Chapter 4: "Wonderful Winter Wonder Wow"
A/N: Here you get the promised Chapter including the Winter Wonder Show. Hope you like it. By the way, I won't make it in time to get this story to the point of Christmas Day (in story) until Christmas Day (in reality) as I hoped before. Time is a very tricky thing.
Narrator:
A week has passed since the incident. There were some minor rescues in this time, some including Sweetie others not. Ryder kept up to his promise and had Busby repaired but there were no sign of the other dog. Right now the Paw Patrol plus Sweetie are preparing for their performance in this year's Winter Wonder Show.
Chase' POV:
"I can't wait to perform with Luke Stars again", Rubble said that very moment. I couldn't help but grin at his comment knowing that he couldn't wait to perform at all. The grin on my face faded away the moment Sweetie came to my view. I don't know why, but I still didn't trust her. Besides, she must have said something against me to Skye and Marshall for they started avoiding me. 'Why don't they understand that I only wish the Paw Patrol and Adventure Bay to be safe? Well, one wrong step of her will kick her out and we can go back to things like they were. I know she won't change. One mistake and she'll be out. Wait a second! One mistake?' I knew I could arrange something. The grin started to reappear on my face. Don't forget, I was still a young pup which was very jealous of her being treated better than me by Skye and Marshall, the two pups I cared most about. And it felt like the rightful revenge for blaming me with the theft of the crown back then.
"Erm, Chase? You do want to help us with the preparations, don't you? Because you're just standing there doing nothing than staring at Sweetie' Skye's sudden voice made me flinch a bit. I didn't even notice her getting near to me. Wait, did she sound a little bit jealous herself? No, must have been my imagination. "Sure, Skye. I was just thinking if the order of the songs we're going to perform is the right one." "Then think fast. Our performance is going to begin soon" Skye said giggling. 'Thank goodness, she's taking it in.' I flinched again when all of a sudden another voice spoke up. "Is it really okay for you if I'm singing second voice to Luke Stars? With all what happened last time? You know, I mean the incident with the royal concert in Barkingburg." 'Well, we had to get a female voice to contrast Luke's male. And neither Skye nor Everest wanted that part. Granted, she tried to fight her stage freight. But that also could mean she's up to something. I have to be prepared and better watch out.' "Of course, we are. And don't you worry, I'm sure you'll do great!" Skye said nuzzling her.
There weren't any incidents during our performance (we decided to sing and play some classical Christmas songs) except for Luke forgetting the lyrics at one point. Sweetie, however, managed to keep on singing not losing her concentration. Quite the opposite, she switched to lead voice in a blink of an eye but switched back to second voice as soon as Luke remembered his parts. The audience didn't even notice that. When we finished the songs we decided on Luke said he had to make an announcement. He said we would perform one last song as an encore. And Sweetie would take the lead voice in this one. Everyone was shocked, especially she herself. 'Okay, she can have her moment. This time tomorrow she'll be out!'
Katie's POV:
'Wow, that was an announcement' I thought feeling happy for Sweetie. During the past week she visited my Pet Parlor two times so I had the chance to get to know her. She can be really nice. 'Marshall was right for scolding me when I first met her.' Right when they began to perform their encore it began to snow. 'That's right on time' I thought for the song was about snow falling to the ground. But, unfortunately for Sweetie, some of the people in the audience didn't notice the magic of this moment because they wanted to hear Luke singing. At least that is what I think was wrong with them. One of them even threw a tomato towards the stage luckily his aim was off so it didn't get near any pup. But it did cause Sweetie to lose her concentration and therefore to stop singing. That caused the people to laugh at her. Seeing tears starting to build up in her eyes I rushed to the stage to make sure she's okay.
The moment I reached her I noticed Jake entering the stage as well but turning to the audience. "Not cool, dudes. You could have done some serious damage. I'm afraid I can't accept actions like this. I watched what happened and, as much as I hate to do it, I have to ask you to give back the skiing passes I gave out to you this morning. When you dudes can't behave at an event like this you totally can't behave on the skiing tracks. I hope you enjoyed ruining this awesome performance for everyone." Holding Sweetie tight to support her I looked over to Jake. Never had I heard him this angry before. But he was right. The magic of the moment was gone. The performance was ruined.
Escaping my hold (she wiggled herself free) Sweetie stepped back to the microphone a determined look on her face. "Alright, everybody." she said. "That wasn't very nice. But I won't give up the dream I had for a long time now just because of low flying tomatoes. I … I mean, we are going to perform this song. Alright guys, from the beginning!" Did I hear that right? She wanted to start singing again? 'She really must have this for some time now when she still wants to perform. Trying to bring this show to a good ending and perform with the threat of being interrupted again makes her a good pup in my eyes. From now on, I swear, I won't listen what others have to say in that matter.'
Narrator:
So the Winter Wonder Show ended without any further incident, most likely because Jake stood there watching the audience. But whatever it was it let Sweetie, Luke Stars and the Paw Patrol get to a good ending. The ones whose joy nearly were ruined easily found their way back to the land of magic and dreams caught by the singing voice of one little pup with snow white fur.
A/N: That was it. I liked this chapter best so far though it is a bit shorter than my other chapters. But I liked the idea of Katie taking a turn (and not one single thought about Ryder). But what is Chase up to? Find out in the next chapter which happens to be split into two parts (There are too many characters running around Adventure Bay and some of them hadn't had their share in my story so far.) So watch out for the next chapter.