Two people have noticed the similarities between this and Terrors peak. I haven't read terrors peak and I don't plan to, the summary makes it sound much worse than this is in terms of the situations. Great minds think alike I guess.

Hearing the male voice speak to them woke them up quick, one because they didn't expect it, and because someone else was in this forest with them. They looked at him, he was a pup that looked a lot like Sweetie, except he was about the size of Rocky, maybe a tiny bit bigger, and, was a male. He was wearing an entirely black suit that was just for looks. He also had some style to the fur on his head, with the front styled up, who knows how he was able to do that in a forest.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't want to scare you." The pup said, backing up.

"No, no, no, you didn't scare us. Just surprised us, we weren't expecting to find anyone else here." Marshall quickly stated._

"Well, that's good that I didn't scare you." The pup replied, walking towards them again. "What are your names?" The pup asked.

"I'm Marshall, and this is Rocky," Marshall answered, rapping his paw around Rocky. "What's yours?"

"Liam." The pup replied.

"Isn't that sort of a human name?" Rocky asked.

"Yeah, but its the name I was given and I'm sticking with it." Liam stated.

"Anyway, how did you get stuck in this forest?" Marshall asked Liam.

"Honestly, I don't remember. I kinda accepted the fact that I would never escape this place a long time ago and just made it my home. I don't even remember who gave me the name Liam, only that my name is Liam, and I don't know how that makes sense." Liam responded. "You guys know how you got here?"

"We were washed away from our home by a tsunami," Marshall answered, looking over at Rocky who was staring down.

"He okay?" Liam asked, pointing his paw at Rocky.

"Not really, he thinks we'll be trapped here forever and is having trouble accepting it himself." Marshall whispered, then ran over and hugged Rocky.

Liam sighed before saying, "I thought the same thing, that's why I decided to live in this forest."

"About that, where is your 'home'?" Marshall asked.

"Come with me, I'll show you" Liam replied, walking into the forest.

Marshall followed him, and Rocky followed Marshall, Rocky almost felt like staying with Liam in the forest, it seemed like the best choice for him. Marshall was only concerned about having a place to go from time to time, anything could happen. Liam hadn't ventured far from his little shelter that I made, turns out that Marshall and Rocky fell asleep not far from an actual home.

"Here it is, I'm not exactly the greatest at building." Liam said, scratching his head.

The house was pretty tiny, could hardly fit all three of them inside, and was made out of materials Liam happened to find lying around. It was something, and something is better than nothing, it wasn't the biggest or most comfortable place, but it was somewhere for them to go.

"This feels symbolic." Rocky stated while all three pups were in the shelter, they fit a bit better than expected.

"I see what you mean." Liam replied.

"What?" Marshall questioned, confused.

"Anyway, did you build this all yourself?" Rocky asked Liam.

"No, actually, I had help from a pup I found in the forest a long time ago. She died." Liam answered, looking down.

"Oh, well, I hope she's happy." Rocky replied, feeling sad, and not like he was before.

"That's terrible!" Marshall whimpered.

"Yeah, I know, I didn't see her die, but I saw her dead body afterward. That wasn't a pretty sight." Liam explained, shaking his head.

"So, do you have any clue as to what forest were in?" Rocky asked, trying to change the subject.

"Not really, although the pup before told me it was something like 'Ganseno Forest' or something like that." Liam responded.

"Hang on, Ganseno?" Rocky asked, getting a bit excited.

"Yes, you know this place?" Liam asked, starting to get excited as well.

"Ganseno Forest is southwest of Adventure Bay! That's our home by the way." Rocky howled, almost hopping in joy before he realized this little shelter was only so tall.

"How do you know that?" Marshall asked, he knew what the forest was, but not that it was southwest of Adventure Bay.

"Don't ask."

"How are we gonna figure out what way that is?" Liam asked.

Rocky then barked out his compass which Liam caught before it hit the ground, and looked at it.

"So we're facing east right now, so we've just gotta go this way and well be okay!" Liam cheered, turning himself southwest.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Rocky howled, ready to go home.

"Maybe the storm outside?" Liam joked.

"How did I miss that?" Rocky laughed, finally happy for basically the first time since he was washed away into this forest.

"So, anyone wanna play truth or dare?" Marshall asked, wanting something to do.

"Sure, why not?" Liam replied, he hasn't played with someone since the other pup that helped him build the shelter he's currently in.

"Okay, who goes first?" Rocky asked.

"You! Truth or Dare?" Marshall shot.

"Okay, Dare." Rocky answered, knowing exactly what Marshall was gonna say.

"I dare you to-"

"Go out into the storm?" Rocky finished, walking out of the shelter.

"Uh, yes, actually."

"Done!" Rocky shook off all the water onto Liam and Marshall.

"Aw, come on!" Liam joked, lightly punching Rocky.

"Liam, Truth or Dare?" Rocky blurted.

Liam wanted to answer all the questions they had for him in the first place, he figured this would be the best time to do that. They could ask anything they wanted, and Liam had to answer truthfully, it was half if the name of the game.

"Truth!" Liam answered, smiling.

"How did you meet the pup that helped you build this house?" Rocky asked, and then realized this was not a house, but he went with it.

"Yeah, I was expecting that at some point. Well, what happened was, I was building this very shelter, with a few materials that I found out in the forest. As I was building she put her paw on my shoulder, which really scared me half to death, and asked if I needed help." Liam explained, realizing that wasn't very interesting.

"If it's not cheating to do this, may I ask how she died as well?" Rocky asked.

"It's fine by me, we were out looking for more things to use for this shelter, we split paths for a few seconds and I heard a gunshot. I ran to where she had gone when we split paths and sure enough she was lying there motionless with a bullet hole in her hip, must've been mistaken for something else." Liam explained that was a bit more interesting.

"Oh, that's a horrible way to go." Marshall whimpered.

"Yeah, that day was horrible. Anyway, Truth or Dare, er, Marshall!" Liam forgot Marshall's name for a second.

"Truth."

"Were you the only two washed by the tsunami?" Liam asked.

"No, another friend of ours, Everest, she was also washed away by the tsunami, we haven't seen her since." Marshall whimpered.

"Is this even how truth or dare works? We're not asking truth questions were just asking questions." Rock laughed.

"Dunno, but does it matter?" Liam replied.

"Meh, we do what we want." Rocky joked, this was the first game they had played in a long time.

"Anyway, Rocky! Truth or Dare." Marshall blurted out.

"Give me another dare, I'm ready for it." Rocky answered, this time he didn't know what Marshall was gonna say.

Marshall giggled before saying, "Kiss Liam."

"Oh my god," Rocky said burying his face in his paw.

"Why do I have to be a part of this?" Liam asked, although not phased by the dare Rocky was given.

"Rocky can't choose you, next round."

"Deal."

Rocky finally took his paw off his face and asked, "Really? Why?"

"Oh come on, I know you like Zuma, this won't be so bad."

"Shut up."

Liam giggled a little and told Rocky to just get it over with. Liam didn't really mind this, as much as Rocky did, he didn't want to do it, but it wasn't a big deal. Rocky was pretty embarrassed, from both having to kiss Liam, and that Marshall knew and told Liam that he liked Zuma. This wouldn't be Rocky's or Liam's first kiss, Liam had kissed his girlfriend before he ended up in the forest, and Rocky never told anyone who he had kissed, only that he had kissed someone.

"So where do I have to kiss him?" Rocky asked before kissing Liam.

"I'll be nice, wherever you want to," Marshall responded, he didn't wanna be mean this point. "Just make sure it's on his face."

"That gives me two options." Rocky replied, mildly annoyed.

"Just kiss him already." Marshall blurted, Rocky has been complaining for minutes now.

"Fine! I'll kiss him on the cheek!"

They weren't exactly in the biggest place, so all Rocky had to do was turn to look at Liam, who was basically in his face already, and kiss him on the cheek, and he did. Rocky gave Liam an extremely light kiss on the cheek. They both obviously blushed afterward, although Rocky's blush was much brighter than Liam's.

"Alright Rocky, I'll take a dare." Marshall laughed.

"Bleh, I dare you to..." Rocky was thinking.

"I dare you to snuggle up with Liam until my next turn!" Rocky dared, trying to get payback for what Marshall did.

"Why am I thrown into these?" Liam asked, giggling a bit.

"Because we don't want to put ourselves into this." Rocky replied. "So we have to use you."

"Okay, yeah, I don't really mind." Liam responded, he hasn't talked to anyone in forever, so this was fun, even if he had to do things like this.

"Ugh, okay Liam." Marshall grunted, lying down right next to Liam and rubbing his fur on his face.

"I like getting payback for things like this." Rocky joked, giggling at the sight of Marshall and Liam.

"You know, you two would make a great couple." Rocky laughed, looking at them snuggled together.

"No." They both said at the same time, which made everyone laugh.

"Anyway, Liam, your turn." Rocky pointed out.

"Hmm, Rocky, Truth or Dare."

"Truth."

"Okay, um." Liam didn't know what to say, he didn't really have questions for a pup he's known for only about half an hour.

Marshall then whispered something into Liam's ear, and gave him an idea for what to ask, "Ask him about his little crush, Zuma."

Liam giggled a bit and asked, "When are you telling, Zuma, how you feel?"

Rocky just hung his head, he was one trying to hide his blush, and two, trying to hide his face of embarrassment. He had a crush on Zuma, but he thinks he's done a good job hiding it, Marshall was the only pup who knew, or at least the only pup who told Rocky he knew. Rocky was just nervous, as anyone is about telling there crush how they feel, Rocky just didn't want anything to ruin there friendship. He knew he would eventually have to express his feelings to Zuma, but he didn't know when.

"I dunno, really." Rocky finally answered, after a while of just staring down.

"You know, I can help you with that." Marshall explained, feeling kinda bad for Rocky.

"We." Liam blurted. "I can come with you guys, right?"

"Well, yeah! Why wouldn't you be able to?" Marshall answered.

Each of them were running out of ideas for Truths and Dares, they weren't exactly in the greatest of spots to play a game like Truth or Dare, so they just decided to talk. Marshall was allowed to quit snuggling with Liam, which he happily did, although he sat next to Liam after instead of going back to where he was before. The storm lasted a bit longer than expected, so there were quite a few moments of awkward silence when no one had anything to say.

Once the storm ended, the pups got out of the house and began walking southwest, towards Adventure Bay. There were a few short talks along the way, nothing that was very important. They were all very excited to finally be able to escape this forest, it had been a nightmare for Marshall and Rocky, and they can only imagine what it was like for Liam. They just had to walk home, and all of this will be over, hopefully, to never happen again.

When they finally got back to Adventure Bay, they were surprised to see that the city was basically completely rebuilt already. When people saw Marshall and Rocky back in Adventure Bay, the were esthetic and about as happy as someone could be. They had to introduce Liam to basically everyone in town since he was walking everywhere with them, and people were confused.

When they got to the lookout, the first pup to see them was Skye, who was more than happy to see them.

"Oh my goodness! Is it really you?" Skye shouted, almost crying.

"Yes, Skye, it's really us." Marshall answered, smiling at her.

"Has Everest came back?" Rocky asked, eager to know.

"Sadly, no." Skye whimpered.

"So who's this?" Skye asked, pointing her paw at Liam.

"Oh yeah, this is Liam, he was stuck in the same forest that we were." Marshall responded.

Skye then ran off to tell the pups that Marshall and Rocky were back. The other pups had about the same reaction as Skye did, disbelief, and pure happiness.

"We need to tell Ryder!" Chase shouted, calling Ryder on his pup tag and telling him that they were back.

All of them were sad that Everest didn't return with them, but they felt like, they knew she would come back, she is a master of directions after all.

After a long time of welcoming Marshall and Rocky back to the lookout, and giving Ryder the idea of the secondary pup tag, the pups started talking to Liam.

"Hey, Ryder?" Marshall asked, walking up to Ryder.

"What is it Marshall?" Ryder asked.

"Liam was able to survive all alone in a forest for a very long time, built his own shelter, and even helped us out a bit. I think he deserves something special. He's already going to live here, why not give him more?" Marshall told him, wanting to give Liam something for being stuck in a forest for such a long time.

"I'll see what I can do."

Well, I really just wanted to end the story. Most of this was just conversation and was just generally bad, sorry.