Chapter 12: On A Bear Hunt
The screen fades back in as we go to the next scene was we see the blue sky turning into dawn due to a slight montage until eventually it is the crack of dawn as the scene had went back to New Hanover and Amy is seen sleeping in the tent while Aria was the first one to wake up and is outside and shortly afterwards Amy opens her eyes and wakes up while Aria comes back with a cup of coffee and goes to the tent to check on Amy when she heard and notices Amy waking up. "Morning Amy, you ready?" said Aria. "Give me a minute" said Amy. Amy gets up and sits on the bed just to stretch out her arms. "Coffee?" said Aria. "Sure" said Amy. "There you go" said Aria. Aria gives Amy the cup of coffee and pats her hand on the bed offering Aria a sit next to her. "Have a seat Aria" said Amy. "Ok" said Aria. Aria sits next to Amy. "So, what's your plan?" said Amy. "Well, we'll see if we can track him, but we might need to lay bait to draw him out" said Aria. Amy drinks her coffee. "Bears like fish obviously, but they also have a sweet tooth, a lot of fellers bait then shoot from the trees but I prefer to hunt on the ground, more dangerous but we'll have a much better chance of getting a good shot in and if he bolts we can start right off after him, oh Amy which reminds me can you go through my back and get the can of fish and berries and then mix up this bait for me while I go finish packing us up?" said Aria. Amy goes through Aria's bag to take out a can of fish and a can of berries. "Tie it up in that rag when you're done" said Aria. Aria picks up her bag and walks out of the tent alone with Amy who goes to the fireplace to mix up the bait. "I hope you know what you're talking about" said Amy. "My dad taught me about the mountains, and I was virtually weaned on bear meat" said Aria. Amy opens up the can of fishes and berries and mixes them together and create the Potent Predator Bait. "See now that wasn't so hard" said Aria. "Okay, I think I got this done" said Amy. "Good, pack up and we'll get going" said Aria. While Aria finish packing up there was a small time jump as moments passed as Amy has already took down the tent and even put out the fire and is set to go. "Ok that should be it now" said Amy. Aria then approaches to Amy. "Oh Amy before we head on out, there's something I need to say to you" said Aria. Aria the wraps her arms around Amy which confuses her a bit but then wraps her arms around Aria's waist and placed her hands on Aria's bare lower back. "Um Aria, are we supposed to be go hunting?" said Amy. "We are, but I just want to say that I am sorry for being a total bitch to you" said Aria. "There's no need to apologize I'm the one that was being a bitch to you for being too hard on you, you had said some things that almost hurt my feelings and I hate to see that our friendship go on a waste because of this" said Amy. "No Amy you were right I am totally obsessed with Hanna and I'm scared that I would never be with her" said Aria. "Aww, if Adrian was here with you she'd tell you how she felt about me, but seriously Aria if you love Hanna so much your best bet is to let her admit her own sexuality when she's ready, because the more you ask her, the more nervous she'll be to become your official girlfriend" said Amy. "But what if Hanna doesn't admit she's bisexual?" said Aria. "Trust me she will, it took me a while to admit that I am bisexual, and it wasn't easy so I can understand what Hanna was going through" said Amy. "Yeah and you were also right about another thing and I don't know shit about your romantic type" said Aria. Amy laughs. "Look I'm sorry about our ugly fight and it didn't mean shit anyway, but I can still say this Aria I think you are a fucking idiot going after this bear to win Hanna's heart but that doesn't stop me from tagging alone with you, we're best friends and best friends stick together no matter what and even if one of us did something stupid" said Amy. Aria feels like Amy is indeed a true friend and feels like crying. "Oh Amy I love you" said Aria. "I love you too Aria" said Amy. Amy and Aria hug each other for a while and then stare at each other in the eyes for a few seconds. "Alright then let's go out and go hunt ourselves a bear" said Amy. "That is the spirit" said Aria. Amy and Aria stops hugging and goes to their horses to hop on and rides away. "We'll try our luck down by the water, that's where I saw him last" said Aria. "Okay" said Amy. "How's that horse treating you?" said Aria. "So far so good" said Amy. "You know, I was in this area with my dad when I was a little girl" said Aria. "Really, I didn't know that and also you and your dad seem pretty close" said Amy. "Well we're not that close as we used to be, ever since my dad cheated on my mom and got a divorce because of it" said Aria. "Did you ever ask your dad to win your mom back and start a new life from the start?" said Amy. "I tried to briefly, but he's scared to ask my mom for a second chance and fears that she might have a new man in her life and he also claims that he is trying to move on, he drifted back into it and she understood, she knew who my dad was" said Aria. "I always assume you were the only child" said Amy. "Oh no I have a brother; he got his own place and I own my parents' house ever since they went separate ways because I didn't want to live with either one of them" said Aria. "I'm sorry to hear that Aria, you must be a sad lonely girl" said Amy. "Truth is, there's never a chance of my parents getting back together and I'm already starting my own life without them and at least I am proving myself I can be more successful in life than my parents ever was, and yes it's hard and you know that" said Aria. "Alright" said Amy. "Why, you're nervous about marrying Adrian?" said Aria. "Me, well I have been married before, but it only lasted for a day, and then again maybe I am nervous because this time it'll be a real wedding with our families being there and not being forced into marriage to prevent my own sexuality" said Amy. "I have to admit that Ben guy wasn't even all that attractive and it seemed to me you married a stalker, because I almost made that mistake" said Aria. "Ben a stalker, nah he may not be that bright, but I was in a desperate situation and ever since I slept with Adrian I felt like I no longer had a connection with Ben" said Amy. "That confirms that Adrian is the right girl and you were always bisexual when you didn't realize it" said Aria. "Um I wouldn't say that but ok I guess it's possible" said Amy. "Listen, if Hanna and I someday get married and make enough money, we can use that money to go someplace new, really new maybe we can all have a new start" said Aria. "I wish you luck anyway" said Amy. "Anyway for now let's try and chase ourselves a bear, shall we?" said Aria. "Way ahead of you on that one" said Amy. Amy and Aria gallop their house next to the lake until they get near the surface part which catches Aria's attention. "Let's look by the water here, see if he's been fishing again recently" said Aria. Amy and Aria mounts their horses at the surface part of the lake and gets off their horses as Aria takes out her shotgun out of the horse's satchel and goes off to look for the bear. "Look for tracks, dung, bones any sign of him" said Aria. The screen then turns blue as Amy activates eagle eye and spots a bunch of floating yellow dots hovering above a clue and goes over to investigate and when the screen goes back to normal Amy sees the bear's paw print on the dirt floor. "There's some paw marks here Aria, they sure look big enough" said Amy. "Good let's hope it's him, can you tell which way he went?" said Aria. Amy activates eagle eye and spawns a yellow trail and follows it and then goes to focus mode to spawn a white trail leading her to where the bear might be and follows it along with Aria and as they follow the trial due to Amy's focus ability she is able to see the white flashing paw prints and begins to trail it until Amy notices the tracks led up to those trees. "The tracks go into those trees" said Amy. The suspense music begins to play as Amy and Aria follows the trail between the trees and walks on grass for a while and they also sneak in the process in case they scare the bear and so Amy and Aria walks near the cliffs after a few moments until Amy notices a half-eaten fish on the rocky floor and the fish looks as if it had recently got eaten up. "Wait a minute there's something on the ground here" said Amy. Amy bends down to examine the dead fish. "Half-eaten fish here, must have been left by our friend I reckon" said Aria. Amy gets back up. "Come on, let's see if there's anything else" said Amy. Amy continues to use eagle eye and focus to follow the trail with Aria while the suspense music still plays in the background until Amy notices something on the ground. "Something else on the ground just here" said Amy. Amy bends down to examine it to see its just bear shit and the bear shit looks like it recently came out of the bear's butt as it looks fresh. "Bear shit here, watch your step" said Amy. "Looks really fresh, reckon he's got to be close" said Aria. Amy gets back up. "Let's keep going" said Amy. Amy continues to use focus to follow the trail with Aria until they approach to a big ass rock where the paw prints ends. "Damn it, looks like the trail ends here" said Amy. Aria holds up her shotgun and is looking a bit worried as the music stops. "We lost him?" said Amy. "For now, a little optimism Amy" said Aria. "Well, what do you think?" said Amy. "I think we split up and each look" said Aria. "Either that or we could place bait here" said Amy. "That could work, which you think?" said Aria. Amy stands there for a bit to think it over rather she choose to split up or use bait until her mind was eventually made up and choose to use bait. "Let's bait here" said Amy. "Fine by me, let leave the bag over there" said Aria. Aria leads the way towards the boulders as Amy follows. "By those boulders up ahead looks like a good spot for it" said Aria. Aria and Amy makes it to the boulders where Amy takes out the Potent Predator bait and places them on the floor and wipes her hands. "Now we wait" said Aria. Aria and Amy runs back and hides behind one of the rocks to wait for the bear to show up. "A thousand pounds you say?" said Amy. "More or less, big scar down to his face" said Aria. Amy gets a bit comfortable hiding behind the rock with Aria. "Hey, did that bait look okay to you?" said Aria. "I think so, you're the expert" said Amy. "Ready with your gun there?" said Aria. Amy takes out her gun. "I'm good, you okay?, you seem nervous" said Amy. "So do you, I'm fine" said Aria. Amy and Aria waits for the bear to show up for a few minutes until Aria was losing patience and decides to go check the bait. "Let's just take a look at that bait" said Aria. "Sure" said Amy. Aria leaves her hiding spot to check the bait as Amy follows Aria. "Come on" said Aria. "We only just set it Aria" said Amy. "I know but we need to do this right" said Aria. Aria and Amy goes up to the bait where Aria bends down to move the bait around a bit to find an easier way to get the bear's attention. "Give me a hand here, got your knife?" said Aria. Amy takes out her knife and bends down to cut the bait into pieces until a load growl was heard which startles Amy and Aria and then the suspense music plays. "Shit" said Aria. The big brown bear with a scar on his face approaches to Amy and Aria in person and then stands up on two both feet. "Easy" said Aria. Aria and Amy slowly gets back up on both feet while puts her knife back in her pocket. "No it's too close" said Aria. Just then the screen turns red as Amy uses her dead eye which gives her enough time to pull out her gun and points it at the bear's head and places a few x targets over the bear's head and shoots the bear's head repeatedly but the bear is so powerful it took a bunch of bullets and when the screen goes back to down after Amy finish firing the bear, the bear runs off. "(From distant) Amy" said Aria. It turns out Aria had run back to her hiding space behind the rock and when Amy runs back to Aria she can be heard whimpering in fear until Amy approaches to Aria. "You're fine pretty lady" said Amy. "Of course I'm fine it's, it's nothing" said Aria. Amy grabs Aria's hand and pulls her up from the ground. "Nothing at all" said Aria. Just then a loud growl was heard again which startles Amy and Aria and Aria sits back down behind the rock while pulling Amy down with her as they are holding on to each other. "Oh shit, is it back with vengeance?" said Aria. "(Whispers) Shh don't move, don't fucking move a muscle" said Amy. Aria leans on Amy's chest fearing for her life while the bear comes back out from where he ran off at and is out to scout for Amy and Aria when we hear the heartbeat sound effect as we see Amy and Aria hold on to each other very tight while the bear peaks his head over the big rock where Amy and Aria are hiding at and so the bear turns to see Amy and Aria but doesn't see them due to the fact that they aren't moving, and to throw off Amy and Aria the bear lets out a very loud roar at their faces as Amy and Aria are seen flinching and trying their best not to scream until the bear stops roaring and then decides to run off back to where it came from. "Amy you thinking what I'm thinking?" said Aria. "I knew your crazy ass would think of something but let's do it together" said Amy. Amy and Aria jumps out of their hiding spot while Amy cocks her gun and Aria cocks her shotgun which gets the bear's attention and turns back to see Amy and Aria and then starts running to go for the kill and then Amy and Aria together uses their dead eye while the screen turns red and placed a bunch a x targets on the bear's head until their dead eye ability was drained out which causes Amy and Aria to fire at the bear's head like crazy and even Aria's shotgun fires like a machine gun and the bear just plows through the massive bullets while the bear is running in slow motion, but then the screen goes back to normal and the bear is still alive and not only that, the bear is now running towards Amy and Aria at normal speed putting Amy and Aria at a life or death situation. "Together Aria" said Amy. Amy and Aria falls backwards to the ground provoking the bear to jump in the air to kill Amy and Aria but by the time the bear is about to jump on Amy and Aria to rip them about Amy and Aria closes their eyes accepting their fate if they miss the shot but Amy and Aria manage to shoot the bear together in the head and just when the bullets strike his head the screen turns grey indicating that Amy and Aria had done a critical shot and if we look closely you can see the two bullet piercing through the bear's skull and the bullets came out of the back of the bear's head as a few pieces of bones coming out and massive blood which indicates that the bear's brain exploded from all the massive bullet hell damage it was taking and when the screen turns back to normal the bear flips backwards in the air which Amy and Aria caught in action while the bear falls on the ground causing a slight vibration and now the bear is dead leaving Amy and Aria couldn't believe with the power of friendship they killed and shot down a legendary grizzly bear while the victory music plays. "Holy shit" said Amy. "(Screams) WOOOOOOOO we killed ourselves a bear" said Aria. Amy and Aria hug each other. "My dad would be so proud, he taught me well didn't he?" said Aria. "Yes he did I'd give him that" said Amy. "Holy shit I thought I was a goner" said Aria. "I did too, but man that bear can take up a bunch of hits" said Amy. "Yeah my dad had his experience killing a bear when I went until with him, the bear only scratched his arm just before his final shot and I was so scared for my dad" said Aria. "But that is the power of friendship" said Amy. "Oh Amy I'm gonna need your knife for that bear" said Aria. "Oh yeah that's right" said Amy. Amy hands Aria her knife. "I need to cut the bear's head off and put it in my back and then me and you going to take a trip to Saint Denis, because I know a guy who can skin animals, him and my dad go way back" said Aria. "Alright hopefully it's the last trip, I need to be back with my fiancée and tell her all about it" said Amy. Aria goes up to the bear's dead corpse and raises the knife and chopped the bear's head off as it rolls on the ground with its mouth open. "I'm gonna need my bag" said Aria. Amy whistles for the horses as they came to arrive by Amy and Aria's side. "Thanks for the help Amy, now let me get this head in the bag and we'll take our horses back and then we'll ride our way to Saint Denis" said Aria. Amy gets on her horse while Aria digs in the horse's satchel to take out gloves and put them on and then takes out a big and walks over to the bear's head. "Amy you care to help me lift this thing?" said Aria. "UGGH I'm good" said Amy. Aria bends down to pick up the bear's head and place it in her bag and leave the rest of its whole body on the floor. "What about the bear's half body?" said Amy. "Nah, the scavengers will eat him up, it's not like we left a human for dead" said Aria. "I guess you're right about that" said Amy. Aria ties the bag on the edge of the saddle and gets on her horse. "That was fun" said Amy. "You know what Amy Jurgens, I'm still young and sexy as hell with that tight ass I have and beaten up to be after the biggest game, but you can have this for agreeing to help me out today" said Aria. Aria digs in her pocket and gives Amy $40.00. "Aria, you don't need to do that" said Amy. "Oh I do, that's what best friends are for and you can use that money and treat your fiancée with another fancy dinner" said Aria. "Thank you" said Amy. "It's a pleasure, you saved my life Amy" said Aria. Amy smiles at Aria. "Alright now, time to go take our horses back and then make our last trip to Saint Denis and then I'll drop you off at home while I still have my unfinished business to take care of" said Aria. Amy and Aria then ride their horses and gallop their way out of the scene.