A Noble Heart

This story was made by both me and emmydisney17. I've been helping her come up with new ideas for her stories and in return she does the same.

Chapter 1

It was just a typical day in New Orleans, the musical and magical place where everything was bursting with life and joy from all corners of the town. It was there that one particular dog found a lot of joy and life to enjoy on this blissful, wonderful day.

Randi, a mixed breed of a Weimaraner and a Pitbull terrier was a lovable and friendly brown dog with a big imagination who loved to daydream about being a hero or just going on adventures with his family whenever they went out for a walk, especially his beloved owner and very best friend Alex. Alex is a seventeen year old teenager who, since birth, had been 'cursed' with something humans call Autism, which means Alex behaves a lot differently than a regular human is supposed to behave, at least that's what Randi understands but even so Randi and Alex still have a lot of fun being together and they would never want anything more than spending time together like any good boy and his dog type of best friends were meant to be.

However, there was only one problem…Spike, Randi's older and meaner brother, who was the complete opposite of Randi in every way. Spike was cruel, abusive, dark hearted, bad tempered and ruthless to a fault. Spike took out his anger on Randi every chance he got, resulting in the poor dog constantly trying to avoid him and hide from his brother or he would end up beaten like the brute had done many times before. Spike even had tried to bite Alex and his parents were worried that Spike was becoming too dangerous to have him around, especially now that Alex's mother was pregnant with a boy (whom they were already naming Dennis) and with the baby just one month due to arrive, they were worried Spike would harm the baby, so they constantly try to get him to become nicer through means of therapy and other calming treatments but nothing worked.

What really hurt the most was that Spike would constantly brag about himself being a pure bred Pitbull Terrier while Randi was 'nothing but a flea bitten, mangy, worthless mutt', a fact that always broke Randi's heart because he looked nothing liked his brother, and as a result of his brother's constant bullying, he began to think that Spike was right about him and that he would never be worth anything or do anything special.

Then one day everything changed.

In the backyard, where the dogs would always be placed whenever the family was away with the parents at work and Alex in school, Randi was trying to get something to eat for supper but as usual Spike kept shoving him out of the way, hogging all the food for himself. Randi knew it was pointless to fight back and so he walked away, his stomach rumbling deeply as the dog sniffled and tried to ignore the hungry feeling but the rumblings couldn't be stopped no matter how hard he tried.

"You know you shouldn't let him treat you like that." A voice said

Randi looked up to see a pair of big dogs looking back at him, one was a male and the other was a female, each one donned some human like accessories like the male wore a hat and the female wore make up, which Randi had never seen on a dog before.

"I know... but I can't stand up to him, he's stronger than me, he abuses me for fun and... Oh, I'm so hungry!" Randi complained, rubbing his empty belly as it continued to roar in hunger.

"You know sugar, we're heading to this place in the bayou where we go to gamble and have fun in this amazing riverside casino for dogs and dogs alone." the female dog said "I'm sure they wouldn't mind if a hungry little ole thing like you came along to try it out."

Randi wasn't so sure about leaving the comforts of his home for this dog only casino he never heard of but he was so hungry he couldn't think about anything else but food. Randi walked up to them and said "Okay, take me to this casino."

"Great, you're going to love it there darling," the female said as Randi opened the gate door with his paws, pushed himself out and then closed it again "And don't worry about a thing, we'll make sure you'll have a wonderful time there, you'll be fed and pampered in no time."

Unaware to the dogs as they kept walking on, Spike was leaving the backyard too, but in the opposite direction, through the wooden fence's old broken plank like a doggy door. Spike had an agenda of his own, he had overheard that his owners were going to get rid of him once and for all and knew that there was no way he was going to spend the rest of his life in a cage, so he contacted some dogs to hook him up with this dog, known as Carface Caruthers and the guy promised to solve all of his problems and make sure he wouldn't end up in the pound. All he had to do was meet the fella at his riverside casino and he'd be set for life.

That is, unless fate had other plans in store for the dogs.