Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Salmon Run
Later they were walking through the area as they followed Koda.
"Koda please be careful!" Jason said watching his step.
"Hey, are you sure you know where you're going?" Kenai asked also watching his step.
"Yeah, yeah, follow me" Koda said running ahead as more hisses and cracks were heard around them as one opened up next to them.
"Uhh!" Kenai said jumping away from it.
"This place is a death trap!" Jason said.
"Koda!" Kenai called as Jason heard as eagle chirping and fly above them.
"Koda? Where are!" Jason called as they looked for hi,
"Koda! Koda? Where are you?" Kenai said as he began to sniff.
"Yaah!" Koda yelled jumping on his back.
"AAH!" Kenai yelled tripping on a fallen log as Koda laughed.
"Don't do that!" Kenai growled.
"Scared you, didn't I?"
"There's scared, and then there's surprised" Kenai said.
"And you were both. Ha ha ha!" Koda laughed, "Whoa!" Koda said as they looked at a lava rock that looked like a scary skull face.
"Baah! Roar! Raah!" Kenai yelled trying to scare Koda who didn't flinch.
"Nice try, uh, you got a little spit right there" Koda said pointing to Kenai snout as Jason chuckled.
"Okay where to now?" Jason asked as Koda gasped and backed away looking behind them.
"Guys!" Koda said as Kenai laughed.
"You're not getting me this time" Kenai said.
"No, guys, look out!" Koda yelled as a sphere shot into the ground next to them.
"AHHH!" Jason, Kenai and Max screamed as they looked back to see Denahi jump from a rock and land away from them with a grunt and knife in hand.
"No" Kenai said.
"Okay this is the part where we RUN FOR OUR LIVES!" Jason yelled.
"Come on!" Koda yelled running away as Kenai stepped on the ground and saw steam come out from his weight as Denahi came at them and Kenai stood up and slammed his front paws in the ground to open up hot steam in front of Denahi.
"Waah!" Denahi grunted before falling over as Jason, Max and Kenai ran and reached a log.
" Kenai!" they heard Koda yelled steam in the magma field.
"Koda!" Jason yelled as they ran back.
"Kenai, Jason, Max where are you?" Koda said looking around as Denahi picked up his sphere and Koda saw a figure in the steam then began to run as Keani emerged and picked up Koda in his mouth as they ran.
"Come on!" Jason yelled as they ran.
"Left, left! No, no, no, the other left!" Koda said as they reached the log and began to slowly walk across the creaking log seeing the rive far down below.
"Kenai!" Koda yelled as they looked back to see Denahi running out of the magma field and began to try and knock the log over as Kenai slipped.
"Whoa!" Kenai said holding onto Koda and the log as Jason reached the other side.
"Throw him!" Jason said as Kenai threw Koda who Jason caught as Denahi sphere snapped trying to move the long.
"Aah!" Denahi yelled as he grabbed the log and made it fall over as Kenai ran and reached the other side as the log hit the side of the gorge still hanging by a few roots.
"No!" Denahi yelled as he began to pace.
"What are you doing? We got to get out of here!" Koda said.
"Aah!" Denahi yelled throwing a rock.
"Come on" Jason said as they began to walk away.
"Aah!" Denahi yelled jumping from the other side of gorge and grabbed onto the log as it began to fall in.
"No!" Jason said as he Kenai and Max tried to hold it up as Denahi climbed up but it fell off into the water as the bears roared.
"Denahi!" Max said as they saw Denahi come up out of the water on the log.
Later that day they were walking through the forest still following Koda.
"Why do they hate us, guys?" Koda asked.
"We're bears" Kenai said.
"So?"
"So, you know how they are they're... they're killers" Kenai said.
"Wait a minute who's the killers?" Koda said.
"Bears."
"What? Which bears? I'm not like that, and you're not like that."
"Well, obviously not all bears I mean, you're ok, but most bears...most bears will look for any excuse to attack the human."
"But, Kenai, he attacked us."
"You know, you're... you're just a cub when you're older, you'll understand."
"Hold Kenai that's not true" Jason said.
"Fish, fish, fish, fish, fish!" they heard a bird say as they looked back to see a bird fly past them
"Huh?" Kenai said.
"What his issue?" Max said.
"We made it! Ha ha! We're here! Come on!" Koda said running ahead.
"What? Koda..." Kenai said as the three looked back to see a flock of birds coming at them.
"Fish, fish!"
"Hey, what are you..." Kenai said as the birds began to fly inyo them "Hey, get away! Ow! Go on, shoo!"
"Hey move it!" Jason said.
"Uhh! Uhh!" they said all falling into a river.
"Stupid birds!" Max said getting up as Kenai leane don what he thought was a rock but gasped when a bear rose it's head from the water with a growl and a salmon in it's mouth as Kenai backed up and ran into another bear then stopped when a massive bear stood up eating a fish.
"AAAH!" Kenai screamed as all the bears looked at him, "Aah?" he said seeing the bears giving him a strange look.
"Hey, you're stirring up the water, dude" a blonde bear said.
"Yeah. Try not to scare off the fish there, buddy" Tug said.
"Uh..." Kenai said.
"You will have to forgive him! Kenai a bit...off" Jason said.
"Tug!" Koda said running over.
"Hey, Koda, come here!" Tug said hugging the small little cub, "Ha ha! Look at you" he laughed.
"Hey, Tug, have you seen my mom yet?" Koda asked looking around.
"No, as a matter of fact, I haven't seen her" Tug said.
"Ha ha Me and my friends Kenai, Jason and Max beat her" Koda said.
"He's with you?" Tug said looking over at the three with the other bears around them sniffing.
"Give us some room!" Jason said.
"Uh, heh. Uh, hi" Kenai said.
"Huh. I've never seen you three at the run before, where are you from?" Tug asked approaching the three.
"Er, uh... well, l... I mean..." Kenai said.
"North! We're from the north in a forest very far away from here" Jason said.
"And, see, guys? There's the mountain just like I promised, the lights touch the top every single night ha ha! It's going to be a lot harder getting up there than it was riding those mammoths" Koda said pointing to the mountain.
"Mammoths?" Tug said.
"Are you kidding me?" another bear said.
"That's kind of weird" Tug said.
"We have a reason for that!" Jason said.
"Yeah they do a lot of weird stuff like the way Kenai drinks water with a leaf" Koda said.
"I only did that once because the last water I almost drank had worms in it!" Jason said.
"They never sharpens his claws on a tree" Koda said.
"Koda please shut up" Max muttered with the bears eyeing them.
"They never hibernated before oh and Jason can magically summon these two magical weapons!"
"Koda. Koda!" Kenai said rushing over and covering his mouth. "Ha ha. Ahem can I talk to you for a second? Excuse us."
"Nice meeting you" Jason said as they walked off.
"Hmm he's kind of jumpy, isn't he?" Tug said as the others went to be alone.
"Ok Koda, I, uh...uh, we got to get going" Kenai said.
"Well, when you come back, we can go and..."
"l... we won't be coming back"
"What? Why not?"
"Koda it's...complicated" Jason said.
"Because...Well, it's hard to explain" Kenai said.
"You're leaving?" Tug said.
"AAH!" the three jumped as Kenai fell over.
"Tug! Oh uh..." Jason said.
"No. l... I mean, yes Uh, well, it's just that l... we...we don't belong here" Kenai said
"Don't belong? Every bear belongs here, ha ha! Come on, buddy let's have some fun!" Tug said.
"Everyone's invited, this is how we live. We're all here for each other, happy to give. All we have we share and all of us, we care so, come on! Welcome to our family time, welcome to our brotherly time, we're happy giving and taking to the friends we're making there's nothing we won't do! Welcome to our family time, Welcome into the family. Welcome to our happy-to-be time We're so happy. This is our festival, you know, and best of all we're here to share it all! There's a bond between us nobody can explain it's a celebration of life and seeing friends again I'd be there for you I know you'd be there for me, too so, come on! Welcome to our family time welcome to our brotherly time. This is our festival. You know, and best of all. We're here to share it all. Remembering love once departed someone near to your heart finding love, planning a future. Telling stories and laughing with friends. Precious moments you'll never forget. This has to be the most beautiful the most peaceful place I've ever been to it's nothing like I've ever seen before, when I think how far I've come I can't believe it and yet I see it and then I see family I see the way we used to be come on! Welcome to our family welcome to our brotherly time we're so happy! We're happy giving and taking to the friends we're making to the friends there's nothing we won't do! Welcome to our family time welcome into the family. Welcome to our happy-to-be time we're so happy this is our festival. You know, and best of all you're here to share it."
Later that day all the bears sat around by a waterfall as they did story time.
"All right, all right. Settle down, everyone, settle down we... hey, don't throw your fish bones over there somebody could choke on that!"
"Sorry" Jason said picking up the bones.
"Look, ok, I'll go first, ok, let's see" Tug said holding a fish tail as their story telling stick, "The most interesting thing that happened to me this year, Hmm. I'd...Oh, I know, I know, I know! Listen to this I'd say it was when I finally knocked down that tree that was blocking the view from my cave, now I got a family of chipmunks staying at my place" he said laughing with the other bears as he looked over to see the glaring chipmunks, "Ahem! Um, yeah. All right, all right, everybody come on, let me see some paws in the air, who's going to be next? Come on!" Tug said as the bears all around held up a paw.
"Tug, Tug, I got one!"
"Watch me, watch me, Ha. Hey, got you!" he laughed before tossing it to an elderly female bear.
"This year, I lost my dear husband Edgar" she said.
"Quit telling everyone I'm dead!" they all heard Edgar yelled from nearby.
"Sometimes I can still hear his voice!" she said.
"I'm getting the next one" Koda said sitting with Jason, Kenai and Max.
"Hmm" one bear said before speaking in a native language as all the bears around raised an eyebrow before he laughed .
"Oh, yeah" a bear said as they all put in a fake chuckle.
"What did he just say?" Jason whispered.
"I have no idea" Max whispered.
"This is it I got it, I got... uhh!" Koda said trying to catch the tail but fell as another bear caught it.
"I guess it's our turn, this is the year I met the most gorgeous..."
"No, you're gorgeous" a lady bear said.
"You're gorgeouser."
"Get a cave!" Tug yelled
"Uhh!" the other bear said speaking the native language again with an annoyed expression.
"If only Edgar was alive!"
"I told you, woman! I'm right here!" Edgar yelled.
"I love you, buttercup!" the teen bear said hugging the lady bear as they fell over.
"PDA somewhere else!" Jason said.
"This has got to be it. Uhh!" Koda said as Kenai caught it.
"Heh. Here you go, Koda" Kenai said holding it out.
"You got to tell it, Kenai" Koda said.
"What?"
"That's right, Kenai you caught it, you tell it" Tug said.
"Didn't you play this game when you were a cub?" Koda asked.
"Uh..." Kenai said.
"Come on, Keno!" the old lady bear said as they other bears encouraged him.
"Ha ha. Ok, all right, already, all right, Uh, you want to know what I did this year?" Kenai said.
"Yeah!" the crowd said.
"I went on the longest, hardest most exhausting journey I've ever been on with the biggest pain in the neck I've ever met!" Kenai said looking at Koda, "Heh. What do you expect from a little brother?" he said giving him a nuggy.
"Aww!"
"Ha ha ok, buddy, your turn" Kenai said tossing Koda the fish tail.
"Ha ha. Let's hear it, Koda" Tug said.
"Ok, ok, here we go. Ahem! This year I watched my mom in a life-and-death struggle against all odds battling possibly the most fiercest creature on the face of the earth! Ok, who's next?" Koda said.
"What?" Kenai said.
"Hold up!" Jason said.
"Wait, wait, wait a minute I think we all want to hear the rest of that one, Koda" Tug said.
"Yeah don't tease us tell us what happened!" Max said.
"I thought you might say that, hmm, let's see, it was probably the fifth or sixth most coldest day in my entire life, me and mom were eating fish, having a great time when all of a sudden, she pushes me into the bushes and tells me to be real quiet she says, 'I smell something,' so I started sniffing" Koda said as he began to sniff, "there was something in the woods running right towards us, getting closer and closer."
"Ooh! Ahh!"
"Hmm" Kenai chuckled.
"And then, out of the trees, jumps the hunter!" Koda said.
"Ahh!" the bears gasped as Kenai Jason and Max eyes widen.
"And now there's nowhere for mama to go. The monster has her backed up against this giant glacier!"
"Ahh!"
"The monster attacks... YAH!" Koda said as Kenai has a flash back of him attacking the bear, "But mom's too quick for him and before he can do it again, she stands up real big and yells, Go away!" Koda said as Kenai remembers the bear making him fall back on the cliff as Jason and Max glared at Kenai.
"Then mom smells more of 'em there's a whole pack
comin' right at us! She runs out to stop them...
before they can get to me and all around they're poking her with sticks! The whole thing broke, and they fell into the water. There was ice everywhere! She couldn't hold her breath any longer before... pow! She burst out of the water. I've never been so scared in my life!"
"Whoa! Fell off a glacier? I've never seen anything
like that can you imagine?" Tug said.
"Kenai what's the matter, Kenai?" Koda said seeing Kenai pant.
"Koda, so what happened next?"
"Was she ok?"
"Hey, Kenai, what's wrong?" Tug asked as Kenai ran off, "Where you going?"
"She got out of the water ok, but that's how we got separated, right after that, I met Kenai, Jason and Max" Koda said seeing the three gone, "guys?"
Running through the woods Kenai stops at a cliff as Jason and Max caught up.
"You attacked her first! Kenai do you realize what you done?! I thought she attacked first but it was Koda mom protect him!" Jason yelled.
"Oh no, Koda he's got no one now...if we become human again he'll be all alone" Max said.
"There got to be something we can do" Jason said as he looked to Kenai looking to the mountain before laying down.
The next morning the three sat on the cliff they stood as Koda snuck up on them.
"Rargh!" Koda yelled jumping on Kenai back who didn't flinch but kept his gaze on the ground, "Scared you again, huh?"
"Uh-huh. Yeah" Kenai said.
"Where have you been? You look horrible" Kenai said.
"Called guilt" Jason mumbled looked away.
"Koda" Kenai said.
"My mom says when you eat too much fish you should just lie down" Koda said.
"Koda there's something I, uh y-you know that story
you told me last night?"
"Yeah."
"Well, l... I have a story to tell you."
"Really? What's it about?"
"Well... it's kind of about a man...and kind of about a bear but... mostly it's about a monster...a monster who did something so bad..." Kenai said as it began to snow.
"Koda, I did something very wrong" Kenai said as he began to tell his story and when the snow began to stick all around them Koda began to back away.
"I don't like this story" Koda said.
"Your mother's not coming" Kenai said as they saw Koda betrayed look and the tears forming in his eyes.
"No, no!" Koda said with tears falling from his eyes before running off.
"Koda!" Kenai said.
"Koda!" Jason said.
"Please listen Koda, it was all...Kenai feels so horrible for what he did" Max said.
"Koda!" Jason said as they saw Koda crying up in a tree.
"Koda, I wish I could...If there was... if there was just some way...l... I'd give anything if...I could just..." Kenai said as he sighed.
"Koda he's so sorry, so am I Max and I were just as responsible" Jason said.
"I'm sorry, Koda, I'm so sorry" Kenai said as they headed towards the mountain.
"None of this should have happened" Jason said.
"I wish it didn't have to be like this" Max said.
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