I Care For U: A Care Bears Love Story

Prologue: Our Beginning

It was the night after before Dark Heart saught out for the Care Bears when they were on earth, at that time True Heart Bear and Noble Heart Horse raised the orphaned care bears and care cousin cubs on their own forging at a pack to protect each other and those around them...

True Heart Bear's POV

It was not everyday where your life was turned completely on its head, first I was a regular bear that had just been given a name True Heart Bear. Even though this is all new to me, I always wonder about my future preference, I ran my fingers over my stomach, now brightly decorated with a multicolored heart within an equally multicolored star.

One minute I was just an ordinary bear, then the next I befriended a horse and together began taking care of nearly thirty orphaned cubs. Now all of sudden I was given a new name, a new identity, and a new purpose.

I made a conscious effort to remind myself of thinking of everything I do alone by that name as much as I do, I truly loved the cubs like they were my own children even though I don't have a mate nor any biological children. But I always wanted to know something: could me and Noble Heart Horse really raise them all and teach them to help people care?

As much as I hated to admit it, I always had my doubts.

It is night time already and yet I'm still lost in a trace as I yawned, breaking off my train of thought. It had been a very exhausting day, what with getting chased and nearly devoured by a giant sea monster and all.

I went to my bedside drawer and pulled out a nightgown prominently displaying my official tummy symbol. I smiled at the thought of having such things and pulled it on over my head.

Crawling into bed, I drew the covers up and smiled as I laid my head down on the pillow. I began to reach over to turn out the light and then closed my eyes, yawning one more time.

Then I opened them again.

"This isn't working." I said aloud with annoyance, I just wasn't falling asleep. The bed was nice and the blankets were soft, but for some reason I just felt…cold.

I started shivering and tried going back to bed. But it didn't work. Sighing in defeat, I pushed the covers back and got up. Maybe a stroll around the Hall of Hearts would help. After all, I might as well become more familiar with this new place.

Shivering slightly, it was a drafty building at night, as I made my way out of the room and walked along the corridors.

On a whim, I decided to check up on the sleeping cubs and made a beeline for the nursery. Not for the first time, I surprised myself by the depth of my love for those cubs, none of whom were my own and nearly half of them weren't even bears!

That was pretty unusual. I supposed that's why the Wishing Star chose me for this. Bears were family animals by nature, very defensive and nurturing of their young. In my case, this had been carried to the extreme.

So caught up in my thoughts, I almost walked right by the nursery, dark save for a single nightlight. Heading inside I quietly headed towards the cribs holding the sleeping cubs. Looking around as I peered over the cribs, downward on the cubs as I softly, and slowly walked by. They were absolutely adorable.

Tenderheart Bear slept quietly unaware of his visitor. I marveled at just how each cub's name seemed perfectly tailored to match his or her nature. Me and Noble Heart had never met anyone as unselfish and caring as Tenderheart. He'd always be the one to console the other cubs when they were upset and never hurt anyone's feelings. I hoped that one day he could help others from doing the same to each other.  Moving on stopping over another crib.