Sierra Anderson

Toby Returns

While I was lying on the floor that night I thought of everything that happened since I ran away, I thought of getting Justin and Bars and I thought of my favorite tree. As I was thinking about this stuff something scary went through my mind.

I thought of the bear that we saw in the woods a few weeks ago. I also thought about what I should call him. I finally came to the name Toby. I closed my eyes and went to sleep.

***

I woke up, and I saw Bars and Justin were wide awake.

"Keep quiet." Justin whispered.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"We here scratching noises coming from outside." Bars whispered.

Scree! Scree! Scree! I heard scratching noises now. I was scared but not too scared because it was morning and I'm sure whatever it is can't climb trees, so I walked to the treehouse door.

"What are you doing?" Justin asked.

"I'm going to see what the scratching noise is." I said.

"Go ahead, but don't say I didn't warn you." Justin says.

I looked out the door and no one was there. I climbed down the treehouse and so did Justin and Bars. We walked and walked but didn't find anything. Suddenly, Scree! Scree! Scree! We heard the scratching noise again.

"This way." I said leading them to the noise.

The noise led us to my favorite tree. We hid behind one of the forest trees and saw Toby the bear scratching at my favorite tree. Tears fell down my cheeks. Bars must've saw my tears because he grabbed a huge stick and walked over to the bear.

"Bars, no!" I yelled after him.

I was about to run after him but Justin grabbed my hand.

"I can't lose you." He said serious.

I pulled my hand away and ran after Bars.

Bars stopped when he saw the bear sleeping inside of the tree.

"Toby used his claws to make a hole the size of a desk to just come in the tree and sleep." I thought.

Suddenly my sadness turned into anger as I thought this. I snatched the stick away from Bars and hit Toby as hard as I could. I saw a mark of blood caused by the stick on Toby's side.

Toby woke up and saw that I had a stick so he pushed me with one paw. I instantly fell down. In pain I couldn't move. I thought my arm was broken. Justin came to my side and helped me up.

Bars was just watching but then the bear must've thought that Bars was about to attack him from behind so he tackled Bars. As soon as Justin saw this he ran to Toby and punched him so hard you can just here, Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!

Toby could barely walk and he just fell to the ground.

"Bars are you okay?" Justin asked.

"Yeah, I guess." Bars said limping.

"Why are you limping?" I asked.

"When the bear tackled me I tried to defend myself, but I ended up twisting my leg." Bars said rubbing his leg.

"Come on, I had enough excitement for one day." Justin said.

"No kidding." I said snickering.

***

"We reached the treehouse and climbed up the tree. But when we got to the treehouse we heard another sound this time it didn't sound like scratching. Chop! Chop! Chop!

I knew what the sound was, it sounded like someone cutting down the tree that we were in.