Chapter 1: The Masked One

Link and his men stepped through the portal. Once inside, it seemed as though they were inside some sort of building. There was many chugging and clanking noises coming from above them. When they looked up, gears and other contraptions were keeping this thing moving. What it was, they didn't know. But it would go every second, almost like a clock.

"This can be our base," Proxi said. "Some of us can stay here. The rest can follow Link and explore this place."

About two thirds of the army followed Link towards the giant doors. Link shoved them open and stepped out into the sunlight. What he saw put him in shock.

He had stepped into a very large town. Signs and decorations everywhere showed that some sort of carnival was coming up. In the center of this square was an unfinished tower.

Hordes and hordes of monsters were crawling everywhere. Skeleton-like Stalchildren and Stalfos, lead by some dinosaur-like Dinolfos, were causing destruction on this poor town.

"Come on everyone!" shouted Proxi from Link's side. "We have to fight!"

With his sword and shield ready, Link lead some of his men into battle, but the group mainly split up into different sections of the town. Hylian soldiers dueled with many Stalchildren and Stalfos while the captains dealt with the Dinolfos. With his very impressive fighting skills, Link did a combination of both.

"What!?" cried a screeching voice. "Who are you? Minions! Stop them!"

More hordes of monsters began to swarm around Link

"Obviously this guy isn't here to play games," Proxi answered.

"Oh, you want to play games with the Skull Kid?" asked the voice again. "Very well, I'll come out to play! How about some hide-and-seek?"

Performing a massive spin attack, Link destroyed all of the monsters surrounding him.

"Hee hee hee!" Skull Kid laughed. "Come and find me! I betcha can't!"

"So this guy wants us to find him?" Proxi questioned. "Fine. Link, let's go search these keeps!"

Proxi followed Link into the South Keep, which was the closest. They didn't find Skull Kid, all they saw was more Stalchildren there to stop them.

Despite the amount there were, Link was not intimidated and took no hesitation in fighting them all off. Wanting to take the keep for his own, he put his game of hide-and-seek on hold and resorted to fighting the monsters in the keep.

Eventually, a Stalfos appeared, who was the keep boss. After taking a few extra hits than a Stalchild, he was defeated. The South Keep now belonged to Link's Forces.

"You take the keep! Nice job!" Link cheered.

Link eyed the Laundry Pool keep, but instead ran up the stairs through battling soldiers and monsters. He hurried into the East Keep, and again, only found more Stalchildren. This time, he found a Hylian Captain in here to help him.

The two battled with their men inside of the keep, until the keep boss appeared. Link easily killed him as well, claiming the East Keep for their own.

"Nice job!" Proxi exclaimed.

"Ouch!" they heard Skull Kid's voice scream from not too far away. "What are you doing!? Wait a minute, you look like that other guy that's here!"

He must have been referring to Link; there was no one else here it could be. But there's someone that looks like him?

"I wonder what he's talking about?" Proxi wondered.

She followed Link as he darted off towards the North Keep. Once he arrived there, he found it overrun with monsters. But unlike last time, he found to extra people.

One had to be Skull Kid. Skull Kid's are creatures that kids turn into if they find themselves lost in a place back in Hyrule called the Lost Woods. They wear red jackets, pointy shoes, and hats, alongside green shorts, all of which is made of cloth and other material. He also had two fairies with him, a yellow one named Tatl and a red and purple one named Tael. Tatl was the older sister, and Tael was the younger brother.

However, this Skull Kid was different. He wore a very mysterious looking mask. It was in shape of a heart, with two spikes above the eyes and four along either cheek. The area around the eyes and spot where the mouth would be was red, while everywhere else was purple. The eyes were very spooky; they were yellow with two little black dots in the center surrounded by green. It was very scary.

The second person was Link.

But he was different. While still clad in green, he looked to be very young, way younger than Link. He was still clad in green, but his blonde hair was brighter. He also had no shield, and held a gigantic Kokiri's (race of kids that never grow up) Sword. On top of his hat was a Keaton Mask (a creature similar to that of a fox, but yellow with three tails), and underneath his sheathe the Fierce Deity's Mask, a very powerful artifact that transforms the wearer into a tall and magical warrior.

This Young Link stared deep into Link's eyes with his own pair of bright blue ones, and his mouth dropped.

Skull Kid looked back between the two Links.

"This is so confusing!" he cried. "How can there be two of you!?"

Link and Young Link stared at each other; they didn't have to speak to know that they wanted the same thing.

The two charged at Skull Kid, now working together, to take him down. They swung their swords at him and knocked him across the keep.

"Hey! You cheated!" he shouted. "You got him to help you! Now it's two against one? That's not fair."

He then disappeared.

"If you won't play fair, then neither will I!" his voice declared.

Skull Kid's forces then received reinforcements as more Dinolfos appeared on the battlefield.

"Dinolfos! Get those cheaters!" he cried.

"We should defeat those guys if we want to catch that Skull Kid!" Proxi said to Link.

After Young Link finished taking the keep, the two began to fight the enemy's reinforcements to protect that keep.

Link dodged a fireball coming from one of the Dinolfos' mouth and began to fight him. Young Link did the same with another.

Building up enough energy, Young Link whipped out the Fierce Deity's Mask and slapped it on his face. Link watched as Young Link screamed. Once the flash of light cleared, standing in his place was a warrior that was now the same height as Link. He was also dressed like him, except instead of green it was white. He also instead wore black pants and armour. He also had tattoos on his face and no makeup.

He pulled out his sword, which was twice as long as Link's. The design was made so that the blade begins in three different spots on the hilt, but curl up and inward until they meet at one point at the end.

He began to swing his sword in all different directions, with a ball of magic firing out after each swing. Once all of the monsters were gathered up, he did a spin attack and destroyed them all.

Another flash of light appeared as Young Link pulled the mask off of his face and placed it back on his belt. While the last Dinolfos was distracted, Link finished him off.

"Noooo! My beautiful creations!" Skull Kid cried. "Well, you're too late anyways. My ultimate plan will destroy you and your entire army!"

Suddenly, a huge explosion blasted in the sky above the clock tower, causing everyone on the battlefield to fall to the ground. Once they climbed to their feet and looked up, they saw a huge boulder twice the size of the whole town with a very angry face.

"The moon!" he cheered. "This will destroy you all!"

"He must be insane!" Proxi cried. "That moon is directly above both his base and ours! It will kill us all in about ten minutes!"

Link and Young Link didn't know what to do. They thought they were all doomed.

"Wait!" Proxi shouted suddenly. "I feel the presence of a Great Fairy! She can certainly stop all of this!"

Young Link, knowing where this was, began to run towards it. Link and Proxi followed, her presence growing stronger for the fairy.

"Here it is!" she cheered.

The three darted inside. Link ran up to the magic circle and activated it.

But nothing happened.

Instead, a bunch of tiny fairies flew in and around them out of nowhere.

"You must help me!" said a voice. "I am the Great Fairy, shattered into pieces by the mischievous Skull Kid! You must bring back my last piece!"

"We have to search the keeps for it," Proxi realized. "Don't worry Great Fairy! We'll help you!"

"I thought ahead you morons!" Skull Kid laughed. "There's no way you'll be able to save her in time!"

Link and Young Link dashed out of the fountain, with Proxi right behind them, and split up. The only two keeps left were the West Keep and the Laundry Pool.

Young Link ran into the West Keep, but Link kept running towards the Laundry Pool. Cutting through the South Keep, he arrived there and sure enough, found it.

"There it is!" Proxi cheered. "But it's trapped here! We'll have to take this keep for ourselves!"

Link began to cut his way through the monsters inside. He fought as hard as when he was fighting Ganon (Ganondorf's transformation when he took all three pieces of the Triforce) to save the Great Fairy.

Soon enough, the keep boss appeared. Link defeated him, releasing the Great Fairy's final piece.

"Thank you!" it cheered. "I will return to my fountain. You must use the Magic Circle there to summon me!"

Link and Proxi ran out of the keep and all the way back to the Fairy Fountain. Sure enough, the circle was there. Link activated it again, and this time, the Great Fairy appeared.

She laughed, so happy to be complete again, and summoned many tinier fairies around the shape and size of Proxi. They zoomed past the two and outside. They soared up into the air and right alongside the moon. They all took their spots along the bottom of it and began to push against it as hard as they could.

Eventually, it stopped falling.

"NO!" Skull Kid roared in fury. "NO! NO! NO! My plan is ruined!"

Morale for Skull Kid's Forces suddenly went down as the doors to the Enemy Base opened.

"Now's our chance to finish him off!" Proxi cheered.

The two ran out of the fountain as the Great Fairy disappeared. They ran all the way to the Allied Base until they found a pair of stairs going above it. Young Link then met up with them. They ran up both flights of stairs and through the open doors, where Skull Kid was with hordes of Stalchildren.

"You're really mean!" Skull Kid whined. "And I don't like it!"

He charged at them. Tatl and Tael smacked Young Link in the face. Link attacked Skull Kid when he saw the chance, making Tatl and Tael fly back to fight Link. Young Link attacked Skull Kid again, making the fairies leave.

The two fought at each other. It wasn't very hard, seeing how Skull Kid's morale had diminished.

Finally, Link did one final blow at Skull Kid, knocking him backwards and onto the floor. That was when the entirety of his forces disappeared, leaving him and the fairies alone.

Link and Young Link cornered him on the roof.

"P-P-Please don't hurt me," he spoke. "I'm sorry. It's just my masters."

"Who are they?" asked Proxi.

"The Twinrova," he replied.

"The Twinrova?" she repeated.

"Witches," he answered. "They're obsessed with brainwashing. I don't know what they want. Look! There they are!"

"Where?" asked Proxi.

Once she and the two Links turned around, Skull Kid used his chance to make him and the fairies disappeared. Link, Young Link, and Proxi turned around to find him gone.

"Oh well," said Proxi. "Let's go round up the soldiers."