A bear is silently strolling around in the woods looking for food.

Out of the corner of her eye she spots a mountain lion, silently creeping toward her. The bear slowly turns her head in the other direction and spots another mountain lion. Her worst fears are being realized. She is being ambushed, if there are two, there will be more.

She quickly turns her head and spots another two lions. As her head turns she feels a hot searing pain in her back as one of the lions has pounced on her and dug his claws deep into her back. The bear struggles but can’t find her roar to shout for help and to scare the lions away. Another lion sinks his teeth into her leg. and the other two lions pounce on her back and front.

For a few moments the bear gives up and thinks she is good as dead. Then a picture of her cubs jumps into her mind. She sees the cubs looking for their mother, looking for food and at that moment she knows the cubs will die if she does not go back to the large hole under the oak tree, where they are dwelling. Another claw just misses her eye as she sees the lion about to bite into her neck. The three cubs keep coming back into her mind and suddenly she rises…..she rises to shake off two of the lions and lets out an almighty roar…she shakes another lion from her leg and swats another as he pounces again, she looks at the lion face on and roars another massive, bellowing roar. The lions stops in it’s tracks….another roar confirms his suspicion that this bear wants to live, and will do anything to survive. He turns and walks away and the other lions join him.

The bear, limps slowly back to her cubs and cradles them in her fur as she feeds them.