Grizzly King

Chapter 9

In the morning, the first rays of sunlight fell on the ledge where Thor and Maskar lay.The sun rose higher and higher, and the ridge became warmer and warmer.After Thor woke up, he only stretched his limbs and did not get up in a hurry.Since his wounding, he had eaten a pile of berries, pine resin, cloud pine needles, balsamic needles, and another good meal in the valley, and was in no hurry to leave this place of golden sunshine.It stared at Mascar for a long time, its eyes full of curiosity.On cold nights, snuggled up against Thor's warm body, the cub lay there, sobbing softly in sleep like a baby.

Moments later, Thor did something he'd never felt guilty about.Mascar's head was a soft, small ball, and Thor sniffed it softly, and licked the cub's face for the first time with his large, flat red tongue; Seeing its mother in a dream, clinging closer to Thor now.Strange to say, Muska actually entered Thor's life and won Thor's heart.

Grizzly was still confused.Generally speaking, he has an indescribable dislike for all bear cubs, and he is completely used to living alone.However, being so close to Mascar, it suddenly felt a kind of happiness and kindness.With the invasion of man, a new emotion, perhaps just a spark of emotion, entered its heart.

How can you feel friendship if you don't meet opponents and face danger?This may refer to Thor.Now it meets a real opponent, faces danger for the first time, and gradually understands what friendship is.In addition, its mating period is approaching, and Masca still has the smell of its mother, which makes Thor feel a little restless.Mascar was still bathing in the sun, dreaming in the sun, and Thor's sense of satisfaction became stronger and stronger.

The night rain invaded the valley, and the wetland shimmered in the morning sun. Thor overlooked the valley, and everything he saw made him feel very comfortable.It sniffed around, and there were all kinds of sweet smells in the air, the smell of new grass, flowers, balsam trees, and the sweetness of rain.

Thor began to lick the wound, and his movement woke Muska up.The cub raised his head, blinked towards the sun, was stunned for a while, then lazily rubbed his face with his little palm, and then stood up.Like all small children, he looked forward to the new day, even though the previous one had been hard and tiring.

Thor still lay there, looking calmly at the bottom of the valley, while Muska began to explore the cracks in the rock face, and rolled and played among the boulders on the ledge.

Thor looked from the valley to the cub.It was curious to see Masca rolling among the rocks and making antics.Then, it stood up awkwardly, shaking its body.

For at least five minutes, Thor stood motionless, like a stone statue—looking at the valley floor, smelling the wind in the air.Muska pricked up its little ears, walked over, and stood beside it.The sharp little eyes stared first at Thor, then at the sunny surroundings, and at Thor again, as if wondering what was about to happen.

Grizzly has the answer.It turned and walked down the ledge into the valley.Muska followed, just as he followed yesterday.The cub felt that he had grown twice as big and weighed twice as much as yesterday, and the restlessness of longing for his mother's milk would no longer bother him.Thor quickly acclimated him to all this, and he became a carnivore.

It knew they were returning to where they had eaten last night.

They were barely halfway up the mountain when Thor caught a whiff of something on the wind.

It paused for a moment, rumbling and growling deep in its chest, its thick ruff bristling in alarm.The smell it smells comes from the direction it stores its food, and it cannot tolerate that smell in this particular place.Normally, the smell wouldn't irritate him, and it wouldn't irritate him now if it had been a female bear.But it was the smell of a bear, a strong smell, wafting up the rocky gullies and heading straight for the balsam bushes where Thor kept his reindeer.

Thor stopped, sure of it.With a low growl, Thor immediately descended the hillside. His speed was so fast that it was difficult for Muska to keep up with him.They didn't stop until they came to the edge of the flat, overlooking the lake and the balsam bushes in the distance.Mascar was panting, and opened his mouth wide. Then, he raised his ears and stared ahead. Every muscle in his small body suddenly became stiff.

75 yards below them, where they stored their food, is now a mess.The culprit was a large, handsome black bear.It was perhaps three hundred pounds lighter than Thor, but it stood about as tall as Thor.In the sun, its fur shone with a velvety luster.It was the largest and most daring black bear to trespass into Thor's territory in a long time.As Thor and Muska bent over it, the black bear had dragged the carcass from its hiding place and was eating it.

After a while, Muska raised his head and stared at Thor questioningly, as if asking:
"What are we going to do? It ate our breakfast."

Tor chose to go down the road.It walked slowly, unhurriedly, and seemed to be in no rush.

Thor came to the edge of the grass and stopped again, when he was about thirty or forty yards away from the intruder.Its walking posture was not particularly hostile, but the ruff on its shoulders had become much longer than Muska had seen before.

The black bear who was eating and munching raised its head, and it met Thor's eyes for half a minute.The grizzly bear's huge head swung from side to side, like the slow movement of a pendulum; the black bear remained motionless, like a sphinx.

Muska stood four or five paces away from Thor, like a little boy, knowing what was going to happen, and ready to run away with Thor with his short tail between his legs, or to rush forward to join him. fight.Thor's head swung like a pendulum, attracting Muska's curious gaze.All of nature understands the meaning of this rocking motion, and man has learned to understand it. "Whenever a grizzly bear shakes its head, be on the lookout!" That's the first thing a bear hunter in the mountains does.

The big black bear also understood that if it was the other black bears in Thor's territory, they would have backed up a little, and then turned around and left.Thor gave the black bear plenty of time.

However, this black bear is new to the valley.Not only that, it is a strong black bear, has never been punished and taught, and it dominates in its territory.At this moment, the black bear stood in place, not giving an inch.

During the confrontation between the two bears, the black bear made the first threat.

Thor walked towards the intruder, calmly.Muska followed.On the way, Thor stopped and crouched on the ground.Ten feet from the carcass, Thor stopped again.At this time, it shook its huge head back and forth, and the shaking speed increased, and its half-open mouth let out a low rumbling roar.The black bear growled too, baring its ivory-like fangs.Muska whimpered beside him.Thor took another step forward.At this time, it shrugged its shoulders, bowed its body, and its jaw almost touched the ground.

The roar stopped abruptly when the two bears were within a yard of each other.They stared at each other for 30 seconds, like two angry men, each trying to scare the other with a determined look.

Mascar trembled, as if trembling with anger.It was whining, its voice weak.

It whined incessantly, and the whine reached Thor's ears.Immediately afterwards, a fight broke out, and it came so fast that even Mascar was frightened. He lay flat on the ground, motionless like a stone.

Thor gritted his teeth and roared unlike any other animal.

Thor pounced on the black bear, and the black bear straightened its hind legs slightly, ready to counterattack.They were chest to chest, tangled together.Then, the black bear rolled on its back, but Thor was a seasoned fighter, and it escaped the fierce attack of the black bear's hind legs.Thor's four sharp fangs dug deep into the black bear's shoulder bone.At the same time, the black bear's claws were like knives, piercing into Thor's injured shoulder blade, and blood spurted out immediately.

The gigantic grizzly bear roared, shaking the ground.It jerked backwards, with its front legs off the ground and its hind legs straight, reaching a height of nine feet.It warned black bears.Even after the first fight, if its opponent retreats, the grizzly will not give chase.But now, it's a fight to the death.The black bear not only trampled its storage area, but also tore open the wounds left by humans.

1 minute ago, Thor was still fighting for rules and power, he didn't have much hatred, and he didn't have the anger to kill.Now, it has become ferocious and terrifying.Its mouth was wide open, eight inches wide between the upper and lower jaws; the lips were set straight, showing white teeth and red gums; The ax made a split in the trunk of a pine tree.Its eyes shone with garnet red anger, and the dark green pupils were almost swallowed by the ferocious flames.Anyone who sees Thor at this moment will understand that this war is either you or me.

Thor is not a fighter standing on his hind legs.After it stood upright for six or seven seconds, it immediately landed on all fours while the black bear took a step forward.

The black bear and the grizzly continued to confront each other with their forelimbs hanging in mid-air.Afterwards, for several minutes, Mascar lay flat on the ground, getting closer and closer to the ground, his eyes blazing as he watched the fight.It was a fight watched only by the forest and the mountains, and the roar echoed through the valley.

Like humans, the two giants tugged at each other with powerful forearms, fangs and hind limbs.For a full 2 ​​minutes, the two cuddled together desperately, rolling over and over on the ground, sometimes the grizzly bear was on top, and sometimes the black bear was on top.Black bears tear ferociously with bear claws; grizzlies use primarily teeth and a powerful right hind limb.Thor's forearms could easily tear apart the black bear, but now he just grabbed the bear with his forearm and beat the bear.It is fighting, it wants to subdue the opponent, it is like rushing on a reindeer and pulling out its entrails.

The jaws of the grizzly and black bears clashed in mid-air, fighting with their teeth.The black bear moved faster than Thor, but Thor bit his long, sharp teeth into the opponent's flesh again and again, and the black bear's right shoulder was almost torn to pieces.Muska heard the impact, the grinding of teeth against each other, and the crunching of bones.

Suddenly, the black bear was slammed down, and the back of its neck seemed to be broken.Thor threw himself at the black bear's throat, and his huge mouth approached the black bear's jugular vein.The black bears were still fighting, their bloody mouths open weakly.

Muska stood up.It was still quivering, but with a strange excitement.This was not the kind of game he played with his mother, this was the first time he had seen a fight.The excitement of fighting made the blood in his young body throbbing and the blood flow accelerated.Like a dog howling, Muska gave a weak bark and rushed up.It bit the thick fur and hard skin on the black bear's buttocks with its teeth, and howled as it pulled.Its heart was filled with resentment and inexplicable rage.

At this time, the black bear lying on its back bowed its body and scratched from Thor's chest to its abdomen with one hind paw. The wound was three feet long, the flesh was ripped open, and blood flowed.If the stroke had been on a reindeer or any other animal, it would have been enough to dislodge its entrails.

The black bear's old trick was repeated, and the grizzly dodged sideways, but the black bear's second hit hit Mascar.The black bear's paw hit the cub, and Mascar was thrown twenty feet like a stone from a slingshot.Fortunately, it was not injured, just knocked unconscious.

At the same moment Thor let go of the black bear's throat and jumped two or three feet away.

Thor's body was bleeding all the time, and the blood soaked the bear's shoulders, neck and chest, and the bear's flesh was torn off in great chunks.The black bear tried to stand up, but Thor fell on top of it again.

This time, Thor desperately held down the black bear.Its big mouth bites the vital part above the black bear's nose. With a "creak", there was a terrifying crunching sound, and the fight ended.The blow would have killed the black bear, but Thor didn't know it, only that he could use the bear's claws easily now.The bear was dead, and Thor was still pounding and tearing at the bear until 10 minutes later.

The fighting arena is horrible.The ground was messed up and turned red, and there were large pieces of black bear skin and pieces of black bear meat everywhere - the black bear was torn to pieces.

Langdon and Otto were two miles away, squatting on the edge of a mountainside rock, watching through binoculars.They were tense, held their breath, and turned pale.From this distance, they both witnessed a horrific fight.

Thor gasped and stood up, blood dripping on his lifeless opponent.Langdon moved the telescope down.

"My God!" he said softly.

Otto jumped to his feet.

"Come on!" he yelled. "The black bear is dead! Hurry up or the grizzly will be lost!"

At this moment, Mascar, who was on the grass, ran towards Thor with a small piece of warm black bear skin in his mouth.Thor lowered his head, his huge head was still bleeding.It stuck out its bright red tongue and licked Mascar's face, because the brown-faced bear cub proved himself, which was seen by Thor and accepted him from the bottom of his heart.

(End of this chapter)