Post #2 October 22, 2013 4:00 PM

So Skyler came in yawning this morning, and his auburn hair was sticking up. Normally, I'd think that was cute, but you know that I've been taking everything very seriously lately.

"Man, I slept like a rock!" He had said, as he looked over at me. "Hey... Are you alright, love?"

I was curled up on the couch, staring at the T.V., on which was the title screen of Majora's Mask. I hadn't bothered to move off the couch all night to turn it off, and I'm pretty sure I looked terrible. "No, I'm not alright." I croaked, "Not even close."

"What's wrong?" He had asked.
I shook my head. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

He sat down next to me and pulled me into his arms. "Try me."

So I told him everything that happened last night after he went to bed.

"I knew that there was something wrong with that game..." Skyler had said once I was finished.

"Wait... You actually... Believe me?" I asked him.

"Rachel, I'd believe you if you said Godzilla was terrorizing downtown." Skyler answered, "You're not one to make stuff up, and you're taking this very seriously."
I smiled, knowing that I wasn't alone in this situation. "You have to see what I saw last night." I picked up the controller with shaking hands, and loaded up my file.

What I saw scared the shit out of me. Termina Field was a complete wasteland of ash and fire. The sky was blood-red, and everything was dead. There were carcasses of Hylians, Deku, Gorons, and even Zoras littering the ground.
The only thing left was the Mask Salesman, Skull Kid, and the Elegy statue. Epona lay, dead, on the ground where she once stood.

"What the-" Skyler's reaction was pretty much the same as mine. "The moon isn't even there!"

He was right. Majora's Moon was nowhere to be seen.

"This isn't the same thing that I saw last night." I said, "Termina Field was all black before. And Clock Town and everything was still there."

"Tell ya what." Skyler said, "Try using the Dazzle recording thing that you use for your video play-throughs."

I nodded and crossed the living room to insert the Dazzle. But when I touched the Nintendo 64, it shocked me, causing me to drop it with a cry of pain, and the Dazzle cartridge caught on fire.

I hastily stamped out the flames.

"Uh, Rachel? I think you should see this..."

I looked up at the screen to see a message from Ben.

"You really shouldn't have done that..."

I quickly whipped out my phone and started taking a video.

The game returned to the black Termina Field from before, dead Link and everything. Ben was close enough to the screen now that I could see every detail in his hair and face; from his hair to the blood dripping down his face.

"Why are you here, Ben?" Skyler asked before I could get the same question out.

"I want to talk to Rachel!" insisted Ben.

"I'm all ears." I declared, crossing my arms.

"I really scared you last night, didn't I?" the entity said with a playful smile.

"No dip!" I yelled, "Your little haunting antics prevented me from sleeping!"

"Haunting?" Ben's face contorted in confusion, and he faltered.

"Well, ye-"

I was interrupted by an ear-piercing screech emitting from Ben's gaping mouth. The background turned blood red

and it seemed to illuminate the entire room with dim light of the same color.

Ben lifted me into the air with some kind of invisible force. "DIE, BITCH!"

That was the last thing I heard before I was slammed into the back wall of the living room. As the broken wood boards and large chunks of drywall half-buried me, everything went black.