New spring grass was growing, so spring was to come soon. The air was still frigid, biting his soft fur and hard hooves with snow. Trees still stood amongst the snow, their branches bare and leafless. Nothing changed much since that awful day. Who knows what could happen? Slowly, Bambi’s spindly legs carried him out of his home. Even in his home, there was a need to be cautious. Was it safe…? Mother taught him to always be cautious, especially in the meadow. There were no loud, sharp sounds cutting through the air. Bambi poked his head out from the thicket. The birdsongs had died down since winter’s beginning, and most of Bambi’s neighbors only scuttled about when necessary, such as when they needed more food or to make sure Man wasn’t around. Snow blanketed the forest, turning it into a sea of pure white, glistening in the sunlight. This wasn’t the world Bambi wanted to wake up to. Bambi had escaped thanks to his mother, but she was gone.and he was here. The ‘if onlys’ kept piling up like Flower’s stash of acorns. If only someone had come to save his mother. If only he had noticed Man in the forest. Guilt washed over him like a stampede of his own kind leaping all over him. Bambi buried his nose into the grass beneath him and sobbed, yearning for his mother’s love. The knowledge of his mother never coming back to their beloved thicket made the tears fall. Suddenly, the thicket was far too big for just him. Her sweet, lovely voice, soft like a bird singing its song, but still low enough that it had a subtle wisdom about it, as she had lived long before he did.īack to the thicket Bambi went, but there was something missing. His mother would never again return to the thicket they called home, never to lick his fur, show him new sights and sounds on the meadow, romp around in the flowers, drink from the streams and ponds.he would never hear her voice again. The Great Prince-his father-had told him so. The forest was calm now, but little Bambi’s mind was awhirl with fear. The loud, sharp sound he heard in the snow never left Bambi’s ears. So if nobody minds, here's my Bambi one-shot fic! Hope you enjoy it! The word I was given was "dark." Then this random idea popped in my head and I felt compelled to write it out, because Bambi is one of my absolute favorite Disney movies (along with Aladdin and Hunchback of Notre Dame) and I thought it'd be nice to write a fan fic for it. So.I wrote this for a contest on a forum I frequent on, where you were given one word out of 100 of them, and you had to write an entire story around that one word.