A/N: The story is planned to whiplash the mood as it progresses overtime. Also, this is my first fanfiction here based on The Loud House. With that said, I really hope that you, the reader, will enjoy this story. Also, disclaimer: The Loud House is property of Viacom and Nickelodeon. I own no rights to the program whatsoever.
Big shout out to ÆnimaNerd Omega Ultra for helping with suggestions and proofreading the story so far.
OK, here goes!
Chapter 1: Bonds
It's a wonderful Friday afternoon, and another sunny day in The Loud House. Charles, Cliff, Geo and Walt sat at a distance in front of the front door, waiting quietly for the Louds to return home from school. Cliff turned his head to the left. He saw the clock tick subtly in the distance as it read one minute to 3 PM.
A half minute later, the pets heard footsteps as the Louds approached their house in dialogue. Charles started to get more excited, wagging his tail frantically as the chattering got louder. A small beat later, the front door flew open to see the latter very happy to see the kids and instantly zipped toward Lincoln with Cliff following behind.
"Hey Charles, who's a good boy?" Lincoln said to the pup as he happily barked to him.
He panted as he is being petted by one of his Loud family members. Lynn approached towards Cliff, kneeled down and softly stroked his head while Leni waved a butterfly on a string in front of Cliff just to tease him. Lynn stopped stroking as the mangy cat tried to hit the butterfly with his paws, but he hilariously failed each time.
"C'mon Cliff, you weren't born to lose!" Lynn said.
"You can do it, kitty," Leni said. "You can do it!"
Cliff meowed in satisfaction as he is finally able to hit the butterfly with a good enough force that broke free of the string attached to it.
"Yeah! Awesome!" Lynn said to the very playful cat.
"Aw, you broke it!" Leni added.
Walt flew over to Lori as she extended her hand out to him so he can land on the palm of her hand.
"Afternoon, Walt," Lori said. "Sing for me."
Walt landed on her hand and sang notes to her in flair. It left Lori impressed by his beautiful performance.
"Excellent," Lori said. "Literally one day will be the day where the both of us will shine the world with talent!"
Lily followed Geo around the living room for a good few seconds before his capture. She spun his ball around not once, but twice. Those spins were enough to make Geo fall on his back, all the while being temporarily dizzy. Luan walks over to Geo and picks him up.
"Looks like Geo's on a roll today!" she said before she laughed for a quick second. "This is so worth it after that test we had today!"
"Yeah," Leni said. "I mean, a fifty question test and I was only sure about a fifth of it!"
"It was a little overwhelming, I have to agree," Lori said.
"But now we don't have to worry about it dudes," Luna exclaimed. "It's finally friday and we get to chill out this weekend!"
"Another school week down!" Lincoln exclaimed very loudly.
The kids cheered loudly as they started their deserved weekend. A beat later, Lynn was suddenly reminded of a little incident that she bluntly reminded Lori about the situation.
"You better not wake us up tomorrow morning," Lynn said to Lori.
Lori promptly sighed after that little reminder.
"Will you get over it already?" she said. "It was literally a month ago."
"Whatever, I'm heading to my room," Lynn replied as she headed upstairs with Lucy following her.
"I need to find Fangs for a thing I'll be doing today," Lucy added in monotone.
"Not while I'm in the room, Lucy," Lynn responded. "He doesn't need any more of my blood."
"Promise me," Lucy said. "It'll be quick."
Lynn walks back down the stairs with her soccer ball.
"Actually, I'd rather kick some ball outside," Lynn said before she walks outside, closing the door behind her.
"Sigh," Lucy said before she headed back into her room.
Charles barked to Lincoln, trying to tell him he is hungry from waiting all day until they returned home. He even gestured to his own mouth to make it more clear. Lincoln giggled a bit before he responded to him.
"I kinda figured you'd be hungry, Charles," he said.
Cliff meowed, Walt tweeted, and Geo chattered to Lincoln, telling him they were hungry too from all the waiting. The pets along with the rest of the Louds in the living room all suddenly heard a faint whistle sound from the distance coming from the kitchen. Charles and Cliff zipped out of the living room and straight to the kitchen to see it's Lana, preparing their bowl while she was surrounded by bags and cans of fresh smelling pet food behind her.
Charles panted and immediately smashed his face in the food with no hesitation, like he was in heaven while Cliff followed the dog's way shortly after and took his time eating from the same bowl. Lana started getting curious to what the food she's feeding the pets tasted like. She grabbed a little sample of the pet food from the bowl Charles was eating out of and observed it for a moment before she tasted it.
"Hm, that's quite an interesting flavor," she said.
Lisa, Lola, Lincoln, Luna, and Luan with Geo walked in on her twin sister tasting some of the food. It was then Luan set the little hamster down on the floor and let him roll about.
"Eww!" Lola exclaimed. "That's heckin' disgusting!"
"Hey now," Lana said to Lola, while she licked off one of her fingers. "Ya shouldn't knock it 'til ya try it."
"Why would I wanna know what that grody goop tastes like?" Lola said.
"You know what they say Lola," Lana said.
Cliff quickly glanced to Lana. She looked back to him a second later and quickly attempted to drop what she was about to say.
"...What?" Lola said with a bit of an awkward pause.
"N-never mind, Lola," Lana responded.
Cliff returned his attention to the bowl, only to find out it is almost completely empty. He then glared directly into Charles' eyes for a second while Charles looked into Cliff's while he sat there and licked some of the food off of his lips for a second or two. A beat later, he shrugged to him, then he ran out the doggy door outside to his doghouse. Cliff then meowed to one of the Louds for a refill.
"One second Cliff," Lincoln said while Walt flew to him. "Just need to give some food to Walt real quick, then-"
"Don't worry," Luna said holding the bag of pet food. "I gotcha bro."
She held the bag like a guitar and tore open the bag in the middle as pellets started spilling into the bowl for Cliff to eat. He meowed to her as a way of saying thanks before he resumed eating.
Geo rolled towards the pet bowl and opened his ball to get himself prepared to eat. Just when he jumped, Cliff saw him in midair, about to pull off a dive into the delicious food, and quickly moved the pet bowl out of the way. Geo instead hit the floor. He then got up and understandably chattered angrily to the stingy cat.
"Cliff, share." Lincoln said in monotone.
Cliff gave off a slightly irritated look to Lincoln before he shifted the bowl over to Geo. The little hamster walked to the bowl again and made a good dive into the food. He popped out of the pile, chewing the food with a smile. Cliff stared blankly at him as if he was jealous of the little hamster.
"You know, I don't think serving this large amount of food for the pets isn't so healthy," Lisa said.
"What do you mean by that?" Luna asked.
Leni walked in the kitchen to get herself a quick bite to eat. By the time she got to the fridge, she stopped and listened to the ongoing situation.
"Well, if you want the full details, The felis silvestris catus should only consume no more than a fifth of nutritional protein," Lisa said to her siblings. "It's why most veterinarians see that cats are in fact being overfed nowadays."
"I'm suddenly reminded of that comic strip I liked reading back years ago," Leni said.
"Yeah, same here," Lincoln said.
"That's not the point," Lisa reassured. "I'm just saying be careful with how much you're feeding him, otherwise you might as well feed him grass."
"Grass?" the rest of the Louds exclaim.
"Is it good or edible?" Lana asked.
"Come fellow siblings," Lisa said. "We shall resume this discussion upstairs."
The rest of the Louds followed Lisa upstairs, excluding Leni.
"That's weird. I forgot why I came in here," Leni said. A beat later, she remembered exactly why she went to the kitchen.
"Ah, now I remember why I'm in here!"
She opened both of the refrigerator doors that revealed an array of foods. Casserole, pot pie, spaghetti and meatballs, even chocolate ice cream cake for desert from the freezer. She grabbed a piece of chocolate ice cream cake from the fridge.
"This chocolate pie is gonna taste so great." she said while she got a spoon to eat her creamy cake. She closed the fridge and hummed a little tune while she exited out of the kitchen, leaving just the hamster, canary and the cat.
Hours later into the day, the kids were getting ready for bed. Lincoln was in the hallway, looking for his stuffed bunny to take to bed with him.
"Bun Bun?" he said as quietly as he could. He fixed himself up to knocking on the doors of his siblings but he stopped himself, thinking he would risk waking any of his sisters up, even Cliff sleeping right to his side and Walt in his cage down the hallway.
Charles sat and waited in Lincoln's room, holding Lincoln's bunny in his mouth. He whined to him as he managed to grab his attention.
"There you are!" Lincoln quietly said. "I've been looking all over for you."
Charles walked over to the kid and dropped the bunny into Lincoln's soft, smooth hands. He panted and wagged his tail in more excitement than ever. Lincoln reassured to Charles that he is tired and wanted to hit the bed early today while he petted him on the head once more.
"Don't you worry, Charles," he said while Charles stopped panting and wagging his little tail before he used his adorable puppy eyes. The pre-teen jumped into bed and placed Bun Bun to the side of his pillow. "I've got a whole weekend of doing anything I want. Tomorrow morning, we can do whatever you want, alright?"
Charles started wagging his tail again, as he jumped on the bed besides Lincoln and walked around in circles before he fell asleep at his side. Lincoln yawned as he pulled the covers on him. Before he too fell asleep, he temptly uttered "There is nothing in this world that's going to cause a rift between me and you, boy."
Back downstairs in the kitchen in the wee hours of the night, an unexpected visitor made its way through the doggy door. It was the neighbor's puppy named Watterson, who looked around the kitchen for something to munch on. He wandered around in the kitchen, aptly sniffing around for the good stuff in the room soon after.
He let out a small bark, catching the attention of Charles upstairs. He lifted up one of his ears as well as one of his eyes. While he assumed it was probably nothing after a small period of time, he fell right back to sleep until the very next day. Watterson kept barking for seconds until he woke someone up, but it didn't work. He hopped on a chair, then hopped on top of the kitchen counter, occupied with a load of dishes and utensils as he noticed the cabinet door was still open from earlier in the day. Inside the cabinet was a small supply of Puppo Snax and an unopened bag of Meowz with a creamy milk bone right in the center.
The small little pupper was going to make a break for the delicious supply. He hopped closer and closer to the cabinet, making sudden noises after each time his little paws made contact with the counter. Now just under the targeted cabinet door, he gets ready to jump yet again.
The pupper hopped, higher and higher each time, but he still was not able to reach the goods in the cabinet. He gave it another go as he kept filling his confidence with sheer determination. One more hop he did, but his little paw accidentally flung a fork in midair before it made a hard impact, omitting a large sound.
He yelped. A few seconds later, the kitchen was nothing but dead silence, up until someone came down the stairs. Watterson started whining quietly in fear, not knowing about what could possibly happen to the little puppy. The sound of footsteps crept closer and slightly louder, intensifying the utter suspenseful moment.
The pupper hopped off of the kitchen counter and crept over to the kitchen table as quickly and quietly as he could. He even covered his eyes with his little paws and sat there, hoping that the noises from the footsteps would soon die down.
Lana entered the kitchen half sleepy, and turned on the lights. She went to the fridge for something to drink. She then grabbed herself a bottle of ice chilled water and took off the cap. She was almost about to take a sip of her water when she noticed something under a table after she heard a tiny sneeze.
"Whazzat?" she uttered.
She looked at it for a second, thinking it was a puffball. But really, it's the small, subtle backside of Watterson. The tomboyish girl crawled to the puppy through her ensued curiosity and poked him from the side.
"Hey there..." she said to Watterson.
Watterson got startled and took off to the wall in front of him, hitting his head. He then turned to see Lana's face. He nervously barked to her. Lana was immediately surprised, it was another furry friend to keep and take care of!
"Aww, you seem cute!" Lana said.
"Why don't ya spend the night with me here? Mostly cause I don't have to deal with someone's loud snoring."
Watterson barked to her again, albeit quieter, before he ran around in circles to tire himself out and fall asleep. Lana did the same thing, except she went to to go get Charles' dog bed first and dragged it all the way into the kitchen, and later got on all fours. She promptly fell asleep in the dog bed with Watterson right by his side, slept the entire night away until the crack of dawn.
