Bambi: Unlikely friend
Chapter 1: Saved by an unlikely creature/Insult
It was a beautiful day in the forest. The birds were chirping away. Chipmunks were chipping. Rabbits were hopping. It truly was a beautiful day. On one such day, a deer fawn was walking through the woods. Behind him a big stag with antlers. The fawn's name was Bambi. His father's name was. Well… no one knows who his name is as he is referred to as The Great Prince of The Forest.
Bambi had lost all his spots and now has small antler stubs growing out of his head. It made the Great Prince proud of how much he matured over the course of one year. A few more years and he'll be grown up. "Bambi." The Great Prince said. The young buck looked at him.
"Yes, dad?" he asked. The Great Prince smiled.
"I think it is time for you to…" he paused. "I don't know." He said playfully.
"Come on," Bambi whined. The Great Prince sighed with amusement.
"Well, I think it is time for you to watch your own meadow." Bambi's eyes widened. Was his father asking him to really do that?
"Y-you mean you want me to watch a meadow? All by myself?" he asked. The Great Prince smiled.
"Yes. I was the same age as you when my father told me to watch a meadow." Bambi looked away.
"A-are you sure?" Bambi asked nervously with a stutter. The Great Prince nodded.
"I know it might seem like much. But, this is just a test. The meadow I want you to check is one that man doesn't go to often." Bambi felt a little better. So he looked up at his father.
"Which meadow is it?" he asked.
"The North Meadow." The Great Prince said.
"Why that one?" Bambi asked. The Great Prince gave Bambi a mischievous look.
"Well, I think your friend Faline goes to that one." He said. Bambi's eyes widened before blushing.
"She is?" Bambi asked. The Great Prince smiled. He knew that Bambi was interested in her.
"Oh yes," The Great Prince said with a nod. "She visits that meadow a lot. So I thought that maybe you would like to watch it."
Bambi's eyes widened. "Does she really go there?" The Great Prince nodded before he noticed Bambi staring off as if he was having a daydream. Another mischievous smile began to grow on the stags face.
"I know that look. You are thinking of how much she will like you when she sees you protecting her and the forest." Bambi's eyes widened before he looked up at his father with wide shocked eyes.
"W-what? N-no. I wasn't thinking that at all." the young buck stuttered. His father only smiled wilder. Bambi rolled his eyes.
"Stuttering son. That is one of the biggest signs that you are lying." his father said.
"I don't like her," Bambi said in an unsure voice.
"So, the kiss you two had didn't happen?" Bambi's eyes widened as he looked up at his father. His cheeks were flushing a deep crimson.
Bambi glared up at his father. "Alright." He tilted his head in a fighting stance. The Great Prince grinned as Bambi charged at him. But his little antlers did grow into where he can sort of lock with the antlers. "Alright wait till my antlers get bigger." He said. The Great Prince laughed.
"Oh, those stubs? PAH!" he laughed. The two laughed. Suddenly the two heard calling. One that sent immediate shivers down their spines.
"MAN! MAN! MAN! MAN!" the two looked up and saw a flock of crows flying over the top of the trees.
The two gasped. "We have to find Man," Bambi said.
"No, you go to the den. We will discuss the meadow when it is safe." The Great Prince instructed. Bambi sighed. He nodded. He ran to the den. He looked to the place where the den was but, to his horror in front of him was Man!
He had never seen Man before. It was wearing something on its head. It had a mustache but it grinned wickedly at Bambi. "Well, well, well. A young buck." He said. It pointed a long stick towards him. It shined brightly as it came into view. Bambi suddenly had a flashback to where his father saved him. He remembered seeing that glint from the stick. He couldn't move. Just as the man was about to fire, both heard a whizzing sound. Suddenly, something knocked the stick out of Man's hand. Both turned and saw a figure not far from them. In its hand was a bow. And on its back was a quiver of arrows. Bambi could slightly make out feminine features from the stranger. The Man however snarled.
"You dare attack me?!" he yelled. Suddenly he gasped as another arrow barely missed him. He snarled at the figure and aimed his stick at the figure. Bambi realized that however this was just saved his life. And this man was about to harm it. With determination he didn't know he had, he charged at the man and with his small stubby antlers, he ran into the Man. The Man yelled in pain as he fell. Suddenly the figure whistled loudly. A few moments later Bambi heard barking. To his horror, he saw two massive wolves coming at him. He jumped as they ran past him and tackled the man. He stared as the figure walked up to the Man. It reached its head and took off its hood revealing the face of a young girl no older than 15 or 16. She had copper brown skin, unruly black medium length hair, and deep brown eyes.
It was another Man! A female Man. The female glared down at the Man as he struggled. She grabbed his face and forced him to look at her. "Leave this forest." She said slowly. The man glared.
"You have no right to take my kill." the female narrowed her eyes.
"This place is a wildlife preserve. You have no right to hunt anything, poacher," the female spat.
The Man's eyes widened as he got a better look at the female. "You're just a child." He said before scowling. "One of them savage children too." The female didn't look like she was fazed by the insult.
"Leave." She commanded slowly. "Or you will be wolf food." She warned. The Man's eyes widened. She had a different aura around her. He noticed his long stick nearby. Bambi saw this and went up to the rifle. He glared down at it. This was the thing that took his mother. This is the thing that he heard many times. The thing that has frightened countless creatures over many generations of animals that have lived in this forest.
Then he glared at the Man. He stood up on two and with all his strength brought his hoofs down upon the stick. To his surprise, the rifle shattered. The man glared at the young buck before scowling back at the girl "You do not have a weapon." The female said. "Leave." She commanded. The male man scowled.
"This isn't the end you savage," He said. "I'll be back!" he yelled before he turned around and ran into the forest.
The Man snorted before turning to Bambi. To his shock, she gave him what looked like a very grateful smile. "Thank you." She said. The strange thing he noticed was that her smile was not like the man. It was more like a wolfish grin. Which allowed Bambi to see her pointed canine teeth. Which intimidated him a little more. He shook himself to get rid of the shock before looking at the wolves. They didn't looks so ferocious. In fact, they looked happy too. The deer could only nod before the female Man ran off.
The wolves following. He couldn't believe what just happened. He was saved by a man! And he saved a man! He quickly bolted back to the den. When he got there, his father was already there. The Great Prince turned to him with a worried look. "Bambi, where were you?" He asked. Bambi had to tell his father. "Are you alright?" he asked. Bambi nodded.
"Yes dad, I'm fine. Really. I was just stopped." The Great Prince narrowed his eyes.
"What? What stopped you?" he asked. Bambi looked down with a worried expression before looking back up at his dad.
"Dad, the reason I was stopped was…" he paused. "I saw Man." He said. The Great Prince's eyes widened. "
"What?" he said shocked. Bambi nodded. "W-what happened?" the stag stammered with worry. Bambi then explained to him what happened. He didn't tell the part where he was frozen with fear. Though he did sugar coat it. Eventually, he finally got to the part where he was saved.
"It was another man. Only it was a different Man." Bambi said. "This Man was a girl, and she saved me." The Great Prince's eyes widened. His son had been saved by another Man.
The Great Prince sighed. "Bambi, I want you to be very careful." He said. "You don't know if she is like the other Man." He said.
"But she saved my life, and I saved her," Bambi said. The Great Prince sighed. There was an old rule he had to follow. He owes that Man for saving his son.
"I looked at her, like into her eyes," Bambi said. "She was not as bad as the other Man. She was different." He said. "She was just different in a good way." The Great Prince sighed.
"That's something your mother would have said." The Great Prince muttered sadly.
Truly Bambi did have his mother's caring personality. She always gave someone a second chance. No matter the creature.
"Alright, I want you to keep your distance if you see her. I know she saved you but you don't know if she has others." The Great Prince said. Bambi sighed sadly. "I am grateful that she saved you. But it's hard to accept that there is Man that does not hurt animals." The Great Prince said. Bambi nodded and walked into the den where he later fell asleep.
NEXT DAY
Bambi was talking with his friends about the encounter. "Then she ran off," Bambi concluded. The animals gasped. Even Friend Owl and Faline were shocked.
"Wow," Thumper said. "That's amazing!" he yelled with a smile.
Bambi chuckled at his friend's enthusiasm. "I am surprised that there a female Man that exists. I mean, I never knew how there is so much Man," Friend Owl said. Bambi smirked.
"Well in order to have more man, wouldn't there have to be girls as well?" Bambi asked. Imitating his father with his head held high and his eyes locking onto the owl as he circled the stump Friend Owl was sitting on. Some of the animals snickered. Friend Owl stammered. He turned to his friends. Well only Faline, the Porcupine, and Friend Owl knew, as well as all the older animals what he was possibly talking about. "What's your point?" Friend Owl asked. "Well if there aren't female Man then… no Man can exist without the other." Bambi said. "In other words." He said.
"Where's the fun if it's just man? Where's the fun in that?" Bambi asked slyly with a small smirk on his face. Faline and the older animals widened their eyes at the joke. It was such a rare thing to come from Bambi. Friend Owl turned red. He didn't realize that. And felt silly that Bambi pointed that out.
"Wait," Thumper said tugging at Bambi's left hind leg. "What did you mean?" Thumper asked. Faline and Bambi smirked together as they knew what it meant.
"Umm, never mind/it's a grown-up thing." Bambi and Faline said at the same time. Suddenly a familiar face came into the animal's view. Ronno. Bambi glared. "Hello, Bambi," Ronno said. "I see you got antlers." He said. The older buck looked at Bambi's antlers before looking at the young doe. "Hello, Faline," Ronno said with a flirty look. Faline glared. "Nice to see you again." He said. Faline didn't speak. "Oh come on now." He said. "I thought we had something." He said. Just as he was about to reach her Bambi walked into his path and glared at Ronno. He wasn't going to let this bully tease his friends.
"Leave us alone," Bambi said. "And Faline." He said. "Let's just go. It's because of you someone very close to my mother almost got… I can't say it. You can tease me all you want but leave my friends out of it." He said. Bambi got nothing and walked away while Bambi's other friends shot Ronno a dirty scowl.
Ronno frowned, then smirked as he had an idea on how to mess with Bambi. "Well at least most of us have a mother to go to." He said. Everyone stopped in their tracks. Some gasped or put their hands to their mouths in shock. No one ever dared mentioned Bambi's mother like that. Especially in that tone of voice. "She must have hated you. It's your fault she's dead." He mocked. "And you didn't do anything." He laughed. "You ran all the way to your den like a coward." He said laughing more. Bambi's eyes widened with shock.
FLASHBACK
Bambi ran as fast as his legs could let him the deafening bangs echoing everywhere. Then came those words. Those final words he heard from his mother.
"Faster Bambi! Don't look back! Keep running! Keep running!"
BANG!
FLASHBACK END
Something erupted inside of Bambi. Rage, grief, and despair. Faster than anyone could react Bambi ran at Ronno with full speed. With a yell, he ran right into Ronno. The older buck grunted as he was flung back a few feet onto the ground. Everyone gasped. They saw nothing but rage in Bambi's eyes. And honestly, it scared them. "You wanna fight?" Ronno asked. But he didn't even respond when Bambi head-butted him again. Ronno fought back but couldn't keep up with this sudden rage. With one hoof Bambi punched him in the eye. Ronno groaned. Before he knew it he yelled in pain as Bambi bit hard into his leg with his sharp teeth causing him to fall. Now he was on his back with a furious prince glaring at him with so much rage that even he was shocked. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE WITHOUT A MOTHER!" Bambi yelled at the top of his lungs.
"SHE LOVED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!" he shrieked. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR MY FATHER!"
Ronno however smirked and laughed despite his position. It made Bambi furious. Tears streamed down his cheeks. "Well, I'm lucky." Ronno snickered. Bambi had had enough. He raised on his two hind legs ready to attack him again when.
"BAMBI!" a voice yelled. Everyone turned to see the Great Prince walking up furious.
"Dad," Bambi said. "Go to the den." The Great Prince instructed.
"But he-
"GO TO THE DEN NOW!" The Great Prince ordered. Bambi nodded tearfully before he glared at Ronno with so much hatred that it would make the devil and all of his minions look away with shame. Ronno chuckled.
"Bambi's in trouble." He sang. The Great Prince snapped his head in the direction of the bully.
"You." The Great Prince sneered. Ronno's eyes widened and backed away in fear. "What did you say to my son?!" he demanded. Now if there was one animal that intimidated Ronno, it was The Great Prince. Faline came up glaring at him with the same amount of hate that Bambi had given him.
"He said that Bambi's mom never loved him. It was his fault she is dead. And that he was a coward for running away." Faline said. The Great Prince narrowed his eyes.
"You should be ashamed. Don't you EVER, talk like that to my son again. Do you understand?." The Great Prince asked slamming a hoof down. Ronno nodded fearfully. "Good." The Great Prince muttered. With that, he walked off towards the direction of the den. He turned to the others who also had looks of disapproval. But where was Faline? Ronno heard a feminine yell and yelled in pain as something rammed into his side. He yelled in pain as he fell to the ground again. He growled and looked up, ready to get up and crush the one who did that to him. To his surprise, he saw Faline glaring down at him. She was the one who had done that. "You should be ashamed," Faline said. With that, she along with all of Bambi's friends walked off. Leaving the bruised bully with a broken ego.
End of chapter 1.