The Puppy

Chapter Seven

A/N: I felt I should say something exciting, but I really have nothing to say. My foot's asleep though... Anyway, this is actually the last chapter of this story (yay!). I've actually had this written for awhile, but just now found it again. Anyway, enjoy!

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Renning braced himself for the rest of the day: after all, there would be two dogs running around his palace causing trouble. He'd been preparing for this day for awhile. He'd bought plenty of extra dog treats, chew toys, and everything else he could think of.

"Guess what, Renny!" exclaimed the Duke.

The small border collie's ears perked up after hearing his name.

"Bark!"

"That's right! Calamity is coming over today!"

With this, the servants within earshot of the pair gave Renning odd looks. Those looks were accompanied by thoughts such as 'Oh great...another dog.', 'You do realize that that bark he gave you didn't mean he understood you, right?', and the ever-popular 'I hope I get a raise.'

"How did I get stuck doing this Renny?"

"Bark!"

Renny rolled over on to his back.

"That's right...Elincia and Lucia..."

Renning began scratching the dog's stomach when he heard a noise in the hallway.

Please don't be Calamity.

But when his servant came into view, he was dragging Lucia and Elincia along with him. They stopped in front of the doorway and the servant pointed at them.

"You two stay right here."

The man walked over to Renning and bowed.

"Your Highness, I found these two girls roaming around the castle. They claim to be your nieces, but I know that's ridiculous...you don't have any nieces."

"Not by blood I don't. Elincia, Lucia, come here please."

The two girls did as they were told and bounded over to Renning. He turned to the confused servant.

"You see, Lucia and Elincia are the eldest daughters of the Count of Delbray, who happens to be one of my close friends. The girls just consider me to be their uncle."

"Oh! I had no idea! I'm so sorry, Milord. Girls, is there anything I can get you?"

"No, thank you."

"Ah well. Milord, if you would excuse me, I have some work to do."

"Of course."

The servant left and Elincia looked at her uncle.

"He's new, isn't he?"

"Yes. Now I've been meaning to talk to you about something... Wait, where's Lucia?"

As Renning looked around, he realized that both Lucia and Renny were missing. When he walked into the next room however, there was Lucia putting Renny in a pale yellow dress. The latter of which looked extremely annoyed.

"Lucia..."

"Oh, Uncle Renning..."

"What are you doing?"

"I'm getting Renny ready for his play date!"

"Take the dress off of him."

"But..."

"Aw, Renny you look beautiful!" exclaimed the green-haired girl as she bounced through the doorway.

"Doesn't he? But Uncle Renning's being grumpy and told me to take it off."

"Uncle Renning! You can't! Renny has to wear it!"

"No he doesn't."

"Yes he does!"

"No, he doesn't!"

"Yes he does!" both girls whined.

When it seemed their uncle wasn't going to give in, they both looked at him sweetly and broke out...the puppy face.

"No, girls. Please take it off now."

"But..."

"Take it off and I'll give you each a sucker."

"Okay!"

The two girls raced to get it off just as the doorbell rang. They took off running, Renny at their heels.

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When they arrived at the door, they nearly collided with the servant they had seen earlier.

"Slow down, Girls."

"Yes, Uncle Renning..."

"Uncle Renning! Are you going to open the door now?! It's probably Rose and Calamity!"

"If you calm down I will."

"...Fine..."

Renning opened the door to reveal a puppy, whom was a little smaller than Renny. Her owner was a little brown-haired girl that looked about Elincia's age. A woman with darker hair, Renning guessed it was the girl's mother, was also standing there.

"Eli, Lucy!"

"Rose!"

"Bark!"

"Oh, hi, Calamity!"

"So this is Renny?"

"Uh-huh."

"He's cute."

"You should see all of his dresses!"

"Dresses?"

"Yep! Come on, we'll show you!"

"Okay! Bye Mom!"

The three girls ran off, leaving Renning, Rose's mom, and the two dogs behind.

"So, you're Rose's mother?"

"Yes, Duke Renning. My name is Elena."

"Well, Elena, would you care to come in?"

"I'm sorry, but I have to be going. What time would you like me to come by and pick Rose up?"

"How does five sound?"

"That sounds great."

"Okay, we'll see you then."

"Right."

Renning closed the door as the woman walked away. It was then that he realized that he was going to be watching the dogs all day while the girls were the ones playing.

"Maybe it won't be so bad, right Renny?"

"Bark!"

"Haha, come on you two. Let's go."

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A/N: Finally! The torture's over with. I'm sure that's what all of you are thinking, right? Yeah, this wasn't a very good ending, but hey...this wasn't a good story either. So it's a fitting ending!

Hmm...what else was I going to say? Oh yeah. Just so you know, Elena isn't the Elena from the game (I'm sure you could tell that already).

Well, now I'm finally done...for good!