It is an ordinary day at the Littlest Pet Shop. Like usual, it isn't making as much business as any other store that has ever existed, but it is peaceful and that's all what makes the Littlest Pet Shop the perfect place to hang out with pets. As we enter the shop, we see Mrs. Twombly at the counter, using her laptop. She appears to be trying to outbid Fisher Biskit at an online auction for another collectible doorknob. Sounds boring, right? But no one can blame her. After all, there was nothing else for her to do, except waste her hopes and energy trying to greet customers who enter Littlest Pet Shop, just to realize that they are only asking for some directions to another shop, or just looking for a business with a similar name to Littlest Pet Shop. It's happened loads of times…
But fret not, because the Littlest Pet Shop has its own day camp, and that's where the real fun is at! In the day camp area, there are were seven pets who come to the day camp daily, and they were just doing their own things. Except for one particularly cute panda who was just sitting in front of a window. It was the kind but sensitive, Penny Ling. And she represents the element of ADORABLENESS.
Wait, where am I going with this? This isn't My Little Pony. Anyway…
Penny Ling is an adorable, cute and sweet white and blue Panda. She likes to cuddle and loves eating. While she is sweet and caring, try not to drive her crazy; she can go nuts.
In the day camp, Penny Ling was just staring outside the window, happily waiting for something. Somebody, who was a few meters behind her, noticed that she was excited about something, which left that person curious. He decided to walk up to her and call her. "Penny Ling!"
Penny Ling turned and realized that the voice was from no other than her trustworthy hedgehog friend, Russell! Penny Ling waved cheerfully and greeted back "Hey Russell!"
Russell Ferguson, a smart and organized hedgehog, likes to enjoy having fun with his friends while keeping things safe around Littlest Pet Shop. He may not know it, but his friends are grateful for having him around.
Anyway, Russell was quite keen to ask what Penny Ling was waiting for. I wonder could Penny Ling is waiting for, he thought.
"Looking forward to something?" he asked.
Penny Ling answered excitedly "Yup. Blythe promised me yesterday that a fancy restaurant will open today, and it's not far from here! She said she'd take me there when she comes down from her room."
Russell was curious. A restaurant recently opened and is nearby… how surprising, he thought.
As a matter of fact, he was even more curious of what Penny Ling is doing to pass the time, because she was staring outside the window. "So… why are you staring out the window?"
"Oh, I'm waiting for Blythe to come."
"But Blythe is upstairs and she'll arrive via the dumb waiter."
"Oh yeah… I guess you're right."
A figure approached silently behind Russell, holding out something towards Russell's back and stood still, waiting for the right moment. What was that figure holding?
While the figure was waiting, Russell did feel proud of himself. "Of course! Us hedgehogs are always right. Well, per my calculations last updated weeks ago…"
"How do you calculate that?"
"All you need to do is just ask me a question, and then I answer it. The amount of times I answer a correction correctly, divided by how many questions I've been asked in total, will give the average percentage of my accuracy. That's how I calculate it, Penny Ling. Speaking of weeks ago, it's time to update it again. Let me just take out my notepad over here, and ask me a few more questions, ok?"
"Ok. I'll try to come up with some questions."
It was time for him to retest. However, before he could, he suddenly got splashed with red and yellow paint, that fell from above. He wasn't furious, but was fed up, as if it happened a million times. It was clearly no other than…
"Minka…!" he yelled.
Minka the monkey was hanging from the ceiling, and was painting on a canvas that was also hanging from the ceiling.
Minka is a pink spider monkey who loves painting, and it involves making a lot of mess! A lot. She may get hyperactive sometimes, and hates being in enclosed spaces! Hint, space monkey.
She looked down to find Russell in paint and chuckles as she lets out with an awkward apology. "Hehe… sorry Russell. I was painting a picture of you. You want to see it?"
Her canvas had a painting of Russell, and as she focuses on the real Russell, she noticed that the real Russell was covered in red and yellow paint. So, she decided to throw red and yellow paint at the Russell in the canvas, to match the current scenario.
"Perfect!" she approved as she gave a thumbs-up to the portrait.
After hearing her apology and admiring her portrait, Russell knew she'd do something like this again soon, so he just forgave her as he tried to wipe the red paint of his quills.
"It's fine" he said, "No need to apologize. But I'll admit, the painting looks great." The portrait looked very accurate to him. But he wondered if Minka also knew anything about Blythe taking Penny Ling to a restaurant, because Russell was usually the first pet to get Blythe's news. "By the way, did you hear about Blythe promising something about a restaurant opening?"
Minka was just being herself as she responded after a moment of thought. "Mm… A restaurant?! Huh, I didn't hear Blythe mentioning it, but I bet that sounds tasty! I don't mean the building of course! I meant the food! The food in the restaurant is tasty! Or maybe the restaurant is tasty too! It's probably a gingerbread house! But a gingerbread house is a cookie, so maybe it's like a gingerbread house, but without gingerbread and instead meat! Like a meat house!"
She went on and on and on…
Russell thought that Minka probably already went off into her own imagination as she starts daydreaming about tasty food, and then decides to put on a new canvas, to paint some fancy food. Such inspiration!
Russell finally turned, to find a figure in front of him. The figure showed an object to him. In case we were wondering what object it was, it was… a small, harmless marshmallow!
Russell's quills instantly stuck out, and his pupils went as tiny as a pixel on a TV. Remember, he is so afraid of marshmallow! He thinks they are… creepy and squishy…
Russell instantly curled into a ball and jumped high into the air as he cowardly cried. "Somebody save me! Marshmallow!"
The figure was finally visible, and it just so happened to be Vinnie!
Vincent "Vinnie" Terrio is a green gecko, who is a great dancer! Well, he's a great dancer without his tail being in the way. He's clumsy sometimes, but he's a great and playful friend, and that's all that matters. He's Sunil's best friend, and he enjoyed watching Sunil perform his latest tricks.
He chuckled as he looked up to Russell in mid-air. "Hah! Sunil was right!" he claimed, "Marshmallows do scare you!"
When Vinnie looked down, he glanced a yellow rubber chicken sliding across his face as he got smacked by it and fell. The only one who would have a rubber chicken is Pepper Clark.
Pepper Clark is a comedian skunk, who loves making jokes and making everybody laugh. She may take her jokes too far without realizing, and feels remorse when she does realize it, which is normally too late.
Now, Pepper didn't find Vinnie's prank amusing in her opinion. In fact, she found it rather insulting to her innocent friend.
"Vinnie!" Pepper called in a tone that sounded she was giving a lecture. "That wasn't very nice! What if you hurt his feelings?"
Vinnie tried to get up after being smacked by Pepper's rubber chicken. Unfortunately for Vinnie, Russell finally descended from mid-air, while still curled up in a spiky ball, and landed right on Vinnie! Russell's quills were piercing through Vinnie's green scales. Yikes! We could already tell how painful that was, as Vinnie cried painfully in pain!
While she observed the two critters, Pepper was busy scratching her head and thinking about a something. She then realized that she hit Vinnie and then Russell also hit Vinnie; that meant a double combo! Considering Russell's spikes, she thought of the perfect joke, and thinking about it just started to make her burst into laughter. She fell and rolled on the floor, still laughing.
Pepper says as she laughs "Now that's… a spiky combo! Good one, Russell!"
A blue mongoose, Sunil calmly walks over to Vinnie, who's still in pain.
Sunil is a blue mongoose. While he is calm most of the time, he easily freaks out at anything, even spiders! Nevertheless, he is a good magician, he can perform a lot of tricks. For example, the switcheroo trick, which still isn't mastered yet. He's Vinnie's best friend, and he enjoyed performing his latest tricks in front of Vinnie.
Currently, Sunil approaches Vinnie and challenges him.
"Very good, Vinnie. You may be able to scare Russell," Sunil states with confidence. "But I have used a magical spell that has made me finally lose my fears! I bet you will not be able to scare me now, green scaly friend!"
Sunil? Brave? Hah! Hard to believe, isn't it? In fact, there just happens to be a cute, friendly spider on the table nearby. Sunil decided turned left, accidentally facing the spider, and the spider just waved happily at him. Aww…
Sunil, on the other hand, didn't get the message. Instead, he instantly jumps, turns 180°, and flees while screaming in his irritating tone! As he sprints, he swiftly brushes by Zoe, who was in his way, and leaves her constantly spinning for a few seconds. A few seconds later, she tumbled with dizziness.
Zoe Trent is a fabulous purple Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, with a gifted talent for being a role model and singing! While she may be caring and friendly to her friends, she is easily jealous of anyone getting more fame then her. Remember when Sunil got more popular than her just because he was featured in a meme? She was desperate to get more popular than him! She was even willing to get covered in peanut butter, just to get fame! But she's managed to get over the jealousy now, caring about her friends more. However, she can still be a diva and an absolute show off! Won't take my word for it?
As she struggled to get up, she advices "Sunil, darling. You should try to get over your fears now. It takes time for you to get over your fears. However, a few pets like me didn't need time to have what we want. Being a good walker and singer wasn't just a talent that came from any dog. It normally takes time for a dog to work well with the camera. But for me, I was born with that talent! It's like I was made for the cameras!"
See what I mean about a show off?
As Zoe continued showing off and talking while posing in front of her mirror, Pepper listened and just scoffed, unamused. "Huh, yeah right. Great advice, Zoe."
These were the pets that day camp in the Littlest Pet Shop. But we are missing one more person…
A dumbwaiter, on the wall of the day-care room, made a knocking sound. Minka bounces excitedly and gets down from the ceiling, landing on the ground; she knew what would make that noise. Rather, WHO would make that noise.
"Blythe's here!" Minka says.
Drums please.
[The drums play for a few seconds]
The dumbwaiter opened, and there was a figure inside. It was a human figure, and it climbed out of the dumbwaiter with a smile. Minka was right. It is Blythe!
Blythe Baxter, a girl with passion for becoming a well-known pet designer one day, is a friendly girl with an open personality, and the only one who can understand pets. She's not sure how she got the ability, but it is the best thing that has ever happened to her.
She was small enough to fit inside the dumbwaiter, despite her freakishly large head. Anyway, all the pets approached her in a flash and hopped around in cheer. Blythe understood that the pets seemed a lot more excited than usual, and greeted. "Woah! Hi, you guys look excited! What's going on?"
Blythe walked over to a couch in the day camp area, to sit down. The pets grouped up in front of her, still excited.
Russell was the first to answer, "Hey, Blythe. Is it true that you are taking us somewhere?"
"Sorry, Blythe. I couldn't keep it a secret!" Penny Ling admitted with a grin.
"It's alright, Penny Ling. But that's right, Russell. I'm taking you all to a restaurant that has just opened today!" Blythe announced proudly.
It's about time these pets did something active instead of lazing about anyway, she thought.
Hearing this surprising news made all the pets jump and cheer even louder! They've never been in a restaurant before! Except Zoe. This is a new adventure for them!
While this was good news, Pepper was a little doubtful, as she thought that this news was far too good to be true. She remembered that restaurants weren't very fond of having pets around. Especially fancy restaurants. "But Blythe, don't you remember that pets aren't allowed in restaurants?"
"Yes, but luckily, this restaurant apparently doesn't mind pets." Blythe pointed out. "I got a personal text from them a few moments ago, saying that I can bring my pets with me if I wanted to."
The pets were relieved to hear that. But Vinnie pointed out too. "But Blythe, you're not our owners. We'd have to bring all our owners with us, and it wouldn't be great evening. Think about it."
All the pets and Blythe thought about what would happen if they brought their own owners. Oh boy, here comes a fantasy!
[They all imagined themselves in the restaurant. The owners were all sitting in separate tables, with their pets sitting beside them. The owners seemed to have quite a delightful time, sipping on some tea. However, the pets are sitting next to their own owners, and they struggled to get together in a group. But worst of all, all their owners had leashes attached to their pets! They couldn't move away!
But with some effort of the pets pulling themselves from the owners as they forcefully pulled the rope from the pet leash, they finally met each other. On the other hand, the owners simultaneously pressed the button on their leash handles. As soon as the pets meet, they all flew like slingshots, flying all the way back to their chairs next to their own owners. All the owners close their eyes while looking slightly higher, to look somewhat formal and classy, while the pets were unhappy as they looked down.]
Russell took the pets out of that thought and optimized. "Well, it may not be like that!"
Minka also agreed without haste. "Yeah! Maybe there would be tables for the owners and a special room for pets like us! Like the day camp area in Littlest Pet Shop!"
All the pets and Blythe thought about this optimistic situation. This is a good fantasy this time, trust me.
[They all imagined a one large table in the restaurant, and it was fully occupied by the pets' owners. They seem to have an enjoyable time as they all socialized with each other. But enough of them, because it's time to find out where the pets are. There is a glass wall with a glass door. Behind it is another room, made for pets. The room was colorful with multiple colors on the walls and ceiling like beige, pink, blue and several tons of other colors. There were a bunch of toys everywhere and seesaws, slides and sandpits around the room. In the middle of the room, there was a big round table. There were pets were seated on the table: Russell, Minka, Zoe, Pepper, Vinnie, Penny Ling and Sunil. They were all eating spaghetti happily as Pepper told jokes and made the other pets laugh, and then the whole evening ended as the pets had a fun food fight with cakes and dessert.]
The ideal thought was waved away by Sunil as he doubtfully objected about something, "But, if this is a room for pets, then Blythe can't come with us…"
The pets couldn't argue with that. Without Blythe, the pets would constantly feel bad for her not being with them. That was until Blythe turned things around. "Come on, guys. You don't need your owners to come with you, you know?"
The pets looked at Blythe with hope. "Really?" Zoe asked excitedly.
"Well, yeah," Blythe confirmed. "I can just take you to the restaurant and claim that I'm the owner of all you guys. Then things will be cool from then."
"Do you really think the people working at the restaurant would believe you own a dog, a hedgehog, a mongoose, a skunk, a panda, a monkey and a gecko all at once?" asked Vinnie.
"Why not? What's the worst that could happen?" Blythe asked. The pets couldn't think of a bad scenario, so their hopes were rising once again. Zoe couldn't wait! She was more excited than Minka, and that's TOO excited!
She said excitedly as she got impatient "Great! So?! What are we waiting for?! Let's go!"
All the pets cheered, and Blythe got up from the couch, leading the pets outside the pet shop, towards her scooter. The pink scooter had a small basket on the front, and a carriage attached to the side of the scooter. She waited for the pets to get on the carriage of the scooter, then she got on the scooter. Most of the pets got on the scooter, while Zoe and Russell sat in the basket on the fronted the scooter.
Eager to go, Blythe put on her seatbelt. (Is there even a seatbelt in a scooter?!) She then turned on the engine, and wore her helmet. The pets also wore their own pet-sized helmets. Blythe asked "Ready?"
The pets cheered; sounds like they're ready. Accelerating on the scooter, Blythe and the pets zoomed off to the restaurant!
