Koda was walking though the forest singing On My Way, when he smelled something good. He came across a huge cave. He ventured inside to find a mountain of fish. Starving he jumped into the pile when he heard growling. Out of the darkness, a black red-eyed ferocious bear roared, picked Koda up and brought him towards its open mouth.

Koda woke up screaming as Kenai rushed up to him, picked him up and cuddled him as tightly as he could.

"Don't let it get me, Kenai!" cried Koda. "Please don't let it get me!"

"Don't let what get you, Koda?"

"The big bear! I went into his cave and he tried to eat me!"

He sobbed into Kenai's fur as his big brother hugged him the whole time through.

"So what happened in this dream?" asked Kenai kindly sitting on his bottom and bringing Koda up to him. Koda pressed his face into Kenai's belly, his arms protecting him as he told the dream.

"I was walking through the forest when I started to feel a little hungry. Then I found a cave where something - smelled good. So I went into the cave to find a pile of fish and I dived right into eating when a ferocious bear, bigger than Tug glowered over me and he opened his mouth getting ready to eat me."

"Oh dear."

"It seemed so real, Kenai! It's seemed so real!"

"Don't worry, Koda," smiled Kenai, hugging his little brother up by his chest. "That big bear was only a dream "I know, Kenai. But it was just too scary to accept.

And he sobbed into Kenai's warm fur again and began hiccupping.

"I understand, Koda," smiled Kenai. "Let's go outside for a bit and have some air. You can have a little drink by the stream to calm down and stop your hiccups and we'll just sit outside watching the air, just you and me."

So Kenai took Koda to the stream wear they lapped up the water and granted, stopped Koda's hiccups. They went back to their cave and sat outside by a wall, Kenai resting back at it and Koda resting and snuggling his back into Kenai's middle with his huge arms over him to keep him warm.

""Beautiful night isn't it?" smiled Kenai looking down on Koda.

"I guess so," said Koda.

"Don't" worry," said Kenai, hugging Koda in closer. "Your brother has strong arms. As long as they are strong, he will be there to save you from any of your bad dreams."

"Really?"

"If that bear come into your mind I will come and save you and scare him away. Bad dreams are scared of big brothers."

"How?"

Kenai lay on his back and held Koda up in the air by his sides.

"Because if they have a little brother they care for, they will save them. The little brother just has to imagine the big brother in the dream, and they will let out a big roar and they will frighten the nightmare away."

They then started to play a little, Kenai lying on his back bouncing Koda up and down with his feet and paws, swaying Koda upside down and finally softly tickling his belly with his claw.

Back in the cave, Kenai lay on his back and brought Koda up to his chest covering his with his huge arms to keep him warm.

"Even if you have another bad dream," said Kenai smiling lovingly. "You will wake up with my arms around you. You snuggle deep into my fur as long as you need to until you feel better."

"As a matter of fact," said Koda, and he began snuggling into his big brother warm fur. I still would nightmare or not. One of the best things about having a big brother is snuggling into their fur as warm as yours."

"And the best thing about having a little brother is you feel their need when they snuggle into your fur. Like when I let you snuggled into my belly when you woke up crying, I felt happy you got someone to cling to when you're frightened or sad."

Koda reached his head out and kissed Kenai's nose Kenai licking his head return as the cub started to drift off.

"Sweet dreams, little brother," whispered Kenai. "I hope in your next dreams we are playing by the salmon run."