Chapter 12: Somepup Special pt.1

It was almost midnight, Ryder and the pups were fast asleep from the rescue they had this day. Right After they told the story of their rescue to Marshall, they suddenly felt how tired they were that time. Maybe because they got super excited telling the dally about their rescue awesome rescue, that they did'nt even realized they were exhausted.

MARSHALL POV

That night was really cold for him to handle. He was shivering from the cold breeze and forced him to woke up from his sleep. "I need to get a blanket." He thought. So he tried to get up but his sore back could'nt help him and made him fall down on the beanbag again.

"Aww.. How can I go to sleep if I'm freezing here?." He said as he curled his body but could still felt the cold lurking into his skin. He look around for an idea but only saw a sleeping husky a feet away from him.

He saw her was deep in her slumber. So he does'nt want to wake her up just to get him a blanket. That would end her sweet dream. He generously thought.

So he quietly get up on his beanbag. Only for a few second of stood still, but he fall again. Much to disappoint him, he started to curse and blame his injuries for letting him shivering. It could'nt help him at all.

Meanwhile, Everest were sleeping comfortably until she got interrupted by Marshall who was still muttering about his pain. She opened her eyes only to see Marshall was hitting his sprained leg slowly while muttering about it.

Everest already got up yet Marshall was there, blaming about his injuries, did'nt notice her at all. "Really? Marshall.." She small chuckled with her paw on his muzzle.

She gained Marshall's attention and made him realized that Everest was awake and definitely watched him the whole time he blamed his sore paw. "Stupid me.." He whispered and this time he hit his head with his paw. Now he blamed himself for waking Everest up.

Everest only chuckled seeing the dalmatian acting weirdly. Although, she was still concerned about his injuries "Relax Marshall.. Tell me what's wrong?" She stopped Marshall from what he was doing. Though she had to laugh a bit before she could stopped remembering what he just did.

"Nothing! I was just trying to sleep. That's all!" He said.

"So, why did you hit your paw?" She asked again.

"I.. uhh.. Just checking my paw if it still strong.." He said while hitting his paw again. At that moment, he somehow felt very nervous that he hardly hit his paw and made him hissed. He tried to covered his pain with a fake smile. "Why did I hit my paw again?!" He yelled in his head.

Everest knew that he was clearly lying. "You've a problem.. right?" She stared at the dally with her serious eyes.

He gulped before he thought that he should'nt be lying about what he really needed. He really want to get some shut eye. So he honestly tell Everest what caused him so uncomfortable. At the end of it, Everest were holding his muzzle, laughing about what had happened to Marshall.

"Hey, I'm freezing. You know!" He replied as he realized that he was shivering again.

"You're so funny Marshall.." She said still laughing hardly. He took that as a compliment and actually blushed from it. Due to the dark room, Everest did'nt notice the red on his cheeks.

"So.. since you already awake, can you get me a blanket. I'm still freezing here." He broke her moment of laugh and made her realized that she was'nt helping at all. Everest nodded and walked her way to the closet and grabbed a blanket. She dragged it towards Marshall. Kindly, she did'nt just throw it to Marshall, instead she slowly covered him up with it. Marshall yet again blushed seeing her very close to him, covering him with the blanket slowly. He was looking deeply at her eyes.

"Feeling better now?" She said and was waiting for his response.

"Huh? Oh.. yeah.. much better now!" He snapped and nervously said to her.

EVEREST POV

She nervously covering Marshall with the blanket she just brought from the closet. Not to be known by him, she were blushing because of the dark. She was standing right close to him while covering him slowly with the blanket. She just look deeply into his eyes. In her mind, she felt very stupid that she did that to Marshall. So she snapped out of her mind.

"Feeling better now?" She asked. She was waiting for him to response.

"Huh? oh.. yeah.. much better now!" He said sounded a bit nervous. Don't know exactly why he took time to reply.

After that, she walked back to her spot where she slept. When she was about to close her eyes, the husky got interrupted by the dally who was whispering for her name. So she replied with a slight voice to make sure she heard him.

"Thanks for covering me up." He gratefully said. This made Everest blushed again. "Its just a blanket.. No biggy." She said.

"Hmm? No, no.. not that!" He sounded nervous. "That time when you did'nt tell Ryder the truth about what really happened." He said.

"Your welcome.." She said trying to hold her red cheeks for the misunderstanding.

"Why would you backed me up that time? Did you know my promise to Ryder?" He asked again.

"No, I just saw you stayed quiet back there. So I've got a feeling that you might don't wanna tell about what happen. That's why I came in and lied about it." She explained. But she was wondering, what promise he had made with Ryder? Did he just broke it? She was questioning herself.

But then she remembered somebody that knew about the truth. Little Hootie, Jake and Rubble. "Uh oh.. I hope Rubble and Little Hootie did'nt spill up everything." She was worried that they would tell it to Ryder.

Marshall gasped and felt the same way as Everest, if Rubble told that to Ryder. If not him, Little Hootie might tells Chase and then Chase tells Ryder. "That's not good, I need to tell them now." He was struggling to get up but he remembered that he could'nt do it.

"Relax Marshall, maybe they did'nt tell the pups yet. They were busy listening to their story, maybe they forgot about it." She tried to convince the worried dalmatian to calm down. "You can tell them tomorrow. But first you need to go to sleep. Besides, your body need to rest so they can recover quickly." She added again.

"Yeah, maybe you're right.. I'm really tired right now." He said as he rest his head on his beanbag with the warm blanket he got. "Good night Everest!"

"You too Marshall!" She replied. They both closed their eyes and went into deep slumber.

MARSHALL POV

It was about two hour since the two pups fell asleep. However, Marshall were yet again struggling for something. He was just moving his paw to much trying to grab something while sleeping. He was like sleeping but in state of uncomfortable.

He kept doing it until somebody slip a nice and warm pillow inside the blanket for him to hug. He was still asleep, so he did'nt know who gave it to him. "Thanks.." he muttered while he was sleeping. He could actually smell the scent of the pillow he was hugging.

"Smells familiar.." He muttered again. Knowing that pillow from somewhere.

Because of the pillow he got, he could sleep comfortably again. He continued sleeping until the next morning arrived.

CHASE POV

Chase opened his eyes and let out a yawn. That particular moment made Little Hootie who slept besides him awake. "Sorry Little Hootie, I wake you up." He said. Little Hootie replied with a single "hoo" then yawned just like Chase. They woke up early then the other pups apparently. They could tell by the silence of the morning.

"How is your wing?" He asked. "hoo" he said, shook his head while showing his broken wing. "Guess that't mean you still cant fly." Chase guessed what Little Hootie's mean by that. This time he nodded, Chase guessing was true.

"How did you get injured after all?" Chase asked again wondering what could have caused him to faint yesterday.

Since Little Hootie only "hoo" and Chase would'nt understand him. So he started to flap its wing like he was flying. Chase knew what it was trying to do "So you need me to guess what you are doing, right?" Little Hootie nodded. Then he continued his acting.

"So.. you were flying around like usual." He guessed. Little Hootie nodded. Then he grabbed a thin stick nearby Chase's pup house and broke it into half. Then he used half of the stick to hit his broken wing gently trying to avoid the pain. "But a tree branch broke down then it hits you". Little Hootie nodded again. It began to fell down on his body and closed its eye. "You fell to the ground and fainted." Chase guessed again. Little Hootie stood up and nodded much to proud at the talented shepherd. "I'm really good at this." He glance at Little Hootie with a huge smile at it.

After that, they hit the silence for about a minute. Chase felt bored waiting for the pup and he was pretty sure that everybody was still asleep even Marshall... "Wait, Marshall!.." Much to his concern about Little Hootie, he was more worried about the dalmatian, his injured best friend.

"I need to check on him." He said as he got up and went out from his pup house. He yawned again and began to stretch his body. "That was great.." he let out a moan, feeling good from stretching after wake up from sleep.

He did'nt want to leave his owl friend too. "Hop on Little Hootie, lets go see Marshall." He said to the little owl. He nodded and hop on to his back.

Chase casually walked his way towards the lookout where Marshall slept in. Though, he did'nt worrying about Marshall to much again since he knew that he was'nt alone in there. Marshall was accompanied by Everest.

Which then made Chase smirked and turned his head looking at Little Hootie at his back. "You know, whenever I got bored, I always head over to Marshall and chat with him. And mostly, I joke about him and Everest were in together. But he seriously denied it. Maybe he does'nt really had a feeling for her." He happily explained to Little Hootie when the time he got bored. But frustrated that every time he joke about it, Marshall was just denying about him and Everest. Sometimes he just wished that it was actually true.

He wanted to help him getting along with somebody as a payback of the time that Marshall helped him to get Skye. The female cockapoo of the team that he loved so much. The reason he picked Everest for Marshall was because.. Other than Skye, Everest was another female pup in the team. Second, he got a feeling that Everest is best for Marshall. He could just feel it, with his nose. He used his instinct by sniffing.

"But you know what, I will always hope that my friend, Marshall, really had a feeling for her. He once help me getting along with Skye, so I want to help him to be together with her. I wanted to pay of what he had done for me." He explained again. Little Hootie "hoo" sounded like he did'nt believe that was going to happen. Chase was just walking slowly towards the entrance. The lookout door open automatically. Chase walked inside while still looking at Little Hootie.

"Seriously, I mean it. I actually hoping that one day he and Everest were..." Chase got interfered by Little Hootie who gasped upon seeing what he saw. Chase was curious and turned his head to where Little Hootie was looking, which was just right in front of him. He gasped before he continued "..Hugging!?"

MARSHALL POV

Marshall were sleeping comfortably hugging his pillow until Chase was there calling for his name. He whisperly screaming his name, not sure why he does that. So he opened his both eyes and look over where Chase was making the sounds. He yawned. "What's wrong Chase? Did you catch a cold?" He asked and wondered why would he whisper to wake him up. He usually used his megaphone to wake everybody up. Maybe he was concern about him.

But Chase did'nt answer him, instead he just pointing his paw directly at the spot he was sleeping. So did Little Hootie. Marshall was really confused of what was happening right now. Curious to know, so he took a glance at where he was pointing. Much to shock him on what he was really hugging. Like, he really want to jump right now but he could'nt because of his injuries.

His face was so red as his truck knowing that he was currently hugging a female husky. And this was being watched by Chase and Little Hootie. Felt really embarrassed, he released the hug. "E..Eve-rest.." He sheepishly called her name to wake her up. His heart beating rate was greatly increase being this close to Everest. Did'nt know how could this happen. He just remembered last night, somebody gave him a warm pillow to hug on. But little did he knew, it was Everest snuggling into the blanket

EVEREST POV

Just like Marshall, she were fast asleep hugging a warm and comfortable pillow she got last night. "E..Eve-rest.." Until her ears picked up a sheepish voice calling for her name. So she opened her eyes and saw her white pillow with few black spots around it. But her pillow was moving.

"Did the pillow just move?" She thought. She might have guessed the pillow was one of Rocky's invention that had a function to wake up people from sleep. But still in disbelief, she wiped her eyes with her paw so she can see more clearly.

As she gain view, her face turned red and she was blushing hardly. She was very shock to see what in front of her that she was hugging the whole night. Quick respond, she jumped out and stood still next to the beanbag. Notice that this was too embarrassing for her, knowing that she was sleeping next to a male dalmatian. At least she felt a bit relieved that nobody saw that until she turned her head at the entrance of the lookout. Much to disappoint her, Chase was standing there like a stone watching the whole scene with Little Hootie on his back.

Everest became more redder. Her heart beat thumping faster than usual. She still felt the warm hug from Marshall. But it felt like she was about to explode at anytime. Without talking to anyone, she began running passed Chase and exited the lookout through the entrance. Her tears slowly dropped off from her face.

MARSHALL POV

"Nice move Marshall..." Marshall's ears perked, hearing Chase's compliment at him. But he sounded like he was'nt satisfied with that. He glance at Chase who look very serious. Proving that it was just a sarcasm.

"Look at what you had done, Marshall! You made her felt embarrassed." Chase growled at him. Marshall noticed that and began to growl at Chase back.

"Hey, I don't really know what happen!" Marshall yelled at the shepherd. Still laying down on his beanbag. His face was red, half mad and half embarrass. "All I know is You wake me up! And then she was in front of me! Its not my fault." He yelled.

"I saw her tears dropped when she ran passed me!" Chase counter. "You should've really done that!" Chase continued with his serious face.

"I said.. Its not my fault!" Marshall replied with a growl. But Marshall immediately realized that he was arguing with Chase, his best friend. "I don't know what happen!" He yelled again but simply lower than before. Then his head was down, looking at his beanbag and started to sniff. "I don't know what happen.." He said then he began to cry. Either he made Everest cry or he argued with Chase, both of it made him so upset. He just don't know how could this happened.

CHASE POV

Chase's serious face turned to upside down. He was worried to see his best friend crying right in front of him made him felt weak and heart broken. Worst than that, he managed time he made him cry, which he does'nt want to happen. That was the worst thing that Chase had ever done to himself. In his mind, he blamed himself for yelling at the dalmatian. Chase blamed himself for arguing with Marshall.

It was just like he wanted to burst in tear, but he tried to hold it. "Ohh.. Marshall I'm so sorry!" He said as he walked over to the dalmatian who was crying. "I did'nt mean to.." He could'nt handle his tears anymore and began to sniffed. He dashed to Marshall and hug him. Then he suddenly cried as well, "..be mad at you!" Chase continued as both of them cried on each other shoulder.

"Please.. don't hate me, Marshall." he pleaded.

"I did'nt hate you, Chase. Maybe you're right, I did made her cry." Marshall broke the hug and began to sniff out of the sadness. Chase did the same too but more relief that his best friend did'nt mad or hate at him. That was a good sign for him.

"In fact, I did made you cry too!" Marshall smiled, wiping his eyes from the tears and giggled. It was rare to see Chase crying.

Chase quickly wiped his tears dry and made his face serious again while looking at him. "No I was'nt!" Chase shook his head and lied, realized that he was really crying from his heart. He does'nt want to make him sounded weak.

"Then what's that on your face?" Marshall pointed his paw at Chase's face.

Chase began to search around his face with his paw but could'nt find any tears on his face since he already dried it off. "What!? I already dried it off." Confused of what Marshall was actually pointing to.

"Gotcha!" Marshall smirked at him about that simple prank, but he could'nt hold on anymore, so he laugh at him. Marshall really like to make fun with his friends. Well it was just a joke, so he does'nt really mean it.

"Ohh.. you trick me, huh?" Chase smirk, he was just sick of being played by him. He wanted a revenge. "Then how about this!" Chase jumped on him caused Marshall to lay on his back. He was about to tickle him but he heard the dalmatian hissed in pain due to his sore back.

Chase become worried again. Afraid if he accidently hurt him more. "Marshall! I'm so sorry!" Chase said as he back up a bit so he does'nt hurt Marshall again.

Marshall was just laying down quietly. His head was down and his eyes were closed. Chase called his name, but he did'nt respond. Chase became more worried looking at the fainted pup.

He got closer to Marshall and began to shake his body. "Marshall wake up! stay with me, Wake up!" He cried again while shaking Marshall's body hoping that he was still there.

Then a slight movement coming from Marshall's body. Chase began to felt relief.

"Gotcha again!" Marshall woke up and immediately laugh hardly at the shepherd. He felt very satisfied pranking Chase three times in a row and made him cried two times.

"You trick me again! That's It!" Chase smirk at him and jump again on Marshall and began to tickle him.

"Hahahh! Stop.. hahaha! Okay, okay.. hhaha! You win.. haha!" Marshall laugh really hard because of how hard Chase tickling him.

"Ohh.. I wont stop until I felt satisfied."

The pup just continued tickling at the dalmatian who was just laughing hardly while trying to endure the vengence of the german shepherd.

end of chapter

Sorry..