light, coming from a tree originally for hunters, but it had malfunctioned, and when he woke up, Chestnut was in the past, trying to save the future... 

" And that's what happened" Chestnut told him. Vertrou snorted. 

" So your saying, that in the future, i get banished by Ronno ...." Vertrou glared at Ronno for effect

" And that you, Nocere and Lojalis's son " Again he looked at Nocere and Lojalis " Fall in love ith mine and Bukuri's daughter?" He questioned. 

" Sum's it up!" Chestnut said. " Now If you'll bear with me, I think Its ime to sort this out!" 

" The only sorting out here will be you going!" Hässlich yelled, running quickly towards Chestnut. But two does stopped him. Fawn and Mena stood infront of him. 

"Please don't Hässlich, you know it's not good" Fawn glared. 

" Not in front of me you don't " Mena also glared. There was something about their glares that made Hässlich back off, but he gave Chestnut a warning glare for good measure. Chestnut glared back. Hässlich thought he was the only one suffering pain. But Chestnut was in pain to, he was homesick, and longed for his own time period. 

" Let him go, there's no need for him to be swapping periods of time like theres no tomorrow!" Ronno yelled through the crowd. The great prince watched from a distance, wishing he could help. But he kept faithful to his promise of silent watching.

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As the gang headed out to see were the portal was, Lojalis and Nocere got a bit more friendly with their son. 

" I never thought we'd have a time traveling son!" Nocere laughed. Lojalis smiled. 

" He's father's you, anything's possible!" She laughed. But their words were drowned out of Chestnut's hearing, he longed for home, and was getting thinner by the minute, being in a different dimension, if you like. He wondered if he would ever see Sanft again, or if now he had come back, his time had changed? As Chestnut pondered over these thing's, he heard Bambi call. 

" Chestnut, see this!" 

Chestnut ran ahead to see his own time dimension shining in front of him over the sharp spiked ditch. No, there was no ditch! Chestnut was relieved, and just as he was about to step forwards, the ground shook, opening up below him, and Chestnut had to jump back to the other side, as the ground transformed into the sharp spiked ditch again. Chestnut shook his head in disbelief. How could this happen? But it was no point in pursuing, so Chestnut followed the group back home, tired, miserable, hungry, and more homesick than ever. 

The next day, Chestnut decided to make some errands, so set about helping the other forest animals. Bambi was pleased with his god work, and offered a small reward for when Chestnut eventually got back home. 

" If I ever get back home" Chestnut sighed solemnly. 

" No you have to be positive!" Bambi reminded him sharply. 

" I guess your right" Chestnut nodded, and watched Bambi fade into the tree's. 

" He's a great king" He said to no one in particular. 

" I might take up on his advice of positiveness to get what you want!" Ronno emerged from a near by bush. Chestnut narrowed his eyes. 

" Imagine, maybe that world threw you away because they didn't want you! Well guess what, no one here want's you either, so stop swapping dimensions! Stick to your own dam timeline!" Ronno yelled. 

" I would, and when I go, I'll be glad to be rid of you!" Chestnut puffed out his chest. 

" What happened to your antler point anyway? Did your dimension get rid of it as a punishment?" Ronno smirked. Chestnut said nothing, but glowered, then backed off from Ronno. The antler point was private, and not a tale he liked to tell. 

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Meanwhile, Lojalis confronted Vertrou again, who was pacing impatiently around his den. 

" Just because Bukuri's gone, doesn't mean you have to pick on my son!" Lojalis was very angry. Vertrou was running out of patience. 

" She won't replace Kangelane you know" Lojalis's voice became softer on his name. Vertrou was out of patience, and a sudden adrenalin rush caused him to knock Lojalis backwards with his antlers. 

" DON'T TELL ME SHE WON'T REPLACE KANGELANE!!! WHY WOULD I WANT TO REPLACE THAT SCUM BUCKET OF A FATHER?" Vertrou yelled. Lojalis lay on the floor in the dust breathing in heavily. 

" Go find a friend that cares about you" She announced, and stormed out of the room, leaving Vertrou feeling disgusted with himself. He had just hurt the one doe other than Bukuri that cared for him. Vertrou's life was wasted. 

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Whilst he was helping a baby chipmunk climb up a tree to it's parents, Chestnut heard Bambi running towards him. 

" If you come quick, you can get back to your timeline!" he shouted. " Come, ther's no time to lose!" But as Chestnut neared the portal again, the ground shook into the ditch again. 

" Not again!" Faline yelled. 

" Are you ok Chestnut?" Bambi asked. The ditch was still deep with fatal razor shaped spikes at the bottom. 

" We'll try again soon" Faline promised. 

" No need to" Chestnut said, focusing on the spikes. 

" Why?" They all asked. 

" I'm going to JUMP!" Chestnut yelled, and attempted to jump over the ditch. But the task was impossible, and only made it half way across before he fell, brambles and thorns tearing at his skin as he plunged towards the fatal spikes. 

" Chestnut, NO!" Nocere yelled, as the other deer attempted to pull him back.