I know that males don't feel pain when going through their second phase, yet I can't help but worry about Radu having to sleep the entire day.

Last night Radu had to order me to try to talk to Vick again. The yawning cub recommended that I should think of Vick as a practice. A practice that will help for when I'm older, since I'll hopefully feel more comfortable in talking to stronger males. Besides, he added sleepily, he observed that Vick respects females and that's why he didn't lash out at me. Aha... made me realize that if I were a male I'd probably be bleeding out somewhere.

Yet before heading to the river filled with bear beasts, I first had to get up early this morning to stop by the river where the females bathe. Oh, and given the distance, grandpa Liam is the one taking me there, but this time in his beast form. Thankfully, I'm still a cub, or else I would've had to wait till Radu woke up to go there.

"Hey grandpa Liam, what smell do bear beast like?" I say as we head to this particular river.

Snort, grumble, grumble.

"Oh, we like to smell and taste honey? Well that makes sense, but what about flowers?" I ask.

Grumble, grumble.

"Huh, so during Spring it's a yellow puffy flower called dandelion?" I nodded gravely, so that's what I'll look for.

Like what my papas have done before, grandpa Liam stops and lays down so I could get off. Sliding down his back, I give him my thanks and head to the river.

No females are here yet... sigh, well it is early. I quickly look for the purple flower called lavender. Finally spotting some of those tall thin purple color plants, I decided to lay them on the side while scrubbing some of this on my dirty yellowish colored cloths. After having cleaned them, following mama's teaching of trying to place these on a tree branch was difficult. Well, that's a fail. So I spread the wet cloths on a flat rock that was seen farther away from the body of water. Then holding the rest of the flowers in my mouth, I tenderly place a foot in the freezing water. The hair behind my neck stands up and goosebumps are seen covering my arms. Brrrr, it's freezing. Looking up, the sun is faintly peeking from behind the clouds. Okay, I gotta hurry up.

Mentally counting three seconds down, my small body immediately jumps toward the deeper side of the river, Ahhhh!!! I squeak with my mouth still clamped down on the flowers. What was it? Oh yes! Swim, swim, swiiimmmmm to drive the cold away! After splashing around for a short period, I spit the messy purple plant on my hands and started scrubing it on my skin.

After dunking several times and roughly washing my hair, I swim back to the shore. Once I'm out of the freezing water, shaking from head to toe, the water from my body winds up landing at my surroundings. Remembering the place where Natasha and Elena love to sit, my eyes search nearby for the yellow flowers. There! I grin and happily leap to the bed of tall flowers.

The little female cub is happily cutting down many dandelions. When she looks to her left, she see's, however, another type of flower. Taking a whiff of this, she smiles and with her nails morph back into claws, she again takes down some of these delicate blue flower to add to her yellow ones.

"Complete!" I grin and happily prance to my now slightly whiter cloths. Umm they're still wet, but at least they're clean.

Trotting back out I met up with grandpa Liam's snoring beast. During the process of waking him up and riding slowly to the bear beasts favorite fish hunting grounds, it has given the sun enough time to finally fully pop out from behind the clouds. When we finally arrived, grandpa Liam does the same as last time. But instead of going away, he takes his time walking to the river to slowly swimming toward the more active bear beasts where he ended up participates in fishing.

I guess he was hungry... Shrugging my shoulders I look around to see if I can spot Vick. Hmmm, not that one, though he kind of looks similar to Vick and papa Dash. Where could he be? I walk further into the river and bravely look again.

Unknown to Suki, the bear beast that appears similar to Vick's beast, was in fact his father, Axel. Thanks to the bear clan's mighty laughter heard last night, Axel knew about how their youngest tribe female cub attempted to woo his hard headed son. Pretending to be fishing, with his eyes he glances at the little female and notices that she's holding yellow and blue flowers. Splash! A fish ends up slapping his face. Shaking his head, he this time looks dumbounded at Suki. She brought food? Besides him an elder bear beast is snickering at his Clan Leader's expression.

I see him! Placing the flowers in my mouth, I hastily swim over the familiar black bear beast. And hastily because by leaving my cloths on, their weight definitely made me fill heavier.

During the time that the little female cub was swimming over to an isolated Vick, some of the flower petals were falling behind her. Where the petal landed, it soon disappeared by either a sound of a gulp or a splash.

Breathing roughly through my nose, I finally arrive in front of Vick.

... Don't think I didn't notice you moving further away!

Thankfully at this spot I can now stand, though from my shoulder and downwards I'm still soaked in the river.

Spitting the now pitiful looking flowers in my hand, I quickly try to control my breathing.

"This (gasp), this (cough cough)." Clearing my throat I try again while peeking at a seemingly bored Vick.

Holding the flowers as close as I can to his nose, which was by the way clearly far far away, I try again while attempting to maintain my eyes on his. "Be mine!" cough!!! "I mean, this is for you!" Wait, "Yes, so please be mine!" I scream.

Vick freezes for a second and then his lips part to show his teeth. However, before he could growl his displeasure, a deep growl was heard nearby. Suki, clearly having a front seat to his sharp teeth, slighty jumps when a loud growl was heard. Looking to where the sound came from, she spots a huge dark brown bear beast holding onto a lively large fish. Huh, looks like it must've been difficult to catch.

Being warned by his father, Vick snorts in distaste at the cub trying to feed him. A grown male beast. How unflattering... Though, before he could turn his back on this willful cub and go back into deeper water, he catches a glimpse of a sharp fin heading straight toward this lonely female. From his memories, he remembers that the fin belongs to a type of predator that is able to gulp down an entire cub. Glancing angrily at elder Liam, he quickly moves to kill.

However, what Vick did to 'save', in Suki's perspective what she felt was his killing intent and saw first hand how quickly he can move. This made her feel that this was el final.

Screaming in fright, I made myself go down into a ball while covering my head. Feeling the waters brusque current, I open my eyes underneath the water and saw one of his furry foot standing near my body. However, soon blood starts filling the water. Going back up for air, I notice that I was now under the bear beasts body. Yeah he's that big. Glancing toward where his head was at, I'm priviledged to see a graphic show of him murderously biting down on a rather humongous fish. This fish has, surprisingly, some really sharp teeth belonging to a rather huge mouth.

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Author's Note:

I hope you guys liked my Valentines Special :)