Yet another story! "A Moonlight Masquerade"
Months after parting ways
with his fairy sidekick, Navi,
in the Legend of Zelda:
Ocarina of Time, Link sets
off to search for his missing companion. But
what he finds instead
are a pair of pixie pranksters.
The two fairies are the accomplices of the devilish
Skull Kid, and the three of them ambushed Link as he
gallops his horse, Epona, out of Hyrule and into
an uncharted region of the Lost Woods. When Link
regains conasciousness, he awakens to find Epona and
his magical ocarina missing. Always quick to react, Link
follows their trail.
But the Skull Kid is waiting for him...
Possessed and overcome by the evil power
of the mask he stole from Hyrule's Happy
Mask salesman, the Skull Kid jinxes Link
and imprisons the boy within the
body of a wooden, plantlike creature
called a Deku Srcub.
Forced to cope with his strange, new form, Link the
Deku Srcub must also deal with his newly forged alliance
with Tatl, the feisty fairy partner of the Skull Kid.
The fairy, carelessly abandonned by the Skull Kid
who never thinks about how his actions affect others,
reluctantly guides her new partner through a
portal to a parallel world - a world where everyone
is a stranger, yet each looks like the twin of someone
Link has met in his homeworld of Hyrule.
The parallel world Link stumbles into is one built around a towering clock. Time is everything in
busy clock town, and it matters even more in the bustling burg since the moon has begun to
creep threateningly closer and closer to the town.
The shadow that the moon has blanketed the land with has a cast a dark pall over its
inhabitants. Everyone's personal life has taken a turn for the worse, and it's all
because of the mischief spread by the Skull Kid wearing Majora's Mask and the
influence his cursed guise has on the moon, the heavens, space and time. In
three days, coimciding with the town's Carnival of Time, the moon will crash.
Only Link, with his reputation as the Hero of Time, can save the doomed land of
Clock Town.
The first to greet Link when he arrives in Clock Town is the Happy Mask salesman
whom the Skull Kid robbed of Majora's Mask. The mysterious buisnessman strikes up
a deal with the boy trapped in the Deku Scrub body: If link can find his ocarina and
use its power of time to travel, the salesman will return Link to his original form. The Deku
Scrub body will then become a mask that Link can don whenever he wants to assume his sylvan alter ego.
Link must right all the wrongs that the Skull Kid has
caused, and to do it, he mus find masks to assume the identities
and powers of other characters. But three days of
masquerading aren't enough to set things right. Using his
ocarina, Link will have to relive the same three days again
and again, changing the courses of people's crisscrossing
lives until he can finally rid the land of evil and set the world back on the right track.
And if he's lucky...
...time wil be on his side.
