Chapter 11: Add-Ons

Cartoongirl's POV

Urg… I hate this. I'm cold, I'm hungry, I don't have my pack, and worst of all, a house pet has my stuff. If he does anything to it, I'll kill him.

"Can I do it?" Evil asked.

"No. Now which way is north again?" I asked, looking at Brainy.

"Go that way," she told me, pointing to the left of me.

"Okay. We're off. Now, anyone has to say something stupid before we continue?"

"Can we stop for pizza?" Childish asked.

"And there it is!" Evil replied.

"There's no pizza in the forest, Childish, Pizza is a man-made food and man-made food is not found in the wild. But we can berries, nuts, and other small animals. See our ancestors come from wolves, who hunted rabbits, squirrels and other small animals. Eventually we were domesticated to live with cave-men. Over time, we dogs were breed to fit specific hunting qualities, Irish setters were breed for Dog shows of their golden red fur, while Dachshunds were breed to…"

"Shut up!" Evil snapped at her.

Brainy cowered behind me. I rolled my eyes and started walking. They started to follow me. Childish was bouncing ahead, while Evil and Angle was flying above us. I was sniffing the ground. I was looking for Archibald's scent. There was no way he would survive, he was too domesticated for my liking and he wouldn't last a night without me.

"He wouldn't last through anything, nor would we…" Emo sighed as she walked ahead.

"Will you guys stop reading my thoughts?! You're making it hard for me to keep track on what's going on!" I snapped.

"Yay! Forth wall breaking!" Childish cheered.

Oh god… back on topic… let's see… focus on Archibald.

"Uh Chey? Are you forgetting something?" Brainy asked.

"What?"

"It's your week to watch Pain and Panic? Remember?"

"Aw… dog crap! I totally forgot about that! I can't watch over them and do my journey at the same time! What am I going to do? I have to do this, but I also promised Hades! If I don't watch over them, Hades will strangle them, they'll get into more trouble, though Hades wants that… but… Urg! What am I going to do?" I groaned.

"We can ditch them." Evil suggested.

"We can't do that, she made a pact with Hades, and she never goes back on her word, she's Hades favorite mortal dog and Zeus's most hated, unfortunately." Angel replied.

"Unfortunately we'll all die too, but that's more of a good thing, now is it?" Emo answered, walking ahead.

"She's my favorite." I told them.

"Wait! You can have favorites?" Childish asked. "Does Angel have a favorite? Is it Dark? What about Childish? I like her! She's fun! Can we do a play date? Can we? Can we? Can we? Can we?"

"When we get back," I told her. "Now what can I do about them? I know! Ocean!"

"You're going to have Ocean, watch them? She'll kill them in a heartbeat!" Motherly exclaimed.

"They're immortal, they'll be fine." Evil waved off.

I sighed. I have no choice but to watch them. No one can handle them like me, but of course, Motherly is with me and she knows everything about kids from those parenting books, shows, and advice I got from Crystal. I walked a little further to see a small rabbit and a chipmunk in front of me.

"Aw how cute… a couple of rodents looking for a road to get squashed."

"Hey! I am a bunny!" The rabbit snapped, pointing at his fluffy tail.

"A-a-and I'm his gopher!" The chipmunk exclaimed, pointing at himself.

They morphed into Pain and Panic.

"~TADA!~" They sang.

"Panic, that's a chipmunk you morphed into, not a gopher." I explained to him.

"It's not?" His eyes widen.

"No. But that's okay. I'll let you borrow my animal books later." I told him. "Now we have a lot of ground to cover and a fat lump of fur to find."

"Are you on a journey?" Pain asked.

"Yep. Are you flying, walking or riding?" I asked them.

"I'll fly for now," Pain told me.

"I-I-I'll take a ride!" Panic replied excitedly, as he morphed into a mouse and climbed on top of my head.

"Freak," Evil muttered.

"Shush," Motherly scowled her.

"So where are we going?" Panic asked me.

"To the north pole."

"But it's so cold up there!" Pain exclaimed.

"Well I need to do this. So shut up and enjoy the ride." I told him.

"Oh yea, enjoy the ride, then we can't dump you in the middle of snow covered nowhere, don't that sound like fun?" Evil asked with fake excitement.

"Then they'll freeze and we die," Emo added.

"Laughing!" Evil finished and started laughing.

Emo just grunted and just walked beside her. Evil rolled her eyes and followed her. I shook my head and continued walking. Where was a scent when you needed one? Let's see… rabbit, rabbit, moose, squirrel! Oh my god! It was a squirrel! A squirrel!

"She's a dog alright," Motherly smiled.

"Squirrel! Let me at it!" I barked, when I saw a squirrel run in front of us.

"Wee!" Panic exclaimed as I took off running.

"What is with dogs and chasing small animals and cats?" Evil asked.

"It comes with the natural wolf instincts we possess." Brainy stated.

"Squirrel! It's a squirrel! I'm gonna catch a squirrel!" I panted.

"Hey wait up!" Pain called as he fly after us.

I was zigzagging through the trees, right on the squirrel's tail. I snapped at it. I was so close, so very, very close… I couldn't wait to snap its neck in half and settle down for a meal! I could just taste it's meat!

"She's scaring me…" Childish whimpered.

"It's okay; she's just showing that she's a true blue dog." Motherly comforted.

The squirrel ran up the tree and smacked into it, falling over.

"Ow…" I winced.

"That's gotta hurt," Pain pointed out.

"No duh Captain Obvious," I replied, standing up and rubbed my nose. "Ow… that really smarts… okay, I'm having Vic sit up an anti-squirrel fence, except for the Red of course. Ow… normal dogs are stupid to keep this up; ah… my nose had never hurt this much before."

"Well of course." Brainy replied. "The nerves from the tip of your nose are sending messages to your brain telling it that there is pain, which is pulsing through at least 180,000 electromagnetic currents through the brain cells to the…"

Evil shoved a rock in her mouth.

"That'll shut her up." She replied.

"Do we need to go to the underworld to get a first aid kit?" Panic asked.

"No, it'll be fine," I told him. "We have a long way to go."

"How far is the north pole from here?" Pain asked.

"A long way."

"But how long, is a long way?" Panic asked.

I sighed. They maybe thousands of years old, but they mind like children. I sniffed the ground, walking along. Panic was telling me the latest news on Mt. Olympus, Hades problems with Persephone (she's not my biggest fan, and I ain't her's), their chores and assignments they had to do, and other stuff.

"How interesting," I replied, still focusing on Archibald.

"How come you keep smelling the ground?" Pain asked.

"Did you lose something? Are you looking for something or someone?" Panic asked.

"Yes I am."

"Who?"

"A house pet named Archibald. He's a little brighter than normal House Pets, but not much."

"Archibald? That's a funny name."

"Maybe to you. It's getting dark. We'll have to find shelter, and we don't want to stay out here when it gets cold."

"But we didn't get a chance to play and explore…"

"You can do that tomorrow." I told them.

"Can I play with them?" Childish asked.

"No," I muttered.

I looked up to see a bush. It was big enough, and it looked warm. I went over to it and sniffed it. It smelt fine, now for the inside. I poked my head in, seeing plenty of room for us to sleep.

"Come along you two, time for bed," I told the two imps, nudging them into bush.

"We have to sleep in there?" Pain asked.

"You could sleep on a rock, better?"

"Right... a rock… doesn't that just scream comfy?" Evil sneered.

"Off to bed," I told them, curling up.

I felt them curl up against me. I lifted my head up, seeing the two imps pressed against me. I smiled slightly and curled back up, falling asleep.