Disclaimer: We will never own BB, and never shall. EVER! Well, not unless they decide to make a sequel and we somehow audition for it . . . These next 2 or 3 chapters have been inspired by Mermaid Ninja! Huzzah! We still need ideas, of course.

Ch. 2 A cry in the dark

Kenai muttered to himself and rubbed his cheek. He had felt worse things than this, but this time it REALLY hurt, especially having the pain caused by a girl. Aww, what the heck. Denahi hollered at him, Sitka yelled for doing those two things. Everything's even now.

Kenai noticed two shadows getting closer to him. They were obviously girls, because he heard them talking.

". . . He's such a pervert!"

". . . He should get tied up and left in the forest . . ."

'Oh, great. Just what I need. More pain,' Kenai thought unhappily.

"Well, this is it. Time to teach him a lesson!"

He started to make a run for it, but they already noticed him.

"KENAI!!!"

"DAMMIT!"

The two girls glared at him as he sat back down. He stared back in fear, hoping that he wasn't going to get hurt anymore, especially by girls.

"Deva told us what happened, Kenai! You should be ashamed of yourself!" The first girl snapped at him.

"I already am! LOOK WHAT SHE GAVE ME!" Kenai hollered back, pointing to his sore cheek.

"You deserved it!" The other girl said.

"'Enai!" Aquene squeaked as she ran out of the small hut.

"Ohhh, she's so CUTE!" Both girls squealed.

'Point one for me, evil snakes nothing.' Kenai thought. 'At least there IS a use for Aquene. Getting the girls to leave me alone.'

"'Enai!"

"Aww! You heard what she said! ? She tried to say Kenai!"

The shadows were getting longer. Sunset. The girls will leave him alone now. The great spirits would come out and wander the village during the night, if no one had died that day and will guard the villagers. If a person that didn't have their totem saw one of them, you turn into an animal. Or, that's what Tanana said to scare kids so they won't leave in the night until they got their totem.

"Bye-bye Aquene! See you tomorrow! And Kenai! We have things to talk about!"

"Can't wait," he muttered as he picked Aquene up.

Denahi was already in there, setting out the blankets. He looked like he was ready to laugh. Kenai set Aquene down before he asked: "What's so funny?"

"The girls! They were upset with you!" Denahi laughed.

"Hey! What business of yours is it to listen to that?"

"I could hear them yelling at you, so I got Aquene to run outside so they would leave you alone! Augh! Can't . . . breathe! Laughing . . . too . . . hard!"

"Good! Maybe you'll die!" With that, Kenai grabbed a blanket and started to smother him with it. Aquene was laughing at what was happening, while they started to fight each other.

Sitka stormed into the hut suddenly, face full of rage. Denahi quit laughing and Kenai pulled the blanket off. Aquene stopped laughing, too.

"Sitka . . . What's wrong?" Denahi asked.

"The Chogan tribe is getting closer," Sitka muttered.

Denahi's jaw dropped, and Kenai's heart skipped a beat. The Chogan tribe, or the Blackbirds, was feared the most. They would kill people and throw them into the Ohanzee River, or the River of Shadows, in other words. That was their way to honor the spirits.

"No . . ." Denahi whispered.

Sitka nodded slowly, staying in a trance. "Best if we stay with another family . . . Tanana said for three family's per home . . . So . . ." His voice trailed off. He grabbed a blanket and threw the few bowls they had, wrapping them up. Denahi grabbed the rest of the blankets and wrapped them up in a bundle, too. Kenai picked up Aquene and the few spears they had. They bolted out of the hut, and other families with their possessions were hurrying too. A few short seconds later, they were already in the central village. They finally entered one of them that wasn't over crowded. Kenai noticed Deva was in there. He tried to say something to her, but she looked away from him.

"We'll stay here for now," Sitka said. "Either that, or we might have to move the tribe."

Denahi nodded slowly, Kenai doing the same. Unwrapping the blankets, they were set down. Sitka wrapped Aquene in one of them, and she fell asleep.

"Sleep. I'll stay up," Sitka instructed his brothers. They nodded slowly, and got under the blankets.

Kenai wasn't sure what was happening when he woke up, but he could hear the wild yells of the Chogan tribe. Both Sitka and Denahi were wide-awake. Deva sat up immediately, and her sisters were awake too. Aquene was slowly stirring and trembling slightly. Her eyes opened up and she looked all around.

"Wha' tha'?" She asked.

"Nothing. Go back to sleep," Sitka said as he grabbed a spear.

Denahi grabbed a spear as well.

"Kenai! Stay here and watch them!" Sitka ordered. Kenai obeyed, but grabbed a spear anyways.

They darted out, with the screams getting louder. Kenai could feel himself shake and heard Aquene whimpering. Her whimpering stopped, as one of Deva's sisters was comforting her.

"Kenai, I'm scared!" Deva sobbed as she grabbed onto him. Kenai hardly noticed it when he saw someone enter the room. He was holding a dagger, raised high. It streaked down, and Kenai knew no more.

Kenai awoke suddenly. Deva was laying on him, unconscious. Her sisters were gone, as well as Aqu . . . Wait a second . . .

"Aquene!" Kenai yelled.

A sharp blast of pain in his shoulder made him grab it. It was wet, warm and sticky. Pulling his hand away, he saw it was smeared with blood. He sat up suddenly, grinding his teeth as the pain seared him again. Deva rolled off of him as he sat up, still unconscious.

Kenai immediately ran out of the hut and had to bite his tongue so he wouldn't moan. Some of the huts had burned, corpses burned, covered in blood. The smell of the blood was enough to make him sick, the screams of the near dead dying, the families crying over the dead and dying.

"Kenai!" A voice yelled.

Turning to the sound, he was shocked to see the sight that greeted him. Sitka had a large gash on his face, but it wasn't too deep, but enough to make some blood trickle. His right hand was burned, raw and bleeding. Denahi wasn't any better. His nose was bleeding, and a giant bruise was forming on his neck.

"Where's Aquene?" Kenai whispered.

"Wh-what did you say?" Sitka's voice quivered. Denahi's eyes widened at hearing that.

"They took her," Deva said. Her face was partly bruised, and some of her hair was slightly cut a bit shorter. The small braid that was in her hair was gone; instead, leaving some curled hair. "They took her. I saw it happen."

TBC . . . . . . .

Here's a quick thing of how Aquene looks. If you want Deva's or Hakan's, it's in 'Brother Bear: New family'.

Aquene: Age: 1 Hair color: Black (of course), goes to chin (hey, our hair was that long when we were that age. Go figure), has a bit of a ponytail in the back (its not the hair in front, its like the top layer at the back of your head). Wearing: Since all clothes are the same, hers is a pink color, like the girl that greets Tanana at the beginning of the movie. Heck, that is her in my story!

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