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After stacking all of the chairs and putting them all up, Max, Lucas and Brandon all went over to the skelliton man, who was tending to some grey hulla hoops, while Moose and Clark's dogs rested on the ground.
"We're all through, mister." Said Max.
"Oh. Nice going." Said the skeleton man. He reached into his pocket and got out some money. "Here, kid, here's 103 dollars. Go buy yourself and your friends ice-cream cones."
"Oh, we don't want any ice-cream cones, you promised to show us some tricks." Said Max.
"Look, kid, the doc went out for lunch. If he comes back and finds me playing around, i'll get a pink slip handed to me." Said the skeleton man.
"But you promised." Said Lucas.
"I know, i know, but i don't have time." Said the skeleton man.
"Just one trick. Jumping through the ring of fire." Said Brandon.
"Are you kidding? You wanna get your friend's brother's dogs burned up?" Said the skeleton man.
"Moose can do it." Said Max.
"Boy, it takes a year to train a dog to do that, it's not easy. Here, take the money." Said the skeleton man.
"No, i don't want it. Please, mister, i'll bet Moose can do it. Let him try." Max pleaded.
"Boy, you sure bet hard. Alright, call him over here." Said the skeleton man.
"Come on, Moose." Said Max.
Moose and the other dogs got up and went over to where the humans were.
"I'll show you how to make him sit up and beg." Said the skeleton man.
"He can do that. Watch. Moose, sit." Said Max.
Moose sat.
"Sit up and beg." Said Lucas.
The six week old Dalmatian sat up and begged.
"There." Said Max.
"Alright. How would you like to have him learn how to limp like he broke his leg?" Said the skeleton man.
"He can do that too. Come on, Moose, limp. Come on." Said Brandon.
Moose then started limping as he walked.
"See? But i want him to learn jumping through the ring of fire so i can show my brother and his girlfriend." Said Max.
"There's not enough time to teach him that, it's too tough." Said the skeleton man.
"Oh, you don't have to teach him, all you have to do is tell him." Said Max.
"Alright, alright." Said the skeleton man. He sat the other two hulla hoops up against the wall and went over to a small table, follow by Max, Lucas, Brandon and the five dogs. He picked up a paintbrush and dipped it in a bowl of gas and brushed it around the hoop. "Are you sure you wanna do this?"
"Sure i'm sure." Said Max.
"Okay. It's your brother's girlfriend's dog and her funeral." Said the skeleton man. "Bring him over there."
"Come on, Moose." Said Lucas. He, Max, Brandon and the dogs walked over to the left side and stood there and watched as the skeleton man got out a lighter.
"Now you three get over here." Said the skeleton man.
"Stay, Moose. Stay." Said Max. The 12 year old and the two orphans and the four dogs walked over to where the skeleton man was.
"I'm gonna light the hoop. When it gets burnning good, you call him. But he'll shy away because dogs dont like fire." Said the skeleton man.
"Actually, all animals are afraid of fire." Said Lucas.
"Not the time, Lucas." Said Brandon.
The skeleton man then used the lighter to light the hoop on fire.
Dr. Skullier entered into the tent just in time to see the show.
"Alright, call him." Said the skeleton man.
"Come on, Moose." Said Max.
Moose then ran and jumped through the firey hoop and came out on the other side with no burns.
"Good boy. Good boy, Moose." Said Max as he, Lucas and Brandon patted the six week old pup.
"See, i told you he could do it." Said Max.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Asked Dr. Skullier as he walked up to the group.
"Smart dog the kids' got. It went right through the hoop. The first time." Said the skeleton man.
"I saw it. How much do you want for the pup, son?" Asked Dr. Skullier.
"How about that 103 dollars?" Said the skeleton man.
"For Moose?" Asked Max.
"Yeah. Okay?" Said the skeleton man.
"Oh, Moose isn't my dog, my brother and i are just looking after him while his owner's at work for the day. And even if Moose was my dog, i wouldn't sell him for anything." Said Max.
"I'll make it 110." Said Dr. Skullier.
"Uh, no, thank you." Said Max before turnning to the others. "I guess we better get going. Come on."
"Wait a minute." Said Dr. Skullier. "How about 111 dollars?"
"Take it, kid. You and your brother can buy a new pup for his girlfriend and have more left over." Said the skeleton man.
"How did you know that Moose's owner was a girl?" Max asked.
"You just told me. Now come on. Do we have a deal?" Said the skeleton man.
"No, thanks. Bye." Said Max.
"Last chance." Said Dr. Skullier.
"No." Said Max. He, Lucas, Brandon, Moose and Clark's four dogs left out of the tent, leaving the two skeleton men behind.
"Too bad. That's one cute and smart dog the boss is paying us to nab." Said the skeleton man.
"Follow them. If the pup wonders off...maybe we can get him for nothing from the kids." Said Dr. Skullier.
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In her office, Cruella was recording her voice on the recorder of her phone, with her dog, Fluffy, sitting on her glass desk.
"Cruella De ViL..."
"#Is not avalible to take your call.#" Said a female british voice on the answering machine as Ellen entered Cruella's office and walked up to her desk. The blond woman pressed the off button on the phone, turnning it off.
"What are you doing?" Asked Cruella.
"Look, with all due respect, you might as well just say "hi, i'm Cruella De ViL, and i don't care if i ever hear from you again." Said Ellen. "Miss De ViL, people want to know who they're calling. Don't you want to show some personality?"
"I just want to tell people to leave a message after the tone." Said Cruella.
"It's really more of a beep." Said Ellen. "Look, i wanted to stop by and talk about Lois."
"Pretty good, huh? She's really getting some extra exposure." Said Cruella.
"Yeah, at who's expense?" Said Ellen.
"What are you talking about?" Asked Cruella before getting out of her chair and walking up to Ellen.
"I'm just saying that the other girls might be getting a little jealous." Said Ellen.
"That is so like you, Ellen. Always trying to imagin the worst. Trust me. Everyone here is thrilled about Lois." Said Cruella.
The doors to Cruella's office slid open and in came Amber and China.
"Miss De ViL, come quickly! Lois's T.V. interview is starting!" Said Amber in excitment.
"See?" Said Cruella.
"Wanna a spitball? We're aiming them at Lois's head on T.V." Said China.
Ellen looked at Cruella.
"Maybe they're good luck spitballs." Said Cruella. She walked back over to her desk, picked up Fluffy, exited her office with Ellen.
Outside her office, Cruella, Ellen, Mia, Amber, China, Shanice and all of the other girls were gathered around the flat screen T.V., watching Lois's interview, who was sitting on a furry purple couch with a woman.
"It's great to be here on De ViL T.V. Too bad it's not called Info T.V. or i might have missed work." Said Lois before laughing.
"She's doing great. She's being casual, friendly, funny, the Lois we know and admire." Said Cruella.
"I know...this stinks." Said China.
"Oh, come on, girls, we're all in this together." Said Cruella.
"Really? Cause i don't see me on T.V. anywhere." Said Amber.
"No, i never thought i'd be where i am now. I was happy being a total normal person, like my friends at the House Of De ViL." Said Lois.
"A total normal? Only partially normal." Said China.
"That wasn't so great." Said Ellen.
"Well, it could've been worse." Said Cruella.
"Are the staff and employees treating me differently? Are you kidding me? I'm more popular than Elvis Presley. But, i promise to use my fame for good. I'm gonna start by explaining to the staff and all of my friends at the House Of De ViL who Elvis is." Said Lois.
"But not worse than that." Said Ellen.
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Max, Lucas, Brandon and the five dogs walked through the carnival and soon came to a stop when they reached a stand where a man was sailing funnel cakes.
"Get your funnel cakes here." Said the british man behind the stand.
Max got out some money and paid the man.
The man gave each of the three kids a powdered funnel cake on a white plastick plate.
The kids and the dogs then continued onward through the carnival, unaware that they were being followed.
The skelliton man came to the stand where the kids and the dogs had been and continued following after them. He soon came to a stop when he saw the children and the dogs walk up to a young man playing at the shooting gallery, trying to win a prize.
"Look, Clark, we got some funnel cakes." Said Max.
"Good for you." Said Clark, not taking his eyes off the target he was aiming for in the shooting gallery.
"How are you doing?" Asked Lucas.
"Alright. I'm just about to win this game." Said Clark.
"How many times have you played it?" Asked Brandon.
"13." Said Clark.
"You lost at all of them?" Asked Max in disbelief.
"Run along, will you? I've gotta keep my mind on the game." Said Clark.
"Okay, but we're gonna leave Moose and the others here, because we wanna go in the snake pit, and they don't allow dogs. Is it alright?" Said Max.
"What?" Asked Clark, still focusing on the game.
"We're leaving the dogs here." Said Max.
"Yeah, yeah." Said Clark.
Max looked at Moose and the other dogs. "Stay, guys. Now stay with Clark." He turned to Lucas and Brandon. "Come on, you guys."
Lucas and Brandon followed Max as they all walked away.
Moose watched the kids as they walked off. Then he looked around at the crowd and saw that no one was watching. He looked at Rex, Lassie, Jake and Foster and saw that they were now standing near the shooting gallery where their owner was and saw that Clark was way too into the game to pay attention to him. The six week old puppy saw this as his chance to put the rest of his plan into motion. "The kids are gone...no one's looking...the Lois stealer and his dogs are distracted." Moose then began to slowly back away. "I'm going...i'm going...going...gone." The Dalmatian then ran off through the carnival, without Clark and his dogs even noticing. After running a few miles away, the puppy stopped in his tracks and looked back to see that there was no one following him. "Yay! That was easier than i thought it would be! I don't know why i didn't think of this sooner! Boy, just wait till Lois finds out about this. She's gonna be so mad she'll never want to see or talk to Clark or hear his voice ever again."
Just then, a small Bar B Q sausage landed in front of Moose.
"Ooh, suasage." Said Moose before eating it. The six week old pup then heard whistling up ahead and looked and saw the skelliton man from earlier holding a sausage in his hand. "Ooh, yum. Seconds." The Dalmatian ran up to the skeleton man and he dropped the sausage on the ground in front of him and the Dalmatian began to eat it. As the puppy chowed down, the skeleton man got out a red bandanna and tide it around the pup's snout, picked him up in his arms and walked off with him.
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The elevator doors opened and Lois stepped out, only to freeze in her tracks when she saw that someone had drawn a beard and mustash on her cutout board picture.
"Hey!" Said Lois before running over to Amber and China. "Someone has defaced an icon."
"That is so wrong." Said Amber, pretending to care. And she was clearly doing a very poor job of it.
"Yeah...you're not nearly mature enough to grow a mustash." Added China.
Lois left her two friends behind and walked up to Cruella. "What is their problem?"
"I think it's you, darling." Said Cruella.
"Me? Why?" Asked Lois.
"I guess they took that "total normal person" the wrong way." Said Cruella.
"Come on, i was just trying to be a good guest. They know that, right?" Said Lois.
"See for yourself." Said Cruella.
Lois turned to see Amber and China each tearing up her magazine and throwing it in the trash.
"They hate me." Said Lois.
"Hate is a strong word. It acurate, but it's strong." Said Cruella.
"But it's not my fault. I didn't ask to be on that cover or on T.V. or have a smoothy named after me." Said Lois.
"Look, Lois, you can't control the public's oppenion, but you can control how you behave in front of the public." Said Cruella.
"That would have been good to know before i grew a mustash and a beard." Said Lois. "Do you think that any of the staff heard what i said on T.V.?" Lois was then hit in the back of the head with a magazine.
"Yeah. I think they heard." Said Cruella before walking off.
Lois turned to see a group of angry staff members glairing at her. Among them were Shanice and the woman who had taken a picture with her and asked for her autograph. She ripped the magazine into and she and the others walked towards Lois armed with cups of the Lois smoothy. Lois took off through the room with the angry staff members chasing after her.
"Don't let her get away!" Said one of the british women.
Amber and China laughed as they watched the angry staff members chase Lois.
"You can run but you can't hide!" Added Shanice as she and the others chased after Lois.
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Back at the carnival, Max, Lucas and Branden came back to the shooting gallery where Clark and his four dogs were. Only to see that Moose was nowhere around.
"Clark, where's Moose?" Asked Max.
"Not now, Max." Said Clark, still focused on the game.
Max looked at Lucas and Brandon. "Come on." He and the two boys and Clarks dogs went off in search of the missing Dalmatian puppy.
"Moose?!" Max called out.
"Moose!" Called Lucas.
"Moose!" Brandon called.
The kids and the dogs looked and looked and looked, but there was still no sign of Moose. They all then ran back to the shooting gallery where Clark was.
"Clark," Began Max. "Moose is gone. We've looked all over and can't find him."
"Well, where did you see him last?" Asked Clark, facing the group.
"We left him here with you." Said Lucas.
"But i told him to stay. You know he wouldn't go anywhere if i told him to stay." Said Max.
"Well, we can take a look." Said Clark.
"What about the game?" Asked the man.
Clark and the kids and the dogs walked off away from the stand and went in search of Moose.
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At the House Of De ViL, inside the room outside Cruella's office, Amber and China gazed upon Lois's cutout board and saw that someone had drawn horns, an arrow and big ears on it.
"Wow, China. Running for president of i hate Lois fanclub?" Said Amber.
"I didn't do this, but i sure admire the art work. Very graphic." Said China.
"Thanks." Came a voice from behind.
Amber and China turned to see Lois covered in a pink substance.
"I did it myself." Said Lois.
"You defaced your own face?" Asked Amber. "By the way, what is all over you?"
"That would be a Lois smoothy." Said Lois. "I decided to give my cover girl image a make-over. I'm sorry for what i said on T.V. I guess all of that attention messed with my head. And for what it's worth...i was trying to be funny."
"Good one." Said Amber.
"Maybe us little normal designers were a little bit jealous. Right, Amber?" Added China.
"Well...perhaps i was a little envy green. Which is a great color for me, by the way." Said Amber.
"Let's go to the De ViL Cafe. I guess drinks are on you. Get it? Drinks are on you?" China said before laughing.
"China," Lois reached into her pocket and got out a piece of folded up paper. "I have a list of 27 face crack jokes. Do not make me use them."
"Let's get you cleaned up." Said China.
Lois handed Amber the piece of folded up paper as all three girls headed for the elevator.
Amber unfolded the paper and viewed the jokes that were written on them. "These are hillarious. What time does China get up? At the crack of dawn." She read as she, Lois and China entered into the elevator. "LOL. China, read this one." The glass doors to the glass elevator closed and it took the girls down to the next floor.
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