If Only, If Only - Unicorn Wars Fanfiction

Chapter Ten: The Graceless Warning

((There's a part of me that's appealingly sweet, I'm sure you'd agree if you got to know me...))

((Also, I came to the conclusion by re-watching a couple scenes in the movie that after one of the polar-bear brothers ventures into the forest-the other brother goes chasing after him. During this scene, the chasing brother addresses his sibling as 'cuddly-wuddly'. So I am just going to dub this as their nickname for each other. Whereas the other brother would say the same thing but with the words reversed))

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It was at this time that Azulin came to the realization that yet something else had also gone awry... if his memory wasn't mistaken him- the slugs were found before Sargente flipped out on Padre. At least 15 minutes before it happened, actually. The blue-bears memory was failing him. Everything was crashing in on itself... and making him confused.

This was no good, especially if he wanted to keep the same shit from happening. This caused him to become frantic and a little wild eyed.

He was starting to pull on his ears- digging one of his claws into one of them- but he felt someone tapping on his shoulder and he looked over to the source.

It was Hielo, the slightly more spunky brother between the Polar Bears siblings. Nieve stood behind him, smiling a little bit as he tilted his head at Azulin- mostly in concerned confusion. This caused Azulin to calm down a bit, taking a deep breath as he let his ears go. He brought his paws down to his chest and took in a deep breath, before clearing his throat.

"You look pale." Coco noted from where he was standing.

"I just... wasn't having a good train of thought. It happens a lot, I just needed to get my mind off of it..." Azulin walked by and continued ahead of Sargente- who didn't bother objecting due to knowing how hard-headed Azulin was.

Azulin was pacing the camp by time time they all slowed down, reminding himself to be careful and constantly keep his eyes out for those wretched slugs. He started to pull on the hem of his uniform shirt, getting sweatier from his pacing and constant deep breaths made in an attempt to calm himself down.

About two hours later, Pandi walked over to Azulin, before calling him at Sargente's request. "Azulin- you really should take a moment to-"

Azulin's head snapped in Pandi's direction, causing the fellow bear to step back in apprehension, before pulling up his arms to make a gesture of surrender. This calmed the blue bear down before as he raked his clawed paw through the hair on the top of his head.

"Take a breath..." Pandi hesitantly finished before walking back to the fire.

Azulin nodded and finally started to calm him nerves, before he heard Hielo start talking from the fire-place.

"Aww, look at these cute little things! They look like caterpillars!!" Hielo was excited to say the least, the young polar bear nearly sounded like a child finding a toy of interest at a shop window. Admiration and interest. All things that lead to trouble this very night last time.

It started innocently enough. They had found these damned slugs and at first- they started playing with them. Petting them and tickling them- then... they started to smell good. The same kind of 'good' that someone felt when they were craving their favorite food when they were hungry. Then, the teeth started to sink in, and rainbows stained their jawlines while playing with their perception. Chasing colors and smelling sounds for as long as the effect was in place.

One could argue that it felt like magic... others could argue it was like going on a roller-coaster.

The only thing that did remain the same in almost all scenarios was the fact that when you are tripped up on ANYTHING you are not in your own right mind. There are interjecting substances that always effect it.

Nieve hopped over to his brother taking the slug from him. "They are so cute! They wiggle around so much. Their faces look so silly!" The other polar bear twin started to wiggle around, imitating the antennae and legs of the caterpillar in his siblings hands.

'No. Nonononono nonono-'

Azulin was running over there faster than he had ever run during any other dire situation. He didn't give a warning, all he did was grab the thing from the polar bear comrades before throwing it into the fire. Both of them exclaiming in surprise right after, he was panting watching the slug let out a shrill hiss as it was burned alive.

In retrospect, not a good idea.. because it was only starting to smell... really... really good.

"Hey, what gives, man!" Achuchones yelled out over the other exclaims of the other bears in the group. The polar bears were both hugging each other- one comforting the other. Nieve was more upset that the slug had died in such a cruel way with no second thought. Achuchones got face to face with Azulin- jabbing his finger into the others chest. "Just because you are pretending to be better, doesn't mean you get to steal something from someone and be a dick by burning it alive!!"

Azulin didn't even bother explaining himself, he just backed away from the fire, and watched it continue to burn with a frozen, periled expression.

Nearly half of the other bears in the entire group started to also berate Azulin, only wanting to defend the two youngest bears from the unjust treatment.

The only ones not involved were Padre, Gordi and Coco.

Gordi went to go and stop them, but Coco put his hand on the pink bears shoulder, before stepping forward

"Shouldn't we let him explain himself first?" he somewhat yelled over all of the obnoxious voices and profanities being thrown around the group.

All of them stopped, before resigning to the idea with their own forms of disapproval.

Sargente only shook his head, before letting out a gruff sigh with a tapping of his foot on the flattened grass right on the edge of the forest path

"Very well. We should all eat, Azulin can explain in the morning when everyone has calmed down."

Pandi looked around the the nearby wood-line, noting the fact that there were multitudes of other slugs around on the trees. "I know it's bad timing- but the slug that was slapped into the fire does smell pretty good... maybe we can cook some of them up? I am dying to try one..."

All of the red flags were going up in Azulin's had as all of the other bears started to somewhat agree with each other.

Eventually, he shook his head, and shouted out over all of their conversations.

"FOR FUCKS SAKE! DON'T!! DON'T TOUCH THOSE THINGS!!"

((To Be Continued))