Chapter 3! This story seems to be going by pretty well. Nothing interesting has happened yet but I promise we'll get there. I think I might start doing Chapters every 6 days until we get somewhere interesting. Besides that Hope y'all enjoy!
Zuma and Marshall are in the living room grunting and straining to see who can last longer in their staring challenge. "Give up Zuma, all you do is stare at the TV, you won't win." Marshall said trying to get under his skin and make him surrender
Zuma wasn't having it, he's held his eyes open in the water for 3 minutes. A little bit of air won't hurt. "In youw dreams fire boy. Gonna have to close these eyes when I'm dead." Zuma cockily replied.
Across the room Luna is walking back and forth as if something is coming. Zuma and Marshall would ask but neither of them want to submit their 5 minute long battle.
Out in the backyard the girls and Arrby sat under a tree talking about girl things. "So, how's the dating life? You two seem like a married couple at this point." Skye asked as she laid back and picked at grass. She was thinking about her time with Chase and wondered is it could go any further which led her fantasizing herself with every member on the team including the girls. The pups weren't against the lgbtq community besides Rubble who was arguably the most immature.
Catherine shrugged. "Arrby is the bestest of boyfriends, nobody could top him." She replies and looks over to Arrby. He blows her a kiss and she pretends to take it.
The other pups were doubting Catherine's statement. "I doubt Arrby is THE best boyfriend out of all the boys on the team. I could see literally everyone else but Rubble being a better boyfriend." Ash replies. Catherine snapped her head towards Ash. She gave her a death glare and lowly growled. "Don't talk down to him again or else I swear it'll be the last thing you'll say." She angrily says. Tuck, Skye and Ash looked at each other and wondered if they should be worried about her attitude. Ash submissively nodded which sorta pushed one of Ella's buttons. "You should take that back." Ella suggested to the clearly mad Weiner dog.
Catherine scoffed. "Or what? You gonna snitch?" She teased.
Ella thought of something to say without causing violence. "You're the one who's trying to compare people on the team! So what if Ash thinks Arrby isn't the best boyfriend. No need for you to get all sensitive." Ella said which really was an understatement of how Catherine is acting.
Catherine's face looked offended. Never had anyone said something bad about her. She wasn't about to let it slide the first time.
In the lookout Marshall cheered and rapidly blinked his eyes and Zuma groaned knowing he lost a very important battle. Chase and Rubble walked down the stairs. Chase was listening to Rubble talk about comic books while he thought about how every boat was out of gas. He 100% didn't believe that it was dumb luck. "What's so exciting?" Chase asks the dancing Dalmatian to try and take his mind off it.
Marshall made sure Zuma could heard him. "I beat him in a staring contest." Marshall replies in a painfully loud tone. Chase nodded losing his interest in whatever they were doing. He could see Luna pacing back and forth and gave a quick thought about asking her what's wrong but he would simply get ignored or insulted so he put it off.
Rubble tapped his shoulder. Chase looked behind him. "I don't think that's good." Rubble sheepishly said as he pointed outside.
Chase's eyes widened as he could barely make out two of the pups scarily close to eachother. "I wanna go!" Zuma exclaimed as he got up and ran to the door.
Chase stopped and looked Zuma in his stressed red eyes. "No, you're going to say something dumb." Chase ordered.
Zuma had a solid plan in his head. "How will you make me not go?" He asked. It was either Chase makes sure he doesn't leave or Chase ignores him and he can follow. "Marshall! Rubble! Can you two grab Zuma!?!" Chase exclaims not having the time for this as Ella and Catherine seem to be ramping up the situation
Zuma had to change his plan quick. He tried to get past Chase but fails miserably. Before he can even rethink Marshall is on top of him and Chase is out the door.
He could see that Ella and Catherine were face to face putting paws on each other. He didn't doubt that if that went on any longer teeth would've been shown. As he's walking Ella notices him and takes her paw off of Catherine. Soon Catherine notices and follows suit.
Chase wasn't mad he was just...frustrated that something like this could happen. "What were you two thinking? Tracker and Everest will be here any minute and you two are trying to rip each other apart?!?" Chase asked in a condescending tone. They both lowered their heads a little bit knowing there was no way out of this one.
"I would've loved to see that happen." A voice said. It was one that they haven't heard from in a long time.
Chase turned around and felt a little embarrassed. "I would've smelled your scent a long time ago but something happened here." Chase said explaining the situation. Next to the familiar person was Luna. Chase kept a blank expression. He heard one of them move causing his ear to slightly twitch to the sound. "Whoever moved don't move again." He ordered.
Chase continued in a somewhat annoyed tone."Well I'm sure you'll find company inside of the lookout." Chase said offering their hospitality. Everest nodded and walked inside.
Chase turned back around and looked at everyone and let out a brief sigh. "Why were you two fighting?"
Everyone quickly looked to Catherine. She looked back at them and rolled her eyes. Chase was going speak against when he felt a touch. Luna pulled him aside. Chase was shocked by this action. "I know we don't talk much but you should let them figure this out on their own." She suggested. Chase already regretted her talking.
"They won't get anything done on their own. Catherine will get all aggressive. You know how her and Arrby are." Chase replied in a low annoyed tone.
Luna rolled her eyes. "That's the problem with you. You're to bossy over everyone. Now with the chief status you'll just become another annoying leader" Luna replied as she turned around. Chase was taken away by her sudden aggression.
He didn't a solid comeback for what she just said."You can be as rude as you want and as mean as you want but with or without the role of chief I'll still be doing the same thing!" Chase tried to yell as far as he could hoping for a small reaction from Luna but he got nothing. He grunted and stomped away.
The girls all looked at each other. "Truce?" Ella asked putting a paw up. "Definitely." Catherine accepted as they both shook paws.
On the inside of the lookout on a higher floor a mix breed looked onto the computer. He was researching about a big place known as Barkingburg. It had a dirty beach that could use some cleaning up but the the main attraction to him was the royal family. They only had one daughter and a ton of pets. 3 cats and 1 dog. Rocky was interested in their dog. He read an article on how smart their small white terrier is. Her name is Sweetie and she was at the age of 4 which made things even better since she was his age. He found another article on the royal family and started to read it. The more he read the more he wanted to just see her. Not once has he met a dog as smart as him.
"Wocky." A voice called out.
Rocky snapped out of his trance and shut the computer which concerned Zuma. "Bwo...please don't tell me you were not just beating youw meat." Zuma said in disgust. His dad always said him that was a low move and to never to do it.
Rocky looked at him and nervously chuckled. "I wasn't! If I did I would've grabbed some supplies." Rocky said being brutally honest with him. Zuma gagged. "Too much info. Evewest is hewe by the way...cweep." Zuma informed mumbling that last part under his breath. "E-Everest?" Rocky asked.
Zuma nodded and walked down the stairs. Rocky was nervous because they never really talk to the outer members of the PAW Patrol and not once spoke to another PAW Patrol team. They've only seen Everest maybe 3 times in the past year and they've never seen Tracker at all.
Rocky made his way to the living room and saw a mess of dogs. Away from the mess were the more mature pups like Marshall and Chase. Luna was away from them as well. He could see everyone surrounding a husky who was taller than all of them besides Ash. Rocky decided to go see what Marshall and Chase were up to.
"Why aren't you two choking Everest?" Rocky asked.
Chase tilted his head. "Why would I cho-
-dude it's a synonym. Figuratively speaking ya know? Nobody would choke anybody. Jeez you're not very smart." Chase was going to object but that would help prove Rocky's point. He continued. "I meant why aren't you two surrounding Everest?" He asked.
Chase looked at the mosh pit. "As much as I would love to talk I wouldn't even get a chance. Plus She seems to be doing fine." Chase replied.
Rocky and Marshall looked over and saw something completely different. "Maybe you should go split up the group over there. Everest looks kinda worried and overwhelmed." Marshall suggested. "Yeah you need some glasses." Rocky added.
Chase rolled his eyes. "I don't need glasses but I will go split everyone up." Chase said.
Marshall and Rocky saw Luna walk past them and intercept Chase. "That can't be good." Marshall whispered to Rocky. Rocky agreed and sat down to watch it unfold.
"I'm not doing this again." Chase instantly said and tried to walk past her.
She blocked him. Chase tried to go the other way and yet again he was blocked. "Can you move?" Chase asked trying the kind route.
"Maybe let them have their time with Everest." Luna suggested.
"No...She needs her space. I'm not gonna ask again." Chase angrily replied. Luna stood her ground.
Chase exhaled and walked straight forward pushing Luna out of the way. She growled and jumped onto Chase. Chase let it happen and didn't fight it. Everyone stopped their commotion. "Come on! Why stop now!" Chase yelled into her face in anger. She didn't move. Chase looked over to everyone who looked worried. "Well...guess I'm stuck right her. Can you guys give Everest some space?" Chase said to everyone else.
They all moved away from Everest. Marshall walks over to her and decided to give her a tour of the lookout.
"What wrong with you? Never mind." Chase said stopping himself. He slowly pushed Luna off and got up.
Rocky walked over and patted Chases back. "Everyone loses the fight." He comforted. Chase looked at him dead in the eyes. "I didn't lose. Now she looks like the bad guy and I'm gonna be fine." Chase replied. Rocky nodded in approval of the smart plan.
Marshall and Everest walked around the lookout looking at the pup houses. "What was all that stuff? With Chase and Luna?" Everest asked.
Marshall thought about the answer. He didn't want to throw anyone under the bus because he doesn't know the full story. "So ever since Luna the newer members have been quite mean. Luna, Catherine, and Arrby. I don't know their part of the story so don't go and do anything. Luna despises everyone but Arrbt, Cath, Rubble and some others. the most and ever since he got promoted she's been extra annoying like hampering Chase with helping everyone." Marshall explained.
Everest tilted her head. "You can get promoted?" She asked.
Marshall tilted his head. "Well only one pup can get picked and it was obviously Chase. When Ryder isn't here he's the boss. Also known as Chief. Technically you're a chief since you're the only one up on the mountain." Marshall said. Everest nervously chuckled as if she was hiding something. Marshall shrugged it off and continued their walk.
Marshall saw a rock he could kick for fun. "How far do you think i can kick that rock?" He asked as they got closer.
Everest instantly replied. "Not very far since you have four legs."
Marshall ignored her negative comment and went for the kick which caused Everest to giggle.
He failed miserably and fell over onto his back. Everest started to completely laugh at the miss. "Nice one!" She said as she continues to laugh. Marshall groaned and slowly got up. "It got lucky." He said.
Once they finally circled back around they saw 3 people and and chihuahua walk out of a blue pickup truck. Everest ran to them and instantly started to jump around. Marshall could make out two of them. Ryder and Jake.
He trotted over to see who they were. "Ah Marshall! I'm sure you know that we have Tracker and Carlos visiting for the party right?" Ryder asked. Marshall put it together and realized it was them. Tracker was a lot more...different than he imagined. "Wow you're smaller than expected. Those ears have use though right?" Marshall questions analyzing the chihuahua the size of Skye. Tracker nodded. "I've been practicing English for the moment. Excuse me if it's not the best." Tracker said.
Marshall didn't want him to have to worry about speaking a new language. "I'm sure one of the twins speaks Spanish... and French for some reason. And Chase speaks a little bit of German...anyways Nice to meet you." Marshall said holding out a paw. Tracker accepted it and they walked inside.
A lot of the pups were anxiously sitting down waiting to talk to the new people. They were even more surprised when Tracker and Carlos walked into. Chase was the first to take stand to make sure nobody got to ahead of themselves. "Welcome!" He said trying to keep it simple knowing about it his foreign background. He moved out the way for the pups to show themselves. "I'm Skye this teams pilot." Skye said knowing her introduction would be useful.
"Im Ella and this is my Twin Tuck. We can speak Spanish if that's any easier for you. We also know French which is kinda useless." Ella said. Tuck groaned in annoyance. He was supposed to Finish the other half of that. "Sorry, next time. I got carried away." Ella sheepishly said. Tuck rolled his eyes and let it slide.
Tracker realized all 13 of them were going to do this and had to stop it. "I've done my research. I know who you all are." Tracker said.
Ryder walked outside with Carlos and Jake. "The party is in two days. Do you two need anything?" Ryder asked.
"I'm okay, I just think it's good for Everest to finally meet people like her for a good while." Jake said. "What he said." Carlos said. Ryder nodded and walked back inside. The pups naturally split into two groups with the boys being more interested in tracker and the girls interested in Everest. It was clear the boys were more mature. Ryder was certain if Chase or Marshall weren't there they would be acting like the girls. About the girls, they were very close and didn't give Everest much room to do much. Ryder expected Jake to go help her but he let it happen. "Wanna go have a grown ups time out? Me, you, Carlos, and Katie?" Ryder asked.
Jake shrugged. He was down for anything that. He was very much like Zuma. He has a natural talent for anything that included a board. Surfing, skateboard, and snowboarding. The three left without anyone noticing.
Rubble was blocked by the other males because of his smaller size. He started to get a little frustrated. He wanted to ask if Tracker was into things he was.
He slowly backs up like a bull before charging. He waited for an opening.
Zuma is waiting for his turn to talk when all of a sudden he on the floor and dazed. He groaned and lifted his head to see Rubble standing where he was. "Do you like comic books?" Rubble asked as soon as he got into their circle
Tracker quickly turned his head. "I love comic books!" He replied forgetting about Chase, Tuck, Rocky, and Marshall. They slowly started to walk away leaving them behind. They all shrugged and did their own thing.
Zuma notices Rocky quickly walking back upstairs to do whatever he was doing before. Zuma mentally debated if he wanted to see what he was doing.
He followed his footprints up the stairs and went into the room he was in.
The wall behind Rocky has a mirror on it. He could barely see that he wasn't doing anything gross. But he was reading something that had to do with a crown. Zuma walked in and confronted him.
"Watch reading?" Zuma says as he bursts through the door. Rocky jumps up. "You nearly gave me a heart attack. *sigh* it's something in barkingburg. The royal family." Rocky explains knowing there's no chance at hiding it.
Zuma nods. "What do special about them? Besides theiw woyalty." Zuma asks.
Rocky mumbled to himself a little bit. "They have this dog a-and she i-is also an genius. Like me." Rocky nervously spoke.
Zuma didn't want to be to harsh about telling him there is no chance he gonna get with a dog that is across the Pacific Ocean. "It's not gonna happen. But can you do me a favor and search up the syndicate? Chase has some suspicions about them." Zuma asked.
Rocky quickly typed in the words and many things popped up. They scrolled until they saw something that related to them.
"There! The one that says 'The new paw patrol?' Click on that." Zuma ordered.
Rocky followed and clicked on the generic. Rocky started to read it out loud since he is more qualified that Zuma to do that. "Adventure bay's PAW Patrol has sparked up a new way to save the day. All across Texas and Oklahoma a team know as the Syndicate which includes cats and dogs save the day." Rocky said. They scrolled down the page even more to see that this was made 5 years ago before the PAW Patrol was even a thing. The last edit was 4 years ago. "Okay, I'll come back for more. You can enjoy your little session." Zuma teased. Rocky sighed and couldn't help but feel embarrassed as Zuma walked out. He dropped his head on his desk and left it there to think.
Everest sat down bored to death from listening to Skye talk and Ella could clearly notice it. She sat a thought about what they could do to get everyone involved. "Pwetty bowing rwght now." Zuma said as he got to the bottom of the stairs.
Tuck and Marshall slid into Zuma and continued to do what they were doing before. Wrestling... "what if we did boys vs girls tug of war? Seems pretty fun." Tuck suggested as he struggled to stay on top of Marshall.
Ella actually found the thought useful. Now she needed a voice bigger than hers to say it.
"What happened?" Zuma groaned. He looks around and sees that Ella is gone. "Dang it." He mumbled.
Ella slowly walks towards Chase and about half way there she gets stopped. "What do you need?" Chase asked still looking out the window.
"Wow that's creepy. Could've let me get close...errr." Ella chuckled. She noticed a slight chuckle from Chase.
"Go on." He urged.
Ella realized she forgot what she was talking about in the presence of the unnecessarily serious and not very light hearted German Shepherd. "Right, so can you tell everyone to play tug of war? I think it would be a good way to...spend time together I guess." Ella explained thinking it sounded weird.
Chase shrugged. "Sure but Luna probably won't be joining us." Chase joked. Ella didn't find it funny at all.
He sighed and went to go round up everyone.
Tracker and Everest sat at the end of the line. "Since Tracker and Everest are the guests they get to be team captains." Chase quickly said as he pushed both of them in front of everyone else.
Tracker looked at Everest. "Mujeres primero" he said. Everest raised an eyebrow,
"It means ladies first." Tuck explained and rolled his eyes.
Everest was taken off guard when she finally learned what he said. "Thank you, quite the gentleman." She complimented. Tracker nodded.
Everest picked what seemed to be the best chance at winning. "I'll go with Chase." She said.
"Ay ay ay! I let you go first and you pick the best dog?" Tracker said breaking his first impression.
He scanned around for the other one and luckily she was watching from a far. "HEY! I NEED YOU ON MY TEAM! ITS ALREADY UNFAIR!" Tracker called out.
Everyone looked into the direction he called to and didn't expect her to stand up.
Their minds were quickly changed when they saw her stand up and walk towards them. "Awwe what? He gets her? I would've picked her instead." Everest complained.
Chase was going to say something when he was shushed by another pick. "I'll take Rubble." Everest said.
Skye jumped up and down to try and get Trackers attention. "I'll take Ella then."
Everest looked at the line and saw Skye desperately trying to get picked. "Skye." She quickly said.
She let out a long "awwwwe" and slowly walked to Everest's team. Chase was worried about the state of their team.
"Marshall get over here!" Tracker said hyping him up.
Chase gulped as he waited for Everest to pick their next member. "Tuck!" She called out taking the other twin.
The twins always had their love for each other but always had their competitive side. Especially when they were against each other.
"Zuma." Tracker said holding up his paw.
Zuma trotted over and high pawed him. "This looks like an easy game! We have Luna and most of the males." Marshall said stating the facts.
"Rocky!" Everest called out. Chase let out a sigh of relief knowing they have a slight chance at victory.
Rocky didn't have very hopeful eyes. "I didn't want to be on this team. It seems like an automatic L from here on out." He says as he joins Everest's team.
"Um... Chica Marshall!" Tracker called out.
Tuck sighed knowing he had to translate again. "Ash he means you!" Tuck exclaimed.
She trotted over knowing they've already won.
All that was left was Arrby and Catherine. Tracker obviously picked Arrby since he was slightly bigger than Catherine.
Rocky pawed his face knowing it would be a quick loss. They outnumbered them with bigger dogs 5 to 4 and even their smaller dog were bigger than their smaller dogs. Then he decided to do some thinking. "Alright team huddle up!" Rocky exclaimed. Then he realized he wasn't the greatest at being a leader. "Right so Chase, you're the strongest in our team so you go on the back to use all your strength. Skye you're in front of him. I'll assume I'm strong than Everest so I'll be in the front. Tuck you're behind me. Rubble you're behind Tuck and Everest, you're behind tuck. Everyone got that? It's the best way to maximize our strength...I think." Rocky Rocky explained. Everyone nodded and broke the huddle. They got into their positions. "Finally!" Ash exclaimed.
"PULL!" Chase exclaimed.
All at once everyone pulled as hard as they could. Everest's team noticed they weren't going towards the middle but were actually pulling them back. "We have more power than them! Pull harder!" Marshall exclaimed.
Once Marshall said that he got into a pulling rhythm with Ash and Ella. The rest slowly caught and Everest's teams lead slowly dwindled away.
Soon enough their lead turned into nothing and now they had to catch up but it was too late. The heavy tugs were quickly gaining ground for Trackers team and soon enough Rocky passed the middle mark.
Marshall huffed. "Why was that so difficult?" He asked as he fell over.
Rocky did the same. "Spread out our strength evenly." He lazily replied and huffed.
Most of the pups fell over and did the same.
When Ryder, Carlos, and Jake got back they were confused on where everyone was. "Are they okay?" Jake asked as he looked out a window revealing the back of the lookout. Ryder and Carlos joined him and shrugged. "They're probably tired. Pretty nice to see them like that though." Ryder replied.
Carlos nodded and Jake smiled. There was something he wanted to inform Ryder about but it felt to late already. He turned down the thought to see if Everest could muster up enough strength to ask him. For now he sat back with Carlos and Ryder and watched some good ol' Simpsons.