Mission 47: Surpassing The Summit (Shadey/Flamey)

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A mountain, there are those that men go to climb. A treacherous journey leading people thousands of feet above the sea, it is one fraught with danger but leading to one feeling. This feeling of course is that you are on top of the world. From the top, from the pinnacle, from the apex of the mountain a man or woman is afforded a view, only given to those who can make the climb. It is upon the top of such a mountain, that man is given something that can be truly called a Bird's Eye View. To the highest peak, people are humbled upon arrival for it is not that they have conquered the mountain, but instead that the mountain has tolerated them. It is one thing to try to climb a mountain, it is another entirely to succeed.

Rising only half way up Mount Shivre, is Shivre Out and In, though the current position of this story is definitely in Shivre Out. Overlooking the below ground and sea it affords a great view of incoming ships and storms. To climb Mount Shivre one must brave bandits, monsters, and storms that are renowned amongst the islands of the blues for being quite ferocious. Built onto the side of the mountain the town rise up the mountain with constant requirement to climb to get anywhere. It is enough to make even some of the fittest athletes grab their legs in pain.

Near the ledge, overlooking a cliff on the side of the mountain there was a young red-haired man. The view from the mountain being terrific he had gone to check it out. His mission though having nothing to do with getting the view still had something to do with climbing the mountain. Turning around the man stared up the mountain at his target. Some few hundred or thousands of feet up the mountain was the Rock Bandit's Hideout. Because of the difficulty of the path upwards, the Rock Bandit's had gone unchecked for the last few years because of the inability of the townsfolk to climb to the top of the mountain.

Kamio having come here to give a show of power and strength planned to climb this very mountain. Hearing that a bandit group was holding the path to the mountain making it nearly impossible to climb he had only one thing in mind. Climb the mountain and knock out all the mountain bandits, there was nothing more to it, his will would allow him to do much else.

Unlike Kamio, who knew very little about the Mountain Bandits, the mountain bandits had ears planted all over and already knew of his expedition and planned to stop it in its earliest stage, before take off. A band of four mountain bandits had tracked him down to Shivre Out. Kamio who was unknowingly being followed headed toward the trailhead passing through the middle of town.

Suddenly he could hear shouts and bullets being fired in the air. He dodged to the side instinctively into an alleyway where he crashed into a girl. The men were coming after him, turning around in the alleyway he stood in front of the girl now wielding his pistol. A true chivalrous man he would stand there to make sure the girl was not shot.

As the men stood before him in the front of the alley he got ready to fire and pulled the trigger.

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Taffy walked around the town with a big fat smile on her face as she stuffed a peppermint apple grape flavored taffy into her mouth. A rather odd flavor but one that seemed popular on this island. She was so happy! She talked with the people here and they all said that they were willing to fill her own back pack with all sorts of candy if she simply defeated those nasty bandits! A step up from what they were usually announcing, just scare them out of there wits, but she didn't mind! She was sure that defeating them would be no true feat for her!

Popping another sugary morsal in her mouth, she finally looked around, trying to get a layout on where she was supposed to be going. They lived somewhere rocky didn't they? Something to do with altitude? Taffy tried to think as deep as she could as she stood in front of a mountain.... THAT'S IT! She had to go to a cave on the beach! That had to be it! They must be there! Content with remembering where she was supposed to go, she went into and alley way, ready to pop in another candy bit. It was her favorite! Watermelon with a bit of lemon and lime invigorating the flavor!

Unfortunately, such heaven was not met with, as someone plowed into her forcing her to drop the candy on the ground. IT WAS HER LAST OF THAT FLAVOR TOO!!! Heaven was now a spot on the ground covered in dirt and grime. She felt like crying and holding a funeral for the poor fella. Yet, she decided to stick with revenge instead! Jumping to her feet and looking around with anger, she saw a guy who looked not much older than her holding a gun and pointing it at some guy in the opening of the alley way.

Did he feel the same way as her when it came to candy? So that meant it was that man who did that to her delicious food!!! In an instant before the mans gun could even fire, she brought out her two guns and hit him in the head and in the ankle causing the man to fall unconcious on the ground. This way, even if he has a thicker skull, he won't be surprising her anytime soon! Now she was touched and all that the man wanted to take her revenge but she still wanted to finish him off on her own.

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~!" She said facing the guy as two jawbreakers rolled on the ground behind her. She had a large grin as always, but before she could officially introduce herself. Two guys spontaneously appeared. Thinking that maybe they were playing some game, she quickly pulled the guy to face the right direction before she herself took off.

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The bullet he fired hit its mark, but its mark was already falling. Why he would wonder only for a second as he saw two guns sticking out from behind him. He turned for a second in surprise as the girl behind him wielded the two guns with anger written all across her face. The man fell down leaving two small, balls bouncing on the ground. After a quick inspection he noticed they were not bullets at all, but jawbreakers. Thinking about questioning the girl came later as she pulled him away from the opening toward the opposite end of the alley.

Without a second thought he went after her, after all he was being chased. And more importantly there was the perfect view of the girl's tight butt and long legs (xDD) . . . but more importantly the enem. . . .tight butt. Air blew out from his nose as he felt something run inside. Keeping focused he tried to look up a bit farther than that. Catching up to her so they were running side by side rather than in a place where he would catch such a naught- umm distracting glance, lets go with that.

Running side by side with her he actually got a good glance at her physique. The violet-red haired girl was fairly tall with forest green eyes. Her tank top which caused a little more running in his nose revealed a lot of her top leaving a nice view of her *cough* bust *cough*. He took in the view for a second only to be brought back to reality by the sounds of guns being fired. Swinging his pistol behind him, he let off a shop and continued running. Staring forward he began to make meaningless chitter chatter, while they were on the run might as well get introduced and all.

"Yo! My name's Kamio, I'm here to climb the mountain! What about you?" He thought to extend his hand to her but . . . in this odd situation who knew where the hand might bounce to. And he wasn't about to ruin the situation just yet. Hey maybe running from bullets would be rather romantic and would lead to some fun with the girl.

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Taffy didn't really know what to think about the guy following her. She in fact was not intending him to trail her like a candy monster on candy! Though, considering that he was a candy lover like herself and she had plenty of candy stuffed inside her bag, so much so that it may very well look like a puffer fish with its large size, one couldn't blame him for trailing her!

As the wild game continued, it seemed that the man began gaining ground and catching up, matching her speed as he ran beside her. She appeared not to mind his change of position much as long as he kept up with her in the long run, but then again she wasn't noticing exactly what is pervy eyes were glued to. To put it shortly, it wasn't someplace that would be considered decent.

Despite the sound of their running and maybe breathing, she was beginning to wonder if those guys were still chasing them! It seemed to her that they were close to the beach in which she was initially planning to go anyways so so far it was all good for her. Readying a risky glance at the two guys only brought a rain of bullets upon them. Taffy even almost tripped as she tried to press her body as low to the ground as possible to escape them while her companion shot at them with his gun.

"Oh, I'm Taffy! Wait... did you say Mountain?" In an instant, she realized that she was supposed to climb the mountain as well!! Not go to the beach!! In her stupor she spontaneously stopped and turned around, pouting at how far they were from the finish line. AND SHE WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT!! Oh well, it just gave her another game to play! Before anyone blinked, she ran at the men who began to slow down in a bit of shock and she crouched to the floor, rolled between the two men, jumped up on the other side and hit there spinal cord with her jawbreakers, paralyzing them and forcing them to fall to the ground like puppets.

"If you want to finish them off, I would say nows the time. The this will only stay like that for possibly another half hour. Anyways, IF YOU WERE HEADING TO THE MOUNTAIN WHY DID YOU RUN AWAY FROM IT! Didn't we meet right in front of there!!!!!!!"

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The girl named herself as Taffy, and then considering the mountain simply stopped moving. The shock took a second to hit him as he brought himself to a stop after running a bit further. The girl had had a realization of some sort and instead of running away from the two men that were chasing them ran towards. He began to shout "oy" but it was too late as she dodged between them firing her odd bullets to knock both of them out.

The men had been stupefied by the girl turning around and running back to them and had been in so much shock that they had failed to remember to defend themselves against the girl. They had been taken out in an instant. She turned to him "If you want to finish them off, I would say nows the time. The this will only stay like that for possibly another half hour. Anyways, IF YOU WERE HEADING TO THE MOUNTAIN WHY DID YOU RUN AWAY FROM IT! Didn't we meet right in front of there!!!!!!!" She flew into some sort of rage because they ran away from the mountain.

He was about to answer that usually but remembering his 'chivalrous' desires. He walked up to her going as close to face to face and said "Because I thought it would be safer for the beautiful lady standing before me." Giving a quick wink he took out a cigarette lighting it, he placed it in his mouth and gave it a puff.

Walking past her "For that is what chivalrous men do! They care for the damsels that are in danger." Turning around he extended his hand to her. "Now my fair lady, shall we embark upon the journey to the top of the mountain. I shall be your guardian, your guide, and your lo- . . . never mind that last one. It shall be your choice to take me, otherwise I shall take to the summit alone. And I will not submit to allow you to go alone. It is not worthy of such a lady to go alone, into the harsh wilderness with out a guardian, or entourage."

Suppressing his instinct to not lower himself he bowed before the lady, taking her hand in his and kissing it as a knight would for his queen. "Shall we go?"

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'What sort of crap is that?'

Fortunately for the man, such a thought was not announced by the candy obsessive teen aloud, simply inside the snctity of her head. She watched the madman go on with his speech about this and that. Some stuff she didn't quite understand and others she got. Well, actually, all she seemed to catch onto in his lengthy soliloquy was damsel, distress, and danger. One, as she looked around the alley way, she saw no damsels. It lead her to question who exactly was he talking about...Wait, could it be, he was talking to... A HALLUCINATION! No wonder! This was beginning to make sense! He sees things!

Then there was distress. Maybe he knew he is seeing things and its making him distressed! YAY SHE WAS ON TO SOMETHING! Now she knew how scientists felt when they were on the verge of a discovery! Ok, then he also said danger, but the most dangerous thing she saw here was the two men. Yet, they were harmless. They were just playing tag with them, nothing dangerous in the least!

Then, the most wierdest thing happened! He kissed her hand! YUCK! The moment he wasn't looking she wiped off the coodies on her clothes. Maybe he was delirious and thought she was candy? Imagined her to be a big candy cane that he could kiss! If she saw a candy cane thats what she would do too, so it made sense!

"Oh, YEA LETS GO!!" She shouted quickly catching up to him and putting her arms out like a plane. "So I guessing you doing that candy mission thing too?" She asked as she circled him. Little did the two companions realize that they were being watched under the critical eye of two people standing on the top of the buildings. They wore strange looking symbols on the back of their jackets that looked oddly like a large button with swirlies inside.

The moment the two disapeared, the figure jumped down kicking the bodies that it seemed the two people forgot to take care of, but it didn't matter. If these inferiors could not challenge such easy prey then they were of no use to the organization. In a flash, the figure was gone leaving the two men dead without a sound. Only hours later would they be discovered.

(I felt this thing needed some PIZAZZ!)

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(OOC: I love how taffy makes sense of stuff for herself)

Bringing him slightly back into real life, Kamio cut the crazy way of talking. It seemed a bit unrealistic, or a bit unsatisfying to the dams-lady so he thought he might as well stop it. In any case the journey was already underway so the time to be more flamboyant was far gone. It was time to be serious.

He walked along as the girl spun around him forming a plane like figure as she circled him. She seemed to be extremely high, or something, sugar rush seemed most likely, questioning him she said "So I guessing you doing that candy mission thing too?" "Hmm? . . . Umm I'm not sure what you are talking about Taffy." Whats a Candy mission? . . . this girl is surely crazy, i wonder if it was the right idea taking her on, though she does have a really nice . .. common stay focused she was good with those guns so hopefully she can watch out for herself, in case im being busied by other bandits. He walked on the girl, still circling around him. He had yet no clue about the people following him (lolz pizazz?).

Upon reaching the trailhead he turned around to face the girl who was still running around him. "Well we are here, now will you choose to follow me up. Be aware danger is ahead we could get stranded up their with monsters, bandits, and storms unnumbered to fall upon us. There is no turning back once we are upon the trail, and we will most likely not come back until our mission is complete. So choose before you come up, for there is no second thoughts for this." He stood before her again.

Taking a step upon the trail he turned to look at her, "Choose wisely Taffy, you have one chance to choose don't want to mess this up." He turned to look away from her. Staring up at the trail he figured he would wait for a minute or two before heading up whether he be alone or working with her.

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Taffy stared at the man, uncomprhending of his words. What did he mean that he didn't know what she was talking about? Candy mission was very self-explanitory that even a caveman can do it! GEICO! Uh um random. Whats a geico? Well whatever, like she was saying, it was so selfexplanitory! Candy meant CANDY like AME like SWEETS like SUGAR STUFF like STUFF YOU EAT TO GET HIGH!!!! Sugar high!!!!! Yea... Then mission! The whole thing that got them into this, or at least thats what she thought. Yet, if he couldn't understand the simple dynamics of comparing candy to mission in a way to understand it as a mission where candy is offered as a reward, then he was either a baka or just doing this for the fun of it! Yea, that sounded about right to her!

The girl continued with her zooming, although her arms were beginning to tire she didn't seem to care. Of course, with her mind preoccupied on imagining far off places to be flying through, she didn't realize the spying eyes of her new companion.

Suddenly, the man began to rant off again forcing her to stop all her ruckus just to hear him out. It was sort of annoying how he was starting to do this. What was the point? He wasn't even talking about stuff related to the situation at hand. Just some stuff about danger and what not. Big deal, didn't she just show off her awesome skills when she shot those men? When he did nothing? Shouldn't this speech be happening the other way around?

By the time he turned around, she had her arms crossed, practically dozing off on the verge of sleep. YES! She thought the moment she realized there was no more words. She must have been keeping him waiting a while too since she was sure she even slept for a good 5 minutes in between and the fact she thought she saw some movement heading up the trail, but hey! Now was the moment to show who exactly is the weak one in this group and it was definitely not her!

"WAIT! I'm in this too!!!!! You can't get rid of me!" She cried out, and out of spontanity, she jumped on the mans back and raised her hand in the air! "ROLLER COASTER ROLLER COASTER!"

(I feel like Taffy is just becoming sluttier by the post >_<)

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Setting both of his goggles from his forehead upon his eyes he set forth upon the mountain trail. And finally after counting out the minute or two he moved on walking, the girl it seemed was not coming with him. This journey he would do alone, sighing he kind of wished he had a companion, but he guessed this would be fine as well. Turning on his determined mind he pressed forward, not knowing how far it would be to the top it was best that he made as good as time as possible without tiring himself out to much. It would be rather bad if he was caught tired on the top of the mountain surrounded by monsters, bandits or the like.

Keeping his eye out for bandits he climbed the mountain. The climb was tough and as he kept moving he checked back every now and then noticing the girl was standing in the exact spot he left her, unmoving, a statue. Turning away he started to walk out of view when he heard a yell from behind. The girl had come to her consciousness though he had no clue she was asleep.

WAIT! I'm in this too!!!!! You can't get rid of me!" She cried out, and out of spontanity, she jumped on the mans back and raised her hand in the air! "ROLLER COASTER ROLLER COASTER!"

Jumping upon his back she sat there basically getting a piggy back ride from him. Grabbing her legs so she was holding onto him tightly he started moving up. He could feel a softness bouncing upon the top of his head as he found himself sniffing slightly to keep the blood from pouring out as Taffy's breasts made constant contact with his head. The girls arms which swung around in the air bothered him little, though she was almost getting annoying. He could deal with it because of their position.

As he climbed he wondered if she'd want to get off, he was perfectly fine with this position. Though if he was facing her it'd be so much better. Then he could let her fall a little upon him. And they could have tons of fun. (LMAO) Pushing onwards he commented to her "How's the view from up there? Your surprisingly light . . . ."

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Light? LIGHT?! WELL OF COURSE SHE WAS LIGHT! Poor Taffy probably wasn't aware of such a thing but in truth, the girls obsession with candy has pushed her so far as to having no muscle or fat! Well hardly fat, but if you thought of it anatomically fat weighs WAY less than muscle! Why is her obsession with candy getting in the way of this?! She eats no meat WHATSOEVER!!!! Or anything else for that matter, WHATSOEVER! Thus a LIGHT WEIGHT! Enough with anatomy however!

In truth, the girl was not a total naive idiot. Since the beginning of the roller coaster ride, she felt like somebody has been watching them and has been scouting the perimeter as the man continued forward. However, nothing startled her sights in the least which was only getting her more paranoid by the second. She made sure she held on to his shoulders so that she didn't tip back so much as to disturb the center of balance and cause them to plummet to death. When the man beneath finally spoke, she jumped but lucky for them, it wasn't much to force the man from letting go of the rock face.

"The view?" Stretching back, she looked down seeing as there was only sheer wall of rock with pointed rocks at the bottom. "ITS AMAZING!" She shouted looking straight down in amazement before looking at the rest of the town she was awing her amazement. Suddenly, there was the sound of a crumbling wall beside her and she shipped around with her gun shooting a bird out of the air instead of the suspected person. Looking around again she warily put away her gun and hugged the man in front of her pressed her breasts firmly into the back of his head.

"Have you been getting a prickly sensation since we started moving?" She asked referring to the feeling of someone watching her. After a few more moments of looking around to make sure that no one was still in sight. "I think someone is after my candy." She whispered in his ear.

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The girl upon his back seemed a bit testy, her bosom resting upon his head, her usual extreme happiness was still there but now it was mixed with a bit of worry. He payed attention around him but he felt no presences, and was not half as testy as she was. He was used to situations like this from his usual work. Though he didn't usually have a girl being piggy-backed by him. Let alone a girl like the one upon his back today.

When asked about the weather she leaned back, almost causing an imbalance if he had not been originally leaning forwards. The girl seemed to bend over such that her hips were being pushed against his back to support the arching of her back so she could look backwards. The view it seemed was amazing, they were up against a rock cliff as the trail carried them further up the mountain.

As he walked his foot neared the edge on one step crumbling a few rocks as they fell down the edge bouncing off the rock cliff. Taffy's overly tensed senses sprung into action as she swung around sniping a bird in the air. Looking up at her in confusion he found a tighter hold around his neck and the girl's bosom came crashing down upon his face. The softness of her breasts pressing hard against his head, there was only one word to describe this sensation. Heaven. Only by the pure strength of his will was he able to hold in the red fountain of blood that was just waiting to burst upon him, which would most likely cause him to faint and thus the loss of both his life and Taffy's.

"Have you been getting a prickly sensation since we started moving?" She asked him, he stopped for a second listening to the air around them. Not a sound but the usual ones of nature, "Sorry I don't get that feeling . . . its just normal here." He continued on walking but then the smooth breath of the girl he could feel moving across his ear. A bulge came upon the spot between his pant legs. The combination of this ear stimulation, the breasts and the hugging was overcoming him. In his ear he could hear the whispered words "I think someone is after my candy."

He didn't know whether to laugh, or take it seriously. This girl was very peculiar, he didn't know she could be completely serious about this, or just be joking. Speaking quietly in almost a whisper he said "Don't worry, your candy will be safe, I promise i will protect it and you. My candy princess." He didn't know exactly what he was saying but it was probably best to play along with whatever was happening at the moment.

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YAY!!! Taffy screamed in her head grinning madly! She didn't even seem to hear everything else uttered from his mouth other than that her candy will be protected! Everything else got lost in her loud mental outburst of happiness! How did he know her candy was going to be fine though? That was the question!!!

He must be like PROPHETIC or something! Which meant that on their way to this candy quest, he could just easily tell where someone is!!! So maybe he knew because he saw no one around them!!! Yay!!! She could not help but be intensely happy and hum a song to herself as they continued to scale the wall, popping a few watermelon peach flavored taffy that completely overrode her senses to oblivion!!!!!

No longer did she feel the stress of being followed but it seemed she ceased too early. For, the man that had been in the alley way not so long before has been following the two people since. Right now, he watched them climb the wall from the base, watching the girls tension rise because of his staring. What a wierd pair to go on this mission together. It was quite confusing for the man but it didn't seem to mind the extra annoyance. It just meant a few more seconds needed than necessary to get rid of them but for now he would have his fun, he thought with a toothy smile.

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Scaling the cliff quietly the pair pushed up the mountain at a slow yet steady rate. Careful to not misstep on the small ledge Kamio carried the girl upon his back up the mountainside. Neither of the two seemed to feel the presence of the stalker who drew up behind them, hidden by the shadows of the mountain.

Passing the cliff, the girl was humming quietly upon his back. Kamio could barely hear the tune, but could feel the beat as the girl's foot twitched naturally to the beat. The trail started to turn inwards leaving the extremely unsafe mountainside into a deep alpine mountain stretch as they headed to the top. They had already come high enough that snow could be seen laying in clumps upon the ground. While it was warmer than normal, snow had still remained at the temperature they were at.

His body shivered to remain warm as he carried the girl. The feeling of her body heat upon him helped to sooth his body though not enough to stop the shivering his body required to do. Keeping an eye out, he watched for shadows in the forest. Even the slight nudge of a leaf could forewarn an attack here.

As he continued up the mountain he made little talk with the girl who sat above him, who while being light was starting to wear him out from the continued travel. His breath hardened slightly as he could see the fog from his breath coming out from the colder temperatures of making the way up north.

His weariness slowly taxed at his ability to keep watch, and in a seconds moment of distraction the attack began. From out of no where a large ice bear, much larger than what is average for us, came trampling out of the woods at them. It roared its natural anger and strength with his arm outstretched to make mincemeat out of the two humans.

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Taffy was literally BORED out of her MIND while she was on the back of the guy. Humming as she may be, she only seemed to make the tune become stuck in her head and was becoming a rather annoying with the result. So there she was, holding onto the man for dear life as her only source of heat in the middle of snow as the annoying song replayed in her mind. She even thinks she may have been singing the same part 4 times now and she couldn't seem to move on from it!

So, with all her boredom building up inside her, the moment she saw the large teddy bear, she became ecstatic! It meant that there was finally something for the hyper girl to do!

Bursting up with joy, she bounced off of the man's most likely tired back. Little did she expect the cold her tiny feet would meet. At once, she jumped and began shivering like a hummingbird would. Yet, her smile remained regardless and with a small shake, she ran up to the polar bear. "You must be cuddly and warm!!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed out before running around the towering bear.

The white animal growled with it's might, coming back down to all fours to follow the girl with it's eyes. THough, he was too slow for the girl and before he knew it, she was latched around his throat with an unbreakable hug. "COME HE IS HEAVEN!" Her muffled voice exclaimed from the bears fur. It really was super warm and no matter how much the bear bucked, she seemed impossible to tear off. The bear wasn't about to stop yet, so began running at the man.

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Kamio stared in amazement as the girl jumped from his back, not away from the ice bear but toward it. The bear somehow seemed just as amazed as she latched around its neck in a massive bear hug. Kamio didn't know what to do, who knows what could happen in this situation. For all he knew the bear could use its massive arms and claws to rip the girl to shreds right in front of his eyes. Somehow, he didn't know why but the girl was laughing and smiling and yelling out how great it was to be hugging this bear. This whole scene was just a little bit much for Kamio to be honest.

Taking a step back, he felt the ground fall out slightly below him, thats right he was still on the edge of a ridge, best not be making moves like that. Holding one hand out in front of him he reached for hi pistol in the other. "Just .. . be careful .. . " he said slowly, his voice was low and shaky, hopefully they could get out of this situation with little trouble. Then the worst possible thing happened, the bear charged him. Girl hung off the edge of its neck as it bounded toward Kamio who instinctively fired.

He hadn't aimed the pistol yet so he wasn't sure what he'd hit. Not willing to let the bear get much closer he let off 2 more rounds before taking off to the side, off the path and away from the edge of the ridge. Hopefully he hit the right one, his ears throbbed temporarily deafening him from any sounds made. Diving into the woods he hoped to outmanuever the bear amongst the trees.