I wrote this with no gender pronouns, so people can imagine the characters however they see fit. Enjoy!

I sat in my pyramid, thinking. Agahnim was able to break the Wise Men's seal and open the portal between worlds, but things are not going as I had planned. Some little whelp was chasing after him and trying to free the girls. I will not stand for this!

I decided it best to investigate things on my own. While I trust Agahnim completely, he is only human. Goddesses know what little whelps with courage are capable of, and though I have the entire Golden Power, the blood of the Hero is strong.

I first visited the Village of Outcasts, looking for word of any suspicious characters. My subordinate Blind had custody of his crystal and had succeeded in capturing one of the blacksmiths, hindering the whelp's progress. None of the other thieves had any information, so I proceeded south. A sweep of the swamp and Dark Palace produced similar results.

On my way back to the pyramid, I came across something rather peculiar- a pink rabbit was huddled under a tree, crying its eyes out. When it caught sight of me it screamed, and dove into the grass.

"P-please d-don't h...hurt me!" It was clear the rabbit was just some kid who had wandered into the realm, probably after looking for the Golden Power. Such fools, children are.

"What did you hope to prove, coming here? You will never find it, none of you ever have and ever will. You will only get yourself killed."

"F-find what? I... I didn't want this..." it sniffed, trying to rub the snot from its face and clearly failing. "I miss my uncle..."

I considered what the Essence told me when I first claimed the Golden Power, that the shape one took in this realm reflected their inner self. This little one had sparkling blue eyes full of wonder, not greed. I will kick myself for it always, but I must send the child home.

"Rabbit, get up. You do not belong in a place such as this."

"Sniff... I'm not a rabbit, I'm a bunny. Bunnies have floppy ears like this," it said, pulling on its pink dangly ears. It then stared at me, suddenly no longer afraid. "You're like a piggy, I guess. But you have floppy doggy ears. Why do we turn into animals here?"

What a strange creature. "Not everyone becomes an animal. You become on the outside what your heart reflects on the inside. Enough chatter. You need to go home before something happens to you. In this realm, purity is always stamped out."

"If I'm a bunny on the outside, that means I was nice on the inside? What about you? Why are you a piggy? Were you greedy? Did you make a mess of yourself? My uncle always told me I'd turn our house into a barnyard if I didn't clean up my toys and clothes when I was done..."

I was about to explode into a rant about foolishness, when I spotted a blue handle sticking out of the kid's belt. "Is that a mirror in your pocket?"

The "bunny" frowned and pulled it out. "It was a mirror, but it got broke. It was a present, too..." The poor thing looked on the verge of fresh tears.

"Give me that." I took the broken handle, said a few words, and gave it back. "Now use it to go home before I become the one to hurt you."

"Yay! Thank you, Master Piggy!" The kid hopped up and kissed my cheek in gratitude, startling me. As I watched the child dissolve back into Hyrule, I noticed something. That child was wearing a green tunic.

The same tunic those little whelps always wear.

A/N: Because I am female and have a huge crush on Ganondorf, I tend to imagine myself in Link's place. Hence all the genderswaps I write. But this one I really had canon Link in mind, though I made his mental age a little closer to his physical age. You can't tell me that poor boy wasn't freaked the hell out when first warped to the Dark World.