Shorter chapters expected for this story, but this will likely be the shortest :3
Mr. Porter's was basically the only place in Adventure Bay with easy to get produce. Farmer Al and Yumi grow the crops, give them to Mr. Porter and he'd give it all away. Nobody really had any other way of getting anything other than the occasional apple tree or something. I mention all of this because an abnormally large apple tree had grown in Adventure Bay. Kinda hidden by the trees nearby the lookout, nobody realized it until it was already fully grown. Not only was is abnormally large, the apples grew absurdly fast. Even Ryder got in on the apple action, taking some for the pups to snack on after their breakfast.
"I got some apples from the tree for you guys!" He explained. "Who wants some?"
"Me!" They all said, except for Rocky and Skye, who both simply replied, "Not right now."
Nobody thought anything of the tree as crazy things happen around Adventure Bay more often than they should. It was just a tree that happened to grow apples absurdly quickly. They didn't taste any different either, so everyone took it as just another Adventure Bay abnormality, as it was. It was, down to it's core just an abnormality, although the main story tells much, much more. If you want to avoid the real story, which I would absolutely understand, it's just an apple tree with apples that grow really fast. We're not here for the short, nice story, though, we're here for the truth, the bloody truth.
To get back on track, all the pups excluding Rocky and Skye ate the apples without question and the only reason the two didn't eat them was because they truly weren't hungry. The taste, as I've said is just as a normal apple, and so the pups treated it as such. Basically everyone did, really anything even somewhat supernatural attracts the attention of most people. After one person ate one and confirmed he felt fine, everyone jumped to eat one. Basing your opinion on if a supernatural food is safe or not on such a short amount of time doesn't exactly sound like the greatest of ideas but, this is Adventure Bay.
It was about three days after the tree had appeared before Ryder took the apples to the pups so at that point everyone had just accepted it as a landmark in Adventure Bay. Effectively everyone had eaten an apple from the tree, and without exaggeration it was the worst decision they had ever made. Lucky for Rocky and Skye, their breakfast filled them up, and damn that's the best breakfast they had every had although it was average in the moment.
"Hey, Rocky!" Marshall called to Rocky who was just aimlessly walking.
"Oh hey Marshall." He replied.
"What are you doing?" Marshall questioned.
"Nothing. Just looking around to see if I can think of any new games." Rocky answered, turning to look all around him.
"But everything we play is already fun!" Marshall responded, raising a paw.
"I know, I'm just looking." Rocky explained, "You have any ideas, Marshall?"
"Marshall?" Rocky called after Marshall hadn't responded.
"Hello?" Rocky questioned, turning around to see an absolutely horrified Marshall backing up.
"What? What's wrong?" Rocky asked, concerned as he saw nothing anywhere.
Rocky looked around in every direction finding absolutely nothing. After he turned around to look back at Marshall, he was turned in the opposite direction running as fast as he could. You would've excepted Marshall to have tripped over something, and who knows, maybe he would have, but he did get the chance too. Before Rocky could say anything, Marshall had attempted to skid to a halt, yet halfway through the skid, well, he wouldn't be able to trip again I'll say. Rocky was left in a confused disgust as Marshall's head got slammed like a watermelon into the concrete, over and over, and over again.
Marshall's body was laying down as his head laid half in the concrete. Now painted red, Marshall's head was all Rocky could look at. Unable to say anything but gibberish inside of his hyperventilating he ran around the lookout for someone else. Marshall was a lost cause, Rocky knew this, but he needed to tell someone now.
He found another pup, Chase. He was alive too, but also terrified for his life. Chase didn't move as Rocky, still as a statue watched large slash marks appear on Chase's body, one after another. Eventually after Chase's corpse had fallen to the ground, it didn't even look like him anymore. Slashes everywhere as blood slowly poured out lf each and every one of them.
At this point Rocky was both trying find someone alive, and himself. He couldn't see what was killing them, but they definitely could. He barely had to move at all before he saw another pup, she wqs terrified, but it seemed like it was for the same reason he was, not what Chase and Marshall were scared of.
"Skye!" Rocky somehow managed to muster through his tears, horror and all the in between.
"Rocky?" Skye also mustered, sounding about as depressed as Rocky.
"Wh- I-I what's happening?" Rocky shuddered, finding at least one other pup alive gave him the slightest glimmer of hope.
"I-I dunno, b-but look!" Skye said crying like a waterfall for he carnage in front of her.
He did look, and both Rubble and Zuma were right there. Rubble had a hole in his head that he could probably fit a paw into. Laying on the ground as blood flows out like the edges of a volcano all around his face. Zuma was likely the worst, cut directly in half to where you could see things even I am not willing to explain.
"Ryder?" Was the only thing that could be made out of what Rocky said.
Skye couldn't muster words so she just shook her head and ran for the lookout. Going up the elevator they both had thought about what the hell they were gonna do if Ryder was gone, and good that they did since, he was. Although his death scene wasn't as brutal as any of the others, either that or the blood covered it but either way, Rocky and Skye were alone at the lookout.
Their plan? Mope. Sit and mope for as long as they had too or as long as they could. When you've lived the best of your life around five pups and a human, and you witness most of them die in deaths that seemed to be as gruesome as physically possible; its hard. Your best friends, your team, all killed, some right in front of your eyes... its almost impossible to cope with, but they did it. True it took an extraordinary amount of time, but they managed it.
Their plan now? See what's left of Adventure Bay, and who if anyone...
Tired of all my stories having happy endings? No longer, although its not over. Hopefully Fanfiction allows this story to stay, I don't really understand the rules here. :v