FOX OF FRIENDSHIP CHAPTER 2: TOTEM OF FRIENDSHIP... WITH FOX.
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In the cave, there was at first the traditional ceremony festivities, in which the rabbits played drums and Flutes while some rabbits, the warriors and hunters who were dressed into their skins of their the biggest catch in their life.
There was some who were wearing the great eagle's skull upon of his and using it's large feathers as the wings and eagle's tail.
Some who were instead wearing the mountain sheep's white or brown skin and the headdress made from the sheeep's skull with the sheep's large horns.
There was some the most bravest rabbit hunters who were dressed into the skins of the big predatory animals such like grizzly bears, cougars, wolves and some were even wearing the skins of the saber-toothed tigers, showing that these rabbits were the bravest enough to face such of bunny-eating predators.
Some of them were instead of wearing he skins and moose's, caribou's and deer's antlers.
Some of them were wearing the skins of the raccoons, some badgers', some porcupines', some turtles', some squirrels', some salmons...
And some others bravest ones of the tribe were wearing the thick hairy of the musk oxen and the mammoths and some of them were even using their heads with the large horns or tusks...
And the most bravest ones of the tribe were wearing the skins of their natural enemies... the foxes. In this tribe, killing the fox was the most famous and the greatest act of all and the rabbits, who've killed the fox and were wearing the fox skin as the trophy, were the most honored ones. Because the fox was mentioned as their natural enemy, every rabbit in the tribe, from the young infant to the old one, knew very well how dangerous the foxes were as well as how sneaky, cunning and shifty they were of all animals in the world. That's why the foxes were very hard to be hunted down and killed. And moreover, fox hunt was among the most dangerous hunts ever, because it always ended up either to killing or to be him/herself killed by the natural enemy.
But none of them didn't bother to think about that but instead enjoy the festivities.
Using the skins and horns, heads, skulls and feathers, the hunters were dancing in the rhythm of the music in middle of the cave.
However, most of the rabbits were just watching the dance of the hunters from aside.
During of festivities, young little grey rabbit girl, daughter of the mother rabbit of the four child, escaped from her rabbit mother's grip to middle of the dancing rabbits, as her attention was in her little baby and two of her sons.
The young rabbit doe, with the happy and eager smile on her lips, ran through of the dancing rabbit hunters, who began to be very wary with their steps in order to not accidentally trample the little girl under of their feet during of their dance.
The little bunny then ran away from the middle of the dancing hunters and headed to there where most of the villagers had gathered.
There was Bonnie incoming, carrying the torch in her paw as she walked through the villagers towards the bonfire.
Bonnie then threw the torch to the bonfire, which burst into the flames in minutes, due to being covered while the rabbits burst into the cheering at this and following Bonnie's example, they all knelt down respectfully to the large paint of the tree-pointed mountain with the Northern Lights to respect the Great Spirits who had lived before anyone of them in the cave.
Suddenly, Bonnie felt that somebody was right behind her, tugging at her fur coat's hem and calling her by name.
"Bonnie. Hey, Bonnie." The young voice said.
Bonnie turned around and happily and gently laughed as she saw the same little rabbit girl who ran from her mother.
"Well, hello there, sweetheart." Bonnie said gently as the girl begged her to take her in her arms.
Bonnie chuckled at this and gently lifted her up from the ground with her paws.
"What a big girl." Bonnie said as she looked at the bunny girl in her arms, nuzzling motherly the little girl's nose with her own.
Bonnie then turned to the villagers, lifting the little girl up to her shoulders.
"My friends. Once again, were all gathered to this cave for the ceremony, which has been carried for many years from generation to generation. As you all know, when each of us comes of right age, the Great Spirits reveal to us a totem that helps guide us through our lives." Bonnie said to the crowd.
"Some of us are guided by courage." Bonnie said, referring with her paw at one large and muscular brown-furred rabbit, who wore the saber-tooth tiger's skin. Rabbit crossed his arms and smiled proudly.
"Some of us by the wisdom of leader, like the chief of our village and Bunnyburrow tribe, my husband, Stu Hopps." Bonnie said, referring with her paw and with the loving look in her face at Stu Hopps who was sitting among his and Bonnie's family among the crowd. He got from many rabbit around of him the loud cheers for their chieftain.
"Others by patience." Bonnie said as she walked towards the rabbit family and mother to which child belonged. Bonnie lift the little girl from her shoulder and handed her over to her mother, who hugged her daughter.
"And some of us by beauty." Bonnie said, jokingly referring herself.
This caused a light chuckling among the crowd. Even Bonnie giggled lightly for her own joke.
Hearing this, Stu let out the deep sigh. His wife's words had their own point as he remembered his and Bonnie's first meet long ago, before he became the tribe leader and Bonnie became the tribe shaman, in the beautiful day of summer at the high-grass field where he as much younger had accidentally crossed paths with the most beautiful bunny girl he had seen in his life. They quickly developed a deep friendship and spend most of their lives together since the day of their very first meet. It did not take long when they developed romantic relationship and eventually married each others, becoming the leaders of the tribe. Stu has also told Judith that from all his daughters, only Judith resembled greatly her mother when she was in her age and that looking at Judith he always remembered how did her mother look in her youth.
This also made Jill a bit jealous to her little sister because of having herself her father's eyes instead of her mother's, tuft of gray hair on top of her head and fluffy cheeks but not any features from her mother. Jealousy was one of many reasons why Jill sometimes teased her little sister.
Bonnie soon returned to her place of ceremony. The wood made chair, which was mostly covered with thick bearskin, and to it was attached the antlers of the moose, which were hanging right above of Bonnie's head.
"Judith, my daughter." Bonnie gently called as she sit down to her chair.
Stu, Jill and all 275 other Judith's little and big brothers and sisters encouraged Judith to stand up and go.
They did not need to tell her twice, because this was what Judith had waited all the day and she was too excited to even hear her family's encourages.
She quickly, but still respectfully, walked to her mother and knelt before her.
Bonnie took from next to her a bowl full of red-brown nature's paint and gently painted the ceremonial paint on her daughter's face… to both of her cheeks and between of her violet eyes.
"Are you nervous, my daughter?" She asked gently.
Judith took a breath once deeply and calmly when her ceremonial paint was ready.
"Maybe a little. Just excited, mother." Judith answered, with the shy smile and her ears leaning against the back of her head in respect, even though they should be upright by the excitement as usually.
Bonnie chuckled gently. "You should be, my dear. It's a good one."
Judith took a sweet smile while looking at her mother's eyes lovingly, respectfully and trustingly with her purple eyes. … but she was still quite excited about her totem she was about to have as the gift from the Great Spirits through of her mother's paws.
"Judith Hopps, my daughter… on my way far away from Bunnyburrow village and tribe, I have been to the Mountain where the Lights touch the earth, and there the Great Spirits have revealed to me your totem. To become a mature woman, your actions must be guided by one thing." Bonnie said as she put the bowl aside and took out something wrapped in fabric.
Now it was the most exciting moment and not only Judith, but the whole crowd was excited when Bonnie started open the packet.
"Your totem is..."
Judith's nose twitched, her smile widened and her ears lifted slowly up by tension as the packed was slowly opened.
"Friendship." Bonnie declared, as she showed to Judith her totem in the shape of the red fox from under the fabric.
Judith's ears and excited smile lowered by the hidden shock and she was more than just confused about this.
"What?" Judy said secretly disappointed of this.
"Yes, my dear. Friendship." Bonnie said as she put the totem on Judith's neck.
"You're kidding me, aren't you? A friendship with a fox?" Judith said while checking her totem in her fingers.
"One of the three the most strongest bonds in the life, which connects and unites all living things together." Bonnie said.
Judith heard some giggling behind of her and quickly checked over of her shoulder, seeing Jill teasingly giggling at her behind of her back while trying to hide it or hold herself and Stu just shrugged at her.
"Maybe its either my mother or one of the Spirits who has made a tiny mistake. Who wants to trade with me?" Judith whispered to the crowd.
Suddenly, Bonnie grabbed from Judith's cheek, pulling her close of herself.
"I HEARD THAT, JUDITH HOPPS. The Spirits never make mistakes with totems neither with their decisions. Besides, there is no trading." Bonnie scolded her daughter before she knocked her daughter's head with the stick as a tiny punishment.
Then her scolding expression and tone of voice turned into gentler and she took from her daughter's paw with both of her paws.
"Oh, Judith, my daughter. The friendship is a mixture of a loyalty, trust, respect, care and even love. They are precious makings of the true friendship between two living things." Bonnie said.
Judith was still quite confused.
"Even with the foxes, mom? Despite the fact we're honest, and willingly working rabbits and they are sneaky, cunning and thieving foxes and were usually natural enemies with each others?" Judith said.
"Most of the animal tribes, especially we rabbits, might see the foxes as shifty and untrustworthy mammals… but even they have some goodness in them. Not all of them are what others have been saw or said about them." Bonnie explained.
Judith, even without noticing herself, was lowering her head until Bonnie placed her paw gently to Judith's chin and raised her head a little bit.
"But as long as you have your totem and you follow it, you will soon, or even unexpectedly, find out what I mean, Judith. Let friendship guide your actions in your path, then one day you'll be a mature woman." Bonnie said, making Judith to smile lightly.
"And when you do, we'll place your mark among of those of our ancestors." Bonnie said, showing her daughter the wall, in where was printed with the nature's paint hundreds of paw prints of Judith's and many other rabbits ancestors.
Judith went closer of the wall and put her hands to hit, watching with the deep respect every red-brown paw prints of hers and many other's ancestors that had lived through of the many generations long before her.
Then Bonnie arrived next to her, grabbed gently from Judith's wrist and lifted her paw up, while the entire crowd and Judith's family cheered up to her.
"I'll be then so proud of you, my dear Judith." Bonnie said trustingly and lovingly to Judith and locked her into loving hug and Judith hugged her back.
Still, unlike her mother, Judith wasn't quite pleased about her totem, but still she kept her confusion and disappointment in hide from her and the others.
...
After the ceremony...
Judith walked through the half-empty village of Bunnyburrow, now letting out the sigh of disappointment.
She wasn't now quite good mood and she ignored most of the fellow tribe members and even her little and big brothers and sisters congratulations, and even the presence of their. But not wanting to be so rude to her family, she answered to them with the light smile and told them that she wanted now some time to be alone, to which her brothers and sisters agreed to.
Judith could not believe that how she would be able follow her totem by befriending with the animal who is the natural and main enemy of the rabbits.
She had heard many times over how the rabbits of the Bunnyburrow outside of their safe village or in the wild woods had been hunted down, killed and eaten by the rogue foxes. Even one of them had killed four tribe members before the rabbits had hunted it down and killed it
Another rogue one had once one night sneaked into Bunnyburrow, opened quietly one of the burrows and attempted to kidnap several rabbit children in the sack in order to take them away for food. Luckily, the fox's plans we're ruined by the arrival of the mob of the rabbit villagers who had drove the fox out.
Judith had also after the ceremony heard her mother talking with her grandfather Otto Hopps about her totem. Unlike Judith, who did not wanted to show her disbelief and disappointment to her mother, Otto was also but much openly against her totem. He also had not good experience with the foxes, for example he was attacked by rogue one when he was younger and got his left ear shredded by its teeth. Otto had survived from the encounter with the fox by killing it and he had carried with him since the encounter the fox's ear, paw and even jaws as trophies and warning to another foxes.
Because of this encounter, he had labelled the foxes as mindless savages and "the creation of the demons" himself. Due his grudge against the foxes and his family love towards his little granddaughter Judith, he was arguing with Bonnie about Judith's totem, claiming it to be instead of great spirits sent by demons or the spirits made the great mistake.
He also reminded Bonnie that she was also once attacked when she was younger by rogue fox, who bit the dickens out of her. This shocked and terrified Judith.
Bonnie, however, scolded Otto by telling him that the great spirits never make mistakes and she did not held any grudge against the foxes despite being attacked by one, just because she had accidentally and without knowing trespassed to its territory in the wild, much to Judith's and Otto's dismay.
"Spirits have made their decision and it also remains." Bonnie had said before sending Otto away.
Judith knew that most of the rabbits were mostly agree with her grandfather, but because their respect for the spirits and Bonnie was far more greater than their grudge against the foxes, they did not say anything against it. No one of them did not even teased Judith because of her totem.
Except…
"Oh. There she is!" Jill exclaimed.
Speaking the devil.
Jill was at this moment the last rabbit, whose company Judith needed right now and she turned away to avoid her.
"Come here, lover girl." Jill said, grabbing Judith from her arm, pulled her back into head lock and rubbed playfully her head.
Judith however, was not in the playing mood right now, pushed rudely Jill aside.
"Leave me alone, Jill" Judith said rudely and tried to keep moving.
Jill looked after her like a bit shocked of this, because she'd never seen Judith like that before.
"Oh, c'mon, Judith. Wait." Jill pleaded.
Judith sighed and with a reluctance she stopped and turned slowly on her sister.
"Look, Judith. I know you're quite upset. I'm sorry." Jill said.
This surprised Judith completely, because Jill never admitted at first and honestly that she's sorry for something she'd either caused or started at first. She was sometimes too stubborn to admit her mistakes, like Judith sometimes.
"What?" Judith asked with disbelief tone.
"Your totem, despite having the form of fox, I think it's really great." Jill said with the sisterly smile to Judith.
Judith was once again surprised that her sometimes unbearable sister just said that.
"What? You do?" Judith asked with disbelief.
"Yeah, even though I am not a big fan of the foxes neither. But you know, I made for you something." Jill said and started to poke around her pocket.
"Really?" Judith said with the out of nowhere and without even noticing appeared eager smile on her face.
However, her brief happy and eager mood turned to deep annoyance and frustration as Jill unexpectedly threw with the accurate throwing the homemade flower and berry wreath towards her, which landed upon of her head.
"Now when you have to make some friendships, you gotta smell so sweet." Jill said while jumping around of Judith with the teasing smile and giggle.
Judith growled in anger and grabbed the wreath off her head and threw it to Jill's paws and pushed her hard away from herself. However, Jill still giggled, or rather openly laughed, at her teasing joke while holding her wreath in her arms.
It was the moment when Stu suddenly appeared in the picture.
"Well, well, well, isn't this nice? Instead of fighting, you're giving each other flowers." Stu said with a bit surprised but with the hearty smile as he watched his daughters.
Jill started now pick some flowers from the wreath and drop then over of Judith's head that they landed Judith's head. Much to her annoyance.
"Yeah, isn't it lovely, father? She's so in touch with her totem already." Jill said laughing, only to be again pushed away by annoyed Judith.
Stu noticed well Judith's annoyed face and knew already how she felt.
"Hey, Jill. Maybe that's enough." Stu said with the calm voice.
"What, I'm just trying to make her smell sweet for the foxes, who most certainly come to lick her face and gently eat from the paw." Jill said laughing as she was once again pushed away by Judith, who was now more than just annoyed.
"What if I go to hunt some grouse, fleece them, roast them on a spit and rub them against you? Then we'll see do you still laugh when the fox attracted by the fresh meat bites off your paw instead of eating from it or shreds your left ear just like grandfather Otto's." Judith said with the angry and threatening tone, much to Stu's dismay.
"Sorry, baby sister, but I have the wisdom of wolf as my totem and you have your friendship with the foxes. Which means that the foxes will never choose from two of us me as their friend except you. Besides, I am too wise to know that your threats only make us laugh." Jill laughed.
"Hey, knock it off and go take care of the fish." Stu said, pointing the beach.
"Okay father." Jill said, but instead of immediately going off, Jill picked the pink flower from the wreath and put it behind of her ear. Then she started to both dance and jump around of Judith and throw more flowers at her.
"Aw. So sweet, isn't it? Judith's in love with the foxes, no she's not." Jill said with teasing tone.
"Judith's in love with fox, no she's not... Judith's in love with fox, no she's not... Judith's in love with fox, no she's not... Judith's in love with fox, no she's not... Judith's in love with fox, no she's not... Judith's in love with fox, no she's not..." Jill teased
Judith was able to hear tiny giggling behind the trees, knowing that her little brothers and sisters were spying the moment from the cover. They quickly went into hide when Judith scowled at them with the sinister look..
However, Judith's anger was not targeted to them but mostly to Jill.
"Judith's in love with fox, no she's not. Judith's in love with fox, no she's not. Judith's in love with fox, no she's not." Jill kept teasing
"THAT. IS. IT!" Judith said in the pure rage and wiped angrily the flowers off her head, picked the rock from the ground and was about to throw it at Jill, until Stu grabbed nick in time from her wrist, preventing her to throw the rock.
"Judith, knock it off." Stu said and took the rock away from her.
Judith got almost an irresistible desire to chew her ears off than listen Jill's teasing words.
"Someday I'm gonna just... just... but... but she's so unbearable, so strenuous, so…" Judith angrily said to her father while angrily scowling her sister.
"Hey, Jude the Dude, calm down." Stu said as he playfully slapped her in the back of the head.
"Just because your sister's totem is the Wolf of Wisdom doesn't mean she's as wise as she claims to be."
While rubbing her head, Judith slowly calmed down and turned to her father.
"What do you mean, father? Isn't Jill wiser than me as she has always said?" Judith asked, remembering well all those times when Jill had proudly labelled herself wiser than her.
"She's just trying to vaunt herself, even though in reality she is overly self-confident jerk, Judith." Stu said.
"I mean, just look at her." Stu added referring with his paw at Jill.
Jill was still dancing around throwing the flowers around and making her teasing words of "Judith's in love with fox, no she's not," that she did not noticed that she was dancing directly towards the sleeping wolf, which the rabbit hunters have brought to the village to grow up and then help them to hunt the meat to be stored for winters.
Jill accidentally stepped on its tail, which caused the wolf to wake up with the loud yelp in pain and it began to bark at Jill, showing at her its bared teeth. Jill gasped in shock, jumped backwards and quickly backed down trying to get far away from the wolf.
"HEY! WHOA! WHOA! EASY! EASY, BOY! I DIDN'T MEANT TO..." Badly surprised Jill exclaimed with the frightened and reasoning voice to wolf as she backed down.
Then, some of Jill's rival rabbit girls from the same tribe suddenly appeared out of nowhere behind of her.
"Hi, Jill. Has the tomboy finally gone soft like the baby girl now?" The leader of the group asked with the questioning look on her face and her arms crossed.
Jill gasped as she recognized the girls. Then she spotted the flowers in her paws and quickly pulled them behind of her back.
"Uh, hi, Vera. What? Me? Gone soft? What are you talking about, Vera? I'm not…" Jill said while embarrassingly backing off with her butt ahead.
Bad mistake, because she had completely forget THE WOLF, who, when Jill was close enough, opened his mouth, bared his teeth and lunged at her.
BIG SNAP OF JAWS AND JILL'S SCREAM OUT OF PAIN!
"YAAAAAAAAAAOOUCH!"
"OOOOH!" Both Judith and Stu said in unison before both of them, especially Judith who hold with her paws from her butt with the knowledge how much that could hurt, laughed heartily at this.
"LET GO! LET GO OF ME, YOU SAVAGE BEAST! LET GO, YOU WON, LET GO!" Jill screamed in misery.
"Hey, Jill. Maybe you're the one who should have received sweet smell if you want the canines to lick you instead of biting the dickens out of your butt." Judith laughed.
"THAT'S NOT FUNNY, JUDITH!" Jill screamed from aside.
"Well, you asked for it, dumb big sister." Judith whispered with the sly smile.
Judith then turned to his father, who had managed to take control over of his own laughter.
"Yeah, I guess the Spirits messed up on both of our totems." Judith said, referring to her totem.
"You know, Jude the Dude, I felt the same way in your age when your grandmother gave mine just before mine and Bonnie's marriage and long before your and your sister's birth." Stu said while throwing the rock away.
Judith let out the giggle.
"Come on, father. Get out of here." Judith said playfully slapping her father's shoulder.
"No, really. Take the look." Stu said when he picked out from his skin shirt his own totem, which had the form of Bald eagle.
"When your grandmother gave me this, I said, "the Eagle of Guidance? What does that mean?"
Stu paused for while and laughed as he remembered the moments from the past before putting his totem back under of his shirt.
"But now that I'm older... I know it's about being a leader. It has served me well in my time as the chieftain of Bunnyburrow tribe... although it seems that I became most likely baby-sitter for you two." Stu said as he playfully wrapped his left arm around of Judith's head and playfully rubbed her head with his right arm.
Judith pulled laughing herself out from Stu's grip, until her smile turned into serious expression of worry and she looked down to her paw.
"I just want to get my paw print on that wall in the cave." Judith said worriedly, knowing that it would take very long for that moment before she was completely ready for it.
"Just be patient, Judith. When you live by your totem, in time, you will." Stu said, with comforting and fatherly tone.
Judith's expression turned from worry to brighten.
"Really?" Judith asked.
"Guarantee it." Stu said, as he raised his right open paw at Judith.
Smiling at her father, Judith raised her own paw and grabbed from her father's paw so that her fingers were interlaced with her father's fingers and her father's fingers were interlaced with her own.
This was their family's usual sight of agreement with each others from something.
Soon, both of them continued walking towards the beach, during of which, Judith pulled her own totem to out and showed it again to Stu with a light disgust towards it.
"But father, come on, the Fox of Friendship... in other words it means... the friendship with fox? What do you think of this? What do you yourself think about the foxes?" Judith asked out of curiosity.
"As a chieftain of our village and tribe, I carry a big responsible for our people's safety against the foxes, when some of those ones who lives nearby forest next of our village start to get a bit too cheeky, harassing, and even too dangerous to be left alive." Stu said with the serious tone.
"And yes, I've heard many times over that they're the worst kind of predators. Always hustling some tribes or harassing others like us. With their lies… or with their claws." Stu said and wrapped in his shirt sleeve back revealing to Judith the light claw marks in his arm, made by the fox when he was younger.
Judith gasped in shock and dropped her totem out of her paw, which landed against her chest as it hanged from her neck.
"After all, we rabbits and foxes are natural enemies to each other." Stu added as he put the sleeve back over his wound and continued walking.
Judith was still a bit shocked from the claw marks on her father's arm… especially from the fact that she had the totem which meant the friendship with the animal who did those creepy scars to her father.
However, she quickly recovered from her shock and decided to ask from her father something more about the afterwards of her ceremony.
"I just heard after ceremony my mother and my grandfather's arguing about my totem. Grandfather, as he has told that the foxes are "creation of the demons," said that my totem was send by the same demons instead of the spirits and he reminded my mother about her own quite unpleasant encounter with the fox. But despite this, my mother said that even the foxes, despite being labelled as untrustworthy savages, has some goodness inside of them." Judith explained to her father.
"Do you believe so, father. Is there despite all of our unpleasant encounters with them some goodness in the foxes?" Judith asked, causing Stu to think some time about the answer for this question.
"There has been no reason to believe that due of our various unpleasant encounters with the foxes, Judith, but there's of course no reason to stand against the Great Spirits' decision about the totems… so, who knows. Do you believe so yourself?" Stu said.
Judith was thinking about for while how she can answer to that. It was harder for her to answer to his father's question than he had to answer to hers.
"Well, I don't know, father. After all of those encounters with the foxes. I mean, they're-they're sneaky, they're cunning, they're selfish, they're dishonest, they're liars, they're untrustworthy ones, they're savages, dumb predators. I mean, they're..."
Judith suddenly paused when she and Stu arrived to the place where Judith left the basket before her ceremony.
Well, there was the fresh fox's footprints and few salmons lying on the ground in the ground and the basket with its salmons were gone.
"THEY'RE EVEN THIEVES!" Judith said loudly out of surprise and annoyance.
Suddenly, the scolding and calling word "Ahem" got her turn her head to the voice's direction, only to be immediately confronted by some her fellow tribe members next of the tree to which Judith tied up the basket, whom were all looking at her the disappointed expression on their faces.
And in middle of the crowd was standing Jill Hopps herself - with the scruffy appearance from her fight with the wolf, judged by her messy fur, one droppy ear, some bruises and small claw marks, and a large hole in the backside of her leather pants, that revealed both her butt and her tail tuft - holding the rope in her paw and the disappointed expression on her face.
"You didn't tie it up, did you?" Jill asked from Judith with the scolding tone.
Judith, once again, found herself in the similar awkward moment in middle of her angry and disappointed fellow tribe members. She knew that they wanted the honest explanation for this that why one of their baskets full of salmons was gone although it was supposed to be tied up high in the tree.
"Was it a fox who opened the knot or some fat-head baby sister, who forgot to tie the basket?" Jill asked half-mockingly and half-scolding.
Embarrassingly rubbing back of her head, Judith of course in her self defense explained to them that she did tie up the basket high in the tree, until the weight of the basket got knot to give up and pulled the basket back to the ground and she had big hurry to get to her own ceremony.
"I was about to come back to tie it up after the ceremony but it, uh... kind off... slipped from my mind." Judith nervously said, defending herself.
"Well, then you should have get the totem of slow-minded and dumb ground sloth." Jill said rudely towards of Judith's face.
"Okay, that's it! Here comes!" Judith said in anger and raised her into the fist squeezed right paw to the level of their heads and drew it back in order to punch with it in middle of Jill's faces.
"KNOCK IT OFF! BOTH OF YOU!" Stu said loudly before Judith had time to punch her sister.
"One lost salmon catch and basket is not worth of pointless fist fight nor insults. We have still two baskets full of salmons left. Besides, We can always just make a new basket." Stu said in order to calm down the situation.
Jill's eyes widened angrily of this.
"What? We? Oh, no, father. It took me two long and hard weeks to make that basket." Jill said angrily and unwillingly to do such of work for two weeks again.
Judith knew that well that weaving such of basket is a hard and time consuming work. It would have take weeks before the work was done and the basket finished. Like Jill, Judith also didn't like such of job because she mostly liked to have some fun.
"Why you don't put that fox-lover to do it this time. She's the one that's messing things up all the time." Jill said referring angrily at Judith.
Now Judith grew more angrier from that "fox-lover" thing and eventually step aside from the scene.
"She got already three good salmon catch to be stolen and now she gave one baskets with the salmons as a gift to her fox friend! Typical Judith. Whatta black sheep of our Blood-line. Unbelievable that she even born to this family." Jill shouted.
"Watch your mouth, Jill Hopps, or I'll put you to do that basket again. You shouldn't say anything like that about your little sister. She did just innocent mistake which she admitted humbly, that's all." Stu said with the scolding tone.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah! every time the same thing, father. You're always taking her side, when she does some so-called "innocent mistake" and you start to scold me or put me under house arrest instead of her. Why always me?" Jill said blaming bitterly her father for injustice between of her own daughters mistakes, especially Judith's own compared to hers.
"Well, when has been that day when you've yourself admitted honestly your own mistak…" Stu said until his words were cut off when Judith pushed her way through of them holding the spear in her paws.
"Alright, alright. Enough. You wanna your basket back, Jill? I'm gonna get it back." Judith said to her sister and departed into the woods.
Stu was stunned after seeing the spear in Judith's paws.
"Judith, wait! JUDITH!" Stu tried to call her daughter out of this, but Judith stubbornly refused to listen her father and continued after the fox's tracks towards the high rocks near of the village.
Stu then turned his disappointed and scolding expression to Jill, crossing his arms and shaking his head.
"Nice job, Jill." Stu scolded.
Jill wasn't as stunned as Stu, but he was surprised of Judith's unusual and out of nowhere appeared seriousness. She noticed Stu's disappointed expression and heard his scolding words targeted to her.
"What? What I did again?" She asked confused.
Stu sighed out of frustration and was then about to walk to different direction from Jill, until he suddenly stopped, turned back to Jill and referred her to follow him.
"Come on, Jill. We'd better apply for our spears in our paws and go after her to make sure she doesn't hurt herself because of her foolishness or do something foolish... but go dress yourself at first." Stu said seriously.
Jill sighed out of annoyance to the idea to go after her foolish baby sister.
"Whatever you say." She simply said, shrugging her shoulders and going after her father.
To be continued...
I hoped that you enjoyed reading this chapter.