CHAPTER 9 A ROYAL WELCOME

THE STORY IS GOING GOOD IT SEEMS, I NEVER EXPECTED THIS, BUT GOOD THINGS ARE GOOD THINGS, SO WITHOUT FUTHER A DO I PRESENT TO YOU THIS AND THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE SAME DAY. ONE MORE THING I THINK OR EVEN BETTER I FORSEEN THAT YOU ARE GOING TO NEED MUSIC IN THE NEXT CHAPTER, WHY? BECAUSE I'M CRAAAAAAZY! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

"Let's all agreed that Karen, Archy and Caesar can't talk to the princess!" Tratcher said out of the blue.

"WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL!? Ya can't be serious?! Explain it to us, like we were real dumb." Karen was having none of that.

"Alright here it goes. Karen you don't have a brain to handle serious conversations of the high social class! This is not any of your taverns." she replied dryly.

"OOOOH! Ya little s..." she inhaled and then exhaled, "Ok, fine ya have a point! I don't like those snob people and animals." she gobbed at the floor, almost hitting Rubble, "Hey! Please watch out! I took a bath, I'm clean." he distanced from Karen going to the back of the group.

"Archy! Listen, Honey! It's nothing personal, but you talk too fast and it's hard to understand you sometimes." her look soften, while talking to the boxer.

"No worries mate! It's understandable." he agreed it.

"And finally Caesar, you are terrible at starting, continue and finishing conversations, because of your terrible jokes." her look stayed sweet.

"Ah! Nooo, I'ma not that bad." he got the answer in the form of stares by all the Bone Crusher's crew, "Fiiiine, maybe just a little."

"You see now the reason to shut your crap, Karen. Do you need to hear it again?!" she returned with her sour tone towards Karen.

"YEAH, yeah, yeah! I get it! There is no need to rub it on my face!" she growled at the poodle.

"So everyone else can talk. I mean if you agree, Sir." she looked at Lucio.

"Fine, with Karen I see your point of view, but come on I think you are being unfair to Archy and Caesar. Por favor, please I think they can talk." Lucio nodded his head in an affirmative sign.

"It's your lucky day boys."

Everest approached Karen that was cooling off in a corner, "Hey Karen? Are you ok? I understand that you don't like her, but you cannot let her get the best over you!" the Scottish cat turned her head towards the husky, a smile popped up, then a laugh escaped from her mouth.

"Thanks lassie! But she is right if I get on politics, I have no brakes! Also I know that there will be children there so... I cannot go loose!" she tilted his head giving an embarrassed look.

"Wait, wait, wait! Hold up! Summarize it!" Everest wagged her tail of excitement.

"Well it's complicated! Do ya have time?"

"You can bet all your sweet cake I have. I mean... after we talk to the Princess." she speed up to the others, that were more ahead.

The Princess was waiting with Earl of Barkinburg and her Butler outside of the castle's front door, "Ryder, Paw Patrol! Thank you so much for coming. I see you brought some new friends. You are they?" she pointed to the newcomers.

"Oh yeah. Those are the Bone Crushers!" Ryder explained.

"Why are they with you?"

"I can take things from here!" said Lucio. He gave Ryder a gentle push to divert him, "Los recuerdos! Greetings! It's a pleasure to meet you Princess. We are a sort of mercenaries, sometimes we work for money other times we do it for free! We were on Adventure Bay when your ship crashed, thankfully the Paw Patrol helped us." he looked at every Paw Patrol member, they all felt good by helping there new friends, except one pup, Skye guilt was growing inside of her, her breath was getting heavier and heavier. When Lucio looked at her, Everest quickly cover her friend by standing in front of her. She gave a silent heave.

"Thanks!" she murmur to Everest, the response came in a form of a wink.

"It's also a pleasure to receive you at my castle, but I don't remember sending an invite to you! Earl did you send them an invite?" the Princess turn to the older man, with a curiosity look on her face.

"I'm afraid I have not! But did you really received an envelop, a pink one with lace covering all the sides?" he was crouching to better see the pup that was grabbing something out of his backpack. He pulled out a letter with the same description, has said by Earl, "HHHHHMMMM! Peculiar, it even has your team name on it, but this is the first time I ever heard of you. This is a weird mystery, the invites were only complete two days ago, then I send it to the post office!" he petted his moustache.

"So it wasn't me, it wasn't you and it wasn't anyone else, because we were the only ones that knew were the invites were hidden! So who did it?" the Princess was confused.

Everyone was dazzled and look at each other, until one pup broke the silence, it was Chase, "What about Sweetie?" he asked lifting his eyebrow.

Skye's blood freeze, in the instance Chase said the word "Sweetie", she think on the possibilities of this ruining their mission to discover what was the motive of the Bone Crushers, it couldn't fail, she had to think fast, but some pup had already do it.

"Chase." said Marshall, "I think it wasn't her, I mean the Princess said that only her and Earl knew where the envelops were hidden." he had been watching many detective series, lately, so he knew that his friend might have rushed with his accusation.

"Marshall is right!" the Princess defended the Dalmatian, "And Sweetie nowadays has been at her dog house, for long periods of time, she only got out to walk in the garden, she hasn't entered the castle for quite some time."

"Fine, but she is still the same old Sweetie, we can't fully trust her!" Chase sniffled the air, "Let's go ask her if she knows anything. That his going to resolve things, because I'm still betting that she did this!"

"How much do you bet, dude?" Zuma asked, with a very subtle smile on his face. He knew that Chase wouldn't back away from a bet.

"It's a bet you want? Alright, the loser has to do everything that the winner says and cannot refuse!" he put his paw forth, "Do you accept it?"

"Let's dive in!" the two pups shake their paws.

"Woooooh!" exclaimed Alex, while eating popcorn.

"Alex, where did you get those?" Katie asked, while scratching her head.

"Don't worry about it!" was the reply, that he gave her.

"Why don't you two go ask Sweetie if she knows something about the envelops, while we go with the Princess to the castle. Sounds good?" Ryder suggested.

The two pups nodded and jogged towards the back of the castle.

"Let's enter! So that you'll see the decorations. I'm sooo excited to show you all!" the Princess eyes shine due to the enthusiasm that she was felling.

The doors open revealing so many decorations, that it putted any other party to shame, the main room was full with balloons, ribbons and happy birthday messages. The group was walking up the stairs, when the Princess asked Ryder if he had recall on bringing pillows and sheets, "Oh! I didn't knew that we were supposed to bring that, but I got the pups sleeping backs, but for me I didn't bring anything!" he scratch the back of his head.

"I'm afraid that's my fault!" Earl admitted, the Princess gazed at him, "If you permit me, I'll explain myself, when I was about to conclude the last part of the letters, the royal kittens come bursting through the door that I thought it was closed, the Butler arrives and we spend sensibly thirty minutes trying to catch them, when we get a grasp on them he left the room with the two kittens and then I grabbed the invitations, not remembering that they were unfinished, and put them on the mail truck." he finished his narrative. Everyone was silent, "You can ask the Butler, he will confirmed the story." he pointed to the man on the "penguin suit".

"Yes! I can, I was passing the main room heading to the kitchen, when I observed the two kittens behaving in a strange way, they seemed stressed with something and rocketed to the writing room, as we here called it, in fact we only managed to obtained them when they stopped moving. I brought them to the veterinarian, but he said that everything was fine." he only blinked when he finished his report, always keeping a serious look on his face.

"That's weird, to say the least!" Rubble was the first to broke the silence, "Princess I have a question?"

"What's your question Rubble?" she asked gently, holding her hands together.

"Do we have a room for ourselves with a bathtub and a TV?" he asked.

"But of course you have." she replied with her eyes closed, once she opened them she noticed the vibrating buldogue, he was shanking violently.

"Rubble, are you alright?" she asked concerned, "Is he ok?" she asked Skye.

"Give him some time, you will see, your highness. Give him some space."

The construction pup started to shake even more, until he exploded, "Yes! That's what I've wanted to hear! Can we see the rooms?" he said that with the same energy, has a kid in a toy store, with his puppy charm eyes.

"Of course you can, in fact you all can see the rooms, come with me!"

Meanwhile Chase and Zuma were in the back of the castle looking for Sweetie. Chase was impatient, while Zuma was distracted thinking about what he would do at the party, they were both standing next to Sweetie's dog house. Chase approached the bars, "SWEETIE, come out of there we just want to talk!" he screamed, looking, staring at the golden bars. Zuma approached, "Dude, fowget about it! She's not showing up, just assume the lost alweady!" the water pup smirked.

"So that's why you challenge me?!" Chase assume an authority pose over Zuma, he looked down at the brown labrador.

"Come on! You weally thought that she would colabowate with us and talk? Dude, she hates us, especially you! It's not my fault that you didn't think befowe accepting the challenge." they started to walk away...

"What do you two goody two paws want? I can't waste much of my time with you two, I'm busy, so just go for the point." they heard a voice coming from behind, they turned back, it was Sweetie.

"Oh! Blast!" Zuma cursed, in a low tone, "Spot on!" said Chase at the same time and in the same tone has Zuma.

"UHMM! UHMM! Sweetie, where were you two nights ago?" Chase glared at the west highland terrier, hoping to induce some fear to make her confess something, but to no avail.

"I was here minding my own business, which is what you two should go do. Come on, shoo, shoo, get lost and leave me alone." she returned to her dog house.

"Wait just a second I got one more question were you the one that placed a camera in the Air Patroller ?" Chase inquired.

"Leave me alone, right this instance!" she looked annoyed by the Chase's question.

"No you have to answe' it fiwst!" Zuma joined his friend even he was curious to know her answer and if it was true, "What's the mate' awe you scawed to tell the twuth?" he mocked with the snooty pup.

"Listen here, you two insolent piles of rubbish, I have a button right here that opens a secret trap right where you two are standing on, so if you don't want to go to the pits of hell, I suggest you two to leave, immediately!" she growled, her expression was lika an off a cat, serious, impossible to read, they didn't know if she was bluffing or not.

"I'm going to count to three! One, two, two and a half..."

"Fine you won! We'll live now!" Chase resign.

"Well at least we tried. Let's go Zuma." Chase was frustrated, he couldn't get anything out of her mouth.

"I'm the one who calls the shoots hewe Chase, wemembe' ou' bet, technically you didn't pwoof if she did it o' not... so I win." he run in the direction of the castle.

"ZUMA! Don't you dare come here right now!" Chase pursued him.

"A bet is a bet dude, you've got to wespect it." he said, still sprinting.

Sweetie was watching this scene from her dog house, she was devilish delighted by these two pups, "HHHAAAHAHAAH! This brings a tear into my eye, so they think it was I who invited those troubles to here, well they are wrong, so Chase loses anyway, that's well deserved for being a pain in my back, but if it wasn't I then who wasn't?" she turned to the inside of the dog shed, "Do you have any idea trash pup?"

"Nope! Are you sure they went away? I don't want to risk it, majority of my team mocks me for having my lucky charm, I mean only Chase, Zuma and Rubble the rest is fine about it, so you said that you'd help me find it, right?" Rocky asked anxiously, looking at the white pup.

She smirked at the thought of Rocky begging her for help, it please her, "Yes, swear by Busby, I will help you find it, later, but first you also have to fulfill our deal."

"Yes, I will do it." he replied, rapidly.

"That's a good puppy!" she patted him in the head, he back away, irritated.

"HEY! There's limits, you know! Of course you don't you are just a spoiled pup, that can only think about herself!" the mixed breed pup was visibly angry.

She looked at him with surprise and regret in a way that made Rocky actual repent everything he told her, she turned around, her back pointing at him, "You are right!" she sniffled, "I'm just a selfish prick that has no respect for the others, but I wasn't born like this, with the time... I became what I'm today." she looked so sad, that Rocky was having a hard time trying to figuring out if she was faking it or if it was real, "Could it even be possible? Sweetie actually regretting something, I need to proceed with caution, she is a trickster after all. I can't trust her, at least not alone, I need help from the others." he thought to himself, almost meditating.

"Hey! Wake up! I've decided that you don't have to make what I've told you to do, but, only if you don't tell the others what I told you. So... do we have a deal?"

"Yes, you have my word!" he raised his paw in the air.

"Let me guess, you are a scout?" she said in a mock tone, her mood was lighter now.

"Yes, I never break my promises."

She had a tiny smile on her face, "I think you can join your friends now, meanwhile I'll be looking for your lucky charm. We'll all met at here at night, tell it to Skye or Everest."

"Yes, I'll tell them and also I should warn you that the rest of the Paw Patrol is into the "club" as Everest calls it." he warned her, before leaving.

"Yes, yes I have already received that information, but don't ask how! Just accept it." she warn him, showing her teeth, but this time without growling.

" Fine!" he rolled his eyes,"I won't." he said has he left the house.

"See you later then, Busby don't look me like that! I will return it later. If I decide to it" Sweetie said that in an irritated and somewhat sweet tone to herself. and his frog friend.

THIS IS IT FOR THIS CHAPTER, THE NEXT ONE IS GOING TO NEED MUSIC, BUT WHICH NEXT ONE? BUT WHY? WELL JUST READ THE NEXT ONE. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!