They kept walking until a familiar Irish dog who somehow managed to escape the crystal ball rushed over and tackled against Tom.
"What's up with that dog?" Patch asked.
"Must be greed for Uncle Chip's ring." Robyn guessed.
"Well, he can't have it." Patch said.
"Don't tell us that, Spot, greedy people are foolish!" Drell said.
Patch just sighed and went over to get the Irish dog off of Tom. The black cat then returned and tried to eat Jerry again. Tom thanked Patch for his help, but snatched Jerry out of his paws.
"This isn't going to be easy at all." Patch sighed.
"Nope." Drell said simply.
The Irish dog and Tom then both tried to grab a hold of the poor mouse. The dog got Jerry however, smiling evilly to Tom.
"How can we make this go faster?" Cherry asked.
Drell took out his hand and waved his finger to make the fight/chase scene go faster like the cats and dog were on fast forward in a video.
"Not exactly what I had in mind." Cherry said.
"Sorry, this is the only spell I know to make it go by quicker." Drell said.
Cherry sighed and rolled her eyes. The Irish dog, Tom, and Jerry then ended up in a pet store and Drell stopped the spell to make time go by normally.
"What now?" Cherry asked.
"We gotta get in that pet store." Drell said.
"What're we gonna do, turn into animals to blend in?" Cherry asked.
Drell grinned, taking out his wand.
"I WAS JOKING!" Cherry cried.
"I'm not." Drell said before he changed himself and the kids all into animals.
"So what animals did you turn us into, sir?" Robyn asked.
"Look for yourselves..." Drell's voice said.
There was a broken mirror by a fence. Cherry and Drell were both mice and Atticus and Robyn were both dogs.
"Why do you always turn me into a mouse!?" Cherry whined to Drell.
"At least I didn't turn myself into a cat." Drell warned.
"Yessir..." Cherry trembled.
They all then ended up in front of the door after Tom and Jerry were taken in.
"Hey, they're my pets!" Robyn glared.
The woman who owned the store looked down to the small group and gasped. "Oh, it's so sad when people leave you unwanted fellas at my doorstep... Don't worry, I'll find you homes..." she then bent down and picked them all up in her arms.
"I promise we'll get them out of this store." Atticus whispered.
The owner put Tom, Atticus, and Robyn into the same habitat.
"Look, son," a dog dad said to the puppy next to him. "We got company."
Tom gulped in fear.
"Let's give him a proper dog-to-cat welcome!" the dog said to his puppy.
"You want the cat, you'll have to go through us." Patch said luckily being put into the same habitat with them.
"Aw, bring it on!" the dog put his paw into his fist, looking eager.
"Get 'em." Robyn told Atticus and Patch, standing in front of Tom protectively.
"Patch, you can have fight these two." Atticus said, not finding these two worth his time.
"Wahoo! Two times the fun." Patch smiled.
"I'm gonna take you to Puppy School!" the dog dad smiled darkly to the Dalmatian puppy.
"I've been there and I'm a valedogtorian, thank you very much!" Patch retorted before flinging after the dog father and his son for bullying Tom for being a cat.
"I sure hope Jerry's okay where he is..." Robyn said to herself.
And where Robyn would have been right.
"I don't know how easy it'll be to find you a home with that big bump on your head, but you are going to love all your new friends." the woman said as she carried Jerry, Cherry, and Drell in her hand and was on her way to a metal cage that had three other mice inside of it.
"What's the matter, Nibbles?" a mouse with a yellow shirt and a green bowler hat asked, sounding like he was bullying a gray mouse with a diaper on. "Cat got your tongue?" he asked before taking out a framed picture of a feline out from his pocket.
This scared the grey mouse screamed, looking like he was going to be eaten. The brown bully mouse grinned darkly at his fear.
"Yeah," the bully mouse's sidekick which was gray with a purple sweater, a black hat, and had a shiny red nose added, sounding kind of dumb. "Cat got your tongue?"
The other mouse took the picture out again. The little gray mouse screamed, very much scared to death since that picture was bigger and it made him bounce around the cage in fear. The two bully mice then looked to see someone was coming.
"Hey, Joey, straighten up," the brown mouse told his idiot sidekick. "I think somene's comin' to adopt us!"
"Okay, Freddie, okay..." the stupid mouse replied.
Both bullies tried to look presentable, sweet, and innocent. The woman came, not with new owners for the bully mice, but 'new friends' and set Cherry, Jerry, and Drell down inside of the cage.
'These two look like trouble.' Drell thought to himself.
Cherry actually hid behind Drell for protection.
"Um, hello, gentlemice." Drell greeted.
"Well, well, well," the tough mouse named Joey glanced at the 'fresh meat'. "Look at what we have here."
Drell folded his arms aggressively.
"Hey, look, he's wearing a crown on his head." The stupid mouse said, noticing the ring on Jerry's head.
"So he is, Freddie," the tough mouse chuckled. "Looks like we got a new royal mouse in the house."
"Look, you better back off," Cherry glared at the two mice, approaching them. "You don't know how much trouble you'll get in if you touch him!"
"Ah, don't worry about it, baby cakes," the tough mouse folded his arms to her. "We'll get back to youse as soon as we're done talkin' to our buddy Nibbles over here."
"Yeah!" the stupid mouse chuckled. "Talkin'!"
"And by 'talking', do you mean being bullies to him?" Drell asked.
"What's it to you, Tubby?" the bully mouse poked Drell in his stomach, glaring sharply at him. "This is my turf!"
"MY NAME IS DRELL!" Drell exclaimed.
The tough mouse blinked and recoiled slightly.
"He seems stronger and tougher than youse, Joey..." the dumb mouse told his friend.
The baby mouse looked over, curiously. Drell then started to attack the two bully mice while Patch was fighting off the bully dog and his son. Cherry winced and cringed. The baby mouse was crying from the violence. Cherry saw this and she comforted the baby mouse, giving him a hug and hid his face in her chest so he wouldn't see anything that he did not want to see. Jerry then used the rings magic and turned the two bully mice into cheese. Luckily Drell was off of the bullying mice before he could be turned into cheese like the other mice.
"You hungry, sweetie?" Cherry asked the baby mouse.
"Uh-huh!" Nibbles smiled eagerly and nodded, chasing after the cheese mice who tried to escape out the cage then.
And where both of them were able to escape through the bars. The baby mouse pouted as he was stuck in the cage while they escaped.
"Ah, don't worry, little guy, lemme give ya a boost." Jerry smiled, he then activated the ring again.
The ring zapped the baby mouse and made him grow in a very large size that broke the cage open and he jumped down, eagerly and hungrily chasing after the bully mice who were now two walking pieces of cheese.
"I guess this makes me the Big Cheese now, huh, Joey?" the dumb mouse asked his friend.
"Shut up and run, Freddie!" the tougher mouse scowled.
Nibbles chased them out the doggy door and they were instantly out of the pet store.
"How do we get out of here?" Cherry asked.
"Okay, allow me..." Drell said as he was about to use his magic to get them out safely.
"Mom!" a child's voice called.
Drell, Cherry, and Jerry looked for the source of the voice.
There was a little boy who looked anxious to be visiting the pet store tonight. "I want the little mouse with a crown on his head!" the boy told the woman with him. "I want him! I want him! I want him!"
"Whatever you want, sweetheart." the boy's mother smiled.
"He's kidding, right?" Jerry asked.
Tom, Robyn, and Atticus poked their heads out after Patch was sitting on top of the dog dad and the other puppy.
"We'll take that cute little mouse in the cage please." the woman told the owner of the pet shop so her son could have Jerry as a pet.
The owner nodded and went to the cage to take Jerry out so the mother and son could take him home.
'I hope that rings magic hasn't corrupted his heart.' Atticus thought to himself, referring to Jerry.
'Oh, Jerry, you can't go home with that lady and her kid...' Cherry thought to herself.
'Helloooo, Nurse...' Drell thought to himself with a lustful grin at the mother.
'I can't go with this family, I already have an owner and a family.' Jerry thought to himself.
The owner took Jerry out from the cage and dropped him into the jumping little boy's hands. "Here you go... Take good care of him."
"Oh, I love him, I love him, I love him!" the boy said before slobbering all over Jerry.
"Ew!" Cherry and Drell cringed.
"Save me." Jerry whispered.
The boy ran with Jerry at hand, making airplane vrooms as he ran back and forth, passing all of the other animals in the shop.
Tom screamed because both Jerry was in danger and that the magic ring was going to be taken away with the mouse. Jerry winced and the ring seemed to glow once.
"Huh?" the boy wondered what that meant, then shrugged at it. "That thing must need batteries." he then lifted Jerry up in the air again and ran around again.
The ring blast turned Tom, Patch, Atticus, and Robyn into goo and they slid out of the cage bars, shifting back into their natural forms, but Robyn and Atticus were still dogs.
"Okay, let's get Cherry and Drell and then get out of here and then go out and get Jerry back from that kid." Atticus said.
Tom was already sneaking out the door, but he waited on the outside for them.
"Right." Patch and Robyn agreed with Atticus.
Atticus helped Cherry and Drell out of the cage.
"Thank you, my boy." Drell said before taking out his wand.
"You're welcome, save the magic for after we get out of the store." Atticus said.
"Gotcha." Drell agreed.
With that, they snuck out the door and joined Tom as he anxiously waited for them.
As soon as the door shut behind them and the owner didn't notice anything unusual, Drell took out his wand and changed everyone back to normal from what they once were before.
"Now, to find that boy..." Robyn said, looking around.
"There he is!" Tom pointed down the street once the boy was walking with his mother with Jerry at hand in an obnoxious way.
"I think I'd rather like to be with Robyn than with this brat." Jerry groaned.
"Now, Junior, I don't want this mouse to end up like the others." the mother warned her son.
"What does she mean by that!?" Jerry panicked instantly.
Tom dashed right over and swiped Jerry out of the boy's hands.
"Oh, Tom, I never thought I'd be happy to see you in all my life!" Jerry said to his lifelong rival, but then, the boy cried as Jerry was brought back to Robyn, upsetting the obnoxious boy.
"RUN!" Tom yelped and ran with Jerry in his paws.
The boy kept crying loudly which alerted his mother right away.
"That kitty stole my mouse!" the boy told his mother.
They both then saw Tom running away with Jerry in his paw along with Robyn and then others running with them.
The woman let out a horrified gasp, then glared and ran to an officer who was on the street corner. "Officer, that cat with those others just stole my son's new mouse right out of my hands!"
"Oh, they did, did they?" the officer replied, he then took out his whistle and blew into it.
Three police cars wailed sirens and were speeding down the street to catch up with the 'thieves'.
"Oh, no, the police!" Patch gasped.
"Drell! What should we do? Should Atticus use his strength to stop the police from chasing us?!" Cherry asked the strong warlock.
"I dunno, that's kinda illegal, harassing or terrorizing a man of the law..." Drell shrugged.
"He has a point, Cherry." Robyn agreed, then put her hands in her pockets. "Hey... Wait..."
"What is it, Robyn?" Patch asked.
Robyn felt like this was a sign from above as Tom posed as a stone lion on one of the edges of the bank and took out two pink papers that had her name and a stamp.
"What're those, kid?" Drell asked.
"They're my adoption papers after Daddy let me keep Tom and Jerry," Robyn explained. "Maybe if the police sees them, they'll know that Jerry belongs to me and that boy can't keep him."
"That's perfect!" Atticus cheered.
"Do you always keep those in your pocket?" Drell tilted his head.
"I don't remember even having them with me..." Robyn shrugged. "Maybe it was... Magic..."
"Maybe." Drell shrugged.
"Officer, wait!" Robyn rushed over.
"You?" the officer glared down at her. "I ought to lock you up for the night for stealing another kid's pet. You should know better, little lady!"
"No, that boy can't take Jerry," Robyn handed over her papers. "These are my adoption papers... I paid four bucks for these papers and Jerry the mouse is my pet and if that boy takes him, he's the one stealing, not me!"
The officers looked over the adoption papers and saw that Tom and Jerry really were Robyn's pets and decided to leave them all alone.
"All right, you're free to go." the officer smiled.
Robyn smiled back and walked back over.
"That was my mouse!" the boy glared at Robyn.
"No, he was never yours," Robyn glared back. "He was, is, and always will be my pet mouse."
"It's true." Jerry said while now trying to get the ring off his head, having had enough of it's magic.
Drell took a hold of Jerry and tried to pop the ring off like a bottle cap on a very sweet and savory soda. "Sure is a stubborn little ring..."
"Drell, please don't, I'm worried you're gonna rip Jerry's head off..." Cherry looked incredibly nervous for the mouse in Drell's hands.
"Wait, why not use ring remover to get it off?" Atticus asked.
"Ring remover?" Drell asked as he was now biting at the ring with his teeth.
"Yeah, you know, that stuff they use to get rings off easily when they're stuck on a finger." Atticus said.
"I once got my thumb stuck in a bottle of grape soda once," Robyn shrugged. "My dad had to put hot water and soap over my thumb to get it out."
"And that worked?" Tom asked.
"You don't see a bottle on my thumb, do you?" Robyn smirked.
"Good point." Tom said.
"I think my uncle might have some ring remover in his kitchen." Robyn said.
"So we gotta go all the way back to your uncle's house..." Patch sounded exhausted. "Oh, I can't wait until this adventure is over, I feel like I'm gonna sleep like a... Erm... Really sleepy person."
"Don't worry, Patch, I'll carry you the way back." Atticus said.
"Thanks," Patch yawned. "Man, this adventure's taking a lot out of me."
"That and we've been in Daddy's car all day." Robyn could understand why he would feel exhausted all of the sudden.
"Well, we better get back to the house then." Tom said.
However, before they could go, the Irish dog and black cat returned.
"Aw, come on!" Tom groaned.