Chapter 6
It was bad. Something I didn't want to happen. Not only was it I who was being shunned by Buck's family, but Buck himself. Ever since the fight, Buck was taking extra caution. He suggest once that we moved back to the Dino World through the place where I had fallen when I went there the first time. But I mentioned that the horrible beasts might hurt me, so he reconsidered.
This whole time, the rest of the herd and my siblings seemed to be not taking part in the fights and arguments, but stayed on the sidelines instead. The pure-weasel family shunned them, but they were safe. It was because they weren't the ones who were trying to break the weasel's tradition.
But Buck's sisters – Thia, Talia, Emma, May, and Carla – and bothers – Ben, Cody, Jack, Cedric, and Carlo – began to pick on them. All Buck's sisters except Emma kept trying to create a catfight with Amy, Lily and Alex while all the boys except Cody kept making dirty jokes and comments about our family. Cody and Emma were the only ones who were actually nice to them. The two were twins and were more like Buck in the ways that they didn't care about whether a creature was pureblood or half-breed. They were the only ones who understood Buck…and they both found an interest in my siblings.
"Oh wow! That's so pretty! How'd you do it?" Emma asked Lily. They were staring at a rock shaped like a flower that was rather interesting and well made. "Buck taught me! It's my greatest treasure!" Lily replied. Emma stared at the flower with amazement.
"So," Lily began. "Do you have a special treasure?" Emma nodded. "It was a treasure that has a twin that was given to me, and the other to my twin Cody, by Buck when he left. We were the only ones he told that he was leaving. He trusted us and we understood that he couldn't stand living the way our parents wanted him to live. We knew it was better that he was free! We let him go and he gave us each a necklace made of a special vine that can't break easily with a sapphire."
She took out from her under her top a necklace that was probably the most beautiful stone that Lily had ever seen. It was shaped like a star and sparkled with the shine of the sun. Lily exhaled, "That's so cool! I can't believe how beautiful that is! Your brother is really gifted!" Emma nodded.
"I'm glad ya think so!" They turned to Buck and me. Lily walked up to Buck with a smile, "Buck, how'd you make that star?" Buck glanced at his sister's star necklace. "Oh! I'm jus' good with my hands is all!" Lily smiled wider. "Can you make any shape!?" She asked excitedly. Buck shrugged. "Almost…it all depends on the materials ya use!" Lily nodded, glancing at her stone flower.
It was then that I felt something moving in my lower stomach. It could only be one thing: the baby. I gasped and then smiled. Buck turned towards me. "What?" I motioned him to come closer and whispered in his ear. He nodded. "Aye! That's reason'ble!" Lily and Emma looked at each other and then at Buck and me. "What is it?" They asked together.
Buck waved it off. The two girls pouted and pleaded, "Pretty Pleeeease!" Buck chuckled and winked at me before turning back to the girls. "You'll prob'ly understan' when yer older! I don' think you'd be that interested in babies an' that kind of thing!" Then, faking that he realized he spilled the beans, he covered his mouth, "Whoops!" The girls gasped. "Tell us more!" Lily pleaded. Emma nodded.
Buck glanced at me and I gave him a knowing look. He knew what to say and what not to say. He turned back to the two young girls. "Well, I can't give up too much to ya…but I can say this…" He turned to Lily. "Yer sis, Jade, is gunna be a mummy soon! And since I helped, I'm the dad." The girl's eyes widened. "Wow! How'd you do it?"
Buck shook his head and made a lips sealed motion. "Can't tell ya! But I can tell ya that the babe jus' kicked fer the first time. That's what we were whisperin' 'bout!" Emma and Lily looked at each other and squealed. I held back a laugh as Buck chuckled. These two girls had no idea the true honor yet responsibility there was in taking care of a baby.
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Much to their parent's dislike, Emma and Cody stayed with Buck and me and the rest of our group every night. Cody had become friends with Corey and Nat easily. And I was sure even then that Cody had a crush on Alex. I couldn't blame him. She was as beautiful as our mother and as gifted as our father had been. She had the most amazing singing voice as did our father did. So…why not like her?
I smiled as I watched Cody and Alex talk about random things. Alex seemed to like him too. When he presented jokes and anything else that said in attempts to be funny, it always worked and we all laughed really hard. He could imitate almost anyone and could act better than I had ever seen. And finally it was revealed that he was only two years younger than Buck. That's even more perfect for Alex!
"Oh!" Cody jumped up. "And I remember when Buck had that fight with Ben, Carlo, Jack, and Cedric all together! Buck showed them both! He was like a one-weasel-wonder! It was awesome! I may have only been four, but I can still remember it! You were so fast and your fluency was amazing! I have never been so impressed! And it was funny how you tied all four of them up!"
Buck laughed. "I guess my name fits me then! More than I knew anyway…" He sighed. "I was always a wild one! When I went to the Dino World, my insanity broke free! But bein' up 'ere again kinda makes me realize I've missed lots…" He turned to me. "But I'm glad that I met you, Jade!" I smiled and he smiled back crookedly.
I turned back to Cody, "So, what other things do you remember?" He smiled and told the next 'Buck Story'. Buck helped in some areas and when it came to going to the Dino World, Buck took over…
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Buck was a young fourteen-year-old weasel. He had just run away with only a small bag of food that he and his twin siblings had helped him collect. But Buck didn't know what to do now that he was free from his families' clutches and away from his supposed-to-be mate, Angela.
As it got later and later, Buck walked on and was soon caught in a blizzard. His neck-length hair blew in his eyes, but as he tried to pull it away, it refused his touch as it flared in all directions. Buck searched through it and the hale of snow, trying to find his way through the storm.
At one point, he was about to give up when he spied a cave not too far off from where he was. He gasped, smiled a little, and pushed his way towards it little by little. As soon as he was safe, he took the food out of his bag. Once he was done and it was all gone, he set the leaves he used to carry the food over himself and went to sleep.
But it wasn't long till morning, and when it came, Buck heard a loud roar in the distance that caught his ear. He jolted upward and sat there until he heard the same roar again. He got up slowly and made his way, deeper into the cave, towards the sound.
But as he crept deeper into the cave, he began to see a light. As he came out into the open, he saw so many different creatures. They were dinosaurs that he was sure had been extinct for a long time. But here they were! The whole place was filled with them along with several different habitats like water, trees, a waterfall of lava, several rock formations holding up the entire place, etc.
Buck had never seen anything like it. "How…?" He whispered in amazement. But as he looked around him, a new idea formed in his head. It would be hard, but he had done a lot of dangerous things in his life. Buck knew that his family would never find him here unless they fell through the ceiling, so this would make a great home.
It turns out that in the next week, he faced Rudy and lost his eye, but gained the knife of the piece of wood and Rudy's tooth. That was the most horrific experience, and I believed him. Two years later, he met Manny and the others. And then a year and a half after that, he met me. As of now, he was eighteen, and I a sixteen, soon to be seventeen, year old ferret-weasel mix.
What an adventure…but it was much more than that…
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I knew Buck was an amazing guy, but I had never heard the big story of his life. He had always been troublesome. His insanity still lay in the Dino World, but his bravery and power was still with him and it would be forever…
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