The Great Tree Revolution

Honey trees are not the only type of tree on notearth, although they are certainly the favorite of the colorbears. Other types of trees are the redfruit tree, previously mentioned, and these:
  1. [A tree with bristly leaves]

    The bottlebrush tree, very useful to the bears for painting and collecting honey.

  2. [A

    The constellation tree, which, instead of dropping its fruits on the ground, shoots them into the sky.

  3. [A tree covered with little oval frames]

    The frame tree, whose fruits become the background for noncolorbear and advanced colorbear art.

  4. [A bare trunk]

    A rather boring tree the colorbears never bothered to name, which has only a trunk that grows straight up without branches or leaves.

  5. [A bushy-branched tree]

    Another unnamed tree, which has stunted growth because its branches are always hopelessly tangled together.

The other trees were very jealous of the attention given to the honeytrees, especially the redfruit tree, which was very ambitious. The redfruit trees decided among themselves to take revenge against the colorbears (which is why notearth history records so many instances of redfruit trees slowing the intellectual development of colorbears by dropping redfruits on their heads at crucial times). In spite of the fact that the redfruit trees have had a profound impact on the colorbears' development, the bears continued to make sacrifices to and revere only the honeytree gods.

The redfruit trees had other grievances as well. They were very displeased by the fact that the colorbreas preferred honey to redfruit. They were also upset by the fact that Scruffy never bothered to find out if trees, not just flowers, could talk, ot whether there was a great Father Redfruit Tree, or perhaps a great Father Bottlebrush Tree. So, soon after Scruffy's experience, the redfruit trees formed an alliance with the other trees (except the honeytrees) to talk about what to do with the colorbears.

They found that the other trees were also discontented. For example, the constellation trees, while not desiring any type of religious adorations, were still quite perturbed that the colorbears persisted in their mistaken beliefs about the origin of the heavenly bodies. (Several molts before, Mruffy, while contemplating the habits of the constellation trees, began to wonder if there were any solartrees. Alas, a redfruit tree dropped a redfruit on her head, thus ending her train of thought.) The tree union formed a plan to get their revenge.

One day while Fluffy and Muffy were carrying a heavy basket of redfruits, all of the fruits started to fly up out of the basket. As Muffy and Fluffy stood stupefied, the dwarf trees' branches suddenly untangled and trapped the two bears. After escaping, Fluffy and Muffy told their story to the Supreme Court of the Colorbears. Various similar incidents occurred in the following few days, and the Supreme Court decided that the colorbears needed to move to a place on Notearth without any trees. All the colorbears packed, left, and trveled for several days until Xuffy pointed out that they wouldn't have any shelter without trees. After a brief discussion, the Supreme Court decided they might as well go back to Bearis and try to deal with the trees.

The colorbears and the tree union worked out a plan in which the colorbears would honor gods of all the trees, and the trees would stop tormenting the colorbears (but the redfruit trees did not stop dropping the redfruits since only they knew they did it on purpose, and they felt it might be a good idea to keep the colorbears not very intelligent and therefore easily controlled.)

As part of their agreement to give the other trees equal representation with the honeytrees in their worship, the colorbears built the trees nearest their village little altars, made of paint, sticks, paper, and mud. They stick the pointed end into the ground under the tree, and a sample of the redfruit, honey, etc. is laid on top when the bears pick any. The trees are quite satisfied with all the attention.

Two smiley faces

"Scruffy and Luffy", a portrait made after they decided they were in love. Stars mean love to colorbears because they, occupying the same bodies continuously, don't know what a heart looks like. They've never had a chance to look inside a dead body, because the few who die like Xuffy's descendant who die with their bodies are buried far from the village.

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