Tiny Dragons 2: The Bear and Scepter by Schaffer Bernard

Author:Schaffer, Bernard [Schaffer, Bernard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Dia de los Toros Publications
Published: 2014-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

4. The Queen of Cats

He'd been waiting for the chance to run through the door, not wanting to appear too eager to leave, or overly concerned about what was happening in the back of the O'Neil's house. Humans are tricky that way. If you seem overly interested in something but they weren't sure what it was, or why you were so interested, they were likely to try and keep it away from you. Luckily, the patio door had opened just enough for him to squeeze through and he escaped before it was too late.

The bear was near.

He'd caught a glimpse of it at the edge of the woods, just beyond the shed. A massive beast with wide paws and heavily-set shoulders, hunched forward in the dirt. Its dark fur was tangled and matted with earth and vines, and even bent down low, it stood as tall as the shed.

None of that concerned Mister Six. All the trouble was in the bear's eyes.

Something had gone wrong with them. Horribly wrong. In the newspaper photo the bear's eyes were filled with curiosity and warmth. It was looking for a new place to live and trying to make sense of all the strange things it was seeing for the first time, like backyard play sets and cars and large barrels of perfectly good food just waiting to be eaten. The humans considered their trash nothing more than waste, but for an animal like a bear, it was a feast fit for a king.

But what Mister Six had seen in the woods that day chilled him to the bone. The bear staring at him that day had changed. Its eyes were now black as obsidian all the way through, black swallowing up all the other colors, black and hard and stinking of magic.

Someone, or something, had done that to the bear, and Mister Six would do whatever it took to keep it away from the O'Neil family.

By the time he reached the back of the shed, the bear was gone. Another group of humans came barging through the woods, searching haplessly for the bear, and succeeded in doing nothing but alerting the entire animal kingdom to their presence.

Mister Six bent down and sniffed the ground where he'd last seen the bear standing, trying to pick up the scent. He found it, and flinched backwards, stunned by the foul odor lingering in the air. He sniffed the air, searching for its trail.

He smelled something else.

Another animal, he realized. It was watching him, too. He could not tell if it was the bear or just another animal, but whatever it was, it was close.

Mister Six growled softly as he looked for the creature, but instead, it took off running. Mister Six shot after it, darting up the grassy hill into the leaf-strewn darkness of the woods beyond. He leapt over fallen branches and burst through thick tangles of thorny brush like a gray cannonball, twisting gymnastically in the air to change direction and keep up with the creature.

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