"The Adventures of Jake"
CHAPTER 1
After arriving at the DeVil Manor, Horace and Jasper climbed out of their rickety old truck, swung open the doors, and began to take the sacks containing ninety-nine Dalmatian puppies and calmly, but quickly went inside the manor where they were instructed to remain and keep the puppies there until Cruella De Vil, the person who hired them arrived with further instructions for them. While the "Badduns" as the puppies began to refer to them as, thought that they had all ninety-nine of them inside the house, nobody had noticed that one of the sacks had a loose end on the top and that two Dalmatian puppies had rolled out of the sack and hit the snowy ground. The first puppy that rolled out was named "Patches" because of a black spot over his left eye, the other puppy was named "Whizzer", because fittingly, he had a weak bladder and was prone to having "Accidents". Calmly and quietly following Horace and Jasper into the house, Patches and Whizzer snuck over into a darkened area on a staircase, they had made a plan with the captured puppies that they would escape from the DeVil Manor, undetected, find Whizzer's parents and rescue the others with them. Luckily, Jake, Kelly, and Daniel just happened to be in the same sack as the two pups and heard them explain their plan to them and the others.
"What a brilliant plan!" Thought Kelly, "I for one hope that they can pull it off!"
"Those two have a great plan!" Thought Daniel, "Go, Patches! Go, Whizzer! Get the grown-ups and get us out of here!"
Jake just nervously nodded his head as he listened to them, he also thought, "Do get Whizzer's mom and dad. They can probably help us!"
After entering the house, Horace and Jasper stuffed the sacks of crying puppies into a cedar chest, and walked into the den to watch television. "Shut your yappers, you mangy mutts!" Jasper snapped before retreating to the den with Horace. After that, Patches came out from the dark staircase with his wet nose down on the ground. "Is the coast clear, Patches?" A voice asked "Yup," Patches replied "The badduns are gone." Whizzer then came out and spoke to Patches.
"Remember, Patches, we need to find a way out of this spooky house, get my mom and dad and we free everyone, got it?"
"Yes." Patches said turning his attention to the closed cedar chest doors, lifting an ear and listening to everyone crying as well as a voice saying "Good luck, Patches and Whizzer."
"Don't worry guys," Patches whispered to the trapped puppies "We'll be back soon. C'mon, Whiz!" And together, the two puppies started to explore the DeVil manor looking for a way out.
Going down hallways, feeling chilly from the cold air flowing throughout the mansion, and trying not to attract the attention of Horace and Jasper. The first room they went into was a dining room with a large rimmed window. Finding nothing of use in there, they moved on going from room to room, hallway through hallway.
While Patches and Whizzer were wandering about the mansion, somewhere down the road in a barn sat a terrier named Kipper. Kipper was busy sitting on a pile of hay watching the farm animals going about their business, when suddenly he heard something, an all dog alert known as the Twilight Bark. Rushing towards the Dutch door. Lifting an ear, Kipper began to listen while a horse who was in a stable next to the door was also listening to the Twilight Bark.
"It's an all-dog alert, Kipper!" The horse said "What's the word?"
"Hmm," Kipper began "Let's see here…Fifteen….Fifteen spotted…Fifteen spotted puppies…Fifteen spotted puppies….STOLEN!?"
"What!?" The horse shouted in shock
"That's right, fifteen spotted puppies stolen." Kipper replied
"Fifteen puppies, who on earth would do such a thing?" The horse pondered
"Someone who is cold, heartless, and doesn't have the decency to not steal fifteen spotted pups." Kipper said
"But where do you suppose these puppies are being held?" The horse asked
"If I were to steal fifteen spotted puppies, I know exactly where to hide them….Inside the DeVil mansion!"
"Hell Hall!?" The horse cried "What a ghastly place to hold spotted puppies! That place is nothing but a haunted torture house!"
"Exactly," Kipper said calmly "I have a hunch that the mansion is where they are and I must check to see if they are there."
Kipper then began to bark a message out to the dogs of London and the surrounding areas, hoping to reach the two dogs who sent out the alert.
A cocker spaniel heard Kipper's message who barked it to another dog, who barked it along to other dogs, until it reached London. The dogs in London who heard the message that Kipper sent out barked it along until the message found its way to a flat on a street in town.
The recipients of the message, two adult dalmatians named Pongo and Perdita heard the Twilight Bark's response and rushed to the window to hear the news.
"Oh, Pongo!" Perdita said with worry in her voice "What's the word? Have they found our puppies?"
Pongo lifted up his ear and listened very carefully to the barks that were coming in through the window. Nodding his head to every bark, he listened then turned to Perdita and said
"A terrier named Kipper who lives out in the country has heard the Twilight Bark. He is going out into the countryside to look for them. He will look until they are located."
Perdita looked worried yet relieved that someone had heard she and Pongo's all dog alert and plea for help in finding where their fifteen Dalmatian puppies were.
"I do hope this Kipper the dogs are barking of finds our puppies soon…"
"Perdy, I am thinking the same thing. Our puppies need to be found, so that we can retrieve them and find out who stole them."
With that, Pongo and Perdita stood by the window and listened to await the results of Kipper's search for the lost puppies.