The Buddies walked through the huge owl began hooting.

"What was that dawgs!" cried B-dawg.

"Dude it was just an owl" stated Mudbud.

"B-dawg your definitely losing this contest" taunted Rosebud.

"Pshaw, how's about you stand aside and let the B take the lead" B-dawg tried acting tough.

"Wait do you guys hear that?" whispered Buddha, his ears perking. "It sounds like...singing".

"Yo I don't know what song their singing but it sounds AWFUL!" exclaimed B-dawg

They spotted bright light from up ahead and went over to see. The pups poked their little heads through the bush and were greeted with a horrific sight. Before them were lots of cats singing about how great cats are and looking up at a big cat who was standing on the top of a crashed truck with a small fire below it. He had scars all over him and was addressing the others, appearing to be their leader.

"We should go" decided Buddha.

"Yeah lets go" B-dawg agreed.

As they turned to leave, they soon realised they were lost.

"Wrong way you twits!" shouted began to rustle.

"You're lost aren't you?" said another voice.

Blaze and the others emerged from the trees. "Nope, see I led us to them".

"Huh Spot what are you doing here?" Rosebud recognized her dad's old friend.

"Oh we thought we would check out this new area as well and we wanted to keep you safe" replied Spot. "Now you shouldn't be here, we've been looking everywhere for you!"

"You were, we weren't " corrected Syndero. "We just came to see this new area".

"Ok,hmm we're officially lost!" declared Lark, looking around.

"Why shouldn't we be here?" questioned Mudbud.

"Why? I'll tell you why, the cats live here!" cried Blaze."Also, I can't be the only one who's noticed that you look like your gonna throw up, that's reason enough".

"So? there are plenty of cats in Fernfield dawgs" said B-dawg.

"These cats aren't from Fernfield!" cried Lark. "There a cult like... bunch of weirdo's!"

"Hmm well I can't recognize this place" sighed Syndero, looking around. "Does anyone know we're the wolves live?"

"No but never fear they don't live around these parts...I think" said Spot.

"Don't worry my nose smells the way home" sniffed Budderball, but all he could smell was apples. "All I smell is apples!"

"No kidding dawg this whole place is full of apple trees!" scolded B-dawg.

He begam attenpting to climb up the apple tree, holding onto the branches, to get some apples.

"Check it Budderball's turned into a monkey" laughed B-dawg.

"Budderball cut it out we need to go now!" demanded Rosebud.

Budderball accidentally broke the branch, making him fall and revealing a scary looking silver cat. It hissed at them, showing it's claws.

"I have a bad feeling about this" said Syndero.

"I have more of a strange feeling" added Budderball. "Probably hunger"

"Who cares, kill it!" yelled Lark, lunging at it. But the cat scratched his paw and escaped. Syndero and Lark gave chase, running over the muddy small hill. "Blaze bring those midgets over here!"

Blaze led the others over the hill where Syndero was staring at a truck that was broken down. It looked similar to the one Grim and Denning used in Air buddies.

"Hide the shrimps in there while we find the right way" suggested Lark.

"Who are you calling names?" snapped Rosebud. The Buddies got into the back seat while Blaze and Spot went in the front. After a while it began to rain; Blaze and the pup's fell asleep; Mudbud was still sneezing and Spot was silently waiting.

"Dawg, you look terrible" noted B-dawg.

"I think I've caught a cold" sniffed Mudbud.

Syndero stopped searching, hearing twigs break. "Lark?" he whispered. The noises got louder and several footsteps were heard. Blaze narrowly opened his eyes and stared out the window. "Maybe it's the truck" he whispered.

"I sense we are not alone" said Buddha, waking up. Suddenly several angry cats began appearing out of the trees, from the bushes and the hill.

"You two get in!" ordered Blaze.

"Are you kidding? A broken car won't stop these monsters I'm running for my life!" screamed Syndero.

"Buddies get behind me!" ordered Spot, leaving the jeep with the Buddies following and hiding behind the Dalmatian. More and more cats appeared, each snarling and getting their claws ready.

"These sacred woods should not be a place where conflict occurs, it has stood on the Earth for centuries" advised Buddha.

"Tell them that!" snapped Syndero, walking back. "Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna abandon you".

"On second thought run for your lives!" shouted Blaze. With that everyone scattered, each running in different directions followed by swarms of cat's. Budderball and Rosebud were cornered near some rocks while B-dawg and Buddha were captured when they reached a shallow river.


Mudbud returned to the jeep and hid out the storm of cats before exiting. He tried rolling around in some dirt so the cats wouldn't see him, but a Bengal tiger cat found him.

"How dare you disturb us!" she hissed.

"Disturb you in s-sacrificing animals?" stammered Mudbud.

"What? No! We give other cats medicine to keep them safe from the evil cat's from Oakfield that drove us out".

"Why'd they drive you out?"

"When our leader died half of our group turned on us so they could rule the alley; they framed us for a crime and got us sent here" explained the tiger cat.

"That's awful, you shouldn't have been kicked out of your home".

The cat looked at the cute, dirty puppy, sneezing and her voice changed to a concerned one instead of a threatening one. "You look awful!"

"Thanks for noticing" Mudbud sarcastically replied.

"No I mean...you look ill..your face is so pale" she noticed. "You don't seem that bad, come, maybe I can convince Abzak to let your friends go and get you some help".

"Their my family actually, although they are like my friends" Mudbud corrected her. "And I don't want anything to happen to them."

"Right now you need to worry about yourself".


They headed back to the "camp" when it started raining.

"Can't you hurry up it's raining?" groaned the cat.

"I like the rain it makes everything more muddy" grinned Mudbud.

"Your weird" she narrowed her eyes.

"In case you forgot dudette you were the one who suddenly switched mood's".

"Come again?"

"You were about to capture me but then you suddenly became all nice and offered to help me".

"That's because I saw you were ill and it would be cruel to just a leave a defenceless, sick, lost creature in the middle of the woods without any help" defended the cat. "Even if that creature is a dumb dog".


Syndero met up with Blaze and Spot over by some rocks, who were reading a sign with black paint that spelt out a warning.

"Dead men tell no tales" Blaze nervously read it. "Heh, nice to see pirate talk is still common. Wonder if it applies to dog's as well".

"Well this was nice, see ya" declared Syndero, preparing to leave but Blaze stopped him.

"Where do you think your going?" he demanded.

"The forest has been invaded by a hundred cat's, who kill themselves,I'm getting outta here!" shouted Syndero.

"We can't just leave!"

"Do you have a better idea?"

"We can't just leave those poor puppies out here by themselves- with those evil cat's" stated Spot.

"We can't?" repeated the hound.

"And besides if we save them we'll be treated as hero's and I'll finally get the respect I deserve" Blaze, who always wanted to be treated as a hero.

"Right you go on and do that, but I'd rather stay alive than be a hero" dismissed the hound.