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I lived in a village. It was a nice village, one I've been born into before.
It followed on an early idea in making a few wells, which soon after a few generations turned into a half wall of wells around our carrot farm in the shape of an L.
My name was Razz I think, and our little tribe had just started making our tools. I farmed, helped where I could. Upgraded a well. I found that to help out, if not at the farm, I could get the clothes and baskets the youngin's lost out in the wilds. That's where I first saw it.
The bear. I saw my nephew just as the saw the bear, and ran straight past him while straining to warn. It followed but by teasing it between us it must have been confusing. My nephew ran off and I lost them for a moment before the bear came for me, south. I ran to the shaft field, just as I saw another child, one I didn't recognize be devoured in seconds. The bear followed so I dodged between the trees and lost it. As I returned home, I called my warning to the family.To the other elders.
I warned that the bear was loose, that it could kill us all. That it ate two of our children!
Just as the nephew I believed lost dashed past from the north, the opposite direction of the beast. I figured the child must've led it away, and told my family that was one of the children I thought lost. They laughed and we carried on with our lives.
The years progressed after that, and I became an old man.
It was then when my sister was truly coming into her own that it came.

THE BEAR!!!!

It was just outside the village, striding across the desert.
I managed to warn my sister and niece as she was holding her child. In desperation, and thinking that an old man could do at least one more useful thing, I told them I wanted to at least  "Get my shot" in at the old nemesis.
She informed me the the bow we most preciously needed was in the north, the same direction as our foe. In a moment we cautiously peered north to see if we could find it, it attacked again. This time, realising it was either an old man or mother and babe, I teased the bear to the bone tree.

I hope I gave my tribe the time it needed to run. To survive yet another day, and maybe in a generation or two, reclaim our village from the Bear Scourge.

Oh, and damn whoever let that thing out in the first place.