"To Crowberry Ridge!" Koda exclaimed, eagerly outpacing his two guardians in his excitement. "Woohoo! Finally!"
Nita chuckled, while Kenai smiled and rolled his eyes. The two hung back a bit and let the cub, who really was growing to be more of an adolescent now, have his fun.
"Don't go too far ahead, Koda!" Kenai called as he watched his brother go further and further ahead.
Koda heard, but just rolled his eyes and kept on running and jumping. He was happy; they were finally going to Crowberry Ridge! He'd waited foreverto go to Crowberry Ridge. And they were gonna be the first ones there! Like it was supposed to be last year! He turned back to smirk at Kenai. "You're goin' too slow, Kenai!"
"I'm going at a perfectly suitable pace," Kenai argued.
Koda rolled his eyes and smirked again. "Eh, you're just getting old!"
"What?"
He heard Kenai running after him, and laughed as he took off, a blur of brown fur rushing through the undergrowth. He was looking over his shoulder for any sign of Kenai, when he ran into something.
"Owch, eh! Watch where you're goin'!"
Koda rubbed his head and saw Rutt and Tuke before him, Tuke rubbing his back end. Before he could apologize, Kenai and Nita were behind him.
"Hey, you two!" Nita smiled. She then turned to Koda, concern in her eyes. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Koda answered.
"Hey big bear, smallish bear, pretty bear," Rutt greeted the bears. "What's goin' on, eh?"
"Just heading to Crowberry Ridge!" Koda said excitedly. "We're finally getting to go!"
Just then, Tuke nudged Rutt. "There was something we were supposed to tell them, eh?"
Rutt stared at his brother blankly. "There was? I don't remember anything."
"I'm almost positive there was..." Tuke remarked. "We stopped to eat that clover. That's what did it; I always forget things when I eat clover."
"Like what?" Kenai asked, tilting his head.
"Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue, eh?" Rutt said. "Oh! There was this log, eh? Remember, brother?"
"Yeah, yeah, and -" Then Tuke remembered, a look a panic on his face. "There were these three smallish bears in this log, eh?" He looked down at Koda. "They were smaller than you, but not babies, you know, eh?"
Nita looked at the two moose. "Where?"
"Down by the river, eh?" Rutt answered.
"Now hold on, Nita-" Kenai didn't even finish the sentence before Nita was dashing off through the forest. He continued anyway, a grimace on his face. "What can we do to help three cubs? We need to just go to Crowberry Ridge, like I said, and let their mother take care of them."
"Oh! One other thing, eh?" Tuke said. "They said they didn't have a mother."
Koda frowned at Kenai. "We gotta do something, Kenai."
Kenai sighed. "Not you too, Koda. We can barely look after you."
"But I'll help!" Koda crossed a claw over his heart. "Promise!"
Kenai arched an eyebrow. "Pinky swear?"
Koda stuck out a paw. "Pinky swear!"
Kenai sighed. "I guess we'd better follow Nita before she gets too far ahead of us." He looked at the moose brothers. "Thanks, fellas." Whether he was sincere or sarcastic was unknown, but Koda didn't think about that as he followed Kenai as he chased after Nita.
"No problem, bigger bear." Rutt yelled after them before turning to Tuke. "Now, let's get back to that clover, eh?"
"Agreed, brother!" Tuke readily said and the two ambled off.
ugh, so short DX so sorry guys, only 588 words. but two chapters makes up for it, right? please say yes.