Well hello! Here is a new chapter of Forest Princess-fanfiction. This chapter has an event that I made up myself. And for Ronno's speech, I got a little inspiration from Hoodwinked! 2-movie, I don't own the rights to. See you in the next chapter.
The sun was rising, when Clarice was leaving her father's cave with her father, but then looked up at the sky:
"Sir, could it be so, that there's going to be a storm sometime in the next few days?"
"I can not say. Storms can come quite unexpectedly. I do not believe, that there's a storm coming", Gallant said, looking up at the sky.
"Alright", Clarice said walking forward with her father.
After walking for a while, Clarice stopped, and tried to feel his forest ability, but didn't feel anything out of the ordinary, but he heard a buzz behind him, and looked back to see a beehive in the branch of a tree near his father:
"Sir, there is a beehive on the branch above you".
"Hm. You're right, but you didn't see one thing", Gallant said after seeing the beehive, and ducked a little lower, dodging that goblin nest, and then rose to his full height, continuing to follow Clarice.
"What?!" Clarice asked pausing, and quickly turning around to look at his father.
"Let me show", Gallant walked towards Clarice, challenging his daughter to a little horn-fight again.
Finally, Clarice lay on the ground, smiling slightly.
Suddenly, Gallant began to tickle his daughter's stomach, whereupon Clarice began to laugh:
"Heh heh!"
Finally Gallant stopped tickling Clarice, and Clarice stood up.
Clarice smiled at her father.
Suddenly, Clarice saw Ronno standing several meters away coming to the scene, and through his blowing nose to the grass, which was before the roots of a tree:
"Only I can eat that grass, isn't just Stab, and Jab?"
"Didn't your mother forbid you from playing with your food?" Clarice asked looking at Ronno with disgust.
"Well, well. It's that little princess, and her cold-hearted father", Ronno said turning around, and seeing Clarice, and Gallant's. "Your grandfather Julius would probably be ashamed of you, and your father, princess, if your father won't let you take part in tonight's, girl-fawn to the night-meadow".
"Don't mock my father, and my grandfather! My father is 1000 times braver, than you! You're just jealous of my dad because, that he has bigger horns, like you! Friend owl said so!" Clarice yelled angrily, and really loud.
"Aaaah!" Ronno was startled by Clarice's scream so much, that Ronno jumped behind, and tripped at the base of the tree behind him, and sat directly on the spines on the back of the porcupine on the ground. And started jumping around because of the pain, trying to remove the porcupine from his butt:
"Aaaah! Take it off! Take it off! Mom! Take it off! Take it off, mom!"
Ronno ran to the right, eventually disappearing from sight.
"I see porcupines can be scary", Clarice said in disbelief.
"What am I going to do with that boy? Ronno is disrespectful to everyone. Ronno doesn't obey me at all, and I have forbidden Ronno from playing with his food. Sorry, little princess, and sir" Acacia said coming up, and then went to follow his son.
"It's okay", Clarice said. "Sir, what is the girls-fawn night-meadow occasion?"
"It is an event, where only girls can go with their parents to the meadow to look at the stars, that are seen tonight in the sky, watching so long, as they wish. I had already forgotten about that event. Why don't we go there today anyway?" Gallant suggested. "Be careful though".
"Alright. I'm going back to the cave", Clarice said as she walked into the cave.
"Good morning, sir", Friend owl said, perching on a branch of a tree.
"Good morning", Clarice's father, who had just smiled at his daughter, returned his expression to neutral.
"I still haven't found an adoptive mother for your daughter, but Clarice has clearly become stronger", Friend owl said.
Clarice sat down on the lawn in front of her father's cave, and waited for her father to come.
Finally Gallant came along, and stopped in front of his daughter.
Surprisingly, two blue birds flew next to each other Clarice, and past Gallant, and then away from the direction of the cave.
"Sir, what's the matter with those birds? They were behaving very strangely", Clarice said, although you knew very well, that what the birds's behavior was all about.
"You're still too young to know that. It's pretty common this spring though", Gallant said after seeing the same, like Clarice.
"I see. I don't think the girls-fawn night-in-the-meadow event is part of your mission", Clarice said.
"Is that just an assumption? Rumor has it that something interesting sometimes happens there on the nights during that occasion. The moon is said to be brighter than normal that night, so you can see well in front of you in the meadow", Gallant said.
"Sorry, that I assumed so", Clarice said.
"Everybody makes a wrong assumption sometimes", Gallant smiled a little.
(In the evening)
Clarice said arriving with her father in the meadow after the sun had set.
"I'll go first, and I announce, that the meadow is safe", Gallant said, instructing Clarice to stay hidden in the shadows of the trees near the meadow.
"Yes", Clarice said.
Gallant walked to the meadow, and looked around, until he saw the birds landing in the meadow, and then looked at Clarice:
"The meadow is safe".
Clarice walked to the meadow, and imitated his father's style of walking, and stopped then to his father's right, having reached the meadow to look at the stars, of which there were many.
Fireflies flew in the meadow, and then other girls-fawn, and their parents started coming there.
When Clarice looked at her father, Clarice saw her father looking sadly at the parents of one of the fawns, so Clarice decided to give her father something else to think about:
"Sir, what do you think about what you said earlier, mean a special event?"
"I can't say, Clarice", Gallant said thoughtfully.
Suddenly, Clarice saw, like the other deer, walk out from the edge of the forest, of an old but noble male-deer, which Clarice had seen many times before.
A proud deer walked proudly to the meadow, and all remained silent in their places, watching his every movement.
They looked like, that they couldn't believe, what they were seeing was real.
There was palpable silence in the meadow.
At last the lofty deer stopped to stand Clarice, and to the right hand of his father, and then looked at Clarice with a smile, and then continued walking, until he disappeared into the forest at the back of the meadow.
"He stopped, and looked at me", Clarice said to her father.
"Yes. I saw that", Gallant said a little curiously, then looked at his daughter. "Strange. Like I've seen him somewhere before".
"He is the deer, who warned us in that wild-boar case, and who has advised me a couple of times. Who is he, anyway?" Clarice asked.
"I don't know. We should go home now", Gallant said.
"Alright", Clarice said, starting with her father from the meadow.
Finally, Clarice, and Gallant returned to the cave, and laid down on the leaves of the trees on the floor of the cave.
"Sir, sorry, if going to the meadow was a bad idea", Clarice said remembering her father earlier, a sad expression.
"It wasn't a bad idea", Gallant said.
"Thank you. Good night", Clarice said falling asleep.
Gallant fell asleep at last, but before he fell asleep, he thought of a strange deer:
"Who could that deer be?"