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We had noticed, how in the (then) new CGI movie \"Journey to Joke-a-Lot\", they had made Funshine Bear a male character, while that yellow bear had always been a female for as far as we know. And in my previous stories, Funshine had always been a female.\nSo, we figured, maybe we should do something to switch Funshine's gender and keep it to male from there on. This story was the result of that. It was also heavily inspired by a story I one read on the internet somewhere, which I unfortunately can't remember the source of anymore.\n\nThis is also more or less the story from where on I started making the loose stories into a more chronological continuity series.\n\nOf course, Care Bears, Care Bear Cousins, the Kingdom of Caring and everything are all © Those Characters Of Cleveland. I just 'borrowed' them for some fun.\n\nAnd a warning; if you don't want your childhood raped, [b][i]don't read this![/i][/b]", "description_bbcode_parsed": "This was a joint project I worked on with the friend I used to run the sexual parody Care Bear Yahoo group with. We had noticed, how in the (then) new CGI movie "Journey to Joke-a-Lot", they had made Funshine Bear a male character, while that yellow bear had always been a female for as far as we know. And in my previous stories, Funshine had always been a female.
So, we figured, maybe we should do something to switch Funshine's gender and keep it to male from there on. This story was the result of that. It was also heavily inspired by a story I one read on the internet somewhere, which I unfortunately can't remember the source of anymore.

This is also more or less the story from where on I started making the loose stories into a more chronological continuity series.

Of course, Care Bears, Care Bear Cousins, the Kingdom of Caring and everything are all © Those Characters Of Cleveland. I just 'borrowed' them for some fun.

And a warning; if you don't want your childhood raped, don't read this!", "writing": "The smiling sun shone brightly over Care a Lot. And as soon as it had risen, Funshine was already up to enjoy every single little ray she could catch. Strolling through Care a Lot, Funshine hummed a happy tune to herself while looking at the smiling yellow sun showering everything in the cloudly kingdom with sparkling kisses. Hmmm, this was just the kind of day to be happied out of your mind. What could possibly go wrong on a day like today? Who could possibly feel bad on a day like today? Well, apparently someone could, because as Funshine strolled past the Hall of Hearts, she looked up when she heard the Caring Meter give a whining signal. Funshine looked at the heart-shaped needle drooping with a little frown of surprise. Especially since, whereas the heart-shaped needle of the Caring Meter normally drooped down counter-clockwise, it now sank down along the big shiny heart clockwise, falling from twelve o'clock to just and about four o'clock.\n \"Someone feeling bad?\" the yellow Care Bear muttered to herself. \"On a day like today? And this early in the morning? How could that be?\"\n\nThe sunny yellow bear walked over to the staroscope and looked through it. But she saw nothing, that early in the morning Earth was still asleep as well, just as all Care Bears still were. Quite soon however Funshine picked up the reason for the Caring Meter drooping clockwise. Somewhere on a deserted country road, Bedtime Bear was stranded with his Cloudsmobile. Funshine saw the blue bear bending over the engine under the opened hood, grumbling slightly while desperately trying to fix the trouble. Funshine smiled a bit, left the staroscope and got out her own Cloudsmobile, setting out to lend Bedtime a helping paw.\n\nWhile on her way, Funshine pulled her Cloudsmobile to a stop at the city limits where the country road began when she noticed a wad of paper lying in the grass verge. Aww, now why did the humans do that? Funshine got out of her Cloudsmobile and picked up the wad of paper, so she could throw it into a garbage can when she would find one. As she got back into her car, she saw that the wad of paper was an Easter leaflet from a supermarket.\n 'Oh yeah, that's right, it's almost Easter,' the yellow bear thought to herself with a smile.\nShe looked through the leaflet a bit. It was slightly soggy from the dew, but still well readable. Funshine smiled to herself again when looking over the special offers.\n \"I'd better stop by a Stater Bros. on the way back,\" she muttered to herself smiling. \"They have all kinds of goodies on offer, and I see a lot of things that can come in handy for our family picnic. And... oh! Oh, that's nice.\"\n\nFunshine was looking at a page of the leaflet offering special Easter treats in the form of funny balloons and Easter baskets, some of which had the caption 'show you care'. It ignited an idea in the yellow bear's head. She'd pick up one of those for Share Bear. Maybe that would give a hint? Funshine for a moment sighed softly. How long had it been now? How long had she been in love with the purple bear now without daring to tell her? Try as she might, but Funshine just couldn't see the fun side of that. So long already had she had a secret crush on the sweet purple bear, and evenly long had she shied back from telling Share so. And why altogether? Share sure wasn't too shy to share her love and even sexuality with anyone, just as she easily shared everything else. So then why couldn't Funshine bring herself to say those three simple words to her? Maybe it was because Share was so easy in sharing her love with everyone else? Or maybe it was because she, Funshine, teased her all the time? But wasn't it so that 'you tease who you love'? It sure was in Funshine's case.\n\nWith a last little sigh and a smile filtering through just the same, Funshine tossed the leaflet to the backseat of her Cloudsmobile and set her car in motion again. Maybe one of those nice Easter baskets would do the trick of helping her telling Share she loved her. And for now, it was Funshine's turn to do the helping, since there still was a Care Bear out there who was in trouble. Driving down the deserted country road, Funshine soon reached the stranded Cloudsmobile with the blue bear bending over the engine. Giggling to herself very softly, Funshine brought her car to a stop, cupped her paws over her mouth and gave a perfect impression of screeching brakes. Bedtime Bear rose up with a jolt and banged his head on the hood of his Cloudsmobile.\n \"Ouch!\"\nBedtime Bear turned around and saw Funshine leaning back in the driver's seat of her car, laughing. Drawing a deep breath, Funshine looked at Bedtime with merrily twinkling eyes.\n \"Good morning on this wonderful morning, Bedtime.\"\n \"Hello Funshine,\" Bedtime said, rubbing his head with a paw. \"I'm glad to see you, but how did you know I was here?\"\nFunshine giggled.\n \"Your trouble was so deep it affected the Caring Meter, Bedtime. I happened to be up already and I saw it, so I decided to go out and give you a paw.\"\n \"Thanks a lot,\" Bedtime said with a smile. He threw a slightly unfriendly glance at his Cloudsmobile. \"I have to have a word with Grumpy about this. This is the umpteenth time I have car-trouble. It seems like Grumpy puts his bad luck in the cars he sells.\"\nFunshine laughed.\n \"Now that's silly! You know that can't be true, Bedtime. Here, look at my car. I bought that at Grumpy's too, and I haven't had any troubles with it so far. You are just forgetting here that you go out every single night, whereas the others of us go out only when there's trouble, and then not even all of us together. So your car simply wears faster.\"\n \"Yeah, that's true,\" Bedtime said. He looked at his car again. \"But still, Grumpy promised me this car could handle that.\"\n \"Well, maybe you should drive a bit more carefully then,\" Funshine said merrily.\nBedtime now also laughed.\n \"That's something for you to say, miss devil driver! I never thought anyone could exceed Tenderheart in vehicle daredeviling, but yet I have seen you manage!\"\nFunshine giggled loudly while airily hopping out of her Cloudsmobile.\n \"Yes well, at least that gives me a bit of experience in fixing car-troubles, right?\"\n \"Didn't I just hear you say you hadn't had any troubles with your car so far?\" Bedtime remarked grinning.\n \"Not with this one, no,\" Funshine giggled, stepping up to Bedtime's car. \"But it's my third one already, y'know.\" She bent over the engine of Bedtime's Cloudsmobile. \"Now, let's have a look-see here.\"\n \"It's the carburetor giving troubles, Funshine,\" Bedtime informed the yellow bear while standing next to her.\n \"Hmmno, it's not,\" Funshine said after some time. \"It's the fuel intake manifold. You ripped a line coming from the fuel rail. Hmm, let's see, how can we fix that?\" Funshine rose up for a moment and thought. \"Well, maybe I have something in the trunk of my car that can be of help.\"\n\nThe yellow Care Bear walked to her car, popped the trunk of it and started rummaging through it. The trunk of Funshine's car was filled with all kinds of joke-shop items, and after a little time she rose up with a packet of balloons, the kind you can make balloon animals with.\n \"Well, lookie what we have here, this could just do the trick,\" she said with a giggle.\n\nShe took a long yellow balloon from the packet, cut the tip off it and put it in the place of the torn fuel line going from the fuel rail to the fuel intake manifold in Bedtime's Cloudsmobile. Bedtime got into his car and tried to start the engine when Funshine said he could give it a try. After several new tries, the Cloudsmobile's engine started purring like a pussycat. Bedtime was really happy.\n \"Thanks so much, Funshine,\" he said, yawning right after that. \"I've had a busy night tonight, and I wasn't at all happy that my car broke down. I really want to get home quickly and look up my bed.\"\n \"Yes, well, this should help you to get home, but you should get a new fuel line as soon as possible,\" Funshine advised. \"I don't know how long that balloon will hold out, see. The fuel may well dissolve it slowly, and then you'll be stranded again. And as you know, that always happens at the most inconvenient times.\"\n \"Yeah, I know,\" Bedtime yawned with a smile. \"Well, anyway, thank you very much again, Funshine. If there's ever anything I can help you with, just let me know, okay?\"\n \"Well...\" Funshine looked at the ground. \"There is one little thing.\"\nBedtime got out of his Cloudsmobile again when he saw the incredible sight of the most clownish of Care Bears suddenly looking blue. He stepped up to Funshine and folded an arm around her shoulder.\n \"Hey now, what's the matter, Funshine?\"\nFunshine smiled a bit, but the smile was lost in a soft sigh.\n \"I'm in love, Bedtime.\"\n \"But... that's nice, isn't it?\" Bedtime said, slightly confused over whatever reason it might be Funshine was sighing over being in love.\nFunshine sighed a bit again.\n \"Yeah it is, but...\"\n \"But what?\" Bedtime asked softly.\n \"I... I don't know how to say it, Bedtime,\" Funshine said.\n \"You just now said it,\" Bedtime said, still slightly confused.\nA very soft giggle came from the yellow Care Bear.\n \"That wasn't quite what I meant, silly. It's just... I have a crush on Share, for so long already, but I don't know how to tell her.\"\n \"Share?\" Bedtime was getting even more confused. \"But... you always tease Share. You always pull jokes on her.\"\n \"I know, but I do that because...\" Funshine sighed a bit again. \"Out of uncertainty, I guess. Whenever I'm around her, I don't know how to act towards her. I so want to tell her I love her, but I can't seem to find the right words, or the right actions, and therefore I just try to be funny and tease her a bit.\" She looked up at Bedtime. \"But I do very much want to tell her I love her, Bedtime. How should I go about it? Please say you can tell me how to get my courage up to tell Share I love her.\"\n \"Gee, I don't know,\" Bedtime said softly. \"To be quite frank, I never had to deal with this kind of problems. All the problems I have to deal with involve sleeping.\" He smiled a bit. \"I'm afraid the best advice I can give you is to be a man about it, Funshine.\"\n \"Oh, that's easy for you to say,\" Funshine said, smiling a little. \"But then tell me, how should I go about this in a manly kind of way?\"\n \"Gee, well,\" Bedtime said, scratching the top of his head. \"Have you thought about maybe getting Share a present? Something special that says I love you? I know that helped for me.\"\nFunshine cocked her head a little.\n \"Really? May I ask who and... what?\"\nBedtime Bear smiled deeply.\n \"Who? Laugh-a-lot. I love that silly girl, and I gave her lots of sweet dreams to show her.\" For a moment a shy little grin swept over Bedtime's face. \"Well, and it also helped that I dropped obvious hints in those dreams.\"\nFunshine giggled.\n \"I'm sure that would have helped, but I don't think it'll help me a lot. I can't give Share nice dreams.\"\nBedtime smiled again.\n \"Maybe you should go talk to Friend Bear. She has these perfect ways of showing someone how much you like him or her with tiny little, seemingly insignificant, things. She might be able to help you out.\"\n \"I'll think about it, Bedtime,\" Funshine smiled. \"Thanks anyway for your help and your advice. I was planning on doing a little shopping in a while, so maybe I find something beautiful for Share too. And if not, I can still try to get a private word with Friend on our picnic.\"\n \"Right,\" Bedtime nodded, getting back into his Cloudsmobile. \"Well, whichever way you may decide on, Funshine, I really hope it'll work out for you. Success, and thanks again for helping me fix my car.\"\n \"You're welcome,\" Funshine said with a smile.\n\nShe waved after the blue bear lifting his car into the air and setting off for home. When the Cloudsmobile had disappeared between the clouds, Funshine sighed a little again, then drew a breath and got back into her own Cloudsmobile. She turned it around and drove down the country road towards the city. The city had woken up, the early morning rush was already starting, and strangely enough, nobody looked up with surprise at so strange a car with so unusual an occupant mingling with the other traffic. Funshine on the other hand did shake her head with surprise over what she saw with all that other traffic. She already couldn't understand why the humans would throw trash at the sides of the roads, but the way they were rushing and annoyedly honking the horns of their cars at each other was even further beyond her understanding. Yeesh, if they would just be a bit friendlier, if they would just let that other car go first for once, if they would anticipate on each other more, surely it would be so much nicer to drive? But well, as Funshine knew from prior experiences, this attitude of the humans had already been there from the time the first cars came onto the roads, it even had already been there in the time of horses and carriages, so there would be nothing even the entire Care Bear Family could do to change that. Therefore, Funshine just shrugged a bit, pushed a cassette in the deck of her car's radio and sang along cheerfully with the seventies tunes ringing from the loudspeakers.\n\nAt a Stater Bros. supermarket Funshine pulled onto the parking lot, again slightly surprised over how busy it already was there at a mere nine fifteen in the morning. But well, there were still vacant spots, and after all the Cloudsmobiles could fly, so Funshine could always still park it on the supermarket's roof in a pinch. But, funny as that might have been, Funshine was wise enough to realize that even though the humans might not have looked up in surprise at a Cloudsmobile with a Care Bear inside mingling with the early morning traffic, they would be very much surprised at seeing a car suddenly taking off and parking on a supermarket's roof. And they would probably cause serious traffic accidents in their surprise too, so while she was in the city, Funshine just behaved like any other motorist, or at least for the part that she drove across the roads instead of through the air.\n\nParking her car at a free spot, Funshine got out and walked to the supermarket. At the line of trolleys, she found that those were way too big for her to handle. Even when standing on the tips of her toes, she couldn't reach the handlebar of the trolley. For a moment the yellow bear stood there wondering what to do, but then her eye fell on another line of supermarket trolleys. Aha, look at that! Those were just perfect! It were supermarket trolleys designed for children, in shape the exact duplicates of the adult trolleys, but a lot smaller in size. With a little giggle, Funshine took one of those trolleys, and she stepped into the supermarket. Again, nobody looked up with surprise at a little yellow bear with a smiling sun on the tummy pushing a trolley through the supermarket. Well, after all it was still quite early in the morning. You just don't pay too much attention to unusual things you might see. And a yellow bear with a smiling sun on the tummy pushing a small supermarket trolley might just as well be a dressed up kid, after all.\n\nWith the leaflet as a guide, Funshine went straight for the candy section of the supermarket. She picked up a generous supply of Brach's jelly beans and Hershey bagged candy, especially the variety called 'sweet kisses', and all available colors of Peeps marshmallow. At the Service Deli and Bake Shop she picked up Easter-theme cupcakes, and she couldn't resist also taking two bunny cakes. Those just looked so funny! Cakes looking like white bunnies with a large pink smiling face, that was just up Funshine's end of the street. While strolling through the supermarket, Funshine looked at the other items that were on special offer, and since she didn't get into a supermarket all that often, she decided to benefit from her being in one now, and picked up some more things. A couple of Popsicle variety packs, Pillsbury rolls, all six available variations of'em, Tostitos and Lays potato chips, and for drinks she took a couple of bottles of Langers grape juice plus and Tropicana orange juice, the housestyle variety. She took a couple of extra of those, since she knew Tropicana supported the American Cancer Society, and as a true Care Bear Funshine was never too shy to help a good cause. Plus the juice was just plain very good.\n\nHer trolley finally filled to capacity, plus a bit more, Funshine took her place in line for one of the check-out points. And again nobody looked up with surprise. Most of the people were just too busy checking the supermarket leaflet for the extra savings coupons or looking through the magazines in the stands near the check-out points, and the cashier just ran all of the things Funshine put on the band across the scanner automatically, and probably not even fully awake yet. After paying for her purchases, Funshine piled everything into three big brown paper bags and wheeled the trolley to her Cloudsmobile, where she put the three brown bags in the trunk. Except for the Popsicle variety packs, those she put in the glove-compartment. Why? Well, because she once had Grumpy re-route the airco to the glove-compartment, making that refrigerated so she could store cool drinks and such in there. And of course, the popsicles wouldn't melt in there on the way back either.\n\nWhen she had put the little trolley back in the line with the others, Funshine got into her car and drove off the supermarket's parking lot. Since inside the city she knew she shouldn't get the Cloudsmobile airborne, she just drove across the roads with the rest of the traffic, singing along with the tape in her car's cassette-deck again. But all the while she kept looking around her at the stores she passed by, since she had found the Easter baskets in the supermarket to be not exactly the perfect kind of gift to tell Share how she loved her. But as long as she had to use the roads in the city, she might as well keep a look-out, because she very well might suddenly see something which was just perfect.\n\nHowever, the first shop she stopped at was a joke-shop, as she just couldn't resist buying a supply of squirting flowers, hand-buzzers and a new whoopy-cushion. And she picked up a couple of other things too, which she was intending to use at the picnic. For instance, glasses with a squished spider in the bottom. Haha, can you imagine the reaction that gives when you finish the last bit of drink in the glass, and due to the position you look through the bottom of the glass, and you see that? Funshine was already giggling to herself over the reactions at the picnic when the bears would be drinking from those glasses. Maybe she should pick up a couple of umbrellas too.\n\nHaving filled the last bit of free space in the trunk of her car with the joke-shop things she'd bought, Funshine mingled into the city traffic again, slowly heading for the outskirts of town, where she could use the deserted country road to get her car into the air unseen and go back home to Care a Lot. But suddenly, halfway down Sunrise Boulevard, she sat up straight in her car with a shock and stared to the left. Oh my stars! But that... that was it! That was the perfect gift for Share! On the left side of the street was an antique-shop, and Funshine was staring at the window of it. On a small pedestal, between a couple of antique timepieces and right next to a genuine Tiffany's table-lamp, was a small but unbelievably beautiful ring. Pure silver, rather wide, engraved with beautiful frilly patterns and symbols, and the most beautiful was the diamond on top of it, cut in the shape of a bear's head. It actually looked almost exactly like a Care Bear's head. If it hadn't been in an antique-shop down on Earth, Funshine would have even sworn the ring would be a piece of ancient Care Bear jewelry. Oh yes, but that definitely was it! Quickly finding a place to park her Cloudsmobile and parking it, Funshine hurried to the antique-shop and bought the beautiful ring. Oohhh, this was just too perfect! As she got back into her Cloudsmobile, Funshine just knew that if she managed to get a private word with Share at the picnic, and she gave the pretty purple bear that ring, the three words she for so long already longed to say to Share would follow naturally.\n\nHaving managed to get out of town decently, Funshine quickly drove down the deserted country road where she had found Bedtime stranded with his car early that morning. Looking around, she saw there was nothing and no-one around her, so she pulled the gear-shift into flying position, making her Cloudsmobile take off and head for the sky. All the way back to the Kingdom of Caring, Funshine kept looking at the ring, lying in its opened box on the car's dash. Wow, it was like there was some sort of power radiating from it. Funshine's look was irresistably drawn to the ring each time, the strange ancient symbols engraved in it, the beautiful bear's head-shaped diamond on it, sparkling with bright flashes in the sunlight falling through the car's windshield. Sheesh, it almost looked as if the ring was magic or something.\n\nFor a flash of a moment a tiny prickle of doubt teased Funshine's mind. Should she first show the ring to Magix Bear perhaps? Imagine the ring did contain some sort of weird magic. Who could tell what kind of strange, maybe even bad, things could happen if you would put the ring on your finger. And Funshine sure didn't want any of that to happen to Share. The ring was supposed to be a gift of love to the purple bear, and not intended to turn her into a dragon or something weird like that. For a moment though Funshine softly giggled as that image wandered into her mind. Boy, it sure would be a silly sight to see, a stocky, compact, fluffy purple dragon with a sorbet on its tummy. But no, she really didn't want anything like that to happen.\n\nEntering Care a Lot, Funshine pulled her car to a stop when Tenderheart beckoned her. Funshine giggled loudly when seeing her prank of very early that morning had paid off. Tenderheart was standing next to Wish Bear at the staroscope, and after having looked through it that morning when the Caring Meter had given a signal, Funshine hadn't been able to resist, before setting out to help Bedtime, to smear a little black ink onto the staroscope. Both the brown and the turquoise Care Bear were now sporting a black ring around their right eye.\n \"Morning Wish, Tenderheart,\" Funshine said giggling.\n \"Mojning Funshine,\" Tenderheart said. \"Where have you been? We've been looking for you.\"\n \"I was up very early, and I saw the Caring Meter giving a signal,\" Funshine said, fighting hard to hold back her giggles at both Wish and Tenderheart not seeming to know they had those black rings around their eyes. \"It turned out Bedtime was stranded on some country road down on Earth, so I went out to help him.\"\n \"That's very nice of you,\" Wish Bear smiled.\n \"Yeah, but what kept you so long?\" Tenderheart asked. \"Bedtime has been back for over an hour already.\"\n \"I did a little shopping,\" Funshine smiled. \"I picked up a whole lot of great goodies for our picnic. Candy and drinks and everything.\"\n \"Oh, that's even nicer,\" Wish Bear smiled.\n \"Yes, that's been vejy thoughtful of you, Funshine,\" Tenderheart said with a smile. \"Well, I guess we'll see you at the picnic then, right?\"\n \"You will,\" Funshine giggled. \"And I'll catch you guys there too. Gotta go home now though, because I also brought ice. Need to put that in the freezer.\"\n \"Sure,\" Tenderheart said. \"See you this aftejnoon then.\"\n\nFunshine nodded and drove off again, giggling to herself over the silly sight of Wish and Tenderheart having those black rings around their eyes. Strange though that they both hadn't noticed. After all, they could have seen it on each other, right? Funshine found it a little hard to believe that Wish and Tenderheart hadn't looked each other in the face after both having looked through the staroscope. And she did look over her shoulder a little surprised when she heard the two Care Bears laughing behind her. Now what was that about?\n\nWell, the prankish yellow Care Bear found that out when she reached her cloud cottage. Trying to carry all three of the big brown paper bags to her cottage at once, Funshine supported two of them with her arms and shoulders while reaching out for the doorknob, but as soon as she grabbed it she made a face. Aw sheesh, what was that? Pulling back her paw, Funshine noticed Wish and Tenderheart had given her a taste of her own medicine. The doorknob of her cloud cottage was covered in honey. Funshine quickly put down the paper bags and licked her paw, and then she started laughing. She could take a joke as well as play one, and after all, it was just her kind of a joke too. She could have thought that one out herself. And she was a good sport about it, too. But as she cleaned the doorknob of her cloud cottage, Funshine decided to pay back Wish and Tenderheart for this one at the picnic. They would be the first to have a drink from her special new glasses, those ones with the squished spider in the bottom.\n\nCarrying all the paper bags to her kitchen and putting them down there, Funshine quickly went out to her Cloudsmobile again to retrieve the popsicles from her car's glove-compartment, and the small box with the ring in it. And again she was seized by it, her gaze inevitably drawn to it. She just had to look at it. It fascinated her, it captured her. It felt like... it felt like it belonged. Like there was some sort of relation between her and that ring. Strange, very strange, but yet... so natural. Having dumped the packets of popsicles in her freezer, Funshine walked to her livingroom and fell down on a chair, staring at the ring. Sunlight pouring in through the windows struck flashes from the diamond bear's head, and it was almost as if... as if it was looking at her. Slowly, Funshine carefully extended a finger and ran it along the silver of the ring, over the strange inscriptions in it, the weird ancient symbols engraved in the ring. A soft tremor tingled through her fingers and traipsed down her spine, making her shiver. More and more, Funshine got the idea there was something really special about that ring, but yet she could not put her finger on it.\n \"Wow,\" the yellow Care Bear muttered to herself. \"It's like you feel some sort of ancient power radiating from it.\" She looked at the diamond bear's head again. \"Sheesh, but what is it that makes you so fascinating?\" she said half-loud.\nNot expecting any kind of answer of course, Funshine was all the more shocked when a deep voice reverberated through her head, as if there was someone standing right next to her speaking into her ear.\n \"I am the one ring of the ancient ursine mages, and you felt our kinship.\"\n\nFor a couple of moments, Funshine sat in her chair completely dumb-struck, staring at the ring with huge round eyes and her mouth hanging open. She gasped for air, she trembled all over, she felt a sense of utter importance and excitement suddenly spreading through her. It was a magic ring after all! Struggling to find her voice, Funshine looked at the diamond bear's head again.\n \"What... what purpose do you serve?\"\nAgain the deep voice reverberated in Funshine's head.\n \"I am the one ring. In the hands of my ursine owner, I grant that one's dearest wish.\"\n\nFunshine trembled with excitement. A ring that granted wishes. Wait till Wish Bear heard of that! And a window of opportunities suddenly opened up in Funshine's mind. This ring could help her overcome her problem concerning Share! She could wish for Share to be madly in love with her, and... No! Funshine took a sudden dive back to reality when that thought entered her mind. No, she should not wish for Share to fall in love with her. That would be plain unfair. Funshine thought again. She could of course do wish for herself to find a way to tell Share how much she loved her. And a smile crept over her face when she thought she had found the best way.\n \"Ring, I am very much in love with my girlfriend Share Bear, but I dare not to tell her. I wish to...\" A deeper smile crept over Funshine's face when a memory of her conversation with Bedtime early that morning flashed across her mind. \"I wish to be a man about my feelings for Share, so I can get myself to tell her I love her.\"\n \"Your wish shall be granted,\" the voice reverberated in Funshine's mind.\n\nA tingle spread through the one paw of Funshine's in which she was holding the ring. Stronger and stronger it became, and again the yellow Care Bear was trembling all over. She felt dizzy. She felt like she was spinning out of control. She felt as if she was falling into a bottomless pit. But slowly, gradually, the feelings subsided, died away, and reality reasserted itself. Blinking a couple of times and wiping her brow with her free paw, Funshine drew a deep breath. It must be over. The ring must have worked its magic now. Sheesh, but it sure had made her feel sick for a moment. Funshine hoped that that feeling of nausea would have subsided too by the time she went to the picnic. By the way, feeling? Her feelings for Share. Would she be able to word them now? Would she be able to tell the purple bear she loved her? Funshine decided to take a few tries.\n \"Share, I love you. Share, I have always loved you. Share, I am so in love with you. Share, I love you from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\nHm, well, that didn't sound bad at all, actually. It felt very natural to say it. Hopefully it would feel just as natural when she would be face to face with Share Bear. Turning her thoughts to the pretty purple bear, Funshine thought of a way to best get a private talk with her at the picnic, so she could speak her love. And her thoughts inadvertently turned to all of the sweet purple bear's wonderful assets. Thinking of Share as she did now, Funshine felt a strange tingling sensation in her groin, a sensation totally new to her, a sensation she had never ever felt before, and most certainly not in those regions of her body. Looking down in wonder of what those strange tingly, ticklish feelings meant, Funshine let out a sudden shriek. There, between her legs, so far unnoticed because it belonged so naturally, was a penis. And the strange tingling sensation Funshine was feeling was the beginning of an erection.\n \"Oh my stars!!\" Funshine cried out, jumping up. \"What is this?! Ring, what have you done to me?!\"\n \"I have granted your wish,\" sounded the deep voice. \"You wished to be a man, and your wish is granted.\"\nFunshine was appalled for a moment.\n \"I wished to be a man about my feelings! I did not wish to [i]become[/i] a man! Turn me back!\"\n \"This cannot be done,\" sounded the voice.\n \"Why not?!?\" Funshine shouted.\n \"I am the one ring. My name indicates I grant my owner's wish, one wish alone.\"\nFunshine now was horrified rather than appalled.\n \"Do you mean I'm [i]stuck[/i] like this?!\"\n \"Your wish is permanent. The magic of the one ring is supreme.\"\n \"Oh my stars!!\"\n\nFunshine dropped the box with the ring, and she fell back down in the chair with a thump. Her eyes filled with tears. This was not what she'd had in mind! All she had wanted was to become brave enough to tell the girl she really loved that she really loved her. She had never intended to switch gender! And if the change was permanent... Oh dear stars and hearts and rainbows, how would she... he ever explain this to the others? Funshine flung herself... himself over in the chair, arms on one armrest and head on his arms, and he broke down in sobs.\n\nLater that day, halfway through the afternoon, most all bears had assembled at the cloudly field where they would have their picnic. Bedtime wasn't there, but that was logical in a way. And besides, he had excused himself with Tenderheart when he had arrived in Care a Lot that morning. But both Tenderheart and Wish were rather surprised at also finding Funshine missing.\n \"You don't suppose she's mad at us because of that trick with her doorknob, do you?\" Wish asked Tenderheart.\n \"I don't think so,\" Tenderheart said. \"It's not like her to become mad over something like that.\"\n \"But why isn't she here then?\" said Wish Bear.\n \"Gee, I don't know,\" Tenderheart said. \"I'm as surpjised as you are, actually. After all she had said she had bjought all kinds of goodies for the picnic.\"\n \"Yeah,\" Wish Bear mused. \"This is really strange.\"\n \"What is strange?\"\nWish and Tenderheart looked around. While they had been talking, Share Bear had stepped up to them, and she had overheard the last thing Wish had said.\n \"Well, we were wondering why Funshine is not here,\" Wish said.\n \"I thought I missed her already,\" Share nodded.\n \"Yeah, we thought maybe she's mad at us because we played a trick on her,\" Wish said.\nShare giggled softly.\n \"You did? What kind of trick?\"\nWish smiled.\n \"She had put ink on the staroscope, so when Tenderheart and I had looked through it, we both had a black ring around our eye. We just knew that had to be Funshine's doing, so we paid her back by putting honey on the knob of her door.\"\nShare giggled again.\n \"Good one. But I don't think she's gotten mad over that. I sooner believe she'll have laughed over it.\"\n \"Yeah, we think so too,\" said Tenderheart. \"And besides, when we met her, she said she had been shopping, and that she had bjought all kinds of candy and djinks for the picnic. So that's why it's so stjange she's not here now.\"\nShare ran a paw over her nose and mouth, thinking.\n \"Mmm. That's weird, indeed.\"\n \"Hey, you know what?\" Wish said. \"I'm going to her house, see if she's still there, and ask her what's the matter.\"\n \"Good idea,\" Tenderheart nodded. \"We'll wait for you.\"\n \"You don't have to,\" Wish smiled. \"You can start without me.\"\n \"And without me,\" Share smiled. \"I'm coming with you, Wish. I've found Funshine acting a little strange around me, as if she's holding something back, and I'd like to talk to her.\"\n \"Good,\" Tenderheart nodded again. \"I really hope it's nothing serious, and I also hope you'll come back here with her.\"\n \"I hope so too,\" Wish smiled. She snapped her fingers, making a Cloudsmobile appear. \"Are you coming, Share?\"\n \"Sure,\" Share said with a giggle.\n\nBefore she got into the Cloudsmobile, however, she looked at it with her head a bit cocked to one side and a merry giggle on her face. Wish's Cloudsmobile didn't exactly look like any of the other Cloudsmobiles all the other bears drove. Wish's one more looked like a Lamborghini Diablo, convertible.\n \"Tell me one thing, Wish,\" Share giggled. \"How did you get your Cloudsmobile to look like this?\"\n \"Well, I just wished I got a car that looked distinctively apart from the others,\" Wish said with a giggle. \"Actually, I wished I got a car that looked really hot. And so this is the result.\"\n \"Groovy,\" Share chuckled.\n\nShe got into the car Wish was already sitting in, and Wish drove the two of them to Funshine's cloud cottage. They saw Funshine's Cloudsmobile standing in front of it. Wish parked her car behind it, both bears got out, and they stepped up to Funshine's cottage. The first thing Wish did was carefully touching the doorknob with a finger, giggling softly.\n \"Well, she did clean the honey off,\" she giggled.\nShare also chuckled softly. Wish smiled a bit and knocked on the door.\n \"Funshine?\"\n \"Go away,\" Funshine's voice came from inside the cloud cottage, clear hints of sobs sounding through.\nWish and Share looked at each other with surprise. Wish tried again.\n \"Funshine? It's me, Wish. You're... you're not mad at Tenderheart and me because of our little joke, are you?\"\n \"No,\" came Funshine's voice from within the cottage. \"But go away just the same. Leave me alone.\"\nShare decided to give it a try.\n \"Hey, Funny? It's me sweets, Share. What's the matter?\"\n \"Share? Oh my stars,\" Funshine's voice sounded with a sigh. \"Please... please go away. I can't talk to you. Please leave me alone.\"\n\nThat about did it for Share Bear. The ways she had noticed Funshine behaving when around her, and the way the yellow bear was now sounding in obvious distress woke up each and all of her caring feelings, and she wouldn't leave Funshine's cottage before she had gotten to the bottom of Funshine's troubles, and had helped solving them. And Wish Bear felt about the same. Trying the doorknob, Share found the door wasn't locked, and she opened it. Stepping into Funshine's cloud cottage, Wish and Share found the yellow bear in a chair, head on arms, softly sobbing. Shocked by that sight, Wish and Share quickly stepped up to the chair and both placed a paw on each of Funshine's shoulders.\n \"Hey now sweets, what's this?\" Share asked in a warm, caring voice. \"What are you crying for? What happened?\"\n \"I... I can't say,\" Funshine sobbed.\nShare sat down on the armrest Funshine was crying on, and she softly stroked the yellow bear's ears with a paw.\n \"Come come now,\" Share smiled warmly, her voice soothing and caring. \"You know you can share anything with me, sweets. So please tell me what's wrong? We're worried about you, Funshine. Please tell us what's wrong.\"\n \"It's... it's that ring,\" Funshine sobbed, pointing at the little box lying on the floor.\nBoth Share and Wish looked at it. Wish bent over, picked up the box and opened it. Both bears gasped softly when they saw the beautiful ring that was inside it.\n \"Wow, Funshine...\" Wish said softly. \"That is a beautiful ring. Where did you get that?\"\n \"In... an antique-shop on Earth,\" Funshine said softly, the sobs slowly diminishing. \"I went shopping after I had helped Bedtime fix his car, and when I found that ring, I right away...\" For the first time Funshine looked up, face stained with tears. \"I right away bought it, for... for you, Share.\"\n \"You did?\" Share whispered. \"Wow. But why?\"\n \"I'm... I'm...\" Funshine gulped. \"I'm so in love with you, Share. But I never knew how to tell you that. Bedtime advised me to be a man about it, and...\" Funshine started crying again. \"That ring turned out to be magical. It said it could grant the owner's dearest wish, and when I said I wished I could be a man about my feelings for you, Share, it... it changed me...\"A loud sobbing wail escaped Funshine's mouth. \"It made me maaale!\"\n\nWish gulped audibly, and she dropped the box with the ring as she clapped both paws over her mouth. Share encountered quite some difficulty staying in her sitting position on the chair's armrest. For some time, the only sounds were those of Wish Bear and Share Bear gasping, and Funshine crying. Very slowly Share rose up from the chair's armrest, drawing deep breaths, and she put a paw on Wish's shoulder.\n \"Sweets, you'd better return to the others,\" she whispered to the turquoise bear. \"But don't tell anyone about this, okay? I'll stay here with Funshine for a while and try to sort this thing out.\"\n\nWish nodded slowly, and she softly patted Funshine's shocking shoulder before stepping out of the cloud cottage. For a moment she had wanted to say something to the yellow bear about leaving the wishing up to the professionals, but as Funshine's misery already was deep enough as it was, she kept her mouth shut and just left silently. Share softly closed the door behind her and stepped back to the chair Funshine was still crying on. Sitting down on the armrest again, she placed a paw on Funshine's shocking shoulders and bent over a bit to the yellow bear.\n \"Funshine,\" she said softly. \"Can we talk about this?\"\nFunshine very slowly looked up at Share, sniffing hard and wiping away some tears.\n \"You... you do the talking, I don't know what to say,\" she... he (this is going to take some getting used to) said.\nShare smiled a bit.\n \"Alright. Let me start then by asking you why you would ever find it so hard to tell me you love me?\"\n \"I... I don't know,\" Funshine said, sniffing hard. \"When I'm lying in bed or something, the words just come so easily. But when I'm around you, I just... I don't know what to say, or what to do.\"\n \"That's why you always play jokes on me, isn't it?\" Share said with a soft smile.\nFunshine nodded, wiping her... his eyes with a paw.\n \"It's just... insecurity, I guess,\" he said. \"I so want to tell you I love you, but when I'm near you, I suddenly don't know how anymore, and then it just results in me pulling a prank on you.\"\n \"That's kinda what I'd figured, yes,\" Share nodded with a smile. \"But sweets, what I don't understand is, why would you ever find it so hard to tell me that? I mean, it's a very natural thing to say for us Care Bears, and you should know I get along with boys and girls alike, that I'm not a tad too shy to go for a sweet intimate relationship with either.\"\n \"Yeah, but... I think that's just it,\" Funshine said softly. \"You're so easy and open in that kinda thing. And I... well, I can be kinda open in it, but then it's mostly with someone I really feel at ease with, like Swiftheart for instance. From her, I know she's got my kind of humor, and I also know she's not quite bonded, like you are.\"\n \"What do you mean?\" Share asked.\n \"Well... your relationship with Love-a-Lot for instance,\" Funshine said softly. \"And Heaven. There's really something so beautiful between you, and I don't dare to break into that.\"\n \"Ohh, now that's really sweet, but also silly, Funshine,\" Share smiled. \"You ought to know I have plenty of love to share with everyone. And me starting a relationship with someone does not mean that the bears whom I already have a relationship with will receive any less loving.\"\nA slow smile started forming on Funshine's face.\n \"Well, yes, that is how I know you,\" he said. \"And it's also one of the reasons I love you so.\" A soft sigh escaped Funshine's mouth. \"But it has also been one of the reasons why I didn't dare to tell you.\"\n \"You told me now, haven't you?\" Share smiled.\nFunshine smiled again.\n \"Yes, that's true.\"\n \"Well then,\" Share smiled with a cheeky wink. \"Wouldn't you like to find out if you can work your new pleasure stick? I really love the girl/girl thing, but there's nothing like a good firm filling every now and then to let you know you're alive.\"\n \"Would you... would you like me to?\" Funshine asked softly.\n \"Yeah I'd like you to!\" Share giggled. \"C'mon sweets, it'll even be fun teaching you how to use that thing!\"\nA slow smile started again spreading on Funshine's face, along with a pleasant warm feeling spreading through his body. He drew a soft sigh and gently hugged Share, pressing a soft kiss on one of her ears.\n \"I'd love to, Share,\" he whispered. \"I love you so, and I would be so happy if you can teach me how to behave with a girl in the state I'm in now.\"\n \"Well, c'mon then,\" Share giggled. \"We'd better get comfy someplace, so that I can gently initiate you into the secrets of using a boy's pleasure stick.\" She cocked her head to one side with a giggle. \"Although I do find it a little hard to believe you have never done that before, Funny. I mean, surely you must have had your share of games with a boy's pleasure stick?\"\nFunshine blushed a bit.\n \"Well, actually...\" He slowly looked up at Share Bear. \"Actually, I've only done that once. When I was on a caring mission with Swiftheart one time, we got stranded in a forest down on Earth. Swiftheart sent up a signal, and while we waited until someone would come to pick us up, we started fooling around with each other a bit. Finally, Brightheart showed up in response to Swiftheart's message, and we played a bit with him too, but that actually was the only time I've been with a boy. All my other times have always been with girls.\" Funshine looked at the floor for a moment. \"And even that haven't been all too many times, frankly.\"\n \"Well, then I reckon I can teach you even more fun stuff!\" Share giggled. She stepped up to Funshine and softly put a paw on his shoulder. \"But don't think now that I'm acting this cheerily just because I really like to have some good sex now, Funny. Above all, I want to show you I love you too, and I would really like to make you come at ease with your situation, and show you what nice sides it can have.\"\nFunshine looked at the sweet purple Care Bear for a while in silence, a slow smile forming on his yellow lips.\n \"You are so sweet, Share,\" he whispered. \"I would want nothing else than for you to teach me everything I need to know.\"\n \"Alrighty then!\" Share said cheerfully. \"Then why don't you take me someplace comfy now? I'm sure you must have some real comfortable places around your house?\"\n \"My bed is very comfortable,\" Funshine smiled. He chuckled a bit. \"And it's about the only piece of furniture in my house you don't have to be afraid of you'll sit on a whoopy-cushion or a water balloon or something.\"\nShare laughed happily while wrapping an arm around Funshine's yellow shoulders.\n \"Well, then I suggest we go to your bedroom and make ourselves comfy on your bed, sweets. Whaddaya say?\"\n \"Sounds lovely,\" Funshine smiled with a happy sigh.\n\nLeading the way, Funshine showed Share Bear out of his livingroom, up the stairs and into his bedroom. Approaching the bed, Funshine halted for a moment and looked at Share Bear.\n \"Are... you sure you wanna do this, Share?\"\n \"Yeah, aren't you then?\" Share replied cheerily.\n \"I want to,\" Funshine nodded silently. \"Stars yes, I want to. But... I wouldn't want to make you feel like you have to do this, Share.\"\nShare smiled deeply and pressed a soft kiss on Funshine's yellow heart-shaped nose.\n \"You are really a very sweet, caring little bear, Funshine, despite your clownish pranks. You deserve to wear the name of Care Bear. Now don't you worry about me seeing this as some kind of obligation, because I'm not. I'm doing this because I really want to do it myself too.\"\nFunshine sighed deeply and happily.\n \"Oh my stars, if you only knew how much that means to me, Share.\"\n\nHe stepped up to his bed, where Share had already laid herself down upon with a smile, and he lay down on it himself as well. Share put her arms around Funshine's fluffy body and pulled the yellow bear close to her, softly pressing her lips on Funshine's and letting her tongue play around gently with his. Funshine closed his eyes and softly sighed again, experiencing that Share tasted even better than he had always imagined. Her inviting mouth, her warm saliva, it tasted almost as sweet as the purple bear's special Share-alike Shakes, and Funshine savored the sweet mild taste as much as he could. Only when both bears started getting a bit short of breath they parted. Share looked at Funshine smiling happily with a twinkle in her pretty violet eyes.\n \"My, I never knew you were such a great kisser, Funny,\" she smiled.\nFunshine chuckled softly.\n \"I'm not all pranks and practical jokes and slapstick humor, Share. I like to get serious every now and then, or at least when it concerns something good as this.\"\n \"Well, you sure did your best for it,\" Share said with a giggle. \"I can't recall ever being kissed as good as this. I mean, Love-a-Lot kisses really good, and Heaven does too, but still that's girls kissing a girl. Very sweet, very tender, but somehow different just the same. That kiss you just gave me, that was a whole new experience for me. That was like the determination and enjoying of a man combined with the tenderness of a girl. Which, I may add, is a wonderful combination.\"\n \"I'm really happy you see it that way, and I'm really happy I can make you enjoy yourself that much,\" Funshine smiled. \"I really do love you very much, Share, and I want nothing more but to make you feel good.\"\n \"Well, you're doing a great attempt,\" Share smiled. She started softly running a paw through Funshine's yellow fur. \"So howzabout me now doing an attempt to make you feel good?\"\n \"I'd love that,\" Funshine whispered with a smile.\n\nHe lay back on his bed while Share kept running her paw through his soft yellow fur. Caressing each part of the yellow Care Bear's soft, stocky body, Share slowly reached lower, until her paw was caressing Funshine's hips and thighs. Using nothing more but the tips of her soft purple fingers, Share gently teased and caressed Funshine's newly acquired malehood with tender, suggestive touches, rousing the yellow bear's love-tool into working order. Share knew what she was doing, but Funshine sure didn't know what was happening to him. All these sensations were so new to him! Tickles, tingles, shivers like never experienced before! So new, but so good! Closing his eyes, Funshine couldn't help shuddering and moaning softly under Share's experienced and gentle caresses.\n\nSmiling serenely over Funshine's delighted reactions to her actions, Share slowly brought her head down and pressed a soft kiss on the tip of Funshine's fully erected new malehood. The yellow Care Bear moaned deeper, legs and tail twitching. All those new, wonderful feelings so overwhelmed him, and it was all he could do to lay back and let everything wash over him. Having replaced her fingertips for her lips now, Share just kept on giving Funshine the wonderfullest of feelings she could give the yellow bear. Soft warm lips and moisty tongue working miracles on the yellow Care Bear, Share soon had Funshine shuddering feverishly and moaning deeply with delight.\n \"Oh... Share! My stars! Share! This is so good!\" Funshine gasped, eyes tighly squeezed and paws clenched into fists. \"Oh my stars! I don't... I don't know what's happening to me, but it's so great! Oh yes! Share! If my feelings are not fooling me, then I'm..! I'm..! Oh..! Oh... Shaaaaare!!\"\n\nHollowing his back, Funshine couldn't hold himself back under Share's unearthly wonderful touches and licks, and he exploded. Squirts of Care Bear-jizz flew from his pulsating dick, splattering apart on Share's face and dripping onto her soft tummy. Smiling, Share let the gooey white drizzles slowly run down her face, keeping her attention to Funshine's still throbbing dick and slowly licking it clean. Only when the yellow Care Bear was lying flat out on the bedsheets again, relaxed and gasping deeply, did Share run a paw over her face to wipe away Funshine's cum from there a bit. She slowly licked it off her paw and then ran that paw through Funshine's fur again, from his loins over his tummy to his face, and very softly over his cheeks, meanwhile pressing a kiss on the gasping bear's heated yellow heart-shaped nose.\n \"Wow sweets, that certainly wasn't bad for a first-timer,\" she smiled. \"That was quite a fountain you produced there, if I may say so.\" Share giggled softly. \"I sure hope you're still girl enough to manage multiple orgasms, Funny. Otherwise my class sure is over very quickly.\"\nFunshine opened his eyes slowly and looked up at Share, still gasping, a slow smile forming on his lips.\n \"I... I may bodily be male, but I still feel like a girl inside,\" he smiled. \"And if my feelings are not incorrect, then I can probably tell you with certainty that my still female inside will help my now male outside to reach those multiple orgasms you mentioned. However...\" Funshine rolled over a bit, bringing himself into a position on his side, facing Share, and he softly ran a paw along her face and from her shoulders down to her chest. \"I first want to return the wonderful pleasure you gave me, my sweetest Share.\"\n \"That is one of the best offerings I've received in quite a while,\" Share said with a soft chuckle. She let herself sink down on her back and smiled up at Funshine. \"Please do that, Funny.\"\n\nSmiling happily, Funshine rose up a bit, until he was sitting on his knees. Looking down on Share, who invitingly smiled back up at him, he started softly running his paws through the purple bear's soft fluffy fur, caressing all of her stocky, compact little body gently, almost gingerly. With a little frown of surprise, Funshine noticed how the bright red heart on Share's left hip seemed to work as an extremely sensitive pleasure-spot for the purple Care Bear. As his yellow fingers softly slid over the little red heart, Share shocked as if electrified, and a deep, low moan rolled from her mouth as she squeezed her eyes.\n \"Ohhhh yesssss...\" Share sighed. \"Please touch me there, my sweet loverboy. That feels so goooood...\"\n \"Do you like that so much, Share?\" Funshine asked, slightly amazed.\nShare opened her eyes and sent Funshine a love-clouded smile.\n \"As you probably will be aware, sweets, all female bears have a very special, sensitive spot in their sex, called the G-spot. I have that too, but my Care Bear sign acts as a second G-spot. An H-spot, you could say.\" Share let out a soft giggle at that.\nFunshine also chuckled softly, again caressing the little red heart on Share's left hip with two fingers tenderly, making the purple bear shiver pleasantly.\n \"Gee, I never quite realized that our sign of origin could be a sort of pleasure-spot to some. Mine never felt like that, frankly. And I've never heard of any of the other girl bears that theirs does.\"\nShare opened her eyes for a moment again.\n \"I can tell you with certainty that at least one of the others' acts like an H-spot,\" she smiled. \"Love-a-Lot's Care Bear sign also is so sensitive.\"\n \"I could have guessed,\" Funshine said with a soft giggle. He slowly bowed down his head. \"But it's nice.\"\n\nLowering his head further and further down, he softly let his lips touch the little red heart on Share's furry left hip, causing the purple bear to shiver again. Slowly moving further down and a little to the right, Funshine let his lips travel from the very sensitive little red heart on Share's hip to the inside of her lions, going from her H-spot to her G-spot. Share gasped when Funshine's lips touched her slightly swollen purple nether lips, and a moan of ecstacy escaped her mouth when Funshine's tongue followed suit, sliding very softly over the warm slit and softly tickling at the longing little nubbin up in the best part of Share's anatomy. Sparks of sensual electricity transmitted through Share's body, travelling up to her brains and going back down to the part Funshine was gently caressing.\n\nFeeling her moisture rapidly building under his soft tongue, Funshine smiled a bit and slightly increased his tempo, his heart-shaped yellow nose gently opening the puffy purple lips of Share's tasty Care Bear-pussy so he could let his tongue slide into the ever wetter growing slit. Share's pleasurely moans turned into deep gasps of lust, and she grabbed two pawsful of bedsheet when Funshine's tongue did its best to return the intense pleasure Share's tongue had earlier brought him. Knowing that double the effort is double the pleasure, Funshine brought up his left paw and let his soft yellow fingers tenderly caress the sensitive little red heart on Share's left hip again while his tongue was still pleasuring her moisty purple pussy and her longing clit. The combined pleasuring of both her most sensitive and susceptible pleasure-spots was more than Share could handle, and with a loud squeal of lust she broke down in a thundering climax, spraying her warm, sticky Care Bear-cum over Funshine's face in a way similar to how Funshine had covered her before. Writhing and thrashing around on the bed, Share kept spasming and shocking as Funshine's fingers and tongue kept caressing both her pleasure-spots while the yellow Care Bear happily tried to catch the jets of Share's enticing love-cream in his mouth. When Share had at last relaxed enough to lie still, Funshine slowly crawled over her heaving body and pressed a soft kiss on her purple heart-shaped nose.\n \"Wow Share, you could almost be a male yourself,\" he smiled. \"I have never seen a girl so intensely reach an orgasm.\"\n \"Th... that's just me, sweets,\" Share gasped smiling, running a paw over Funshine's head and ears.\n\nLying some time in silent satisfaction, Share managed to bring her breathing down to normal rate, while Funshine softly caressed her ears and cheeks with his paws and lips. His body slightly stiffened though when Share let one of her paws travel between their bodies and curled her soft purple fingers around Funshine's again erect yellow dick. Smiling at the sudden stiffening at that touch, Share pressed her nose against Funshine's and a soft kiss on his lips.\n \"Now then sweets, wouldn't you like to learn how you can drive me wild with this thing?\" she whispered sultrily.\n \"Please,\" Funshine breathed, shivering softly.\nShare smiled again.\n \"Rise up a little, Funny. Give me a bit of room.\"\n\nLeaning on his paws, Funshine lifted his body a bit off Share's. Curling her fingers around his yellow dick again, Share spread her legs slightly and pointed the tip of Funshine's member to the slippery opening between her puffy purple love-lips. Very softly rubbing the tip over her moisty slit, Share sent Funshine another sultry smile.\n \"Now sink back down again, sweets,\" she murmured.\n\nWith a sigh Funshine let his body sink back down on Share's. His sigh turned into a groan of lust when his stiff yellow dick slid between the warm, soft, slippery lips of Share's inviting purple pussy. A plethora of feelings that were hundreds of times better than all the ones he had already experienced under Share's loving surged through the yellow Care Bear, and Funshine buried his face in the soft purple fur on Share's neck and shoulder, lying still to savor all those wonderful new feelings as best as he could. For quite a while he just lay like that, until Share slightly bucked her hips with a soft giggle.\n \"Aren't you going to move, sweets? Part of making a girl feel good with that thing involves moving, you know.\"\nFunshine raised his head a little, opened his eyes and looked at Share. A slow, somewhat apologetic smile curled his lips.\n \"You're right, I'm sorry. It's just that this is all so new for me, and it feels so wonderful.\"\n \"That's okay,\" Share smiled. \"But try it, you'll find that feels even more wonderful.\"\n \"Yeah, you're probably right, and I wanna try,\" Funshine said.\n\nSlowly and gently, and actually not really knowing what exactly to do, Funshine started moving the lower part of his body. Keeping his weight on his legs, or rather his knees, he slowly twisted his hips around, moaning deep inside his throat over the indescribable wonderful feeling of his stiff member roaming around inside Share's warm wet pussy that way. Every now and then he felt Share bucking her hips up to meet his, and that sent even wonderfuller shocks of delight through his yellow body. But although knowing how to use his paws when a girl under him bucked her hips like that, Funshine was not sure over how to use the entire lower part of his body in that situation, so he just followed Share's movement each time she thrusted her hips up. After some time, Share wrapped both her arms around Funshine's body with a giggle.\n \"I hate to disappoint you, sweets, but you're going at it the wrong way now,\" she smiled.\n \"I'm... sorry,\" Funshine mumbled, turning a little red around his nose.\nShare softly kissed him.\n \"Don't feel blue, it's nothing bad. After all, it's very new for you. But here, let me help you.\"\nAlso wrapping her legs around Funshine's body, Share held the yellow Care Bear tightly to her own body, and she rolled over with a sudden jolt. Thus having placed herself in the top position, Share placed her paws on Funshine's shoulders, softly pushed him down in the bedsheets, and smiled down at him.\n \"Now then,\" she smiled. \"You just lie back and enjoy, sweets. I'll do the work for you. That ought to give you the experience you need.\"\n\nFunshine just nodded, not being able to answer with words since Share almost right after her sweetly smiled words pressed herself down on his body, sliding her warm, slippery purple pussy down all the way over his stiff yellow dick, until their stomachs touched each other. Closing her eyes in delight, Share started slowly rocking with her body, back and forth first, up and down quite soon after. Funshine gurgled in ecstacy, his moans turning quite wet from the saliva gathering in his throat and slowly leaking from his opened mouth. Squeezing the bedsheets with both paws hard and stretching his legs as far as he could, the yellow Care Bear started slowly bucking his hips in instinct. Share gradually increased her tempo of rocking up and down over Funshine's dick, and all the new, wonderful feelings this sent hurdling through the yellow bear were almost more than he could stand. Rolling his head from left to right while tightly squeezing the bedsheets with his paws, Funshine strained the muscles in his legs as hard as he could, stretching his legs as far as they would go. His whole body trembled all over, and his gurgly groans became incomprehensible sounds as the flutters of lust filled him more and more, making all the circuits in his brains short out in blasts of fiery sparkles.\n\nHollowing his back again, all muscles in his trembling yellow body stretched so taut you could play guitar on them, Funshine once again exploded in a wonderful kaboom of unknown intense sexual relief. The hot seed boiling up from his aching balls forced its way through his pulsating dick and deep into Share's warm, fluffy body, flying back out in splashes as Share slammed her body down on Funshine's when the yellow bear's climax triggered an unearthly incredible orgasm inside her as well. Her warm, sticky Care Bear-cream, mixing with Funshine's hot Care Bear-jizz, oozed richly from the purple bear's cramping pussy as she kept pushing herself up and down over Funshine's yellow dick, only ever more slowly, her loud squeals of lust slowly diminishing into deep panting.\n\nFinally Share stopped moving altogether, and she slowly collapsed over forward, almost draping her body over Funshine's. Time passed in silence, the only sounds being those of the two Care Bears' breaths struggling to reach normal rate. At long last the two bears managed to regain themselves a bit, and they pressed their mouths onto each other's, kissing deeply and lovingly while holding each other dearly.\n \"Oh... oh my stars...\" Funshine gasped when they parted. \"That... that was so wonderful.\"\n \"It sure was, sweets,\" Share smiled, cuddling up against Funshine's body. \"It sure was.\"\n \"I love you, Share,\" Funshine whispered, pressing a kiss upside Share's head.\n \"I love you too, Funshine,\" Share murmured.\n\nBoth bears fell into a content silence. And Funshine silently mused over the thing that had happened to her, making her a him. These new sensations sure were wonderful. So new, and so exciting, and she could give Share so many things she wouldn't be able to give the purple bear if she would still be a girl. And vice versa. All the other Care Bears who were waiting for them at the picnic long forgotten, Funshine closed his eyes, snuggled up against Share's warm, satisfied body and heaved a deep sigh of satisfaction and happiness. Maybe he could get used to being a boy after all.", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "The smiling sun shone brightly over Care a Lot. And as soon as it had risen, Funshine was already up to enjoy every single little ray she could catch. Strolling through Care a Lot, Funshine hummed a happy tune to herself while looking at the smiling yellow sun showering everything in the cloudly kingdom with sparkling kisses. Hmmm, this was just the kind of day to be happied out of your mind. What could possibly go wrong on a day like today? Who could possibly feel bad on a day like today? Well, apparently someone could, because as Funshine strolled past the Hall of Hearts, she looked up when she heard the Caring Meter give a whining signal. Funshine looked at the heart-shaped needle drooping with a little frown of surprise. Especially since, whereas the heart-shaped needle of the Caring Meter normally drooped down counter-clockwise, it now sank down along the big shiny heart clockwise, falling from twelve o'clock to just and about four o'clock.
     "Someone feeling bad?" the yellow Care Bear muttered to herself. "On a day like today? And this early in the morning? How could that be?"

The sunny yellow bear walked over to the staroscope and looked through it. But she saw nothing, that early in the morning Earth was still asleep as well, just as all Care Bears still were. Quite soon however Funshine picked up the reason for the Caring Meter drooping clockwise. Somewhere on a deserted country road, Bedtime Bear was stranded with his Cloudsmobile. Funshine saw the blue bear bending over the engine under the opened hood, grumbling slightly while desperately trying to fix the trouble. Funshine smiled a bit, left the staroscope and got out her own Cloudsmobile, setting out to lend Bedtime a helping paw.

While on her way, Funshine pulled her Cloudsmobile to a stop at the city limits where the country road began when she noticed a wad of paper lying in the grass verge. Aww, now why did the humans do that? Funshine got out of her Cloudsmobile and picked up the wad of paper, so she could throw it into a garbage can when she would find one. As she got back into her car, she saw that the wad of paper was an Easter leaflet from a supermarket.
     'Oh yeah, that's right, it's almost Easter,' the yellow bear thought to herself with a smile.
She looked through the leaflet a bit. It was slightly soggy from the dew, but still well readable. Funshine smiled to herself again when looking over the special offers.
     "I'd better stop by a Stater Bros. on the way back," she muttered to herself smiling. "They have all kinds of goodies on offer, and I see a lot of things that can come in handy for our family picnic. And... oh! Oh, that's nice."

Funshine was looking at a page of the leaflet offering special Easter treats in the form of funny balloons and Easter baskets, some of which had the caption 'show you care'. It ignited an idea in the yellow bear's head. She'd pick up one of those for Share Bear. Maybe that would give a hint? Funshine for a moment sighed softly. How long had it been now? How long had she been in love with the purple bear now without daring to tell her? Try as she might, but Funshine just couldn't see the fun side of that. So long already had she had a secret crush on the sweet purple bear, and evenly long had she shied back from telling Share so. And why altogether? Share sure wasn't too shy to share her love and even sexuality with anyone, just as she easily shared everything else. So then why couldn't Funshine bring herself to say those three simple words to her? Maybe it was because Share was so easy in sharing her love with everyone else? Or maybe it was because she, Funshine, teased her all the time? But wasn't it so that 'you tease who you love'? It sure was in Funshine's case.

With a last little sigh and a smile filtering through just the same, Funshine tossed the leaflet to the backseat of her Cloudsmobile and set her car in motion again. Maybe one of those nice Easter baskets would do the trick of helping her telling Share she loved her. And for now, it was Funshine's turn to do the helping, since there still was a Care Bear out there who was in trouble. Driving down the deserted country road, Funshine soon reached the stranded Cloudsmobile with the blue bear bending over the engine. Giggling to herself very softly, Funshine brought her car to a stop, cupped her paws over her mouth and gave a perfect impression of screeching brakes. Bedtime Bear rose up with a jolt and banged his head on the hood of his Cloudsmobile.
     "Ouch!"
Bedtime Bear turned around and saw Funshine leaning back in the driver's seat of her car, laughing. Drawing a deep breath, Funshine looked at Bedtime with merrily twinkling eyes.
     "Good morning on this wonderful morning, Bedtime."
     "Hello Funshine," Bedtime said, rubbing his head with a paw. "I'm glad to see you, but how did you know I was here?"
Funshine giggled.
     "Your trouble was so deep it affected the Caring Meter, Bedtime. I happened to be up already and I saw it, so I decided to go out and give you a paw."
     "Thanks a lot," Bedtime said with a smile. He threw a slightly unfriendly glance at his Cloudsmobile. "I have to have a word with Grumpy about this. This is the umpteenth time I have car-trouble. It seems like Grumpy puts his bad luck in the cars he sells."
Funshine laughed.
     "Now that's silly! You know that can't be true, Bedtime. Here, look at my car. I bought that at Grumpy's too, and I haven't had any troubles with it so far. You are just forgetting here that you go out every single night, whereas the others of us go out only when there's trouble, and then not even all of us together. So your car simply wears faster."
     "Yeah, that's true," Bedtime said. He looked at his car again. "But still, Grumpy promised me this car could handle that."
     "Well, maybe you should drive a bit more carefully then," Funshine said merrily.
Bedtime now also laughed.
     "That's something for you to say, miss devil driver! I never thought anyone could exceed Tenderheart in vehicle daredeviling, but yet I have seen you manage!"
Funshine giggled loudly while airily hopping out of her Cloudsmobile.
     "Yes well, at least that gives me a bit of experience in fixing car-troubles, right?"
     "Didn't I just hear you say you hadn't had any troubles with your car so far?" Bedtime remarked grinning.
     "Not with this one, no," Funshine giggled, stepping up to Bedtime's car. "But it's my third one already, y'know." She bent over the engine of Bedtime's Cloudsmobile. "Now, let's have a look-see here."
     "It's the carburetor giving troubles, Funshine," Bedtime informed the yellow bear while standing next to her.
     "Hmmno, it's not," Funshine said after some time. "It's the fuel intake manifold. You ripped a line coming from the fuel rail. Hmm, let's see, how can we fix that?" Funshine rose up for a moment and thought. "Well, maybe I have something in the trunk of my car that can be of help."

The yellow Care Bear walked to her car, popped the trunk of it and started rummaging through it. The trunk of Funshine's car was filled with all kinds of joke-shop items, and after a little time she rose up with a packet of balloons, the kind you can make balloon animals with.
     "Well, lookie what we have here, this could just do the trick," she said with a giggle.

She took a long yellow balloon from the packet, cut the tip off it and put it in the place of the torn fuel line going from the fuel rail to the fuel intake manifold in Bedtime's Cloudsmobile. Bedtime got into his car and tried to start the engine when Funshine said he could give it a try. After several new tries, the Cloudsmobile's engine started purring like a pussycat. Bedtime was really happy.
     "Thanks so much, Funshine," he said, yawning right after that. "I've had a busy night tonight, and I wasn't at all happy that my car broke down. I really want to get home quickly and look up my bed."
     "Yes, well, this should help you to get home, but you should get a new fuel line as soon as possible," Funshine advised. "I don't know how long that balloon will hold out, see. The fuel may well dissolve it slowly, and then you'll be stranded again. And as you know, that always happens at the most inconvenient times."
     "Yeah, I know," Bedtime yawned with a smile. "Well, anyway, thank you very much again, Funshine. If there's ever anything I can help you with, just let me know, okay?"
     "Well..." Funshine looked at the ground. "There is one little thing."
Bedtime got out of his Cloudsmobile again when he saw the incredible sight of the most clownish of Care Bears suddenly looking blue. He stepped up to Funshine and folded an arm around her shoulder.
     "Hey now, what's the matter, Funshine?"
Funshine smiled a bit, but the smile was lost in a soft sigh.
     "I'm in love, Bedtime."
     "But... that's nice, isn't it?" Bedtime said, slightly confused over whatever reason it might be Funshine was sighing over being in love.
Funshine sighed a bit again.
     "Yeah it is, but..."
     "But what?" Bedtime asked softly.
     "I... I don't know how to say it, Bedtime," Funshine said.
     "You just now said it," Bedtime said, still slightly confused.
A very soft giggle came from the yellow Care Bear.
     "That wasn't quite what I meant, silly. It's just... I have a crush on Share, for so long already, but I don't know how to tell her."
     "Share?" Bedtime was getting even more confused. "But... you always tease Share. You always pull jokes on her."
     "I know, but I do that because..." Funshine sighed a bit again. "Out of uncertainty, I guess. Whenever I'm around her, I don't know how to act towards her. I so want to tell her I love her, but I can't seem to find the right words, or the right actions, and therefore I just try to be funny and tease her a bit." She looked up at Bedtime. "But I do very much want to tell her I love her, Bedtime. How should I go about it? Please say you can tell me how to get my courage up to tell Share I love her."
     "Gee, I don't know," Bedtime said softly. "To be quite frank, I never had to deal with this kind of problems. All the problems I have to deal with involve sleeping." He smiled a bit. "I'm afraid the best advice I can give you is to be a man about it, Funshine."
     "Oh, that's easy for you to say," Funshine said, smiling a little. "But then tell me, how should I go about this in a manly kind of way?"
     "Gee, well," Bedtime said, scratching the top of his head. "Have you thought about maybe getting Share a present? Something special that says I love you? I know that helped for me."
Funshine cocked her head a little.
     "Really? May I ask who and... what?"
Bedtime Bear smiled deeply.
     "Who? Laugh-a-lot. I love that silly girl, and I gave her lots of sweet dreams to show her." For a moment a shy little grin swept over Bedtime's face. "Well, and it also helped that I dropped obvious hints in those dreams."
Funshine giggled.
     "I'm sure that would have helped, but I don't think it'll help me a lot. I can't give Share nice dreams."
Bedtime smiled again.
     "Maybe you should go talk to Friend Bear. She has these perfect ways of showing someone how much you like him or her with tiny little, seemingly insignificant, things. She might be able to help you out."
     "I'll think about it, Bedtime," Funshine smiled. "Thanks anyway for your help and your advice. I was planning on doing a little shopping in a while, so maybe I find something beautiful for Share too. And if not, I can still try to get a private word with Friend on our picnic."
     "Right," Bedtime nodded, getting back into his Cloudsmobile. "Well, whichever way you may decide on, Funshine, I really hope it'll work out for you. Success, and thanks again for helping me fix my car."
     "You're welcome," Funshine said with a smile.

She waved after the blue bear lifting his car into the air and setting off for home. When the Cloudsmobile had disappeared between the clouds, Funshine sighed a little again, then drew a breath and got back into her own Cloudsmobile. She turned it around and drove down the country road towards the city. The city had woken up, the early morning rush was already starting, and strangely enough, nobody looked up with surprise at so strange a car with so unusual an occupant mingling with the other traffic. Funshine on the other hand did shake her head with surprise over what she saw with all that other traffic. She already couldn't understand why the humans would throw trash at the sides of the roads, but the way they were rushing and annoyedly honking the horns of their cars at each other was even further beyond her understanding. Yeesh, if they would just be a bit friendlier, if they would just let that other car go first for once, if they would anticipate on each other more, surely it would be so much nicer to drive? But well, as Funshine knew from prior experiences, this attitude of the humans had already been there from the time the first cars came onto the roads, it even had already been there in the time of horses and carriages, so there would be nothing even the entire Care Bear Family could do to change that. Therefore, Funshine just shrugged a bit, pushed a cassette in the deck of her car's radio and sang along cheerfully with the seventies tunes ringing from the loudspeakers.

At a Stater Bros. supermarket Funshine pulled onto the parking lot, again slightly surprised over how busy it already was there at a mere nine fifteen in the morning. But well, there were still vacant spots, and after all the Cloudsmobiles could fly, so Funshine could always still park it on the supermarket's roof in a pinch. But, funny as that might have been, Funshine was wise enough to realize that even though the humans might not have looked up in surprise at a Cloudsmobile with a Care Bear inside mingling with the early morning traffic, they would be very much surprised at seeing a car suddenly taking off and parking on a supermarket's roof. And they would probably cause serious traffic accidents in their surprise too, so while she was in the city, Funshine just behaved like any other motorist, or at least for the part that she drove across the roads instead of through the air.

Parking her car at a free spot, Funshine got out and walked to the supermarket. At the line of trolleys, she found that those were way too big for her to handle. Even when standing on the tips of her toes, she couldn't reach the handlebar of the trolley. For a moment the yellow bear stood there wondering what to do, but then her eye fell on another line of supermarket trolleys. Aha, look at that! Those were just perfect! It were supermarket trolleys designed for children, in shape the exact duplicates of the adult trolleys, but a lot smaller in size. With a little giggle, Funshine took one of those trolleys, and she stepped into the supermarket. Again, nobody looked up with surprise at a little yellow bear with a smiling sun on the tummy pushing a trolley through the supermarket. Well, after all it was still quite early in the morning. You just don't pay too much attention to unusual things you might see. And a yellow bear with a smiling sun on the tummy pushing a small supermarket trolley might just as well be a dressed up kid, after all.

With the leaflet as a guide, Funshine went straight for the candy section of the supermarket. She picked up a generous supply of Brach's jelly beans and Hershey bagged candy, especially the variety called 'sweet kisses', and all available colors of Peeps marshmallow. At the Service Deli and Bake Shop she picked up Easter-theme cupcakes, and she couldn't resist also taking two bunny cakes. Those just looked so funny! Cakes looking like white bunnies with a large pink smiling face, that was just up Funshine's end of the street. While strolling through the supermarket, Funshine looked at the other items that were on special offer, and since she didn't get into a supermarket all that often, she decided to benefit from her being in one now, and picked up some more things. A couple of Popsicle variety packs, Pillsbury rolls, all six available variations of'em, Tostitos and Lays potato chips, and for drinks she took a couple of bottles of Langers grape juice plus and Tropicana orange juice, the housestyle variety. She took a couple of extra of those, since she knew Tropicana supported the American Cancer Society, and as a true Care Bear Funshine was never too shy to help a good cause. Plus the juice was just plain very good.

Her trolley finally filled to capacity, plus a bit more, Funshine took her place in line for one of the check-out points. And again nobody looked up with surprise. Most of the people were just too busy checking the supermarket leaflet for the extra savings coupons or looking through the magazines in the stands near the check-out points, and the cashier just ran all of the things Funshine put on the band across the scanner automatically, and probably not even fully awake yet. After paying for her purchases, Funshine piled everything into three big brown paper bags and wheeled the trolley to her Cloudsmobile, where she put the three brown bags in the trunk. Except for the Popsicle variety packs, those she put in the glove-compartment. Why? Well, because she once had Grumpy re-route the airco to the glove-compartment, making that refrigerated so she could store cool drinks and such in there. And of course, the popsicles wouldn't melt in there on the way back either.

When she had put the little trolley back in the line with the others, Funshine got into her car and drove off the supermarket's parking lot. Since inside the city she knew she shouldn't get the Cloudsmobile airborne, she just drove across the roads with the rest of the traffic, singing along with the tape in her car's cassette-deck again. But all the while she kept looking around her at the stores she passed by, since she had found the Easter baskets in the supermarket to be not exactly the perfect kind of gift to tell Share how she loved her. But as long as she had to use the roads in the city, she might as well keep a look-out, because she very well might suddenly see something which was just perfect.

However, the first shop she stopped at was a joke-shop, as she just couldn't resist buying a supply of squirting flowers, hand-buzzers and a new whoopy-cushion. And she picked up a couple of other things too, which she was intending to use at the picnic. For instance, glasses with a squished spider in the bottom. Haha, can you imagine the reaction that gives when you finish the last bit of drink in the glass, and due to the position you look through the bottom of the glass, and you see that? Funshine was already giggling to herself over the reactions at the picnic when the bears would be drinking from those glasses. Maybe she should pick up a couple of umbrellas too.

Having filled the last bit of free space in the trunk of her car with the joke-shop things she'd bought, Funshine mingled into the city traffic again, slowly heading for the outskirts of town, where she could use the deserted country road to get her car into the air unseen and go back home to Care a Lot. But suddenly, halfway down Sunrise Boulevard, she sat up straight in her car with a shock and stared to the left. Oh my stars! But that... that was it! That was the perfect gift for Share! On the left side of the street was an antique-shop, and Funshine was staring at the window of it. On a small pedestal, between a couple of antique timepieces and right next to a genuine Tiffany's table-lamp, was a small but unbelievably beautiful ring. Pure silver, rather wide, engraved with beautiful frilly patterns and symbols, and the most beautiful was the diamond on top of it, cut in the shape of a bear's head. It actually looked almost exactly like a Care Bear's head. If it hadn't been in an antique-shop down on Earth, Funshine would have even sworn the ring would be a piece of ancient Care Bear jewelry. Oh yes, but that definitely was it! Quickly finding a place to park her Cloudsmobile and parking it, Funshine hurried to the antique-shop and bought the beautiful ring. Oohhh, this was just too perfect! As she got back into her Cloudsmobile, Funshine just knew that if she managed to get a private word with Share at the picnic, and she gave the pretty purple bear that ring, the three words she for so long already longed to say to Share would follow naturally.

Having managed to get out of town decently, Funshine quickly drove down the deserted country road where she had found Bedtime stranded with his car early that morning. Looking around, she saw there was nothing and no-one around her, so she pulled the gear-shift into flying position, making her Cloudsmobile take off and head for the sky. All the way back to the Kingdom of Caring, Funshine kept looking at the ring, lying in its opened box on the car's dash. Wow, it was like there was some sort of power radiating from it. Funshine's look was irresistably drawn to the ring each time, the strange ancient symbols engraved in it, the beautiful bear's head-shaped diamond on it, sparkling with bright flashes in the sunlight falling through the car's windshield. Sheesh, it almost looked as if the ring was magic or something.

For a flash of a moment a tiny prickle of doubt teased Funshine's mind. Should she first show the ring to Magix Bear perhaps? Imagine the ring did contain some sort of weird magic. Who could tell what kind of strange, maybe even bad, things could happen if you would put the ring on your finger. And Funshine sure didn't want any of that to happen to Share. The ring was supposed to be a gift of love to the purple bear, and not intended to turn her into a dragon or something weird like that. For a moment though Funshine softly giggled as that image wandered into her mind. Boy, it sure would be a silly sight to see, a stocky, compact, fluffy purple dragon with a sorbet on its tummy. But no, she really didn't want anything like that to happen.

Entering Care a Lot, Funshine pulled her car to a stop when Tenderheart beckoned her. Funshine giggled loudly when seeing her prank of very early that morning had paid off. Tenderheart was standing next to Wish Bear at the staroscope, and after having looked through it that morning when the Caring Meter had given a signal, Funshine hadn't been able to resist, before setting out to help Bedtime, to smear a little black ink onto the staroscope. Both the brown and the turquoise Care Bear were now sporting a black ring around their right eye.
     "Morning Wish, Tenderheart," Funshine said giggling.
     "Mojning Funshine," Tenderheart said. "Where have you been? We've been looking for you."
     "I was up very early, and I saw the Caring Meter giving a signal," Funshine said, fighting hard to hold back her giggles at both Wish and Tenderheart not seeming to know they had those black rings around their eyes. "It turned out Bedtime was stranded on some country road down on Earth, so I went out to help him."
     "That's very nice of you," Wish Bear smiled.
     "Yeah, but what kept you so long?" Tenderheart asked. "Bedtime has been back for over an hour already."
     "I did a little shopping," Funshine smiled. "I picked up a whole lot of great goodies for our picnic. Candy and drinks and everything."
     "Oh, that's even nicer," Wish Bear smiled.
     "Yes, that's been vejy thoughtful of you, Funshine," Tenderheart said with a smile. "Well, I guess we'll see you at the picnic then, right?"
     "You will," Funshine giggled. "And I'll catch you guys there too. Gotta go home now though, because I also brought ice. Need to put that in the freezer."
     "Sure," Tenderheart said. "See you this aftejnoon then."

Funshine nodded and drove off again, giggling to herself over the silly sight of Wish and Tenderheart having those black rings around their eyes. Strange though that they both hadn't noticed. After all, they could have seen it on each other, right? Funshine found it a little hard to believe that Wish and Tenderheart hadn't looked each other in the face after both having looked through the staroscope. And she did look over her shoulder a little surprised when she heard the two Care Bears laughing behind her. Now what was that about?

Well, the prankish yellow Care Bear found that out when she reached her cloud cottage. Trying to carry all three of the big brown paper bags to her cottage at once, Funshine supported two of them with her arms and shoulders while reaching out for the doorknob, but as soon as she grabbed it she made a face. Aw sheesh, what was that? Pulling back her paw, Funshine noticed Wish and Tenderheart had given her a taste of her own medicine. The doorknob of her cloud cottage was covered in honey. Funshine quickly put down the paper bags and licked her paw, and then she started laughing. She could take a joke as well as play one, and after all, it was just her kind of a joke too. She could have thought that one out herself. And she was a good sport about it, too. But as she cleaned the doorknob of her cloud cottage, Funshine decided to pay back Wish and Tenderheart for this one at the picnic. They would be the first to have a drink from her special new glasses, those ones with the squished spider in the bottom.

Carrying all the paper bags to her kitchen and putting them down there, Funshine quickly went out to her Cloudsmobile again to retrieve the popsicles from her car's glove-compartment, and the small box with the ring in it. And again she was seized by it, her gaze inevitably drawn to it. She just had to look at it. It fascinated her, it captured her. It felt like... it felt like it belonged. Like there was some sort of relation between her and that ring. Strange, very strange, but yet... so natural. Having dumped the packets of popsicles in her freezer, Funshine walked to her livingroom and fell down on a chair, staring at the ring. Sunlight pouring in through the windows struck flashes from the diamond bear's head, and it was almost as if... as if it was looking at her. Slowly, Funshine carefully extended a finger and ran it along the silver of the ring, over the strange inscriptions in it, the weird ancient symbols engraved in the ring. A soft tremor tingled through her fingers and traipsed down her spine, making her shiver. More and more, Funshine got the idea there was something really special about that ring, but yet she could not put her finger on it.
     "Wow," the yellow Care Bear muttered to herself. "It's like you feel some sort of ancient power radiating from it." She looked at the diamond bear's head again. "Sheesh, but what is it that makes you so fascinating?" she said half-loud.
Not expecting any kind of answer of course, Funshine was all the more shocked when a deep voice reverberated through her head, as if there was someone standing right next to her speaking into her ear.
     "I am the one ring of the ancient ursine mages, and you felt our kinship."

For a couple of moments, Funshine sat in her chair completely dumb-struck, staring at the ring with huge round eyes and her mouth hanging open. She gasped for air, she trembled all over, she felt a sense of utter importance and excitement suddenly spreading through her. It was a magic ring after all! Struggling to find her voice, Funshine looked at the diamond bear's head again.
     "What... what purpose do you serve?"
Again the deep voice reverberated in Funshine's head.
     "I am the one ring. In the hands of my ursine owner, I grant that one's dearest wish."

Funshine trembled with excitement. A ring that granted wishes. Wait till Wish Bear heard of that! And a window of opportunities suddenly opened up in Funshine's mind. This ring could help her overcome her problem concerning Share! She could wish for Share to be madly in love with her, and... No! Funshine took a sudden dive back to reality when that thought entered her mind. No, she should not wish for Share to fall in love with her. That would be plain unfair. Funshine thought again. She could of course do wish for herself to find a way to tell Share how much she loved her. And a smile crept over her face when she thought she had found the best way.
     "Ring, I am very much in love with my girlfriend Share Bear, but I dare not to tell her. I wish to..." A deeper smile crept over Funshine's face when a memory of her conversation with Bedtime early that morning flashed across her mind. "I wish to be a man about my feelings for Share, so I can get myself to tell her I love her."
     "Your wish shall be granted," the voice reverberated in Funshine's mind.

A tingle spread through the one paw of Funshine's in which she was holding the ring. Stronger and stronger it became, and again the yellow Care Bear was trembling all over. She felt dizzy. She felt like she was spinning out of control. She felt as if she was falling into a bottomless pit. But slowly, gradually, the feelings subsided, died away, and reality reasserted itself. Blinking a couple of times and wiping her brow with her free paw, Funshine drew a deep breath. It must be over. The ring must have worked its magic now. Sheesh, but it sure had made her feel sick for a moment. Funshine hoped that that feeling of nausea would have subsided too by the time she went to the picnic. By the way, feeling? Her feelings for Share. Would she be able to word them now? Would she be able to tell the purple bear she loved her? Funshine decided to take a few tries.
     "Share, I love you. Share, I have always loved you. Share, I am so in love with you. Share, I love you from the bottom of my heart."

Hm, well, that didn't sound bad at all, actually. It felt very natural to say it. Hopefully it would feel just as natural when she would be face to face with Share Bear. Turning her thoughts to the pretty purple bear, Funshine thought of a way to best get a private talk with her at the picnic, so she could speak her love. And her thoughts inadvertently turned to all of the sweet purple bear's wonderful assets. Thinking of Share as she did now, Funshine felt a strange tingling sensation in her groin, a sensation totally new to her, a sensation she had never ever felt before, and most certainly not in those regions of her body. Looking down in wonder of what those strange tingly, ticklish feelings meant, Funshine let out a sudden shriek. There, between her legs, so far unnoticed because it belonged so naturally, was a penis. And the strange tingling sensation Funshine was feeling was the beginning of an erection.
     "Oh my stars!!" Funshine cried out, jumping up. "What is this?! Ring, what have you done to me?!"
     "I have granted your wish," sounded the deep voice. "You wished to be a man, and your wish is granted."
Funshine was appalled for a moment.
     "I wished to be a man about my feelings! I did not wish to become a man! Turn me back!"
     "This cannot be done," sounded the voice.
     "Why not?!?" Funshine shouted.
     "I am the one ring. My name indicates I grant my owner's wish, one wish alone."
Funshine now was horrified rather than appalled.
     "Do you mean I'm stuck like this?!"
     "Your wish is permanent. The magic of the one ring is supreme."
     "Oh my stars!!"

Funshine dropped the box with the ring, and she fell back down in the chair with a thump. Her eyes filled with tears. This was not what she'd had in mind! All she had wanted was to become brave enough to tell the girl she really loved that she really loved her. She had never intended to switch gender! And if the change was permanent... Oh dear stars and hearts and rainbows, how would she... he ever explain this to the others? Funshine flung herself... himself over in the chair, arms on one armrest and head on his arms, and he broke down in sobs.

Later that day, halfway through the afternoon, most all bears had assembled at the cloudly field where they would have their picnic. Bedtime wasn't there, but that was logical in a way. And besides, he had excused himself with Tenderheart when he had arrived in Care a Lot that morning. But both Tenderheart and Wish were rather surprised at also finding Funshine missing.
     "You don't suppose she's mad at us because of that trick with her doorknob, do you?" Wish asked Tenderheart.
     "I don't think so," Tenderheart said. "It's not like her to become mad over something like that."
     "But why isn't she here then?" said Wish Bear.
     "Gee, I don't know," Tenderheart said. "I'm as surpjised as you are, actually. After all she had said she had bjought all kinds of goodies for the picnic."
     "Yeah," Wish Bear mused. "This is really strange."
     "What is strange?"
Wish and Tenderheart looked around. While they had been talking, Share Bear had stepped up to them, and she had overheard the last thing Wish had said.
     "Well, we were wondering why Funshine is not here," Wish said.
     "I thought I missed her already," Share nodded.
     "Yeah, we thought maybe she's mad at us because we played a trick on her," Wish said.
Share giggled softly.
     "You did? What kind of trick?"
Wish smiled.
     "She had put ink on the staroscope, so when Tenderheart and I had looked through it, we both had a black ring around our eye. We just knew that had to be Funshine's doing, so we paid her back by putting honey on the knob of her door."
Share giggled again.
     "Good one. But I don't think she's gotten mad over that. I sooner believe she'll have laughed over it."
     "Yeah, we think so too," said Tenderheart. "And besides, when we met her, she said she had been shopping, and that she had bjought all kinds of candy and djinks for the picnic. So that's why it's so stjange she's not here now."
Share ran a paw over her nose and mouth, thinking.
     "Mmm. That's weird, indeed."
     "Hey, you know what?" Wish said. "I'm going to her house, see if she's still there, and ask her what's the matter."
     "Good idea," Tenderheart nodded. "We'll wait for you."
     "You don't have to," Wish smiled. "You can start without me."
     "And without me," Share smiled. "I'm coming with you, Wish. I've found Funshine acting a little strange around me, as if she's holding something back, and I'd like to talk to her."
     "Good," Tenderheart nodded again. "I really hope it's nothing serious, and I also hope you'll come back here with her."
     "I hope so too," Wish smiled. She snapped her fingers, making a Cloudsmobile appear. "Are you coming, Share?"
     "Sure," Share said with a giggle.

Before she got into the Cloudsmobile, however, she looked at it with her head a bit cocked to one side and a merry giggle on her face. Wish's Cloudsmobile didn't exactly look like any of the other Cloudsmobiles all the other bears drove. Wish's one more looked like a Lamborghini Diablo, convertible.
     "Tell me one thing, Wish," Share giggled. "How did you get your Cloudsmobile to look like this?"
     "Well, I just wished I got a car that looked distinctively apart from the others," Wish said with a giggle. "Actually, I wished I got a car that looked really hot. And so this is the result."
     "Groovy," Share chuckled.

She got into the car Wish was already sitting in, and Wish drove the two of them to Funshine's cloud cottage. They saw Funshine's Cloudsmobile standing in front of it. Wish parked her car behind it, both bears got out, and they stepped up to Funshine's cottage. The first thing Wish did was carefully touching the doorknob with a finger, giggling softly.
     "Well, she did clean the honey off," she giggled.
Share also chuckled softly. Wish smiled a bit and knocked on the door.
     "Funshine?"
     "Go away," Funshine's voice came from inside the cloud cottage, clear hints of sobs sounding through.
Wish and Share looked at each other with surprise. Wish tried again.
     "Funshine? It's me, Wish. You're... you're not mad at Tenderheart and me because of our little joke, are you?"
     "No," came Funshine's voice from within the cottage. "But go away just the same. Leave me alone."
Share decided to give it a try.
     "Hey, Funny? It's me sweets, Share. What's the matter?"
     "Share? Oh my stars," Funshine's voice sounded with a sigh. "Please... please go away. I can't talk to you. Please leave me alone."

That about did it for Share Bear. The ways she had noticed Funshine behaving when around her, and the way the yellow bear was now sounding in obvious distress woke up each and all of her caring feelings, and she wouldn't leave Funshine's cottage before she had gotten to the bottom of Funshine's troubles, and had helped solving them. And Wish Bear felt about the same. Trying the doorknob, Share found the door wasn't locked, and she opened it. Stepping into Funshine's cloud cottage, Wish and Share found the yellow bear in a chair, head on arms, softly sobbing. Shocked by that sight, Wish and Share quickly stepped up to the chair and both placed a paw on each of Funshine's shoulders.
     "Hey now sweets, what's this?" Share asked in a warm, caring voice. "What are you crying for? What happened?"
     "I... I can't say," Funshine sobbed.
Share sat down on the armrest Funshine was crying on, and she softly stroked the yellow bear's ears with a paw.
     "Come come now," Share smiled warmly, her voice soothing and caring. "You know you can share anything with me, sweets. So please tell me what's wrong? We're worried about you, Funshine. Please tell us what's wrong."
     "It's... it's that ring," Funshine sobbed, pointing at the little box lying on the floor.
Both Share and Wish looked at it. Wish bent over, picked up the box and opened it. Both bears gasped softly when they saw the beautiful ring that was inside it.
     "Wow, Funshine..." Wish said softly. "That is a beautiful ring. Where did you get that?"
     "In... an antique-shop on Earth," Funshine said softly, the sobs slowly diminishing. "I went shopping after I had helped Bedtime fix his car, and when I found that ring, I right away..." For the first time Funshine looked up, face stained with tears. "I right away bought it, for... for you, Share."
     "You did?" Share whispered. "Wow. But why?"
     "I'm... I'm..." Funshine gulped. "I'm so in love with you, Share. But I never knew how to tell you that. Bedtime advised me to be a man about it, and..." Funshine started crying again. "That ring turned out to be magical. It said it could grant the owner's dearest wish, and when I said I wished I could be a man about my feelings for you, Share, it... it changed me..."A loud sobbing wail escaped Funshine's mouth. "It made me maaale!"

Wish gulped audibly, and she dropped the box with the ring as she clapped both paws over her mouth. Share encountered quite some difficulty staying in her sitting position on the chair's armrest. For some time, the only sounds were those of Wish Bear and Share Bear gasping, and Funshine crying. Very slowly Share rose up from the chair's armrest, drawing deep breaths, and she put a paw on Wish's shoulder.
     "Sweets, you'd better return to the others," she whispered to the turquoise bear. "But don't tell anyone about this, okay? I'll stay here with Funshine for a while and try to sort this thing out."

Wish nodded slowly, and she softly patted Funshine's shocking shoulder before stepping out of the cloud cottage. For a moment she had wanted to say something to the yellow bear about leaving the wishing up to the professionals, but as Funshine's misery already was deep enough as it was, she kept her mouth shut and just left silently. Share softly closed the door behind her and stepped back to the chair Funshine was still crying on. Sitting down on the armrest again, she placed a paw on Funshine's shocking shoulders and bent over a bit to the yellow bear.
     "Funshine," she said softly. "Can we talk about this?"
Funshine very slowly looked up at Share, sniffing hard and wiping away some tears.
     "You... you do the talking, I don't know what to say," she... he (this is going to take some getting used to) said.
Share smiled a bit.
     "Alright. Let me start then by asking you why you would ever find it so hard to tell me you love me?"
     "I... I don't know," Funshine said, sniffing hard. "When I'm lying in bed or something, the words just come so easily. But when I'm around you, I just... I don't know what to say, or what to do."
     "That's why you always play jokes on me, isn't it?" Share said with a soft smile.
Funshine nodded, wiping her... his eyes with a paw.
     "It's just... insecurity, I guess," he said. "I so want to tell you I love you, but when I'm near you, I suddenly don't know how anymore, and then it just results in me pulling a prank on you."
     "That's kinda what I'd figured, yes," Share nodded with a smile. "But sweets, what I don't understand is, why would you ever find it so hard to tell me that? I mean, it's a very natural thing to say for us Care Bears, and you should know I get along with boys and girls alike, that I'm not a tad too shy to go for a sweet intimate relationship with either."
     "Yeah, but... I think that's just it," Funshine said softly. "You're so easy and open in that kinda thing. And I... well, I can be kinda open in it, but then it's mostly with someone I really feel at ease with, like Swiftheart for instance. From her, I know she's got my kind of humor, and I also know she's not quite bonded, like you are."
     "What do you mean?" Share asked.
     "Well... your relationship with Love-a-Lot for instance," Funshine said softly. "And Heaven. There's really something so beautiful between you, and I don't dare to break into that."
     "Ohh, now that's really sweet, but also silly, Funshine," Share smiled. "You ought to know I have plenty of love to share with everyone. And me starting a relationship with someone does not mean that the bears whom I already have a relationship with will receive any less loving."
A slow smile started forming on Funshine's face.
     "Well, yes, that is how I know you," he said. "And it's also one of the reasons I love you so." A soft sigh escaped Funshine's mouth. "But it has also been one of the reasons why I didn't dare to tell you."
     "You told me now, haven't you?" Share smiled.
Funshine smiled again.
     "Yes, that's true."
     "Well then," Share smiled with a cheeky wink. "Wouldn't you like to find out if you can work your new pleasure stick? I really love the girl/girl thing, but there's nothing like a good firm filling every now and then to let you know you're alive."
     "Would you... would you like me to?" Funshine asked softly.
     "Yeah I'd like you to!" Share giggled. "C'mon sweets, it'll even be fun teaching you how to use that thing!"
A slow smile started again spreading on Funshine's face, along with a pleasant warm feeling spreading through his body. He drew a soft sigh and gently hugged Share, pressing a soft kiss on one of her ears.
     "I'd love to, Share," he whispered. "I love you so, and I would be so happy if you can teach me how to behave with a girl in the state I'm in now."
     "Well, c'mon then," Share giggled. "We'd better get comfy someplace, so that I can gently initiate you into the secrets of using a boy's pleasure stick." She cocked her head to one side with a giggle. "Although I do find it a little hard to believe you have never done that before, Funny. I mean, surely you must have had your share of games with a boy's pleasure stick?"
Funshine blushed a bit.
     "Well, actually..." He slowly looked up at Share Bear. "Actually, I've only done that once. When I was on a caring mission with Swiftheart one time, we got stranded in a forest down on Earth. Swiftheart sent up a signal, and while we waited until someone would come to pick us up, we started fooling around with each other a bit. Finally, Brightheart showed up in response to Swiftheart's message, and we played a bit with him too, but that actually was the only time I've been with a boy. All my other times have always been with girls." Funshine looked at the floor for a moment. "And even that haven't been all too many times, frankly."
     "Well, then I reckon I can teach you even more fun stuff!" Share giggled. She stepped up to Funshine and softly put a paw on his shoulder. "But don't think now that I'm acting this cheerily just because I really like to have some good sex now, Funny. Above all, I want to show you I love you too, and I would really like to make you come at ease with your situation, and show you what nice sides it can have."
Funshine looked at the sweet purple Care Bear for a while in silence, a slow smile forming on his yellow lips.
     "You are so sweet, Share," he whispered. "I would want nothing else than for you to teach me everything I need to know."
     "Alrighty then!" Share said cheerfully. "Then why don't you take me someplace comfy now? I'm sure you must have some real comfortable places around your house?"
     "My bed is very comfortable," Funshine smiled. He chuckled a bit. "And it's about the only piece of furniture in my house you don't have to be afraid of you'll sit on a whoopy-cushion or a water balloon or something."
Share laughed happily while wrapping an arm around Funshine's yellow shoulders.
     "Well, then I suggest we go to your bedroom and make ourselves comfy on your bed, sweets. Whaddaya say?"
     "Sounds lovely," Funshine smiled with a happy sigh.

Leading the way, Funshine showed Share Bear out of his livingroom, up the stairs and into his bedroom. Approaching the bed, Funshine halted for a moment and looked at Share Bear.
     "Are... you sure you wanna do this, Share?"
     "Yeah, aren't you then?" Share replied cheerily.
     "I want to," Funshine nodded silently. "Stars yes, I want to. But... I wouldn't want to make you feel like you have to do this, Share."
Share smiled deeply and pressed a soft kiss on Funshine's yellow heart-shaped nose.
     "You are really a very sweet, caring little bear, Funshine, despite your clownish pranks. You deserve to wear the name of Care Bear. Now don't you worry about me seeing this as some kind of obligation, because I'm not. I'm doing this because I really want to do it myself too."
Funshine sighed deeply and happily.
     "Oh my stars, if you only knew how much that means to me, Share."

He stepped up to his bed, where Share had already laid herself down upon with a smile, and he lay down on it himself as well. Share put her arms around Funshine's fluffy body and pulled the yellow bear close to her, softly pressing her lips on Funshine's and letting her tongue play around gently with his. Funshine closed his eyes and softly sighed again, experiencing that Share tasted even better than he had always imagined. Her inviting mouth, her warm saliva, it tasted almost as sweet as the purple bear's special Share-alike Shakes, and Funshine savored the sweet mild taste as much as he could. Only when both bears started getting a bit short of breath they parted. Share looked at Funshine smiling happily with a twinkle in her pretty violet eyes.
     "My, I never knew you were such a great kisser, Funny," she smiled.
Funshine chuckled softly.
     "I'm not all pranks and practical jokes and slapstick humor, Share. I like to get serious every now and then, or at least when it concerns something good as this."
     "Well, you sure did your best for it," Share said with a giggle. "I can't recall ever being kissed as good as this. I mean, Love-a-Lot kisses really good, and Heaven does too, but still that's girls kissing a girl. Very sweet, very tender, but somehow different just the same. That kiss you just gave me, that was a whole new experience for me. That was like the determination and enjoying of a man combined with the tenderness of a girl. Which, I may add, is a wonderful combination."
     "I'm really happy you see it that way, and I'm really happy I can make you enjoy yourself that much," Funshine smiled. "I really do love you very much, Share, and I want nothing more but to make you feel good."
     "Well, you're doing a great attempt," Share smiled. She started softly running a paw through Funshine's yellow fur. "So howzabout me now doing an attempt to make you feel good?"
     "I'd love that," Funshine whispered with a smile.

He lay back on his bed while Share kept running her paw through his soft yellow fur. Caressing each part of the yellow Care Bear's soft, stocky body, Share slowly reached lower, until her paw was caressing Funshine's hips and thighs. Using nothing more but the tips of her soft purple fingers, Share gently teased and caressed Funshine's newly acquired malehood with tender, suggestive touches, rousing the yellow bear's love-tool into working order. Share knew what she was doing, but Funshine sure didn't know what was happening to him. All these sensations were so new to him! Tickles, tingles, shivers like never experienced before! So new, but so good! Closing his eyes, Funshine couldn't help shuddering and moaning softly under Share's experienced and gentle caresses.

Smiling serenely over Funshine's delighted reactions to her actions, Share slowly brought her head down and pressed a soft kiss on the tip of Funshine's fully erected new malehood. The yellow Care Bear moaned deeper, legs and tail twitching. All those new, wonderful feelings so overwhelmed him, and it was all he could do to lay back and let everything wash over him. Having replaced her fingertips for her lips now, Share just kept on giving Funshine the wonderfullest of feelings she could give the yellow bear. Soft warm lips and moisty tongue working miracles on the yellow Care Bear, Share soon had Funshine shuddering feverishly and moaning deeply with delight.
     "Oh... Share! My stars! Share! This is so good!" Funshine gasped, eyes tighly squeezed and paws clenched into fists. "Oh my stars! I don't... I don't know what's happening to me, but it's so great! Oh yes! Share! If my feelings are not fooling me, then I'm..! I'm..! Oh..! Oh... Shaaaaare!!"

Hollowing his back, Funshine couldn't hold himself back under Share's unearthly wonderful touches and licks, and he exploded. Squirts of Care Bear-jizz flew from his pulsating dick, splattering apart on Share's face and dripping onto her soft tummy. Smiling, Share let the gooey white drizzles slowly run down her face, keeping her attention to Funshine's still throbbing dick and slowly licking it clean. Only when the yellow Care Bear was lying flat out on the bedsheets again, relaxed and gasping deeply, did Share run a paw over her face to wipe away Funshine's cum from there a bit. She slowly licked it off her paw and then ran that paw through Funshine's fur again, from his loins over his tummy to his face, and very softly over his cheeks, meanwhile pressing a kiss on the gasping bear's heated yellow heart-shaped nose.
     "Wow sweets, that certainly wasn't bad for a first-timer," she smiled. "That was quite a fountain you produced there, if I may say so." Share giggled softly. "I sure hope you're still girl enough to manage multiple orgasms, Funny. Otherwise my class sure is over very quickly."
Funshine opened his eyes slowly and looked up at Share, still gasping, a slow smile forming on his lips.
     "I... I may bodily be male, but I still feel like a girl inside," he smiled. "And if my feelings are not incorrect, then I can probably tell you with certainty that my still female inside will help my now male outside to reach those multiple orgasms you mentioned. However..." Funshine rolled over a bit, bringing himself into a position on his side, facing Share, and he softly ran a paw along her face and from her shoulders down to her chest. "I first want to return the wonderful pleasure you gave me, my sweetest Share."
     "That is one of the best offerings I've received in quite a while," Share said with a soft chuckle. She let herself sink down on her back and smiled up at Funshine. "Please do that, Funny."

Smiling happily, Funshine rose up a bit, until he was sitting on his knees. Looking down on Share, who invitingly smiled back up at him, he started softly running his paws through the purple bear's soft fluffy fur, caressing all of her stocky, compact little body gently, almost gingerly. With a little frown of surprise, Funshine noticed how the bright red heart on Share's left hip seemed to work as an extremely sensitive pleasure-spot for the purple Care Bear. As his yellow fingers softly slid over the little red heart, Share shocked as if electrified, and a deep, low moan rolled from her mouth as she squeezed her eyes.
     "Ohhhh yesssss..." Share sighed. "Please touch me there, my sweet loverboy. That feels so goooood..."
     "Do you like that so much, Share?" Funshine asked, slightly amazed.
Share opened her eyes and sent Funshine a love-clouded smile.
     "As you probably will be aware, sweets, all female bears have a very special, sensitive spot in their sex, called the G-spot. I have that too, but my Care Bear sign acts as a second G-spot. An H-spot, you could say." Share let out a soft giggle at that.
Funshine also chuckled softly, again caressing the little red heart on Share's left hip with two fingers tenderly, making the purple bear shiver pleasantly.
     "Gee, I never quite realized that our sign of origin could be a sort of pleasure-spot to some. Mine never felt like that, frankly. And I've never heard of any of the other girl bears that theirs does."
Share opened her eyes for a moment again.
     "I can tell you with certainty that at least one of the others' acts like an H-spot," she smiled. "Love-a-Lot's Care Bear sign also is so sensitive."
     "I could have guessed," Funshine said with a soft giggle. He slowly bowed down his head. "But it's nice."

Lowering his head further and further down, he softly let his lips touch the little red heart on Share's furry left hip, causing the purple bear to shiver again. Slowly moving further down and a little to the right, Funshine let his lips travel from the very sensitive little red heart on Share's hip to the inside of her lions, going from her H-spot to her G-spot. Share gasped when Funshine's lips touched her slightly swollen purple nether lips, and a moan of ecstacy escaped her mouth when Funshine's tongue followed suit, sliding very softly over the warm slit and softly tickling at the longing little nubbin up in the best part of Share's anatomy. Sparks of sensual electricity transmitted through Share's body, travelling up to her brains and going back down to the part Funshine was gently caressing.

Feeling her moisture rapidly building under his soft tongue, Funshine smiled a bit and slightly increased his tempo, his heart-shaped yellow nose gently opening the puffy purple lips of Share's tasty Care Bear-pussy so he could let his tongue slide into the ever wetter growing slit. Share's pleasurely moans turned into deep gasps of lust, and she grabbed two pawsful of bedsheet when Funshine's tongue did its best to return the intense pleasure Share's tongue had earlier brought him. Knowing that double the effort is double the pleasure, Funshine brought up his left paw and let his soft yellow fingers tenderly caress the sensitive little red heart on Share's left hip again while his tongue was still pleasuring her moisty purple pussy and her longing clit. The combined pleasuring of both her most sensitive and susceptible pleasure-spots was more than Share could handle, and with a loud squeal of lust she broke down in a thundering climax, spraying her warm, sticky Care Bear-cum over Funshine's face in a way similar to how Funshine had covered her before. Writhing and thrashing around on the bed, Share kept spasming and shocking as Funshine's fingers and tongue kept caressing both her pleasure-spots while the yellow Care Bear happily tried to catch the jets of Share's enticing love-cream in his mouth. When Share had at last relaxed enough to lie still, Funshine slowly crawled over her heaving body and pressed a soft kiss on her purple heart-shaped nose.
     "Wow Share, you could almost be a male yourself," he smiled. "I have never seen a girl so intensely reach an orgasm."
     "Th... that's just me, sweets," Share gasped smiling, running a paw over Funshine's head and ears.

Lying some time in silent satisfaction, Share managed to bring her breathing down to normal rate, while Funshine softly caressed her ears and cheeks with his paws and lips. His body slightly stiffened though when Share let one of her paws travel between their bodies and curled her soft purple fingers around Funshine's again erect yellow dick. Smiling at the sudden stiffening at that touch, Share pressed her nose against Funshine's and a soft kiss on his lips.
     "Now then sweets, wouldn't you like to learn how you can drive me wild with this thing?" she whispered sultrily.
     "Please," Funshine breathed, shivering softly.
Share smiled again.
     "Rise up a little, Funny. Give me a bit of room."

Leaning on his paws, Funshine lifted his body a bit off Share's. Curling her fingers around his yellow dick again, Share spread her legs slightly and pointed the tip of Funshine's member to the slippery opening between her puffy purple love-lips. Very softly rubbing the tip over her moisty slit, Share sent Funshine another sultry smile.
     "Now sink back down again, sweets," she murmured.

With a sigh Funshine let his body sink back down on Share's. His sigh turned into a groan of lust when his stiff yellow dick slid between the warm, soft, slippery lips of Share's inviting purple pussy. A plethora of feelings that were hundreds of times better than all the ones he had already experienced under Share's loving surged through the yellow Care Bear, and Funshine buried his face in the soft purple fur on Share's neck and shoulder, lying still to savor all those wonderful new feelings as best as he could. For quite a while he just lay like that, until Share slightly bucked her hips with a soft giggle.
     "Aren't you going to move, sweets? Part of making a girl feel good with that thing involves moving, you know."
Funshine raised his head a little, opened his eyes and looked at Share. A slow, somewhat apologetic smile curled his lips.
     "You're right, I'm sorry. It's just that this is all so new for me, and it feels so wonderful."
     "That's okay," Share smiled. "But try it, you'll find that feels even more wonderful."
     "Yeah, you're probably right, and I wanna try," Funshine said.

Slowly and gently, and actually not really knowing what exactly to do, Funshine started moving the lower part of his body. Keeping his weight on his legs, or rather his knees, he slowly twisted his hips around, moaning deep inside his throat over the indescribable wonderful feeling of his stiff member roaming around inside Share's warm wet pussy that way. Every now and then he felt Share bucking her hips up to meet his, and that sent even wonderfuller shocks of delight through his yellow body. But although knowing how to use his paws when a girl under him bucked her hips like that, Funshine was not sure over how to use the entire lower part of his body in that situation, so he just followed Share's movement each time she thrusted her hips up. After some time, Share wrapped both her arms around Funshine's body with a giggle.
     "I hate to disappoint you, sweets, but you're going at it the wrong way now," she smiled.
     "I'm... sorry," Funshine mumbled, turning a little red around his nose.
Share softly kissed him.
     "Don't feel blue, it's nothing bad. After all, it's very new for you. But here, let me help you."
Also wrapping her legs around Funshine's body, Share held the yellow Care Bear tightly to her own body, and she rolled over with a sudden jolt. Thus having placed herself in the top position, Share placed her paws on Funshine's shoulders, softly pushed him down in the bedsheets, and smiled down at him.
     "Now then," she smiled. "You just lie back and enjoy, sweets. I'll do the work for you. That ought to give you the experience you need."

Funshine just nodded, not being able to answer with words since Share almost right after her sweetly smiled words pressed herself down on his body, sliding her warm, slippery purple pussy down all the way over his stiff yellow dick, until their stomachs touched each other. Closing her eyes in delight, Share started slowly rocking with her body, back and forth first, up and down quite soon after. Funshine gurgled in ecstacy, his moans turning quite wet from the saliva gathering in his throat and slowly leaking from his opened mouth. Squeezing the bedsheets with both paws hard and stretching his legs as far as he could, the yellow Care Bear started slowly bucking his hips in instinct. Share gradually increased her tempo of rocking up and down over Funshine's dick, and all the new, wonderful feelings this sent hurdling through the yellow bear were almost more than he could stand. Rolling his head from left to right while tightly squeezing the bedsheets with his paws, Funshine strained the muscles in his legs as hard as he could, stretching his legs as far as they would go. His whole body trembled all over, and his gurgly groans became incomprehensible sounds as the flutters of lust filled him more and more, making all the circuits in his brains short out in blasts of fiery sparkles.

Hollowing his back again, all muscles in his trembling yellow body stretched so taut you could play guitar on them, Funshine once again exploded in a wonderful kaboom of unknown intense sexual relief. The hot seed boiling up from his aching balls forced its way through his pulsating dick and deep into Share's warm, fluffy body, flying back out in splashes as Share slammed her body down on Funshine's when the yellow bear's climax triggered an unearthly incredible orgasm inside her as well. Her warm, sticky Care Bear-cream, mixing with Funshine's hot Care Bear-jizz, oozed richly from the purple bear's cramping pussy as she kept pushing herself up and down over Funshine's yellow dick, only ever more slowly, her loud squeals of lust slowly diminishing into deep panting.

Finally Share stopped moving altogether, and she slowly collapsed over forward, almost draping her body over Funshine's. Time passed in silence, the only sounds being those of the two Care Bears' breaths struggling to reach normal rate. At long last the two bears managed to regain themselves a bit, and they pressed their mouths onto each other's, kissing deeply and lovingly while holding each other dearly.
     "Oh... oh my stars..." Funshine gasped when they parted. "That... that was so wonderful."
     "It sure was, sweets," Share smiled, cuddling up against Funshine's body. "It sure was."
     "I love you, Share," Funshine whispered, pressing a kiss upside Share's head.
     "I love you too, Funshine," Share murmured.

Both bears fell into a content silence. And Funshine silently mused over the thing that had happened to her, making her a him. These new sensations sure were wonderful. So new, and so exciting, and she could give Share so many things she wouldn't be able to give the purple bear if she would still be a girl. And vice versa. All the other Care Bears who were waiting for them at the picnic long forgotten, Funshine closed his eyes, snuggled up against Share's warm, satisfied body and heaved a deep sigh of satisfaction and happiness. Maybe he could get used to being a boy after all.", "pools_count": 1, "title": "A change", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "application/msword", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "2", "rating_name": "Adult", "ratings": [ { "content_tag_id": "4", "name": "Sexual Themes", "description": "Erotic imagery, sexual activity or arousal", "rating_id": "2" } ], "submission_type_id": "12", "type_name": "Writing - Document", "guest_block": "t", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "0", "views": "135" }