will work all the time. I will admit to you, we were lucky."

"You were both very lucky," Claris said as they walked back to their thicket. "You were also both very brave to protect us." She then kissed him openly in front of the others. Faline did the same with Bambi. The warm intense feeling inside his body made him feel it was almost worth it. When they both went back to their thicket they were alone. Stena, Gerta, and Balo had going back to the clearing to talk to the other fawns.

She snuggled in closer to her, the warm feeling and the desire to breed Claris only increased, but she was not yet ready. Instead she talked to him some more. "You want a male or a doe this time."

"I like a son," he said. "I am getting old enough where I have to admit that I will only be herd leader for a few more Seasons before I get too old. I like to have a son who can take my place when the time comes."

He saw her face darken. Claris never liked to think that one day they would all die and pass from here. He had seen so much death before that he knew better. He had always felt whether by some Man killing him, or a bear or some other animal killing him, or dying from disease or sickness during winter, or some deer finally beating him and killing him; sooner or later he was going to die. If he was real lucky or smart he might die of old age like Bambi's father did. He was actually surprised he ever made it this long, but he had.

"We shall see," was all she said. "Then she changed the subject. "You know Stena asked me a lot of questions about the Season. She wanted to know what I felt during the Season. She wanted to know if she would feel the same thing."

"A bit young for that," he said.

"Not really," Claris told him. "I felt an attachment for an older male when I was a fawn, but it vanished. He had another older doe and was not the slightest bit interested."

"Why, does she feel an attachment for a male," he wanted to know.

"She said she likes to be with Balo, but he is too young to understand."

That was the first time he heard about that. First Stabo and Gena and now Stena and Balo; his family and Bambi's family seem to be getting joined together. "We will have to watch that next Season," he said. "In the meantime I know a doe that is not too young and understands fine what happens in the Season."

The next few days the males finished scrapping the velvet off their antlers. It did not seem as hard to do as last year. When they were done, Jolo, Bambi , and him has large nice racks. The doe also starting to emit that scent letting him know the time of the Season was near. He also started again to feel uncomfortable around Bambi and Jolo, but the feeling was not as strong as last year when he and Bambi almost came to blows. When the last of the velvet was gone, he knew it was time to say goodbye until after the Season.

He was woken soon after he fell asleep the next morning when he heard a noise coming from the base of the hill. It sounded like another deer, but why would a deer be so close to the meadow during daylight. The noise got louder. This deer was in a hurry. He got up and walked into the small clearing. Bambi was also coming out of his cave.

"Ho," he heard from the bottom of the hill. It was one of the three year old males running up to meet them. It was Sinno, not a large, but a respectable three year old. He ran up almost exhausted. He ran into the small opening neat Bambi's cave.

"Sinno, what is wrong?" he asked. Bambi and Jolo were standing nearby by them.

The young male was exhausted, yet there was something else. The eyes, the eyes were full of fear.

"Stranger there is another Strange deer in the forest," he gasped. "He does not belong to this herd. I saw him in the forest near where the stream to the old forest comes toward the meadow. He came over and knocked me down. He said he kill me if I did not tell him where the herd leader was. He also asked about Gurri. Then he let me up and walked away. I ran here to tell you."

"Someone comes," Jolo said looking down the hill. "Some deer I do not know. He is big."

"You you led him right to us," he said out loud. "Leave Sinno, this is my problem," he said trying not to show anger at his stupidity.

The three year old turned and bounded away like dogs were on his tail. He watched as a large rack came up the hill. There was a large deer that went with the rack. He was the same size as he was. He walked like a herd leader and seemed to take no notice any of them were here. As he got closer, Gurri called out. "Krono, he is one of the lead males in Geno's herd."

He walked into the middle of the clearing and watched the large male approach. The male was unafraid of them there and walked into his clearing like he already owned it.

"I am Krono," he said with an air of command. "I knew that fool lead me to you all. Allow me to introduce myself. I am the new herd leader here. Geno the herd leader in the old forest sent me over to take over leadership in the forest."

"Is that so," he said. "Well you can go back to Geno and tell him I am herd leader here and you and him can take a long walk on the meadow for all I care."

The new comer did not blink an eye. "Well then I will just have to kill you," he said and lowered his head as he did he looked to the side and saw Gurri and the others and stopped. "I see Gurri there and there is the old beaten stag Bambi," he said. "Geno asked me to breed with Gurri and run Bambi off. I will do that after I kill you," he said and lower his head again.

He lowered his head. This deer was big and strong, but was he smart? He was about to try a fake charge on him when he heard."

"Not this time," Bambi growled like a bear and in an instant a brown blur flew past him straight at Krono. Krono shifted his weight and went to meet him, but Bambi got under his antlers and lifted his head as he crashed into him. The noise was like a killing stick going off. Bambi stood there, as steady as the rocks in his cave. Krono went flying backward at least three lengths. He got his legs under him and got up and Bambi flew at him again. This time Krono charged also. They met with a terrible crash. Both looked stunned, but Bambi looked to recover first. He dropped his head again and pushed hard on Krono pushing him back. Krono dug in his back legs and pushed Bambi back and Krono went to get under his antler and lift Bambi off the ground. He was only able to move the huge deer a bit before Bambi brought his rack down on top of Krono smashing his head onto the ground.

In a second Bambi pulled back and then lowered his head got under Krono and picked the big deer up almost flipping him over. He went crashing against a tree. Bambi was on him in a second pounding him on this flank with his hoofs.

"Beaten old stag," Bambi growled again and stomped on Krono.

"Breed my daughter." Bambi yelled and stomped on Krono again. "

"Kill my friends," Bambi yelled a third time and stomped even harder. This time he could hear a cracking sound from inside Krono.

"Bambi stop!" Faline called out. "He is beaten."

Bambi turned quickly to face them; the normally dark piercing eyes were flushed with red. For the first time since he had known him, Bambi looked ready to kill.

"No my Friend," he called out. "You have won."

Bambi turned back to Krono who was still lying on the ground fighting for air. He could see a light trickle of blood from his forehead and coming out of his mouth. He thought Bambi was going to start stomping him again, but instead he lowered his antlers and slashed the side of the big male.

"DUROOOO," screamed Krono

Bambi did not cut deeply enough to gut Krono, but he did gash him badly. Krono have scars for the rest of his life. After that he was just limp on the ground.

"GET UP!" Bambi yelled and just about lifted the deer back onto his feet with his rack. Krono was as wobbly as a new fawn on his feet and he looked to be out of his head. Bambi hit Krono hard across the face with his hoof to knock some sense back into him. Then Bambi looked deeply into Krono's eyes with his black and red eyes. It reminded him of the bear getting ready to eat.

"Leave!" he told him. "Do not come back. If I see you, smell you, or even hear you again, I will kill you myself without warning. You tell my son that he is no leader here. We have our own herd leader, and Gurri has her own mate. Geno gets to say nothing about this. If he wants to come back to see how his old beaten father is doing, tell him his father is still strong enough to pound you into the dirt. Now go, before I do kill you."

Krono staggered. As a help Bambi kicked him in the tail to hurry him along on his way. Then he turned around and looked back at all of them. It was only then he realized what he had done. He stood up straight and closed his eyes realizing he had broken the rules for the herd. He walked timidly up to them and lowered his head.

"I am sorry." he said almost in a moan. "I lost my temper. Krono came to challenge you for herd leader and challenge Jolo for Gurri. I should have let you both handle him, but he got me so mad I lost my head. I am sorry," he repeated and started to walk away.

"Stop, my friend," he said and walked up to him and gently lifted his head with his own rack. He looked at Bambi with a large smile on his face.

"Geno needed to be sent a message, it is only best his father send it to him. You owe me no apology. In

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