Shasta Wild & Atka

Atka dragged the unconscious human up to the mountains. It was little work for her, since Shasta was so light and Atka was full of muscle. The bear gently laid Shasta down in a clearing, then sat down next to her to keep her warm. Atka needed something to take care of, and Shasta needed to be taken care of.

Lisa

Lisa walked along the mountains silently.Hearing something she got on her belly and appeared over the edge.What she saw made her smile.The woman was uncouncious.Pulling out a gun silently she filled the chamber.Then she took out something else.It was a trangulizer.She fired the gun in the air,but quickly fired the trankgulizer at the bear and then the woman.She waited silently.

Sarah was at her side.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Atka smelled Lisa and Sarah long before she saw them. Her sense of smell was acute. She rose up and stood between Shasta and the intruders. Seeing the gun, she grabbed Shasta and dodged. She knew what guns were for. She learned the hard way and had a scar to prove it.

Shasta slowly woke up. She had been in a sort of subconscious state for most of the events, so knew that Atka had saved her. She glanced over at Lisa. She had never seen this woman before, but guessed by her behavior that she was an enemy.

Atka growled and charged at Lisa.

Lisa

Lisa glared silently.She doged to the side trying to miss the attack.Sarah snarling leapt at Atka.She wasn't scared of the bear.She fought wild animals before in her life.Lisa attepted to shoot the bear and fire a trank at Shasta silently.She fired again at the bear for safe meaures incase the first one missed.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Atka stepped back quickly, but got a bullet in her side. She had no fear of Sarah - she was nearly 500 pounds, much bigger than any dog. She simply swatted at the dog and snapped at her tiny head.

Shasta, even in this state, had good reflexed. She rolled to the side and let the dart go into the ground. It confused her that Lisa would just shoot her and the bear right away without even telling her what for. "Who are you and what do you want?" She demanded.

Lisa

Lisa watched silently.A smile came to her face when the bear got shot.Quickly she reloaded and shot three more times at the beer.

Sarah leapt back as the bear swatted her shoulder.Growling she lunched at the bear trying to get on the beers shoulder and bite her.

Lisa just glared at the woman before attepting another shot at her with the trank."I'm suprised you don't already know why i'm after you.My names no concern for you though,"she said cooly keeping her eyes on the bear.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Atka was shot once in the shoulder, but, being a heavy bear, it barely penetrated her skin. The other two bullets missed. Atka stood on her hind legs when Sarah lunged, completely dodging, and brought herself down with tremendous force with the intent of pinning the dog down.

Shasta rose to her feet. She had a suspicion. "You're one of Jesse's people, aren't you?" She hoped that by now Lisa would know that she would face severe consequences from Jesse if she didn't go by the book. This means that, if Lisa truly was a member, she would tell Shasta her name, why she was here, and what she was doing.

Lisa

Sarah growled when the bear caught her.She wiggled trying to get free.Her teeth attepted to bite anywhere she could get.If this didn't work then she stopped struggling and just glared up at the bear.As long as she protected her master she was okay.

Lisa smiled at Shasta."Well aren't you smart.I'm Lisa and i'm trying to catch you and take you to Jesse as you say,"she said.She hadn't know Jesse name till then for last time they met no names have been spoken.Spotting the bear had her dog she yelled in anger.Quickly she fired the trank at the bear as well as a bullet.Both of them went in different dirrection toward the bear.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Atka held Sarah down, being careful to hold her in such a way that she wouldn't get bitten.

Shasta slowly pulled her pistol out. "Do you know who I am? I'm an important member of the Atroe Hunting and Trapping Alliance. If you touch me, you'll be killed." She grinned as she continued. "Jesse has already learned that the ATHA are dangerous. He tells me that an ally of the ATHA killed Samuel Steele. Volkov was his name, I believe." She had heard of the Volkovs and how powerful they were, and had recently learned that they had struck up an alliance with the ATHA. Not many people wanted to cross either group.

Atka snarled when the tranquilizer dart hit her. That probably wasn't a good choice on Lisa's part, as she was standing over Sarah and holding her down. She fell to the ground. She would almost inevitably fall on Sarah, unless the dog had extremely good luck. Or better yet, a miracle.

Lisa

Lisa narrowed her eyes at the other woman."For your information i didn't know this and at the moment i don't care,"she said.Just to prove her point she fired a trank at Shasta.If it hit it should knock her out long enough for her to find Jesse's gang and give them Shasta.Spotting the bear she watched a bit worried for her dog."Sarah move,"she commanded hopefully before the bear fell on her.

Sarah growled when the bear came falling toward her.Quickly she scrabbled with her front and back legs trying to get out of the way.She was almost all the way out except that one leg got caught.She whimpered in pain when their was a loud crunch.Either it was sprained or broken,but she didn't know.

Lisa ran over and attepted to push the uncouncious bear off her dog.She knew that her dog leg was broken by the sound,but that would heal in time.She just have to keep Sarah at home till she heals.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Shasta deliberately fell to dodge the tranq. She then looked at Atka.

Atka wasn't moving. The quarter-ton bear was far too heavy for one human alone to push.

Seeing her chance, Shasta pulled out her pistol and aimed it at Lisa. "Don't turn around or I swear I'll shoot you. Put your hands in the air and back away from the bear slowly." The tables were turned. Shasta was calling the shots now.

Lisa

Lisa simply ignored Shasta and continued trying to get her dog free.She didn't want her broken leg to get worse.Little did she care about Shasta,without trying to get her dog free.

Sarah whined and tried to scrabble her way out.If Atka was all the way on her then most likely she wouldn't get free.

"I could care less at the moment,"she said a little icily to Shasta.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Atka was knocked out with no way of getting off of the dog. It was likely that she was completely on top of Sarah.

Shasta kept her aim on Lisa. "Serves you right. You should have known better than to down my bear while she was over your stupid dog." She snapped back. "I'm going to call my allies and they can help your dog." Of course, there was a lot hat she wasn't saying. Ben might want to have her questioned, and Shasta had no objection to that.

Lisa

Lisa could care looked at the woman when she said that."Why would you help my dog,"she asked.

Sarah whined.She wanted this huge thing off her.Her foot was really starting to hurt too.

Shasta Wild

Shasta would gladly help any dog, having her own dog run away and get stolen a while back. She knew what it was like to be held against her will after the recurring incident at Mikhail's house. "Animals are innocent. They don't know how to be good or bad. They're just animals. They deserve my help because they have helped me many times before." She said innocently. She had yet to figure out why Jesse wanted her dead, for she had done nothing to provoke him, but she put that aside for the time being. "We're going to have to wait until my friends from the ATHA arrive."

Lisa

Lisa listened silently.She didn't like this,but she do anything to save Sarah.For she was all that she had left."Okay i'll just have to take your word for it,"she said softly.Then she turned back to Sarah.Softly she began to speak to her.Just saying anything trying to calm her down.She talked about the old days being part of the Freedom gang softly.Being second in command cause she had known the leader all her life,and been best friends with her.

Sarah smiled at her owner softly and ingored the pain.She listened understanding and recognizing some of the words.

Shasta Wild

Shasta sat down on a small boulder and looked at Lisa "It's going to be a while before backup arrives. My dog just went out for help a while ago." She stated dully. "For now, I have a few questions to ask. Have you ever wondered why Jesse wants me dead? Have you ever asked yourself if it's the right thing to do?" Really, Jesse only wanted Shasta because she was the sister of their old leader, Mike. Mike felt that Shasta should be his pet and the others went along with that idea.

Lisa

Lisa sighed before looking up."No not really.I figured it was case your a friend of this Lark person or so,"she said.She sat down beside her dog still petting her.

Sarah listened to the voices silently.

Shasta Wild

Shasta gave her head a curious tilt. "Who's Lark?" She wasn't lying. She really didn't know who Lark was.

Lisa

Lisa watched silently as Shasta answered.She looked quizical at her for a few seconds.She could tell that the other woman wasn't lieing."I don't know truely.I only heard her name,but never saw her,"she said telling the truth.Sighing she looked back at her dog."Do you have any more questions for me,"she asked.She knew that the woman wanted to know stuff,but what she knew wouldn't help probly.

Sarah watched silently.

Shasta Wild

Shasta tucked her hands into her pockets. "Yeah, I have another question..." She said with a hint of impatience. “Now that you know my side of the story, are you still going to try to bring me to Jesse?" She knew that Jesse would kill her. He already tried to. In fact, Jesse thought she was dead right now after her fall at the Canyon.

Lisa

Lisa thought for a few seconds."No i won't.One is that you helping my dog.Two is that you've done nothing wrong,"she said silently.Then she turned to her dog and continued petting her.She waited for Shasta's reaction.

Shasta Wild

Shasta showed no hint of emotion as she listened to Lisa. "Good." She said dully. She would have offered Lisa a position in the ATHA, but not after she shot at both her and her bear. She didn't trust this woman anymore.

Lisa

Lisa just nodded her head.Turning she paid attention to her hurt dog.Tears threanted to spill from her eyes.Would her dog forever be lame?All this was her fault."I'm sorry Sarah,"she whispered only for her dogs ear.She really didn't want to hear some snide comment from Shasta if she gave one.

Sarah sensed her owner was sad.She tried to lick her hand,but couldn't reach.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Shasta herself was crippled, having been shot in the spine by a member of Jesse's gang. She had nerve damage and had to use a cane, which she certainly didn't like.

Shasta looked at Sarah. Suddenly, Atka moved her head.

"Atka?" Shasta asked, running to the huge bear's side. Atka growled and snapped at Shasta with seemingly uncontrollable aggression. She had a bad reaction to the tranquilizer. "Atka! Stop!" Shasta ordered. Atka tried to stand, but failed. Shasta looked at Lisa. "You! You used a tranquilizer on my bear!" She stepped back away from Atka.

Atka snarled and snapped at Lisa. She wasn't herself due to the tranquilizer.

Lisa

Lisa jumped back and stoof frozen in terror.She had never been so close to a bear before.She ingored Shasta guessing it might be the best thing.Then she rembered Sarah.She waited to see if the bear would attck her dog.If so she be forced to attack.

Sarah realized the bear was awake.She watched with fearful eyes.

Atka

Atka managed to stand, lifting her heavy body up off of Sarah. She moved closer to Shasta, but something kept her from attacking. She remembered that she had saved Shasta and Shasta had saved her, so she backed off...and turned her attention to Lisa. The nearly quarter-ton bear tried to pin Lisa down.

Lisa

Lisa was frozen to her spot in terror.Her eyes grew round with fear as the bear pinned her to the cold ground.She didn't struggle.

Sarah barked at the bear as loud as she could.She was asking it not to harm her owner.Her paws scrabbed against the ground trying to drag herself over to her master and the bear.She heardly moved and it caused her pain.A howl of pain rose from her mouth and then she was quiet as she watched.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Atka was about to snap at Lisa, but Shasta stopped her.

"Atka, NO." Shasta said dominantly, raising herself up to her full height, grunting in pain as she did so. "BAD BEAR."

Atka turned around and looked at Shasta, moving away from Lisa and allowing her to get up. She yawned in frustration.

Shasta looked down the mountain. "I think we can make it down there. I have a friend who lives nearby, but I can't say he'll be happy to see us." She glanced back at Lisa. "Put the dog on the bear's back."

Lisa

Lisa nodded her head silently.Going over to Sarah she picked her up gently and carried her over to the bear.She attepted to place her on Atka's back softly.She stayed near by for balance."Okay,"she said.Silently she waited for Shasta to lead the way.

Shasta Wild & Atka

Shasta turned around and began to lead the group down the hill. "If I'm right, my dog is probably there too." She said, mostly to herself. "Come, Atka."

The bear slowly began to move.