{"count":2191,"next":"https://commaful.com/api/stories/tag/?page=76&tag=adventure","previous":"https://commaful.com/api/stories/tag/?page=74&tag=adventure","results":[{"id":"df505dce-dc61-4a02-9619-e77c63ef4c52","reaction_count":3,"reaction_counts":{"NI":3,"all":3,"top":["NI"]},"shoutout_count":0,"username":"stevenhines","author_description":"Community member","user_reactions":[],"user_shouted_out":false,"first_page_text":"SHALLOW MOON\r\n\r\n\r\nChapter 1\r\n\r\nA shallow moon hung so low in the black as to be almost touchable. Alone in its splendor, isolated by its own exception, distinct and majestic, it shone peerlessly in the night sky. Joe Saphreaux gazed upward and remembered his wife, gone the better part of a decade now, and could almost hear her teasingly sarcastic voice saying, “Well you just hung the moon now, didn’t you,” when he did something to displease her.\r\n\r\nHe listened to the silence the land on which he sat hadn’t known in over a century. No planes breaking the quiet from above, no big rigs from nearby highways rumbling in the distance, no lonesome whistles from far away freight trains bellowing their arrival as they approach deserted street crossings, none of the echo of industrialization he hadn’t realized he’d been hearing his entire life until it wasn’t there.  \r\n\r\nThere were no sounds of people or their presence at all save the gentle snore of his thirteen year old girl and the worrisome wheeze of his eleven year old boy as they slept beside him, huddled together for warmth and comfort beneath a hideously gaudy blanket given to him as a white elephant gift at an office party in another life.  He’d sit for another hour trying not to remember before waking the boy for his watch and closing his own weary eyes.\r\n\r\nRemember he did, however. He remembered frozen meals made ready by the simple acts of puncturing transparent cellophane and pushing a button. He remembered the school bus picking up his kids in the rain, then reassuring his wife after reading the anxiety etched into the set of her eyes. He remembered all manner of things lost, then willed his jaw to relax and his teeth to stop grinding, staving off the headache beginning at his temples and reaching like tentacles into the spaces behind his ears.\r\n\r\nHe sat. He listened. He forced himself to maintain the vigilance required to survive.\r\n\r\nHis daughter turned, restless and wound as always, even in sleep. Something akin to a gasp escaped her lips as she did so.  Joe wondered as to its source, then if he wanted to know it. In turning she left herself uncovered, arms bare to the chilled autumn air.  \r\n\r\nHer brother woke, groggily looked at her exposed arm and clumsily covered her sleeping form. Kid brother, idolizer, protector and eleven year old. Life and the roles played in its span were in some ways little different than they’d been when Joe was a boy.  That way of thinking was an illusion, however; a false promise of normalcy that was no more.\r\n\r\nLife and its roles were nothing like what he’d known. To think otherwise, even in passing, risked all that was left. In the faltering light of reddening blue embers from the night’s fire the boy looked to his father who in turn shook his head indicating it wasn’t yet time.  Young Jake closed his eyes and quickly fell back into an easy all encompassing sleep of the sort available only to the innocent and those so daft or heartless as to live as if they were.\r\n\r\nJoe opened his eyes to muted sunshine, its rays diffused by a lifting fog quickly burning away to nothingness.  The kids were still sleeping, Jen’s hair a tangle of straw colored chaos, fury and mischievous delight; Jake sprawled like a pile of dirty clothes, content in his condition.\r\n\r\nJoe didn’t bother chastising himself for faltering, for failing in his responsibilities, for falling asleep on his watch.  It wasn’t the first time.  He was exhausted. They all were. He lacked the energy to take himself to task for the lapse.  \r\n\r\nNothing happened.  He was grateful.  He would try to do better. \r\n\n\nChapter 2\r\n\r\nJen sat bolt upright, quickly and alertly surveying her surroundings, then smiled a gap toothed grin at Joe.  “It’s sunny,” she said matter of factly.  She leapt to her feet and ran behind the nearest bush before he had time to react.  \r\n\r\nJen was lithe and supple in her movements without effort or awareness. Strength, too, was evident in her motions, sinewy muscles bestowing her with an agile grace.  Her power was of a sort more akin to that of a cheetah than that of a lion.  She sprang rather than mauled, but the results were usually the same for those who crossed her.\r\n\r\nHer eyes, a rich blue when she was born, had taken on a catlike quality as she aged. They shifted from blue to gray to green depending on the light.  On occasion Joe could almost swear their tint changed with her mood or the squint with which she chose to convey it.  Regardless of their color they were flecked, almost striped, with what resembled sparkling silver and gold.  They were equally capable of mesmerizing and intimidation.  Jen was quickly discovering their power and mastering the art of wielding it.\r\n\r\nLike the girl whose head it capped, Jen’s hair was unruly.  It suited her personality; beautiful, but not in a classical sense.  There was a cowlick at her hairline just above her exceptionally high forehead making bangs or styling requiring anything other than being pulled tightly back difficult, if not impossible.  \r\n\r\nIt was dirty blond, the dirt winning out more and more as she matured.  The blond was more hinted at than present in any tangible sense.  For someone seeing her for the first time the likely inclination was to label her a brunette, yet blond was there too, sensed more than seen.  It was there when glimpsed from the corner of the eye or when she entered a room, then faded as focus on her gave a clearer picture, however, like a desert’s watery mirage or a Fairy fluttering into the shadows to avoid detection.  In summer, when sun-kissed by long exposure, the blond streaks returned to brush the freckles on her slender nose and prominent cheekbones that seemed to pop out to greet them.\r\n\r\nJen’s fair complexion, hypnotic and almost translucent at times in its clarity, reflected her mother’s Irish and Dutch lineages.  The particular beauty reserved for those with her build and grace was her’s in abundance as well.  Even when walloping her little brother just because she still could, an observer would likely note the graceful beauty with which she did so.  A friend had once told Joe to get ready, that Jen was destined to be trouble.  Trouble the kind of which teenage boys would find absolutely irresistible.  Thee dyings had made that a non issue up to now, but his friend had been right in every respect excepting the presence of teenage boys.\r\n\r\nJen was short, and not just a little, but exceptionally so.  Standing at least two inches under the five foot marker she so desperately wished to reach, the likelihood of that wish’s fulfillment was rapidly diminishing.  She compensated for what she lacked in stature with a stubborn resilience. Jen ceded ground only on her terms and at times of her own choosing.  The personal cost to be paid for her entrenchment was simply not a factor once she’d set her boundaries.\r\n\r\nDespite her stature, short wasn’t the adjective that first came to mind when meeting Jen.  She was as well proportioned as she was small.  More likely than not the first descriptors to come to a stranger’s mind were some odd combination of beautiful, scruffy and petite.  Occasionally strangers would include vulnerable in their impressions, usually to their detriment.  An exceptionally observant stranger may even add dangerous to his perceptions of her.  At least, as had so often been the case with girls her age before, the label rival had, as yet, not been draped like a sash over her shoulder.  The dyings had spared Jen from the consequences of its petty cruelty; a silver lining to an otherwise very dark cloud, Joe sometimes thought, when he watched his daughter \r\n\r\nBeing who she was, who someone of her size and disposition had to be if they wished to accomplish or acquire things independently, Jen became adept at employing whatever advantages there were to be gleaned from the diminutive first impression she inevitably gave.  She knew she appeared significantly younger than she was.  She was also fully aware that she, as people regularly told her before things changed, was as cute as a button.  That description, despite the fact that she recognized it as an intended compliment, always left her feeling worse; smaller somehow.  Perhaps it was that feeling that allowed her to justify using those attributes to avoid consequences for actions others, who looked more their age, or who weren’t lucky enough to have her ingratiatingly innocent good looks, would undoubtedly pay for.\r\n\r\nIn both thoughts and actions Jen was impulsive and impetuous to the point that she had to be on guard against her own tendency for irrational action.  Luckily for Joe and Jake, not to mention herself, she was growing into a young woman who both recognized that necessity and possessed the exceptional underlying intelligence to pull it off.  Her undersized frame developed within her an uncommon ability to stand her ground.  It was her newly found recognition of the value of self control and her determination to cultivate its development within herself, however, that was making her a natural leader.\r\n\r\nJoe caught himself wondering as to how she’d managed to skip what people with less beautiful or coordinated children referred to as some variation of “that awkward phase.”  He paused to recognize the conceit that thought revealed within himself.  He then allowed himself to think it, nonetheless.\r\n\r\n \r\nChapter 3\r\n\r\nWith the commotion caused by Jen’s lively exit Jake stirred, eyes still shut to the inevitability of the day.  He asked in a voice drunk with sleep and more than a little touched by irritation, “What d’you want?”  He was asking the still morning air, of course. Jen was gone to meet whatever fate had to offer before he’d arched an eyebrow.  Getting no response his face slackened, eyelids again at ease, no force pushing back the light.\r\n\r\nJoe envied the apparent ease with which his son fought off the sunrise for a few more minutes of sleep.  He sometimes felt depleted of the strength to accomplish even so much as that.  He rose nonetheless, trusting his spirits to follow.  Recalling the whirlwind masquerading as his oldest child, they did. \r\n\r\nNudging Jake with the worn end of a walking stick he’d picked up somewhere between what was then and now Joe said, “Come on kiddo. Gettin’ there in your dreams don’t count.”\r\n\r\nJake responded by scratching his head, though clearly not yet awake.  His light brown hair had rich undertones the color of faded rust.  It was sun-bleached, resembling something like Galveston Island’s sand or long cut hay on top.  He insisted that it be kept short, out of his eyes and ears always, despite his sister’s pleas that he let it grow.  Cropped short or not, however, it managed to look disheveled.  “When you wash that mop you look like you just got highlights,” Jen would tease truthfully and tauntingly at once, and maybe even a little enviously.  “Please let it grow,” she’d say.  “You’re the only boy I’ve got to look at except daddy, and he’s older than dirt.  You’re hair is firecracker hot, Jake.  The rest of you’s just my stinky kid brother.\r\n\r\nStinky was, in so far as it went, an apt description of Jake.  Very few would assent to limiting a description of him to just that, however.  Methodical and capable of complex and naturally organized constructs of thought, his mind was equally agile and quick when the situation called for it.  \r\n\r\nWhile the exceptional nature of his mind was what most separated him from others, it was his physical stature, even as a child, that drew him immediate attention and made him stand out in a crowd.  He was lean like his sister, his muscles long and elastic, like those of a runner rather than those of a lumberjack.  Unlike Jen, though, he was as tall as he was lean.  He was already within a hair of surpassing her.  Whether he had or not already was one of the few points of real contention between them.\r\n\r\nIt wasn’t an exaggeration to call Jake’s prominent square jaw statuesque.  His nose was narrow and straight, classically nordic in its origins.  His eyes were so deeply set as to give their piercingly crystalline blue the illusion of genuine radiance; of emitting light from within, rather than simple reflectors of the light available to them.\r\n\r\nHe was a good looking kid, and knew it.  He knew it not from a place of conceit, however, but from the fact that he’d been told so by practically every mother and teenage older sister of his friends and classmates before the world of friends and classmates ended.  Women would stop his parents in groceries stores, malls or any other public spaces just to coo over him and shower him with complements.  \r\n\r\nHe’d never had a teacher for whom he wasn’t among the favorites.  More remarkably, his classmates never seemed to resent his favored status.  He was valued among his peers for his loyalty and genuinely good nature as much as for his physical good looks.\r\n\r\nThose that knew him well would to a person point to his kind heart if asked what one quality best described Jake.  His dad and sister were the only ones that knew him well now, of course, but his friends, family, teachers and others, all gone now, would have said so too if given the opportunity.  \r\n\r\nEven as a kindergartner he would break up arguments and tussles among classmates.  “But not only that,” Joe remembered Jake’s experienced grandmotherly teacher saying,  “All three;  Jake and the two fighting, always ended up friends laughing together.  If Jake’s getting involved I’ve learned to give him a crack at it and he’s yet to fail me.  I’ve never had another student in my thirty years in the classroom I can say that about.  Maybe I’m getting too old for this,”she laughed, “But you’ve got yourself something special in that boy. Very special indeed.”  \r\n\r\nGrowing more serious, the old teacher continued, “Just remember there’s a high price to pay for special gifts.  You’ll do right to raise him knowing that and preparing him to pay when his debt is called in.”  Joe had know idea how to respond to that.  He just thanked her and left, a feeling of unease twisting his insides and holding Jake’s hand a little more tightly as they walked away.\r\n\r\n \r\nChapter 4\r\n\r\nJoe nudged Jake again, this time with the toe of his hiking boot.  Jake mumbled something unintelligible, but with a tone that oozed his own unique fusion of lethargy and vexation. Joe was fairly certain his inability to decipher Jake’s grumbled repine was for the best.  He watched his son unconsciously resettle himself, finding the hint of a smile on his lips for the first time in what seemed like days at the thought of damnation via the ire of an eleven year old roused too soon. \r\n\r\nJoe tossed the gnarled hickory stick he was holding aside, freeing his cracked and callused hands.  In doing so he took in its form. Smooth on both ends from weeks of use supporting him as he walked, it was knotted along its length where smaller branches had once grown when the stick had been but a part of something more than itself. \r\n\r\nWhile examining his makeshift staff he suddenly realized he had no idea if it was hickory or not.  Hickory sounded right, and so it had become. Recognizing his ignorance, the grin hinted at earlier turned into a barely audible chuckle as Jen walked back with much less urgency than that with which she’d left.\r\n\r\n“Mornin’ Sunshine,” Joe said, as Jen looked incredulously at her brother.\r\n\r\n“Ain’t you gonna get him up?” she asked, trying to look scornful but failing.  “Why’s he get to sleep late, and didn’t he have last watch anyway?”\r\n\r\n“Couldn’t sleep,” Joe effortlessly lied.“ Didn’t see any reason to wake him and have us both sit up watchin’ nothin’ but the dark.”\r\n\r\n“Uh huh,” she said with a sarcasm unique to teenage girls and the occasional sated feline.  She left it there, however, confident her message was received.\r\n\r\nLooking up, the lightheartedness that had begun to raise its head above water vanished as Joe saw four figures come into view as they crested a slight rise in an overgrown pasture some distance to the south.  Their approach was unremarkable, neither hurried nor notably cautious.  They appeared to be talking, though at this distance Joe couldn’t be sure of anything other than the fact that they were coming his way.  \r\n\r\nThey seemed to be wearing overcoats. He thought he could make out hats as well, or maybe hoods.  His imagination was quickly turning the strangers into old-west outlaws from a bad western movie dressed in blood stained black dusters, murder and lust their only evident ambitions, accuracy with pistols and an insatiable thirst for blood their most distinguishing qualities. He could practically hear the ominous jingle of their spurs. \r\n\r\nHe took several deep breaths and reminded himself that the “dusters” could just as easily be full length dresses.  He simply couldn’t distinguish between the two at this distance.  “Binoculars,” Joe mumbled to himself, adding them to the ever-growing list of items he hadn’t realized they needed.  His skin prickled with goosebumps. His stomach growled as his bowels reacted to the tension overtaking him.\r\n\r\nJoe’s countenance changed in an instant, senses alert and straining to glean even the slightest bit of information, an edge, an understanding of the developing situation.  Jen detected the change in her father. She followed his gaze to the strangers’ approach.  \r\n\r\nFeigned anger forgotten, Jen gently woke her brother. Jake opened his eyes to see his sister with her finger held firmly against her tightly puckered lips cautioning silence. He too was alert now and looked questioningly into Jen’s crystalline hazel eyes. As her father had done for her she wordlessly guided his gaze to the strangers’ advance.\r\n\r\n \r\nChapter 5\r\n\r\nTogether they waited, each finding fortitude in the stoicism displayed by the rest, each determined not to be the link in their little chain that broke.  Despite the struggles within themselves to maintain the appearance of calm, or perhaps because of them, a sense of foreboding, an ominous dread, an almost overwhelming feeling of impending doom seemed to compel a collective state of inaction.  \r\n\r\nJoe found himself in possession of a new appreciation for the phrase ‘a deer in the headlights’ that had eluded his previous understanding. He tried even harder, though with dwindling confidence in ultimate success, to calm his fraying nerves and to set some sort of example for Jen and Jake. An example of what, exactly, he wouldn’t have been able to say.\r\n\r\nThey could run, but those approaching were likely to be faster.  They could hide, but evidence of their presence was clear, strewn haphazardly about them and unable to be masked before the distance would be closed.  Even if the debris belying their existence could be hidden the smoke rising from the remains of their fire hung above them in the still morning air as clearly as a battle flag marking their position. They each watched, unmoving, transfixed as their options narrowed with each footfall of the newcomers. \r\n\r\nThey could ready themselves for a fight. Between them they possessed a snub-nosed thirty-eight special revolver with a dozen rounds plus the five in the cylinder. Joe carried it in a holster clipped to his belt, easily accessible by his right hand.  It was small enough that it was usually concealed by just a T-shirt. \r\n\r\nJen carried a bolt action twenty-two rifle with a well worn sling over her shoulder.  There was a full box of a hundred short rimfire rounds plus thirty-two more in another ammo box.  There was also a full box of fifty high velocity long rifle rounds and six long rifle hollow-points held for the most dire of circumstances.  \r\n\r\nFinally, they had an antique but reliable double barrel sixteen gauge shotgun.  Joe sawed off its side by side barrels just above the wooden forearm when they began their trek to make the gun easier to wield, reduce its weight and increase its close-in effectiveness.  He rigged a homemade sling for it that allowed it to hang across his chest resting at his right side with just enough slack to be fired from the hip, though clumsily, if absolutely necessary. There were seventeen shells loaded with squirrel shot and five more loaded with double ought buckshot.  \r\n\r\nJoe also carried a knockoff brand Swiss army knife, the scissor tool broken long ago and several of its other implements frozen in place by rust and lack of use.  The longest knife blade, the saw and the can opener were still fully functional, however. Despite the burden he carried its weight gave him comfort.\r\n\r\nOn his left hip, clipped to his belt opposite the thirty-eight special on the right, was a perfectly balanced and well honed hatchet.  Joe’s great great grandfather carried it out of the trenches and across no man’s land in World War I where it’s original handle was shattered by a bullet otherwise destined to, as family lore held, cut short the family lineage at Belleau Woods.  His great grandfather carried it into the Ardennes Forrest in December of 1944 just days before he and the rest of the US forces there were caught flatfooted and unprepared by Germany’s last offensive of WWII.  His grandfather wore the hatchet on his hip as a US Marine for the entire seventy-seven days under siege at Khe Sanh seven miles from the Laotian border with what was then South Vietnam.  \r\n\r\nJoe’s father was wearing the hatchet in the Mountains of Afghanistan when an IED took his left leg.  Somehow the hatchet made it back with him, however, and thus to Joe.  When Joe turned eighteen and told his dad he was thinking about enlisting he was reminded that all of the hatchet carriers before his dad had been drafted. “I was the only one to go looking for a fight, and it’s left me leaning left ever since,” his dad quipped.  \r\n\r\n“You’re man enough to make this decision for yourself according to Uncle Sam,” his dad continued more seriously.  “But consider the fact that you could very well end up walking the same ground in the same war that cost me my leg.”  After a long pause he said, “Before I enlisted my daddy told me what I told you about it being my decision.  He also had another piece of advice I often wish I’d heeded.”\r\n\r\n“He told me that it was every man’s duty to defend his Country if called, but war was nothing to seek out.  He said if I went, no matter how diligent my search for glory, I wouldn’t find it.  I wish I’d recognized the wisdom in his words.  Maybe you will,” Joe’s dad concluded.\r\n\r\nNo more was said about it.  Joe opted for State U over boot camp, and carried the guilt he knew would accompany that decision.  The hatchet did not pass to him as a young soldier as it had to his forbearers.  It was willed to him with no elaboration when his father died of lung cancer a year before the dyings had begun in earnest.  He wore it now with an amalgamation of guilt, reverence and utility.  He was certain he felt its weight more than any of his predecessors.\r\n\r\nJen carried a boy scout knife Joe had been given as a reward for achieving the rank of Webelo as a cub scout back when things like that happened.  She accepted it with a solemnity uncommon to her disposition when he’d given it to her, inherently recognizing the unspoken responsibility that came with the gift. The scissors still worked on it.\r\n\r\nJake carried a scabbarded buck knife with an imitation bone handle.  It was bought for Joe by his grandfather when he’d been Jake’s age in the gift shop of a cruise ship returning from Alaska over the protestations of his grandmother. She’d argued that Joe was too young for a knife, dull as a letter opener or not.  A wolf’s head was stamped into the ivory plastic hilt with much more efficiency than even the most skilled inuit elder could’ve managed.\r\n\r\nJoe also carried a whetstone passed down from fathers to sons through more generations than anyone could remember.  He kept it wrapped in oilcloth and tucked into the middle of his bedroll so as to protect it from breaking as best he could.  With it he honed the blades whenever time allowed.  The rhythmic gnashing produced as he worked the knives across its worn surface had come to be something of a lullaby, its gentle grinding the last sounds his children heard before falling asleep more often than not.\r\n\r\nJoe had grown up with guns and knives, hunting and fishing with family and friends since before he could remember.  His children were familiar with firearms and blades as well.  They were tools to be respected and handled with caution, but tools nonetheless. None of them, Joe included, had ever fired in anger or at another person nor held a blade with malicious intent.\r\n\r\nArming his children to face whatever was coming wasn’t an option with any realistic possibility of a positive outcome he quickly concluded.  He calmly summoned his kids to him. Draping an arm around each, Joe told them that everything would be okay as he watched fate close the distance separating them from whatever was to come.\r\n\r\n \r\nChapter 6\r\n\r\nThe strangers’ approach halted almost immediately after Joe began reassuring his children.  The smallest of the others, slightly in front and to the right of the rest of the group, pointed vehemently in their direction.  She turned urgently to the rest of her party while doing so.  \r\n\r\nThey appeared to freeze mid-stride for a long indecisive moment.  They then dropped to the ground; first one, then the others, each as their situation and the idea of the need to become less visible, less of a target, took hold.  In doing so it was more than obvious that their reaction was unrehearsed and seemingly unanticipated.  In dropping to reduce their visibility and with at least one of their aims presumably to draw less attention to themselves, they nevertheless did so with enough clatter of carried accoutrements as to be easily heard from across the divide.  The noise of their concealment was almost sure to draw the attention of anyone who had somehow missed their unguarded arrival.\r\n\r\nBefore Joe could process what he was seeing and consider a course of action he heard the barking of a dog.  Soon afterwards he saw what appeared to be a mixed breed cross between what may have been a small black poodle and something like a mangy unkempt Schnauzer bounding toward them at full speed.  He’d never seen an uglier more scruffy looking dog in his life.  Under different circumstances he would’ve laughed out loud at the sight of it.  \r\n\r\nJoe would’ve guessed fifteen or twenty pounds if forced too guess the dog’s weight based on what looked for all the world like a four legged ball of black and gray steel wool scouring its way towards them.  Judging by the bark alone, however, he would’ve opted for something closer to fifty pounds.  The stranger who’d pointed them out earlier screamed, “Jelly Bean!” She jumped to her feet and began running after the dog even as she screamed for it to stop.  \r\n\r\nA much deeper voice yelled, “Get your butt on the ground, now!”  \r\n\r\nThe girl reluctantly obeyed, dropping to a knee, skinning it, before lying prone.  As she did she yelled, “Jelly Bean,” again, more plaintively this time, almost immediately followed by the plea, “Please don’t hurt my dog.”\r\n\r\nJoe watched with bewilderment as the surreal scenario played out across the field.   Still frozen in disbelief and confusion, a shot rang out from amongst the strangers.  Even before hearing the crack of gunfire split the still morning air glowing embers exploded outward from their fire; red hot sparks, charred blackened coals and pallid gray ashes rising then falling in an arc behind them.  Joe turned to his kids, terror threatening to overtake his faculties.  To have struck the fire the bullet had to have passed between Jake and Jen.\r\n\r\nJake was as flat as he could be, becoming as much as possible a part of the ground itself.  He looked determined, focused, and shockingly unafraid.  He didn’t appear to be injured.  Joe was surprised, impressed and very much frightened by his son’s reaction.  His bearing, his expression, his posture, his being itself wasn’t that of a eleven year old; at least not that of a eleven year old from the world of cartoons, breakfast cereal, bike ramps and baseball cards Joe was familiar with.  It was Jen’s reaction, however, that changed everything.\r\n\r\nThe report from her twenty-two tore Joe’s eyes away from Jake.  He focused on his daughter just in time to see her working the little rifle’s bolt action, expelling the spent round and feeding a new one into the firing chamber.   \r\n\r\n“Wait,” Joe said through gritted teeth with all the steadfast calm his shaking body and panicking mind could muster.  Jen did not fire again. Nor did she remove her finger from the trigger or lower her aim.\r\n\r\nA scream came from across the pasture.  “Daddy!” the girl’s voice cried, no longer focused on the dog. \r\n\r\n“He’s got a gun, a big one,” Jen told her dad.  Her voice was unsteady, but her hands were as still as a surgeons. Her finger rested easily on the trigger just as he’d taught her. Her eye kept the man at the other end of the pasture aligned with the beaded sight at the end of the barrel.  A tear escaped the other eye. It left a track as it ran down her dirty cheek and splattered audibly as it fell onto a dry oak leaf. \r\n\r\nJen’s tears seemed to be born neither from sadness nor fear, Joe remembered thinking later.  Frustration maybe?  Something else?  The thought brought its own sense of trepidation. This wasn’t the time, however.  He made a mental note to revisit the question when and if he had the time and opportunity.\r\n\r\nThe man in Jen’s sights seemed to be having trouble with his left forearm.  She thought, but couldn’t be sure given the distance, that that was where she’d shot him.  A voice in her head, one calmer and steadier than she felt, told her with an easy reassurance to adjust her aim a tad higher next time.  “I’m gonna shoot him again if he points it like before,” she said to Joe, the steadiness having returned to her voice.\r\n\r\nJoe swallowed, took a deep breath and tried to think; to become the rational man he’d always believed himself to be until this moment and these fears exposed the shallow nature of that rationality.  “Wait Sweetheart,”  he said to his daughter again, his voice noticeably quavering this time.\r\n\r\n“The dog,” he thought.  Before Joe could formulate the idea, much less a plan, the dog was on them.  It straddled his son, forelegs on either side of Jake’s shoulder blades, hind-legs astride his hips as Jake lain perfectly still save a slight tremble Joe saw in his hand.  With the boy face down, the dog was atop his back before it even occurred to Jake or Joe to offer a defense.  Jake simply waited for whatever was next.\r\n\r\n“No Jelly Bean,” Joe hissed as firmly as he could without increasing the dog’s hostility.  Jelly Bean gave Joe a quizzical glance before grabbing Jake’s collar in his teeth, shaking it twice, then releasing it to vigorously lick Jake’s bare neck with his tail suddenly wagging high in the air.\r\n\r\n“Daddy,” Jen said, her voice tinged with uncertainty, a lack of assuredness, a questioning of itself out of character with what could only be described as her usual overconfidence.  Her tone was turned on its end, desperate for direction and confirmation. “He still has his gun.  I shot him, Daddy.  I think he might shoot again.”\r\n\r\n“Put down your damned gun,” Joe yelled across the pasture.  “There’s kids over here.”\r\n\r\n“That wasn’t no kid that shot me,” the man yelled back, feeling the need to say something and yet coming up short when he reached inside himself for the right words.\r\n\r\n“My name is Jen. I’m thirteen years old and I’ll shoot you again if you don’t put down your gun right now.” Jen replied.  Her voice held conviction.  No one hearing her statement was likely to doubt its truth.\r\n\r\nJoe was speechless.  He looked at his daughter, mouth agape, and was frozen with debilitating uncertainty.   How was he suppose to handle the disaster unfolding before him? What exactly was it he was seeing and hearing? \r\n\r\nStill without answers or even coherence, his system was further stressed when he saw Jake sit up, laughing no less, and holding the tail wagging dog back from his face by its ears as its long pink tongue reached out desperately to lick the face of his new found friend.  Joe violently shook his head, forcing himself out of his stunned paralysis.\r\n \r\nChapter 7\r\n\r\n“For “God’s sake, nobody shoot,” Joe yelled. “I’m gettin’ up.”  As he shouted he got slowly to his knees, then even more deliberately to his feet. He was careful to keep his hands held out, away from his body and in full view while he did so.  He felt no bullets, heard no shots, felt no piercing pains as he stood.  Across the field he saw a man mirroring his actions.  He began to breathe again.\r\n\r\n“My name’s Joe.  I’m here with my kids,” he said with as friendly and unthreatening a tone as he could manage through the fear that clenched his teeth, clipped his syllables and made his voice seem to crack like a pubescent boy’s. “We don’t want this; not lookin’ for trouble.” He looked hard at his counterpart staring back at him. “I’m steppin’ way out on a limb here and bettin’ y’all don’t either.”\r\n\r\n“No. We don’t; don’t want none neither. Trouble I mean,” the man across the field stammered.  “We’re; we’re; Jesus, I didn’t mean to shoot at y’all.  We’re good people.  All of us. We’re good.” The man’s voice trailed off as his ability to find words, to try to explain, to justify his actions, to stop what was happening eluded him.  “Oh, and my name’s Sammy, Sammy Squalls,” he added like a kid remembering his manners, remembering his mother was watching.\r\n\r\n“Glad to hear it,” Joe said.  “I’m gonna ask my girl to lower her gun now, but she’s going to hold onto it for the time being if that’s okay with you.  Understand?”\r\n\r\n“Okay,” Sammy replied, not knowing what else to say.  “I’m shot,” he then added, feeling foolish, stupid somehow, for having said it even as the words left his mouth.  They, after all, were the ones who shot him.\r\n\r\n“How bad is it?” Joe asked.  \r\n\r\n“I don’t know,” Sammy answered. “I never been shot before.”  The more he spoke the more asinine he felt. “It’s in my arm below my elbow.  Where you shot me, I mean.  It’s below my elbow,” he explained. “It’s bleeding,” he then said even as he wondered why he would say something so obvious. “It hurts.”\r\n\r\n“I’m Stacy,” came a voice from one of the people behind the sputtering man. “I’m his wife. I need to look at his arm,” she said. “I’m a nurse.  I need to tend to that wound.” \r\n\r\nHer occupation sent a jolt of hope through Joe like a bolt of lightning.  As with lightening, however, the revelation drew forth apprehension as well.  Was she saying that to inflate her worth, to distract from the immediate danger she and her band of strangers posed?  Was she placing a deliberate chink in their armor?  If so it was working.\r\n\r\n“Who else is with you?” Joe asked.  The fact that the voice was that of a woman left him even more confused, forcing him to reassess yet again.  These people seemed less and less like outlaws with every word, shooting his campfire not withstanding.\r\n\r\n“The girl who was yellin’ before is our daughter, Ella. She’s eight,” Stacy answered.  Her voice was steadier than that of her husband’s, both calmer and more self assured.  It carried with it an air of confidence that was missing in Sammy’s as it found its way across the pasture.  “That’s Jelly Bean lickin’ the boy you got with you. But I guess you know that already.”\r\n\r\n“This is Mr. Brown lying beside me,” she added. “He’s our neighbor from back home.”  After a slight hesitation she continued, saying,  “He, ‘um, he’s with us now.  After the; I mean; well, after everything that happened he was alone.”  \r\n\r\nAs Joe tried to think of what to say in response to the woman’s description of Mr. Brown her reference to what had happened dredged up emotions he’d just as soon keep below the surface. “I really need to look at Sammy’s arm. He’s; I just need to tend to his arm. Is that okay?” Stacy ended the request with a question, but the tenor of her voice left little room for anything but assent.\r\n\r\nThe man standing across the field from Joe no longer had his hands in the air Joe noticed when Stacy mentioned him again.  Sammy was still standing, but with his left arm cradled in his right.\r\n\r\n“Yeah, all right,” Joe said. “But please move slowly.”  After a few deep breaths and a conscious effort to slow the beating of his heart he asked, “Are you armed?”\r\n\r\nStacy hesitated only a second before answering. “Sammy shot your fire with a thirty-thirty.  It’s on the ground and nobody’s gonna pick it up.”  After a very deep breath of her own she added, “There’s a forty-five on my hip.  Do you want me to remove it?”\r\n\r\n“Do you intend to use it?” After asking the question Joe felt like a cliche himself, like a character from the bad western he’d imagined when the strangers arrived.\r\n\r\n“No sir,” she answered.  Her voice rang true.  \r\n\r\nJoe had nothing but that to go on, but trusting his instincts and wanting it to be so he said, “See to your husband. And please don’t give us reason to shoot again.”\r\n\r\nSee to her husband she did.  Stacy rose slowly, cautiously; confident but without threat.  Her comportment from across the pasture telling Joe and his kids, “I won’t hurt you, but don’t try me.”\r\n\r\nShe took Sammy’s arm in her hands saying, “Your okay, baby.  Let me see.”\r\n\r\nSammy seemed to wilt under her touch, her hands appearing to sap what strength he had left, not give it.  His shoulders slumped as he turned to his wife.  He looked as if he were going to speak, but did not.  He shuffled his feet, compelled to find his fortitude, but unsure of where to look.  \r\n\r\nHis knees bent rather than buckled as he dropped to one, his left arm still tenderly held by Stacy.  He looked away from her as she examined it. She prodded here and there, noting with a practiced eye his reactions.  Other than wiggling his fingers when asked, however, he seemed to have none.\r\n\r\n“I think it’ll be okay,” she said, but without the confidence her voice had exuded when addressing Joe.  “The bleeding ain’t bad, considering.  I’m going to wrap it, okay?”\r\n\r\nSammy nodded. Joe took note of the fact that he wasn’t facing her, wasn’t looking her in the eye. “This will hurt,” Stacy told her husband.  Concern furrowed the lines on her forehead.  They seemed out of place, showing themselves too soon, incongruent with her otherwise youthful appearance.  Joe had the feeling that Stacy’s concern wasn’t for the pain, though he wouldn’t have been able to say why if asked.  Sammy simply nodded again, somehow shrinking as he did so.\r\n\r\n \r\nChapter 8\r\n\r\n“Ella,” Stacy said, calmly but firmly, leaving no room for anything but compliance on her daughter’s part. She spoke as loudly as she could without projecting aggression so as to ensure she was heard by Joe and the others. “Get up nice and slow girl so these fine people can see you ain’t nothin’ but a kid who minds her mama and don’t mean them no harm.”  \r\n\r\n“Mr. Brown is kinda old and don’t get around as easily as he used to,” she told Joe in the same loud but even tone with which she’d addressed her daughter; each syllable enunciated with deliberate clarity, each inflection considered for its possible effects before being spoken aloud.  “I’m going to ask him to stand too, but please don’t take any jerkiness by him as anything but age and nerves while he’s gettin’ up.  We’re all kinda shook up over here.  Same as you, I ‘spect.”\r\n\r\n“Yes ma’am,” Joe answered.  Judging by what he could see of Stacy he guessed he was her senior by at least a few years, but the authority, not demanded but simply present, in her voice and the way she naturally took charge of her situation made the title ma’am feel wholly appropriate.  He paused for a long moment, like a kid before a headfirst dive, then took the plunge.\r\n\r\n“Listen,” he said to Stacy, his own voice sounding less commanding and more like a plea than he’d intended. “I’m armed too.  I’m carrying the shotgun you can probably see on a sling and a pistol clipped to my belt. I’m gonna slowly take them off and lay them on the ground.  Please don’t mistake what I’m doin’ for anything more.”  \r\n\r\nJoe inhaled, holding the breath deep in his chest, and waited for a response.  When none came he let it out slowly, took in another and continued, “Then I’m gonna talk to my kids for a second before I walk over to you so we can talk face to face.  Would that be okay?”\r\n\r\n“It is,” was all he got in reply.  Better than a bullet, he decided. He lifted the sling holding the double barrel shotgun above his head then laid it slowly on the ground.  He did the same with the thirty-eight special on his hip before turning to Jen and Jake.\r\n\r\n“You two listen and don’t say nothin’ back,” he said, almost whispering. “I’m gonna go over and talk to these people.”  He could see alarm animate both of their faces, but to his surprise they both obeyed, remaining quiet.  \r\n\r\n“Jake,” he said focusing his attention on the boy, “I want you to stay put, but look at my guns.  Make sure you know right where they are.  Be ready to grab them if need be.  Do you understand me?” Jake nodded, but his expression showed anything but understanding.\r\n\r\n“Try not to worry, Son. It’ll make more sense if the time comes and you need to do it,” Joe said, all but certain his reassurance to be a lie, before turning to Jen.\r\n\r\n“Jen, You’re in charge while I’m over there,” he said, his eyes conveying the gravity of the burden he was placing on her shoulders.  “I expect this to turn out well, but if it don’t I want you to listen close and do what I tell you.”\r\n\r\n“If things go south, if you hear shots, yellin’, or, well I don’t know,” his voice was chopped and uneven.   He tried to organize his thoughts, rearranging them, attempting to complete them, as he searched for a coherent set of instructions to offer his daughter for the plans he couldn’t quite work out in his own head.\r\n\r\n“I know, Daddy,” Jen said in a manner that managed to convey a comprehension of Joe’s thoughts that he didn’t yet have himself.  “I’ll be ready,” she said.  And Joe somehow knew she would be.\r\n\r\n“Yeah, Sweetheart.  Y’all be ready,” he told Jen, then gathered himself as he turned toward Stacy, her bleeding husband,  the man she called by a name he could not recall and a little girl crying for her injured father and her dog.  He was propelled by a courage he had to find anew with each step forward as he closed the distance, his children further away from him with each stride taken.\r\n\r\n \r\nChapter 9\r\n\r\nJoe felt as if his walk across the pasture to the others took just short of forever, even as he arrived before he was ready.  He didn’t know what to say to these people.  They weren’t of him.  They weren’t his.  He didn’t know them.  They fired a rifle at his kids.  The shot passed right between them.  His daughter just shot one of them, for Pete’s sake.  He wished they weren’t here.   \r\n\r\nAt a distance of no more than ten paces he stopped, arms consciously held out at least a foot from his body.  He couldn’t help but feel foolish, like a man poorly imitating a scarecrow.  After trying to swallow but finding his mouth too dry to do so he said, “I’m Joe.”  He looked at the strangers, determined to mask his apprehension.  His eyes quickly scanned their ranks then settled on the woman.  He waited.\r\n\r\n“That much I know,” Stacy said. Her wavy blond hair was greasy and matting.  It appeared to be beginning to gray, but Joe couldn’t tell for sure.  It carried the weight of a considerable amount of dirt and grime since it was last washed.  Its tangles seemed to be alive, shifting, changing as she moved.  Joe felt foolish letting something as superficial as the tangles in a woman’s hair disquiet him more than he already was.  \r\n\r\nHe tried not to notice them.  The harder he tried the more the tangles, seemingly with a life of their own, increased his uneasiness, though.  At least until the name Medusa popped unbidden into his head.  That was just ridiculous enough to jolt him back to his own crazy world and away from the brink of whatever precipice he was approaching.  \r\n\r\nBlinking, he thought Miss Stacy might even be pretty beneath her grime.  “Mrs. Stacy,” he reminded himself even as Miss crossed his mind.  “How many times had men, how many times had he, made stupid decisions because they noticed a woman was pretty?” Joe tried to stay focused, to keep himself and his kids alive at least a little longer.\r\n\r\nJoe then noticed her eyes.  They were a deep ocean blue flecked with what could only be described as a colorless gray.  They held no light.  They seemed to absorb it the like the black holes he’d read about before; powerful and unknowable things that sucked everything around them into themselves and out of existence.  Stacy’s gaze took in everything and gave nothing back to the world.  Joe looked for kindness in them. He wished to find it, but did not.  He found no malice there either, however, just a coldness and empty void so pure it was almost worthy of admiration.\r\n\r\nStacy repeatedly brushed the hair covering her eye aside, trying to tuck it behind her ear, but it was to thin and shorn to close not so very log ago to stay.  She made no attempt to hide the fact that it was an annoyance to her.  “Those your kids you got with you?” she asked, holding the hair in place as if she had a headache.\r\n\r\nJoe nodded. “My girl Jen and my boy Jake.  Good kids.”\r\n\r\n“Good shots anyway,” was Stacy’s reply.  “Jen wasn’t it?” she added, unable, or maybe not wishing to mask her sarcasm.  “Anybody else with y’all?”\r\n\r\n“Just my oldest boy.  He went to see if he could bag a deer or a hog.” Nodding toward the morning sun still fairly low in the eastern sky Joe added, “He crested that hill as y’all was walkin’ up.  Surprised you didn’t see him”\r\n\r\nSquinting into the sun, then turning back to Joe, Stacy said, “You ain’t much of a liar Joe.”  Her reply wasn’t accusatory, but stated matter of factly. “That’s a good quality in a man, but there ain’t nobody over that hill, at least nobody that’s with you.”\r\n\r\n“No,” Joe conceded, looking down at the worn tips of his boots. “I ain’t much of a liar.”  Looking back up at Stacy he added, “It tends to get me in trouble every time I try it.  You’d think I’d of given it up by now.”\r\n\r\nStacy’s face appeared to soften a little.  The edge was still there, but her spring seemed a little less tightly wound.  For the first time since stepping away from his kids Joe was beginning to feel like things might be okay.\r\n\r\n“Well,” Stacy said, appearing to come to some sort of inner conclusion, “we can shoot it out here and be done with it or we can chalk this up as a misunderstanding handled like fools so far all around.”\r\n\r\n“I vote for the chalk,” Joe deadpanned, “Seein’ as my guns are over there.”\r\n\r\n“Chalk it is then,” Stacy replied, her poker-faced delivery matching his.  “Now that we’ve established we’d rather not kill each other how do we get that girl of yours to play along?”\r\n\r\nJoe’s initial reaction was to point out that it was her husband who had fired first.  Deciding that this wasn’t the time, however, he answered simply, “I’ll handle my end if you handle yours.”  His eyes shifted to Sammy as he finished, then back to her.\r\n\r\nStacy simply nodded, but her acquiescence cut the tension in the air.\r\n\r\n“I’m gonna go back over first and let my kids know what’s going on,” Joe said.  He couldn’t disguise the uncertainty in his voice.  “After that I’ll wave y’all over to join us.  That sound okay?”  \r\n\r\n“What is goin’ on?” Stacy asked.  There was a jumble of appreciation, fear, caution and hope scrambled into her question.\r\n\r\n“Well, I guess we’ve established that shooting each other isn’t the way we want to go,” Joe said.  “That’s a start.”  After hesitating only a moment he added, “We’ve got some cereal in one of them plastic containers if y’all care to join us for breakfast.\r\n\r\n“Cereal like from before?” Ella asked.  She knew she was supposed to keep her mouth shut at times like these.  The question just kind of jumped out of her before she realized she’d asked it.\r\n\r\n“Yes,” Joe answered the girl.  “A little stale, but still good.  It’s real cereal from before.  You’ll have to eat it dry, though.  We’re all outta milk.”\r\n\r\nDry’ll be okay,” Ella said, timidity suddenly overtaking her and making her voice almost inaudible.\r\n\r\nJoe smiled at her and then turned to her mom. “I guess breakfast,” he said to Stacy.  “What’s goin‘ on, I mean.  Breakfast,” he went on trying to clarify, but not feeling like he was doing a very good job of it.  How ‘bout we eat a bite while we talk about what comes next?”\r\n\r\n“Thank you, that’ll be fine,” Stacy replied. “Dry cereal will be most welcomed.  Not lucky charms, I suppose.”\r\n\r\n“Honey-nut Cheerios,” Joe answered, head turning ever so slightly while speaking. \r\n\r\n“Go on over and let your kids know we’ll be joining y’all then,” Stacy said.  Her voice had grown almost friendly, Joe noted.  In doing so he also took note of the fact that Sammy hadn’t had anything to say at all once Stacy started talking.  His eyes were for the most part downcast and reluctant to connect as the situation played itself out.  At any rate, he seemed content, or maybe resigned to the fact that his wife was going to tend to the crisis until things settled down.\r\n\r\nSammy simply stepped aside, ceding the leadership role he at first seemed to hold.  Except simply didn’t quite capture the nature of Sammy’s apparent reduction in rank among the strangers; if, in fact, that was what Joe was witnessing.  He was suddenly uneasy with the dynamics of the strangers relationships among themselves.  He found himself mistrusting everything he’d been told by them.\r\n\r\nJoe nodded to Stacy.  He then tipped his hat, feeling foolish for doing so even as his hand touched the brim.  He turned slowly back toward his kids, second guessing himself all the while his steps carried him back across the pasture.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCopyright:  Nobody can use, redistribute, reiterate, reproduce, copy, or in any other way incorporate what I have written without my express written permission or I might get really mad.  I may even sue you.  I live smack-dab in the middle of a town filled with starving lawyers.  And not just that — I have a lot of time on my hands and could really use some of your money.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis is a work in progress.  It's unedited and unplanned, with no outline or idea as to where it is going. Watch for updates to follow along as I add to it if you're interested, intrigued or simply amused.  I'm new at this and welcome comments and suggestions; the good, the bad and the ugly.  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\" asked Easeion. \n\" You will go with Xax \" said Brett.\n\" That sounds like a good idea \" said Easeion.\n\" Yeah, our power is insane \" said Xax. \" Still it feels so good to  Crayon's gone \"\n\" There is a slim chance he didn't die but I think it is a very slim one \" said Brett.\n\" Whites and Melissa you will be stealing the night after Xax and Easeion \"\n\" Sounds good \" said Melissa.\n\" You will also have access to our members, they will bring giant knapsacks \" said Brett.\n\" Sounds great \" said Xax. \" I cannot wait for this \"\n\nEveryone was dismissed.\n\nTime continued to pass, Easeion and Xax headed onto their mission while Crayon and his friends had not woken up yet.\n\n\" This will be great \" said Easeion.\n\" No Crayon for us to think about \" said Xax.\n\" Hahahaha \" said Easeion.\n\nEaseion then broke into a liquor store with Bear members, they stole lots of small vodka and whisky and left.\n\nOther Bear members were using their Darkness Bombs to knock people out and they took wallets and necklaces.\n\n\" Our crimes will go on forever \" said a Bear member.\n\" The fact that none of Crayon and his friends are even thought to be alive right now is awesome \" said another Bear member.\n\nEaseion then blasted open a store with his Lightning Edge.\n\nHe then took gum, protein bars, lottery tickets, candy bars and money.\n\nHe then blasted through another store and took the same stuff again, his friend Xax then used his Ultimate Sky Blast to break into a store and he stole money and gift cards.\n\nXax and Easeion then saw a man who they threw down to the ground, while Bear members took his belongings.\n\nThey then headed back in the van, they were met by Brett.\n\n\" Let's see what was stolen \" said Brett.\n\" Money, gift cards, necklaces, wallets, gum, protein bars, vodka, whisky, lottery tickets and gift cards \"\n\" There is a lot of this stuff too \"\n\" Yeah, we took a lot \" said Easeion.\n\" This will be great, Melissa and Whites will be out stealing tomorrow \" said Brett.\n\" You are all dismissed \"\n\nXax and Easeion headed to their room.\n\nThey went to bed, morning came and QuackQ did a broadcast.\n\n\" This cannot go on \" said Jack.\n\" I don't believe Crayon is dead \" said Bryant.\n\" Time will tell, it has only been one day \" said Amanda.\n\" Yeah, we need them back \" said Jack.\n\" Maybe Challenger knows something \" said Bryant.\n\" Who knows, we must believe in Crayon and his friends \" said Amanda.\n\" Yes, that is the Colourlandish thing to do \" said Jack. \" We must be more Colourlandish at a time like this \"\n\" If they continue to be gone, then Numerians cannot be saved from these drug dealers \" said Bryant.\n\" Crayon will destroy the meth \" said Amanda. \" We have to go to a commercial break so stay tuned \"\n\nChallenger was at the hospital, Artby woke up first.\n\n\" Glad to be awake \" said Artby. \" Did we win ? \"\n\" Yes \" said Challenger.\n\" That's great \" said Artby. \" Bakers must be thrilled to see this \"\n\" My love for baking continues to grow even more \"\n\" Bakers have wanted me to love baking like this \"\n\" Uh, okay \" said Challenger. \" I'm not sure who will wake up next \"\n\nTime continued passing and then next Colouruke and Allie woke up.\n\n\" Glad to be back \" said Colouruke.\n\" Me too \" said Allie. \" Hopefully Warbler will wake up soon \"\n\" Bakers want him awake, it will happen \" said Artby. \" We must believe in bread \"\n\" Bread ? \" asked Challenger.\n\" Yes, bread has been baked for a reason \" said Artby. \" While it is true that bakers have loved my mouth, they bake bread to make us better \"\n\" They make us better as people, their baking does that \"\n\nColourea then got up.\n\n\" I'm glad to be alive \" said Colourea.\n\" Glad to see you are here \" said Colouruke.\n\" Same here \" said Artby.\n\nWarbler and Crayon got up after that.\n\n\" We are all back \" said Crayon.\n\" The Bear must be stopped but we should keep resting more \" said Warbler.\n\" An organization like the Bear is not one to be fighting too soon \" said Challenger.\n\" I think bakers would want the same \" said Artby. \" They care so much about our mouths, that they would hate to see them hurt too much \"\n\nMore time passed, Whites and Melissa then were heading out for stealing with Bear members.\n\n\" I really admire your abilities \" said Melissa.\n\" I admire you in the same way \" said Whites.\n\" Now, let's go \" said Melissa.\n\nWhites then charged up the Snowstorm Implosion which absolutely froze lots of people, Melissa then cooled them off with the Fire Bomb which severely knocked them out.\n\nThey then took lots of wallets, Melissa then used the Super Inferno Blast to break open a door of a store.\n\nThey stole beer, smokes, money, gum, lighters, candy bars, lottery tickets and protein bars.\n\nBear members then used their Darkness Blasts and they broke inside a liquor store and they stole wine, rum and money.\n\nThey then continued beating people up and blasting them, stealing their wallets and some necklaces.\n\nThey saw a ring which they stole, they then met up with Whites and Melissa.\n\n\" We all stole so much \" said a Bear member.\n\" Time to see Brett \" said Melissa.\n\" He will be thrilled \"\n\nThey then made it back to the hideout where they saw Brett with his son Easeion.\n\n\" Glad to see you all take this stuff \" said Easeion.\n\" The lack of Crayon makes this so much easier \"\n\" I was tired of that motherfucker so this makes me happy \"\n\" We are all happy to see this \" said Brett.\n\" Now, let's see what was stolen \"\n\" Money, rum, whisky, beer, wine, necklaces, ring, wallets, lottery tickets, gum, protein bars, candy bars and smokes \"\n\" Very good, the organization has so much stuff now, so much for the Bear members to use, we will check all these lottery tickets \"\n\" It appears all those were worth 1500 dollars from all the stealing through the whole way \"\n\" Now, you are all dismissed \"\n\nWhites and Melissa then headed into their room, where Melissa then started kissing Whites and they then headed into the bed together.\n\nMeanwhile Xax and Easeion were talking.\n\n\" The Bear is unstoppable \" said Xax.\n\" We sure are \" said Easeion. \" There is no end to our success \"\n\" Crayon's gone, hahahahaha \"\n\" To think my siblings succeeded in that, it makes feel great as a brother even though I do miss them \"\n\" Same here \" said Xax. \" While we do love the fact that Crayon's gone, they are missed \"\n\" Well, tomorrow we are up to steal \" said Easeion. \" Maybe we should break into some houses \"\n\" Yeah, we might get some different things to steal, which Brett would love \" said Xax. \" While we have so much liquor, gum, candy bars, smokes and protein bars we should get some other things to steal \"\n\" Yeah, it will be great \" said Easeion.\n\nMore days passed, Easeion and Xax had broken into a few houses during that time and they had stolen headphones, USB cables, watches, wallets and money. More QuackQ broadcasts happened, they were wondering when Crayon and his friends would be ready to fight again. They also talked about how drug dealers are using meth to brainwash Numerians into stealing.\n\nEventually, Crayon and his friends checked out of the hospital.\n\n\" Glad to see this \" said Challenger.\n\" Same here \" said Colouruke.\n\" We should get bread \" said Artby. \" We have not seen bakers for too long now \"\n\" Bakers cannot deal with that too much longer, they need my purchases just like my mouth needs their baking \"\n\" It is part of the customer to baker relationship \"\n\" Yeah, we could go \" said Allie.\n\" I could use a bite to eat \" said Warbler.\n\" Sounds like a plan \" said Colourea.\n\nThey then headed to the bakery, where Artby thanked bakers again like he usually does.\n\n\" So glad to see all of you \" said Artby. \" My mouth has been treated so good by your baking \"\n\" Uh, yay \" said a baker.\n\"  Yeah, it has \" said Artby.\n\nThey then got their bread and left.\n\n\" So glad to see this bread \" said Artby. \" My love for bread is so strong, but my mouth needs me to love bread like this \"\n\" It does ? \" asked Allie.\n\" Allie, it does \" said Artby. \" Bakers understand my mouth, they use bread to understand it \"\n\" Bakers use bread to understand it ? \" asked Challenger.\n\" Challenger, they do \" said Artby.\n\" I have never heard of that \" said Colouruke.\n\" We should head back \" said Warbler.\n\" Sounds like a plan \" said Crayon.\n\nThey headed their seperate ways and said their goodbyes. \n \nCrayon, Colourea, Colouruke and Artby heard about the attacks.\n\n\" Man these guys have done so much damage \" said Crayon.\n\" Still, it is pretty remarkable that nobody died from all of that \" said Colourea.\n\" It sure is \" said Colouruke.\n\" It still is really bad money wise for all these people, it hurts bakers \" said Artby. \" We will keep training and give one of the best asskickings ever \"\n\" Yeah, I should be able to use a Stage 3 attack soon hopefully \" said Colouruke.\n\" Warbler or me should be close \" said Artby. \" Knowing Easeion or whoever they have next will have those as well \" said Crayon.\n\" Yeah, that's why we'll keep our training going \" said Colourea.\n\nThey ate their bread, more time continued to pass.\n\nCrayon kissed Colourea before they went to bed, Artby and Colouruke then went to bed as well.\n\nMorning came, they all woke up and made their breakfast which they enjoyed and they got a message from Jack.\n\nHello Crayon and friends,\n\nI am glad to see you are all back, Colourland has needed you all. Numerians are being controlled by truly evil drug dealers, we believe that Easeion may be one of them. Numerians can be saved by removing these drug dealers, we need Numerians to not take these drugs for them to truly be free.\nWe must stay Colourlandish, we cannot refrain from being Colourlandish.\n\nAll the best in these fights,\nJack\n\n\" Stay Colourlandish ? \" asked Colouruke. \" What does he mean by that ?\n\" I am not sure \" said Crayon. \" Maybe he means to love this country \"\n\" He might mean that, but right now we should just continue training \" said Colourea.\n\" Easeion is known to be very ruthless, I could see him forcing drugs on people but how does a drug make people commit crimes ? \" asked Artby. \" I don't understand it, I don't think that the bakers would even get it either \"\n\" Well let's head out and train \"\n\nThey then met up with Warbler and Allie outside.\n\n\" Good morning \" said Warbler.\n\" Hey \" said Allie.\n\" Hello all \" said Colouruke.\n\" We should resume our training \" said Artby.\n\" Yeah, let's go \" said Colourea.\n\nThey then headed to their usual training spot.\n\nCrayon and Warbler used the Bird Implosion, Colourea used the Heatwave Implosion, Colouruke used the Ocean Implosion, Artby used the Sun Implosion while Allie used the Sky Implosion.\n\n\" So amazing \" said Allie. \" I am so impressed \"\n\" Thanks Allie \" said Warbler. \" It is great to see \"\n\" It sure is \" said Colouruke.\n\" We should use our blasts \" said Crayon.\n\" Bakers would love that \" said Artby. \" Bread has made me so powerful \"\n \nCrayon and Colourea used the Ultimate Heatwave Blast, Colouruke used the Ultimate Ocean Blast, Artby used the Ultimate Sun Blast, Warbler used the Ultimate Bird Blast while Allie used the Ultimate Sky Blast.\n\n\" It feels great to blast like this \" said Warbler.\n\" It sure does \" said Allie. \" When we are together we really are a lot better \"\n\" Bakers want us together \" said Artby. \" They understand us as people so much \"\n\" We should use our bombs, I explode for the baker \"\n\nCrayon and Warbler used the Ultimate Bird Bomb, Colouruke used the Ultimate Ocean Bomb, Colourea used the Ultimate Heatwave Bomb, Artby used the Ultimate Sun Bomb while Allie used the Ultimate Sky Bomb.\n\n\" Nice explosions \" said Allie.\n\" I am proud of us \" said Crayon.\n\" I am curious about Challenger \" said Colouruke.\n\" He will likely need to fight \" said Colourea. \" If Bill and Tara can get that close \"\n\" Challenger's abilities are out of this world \" said Warbler.\n\" They sure are \" said Artby. \" We should use our strikes \"\n\nCrayon and Colourea used the Tenfold Heatwave Strike, Warbler used the Tenfold Bird Strike, Artby used the Tenfold Sun Strike, Colouruke used the Tenfold Ocean Strike while Allie used the Tenfold Sky Strike.\n\n\" Nice strikes \" said Allie.\n\" These bird techniques should do wonders \" said Warbler. \" These were the moves that Blackburnian used \"\n\" Yeah, it is awesome to see this \" said Allie.\n\" I think that I will be able to use the Deepsea Implosion soon \" said Colouruke.\n\" I could see that \" said Crayon.\n\" Bakers have loved us so much \" said Artby. \" We can defend the baker better than ever \" \n\" We should go get bread, bakers need my purchases in the same way my mouth needs their baking \"\n \nThey then headed to the bakery, where Artby then thanked all the bakers.\n\nThey got their bread and left.\n\n\" We will head our seperate ways \" said Allie.\n\" Bye \" said Warbler.\n\" Goodbye \" the other four said.\n\nWarbler and Allie were at their place.\n\n\" I love being around you \" said Allie.\n\" Same here \" said Warbler.\n\nThe two of them made out with each other.\n\nTime continued to pass, Melissa and Whites were together.\n\n\" It is our turn to steal tonight \" said Whites.\n\" We will do good \" said Melissa.\n\" How could we not \" said Whites.\n\" We are so amazing together \" said Melissa.\n\" Hahahaha \" said Whites.\n\nCrayon and his friends enjoyed their supper, later on Crayon kissed Colourea goodnight and the four friends went to bed.\n\nWhites and Melissa then left the hideout and got into the van, they had Bear members for support.\n\nThey then arrived in Colourland, Whites used the Snowstorm Blast to knock people out.\n\nWhites took wallets and a necklace. Melissa then fired off the Inferno Blast which blasted open part of a store which they went inside.\n\nMelissa took locks, nails, hammers, screwdrivers and money.\n\nMelissa then used that blast with Bear members and they then broke into a different store.\n\nThey took gum, candy bars, money, protein bars, smokes and lighters.\n\nThey then headed to this other store which they blasted open.\n\nThey stole lipstick, money, gift cards and gum.\n\nThey all met up outside and they then went back to the Bear hideout where they were greeted by Brett..\n\n\" Let's see what was stolen \" said Brett.\n\" Money, wallets, gum, lipstick, gift cards, protein bars, candy bars, smokes, lighters, screwdrivers, nails, hammers and locks \"\n\" Very good \"\n\" It was simple for us \" said Whites.\n\" Glad to see \" said Brett. \" You two are dismissed, I will be sending in Bear members tomorrow through Colourland \"\n\nWhites and Melissa were heading together to their bedroom and they went to bed.\n\nChapter 14\nThe Bear Rampages On\n\nCrayon and his friends got up and made their breakfast which they enjoyed.\n\n\" That was great \" said Colouruke.\n\" We should meet Warbler and Allie \" said Colourea.\n\" Sounds like a great idea \" said Crayon.\n\nWarbler and Allie were there outside the door.\n\n\" Hello \" said Warbler.\n\" Let's go \" said Allie.\n\nThe six of them then started walking through Colourland, a Bear member saw them and he contacted the others.\n\n\" I thought they were gone \" said a Bear member.\n\" Easeion will not be happy about this \" said a second Bear member.\n\" He will be infuriated \" said the third Bear member.\n\" Easeion will want his revenge like he usually does \" said the fourth Bear member.\n\" Easeion will succeed, he has had enough \" said the fifth Bear member.\n\" We must tell the organization, the longer Crayon's not gone the worse \" said the sixth member.\n\nBear members then caught up to Crayon and his friends.\n\n\" You are alive, what \" said the first Bear member.\n\" Bakers want us not to die, we'll never die when we fight\" said Artby.\n\" Baking has prevented death \"\n\" Baking ? \" asked the second Bear member.\n\" Hahahaha \"\n\" We are back \" said Crayon.\n\" You will not take over Colourland \" said Colouruke.\n\" Colouruke's right, bakers want the Bear to not take over \" said Artby.\n\" We are taking over Colourland, Brett is a different man than Blackin \" said the third Bear member.\n\" He is stronger than Blackin was \" said the fourth Bear member.\n\" You six will fall before Easeion \" said the fifth Bear member.\n\" Bakers will prevent that \" said Artby.\n\" Easeion will blast any baker who dares \" said the sixth Bear member.\n\" Hahahahaha \"\n\" Now, prepare to fall \" said the first Bear member.\n\" Bring it on \" said Allie.\n\" Easeion will enjoy your deaths \" said the second Bear member.\n\" He will not enjoy them, they will not happen \" said Artby.\n\" Now let's fight \" said the third Bear member.\n\nTwo Bear members charged their Darkness Blasts while Artby used the Ultimate Sun Blast and Allie used the Ultimate Sky Bomb. The attacks collided with each other and took damage. They all got up, Crayon punched one of the Bear members.\n\nTwo Bear members grabbed Colouruke and slammed him to the ground, Colourea launched the Heatwave Implosion which did massive damage and one of them was defeated.\n\n\" We will still persist \" said a Bear member.\n\" Baking has done so much here, I love bakers so much now \" said Artby.\n\nTwo Bear members used their Darkness Blasts, Colouruke used his Ultimate Ocean Bomb to counter the attack. One Bear member was defeated after Colouruke's attack hit.\n\nThree of the Bear members went to punch Warbler but Allie then used her Tenfold Sky Strike to knock them down which defeated another Bear member.\n\nTwo of the Bear members then grabbed Crayon by each arm, there was a struggle but Artby knocked one of them off.\n\n\" Yeah, that's what I'm talking about \" said Artby.\n\" The bakers do so much for me, I always fight like this \"\n\nA Bear member and Warbler punched each other, Warbler then kicked him. Those attacks were enough to defeat him.\n\nThe last two members then charged their Triple Darkness Strikes while Warbler used his Ultimate Bird Blast to counter which won the fight.\n\n\" Glad to see \" said Allie.\n\" Warbler has gotten so strong \"\n\" Thanks \" said Warbler.\n\" Bear members are no match when we eat bread \" said Artby. \" Bread has made my asskickings better \"\n\" Bakers have strengthened the heroism within me with their baking \"\n\" Heroism within you ? \" asked Colourea.\n\" Flour has done that \" said Artby. \" The bakers understand me as a customer \"\n\" They understand you ? \" asked Allie.\n\" Yes, they use flour to do that \" said Artby. \" They know of how heroic I can get \"\n\" Artby, I really have never heard of anything like that to be honest \" said Colouruke.\n\" Colouruke you have gotten more heroic as well, the awakening within Colouruke's fists is something special \" said Artby.\n\" Bakers love his fists \"\n\" Bakers love his fists ? \" asked Colourea.\n\" Apparently so \" said Crayon.\n\" Crayon, they love yours as well \" said Artby. \" They are so kind that way \"\n\" Yes, there is a special Colouruke love within the bakers \"\n\" Within bakers ? \" asked Warbler. \" I have never heard of anything like that ever \"\n\" Same here \" said Colourea.\n\" We should go get bread \" said Artby.\n\nWord then reached the Bear hideout about Crayon and his friends being alive.\n\n\" What \" said Easeion. \" I cannot believe this, this infuriates me \"\n\" That motherfucker Crayon should have died \"\n\" Now it is up to me to do that, the organization needs his death so much \"\n\" Yes, we need him out of the way \" said Whites.\n\" My son Easeion will succeed, they got very lucky \" said Brett.\n\" I will send Melissa to fight with him \"\n\" Sounds like a great idea \" said Whites. \" Melissa has gotten so much stronger \"\n\" Her training has gone great \"\n\" The Bear is still taking over Colourland \" said Brett.\n\" Our organization is too top notch for this to not succeed \"\n\" Hahahahaha \"\n\" Colourland will belong to us \" said Easeion. \" I am too great a brother to not succeed here \"\n \" The Smithsons are a great family, I am always proud to be a Smithson \"\n\" I will get my revenge for Bill and Tara, there is no stopping me \"\n\" Glad to see \" said Brett.\n\" Hahahahaha \" they all said.\n\nCrayon and his friends ran into Jack and Bryant at the bakery.\n\n\" Glad to see all of you are back \" said Jack.\n\" It is great for Colourland \" said Bryant.\n\" Yes, we will never die to the Bear \" said Artby.\n\" Good, these drug dealers are involved with the organization \" said Jack.\n\" Drug dealers ? \" asked Warbler.\n\" Yes, we know of these drugs influencing Numerians to commit crimes \" said Bryant.\n\" Drugs making people commit a crime ? \" asked Crayon. \" The Smithsons are very ruthless but how could they do that \"\n\" Combining drugs, they are probably using some other techniques as well \" said Jack.\n\" What other techniques could they be ? \" asked Colouruke.\n\" Maybe the darkness energy is combined with these drugs \" said Bryant.\n\" Yeah, I could totally see that \" said Jack. \" Knowing the Smithsons they would do whatever it takes to harm people \"\n\" We will continue training hard \" said Colourea.\n\" Good \" said Bryant. \" Numerians cannot be committing crimes, these drugs must be eliminated and the dealers cannot be out on the streets \"\n\" Colourland is too good for that \"\n\" It sure is \" said Jack. \n\" What about people in Colourland ? \" asked Allie.\n\" Numerians are the target that the drug dealers have chosen, Crayon can save Numerians \" said Jack.\n\" We do not know the reason for this \" said Bryant.\n\" Hopefully the organization will be revealed more \" said Colouruke.\n\" We do not know if the Bear are dealing these drugs but we believe it is them or another gang involved in this \" said Jack.\n\" We will continue to stand strong, to stay Colourlandish \" said Bryant. \" We have to head back to the main QuackQ building so see you all later \"\n\nArtby then thanked the bakers and began to speak.\n\n\" I know of the Colouruke love bakers have \" said Artby. \" I am glad to see it \"\n\" Colouruke love ? \" asked a baker confused.\n\" Yes, it is a good thing to do \" said Artby.\n\" Bakers understand Colouruke, bread is their way of showing that \"\n\" Bakers understand me ? \" asked Colouruke.\n\" I am a bit confused here \" said Allie.\n\" Allie, bakers care for Colouruke a lot \" said Artby. \" I am proud of bakers for that, they understand his mouth \"\n\nThey got their bread and left.\n\n\" This looks great \" said Colourea.\n\" Bakers really care about my mouth so much, I'm glad they care about Colouruke's mouth like this \" said Artby. \n\" Um okay \" said Crayon.\n\" Yes \" said Artby. \" Bakers love his mouth with their baking, they truly bake for his mouth \"\n\" Well, I am eating the bread \" said Colouruke.\n\" Bakers understand Colouruke, baking helps to understand him \" said Artby.\n\" Understand him how ? \" asked Allie.\n\" His mouth, they understand him through his mouth\" said Artby.\n\" I have never heard of anything like that \" said Warbler.\n\" We should get going \" said Allie.\n\" Yeah, that sounds like a good idea to me \" said Warbler.\n\nThey said their goodbyes, Warbler and Allie headed to their place.\n\nIn the Bear hideout, Easeion and Xax were training their attacks.\n\nXax's Bird Implosion and Easeion's Disaster Implosion hit super hard.\n\n\" This is great \" said Easeion.\n\" It sure is \" said Xax.\n\" Crayon will be very sad when he is hit with this attack \" said Easeion. \" There is a satisfaction that I get as a Smithson when that happens \"\n\" I know I am getting revenge for them, Crayon being eliminated is what I need for the family \"\n\" Yes, your father Brett wants that \" said Xax.\n\" He will take over Colourland \" said Easeion.\n\" It will be glorious \" said Xax.\n\" Hahahaha \" said Easeion. \" This revenge will be so good \"\n\" The whole organization wants this revenge \" said Xax.\n\" We are stealing tonight \" said Easeion. \" If we could find the place that Crayon is living at \"\n\" Yeah, that would be awesome \" said Xax.\n\nXax and Easeion were joined by Brett.\n\n\" You two will be going out for stealing as you probably know \" said Brett.\n\" We need to find Crayon's place \" said Easeion.\n\" Yes \" said Brett.\n\" We are going to have to find where he lives \" said Xax.\n\" We may need all of us to go \" said Brett. \" We will need a huge search through Colourland \"\n\" Yes, we definitely need that \" said Xax.\n\" Robbing Crayon would be great \" said Easeion. \" If we can take it all \"\n\" Melissa and Whites will join us \" said Xax. \" It will go great for the Bear \"\n\" Crayon will beg for mercy but I won't listen \" said Easeion. \" Hahahahaha \"\n\nTime continued passing, Crayon and his friends were eating their supper which they enjoyed.\n\n\" That was great \" said Colouruke.\n\" Bakers are happy to see it \" said Artby.\n\" Well, we do go there pretty often \" said Crayon.\n\" After the way they understand my mouth, how could I not purchase from them \" said Artby.\n\" It is good for bakers to have this special understanding of my mouth \"\n\" Well, they make great bread \" said Colourea.\n\" Yeah \" said Artby. \" My love for the baker is so strong \"\n\" I wonder about QuackQ \" said Colouruke.\n\" Wonder what about them ? \" asked Colourea.\n\" The idea that Numerians need saving and that there will be no crimes from Numerians when we stop these drugs \" said Colouruke. \" There is not much evidence now about the Bear dealing these drugs \"\n\" We must focus on Easeion \" said Crayon. \" I do not know about what these drugs are but for now let's focus on him \"\n\nWarbler and Allie were kissing each other.\n\n\" I love you so much \" said Allie.\n\" Same here \" said Warbler.\n\" I am glad to be with you \" said Allie.\n\nAllie and Warbler then headed to into the bed together where they were kissing each other again and they went to bed.\n\nCrayon and his friends went to bed, the Bear members were meeting.\n\n\" You are all here for a reason \" said Brett.\n\" The reason is simple \"\n\" We need to find where Crayon and his friends live \"\n\" Robbing them would be great \" said Whites.\n\" I'm not sure if all six live together \" said Melissa.\n\" We will find that out \" said Whites.\n\" Yeah, we will \" said Xax. \" The four of us are so powerful \"\n\" This will be brilliant \" said Easeion. \" Crayon is my number one enemy and we must all work together in this \" \n\" His downfall will be simple \" said Whites.\n\" We will rob any friends of his \"\n\" If we see people, knock them out and take their wallets \" said Brett.\n\" Anyone who dares to defend them must be stopped \"\n\" Exactly, I'll never tolerate any of that \" said Easeion.\n\" I will make Crayon have nothing \"\n\" I'll take it all, that will be what Bill and Tara would have wanted \"\n\" They sure would \" said Melissa. \" We are too much for those fools \"\n\" Now you four will be assisted by a lot of our members \" said Brett. \" You will be each taking a van there \"\n\" You will need it, I have instructed them to make sure that this will go the way it needs to be \"\n\" Now, it is time to go \"\n\nThey got in their seperate vans, the vans then headed towards Colourland, they then arrived. \n\n\" Now, we strike \" said Whites. \" Crayon's life will be completely ruined \"\n\" Let's mess with him \" said Easeion. \" I am going to start writing around the place \"\n\nEaseion wrote the Bear logo on a building and wrote \" Crayon, you will fall to us \"\n\nThey then broke into a house and demanded the whereabouts of Crayon. Bear members absolutely surrounded a man.\n\n\" Where does Crayon live ? \" asked Easeion.\n\" I think he lives on Colour Street \" said the man.\n \" You had better be right \" said Xax.\n\" His possessions will be ours \" said Whites.\n\nBear members then continued on Colour Street and they kept searching for Crayon and his friends but could not find him but they found a house which they ringed the doorbell.\n\n\" I wonder who that is ? \" asked Warbler.\n\" I'm not sure \" said Allie.\n\" I hope it isn't the Bear \" said Warbler.\n\" They probably have the wrong address \" said Allie.\n\" We have to be careful \" said Warbler. \n\nBear members then started kicking and punching the door while others were kicking the window.\n\n\" What the fuck \" said Allie.\n\" I think it is them \" said Warbler.\n\" I'm not sure how many Bear members are there, but it must be a lot \" \n\" Open up in there \" said Easeion. \" We have a feeling about this place \"\n\" We need to know about Crayon \" said Xax.\n\" We can do this the easy way or the hard way \" said Melissa.\n\" So which is it ? \" asked Whites. \" If I were you I would be opening up in there, Warbler \"\n\" Warbler, you better open this door \" said Easeion. \" Crayon is the man we want dead mostly \"\n\" We need his address \" said Melissa.\n\" We saw your mail, it says Warbler on it \" said Xax.\n\" We are giving you a minute \" said Easeion.\n\nChapter 15\nWarbler's House\n\n\" We will not tolerate this much longer \" said Melissa.\n\" I don't recognize two of the voices but I know two of them \" said Warbler.\n\" Which voices ? \" asked Allie.\n\" Whites and Easeion \" said Warbler. \" This is really bad \"\n\" The Bear must be serious about Crayon now \" said Allie.\n\"  Now, this is it \" said Easeion.\n\" Now you must be downstairs \"\n\nWarbler and Allie decided to let the four of them inside.\n\n\" Good decision \" said Xax. \" I am Xax, this is Melissa here if you wondering who the two newer elite Bear members are \"\n\" So, what brings the Bear here ? \" asked Allie.\n\" The location of Crayon's place \" said Whites.\n\" We must find the location of where he is \" said Xax.\n\" Yes, it is mandatory \" said Easeion.\n\" We think that you two know where he is \"\n\" I have never seen the address \" said Allie.\n\" Allie, you know \" said Easeion. \" I get the sense that you are afraid of being a bad friend to Crayon \"\n\" I have that sense as well \" said Xax.\n\" Well we must not think that way \" said Melissa.\n\" The Smithsons are very serious about this \"\n\" We will search your place just to be sure \" said Whites.\n\nThe four of them were searching and then Easeion found a phone.\n\n\" Time to send some texts \" said Easeion.\n\" Hahahahaha \"\n\" We could just fuck with them by sending all sorts of messages \" said Xax.\n\" Yeah, that would be awesome \" said Easeion. \" We mostly need to terrify Crayon \"\n\" I would love that \"\n\nEaseion then texted Crayon in the middle of the night using Warbler's phone. He messaged Colouruke, Colourea and Artby as well.\n\nHe then took the phone with him and gave it to Xax.\n\nXax then sent texts with the phone to the same people after\n\n\" Hahahahaha \" said Xax and Easeion. \" Man this will be so great \"\n\nXax and Easeion turned the phone off, Melissa and Whites joined them.\n\n\" So we have not found anything too out of the ordinary \" said Easeion. \" We have his number, think of the possibilities \"\n\" Crayon's place will be found \" said Melissa.\n\" It sure will \" said Whites.\n\" You two will notify us, if we see you again \" said Xax.\n\" We will find his place, we need the address \" said Whites.\n\nWhites then sent the address of Warbler and Allie to Brett, Xax told him Warbler's number and the numbers of Crayon and his friends.\n\nBear members greeted them outside with wallets they had stolen, they all headed back to the hideout.\n\n\" I know that you got the phone numbers of them \" said Brett. \" Now, we will make some very fucked up calls and some other ones to confuse them \"\n\" I will enjoy calling Crayon in the middle of the night for no reason \" said Easeion.\n\" Our members can call and text him like this, it will be glorious \" said Brett.\n\" Xax and Easeion used Warbler's phone to make texts \" said Whites.\n\" We asked for Crayon's address and we messaged about other things as well \" said Xax.\n\" Good \" said Brett. \" I see that wallets were stolen as well \"\n\" You are all dismissed \"\n\nThey then headed to their rooms, they went to bed.\n\nCrayon and his friends woke up and they saw some texts from Warbler's number that they were not expecting.\n\n\" Why is he asking all of us about our address, I wonder \" said Colouruke.\n\" We meet him outside here all the time \" said Crayon.\n\" There is this other message \" said Colourea.\n\" It says this \"\n\" Crayon, your address means so much to me \"\n\" The number means so much \"\n\n\" I don't really understand what that part is about, I understand wanting to meet us here \" said Artby.\n\" Bakers will understand \"\n\" How so ? \" asked Colouruke.\n\" They are very wise \" said Artby. \" They will understand Warbler's texts \"\n\" They understand the texts of the customer \"\n\" We should make breakfast \" said Colourea.\n\nMeanwhile Warbler and Allie were awake, Warbler saw that he sent these texts.\n\n\" What \" said Warbler. \" The Bear must have sent these \"\n\" I don't understand them, why wouldn't they take the phone \"\n\" Maybe they took a note of my number \"\n\" I hope they do not \" said Allie. \" There were four of them, they were not the regulars \"\n\" Fighting Easeion by himself is hard enough \"\n\" Well, that is true \" said Warbler. \" They didn't damage anything, hurt us or rob us so we got lucky on that \"\n\" We may need to change our numbers \" Allie.\n\" I hope that we do not, we will talk to Crayon and his friends \" said Warbler.\n\nWarbler and Allie ate, then they met up with Crayon and his friends.\n\n\" Hey \" said Warbler.\n\" Good morning \" said Allie.\n\"  Warbler, we got these messages \" said Crayon.\n\" The Bear were at our place \" said Warbler. \" Luckily we were able to prevent them from finding your place \"\n\" That is good \" said Colouruke.\n\" Easeion was there \" said Warbler.\n\" He was with Melissa, Xax and Whites \" said Allie.\n\" So there are four of their main members left \" said Artby.\n\" It appears that way \" said Crayon.\n\" I don't know the strengths of Xax or Melissa but Whites is their strongest most likely \" said Colourea.\n\" Well we should train \" said Allie.\n\" Yeah, we need that \" said Colouruke. \" The power of those four is unknown \"\n\nThe six of them headed to their usual training spot.\n\n\" Let's train \" said Allie.\n\" Yeah, sounds like a plan to me \" said Artby. \" Bakers want us training \"\n\nCrayon and Warbler used their Bird Implosions, Colourea used the Heatwave Implosion, Colouruke used the Ocean Implosion, Artby used the Sun Implosion and Allie used the Sky Implosion.\n\n\" Very nice \" said Crayon.\n\" Yeah, this power is what we need \" said Colouruke.\n\" Let's use our blasts \" said Colourea.\n\nCrayon and Colourea used their Ultimate Heatwave Blasts, Colouruke used the Ultimate Ocean Blast, Warbler used the Ultimate Bird Blast, Artby used the Ultimate Sun Blast and Allie used the Ultimate Sky Blast.\n\n\" Wow \" said Warbler. \" Glad to see this \"\n\" Baking has done wonders for us, I blast for the baker \" said Artby. \" I have been blasting real good now, just what the baker wants \"\n\" Let's use our bombs \" said Allie.\n\nCrayon and Warbler used their Ultimate Bird Bombs, Colourea used the Ultimate Heatwave Bomb, Colouruke used the Ultimate Ocean Bomb, Artby used the Ultimate Sun Bomb and Allie used the Ultimate Sky Bomb.\n\n\" Nice explosions \" said Colouruke.\n\" Yes \" said Crayon.\n\" I'm exploding for bread \" said Artby. \" My mouth has been understood more than ever \"\n\" How so ? \" asked Colourea.\n\" The baking that has been done, my mouth is being understood more \" said Artby. \" Bakers are getting my mouth more and more, it's awesome \"\n\" My love for the baker is so good now \"\n\" Let's use our strikes \" said Warbler.\n\" Bakers want that, I love bakers so much now \"\n\nCrayon and Colourea used their Tenfold Heatwave Strikes, Colouruke used the Tenfold Ocean Strike, Artby used the Tenfold Sun Strike, Warbler used the Tenfold Bird Strike and Allie used the Tenfold Sky Strike.\n\n\" Glad to see this \" said Allie.\n\" Yeah, it is great \" said Warbler. \" Cannot wait to use those Bird techniques against Easeion \"\n\" Easeion will be defeated, he has not cared about the baker \" said Artby.\n\" Cared about the baker ? \" asked Colourea.\n\" Easeion has not treated the bakers well, we have treated them well \" said Artby. \" They have treated my mouth well with their baking \"\n\" Bakers have a huge love for my mouth \"\n\" Their baking is in love with my mouth \"\n\" Dude, what the fuck \" said Crayon.\n\" Their baking is in love with my mouth, bread has fallen in love with my mouth \" said Artby.\n\" This mouth love is so strong from baking \"\n\" I am so lost \" said Colouruke.\n\" Colouruke, bread has understood the mouth \" said Artby.\n\" Baking and my mouth go together so perfectly \"\n\" Bread does taste good, but falling in love with your mouth ? \" asked Warbler.\n\" Warbler, baking has fallen in love with my mouth \" said Artby.\n\" I am confused here \" said Warbler.\n\" We should go to the bakery \" said Artby.\n\" Yeah, we could get some bread \" said Allie.\n\nMeanwhile in the Bear hideout, Xax then called the number for Warbler.\n\n\" I'm getting this call \" said Warbler.\n\" The Bear have your number, unknown numbers probably shouldn't be answered right now \" said Colouruke.\n\" Yeah, that would make sense \" said Allie.\n\nXax was not happy to see that the call was not received but he left a message.\n\nEaseion did the same a minute later, and he left another message.\n\nOn the way there, Crayon and his friends saw Challenger.\n\n\" Hey all \" said Challenger.\n\" Good late morning \" said Crayon.\n\" Yeah, I did some training \" said Challenger.\n\" How did it go ? \" asked Colourea.\n\" It went really well \" said Challenger.\n\" Glad to see \" said Colouruke.\n\" Yeah I used the Disaster Implosion with tons of power \" said Challenger. \" Easeion is your next person to fight \"\n\" Melissa, Xax and Whites are also there \" said Artby.\n\" He will probably have either Xax or Melissa join him most likely \" said Challenger.\n\" Yeah, we should be ready \" said Warbler. \" My Bird Implosion is a very strong move \"\n\" I am glad to see all of that \" said Challenger.\n\" Let's head to the bakery \" said Colouruke.\n\nThey then all were at the bakery, Artby thanked all the bakers.\n\n\" My mouth is in love with your baking \" said Artby.\n\" In love ? \" asked a baker confused.\n\" Yes \" said Artby. \" My mouth knows how it has been treated by your baking, my mouth loves how baking has treated it \"\n\nThey got their bread and left.\n\n\" So glad to be seeing bakers \" said Artby.\n\" This bread looks great \" said Allie.\n\" It sure does \" said Warbler. \" I have two messages \"\n\" From who ? \" asked Allie.\n\" These two unknown numbers \" said Warbler.\n\" Bear members possibly \" said Colouruke. \" Calling these numbers would probably not be a good idea \"\n\" Yeah, I won't call these numbers \" said Warbler.\n\" We should head our seperate ways \" said Allie.\n\" Yeah, sounds like a plan to me \" said Warbler.\n\" Bye \" the others said to Warbler and Allie.\n\nMeanwhile in the Bear hideout, Whites texted the number of Warbler while Melissa called him.\n\n\" Another unknown number \" said Warbler.\n\" Again \" said Allie. \" These Bear members will not stop will they \"\n\nWarbler did not answer, Melissa left a message.\n\nWarbler then listened the first message.\n\n\" Warbler, we want the elimination of Crayon mostly.\n\" We know you love Allie, if you refrain from hanging out with Crayon and refrain from fighting a deal can be made \"\n\nThe message from Easeion ended, Warbler listened to message from Xax.\n\n\" Warbler, there is a deal that our organization has decided to make \"\n\" We do not want your death, Crayon's death is what we want \"\n\" You must stop hanging out with Crayon immediately, if you want to survive \"\n\" Allie will not die as well, I strongly encourage you to accept this deal \"\n\nThe message from Xax ended, Warbler read the text from Whites.\n\n\" This is me Whites \"\n\" I assume that you have heard the messages from Xax and Easeion, you know what to do \"\n\" The Bear will take over, it won't be like last time \"\n\nThe text from Whites ended, Warbler listened to the message from Melissa.\n\n\" Warbler, the deal we have is what you need \"\n\" Would you rather be with Allie, your love of your life or would you die fighting with Crayon \"\n\" You will have to make this decision before Crayon's friends are challenged to battle \"\n\" Warbler, think about your life and understand what you want to do with it \"\n\nWarbler then started to talk to Allie about the messages.\n\n\" They want us to not talk with Crayon anymore \" said Warbler. \" They are willing to spare us \"\n\" We can't do that to them \" said Allie.\n\" I won't do that to them \" said Warbler.\n\" They will probably come here tonight again \"\n\" We may need to talk to Crayon about this \" said Allie.\n\" Yeah, that would be a good idea \" said Warbler.\n\nBrett was with Easeion and Melissa.\n\n\" You two will be fighting against those fighters \" said Brett.\n\" Easeion my son, I know you will do great \"\n\" I make sure that Crayon will die, I have had enough of him \" said Easeion.\n\" His death is one that the organization will truly cherish \"\n\" Yes, we will enjoy it \" said Brett.\n\" I am going to crush them \" said Melissa.\n\" Down with Crayon \" said Easeion. \" The citizens of Colourland will be truly down crying sadder than ever \"\n\" Hahahahahahaha \"\n\" You two will fight tomorrow \" said Brett.\n\" It will be wonderful \" said Melissa. \" I will spend a lot of time with Whites \"\n\" Good idea \" said Brett. \" Whites is a great man \"\n\" You are both dismissed \"\n\nThey both headed to their respective areas in the hideout, Whites and Melissa were talking.\n\n\" You will do great \" said Whites.\n \" Thanks \" said Melissa.\n\" You are fighting with Easeion, it will be simple \" said Whites. \" He will get the revenge this time \"\n\" It will be delightful \" said Melissa.\n\" We will make Colourland into a mega headquarters and the people will be left with nothing, they will be completely fucked \" said Whites.\n\" Haha \" said Melissa.\n\" It will be amazing \" said Whites.\n \" The Bear is the best \" said Melissa.\n\nWhites and Melissa embraced, time continued to pass, Warbler told Crayon about the messages he received.\n\n\" They want us to not hang out with each other \" said Crayon.\n\" We cannot let the Bear do this \" said Warbler.\n\" We will fight \" said Crayon.\n\" For sure \" said Warbler.\n\" We are ready for them \" said Crayon.\n\nCrayon told Colouruke, Colourea and Artby about what happened.\n\n\" They are trying to turn us against each other \" said Colouruke.\n\" Bakers would never put up with that \" said Artby.\n\" Bakers bake so much tasty bread for that to happen \"\n\" As customers of bakeries, we must stand strong for our fellow customers \"\n\" Our fellow customers ? \" asked Colourea.\n\" Yes, we cannot let such great customers not support each other, it is a disaster for the baker \" said Artby. \" Bakers want us to hang out together, they bake for that \"\n\" Well, we will make sure that we keep hanging out with each other but I'm not sure bakers have to do with this \" said Colourea.\n\" Bakers are so great, they do so much for our mouths \" said Artby.\n\" Our mouths mean so much, I'll risk death for them \"\n\" Risking death is worth it \"\n\" Death ? \" asked Crayon.\n\" Our mouths mean so much, the bakers have truly loved them \" said Artby. \" Their baked goods is the special baker to mouth romance that I now know \"\n\" Romance ? \" asked Colouruke.\n\" Yes, the bakers are truly in love with my mouth \" said Artby. \"\n\" Their baked goods are the way, this special baker to customer love \"\n\" Love ? \" asked Colourea. \" I think that is a bit much \"\n\" Colourea, bakers are in love with my mouth \" said Artby. \" Bakers have loved it with bread, bread keeps the love going \"\n\" The love going ? \" asked Crayon.\n\" Yes, it does \" said Artby.\n\nTime continued to pass, Crayon and his friends went to sleep.\n\nIt was around 6 am. Brett was with Easeion, Melissa, Xax and Whites.\n\n\" Now, you two will be heading off to end Crayon \" said Brett.\n\" I will make sure that the name Crayon is forgotten forever and never said anymore \" said Easeion. \" I know he will be finished \"\n\" This should not be difficult \" said Melissa. \" If he can tie Bill and Tara, both of us are stronger than Bill so we should be good \"\n\" Yes \" said Whites. \" Melissa has became a very powerful woman and we know what will happen when she fights \"\n\" Easeion's power is ridiculous, he knows two Stage 3 implosions \" said Xax. \" Crayon has no chance, his death is a death that is guaranteed \"\n\" We need that death for the sake of our organization, we cannot have him around \" said Whites.\n\" I hope that Warbler and Allie agree to our deal \" said Xax.\n\" I think they will do so \" said Melissa. \" The deal guarantees no dying so they will do it \"\n\" Whether they do or not, we will take over Colourland \" said Brett.\n\" It will be great seeing my father rule Colourland and seeing everything belong to us \" said Easeion.\n\" It will \" said Melissa.\n\" Hahahahahaha \" they all said together.\n\" The Bear \" they all said together.\n\" Now it is time to head to Colourland \" said Brett.\n\" Crayon's end must come \" said Xax.\n\" We cannot keep him alive, his death is what the organization needs \" said Whites.\n\nEaseion and Melissa left together in the van while Xax and Whites joined them on the way there, Brett waved goodbye.\n\n\" This is going to be great \" said Easeion.\n\" Our powers will end Crayon \" said Melissa.\n\" You two will win \" said Whites.\n\nSeventy minutes passed, QuackQ were doing a broadcast early in the morning.\n\n\" This is the time of Crayon \" said Jack.\n\" Easeion will use drugs most likely, Crayon and his friends will stop him \" said Bryant.\n\" Defeating him will reveal a lot \" said Amanda.\n\" Numerians are committing crimes due to these drugs, Crayon can end it \" said Jack.\n\" He must for the sake of Colourland \" said Bryant.\n\" The hall monitors have to watch out for Bear members \" said Amanda.\n\" Where there is a gang, drugs are there \" said Jack.\n\" Numerians will be saved by Crayon and his friends, they know what to do \" said Bryant.\n\" The Bear will fall, we are too Colourlandish to allow this \" said Amanda.\n\" We have to go to a commercial break so stay tuned, remember to stay Colourlandish \" said Jack.\n\nCrayon and his friends got up and then they made their breakfast, they ate and after that Warbler then called Crayon.\n\n\" Good morning \" said Warbler.\n\" We ate \" said Crayon.\n\" Good, us too \" said Warbler.\n\" We will meet you outside \"\n\" Sounds good to me \" said Crayon. \" The Bear may send people in \"\n\" We will fight hard \" said Warbler.\n\" For sure, see you very soon \" said Crayon.\n\n Crayon, Colourea, Colouruke and Artby met Warbler and Allie outside.\n\n\" Good morning \" said Allie.\n\" Hey \" said Colouruke.\n\" We have to be ready for the Bear \" said Colourea.\n\" I am ready, bakers want us ready \" said Artby. \" Baking helps with that \"\n\" Baking ? \" asked Crayon.\n\" Bread makes us more ready when we fight \" said Artby. \" Bakers are a part of our victories \"\n\" Baking creates victories \"\n\" Well we should head out \" said Colouruke.\n\nThey then headed out, Melissa and Easeion then caught up to them.\n\nChapter 16\nFighting Easeion and Melissa\n\n\" I have been waiting for this so long now \" said Easeion. \" Crayon, your end is here \"\n\" He will not die \" said Artby.\n\" Yeah, I wouldn't believe that \" said Melissa.\n\" Bakers have baked bread that prevents him from dying \" said Artby. \" Crayon's not dying \"\n\" Hahahahaha \" said Easeion. \" He will die, the Bear wants that \"\n\" It is not just me \"\n\" Regardless of what the organization wants, I'll fight on \" said Crayon.\n\" You will die \" yelled Easeion. \" I will enjoy seeing the people of Colourland, feeling so sad \"\n\" My father will take over \"\n\" Your father ? \" asked Colouruke.\n\" Brett is my father \" said Easeion. \" He will leave lots to me \"\n\" I will be given a lot as well \" said Melissa.\n\" Whites has sent me to fight \"\n\" Whites ? \" asked Colourea.\n\" Him and Xax are said to be stronger so there is no hope, none at all \" said Easeion.\n\" There will be no hope, everyone will be crying with tears through their face \"\n\" Don't be so sure \" said Artby. \" Bakers give people hope \"\n\" I will destroy that hope, my father is taking over hahahaha \" said Easeion.\n\" Whites will be impressed \" said Melissa.\n\" He sure will \" said Easeion. \" We have a question for Warbler and Allie \"\n\" I know what you are planning \" said Colouruke.\n\" How could you know that \" said Melissa.\n\" I hope Warbler and Allie know the deal they were offered \"\n\" We cannot do that \" said Allie.\n\" I want you two to stay a couple, the Bear is more upset with Crayon, Colourea, Colouruke and Artby \" said Easeion. \" Now, there will be no kissing and hugging between you two \"\n\" Easeion, you will not succeed \" said Warbler.\n\" Warbler, you are going down in flames \" said Easeion.\n\" We will end it all \" said Melissa.\n\" Time to fight \" said Allie.\n\" Allie, it is a shame that you refused to do our great deal \" said Easeion. \" You will not be alive and it will be your fault \"\n\" Let's go \" said Crayon.\n\" Bakers want us fighting, they want me punching and kicking for their bread \" said Artby.\n\nThe fight began, Easeion then charged up his Ultimate Disaster Blast while Colouruke used his Ocean Implosion to counter. They both took damage, Melissa then used the Ultimate Volcano Blast while Colourea used the Ultimate Heatwave Bomb.\n\nThe attacks collided with each other, Easeion then rushed for Warbler with a punch, Allie used her leg to attempt to kick him but he knocked her down to the ground.\n\nEaseion then used his Super Thunderstorm technique while Melissa used the Tenfold Volcano Strike which directly hit Warbler, the thunderstorm technique damaged everyone.\n\n\" We are clobbering you all \" said Melissa.\n\" We have so much more \" said Artby.\n\nArtby charged up the Sun Implosion while Melissa used the Ultimate Volcano Blast, the attacks collided and they both took damage.\n\n\" Bakers love me for this \" said Artby. \" They use bread to show that \"\n\" Bread ? \" asked Easeion. \" Hahahahaha \"\n\" Artby, you have lost it a bit \"\n\" No, bakers prevent that \" said Artby.\n\" You really are something else \" said Easeion. \" We are going to win \"\n\" Let's continue the fight \" said Colouruke.\n\nEaseion used his Ultimate Lightning Edge while Colourea used the Heatwave Implosion to counter, both of them took damage.\n\nCrayon then started charging up the Ultimate Bird Bomb, Warbler used his Ultimate Bird Blast. The attacks aimed towards Melissa who used her Bear Implosion to fight back and all three took damage.\n\nAllie then used the Sky Implosion while Easeion used the Ultimate Disaster Bomb, they were both hit.\n\nMelissa used the Volcano Implosion while Easeion used the Bear Implosion, the implosions had so much power. Artby used the Sun Implosion and Warbler used the Bird Implosion, the four implosions hit their targets. \n\n\" Hahahahaha \" said Easeion. \" We are taking this place for ourselves \"\n\" Yes, we will continue \" said Melissa. \" Whites will be impressed \"\n\nMelissa then charged her Ultimate Bear Bomb and fired it towards Colouruke, Colouruke used his Ocean Implosion to counter. They both were hit, but Melissa got up first.\n\nMelissa then kicked Allie while Easeion punched Warbler and knocked them to the ground.\n\nEaseion then started charging up his Ultimate Lightning Edge and he rushed towards Artby, Artby then used his Tenfold Sun Strike to counter.\n\n\" That was for baking \" said Artby. \" Baking does so much, it prevents the death of Crayon \"\n\" I'll kill him \" said Easeion. \" He is the hope that must be destroyed for the organization \"\n\" The organization ? \" asked Allie.\n\" Yes, the Bear \" said Easeion. \" The Bear have wanted his death \"\n\" I remember last time you wanted Colourea dead instead of Crayon \" said Colouruke.\n\" Yes \" said Easeion. \" We wanted him single, but we need all of you gone since you won't stay out the way or join \"\n\" We cannot have anymore of that \" said Melissa.\n\" Let's continue to fight \" said Crayon.\n\nCrayon then rushed Easeion with the Tenfold Bird Strike while Easeion used the Tenfold Disaster Strike to counter the attack, they both took damage.\n\nWarbler then charged the Bird Implosion while Melissa used the Ultimate Volcano Bomb, they both took damage.\n\nWarbler was slightly struggling but he got up and he went for Easeion with his Tenfold Bird Strike but Easeion rushed towards Colouruke and he grabbed Colouruke.\n\nAllie then tried to get Easeion off but all three of them were hit by Warbler's attack.\n\nEaseion got up first and he used the Bear Implosion while Melissa used her Ultimate Bear Bomb. Colourea used the Heatwave Implosion while Allie used the Ultimate Sky Blast, the attacks collided and all four took damage.\n\nAllie was slightly struggling but she got up.\n\n\" So Allie and Warbler it seems things are not looking good for you \" said Easeion. \" Our deal was a good move, there will be no kissing between you two anymore \"\n\" That is true \" said Melissa. \" Whites knows what I can do in the same way Xax knows what Easeion can do \"\n\" We will still fight \" said Warbler.\n\" You will crumble into dust \" said Easeion. \" Now, let's keep fighting \"\n\nEaseion then charged the Ultimate Bear Bomb while Colourea used the Ultimate Heatwave Bomb, they both took damage. Easeion got up, he fired off the Ultimate Bear Blast while Colouruke used the Ultimate Ocean Bomb. They both took damage, Colouruke was slightly struggling.\n\nMelissa then fired off the Volcano Implosion while Artby used the Sun Implosion, they both took damage. Artby was slightly struggling but he got back up.\n\n\" I will not fall down \" said Artby. \" Bakers do way too much for me \"\n\" They make such tasty bread, how could I not fight for them as a customer \"\n\" I must be a good customer, bakers cannot afford a bad customer \"\n\" How so ? \" asked Allie.\n\" Bakers are not as inspired to bake, they cannot bake bread as tasty \" said Artby. \" My mouth has been treated so good, I must treat bakers the way I want my mouth to be treated \"\n\" Artby, you have lost it \" said Easeion.\n\" I have not lost it, I think about my mouth \" said Artby.\n\" Your mouth eats tons of bread maybe but it has done little here \" said Melissa.\n\" No matter what you eat, you are outmatched here \" said Easeion. \" Crayon will be dead, you will join him there \"\n\" This is not what I wanted originally but this has to be this way \"\n\" Now, let us keep fighting \"\n\nEaseion then rushed with his Tenfold Disaster Strike while Colouruke used his Tenfold Ocean Strike to counter, they both took damage.\n\nColourea fired off the Heatwave Implosion while Melissa used the Volcano Implosion, they both were hit to the ground. Colourea was slightly struggling but she got up and she punched Easeion while Easeion kicked her.\n\nArtby then used the Sun Implosion while Easeion used the Ultimate Bear Blast to counter the attack.\n\nMelissa then used her Ultimate Volcano Bomb while Warbler used the Bird Implosion, they both took damage and fell to the ground.\n\nColouruke charged his Ocean Implosion towards Melissa while Easeion used his Tenfold Disaster Strike to hit him down.\n\n\" Take this \" yelled Colouruke. Colouruke was getting near the end.\n\n\" I will not give up \" said Colouruke.\n\" I'll fight \"\n\" Well, it is your life not mine \" said Easeion.\n\" Prepare for your last moments, this is it \"\n\nEaseion then fired the Ultimate Bear Blast while Allie used the Sky Implosion, the attacks collided with each other.\n\nMelissa then charged up for the Ultimate Volcano Blast while Warbler then used the Bird Implosion, they both were hit. Warbler was getting near the end, but he was able to fight.\n\n\" I will keep going \" said Warbler.\n\" I cannot let the Bear do this \"\n\" Yes you can \" said Easeion. \" You had a great deal and you fucked it up \"\n\" Now you will pay a price bigger than you ever have before \"\n\" Hahahahaha \"\n\" This is great for the organization \" said Melissa.\n\" Let's continue the fight \" said Crayon.\n\nArtby charged up the Sun Implosion.\n\n\" This is for bakers and any bread they have baked \" said Artby.\n\" Bread saves us all, bakers do so much for my mouth when a lot of people have not \"\n\" My mouth means so much, I will fight for it \"\n\nMelissa then used her Ultimate Volcano Bomb to counter, they both were hit. Artby was getting near the end.\n\n\" Bakers will prevent me from dying, they are heroes to the customer \" said Artby.\n\" I have been a great customer \"\n\" Bakers love the customer, bakers are in love with my mouth \"\n\" Bread is how they show that \"\n\" Hahahahaha \" said Easeion. \" I have hit you with so much damage but your mouth \"\n\" There will be no bread for you very soon, you will be  dead \"\n\" Bakers will be crying and nothing will change \"\n\" Bakers will not, I cannot die \" said Artby. \" Bread prevents death \"\n\" Yeah, no \" said Melissa.\n\" No, bread will keep us alive \" said Artby.\n\" Let's keep fighting \" said Allie.\n\nColourea then charged up the Heatwave Implosion while Allie used the Ultimate Sky Bomb. Easeion and Melissa used their Ultimate Bear Blasts to counter the attack, the four of them took damage.\n\nAllie was getting near the end but she got back up barely.\n\" I will not stop fighting \" said Allie.\n\" Four of you are very close \" said Melissa.\n\" The Bear will take over, it will be glorious \" said Easeion.\n\" I will get to show what a great brother to Bill and Tara \"\n\" I am a great brother to them, if I do not take over then how can be the legendary brother I am \"\n\" Legendary? \" asked Crayon.\n\" Yes, I am that great a brother \" said Easeion.\n\" Now, we continue \"\n\nEaseion then charged up the Ultimate Bear Bomb, Warbler used the Bird Implosion to counter the attack. They both were hit, Warbler was defeated.\n\n\" Warbler \" screamed Allie.\n\" Now, you understand what it is like fighting the elite warriors of the Bear \" said Melissa.\n\" You will join him in being knocked out \"\n\" Let's continue the fight \" said Crayon.\n\nMelissa charged up the Volcano Implosion while Artby used the Sun Implosion.\n\n\" This is for every baker in the world and what they have done for my mouth \" said Artby.\n\" They are great people, my love for baking will never end \"\n\nArtby was defeated, Easeion rushed for Colouruke with the Tenfold Disaster Strike.\n\nCrayon used the Tenfold Bird Strike to defend, Crayon and Easeion were both hit.\n\nMelissa then rushed Colourea with the Bear Implosion, Colourea then used the Heatwave Implosion to counter. They both took damage, Colourea was getting near the end.\n\n\" Well, now only Crayon isn't in this condition \" said Easeion. \" Our talent is too good \"\n\" You haven't won yet \" said Crayon.\n\" We are fucking winning \" said Easeion. \" You have all irritated me but it is not enough \"\n\" I will end all hope, my great father will take everything \"\n\" Hahahaha \"\n\" Whites will be very proud of me \" said Melissa. \" Whites is great \"\n\" Now, let's continue \"\n\nMelissa charged up the Volcano Implosion while Allie used the Sky Implosion.\n\n\" This is for Warbler \" said Allie.\n\" It won't be enough \" said Melissa. \" I am the strongest woman in the organization \"\n\nAllie was defeated, Colouruke then charged up the Tenfold Ocean Strike while Easeion then used the Ultimate Lightning Edge which was too powerful.\n\n\" Now it is just the original couple \" said Easeion.\n\" Colourea is not in good condition \"\n\" She can still fight \" said Crayon. \" I have a lot of energy left \"\n\" I will not give up \" said Colourea.\n \" I will fight for my friends \"\n\" They will die \" said Easeion. \" Hahahahaha \"\n\" Not only will they die, but the chance of people in Colourland having any possessions will also die \"\n\" Yes, our organization will take literally everything \" said Melissa.\n\" Let's continue the fight \" said Crayon.\n\nCrayon used the Tenfold Bird Strike while Melissa used the Tenfold Volcano Strike to counter.\n\nMelissa was slightly struggling but then she rushed Colourea for a punch knocking her out.\n\n\" You are the last man standing \" said Easeion.\n\" You will join your friends very soon, I'll enjoy Challenger sobbing about it \"\n\" I won't give you that opportunity \" said Crayon.\n\" Let's keep fighting \"\n\nCrayon rushed Melissa with his Bird Implosion while she used her Bear Implosion to counter, they were both hit.\n\n\" How could this be happening to me \" said Melissa.\n\" Whites will not accept this \"\n\" He will have to do so \" said Crayon.\n\" Whites is a great man, let's keep battling \"\n\nEaseion then charged his Super Thunderstorm technique, Melissa then used her Ultimate Bear Blast directly on the thunderstorm making it stronger.\n\nCrayon then used the Ultimate Heatwave Blast to defend, the attacks collided with each other and they all took damage.\n\nMelissa was getting near the end but she was able to get up first, she then grabbed Crayon and dragged his body.\n\nCrayon was trying to fight her off but Easeion then charged for the Tenfold Disaster Strike.\n\n\" Crayon, take this \" said Easeion.\n\" Haha \"\n\nThe attack then hit both of them due to Crayon and Melissa pushing each other which defeated Melissa.\n\nChapter 17\nEaseion vs Crayon\n\n\" Now this is just us \" said Easeion. \" The Bear has wanted this death for so long \"\n\" I will avenge Bill and Tara, I will be the big brother that they need \"\n\" It is what it means to be a Smithson, I am a Smithson and a Smithson forever \"\n\" Bear members are on their way here \"\n\" They will be disappointed to see that I am alive, I will not die this fight \" said Crayon.\n\" Hahahaha \" said Easeion. \" Not a chance in the world, without Challenger you cannot win \"\n\" He trusts so much in us \" said Crayon. \" He knows that I can do it \"\n\" He will end up being wrong and he will be sobbing at these great deaths \" said Easeion. \" Hahahaha \"\n\" Now we are going to continue your last fight ever \"\n\nEaseion then charged up the Ultimate Thunderstorm while Crayon used the Heatwave Implosion to counter. They both were hit but they both got up, Easeion then started charging for the Bear Implosion.\n\nCrayon then used the Bird Implosion to counter the attack, they were both hit and knocked to the ground.\n\nEaseion then got up first, he grabbed Crayon.\n\n\" Crayon, take this \" yelled Easeion. \" This is for all the Bear members that are not currently fighting with us right now \"\n\nCrayon was slightly struggling but he got up and the  he punched Easeion directly which made him start to slightly struggle.\n\n\" What the fuck \" said Easeion. \" I am too great for this \"\n\" It doesn't seem that way \" said Crayon.\n\" My brother and sister need me to win this fight, Brett my father will be pissed \" said Easeion.\n\" He expected so much as a father, he wanted to take over with all of us \"\n\" I will win for him, let's go \"\n\nEaseion then charged for the Bear Implosion while Crayon used the Heatwave Implosion to counter, they both were hit and fell to the ground.\n\nThey both got up, Easeion punched Crayon while Crayon kicked him which they both went to the ground but Easeion got up.\n\nEaseion then started charging for the Disaster Implosion.\n\n\" Hahahaha \" said Easeion. \" Enjoy your end \"\n\" I will avenge Bill and Tara, they are great \"\n\" Smithsons will rule this country \"\n\nCrayon started charging for the Heatwave Implosion but not all the energy was charged in time but the attacks then hit their targets and they fell to the ground.\n\nCrayon was getting near the end, Easeion was very close to there.\n\n\" Crayon, enjoy dying \" said Easeion.\n\" Whites and Xax will be here any minute \"\n\" They will see you die, they will enjoy it \"\n\" It is not over, I will fight to defend here \" said Crayon.\n\" Don't bother, you cannot do so \" said Easeion.\n\" You want me to die \" said Crayon.\n\" It is because you will not stay out of the way, we wouldn't have wanted you to die so much otherwise to be honest \" said Easeion.\n\" Colourland belongs to the Bear \"\n\" The Bear is the greatest organization ever, the robberies will be insane now \"\n\" We will expand the organization \"\n\" I will fight \" yelled Crayon.\n\" Your life, not mine \" said Easeion. \" When you lose it, there will be no presence from me at the funeral \"\n\" Hahahahaha, now we will keep fighting \"\n\nEaseion then charged up for the Bear Implosion while Crayon used the Heatwave Implosion.\n\n\" This is for the Bear, especially Bill and Tara \" said Easeion. \" I am a Smithson and I will never forget what it means to be one \"\n\" This is for Challenger, Colouruke, Colourea, Artby, Warbler, Allie and the country \" said Crayon.\n\" Your power would have done a lot as a Bear member, I think that you all could have tons of stealing but it must be like this \" said Easeion.\n\" Stealing must happen, I cannot allow you to keep stopping us \"\n\nThe attacks then met their targets with tons of power, Easeion and Crayon were so weak currently.\n\nCrayon then rushed to grab Easeion and then knocked him to the ground which appeared to defeat him.\n\n\" I did it \" said Crayon. \" Wow, that was so close \"\n\" Xax and Whites are going to be very difficult if Easeion was this hard \"\n\nCrayon called the hospital, after that he called Challenger.\n\n\" I defeated Easeion \" said Crayon.\n\" Awesome \" said Challenger.\n\" Xax and Whites are next \" said Crayon. \" They are the last line of defense \"\n\" They will be tremendously difficult \" said Challenger.\n\" I will join you all in training from now on \"\n\" Sounds great to me \" said Crayon. \" We all did so good, Easeion has been defeated twice now \"\n\" It shows the training has paid off \" said Challenger.\n\" It sure has \" said Crayon.\n\" Well, I will join you at the hospital \" said Challenger.\n\" See you there \" said Crayon.\n\nCrayon and his friends then checked into the hospital, Xax and Whites saw the result of the fight and they brought their bodies into the van.\n\n\" Easeion, how could this be \" said Xax.\n\" Melissa, I enjoyed you too much for this \" said Whites.\n\" The two of us will crush them \" said Xax.\n\" It will be great \" said Whites.\n\" Brett will be infuriated to see Easeion like this \" said Xax. \" He was too strong to be losing \"\n\" I thought the same about Melissa \" said Whites.\n\" There was something truly special about her \"\n\" There was \" said Xax. \" Now we should head back to the hideout to tell the news to Brett \"\n\" He will not take this well \" said Whites. \" He was not happy about Bill and Tara being knocked out but Easeion and him was something special \"\n\nWhites and Xax arrived at the hideout and they brought the bodies to Brett.\n\n\" What in the fuck \" yelled Brett. \" How could Easeion be defeated \"\n\" He was supposed to do end up winning \"\n\" My sons and my daughter are not with us right now, this is unacceptable \"\n\" Yeah, this is unbelievable \" said Xax. \" Me and Whites must end Crayon \"\n\" I wonder what hospital they are at \" said Whites.\n\" Bear members will pay a visit \" said Brett.\n\" We do know where Warbler lives though \" said Xax.\n\" I am planning something \"\n\" They are in the hospital, they will be able to do nothing \" said Whites.\n\" We will send threatening messages \" said Xax. \n\" Yes, I would love that \" said Brett. \" As a father, you two must eliminate Crayon \"\n\" We will \" said Whites. \" We will be sending some very hurtful texts from the phones of our Bear members \"\n\" They will freak out and lose it \"\n\" We need that more than ever now \" said Xax. \" We will bring a new fear within Warbler that he has never faced before \"\n\" Yes we will enjoy breaking him \" said Whites.\n\" If he changes his number, we know where he is \"\n\" That is true, we will head into the house for the next few days \" said Xax.\n\" We will force them to move maybe even \" said Whites.\n\" Now that would be amusing \" said Brett.\n\nThis is the end of the 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