This one is short as well, guess they're all gonna be. I don't wanna cram multiple big things into one chapter, which happens to be the reason they're gonna be so short.
Following the deaths of their entire team for a reason unexplainable, Rocky and Skye sought to find out if others in Adventure Bay suffered the same fate. I guess the rescuer inside of them kept them going, because everyone else in Adventure Bay had either been sliced, or hauled ass out of the area after seeing others die at random.
Walking through the now barren Adventure Bay, both Skye and Rocky were trying not to step in any blood that laid on the concrete. Luckily, or unluckily depending on how you look at it, most died within their homes. The two didn't really have much to dodge, although it was gut-wrenching to look at the windows of houses and see the blood plastered on it. One of them even had a hand mark, and it being only one means most of these people were killed in different ways. Both Rocky and Skye were having a hard time not vomiting as they saw everyone, Mayor Goodway, Cap'n Turbot, Mr. Porter and all the others, dead, laying in pools of their own blood.
There was no one. Nobody but Rocky and Skye walking all alone in a bloody mess. Think about that; these two pups who have never seen as much as a broken bone, has to live within the massacre that killed all of Adventure Bay. It seemed almost as if they would run out of tears, and they might get a heart attack from it beating so quickly.
"S-s-skye? H-how do we... what do we do?" Rocky exclaimed, barely able to muster the ability to speak.
"W-we need help! From someone! A-anyone!" Skye replied, effectively screaming.
"W-e can use Ryder's p-pup pad." Rocky explained, and passed this point I'll stop the stuttering, you get the point and it wouldn't be stopping anytime soon.
"Who do we call?" Skye questioned, as most people who normally call Ryder are now gone.
"I don't know, Jake, Carlos, anyone!" Rocky yelled, still teared up.
"I don't know if Jake will still be alive..." Skye loudly mumbled, he was quite close to the main land where it all happened, or what they see at least.
"Well, we can still get Carlos!" Rocky told, turning towards the lookout.
"Isn't he kinda far away?" Skye questioned, not moving from her position.
"That doesn't matter we need help!" Rocky said, beginning to run towards the lookout.
"Help with what? To look at the bodies? Rocky, Carlos can't do anything about this no matter how hard he tries." Skye explained, causing Rocky to stop about halfway through.
"Okay, but he can take us away from here!" Rocky replied, now looking at Skye.
"We can't leave right now. We can't leave Adventure Bay like this. Even though it makes me want to throw up, we have to find out what happened and try to clean the place up." Skye responded, she wasn't about to just leave the place like this for anyone to see.
"He can help with that." Rocky told her, voice a little harder to understand since he knew Skye was right.
"Alright, I guess we should call someone." Skye admitted, starting to go towards the lookout with Rocky.
"I just want someone else to know... not just me and you." Rocky explained, but not looking at Skye.
The two walked towards the lookout, they tried not to look at the death around them but it was surprisingly difficult to keep their eyes from straying away. They were both experiancing a whirlpool of emotions, hell a hurricane of them, but the eye of the storm was clear. Sadness ruled all, no matter how much they felt one emotion, it couldn't beat the sadness they felt. Most of the people they talked to on a pretty much daily basis were now gone, and they had no idea if others would follow. There are many forms of sadness; many emotions can cause sadness. Nothing, however, had ever compaired to what those two felt at that moment.
They reached the lookout and went up the elevator. Realizing that Ryder's pup pad was in his hands when he died, they knew one of them had to touch his dead body to pick the thing up. It fell onto his stomach and the way he was sitting it never slid off. Rocky was elected to be the one that did it, as Skye had witnessed the more gruesome batch of pup deaths along with the fact he had a claw. Rocky could barely stand to do it, but he powered through knowing he had to. A slight amount of blood had gotten onto the pup pad too, although it didn't affect anything. Luckily their paws worked on the pad and they called Carlos.
"Hey pups, what's wrong?" Carlos asked seeing the sorrow covering the two pup's faces.
"Yeah, you look pretty sad." Tracker added, poking his head up.
"There's no way to accurately put it into words." Rocky explained in a serious tone.
"Just... This happened to everyone, and every other pup in Adventure Bay." Rocky said as he moved the camera onto Ryder.
The reactions of Carlos and Tracker were about equal to Rocky and Skye's at first. Surprised disgust although less tears than the two. They had a bit of an easier time coping as they weren't at the scene, didn't witness half the deaths, and weren't as close to the people and pups in Advenure Bay. Not to say it was easy at all, seeing just Ryder's death scene was enough to get both Carlos and Tracker going. Eventually, though, after they had finished their initial reaction, they agreed to come to Adventure Bay, help clean the place up, along with help them figure out what happened.
"It was definitely a they... but who? Why?" Rocky spoke after ending the call with Carlos.
"We'll figure it out, Rocky." Skye reassured.
"What's the point? We can't get payback even if we wanted to, you saw what it did to them." Rocky questioned, with almost no hint of fear left in his voice.
"Clarity. It can't stay a secret forever." Skye explained, now with determination in her voice.
"Yes! We need to figure it out!" Rocky exclaimed completely out of nowhere.
"What could it have been, then?" Skye asked, sitting down.
"Like I said it's gotta be a they. We couldn't see them and they didn't kill us..." Rocky explained, sitting as well.
"Or, they couldn't." Skye added.
"What's something we did that no one else didn't recently?" Rocky thought outload.
"How recent is recently?" Skye asked him.
"I honestly have no idea, it could not be recent for all I know." Rocky replied, staring straight at the ceiling.
"Anything they did that we didn't?" Skye questioned, considering all possibilities.
"Nothing of importance." Rocky answered.
"There's gotta be something somewhere." Skye told.
"I can't remember very far ago. Today we refused to eat the apples everyone ate. That's really all I can think of." Rocky explained.
"It happened early in the morning so there isn't much we could've done." Skye added.
"The apples on that tree must've grown super fast for a reason." Rocky said, "It's the only explaination I can think of, for now at least."
"Could that really be the reason? Of all things, us not being hungry saved us?" Skye questioned, starting to believe Rocky's explaination.
"Well we're also pups; we can't exactly reach one on our own anyway." Rocky kinda joked.
"What do we do now?" Skye asked, changing the subject now that they have the answer, temporary or not.
"We wait for the other two to get here. Not much else to do when everyone is gone." Rocky responded, entirely relaxing. "Let your mind run wild."
"I guess we earned some down time." Skye agreed, relaxing as well.
"There's a difference between earning and deserving."
"Shut up."
"Ok..."