9. Bear Attack

9 Bear Attack! I thought I was gonna die. "Eeeeeeeekkkkkk!" we all screamed. The bear was big and black and scary. I saw it with my own eyes! Well, it would be pretty hard to see something with somebody else's eyes. But the bear was standing there about

twenty feet away, staring at us. "I'm s... s... scared!" said Emily, who had a reason to be scared for the first time in her life. We were all scared. We didn't know what to say. We didn't know what to do. We had to think fast. "Miss Blake!" shouted Andrea. "Come quick! It's an emergency!" "M-m-m-maybe it's a friendly bear," Alexia whispered, "like Winnie-the-Pooh, or Paddington." "Yeah," whispered Ryan. "Like Corduroy, or Fozzie Bear. They're friendly." "Or the Three Bears," whispered Neil, "or the Care Bears or—" "Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!" growled the bear as it opened its mouth and showed its big teeth.

"Eeeeeeeekkkkkk!" we all screamed. I could smell the bear's bad breath. "I d-d-don't think it's friendly," said Ryan. Miss Blake came running out of her tent. "What's going on out here?" she barked. "I was trying to get some—" But she didn't have the chance to finish her sentence. Because that's when she noticed the bear. "Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!" growled the bear. "Punch it in the face, Miss Blake!" shouted Ryan. That's when the weirdest thing in the history of the world happened. Miss Blake fainted! Her eyes rolled up in her head and she fell backward. Michael and Neil caught her just before she hit the ground.

"Eeeeeeeekkkkkk!" we all screamed. "Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!" growled the bear. "What are we going to do now?" shouted Neil. "Emily!" Andrea shouted. "Quick! Climb up on my shoulders!" "Why?" asked Emily. "I'm scared!" "Just do it!" shouted Andrea. "If we make ourselves look big, it might scare

the bear away!" "How do you know that?" asked Michael. "I read it in the Beaver Scout Handbook," Andrea replied. We all helped Emily climb up onto Andrea's back. "Now spread your arms out and make lots of noise!" Andrea shouted. We all started yelling and screaming and hooting and hollering. That's when the weirdest thing in the history of the world happened. The bear turned around and walked off into the woods. "We did it!" Emily shouted excitedly. "He's leaving!" Wow! Andrea should get the Nobel Prize. That's a prize they give out to people who don't have bells. I never

knew you could scare a bear away just by pretending to be big and making noise. I thought our overnight couldn't get more exciting than that. But then something even more exciting happened. I'm not going to tell you what it was. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. But you have to read the next chapter.*