AN:  Hey people, here's chapter 8.  I hope you like it, but I wouldn't know because you people don't give me reviews.  Come on, I need them so I can make the story better! Please?  Anyway, My writers block is still waiting for me, so I'll get back to it for now. 

Disclaimer:  The story is mine.  The original characters are mine (only one so far).  However the location belongs to Alaska and Canada.  The other characters belong to Disney.

Chibi: Those are good names and thanks for the suggestions, I may use them later on.

Chap. 8

The glacier made up most of the east wall of the valley. The forest came up to the edge and tapered off as the cliff faded into the ice. It was hard going for the brothers as they climbed up the frigid cliff.

"Having fun yet, Denahi?" Grumbled Kenai as he slipped and pulled himself up onto the next ledge.

Denahi was tired, but he didn't want to give Kenai the satisfaction, so he just grinned. "Come on little brother, this is nothing compared to the glacier back home."

Kenai just shook his head and kept climbing.

Another hour past and the sun began to head into the west as the brothers finally reached a cleft in the glacier. Koda bounded ahead and ran forward with Denahi close behind. Kenai looked around to make sure he knew the way back down before following his two brothers.

The cleft was narrow and went deep. After a while though, it began to widen. It had brought the bears to the other side of the glacier. There was no valley on this side, just mountains that rose up all around them. Lush, thick trees covered the mountains sides, while the peaks were white with snow. Another glacier could be seen just a short distance to the north.

"Wow, How come we've never been over here Kenai?" Koda bounded off the glacier and onto a nearby ledge that led to the sloped mountainside.

"Because we've never had the time before –Koda! Be careful, it's a long way down." Kenai glared at the young bear as he jumped over a rift in the rock.

"Come on Kenai, where's you sense of adventure?" Denahi jumped after Koda and the two of them began trotting into the woods toward the other glacier.

"I left it back in the valley..." Kenai grimaced; his brother was becoming a bad influence. He had no choice but to follow. "Alright, but we need to head back soon, the sun will be going down in a few hours!" He called after his brothers.

He caught up to them a few minutes later at the other glacier. They were walking down to where it met rock. Kenai looked apprehensively at the ice. It jutted out over the woods and didn't look very stable. He had seen ice like this collapse before and he really want to head underneath it.

"Hey, Denahi! Koda! How about we stay away from here, I-"Kenai paused and sniffed the air. There were other bears about, lower down the mountainside. He couldn't make out how many or even how far but they weren't visible through the trees. He turned and saw that his brothers had disappeared out of site. Resigning himself to a tag along, he hurried after them.

Denahi had stopped a little farther down the path. The ledge broke off and there was quite a distance to the next one. Koda had resigned himself to looking for a snack in the woods.

"Hey Denahi ...where's Koda?" Kenai asked as he came around the bend.

"Went to look for foodstuffs. I think we will have to turn around..." A rumbling sound had begun somewhere above them and was getting louder.

"Denahi, please tell me that's your stomach..." Fear was plain in Kenai's eyes as he looked at his brother. The rumbling was louder now and they could here cracking in the ice above them.

"I'm afraid its-"His reply was cut short as the glacier cracked and bits of ice showered them. The entire ledge shook and the shelf above them broke of, shattering into hundreds of boulder sized bits of ice. Kenai barreled for Denahi and through both of them off the ledge.

Slightly below them on the hillside, Koda sniffed the air. There were other bears nearby, ones he didn't know. He was looking around trying to determine where they were when he heard the rumble and turned to see the glacier shelf collapse. As the avalanche of snow and ice bared down upon him, Koda ran toward a niche he had seen in the rocks to the west. Just a few feet away from it, the ice rushed down and past Koda. He stopped and looked around to see that he managed to just get out of the path of the impending snow.

Koda let out a sigh. Thank the spirits it missed me. Kenai would be so worried if...oh no! Kenai and Denahi! Quickly making sure the snow was no longer shifter; Koda began to run up the hill in search of his other two brothers.

The mountain where the lights touch the earth. Kenai and a sleeping cub. Sitka standing watching. The boy with the spear. Denahi closed his eyes and screamed to himself to wake up.

"Uhh...." Denahi shook his head and looked around. He was lying down on a ledge. Above him he could see the edge of what was once the path they had been following. Now it was buried under 10 feet of snow and ice, as was the rest of the hillside. He took a quick look off the side and saw that there was a chasm that went down hundreds of feet. Good thing I didn't fall in there, I've already done that once...

"Good, you're alright." Denahi turned to see Kenai slipping and sliding down a narrow passage that seemed to lead back up to the top. "While you were out I found a way back up. Koda's at the top, come on."

Gingerly, Denahi stood and shook his head to clear out the bad memories and dreams. Kenai turned and went back up the path with Denahi following close behind.