Bear Boy!
Chapter 1 Johnny “But master,” cried Christopher, a young hunter. How can I just- “Now!”Christorpher left. Christopher loved animals, but this was the only job he could get. He hunted animals for meat for the village, even though he didn’t like it. Just then he saw a bear looking for food. “Sorry” he whispered as rose his gun. RRrrr. Christopher lowered his gun. He looked over. RRrrr. RRrrr. RRrrr Three baby bears. He laughed. One of the Bears let Christopher get really close to him. The bears followed their mother back to the den. One of the bears kept looking back at Christopher as if the bear wanted to talk….. But he didn’t, so Christopher left to look for a deer, or raccoon, - or something else. But that didn’t separate them for long. Two days later Christopher went back to the forest and saw the bear again .This time he ran up to Christopher and jumped on him almost like hugging him… “Whoa” "Whoa, it’s so good to see you” He got up and looked at the bears. “You are Josh, you are …oh, Joe, and you!? How ‘bout Johnny. I guess that’s a yes.”
Chapter 2 RRrrr Johnny didn’t only play with Christopher he helped him too. One day Christopher was fishing. That was very hard for him to do. But Johnny was very good at it. Christopher could catch a Bass, two Rainbow trout, and a Salmon if Johnny was around! But when they did play they had fun! They played Hide and Seek, Bear Style, Johnny taught Christopher to climb trees, and fish really well. But they had sad times too. When it was raining and they could not do those things or they kept trying and trying to do those things and they couldn’t. Today one of those things happened. Christopher knew other hunters. But they didn’t know about his bear friends. Johnny’s brother and sisters and mom had not lived. Christopher felt sorry for Johnny and wanted to cheer him up. “How about some nice fishing”? RRrrr. They went to the lake. Then Christopher had an idea. “Johnny? Come here. He saw a big piece of wood. He also saw two long bamboo sticks, and he saw a huge leaf.
Chapter 3 The Boat This cheered Johnny up. They built an awesome boat. They rode out on to the island in the lake. Christopher brought his fishing pole with him. They waited one minute and two seconds then…. “WHAO, JOHNNY YOU CAUGHT FISH!” Yes, in fact a huge, beautiful, silky, Trout. They were having so much fun (and luck) they both decided to stay for the night, because in the morning lots of fish come! This would give Christopher the chance to teach Johnny to roast marshmallows (I told you they had fun, I mean a bear roasting marshmallows, come on!) And Johnny did learn very quickly. “No you don’t chew on the stick” You- no give me that”. Ok that’s it now; you just move it over there- oh! The marshmallow is on FIRE!
Chapter 4 The Monster Get water! Get water! SPLASH! I think that’s enough for tonight. (It’s called “sarcasm”) they went to bed. The lights went out and it was silent - excepted for one sound. The bamboo rattled in the night. “Look over there”! Oh it’s nothing, just some animal. What ever it is, it won’t hurt us. It was 1:00, in the morning, so they went to bed-again. The next day they woke up (still tired from the night before) and saw the monster again. Christopher was right. It was just an animal. Well, not just an animal. But a very rare – Panda Bear! They watched as it ate bamboo. The bear looked like she was about Johnny’s age. Johnny was a boy and it looked as if she was a girl. Christopher was getting kind of a little excited about bears, and he knew a lot about them and this panda looked so cute and nice. Thousand of good thoughts bubbled around in Christopher’s mind.
Chapter 5 What Will Master Say? But also, Christopher was thinking about other things. How could he just walk in to master’s room holding two babies- and Bears? If at all possible Bears! are on the subject! It was the summer and Christopher only had to work Thursday. But then he had an idea! He could adopt the panda bear, and then let them kind of meet on Thursday while Christopher worked then he came home and played the rest of the week!-but wait! What would he do when summer ended? As it became closer and closer to the end of the summer, Christopher knew what he could do! He knew that Johnny and the panda trusted him and would never run away. So at the end of the summer, Christopher would go to the master’s room and do his work then come home to happy panda and brown bear faces!
Chapter 6 Now to do It “Yes”! I did it. Now to really do it.” He went to tell the two bears. On the way he thought of a name for the panda. Ceala. It matched the picture in his mind so well. When he got to where Ceala and Johnny were playing he said “Johnny! But he kept playing. Johnny! I HAVE A NAME FOR YOUR WIFE! - Johnny stopped. Ceala stopped. And Christopher stopped. I-I-Didn’t-mean, never mind. I thought of a name for your w-friend! “Johnny? Would you do the honor to drum roll? Mmmmm. Thank you for joining us tonight – Ceala! Johnny shrugged, and nodded yes. Ceala blushed, and went to a patch of bamboo and ate. She sat there kind of a long time while Johnny was playing with Christopher’s shoe laces. “Johnny, stop.” Johnny stopped. But he wasn’t always so polite. Once Christopher was fishing and he told Johnny to go play and to stay close but Johnny snuck up on him when he almost caught a fish and he jumped up did a little dance and knocked the fishing net and pole in the water on purpose! (And lost the fish)!
Chapter 7 The Only Thing to Do Ceala had been with them about three mouths, but she and Johnny had spent all there time playing together… It was so strange that Ceala sat there all night eating. Christopher knew what she was doing. She was feeding her baby! Yes! Ceala was going to have her first baby! But a mouth later Ceala still had not had her baby. Christopher was worried about her but all his books told him not to. His books also told him to leave any bear alone to have a baby. But maybe - no. He really liked this idea! A den! She would love a den and he knew how to build a den- Really Well! So, that’s what he did. A den, a beautiful den! In the village there was a doctor. But Ceala didn’t want to leave.
Chapter 8 What I did So, Christopher went down to the village. “Mr. Hostone! Mr. Hostone”! Christopher told Mr. Hostone the doctor the whole story and how Ceala was pregnant and didn’t want to leave. “I’ve seen this before a lot” Don’t worry about her, she’s fine. Doctor Hostone was very nice. Christopher would bring him a rabbit and the doctor would do something for him (and he always found something to do, if not Mr. Hostone would pay him.) “Let’s go take a look at her.” Mr. Hostone saw the den he had made. “Ah. I see you have made a fine den there”. “Yes sir”. “Oh, there she is now”. “Yep that’s her,” said Christopher. “Chomp” “She’s been eating all last night and the night before that, Do you think – No the baby’s fine,” said the doctor standing up from a check up. “Just fine."
Chapter 9 Good News The den Christopher made, was far away from the house that Christopher was staying in, it was an hour away. So, even though he went there a lot, it took him a long time. Christopher really did like the den he made. It was carved by hand in rock, and had a lot of leaves on the bottom. Sometimes he let Johnny stay there for a little while if he was there. But one day he could not go to the den because he was busy. The next day he could not either. Just then master walked up. “Christopher I’ll need you the whole week for this week then just Thursday. Bye. He walked away. “Maybe I could get someone else to take care of Ceala-Yes! Mr. Hostone! So, he went to the forest. He was looking for something big. Really, really big! He got a dear. So, he went to the village and then saw the doctor. “Hello how’s that bear of yours? Bad –I mean great! I need your help! Sure how can I help. Follow me. They went to the den. “Master needs me all his week- he stopped for a breath. The doctor finished his sentence. –and you need my help with Ceala. Christopher nodded. “For a week? Ok”. Starts tomorrow?” Great! Oh, and I’ll send you a smoke single if there’s any sign for Mrs. Ceala here! Now don’t worry.” Christopher waved good bye to the doctor. Christopher was going to stay with Ceala his last night. The next morning doctor Hostone was already there when Christopher got up. “Good Morning”! Christopher ate breakfast and got dressed. Then he put his gun on his shoulder. “RRrrr”. You’ll be fine Johnny, I’ll see you soon, and he left. They played all afternoon and then went to bed. In the middle of the night Mr. Hostone heard a sound.
Chapter 10 a real family The doctor went down to where Ceala was. He sat down. He saw what she was doing then he remembered what he said. “I’ll send you a smoke single if there’s any sign of Mrs. Ceala here”. So, he found some wood and made a fire. The smoke single rose high above the trees. Finally an hour later Christopher walked up. “How is she”! “Go see for yourself. Christopher ran up. She was likening 5 baby pandas! Christopher was happy for her but then he saw Johnny. He knew what he had to do. “Johnny?” Come on I want to do something. And you to Ceala.” He walked off. When they got to a spot where there was bamboo he let Johnny and Ceala go. As Johnny ran off he stopped and looked back, then he scurried off to make a family. Christopher knew it was morning so he went back to the Master’s room. He was holding another baby bear and Master turned out to be pretty nice.