The Final Battle

This is a really long story. If you love animals, I suggest that you not read this. If you do read this, please, be careful.

 

 

We are about twenty miles from the nearest bit of civilization.

I smell. Like bear crap.

We ran into a bear cub yesterday. When I say we ran into, I mean literally dented the front of the bus. I felt so bad so we stopped the bus and tried to help it. Well Mama Bear wasn't too far behind. She was PISSED OFF. Like I'm-going-to-freaking-kill-these-stupid-mothalovin-humans-and-eat-them-with-my-dinner kind of pissed off. So we screamed and ran from it while the other girls watched from the bus. Then it ran up on me and I just squatted down and didn't move.

That was the longest sixteen seconds of my life. I was breathing so loud and my veins were pulsing like crazy. Caitlin did the same and so did Dinah. Maddie and Caroline managed to get the gun out of the storage compartment and took about two shots in the sky, and the bear left.

Caitlin ran to see if I was okay. I started crying, and then laughing, and we all had a group hug(:

And then Mama Bear returned from the back of the bus with other bears.

Like what the hell, who does that? You go tell your friends to come help you with your child problems?

That chick is crazy.

Instead of going through yet another near death experience, we jumped on the bus, and floored it until we were going forty miles through tree stumps.

The little girls were screeching like banshees and laughing. Even the hard to impress thirteen years olds were laughing.

I went to the back of the bus to get the sandwiches, and I look out the window and the bears are chasing the bus about a good ten feet back. We were going to run out of gas and had to refill soon. But the bear's were right behind us.

So while Makayla was driving, me and the girls devised a plan.

Cecile, Maddie's five year old sister, suggested we fill it with pepper spray solution. Then, it came to me. Tamara has a box of lighter fluid. We have cigarette lighters. I hated that I had to do it, but I did. I had to open the emergency exit at the back of the door. The bears ran even freaking faster. I cued Makayla to hit the gas, and we sped up to where we were a good fifty feet away from the bears. I held the lighter fluid so it coated the ground behind us. Then, with perfect timing. Allie dropped the cigarette lighter off the back of the bus. Then, right when the bears caught up, the path exploded with flames. It was so hot, and everyone screamed. It was like watching a firework explode.

It was amazing. I smiled. Teamwork.

Well three of the bears collapsed, and two ran straight the the flames. One of them was Mama Bear.

Then Rachel and Rebecca put plan B into the action with the help of young miss Cecile.

We mixed the pepper spray with a little bit of gun powder, and dumped it on the bears and then threw two cigarette lighters. The explosion was really loud, and caused a vibration, like a loud thunder roll. The bears disappeared in the smoke.

Everyone cheered, and even Makayla gave me a smile through the rear view mirror.

I wiped up the seat and let the girls sit back down, and then went back up to the front.

I felt so bad for the bears, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Then it started storming, and barely had gas.

Then we found a house. A HOUSE. While Sarah and Mae filled the bus with gas, some of us went inside the house to investigate. Now pay attention to who all went in.

It was me, Maddie. Makayla, Caitlin, Carolina, Dinah, Brea, and Sabrina. That's eight girls including me.

The house was abandoned. Creepy stains were everywhere. Paint was peeling. Toilet water was brown with stuff swimming in it. I went into the kitchen, and when I opened the refrigerator roaches spilled out. I opened my mouth and I heard a scream. But it wasn't

me. Makayla fell through the floor and landed in her arm. I saw that a column supporting the floor had collapsed. That makes no sense. It had a metal rod inside the block of wood. There's no way it could have gave out from the weight Makayla put on it. I mean she's on the larger side, but she is not heavy. At least not heavy enough to break the rod.

She was fine, just a few blisters. We climbed up the stairs and walked into a bedroom. On the wall, it had the ugliest wallpaper I've ever seen. I was about to look for stuff and then there was a ton of commotion outside. The two bears we thought were gone. Returned. They where gnashing at the windows. I could see the girls crying and screaming. I found a bat, Maddie found some guns, and Caroline handed out knives.

If you know me, then you know it is never good to get in my way when I have a bat. Never.

The bears were rocking the bus. I had seriously had enough of having to run from them. It was time for someone to go. It was going to be either us, or the bears. Now or never.

I huddled up with the girls, and planned how everything was to go down. Then I jumped, and made these loud screeching noise. Sabrina started chanting and whooping really loud. Maddie started banging trash can tops together. Carolina and Brea started shooting upwards. Dinah turned on a chainsaw we found in a pile of junk outside the house. Makayla had one of those things you use to cut the side of grass near a sidewalk. The bears charged straight for us.

Then an blood curdling screech stopped everything. Even the bears. Sabrina looked at us, and mouthed "mountain lion".

I could not breathe. That's never happened. Then Caitlin jumped from the top of the bus and collided with the bear. She WAS the mountain lion. Dinah ran straight for the bear she hit and started cutting at its neck. Brea shot at the other bear, and it immediately fell.

Caitlin was under the bear, and she was losing air quickly. I hit it in the back of the head multiple times, and I got it to get off of her. She just layer their, motionless. I stared at her. I wanted to cry, but the bear knocked me down. Out of the corner of my eye I could see the thirteen year olds pointing guns out of the window. Then, I got an idea. If I could get the lighter fluid on the bear's fur we could just burn them and let Dinah take them out.

I ran, and shouted at Cassie to get the gun powder and lighter fluid. Maddie caught it and started dumping it on the bears every time it got within five feet.

Then it charged in my direction (ONE DIRECTION<3) and took the cigarette lighter from my shorts, and threw it. The bear kept chasing me, and then I realized I freaking forgot to turn it on. Caitlin ran, turned it on , and threw it at the bear, and the bear caught fire. Thank God it was raining, because if the grass was dry we would have all been dead. It ran everywhere. It came really close to the bus, but finally gave up and fell to the ground.

The other bear was frightened and ran. Then I realized. The burning bear was Mama Bear.

We took the fire extinguisher from the bus and put the fire out, but she was already gone. I knew this would happened, but it was awful. The smoke. The burnt animal. It wasn't her fault. She was trying to help her child. I guess. We pried the doors to the bus open. The older girls were comforting the little ones. Everyone stood up and started clapping. After that, we loaded everything up. I hugged Caitlin. She laughed and said, "YOLO". Even though I hate that phrase, it was completely appropriate for that situation. We lived. She lived. I almost lost her. But she LIVED. WE lived.

We drove far away from there. That night, we all slept in the bus. I swear, when Caitlin jumped off the bus. That was heaven sent. God helped us. He saved us.

That night I will never forget. But we decided to keep it a secret. A camp secret. June 26, 2012, will be remembered as the day we fought bears. And lived.

So now we are setting up tents. We found a creek, and I'm letting girls play in the creek, and then wash them selves. Maddie poured some bubble bath at the top of the water fall, and then things got soapy. So I'm with Carolina, setting up individual tents, about to take a swim

Done