Zorro (novel) blossoms into a romance, and Diego is forced to remain at home to recover after suffering a few broken ribs during the attack. Diego and Bernardo then undergo a test to prove their maturity and to find their spirit guide, a totemic animal which would guide the boys' future. Bernardo's spirit guide is a horse, in the form of Tornado, a motherless colt which Bernardo encounters and cares for. Diego's is a fox ("zorro" in his native Spanish) who saves his life. After the events in the forest, Alejandro, oblivious to the Indian training Diego has been receiving, receives a
Tales of Zorro Tales of Zorro Tales of Zorro is a 2008 anthology of Zorro stories and is the first collection of original short fiction featuring pulp hero Zorro, edited by Richard Dean Starr and published by Moonstone Books in 2008. A second anthology, "More Tales of Zorro", was published in 2011. The stories in "Tales of Zorro" incorporate elements from the original Zorro incarnation by Johnston McCulley in "The Curse of Capistrano". It also contains many references to other versions of Zorro including the 1998 film "The Mask of Zorro", Walt Disney's "Zorro" (starring Guy Williams), and the New World Television series,