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This is my story, about The Imprisoning War. If I'm posting it to late to be considered, then oh well:

As you probably know, the Imprisoning War was the start of the timeline where the Hero of Time was killed by Ganondorf. My story begins at that exact moment, when Link is starting to fade. With his very last breath, which he knows will be his last, he hurls the Master Sword at the cystal encapsulating Zelda over the battlefield, shattering it, just as Ganondorf lands the final blow. Zelda, now free of the King's grasp, makes her escape, while the Master Sword goes flying off to who knows where. Link only gets to see Zelda free for one, blissful moment, before he blacks out.

Ganondorf, now in possesion of the Ocarina of Time and the Triforce of Courage, laughs triumphantly, unaware that his plans have been thwarted by Zelda's timely escape. Zelda, meanwhile, dons her Sheikah disguise, never again to bear her rightful title as ruler of Hyrule. But despite being freed from Ganondorf's spell, Sheik is still weakened in the aftermath, and does not make it far before disaster strikes. As she tries desparately to navigate her way out of Ganondorf's castle, she is ambushed by a pair of Stalfos, who keep her pinned down one second too many. At that moment, with a bloodcurdling scream of rage Ganondorf coems rushing into the room, now fully aware of how he was tricked. Grabbing a sword from a nearby suit of armor, Ganondorf backs Sheik to the edge of the room, with the two Stalfos backing him, and on to the proceeding outdoor balcony. In one last effort to escape Ganondorf, Sheik leaps off the edge of the balcony, plummeting straight down the 50 stories to the lava below, blacking out.

She wakes up on a rough cot in an underground chamber, staring at the familiar face of Impa. Impa informs her that she was warped to this hidden sanctuary by the six sages, and that she had been completely out for six days. She then informs Zelda, as she still calls her, of the wanton destruction that Ganondorf has wrought in an effort to find her: the destruction that had befallen the Castle Town on the day Ganondorf took over had been inflicted upon Kakariko Village, Death Mountain and even what little was left of Zora's Domain; the only thing unharmed was the Kokiri Forest. Thanks to the previous efforts of the Hero of Time, the Deku Sprout was rooted firmly enough in the ground to restore the protection spell the first Deku Tree had created and maintained around the forest... for the time being. Impa explains that all the inhabitants of Hyrule who made it out in time have retreated to the forest, and that she and Zelda are currently in a cave below the remains of the first Great Deku Tree. Agonized by her failures, Sheik asks Impa to never call her Zelda again, for she will spend all the rest of her days as Sheik, never again as a princess.

Impa tries to comfort her, and at that moment Darunia and Saria enter, and rejoice to see the ex-princess awake again. Impa then tells Zelda of a resistance, led by the sages, fighting back against Ganondorf wherever possible. But when Sheik asks exactly how they intend to be able to win, no one is able to give her any real answer, so she is utterly miserable as Impa helps her get up and walk outside. Outside the healing room, in the much more spacious cave beyond, the walls are covered with moss and grass coats the floor, so it is slightly more pleasant for a hole in the ground. What is not pleasant is seeing the rows and rows of matted tents and the bustling of tired, starving refuges, both of which drive home the point that this really is a refugee camp. Impa explains that the Deku Sprout only agreed to let them use the forest under thee condition that they never give Ganondorf reason to even slightly suspect where they were, so they could never come up to the surface while they were within the forest's bounds.

Sheik is beginning to lose hope when suddenly she notices a Skull Kid and one of the few remaining loyal palace guards in an exchange about the masks the Hero of Time had sold them. Suddenly she wonders why Link would bother with such menial tasks as mask delivery (not realizing, of course, that Link did pretty much EVERY single menial task that was offered to him), and asks them where Link had received the masks. The skull kid was unable to reply, but the guard said that the Hero had recieved the mask from a guy who called himself the "Happy Mask Salesman". Upon hearing this name, Impas eyes went wide with fear, and she immediately tries to draw Skeik's attention elsewhere. However, seeing Impa's reaction makes her even more curious, and she presses Impa until she gives in and confesses what she knows. Impa tells her that she read once about the Happy Mask Salesman in an ancient prophecy, but had had no idea that it was real, let alone that the "curse" of the Happy Mask Salesman would come to pass in her lifetime. Impa says however that she does not know in what form the curse would come or why, only that the Happy Mask Salesman would posses an item with the destructive power to bring entire worlds to their knees. At this point, the guard interrupts, saying that the Happy Mask Saleman disappeared the day Ganondorf took over anyways, and no one had seen him since. Undaunted by this fact, and convinced that it was the only way to ever decisively defeat Ganondorf, Sheik ignores Impa's protestations and sets off to find this "Happy Mask Salesman".

After going through a series of 3 or more dungeons (since the Happy Mask Salesman can never stay in one place for too long) Sheik finally meets this mysterious man, and begs him to aid their cause. The salesman is reluctant, and explains, in vague terms, taht what they seak is an evil force named Majora, which cannot be controlled by anyone, or it will consume them as fuel to reach its dark desires. But he finally agrees to help them, on the condition that they first make their way through half a dozen more dungeons, where Ganondorf has locked away most of the equipment left by the Hero of Time, including the medalions containing the vast majority of the sages' power, which Ganondorf has drained from the medalions and scattered across Hyrule like a mist. Only when the sages are in possesion of the medalions will their power return to them, and only with the combined power of all the sages will they be able to reel in Majora's power and contain it after it has been unleased. So Sheik sets off on a quest to recover the stolen medalions.

On her way out, she notices a glimmer of light where there was none before, but before she can investigate, it vanishes.

In order to restore power to the medalions, the respective sages must be present when they are recovered. Consequently, Sheik must take each of the sages with her to recover each medalion, and struggle to keep them alive through the dungeon and, as always, under Ganondorf's radar. During this time, she cathes repeated sighting of the same glimmer of light, which she eventually discerns is a gold and silver wolf.

At the end of the last dungeon, where you find Saria's medal, after a long and tiring fight with a boss resembling a Gohma-meets-Koloktos blend, the door opens and Saria runs to go retrieve her medalion, but just as she is about to enter the next room the boss, not quite as dead as he looked, leaps up and grabs her before Sheik can react. Sheik moves to intercept the monster, but is shoved back and pinned against the wall. Just as it appears doom is upon both of them, a blur of light shoots past and slices the monster's arm holding Saria clean in half. Then as fast as it had first appeared, it turns around and slices through the arm holding Sheik, before coming back and hitting the monster head-on. Sheik realizes it is the wolf she had seen shadowing her ever since she met the Happy Mask Salesman. The wolf hacks the monster away with his powerful jaws, until nothing is left but smoldering ruins where the beast once stood.

The wolf then looks at Sheik, and they stare at each other's eyes for a long moment, before the wolf howls to the sky and wisks away.

After retrieving the medalion and warping Saria back to the refugee camp, Sheik exits the temple, and is surprised to see the wolf sitting there, waiting for her. Before she has time to react, the wolf lunges at her head, and her view of reality fades as the wolf enters her mind. Once inside this spiritual realm, the wolf howls and transforms into a horrifying armored Stalfos. Even more terrifying is the undead warrior's voice, for when he speaks his voice is cracked, like his jaw is hung to his head by a thread, and his teeth rattle like bones. Sheik takes an offensive stance, but the shade holds up his hand for peace, and passes along his message: Majora will not be able to defeat Ganondorf alone, for only the Master Sword in the hands of a courageous hero is capable of doing that. If they were to go forward with this plan now, they would only bring an additional catastrophe down upon their heads, and face two dooms instead of the one they already have. He tells her that if she truly wants to succeed, she must first seek out the Master Sword, for only then will a new hero arise.

Tired of these countless delays, Zelda ignores the warnings of the shade, and leads the sages into battle against Ganondorf, with the Happy Mask Salesman in tow. As the rain begins to fall down on the barren remains of Hyrule field, Ganondorf chuckles at their foolishness, and in a blinding flash of light transforms into his monstrous piggy form, Ganon. Bemoaning that this is a grave mistake, the Happy Mask Salesman holds up Majora's Mask, and, as the sages focus their power on it, let it fly out into the sky, awakened by the sages' magic. And so begins a climactic battle of the titans: Ganon verses Majora's Wrath. Majora charges forward and delivers the first blow, but Ganon parries it away, and the richocheting blast shatters Death Mountain in two.

Realizing what she has done, Sheik cries out to the sky for the golden wolf's help, lamenting ever discovering teh existence of Majora. As she begins to lose hope suddenly the golden light that heralds the wolf shines out over the titans, and darts across the land. With all haste possible, in the limitted time left before Hyrule is completely wiped out, Sheik follows the trail of golden light in the wolf's wake, leading her straight to the resting place of the Master Sword. At the wolf's beckoning, she extracts the Master Sword from its resting place stuck in the rock, and returns to the battleground. She holds the sword up to unlock its power, but nothing happens. Then it dawns on her: only a hero with true courage can wield the true Master Sword; what she held was just a remnant of what the sword once was, like a fossil preserved through time.

Sheik almost gives into despair, but then she feels something tug at her clothes. She looks down to see the wolf, staring pointedly at the Master Sword. Seeing no point of anything, Sheik hands it to him, but then to her surprise, the sword reacts in a blinding flash of light, and the worlf transforms into the shade she had seen in her vision. The shade grips the Master Sword, now pulsing with radiant light, and holds it high above his head, letting its power wash over him, and then lashes out, striking to two titans at their legs and making them teeter unsteadily.

And only then does Zelda realive that this shade was in fact not only a Hero's Shade, but the Shade of the Hero of Time himself.

Elated, Sheik rushes to aid the Hero's Shade, firing light arrows at the titans to expose their weak spots, which the Shade exploits, hitting home with the master sword. As the battle persists, eventually the titans realize that their main threat was not each other, but the pesky flies swatting at them left and right. They join forces to take down Skeik and the Hero's Shade together, but by this point the sages have recovered their energy they had spent to awaken Majora, and with their power they target the titans, bringing them down considerably in size.

The battle resumes, but Zelda is consantly aware of the sages' weakening power, and how little time they have left to defeat their foes. Just as the sages have all but exhausted their power, Sheik and the Shade land a decisive blow, knocking both their opponents not only off their feet, but out of hyrule field entirely, and into the ruined remains of teh Temple of Time. As the two former titans lay on the ground, the Hero's Shade holds up his hand, and the Triforce of Courage disapears from Ganon's and appears on his. Once in possesion of the Triforce of Courage again, the Hero's Shade starts pulsing with an aura of light, and when the light fades he has been tranformed into the Hero of Time again, in appearance and title. Enraged, both Ganon and Majora get back on their feet, but Ganon, spying an opportunity too good to pass up, betrays Majora in the spur of the moment, brutally stabbing him and reducing him to just a mask again. Before anyone can react, Ganonthen picks up Majora's Mask and puts it on, becoming the most horrifying beast in the history of Light and Shadow, with the power of both Majora and the Triforce of Power at his disposal.

And so the real final battle begins, Link and Zelda verses Ganon's Wrath. The sages pop in from time to time to give support, but they mostly hang back, as there is little they can do to help in this fight. And so, after the most decisive battle in the History of Hyrule, Ganon's Wrath takes the fall, but not before taking on last stab at his enemies. As the sages prepare to send him into the Dark World, formerly known as the Sacred Realm, Ganon hurls his sword at Link, and Link falls again. As Sheik rushes to Link's side, Ganon grabs the Triforce of Courage, in the split second before he is forever exiled to the Dark World.

As Sheik kneels by the dying hero, their victory seems far too much like a defeat, for though the Hero of Time did return, he did so only for them to lose him a second time. But Link, in his last moments, refutes this, saying that he was not the true hero of this story. Zelda was the hero this time.

But this is not good enough for Zelda, and as she kneels over him she tries to use the Triforce to heal him, but before she can the Triforce of Wisdom on her hand fades away, and she is left powerless. She is bewildered and distraught, until Link explains that the Triforce cannot be split between two realms, and that her piece has gone to the Dark world with the other two parts. Hearing this, Zelda is completely enraged and in sorrow, for it meant that Ganondorf, though trapped, finally possesed all three pieces of the complete Triforce.

But Link reassures her that, should Ganondorf ever return, a new hero will arise, because new heroes always do, and with these words he dies, leaving the land mourning the loss of a hero once again.