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"All right!" Bo, the mayor of Ordon Village yelled out as Fado and Link stood on his porch with him, the members of the village stood on the front lawn, "Link has something he would like to tell everybody before I begin, please be quiet."
Link walked forward and said, "Fado and I were attacked earlier today at the ranch. Neither of us were harmed but I would like everybody to watch themselves for the next couple of days, if anything weird happens please come tell me immediately. I'm not sure what it was about, but I think it's best if we're careful."
Link walked into the small crowd that made up the village's entire population as Bo started speaking, "Thank you Link for the warning, I'm sure with you and Rusl around we shouldn't be in any danger. Now onto the next order of business…"
Rusl walked up next to Link as Bo continued speaking and whispered, "Maybe you should go get that sword Link, the one you left in the forest."
"No, not yet, if I go get it for every little thing that comes up, I might as well keep it instead of leaving it for the next person who truly needs it," Link whispered back as he crossed his arms.
"From what I heard from Fado this guy hardly counts as a little thing," Rusl stated glancing at Link from the corner of his eyes, "This guy sounds like someone exceptionally dangerous."
"Even so, with a normal sword and my equipment this guy won't be too dangerous. I've fought stronger guys than him before,"
"That Ganondorf fellow, yeah he was strong, I caught a glimpse of that fight…but something tells me this shadows guy wasn't even using half of what he can do,"
"If that's true then I'll have to kick things up a notch myself, I might be able to find some more equipment around Hyrule that'll help me,"
"Well I'm here for you if you need any help," Rusl said as Bo finished speaking, "Don't worry, he didn't say anything important."
"Well with all that said meeting over and all that stuff," Bo added as he clapped his hands together once, everybody walking off to their respective tasks or homes. Link walking off towards his home, deep in thought.
As Link neared his home, a giggling sound burst through the air, a childish and taunting giggle. "Skull Kid," Link growled unconsciously as he looked around.
"Oh no, gave up using those long ago after lost one first time," a voice that seemed both malevolent and childish at the same time answered as the giggling stopped, "No endurance, no last." A mask slowly descended in front of Link as the gates to his yard closed, it was a strange thing, heart shaped with splashes of red, purple, black, orange, and yellow all over it in deliberate patterns and spikes about the edge. "Oh yes, you look just like him," the voice giggled coming from the mask.
"Look just like who?" Link asked as the mask darted about, examining Link from all sides.
"Yes, yes, very good, very strong you are," the mask continued, "You may beat them."
"Beat who? Who do I look like?" Link demanded turning around to face the mask.
"But what's this? You not have magic, that very bad, very-very bad, that big problem when fighting them, yes, yes. But not worry, me have idea," the mask giggled as it defied Link's attempts to look it face to mask.
"What are you talking about damn it!" Link yelled at it, "Explain yourself."
"Yes, yes, you need power, much power to fight other masky person, shadow person not so strong compared to masky person. Masky person stronger than me, yes, yes, but you not worry, me not take you over…no-no, that make you too weak to fight masky person,"
"Who is the mask person?" Link asked.
"Yes-yes, masky person very tough, but not as tough as you when we finish, no-no, not tough as you when we finish," the mask giggled and did a spin, "Right, right, you want know plan now right? Right?"
"I suppose," Link stated, "But I still want to know what's going on."
"Yes, yes, you do want know plan, good-good, plan simple, you find special items, very special items, items me know where are, they help you fight shadow person and they even odd with masky person," the mask began to explain, "First item called shag glove…no that no right, bag glove….no…Ahhh magny glove, magny glove, that right!"
"Magny glove…mag…magnetic?" Link asked.
"Yes-yes Magny Glove that right, you have right! They magic item, very useful magic! You not need magic use them though, so you no worry bout that,"
"Who are you then?"
"Oh me sorry, me not introduce me, how rude me, me Majora," the mask stated as it spun around again.
"Majora, interesting name, but I can't leave the village unprotected that shadow user might attack again," Link said, "So I don't think I can go find this item."
"Oh no, you no understand yes? Shadow person after you not village, shadow person want fight you, so do masky person. You leave village and village not be attacked, Majora knows this,"
"How do you know this?"
"Masky person help you he did against shadow person, masky person want fight you very much, but masky person not want you 'stracted. Shadow person not care how fight you, so long fight you,"
"Who is shadow person?"
"Shadow person is shadow person,"
"Alright…lets try this, where is shadow person?" Link sighed, apparently getting frustrated with the mask.
"Shadow person in shadow place, lots shadows, light not real light, light dark,"
"What do you….the Twilight Realm?" Link asked.
"Yes-yes, shadow place, shadow person in shadow place, shadow people not like shadow person be in shadow place, they try kick out but they fail, shadow person beat them easy, even shadow princess no match, shadow princess get blown back without close to shadow person," Majora explained.
"Midna…Majora, is shadow person different from shadow people?" Link asked, taking greater interest in the mask's story.
"Oh yes, shadow person not like shadow people…well shadow people not really shadow people, not like shadow person, shadow person is shadow,"
"All right, they're after me, if I leave they won't touch Ordon?" Link asked.
"Yes, yes, you right, very right indeed,"
"Okay, where do I need to go to find this item?"
"Oh it out in Hyrule Field, yes Hyrule Field it in, you like it when you find it, but me not know exactly where it is, you try somewhere you never been before and you find likely," Majora stated as it vanished and the gates to his yard opened up.
"That's helpful," Link grumbled as he vaulted up the ladder of his home and went inside, "I need my weapons, something tells me this won't be an easy fight coming up." He walked over to a ladder that led down into his basement, grabbed a lantern and strapped it to his belt, and then slid down the ladder. "Been a while since I've been down here," Link stated as he turned his lantern on and held it out, revealing a room full of weapons and items of various sorts. He picked up a pair of claws attached to handles by a deceptively long spring loaded chain then put them away in some extra dimensional space under his shirt, "I'll need my claw shots, these things have been exceptionally useful to me." He then walked over to a large boomerang and picked it up and put it away, "I'll need the Gale Boomerang." Then to three bags which he put away as well, "Bombs, water bombs, and bomblings, need these too." Then to a bow and quiver full of arrows, then to a large ball and chain, then to a hawk mask, a strange horse shoe whistle, four empty bottles, a mace, a fishing rod, a strange top-like contraption big enough for him to stand on, a large wallet, and finally a slingshot. "That's all of my weapons, now for my clothes," Link said as he took off his shirt and pants, and walked over to a mannequin holding a green tunic, a chainmail shirt, a white undershirt, and brown pants slung over the shoulders and put them on, followed by him putting on a pair of brown boots and then a pair of brown gauntlets. "Feels weird having these on now without Midna there to help me, or being able to become the Sacred Wolf," Link commented as he walked over to a table and picked up a shield and a sword, "No matter, I have things I have to do, I need to beat this mask guy and that shadow guy."
Link vaulted up the ladder, taking the lantern with him and then went out his door, locking it afterwards. "So you are leaving again," a woman's voice asked.
Link looked down to see a short light brown haired young woman asked, wearing a simple white shirt and brown pants, "Yeah, this guy's after me Ilia, it's safer for everybody if I try and fight him out in the open where people won't get involved."
"But what if we want to help you?" the young woman, Ilia, asked.
"That Shadow guy is even stronger than King Bulbin who kidnapped you and the kids, and I'm starting to get a sneaking suspicion he's even stronger than Ganondorf,"
"Ganondorf, I remember you telling me about him on the trip back, he was the man behind everything that happened wasn't he?"
"Yes, and there's someone even stronger than the one who attacked today, the fights I'm going to get stuck in won't be like anything I've ever been in before,"
"There has to be something we can do to help you,"
"No, against these guys I don't want to risk anybody I care about,"
"What if they attack the village while you're gone?"
"I don't think they will, I got help earlier, I believe the stronger of those two wants this to be a fair fight,"
"What makes you so sure?"
"Because his presence was enough to make the shadow guy leave, and only someone that strong could possibly lift that sword," Link stated as he took out the whistle, "Don't worry about me, I'll be back."
"Din you people make me sick," Soren's voice growled out as all the ground around them turned to shadows, "All this love, all this concern, all this bloody relationship crap. It makes me sick." Soren came bursting from the wall on a black desert horse, a horse considerably smaller than Epona. "Come hero, lets see what you do now!" Soren yelled as he scooped up Ilia and galloped off into the forest.
"Damn it!" Link yelled as he blew into the whistle, Epona galloping towards him at breakneck speed, Link jumping down from his raised front porch as Epona ran by and galloped off after Soren.
And that's the end of that chapter.Well since I got a question on who Soren is I might as well explain it. He is Dark Link from Ocarina of Time, I chose not to give him one of the cliche names people give him because it's gotten old by now. And for BrokenSilverSoul, you're getting your cool fight scene in the next chapter (you know I deliver when I say cool fight scene) and I rewrote chapter one a bit to clear up some bad grammer problems, so you might want to reread it.
Bit of an evil cliffhanger I left for you, oh well all the more reason for you to review to motivate me to write the next chapter. Five reviews is fine, but don't expect me to write the next chapter anytime soon because of it, I'll take my time and write whenever I feel like it. Twenty reviews will get you your next chapter within five days because, one, that's a lot of reviews and, two, 20 reviews means people like the story thus I'll enjoy writing it more with that knowledge in mind. And I know 20 reviews is very possible considering I got 220 hits to chapter 1, and unless five people reread it 45 times each I know I got more readers than five. What do I want to hear? Being told I'm doing a good job is fine as long as I know people are reading, albiet I do prefer nice long reviews like Unsung Bard and BrokenSilverSoul gave me.
Ciao for now and remember...Tis has been a chapter by your unfriendly neighborhood LunaticChaos.