I'm really sorry guys, but I think I've got to take this one down. It's just reaaaaally hard to go back to the very beginning and have to rewrite the whole thing with Beast as an addition. SO! Recently I got a new idea about writing Beast into another story of Buck, which is not part of the Wild Family stories (soon to be a trilogy), which is set after Ice Age 5. Lucy, Jai, Calamity and the rest will NOT be in this story, rather, they are part of a different world with the same guy. Basically Writing Beast into the stories at the same place, time and context as the Wild family, the Rusty Red and the wars against the Tyrants and the Accused, just is not working.

To give you a preview before I take this one down, the new one will be where Buck is living with the herd with his pumpkin daughter Bronwyn. While the herd is travelling through strange land on their way to visit Peaches and Julian, they cross into a valley unknown to them, and hear the whoops of creatures they haven't seen before, except for Buck.

The Hyena's appear, go to attack the family, but after Buck recognizes the matriarchal female as his old friend Beast, he stops the fight and reunites with his old family, who he thought had been consumed by a fire and that same fire is what Beast had killed Buck.

Hope you guys are looking forward to it because I sure as hell am.

Buck will have a completely different past in this story. It will feel weird to me, and not right, to be writing about Buck with the herd and I know it. I have been writing about the Wild family and the under-grouders for so long that I have made this own little world in my mind and heart. It will always be my favourite story, but Beast just doesn't fit in here, and I need to make something completely different, just to add her in. The reason she exists is that she represents me hanging out with Buck after all.

This story will not have sequels, but maybe i'll add side stories in with Buck and Beast living in the Wild family world like they are in Wishes, Dreams and Nightmares, but I'll let you know if they are. I might just make a collection of short stories and add to them as i go because why the hell not, anyway.

I will see you guys soon.