Kurai
"Darkness"
- dark; gloomy; dim






HISTORY

Kurai was not a stag from a magical paradise before. This is not his first chance also, but it's his second. He's a deer from another world.

He was an orphan. His mother was killed when he was still 8 months old. But miraculously, he survived on his own. His mother was killed by a hunter (which Kurai prefer it to be "the two legged ape") under a 200 year old tree. He stayed and lived in that very tree where his mother died (but he only leaves when food and water is scarce). Kurai never realize that his mother was dead so he waited for her.

Six years passed, the forest was slowly getting smaller. He went to a place where he was not suppose to go to check out what's going on. What he saw was terrible. Trees were killed by the "two legged apes". Kurai went back to his home but before he got there, the tree where he waited so long for his mother to come back was gone. He had nowhere else to go but to run for his life.
His life grew darker. His neighbors, rivals, mates, fawns and home slowly disappearing. But one night, he met an old stag. He said, "If you go the path of light, you will surely live in paradise". The old stag left Kurai with a confused mind. Kurai wanted to find out where this paradise is. Before he ask the old stag, he disappeared into into the darkness.

Few years passed, Kurai still long for his mother to come back. He found out that his life is empty. He had no reasons to live anymore. Until he remembered the old stag's riddle. Before he must go to "the path of the light", he must go to where he lived few years ago, in a place where he waited for his mother. As he finally reached his destination, the grass where he slept turned into a flat, wide, thick rock, and the tree where he slept under, turned into a boulder only it is straight, hard, and higher than Kurai. He gently bumped his antlers on the boulder and said in his heart, "I am not forgetting you, but I will always long for you, for you gave me life and you are the reason why I am here. Always, you will remain in my heart.... forever". He left without still knowing that his mother is dead and always, he will wait for her.

He followed the path where his heart led him. He saw a never ending path where fast creatures pass through (which means cars). He walked, walked, walked until he stood at the middle of the path. He saw a light coming closer and closer. It's the last thing he saw. Darkness came.

He felt no pain. He felt the emptiness inside him. Until light came. He woke up, confusingly. He stood up and thought that he was little than before. He's thirsty so he went to the nearest pond. Before he drank, he was shocked! He looked at his reflection again carefully. He realized that he's a fawn. He's more confused. He roamed the forest and met new neighbors. He went to new places and homes. Many stags and fawns greeted him. He had felt something new. He felt something that he never felt before. He felt love.

He was given a second chance for him to reach LOVE into his heart.