Hello there!

Welcome to read my new fanfiction – FRIENDSHIP OF THE FOX - the mix of between Brother Bear movie's plot and surroundings and Zootopia characters, with my own edits.

I have been this fanfiction as one of my idea since the autumn 2016 and I managed to finish the first chapter in December 2016, which I already published in my Deviantart-page but I also decided to publish it here.

I hope that all of you enjoy the reading, and my apologizes if you suddenly happen to spot some errors in the text while reading.

HAPPY READING!

(I don't own neither Brother Bear nor Zootopia. Disney owns them.)


FOX OF FRIENDSHIP CHAPTER 1: THREE BUNNIES.

Long time ago, in the cave in somewhere post-ice age North America

Old rabbit doe with the light grayish fur, tuft of hair between of her ears and red-brown eyes, was trying to bring the light in the cave by lighting the fire by hitting two sharp rocks against each others near the pile of wood. This fails for couple times until with the third attempt the succeeds and the campfire wood catches fire.

Old rabbit doe, who is seen bearing a Totem of Wolf of Wisdom on her neck, stands up and turns to the large group of younger rabbits, who were sitting in an arch around her and with the gentle smile, old doe began to speak to the young ones with the native language.

"This story was born a long ago, back in the time when the earth was still young and when great mammoths still roamed on the face of earth."

Old doe picks up the bowl filled with paint made by offerings of nature from the ground and drew the pictures of three rabbits to the stone wall.

"The story tells about the paths of three rabbits… my father, my little sister and me myself."

"When me and my sister were still young little bunnies, we both were taught that the world is full of secrets... wonders... and magic."

Old doe then waves her paw towards the great paint of the great three-pointed mountain above of them.

The paint's great three-pointed snowy Mountain raises with all mighty above above of the sea of clouds far away from the bunnies cavern, and the mountain's mighty was crowned with the bright yellow-red Northern Lights dancing all around of the sky above of the mountain top.

"We were taught that this mysterious magic came from the ever-changing Lights that dance across the sky."

The elder rabbit shaman, named Bonnie Hopps, dressed in polar bear's white hooded fur coat, is walking with the walking stick through the snowy pass ways of the Mountain, until she arrives to the snowy mountain cliff and removes her hood from over of her head and watches with the gently smile at the dancing Lights above of herself and the cliff, where is seen running various animals in spirit-like forms.

"The shaman doe of our village, my mother herself, told us that these Lights are in fact the spirits of those who lived long before us, our ancestors, who had the power to make changes in our world."

the spiritual figure of fawn runs in the Lights, and is soon followed by the adult caribou.

"Like how from the small things becomes big."

Spirits, in the forms of in the air floating bright blue and yellow forms, descend gently down from the sky and lands to the ground around of Bonnie's feet and turns the snowy ground under of her feet into lush green and flowery ground of spring.

"When the cold and long winter turns to warm and blooming spring."

"And how one thing always changes into another thing."

Bonnie soon kneels down and picks the tiny rock to her paw from the ground, raising it to the air. The rock is then lifted magically from her paws into the air and the spirits surrounds the rock. Then the red and yellow lights began to circle around of the rock, turning magically its form.

"But the greatest change I ever saw was my beloved little sister, a doe, who desperately wanted to be a mature woman, but had to go through the greatest journey of her life, in which she saw and learned much about the another world within our own... in another one's eyes!"

Meanwhile...

Elsewhere in the wild lands far away from the mountain, young and slender gray-furred rabbit doe named Judith "Judy" Hopps was running through the hilly fields for her life like she was chased by someone or something.

But instead of being in horror and distress, she had the joyful smile on her face.

"Get down!" She shouted, waving her paws in the air.

Nearby in the same fields, there was two another rabbits, who were sitting on three piled canoes waiting for Judith's return from her gathering trip.

The older one of them, a grayish brown rabbit who was wearing the bear fur coat, was called with the name Stu Hopps and the another light brown-furred rabbit doe, who was wearing the blue-grey wolf fur coat, was called with the name Jill Hopps,

Suddenly Stu's ear caught Judith's shouting from far away.

"What?" Stu said confused while looking to the direction from where Judith's cry came from.

Jill rolled her eyes in annoyance after hearing her little sister's warning cry.

"Has baby sister once again antagonized the angry cougar and got it to chase her?" Jill asked from herself and her father.

"Get down! Hurry! Get down!" Judith shouted again when she appeared from behind of the hill.

From behind of hill after Judith, instead of angered cougar, appeared the large herd of musk oxen, who were chasing in all fours her as stampede right behind of her, not very happy expression on their faces. Both Stu and Jill were shocked by this.

"HOLLY…!" Jill shouted in horror after realizing what in fact was after Judith… or what she had antagonized while she was gone.

"JUDITH!" Stu shouted quite loudly with the scolding voice before he jumped in the cover behind of canoes Jill right behind of him.

Judith managed to jump over the canoes right between of Stu and Jill and all three rabbits quickly get down and leaned against the canoes to avoid the herd's hooves right at the moment when the first ones musk oxen jumped over them and their canoes.

"WOO HOO, AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!" Judith laughed heartily at this unlike the others.

During of the stampede Jill got the hit to the backside of her head from one of the jumping fawn musk ox's hoofs. She lowered a bit down than the others, moaning in pain and holding her head with her paws.

Soon the herd had passed them and they continued the stampede to elsewhere after Judith, unaware of the fact that they just had passed her already.

Stu and Jill were still shocked about what had just happened, but Judith only giggled for it for while until she finally managed to hold it back to get some breath

"By my ears! Judith! You were supposed to find some food, not cause the stampedes!" Stu said with the scolding tone to Judith, who seemingly just ignored the tone how Stu just scolded her.

"What did you even do to make them to stampede?" Stu asked again.

"Never attempt to milk a sleeping musk ox, which you mistakenly consider to be a female, especially if the certain musk ox happens to be the leader of the herd." Judith said simply, with the grin on her lips.

"These guys do not seem to know what the words "humble apology", "innocent accident" nor "explanation" even means. Lucky that the size and speed is on our side." Judith added.

Jill then, after she had fully recovered from the shock the stampede had caused and yet blaming Judy from the hit of musk ox's hoof to the back of her head, angrily lunged at Judith and knocked him over to the ground.

Stu watched from aside as his two daughters wrestled with each other on the ground, shaking his head to their childish act.

Jill, however, as older and a bit stronger from the two of them, got with ease the upper paw from Judith and pinned her to the ground, and much to Judith's horror and disgust, she started slowly drain the drop of spit from her mouth towards Judith's face.

"No, Jill. No, no, no, no. Don't. Don't. No, JILL! UGH, COME ONE! THAT'S DISGUSTING! DON'T JILL, DID YOU HEAR ME?! NO!" Judith pleaded while trying to struggle out from Jill's grip and avoid the drop of Jill's spit as it slowly approached her face.

But Jill didn't stop. She ignored Judith's pleads and continued doing this...

...until Stu finally had enough of this and interfered to the scene by grabbing from Jill's hood and pulling her off from Judith - being really close to prevent Jill's spit from successfully land on Judith's face.

"Hey! Will you two knock it off?" Stu said with the scolding tone.

Judith jumped on her feet and, because she had failed to avoid Jill's drop of spit, wiped the spit off from her cheek and tried attack Jill in return. But noticing this in time, Stu grabbed to Judy from her hood as well and put them both to the tight head lock.

"You two adolescent bunnies should be ashamed of yourself. Try to at least act like adults and not like the fighting brats." Stu scolded his daughters.

"Come on, father. It's just one day. And after this day, she won't treat me like that anymore." Judy said with the sinister look targeted to Jill.

"Oh, right, I almost forgot. Today is the big adulthood ceremony. However, it doesn't matter what the spirits say, you'll always be a baby sister, even tomorrow." Jill said, quite mocking tone.

Judith could not take that anymore and lunged annoyed towards Jill, despite being hold back by Stu's head lock.

"Oh, yeah?! Well, wait 'till I get my totem!" Judith said annoyed.

"Oooh, baby sister." Jill mockingly said with the stupid-looking grin on her face, while waving with the mocking attitude her fingers in front of Judith's face.

That was the last straw. Two sisters immediately engaged each others to the fierce fist fight, even though they were both still in Stu's head locks.

"Girls, knock it off." Stu tried to calm down his daughters while trying to hold the sisters back from each others.

It wasn't use. Girls were so focused to fighting that both didn't either heard or simply ignored Stu's words.

Punches targeted to the heads and the filthy insults from the girls mouths flew from side to side, until Stu had enough of this and got no better solution to calm down her daughters but to knock hard their heads together.

BIG KNOCK!

And the sisters finally, though with reluctance, calmed down grunting in pain.

"I SAID, KNOCK IT OFF." Stu said loudly while tightening the grip of his head locks around of his daughters necks. Still, Stu had to struggle to keep his struggling daughters under control.

"We came here to fish salmons, not engage each others into childish fist fights nor cause the stampedes among the other mammal tribes. The quicker we get these fish, the faster we get to home and your ceremony. So put your rivalry aside and try somehow to get along with each other for a few hours. Okay, Jill?" Stu said with the scolding tone turning from struggling Judith to Jill.

Stu's tight head lock seemed to be more effective to Jill than to Judith, because she immediately gave up from struggling back.

"Alright, alright. Whatever you say, father." Jill said, without struggling back.

"Alright. Okay Jud…" Stu said turning back to Judith and noticed much to his confusion that Judith had mysteriously escaped/disappeared from his head lock.

"What...?!" Stu exclaimed with the surprised tone, before he started to look around to see that where Judy had went.

"SO, WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?" They heard Judith to calling for them from the direction of the river.

Both Jill and Stu turned to the river, where Judith was already sitting in her canoe on the beach ready to take off.

"How did that girl escape from my head lock… once again?" Stu said to himself, confused yet quite amazed of Judith's mysterious ability to escape from his tight head locks, because this was already and roughly two hundredth seventy-sixth time Judy had done so.

"Who cares?" Jill said, while trying to get out from her father's head lock.

"If she would teach her secrets of escape to me, I would have escaped by the same way as soon as your eye turned away from me, father." Jill added

Suddenly, and with the humorous attitude and laugh, Stu opened his head lock around of Jill's head, causing her to fly backwards and land onto her back to the ground.

"Hah! You know that Judith will never so easily reveal her secrets to anyone… even to her own family members." Stu laughed as he rushed to pick his canoe.

Jill quickly stood up to her feet and picked her own canoe and rushed after her family.

"WHOO! YAHOO!" Judy shouted in joy raising her paddle while Stu and Jill quickly rushed after Judy, put their canoes to the water and jumped onto them.

Then, Stu and her daughters began their long way to the best fishing areas.

Judith, Jill and Stu were then canoeing for hours in the river, which was surrounded from everywhere by the huge massive waterfalls, steep rocky hills and the riversides covered by trees, while they were observed by two traveling mountain rams from the nearby cliffs and passed by the flock of geese.

...

And much later, Judith, Jill and Stu arrived to the huge and high glaciers, which was covering half of the great lake on their way. And because it was quite warm climate in this part of these lands, from far above of the cliffs of glacier was falling a huge pieces of ice to the water.

Keeping an eye on the falling pieces of ice, they canoed together to the ice cave/tunnel to get to the other side of the glaciers.

Once they got through of the tunnel, they arrived to the great lake and canoed across the lake until their journey is cut by the line of waterfalls.

Once there, they went to ashore and decided to jump one by one from the rocks to another to get over the falls, carrying the canoes in their shoulders.

Stu was as older from the tree ahead of the trio, Jill followed next as secondly older and last followed Judy as younger.

Stu then stopped one of the rocks to wait his daughters, to make sure they can make it because the jump he just did was quite long even for him.

"Come on, Jill. Jump." Stu said.

Jill was not afraid of high places and bravely jumped from the above rock to another where Stu was standing.

Then was Judith's turn to jump over the cliff.

"Go ahead, Judith. You can do it." Stu encouraged.

Judith seemed being a bit hesitating of jumping, because the jump was long way and there was long way to fall down… and for the young rabbit who carried the heavy canoe on her shoulder, the jump would not be easy and worst… even completely successful.

"Go ahead, baby sister. If it is not so difficult for the big sister, it is not also to baby sister." Jill said quite mocking tone, which caused Judy to sigh in annoyance.

"Jill, what did I said back in there?" Stu said with the scolding tone, which got Jill immediately to back off.

Stu then turned back to Judy and waved his hand, gesturing Judy to try.

"Come on, Jude the Dude. Jump. You can make it. Just trust yourself and your old papa." Stu gently encouraged Judith.

Despite her a slight hesitation, Judith wasn't of course afraid of the highs and she was also perfect jumper. As the child, she and Jill had always jump races that who jumps higher and farther than another. They had do the same in the high rocks and high tree's branches, during of which Judy has learned to half-completely overcome her childhood's fear of highs.

So, Judith was about to jump to the rock where Jill and Stu were standing, but when she did and landed to the edge of the rock, she immediately lost her balance and she was about to fall.

However, Stu was quick enough to grab from his daughter's clothes and pulled her back to the top of the rock.

"Thanks father, but you shouldn't have to…" Judith said with grateful tone.

Stu took the jokingly scolding expression to his face and playfully waved scolding finger at Judith in front of her face.

"You're not yet adult woman, Judith. And your father still have to look after both of you, remember?" Stu said.

Judith nodded a bit reluctantly, because she did not wanted to anymore being treated like a baby child. Then, Stu quickly, unexpectedly and playfully pressed Judith's nose with his finger, which caused Judith's nose to twitch twice due of itch from Stu's finger.

Judith wiped her nose twice, lightly giggling for his fathers' playful act before dropping her canoe to the rock and stood up to her father's side with Jill.

"Does girls want on our way to go to snow surfing?" Stu asked playfully, already knowing the girls certain answer.

Both Judith and Jill cheered up and waving their paws in the sky after hearing their favorite game as the flock of seagulls flew above them.

...

Later, Judith, Jill and Stu are in the top of the snowy steep hill in their canoes. It was long and steep way down the hill, but that doesn't frightened Rabbits.

"Last one down there gets wash all the laundry for a week." Stu said playfully, as he knew how much Judith and Still hated laundry shifts. Besides, they were one of few things from which Judy and Jill were always competing.

"Agreed!" Judith said without hesitation this time. She had eager wish to beat Jill in this and send her to laundry shifts for a week.

"Agreed!" Jill said, turning then to Judith.

"Get ready to lose and have laundry shifts for a week, baby sister." Jill said. Quite arrogantly in Judith's opinion.

"In your dreams, big sister." Judith said back and get ready.

Stu shook his head to his daughters strong spirit of competition.

"Are you ready girls? On your mark, get set, GO!"

They all pulled with their paddles their canoes on the move to slip down the snowy hill. Stu first, Jill secondly and Judith finally.

Judith, Jill and Stu laughed heartily out of fun, as three bunnies both slid and surfed with their canoes down the snowy hill with the high speed, as they directed with their paddles their surf.

They even tried to impressive each others with the quick and sharp turns, ski jumps from the snow mound or cliffs and a staggering stunts in the air.

"Check this, girls!" Stu said as he did the longest ski jump from the snow mound and landed down in much lower part of the hill, far in ahead of his daughters.

"That's all what you got, father? Check this out." Judith said and made quite similar ski jump yet with much higher height above of the treetops of the line of snowy spruces, sliding along their treetops until she finally landed to the snowy ground.

"What is that amateur-act, baby-sister? Take look on this!" Jill said and an added boost to her speed, which helped her to make the longest ski jump from the highest snowy cliff and make a few cool somersaults in the air before landing to the soft snow.

Finally, in the feet of the hill, they did the final ski jump over the small cliff and landed to the water one by one, Judith of course the last one, but she didn't cared. Only one thing what really had matter to her, was the fun time with her family.

...

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the wilderness...

Bonnie had exited from the three-pointed mountain and began her long way back to her tribes home in Bunnyburrow with the gift from the Great Spirits for her daughter Judith in home.

During on her way through the woods and fields to the river, where her own canoe was waiting for her, Bonnie arrived to the hilly field where tribe of caribous has been camped.

Bonnie passed peacefully through the camp without disturbing the caribous, who just peacefully allowed her to pass or they simply didn't care of her presence.

Bonnie by chance met the fellow caribou shaman of this tribe and friendly greeted her by waving her paw, which was answered by caribou shaman, who waved friendly her hoof at Bonnie as she continuing her way.

...

Later, Judith, Stu and Jill had arrived to their favorite and secret fishing area near the small waterfall of the small river in the woods. They visited there every time when the salmon flocks were on their way to upstream in mating season and every time they visited there, they had always a huge salmon catch to bring home.

However, Judith had once again disappeared after they arrived to this place.

"Judith! Judith, we have no time for playing Hide-and-Seek game. We have so much work to do." Stu called, hoping that Judith could hear him. She had always the sharp sense of hearing so why she would not be able to hear him.

However, there was no answer, which worried Stu and he was about to go to look for her but Jill disagreed by telling her father that despite the fact Judith wasn't yet an adult woman, she was still old enough to take care of herself.

Besides, Jill also reminded him that they had a bit hurry to get some wish and hurry for Judith's ceremony, although she a bit hoped that they'll arrive a bit late from the ceremony, for what she could blame Judith.

Though Stu was worried for Judith's safety in these wild lands, he was a bit reluctantly agreed with Jill. So, he and Jill get to the work without Judith this time.

Stu had brought with him some fabric web to fish salmons. When one big flock of salmons was swimming just at the right time to the upstream, Stu and Jill quickly took one of the webs, stepped into the water and sunk the web into the water to the path of the flock and that deep that the salmons were able to swim over it.

When the flock was right above of the web, Jill and Stu pulled the web out of the water and caught half of the flock.

"Nice catch or what, Jill?" Stu asked with the eager smile on his face.

Jill nodded with the proud wide smile.

"As the last time when we were here fishing." Jill said.

But suddenly…

"LOOK OUT! OUT OF WAY!"

Before Stu and Jill had time to react to this, a huge mammoth stampeded towards them from the woods. It ran between of them and cuts the web full of salmons with its tusks in half and splats the water on the rabbits

Wet, surprised and slightly shocked rabbits watched after the half-stampeded mammoth and realized that Judith was riding on its neck laughing heartily with the smug smile of pride, spreading out her arms in "TADAA" style as the mammoth rushes through the woods.

Stu just shook his head to her daughter with the amused smile in his lips, but Jill only rolled her eyes in annoyance for Judith's childish action which happened to cost them their good salmon catch and web.

Judith was so focused of showing her father and sister her mammoth-riding skills that she didn't notice the tree branch before it knocked Judith off mammoths back and caused her to fall into the pit of mud.

This made Jill to burst into laughter.

"Bravo, baby sister! Such of pity if that tree did not liked the show. Besides, that mud suits you." Jill laughed when Judith stood up to her feed, ears lowered down and her body covered by mud. Judith growled in annoyance at Jill's teasing as she started to wipe off some mud from her face.

"Alright, enough of girls. No more teasing of each other, mud baths nor mammoth-riding for today. We have lots of work to do now. Luckily I packed more webs with me before we left from the village." Stu said.

"Judith. Come here. We need every paw to help each others to get some salmons… but first, get some bath in the river for you and your muddy clothes" Stu suggested to Judith as she pulled a new fabric web from his packs.

Judith nodded lightly as she slowly went behind the trees to undress herself, still starring at still mockingly giggling Jill with the annoyed look.

...

Later, Judith, Jill and Stu were Judith were canoeing in the big lake between of walrus-filled rocks and huge glaciers.

"Hey girls. Look, there!" Stu said to his daughters and pointed to the water.

Judith and Jill turned their attention to their father, but were quite confused that what Stu actually meant by "look."

Looking for a while around, Judith and Jill realized what Stu meant. They noticed that they've crossed paths with the flock of killer whales, which appears to the surface to catch some breath and spraying the water out from the holes in their heads.

"Judith, be careful, one is coming right next to you." Stu warned.

Judith turned her head to the right side and right next to her appeared a huge female killer whale to the surface to a breath of oxygen. Judith could not resist the temptation and landed her paw onto whale's back, rubbing its wet skin before it dove back to the abysses.

Judith followed its going until its tail rose into the air and it landed back to the water with the huge splats, from which the water flew over Judith as the brief rain.

Judith laughed at this while wiping the water off her face.

Judith then got an idea about the splats and she teasingly threw some water with her paddle over Jill from behind.

Surprised, wet and annoyed Jill turned around to look with the sinister look at Judith, knowing that it was her who threw the water on her.

Judith only whistled, trying to look an innocent, but because of that, she failed to notice a tail of another killer whale in next to her, which was rose up in the air and was about to splat the water right next to her.

"Judith, look out!" Stu warned but he was too late.

As Judith was about to turn to her father to ask why or look out for what, a tail smashed to the water and caused the mega splat, which knocked Judith's canoe, turning it inside out and taking Judith underwater with it.

In underwater, Judy noticed a huge male killer whale, which was quite fast and threateningly approaching right towards her… and it yet was about to open its mouth. Knowing that such of animals can sometimes be quite unpredictable and some of them have even eaten rabbits in the water, Judy went in a panic and waved her paws in the water in order to get out the water.

Finally, before the killer whale collided with Judith, Stu and Jill helped Judith to turn her canoe right way around.

"Well, Did the bath good for you, baby sister?" Jill asked with mocking tone before laughing at Judith's wet fur.

"Very funny, Jill." Judith said darkly before rubbing her head with her paw and wiped the water off her face and squeezing her ears to dry.

"Alright, alright, enough, girls. Now, come on. We have to hurry to our village." Stu said with a scolding tone and continued paddling, Jill right after him.

Judith rubbed her wet head yet one more time, before she grabbed to her paddle and followed the others.

...

Meanwhile, in the another side of the river, Bonnie was also canoeing along the river back to her village, smiling gently as she waved on her way her paw to their neighbor, Otterton, who was with his whole family fishing the salmons from the same river and they waved their paws back to her as she passed them.

Some distance away she waved at the deer mother and her young fawn. Even though Bonnie didn't mean to be rude to the deer family, deer turned quickly around after seeing and sensing her presence and directed her fawn into the woods and soon disappeared from the sight.

Bonnie understood the reason. Unlike with the otters, who were her tribe's close friends, some animals rather avoided the rabbits, because even though her tribe was mostly peace-loving vegetarians, not counting in eating salmons they fish all year round, they sometimes had to hunt the other animals for food for the long the winters, skins and fur for garments and bones for spears to defend themselves from the cold winters and some predators. During the late-spring, summer and the first half of autumn, her tribe remained as vegetarians leaving the other prey animals mostly alone.

However, Bonnie did not allowed that to bother her and she continued her way back home

It didn't took long when Stu and her daughters arrived to the place where they where able to see a high and vertical cliffs near the coasts of the ocean, in one of which was in middle of the rock a large cave-like crack.

It was the place where the tribe of Bunnyburrow kept and performed their ceremonies.

Right in the moment, the tribe members of Bunnyburrow were preparing for Judith's today's ceremony by drawing animals to the wall of the cave – especially the three-pointed Mountain with Northern Lights – or preparing large bonfires by lifting upright the tree trunks, whose top sides the bunnies had attached large deer antlers. After this, the rabbits pilled the fresh wood bundles around of the feet of the trunks.

During of the preparations of the ceremony, there was some rabbits who were making the improvements to their spears, young bunnies playing with paint messing with it each others or some rabbit mothers giving to their young daughters jewelries made by offerings of nature before they nuzzled each others noses together all around of the cave.

...

Meanwhile, Judith, Jill and Stu, had finally arrived back in their home village, which was the small forest circled by the open ring and there were various rabbit holes around of each tree entering to the rabbit warrens underground and around of some of the entrances of their warrens had built shelter made from the mammoth tusks and skin. Those ones, who did not lived in underground, lived all around of the Bunnyburrow village in the large tents, which were made from the animal skins and bones of their hunted animals and some of them were lifted up above of their tents entrance to hang the animal heads to scare off the unwelcome strangers.

As Judith, Jill and Stu walked from the beach to the village, each of them carrying the sacks full of salmons, they were immediately greeted by over two dozen with each others in the trees, bushes or in the beach's sand and water playing little sisters and brothers of Jill and Judith.

"Hey, look! Judith's back!" One of them yelled in joy to see their big sister.

"Judith! Judith! Judith!" The little rabbit kittens cried out of joy.

While Stu and Jill took their sacks to further of the village, some little sisters and brothers brought a big basket, to which Judith started soon to empty her sack's contents.

"Hey, Judith. Today is your great day, right?" One of Judith's little brothers asked eagerly, to which Judith answered with the nod and smile.

"Judith, are you excited about getting your spirit rock today?" One of Judith's little sister, named Cotton Hopps, asked.

Judy laughed and shook her head.

"Oh, no, no, no, no and no. It's not a rock, you little dummy-heads. It'll be my totem." Judith explained.

"Ooh." The children said in unison with excitement and interest.

"What you believe it to be, Judy?" Asked another of Judith's little brothers.

"Well, who knows, because you never know what it might be. But I have my own guesses. I've trained lately my own survival skills in the wild and I've been working so hard and my best to be worth of whatever my totem is gonna be. I bet it's probably a saber-toothed tiger for bravery, or strength, or greatness…" Judy said while she closed the basked, tied it up and prepared to lift it up from the ground and tie it up to tree.

"But hey, there's many various choices. What in your opinion would fit me perfectly?" Judith asked, not noticing that Jill had appeared out of nowhere to the scene and sneaked behind of Judith's back.

"What about a mammoth for our fat-headed mammoth rider?" Jill asked teasingly.

This got the children to giggle or openly laugh at Jill's suggestion. Judith, however, took the unimpressed and a bit annoyed expression on her face, which caused her to drop her ears down and she mumbled in annoyance at this.

"Just make sure you get that basket tied up and firmly… not like that you did in the last time, and the last time before that, you remember?"

Of course Judith remembered what happened the last time… and the last time before that.

Thanks to her careless tying up then, which had caused the baskets to fall from the trees to the ground, the group of bandit raccoons were about to steal their baskets when they were unguarded but they were spotted and ultimately stopped by rabbits.

But it wasn't nothing yet, compared to the worse what happened some time after that.

In the last time, when the baskets fell again, almost all salmons were eaten by trio of grizzly bears while the rabbits were elsewhere, or they did not dare to stand against the grizzly bears because even with the spear, rabbits had no match for the bigger and much stronger bears.

After when all salmons were gone, Grizzly bears leaved from the scene, leaving behind only the empty and damaged baskets. Because of this, Judith had receive a big reproach from her fellow tribe members for the long time.

It took the long time when the tribe eventually granted Judith one last chance.

"If something happens to salmons yet again, this is the last time when you're responsible for the salmons, baby sister." Jill said.

"Relax, Jill, and don't worry. Our village's borders are double guarded for those dumb giants and nasty raccoons and we're better prepared for them. This time, no stupid bear nor raccoon is gonna get near these salmons." Judy said and lifted the basked up to the tree.

Jill rolled her eyes annoyed.

"What if you just tie it up." Jill said, quite rudely and turned away.

Now it was Judith's turn to get annoyed.

"What if you just tie it up." Judith said, imitating with the deep and mocking tone Jill's words, using her paw as a mouth, before Judith sticks her tongue out at Jill behind of her back.

"That big sister is unbelievable. Someone beautiful day, Jill… I will make you regret that you were born." Judith silently mumbled as she continued lifting the basket to the tree.

Suddenly…

"SHE'S BACK!" Someone tribe member rabbit yelled to the villagers from the Border of the Bunnyburrow village.

"HEY, EVERYBODY! BONNIE'S BACK!" Shouted another male rabbit.

Hearing this, most of the villager rabbits, children, males, does and even some slowly-moving elders began to run toward the cave from every corner of the village, from every burrow under of every village's tree.

Also Stu heard this and the big smile appeared to his face after knowing that his wife had return from her long way to the three-pointed mountain in the north and back to the village.

"Hey children. Your mother is back. Quickly, everybody to the cave! Come on" Stu shouted as he and Jill started to run towards the cave with the rest of the villagers.

Also the children from around of Judith started to run after them cheering in joy.

Judith hurried with the tying the basked to the tree. She absolutely did not want to be late from her own ceremony.

"C'mon Judith!" One of her little brothers called for her.

"C'mon, c'mon." Judith mumbled impatiently as she toured the rope twice around the tree and made a tight knot. This time bery tight.

"C'mon, Judith, we have to go." Another Judith's little sister called.

"Mother has your rock." Another little sister reminded.

"Judith's, we'll be late, c'mon." Another little brother called.

"Okay, okay. I'm coming, I'm coming." Judith said eagerly after she had finished her job and she started to run after her little brothers and sisters.

However, the weight of the heavy salmon basket was too much for "once again carelessly" tied knot and it eventually gave up completely. The basket fell to the ground, opened by the rough landing and quickly there was fresh salmons in the ground around of the basket.

The sound of basket's landing got Judith's attention and she turned around to see what happened.

"Seriously? Not again." She said to herself in annoyance.

Judith quickly turned to the cave and then back to the basket, asking silently from herself; should she go back to tie a fallen basket to a tree reallocated or go to her ceremony from which she was probably already late.

The salmons would be stolen by those raccoons or eaten by those bears again but worse for her was to be too late from her own ceremony.

"Bah! Later. After ceremony." Judith simply said and keep running.

END OF THE CHAPTER 1.

Here it was. The first chapter of Friendship of the Fox.

I hoped you guys liked it.