A Noble Heart

Here's the next chapter of my 'All Dogs go to Heaven'. Sorry for the long wait everyone, I had to take my smaller laptop in for repairs because the batter was getting ready to die out on me. I hope you all enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter 14

Back with Lola, she was walking around the streets with a look of anger on her face. She was still miffed at what Randi had told her about kissing another female dog.

'That no good, lousy mutt!' thought Lola fiercely to herself as she turned down a dark alleyway to avoid being seen by any humans. 'I can't believe he kissed that sticking Jade when he was pretending to be his brother!'

Lola walked a few more steps before her paws slowed and she came to a halt as she began to think a little clearer about the argument that she had with Randi.

'Maybe I might have jumped to the wrong conclusion,' thought Lola calmly, but she quickly shook her head as she stubbornly remembered what Randi had said. 'But that doesn't change on what he said about how meaningless our kiss way! I hope I never see his sorry face again as long as I live!'

With that thought firmly in her mind, Lola started to walk forward again. She was suddenly stopped in her tracks again when the loud sound of trashcans falling to the ground caused Lola to turn around in surprise and suspicion. Lola stared at the pile of trashcan that lay in front of the alley entrance. She continued to stare at the pile of trashcans for a moment before shrugging it off and turned around to start walking again. But what she didn't realize was that someone was hiding behind the trashcans and before she even realized it, the one that had been hiding behind the trashcans suddenly sprung out at her. Lola didn't get a chance to fight back as her ambusher tackled her to the ground. The force of the tackle made Lola bang her head down on the concrete ground, not enough to crack her head but enough to knock her out. Lola lay unconscious on the ground as a figured covered in shadow glared down at her with a smirk upon his features.

Carface's Casino

Back at the Casino Boat, Carface was in a bad mood as he threw things around in his office in anger and frustration. Killer was watching this in the corn with a look of fear upon his face as Carface would stop for a second to pace around the room before grabbing something that wasn't tied down and throwing it against one of the walls of his office. Killer was hiding behind one of the sofas in Carface's office as he watched his boss flinging things around in his anger.

"That no good, lousy dog!" shouted Carface angrily as he threw a lamp at the far wall of his office. "Once I get my paws on him for stealing that little girl from me, he's gonna wish that he had never been born!"

Killer remained quiet throughout the whole ordeal as he continued to hide from his enraged boss. After a while, Carface was standing in the middle of his office with his face red with fury. Killer soon spoke as he poked his head up from behind the back of the sofa.

"What I can't understand boss is how he was able to survive those laser shots," Killer said as he scratched the top of his head in confusion. "I mean, we saw those bullets hit him dead on, but he showed barely a scratch on him."

Carface heard what Killer had said and became curious about it as well, but he soon brushed it off as Charlie having just being lucky.

"Never mind that," said Carface as he began to walk back and forth across the floor of his office. "One way or another, I will get that little girl back."

"But how?" asked Killer with a frown.

Carface stopped in his pacing to glare at Killer in anger and frustration.

"Don't bother with stupid questions like that!" yelled Carface.

Killer yelped as he quickly ducked behind the sofa again, while Carface went back to his pacing. After a while, Carface stopped as he let out a frustrating growl before he turned to glare at the sofa that Killer was hiding behind.

"I want you to bring Spike in here now!" ordered Carface as he rubbed the underside of his chin in thought. "We might need him for what I plan to do to make Charlie suffer for his mistake in taking that little girl away from me."

Killer gulped behind the sofa as he slowly poked his head out from behind the seat of the couch.

"Um…that's going to be a bit of a problem, boss," said Killer in a small voice.

Carface hear what Killer had said as he turned a suspicious eye on the dog.

"What do you mean by that, Killer?" questioned Carface in a dangerous voice.

Killer hesitated for a moment as he thought over the words that he was going to say before he answered his boss's question.

"Well…I would appear that Spike is…"

"Yes…"urged Carface in an impatient voice.

Killer gulped again before he finally spoke the last words of his sentence.

"He's gone, boss," answered Killer.

All was quiet within the office as Carface took in the words that Killer had said to him before he exploded in a fit of rage and anger

"WHAT?!" shouted Carface.

Killer shrunk down behind the couch again with only half of his head being seen behind the seat of the couch.

"What do you mean he's gone?!" yelled Carface as he advanced towards the sofa.

"I-I-it's just as I said, boss!" exclaimed Killer fearfully. "I went to his room a few days ago and saw that he wasn't there!"

"Why didn't you tell me this beforehand?!" shouted Carface as he was now only a few feet away from the sofa.

"I-I-I-I thought that he must have gone on a few days of vacation time with Jade or something," explained Killer in a panic. "I thought he would be back, but I didn't think that we would need him for taking down Charlie."

Carface began to growl as his rage began to spike to dangerous levels, but his anger was more towards the disappearance of Spike than towards Killer.

"When I find that dog, I'm gonna…"

"Cool your jets, Boss," spoked a voice from the doorway of Carface's office. "Besides, you're taking your anger out on the wrong dog."

Carface and Killer turned their attention towards the door and saw a dog leaning against the door's frame with his arms crossed over his chest. Carface glared at the new dog in suspicion before he spoke.

"Who are you?"

"The name's Spike," said the dog with a wicked smirk upon his face, "the real Spike that was supposed to be part of your gang."

Carface raised an eyebrow in confusion, while Killer looked at the new dog with wide eyes and jaw dropped wide open.

"Huh?"

"Care to explain yourself?" questioned Carface with a hard look upon his features.

"Sure can," answered Spike in a smooth voice. "You see, the dog you mistaken as me was actually my brother, Randi."

"What?!" exclaimed Carface in shock.

"Yeah, and while I was in the dog pound my brother was taking my place in playing the part of being your loyal dog servant."

Carface was dumbfounded at what he had just heard before he turned to look at Killer, who was looking back at him with a sheepish look upon his face.

"Um…in my defense I didn't really get a good look at Spike here, because I forgot my glasses at the time." Killer said with a shrug.

Carface growled at Killer before he turned to look at Spike with a raised eyebrow.

"So…if you're Spike, then how did you escape from the pound?" questioned Carface.

"Let's just say it wasn't easy," Spike as he raised a paw up to examine his claws, "but I managed to get out of there no problem. Now I'm back and I want to get revenge on my brother for what he did to me."

"Well, you're just going to have to wait," said Carface as he turned and walked towards his desk. "Right now we need you for a little revenge of our own against an old 'friend' of mine."

"Charlie, right?" asked Spike as he looked at Carface's retreating form.

"That's right," replied Carface as he took a seat in his desk. "He's stolen something of mine and I want it back. I also want to make sure that I get rid of him once and for all."

"I wouldn't be surprised if Randi was with him," said Spike with a smirk.

This perked Carface's interest as he leaned against the surface of his desk.

"Is that right," said Carface.

"I'm positive," said Spike as he pushed off from the doors frame. "I also have a plan on how to get both Charlie and my brother to come to us."

Carface took on a thoughtful look as he stared intently at Spike for a few moments before he spoke again.

"And just what is your plan in getting Charlie and your brother to come to us?"

"By setting up the perfect bait," answered Spike with a smirk. "We just need to capture the girl to lure your old friend, Charlie, to us."

"And what about your brother?" asked Killer, who was now standing in the middle of the office.

The smirk on Spike's face grew evil before he turned and grabbed something that he had been hiding behind him for a while. He then threw what he had been hiding behind him into Carface's office. What landed on the floor of Carface's office was none other than Lola, who was tied up and gagged. Lola struggled in her bonds on the floor, While Carface and Killer stared down in shock and surprise to see the female dog in their office.

"I'll be using her to lure my brother to me," answered Spike with a chuckle. "It seemed that he had grown a close attachment to this mutt that he met on the street. I'm not surprised thou, after all my brother is a mutt himself and it's only fair that he find someone of his own kind on the streets."

Lola twisted in her bonds to glare at Spike in anger and resentment. Carface couldn't help but let out an evil laugh as he glared down at Lola's tied up form.

"Who would have thought that I would be seeing the street dog, Lola, again," said Carface in amusement. "Looks like that saying of 'killing two birds with one stone' might be true after all."

Scene change

Back with Randi, Charlie and Anne-Marie they were now held captive by a tribe of rats that lived underneath the city of New Orleans. The rats had put the three into cages and were now carrying them across a wooden dock/platform that was ten feet above the waters of the city. The rat's carried them to a large open lake that had a small rocky island that sat underneath the end of the wooden dock. Randi was quiet as he took in his surrounding as fear began to grip at his chest. The rats were chanting in a strange language that he couldn't understand and he had a feeling that Anne-Marie wasn't able to understand them either.

'I'm getting a bad feeling about this place,' thought Randi to himself as he continued to take in his surroundings.

The rats soon came to the end of the dock before they began to throw in their captives. The first thing to be thrown in was Charlie's watch, then Charlie, Anne-Marie and Randi. Randi let out a yelp of surprise at the sudden drop before his cage fell onto the island. His cage clattered and shook when it landed, but through all the noise Randi's ears picked up the sound of cracking bones. Randi looked down at the ground and his eyes widened in horror at the sight that met his eyes. On the island was a surface of multiple bones that looked to be from different animals.

'Oh, man' thought Randi as he looked around at the ground. 'What kind of animal…'

That was when Randi remembered a frightening story that his father had once told him and his brother, Spike. His father told him of a creature that was gigantic and would eat any living creature in a single bite. The creature was said to be living underneath the city of New Orleans and that if any being was foolish enough to venture down beneath the city, then their fate would be sealed by the creature. Randi's face grew pale as he now remembered what the creature's name was and if was right about this place then he and his two friends were in big trouble.

'This is not good,' thought Randi as he looked around. 'We have to find a way out of here before…'

But his thoughts were quickly cut off when he heard the sound of large door creaking open and he turned his head towards where the sound was coming from. Over on the far side of the lake were two huge doors that swung wide open. Randi tensed as he looked on to see a few bubbles appear on the surface of the underground lake's waters.

"Randi," whispered Anne-Marie, whose cage was close beside his. "What's going on?"

Randi didn't reply for a moment, but he soon gulped down a lump that was forming within his throat before he answered Anne-Marie's question.

"I've heard stories about a monster that lives in an underground lake underneath New Orleans," spoke Randi with fear etched into his voice. "Beings like dogs or foolish humans were said to have wandered down here to what was underneath the city, but those who have…" Randi paused as a shiver went through his body, "those who have…winded up being this monster's dinner."

Anne-Marie shrunk down in fear at what Randi had said as the bubbles of the lake's surface came closer to the island. Randi continued on with his explanation as his fear of what was going to happen grew more inside him.

"The name of the monster that lives in this underground lake…is name King Gator."

As soon as he said the name, the monster of the underground lake soon rose up from the waters of the lake as it made itself onto the island. The monster revealed itself to be an oversized Alligator that had a look of hunger on its face and Randi knew that there was no hope of him and two friends now.

To Be Continued