here in Hyrule and I knew this. So, when I returned, I sensed the history of the land and found out what happened.
The hero had time-traveled (so to speak) in the future to defeat Ganondorf. Then, when that was finished, he was sent back to his childhood. When this happened, the hero left to wander the forest, where he then stumbled upon Termina. But, when he fought Ganondorf, the Sages and the Princess sealed him away in the Sacred Realm to stop him from harming anyone else.
When I learned of this, I knew right away that it was a mistake, but I shall discuss that in a moment.
I also sensed the future. Sensing the future is a small trick that the gods can do, but only after they know their goal. I haven't done it before now because I couldn't bear what I might find, for the future is harsh, but since my task has been completed I saw no harm in it.
The future for this land is not bright. It will be, for a time, but then Ganondorf shall rise again.
There are a couple different choices and ways the land could go in the future, however I will only discuss the one that I think is most likely.
Remember the tribe from earlier that I told you not to forget? They are important in the future. They did find their own form of magic and they tried to use it. However, the Sages were far more powerful than them and so they sealed the Tribe away in the Sacred Realm, or they will.
Let me explain. When the hero, Sages, and the Princess sealed Ganondorf away in the Sacred Realm in their future, that was a mistake, as I said. Realms have different rules, they do not function as the land of Hyrule does. When that Ganondorf was sealed away, his evil soul corrupted part of the Sacred Realm. Part of it had already been corrupted when he got control over the Triforce and he simply corrupted more when he was sealed away. That corruption, the gods who were in the Sacred Realm, they separated it. Made it into a different realm than the actual Sacred Realm. The corrupted realm will become known as the Twilight Realm.
Realms have different rules. They cannot be duplicated and any timeline can access them, in a way. It is far too complicated to try to explain the details here. In summary, Ganondorf became sealed away in the Sacred Realm, and then separated into a smaller, corrupted realm that multiple futures would be able to access. However, that specific Ganondorf could not affect his native Hyrule anymore. Instead, his meddling was limited to the Hyrule in seven years, when he had been defeated. That was the timeline he was bound to, even if the realm itself was open to other times.
So the tribe was sealed away in that realm. The Sages thought that was safest. They created a portal to that realm, thinking that evil could accompany evil.
But, many years later, there will come another Ganondorf. The evil would always come again, as per the curse he placed back when my sister and her hero first defeated him. This Ganondorf would be part of, and therefore tied to, a separate timeline than the first one. The Sages will try to fight him, but they will fail. Ganondorf will have the Triforce of Power and he will then kill one of them. So, instead, the remaining Sages will open the portal and seal him into the Twilight Realm.
There Ganondorf will corrupt a descendant of the Tribe and a new battle will start.
I say all of this because I know that future generations will need to hear how this began, for when they shall have to fight that battle.
I didn't look farther than that in the future. Too much could change since the future is not set in stone.
Whoever is reading this, I hope that it all works out for you. Whatever evil it is you are fighting, I hope that my sister's hero will find you and help.
...I hope you have better luck with fighting your evil than I did with mine. I hope you have the courage to kill it. But most of all, I hope that you, whoever you are, can forgive that evil, unlike I could for my brother. At least, I couldn't for years. I have now, but the sooner the better. Remember, I am not a violent man, but that doesn't mean there wasn't hatred.
My power is nearly gone now, I don't have much longer.
I wrote this all down because history needed to be set straight, for time will change my story, maybe even make it forgotten. But it needed to be said. It needed to be separated, untold if you will, from the legends.
Now, one last thing before I fade away to the Sacred Realm. If the masks are found someday, there shouldn't be a need to worry. Majora is dead and his mask no longer holds any power. My mask...well, with my passing, the power will be greatly reduced and will not overtake anyone with its power. However, it is still dangerous so I ask that you destroy it. I would, but too much power had faded from me now I barely have enough strength to write this down, let along destroy something with power like that.
I welcome death. I've lived long enough. My goal is finally complete. My life here in Hyrule wasn't the best, but for what it was, it was good. It was far from the worst.
After all, it started a long time ago.
'After all, it started a long time ago.'
The words resonated in Illia's mind as she finished reading.
The young girl had taken to reading in the chair next to the weakened Zora, waiting for him to wake up.
'Is this...what they were talking about?' she thought.
The conversation that Telma and Renado had had with her about what was going on in Hyrule repeated itself in her mind.
She might not have her memories, but she had enough common sense to know when something was important. This was how the Twilight War had begun, or at least, part of it was about the War. The rest of it, the parts about this Fierce Deity Mask Salesman, that she ignored.
Illia ran as fast as she could through Kakariko village, yelling for the Shaman.
Somewhere in the Sacred Realm, the spirit of the Fierce Deity smiled. He had helped one last time.
Professor: And FIN. Hope you all enjoyed the story. I was debating theories about Majora's Mask with an old friend when we came up with this one. So, once again, I do not deserve all the credit for creating this. I did enjoy tying it into Twilight Princess though. And the Easter Egg to one of my other stories lol.
Thank you to everyone who read, favorited, followed, and reviewed. I love see all of that!
Anyway, see you all in another story! Keep a lookout!