Chapter 2
Sunny
The warm rays of the rising sun beamed down on the sun bears as they started waking up. Sunny stretched out her paws and stood up, enjoying the feeling of the sun on her fur. She walked around and she liked the feeling of the cool grass underneath her paws. Then she heard her flat-face feeders call her by her name. It was the only word she could understand in their flat-face language. She padded over to them and they tossed a piece honeycomb and some fruits to her. Sunny happily ate them and then started napping for the rest of the day.
Sunny woke up to her mother nudging her side. Sunny opened her eyes and looked at her mother, Aureum.
"Wake up, little one. It's morning," Aureum said, gently. Sunny looked around and then stood up. It was morning. She padded over to her friend, Ustrina, and Sunny wanted to surprise her. She crept up to Ustrina and waited for the perfect moment. Then, she pounced!
"AAH!" Ustrina roared as Sunny landed on her back while she was laying down. Sunny laughed and then she started climbing a tree.
"Wait up!" Ustrina called and then started climbing the tree after her. Sunny climbed to the very top of the tree and looked at the white bears which were on the left side of the sun bear's bear bowl. But all of a sudden she heard a loud roar coming from the Moon Bear's bear bowl which was on the other side of the white bears. She saw all the white bears rushing to the side of the silver mesh where the Moon Bear was and all of the Moon Bears were running over to him as well. But then she noticed a white bear on the other side of the mesh from the Moon Bear.
He was lifeless. Sunny's eyes widened in horror; the white bear was dead! She started panicking, as she had never experienced seeing another bear's death. Aureum had told her about it, but she hadn't seen it before. She felt terrible for the young Moon Bear who obviously was grieving for the white bear. She wondered what the Moon Bear cub's name was. She would never know, though.
Sunny climbed down the tree, passing Ustrina and ignoring her questions. She lay down with her paws above her head and didn't look up when Ustrina and Aureum came over to her and asked her what was wrong. She was devastated, even though she didn't even know the white bear or the moon bear.
Sunny acted like this for the next few days but then her mood started to lighten up when they brought in a new white bear. Maybe that moon bear will become friends with him! The thought made her happier and she began feeling way better. Maybe he's nice! I should meet him!
Sunny padded over to the white bear's part of bear bowl which was separated by that odd silver mesh. But she called out, "Hello? New white bear? I want to meet you!" Aureum cuffed her over the head and said, "Sunny! You know not to be talking to the white bears! You are a sun bear, the smallest type of bear and they are white bears! The largest type of bear! They're very dangerous!" Sunny apologized and Aureum padded away. But all of a sudden a huge shadow loomed over her. She turned around slowly and nervously and saw a ginormous white bear standing before her. She gulped. "H-hi, big white bear…"
"Are you the bear who asked who the new white bear was? That's me; I came from Star Island but the no-claws came and stole me from my home and my family," the white bear explained. Sunny felt so sorry for the bear, "Yeah, I was the one who called out. I'm so sorry for you! I can't imagine losing my family!" The white bear nodded and said, "My name is Kissimi. Lusa told me about this place but I couldn't believe it was real until I actually saw it!"
"My name is Sunny. Who's Lusa?" She asked. Kissimi responded, "She's a black bear. My friend Kallik was friends with her. Kallik is a white bear and her mate, Yakone is, too. And my friend Toklo is a brown bear."
"Wow, you're friends with all sorts of bears!"
"Yep! But i've never seen a bear like you. You're so tiny! What kind of bear are you?" He asked.
"I'm a Sun Bear. The bears on the other side of your bear bowl are Moon Bears," She explained.
Kissimi nodded and then started to tell the story, "Black bear Lusa had escaped from her bear bowl on a journey to find brown bear Toklo. She met him and Ujurak, a shapeshifting brown bear. Then the three journeyed to Great Bear Lake for the Longest Day ceremony and met Kallik after her brother, Taqqiq, had stole a black bear cub named Miki. After the longest day the four bears traveled to Smoke Mountain and then crossed Big River to get to The Last Great Wilderness. After they arrived they thought it was their home but Ujurak felt it wasn't the end of their journey. Then as they were trying to catch a goose, Ujurak changed into a goose and the plan was to change back into a bear and catch one, but he had forgotten he was a bear so he flew off with them. When Toklo Kallik and Lusa had found him, he had accidentally swallowed a fish hook and he had to change into a no-claw so they could take him to the no-claw healer place. He was starting to get healed but someone who wanted oil came and took him to a giant no-claw denning place and he was taken and got healed all the way. Kallik Toklo and Lusa found him and they were reunited once again. Then they journeyed on the ice for a long time and then reached Star Island, my home. Kallik Ujurak Lusa and Toklo ventured to a side of the island we never even knew existed. They used caribou to take down an oil rig and then a huge avalanche killed Ujurak but he had saved his friends. I was in a cave when this happened so I didn't even know what was happening and I was only a few sunrises old. But then when they left the island Yakone went with them and they ventured back onto land to find the Melting Sea, where Kallik was born. They found Kallik's brother Taqqiq there and saved all the white bears from a mean group of bears who Taqqiq was with but then Taqqiq became good again. Then the four left and went back to where Toklo lived but they got chased by Coyotes and Yakone lost half of his paw and almost died but he survived because of Lusa. Then they had to jump onto a firesnake. They escaped the coyotes and ended up in the forest that Toklo was born in. They met a nice bear named Aiyanna who later became Toklo's mate and Tobi, Toklo's brother was buried on what was now her territory when Toklo was just a cub. Then, Toklo Lusa, Kallik, Yakone, Aiyanna, and all the other brown bears in their forest helped get rid of all of the wolves that had taken over the forest. Then Toklo confronted his mean father and then made his territory his own. But Toklo, Lusa, Kallik, and Yakone had to leave to find Great Bear Lake again to find a home for Lusa but she got taken by no-claws and had to escape. They eventually found her and then they made it to Great Bear Lake. Lusa saved a bunch of bears who had been crushed under logs, but the leaders of the Brown Bears, the Black Bears, and the White Bears had all died so they did different trials to decide who was going to lead the ceremony but there was a big fire from an evil bear named Nanulak and he died in the fire but all the other bears survived except one of Lusa's friends. The bears decided to lead the ceremony together that year and then Kallik, Yakone, Lusa, and Toklo had to say goodbye. They had traveled together for a whole suncircle."
Sunny was listening to the story in awe as she heard the tale of the Seeker bears, who went on a marvelous journey. Sunny wanted to find them herself and meet them. But she had a question, "How did Lusa escape her bear bowl?"
Kissimi thought for a few heartbeats and then replied, "She pretended she was sick and the no-claws took her away into a room and trapped her in a silver cage. Then she found a way out of a cage and escaped the room and she was in the wilderness."
"Wow!" Sunny exclaimed. She decided to fake being sick and meet the Seekers.
