I do not own the Care Bears. There I've said it, happy now?

I would like to give a big wave out to all the great Care Bears fan fiction writers out there: Mariel, Take Care Bear, Patient Heart, Sun Tzu, Fauna Greywolf, Phoenix Audobon, and all the rest. You know who you are ;)

This is my first Care Bears story and I hope you like it. Enjoy.

There's a place, high in the sky, where dark clouds always hang. Birds instinctively knew not to fly near and airplanes give it a wide berth. It radiates a malevolent aura that no one is free from. Inside this dark bank of clouds is a castle, as twisted and dark as the clouds themselves. It is a forbidding place, a place of evil. But to the sorcerer who calls himself No Heart, its just home.

At this moment the walls shook with No Heart's rage, thunder and lightning echoing off the stonewalls, sending small chunks to the ground. Growling inarticulately with rage, No Heart continued his ranting.

"Those wretched Care Bears!!!" He thundered. "Another plan ruined by those contemptible do-gooders!" After tossing around magic lightning for twenty more minutes, No Heart finally began to calm down to the point where he could plan his next strategy.

"Every time I engage those Bears, their Stare drives me off. There has to be a way to destroy them without having to endure it." He mused, rapping his fingers on the arms of his throne.

"BEASTLY!" He bellowed. "BRING ME MY SPELL BOOKS!" After receiving his books (and curtly dismissing his bumbling lackey) he poured through the old books for the proper spell to deal with the hated Care Bear Family. No Heart swore he wouldn't rest until he found a spell so horrifying that it would give even the most ruthless being nightmares. "On that note." No Heart mused as he found just what he was looking for. All he needed now was the proper victim to use it on. A delightfully evil smile appeared on his face as he remembered an old adage, "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link." And it didn't require a lot of time to think of what member of the Care Bear Family fit that description.

A short time before, the walls of No Heart's Castle reverberated with the sound of angry thunder. Now it shook with the sound of wicked, evil laughter.

"I AM EVIL! I AM HATE! I AM NO HEART!"