Chapter 7

Aivana ran up to the barn and peeked inside to see if her grandfather was inside. He was attending to one of the horses and had his back to her.

"Ok, my grandpa is in here. I'll bring him out. Act natural?" Aivana said, sounding more like a question then anything else.

"Alright let me sniff your butt War." Strife joked. War narrowed his eyes at his older brother. Strife wagged his tail to show he was just messing with him.

"imbeciles." Death muttered. Aivana went inside to talk to her grandfather and the four of them waited.

"I know it is a strange thing to ask, but are any of you excited?" Fury asked. They looked at her curiously.

"Excited? For what?" War asked. Fury smiled.

"Well, I don't know how to put it into words… We're going to practically be part of Aivana's family, at least until we figure out what is going on…" Fury said.

"You're excited to be someone's bitch?" Strife asked, referring to how female dogs were called bitches. Fury glared at him.

"That's not what I meant at all you bullet brain! I just mean we should be thankful that Aivana is so willing to help us when most humans would try to kill us!" Fury growled at Strife, getting in his face. She desperately wished she could smack him.

"I see your point. But Aivana is a child after all; she wouldn't understand why we are a threat to be around until she is older." Death spoke up.

"What do you mean, "Until she is older"? We're not sticking around that long! Are we?" Strife protested. Death sighed.

"Shut up Strife." Death muttered. Strife was going to retort, but Aivana came around the corner with her grandfather behind her.

"Four of them? By God Rose, that's a lot to take care of." Aivana's grandfather said, looking over each of them.

"Please, please, please! I'll take care of them, I promise!" Aivana begged, holding her hands together and doing a begging gesture and giving him puppy dog eyes. He looked over the dogs one last time and sighed.

"Alright. We'll keep them but I hope you know you have to do everything. You have to feed them, wash them, pick up after them, including their poop, train them, and keep them out of trouble." Her grandfather said.

"I will! Thank you!" Aivana said, hugging her grandfather. He chuckled and patted her on the head.

"Later tonight I'll take you into town with me and we'll get some supplies for them. Go show them to your grandmother, I still have some things to do in the barn." Her grandfather said. Aivana nodded and started going up to the house. The dogs followed her, but when War passed the elderly man her grandfather reached out and gave him a gentle pat on the head.

War glanced at him but decided not to protest, it was normal for humans to show affection to their pets.

Aivana opened the door and gestured for them to come in. Death entered first with Strife behind him. War and Fury were the last to enter.

Aivana ran past them and to the couch where her grandma was overlooking the newspaper.

"Grandma! Grandma!" Aivana called. Patty looked away from the daily columns to her grandchild.

"Hello dear. How is it outside today?" Her grandmother asked. Aivana jumped onto the couch beside her.

"It's awesome! But guess what!" Aivana said excitedly, wiggling with excitement. Her grandmother raised an eyebrow and a small smile crossed her features.

"What? It must be important to get you so happy."

"Well um it's a long story but uh I found these dogs and I brought them here and grandpa said we could have them!" Aivana explained.

"Oh? Where are they then, I would love to meet these dogs of yours."

"Hey! Come over here guys!" Aivana called, turning around on the couch and hoisting herself up on the arm rest and waving for them to come. All of them had been mainly scoping the place and looked over to her. Strife was the first to come running. He ran up beside the couch and put his front paws up on the cushions.

"This one is Titan." Aivana introduced, holding Strife's head and petting him. His tong was hanging out and he looked excited to meet her grandmother.

"I think he is over doing the dog act…" War whispered to the others. Fury rolled her eyes.

"You know Strife loves attention." Death whispered to War. They both shared a small chuckle and walked over to Aivana.

"These are the other three! I named the big white fluffy one Blizzard, the tall black one Shadow and I named this one-" Aivana gestured to Fury.

"Lady." Aivana said, wrapping up the introductions. Her grandmother nodded, looking over the dogs to remember their names.

"Well aren't you elegant?" Patty asked, reaching out and petting Fury gently. Fury didn't really know how to react so she just sat still.

"These are some nice dogs… Are they calm? None of them have bitten you?" She asked Aivana. Aivana was about to say no, but she took a glance at Strife and he lowered his head in a nervous way.

"Um… no no. None of them have bit me." Aivana said, brushing off her hesitation as best she could. Her grandma chuckled.

"Alright. Why not go out and play some more? The sun isn't down yet." Patty suggested. Aivana smiled and nodded.

"Okay, come on let's go!" Aivana said, making sure all four of them followed her outside.