The next day...
Adam was all bundled up and had the puppies ready to test out the dog sled. Talon came out and decided to watch the group.
"Alright, we're ready." Patch said.
"Alright, guys, let's try it out, let's go!" Adam commanded the dogs. "Come on, Mush!"
The puppies hooked up to the sled then moved with him to do a test run with their brand new sled.
"And away we go!" Colette called out.
Adam laughed and cheered as he enjoyed this as much as the puppies did. During their test run, a certain dog sled team saw fadst they were going.
"And nine puppies become one," Talon smiled. "Their work here is almost done."
"Sacre bleu!" Francois yelped. "Did you see that?!"
"Oh, uh, I was busy watching the puppy sled team." Felipe replied stupidly.
"You idiot, I was talking about the puppy sled team!" Francois glared. "They were moving pretty fast."
"Come on!" Adam cheered for his team as they took him across the snowy slopes with ease.
"Wahoo!" Colette smiled.
"We were a pretty good team," Patch narrated. "But we knew we couldn't stay long. We could never forget about the ones who we were separated from back home where our hearts were."
"So, the next night was it the same or did something tragic happen?" Scruffy asked.
"Well, Adam still wanted to be in the race, but his father still refused." Patch sighed softly.
"That's not fair!" Snow White pouted. "Why should Adam be excluded when he wasn't even in that accident?!"
"Yeah!" Dot added.
"I know, but it was just his rules..." Patch sighed himself.
"You should've bit him, Dad." Scruffy grinned darkly.
"Scruffy!?" Colette gasped.
"Sorry, Mom." Scruffy smiled nervously then.
"Anyway, continue" Snow White said.
"So, that night, Adam broke open his piggy bank..." Patch began back onto the story.
Adam then just did that with a hammer and shared a knowing look with Shasta.
Meanwhile...
Cherry and Drell started to poke each other and looked like immature siblings fighting each other now.
"Stop fighting each other or else I'll make you both stop!" Atticus glared.
"He started it!" Cherry growled.
"No, you did!" Drell growled back.
"WE WILL TURN OURSELVES AROUND!" Mo threatened like a hostile mother.
"How does that makes any sense?" Cherry and Drell asked.
"Don't judge me..." Mo glowered.
Cherry and Drell kept walking.
Drell put his finger in his mouth and snuck his finger into Cherry's ear. "Boop."
"THAT'S IT!" Cherry yelled and tackled him onto the ground and started to beat him up.
"Cherry, stop." Drell said.
"Why, cuz it hurts?" Cherry scoffed.
"No, it tickles." Drell smirked.
"Tickles?! How is me beating you up not hurting you?!" Cherry glared.
"I guess you're just too wussy." Drell smirked.
Cherry growled and tackled him. "Get out of my face, I'm claustrophobic!"
"Is that so?" Drell grinned darkly.
"Uh-oh..." Cherry's eyes widened.
"That's it!" Atticus glared before dragging Drell away from Cherry.
Cherry stood up and straightened herself out. "Jerk..."
Drell began to wince in pain from Atticus's grip.
"Now, I know you don't like each other, but if you wanna stay, you two are gonna learn how to get along." Atticus glared to the warlock.
"Yes, sir..." Drell struggled.
"Serves you right." Cherry mocked Drell.
'And Cherry, I don't want you teasing him either." Atticus then looked to his best friend.
"Huh?" Cherry asked in surprise.
"You heard me." Atticus said firmly.
"What did I do?!" Cherry asked.
"Cherry, this is just as your fault as it is Drell's!" Mo scolded the perky goth. "I know he picks on you and tortures you all the time, but you keep testing his patience to make him act up!"
"It's true." Drell said.
"You're blaming me too?" Cherry sounded like she felt bad.
"It's your fault just as much as it is Drell's," Mo said. "You're lucky that Atticus doesn't send you guys to a desert island and doesn't let you guys stay there until you learn how to get along with each other."
"Yeah." Atticus said.
Cherry and Drell looked to each other.
"Say, that's not a bad idea..." Atticus said.
"Uh, I'm sure Mo was just kidding, Atticus!" Cherry smiled nervously.
"Yeah!" Drell agreed.
"Was I?" Mo folded her arms.
"Come on, let's not do something we'll regret..." Cherry smiled nervously to Atticus. "Look at this face, aren't I too cute to send away on a desert island with a brutish ogre man?"
"What you call me?!" Drell glared.
"See what I mean?" Cherry smiled nervously.
"Okay..." Atticus smirked darkly which could rival King Sombra himself. "We'll look for the dogs and YOU TWO learn how to get along!"
"No, no, please, no!" Cherry begged. "Don't leave me alone with him!"
"Please, please, please don't leave me alone with her!" Drell begged.
Atticus had enough of them and sent them away.
"Oh, Dad, you didn't!" Akito hiccuped.
"I did..." Atticus replied as he remembered that.
"Why?" Estelle asked.
"I thought it'd teach them a lesson..." Atticus folded his arms. "And, it actually did."
"Cool." Vincent said.
"Your Aunt Cherry may be scary now, but she used to be kind of annoying..." Atticus smiled sheepishly. "Don't tell her I said that though."
"Our lips are sealed." The kids, Pokemon, Snow White, and pups said.
Atticus laughed weakly.
Back in the story...
Atticus, Mo, Buddy, and Molly were walking around town and spotted the sheriff's station.
"Let's go see if the sheriff's seen them." Mo suggested.
"I sure hope so." Scamp said.
The two teenagers and the dogs decided to go check in the station. Along the way, they passed a boy and his own dog.
Francois gave an evil eye to the Buddies, Colette, Patch, and Oddball and decided to have a little word with them since they were all alone.
"Everyone, get behind me, we've got company." Patch told them as he stood firmly towards a familiar dog.
The others then did as said, knowing that would be a very good idea.
"Hi there, Adam, what can I do for ya?" the sheriff asked the boy who came in while Atticus and Mo decided to wait their turn.
"I, uh, am here to sign up for the race." Adam handed a paper over to the man.
The old man began to think Adam was signing his father up for the race. "Oh, your old man's coming out of retirement?" he asked out of excitement at first. "Alright, that is just the best news-"
Adam tried to explain, but didn't get a chance to.
"You can consider him already signed up!" the sheriff smiled. "I mean done and done!"
"No, no, it's for-" Adam tried again.
But unfortunately, Adam couldn't get a word out to him. Adam felt like giving up.
"Bonjour, my little friends." Francois smiled darkly to the puppies.
"What do you want?" Patch growled.
"Aren't you as beautiful as the yellow snow?" Francois replied. "I just came by to wish you luck."
"I know the reason why you came here, Francois, it was just to try and scare us, well, it won't work," Patch growled. "I saw that look in your eyes before you came over here."
"Oh, you're all just brave to race after the horrible thing that happened to Shasta's parents." Francois insisted.
"What are you talking about?" Patch growled, getting up close to Francois.
"Horrible?" B-Dawg shuddered in fear.
"They were crossing the frozen lake on the home stretch of the race," Francois explained. "The ice broke and Shasta's parents perished. The whole family is cursed."
"Cursed?" B-Dawg repeated nervously.
"You don't scare us, you big bully!" Oddball glared.
"And we don't believe in curses, so you better go back to your sled team before I starting beating the crud out of you." Patch threatened Francois.
"Yeah, right, of course!" B-Dawg agreed with Patch to sound tough.
"Yeah, right, of course not, anyways, bon chance!" Francois called before laughing mockingly.
"I swear, the next time I see that dog, I am going to make sure he doesn't torment anyone else." Patch growled.
Adam and Shasta came out of the sheriff's office then.
"That's scary." Budderball commented about Francois's story. "What if something like that happens to us?"
"Scary? Pshaw!" B-Dawg scoffed. "B-Dawg is all about the scary!"
"Shh, here he comes." Rosebud said to the others.
"So are we in?" Patch asked Adam.
"Well, more or less..." Adam replied.
The Buddies whimpered slightly, a little nervous because of what Francois told them.
"Don't let his story get to you." Patch whispered.
"Come on, let's go!" Oddball told her friends and uncle.
"Agreed." Colette nodded.
With that, they then moved out, little did they know, their humans and parents were coming for them.