A Fierce Affair

Princess Luna put then put then mask on, and I could feel her every emotion and hear her every thought, it was good to be back again! "Very good," I replied.

"Now what, Majora?" asked Luna.

"Oh, uuuuuuuuuuuuuh... nothing. Why don't you take me back to your room? I think I might like it in there," I said. Off to a rough start, but then again, her role would end soon.

"LUUUUUUUUUUUUNA!" said a voice.

"COMING!" said Luna.

She began rushing towards a pony whom I recognized to be Princess Celestia. Wonderful. My powers would stick out like a sore thumb to her and others. Of course, Celestia got suspicious right away as soon as she laid eyes on me. I was going to petrify her someday just for the look of distrust she gave me.

"Luna... where'd you get that mask?" asked Celestia, still giving me a look so intense that would freeze a large Dodongo in its tracks.

"Nowhere..." I made Luna say with out her realizing it.

Celestia at first didn't seem to buy it, but she then said, "Well, then take it off. I sense an evil in it, one that manipulates, corrupts... Luna, you should never have picked up that mask, wherever you got it. Take it off, and put it somewhere safe."

As Luna turned away, I saw Celestia say something before leaving to return to the throne room.

"Come, Luna, do as your sister bids. I shall be fine, I have... other things I can do while you are absent," I said.

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Grass. That was the first thing I felt, as sure as my name was Link. When, I opened my eyes, I observed I was in a small clearing in the middle of a forest, one that reminded me of the Lost Woods. And I certainly was lost, didn't know where I was. Was I in Hyrule again? Or was I somewhere else? I knew I had to find out, and the trees looked too big to climb, and doubted my hookshot could latch on to anything, all the trees branches were too high up. Looks like I would have to find my way out. I searched though my masks and items which I still had somehow and found what I was looking for: the Bunny Hood. I put it on and my intuition told me to go right. I did and I soon came across a path, one that looked well worn. However, I felt something. Something sad, something lonely. I suddenly felt it necessary to grab the Lens of Truth. I dug through my masks and items, found it, and when I brought it up to my eye, I saw the translucent white figure of a small equine with a small horn coming from its head, barely shorter than I, hovering a few inches off the ground, staring directly at me.

"You... can you see me?" the equine asked.

"Yes," I said, not questioning the fact that I rarely ever spoke and had just suddenly openly replied to someone.

"I can help you... but... will you help... me?" the equine asked.

"Yes, I will help you," I said.

"Good... You wish to find your way out of Everfree Forest? Then follow me. Do not get separated from me, for the the path is long, dark, and treacherous," said the equine.

Using the Lens of Truth, I followed the equine down the path. Everything seemed ruffled and displaced, wild, free to move and grow as it pleased: this forest was not the Lost Woods. The place had a very strange and ominous feeling to it, one that I can't quite can't describe. Everything seemed to be dark and mysterious, and the trees and underbrush concealed many creatures, and I knew that a few creatures were following us, but I didn't speed up or slow down.

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I knew that this was the place that Majora had fled. I could sense he had been in this forest. However, I was still confined to the mask. If only I could break free... there was enough magic, but if only it could be channeled... ah, but now was no the time. However, I felt that there was something I could to help the young hero...

"Can you hear me, Link?" I asked, hoping my once silent voice could be heard.

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"Did you say something?" I asked the spectral pony in front of me. I had heard something, almost like ti was voice in my head, but it was though someone had spoke to me from behind me.

"No," it replied.

"I'm pretty sure you said, 'can your hear me, Link?' It must've been you!" I repeated, trying to find an explanation as to  what had happened.

"It was not me," the pony replied quietly.

I shook my head, pulled out my ocarina and began playing an old  song that I had learned from a friend.

"Your instrument... your song... it reminds me of the forest..." said the equine. "I like it. So happy, so... lively..." The equine suddenly stopped and bade me sit. I sat on a stone and the equine sat down in its haunches and it let out what I would call a wistful sigh (if spirits could sigh). "Not long ago I was once alive like you, but older, and I came to this wood to fight off an evil force that made the forest hostile. I found it lurking in the ancient and abandoned castle of the alicorn sisters, but I was no match for it. It was a strange and large being that wielded a large sword and shield. My magic had little effect and I could barely land any hits with my sword before I was undone by it. I now have wondered the forest ever since, looking for someone who could defeat the evil that plagues the forest. I have found you, and I believe you can help this land. But, now... I am alone, and you cannot defeat the monster as you are... if only you could be like me. Not matter, I just wish my soul could be healed. Yes, just peace... can you give me that, strange traveler of time and space? Can you heal my sorrows and relieve my of this world?" the equine.

I knew what to do. I put my Ocarina to my mouth and played a song that I now knew by heart.

The equine then said, "That song... yes... Thank you, traveler..."

The equine began to fade and soon, it had vanished. Suddenly, a new mask fell to the forest floor. It had the face of the equine.

"I leave my feelings and tasks to you, stranger," echoed the voice of the equine.

I picked up the mask, and I knew it was a powerful mask. A transformation mask. There was only one thing I really thought of doing; Putting on the mask.

I put it on and felt the familiar sensation of transformation. I screamed, and...