Dragoneagle Bear

Note: I was in Yellowstone National Park a few years ago with my family in our motorhome that we drove from near San Francisco, California. We had an experience with a Grizzly Bear in Yellowstone that sort of helped inspire this story. He was eating flowers and so I dubbed him "Flower Child Grizzly". and then the Ranger arrested someone we saw from getting too close to him and interfering with his flower eating reverie high. But the Grizzly didn't care, it was a very beautiful summer day and he didn't need to hit or eat that human anyway. Besides, Flowers taste better. end note.

Dragoneagle Bear was living in Yellowstone and had had a happy mother even though he hadn't really met his dad. Sometimes, Mom still visited him and recognized him and they ate flowers together like they did when he was still a bear cub grizzly.

He wasn't looking forward to winter coming because it was always harder to get good food then and he usually went in somewhere to go to sleep after giving up looking for food and then woke up in the spring hungry as heck.

But today as he ate the flowers he noticed the bees and the bumblebees humming and eating all the pollen. And of course you know bears love the honey that bees make from pollen. So he decided to go follow these bees to their bee hive and get him some honey. He had so much hair that they could only sting him around his eyes and on his nose anyway. The stings were worth it to get so much honey!

So he followed the bees up their tree and knocked the hive down to the earth and the bees got real mad and stung him all they could. But you know bees, they just started building another hive up where he knocked it down or near to it, so in a month or two he would have another hive to raid. But the stings today made him feel funny. Maybe he was allergic to this breed of honey bees or something. He began to have strange dreams from all the honey and all the stings. Pretty soon, he was flying through the air as mister Bald Eagle. Eagles didn't seem to like honey like bears do. But Dragoneagle bear had always wanted to fly just like Mr. and Mrs. Bald Eagle and often he dreamed of flying. So today as he flew as Mr. Bald Eagle in his Midsummer nights dream, suddenly Mr. Bald eagle turned into something that  Dragoneagle Bear had never seen before. He turned into a beautiful Golden Dragon. He watched as he kept turning from Eagle to Golden Dragon and back again. Dragoneagle Bear thought this was the best dream he had ever had. So when he woke up his Mom was there looking at him and he said, "Mom. I just had the most amazing dream I ever had. I dreamed I was a Bald Eagle that kept turning back and forth into a great golden Dragon! Isn't that Great?

Mommy Bear said, "What's a Dragon?"
Dragoneagle Bear said, "It's this great snake like thing bigger than a big pine or fir tree that has wings and flies!"
Mommy Bear said, "That scares me, son!"
Dragoneagle Bear said, "For some reason it doesn't scare me because I'm already a Grizzly and most everything is scared of me already!"
Mommy Bear said," Your Daddy was a protector too. He kept the other bears from eating you when you were little."
Dragoneagle Bear said, "I don't know what to do with that information, Mom. But you can be sure I will protect you from anything too."
Mommy Bear said, "I know son. You can be my Dragoneagle Bear. You are a magic Grizzly now!"