Chapter 2 Reports of strange encounters
"What's going on here?" Said Wishbear.
"Looks like someone has called a meeting. We had better go check it out." Replied Tenderheart.
As Wishbear and Tenderheart into the meetning hall inside the hall of hearts, Trueheart bear was calling the meeting to order with all of the bears finding taking there seats.
"Quiet. Quiet please," Then everyone had ceased in all conversations they were having with one another. "We have called this meeting to order because we have a very grave threat taking place." Everyone murmured with concern for a moment. "Quiet please," Trueheart tapped on a glass cup with a small spoon. " There have been several reports about our enemies working together. Me and my partner Nobleheart horse just came back from a small town in California where we had proceeded to help some children with some self esteem issues when all of a sudden we got attacked by Nohearts evil shadows. We managed to defeat them with our normal carebear stare but right after that, Professor Cold Heart and Auntie Freeze immediately attacked us with ice attacks in an attempt to capture us. We had to retreat to safety because the combination of Nohearts shadows and Professor Cold Heart proved to be too much trouble. As a result, we could not complete our caring mission. We have also heard of other unusual encounters with some of the other caring missions which some of you have went on. Grumpy Bear can you and Aqua bear please give us an account of your last caring mission?"
"Well, me and Aqua bear were trying to protect a little boy from a bully who was threatening to deck him," Said Grumpy quaking with fear. "We subdued the bully no problem, but then Sour Sam and Dr. Fright both came out of nowhere with red sabers and began to attack us. Aqua bear engaged them with his own blue saber against there two red ones, but both just proved to be too much so we had to retreat." Grumpy said looking relieved that they managed to escape with there lives.
"But I would have beat them if they wouldn't have caught us by surprise!" Said Grumpy's partner who sat next to him. This bear had a flaming round hoop surrounding a dolphin jumping through it on his tummy symbol. It looked like the Miami dolphins logo except it was flipped invertly. "Honestly, I would have." Aqua bear was a caring guardian who had mediocre fighting skills with a saber. Everyone had respected Aqua bear because of how loving he was despite what happened to him in his past. Everyone looked away as Trueheart interrupted this situation by lightly tapping a metal spoon against a glass cup filled with apple juice.
"Okay everyone." She retorted patiently. "Let's stay on task. Funshine and Lotsa, please give us your report." Asked Trueheart.
"Well, we were both on our way to visit Anna and her brother Peter just to go see how they were doing," Said Funshine. "As we gathered to meet them outside of there home, the rat king and his henchmen came out of nowhere and attacked us!" Everyone in the room except for Trueheart, Nobleheart, Grumpy, and Aqua murmured on with shock. "We managed to subdue them for a while with a carebear stare, but right after that the wizard from wonderland and the evil Vizior from toyland charged at us with red sabers! We both ran for our lives as Peter and Anna retreated back into there house. But as we fled to our cloudcar and took off, we were stopped abruptly. We both looked back and saw the evil wizard along with the Vizior were both using some strange new power trying to reel us back in," Everyone listened with on fearfully. "I and Lotsa, turned and stared at them knocking them backwards breaking us free from there magical grip and we narrowly escaped capture." Everyone broke out with concerned murmuring to one another.
Tink tink. "Quiet everyone," Said Trueheart clanking the glass again. "We need to find out why these unusual attacks are taking place."
"I agree," said Nobleheart. "We need to find out what's going on and why."
"Excuse me." Said Wish bear with her paw raised up. "Me and Tenderheart both went on a caring mission to investigate something."
"Did you have a unusual encounter?" Asked Nobleheart.
"Not of that sort, but we do have another matter of concern here," Said Wishbear. "Me and Tenderheart both went to investigate a property with a message on two epitaphs. The epitaphs contained a message within them that said here lies my mother and my step dad who meant the world to me, but the rest of the message was broken up. But me and Tenderheart managed to put some of the broken pieces back together again and got more of the message." Some of the bear's looked at her impatiently. Wish bear seeing this... "To put this in a nut shell, this person vowed to get revenge for what happened to his parents."
"What happened to his parents?" Asked Trueheart.
Wishbear bowed her head in sorrow "From the given account on the tombstone, his parents were both burned alive in a trailer." Many of the carebears placed there paws over there mouths in disbelief.
"Who would do such a terrible thing?" Said FriendBear standing up.
"I do not know," Replied Tenderheart. "But whoever wrote that message on those epitaphs vowed revenge," All the carebears and their cousins stood up in disbelief. "I propose we find this person who wrote this message and try to talk him out of this."
"But where or who do you think wrote that message?" Asked Nobleheart.
"We believe it was him," Replied Wish bear as she showed the picture of Joaquin Benividas. "We found it digging around inside the dumpster on the property."
"What were you doing looking around on there property without permission?" Replied Braveheart scowling at Wishbear. Wish bear blushed a bright red and replied,
"Because we wanted to find out who wrote that message so we could help him and offer our condolences for what happened to his parents." Braveheart nodded in understanding.
"Okay, so we have a mystery on our hands," "Said Trueheart. "But we must find out what the bad guys are up to first! This is a much more pressing priority," Everyone looked at Truesheart in shock after she said this. "Look everyone, I know we are suppose to help others to, but now just isn't the time for that."
"Its always the time!" Stammered Wishbear angrily as she shot up from her seat. "We must help everyone in need and not just think of our own issues," Many carebears and cousins nodded in agreement. "Besides, that poor boy needs our help before he does something he might regret for the rest of his life!" Tenderheart bear turned looking up at Wishbear smiling showing approval with admiration and respect for his friend who usually never spoke out like this with such conviction.
"Alright." Said Trueheart uncompromising as she threw her arms up in surrender. She then turned and faced the purple racoon. "Brightheart you get together with Wish Bear and decide on a proper plan of action to find this person. Tenderheart and Grumpy Bear, you two must go together to Noheart's castle and see what you can find out about these new imminent threats."
"What are the rest of us suppose to do?" Inquired Friend bear as he raised his paw catching Trueheart's attention.
"The rest of us will remain here until we know its safe again to go on our usual caring missions."
"But what about all of the children who still need our help?" Friend bear said with a concerned look.
"I'm afraid they'll have to wait until we can assure the safety of our family." Sighed Trueheart not liking this anymore than Friend bear.
"Bu-But those kids need our help!" Protested Friend bear.
"Yeah!" Said a pink bear with a multi colored rainbow on her tummy. "We need to be available to those who might need cheering up!" The hall of heart's roared in agreement until Trueheart shook her head from side to side in disapproval silencing all enthusiasm.
"I'm sorry everyone," Replied Trueheart. "But until we know its safe, I can't risk the safety of our family. I do not want any of you to get hurt." The bears looked at Trueheart with surprise. "But I promise, as soon as we have this situation under control again, we can return to helping people down on the earth again."
With that, everyone dispersed with disconteded murmuring, as the meeting stood adjourned.