The Care Elite

Chapter two

NobleHeart walks through the forest of feelings looking around as he goes. Suddenly hearing something he runs forward, past some bushes and finds some houses made of clouds.

A solitary yellow lioness, dark fur, sits in a chair watching several cubs playing on the ground. The lioness notices him, stands, and holds out a paw, "hello NobleHeart I'm ChiefHeart, nice to meet you."

NobleHeart shakes her paw with a confused look on his face. "You know who I am?"

ChiefHeart nods as she let's go of his paw. "Yes you have become quite hard to avoid in the short amount of time that you've been living up here. These are the cubs of all who live here." she gestures to the cubs.

NobleHeart slides his gaze over all of them and stops on a small raccoon. "That one…"

ChiefHeart sees which one he staring at, "that's StrategyHeart. And before you say anything further, yes she looks like the raccoon you have for a reason. They are siblings."

Pause flashback

"Siblings?" BrightHeart asks with a confused look on his face.

"Yes BrightHeart you have a sister."

"Why am I just now hearing about her?"

"They prefer to be separate from our family, they want to involve us in the monsters they fight as little as possible. The explanation they had, told us that, yes you were born in their family but was given to ours by sure coincidence."

Resume flashback

ChiefHeart is sitting on her cloud chair again, the cubs staring curiously at their guest. "When you and your bear friend found BrightHeart we had lost him." ChiefHeart lowers her head slightly, and to the amazement of NobleHeart her fur lightens slightly.

"He had just vanished, we guess a heartless managed to snatch him when we weren't looking, another heartless had our attention when he vanished."

Her fur once again lightens a little. "We can only assume how the heartless misplaced its prize, another heartless trying to take the cub from it. But whatever had happened, BrightHeart was left on Earth where you found him.

Noble heart blinks as this info sinks in. "Shortly after you were transported to the kingdom of caring, did we find you and him."

"You want him back, I can…" the horse gestures back where he came from.

ChiefHeart makes a hand gesture to stop, "no your family needs him, and we have StrategyHeart so we're not short on brains." ChiefHeart rubs the little raccoon's head as she walks by, following the other cubs.

"Sure we miss him but you could use him." NobleHeart watches, as ChiefHeart's fur becomes a few more shades lighter.

A tree suddenly falls down nearby; the two look over to see a totem pole glaring at them. NobleHeart stares speechless as ChiefHeart growls, "WarHeart."

NobleHeart glances at her and rubs his eyes as her fur returns to the dark color she had when he entered. "Who's WarHeart?"

ChiefHeart glances at him, "what do you tell people who ask about DarkHeart."

"Uh 'let's hope you never have to find out', why?" ChiefHeart returns to gazing at the totem pole as it walks towards them.

"The same rule applies." with a roar, ChiefHeart runs forward.

The totem pole monster reaches down to grab her, but she avoids it and kicks it in the top face, which would be its head. Before the monster can retaliate two blurs rush onto the scene, one blue one red both dark. The blurs take turns dashing around and going up to hit the totem pole in the head.

End flashback

"I could only watch as shortly after that others showed up and helped fight, in a way, that we try our hardest to avoid."

TrueHeart lays her hand on NobleHeart's shoulder. "So who was that cat that took the book?" TenderHeart asks.

"That was one of the cubs, one by the name of Fight4Heart. I had visited the village some time ago only to find the ones I knew were gone for some reason and the cubs were in charge."

"Was they as dark as that one," another bear asks?

"No their fur was lighter, but it was darker then when they were cubs, I don't know what's happening to them, but I wish they'd let us help."

The next day SwiftHeart dashes through the forest of feelings, she stops in a clearing to rest for a bit. "Now where can that village be, I've been all over the place."

The sound of a branch-breaking catches SwiftHeart's attention, she turns to find a creature about her size. The creature has all black skin, and a big, broken, red heart on its stomach, otherwise it could easily be mistaken for a child.

Her rabbit ears working like a charm SwiftHeart hears the sound of other creatures entering the clearing, and looking around see that they all look the same. "Okay there's five of you, but what are you?"

With a screech that hurts SwiftHeart's ears one jumps at her and knocks her back. "My stars, your obviously not friendly."

"Yeah obviously." a voice says with sarcasm, SwiftHeart blinks and jumps slightly as Heartpaced, a new jet flying around a heart symbol on his stomach, appears in front of her.

"What the, how'd you do that with out me seeing you?" SwiftHeart doesn't get a chance to get her answer as more of the creatures screech and leap forward to attack.

Heartpaced cringes but reacts and zips around. A second later the five creatures are down and Heartpaced appears next to SwiftHeart again.

"Now we need to get out of here." SwiftHeart, confused, glances at the downed creatures. "Why you got them?"

An answer soon reveals itself as another creature steps from behind the trees. This one as large as the trees, with whips in place of arms, otherwise looking likes the small ones.

"That's why, where there are slaves there's always a SlaveMaster. Now this way I can't handle that thing on my own." SwiftHeart turns to watch Heartpaced take off through the forest, without looking back she quickly she follows.

Not far away stands the village. TeamHeart, a circle of hearts huddled together on her stomach, looks over and roars as they break through the trees with the giant creature right behind them. The SlaveMaster lashes out a whip, only to have TeamHeart catch it.

TonsofHeart, a heart large enough to almost take up his entire stomach, makes it over just in time to catch the other whip as it flies at her.

"Alright we got it, now I can test out what this symbol does to these guys."

SwiftHeart looks over to see Fight4Heart jump down from atop a house. A call emits from the symbol on his belly and hit's the SlaveMaster, it cries out and struggles to pull away from the ones holding it. With a loud cry of pain the creature breaks free and runs away.

Heartpaced makes to run after it but is stopped by Fight4Heart. "Let it go. We don't want to actually seek out a fight unless we have to." Heartpaced nods and relaxes.

Fight4Heart turns his gaze to the second rabbit, "hello SwiftHeart, surprised to see you here. But I guess the others would want to find us."

"They also want to know what's happening to you. Your fur changing colors is really weird."

Fight4Heart closes his eyes and lowers his head, "GetyHeart answer her questions to the best of your ability." Strategy nods her head and steps forward.

"I'm gonna go do something else." everyone watches as he enters a nearby building.

SwiftHeart blinks and begins to ask her questions. "Why is your fur changing, and what was that thing?" "Both can be answered by telling you what they are and what they can do. That was a SlaveMaster, no doubt you met its slaves before hand. But they are Heartless, the opposite of us Care Bear and Care Bear Cousins."

Getyheart pauses a moment to close her eyes and let this small amount of info sink in. "There are several types of heartless. One type can be of any normal animal down on earth. These are called critters, they are the most common type. You guys have met a type of heartless before."

"What do you mean?" SwiftHeart tilts her head.

"Darkheart, he is a ShapeShifter," there's another pause as the raccoon points to a nearby poster, of which has an example of each type of Heartless, including Darkheart.

"ShapeShifters can become any animal they wish, and can change other things as well if their powerful enough; weather gravity, and even the abilities of other if the person is willing, afterwards they can return the person to normal even when they aren't willing."

"The Heartless have a unique trait, the ability to suck the caring and feelings out of those around them. And in the case of the care bears and their cousins, our fur color is affected."

SwiftHeart glances around and sees that some of their fur is actually darker then others in their group. "So some of you interact more with these heartless?"

"Yes and that's not all, besides the creatures there are also items with heartless traits."

"The book that Fight4Heart took from us?"

"Yes that and several other things."

"You guys have actually run across one of these things as well." SwiftHeart glances at Heartpaced as he continues, "one of the most rare is a rock, unlike the heartless the rock makes you gloomy not mean natured."

"Yeah I remember that thing, it had an entire city infected." Heartpaced nods his head.

Fight4Heart is currently standing in a daze, one of his paws on the crystal ball, with a gasp he lets go and drops to his knee. "Oh man, I just keep seeing more and more of that teacher I'm to have. And the training he will give me."

The cat stands up and glances at the crystal ball. "He is proving to be very powerful and what he teaches me may be very useful. I just hope he teaches the others as well. I probably need to stop using this thing though,"

His gaze switches to the book, inside a locked glass case. " No telling just how it sees the future and what it really does to let it be that simple to see."

The cat examines his fur but doesn't see any change in it and exit's the building to see StrategyHeart finish answering the question.

"Alright time for our guest to head back home, Heartpaced show her the way back. When you get back we'll try to figure out what exactly we can do with our new abilities."

Heartpaced nods his head and, walking, leads SwiftHeart back towards her friends. 'The others are gonna enjoy the new information I got.' SwiftHeart glances at Heartpaced as he continues to walk.

So as to help you guys understand these creatures more I'm gonna give you a sample of a few that have shown up and ones that're on the show

Critter- can look like any animal. They don't have names, their pretty much mindless acting like real animals. Takes about a month for them to suck the caring from people.

Slave- a small humanoid, the size of a care bear or cousin, they have no names. They are mindless and obey their SlaveMaster. Their care soakage is about twice that of a critter but it still takes a while.

SlaveMaster- a large humanoid about the size of the trees in the forest of feeling, they have no names. They have whips instead of arms, their care soakage is higher then their slaves but working together with them it becomes quicker, though still taking at least a week.

ShapeShifter-the first rank of heartless that have a name. Their original bodies look like clouds but they can assume any animal that they want. This is also where the soakage of caring is great, the person changes to no caring within a few days. They can also choose who is affected by this soakage, (DarkHeart took Christy off his list of those affected by him so as to be able to help him better, kept her off after she saved him despite not needing her anymore.) known ShapeShifters; DarkHeart and BlackHeart. Blackheart will show up later.

Wizard- a being with magic powers similar to those of a wizard, warlock, or witch. The way they dress can help determine the magic they use. NoHeart and UnHeart are wizards, ColdHeart is a weak powered wizard plus he uses cold magic only so he dresses for it. WarHeart is a warlock, he uses summoning magic, to summon heartless, and other magic that creates objects that drain feelings.