Let Sleeping Bears Lie

[Rutt]

Rutt rolls head over heels down the steep bank, causing a tremendous racket as he downs several saplings and causes a rockslide. The wild ride finally ends with him crashing in the river.

"You're gonna pay for that, Tuke!" he shouts back up the hill, "That was cheatin', eh! You caught me off guard!"

[Koda]

Koda watches with interest as Kelila takes one swipe and the fish goes sailing, landing with a dull slap near Kenai. There it flops, gasping desperately until it becomes still. Koda looks to Kenai, knowing it's his turn now. Kenai looks a little nervous, but manages to fling a fish into the air, only to have it swat him in the face and then douse him with water. Koda feels bad for his big brother as Kenai admits to Kelila he's not the greatest fisher. Suddenly, Koda gets an idea.

"My turn!"

Koda grins. Waiting until both Kenai and Kelila are looking at him, he backs up a few paces, then takes a running leap into the water. With a gigantic splash, he goes under, then spots a rather large fish, mostly likely the same one Kenai attempted to catch. Then, Koda puts his plan into action.

Koda swims quickly after the salmon, and upon reaching it, he throws it into the air and surfaces from the water.

"I got it I got it!"

he calls excitedly, slapping at the fish who then dives back into the water. Koda then purposefully lets the fish escape, hoping this will make Kenai not look as bad. Surfacing again, Koda crawls onto the rock Kenai and Kelila are sitting on, his sopping wet fur covering his eyes. He brushes it away.

"Aw, it got away!"

Koda says as disappointedly as he could muster. Then, he gives a wink to Kenai.

[Kelila]

Kelila giggles, as Kenai gets a slap in the face from his fish. She watches him walk back towards her with a great glum expression. She feels bad for him. She looks over at Koda attempting to catch the fish, to her dismay he misses too. She starts to talk trying to re-assure the both of them.

"We all have our bad days. I suppose todays the brother's day. Here have some of my fish."

Kelila splits up her fish into three to share with the boys, when her ear swivel behind them...

"What was that? Did you hear that? It sounded like a tree falling."

She turns her attention to the forest behind them.

[Aleshanee]

~~ooc~~
Yay! More roleplayers!

~~bic~~
~~Aleshanee raises her eyebrows as she watches Rutt tumble down the hill, then looks at Tuke with a rather unimpressed expression.~~

"I'm Aleshanee. So...why'd you throw the other guy down the hill? That wasn't very nice."

[Tuke]

Tuke shrugs nonchalantly and glances in the direction Rutt had been sent. He grimaces at the wreckage left behind from his roll down the steep incline.

"Oh, he's just my brother, eh," he replies, "No big deal. Brother's aren't meant to be nice to each other 24-7. He'll survive. I threw him down the hill 'cause he's annoying--like most siblings are, eh."

[Koda]

Koda accepts the fish Kelila offeres both her and Kenai. Before he can take a bite of the scrumptious salmon, he hears a tremendous burst of loud noise, and Kelila turns her head, wondering what it is. As Koda looks, he sees Rutt splashing about in the river a few yards away, and a smile comes to the small bear’s face.

“Oh, that’s just Rutt, the moose. He’s really funny, I hope he’s not hurt.”

Koda continues to inform Kelila about the moose that are his
friends.

“Yeah, that’s one of the two mooses I was telling you about, Kelila! Kenai made friends with them and now they follow us around!”

Koda laughs, taking this as extremely funny.

“I’m gonna go check on him. I wonder why he fell down?”

Koda hops up onto his paws and scampers over to the downed moose, who was calling up the hill side angrily.

“Hey, Rutt!”

Koda calls happily,

“Are you okay? I mean, that must’ve been some fall, and you were probably flailing all over the place!”

Koda laughs imagining this. Then he looks up the hill, past the broken saplings and rocks scattered all around to see Tuke with a lady moose.

“How did you fall, Rutt? You should come over here with me and Kenai and Kelila!”

he says excitedly, waiting for the moose to respond.

[Kenai]

Kenai watches Koda with a half grin - he seems to know that the bear cub is trying to make him feel better.

"Awww.. well, nice try buddy. Your usually pretty good! I suppose we all have our days."

He smiles to Kelila gently, glad that she didn't go all out to make fun of him after that catastrophy. With a nod, he accepts the fish she offers him and Koda. Then, he hears the moose come crashing down. His eyes grow wide, seeing Rutt on the ground.

"no.."

He quietly mutters, and it wasn't exactly sympathetic towards the poor moose.. this wasn't a good time for the moose to come crashing in on his party. He snorts a little, watching as Koda runs to Rutt's aid.

"Well Kelila.. don't worry.. that moose is durable. I've seen him go through stuff worse than that."

[Kelila]

Kelila giggles

"Well, maybe we should still make sure hes okay. As 'durable' as he is, he could still be hurt."

She gets up and starts to walk away, when she notices that Kenai has stayed behind to finish his salmon. She smiles at him, as if approving his choice to stay behind and continues after the young cub.

"Erm..Are you alrigt?"

She asks almost afraid to ask because of the awekward position the rather large moose is in. She helps him back up on to his hoofs and says..

"Thats quite the nasty fall you've had. Gee....I didn't know moose were so, so...flexable."

[Kenai]

00C - ( Back online now. Hope everyone had a great new years day! ;) )

BiC-

"Indeed.."

Kenai lowers his eyes, a smirk on his muzzle as he rubs the back tuft of his neck fur. He finishes his salmon, watching Koda and Kelila as they ask the moose if he is all right. He knew Rutt was fine, yet the thought of the moose actually being hurt played in the back of his mind as he ate his fish. He shoved the rest of the fish in his mouth, gulping it down, and hesitantly moved forward to join the other bears. He sits down a few feet away from the three, staring at Rutt.

"Did he say anything yet?"

Throwing the simple short question out to either Koda or Kelila, he continues to stare at Rutt, his lip curled in slight disgust at the sight of the moose sprawled out upon the ground.

[Koda]

OOC: Welcome back, Kenai!

BIC:

"He hasn't said anything yet, Kenai!"

Koda says, looking at Kenai with somewhat of a worried look.

"What if his vocal chords got broken when he fell down the hill? Maybe that's why he hasn't said anything."

Koda guesses. He jumps on the back of the wet moose with a splash, then crawls on Rutt's head, wrenching the moose's jaw open to peer down his throat.

"Everything looks okay. Phew, what did you eat for breakfast?"

Koda gags, jumping up into the moose's antlers.

"Looks like you might've chipped your antler right here."

Koda points, then leaps off of Rutt and back next to Kenai and Kelila.

[Pocahontas]

Pocahontas slinked through the tall grasses with stealth upon all fours. It was custom for her to find enjoyment in observing the neighboring animals, however from a distance. She paused, crouching in the dense river weeds, only slowly lifting herself to achieve a closer look.

[Kenai]

Kenai grins at Koda, moving a little closer and eyeing Rutt.

"Koda.. Koda, relax. I'm sure he's just fine.. I.."

Kenai stops for a moment, his mouth still slightly open to finish his sentence, yet he senses something.. odd. He turns his head and sniffs the air.

"Shh.. Koda... Kelila...."

He lifts himself up, standing on his hind legs as his eyes drift around the area, his nose still working at the scent.

"Something.. no, someone is out there.. I'm going to go check it out.. you guys get ready to bolt if needed.. find a way to get the moose out of here too.."

Kenai gently set himself back on all fours, and wandered over towards the area where Pocahontas hides. The closer he gets, the more clear it is to him that this is a human. Memories of his past flash within his mind in haunting, images of his brother chasing after him intent on killing him - he had to stop for a moment, grimacing as he shook his head, trying to clear his senses. This was no time for flashbacks.. if it was a hunter, both Koda and Kelila were in danger. And he was willing to fight for them both.

[Kelila]

OOC~ Sorry I haven't posted in a few days...I ended up goin' up to my boyfriend's for the new year. ;D

BIC~ Kelila slowly looks over to Kenai trying not to be too obvious, she really doesnt want to take attention away from the bewildered moose. While looking at Kenai she reassures Koda.

"I'm sure hes just fine Koda. Hes probably just stunned, you know like a deer when you walk in front of 'em."

Wondering whats wrong with Kenai she gets up to walk over to him, but is stopped when Kenai tells both her Koda and the bewildered moose to get ready to run. Aware of the dangers of living in the forest, Kelila runs back to Koda and to Rutt.

"Common Koda, we need to snap him outta this."

She looks nerviously back at Kenai worried that he could be putting him self in danger. She calls nerviously out to him.

"Kenai common lets go! We'll find some where elese to eat, its getting dark."

[Pocahontas]

At his sudden recognition of her presence, a light gasp escapes her lips. Lowering herself, form stiffening, she hesitates before quietly backing away.

[Koda]

The fur on Koda's neck rises. He senses the thing that Kenai is going to investigate. A human. He doesn't know if it is the human that is Kenia's brother, but the way Kenai was acting told Koda it was not. He looks toward Kelila, hoping she can convince Kenai to follow them. However, he wasn't about to let his surrogate big brother face the human alone. Quietly, he padded up behind Kenai.

"Kenai, come on,"

Koda whispers, pawing at Kenai's front paw.

"Let's go!"

he says with more urgency in his voice, grasping Kenai's leg with his paws and tugging it to get Kenai to follow. The last hunter he had faced was carrying a spear, and he had almost sent it right through Kenai. Even though it turned out to be Kenai's brother, the thought of what could have happened to Kenai still chilled the little cub, and Koda wasn't about to let that experience happen again.