Here's the first real chapter. If you want to know, I imagined Alicia looking a little like Natalie Portman, just younger, around 16 years old. If you want to know what she looks like as a fawn, look at my German Fanfiktion profile page (I put the link in my profile).

Just so you guys understand who the chars featured in this chapter are:

Alani = Alicia (she's a different being, they are just connected)

Ama = Alani's mother

Ria = Bambi's mother, I had to make up a name for her

Ena = Faline's mother

Chapter 1: A new life

There is nothing that is as wonderful as a new life being born. It's almost magical. But giving birth is also very painful and exhausting. So the young doe was at the end of her powers when she turned around to look at her newborn fawn. Her light brown fur was dark from sweat and she was breathing heavily, but her brown eyes were bright with joy.

The little female, her first fawn, seemed to be only out of legs and wet fur. But she made little noises which sounded like bleating and tried to raise her head to look around. For her, it was very cold, since she was used to the warmth of her mother's body and her fur wasn't dry at all.

Following an instinct, the new mother (whose name was Ama, by the way) began to lick her fawn's fur to dry it. The more times she let her tongue brush over her daughter's body, the more the little one moved. It wasn't long until the tiny female looked around, curiously. Ama looked at her. The fawn's fur and eyes were darker than her mother's, but she had probably gotten that from her father, who had been killed by hunters a while ago. But Ama was happy as long as her baby was here. Her mate hadn't cared much for her anyway.

"Alani," she whispered and affectionately licked her daughter's head. "Your name's Alani."

Alani tilted her head. The fragile looking little being seemed to understand, but she couldn't answer her since he had just been born half an hour ago. Instead, she made cute little noises and actually smiled like her mother did. Ama laughed lovingly. She hadn't been that happy before in her entire life.

Some more minutes passed. The two deer spent the time nuzzling, sniffing and recovering from birth. Their mother-child-relationship grew stronger each moment. Even Ama was amazed.

Eventually, she realized she had to feed her daughter if she wanted her to live. Otherwise, her fawn would starve or not get the strength she needed to grow. Still a little exhausted, she got up and looked at the fawn. "Come on, my little one. You can do that, too."

Alani looked at her mother, clearly perplexed. She seemed to think; How did she do that? Carefully she stretched her long folded legs and tried to rise from her lying position. But she soon noticed that it wasn't as easy as it looked when her mother got up. It didn't took much time for her to fall down again.

But the fawn wasn't willing to give up. She wanted to get close to her mother again. She made her feel safe because she was used to the sound of her voice. And in addition to that, she was warm and smelled good.

Ama nudged her daughter, encouragingly. After various failed attempts and many downfalls, Alani finally managed to stand up on her own. Although her legs seemed to be far too long and she was still kind of wobbly, she was proud.

The next problem Alani had to solve was finding out how to go. The way she walked looked a little as if she was drunk, but she reached her mother's side. Like her mother did when she started to dry her, she followed her instincts and nudged Ama's belly with her snout. The fawn could smell something delicious and warm. She followed the smell along her mother's light brown belly until she found the teats.

Automatically and very happily Alani began to drink and soon her mouth was filled with delicious milk that warmed her inwardly. She kept drinking for some time until she was full and sleepy. Exhausted she laid down again and so did her mother. Ama lovingly licked and nuzzled her fawn's head while Alani herself snuggled into her mother's side and quickly fell asleep.

"My baby," she kept whispering every now and then. Before Alani's birth, she had been afraid of not being able to handle the situation of being alone with a newborn and having the responsibility of raising a fawn all on her own, but now that she saw her sleeping daughter, all doubts were gone.

Tiredly, she closed her eyes to doze some time. But the whole time, her fine ears moved the whole time to record every sound in order to record danger at once. She seemed to hear every rustling leaf. She had to take care that her fawn was safe, after all.

Soon she sank into a light, soothing slumber. But her head shot up as soon when she heard a few snapping branches. Someone was coming closer. What if it was a wolf? Or worse, a bear?

"Don't worry, it's me," she suddenly heard a female voice she knew. Ama sighed in relief. For one moment, she had feared her heart would stop beating due to the shock. And if she was gone, who should care for Alani?

Another doe stepped into sight between the bushes and trees. Everyone could tell that she was pregnant. Her belly was rounder and much bigger than usual. Ama knew it could only be mere days until another fawn would open its eyes for the first time.

"Hello Ria," Ama greeted the other doe. They had been friends since they were fawns. The doe named Ria said hello, too, but then her attention was caught by the newborn lying next to her friend. She smiled because of the adorable sight before her. Ama, herself and Ena, another friend, had gotten pregnant around the same time and since then they had always wondered who would give birth first. It seemed Ama had won, for Ena had been peacefully grazing when Ria left the meadow to look for Ama.

"Oh Ama, congratulations, it's adorable," she said joyfully and beamed at her best friend, who looked back proudly.

"Thank you. I named her Alani," she told her and licked over the sleeping fawn's fur.

"A beautiful name. I thought about naming my fawn Bambi," Ria answered and smiled dreamingly. She couldn't await her fawn, her young prince or princess, to be born. Hopefully her baby had inherited much that would her remind of her mate. She wanted to be as happy as Ama looked. It wasn't as if she didn't grant her friend her luck with her whole heart, but the sight doubled her anticipation and longing.

Ama grinned. "That's a beautiful name, too. I just hope our young ones will get along well."

Ria laughed softly. She had thought about that to, but she didn't know anything to worry about. "With their mothers being best friends? I think they'll like each other," she answered. She looked at little Alani once again.

"I think I'll let you two have some sleep now. I'm sure we'll meet again soon," she said. Ama smiled and nodded.

"Hopefully we both have fawns with us then." She watched Ria going back until her friend was out of sight. Then she rested her head on the ground again to continue sleeping. She was certain that Alani and she would have a wonderful life together and that her daughter would one day be a clever, beautiful doe.