Hello! I hoped you guys liked chapter 12! Well, here is where things are also getting crazy, only this time it's a bear, as well as the volcano! And the bear is ready to kill! LOL. Hope you like it!

Chapter 13: The bear

"AH!" Crash and Eddie screamed, as they ran with their mom, as well as Sid and Diego behind.

As Sid was panting, he looked behind him and saw the bear not too far away. He gasped. "Diego!"

Diego looked back and saw the bear as well. "Keep running!"

"Run!" Sandy cried. "Run!"

Diego decided to give it a try of attacking the bear. So he stopped, and looked back at it.

"Diego!" Sid exclaimed.

"Keep going!" Diego called.

The possums finally came to a pile of rocks, about four feet high, and climbed over them.

Diego stood, giving the bear a threatening look. But the bear didn't stop. It kept coming, acting like it wasn't even afraid. Diego started to growl, when the bear put it's arm up, ready to swipe Diego to his death. The tiger then realized that nothing was working, so he started running with the others.

Sid finally got to the pile or rocks, and started climbing, not as fast as the possums.

Diego finally jumped over Sid, and got to the other side of the pile of rocks. "Keep going!" the tiger called.

Sid climbed as fast as he could, and finally fell to the other side. He then realized that he was being left behind, and he looked up behind him, and saw the bear standing. He gasped, and started running before the bear's claws swiped at him.

"Guys!" the sloth called. "Wait!" Sid suddenly tripped over a rock, and fell to the ground. When Sid came to his senses after dozing off, he looked behind him and saw the bear's arm up.

Before Sid could get away, the bear swiped Sid's body with its claws. Sid started rolling after he got hit, and fell face down. The bear started growling, as it crawled over to the sloth.

Diego finally stopped, when he heard the vicious roar of the bear. He looked back and gasped when he saw Sid laying on the ground, and the bear coming his way. The tiger started running toward them.

Sid was moaning, as the bear was coming closer. The sloth started to get up, but the bear took another big swipe on him, causing him to roll over toward a tree. He finally stopped before his body touching the tree, and hey lay on his back, finally unconscious.

The bear started going toward Sid again, ready to kill him after a final swipe the bear planned.

Crash and Eddie suddenly stopped when they realized that both Diego and Sid were not following. "Oh no!" Eddie exclaimed. He and his brother both saw the bear ready to kill Sid, and saw the tiger running toward them. "Come on!" Crash exclaimed, as he and his brother started running toward them, letting their mother running for her own life, even though she still thought they were behind her.

The bear crawled closer and closer, and before it got to the poor sloth, it got attacked.

"Leave my best buddy alone!" Diego cried out, as he had the big bear pinned. He couldn't handle of what the bear just did to the poor sloth. Earlier, his whole body was tingling when he saw the claws hit Sid's body, which made him very upset. Diego started scratching at the bear, very angrily.

Sid finally started opening his eyes slowly, yet struggled to get up. He tried as much as he could, but just fell again; the pain was horrible.

"Diego!" both of the possums called, as they were getting closer.

"Huh?" Diego was curious. "Guys! I thought I told you to...AHHH!" Diego got swiped very hard with the bear's claws, causing him to roll over to a big bolder. BANG! He hit the rock hard, causing him to doze off a bit.

The possums gasped. Now the bear was in for it. They were very angry. He never knew how much they cared about the tiger. "No!" they both exclaimed, and started running toward the bear.

Sid struggled to get up, but he finally lifted his neck up, sitting on his bottom. He moaned as he opened his eyes and looked at the possums who were charging at the bear, and gasped. "Crash, Eddie, no!"

They didn't listen. They kept running, until they finally got to the beast, and started climbing all over its body. The bear roared angrily, and tried to get them with eats teeth, but they moved every time it aimed at them. The possums started biting the bear viciously, as is roared with pain.

Diego tried hard to end his dizziness, but couldn't. He suddenly saw a big shine of the sun, and a big shot of heat, going in his face. Diego's head fell, and closed hie eyes, leaving the possums and sloth on their own.

The bear finally started jerking its body, causing Crash to fall off. The bear looked down at the possum, who wasn't aware of the bear aiming at him. "Crash!" Eddie cried. Crash looked up, and saw the claw aiming for his body. The possum went rolling across the ground.

"Crash, no!" Eddie cried, as he suddenly felt the claws on his body, too, swiping his poor self across the ground, and hitting his brother.

Sid knew that the possums' little bodies couldn't last another swipe, and he started to feel really scared. "Crash, Eddie!" Without even thinking, the sloth got up, and started for the possums, ready to save them from the bear. When Sid got to Crash and Eddie, who were unconscious, he started to put his hand on them, when he heard a loud growl. The sloth looked behind him, and saw the bear coming their way. He put his arms across, trying to defend his friends. "No! Don't get my friends!" As the bear put its arm up, ready to kill all three of them, Sid put his hands on his head and closed his eyes when the bear was suddenly pushed out of the way.

The two possums both opened their eyes, and Sid gasp, as he saw Manny standing there. "Are you guys alright?" the mammoth asked them.

"Manny, I'm coming!" Ellie called, who was coming their way. The bear looked at the female mammoth, and started toward her.

"Ellie, no! Get out of the way!"

Ellie came to a sudden stop and gasped when she saw the bear coming. "Manny!"

"Ellie!"

Ellie was in shock. She didn't know what to do about the bear, since she never really attacked any animal before. As the bear came closer, Ellie saw an orange figure attack the bear.

"Diego!" the two possums exclaimed, after healing from a quick recovery.

The tiger started scratching the bear, not wanting to stop; not for anything. He couldn't believe what the bear had just done to his friends; his friends who were about to die. Diego continued scratching, when he heard the bear moaning. Diego suddenly stopped, and looked into the bear's eyes that were on him. The bear did not look happy, but no angry either. It looked as if it were innocent and in pain. He almost saw his own eyes in the bear's; the eyes of a carnivore, just like Diego. The tiger suddenly saw a young bear cub coming toward him, and he climbed off of the bear and walked toward his herd.

"Diego, what happened?" Ellie asked curiously.

The tiger looked back at the bear, who was struggling to get up, but with it's own cub by its side, who was giving a small growl.

"Diego, what happened over there?" Manny asked.

"I..." Diego started, and turned to his herd. "I just...felt..." he couldn't tell them. He couldn't tell them that he felt bad for the bear, just because it was a carnivore like him. And also that he felt kind of guilty of killing somebody who was almost like him, and that he was lonely, being the only carnivore in his herd. "...felt that I had enough. She won't bother us again."

The two possums looked at each other curiously, and the two mammoths agreed to what Diego said. But Sid knew that Diego was only trying to protect the bear.

SP-ok, so that was my chapter of the bear. Sorry it was so short. But the adventure isn't over yet! There will still be more in the next chapter!