Chapter 2: Survival
Marshall POV
"I can not believe you were eavesdropping on us Skye" I said angrly "This was susposed to be between me and chase."
(sobbing) "Marshall I can explain" said Skye " I was trying to fix things between me and Chase, that's why I was coming over here. I saw Chase with you and wanted to talk to him, I never expected this to happen" she said dropping her head at these last words.
There is no way she can show this much remorse and not be sincere about it. As much as I try I can't be mad at her, espically when she is crying in front of me, but even more because she really cares about Chase, even knowing that he has feelings for a Zuma.
"It's going to be ok Skye" I say reassureingly "we just need to let Ryder know that Chase ran off, and we need to find him before that snow storm makes it's way over us."
"We need to find him Marshall" says Skye "I need to appoligize for all of this."
"We will Skye" I say "Don't worry, now lets go get Ryder."
As the two pups go to tell Ryder what had happened, a certain chocolate lab was sitting in his pup house, wondering where these new found feelings for his best friend were coming from.
Zuma POV
"Why now" I thought to myself "why now am I seeing Chase in this way."
"I mean I always looked up to him, out of wespect for ouw leadew and all"
"But…. I nevew saw him in this way befowe."
As I was sitting wondewing what to do about my Chase pwoblem, I noticed Wocky was walking by. He noticed me and he stawted walking over.
"Hey Wocky" I said twying to hide my confusion. "what's up, dude"I asked him
"Nothing much Zuma" he weplied "I just noticed you were all alone over here and wanted to see if you wanted any company" he said in a fwiendly way.
"If I can twust anyone with how I'm feeling about Chase, it's Wocky" I thought. "He might be able to help me make sense of whewe they came fwom, and mowe impowtantly, how will I deal with it"
"Hey Wocky" I ask innocently "Can I ask you a weally weally impowtant question?" I asked him with pleading eyes
"Sure Zuma" he weplied "You know you can ask me anything"
"This is it" I thought "If he doesn't accept me aftew this I don't know what I will do"
"How do you know if you weally like a pup" I asked,
"What do you mean," he asked "like to ask as a mate, or as a friend"
"I mean as a fwiend" I say to him "What would you do to tell that pup that you like them, even if you know they might not feel the same way back?"
"Hmmm," he says "that's a hard one Zuma, I guess it would depend on the pup. Can I ask who this pup is" He asked.
I hesitated, on one paw I can twust wocky, I always have. on the othew, he could laugh at me and wefuse to be fwiends with me anymowe.
I take a deep bweath and make my decision...
"I need you to pwomise to not tell anyone about about this Wocky" I tell him in as fiwm of a voice as I can. "This is a huge secwet fow me, I'm only telling you because I weally twust you" "Can you pwomise that you will keep this a secwet"
"Zuma," he begins "you know how I am, if you want it to remain a secret, then it will" he said weassuweingly. "So…," he begins "who do you like"
I bwace myself to lose a close fwiend "It's…," I pause "Chase," I say finally "I like Chase, like a lot, dude" I said dwopping my head. As I look up I see Wocky smiling at me, gweat he's gonna laugh at me. But he doesn't…
"I'm proud of you Zuma" he says, and I stawe shocked
"Weally, Wocky" I ask confused "why"
"Because Zuma," he stawted " I knew you have liked him for a while, I just never asked because you need to realise that your self."
"So to answer your question, I think you should tell him how you feel, right from the heart and you can never go wrong" said Wocky in a satisfied way. Then he did something completely unexpected, he came ovew and hugged me and told me
"I have a feeling you will be really happy with the answer you get from Chase" he said with a smile. And as he walked away I couldn't help but wondew if Wocky knew something I didn't. I kept this thought as I dwifted off to sleep, thinking about how I will tell Chase how I feel…
Marshall POV
(with Skye)
"Ryder, Ryder" we said as we saw Ryder walking towards the look out
"What is it pups" he asked us
" We have a major problem, Ryder" I said " Chase ran off into the woods crying and he hasn't come back yet. We need to find him before that storm hits or it might get really bad" I said frantically.
"Don't worry Marshall," said Ryder pulling out his pup pad "No job is too big, no pup is too small, PAW patrol to the look out" he said
And as all the pups made their way to the lookout, snow began to fall lightly. And deep in the woods surrounding Adventure Bay, a pup was beginning to wake up, and as he did one question crossed his mind
"What have I got myself into"
Hope you all enjoyed the chapter. I will try to update as much as I can, but figure at least once a week with this one. As always leave a review to let me know what you all think about the story so far.
Thanks again for reading
Ranger