Buck stared into the horizon. He could still remember Andrew's gloating face the night he was separated from Stacy.
He was standing on a cliff-edge that hung over Lava Falls, where he could see the whole underworld. Behind him, the herd was sleeping.
The weasel watched as the sun rose(or what he could see of it through the ice). He knew he'd have to say something to Crash and Eddie. He knew they were rather shocked to find that they were hybrids.
Well, at least he didn't have to pretend any more...
"Ha ha! Sucker!"
"Can't catch me!"
Crash and Eddie shot past Buck, shoving eachother and blowing rasberries in eachother's faces, but they stopped when they saw Buck.
A long silence followed.
"Look," Buck said, "I know you guys aren't comfortable about this. Neither am I, okay? But the most we can do is just be normal about it. You don't have to call me...Dad...if you don't want to."
Eddie grinned. "Actually, I kinda like it!"
Crash remained silent. It wasn't like he was mad or anything, he just couldn't think of himself calling Buck the one-eyed dino-hunting weasel 'Dad'.
"...I'll just stick with 'Buck'." He almost whispered.
Buck smiled. "Whatever feels best for ya."
Some more silence followed, then Eddie gave Buck a playful punch in the shoulder.
"You're 'it'!"
The minute he was tagged, Buck looked at Crash with an almost devilish look. The possum's eyes widened.
"Nuh uh! Not me!"
He shot to his feet and bolted after his twin, their father on their heels.
...
Stacey smiled as she secretly watched them play. She laughed softly.
"Boy, are they in for it!"
The three mammals she watched switched turns being 'it', until at one point Eddie took his brother down, his arms around Crash's legs. The two of them collapsed, and Buck tripped over them, landing on top of the giggling possums.
Stacey laughed, stepping out of her hiding place, clapping her hands.
"Bravo! That was quite the performance!"
Crash sqeezed out from the bottom of the pile, unbalancing Eddie and knocking Buck over. The three of them fell back giggling once more.
...
"I don't want you to go in an all-out war. I just want you to kidnap him and kill him in secret!"
The grizzly bear turned to face Andrew, his face twisted into a snarl. "How do you suggest we do it?" the bear grumbled. By 'we', he meant himself and the whole army of wolves behind him.
Andrew shrugged. "I don't care how you get him! Just don't arouse suspision!"
The grizzly grinned, revealling a mouthful of razer-edged teeth. He gently slid a heavily clawed bear paw down a dagger's blade, chuckling with satisfaction as a few drops of his own blood dripped to the ground.
"Don't you worry, Andrew. We've got this covered!"
...
Oh no! Andrew's plotting against Buck! :O
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