A/N: HelloYellow! This is a nonprofit crossover story of Disney's Zootopia and Astrid Lindgren's Ronja, The Robber's Daughter. I just want to highlight that all rights, characters and trademarks in this story belongs to their respective owners. Now, without a further due, let's get into it!
Chapter 1: Child of Thunder
On the night when Judy was born, thunder was rumbling over the mountains. It was such a thunder night, that all creatures of Stu's Forest crawled in their burrows and caves. Only cruel man-eater imps called Ajattaras, loved thunderstorms over anything and they were screaming and wailing while flying around the robbers' fort on top of Stu's Mountain. They were distracting Bonnie, who was supposed to give birth to a child this night and she said to Stu:
"Scare ajattaras away, so it would be quiet again. Otherwise I can't hear, what I'm singing."
You see, Bonnie was singing while giving birth. She believed that by doing so, delivering a child would be easier and it would be happier if it would be born with song. Stu grabbed his crossbow and shooted few arrows from the loophole.
"Get lost, you scavengers!", Stu shouted. "I'm supposed to get a child this night, do you understand, you devils!" One of ajattaras started laughing.
"A child of thunder and lightnings it seems, ugly and small it will be." Then the others joined in a mockery.
"Ugly and small it will be, ugly and small it will be!", they repeated. Then Stu shooted once more straight to the flock, but ajattaras just laughed mockingly and then flied over treetops howling angrily.
When Bonnie was giving birth and singing and Stu chastised those devil birds with his best abilities, robbers were sitting in castle hall by the fire. They were eating, drinking and making noise as bad as ajattaras. Sure they needed something to do while waiting. And these twelve robbers were waiting seriously to what was happening soon in tower room, because no child has ever been born in Stu's fort during their robber's career.
Skalle-Ben was waiting the most eagerly.
"Why isn't that robberbrat coming already?", he asked.
"I'm already old and invalid and my robberlife is ending soon. It would be nice to see a new robber chieftain, before my end has come." Ben had barely said that when a door opened and Stu sprinted in, filled with joy. He leaped high joyleaps for a whole round around a hall and shouted like a madman.
"I have a child! Did you guys hear me, I have a child!" "What kind of child is it?", asked Skalle-Ben from his corner.
"A Robber's Daughter, praise and glory!", shouted Stu. "A Robber's Daughter, and here she is!"
Then Bonnie stepped over a threshold with a child on her lap. Then all robbers went silent. "I think your beer went down the wrong way.", said Stu. He took a girl from Bonnie and carried her from robber to another.
"Look, you all! If you ever want to see the most beautiful child, that has ever born in Robberfort!" A daughter rested on Stu's arms and looked him with watchful eyes.
"This child knows and understands already this and that, you can see that", said Stu. "What's her name?", Skalle-Ben wanted to know.
"Judith, or Judy for short.", said Bonnie.
"Just like I have decided a long time ago."
"But what if she would've been a boy?", Skalle-Ben asked.
Bonnie looked at him peacefully but strictly.
"If I have decided that my child will be Judy, then Judy it will be." Then she turned to Stu.
"Would you like me to take her now?" But Stu didn't want to give Judy. He stood quietly and looked child's brightly purple eyes, little snout, grey fur and helpless hands in awe, and he trembled from love.
"My child, you're keeping my robberheart in your little hands already.", Stu said. "You don't understand it, but that's how it is."
"Could I hold her a little while?", asked Skalle-Ben, and Stu handed Judy to his arms like she would've been a golden egg.
"Here is the new robber chieftain you've been talking about for so long. But whatever you decide to do, don't drop her because then your days are numbered." But Skalle-Ben just smiled with his toothless mouth.
"It's like she wouldn't weigh at all.", he said in awe and lifted a girl few times. Then Stu got angry and wrenched a child to himself.
"Well what did you expect, you blockhead? A big, fat robber chieftain with bulging belly and pointy beard?" Then other robbers realized that it would be better not to tell annotations about Judy, if they wanted to keep Stu pleased. You made a big mistake, if you made Stu angry. They started to praise the newborn child.
They toasted and drank many steins of beer and by doing so, they got Stu in good mood. Stu sat in honor place in middle of all robbers and presented his child time after time.
"This will irritate Walter to death.", Stu said deviously.
"There he will just sit in his despicable cave and all he can do is grimace with jealousy." He was thinking about Walter sitting in a cold cave somewhere in his rainy forest, shouting and rampaging like a 6-years-old kit so much that all ajattaras and grey dwarfs of Walter's Forest had to hold their ears. Skalle-Ben nodded happily and said sniggering:
"Aye, Walter will die in anger, when he hears about Judy. Stu's kin will go on but there will be nothing left of Walter!" Stu smirked at him.
"That's sure as death! As I recall, Walter haven't been able to get a child and I bet he will never get one!"
Then the lightning hit somewhere fiercely. It was the strongest thunder strike that anyone in Stu's Forest has ever heard. Every one of the robbers who sat at the table, was pale as a ghost and Skalle-Per plumped down. At the same time Judy let out a tiny, sad whimper and that shocked Stu more that a thunder strike. "My child is crying!", he shouted.
"What do I do, what do I do?" Bonnie was calm and collected. She took a Judy from her husband, laid her on her breasts and crying stopped right there.
"Goodness gracious, that was a blast!", Skalle-Ben stated after calming down a bit.
"By the Devil himself, it hit nearby!"
It really did, because so much had happened when the morning brightened. The ancient Stu's Fort on top of the Stu's Mountain was ruptured in two halves. The nightly lightning that shook Stu's Mountain, had split a fort in southern and northern parts. From the highest towertop to the undermost cellar vault the fort was in two parts with a deep pit between them. That pit was named The Hell's Gap.
"Judy, your childhood begins in a pretentious way.", Bonnie said with Judy on her lap. She was examining a destruction while standing next to a crushed wall.
Stu raged like an animal. How anything like this could happen to the old fort of his fathers. Still, Stu had never been able to rage for a one single thing too long and he was always able to find something comforting.
"Well, at least we don't have to worry about so many basement rooms, corridors or every kinds of stuff. And maybe no one doesn't get lost in Stu's Fort anymore. I'm sure you remember, when Skalle-Ben went astray and didn't survive back in four days!"
Skalle-Ben didn't want to be reminded about it. He just wanted to find out, how big and magnificent Stu's Fort was. As said, he noticed that it was so big that you could get lost in it. He had been just about half-dead before he found it back to the castle hall. The others had been caroused so that Ben heard it from long distance. Otherwise, he would've never found it back.
"We have never even used a whole castle anyway.", said Stu. "And we can still live in our halls, chambers and tower rooms in peace like we have always used to live." Then his expression got serious.
"Only thing that pisses me off, is that our outhouse has been taken from us. It's in the other side of The Hell's Gap and it's a pity for those, who can't hold their bladders until we have built a new one.
That matter was taken care of soon and life in Stu's Fort continued like before the thunderstorm. The only difference was a child in the castle. A little child, that made Stu and his robbers more or less silly. At least how Bonnie saw it. In the other paw, it didn't hurt anyone if robbers became a little more gentle and sensitive but there was a limit for anything. It was unnatural to see a robber chieftain and his twelve robbers sitting like a bunch of sheep, chuckling and rejoicing just because a little bunny learned how to crawl around a stone hall like there wasn't a bigger miracle on earth.
Judy crawled unusually fast, because she had figured to accelerate with a left foot. Even that was exquisite to robbers. Bonnie tried to speak some sense to them and told them, that every child would learn to crawl in some point in their life. But Stu and robbers were stubborn as a mule and didn't listen. They were like enchanted by Judy and they started to neglect their job as robbers.
"Is it your intention to let Walter to do all the rubbering in Stu's Forest too?", Bonnie wondered bitterly as the robbers, Stu in front, rushed back home ahead of time just to see Judy eating her gruel before Bonnie would tuck her in a cradle.
"Judy, my dove", Stu shouted, avoiding his wife's question. He took Judy to his arms and started to feed her as all twelve robbers were watching. A bowl full of porridge was at the edge of stove and because Stu's big paws were a little clumsy, some porridge spilled to the ground. Besides, Judy pushed a spoon sometimes so some of the gruel flied to Stu's eyebrows. When this happened for a first time, the robbers started to laugh so wildly that Judy got scared and started to cry, but soon she noticed that she invented something fun and did the same thing gladly over and over again. It seemed to cheer the robbers more than Stu.
Otherwise anything that Judy did, was unique in Stu's opinion and there was no child like her on earth. Even Bonnie had to laugh when she saw Stu with Judy on his knee and some porridge on his eyebrows.
"Oh Stu, who would ever believe that you are the greatest robber chieftain of all mountains and forests! If Walter would see you now, he would laugh so much that he would wet his pants."
"That laughter would end pretty soon!", Stu stated calmly.
Walter was Stu's archenemy. Just like Walter's father and grandfather were Stu's father's and grandfather's archenemies. For a time too long to remember, Walter's and Stu's kins have been in quarrel between each other. Both of them had been robbers in all times and horrors of honorable people, who had to get through the deep forests with their horses, wagons and cargos. "God help those, who have to ride through the robberpass.", people used to say. By a robberpass they meant a narrow pass between Stu's Forest and Walter's Forest.
There was always some robbers in guard, and it didn't matter if they were Stu's or Walter's. It was indifferent for those, who were robbed. Still, in Stu's and Walter's opinion, the difference was huge. They fought for a catch and robbed from each other if there wasn't enough travellers brave enough to ride through the robberpass. But Judy was completely unaware of all this, she was too young. She didn't know his father was a feared robber chieftain. For her, he was just a beardy, kind Stu, who laughed, singed, yelled and feeded her. Judy liked him.
Judy grew every day and started to explore the world around her little by little. She had thought for so long that a stony hall was a whole world. She liked it there. There she sat safely under a huge and long table and played with pine cones and stones, which Stu had brought from the forest. Maybe a stonehall wasn't so bad place for a child after all. There you could have so much fun and learn so much. Judy liked, when robbers were singing every evening by the fire. She sat under a table quietly and listened until she knew all robber songs. Then she started to sing along with her bright voice.
Judy also learned to dance. As they got excited, robbers danced and jumped around a hall like somewhat crazies. As Judy learned all steps, she was dancing, jumping and making leaps for Stu's joy. When robbers sat down after a wild dance, Stu was bragging about his daughter. "She is beautiful like a little ajattara, you remember that! As flexible, purple-eyed and grey-furred. There hasn't ever been as pretty child as her, you remember that!" Robbers nodded and agreed. But Judy was sitting under a table quietly with his pine cones and stones. She looked at robbers' feet and their leather slippers and imagined those were her mischievous goats.
Judy had only seen goats in a stable when Bonnie took her there. But that was pretty much all Judy had visited beside a stone hall. She didn't know anything about what was outside of Stu's Forest. And when that one beautiful day came, even if it didn't please him at all, Stu realized that it was a time.
"Bonnie", he said to his wife. "Our child has to learn, how to live in Stu's Forest. Let her go."
"Well, well", said Bonnie. "So you have finally realized it. If I could've decided, this would've happened a long time ago." And from that day on, Judy was free to go as she felt like it, but first Stu told about many things to avoid.
"Try to avoid ajattaras, grey dwarfs and Walter's robbers", he said.
"How do I know, which ones are ajattaras, grey dwarfs or Walter's robbers?", Judy asked.
"You'll spot the difference", said Stu.
"Alright. Then what?", asked Judy.
"Then try not to get lost in forest", said Stu.
"What if I get lost after all?", asked Judy.
"You look for a right path", said Stu.
"Alright. Then what?", asked Judy.
"Try not to fall in a river", said Stu.
"What if I fall in a river after all?", asked Judy.
"You swim", said Stu.
"Alright. Then what?", asked Judy.
"Then you absolutely need to avoid falling in The Hell's Gap", said Stu.
"What do I do, if I fall in The Hell's Gap?", asked Judy.
"Then you won't do anything anymore!", said Stu and yelped like all evil in the world would've pressed his chest.
"Alright", Judy said, when Stu had wailed enough. "In that case, I won't fall in The Hell's Gap. Is there anything else?"
"Yes, and very much there is but you will learn all that a little by little", Stu said.
"Go on now."
To Be Continued…