Link has exactly three days to find a way to prevent this from happening.
A meeting with a wandering mask salesman reveals that the Skull Kid is wearing Majora's Mask, an ancient item used in hexing rituals, which calls forth a menacing moon hovering over the land of Termina. Shortly afterward Tatl joins Link and agrees to help him revert to his native form. Skull Kid turns Link into a small plant-like creature known as Deku Scrub and takes away his horse and his magical ocarina. In the Lost Woods he is ambushed by Skull Kid, an imp who dons a mysterious mask, accompanied by the fairies Tael and Tatl. After having fulfilled Princess Zelda's request and saved the land of Hyrule from grave danger, Link departs on his horse Epona.
