Ballad of the Big Mouth Billy Bass: Majora's Mask part 13

  Link, now with the aid of his horse, rides to the Great Bay (Refer to map, it's in the west, very hard to miss).  After jumping over some kind of storm wall with his horse (which shall from now on be referred to as Epona, because I feel kinda like Dudley Do-Right calling it horse all the time), Link finds himself on a vacant beach with a couple of huts and a strange building in the middle of the sea.

yeah, kinda like this.

  If you have played Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube, you may recognize this scene.  It was the other Zelda map beside the really big one that everyone plays.  Anyhow, Tatl the fairy directs Links attention to a large flock of seagulls circling over something in the water.  Link swims toward it because flocks of seagulls never just show up without a reason in these games.  It turns out that it is a Zora.  Zoras are fish people who generally live in lakes.  Specifically, these Zoras are Lake or Ocean Zoras.  This is to discern them from River Zoras, who are draconic monsters that jump out of bodies of water and spit fireballs at passerbys.  River Zoras do not exist in Termina, and we know pretty much nothing about their origins, so when we talk about Ocean or Lake Zoras, we will just refer to them as Zoras.

  If there is anything to be learned about Zoras, it is that they are incredibly delicate.  Any sudden change to water temperature and you are looking at the potential extinction of large populations.  That is why the villains in other games always look to freeze the Zoras' abodes.  It is also of interest that oceans are usually far from a preferable environment for Zoras.  In Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, the Zoras have evolved into the birdlike Rito people so that they can fly from island to island rather than swim in the vast dangerous oceans.  That's also not particularly important and this all may be a bit confusing, so I'll just get back to this dying Zora and let you figure out the rest on your own.

   Link pushes the Zora to shore (because they can also live on land) and the Zora tells Link that he is dying and his spirit is broken.  By playing the Song of Healing (a.k.a. the "you're getting a new mask" song) to the fish person,  the Zora jumps up, pulls out a guitar made of fish bones, and starts playing a song to explain his story up to this point (if you think that sounds absurd seeing how he was on death's doorstep, just remember aliens).  The Zora introduces himself as Mikau, a guitarist for the popular band The Indigo-gos.  He tells of how his girlfriend and lead singer of the band, Lulu, laid several eggs (That may sound like way too much information, but I would give all the gold in the world to hear either Justin Bieber or One Direction sing a song about that.  I'll even meet them halfway and write the lyrics).  These eggs had to be taken to the marine biology lab off the coast due to the sudden violent conditions of the ocean, but the eggs were stolen by pirates.  Mikau went to reclaim the eggs, but was captured and mortally wounded by the pirates.

It's like Alvin and the Chipmunks but with fish.
 Also, Mikau is second from right and Lulu is front and center.

   Having sung all this with the phrase "yeah baby" thrown in there repeatedly, he falls over dead.  Link gives him a proper burial, and his spirit inhabits a mask.  Link can now turn into a Zora.

   Zora Link swims to the concert hall of the Zoras where he meets and talks with the band and its adoring fans who are occasionally stalkers but don't sell masks on the side so it's cool.  The band is in a state of turmoil since Mikau left to find the eggs (and is dead but that'll be our little secret) and as such spirits are low.  Lulu is mute and depressed because the eggs are gone.  Since Link is the hero, he goes to retake the eggs from the pirates.  I love this part so much that I'll save it for the next post.  Maybe when I'm done with this series I'll link all the posts together for the sake of posterity.  We'll cross that bridge when we get there.