Part eight of the "Koda's Berry Journals" series. (And the final one for the season.)

(In this one it's finally time for Hibernation for Koda and Kenai, and to prepare himself Koda has stacked up on some very special berries for just this occasion. )

Link to journal 1: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17576368/

Link to journal 2: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17837870/

Link to journal 3: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17844268/

Link to journal 4: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18112479/

Link to journal 5: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18225461/

Link to journal 6: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18385455/

Link to journal 7: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18528870/

Link to the thumbnail image: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17329983/

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You will see more of Koda and his berries when Spring comes!

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"Koda here with a final message for this year."

"Winter is finally here for real now, and even me and Kenai must get ourselves into our cave so that we can start hibernating."

"Since this is probably the last journal I make for this season it gives me time to think back to all the crazy and fun berries that I have discovered and written down for others to see. Everything from berries that could make you light as a bird and make your eyes glow, to a type of berry that made all your fur suddenly grow extra thick!"

"It was not been easy all the time to both make these journals and be with my fellow bears, especially when it comes to food I have been know this year for at times skipping lunch or dinner completely for my berries."

"I didn't make it any easier on myself since I started doing these first at the start of September, giving me only autumn to work on this before having to get to sleep for the winter."

"Kenai never seemed to be really fond of me doing these things, as I wasn't as focused on eating up for hibernation. I told him several times that I would catch up to him, and now...it is all covered in snow."

"My brother now thinks that I'm going to starve since I didn't eat as much as he did, but I have a secret ace up my sleeve."

"I have been saving up a special kind of berry for this particular moment."

"During my big berry search over the months up to now I managed to find a real treat!"

"I called them the "Big Belly Berries", and I think that name sums it up pretty well."

"I had found them growing hidden behind a waterfall, and I pretty quickly learned why they wanted to be kept such a secret."

"When I popped one in my mouth to taste it I suddenly felt how my midsection swelled up a little, and looking down I could see that my belly had grown out a couple of inches!"

"I looked now like I had been preparing for hibernation in about a week, and I even felt like that!"

"Making this type of discovery my brain of course started going wild about all the things I could do with these things. I could sneak them into Kenai's food and make him suddenly fat, I could try finding that sneaky raccoon and let him a few of them, or I could just use it to fatten up a fish before eating it so that I would get more fish to eat."

"But when I got my best idea for what to do with them I started to quickly gather as many of them as possible to store at my stub house, to later be used for the hibernation."

"When finally it was time for us to enter our cave Kenai looked a lot more bigger now, as a result of all his eating for this event. When he looked at me he seemed very disappointed to see that I was only about half as big as any of the other cubs was, and he didn't understand why I had a small stack of berries with me."

" "Oh these? These are just a small snack for me to have in case I get hungry during mid sleep." I said to him, to which my brother replied "I'm not sure if that will be enough to feed you in case you need more. It's bad enough that you have barley stuffed yourself as much as I have, as I am afraid you might wake up starving after only a couple of weeks." (If he had only known the amazing effects the berries I was carrying had, then he would have probably asked if I could have shared a few.)"

"As we both got ourselves comfy Kenai ended up starting sleeping almost instantly, which was good since that meant that I could eat my berries in peace."

"I had done my own little counting on how much one berry could make me grow, and thought that it would be fun to see how 12 of them! (Keep in mind that I had still be eating some before this, and right now had a belly that was standing about a foot out in length.)"

"Deciding to really give myself a real sudden change I stuffed all 12 into my mouth, chewed them a few times, and then finally swallowed them all!"

"Then there was a small moment of nothing happening, but then suddenly a big BWOOMPH! could be hear, and I could see that the berries had been doing their effect. (And even more!)"

"In a matter of seconds my belly swelled out into a 4 foot in diameter big ball! It was so big in fact that I think that my body before eating the berries would have easily have room enough to curl up inside of it!"

"But it wasn't only my belly getting big this time, as also my arms, legs, and even my neck and face was getting a lot more pudgy!"

"Feeling on myself I liked how soft and warm all of this made me feel, and I even tried to see if I could lift myself up and walk around (Just for fun.), but I couldn't!"

"I had now no other choice then to go into my hibernation, but in all honesty I think I would like doing it now."

"So with theses final words that I am writing down while in the cave with my brother I hope that all of my readers enjoyed these little funny researchers on berries with special powers, that you had at least half as fun reading these as I had tasting them, and that maybe when spring comes and we both wake up from our hibernation I might start working on a second wave of these."

"This is Koda saying Thanks and Goodbye (For now). Have a fun winter, and Goodnight!"

Berry Info.

Name: Big Belly Berries.

Appearance: Looks and feels very filled up and juicy.

Taste: A nice mixture of sweet and sour juices.

Effect(s): Makes you instantly expand you belly a few inches with fat!

Recommendations: Yes, but make sure to don't eat to many or you wont be able to move!