-Back With Toon Link-

"Ugh... wha... what happened?" Toon Link groaned as he sat up. He stood up slowly as the awful, albeit expected, pain in his back and right leg struck him.

He was achey from sleeping on the ground, even though it was covered with soft grass.

He walked out of the lean-to and out into the sun. He squinted his eyes until they adjusted to the light and then looked around. He was surprised to see that it was actually quite a lovely place.

"It's still not home..." Toon Link said to himself. He sighed and then walked over to the lake where he sat down and looked into the water. He saw his reflection and his eyes widened.

His once golden hair was dulled and coated thickly with mud. His eyes had dark circles underneath them and his face was covered in dirt. There was also quite a bit of blood on his clothes. Just what he had thought.

He smelled terrible and looked even worse.

He sighed and cupped his small hands together, delving them into the cool water and bringing them back up to his lips to take a sip. He winced as the nasty water hit his tounge and slid down his dry throat. He shivered and dreaded having to get more, but he was severely dehydrated and his throat was sore.

He started to dip his hands in again when a voice seemed to come out of nowhere.

"Toon Link? Are you ok? Can you hear me? Are you alive?" Link's voice asked.

Toon Link's eyes became wide as he stood up and looked around wildly, searching frantically for the source of it.

"LINK? YES! I'M OK! WHERE ARE YOU?"

"Oh yea, I forgot tell you that we can communicate through our instruments now! So take out your Wind Waker and play the notes of your message! came Link's voice again.

"O...ok!" Toon Link blinked and yanked out his Wind Waker, playing 6 notes; I'm here.

"Oh Toon, thank God! I thought you were dead! But where are you?" Link asked.

"I'm in a forest about 6 hours away from the mansion. Please, help me!" Toon Link played.

"I'll be there as soon as I can! Just tell me when you can see the jet, ok?" Link said.

"I will!" Toon Link played excitedly.

He smiled and plopped back down into the sand, looking down at his Wind Waker.

"I... I'm not going to die..." Toon Link said to himself.

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Toon Link sat for what seemed like forever, gazing up into the sky.

I wish they would hurry! Toon Link thought. His eyes started to slide close, but there was no way he would allow himself to go to sleep.

Just as he thought his eyes were going to close, he saw a glare in the sky, making him jump to his feet. Toon Link recognized it as the same plane that had come to pick him up that day with the same big, thick, red and black letters on the side that read 'Brawl'.

Toon Link remembered what Link said and quickly took out his Wind Waker, waving it around to spell his message.

"Link! I see your plane! It's right over me!"

It wasn't but a moment before Link's voice came back to him.

"Really? I'll tell the pilot!"

Toon Link put away his Wind Waker and watched as the plane came around and landed on top of some trees that were unlucky enough to have grown there.

The door opened and when Link came into view, his eyes immediately locked on to Toon Link. Link's eyes widened as he started to run towards his brother.

When Link reached him, he fell to his knees beside his brother and threw his arms around his small, fragile body, pulling him as close as possible.

"Toon Link... I'm so sorry I couldn't get here sooner... are you okay?" Link asked quietly.

"I... think so..." Toon Link said just as quietly. They broke from the embrace and looked into each others eyes with tears sparkling in both of them.

"How did you figure out the instrument thing?" Toon Link asked to try and break the silence between them. Link blinked and then chuckled a bit.

"You wouldn't believe it, but it was actually Ganondorf that told me about it. He just came into my room and claimed that he couldn't stand to see me go soft just because you didn't make it back," Link laughed and rolled his eyes, making Toon Link chuckle a little too.

Link smiled and picked Toon Link carefully up into his arms.

"Come on... lets get you home."

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-Back at the mansion-

After Toon Link had been bandaged and cleaned up, Link took him out to meet everybody.

"OH MY GOSH, HE'S SOO CUTE!" Peach squealed. Almost every smasher was crowded around him, either asking about his adventure in the woods or comment about his looks.

Toon Link blushed at all the attention he was getting while Link stood by him the whole time, making sure that no one got too close or accidentally hurt him.

"Careful, guys, he's still pretty weak," Link warned.

Ganondorf was the only one that wasn't welcoming Toon Link to the mansion. Toon noticed him sitting by himself in the living room.

Then he remembered that Ganondorf was the one that had helped get him back to the mansion. Toon Link smiled, excused himself from the crowd, and walked over to the large man. The king of evil looked at him with a glare.

"What do you want, kid?" Ganon asked, grimacing.

"I won't tell anyone else because I know you want to keep up your 'evil image', but I just wanted to say thanks for saving me. If it weren't for you, I would never have made it back. And even though he probably won't tell you, Link is really grateful, too," Toon Link said with an angelic, kiddish smile. Ganon gave him a surprised look and watched as the little Link walked back into the crowd and beside Link.

Link smiled down at Toon Link and then looked over to Ganondorf. Link also dashed a quick smile at him, making the king of evil's surprise skyrocket.

Maybe he's not so bad after all... Ganon thought as he smiled to himself.

It was going to be a good day after all.

I hope you guys liked this! I know that it may have been a little rushed, but I was really wanting to get this finished so I could post this before I left next week. Thanks for reading and please review. -Dawn ^^,