Part 1
A bright and warm morning was occurring in Adventure Bay. All six pups, happily and playfully ran around the playground tackling and wrestling each other. While they were having the time of their lives, Ryder and Katie were watching them with sunglasses over their eyes. On the ground beside Ryder was a cooler filled with ice pops, juices, and bottles of water.
Katie turned to look at Ryder and smiled, lifting her shades.
"This is such a wonderful afternoon!" she cried. Ryder looked at her and smiled. "I'm so happy I get to spend more time with you." the way she said that caused Ryder to blush in embarrassment.
"Yeah, m-me too, Katie." he stuttered.
"Yeah.. It sure is nice and hot today."
"Isn't it?" Marshall said as he came running towards Katie and Ryder. "It's a great day to go to the pool. Who's with me?"
"Marshall..." Ryder rolled his eyes in annoyance. "The pool is right over there."
"Where? I don't see anything.."
Ryder sighed, losing his patience.
"Marshall, seriously." Marshall chuckled.
"I'm just joking." he looked at Katie and smirked. "Hey Katie. Lookin' good in that bikini." Katie blushed a bit and giggled uncontrollably. "Yeah, Ryder wanted to tell you that, but couldn't, so he asked me to tell you for em'." Ryder frowned at the dalmatian angrily.
"Marshall..!" he growled. Marshall laughed.
"I'll be in the pool if you need me." he said as he charged away from the two. Katie was chuckling.
"He's so funny." she said.
"Yup, he's the class clown, alright." Ryder agreed, trying to smile.
"I already know he was just playing."
"Oh, yeah.. That's a great thing." he sighed in relief.
"But you know.. if you really did say that about me, I would've taken it as a compliment." she said, blushing a bit. Ryder smiled, blushing as well.
Chase and Skye were in the swimming pool, holding paws in the water. Both were giggling as they were twirling around and around. Once they stopped, both just smiled at each other, staring into each others' eyes. Chase frowned when he suddenly heard a voice whispering in his ear,
"Kiss her, kiss her, kiss her..." he turned to see Marshall behind him. Skye blushed and frowned. Chase did the same.
"Really, Marshall?" said Skye.
"Sorry if I were interrupting anything." Marshall chuckled as Chase and Skye rolled their eyes.
"Not a problem.." Chase tried to sound patient.
"I need a private talk with you. So, you're gonna have to abandon your uh, partner."
Chase looked at Skye and sighed.
"Sorry, Skye..." Skye sighed and swam away, rolling her eyes. The police pup looked back at Marshall with a frown on his face. "Did you have to do that?"
"Look, I'm very sorry for interrupting your moment with Skye, but I really need to talk to you."
"Is this way more important than me and Skye actually getting to know more about each other?"
"Yes, I promise you."
Chase sighed.
"Alright, but make it fast."
"Ok, uh -" before Marshall could say what he wanted, he noticed the other pups in the pool playing around with one another and laughing. "We might have to step out."
After the two pups were out of the pool, and had shook the water off of their drenched bodies, they started walking further away from Ryder and the others.
"So what's up, Marshall?" Chase asked.
"I know this is probably just between Zuma and well... himself, but do you know if he's in a relationship with anybody?" Marshall asked.
"Why would I know the answer to that?"
"Well, sometimes Zuma would tell you anything."
"Oh, well, I have know idea. Why are you asking me, anyways?"
"He's been acting very different lately."
"Daydreaming?"
"More than that. Sometimes he'd call me or the other pups Marble."
Chase giggled. "He's called me that once, too. But I didn't think he was in love."
"I saw him talking with this good lookin' pup. He was telling her jokes, flirting with her, and even -"
"Are you telling me you were eavesdropping on them two?" Chase stopped smiling and started to frown.
"Well, I wouldn't say I was eavesdropping, but I.. uhh... overheard them."
"Marshall, you can't do that. You know how sensitive Zuma could be."
"Well I couldn't help it!"
"You are so lucky you weren't caught, and you're so lucky I won't tell Zuma about this. Stop being the nosy spy you are, and grow up, Marshall!" his voice started to raise. "You do this to everyone! I swear!"
"Everyone? Prove it!"
"You watched me and Skye, you saw and listened to Zuma and his "girlfriend's" conversation, you sort of ruined Jake's date, you revealed Alex's secret crush, you got almost the entire town calling Cap'n Turbot a coward after he accidentally knocked Mayor Goodway off his boat, and you embarrassed Ryder in front of Katie!"
"So? That's not everybody. If I embarrassed everybody, that would be this whole town of Adventure Bay! Duh! Use "everybody" in the correct sentence!"
"Well when I said everybody, I didn't mean this whole town of Adventure Bay. Duh!"
"You know what, forget it! This is the dumbest argument I've ever had with you, Chase!" Marshall was becoming louder as he spoke, getting the others' attention.
"Yeah, great idea. And stop yelling at me for no reason!" Chase hollered into the dalmatian's face.
"No reason?! It's funny, because I'm yelling at you for a reason!"
"Yeah?! Tell me what reason!" All the pups formed a circle around the two quarreling pups.
"Because you're yelling at me for no reason!"
"Only because you started yelling at me for no reason!"
"No, you started it! Now shut up and leave me alone!" Marshall turned and was about to walk away, but before he knew it, Chase tackled the dalmatian to the ground so he wouldn't be able to get back up.
"Who did you just tell to shut up?" Chase growled. Marshall was groaning, struggling to get out of Chase's grip.
"Some pup called Chase, duh!"
"Well some pup called Marshall needs to take back what he said."
"Make me!"
"Oh, I'll make you, alright!"
But without warning, Marshall was able to jump back up on his feet and was now on top of Chase.
"Or not!"
"Marshall, I swear, you -" before Chase could finish, he felt Marshall's claws dig into his chest. Skye put her paws in front of her eyes so she wouldn't be able to see. She felt terrible watching the two best friends' squabbling. The german sheppard whimpered in agony, trying to squirm out of place.
"What were you gonna say?"
"Marshall... S-Stop!"
"Look at you, you can't even get up and defeat me."
"Marshall, dude.." Zuma said, getting worried about Chase. Finally, Chase was able to bite the dalmatian's arm, causing him to screech with pain. He fell onto his side, which allowed Chase to get on top of him again.
"Try me, and you're dead!" the german sheppard growled.
"Not if you're dead first!" Marshall jumped up and tackled the police pup down to the ground. Both started wrestling each other - and it wasn't all fun and games either, they were fighting like they really hated each other.
"Oh no! I can't watch!" Rubble cried, looking away.
Marshall grabbed Chase by his collar with his teeth, then tossed him on top of Rocky.
"Ouch!" Rocky groaned. Chase growled and got back onto his feet, then zoomed towards the dalmatian. Marshall only smirked and jumped in the air, then landed on top of Chase's back.
"Ohh..! My back!" he moaned in pain.
"Tell me you give up, Chase!" Marshall begged him, biting his tail with his sharp teeth.
"Oww... P-Please! Stop!"
"I'll stop if you give up."
"Marshall!" hollered Skye, getting angrier watching Chase get beat by his own best friend.
"Marshall..! Seriously! Cut it out!" he squirmed and placed a paw on Marshall's foot.
"If you don't say it, I'll -" without warning, Chase pushed Marshall off of him.
Katie and Ryder were running towards the fighting pups.
"Marshall! Chase!" Ryder hollered, but he wasn't even close to the formed circle when he suddenly tripped over a seashell and dropped a bottle of spray-on sunscreen. Chase caught it in his mouth and walked closer to Marshall's face with it. He held it in his paws and smirked.
"Say cheese!" Then he pressed the button with his nose and sprayed the sunscreen in the dalmatian's eyes, causing him to scream in pain. He closed his eyes and placed his paws on them.
"G-God Chase! Why?!" he hollered. Chase smirked and grabbed onto Marshall's tail with his teeth and dragged him out of the circle and towards the pool. "No! Get off of me!"
"No way. You saw me in pain. Now it's my turn to watch you suffer." Finally, the pup tossed Marshall into the swimming pool.
The pups gasped and charged over to Chase.
"Chase?!" Chase heard an angry call from Ryder. His ears dropped, and he turned around to look at his owner.
"R-Ryder.. I can explain..!"
"You can explain when we get into the lookout." Ryder didn't look too proud at all.
Marshall swam up to the concrete and climbed out.
"You're dead, now." he said aloud in Chase's ear while he shook the water off his soaked up body.
"Marshall, so are you." Ryder said, causing Marshall to drop his head. "Come on, you two." the two followed their owner. "We'll be back, Katie."
"Ok." Katie replied with a concerned look on her face.
A few minutes later, Marshall and Chase were in the lookout, not saying a word to one another. Both were badly injured; Marshall's eyes were swelled up really bad, his arm had bite marks on it and was a bit red, and he was soaked. Chase's tail was only chewed up, his back was hurting, and his chest had claw marks on it. Ryder was studying the pups' injuries, shaking his head in disappointment.
"Well, it looks like the both of you were pretty hard on each other." he said, holding and looking at the dalmatian's arm. Chase sighed and dropped his head.
"Ryder sir.. I didn't wanna do that to him, but he started it." Chase explained.
"Did not. He's the one who tackled me, so that counts as hitting me first." Marshall said.
"Does not!"
"Hey! Calm it down, both of you." Ryder said. The two quickly shut their mouths. "I don't care about who started it. What I'm really focused on is the way you two are acting around each other." Marshall and Chase glanced at one another. "You guys no better than to hurt each other like that. You're best friends."
"Were best friends." Marshall mumbled.
"Look, I know it's hard for you two to make it up to one another, but I need you both to stay close." the pups' nodded in understanding. "Now please, look at each other and say sorry."
Marshall rolled his eyes and looked at Chase.
"Sorry.." he said quietly.
"Tell him why you're sorry." Ryder added.
"Sorry for jumping on your back and biting your tail."
"Sorry I sprayed sunscreen in your eyes and threw you in the swimming pool." Chase apologized, trying not to give the dalmatian eye contact.
"Thank you." Ryder smiled. "Please, no more fighting from now on, Ok?" the two nodded. "Good. Now you may leave."
Once Marshall and Chase were out of the lookout, both just sat in the grass next to each other, not wanting to speak to one another.
"So, uh..." Chase started, "are we cool now?" Marshall looked at the german sheppard and twitched a small smile.
"Sure." he answered.
"Marshall! Chase!" both saw the others zooming towards them.
"Are you guys okay?" Rocky asked.
"Yeah, I was worried." Rubble said.
"Of course we are." Marshall said. "This wouldn't have happened if I hadn't brought that situation up. Right Chase?"
"Yeah, and we wouldn't have fought each other if I hadn't tackled you the way I did." Chase admitted.
"I'm glad you both are still talking to each other." Katie said. "I would hate to see such great friends walk around giving each other the silent treatment."
"I'd hate it, too." Skye said.