The Bad News Bears
The next morning after awaking, Angel was already awake and had prepared two possums and porridge for breakfast. She was singing and humming while preparing breakfast. Oliver and Sophia were so happy seeing her prepare breakfast, and she appeared to be much happier than yesterday. All the cubs were up and setting the table, getting ready for some delicious possum and porridge. Oliver said the blessing, we all started eating like a bunch of hungry bears. We all chipped in to help clean up the table and tidy up the den. Angel thanked us again as we were off to our den.
As we were trudging through the snow back to our den, we are seeing a plenty of game. I was able to harvest us a couple of possums and Sophia gets another turkey and rabbit. Oliver comes across two yearling deer, one a small doe the other a button buck. He was able to harvest both. Lucy says she likes fishing better, so when we get back to our den, she will go get some native trout. Sophia oversees getting the turkey and two possums back to our den. Lucy and myself have the doe, Oliver is taking the button buck back to our den.
As we are getting closer to our den, we hear a lot of commotion and cursing. I’m hearing words I have never heard before. I’m heard a gruff sounding bear voice say fuck you bastard, then I heard a younger sounding voice say Oliver is a son of a bitch. I also heard the younger voice say shit. Well, we all know what that is, bears shit in the woods every day. I asked Oliver about all the other words and who is saying all this. He said that Samuel is about a 300-pound bear and is the older voice, and that other voice is Maverick the younger voice, he is the son of Samuel, and Maverick is a two-year-old bear. He went on to say that a year ago that some bear hunters had killed Charlotte, Samuel’s mate and had illegally killed his daughter Emma, she was still a cub and didn’t meet the weight limit, to be legally harvested. He continues to say that Samuel and Maverick were just like Angel and her family. They were very depressed and sad. Oliver continues, I tried to help them out just like we did Angel and her family.
We were helping them out for over 2 months, but they never really seemed to be appreciative the way Angel family just showed us. Then things started to go a little better. Oliver said he had been in touch with Angel’s granddad Caesar, and Caesar had giving him what was called a possum bag of marijuana. He sales marijuana by different size bags. The smallest is rabbit then it’s the possum bag, turkey bag, followed by deer bag, and the largest bag is the bear bag which is enough to keep you supplied for a 3-month period for a normal user. After Caesar had giving him the marijuana, they seem so calm down and chilled out. I have never believed in marijuana, but after witnessing this I can see in extreme circumstances it may be helpful.
A little on Caesar he lets everyone know that he only sells the highest quality of Marijuana, and is never are laced with anything including but not limited to Fentanyl, Ketamine, Cocaine, or PCP. Any of these can be very hazardous to your health. He also will not sell or give any of his Marijuana to anyone, that just wants to use recreationally. He will only let you have it, for severe depression or for medical reasons of extreme pain. He cautions everyone that if they don’t get it from him, that there are others that will sell marijuana that is laced, and can cause severe medical issue from psychosis to extreme breathing difficulties to death depending on what it is laced with. He also recommends if you are getting any marijuana, from an unreliable dealer to have some Narcan in case of breathing compromise. This Narcan can save a life by squirting some up in the nose.
Samuel, after a few months of using Caesar’s marijuana, found some that was much cheaper to use, from another bear selling it. Boy, does the forest remember that night. Samuel was going around whoop and hollering every breath, and was psychotic. Nothing he said or did that night made any sense. An example of what was said is I’m the purple alligator that the dragon slayed, I will put the sky into the lake. If anyone confronted him, he would yell and curse and say he going to kill them. After that night any bears that heard him coming, would just stay in hiding, and let the dang fool go about his way.
Benjiman quickly spoke up and said Oliver we need to do something to help him out. Oliver said, I know your heart is in the right spot but there is no helping, Samuel. Samuel will have to come to rock bottom and be willing to reach out for help. Until then we just need to ignore him and try to stay out of his way.
We stayed in a small gully until we could no longer hear them anymore. We then began to take our fresh game back to our den. As we are headed to our den, we are now hearing Samuel again, he is now behind us but is headed our way. Oliver said to me that is bad news, it looks like he saw where we have been dragging these deer back to our den. Samuel will want our game for himself. We will have to forfeit it to him. Ben says but you so much bigger, why not fight for our food. Oliver said Well that’s true but I can tell the way he is acting, he has smoked some marijuana that has probably been laced with PCP. That is some bad stuff, it will give him super bear strength. I’ve seen him shot 5 times before, and it didn’t stop him. I may be able to take him due to my size, but it’s just as likely or even more likely that he could defeat or even kill me. I told Oliver that is not fair, it’s our food, Oliver agrees it’s not fair.
Samuel and Maverick are now right here with us. Samuel says you damn son of a bitch Oliver; it’s been long time since I fucking saw you last. Oliver standing there says not long enough, what bring you by today. You bastard you know what brings me by. Those deer’s, possum’s, rabbit, and turkey, I’m here to take them off your hands. Oliver says that we had harvested them and they was ours. Then Samuel says don’t make me hurt you today, you know what I’m capable of. Ok Samuel, the game is all yours. As they walking away with the game Samuel tells Maverick, you see how it’s done, one day you will make me proud, when you confront those bastards and take their food.
Sophia is now crying as they are walking away. She says I remember before they had loss Charolette, and Emma, they were just as good of friends as Angel and her family. She continues its all that marijuana that’s been laced, that makes them act like this. She said Oliver, I’m glad you didn’t confront him. I remember Lucky that confronted him when he was in a rage. He just slaughtered Lucky. I miss my good friend Lucky, he was a great bear friend.
They continued back to their den, Sophia is the first to go in the den, they heard her scream. We came in and found that our den had been rummaged through. No doubt Samuel and Maverick had visited our den, since we been gone. There was no food left in our den, everything has been turned over and broken. Sophia said she was going to clean up a little. Oliver and Lucy say I’ll help you clean this mess up. I told them I was going down to the stream, to catch us some fish for supper. I took a basket down with me to load up with trout. The fishing was good and I filled the basket with fish to take back to the den.
Once back at the den it was all cleaned up and Sophia says wow, that is a basket of fish I hope everyone is hungry. She said that she would fry up the best fish dinner they ever had. After dinner, everyone agreed it was delicious. Oliver lets out a big yawn, I didn’t realize how tired I was. Everyone agreed and said it was nighty night time. I said a prayer as we got ready for bed, I prayed that Angel and her family would heal and be ok, I continued my prayer and prayed that Samuel and Maverick could find some peace and joy. Everyone said Amen and goodnight.
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Dale Thacker Aurthor 
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