Adventure

 "To Ryan, a friend of mine until he moved away."

-M.N

Frost

Chapter 1: Frost

I'm Frost, a polar bear living with my momma bear in Churchill, Manitoba. 

My dad died in a fight with a polar bear trying to kill Mom, and Dad sacrifaced his life to save Mom. I wasn't born at the time. 

I have a friend named Puff, a adventurous puffin who loves challenges, big or small, and he's very kind and funny. 

We play together in the treehouse that me and Puff found abandoned a long time ago, and everyday we play in it. 

A few days after we found the treehouse, Puff found a little wooden piano and he knows how to play For Elise!

I'm right now sleeping, murmuring words from good memories of me and Puff, commenting about Puff's playing and us talking together. Such good memories.

Chapter 2: An Adventure

I heard that Snow, the polar bear princess of Nunavut, is missing!

Since I live in Manitoba, this isn't special, but it's an adventure and adventures are rare, and me and Puff love adventures. 

I told Puff about the news and when I finished speaking, his face showed me that he was excited, which isn't a surprise, since he loves challenges the same I do. 

"Yes, an adventure!" shouted Puff. 

"We're going on an adventure, we're going on an adventure!" we song together. 

It's a song we made up not long ago, and it's a nice, adventurous song that you would hear in the Hobbit or something. 

I didn't tell Mom about our adventure and were we traveling to. 

We sang the song when we were traveling along, like real adventurers, singing songs, and facing danger... I hope we reach that, like real adventurers.     

Chapter 3: Hunters

The next morning, me and Puffin woke up from the cave we were sleeping in and traveled. 

An hour into traveling along in the snow, I heard the crackling of heavy boots on snow, growing louder and louder the closer the noise was.

I could see humans in large parkas and heavy boots with quivers full of arrows, each with a huge bow used to kill bigger prey. They were hunters!

And we were the prey. 

Puff had the best chance of surviving the hunters, since he could fly, he was small, and the hunters would think he was small prey, nothing much to eat and a waste of arrows. 

I was the big prey, but I was big, and it would take many arrows to kill me, and I could kill many hunters easily.

Another trick for me to survive was to camouflage into the snow, and that trick works real nice with predators hunting polar bears. 

Real nice to use on the hunters that are going to kill me. Real nice. 

Me and Puff ran away from the hunters, only ten feet from us, already shooting arrows us, but they missed. 

As they were gaining closer and closer to us, my heart thumped louder and louder and my death was nearer and nearer to the heavens by the minute. 

Suddenly I saw thick snow at the next bend, where the humans couldn't see camouflage in the snow. 

I camouflaged into the snow quickly, and I noticed that Puff was hiding behind a bush since he couldn't camouflage like me. 

The hunters ran past us and when me and Puff were sure they were gone, we came out of our hiding positions and traveled for a little bit until we were hungry. 

Puff found fish in a lake near where we were going to eat lunch, and I caught some prey, and when we both came back to eat our lunch, we ate together, didn't say a word, and were eating sliently, happy to be together, but sliently eating, each having nothing to say to each other. 

Chapter 4: Lucinda

The next day, we traveled in the foggy weather, another day of finding Snowy the polar bear, our mission.   

Suddenly I saw something in the thick morning fog: a female polar bear wandering in the snow, minding her own business.

"Hello" I greeted her. 

"Hello" she greeted back. 

"What's your name?" Puff asked.

"Lucinda" she answered back to Puff. "Yours?" she asked me and Puff.

"I'm Frost" I said. 

"And I'm Puff" Puff answered to Lucinda. 

"Beautiful names" Lucinda commented. "Very."

"Thank you" I said.  

Chapter 5: A Third Adventurer

"Where are you and Puff going?" asked Lucinda.  

"To Nunavut" I answered. 

"Why?" Lucinda asked. 

"It's very complicated" I answered back to Lucinda. 

"Try me."

"Snow the polar bear of Nunavut is missing, and we're going there to see if she is somewhere in Nunavut because it's big there."

"Me and Puff are adventurers and this is our first adventure" I finished. 

"Can I join?" Lucinda asked. 

"Sure."   

"Hear that, Puff? A third adventurer!"  

Chapter 6: The Trio Traveling 

The three of us went to back to traveling in the fog, and later the sun rose brightly in the sky and the fog disappeared. 

We had lunch and after the meal, we traveled some more, passing bushes and looking at the snow-capped mountains. 

Later we ate dinner and looked at the stars, connecting the stars into constellations, and after we watched the stars, we all went to sleep for a long night's rest.   

Chapter 7: Puff Missing

The next morning when I woke up, I noticed that Puff wasn't here with us.

I waited a few minutes to see if Puff was off hunting for fish or going to bathroom, but he didn't come back, so I woke up Lucinda. 

"Puff's gone" I said. "I waited a few minutes to see if he'd come back, but he didn't."

"This is odd because I never saw or hear him leave us, which I always do" commented Lucinda. 

"Let's find him" I said. 

"OK." answered Lucinda. 

We searched in the snow, behind bushes, and at the lake where Puff goes to hunt, but no Puff. 

"Let's go back, it's getting cold " said Lucinda. 

"No, let's keep searching" I pushed. 

Suddenly, something grabbed me and Lucinda and then everything was black.

Chapter 8: Rescue

Suddenly I woke up and saw I was in a warehouse full of dusty old boxes and a few forklifts.

In one corner, I saw a small cage made of wood and a bigger cage made of medal and in the two cages were Puff and Lucinda!

I first freed Puff and then me and Puff tried to break Lucinda's medal cage, and it was hard, but we soon broke the cage and Lucinda was free!

We found our way out of the warehouse, and then we all talked in the snow about what happened. 

"Why was I not a cage like you guys?" I asked. "I blacked out like you guys."

"Yes" answered Lucinda. "You did."

"Who knocked me, Lucinda and you out?" I asked Puff. 

"So many questions and no answers" said Puff. "I don't know."

"It might happened again" said Lucinda. 

"But we'll be ready."  

Chapter 9: Another Plan

"What happened to the two polar bears and the puffin?" I commanded. 

Sorry, I'm Lufa, a wolf that lead my two wolves to the two polar bears and the puffin, and right now, I'm hearing disappointment like always. 

"They escaped. I'm sorry, boss." said the wolf that was watching them.

This always happens, but I can come up with another plan like always. A better plan than the last one. 

"You two go and do the same thing as last time, but I will come you this time."

"OK, boss" they said in unison. 

"Good. We'll do good this time. If not, we're slowing them down."

Chapter 10: One Down, Two to Go

We caught up to them and hid in a bush where we'd ambush them and then kill the three.

When I thought it was good time to attack them, we jumped from the bush and attacked. 

It was a long fight, but in the end, we killed one of the polar bears named Frost, judging by the other two were crying out "Frost!" when he was hurt. 

One down, two to go.   

Chapter 11: Final Moments

It was night, and nobody was watching us, the perfect time for Puff and me to say our final words to Frost.

I already said my final words to Frost, but Puff was doing overtime.    

"Frost" said Puff. 

"Frost, why are you not alive right now? Why!" cried Puff. 

"Puff, I'm sorry, but life goes on" I said.

"No, it doesn't!" shouted Puff.

"I'm sorry, Puff. Think of happy thoughts of you and Frost. Try. It'll make you feel better" I comforted Puff. 

"OK."

We buried Frost beyond the snow that looked the ground, and then we went to sleep, Puff sleeping beside where we buried Frost, and I sleeping on the other side of Frost, Puff on the right and I on the left.

Chapter 12: Snow

The next morning, me and Puff woke up and traveled in the snowy weather, me walking along and Puff flying, the snow in his face. 

Later we stopped traveling so Puff could hunt for fish at a nearby steam and so I could hunt for some seals where Puff was near. 

We brought our prey to where we stopped to hunt and then I ate on the snowy ground, eating seal, while Puff was eating fish on a rock. 

After we finished lunch, we traveled for a little bit and when we traveling, I saw a female polar bear.

I ran to the polar bear and greeted her. She told me that she was Snow, the ice princess of Nunavut. 

I was frozen in stock; this was the polar bear that was missing, and right now she's here, skin and bone. 

Me and Puff told her our names and I told her that we were on a adventure to find you. 

I told her she can stay with us and she argeed. She's with us. The adventure is almost over: just to find where home is.

Chapter 10: Where is Home?

"I don't want to go back to Nunavut!" cried Snow.

"They make you do all sorts of fancy manners and greeting, and I dont like it there!"

"That's why you were said to be "missing!" exclaimed Puff. 

"Yes, that's why I was said to be missing" said Snow. "And you obviously thought I was missing and were starting to search for me."

"Now we found you!" shouted Puff. 

"One question: where is home?" I asked. 

"Not Nunavut!" yelled Snow. 

"Maybe Churchill" suggested Puff. 

"Churchill, Manitoba?" I asked Puff. 

"Me and Frost's home."

"Lt's go there!" I shouted. 

"And live there!" exclaimed Snow. 


"A perfect plan!" Puff shouted. 

Chapter 11: Home

One week later

"We're home!" shouted Puff. "At least mine and Frost's."

Churchill was just like I wanted it. No fancy rules, perfect weather for a polar bear, and lots of food there. 

Here's (Churchill), it's like a free country, very nice to live in and lots of needs like food and water, but most of all, no fancy rules.

The past in gone, and the future begins. Better make the best of the future in Churchill like making friends. I already did that when I went on my first adventure.