BEN DROWNED

"Help yourself," I said as I chuckled. I looked over at Jad who still seemed bored out of his mind. I handed out plates and reserved one for Mario, then walked over to Jad, just to see if he'd be pleased with what Derpiny and I could do last night.

"So..." I began. "We got Ben to cave for a little last night. I mean, he was showing quite a soft side, but had to leave quickly on the account of The Father and him seeing everything and all. Has... Have you been able to do that? Or is that not common...?" I asked, trying not to sound rude. "I remember you saying something in The Truth about it, but you sounded a bit... skeptical..."

Jad smiled. "Sounds like he can trust you. Don't be afraid if he gets angry again. All of that suffering can do bad things to a person. It basically split Ben into two halves. I didn't figure out he needed help until it was too late. You would think Ben would have a wide imagination, but BEN is definitely "the one that got away," so to speak."

Meanwhile, the smell of bacon wafted into Mario's nose. He shot up like a firework. "Something smells good!" He hopped over to his plate eating every little molecule of bacon that was there, and then ate everyone else's. "MORE!" he whined.

I went to respond, but heard Mario whining for more. I couldn't help but begin chuckling. I went to get more for Mario. "Alright guys. Wolf it down and get your asses in gear, we got Snowhead up ahead and it's going to be even tougher than what we faced yesterday."

I ate the bacon right off my nose like a dog. "I love this shit so much. And oh yeah, I had this weird trippy dream about ..you don't wanna know. Then after I went back to sleep, I had some more pleasant dreams. Of this whole situation, everything turning out alright and stuff. I know it sounds soooooooo cheesy."
I got up and followed DJ over to Jad. "Oh, if he didn't trust us, he probably wouldn't have caved." I nodded along to what Jad was saying, "Yeah, that poor kid has been through so much. The way he's acting is understandable. You know I used to be terrified of him when I first read your posts, but now I know how he really is and know the whole story. By the way, how are you doing being stuck in here too?" I then turned around and noticed all the bacon was gone.

"FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!"

Jad sighed. "It's not exactly heaven, Derpiny. All I want to do is rest in peace, but my soul won't let me leave until I finish what I had to do during life. Sleeping doesn't even help. I just stay up all night, watching everything, knowing it's all doomed in only days." He got up and stared at the moon. "Guys, we better go soon. I think The Father can see us..."

DAWN OF THE SECOND DAY

48 Hours Remain

I complained to myself, the cookie, the chocolate bar, and even the sandwich I packed didn't curb my hunger at all.

"Ugh....Idiot, that's what you are Revlis, a complete nimrod for not packing food." I complained, knowing that my next meal can be anything for me not to die out here, then a very faint smell of fire came to my nose.
"Is this...food?" I questioned, walking to the scent. "It must be, and...WHOA SHIT! People." I said, taking cover in the nearby grass. "I hate meeting new people, but I love food, glorious."

I felt the need to just wait it out, and scrap the encampment for food, or maybe I should do something, but what? I just laid in the grass and waited out a perfect plan.

"Ahh, you have to make sure that he gets free right? If Ben's soul gets to rest in peace then yours can too." I gave Jad a reassuring pat on the back, "Well you don't have to worry about that, because we're here and we're not going to quit on you guys. After all this shit you two have been through you guys deserve to be finally set free."
I looked up at the moon after Jad had mentioned it, then I remembered. DAMMIT, the Father can watch everything we do! "Oh great..." I groaned. "Is that fatty going to come and pester us?" I was probably going to get my butt kicked for saying that, maybe not. Oh well.

"Hope not," I said as I stood up, and brushed the dust from my lap, and the sleep from my eyes. I went to walk off, but tripped over something— No! Someone! "Hey! Watchou—" But then I noticed they weren't threatening. "Oh..." I got up and held out my hand to Revlis. "Need help up?" I asked. Jad said Ben can trust us... I thought. ...So why are more people showing up?

Speaking of people showing up, my favorite person had disappeared. I was still thinking up a plan to get in contact with Edo and tell him I'm okay.

The young man had walked for awhile. The scent of food made his stomach growl a little suddenly. "I could use a bite to eat..." He muttered to himself as he started walking in the general direction of his nose's delight.

"Augh, I'm fine..." I lied, lifting myself up, since I did not like to be trampled like a flower in a stampede. "I just...prefer to help myself, thanks." again, total lie.

I only looked at my equipment for a little while, noticing my sword was okay, and everything about me was as good. "Well, don't know how I got in here, but I want to get out, quickly." I thought to myself, not even knowing the ominous feeling of the area, but I only shuddered to think if someone was behind me, but it was only Deku nearby. "She's the only person here, why does it feel like.....meh." I said, not caring if Deku was nearby or not, I wanted to get some food, but my stomach spoke faster than I could respond.

"...Like there's someone watching? There is. That's why we're trying to get moving as fast as possible. Are you hungry? Need anything?" I asked, Lirit flying around Revlis' head, examining him.

Mynh clearly liked to sleep in. you could say that it was a pastime of hers! She lazily stretched out and felt her surroundings, since she was clearly lacking her comfy man-pillow. "Eykon...?" she mumbled, her words half-garbled by just waking up. She got up and sauntered around the camp, trying to find the source of the delicious-smelling food. Instead, she tripped over something and fell right over. Of course, she didn't care much, she just went right back to sleep with her face to the dirt.

After a little more walking. The black and orange banged teen discovered the group's small encampment. He walked up around where the food's scent radiated. "Do you mind if I take some? I've been walking for quite awhile, and could use a bite to eat." His voice was stern.

I noticed the newcomer and nodded. "There's not much, but go ahead." Lirit jolted then flew over to my ear.

"DJ, you didn't eat yet..." He whispered.

"I know," I replied softly.

I took an apple and started to munch on it. I then looked over at the newcomer and got startled, the entire apple getting sucked into my throat. "AACKHNSOHT."

I noticed Derpiny's sudden loss of air and ran over, attempting that maneuver as well as possible, since no one PROPERLY showed me how to do it. Whether or not it worked was a mystery, but we'd find out soon.

"Thank you." The young man started to nibble on some food.

"Eh? Who's the new guy?" yet another odd face had appeared from the wood work. It was like...the closer Deku got to the boy, the more greater need he felt to bring more people into the game. Maybe because it was all he ever knew?

"Welcome to the land of hugs and rainbows." Mario said jokingly, patting his new teammates on the back. "It'll be safer traveling in a large group, right?"

"Well, yes and no." Jad replied. "On one hand, we can deal with a lot of the problems BEN and The Father throw at us much more easily. However, we will be more easily located, not to mention a higher chance of lagging behind. I suggest we keep loud noises to a minimum from now on."

"Whoa. I don't need to be mobbed now!" The young man let out a laugh. "And yes. The guy's right. It's safer to travel in a large group, but it also has it's downsides." He went serious for a moment.

I began to walk towards the mountains in hope of getting people to follow. "Well, you heard Jad. We'll easily be tracked down. Let's go. Eykon, get Mynh moving again. Besides, we still have THAT thing in the sky." I pointed up to the moon, which was closer than yesterday.

Eykon had no idea how to un-zombie Mynh. She was still kinda lethargic and tired. A few seconds of thinking got him a good idea. He whispered something into his girlfriend's ear, and instantly she got very perky. It was as if he had said some magical words that cured her "I-hate-Mondays" feeling. And rushed up to DJ and wrapped her arm around her, pulling her close to her scaly body. DJ was also extremely squished in the process. "Come on! Let's go! A little cold won't stop us, right guys? Let's get out butts into gear and climb the mountain!" She said, determined. Eykon just stood where he was, almost at the opposite end of the camp, scratching his face gingerly with his long, sharp claw.

"Perhaps that was a little much..." he said. He then took his crystal out of his pocket and fastened it to his face. "Everyone, I presume I do not have to tell you that the area we are about to venture to is extremely cold. I am prepared to use my flame crystal to keep the group warm, however, in order to keep you safe, it will not be enough to keep everyone warm for extremely long. Gr...Perhaps if we brought some magic potions along, I could keep the flame hotter." He said.

The apple had shot out of my throat, bounced off of 64's armor, the back of DJs head, ripping Jad's hat off, coming back to me hitting myself in the face.
I slumped on the ground, "Yeahh let's goooooo.."

Jad picked up his hat and put it back on. "This reminds me. We need to be very careful around Snowhead. I never really explored that region in this cursed cartridge, so I don't really know my way around. Being in a frozen wasteland will make us much more vulnerable to BEN's surprise attacks, too. Not to mention, since I almost got my head knocked off just now, the cold could drive us to insanity, and we may even rip each other apart as the worst case scenario. Let's all remain focused, and not let our primal urges turn us into savages."

"We'd already be savages if you hadn't joined up with us when you did. I could have been stuck in a demonic, glitchy spider-octopus-God-knows-what by now." Mario said. "Now let's hurry up and quit with the filler before more mooks show up!"

"Someone's been reading too much TV Tropes." Jad laughed. "Shut up. I'm surprised you even got the references given you being a Damsel in Distress and BEN being a Mary-Sue." Mario retorted.

(Yup, I've started reading TV Tropes now. It's hard to stop, it's hilarious. xD Anyway, the plot must go on!)

After a couple of minutes of walking,(even though Snowhead obviously is easy to get to, the clock moves at like, ten minutes a second.=p ) the team finally made it to the gates of Snowhead.

Even this early, the party's breath could be seen in front of them. "Hey guys, look! I'm smoking!" Mario gestured as if he was smoking an invisible cigarette. "Doing that won't make you warmer..." Jad said, annoyed.

Suddenly, the Termina Field theme stopped. "Oh, not again..." Mario sighed, ruining my creative writing skills. Fog came down, okay? T_T

"I can't see my hand in front of my face!" Mario had to yell over the howling wind. All that could be seen was a vast expanse of white.

"It's a whiteout..." Jad said. Everything was so bright, you couldn't even see shadows. Nothing like this had ever happened in Majora's Mask, that's for sure.

The Dodongos shivered in the distance, trying to use fire to warm themselves up, but to no avail. Somehow, cold was now stronger than heat.

A little laugh was heard, eerily clearly dispite the wind. In the distance, a man stood. He looked like an actual shadow of a man you would see in real life, nothing like the cartoony Zelda characters you would normally see. He appeared to be wearing a long-sleeved purple T-shirt, and dark jeans. This guy just looked like your basic pedestrian, but he was clearly not just passing by.

The man had no head. Upon his shoulders sat nothing. Just more white.

He appeared to bend down a bit. He picked up a rock. He threw it right at the group. Mario ducked cowardly. It bounced straight downwards in front of them. It...splashed into a lake. This made no sense! There was no lake at the Snowhead gate. But suddenly, it just popped up out of nowhere in front of the party.

A small object floated up to the surface. It wasn't the rock. It was...

A party hat. A children's birthday hat, in the middle of a lake, during a whiteout, in an already creepy game.

The man on the other side of the lake walked over. Right over the water, as if he were Jesus. He could now be seen up close.

The man changed as he came more into view. A big pack appeared on his back. His clothes became longer. His shoes lengthened. And his angry face stuck out from the snow even more than the black aura that engulfed him.

"It's clear to me you might be a problem..." The Father whispered.

I flinched when I saw the Father, still trying to keep warm. I began to chuckle nervously. "ah haha... right... Well... Guys! Uhh! I forgot I aahhh... Need something warm to keep my... asthma from... flaring up... so... I'll be--" I turned around and noticed I couldn't see the way back. "I shouldn't have done that last night..."