Chapter 1
Likee

Likee was a smart and furry little grizzly bear, but she was not just an ordinary bear.

Although almost an adult, she was only as big as a small tiger cub! Likee's size was amazingly small for her age.

Though being the youngest in her family, Likee could also run and climb faster than anyone, and leap higher than others. She was seen as the little star in the bear family.

As time passed, however, her older brothers and sisters grew very jealous of her. They thought it was unfair because Likee was better than them, she was smart and clever, loved by their parents, and always thought of great solutions to solve all different problems.

Seven months ago, she went to Harvard Bear University. She would listen carefully to the teacher, Mr. Brown Blur. Mr. Brown Blur was also very proud of her. Day and day passed, and Likee would come back from Harvard Bear University having learnt many new things.

When her brothers and sisters sat beside her or went to find her, Likee would dash back to her little cave, and hide there until they were gone. Day by day, Likee became more and more afraid of them. Because they were all in a family, they moved together, so wherever Likee was, they were too, always playing pranks, like cuffing her ears.

Why was that? Let's meet her brothers and sisters.

Likee had three brothers and three sisters: Bikee, Tikee, Dikee, Sikee, Nikee, and Yikee. Bikee was the oldest brother, and also the leader. Whenever Likee's parents were not taking care of them, they would beat her with their strong big paws. When their parents were out hunting, they would tease her about her smallness. Every time Likee felt like crying, but sometimes she would also rise to fight back.

Sometimes, the situation could get even worse, but this shot really worked because her brothers and sisters were clumsy fellows.

Likee would always say: “What did I do? NOTHING!” Her brothers and sisters also teased her about her dream of being a dancer. They thought it was a pig-brained idea.

Likee was a very kind bear, she tried and learnt from everything. Though her brothers' and sisters' jealousy grew into hatred, she never told her parents, thanks to her kind heart.

Because Likee was so different from the other bears, her father was always terribly worried, but her mother just didn't worry at all, because she truly adored Likee. Likee's father had sent her to the best doctor bear in all of bear world. The doctor bear examined Likee's DNA and her skeletal system carefully, and checked her brain too. Everything was perfectly fine, nothing really unusual, none of the machines showed problems, only some light scratches, which of course were made by Likee's brothers and sisters. Maybe those good sport talents were given by the God.

The home of Likee's tribe was located above the human world, which was called the bear world. Actually, there were many different worlds, Likee and other land animals all lived in the land animal world. The bear world was only a small part of the land animal world. Of course, there were also an underground animal world, an undersea animal world, a land insect world, an underground insect world, and the biggest of all, the human world.

Actually, each world had a secret path connected to each other, each path leading to a world, but only Likee's greatgreat-great grandfather knew the secret. It was like a tunnel that led you down one world to another. It would sometimes appear in a place, and then to another place. But only Likee's great-great-great grandfather always knew where the tunnel was. People were very scared of bears and many other animals, thus these different worlds became separated.

One sunny day in autumn, Likee couldn't bear it anymore. She felt too bad living with her brothers and sisters, so she decided to leave and go to seek her future following her dream: TO BE A DANCER! Likee knew she was fat, plump, but she would do anything to learn! In fact, Likee was perfectly fine, not fat, in her tribe. But she knew she was very plump when she would be compared with a real dancer.

One day, Likee finally couldn't help snarling and growling at Bikee, but instead of screaming with fear as a human would, they still laughed at her, snickering and smirking. In such a situation, kids would usually to go and tell their parents, but of course, Bikee wouldn't do those kinds of childish things.

As Likee turned away, she tried to suppress a sigh while her mother came in a hurry perhaps because she had heard something. She gave her a pot with irregular light blue patterns that she'd found in the hunting forests. It was a beautiful pot, good enough to make Likee remember everything her mother had done for her.

Likee took the pot from her mother and started to run away, left her mother alone sobbing, since she did not know why Likee had to go so suddenly.

Likee ran and ran in the forest, panting on her way, anger, pain and sadness throbbed in her heart. She was weeping heavily, tears streaming down her small bear cheeks. She had no idea where she was heading or going forwards.

Until, at what Likee thought the edge of the bear territory, she felt herself stepping into something like a hole or a tunnel, and then falling...

“I'm falling!” Likee screeched.