Present Chapter 4

"Hey White Hawk, can I sit with you?" asked Mary.

"Sure," White Hawk said with a smile.

"Beautiful," Mary looking out on the plains.

"When I sit here and look out onto the plains, I can see how it used to be before the white men came, the way our ancestors saw it," said White Hawk.

"Don't you get scared sitting out here by yourself?" asked Mary.

"There's nothing to be afraid of," said White Hawk.

"Right, you're a big bad Indian who's not afraid of anything," chuckled Mary.

"Well there is one thing I am afraid of," said White Hawk.

"What's that?" smiled Mary.

"Losing you," said White Hawk.

She smiled and kissed him on the cheek, and he took her home. Then he started walking home, as he was almost home, he kept hearing his name, so he turned around and nobody was there, so he turned back around and kept walking. When he arrived home, he sat down on his porch and was looking around the neighborhood, then he saw a shadow figure in the far distance when his older brother walked up, the shadowy figure disappeared.

"Wasicha" (white men) took Nuka, I've been looking everywhere for him, but can't find him or the guys that took him," said Big Ben.

"What," asked White Hawk?

"They took Nuka," said Big Ben.

"Where?" asked White Hawk.

"Slol wa yea shnee" (I don't know) we have to find him," Big Ben said in the Lakota language.

"But where are we going to look?" asked White Hawk.

"Slol wa yea shnee" (I don't know) but we will start in the morning it's late now," said Big Ben.

"All right," said White Hawk.

They went inside and went to bed, when morning came they went into town looking for Nuka but could not find him.

"Where are your brothers?" asked the man.

"I don't know but they will find me and beat you all to a pulp," said Nuka.

"They would have been here already," said man two getting in Nuka's face.

When Big Ben and White Hawk were looking for Nuka, the shadow figure came, it was standing in the doorway of an abandoned house, White Hawk looked, and he saw the shadow figure.

"Brother did you see that look it's standing in the doorway," said White Hawk.

"Brother there is nothing there, I don't see anything," said Big Ben.

White Hawk looked back at the doorway and the shadowy figure was gone. So they both went inside the house, they were looking around and they went upstairs and came up to a closed door. They cracked it open and saw Nuka slumped over a chair tied up; they walked up cautiously because it might be a trap. So they grabbed Nuka, they felt his body to see if anything was broken or cracked, he did have cracked ribs and he was bleeding from his face. Nuka woke up.

"It's a trap brother," frightened Nuka.

"I do not fear them," said Big Ben.

White Hawk heard a voice, the same voice he heard when he walked Mary home.

"White Hawk the white eyes are coming, beat them, take their clothes off and tie them up to that post and leave them there to die," said the voice.

White Hawk snapped out of it and looked around but saw nothing. So they grabbed Nuka and opened the door.

"Where do you think you're going?" asked the man.

"Taking our brother," said Big Ben.

"I like to see you try savage," said the man.

"Move out of the way?" asked White Hawk to the man's face.

"No," said the man.

White Hawk shoved him out of the way.

"Do that again red man, I dare you," said the man.

So White Hawk pushed all of them down the stairs and they fell. Big Ben gently sat Nuka down in a corner and ran down the stairs and started fighting. Big Ben found a longboard and hit all four of them in the head knocking them out cold. Then White Hawk saw the shadowy figure again and remembered what the voice asked him to do.

So he told Big Ben to help him take their clothes off and to tie them up to a post and leave them there, he thought it was weird but he helped his brother, so they did. They left them there outside on a post and went back inside to get Nuka and went home.

A deputy cop was patrolling and came across them, he slammed on his brakes and ran towards them, and untied them all. They told the deputy what happened, and they ran down the road naked. The deputy got back in his patrol car and drove to the station.

"Sir, I was driving around, and I came across four white men tied up to a post naked," said Deputy Peter.

"What, did they tell you?" asked Tim.

"They said it was Indians," said Peter

"Where are they now, did they tell you their names?" asked Tim.

"No they didn't," said Peter.

"I kind of have an idea who, let's pay them a visit?" asked Tim.

"Who," asked Peter?

"White Hawk and his brother," said Tim.

So they pulled up to the house, Nuka looked out the living room window.

"Can you tell me why two cop cars are pulling up the driveway?" asked Nuka.

"What," asked Big Ben standing on the stairs?

Running Water, their father opened the door and Big Ben and White Hawk were by the stairs.

"Hello, Running Water," said Tim.

"Hello," said Running Water.

"We have four witnesses saying that your boys tied them up naked to a post," said Tim.

Running Water turned around and looked at them.

"What's the matter with you, it's not our way," said Running Water.

"But father they beat up Nuka," said Big Ben.

White Hawk looked past Tim and saw the shadowy figure again. White Hawk's eyes were full of hatred.

"Besides, he called us red skins, savages, they had it coming," said White Hawk in anger.

"Son," said Running Water.

"White Hawk, it was cruel and uncalled for you had no reason to do that to them," said Tim.

"Okay just like you had no reason to take our land and kill my people, I am speaking for my people who can't talk from the grave," said White Hawk.

"White Hawk," said Big Ben troubled.

"White Hawk I have done nothing to your people, but your both are going to have to spend the night in jail," said Tim.

"Wow, the white eyes win again, but the Indians away, and let the white men go free," said White Hawk.

Peter handcuffed both and walked them outside and got into the car. White Hawk looked out the window of the car and saw the shadowy figure standing beside his father, and they left to go to the station.