The Quest Begins
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Chapter 1
- Kallik's point of view
- Nisa tells Kallik and Taqqiq about the legend of Silaluk, while they are unable to leave their shelter due to a severe storm
- Nisa teaches Kallik and Taqqiq how to hunt
- Nisa successfully kills a seal as it emerges from the ice hole
- A male polar bear steals their prey
- Kallik, Nisa, and Taqqiq find a dead gray whale and eat it
- The ice begins to break away
Chapter 2
- Lusa's point of view
- Lusa receives a pear from the flat-faces
- Yogi fights her for the pear
- Lusa and Yogi startle King who yells at them
- Ashia tells them to play something else
- Yogi and Lusa try to see who can go they longest without moving
- Lusa looses and they ask Stella to tell them the story of the Bear Tree
- At night, Stella tells Lusa and Yogi the of the cub with a star in his tail
Chapter 3
- Toklo's point of view
- Toklo almost gets crushed by a firebeast
- Toklo and Oka find Tobi some dandelions to eat
- Oka finds a dead deer
- When they finish, Toklo leads them to a grain spill and a larger bear chases them away
- Oka tells them that they must go to the Great Salmon River
Chapter 4
- Kallik's point of view
- Nisa catches a seal and they share it
- The ice breaks and Taqqiq falls into the water and Kallik separates onto an island of ice
- Nisa saves them
- Nisa, Kallik, and Taqqiq cross a channel one by one but orcas attack
- An orca kills Nisa just as she pushes Kallik onto the ice.
Chapter 5
- Lusa's point of view
- Lusa races Yogi up a tree
- King teaches Lusa how to climb trees
- Lusa climbs to the top of the tree and sees many animals
- Lusa asks Stella them but she says to ask King
- Ashia and Lusa play a game pretending to be in the wild
Chapter 6
- Toklo's point of view
- Oka tells Toklo how to catch a salmon
- Toklo wakes up to Tobi dead
- Oka yells at Toklo and stays the rest of the day with Tobi
Chapter 7
- Kallik's point of view
- Kalliks sets off to find Taqqiq
- Kallik tries to catch a seal but misses
- Kallik finally makes it to land
Chapter 8
- Lusa's point of view
- Lusa finds Ashia sick and tries to feed her fruit
- Lusa show flat-faces that Ashia is sick and they take Ashia away
Chapter 9
- Toklo's point of view
- Oka tells Toklo they must do the death ritual and bury Tobi
- Toklo and Oka arrive at the Gret Salmon River
- Shoteka attacks Toklo but Oka fights him off
- Toklo tries to fish but gets swept away by the current
- Shoteka tries to drown him
- Oka leaves Toklo to die
Chapter 10
- Kalliks point of view
- Kallik finds and eats some berries and catches a frog
- Kallik follows other bears in hope they'll lead her to the Burn Sky Gathering Place
- Kallik finds some caribou
Chapter 11
- Lusa's point of view
- Ashia returns and tells Stella, Lusa, Yogi, and King about giaffes, elephants, mountains, and blackpaths.
Chapter 12
- Toklo's point of view
- Toklo lays down on a rock and watches Oka
- A mother bear tells Toklo to go back to Oka
- Toklo lays down by his mother and falls asleep
- Toklo awakes to find Oka burrying him
- Oka claws at Toklo and he runs away
Chapter 13
- Kallik's point of view
- Kallik finds a dead rabbit
- Kallik catches a plover
- Kallik reaches a river and crosses it
- Belugas arrive and swim with Kallik to the other side
- Kallik finds walruses and they case her away
Chapter 14
- Lusa's point of view
- Oka arrives at the bear bowl
- Lusa talks to Oka
- King tells Lusa to stay away from Oka
- Ashia explains to Lusa why she must stay away from Oka
Chapter 15
- Toklo's point of view
- Toklo finds two squirrels, a stoat, and many other animals
- Toklo climbs the mountain and finds the bear he stole food from
- Toklo finds wild onions and eats them
- Toklo digs a den and dreams of being the lonely bear
Chapter 16
- Kallik's point of view
- Kallik meets Purnaq and they go to the Burn Sky Gathering Place, where Kallik tries to find Taqqiq
Chapter 17
- Lusa's point of view.
- Oka claws one of the feeders, injuring him
- Lusa promises Oka that she will go into the wild and find Toklo
Chapter 18
- Toklo's point of view.
- Toklo tries to catch some salmon, but isn't able to
- Toklo finds a mother bear with her two cubs, Fochik and Aylen.
- When Fochik catches a salmon, Toklo steals it and the mother bear chases him away.
Chapter 19
- Kallik's point of view
- Kallik tries to find Taqqiq at the Burn Sky Gathering Place
- Kallik leaves on the Claw Path with the other bears to a no-claw area in hope of finding Taqqiq there
Chapter 20
- Lusa's point of view
- Lusa tells the Yogi, King, Stella, and Ashia that she want to go to the wild.
- Lusa tries to escape
- Lusa pretends to be sick
- The feeders take Lusa to the treatment room in a cage
- Lusa escapes from the cage and starts traveling toward the forest
Chapter 21
- Toklo's point of view
- Toklo follow's the river to the valley
- In the valley, Toklo hears gun shots and flat-faces screaming
- Toklo awakes to find a flat-face point a metal stick at him
- Toklo flees and another cub follows him
- The cub gets shot in the leg and Toklo helps him escape
- They stop for the night to rest, but when Toklo awakes, the cub is gone
Chapter 22
- Kallik's point of view.
- Kallik follows Purnaq on the Claw Path
- Kallik stops for the night and when she awaks, Purnaq had already left
- Kallik follows his scent toward a row of houses, where she hears gunfire
- Kallik smells food and goes into a flat-face den
- Before Kallik can take the meat, a flat-face tranqulizes her
Chapter 23
- Lusa's point of view.
- Lusa travels through the flat-face denning area
- Lusa climbs a fence to enter a backyard where she meets a cat
- Lusa stops at a house to check the metal cans for food
- Lusa opens the first bin and finds potato sticks and other foods
- When Lusa opens the second can, the lid pops off, making a loud crash that alerted the flat-face
- The flat-face lets his dog out, which chases Lusa away.
Chapter 24
- Toklo's point of view.
- Toklo awakes to see a flat-face cub standing over him
- The flat-face cub introduces himself
- Toklo agrees to let Ujurak travel with him
Chapter 25
- Kallik's point of view
- Kallik awakes in an inclosure with another bear named Nanuk
- Nanuk tells Kallik the perpose they were at the inclosure
Chapter 26
- Lusa's point of view.
- Lusa looks at the trees to find bear spirits
- Lusa climbs a tree, where she stay for the night
- When Lusa awakes, she finds a buzzy tree and eats the honey from inside.
- The bees that live in the buzzy tree sting Lusa away.
- Lusa comes across some blackberries.
- A brown bear comes along and snarls that Lusa is in his territery.
- The brown bear pins Lusa down and tells her that she's his prey.
Chapter 27
- Toklo's point of view
- Toklo and Ujurak are climbing up a mountain
- Ujurak explains how he is following a star, as if he is drawn to it
- The bears go to sleep
- When Toklo wakes up, Ujurak is looking for worms
- Ujurak asks Toklo about his mother, but he is reluctant to answer
- Ujurak continues to ask lots of questions, annoying Toklo
- Ujurak accidentially morphs into a bird, but quickly morphs back
- Toklo and Ujurak attempt to catch salmon at a river, but Ujurak keeps messing up, accidentially morphing into a salmon
- Toklo, trying to save Ujurak, tells a group of nearby bears not to eat the salmon, saying that they are poisoned
- After Ujurak morphs back, Toklo says he cannot travel with him anymore and goes on by himself
- Toklo cannot manage to go by himself and goes to take care of Ujurak to make sure he doesn't get hurt
Chapter 28
- Kallik's point of view
- Nanuk wakes up Kallik, saying it is time to go
- Nanuk tells Kallik the no-claws will put them to sleep and put them back on the ice
- Kallik wakes up again to find she and Nanuk are on a metal bird high in the air
- The bird passes through a cloud, and Nanuk tries to calm Kallik down
- The bird crashes into the ice with flames and everything goes black
- Kallik awakes to find Nanuk hurt
- As the white she-bear dies, she tells Kallik to go to the place where the spirits dance
- Kallik thanks her for taking care of her and sets off to the Endless Ice
Chapter 29
- Lusa's point of view
- Lusa wrenches herself free and climbs a tree
- The grizzly leaves and Lusa decides to travel at night
- Trying to avoid grizzly territory, Lusa reflects on how she'll never see the Bear Bowl again
- Lusa reaches a lake and wallows in the water
- She stays by the three lakes for five sunrises, feasting on berries
- Lusa reaches the dead forest at the end of the lakes
- Eventually buds reappear on the trees and Lusa recognizes it as a living forest
- She settles down in a hollow by some tree roots, which look oddly like Stella
- Saying goodnight to "Stella", Lusa wonders how she will ever be able to find the lost cub if the wild is so big
Chapter 30
- Toklo's point of view
- Toklo, with help from Ujurak as an eagle, kill and eat a mountain goat
- They travel into the dead forest, where Ujurak accidently turns into a hare
- Toklo chases after him to find a small black bear had caught him
- Ujurak transforms back into a bear, confusing the black bear
- Toklo wants to scare her away, but Ujurak stops her
- The black bear cub reveals herself to be Lusa, and that she has been looking for Toklo
| Seekers Cliffnotes | |
|---|---|
| The Original Series | The Quest Begins • Great Bear Lake • Smoke Mountain • The Last Wilderness • Fire in the Sky • Spirits in the Stars |
| Return to the Wild | Island of Shadows • The Melting Sea • River of Lost Bears • Forest of Wolves • The Burning Horizon |
