Author's Note

Okay. As people don't know, I HAVE >> DiabloGuapo 's PERMISSION TO DO THIS VERSION!

Also, THIS IS NOT THE SAME EXACT VERSION! THIS FOLLOWS THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK MANGA AND GAME MORE! THAT MEANS ZORAS, DEKUS, AND GORONS WILL APPEAR! Although DiabloGuapo DID give me the inspiration to write this, it was the fact someone actually WROTE it out like the manga....I'm using my version of the GAME to write this, so expect the story to (hopefully) be longer...though I can write more days into one chapter.....

Just check the reviews in the first chapter...he approved the story there...I can wait....

If you like this story, please feel free to "thumbs-up" it and/or favorite if you feel inclined.

By the way, this is the first story in a series, but the sequel is based on another Zelda game. The sequel will be "The Legend of Spike: A Link Between Worlds".

Okay, so that rant is done with.

However, this is viewer application time. I want your feedback!

Okay, here's the question:

"Who do you want Spike paired up with in this series?"

The choices are:

A) Twilight Sparkle

B) Rarity

C) Applejack

D) Mane 6

With these choices will be a mare from Termina, based on a famous Mare in the Legend of Zelda.....

"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"

Spike continued in his journey through the Everfree Forest, as a thick fog filled his vision. If he hadn't known better, he would have thought that he was in Foggy Bottom Bog!

Still, the mist was obscuring his vision and making it hard to proceed.

Two glowing objects emitting a chime-like sound whizzed past him, making him turn in the direction the flew in. Everything went dark right when something hard slammed into the back of his head and he collapsed on the ground right as the Skull Kid he met appeared as if from thin air with a major difference.

He was wearing a mask.

The mask was heart-shaped and predominately purple with two yellow spikes protruding from the top and four yellow spikes on each side tipped with red, blue, and green on three of them. There were red designs on it and two large eyes, with the outer portion of the eyes being red with a yellow inner portion leading to green irises and small black pupils.

The Skull Kid gave an echo-y laugh and lifted the mask as the two glowing objects; both with dragonfly-like wings, flew down and revealed themselves as the fairies traveling with the Skull Kid.

"Great job you two!" The Skull kid said in a...different...voice, "Now to see if he has anything good on him." That's when his eyes landed on Spike.

"This guy..." For a second, he voice returned to normal, but it changed back quickly after. "Well that shouldn't be a problem!" He finished, pulling the mask back down over his face.

He sifted through Spike's pouches before he pulled out the Ocarina of Time.

"Oh! Oh! What a pretty Ocarina!" The purple fairy with the red glow said in a young colt's voice. "Hey, Skull Kid, lemme touch it! I wanna see!"

The fairy with the yellow glow flew in front of the other one. "You can't Tael! What would we do if you dropped it and broke it? No way, you can't touch it!!!"

"...Aw, but sis...W.Why can't I try it out, too?"

Spike groaned as he sat up and shook his head to clear the fog from his mind. As he stood up, he spotted the Skull Kid and the two fairies let out bell-like sounds in shock.

Skull kid slowly turned around and let out a cry of shock as he saw that Spike was awake, quickly hiding the Ocarina behind a foreleg.

"Give that back..." Spike said slowly, before he saw the Skull Kid tensing. Jumping forward, he grabbed one of Skull Kid's rear legs just as he-much to Spike's shock-started actually flying off without wings!

Spike was dragged along the ground for a good distance before the Skull Kid spotted a stump. Swinging at it, Spike was slammed against it, the impact forcing him to let go. The Skull Kid's laugh echoed as he vanished into a tunnel made by a fallen, hollowed out tree.

Standing up, Spike ran after him climbing up to and leaping across stumps leading up to a carved doorway in a tree. Above the doorway was a carving oddly similar to the mask on the Skull Kid.

Without thinking about anything except retrieving his Ocarina, Spike ran through it and into a glowing hole that seemed to swirl with all the colors of the rainbow.

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As soon as the colors faded and Spike was able to see again, he was sitting on a large, strange, pink flower. Another light came into view and momentarily blinded Spike. As soon as he was able to see (once again), he saw two yellow lights shining down on the floating form of the masked Skull Kid with the two fairies flying by him.

"Well well, isn't this a surprise. You actually followed me here!" Skull Kid said casually. Spotting Spike's look he starting mocking him. "Aw boo-hoo why the sad face? I just thought I'd have a little fun with you..."

"Listen. All I want is my Ocarina. Just give it back and I won't be forced to use violence." Spike said, inching his left hand up to his sword.

"Oh come now, you really think you can beat me as I am now? Fool!" With that, the Skull kid started shaking his head to each side, rattling the mask as a dark aura appeared around it. The rattling seemed to echo through Spike's mind, and he found himself surrounded by strange, wooden creatures with yellow eyes and a protruding snout topped with autumn colored leaves.

The rattling continued to echo as Spike started running and a gigantic version of the creature lunged at him and everything went black.

When vision returned to Spike, he glanced down at the water, and his reflection startled him.

He still had the bottom-half of the tunic and the cap, but his entire body was made from wood and he had sorrowful yellow yes with green "bangs" protruding from under his cap in front of him. A snout stuck out from his face and he had boots upon his feet. Finally, he was the same size he used to be as a "baby dragon".

Spike version of Deku Link

Letting out a loud cry, even his voice had changed as it reverberated through his snout.

The Skull Kid threw back his head and laughed. "Hee Hee! Now, That's a good look for you! You'll stay here looking that way forever!"

The Skull Kid and Tael flew back as a door opened behind them and Spike ran at them. The other fairy-the female with the yellow glow-however, threw herself towards him and repeatedly hit him until he fell backwards. That fairy turned around just as the other two made it through the door.

"S-s...Sis!!!" Tael shouted just as the door closed.

This got the other fairy's attention as it flew to the door. "Whoa! Whoa! Skull Kid, wait for me! I'm still here!!! Tael! You can't leave without me!"

Spike stood up and watched in morbid satisfaction as the fairy repeatedly slammed against the door.

'Serves you right'. He thought to himself.

As if sensing his though, the fairy flew back and fluttered in front of his face. "You! If I wasn't dealing with you I wouldn't have been separated from my brother!"

Spike just glared at her.

"Well don't just sit there, Deku boy, do something!!!"

Spike's glare just intensified.

"...Why are you looking at me like that? What, is there something stuck on my face? Will you just stop staring at me and open that door for me?!? Please! A helpless little girl is asking you...so hurry up!"

Spike sighed and glanced at the door. He did need to go through it to get his stolen Ocarina back.

The fairy sighed and glanced at the door as well. "Ohhhh, Tael...I wonder if that child will be all right on his own?"

Moving over to the door, Spike opened it and walked through the log serving as a tunnel until he came to a platform with that strange flower on it. There was a gap where the ground dropped off slightly and a platform on the other side of the room with the door on it.

"Hey! Wait for me! Don't leave me behind!" The familiar voice of the fairy cried out as she flew in front of Spike.

"So, um...that stuff back there....I apologize so take me with you!" The fairy said before flying closer, millimeters from Spike's face.

"You wanna know about that Skull Kid who just ran off right? Well, I just so happen to have an idea of where he might be going! Take me with you and I'll help you out. Deal?...Please?"

Spike thought about it for a few seconds. "Well, an idea of a lead is better than nothing. Very well."

"Good! So then it's settled! Now then, I'll be your partner...or at least until we catch that Skull Kid...My name is Tatl. So, uh, nice to meet you or whatever. Now can we stop messing around and get moving?"

"My name is Spike." He said as he stepped forward onto the flower, gazing at the distance and wondering how he'd get across.

"I can tell you're not very used to your Deku Scrub body yet." Tatl said, "Alright, listen up. Deku Scrubs can burrow into these Deku Flowers to launch themselves upwards and fly short distances, so try it out."

Spike gave a twirl and all but his snout seemed to burrow into the center of the flower. After a short time, Spike was launched upwards in a burst of pollen, holding a pair of gigantic pink flowers that were spinning, easily carrying him across the distance between the two platforms.

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The next room caused Spike to gulp loudly. There were multiple platforms scattered across a cliff so deep that shadows obscured the view of the bottom. He knew that if he fell, than he would die.

He let out a huge sigh as he spotted a Deku Flower. Repeatedly using his ability to "fly" to move from platform to platform, Spotting a treasure chest on the platform he was on, he opened it and gathered ten strange nuts. Tucking them into the pouch, he pulled out a note.

Dear Spike,

My Pinkie Sense is telling me that I'll mess up my explanation about these pouches, so I wrote this note and tucked it into one. These pouches can hold twenty-four types of objects-the total number depends on how much of that item you can carry. How else could I carry so many party supplies?

Love,

Pinkie Pie

PS: Please dispose of this note so it doesn't fill an item slot.

Shrugging at the message, Spike tossed it and watched it slowly drift into the blackness below. Continuing moving from platform to platform, Spike landed on the last one with a hollowed out hole and a strange tree.

Tatl noticed the tree as well. "It's strange, but the way you look right now kind of looks like this tree....It looks all dark and gloomy....just as if it could start crying now at any second. How sad."

The hallway of the next room seemed to twist around, and yet gravity never once caused Spike to fall. Entering a mossy room where a paddle spin-powered by a river flowing under it, a metal doorway closed behind Spike and Tatl, locking shut. Spike tried to pry it open, but nothing worked. The mossy room-unlike the other rooms he had been in-was made of stone and not wood.

There was also a ramp, and the paddle was powering a spinning pole and the ramp ended in a square room filled with shadows. Spotting three stairs leading to a doorway with ornate designs painted on them in red, Spike went over to open the door when a voice stopped him.

"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"

Turning around as Tatl hid behind him, Spike spotted a cream-colored pony with a well-groomed brown mane and tail. The pony's eyes were closed and he had a huge grin as a backpack filled and covered with masks sat upon his back. There was a mask of a "human" (something Lyra was obsessed over) with a red cap with the letter "M" on it. Another looked like a human with pointed ears and had a hat similar to his. Another mask looked like the Spirit of Chaos-Discord. Others were shaped like ponys he knew-Applejack, Rarity, Twilight, Celestia, Luna, Shining Armor, Cadence, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Dr. Whooves, Zecora, and even Mayor Mare.

Other masks resembled animals. Rabbits, Lions, bears, birds. Yet others looked like monsters naive to the Everfree Forest.

Walking over to the pony, Spike stood in front of him as he continued to talk. "I own the Happy Mask Shop. I travel far and wide in search of masks...and I must welcome you to the land of Termina!"

"Termina?!" Spike asked.

"Termina. A land within a dimension parallel to Equestria. Very few ever encounter the passageway between the two, however."

"I see." Spike said. He certainly didn't feel very lucky!

"During my travels, a very important mask was stolen from me by an imp in the woods." The pony said, "So here I am at a loss...and now I've found you."

Spike gulped loudly at this.

The pony gave a cheerful chuckle. "Now don't think me rude, but I have been following you..."

'Well THAT sounds just creepy' Spike thought to himself.

"...For I know of a way to return you to your former self."

"WHAT?!" Spike shouted. The kind of magic to change a life-form into another was something even Twilight Sparkle was hesitant in doing!

"If you can get back that precious item that was stolen from you, I will return you to normal. In exchange...all I ask is that you also get back my precious mask that the imp stole from me." The pony explained.

"That seems hard to do." Spike said, glancing at his transformed body.

"What? Is it not a simple task?" The pony asked, "Why, to someone like you-the Hero of the Crystal Empire-it should by no means be a difficult task...except...the one thing is...I'm a very busy pony...and I must leave this place in three days. How grateful I would be if you could bring it back to me before my time here is up...But be warned, the time here moves faster in Termina than in Equestria."

Spike grimaced at the time limit. Retrieving the mask alone was daunting enough!

"But yes...you'll be fine." The pony said, gazing down at him as if he was examining him. "I can see you are young and have tremendous courage. I'm sure you'll find it right away. Well then...I am counting on you..."

Giving one last glance to the pony-his only chance at returning to normal-Spike walked up the stairs and opened the doors, revealing the early morning light.